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Winter is coming and the cold weather is creeping upon us. Whilst many organisations look forward to the opportunities that the coming season brings, a HR disaster looms for employers that aren't proactively taking care of their staff. According to employee benefit provider Busy Bees Benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme is the best way to beat absenteeism, employee stress and workplace tension this winter.
Cold and flu, snow disruption and money troubles are all common issues for employees during the winter. In the run up to Christmas roads become busier, personal finances become more difficult to manage and stress becomes more prominent in the workplace. And if that isn't enough - illness, holiday requests and Blue Monday are all waiting to strike once the festive season is over.
This season is certainly not the time for doom and gloom. Employers can ensure that winter remains the season of good will by providing an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to help employees manage their well-being.
Employee Assistance Programmes help staff deal with mental and physical health as well as legal and financial issues. The schemes provide an online help system and around the clock telephone counselling services. Whether employees are looking for advice on managing their finances over Christmas, searching for their nearest flu vaccination centre or need counselling on stress-related illnesses, an EAP scheme can help.
The scheme can also help employers during the busy winter period. Businesses have more time to deal with other issues, HR departments can put their absenteeism concerns aside and people managers can receive expert advice on how to deal with specific situations.
Whilst organisations should always welcome conversations with stressed or unhealthy employees, a helping hand from an EAP aids both employer and employee during this busy period.
Before winter arrives, businesses should work out whether an EAP can help combat common HR issues. This season is about fun and festivities; don't let it become overcast by poorly managed employment issues.
For more information on Employee Assistance Programmes, please visit http://busybeesbenefits.com/employeeassistance or call our team on 0330 333 9100 to develop a greater understanding on how the scheme can help during the winter.


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If you are in Bangalore and if you are dying to eat sea food then best place to visit is Coast to Coast(MG Road). They serve sexy Chicken ghee roast too. Excellent service, reasonable rates, mouth watering dishes and exotic cocktails all in one.
Its true that brigade road and Mg road in Bangalore are most happening places. Usually people see gals from bottom, to verify how long is their dress but in Mg road gals are viewed from top to verify how much part is covered!!!!!!!!!
My name is Lobo and I am not Bebo. You must say how true!!!! Let me bring out the difference between us. If I try also I cant write about the similarities because there are none. Poor me.
- Works in IT company
- Very simple, down to earth
- Wardrobe is limited. Wears all decent and below knee length clothes.
- Wears Kitos to office. Got elephant feet, cant wear fancy sandals
- Travels by BMTC bus in Bangalore and Private in Mangalore. Sometimes rides Activa owned by her brother.
- Bank balance is almost nil
- Handful people knows her because of her few stories published in Daiji. Maximum 10 fans most of them her friends(gals)
- Doesn't like extra marital affairs and still single.
- Lobo knows about Bebo
- Nightmare of guys
- Works in film industry
- Very sophisticated, good personality reaching the sky(like coconut tree)
- Wardrobe is vast. Wears all kinda of clothes starting from sari with backless blouse till top with micro mini skirt
- She got very nice feet and many ladies fancy her foot wear.
- Travels by car. Doesn't know to travel by bus.
- She earns in corer. Bank balance is quite vast
- Everybody knows her. She got infinite fans, most of them are guys.
- She loves extra marital affairs. She is committed and very soon gonna tie knot.
- Bebo doesn't know Lobo
- Dream girl of guys
Gosh so many differences. Still many more are there but due to time constraint I stopped it here. When the differences are infinite definitely I have to say "My name is LOBO and I am not BEBO".
I am 100 percent sure guys will say" Freak started comparing herself with Bebo". Actually yesterday I saw this movie "My Name is khan" and today I got infected by his dialogue "My name is Khan and I am not terrorist". It's true that when you watch SRK's movies impact will be so much that you will get side effect!!!

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Blue and Red Lentil Curry
Makes 4 Servings
250 g red lentils
500 ml vegetable stock
0,5 tsp. turmeric
50 g butter
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
2 chilies
2 tsp. coriander, grounded
2 tsp. cumin, grounded
125 ml coconut milk
Salt, pepper
3 tomatoes
200 g wild Blueberries from Canada (frozen)
A bit fresh coriander
Rinse, drain well and bring to boil with stock and turmeric. Simmer covered at moderate heat for 10 minutes, stir from time to time.
In the meantime chop onions and garlic finely. Remove the kernels from the chili and cut finely. Melt butter in a pan and roast onions brown. Add spices, garlic and chili and roast for 3 minutes. Add the spice mix to lentils and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour in the coconut milk, bring to boil and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Remove the kernels of the tomatoes and dice finely. Add tomato dices and defrosted, drained blueberries to the lentils, reheat slightly and serve with fresh coriander.
Tip: Rice or Indian Naan bread go well as a side.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Energy: 121 kcal / 508 kJ
Carbohydrates: 11,7 g
Protein: 5,0 g
Fat: 6,0 g
Wild Blue is Good for You!


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What is a mOZ Quarter?
mOZ Quarter is the consumer version of the mOZ. It is designed for "Ease of Use" like the entire mOZ ecosystem. It can be traded on the mOZ exchange platform into mOZ Dimes and mOZ Quarters and of course a mOZ (Mobile Ounce)
What is a mOZ quarter Worth?
4 mOZ Quarter = a mOZ (Mobile Ounce)
How many mOZ Quarters equal a Safe Unit?
15,500 mOZ Quarters equal 1 SAfe Unit
What can I exchange a mOX quarter for?
mOZ quarters are typically exchanged up for a full Mobile Ounce or down into mOZ Cents.


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Skiing Niseko
For a skiing experience filled with adrenalin, adventure and enjoyment, it is recommended that skiers try their hand at skiing Niseko. Niseko prides itself at being one of the premier snow skiing and snowboarding destinations in Japan and has increased in popularity, seeing more international visitors coming to Niseko for their skiing holidays. Its slopes that accommodate all skill levels are breathtaking and pristine, with some a little more challenging than the others.
Accommodation in this magnificent location is easily accessible as there are three beautiful ski resorts available, namely Hirafu, Higashiyama and Annapuri. These are all interlinked by bus services. Skiing enthusiasts are drawn to Niseko because of the continuous fresh and light powder that is deposited onto the slopes. The fact that Niseko is situated in the stream of the icy Siberian airflow, ensures a picturesque white blanket on the mountains.All 47 kilometers of slopes are taken care of and groomed to perfection. Whether you are into snowboarding or snow skiing, the conditions are always favorable. The sixty-one runs are serviced by thirty-eight lifts and the slopes also have two convenient Express Gondolas. Beginners are able to attended group or private classes that are hosted by expert skiers and there are many runs that are available to them. Intermediate skiers can enjoy more challenging slopes, while expert skiers can practice their skills on the more adventurous runs. Unfortunately, the slopes and runs are not conducive to cross country skiing.
Skiing gear for hire and purchase is also available at the resorts, and the resorts have many facilities to make skiing holidays more exciting and fulfilling. Visitors will be able to find banking facilities, bars, cafes and restaurants – a convenient feature at Niseko. Skiers can also enjoy guided tours or snowmobile excursions. Over and above the favorable skiing opportunities, Niseko is located in a breathtaking part of Japan that can be explored on skis or on foot. The landscapes are beautiful and day trips into surrounding locations, such as the town of Kuchan, Rusutsu or La Ponte Resorts, are recommended. The valleys, mountains and slopes are not only adventurous and thrilling, but tranquil and relaxing at the same time. It is easy to see why so many skiers flock to this heavenly destination in Japan and enjoy skiing in Niseko.


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Iraq: Iraqi Women Network discusses the situation of women in Iraq
The following representatives from the Iraqi women's movement included:
Minister Narmin Othman, MP Maysoon AlDamluji, MP ALA Talabani, President's Advisor on women issues Salma Jaboo, Iraqi Women Network (IWN) Hanaa Edwar, and Basma Al-Khateeb from Iraqi AlAmal Association, gave their review on:
1. Iraqi political scene analysis/developments (Security improvement, complications resulting from disagreement between political stakeholders on the following issue: Article 140 in the constitution and Kirkuk issue, Constitutional Revisions, reassignment of a new government , provinces elections law, Fall behind of Reconstruction programmes and public services in addition to spreading financial and administrative corruption in government institutes),
2. Provinces' Elections Law, coming general elections and women quota,
3. Iraqi Women Movement concerns over Constitution Revision, and article 41 in the constitution, increasing division of the country, fuel sectarianism and undermine the principle of equality before the law and women's human rights,
4. Increasing Violence against Women
5. Support for Civil Society in Iraq, urging Iraqi government to adopt the Non Governmental Organizations law draft,
6. The role Iraqi women play in building peace, security, and national dialogue, as expressed in UN Security Council resolution 1325 where the Security Council calls on all actors to ensure the protection of and respect for human rights of women and girls, particularly as they relate to the constitution, the electoral system, the police and the judiciary.
The representatives of the International agencies and diplomatic missions expressed their understanding to the concerns and the demands of the Iraqi Women and assured submitting the recommendations to their governments, welcoming further meetings.
June 2008
Source: Iraqi Women Network
Ø May 3rd, '08 in Diwaniya, 45 participants attended the discussion, including judges, academia, civil society and human rights activists in addition to Departments of HR, and members of city council, panellist were activists lawyers: Ms. Azhar Shaarbaf, and Ms. Ta'meem Azzawi,
Ø May 4th, '08 in Najaf, nearly 30 participants attended the discussion, with same panellists,
Ø May 17th, '08 in Kerbala, 21 personnel attended the roundtable discussion from judges, dean of Kerbala University, law college academics and professor's of the topic of personal status, holly men, representatives of Department of Human Rights in Kerbala, several guests from the members of Kerbla and Najaf city councils, and media. Panelists were Judge Salem AlMusawi and Judge Hadi Aziz, with paper presentation on personal statutes law no 188 for the year 1959 and the possibilities of its revision
Conclusion of recommendations from the three round table discussions:
a) Working to delete article 41 from the constitution draft, or modifying it for the following reasons:
1. Any confirmation of this article will lead to chaos, due to the problems rising from differences between different sects ideologies concerning eligible marriage age, divorce, custody, heritage, etc.
2. In a single sect, there are different independent opinions and judgements on each single issue, as such, settling on one solution will be a problem,
3. To ratify this article, will allow a wide manoeuvring and improvisation towards sectarian and religious adaptations away from the best interest of people, closer to achieving personal gains, where people will change sects and faiths just to avoid conflict of judgements,
4. This article will weaken the Iraqi judicial system, as one of the important institutes where Iraqis head to solve their problems, and will allow larger powers and control for clerics and religious institutes over Iraqi society,
5. The personal status law number 188, in 1959, include big number of articles based and taken from Islamic Sharia of all sects, while maintaining the essence of the Islamic religion in preserving justice for all, equality, family stability and unity of the community, therefore it is important to preserve the law, and make amendments based on the basic principles of the current active Personal Status Law,
b) All the criteria and conditions that lead to listing of article 41 in the Iraqi constitution draft in 2005, at the political and social levels had changed as the community has rejected all forms of sectarianism and division and shows strong capacity to preserve national unity, this change happened after 3 year in which people in Iraq faced a lot of pain due sectarian violence,
c) The state must take in consideration in legislations to preserve the rights of all population comprising of women and men, of basis of citizenship and non discrimination, regardless of their religious believes, ethnicities and sects,
d) The article concerned with the personal status in constitution to correspond with article 14 of the constitution which assures equality between all Iraqis in front of law without discrimination on basis of sex, colour, ethnicity, nationality, origin, sect, belief, opportunities, economical or social status,
e) Focusing on confirmation of the paragraphs in the modified personal status law no. 188 for year 1959 which state that women had the freedom to chose her husband and protect her from early marriage or force her to marry against her wish, and marriage outside the court of law, and putting laws to stop some unnecessary acts of discrimination against women, like temporary marriage, polygamy which become so common these days and increased compared to previous years,
f) International human rights conventions, that Iraq had signed, like the 2 international conventions of political and economical and social and culture rights, and the agreement to remove all forms of discrimination against women, to protect women rights to marry and to have a family, and her participation as full qualified citizen in community development and improvement
g) Starting a broad campaign to raise women awareness of their rights, especially in the personal status law, and help her to get justice and provide all necessary legal services that the constitution and law had to guarantee for her.
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Procedure for Selection of Students
Students wishing to graduate with distinction in African & African American Studies must submit an application form (attached) by April 15 of the junior year. Applications should include a 1-2 page description of the proposed project and a letter of recommendation from the faculty member directing the project. Students must have an overall GPA of 3.3 and a GPA of 3.5 in the major.
Expected Product
A senior thesis that makes an original contribution to the field of African or African-American Studies is required. Completed projects are due by April 15. The thesis should be a minimum of 60 pages. The requirements for other forms of submission (e.g., video, photographic) will be determined in consultation with the student, advisor, and program director. All students are expected to engage in archival and/or field research.
Evaluative Body
The candidate will offer an oral defense of the senior project before a faculty committee consisting of the project advisor, the program director, and one other faculty member.
Evaluative Procedure
The student's advisor is responsible for overseeing the progress of the project. An oral defense of the senior project is required.
Levels of Distinction
Distinction, High Distinction, and Highest Distinction.
Other Requirements
In the senior year, the capstone seminar or an alternative senior level seminar in the program is to be taken. Students in the distinction program must enroll in AAAS 495 in the Fall and AAAS 496 in the Spring.


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On the U.S. retail level, the top selling coffee product was dry coffee, which generated 9.37 billion U.S. dollars in sales, while liquid coffee generated about 2.66 billion dollars in sales. Primary ground coffee brands for the at-home coffee segment included Folgers and Maxwell House, based on sales. Folgers is owned by The J.M. Smucker Co. and accounted for 1.03 billion U.S. dollars in 2019.
Although people have been drinking coffee for hundreds of years, there are still new trends entering the market every year, such as cold brew coffee and nitro coffee. Cold brew coffee is, as the name implies, brewed with cold or room temperature water over an entire day and has a higher caffeine concentration than regular coffee. Nitro coffee is infused with nitrogen and can be served like beer. In 2017, cold brew coffee experienced an 80 percent growth in sales compared to the previous year, while hot coffee saw a three percent decrease in sales.
Recent statistics show that American consumers drank on average two cups of coffee per day. The majority of the coffee was consumed at home, followed by the work place. When asked why they usually drink coffee, the most U.S. consumers stated that they often drink the "black gold" simply because they like the taste.


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To support this vision, Gemalto delivers identity and biometric solutions to governments, public authorities and private entities in the fields of civil identity and public security. We do this by providing highly secure documents such as passports, ID cards, drivers' licenses etc. that are at the heart of identity schemes.
As these programs require increasingly large investments, we developped convincing public private partnership models.
We also provide solutions for verifying people's identities, for example when they cross borders and enrolling them in national registers. Both of these are built on our expertise in biometrics.
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BATH —While the prospect of loons welcoming us home after a year's absence might not always sound quite so realistic during the middle of February, the timeless themes embodied in "On Golden Pond" are always with us. Norman Thayer Jr. and his wife, Ethel, along with their daughter Chelsea, her new boyfriend and his son, plus a lake-roving postman are a part of this classic play's promise of loons, while granting the possibility of learning to love. Performance dates are Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17-18, 24-25 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 19, 26 at 2 p.m. in the Curtis Room of the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath.
Arriving home at their summer cottage, Norman and Ethel (played by Peter Havas of Harpswell and Shirley Bernier of Lisbon) have spent 48 consecutive years at Golden Pond. Now retired, and perhaps a little bit cranky, retired professor Norman spends time hunting the classifieds for a new career and catching up with Charlie (Geno Ring), the lake-roving postal worker who once dated his daughter, Chelsea.
Henry David Thoreau wrote in "Walden," "For my part, I could easily do without the post office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it." While this spirit of independence might suggest some of the motivations behind the Thayer's annual trek to Golden Pond, this play is in some ways about the limits to individualism. As we watch Norman and Ethel reminisce about their time on the pond, it becomes clear with Chelsea's arrival that there is more to be explored beneath the surface.
Chelsea, who is played by Tracey Michael Hall of Portland, is practically estranged from her father. In the 1981 film version of the play (both written by Ernest Thompson), this strained dynamic was immortalized by real-life father and daughter duo Henry and Jane Fonda. Rebelling against her own middle-class upbringing and Norman's tyranny, Chelsea attempts to inject new life into the surroundings at Golden Pond. Bringing along her boyfriend Bill (Clay Hawks) and his teenage son Billy Jr. (Johnmarcus Willey), Chelsea hopes to heal some of her own wounds in exposing a new generation to the beautiful lakeside setting she experienced as a girl growing up. Ernest Thompson spent summers at Great Pond in Belgrade growing up, though the film version ended up depicting Squam Lake in New Hampshire.
Ultimately, this is a show about different generations coming together. Despite Norman's initial aloofness and apparent coldness toward his daughter, he finds a connection with young Billy Jr., whose own alienation from his father disappears in the wild beauty of Golden Pond. This is a play for all ages, though some of the themes may be suitable for older children. Directed by Thom Watson.
Tickets are $15 advance, $17 at the door and available by calling the box office 207-442-8455 or by purchasing online www.chocolatechurcharts.org
Chelsea played by Tracey Michael Hall comforts her, mother, Ethel, played by Shirley Bernier while Peter Havas, who portrays Norman, watches.
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Home Adaptations Sittingbourne Kent
Making Your Home Cosy
If you have lived in the same place for a while, you have probably built up roots and the last thing you want to do is give up your home. There is no law saying that you have to! Why not make your home into a more comfortable space to live in, rather than find a comfy home elsewhere?
Home Adaptations Sittingbourne Kent are excellent at designing and adapting homes. We have had many years of experience in this field, and you can rest assured that we will tailor the build completely to your precise requirements. We work all over Sittingbourne, Medway, Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Strood, Faversham, Maidstone and Kent.
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There are many horror stories regarding cowboy builders. Let us assure you that our staff are fully skilled and experienced builders. They have all the needed qualifications for you to feel safe in the knowledge that the job has been well done. We can adjust your property to suit your style, without it costing the earth. Original design ideas and advanced installations allow us to ensure that your property fits your needs perfectly.


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This Photo Gallery Quick Start is the perfect experience to simply show off your products in a visual and engaging interaction, while keeping a focus on lead generation. Visitors coming to the single page will be able to enlarge each photo in the gallery to get an up close look. With a short description of your company and products included on the page, visitors can also fill out a form to contact for more information.
We recommend that you receive intermediate-level ion training before using this Quick Start. Feel free to contact your customer success manager for a brief orientation if needed.
What You'll Need to Get Started
- Copy/content
- 1 small image
- 8 medium images
- 8 large images
- Library form
- Data export
To help you craft your Resource Library copy, we've created a content template you can use as a resource to help you focus and organize your content for this type of interactive content experience. Click here to review the Interactive Infographic content template.
Get to Know This Quick Start
Here's a brief orientation to this Quick Start:
Photo Gallery
This Quick Start features a photo gallery that includes light boxes used to enlarge each image. In this section, you will need:
- 8 medium images
- 8 large duplicate images
- Images that open within a lightbox. Respondents who click these images will see a window open with a larger version of each one. For more information on working with lightboxes, click here.
- *NOTE: Lightboxes are an intermediate-level ion concept.
Each medium image is used as the background for the column and row sections for the lightboxes. Each lightbox opens up a window to reveal the large image duplicate of the medium background image.
This section also includes:
- Content/copy describing your brand, organization, and products
- Custom form asking for the respondent's information, as well as another form in the footer asking for the respondent's email to subscribe. Once completed, both forms will show Thank You content to the respondent. For more information on custom forms, click here.
- Footer with social icons. For more information on these two components, click here for Twitter and here for Facebook.
Tips & tricks
- We recommend you complete intermediate ion interactive training to use and modify this Quick Start. If you use this Quick Start with no custom modifications at all, intermediate skills are necessary.
- Everything within this experience can be edited by double clicking each page element. For more information on publishing & editing content within ion interactive pages, click here.
- You can adjust the layout of the page content by altering the grids, columns and rows that are published into the creative's containers. For more information on working with grids, click here. We recommend intermediate ion training to adjust the layout of your pages.
- Update the placeholder forms to forms from your ion interactive Form Library. Double click the placeholder form and navigate through the Form Library to select your own form. This requires that you already have a form created in your library.
- Connect the form to your own pre-configured export, to ensure the data that is collected is exported to your external third party systems. For information on connecting your form to your exports click here, or for information on export options, click here.
- For this expert Quick Start we assume you will use an existing form from your ion interactive Form Library. For more information on creating forms with ion interactive, click here. We recommend intermediate training for form building.


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Creating an Azure Mobile Services .NET backend from scratch
When learning a new feature I often like to understand the minimum pieces necessary to get it running. In the case of the .NET backend of azure mobile services, that would mean the smallest number steps required to go from an empty project to a running mobile service – no additional tooling required. Currently the item and project templates required for the mobile services backend require the VS 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate, and many people (myself included) are wary of installing non-RTM versions of VS updates, so here's a guide on how to create a .NET backend project without those.
Set up
The minimum project which we can create for a service backend is an empty ASP.NET application (on VS 2013, select the New Project –> Web –> ASP.NET Web Application, then select Empty). At that point we'll won't have anything at all (except for an empty web.config file).
Now it's time to add the reference to the .NET backend binaries. Right-click the project, select "Manage NuGet Packages…", and search for "MobileServices". There will be (as of today) 5 packages related to the backend, with three of them (Entity Framework Extension, Azure Storage Extension, Mongo Extension) defining extensions for specific storage providers. Let's choose the entity framework one (Windows Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend Entity Framework Extension), and click "Install". After being prompted to accept licenses, NuGet will install the necessary packages (there is currently a bug that a "conflict file" dialog is shown; you can safely ignore that dialog). And now we still have an empty project, with the difference that the web.config has a few more entries which we can ignore.
Defining the model
Now let's add a class to represent the model (entity) we'll want to expose. For simplicity sake, I'll use the old TodoItem class. To expose a class as a table in the .NET backend, it needs to implement the
ITableData interface, but the entity framework extension NuGet package defines the
EntityData class which we can use as a base type.
- public class TodoItem : EntityData
- {
- public string Text { get; set; }
- public bool Complete { get; set; }
- }
Now we need a context to hook up Entity Framework with our model types (or single type in this case). When you create a new mobile service, a new schema is defined in the associated database, and the service is granted access to that schema. In our implementation of the context we need to tell it that we use that schema (you can also use databases on different schemas, or even a completely different database, and that is a topic for another post). Normally we'd override the
OnModelCreating method on the DbContext class:
- protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
- {
- if (modelBuilder == null)
- {
- throw new ArgumentNullException("modelBuilder");
- }
- if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.Schema))
- {
- modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema(this.Schema);
- }
- }
But since this would be done many times, we provide one class derived from DbContext –
EntityContext – which does that automatically, so we can implement our context fairly concisely:
- public class MyContext : EntityContext
- {
- public MyContext()
- : base()
- {
- }
- public MyContext(string schema)
- : base(schema)
- {
- }
- public DbSet<TodoItem> TodoItems { get; set; }
- }
EntityContext class also "teaches" EF how to use the
TableColumnAttribute attribute, which you can use to customize the type of the columns created in your tables. And now that the context is created, we can define the table controller. This code is pretty much boilerplate for exposing entities as tables, and if you have the latest tooling (currently with the VS 2013 Update 2 RC) you can do that by using the item template.
- public class TodoItemController : TableController<TodoItem>
- {
- protected override void Initialize(HttpControllerContext controllerContext)
- {
- base.Initialize(controllerContext);
- var context = new MyContext(this.Services.Settings.Schema);
- this.DomainManager = new EntityDomainManager<TodoItem>(context, this.Request, this.Services);
- }
- public IQueryable<TodoItem> GetAll()
- {
- returnbase.Query();
- }
- public SingleResult<TodoItem> GetOne(string id)
- {
- returnbase.Lookup(id);
- }
- [HttpPost]
- public Task<TodoItem> InsertItem(TodoItem item)
- {
- returnbase.InsertAsync(item);
- }
- [HttpPatch]
- public Task<TodoItem> UpdateItem(string id, Delta<TodoItem> patch)
- {
- returnbase.UpdateAsync(id, patch);
- }
- public Task DeleteItem(string id)
- {
- returnbase.DeleteAsync(id);
- }
- }
That's it, the service is ready to be built and deployed. If you publish it to the mobile service (after downloading the publishing profile from the portal), you should be able to send requests to the table.
Configuring the service
The mobile service is now running, but we haven't configured anything on how we want it to run – so the mobile service used a default bootstrapper, which initializes the service configuration with default options. If you want to change any configuration settings, define additional routes, access other extensibility points, define mapping between entity objects and DTOs, among other initialization tasks, you need to define a method to be called on startup. My colleague Henrik described the configuration in details on this blog post so I won't cover it here, and let's just define a WebApiConfig class to change something in our project, which calls the
Initialize method on the
ServiceConfig class, and changes a setting in the JSON.NET serializer.
- public static class WebApiConfig
- {
- public static void Register()
- {
- var config = ServiceConfig.Initialize(new ConfigBuilder());
- config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
- }
- }
If you now publish the project to the server again and send a request to the server, you'll see that the JSON responses are now indented.
Running locally
One of the great features of the .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services is the ability to test the service locally prior to deploying. But at this point, while your service can be run in the cloud, if you try to run it locally it won't do anything (it will show an error page). There are two things which we still need to do: hook up the .NET backend to the ASP.NET pipeline running in IIS Express, and call the bootstrapper code needs to be called.
For the first part can be done by installing another NuGet package, Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb, to the project. The .NET backend is implemented using the OWIN framework, and that NuGet adds a bridge between the OWIN adapter and System.Web, which is used in IIS. No code is needed in this step.
For the second part, we need to tell the application to invoke the WebApiConfig.Register method. To do that, add a new Global Application Class (global.asax). You can remove all methods except
Application_Start from the generated class. In the app start, call that method, as shown below.
- public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
- {
- protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
- {
- WebApiConfig.Register();
- }
- }
If you now press F5, the project will run (i.e., the "This mobile service is up and running" page will appear on your browser). But when you try to invoke any operation in the table controller, you'll get an internal server error. Looking at the response body it will show the following error:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: schema at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Service.EntityContext..ctor(String schema) at WebApplication9.MyContext..ctor(String schema) in c:\…\WebApplication9\WebApplication9\MyContext.cs:line 17 at WebApplication9.TodoItemController.Initialize(HttpControllerContext controllerContext) in c:\…\WebApplication9\WebApplication9\TodoItemController.cs:line 18 at System.Web.Http.ApiController.ExecuteAsync(HttpControllerContext controllerContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.SendAsyncCore(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.d__0.MoveNext()"
The parameter which we passed to the context constructor (
this.Services.Settings.Schema) is null, which is causing this error. What is missing are configuration settings which the service adds when the backend is running on the cloud, but for local running they need to be defined in web.config. The schema can be defined with the MS_TableSchema app setting, but if that value is not defined it will default to the mobile service name (defined by the MS_MobileServiceName app setting). Another thing which we need to define is the connection string for the database used by the Entity Framework context. The
EntityContext class which we used to define our DB context uses the connection setting named MS_TableConnectionString by default, so we need to define it as well.
- <appSettings>
- <add key="MS_MobileServiceName" value="myMobileServiceName" />
- </appSettings>
- <connectionStrings>
- <add name="MS_TableConnectionString"
- connectionString="Data Source=(localdb)\v11.0;Initial Catalog=mylocaldatabasename;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
- providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
- </connectionStrings>
There are many other values which you can add to the app settings – you can check them out in the ServiceSettingsKeys class.
Wrapping up
I hope this post will give you not only a recipe for starting from scratch to create a mobile service backend (but if it does, great) but also explain a little more about how the .NET backend is hosted in the Azure Mobile Service. If you have any comments or questions, feel free to leave as comments in this post, ask a new question in our MSDN forums or contact us via twitter @AzureMobile.


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President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia - Zoran Zaev
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The President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev was born on October 8, 1974 in Strumica.
He grew up in a modest, agrarian household, brought up by a traditional family. Starting from early age, his younger brother and he were involved in the agricultural family business, which served as the only source of income. Zaev and his brother were raised by their parents and grandparents to be hardworking people who never procrastinate and believe there is a solution to every problem.
Later on in his life, he met his wife Zorica Zaeva with whom he has two children, Aleksandra and Dusko.
Zoran Zaev was a high school student when Macedonia became independent in 1991. He had already demonstrated affinities for math and was surrounded by family members who were thriving businessmen, active and respected in the socio-political and economic sphere of the Macedonian society. In 1997, Zaev graduated from the Faculty of Economics within Skopje University "St. Cyril and Methodius" where he continued his education on postgraduate studies of Monetary Economics and Finance.
Inspired by the business success of his uncle, he immediately started working in a family-owned trading company - "Trgoprodukt", where he progressed to the managerial position in 5 years. Additionally, he was a member of several boards of companies, banks, and public enterprises.
Zoran Zaev has been a party member of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) since 1996, while in the period 2003 – 2005 he was a Member of Parliament in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia.
In 2006 he was elected vice-president of the SDSM Central Committee; in 2008 he became the Acting President of the Party.
As of 2013, Zoran Zaev has been the leader of SDSM.
In 2005, Zaev became a mayor of the City of Strumica, as the youngest mayor in the country. Under his leadership the city had developed economically and became the city with best credit rating.
The city, and Zoran Zaev, as its mayor, while in office, won several awards and recognitions. On two occasions, in 2008 and 2009 the city won the highest national award in the field of environment, while Zaev, as mayor won the Best Practice Award from the Council of Europe for the first Public-Private Partnership in the country, implemented in the construction of the object "Global" in Strumica.
After winning the local elections in 2013, he began his third consecutive term as mayor of this city, executing this function until December 2016.
Besides the evident success in the development of the city, Zoran Zaev became one of the most favourable politicians in Macedonia because of his openness and availability. He was the only mayor who put transparency into practice by monthly appearances on a local TV station, where he presented the work of the municipality, while listening and answering to all citizens' issues and questions.
As the leader of the political opposition in the country, Zoran Zaev became the synonym of bravery and the frontrunner in the fight for justice, freedom, and democracy.
In February 2015, Zaev started the project "The Truth about Macedonia" by publishing the wiretapped material unveiling the criminal activities of the government led by Gruevski. The resistance towards the autocratic government continued with his and SDSM's active role in the Freedom Camp, which was a protest movement enticed by The Citizens for Macedonia - informal coalition of political parties and civic organizations working jointly to restore democracy in the society and revitalize the public institutions in service of the citizens.
On May 17th 2015, this movement organized the historically biggest non-party and civic protest in Skopje with more than 100.000 citizens in front of the Government.
The announced abolition by President Ivanov of then high government representatives provoked the citizens of the country to the Colourful Revolution - a massive protest movement all over the country. The movement started in April 2016, was spread throughout the country and lasted 100 days.
Zoran Zaev created and promoted the concept of "One society for all", as a mosaic of shared living of various cultures and communities in the country, announcing, thus, the future development of North Macedonia as place for life of all citizens, regardless of ethnic, political or other determination. This unifying concept has been the driving force behind the victory of SDSM at parliamentary elections in 2016, for the convincing victory on the local elections in 2017 as well as for the win of Stevo Pendarovski at the presidential elections in 2019.
After the "Przino agreement" and the parliamentary elections in 2016, followed by a difficult period of political turmoil, including the violent incident in the Parliament, on May 31, 2017, Zoran Zaev was elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia and got the mandate from the citizens to lead the new reform-oriented government.
At the end of the second year of the term of Zaev's Government, the European Commission published the historically most positive report on the country's progress. The Report notes the deep reforms conducted in the country using political dialogue and cooperation with all political parties in the parliament, especially with the opposition.
Prime Minister Zaev in the beginning of his term started leading the country towards the Euro-Atlantic integration focusing on good-neighbourly politics and restoring the trust of our strategic partners from the EU and the USA.
As a result of these intensive activities in August 2017 the Agreement for Strategic Partnership, Friendship and Good-Neighbourliness was signed with the Republic of Bulgaria, while in June, 2019 in Prespa, the historic agreement with Republic of Greece was signed, for resolution of the name issue of our country and for establishment of friendship and cooperation.
With the solutions stipulated in the Prespa Agreement, our country accepted the name Republic of North Macedonia while Greece recognized that the citizens of our country have their full right to call themselves Macedonians who speak Macedonian language.
In July 2018 in NATO HQ in Brussels, Prime Minister Zaev was given the invitation for NATO membership i.e. for start of the accession process by ratification of the Accession Protocol in the Alliance which was to start immediately after adopting the constitutional changes and implementing the Prespa Agreement.
During Zaev's mandate the country reached the historically lowest rate of unemployment in June 2019 – 17.8%, as well as the highest annual rate of foreign direct investments amounting to 624.5 million EUR in 2018.
During his two-years mandate, the President of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, in the country and abroad, had meetings with the most important and most influential world leaders while, together with Prime Minister Tsipras, they were commended and received highest recognitions such as the Ewald Fon Kleist award of the Munich Conference on Security and as well as the award "Emerging Europe" for best practices in promoting cooperation, unity, inclusion, diversity and positive thinking.
In 2019 Prime Minister Zaev, together with his colleague Tsipras were officially nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.


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In branding circles, Scott Bedbury is kind of famous… He worked at Nike during the "Just Do It" years. Helped Howard Shultz build the Starbucks brand. And now he consults with a few lucky businesses and does speaking engagements all over the world. Even Kazakstan. Nice!
Bedbury's a very genuine guy, which is good, because that's part of his branding mantra; the importance of being genuine.
These days, you can't get away with being disingenuous. Some blogger, somewhere, will call you on it faster than you can say, "Where the hell's our PR firm?" As Bedbury said, "the days of the corporate comb-over are gone."
The brand assessment work we do is designed to reveal the truth behind a brand, not a well-polished corporate version of it. But some companies don't like looking in the mirror. They aren't forthcoming with the comb-overs and other cosmetic improvements because the genuine attributes of their brand just aren't pretty.
I've seen plenty of cases where a company's internal perception of the brand doesn't jive with the consumer's reality. If that's the case, your branding efforts will have to reach much deeper than just the marketing department. You'll actually have to change the product, tweak the operation or hire a different team. Because "everything matters."
It's nice to hear that Bedbury's donating his talent for good causes. As he says, great brands use their superhuman powers for good and place people and principles before profits. "Give a damn, and give back," to be exact.
Patagonia is a company that gives a damn. There's nothing fake about Yvonne Chouinard's dedication to environmental causes, and it shows in everything the company does. The Patagonia brand, the operation and the products are aligned perfectly around a single, unifying idea… Save the environment so we can all enjoy the outdoors.
Unfortunately, few companies are as focused or philanthropic as Patagonia. Several business plans came across my desk in the past week, and it reminds me why Bedbury's branding message is so important. All too often, the startup is only about cashing out. Nothing else.
Jim Collins, author of Built To Last, has something to say about that: " The entrepreneurial mind-set has degenerated from one of risk, contribution, and reward to one of wealth entitlement. I developed our business model on the idea of creating an enduring, great company — just as I was taught to do at Stanford — and the VCs looked at me as if I were crazy. They're not interested in enduring, great companies, just an idea that you can do quickly and take public or get acquired within 12 to 18 months. "
Anyway, even if you don't have a great company that donates a portion of your profits like Patagonia does, you should still have a cause that drives your operation. You need a purpose the employees can rally around… something more meaningful than just boosting the stock price.
Scott Bedbury's boss at Nike, Phil Knight, was adamantly against his employees watching the stock price. When Bedbury got to Starbucks it was posted by the hour, up on a bulletin board for everyone to see. Not sure if Bedbury was able to change that practice or not, but it never sat well with him. He'd rather think long term.
Another thing about Bedbury is that he can still laugh at himself. (Or at least he could the last time I saw him speak in Bend, Oregon.) Again, he's following his own advice. An amusing anecdote and an easy chuckle are perfectly "on brand" for Scott Bedbury.
He's not the type of guy you'd find as a Chief Marketing Officer at a Fortune 500 company, that's for sure. He's more storyteller than suit.
Storytelling is a big part of branding. Once you've figured out the real crux of your brand, you have to communicate it in a form that people can understand. And nothing is more effective than a good, old-fashioned story. Doesn't matter if it's delivered via the latest, greatest mobile technology, it's still just a story. Tell it well. Tell it often. And keep it real.
One last piece of advice, inspired by Scott Bedbury… Don't be afraid to reinvent your brand from time to time. Every summer he "shuts it down," and hangs out with his family in Central Oregon. He writes, plays a little golf and recharges the batteries. So his own, personal brand will be fresh and ready for the next, big brand adventure.
For more insight on brand stories and similar case studies, try THIS post.


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Today, we're proud to introduce the new AMD Partner Program (APP), which delivers to channel partners (partners) a program that is both aspirational and motivational. It enables partners to sell components and to design, build, and sell solutions based on AMD technology.
Aspire, Motivate, Design - AMD. These are the cornerstones of the new AMD Partner Program.
Partners earn their tier (status) according to criteria that is transparent, and they know how to ascend in the program to earn increased benefits. Partner tier determines the level of available benefits and includes: Select, Provisional Premier, Premier, and Elite. Partner track (business model) determines the type of available benefits and includes: System Builder, Retailer, Etailer, and Distributor.
Benefits highlights include:
Select Partners are eligible to receive access to training, sales tools, marketing assets, channel communications, and Select certificates and logos.
Provisional Premier Partners are eligible to receive Select tier benefits plus rebates according to track, and have two quarters to attain Premier Partner status.
Premier Partners are eligible to receive Provisional Premier tier benefits plus access to AMD executives via partner meetings, and Premier certificates and logos according to track.
Elite Partners are eligible to receive exclusive benefits according to track, including: Co-Marketing funding, advertising on the Catalyst™ Control Center driver site, participation in the AMD Executive Team (AET) Summit, , and Elite certificates and logos.
All partners have access to the AMD Partner Portal at APP.AMD.com and Channel Update newsletters. The AMD Partner Portal, a secure website, delivers many benefits of the program and provides resources to help partners grow their AMD business. On the AMD Partner Portal, partners will find: APP documentation, sales tools, marketing assets, product training, Ask the Experts, videos, top reviews and news, and sales opportunities.
APP provides participating partners with a program focused on helping to drive profitable business through the promotion of AMD's broad, industry-leading technology portfolio. We're looking forward to the impact that the AMD Partner Program will have on our channel partners to help them aspire, motivate and design.
Amy McFarland, worldwide head of the AMD Partner Program at AMD. Her postings are her own opinions and may not represent AMD's positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites, and references to third party trademarks, are provided for convenience and illustrative purposes only. Unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links, and no third party endorsement of AMD or any of its products is implied.
*Originally posted by amcfarla in AMD Partners on Mar 25, 2014 7:54:31 AM


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Blacktron was one of the first two factions of the Space theme (the other one being Futuron) and was introduced in 1987.
The first unified and truly "themed" Space subtheme, Blacktron took to the stars in black with yellow trim, and red and yellow transparent pieces.(The odd man out was the Meteor Monitor, which was white and black with red transparents.) Blacktron minifigures wore black jumpsuits akin to today's military pilots, with white trim and opaque black visors. Stylish, sleek and intimidating, Blacktron was a major step up from the rather clunky design values of Classic Space. Blacktron is considered to be the "bad guys" of the two factions.It featured a large spacecraft, the Renegade, which set the tone for all future big ships by splitting into a number of smaller modules, including a storage bin for a small wheeled vehicle; these modules could be recombined not just with each other, but with modules from other vehicles in the set as well, specifically the Invader and Battrax. This modular interchangeability has been a staple of LEGO Space ever since.
For clarification, Blacktron is often referred to as Blacktron I, as LEGO released Blacktron II (or Blacktron Future Generation in 1991. Though Blacktron officially ended in 1988, the 1875 Meteor Monitor was released in 1990. Considering Blacktron II's slightly altered colour scheme it could be viewed as being from between the "upgrade" era of Blacktron to Blacktron II.
Blacktron minifigures were also included as prisoners in sets of Space Police I.
Popular Blacktron vehicles include Renegade, Invader, Battrax (all 1987) and Alienator (1988). The base was Message Intercept Base (1988).
- 6894 Invader (1987)
- 6941 Battrax (1987)
- 6954 Renegade (1987)
- 6876 Alienator (1988)
- 6987 Message-Intercept Base (1988)
- 1875 Meteor Monitor (1990)
- pc90bc1 Blacktron Post Card (LEGO Builders Club Exclusive) 1990
- Space Police sets containing Blacktron minifigures
- 6781 SP-Striker (1989)
- 6886 Galactic Peace Keeper (1989)
- 6895 Spy-Trak I (1989)
- 6955 Space Lock-Up Isolation Base (1989)
- 6986 Mission Commander (1989)
- Other appearances
- 6703 Space Mini-Figures (1988), included two Blacktron minifigures
- 6704 Space Mini Figures (1991), included one Blacktron minifig
LEGO Master Builder Academy
In 2011, a website of a new theme called LEGO Master Builder Academy showed pictures online of a M.O.C. (My Own Creation) of a Blacktron base that the creator called: Blacktron Intelligence Agency (B.I.A.). Also, a video on the website mentions Blacktron as: The villainous space crooks of Blacktron.
- A Blacktron shirt can be found from random enemy drops on Crux Prime in the online game Lego Universe.


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by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt
Nobel Laureate Yan examines China's one child policy and the consequences of blind obedience to authority. Gugu is a respected obstetrician in her rural town and a party loyalist who has taken extreme measures to help enforce the regulations of the Family Planning Commission. Gugu spares no one; when her nephew's wife becomes pregnant with their second child, Gugu's rigid enforcement of the law results in tragedy. "Heavily laced with ardent social criticism, mystical symbolism, and historical realism, Mo Yan's potent exploration of China's most personal and intrusive social control programs probes the horrors and pain such policies inflict" (Booklist).
The First Bad Man
by Miranda July
Artist, filmmaker and writer July follows her fanciful, funny and moving short story collection (No One Belongs Here More Than You, 2007) with a novel about a neurotic, lonely, middle-aged woman with rampant sexual fantasies. Cheryl works at a women's self-defense company, where she harbors an obsessive and unrequited longing for board member Phillip. Her orderly life is interrupted when her bosses ask her to allow their unpredictable 20-year-old daughter to move in with her. Kirkus Reviews calls this novel "bizarrely touching" with "humor, frankness and emotional ruthlessness" whose "strange details… deliver an emotional slap made sharper and more fitting by their oddity."
Driving the King
by Ravi Howard
Driving the King is a fictionalized account of the singer Nat King Cole and his boyhood friend Nat Weary, set against a backdrop of the post-war and Civil Rights era in Los Angeles and Montgomery. After Weary serves ten years in jail for saving Cole from a deadly attacker, Cole asks him to be his driver and bodyguard. Publishers Weekly praises the author's "velvety smooth" prose that "goes down like the top-shelf whiskey that Weary favors, making for a heady reading experience." Howard won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist for his previous novel Like Trees, Walking (2007).
Don't Let Him Know
by Sandip Roy
Roy's debut novel is about the lives of a family split between India and the U.S. and the secrets they hide from each other. Avinash covertly meets men online and in gay clubs; his wife Romola secretly knows about it. When their grown son Amit finds a fragment of an incriminating letter from the past, he mistakenly thinks he has discovered his mother's lover. "Roy's is a warm, articulate voice speaking authentically about family influence on how we carry out our own lives" in a "quiet but piercing tale of immigrant domestic life" (Library Journal). Roy is a commentator on NPR and San Francisco's KALW.
Honeydew: Stories
by Edith Pearlman
Short fiction lovers will not want to miss this new collection of twenty stories from Pearlman, whose last book, Binocular Vision (2011), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Pearlman's writing has been compared to the work of Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Publishers Weekly called it an "affecting collection that periscopes into small lives, expanding them with stunning subtlety." "'Honeydew' should cement [Pearlman's] reputation as one of the most essential short story visionaries of our time" (New York Times).
by Boualem Sansal
An unusual bond forms between two women when Lamia, a pediatrician who is considered a spinster at 35, welcomes a pregnant teenager into her home. "Simultaneously humorous and heartbreaking, Sansal expertly describes the crushing weight of social and religious strictures on Algeria's women" (Publishers Weekly). Sansal (The German Mujahid, 2009) has been honored with numerous international book prizes; he continues to live in his native Algeria despite the fact that his books are banned there.
The Seventh Day
by Yu Hua, translated by Allan H. Barr
Yang Fei, 41 years old, is dead and stuck in limbo. In this version of the afterlife, he can interact with both the dead and living, and he revisits the people he knew in life, seeking to reconnect with his beloved adoptive father. "Although the author retains his signature outlook of an absurdist new China with little regard for humanity—27 fetuses floating down a river, iPhones worth more than life, kidney harvesting from willing young bodies—this latest is ultimately less graphic exposé and more poignant fable about family bonds made not of blood ties but unbreakable heartstrings" (Library Journal).
The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
This is not actually a new book, but a re-release of the award winning 2007 novel Someone Knows My Name (originally published in the author's native Canada as The Book of Negroes, after a historical document, The Book of Negroes, which recorded the names of slaves who served the British during the Revolutionary War and were later allowed to flee to Canada). The book is getting renewed attention as a result of a television miniseries, which will appear soon on the CBC in Canada and on BET in the U.S. The novel follows the life of West African Aminata Diallo, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in South Carolina. Fiercely smart Aminata learns how to read and write, seizes her escape when given the opportunity to flee her master and contributes her talents to wrest the freedom of many others. Publishers Weekly called it "stunning, wrenching and inspiring" and "a harrowing, breathtaking tour de force."
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
by Christopher Scotton
Following the death of his younger brother, 14-year-old Kevin Gillooly and his mother return to her childhood home in Kentucky's coal country. Kevin begins to heal with the help of his widowed grandfather, a wise and gentle veterinarian, and new friend Buzzy who is skilled in the ways of rural survival. Meanwhile ecological devastation looms; local environmentalist and hairstylist Paul Pierce is targeted for his activism and for being a gay man; then Kevin, his grandfather and Buzzy are fired upon by an unknown assailant during a camping trip. "The coming-of-age story is enriched by depictions of the earth's healing and redemptive power" (Publishers Weekly). Kirkus calls it a "captivating modern morality tale" and "a powerful epic of people and place, loss and love, reconciliation and redemption."
The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
Alcoholic and depressed Rachel Watson pretends to go to work every day even though she was fired for being drunk on the job. On the train, she passes by the house that she used to share with her ex-husband—he still lives there with his new wife and their child. She also spies on former neighbors: a couple that she idealizes, fantasizing about their happy life together. When the woman in this couple shows up in the tabloids as missing, Rachel delves into the investigation, the story unfolding between three very unreliable narrators. Booklist says, "Hawkins makes voyeurs of her readers as she creates one humiliating scene after another with the women's near-feral emotions on full display. A wicked thriller, cleverly done." Gone Girl fans take note!
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Rangers agree to terms with RHP Yu Darvish on six-year contract
Right-hander joins Rangers after outstanding seven-year career in Nippon Professional Baseball
Arlington, Texas – The Texas Rangers announced today that the club has agreed to terms with free agent right-handed pitcher Yu Darvish to a six-year contract through the 2017 season. Financial terms were not disclosed, per club policy.
Darvish, 25, will be seeking to make his major league debut in 2012 after a seven-year career with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japanese Pacific League in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). A two-time Pacific League Most Valuable Player (2007 and 2009), he is one of 10 pitchers in the history of Japanese professional baseball to win multiple MVP awards in a career. Darvish won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 2007, which honors the top starting pitcher in NPB each year, and also won a Pacific League Golden Glove Award in 2007 and 2008. He is a 5-time NPB All-Star (2007-11) and was twice named to the Pacific League's Best Nine (2007 and 2009).
On December 8, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters officially granted permission for Darvish to participate in the posting process as outlined in the agreement between Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball. On December 19, Hokkaido informed Major League Baseball that it had accepted the highest bid, submitted by the Rangers, for the negotiating rights to Darvish. As a result, the Rangers had a 30-day period in which to negotiate an agreement with the pitcher.
Over his seven-year career in Japan, Darvish has gone 93-38 with a 1.99 ERA (281 ER/1268.1 IP) in 167 games/164 starts, posting a 0.98 WHIP figure, 55 complete games, 18 shutouts, and 1250 strikeouts. Opponents in Japan have batted just .204 against Darvish in his career. Since joining the Fighters at the age of 19 in 2005, he leads all NPB pitchers in ERA, wins, innings, opponents average, complete games, and shutouts. He also has the lowest average of home runs allowed per 9 innings (0.41) among qualifiers (minimum 667.0 innings) in that span, in addition to the lowest on-base (.266) and slugging (.281) figures of any pitcher. His 1.99 career ERA is nearly a run lower than the next-closest active pitcher with at least 1200.0 innings in Japan (Toshiya Sugiuchi, 2.92).
The 6-foot-5, 216-pound Darvish won Pacific League ERA titles in 2009 and 2010, and led that circuit in strikeouts three times (2007-10-11). He was born August 16, 1986, and bats and throws right-handed.
Darvish has accumulated minimums of 200.0 innings, 200 strikeouts, and 10 complete games in four different seasons (2007-08-10-11). He has posted qualifying ERA figures under 2.00 for 5 straight seasons, the first pitcher ever in Nippon Professional Baseball (established in 1950) to accomplish that feat. The previous longest streak of that kind in Japan had been 4 consecutive years, done by a pair of pitchers in the 1950's. Only 3 pitchers in the modern era of Major League Baseball have compiled 5 straight seasons of sub-2.00 ERA's, and each of those streaks occurred prior to World War I. Since at least 2004, Darvish owns 5 of the 14 lowest single-season ERA figures in Japan. He posted quality starts in 27 of his 28 outings in 2011, all of those consecutive to end the year, and has registered quality efforts in 109 of 126 starts (86.5%) over the last 5 seasons.
He was 18-6 with a 1.44 ERA (37 ER/232.0 IP) for Hokkaido in 2011. The 1.44 ERA was the lowest of his career, as he also posted career highs in wins (18), strikeouts (276), innings (232.0), starts (28), and shutouts (6). The 276 strikeouts were the most by a pitcher in NPB since former major leaguer Hideo Nomo had 276 in 1993. After losing his first start of the year in 2011, he won his next 8 starts, including a stretch of 46.0 consecutive scoreless innings from May 10-June 15.
Following the season-opening loss, he went 13-1 with a 0.99 ERA over his next 14 starts from April 19-June 20. Darvish had 4 shutouts in a span of 5 starts from May 10-June 8, including a pair of 1-0 wins to end that stretch. He posted a trio of 15-strikeout games in 2011, all matching his career high, this after never having more than 14 K's in any outing in his career. Darvish tossed at least 7.0 innings in every outing last season, with his lone outing of more than 3 runs coming in his first start.
Over the last 5 seasons, Darvish has gone 76-28 with a 1.72 ERA (196 ER/1024.1 IP) and 1083 strikeouts against 221 walks while serving as the Fighters' Opening Day starter in each of those campaigns. The opposition has batted .192 against him in that span. He has allowed 10 home runs over 434.0 innings the past 2 seasons for an average of 0.21 HR per 9 innings, easily the lowest figure of any pitcher in that period.
By joining the Rangers, Darvish is in the same organization as his former Hokkaido teammate Yoshinori Tateyama. The pair pitched in the same game for the Fighters on 23 occasions from 2005-10, including Tateyama's final Japanese appearance on September 28, 2010 against Orix at the Kyocera Dome.
Darvish pitched for Gold Medal-winning Japan teams in the 2009 World Baseball Classic and the 2007 Asian Baseball Championship, and also appeared for his country in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He went 2-0 with a 2.08 ERA (3 ER/13.0 IP) in 5 games/2 starts for Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, earning the win and recording the last out to secure the championship against Korea. He had also closed out Japan's win in the semifinals against the United States, with each of those final 2 contests taking place at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Darvish has pitched in the Japanese postseason in 5 of the last 6 years, including 3 seasons in the Japan Series, which is that country's equivalent to the World Series. He earned the win in the finale of the Fighters' 2006 Japan Series championship, which was the franchise's first title since 1961. With his victory in that series' Game 5, he became just the fifth pitcher in NPB history to win a Japan Series game prior to turning 21 years old.
In 11 career postseason games/starts in Japan, he has gone 8-2 with a 1.38 ERA (13 ER/85.0 IP), totaling 5 complete games with 22 walks against 91 strikeouts. He allowed just one home run in 85.0 career postseason innings.
Darvish attended Tohoku High School in northern Sendai, a school which also produced major league pitchers Kazuhiro Sasaki and Takashi Saito. He had a 1.10 ERA in his high school career, and pitched a no-hitter against Kumamoto Technical High School in the first round of the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament on March 26, 2004. He was drafted by the Fighters in the first round on November 17, 2004 and signed on December 17.
Darvish is expected to be introduced in a press conference at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington later in the week.


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Exciting news concerning the future of Rochester Contemporary Art Center was announced tonight amid the 300 works that make up the 22nd Annual Members Exhibition. Art Center Executive Director Bleu Cease thanked the people who have supported the institution throughout its nearly 36 years before he released the news that RoCo, which throughout its history has been a tenant of various area buildings, now has a permanent address, as it has purchased the building that currently houses its galleries and studios at 137 East Avenue.
The news was met by cheers and applause from the audience, which packed the gallery. Rochester Contemporary's history, like many relatively young institutions, has been challenged at times by financial hardship. But ownership of the building will alleviate the institution of "considerable rental expense," says Cease.
But the struggle isn't over, as RoCo now faces 60 hefty mortgage payments of $1387.94. Cease hopes the mortgage will be paid off in five years (the paperwork was signed in late October), at which point Rochester Contemporary will own the building outright, freeing up expense to be dedicated toward "unforeseen opportunities and to cover emergencies," he says. In the near future, the building will need a new roof and a new HVHC system.
To meet this need, Cease has set up a Future Fund, "RoCo's first piggy bank," as he calls it, through which supporters may donate amounts, large and small, or pledge a mortgage payment. The end goal of the fund is $550,000, of which $330,000 has been raised to date. Board president Stuart Davis joined Cease to unveil a donor wall, which already lists the names of many who have contributed funds and pledges toward the fund, and read names from a list of supporters, among which are founders of Pyramid Arts Center, the original institution from which Rochester Contemporary arose.
The side room off the main gallery space, which formerly housed the P.L.A.N.T. project room, has been rededicated as a gallery and sales room of artworks donated by collectors to raise funds the Future Fund, including prints by Jerome Witkin and Thomas Seawell.
Rochester Contemporary has been in need of a solid base, says Cease. Through the years, it has worked to solidify its position as a lasting cultural institution in the community general, and the East End neighborhood specifically. "We're not going anywhere," Cease says. "We own it."
The current members exhibit continues through January 13, and a series of dozens of back-to-back artists' talks will take place 1-6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, December 8-9. For more information on the exhibitions, programming, and the Future Fund, visit rochestercontemporary.org.


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Morris has added some additions and enhancements to its air seeding carts.
Complementing existing 9 Series models set on regular, large and extra large chassis frames in tow-behind or tow-between configuration are three new models on double extra large frames.
The Morris 9682 tow-behind or between cart offers 23,462 litres in two tanks as well as the option of a 5000L (tow-between) or 7000L (tow-behind) liquid tank.
The Morris 9843 comprises 29,171L in three tanks also configured in tow-behind or between format, while the tow-behind Morris 91000 offers 35,380L in four tanks.
With these larger carts, a complete liquid console system is also available to manage applications from trailing liquid tanks, Duncan Murdoch, who is with national Morris distributor, McIntosh Distribution.
Mr Murdoch said grower interest in larger, tow-behind and tow-between air carts was increasing in select cropping areas.
"The most common request is a large tank for compound fertiliser and another for seed, plus a liquid tank, and some growers want three tanks plus a liquid tank,'' he said.
"Whereas other manufacturers can achieve similar capacities using multiple tanks, Morris achieves it with two or three tanks.''
He said the 9 Series air carts included the optional, fully integrated Gen 5 liquid systems console for accurate and even liquid distribution.
On larger models, this is also ready to plug and play into trailing tanks using the liquid ready option.
"Growers running larger air carts are wanting 10,000-12,000L liquid tanks,'' he said.
"It can be difficult and expensive for growers to set up liquid delivery systems with tanks but with the Gen 5 system it is all done.
"It includes all the hydraulics, valving, electronics, filtering and pressure gauging. You just have to run the suction line to the tank.
"We've partnered with Liquid Systems for over 15 years. It's great to work side-by-side with another Australian company, as it allows both entities to benefit from each other's product development."
He said the latest Gen 5 liquid delivery system featured a number of enhancements.
"With the Gen 5 module you can run single and dual liquid applications.
"The new system has combined the on-off and control valves into one single valve, so you can turn product on-off almost instantly.
"This has developed with the introduction of section control which requires really quick on-off product control.''
The latest GEN 5 system was also compatible with Dosatron dosing systems, he said.
"This is really significant where products like Impact fungicide or zinc are included with liquid fertiliser.
"Compared with the previous Gen 4 system, it doesn't need a return line and so prevents the dilution between primary and secondary mixtures. It is very quick to regulate and now effectively stops the product returning to the tank."
Integrated Morris blockage monitoring with the latest carts was now "section aware'', eliminating nuisance alarms when used with the manufacturer's Input Control Technology (ICT).
"The system is aware when sections are turned-off for overlap and so doesn't give false alarms and it can be used with single and dual shoot air kits,'' Mr Murdoch said.
Another feature with the latest Morris 9 Series air carts was instead of using flat fan divider heads, growers have the option of Australian-designed and made stainless steel, upright air kits, ensuring long life and consistent product delivery, he said.
The story Morris says growers will 'tank' them for new air carts first appeared on Farm Online.


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — UNC snapped its four-game losing streak by beating Boston College in a 34-10 victory Saturday at Chapel Hill.
The News & Observer reported that the victory was Carolina's first since defeating Middle Tennessee State on Sept. 7.
Boston College (3-4, 1-3) took a 7-6 lead on Andre Williams' 56-yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter.
The Tar Heels (2-5, 1-3) reclaimed the lead on A.J. Blue's 1-yard scoring run early in the second quarter and took a 27-7 lead into the fourth quarter.
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