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Peshawar, May 03: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education department is understood to have decided to remove chapters on Pakhtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his poet son, Ghani Khan, from the Pashto book for 12th grade in the province, it is learnt.
The revised book will be introduced in local educational institutions at the start of the next academic year, according to sources.
The chapters on the life of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Bacha Khan, a preacher of nonviolence, and his son, Ghani Khan, a philosopher, Pashto poet and sculptor, were included in the 12th grade Pashto book to inform Pakhtun youths about their leaders.
People in the know said chapters on Bacha Khan and Ghani Khan were part of the curriculum, which was developed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Text Book Board in 2009 at the request of the federal government.
They said though other stakeholders from Balochistan and Islamabad were taken on board during the preparation of the curriculum, a section of society with a 'different mindset' was unhappy with the move to educate the new generation of Pakhtuns about its leaders.
When contacted, Zubair Hasrat, one of the co-authors of the book, insisted the provincial Directorate of Curriculum and Teachers Education had decided to exclude chapters on Bacha Khan and Ghani Khan.
He alleged that the directorate also intended to remove references to other progressive Pakhtun writers from the book.
Mr Hasrat said the Da Azadi Sapasalar (torchbearer of the freedom movement) was a chapter on the life of Bacha Khan.
He said the personality of Bacha Khan, his struggle in the independence movement and different aspect of his life were mentioned in the book.
Mr Hasrat said Pashto drama writer Professor Mohammad Hamayun Huma and Professor Yar Mohammad Maghmoom Khattak were among other authors of the book.
According to him, a portion of Ghani Khan's works, Gady Wady, published in the Pashto language magazine, Pakhtun, which was launched before the independence, is also part of the current book as a chapter.
"We have not crossed the line and everything mentioned in the book is in accordance with the curriculum," he said.
Mr Hasrat said the book was duly approved by the Provincial Technical Review Committee in 2012.
He said noted professors of Pashto language were part of the PTRC, who had no objections to the book.
According to him, the DCTE has decided to exclude both chapters from the book in light of the National Review Committee's recommendations.
Mr Hasrat alleged that members of the NRC didn't have the calibre of the book's authors and the PTRC members, so there was no justification to follow its recommendations.
When contacted, Professor Fazl Naseer, one of the NRC members, said the authors of the book had exceeded the limit by getting additional material included in the book.
He said the authors had made chapters, which were not mentioned in the curriculum, part of the book.
On the other hand, Zubair Hasrat said the authors were respected and responsible academicians, who couldn't include chapters in the book on their own.
He said the authors had categorically asked the education department to publish the book without excluding any chapter.
"We will go to the court if the government doesn't agree with us," he said.
When contacted, Bacha Khan Education Trust Managing Director Khadim Hussain said after 18th amendment to the Constitution, the federal government had given the right to each province to include its history, culture, literature, heroes etc in own textbooks, so the chapters on Bacha Khan and Ghani Khan were included in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa curriculum.
He said during the development of the new curriculum, it was decided to keep students from the material spreading hatred against other nations and glorying war, which was introduced during military dictator Ziaul Haq's rule.
DCTE director Bashir Hussain Shah said that chapters on Bacha Khan and Ghani Khan would not be excluded from the Pashto book for 12th grade.
Insiders insisted though the relevant officials of the education department didn't confirm the imminent exclusion of chapters on Pakhtun nationalists from the syllabus, that would certainly happen. Dawn
KMU to develop academic cooperation with American varsity
Peshawar: Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar and the University of Toledo (UT), Ohio, USA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on academic and research cooperation.
The MoU signing ceremony took place during a recent visit of Dr Mohammad Hafizullah, the vice-chancellor of KMU, to the University of Toledo, USA.
The MoU was signed by Dr Hafizullah and the dean college of medicine and life sciences, UT on behalf of their respective institutions.
The purpose of the MoU is to develop academic and educational cooperation and promote mutual understanding between the two universities.
Both the universities agreed to develop collaborative activities in research at doctorate and post doctorate levels in basic medical sciences, curriculum development of medical, dental, paramedical, nursing and other allied health fields.
The objectives of the MoU are to get engaged in discussions regarding collaborative activities and exchange of faculty and students. Any type of financial arrangements between the universities will be negotiated and memorialised in definitive legal agreement.
According to the MoU, each party agreed to carry out collaborative activities in accordance with the laws and regulations of their respective countries after full consultation and approval.The MoU, which will be valid for five years, may be amended or modified by a written agreement signed by the representative of each party.
The validity of the MoU may only be extended by the written consent of both the parties. The MoU may at any time during its period of validity, be terminated by one of the parties upon prior notice to the other in writing, not later than six months before its date of termination.
Dr Hafizullah said that the MoU would enable KMU to seek guidance and support from UT in various disciplines of health sciences. app


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leh City: the Capital of Ladakh, At One Time Was a Major Stop On the Asian "silk Route". a Stroll Along the Main Bazar, Observing the Varied Crowd and Peering Into the Curio Shops, is An Entrancing Experience. Chang Gali, Behind the Main Bazar is Less Bustling But Has Intriguing Little Shops Selling Curios and Jewelry like Pearls, Turquoise, Coral, Malachite, Lapis and Many other Kinds of Semi-precious Stones, as Well as Curiously Carved Yak-horn Boxes, Quaint Brass Locks, China or Metal Bowls Etc.
evening We Visit Shanti Stupa a Magnificent White-domed Structure, the Japanese for World Peace Built the Shanti Stupa, At Changspa, On the Hilltop, and Was Inaugurated By Dalai Lama in 1985. Its State of the Art Work Attracts a Lot of Tourists to Ladakh and is Spectacular to Watch. from There One Can See the Nice Spectacular View of Leh Town. the Stupa Looks Best At Night, When It is Beautifully Illuminated with Glittering Lights. a Large Number of Tourists Come to Ladakh Every Year to Visit this Amazing Stupa.
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today We Proceed for Indus Valley Monastery Tour.
we Start with a Visit to Shey the Ancient Capital of Ladakh. the Monastery Here Has a Huge Gold-gilded Statue of Buddha Sakyamuni with a Large Silver Lamp Burning in Front of the Statue, Built in the Memory of King Singee Namgyal By His Son Ldeldan Namgyal in 1633 A.d. It is the Only Kind of Statue Made of Gold, Gilt and Copper in Entire Ladakh.
then We Visit Thiksey Gompa An Impressive Complex Rising Tier Upon Tier On a Hill Above the Village. the Monastery Has a Beautiful 30 M High Gold-plated Statue of Maitreya Buddha, the Buddha of the Future is One of the Most Beautiful Monasteries of Ladakh,.
drive Further to Visit the Famous Hemis Gompa, this is the Largest Monastic Foundation of Drukpa Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism. Most of the other Drukpa Monasteries are the Branch Monasteries of Hemis. It Was Built During Early 17th Century with the Blessing of Lama Stagtsang Raspa (shambunatha), By Famous Namgyal Dynasty King Singee Namgyal.
the Two-day Festival of Monastic Dance in June-july Has Raised the Reputation of Hemis Particularly High. the Festival is Dedicated to Guru Padmasambhava, Popularly Known as Second Buddha and Responsible for Spreading Buddhism in the Tibetan World. Overnight Stay At the Hotel in Leh.
Day 3 : Leh– ALCHI
Enroute Visiting: Phyang, Likir, Basgo
after Breakfast We Drive to Phyang, Located 6 Kms Away from the Srinagar-leh Highway and 17 Km from Leh. It Was Built During the Reign of King Jamyang Namgyal in Late 15th Century By Lama Kunga Dragspa. Phiyang Belongs to Dri-pung Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism. the Man Assembly Hall Which is Now Under Conservation Contains as Main Image Vairocana Accompanied By Shakyamuni and Various Kagyu Lamas, and the Walls are Painted Pleasingly with Murals of Vajradhara and Five Dhyani Buddhas.
and We Drive Further to Likir, Likir Gompa Situated Atop a Windy Cliff Top Overlooking the Beautiful Village of Likir, this Monastery is Headed By the Younger Brother of Dalai Lama. According to Tradition the Foundation of Likir Monastery Goes Back 11th Century When It Was a Bon Center. But the Real Foundation Seem to Be Not Earlier Than 15th Century. On the Top On Roof They have Newly Setup a Museum Which Contains Some Very Old Thankas Brought from Tibet and the Armory, Coins, Seals Etc.
basgo is Certainly the Most Impressive of Ladakhi Citadels Despite Its Ruined State. Amidst the Ruines of the Fort There are Two Large Temples and Adjoining One of There is a Small Shrine. They all Contains Images of Maitreya in Due Proportion to Their Size. the Most Beautiful One is the Higer One, Which is Known as the Chamba Lha-khang (maitreya Temple) and Which Was Built By Tsewang Namgyal, Son of Tashi Namgyal, About the Middle of 16th Century.
then We Drive and Cross the River Indus and Reach Alchi, Ladakh's Most Loved Monastery. Over a Century Old, Its Wall Paintings are Very Similar to Those of the Tabo Gompa in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. Unlike other Monasteries, Which are Usually On a Cliff Top or Cling to a Mountainside, Alchi is At Ground Level and is Nestled in the Shade of a Garden.
after Visiting the Alchi Monastery We Check in At Our Camp / Guest House for Overnight Stay.
Day 4 : ALCHI – LEH
Enroute Visiting Lamayuru, Ridzong
after Break Fast Start Early Morning Drive to Lamayuru, and Ridzong Back to Leh.
lamayuru is Around More Further Towards Kargil. Lamayuru Monastery Belongs to Dripung Kagyu (red Hat) like Phiyang. the Oldest Structure in Lamayuru is the Singey Lhakhang Built By the Founder of Alchi Lotsava Rinchen Bzangpo in 11th Century. Lamayuru Lower Ladakh Its also Called as Sham.
after Visit At Lamayuru Gompa the Drive to Ridzong Gompa: Rizong Gompa is Known as the Paradise for Meditation. Guru Padma Sambhava is Believed to Editated Here for Years. One Can Still Find the Small Caves Where Lamas Used to Meditate for Years Cutting Themselves from the Rest of the World Except for a One Feet Square Outlet Window from Where They Accept the One Time Meal of the Day.
ridzong is the Most Recent of the Gelug-pa Foundation in Ladakh. the Monastery Has Been Built Picturesquely At the Head of a Gorge Reached By a Side-valley Running North from the Indus Near a Village Uletokpo. Ridzong is Best Known as Best Disciplined Monastery of the Whole of Ladakh.
after Ridzong Visit We Drive Back to Leh and Check in At Our Hotel for Overnight Stay
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It is that time of year again. Time for reflecting on what has been and our hope for things to come.
Last year I completed my Picturing Twenty Twelve challenge. I took a photograph (or more!) every day for a year, capturing the remarkable and mundane moments that made up our 2012 lives. This year it felt too much to keep that up, so this year I am turning my attention to this blog.
I tend to blog here when I'm feeling particularly low. Not always, but often. I guess that is the nature of this blog, it originated in the raw months that followed our daughters death and has become my little haven to process whatever I need to, it is only natural that the main focus has always been my grief.
As we go into a new year I know I am by no means done with my grief. I still need this space for my angel motherhood journey, but this year I want to make more of an effort to share my thoughts about random stuff, happy stuff, my highs as well as my lows. I want to make an effort to blog more often.
I did wonder if I should start a new blog, but it doesn't feel right to do. Anabelle is the reason I blog and her blog will remain, after all this is all part of the journey - how my life is unfolding and my thoughts After Anabelle.
Recently I've discovered a sort of journal challenge called 365 Questions; the idea is to use the prompt to forumlate a post or entry for each day of the year. It is overly ambitious to believe I will manage to blog about one prompt every day, besides I know there will be times when I will need to blog about what is on my mind, rather than what is prescribed. However I know it will serve its purpose of giving me a new focus as we go into 2013 and help me to blog beyond my grief, I think I'm ready to be more than the 'woman who's baby died'.
So here we are 365 Questions, Day 1, Post 1.
What is your number one goal this year?
To be healthier in my grief.
We have a few goals for this year; 2013 is going to be the year we pull our financial affairs together, we are going to think about adding to our family this year, we are going to continue to enjoy each and every precious moment with Alexander this year. But personally, for me, my number one goal is to be healthier in my grief. That isn't to say fix it, or heal it, but I need to let it move with me.
For some months it has been obvious within family life I've been slowly going through an emotional health decline. I've recently talked here about needing counselling again and needing to face some demons I've been avoiding for so long. Sometime this month I need to pluck up that courage and make that phonecall.
I know my grief is never going to go away, I know there will be waves of raw pain as if she died only yesterday, I know this is my life. As overwhelming as it is. I know there is nothing I can do to change it.
But there are external things around me I have no control of, things which hurt and affect me deeply and it is these things I need to become healthier with. I need to really understand why I sometimes react the way I do and find new strategies to cope when a meltdown trigger comes along, before it becomes all consuming as it has over these recent months.
I know full well I will go through some pretty inevitable lows this year; the year she should be turning three, the year she should be starting nursery class at school, another year she should be here.
I know it will not always be possible to be in control of the waves of pain; but this year I want to be more than a grieving mother. I owe it to myself, to Jon, to Belle and Xander.
Does anyone else want to be inspired to find the positives in this year? How about this idea; my note for 1st January 2013 says Today was special because my family played peekaboo 'Boo' with Xander, he kept saying 'Boo' back and shrieking with laughter. My beautiful happy baby.
I've added this post to the How I Came To Hold You blog hop. A book, about infant loss and rainbow pregnancies. It is being published and sold to raise money for Sands. A charity very close to my heart.
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I convinced my shop that I need a bookmark for each Hell On Earth omnibus & a spare. I like leaving a bookmark tucked away where the dust jacket folds into the book ready to use. I know I'm nuts.
I love that cover.
"...puppets are scary, and puppets do things when people are sleeping, and they run around and get their own ideas about things." - Mike Mignola
" if youve been damaged, if youve been made lesser, if youve been reduced, and youre still trying to do the right thing thats a #$%@ing hero." -John Arcudi
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yeah, that's a really great cover!! The usage and placement of the claw card is on point!
I bought the Abe Sapien "Dark and Terrible" volumes and look forward to reading them over the week.
According to Asmodee UK, who bring games to the shops, the official release date for the non-KS retail version of "Hellboy the boardgame" is 22 April. Mantic are a UK company, so not sure of US release date, assume it will be around the same time.
Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons. -- Hellboy.
Dude, youre embarrassing me in front of the Wizards. -- Tony Stark.


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Manus Island asylum seekers not approved to resettle in the USA could be declared illegal aliens by Papua New Guinea and deported -- possibly back to Australia -- a local politician claimed.
Former MP for Manus Island, Ron Knight, told The Huffington Post Australia he was planning to lead a local movement against plans to resettle potentially hundreds of rejected asylum seekers in the wider Manus community.
"It's not PNG's problem, it's an Australian problem," said Knight, a member of the opposition in PNG's parliament.
Under an agreement struck last year, the U.S. government will take an as-yet-unknown number of asylum seekers and refugees who were sent to Australian-run regional processing centres on Manus Island and Nauru.
This is the agreement President Donald Trump called a "dumb deal" and "the worst deal ever", and the cause of a reported shouted phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in February. But just this weekend, U.S. vice president Mike Pence told reporters in Sydney that the deal was still on.
Priority for U.S. places is expected to go to women and children on Nauru, so hundreds of the nearly 900 men will likely remain on Manus after the U.S. agreement, and questions have been raised over what will happen to them.
Australia plans to close the current processing centre by October, and little is known about what support -- if any -- Australia will provide to those men left behind.
In announcing the U.S. deal in November, immigration minister Peter Dutton detailed negotiations for a 20-year visa for asylum seekers left on Nauru and in recent interviews Dutton said "PNG has the responsibility to settle those people" found to be genuine refugees but not accepted by the U.S.
On Monday, Manus MP Knight said plans were underway to move the leftover asylum seekers from the centre near Lombrum to an overcrowded transit centre in Lorengau, a town around 10 kilometres west. He told HuffPost Australia that the plan was destined to fail -- Knight claimed the transit centre was already full and could not sustain another few hundred people -- and that locals would not support it.
"The plan to dump the asylum seekers from Lombrum into the Manus transit centre is ridiculous and we won't stand for it. Those that go to America are the lucky ones, the rest they're going to dump at the centre at Lorengau and forget about them," Knight said.
"They'll hope they integrate with the community. That won't happen. It's a 230-bed capacity transit centre, it's already at full capacity. You're trying to bring in 300, 400 or 500 people? You'd have to be an idiot."
"If that happens, I'll lead my people and we'll come to Lorengau transit centre and close it down, and ask them nicely to transport [the asylum seekers] back to Lombrum. And if we have to put a boom gate on the entrance into Lorengau, to stop all ex-patriates and asylum seekers from coming into Lorengau town, we will do that."
Knight said he doesn't oppose the plan because he dislikes the asylum seekers -- he has previously said the men at Manus are among "some of the most intelligent beautiful people I have met" -- but because the town and facility could not support a sudden influx of several hundred people, and that the asylum seekers would not be able to integrate into the wider community.
Knight said PNG would be within its rights to declare the asylum seekers to be illegal aliens, and to deport them back to "the last port of embarkation" -- which he said would be either Australia or Christmas Island.
"It's not PNG's problem, it's Australia's problem. You look at these people as asylum seekers and refugees, but Papua New Guineans view them as illegal immigrants," he said.
"We have a migration act. If we use it, we can have all of them declared illegal aliens and deported the next day. They will go back to the last port of embarkation which is Australia and Christmas Island."
Knight, however, has come under fire himself in recent days after a PNG court upheld a ruling dismissing him from parliament over a disputed purchase of a boat. The case has been ongoing for several years, with reviews and appeals initiated by Knight, but a court recently dismissed his latest appeal. However, Knight has maintained he will continue to fight the ruling, and his details and position remain on the PNG parliament's website. Knight maintains he is still the legitimate MP for Manus, despite the ruling.
Knight called for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to intervene and help settle the dispute.
"The only answer is with UNHCR. They have to step in," he said.
"Australia and PNG didn't have UNHCR in the deal in the first place because they knew it was unconstitutional and unlawful. They didn't want UNHCR in there... The process was too long. Instead of having six months to process an asylum seeker, it's taken four years for them to do anything."
We contacted the Department of Immigration and Border Protection for comment about Knight's claims that the remaining asylum seekers could be deported. In a statement, a spokeswoman said "as the Minister [Dutton] has made clear on numerous occasions; no one from Manus Island Regional Processing Centre will ever be settled in Australia".
The spokeswoman also pointed to an interview on Sky News last month, where Dutton addressed questions about the future of the men left after the U.S. agreement.
In the interview, Dutton claimed "under the agreement struck by [former PM Kevin] Rudd, if people are found to be refugees, given that PNG is itself is a signatory to the convention and to the protocols, PNG has the responsibility to settle those people."
"If people have been found not to be refugees, then the expectation is that they will be returned home."
Dutton said people found to be genuine refugees, but not accepted by the U.S., would be "staying in PNG, that's the arrangement as it currently stands".
"There is a facility at East Lorengau close by where some people are currently residing, those people that have been found to be refugees who are transitioning into PNG society. So there are facilities available and there'll be resources available to provide people with settlement options."
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Prime Lounge celebrates it's 5th anniversary Satruday night!
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The summer's biggest party at Marquee Bar Friday night!
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The highly successful event expands into three different cities and 2 different states!
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Glow Go 5K and Glow Party Saturday July 27th, don't miss the fun!
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Marquee Bar on 4th Street Live, brings partying to a whole 'nother level!
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We're a family of readers. Meeting the most interesting people. Reading Romance, Christian Romance, Contemp, Chick Lit., Suspense Romance, New Romance, YA, Some can sizzle your blood. My hubby will be writing on Hist., Sports, Cookbooks, Bio. & Mystery. What type of genres do you enjoy? Some good author interviews coming. We're on Twitter:@1RadReader59 Instagram:@1radreader and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/booksreviewedauthorstoo/. Enjoy reading, we will.
Posted: July 18, 2013
If one man can be credited with creating the language of rock 'n' roll it is Chuck Berry. In the early 1950's he was just an ambitious Nat "King" Cole imitator gigging in St Louis, but ten years after moving to Chicago and cutting is first hit, "Maybelline", in 1955, he built a catalogue of classics that inspired the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and every rock musician since.
Meanwhile his Chicago rival Bo Diddley, the earthiest and arguably the most exciting of the rock 'n' roll performers, was reminding us that this music was just a step away from the blues. Although he was raised in Chicago, his music was a bizarre, electric version of the blues of his birthplace, Mississippi.
Between them Chuck and Bo caused a revolution in Chicago blues, hitherto largely unknown to white America and the mass market. Both were signed to Chess Records, established by Eastern European immigrants, the Chess brothers, who provided the shop window for Chicago blues men, while also conforming to a now all-too-familiar pattern, as white entrepreneurs exploiting black talent.
Chess Records both examines the subject of exploitation within the record business and celebrated the music of two unique and important artists and the extraordinarily fertile blues environment out of which they grew.
This was a good book about the history of blues music and not just about the Chess label. There is a lot of information about the people sing blues music before Muddy Waters really made it popular. Also there is a lot of information about how the label came to be. The other parts of the story are good, it is just some of the stuff from other labels. How the record company cheated them out of money maybe it happened, maybe not. Not every singer said the same thing. But I am sure some of that had to be going on there if it was going on at other places in the 50's. A good book about the lives of some of the biggest blues singers and musicians that was really good reading about. Overall a good book.
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Turkey's accession to the EU: Enlargement Fatigue or a Special Case?
Term Paper for "Introduction to European and International Affairs"
Winter Semester 2013/14
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Atila Eralp & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels
Tugcem Cengiz
Master of Arts in European and International Affairs
Student-No. 1381011106
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Relationship between Turkey and the European Union 2
3. The Term: Enlargement Fatigue 5
4. Why does Turkey want to become a Member of the European Union? 7
5. Arguments and Counterarguments 11
5.1 Arguments For the Accession of Turkey 11
5.2 Arguments Against the Accession of Turkey 13
6. Conclusion 15
7. Bibliography 16
1. Introduction
Since nearly 50 years, Turkey tries to become a Member of the European Community, which emerged in 1958 as the European Economic Community (EEC) and is now known as the European Union (EU). During this timeframe, the EU developed from 6 Member States (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Netherlands) to 28 Member States in 2013.
Most of these Member States had a relatively short application process compared to Turkey and this fact makes the relationship between Turkey and the EU so special and unique (Kramer and Reinkowski 2008: 154).
This Essay deals with the relations of Turkey towards the EU and especially with the accession negotiations which started in 2005 and have not been concluded yet. It is really interesting to see that the negotiations are going extremely slowly and that the last few years did not really give any progress. Therefore, this essay will analyze if the negotiations are only a result of "enlargement fatigue" of the EU, which had the eastward expansion between 2004 and 2007 or if there are any given reasons for rejecting the membership of Turkey to the EU. Accordingly, my Research Question will...


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Today I am excited to introduce you to my friend Kelly Exeter and officially launch her new book Your Best Year Yet –7 simple ways to shift your thinking and take charge of your life. Kelly is a fellow mum and Perth girl and to celebrate the launch of her book, I've invited her to guest post for me today. Here's Kelly!
Hey there! First of all I just want to say a huge thanks to Amy for inviting me on to her blog today. I'm so excited to be able to launch my book here, in the 'home' of a fellow Perthite!
Now …
As a rule, I try not to speak for 'all mothers' if I can help it.
But today, I can't help it.
Today I'm going to stick my neck out a bit and say, "if there was an enemy common to all mothers, that enemy's name would be time."
Time is certainly my enemy.
In addition to managing a household, I'm mum to a four-year-old and a nine-month-old, wife to a very nice man … and a business owner. I'm a writer too and towards the end of last year I was getting frustrated because all my writing seemed to be getting squeezed into rushed half hour blocks here and there. If I wanted a longer block I had to get up before everyone in the house … or stay up once they'd all gone to sleep.
Boo hoo for me!
Then in December I took a long hard look in the mirror. And quickly realised the person staring back at me was busy … sure. But she was also an Olympic standard time waster.
I won't go into the gory details (*cough* Facebook, *cough* Twitter) … but it quickly became apparent where I could pick up *cough* an hour or so each day.
An extra hour a day to write? Extravagance!
So I decided to put that hour a day to good use. I decided to write the book that had been rattling around in my head for a few months. There was just one problem. The nature of the book meant it had to be released in January. And it was already December.
How to write a book in 18 days
Logically, the very first thing I did was design a cover and tell everyone on my Facebook page they could expect a book in January. Because nothing gets one's butt into gear faster than fear of looking stupid by not delivering on a promise.
The second thing I did was alert my editor that 12,000 words would be coming his way in early January. He said 'I'm blocking out January 3rd and 4th for you'.
Woo. Now I had a first draft deadline.
Did I mention that at this stage it was December 16th and things were completely out of control at work? Good times!
Thankfully we shut down at work on December 23rd.
I wrote the book outline on December 24th and the outline decreed the book would have an introduction followed by seven chapters. So I decided to give myself Christmas Day off … and then write a chapter a day after that.
And I did.
Eight nights in a row, after everyone in my house went to sleep, I did the research for the next day's chapter. Eight mornings in a row, starting December 26th, I woke up at 4.45am and wrote the chapter. By January 2nd I had my first draft ready. By January 3rd it was in the hands of my editor.
I will admit that by the time I sent it to my editor, I was pretty sure it was the worst book ever and he would be horrified.
Apparently this is pretty normal stuff for a writer to think at the end of a first draft though and thankfully my editor wasn't horrified. Once I got it back from him I fell back in love with it again and was able to spend another week tweaking and refining with the help of select family and friends.
Finally, after letting the book sit for a couple of days without me looking at it (very important!), I pulled one more all-nighter to do the final edit.
On Sunday 12th January, 18 days after I wrote the first word, my book was finished.
Today, that book is on Amazon, ready to buy.
And now you're all probably thinking, 'Seriously? She's expecting us to buy a book she wrote in 18 days?'
But I promise, I wouldn't put it out there if I wasn't proud of it. And proud of it I am.
Your Best Year Yet outlines seven simple strategies I've used myself over the last two years to:
- Do more with the time I have;
- Create healthier habits;
- Make better decisions;
- Smack down my fears; and
- Have my best years yet!
Best of all, it's short enough to read in 30 minutes because honestly, who has time to read long books these days?!
As mums, we constantly have people telling us to be kind to ourselves. Reminding us we can't do everything we might want to do. And this is true.
But sometimes, I think we actually need to push, to force ourselves to carve out the time we need to achieve the something we know we have in us. The something that will make us unbelievably happy if we can tick it off the list. The something that will give us that beautiful glow of satisfaction you get from achieving a long-time goal.
I know if you're reading Amy's blog, it's because you're a super-busy-trying-to-be-amazing-for-everyone-mum just like Amy. And just like me.
I'm hoping my words above and the words in my book will inspire you to take time out from being amazing for everyone, to do something amazing for you.
And I really hope this year is your best yet.
Kelly x
Do you have something in you that's dying to get out? Are you going to have a crack at getting it out this year?
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It was some 600 years ago that Luca de Pacioli (he is to accounting what Alexandar Graham Bell is to the world of telephony) published his work on the double entry system of accounting – it is he who gave us the two words Debit and Credit. Little did he anticipate that the tenets of his publication would remain unchanged even after 6 centuries; especially with the advent of new technology each day.
Technology has contributed greatly to simplify our lives. The proliferation of some wonderful 'tech' ideas have been possible through commerce – ideas become products / services that are now saleable (a la e-commerce).
Technology has not only changed the topline of many businesses, but has also altered, & significantly too, the way businesses function internally. It has brought in discipline to business processes; has resulted in great savings of time and has improved the administration of business itself, greatly.
Since ages, accounting has been an important cog in the wheel of business. There is little that one could do if he / she did not know where the money came from or where it went. Accountants around the world have adopted the latest technology of their age – be it the humble calculator with its "tax" button, the computer and as it stands today – the power of the internet.
Internet has changed the way we do accounting; all thanks to 'cloud computing'. In today's fast paced world, it is 'cloud computing' that allows businesses to stay ahead of competition. For any business to survive it is imperative that the right financial decisions are made at the right time. It is the power of cloud computing that has helped take these decisions.
So, what is 'cloud computing' all about? To borrow from Wikipedia – "Cloud computing is a recently evolved computing terminology or metaphor based on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud computing involves deploying groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and online access to computer services or resources" [1]. Simply put, it is the delivery of on-demand computing resources—everything from applications to data centers—over the Internet on a pay-for-use basis [2].
I am no 'tech' guy and may not be able to delve into the 'bits and bytes' of cloud computing. But what I do know is that it has been around me even before I knew what it was called. Did you know online banking is nothing but 'banking on the cloud'? Did you know you purchased your favorite book online by 'shopping on the cloud'? Ever used Google Docs to create documents or Dropbox to save / share files? Yes, it is true – we have all been on the cloud long before we knew what it was.
Now then… when the entire world, powered by 'cloud', is moving this fast can we accountants stay far behind? Absolutely not!
'Accounting on the cloud' is the latest phenomenon to have caught our sensibilities. We realize the tremendous benefit that the oft used phrase – "anytime, anywhere" has to businesses around the globe.
The financial position of your business is now only a 'fingertip' away. Entrepreneurs no longer have to wait long hours to get those numbers before a critical investor meet. Important business decisions can be taken on the go. You can work from the comfort of your home and yet stay in control of your business. Your accounts would be in line with the best industry practice for book-keeping. What's more; your data has never been this secure. You no longer have to worry about your computers crashing or data being lost to virus attacks. It's all safe – up in the cloud – protected by the best data security applications one can imagine. No one can access your data but you.
In short; cloud accounting empowers you to take your business farther than you could ever dream.
Accounting on the cloud is a relatively new phenomenon in India. That said, there are plenty of accountants and Small Business Owners who are reaping the benefits of having taken the first headlong plunge. While we do concede that much needs to be done before cloud accounting fits well into the relatively complex Indian business scenario, we are sure that the future lies here.
In the days to come, accounting on the cloud may well be a robust alternative to traditional accounting systems. It has the potential to put a smile on the face of its sternest critics. Till then, let us enjoy this wonderful journey – I welcome you to the world of 'cloud accounting'.
PS: Luca would have been proud of us.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
[2] http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/in/en/what-is-cloud-computing.html


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It was our distinct pleasure to host the 2017 Dominion Leasing Software User Conference, held May 7-9, 2017, at the Williamsburg Lodge in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Venue: The Williamsburg Lodge is a relaxing hotel escape in the heart of the Revolutionary City. The lodge is just steps from the Colonial Williamsburg Historic District, which has the distinction of being the only living museum of Colonial American History. Attendees enjoyed colonial shops, activities, tradespeople, and eateries, each staffed by actors clad in period costumes and rich in colonial custom. The lodge itself bridges the gap between historic appeal and modern comforts, boasting a world-class restaurant and recreation including a relaxing full-service spa and local golf courses.
Conference: The 2017 User Conference was kicked off during a Sunday evening reception, featuring cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres. Overlooking the hotel grounds, this event was a wonderful opportunity to greet new attendees and reconnect with old friends. Joining us this evening was none other than Thomas Jefferson himself, who spoke to attendees about life during this time in Williamsburg (then the Capital of Virginia). After entertaining all questions presented by those in attendance, Mr. Jefferson stayed for one-on-one conversations and even posed with attendees for pictures before departing back to the Governor's Mansion for the evening.
Conference sessions begin Monday morning and featured a full day of both education and informative sessions. A variety of speakers presented topics ranging from basic system features to the move advanced. The key new features of the recently released Version 4.19 were highlighted Of particular interest were those showcasing the upcoming LeaseComplete Version 5 release. Attendees were treated to an in-depth review of many of the new features Version 5 will offer and culminated with a session covering the upgrade process.
Entertainment: Monday's entertainment is always a much-anticipated part of the Dominion User Conference, and this year's entertainment proved to be exceptional. Following a brief cocktail meet-and-greet at the Tea and Barley, we were entertained by a fife and drum corps who lead the entire group through the historic area and on to the Kings Arms Tavern for dinner. Dinner at Kings Arms featured colonial cuisine and drink, served by wait staff in period attire. Entertainment for evening included story tellers and balladeers who wove tall tales of colonial heroes with songs played on period instruments. Following dinner, all enjoyed an evening to peruse the local shops and enjoy the after-dark entertainment in the Colonial District.


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The Great Gates of Kiev
Posted on 27th October 2013
I've now uploaded the survey results for YAPC::Europe 2013 and The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2013. Both had only a third of attendees respond, which for PPW is still 20 out of 54, and 122 out of 333 for YAPC::Europe.
In previous years we have had higher percentages of response at YAPC::Europe, but that is possibly because I was in attendance and promoted the surveys during lightning talks, and encouraged other speakers to remind people about them. It may also be the fact that there is a newer crowd coming to YAPCs, and the fact we had 44 out of the 122 respondees saying that this was their first YAPC, who have never experienced the surveys. While definitely encouraging to see newer attendees, it would be great to see more of their feedback to help improve the conferences each year. Like YAPC::NA 2013, we have reintroduced the gender question. This time around I didn't get the negative reaction, but this may also be due to the fact I've had more feedback about approaching the subject this time around. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there were rather more male respondees, but I am also very encouraged to see that 8 respondees were female. While its difficult to know the exact numbers at the event, I'd like to think that we have been able to welcome more women to the event, and hopefully will see this number increase in the future.
Looking at the locations where attendees were travelling from to attend YAPC::Europe in Kiev, it is interesting to see a much more diverse spread. Once upon a time the UK was often the highest number, even eclipsing the host country. This year, it seems many more from across the whole of Europe took advantage of the conference. Again I think this is very encouraging. If Perl is to grow and reach newer (and younger) audiences, it needs to be of interest to a large number of people, particular from many different locations. While the UK (particularly London, thanks to Dave Cross) was perhaps the start of European Perl community, YAPC::Europe is now capable of being hosted in just about any major European city and see several hundred people attend. It will be interesting to see if Sofia next year, has a similar evenly spread of locations.
Of those that responded, it does seem that we had more people in the advanced realm. Particularly seeing as we had 56 people respond with more than 10 years experience of Perl. Back when we started the surveys, it would likely have been only a handful of people who attended who could have said that they had been programming Perl for more than 10 years. Thankfully though, it isn't just us old hands, as those only programming in Perl for a few years or less, are still making it worthwhile for speakers to come back each year and promote their projects big and small to a new audience.
One comment in the feedback however, described the Perl community as hermetic. I'm not entirely convinced that's true, but it is quite likely that some find it difficult to introduce themselves and get involved with projects. Having said that, there are plenty of attendees who have only been coming to YAPCs, or been involved with the Perl community, for a short while, who have made an impact, and are now valued contributors. So I guess it may just be down to having the right personality to just get stuck in and introduce yourself. This is one area of the Perl community that Yaakov Sloman is keen to break down barriers for, even perceived ones. We do need more Yaakov's at these events to not just break the ice, but shatter it, so we all see the benefit of getting know each other better.
And talking of getting to know others better, it was a shame I didn't get to meet the 15 CPAN Testers who responded. We have had group photos in the past, and I'd like to do more when I next attend a YAPC, but I think it would also be very worthwhile if the Catalyst, Dancer, Padre and many other projects could find the time to do some group shots while at YAPCs. At YAPC::NA it is a bit of a tradition for all those who contribute to #perl on IRC to have a large group photo, but it's never encouraged others to do the same. Perhaps this is also a way for people to get to know project contributors better, as new attendees will have a better idea of who to look out for, rather than trying to figure out who fits an IRC nick or PAUSEID.
The suggest topics for future talks were quite diverse, and "Web Development Web Frameworks Testing" is definitely an interesting suggestion, particularly as we are seeing more and more web frameworks written in Perl now, and we are after all very well known for our testing culture. One question I'm planning to include next years surveys, also looks at some of these topics and attempts to find out what primary interests people have. Again, this might help guide future speakers towards subjects that are of interest to their target audience.
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop
Workshops, by their very nature, are much smaller events, but with Pittsburgh being the home of the very first YAPC::NA, it is well established to host a workshop, and it would seem attracted some high profile speakers too. Possibly as a consequence, at least one attendee felt some of the talks were a little too advanced for them. At a smaller technical event it is much harder to try and please everyone, and with fewer tracks there often is less diversity. Having said that, I hope that the attendee didn't feel too overwhelmed, and got something out of the event in other talks.
From the feedback it would seem that more knowledgeable Perl developers were in attendance, so understandable that more talks might lean towards more advanced subjects, but as mentioned for YAPCs, speakers shouldn't feel afraid of beginner style introductions or howtos for their project, that could appeal to all levels of interest.
Overall I think the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop went down very well.
What's Next?
I now have to compile the more detailed personal feedback for these and the YAPC::NA organisers, so expect to see some further documentation updates in the near future. In addition, I want to work more on the raw data downloads. While it's interesting to see the data as currently presented, others may have other ideas to interrogate the raw data for further interesting analysis. I also still need to put the current code base on CPAN/GitHub and add the features to integrate with Act better.
The next survey will be for the London Perl Workshop at the end of November. If you are planning a workshop, YAPC or other technical event that you'd to have a survey for, please let me know and I'll set you up. It typically takes me a weekend to set up an instance, so please provide as much advanced warning as possible.
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Highway Star
Posted on 15th September 2013
A few years ago I posted about whether the M6 viaduct over the Gravelly Hill area of Birmingham, was the longest bridge in the UK. In February 2012, someone added a page to Wikipedia for the bridge, which appears to be called the Bromford Viaduct. The Wikipedia page references the same page I found from the Motorway Archive, but nowhere on that page did it reference the name. So now I had two questions:
- Is the Bromford Viaduct its official name?
- Is this still the longest bridge in the UK?
Regards the name, it would seem that the proposals for HS2 refer to it as the M6 Bromford Viaduct. After some further searching, it would seem that The Highways Agency calls it the Bromford Viaduct too, so I guess that is its official name, seeing as they are the government department in charge of UK roads. I still think the Spaghetti Viaduct sounds better :)
However, the second question still remained unanswered. On the Motorway Archive page it states the bridge "was then the longest continuous viaduct in Great Britain", which implies it no longer is. Having said that, in November 2010, a few months after my initial post, it seems someone else had thought the same thought, and added the bridge to the Wikipedia page for the longest bridges. Seeing as there is no other mention of a longer UK bridge and the Second Severn Crossing is measured as being 472m (1576ft) shorter, I think, until proven otherwise, Brummies can be proud to have the longest bridge in the UK.
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/ bridges
/ road
Of All The Things We've Made
Posted on 26th August 2013
Several years ago, we frequently updated the Birmingham.pm website with book reviews. To begin with, updating all the book information was rather labourious. Thankfully, on CPAN there was a set of modules that had been written by Andrew Schamp, that provided the framework to search online resources. I then wrote drivers for Amazon, O'Reilly & Associates, Pearson Education and Yahoo!. As the books we were reviewing were technical books, these four sources were able to cover all the books we reviewed.
A few years ago, I started working for a book company. In one project, we needed to evaluate book data, particularly for books where we had no data or very little. Often these were imports or out of stock titles that we could still order, but we were lacking information about. As such I created a number of further drivers, particularly for non-UK online catalogues, to help retrieve this information. I managed to create a collection of 17 drivers, and 1 bundle, all available on CPAN.
Via my CPAN Testers work, I've been promoting the CPAN::Changes Kwalitee Service website. Neil Bowers read one of the posts, and thought it would be good to improve the Changes files in his distributions, by way of QuestHub. I'd not heard of this site before, but after reading Neil's post I joined up, as I had been looking for a suitable way to keep a TODO list of my Perl work for a while. Neil had created a stencil to standardise the Changes file in 5 distributions, but unfortunately, I only had a few distributions of my own to complete. Another stencil emerged to add License and Repository information to 5 CPAN distributions. Again, I'd completed this for most of my distributions, apart from my 18 ISBN distributions, which I'd never got around to creating repositories for.
Then Neil had the idea to look at some of the quality aspects of all the CPAN distributions, and highlight those that might need adoption. As part of his reviews of similar modules over the past few years, he's adopted several modules, and was looking at what others he could help with. The results included 2 of the modules written by Andrew Schamp, which formed part of the ISBN searching framework I used for my ISBN distributions. Seeing as they hadn't been touched in eight years, I suspected that Andrew had moved on to other languages or work. So I contacted him to see whether he was interested in letting me take the modules on and update them.
It turns out that Andrew had written the modules for a college project, and since moving to C and with his programming interests now nothing to do with books, he was happy to hand over the keys to the modules. Over the past week, I have now taken ownership of Andrew's 5 modules, added these and my own 18 ISBN distributions to my local git repository, added all 23 to GitHub, updated the Changes file, and License & Repository info to the 5 new modules and released them all to CPAN. My next task is to update the Repository info in my 18 ISBN distributions and release these to CPAN.
Although I don't work in the book industry anymore, writing these search drivers has been fun. The distributions are perhaps my most frequently releases to CPAN, due to the various websites updating their sites. Now that I have access to the core modules in the framework, I plan to move some of the repeated code across many of the drivers into the core modules. I also plan to merge the three main modules into one distribution. When Andrew originally wrote the modules, it wasn't uncommon to have 1 module per distribution. However, as all three are tightly bound together, it doesn't make much sense to keep them separate. The two drivers Andrew wrote have not worked for several years, as unsurprisingly the websites have changed in the last 8 years. I've already updated one, and will be working on the other soon.
It's nice to realise that a few of my CPAN Testers summary posts inspired Neil, who in turn has inspired me, and has ended up with me helping to keep a small corner of CPAN relevant and up to date again.
If you're a new Perl developer, who wants to take a more active role in CPAN and the Perl community, a great way to start is to look at the stencils on QuestHub, and help to patch and submit pull/RT requests to update distributions. If you feel adventurous, take a look at the possible adoption list, and see whether anything there is something you'd like to fix and bring up to date. You can also look at the failing distributions lists, and see whether the authors would like help with the test suites in their distributions. You can then create your tasks as quests in QuestHub and earn points for your endeavours. Be warned though, it can become addictive :)
There is one more ISBN distribution on the adoption list, and I have now emailed the author. Depending on the response, I may be going through the adoption process all over again :) [Late update, the author came back to me and he's happy for me to take on his distribution too]
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/ opensource
/ perl
Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Posted on 24th July 2013
YAPC::NA 2013 - The Results Are Out
The YAPC::NA 2013 Conference Survey results are now online.
The number of responses was much lower than in previous years, which is a shame, but may in part be due to one comment I received, saying it was too long. Reviewing the survey, I'd have to agree, and I'll be removing some of the questions for future surveys. Some of the questions had good intentions originally, and did provide an insight to what people got out of the conference. However, there is now a degree of predictability about them, that doesn't warrant their inclusion. Such questions about holidays and speakers you missed really don't add anything any more. The latter has generated some interesting comments over the years, but typically the same names appear each year.
This year was also slightly different, as the organisers asked for a lot of additional questions. Particularly related to the Code of Conduct. I will be forwarding the results of these questions to the TPF in the next day or two. They may choose to make the results public, but for now they won't appear on the YAPC Survey site. Of the other questions they asked, most related specifically to YAPC::NA, and wouldn't be applicable to other conferences and workshops. These too will be reviewed for next year.
Interestingly, VM Brasseur has done some analysis of the survey data, particularly around the age of attendees, and the length of time people have been a Perl programmer. Although the survey includes the former, it doesn't really include the latter. We do ask what level people feel they are at, but it'll be an area I'll be reviewing for future surveys.
As both the surveys and VM's analysis shows, the Perl community (at least those answering the survey) is getting older. I've noticed this too when attending. There are new and younger people attending, but generally the audience has been getting older. In the UK, this was identified in an technical article I read a few years ago (sadly I don't have a link to the source), which highlighted a shift in the late 80s/early 90s away from writing computer games on Spectrums, Dragons and Beebs to just playing consoles. I suspect the age of attendees at other technical conferences are also seeing a shift.
As noted in a previous post, I'm going to be looking at the Conference Survey software over the summer, and hopefully integrate it more with the Act software. I'm hoping this may encourage more to respond. I'll also be reviewing the survey itself, and looking at better and more relevant questions to include. If you have ideas of how to improve the survey, please feel free to drop me an email.
Enjoy :)
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/ perl
/ survey
/ yapc
One Way Or Another
Posted on 1st July 2013
YAPC Conference Surveys Update
Last night I managed to get all the talk and tutorial feedback emails out to the speakers from YAPC::NA 2013. If you were a speaker at the event, and haven't received an email from me, first check your spam filters, and then contact me, and I can resend yours.
This year we had 351 talk evaluation responses, 29 course evaluation responses and 121 conference survey responses. Quite a few talks had no responses, which is a shame, as I'm sure the speakers had several attendees for all their talks. Talk and tutorial feedback is exceptionally useful to speakers, especially first time speakers, as it gives them the opportunity to see what the audience thinks they need to improve on. Often a first time speaker might think they didn't go over well, only to find the feedback very positive. Most feedback is rarely negative, and where areas of the talk can be improved, the critique is given in way to help the speaker for the future. If you didn't give any talk feedback this year, please consider doing so in the future.
The responses for the conference survey was quite low compared to previous years. I had one private email simply say it was too much, which in part I think is due to the extra section this year. There has been a lot of controversy about the Code of Conduct this year, and the organisers wanted to find a way to get thoughts about anonymously from the attendees, the survey being the ideal way to do this. I shall be sending the results and comments to TPF this coming week, for them to consider what improvements can be made. If you didn't complete the section in the survey, and want to air your views, please send your thoughts to admin<@>yapcna.org.
The remaining parts of the conference survey will be online in the next week or so.
In other news both survey results for the last London and German Perl Workshops are now online. Apologies for taking so long to sort these out. I've had rather more distracts this year than normal, and getting them finished took much longer than anticipated. However, there has been some work in the survey software, particularly with regards to formatting the results, to speed up the process. It also helped that I had someone with an interest in survey software that wanted to use the code base for their workplace. The fruits of the changes will finally be making it to GitHub and CPAN over the summer.
While making the improvements, and getting the YAPC::NA 2013 survey online, some problems came to light that could be improved somewhat by allowing the Act conference software to talk to the conference survey software, and not just the other way around. Currently, the survey software can talk to an Act instance and retrieve the list of paid attendees and talks. However, it currently doesn't get the list of registered attendees (applicable to free conferences such as London Perl Workshop), or the list of courses and course attendees for large events (such as YAPCs). The latter is a little tricky to do, due to the way courses are stored, but I believe it can be done. As such, over the next year, I aim to provide some patches to allow the survey software to expose a little more of this data.
For several years I have also been asked if there is a way to integrate the survey into Act, as people forget their links and lose emails. In addition, I always receive a regular complaint from one attendee that I send spam, with the 3 emails I (usually) send for the survey. As such, I'm looking at writing further patches to firstly provide the survey link to the Act instance the attendee has signed up for, and secondly to provide an unsubscribe link, so those not wishing to take part in the survey at all, can decline further email reminders. Again I'll be aiming to work on this for next year's round of YAPCs.
If you have suggestions for further improvements to the survey, please let me know. Once I get the source code packaged and released, I'll organise a more formal method for submit ideas and questions.
The Time of the Turning
Posted on 7th May 2013
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual QA Hackathon. The event has become THE event for developers of test modules, projects and toolchain applications to come together to discuss ideas and plan for the future, as well as release some great work while they are there too.
This year Shadowcat, the primary sponsors, took on the organisational duties. The event was originally to be in London, but due to personal circumstances the decision was made to move the location to Lancaster in the North West of England. Personally they made the right choice. The venue itself was the new InfoLab building at Lancaster University. The attendees came from far and wide once again, and it was great to catch-up with friends old and new, and even be introduced to some newer friends.
My plan for the weekend was mainly to look at CPAN Testers. With the servers for the Metabase coming soon, David Golden and myself had hoped to be able to set them up, and start looking at changing the backend code to work with the new Metabase database. Unfortunately, the servers weren't ready for us just yet, so I started looking at other things. For myself, one area of CPAN Testers, particularly the cpanstats database side of things, needed attention. Speed of processing reports.
My first task once settled in, was to look at the way that the reports are consumed from the Metabase. Due to the way SimpleDB has become very unreliable with the results it sends, in order to avoid missing reports the criteria for the date search has been altered slightly to be a little more thorough, and a smaller range is now used to retrieve a set of GUIDs. The results now appear to be a little more complete, although we still appear to be missing some every so often. There is also a tail of log.txt which also helps to catch up with the reports. This work saw a new release of CPAN-Testers-Data-Generator.
A big factor with the slowness of the CPAN Testers server is that it requires a lot of disk I/O, with the database updates being a key factor. The most intensive updates are surrounding the SQLite database that could be downloaded. This also includes creating the Gzip and Bzip2 archives. As only web crawlers seem to be downloading the files, I've suspended the update. This has now freed up a lot of resources and consequently some of the other tasks, particularly the builder has improved.
Next, the builder was the focus of my attention. Previously the builder has been building pages for both authors and distros all at once. Although the author pages are viewed slightly less, they were getting built more frequently, due to the way the requests are pushed into the queue for each report. Initially the logic for building pages was altered, which improved some of the higher requested pages, but the more optimal solution was to split the builder into two, one for authors and one for distros. With the reduction in processing elsewhere, this improved the builder performance considerably. Monitoring the way the author pages are built since the hackathon, has also allowed me to alter when the builder for authors runs. This has then allowed the builder for distros to take a higher priority. With more distro pages than authors, this now gives distro pages more opportunity to be built quicker. Currently reports are being built in less than 24 hours of being submitted. These updates saw a new release of CPAN-Testers-WWW-Reports.
Another release while at the event, related to the QA Hackathon itself, was the main QA Hackathon website. Before the event, BooK had asked if the files that make up the website that the main QA Hackathon uses could be added to GitHub. As such, I packaged up the site into a git repository and released it. If you wish to help contribute to the site, please do.
Although there was a lot of coding work involved in the weekend, one of the bigger uses of time was the Lancaster Consensus organised by David Golden. For a few hours each afternoon, a large group of key toolchain developers, secondary project developers and various interested parties, gathered to discussed various aspects associated with configuration, installation, testing and specification of Perl and CPAN. With so many developers in one room, it wasn't too surprising to have a few opposing views, but with a guiding hand from David, we did achieve a consensus. If you wish to read the outcome, please read David's write-ups of the discussion points. The Consensus meetings were perhaps the greatest achievement of the event. While there might not have been too much immediate coding output from them, the potential to improve Perl and CPAN is considerable. From a CPAN Testers perspective, Post-installation testing, Case insensitive package permissions and Rules for distribution naming were perhaps of most interest. Although it may be some time before Post-installation testing could be hooked into a CPAN Testers smoker, it will be a valuable addition to the testing reports against pre-installed environments.
During the event, I had several discussions with Garu regarding his work on the cpanminus smoker client, and the common smoker client. In the last minutes of the hackathon we were able to push through a very notable report submission. It is exactly this sort of collaborative effort that makes these hackathons worthwhile. I look forward to see everyone again in Lyon.
The QA Hackathons could not be the success they are with the support of all the sponsors. My personal thanks to them for helping to providing accommodation, food and a venue for us all to hack. A big thank you to cPanel, Dijkmat, Dyn, Eligo, Evozon, $foo, Shadowcat Systems Limited, Enlightened Perl Organisation and Mongueurs de Perl.
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/ perl
/ qa
/ testing
To Wish Impossible Things
Posted on 4th May 2013
The QA Hackathon website has had a bit of an update today. Primarily a new page and new photos have been added, but plenty of other updates have been included too.
The new page is a review page, to collect various blog and news posts relating to each year's event. Originally I listed all the reviews from previous years in the side panel, but now that we've just had the 6th annual event, the list was looking a little bit too cramped.
With the extra space, I've also been able to include the group shots that were taken at some of the events. Unfortunately there was no group shot taken in Birmingham, and I've not seen any during the 2010 and 2011 events, so if there are any, please let me know. Also if there is one of the Tokyo Satellite event this year I would love to include it on the site.
I've added some write-ups to the last few events in the About page. The biggest change though is likely only visible to those with screen readers, as I've made many changes to links and images to provide more accessibility. Several fixes to layout, spelling and wording have also been included too.
The site, particularly the list of reviews, is still incomplete. If a blog entry is missing that you think should be there, or you spot other items that could do with an update, feel free to email me with details, or fork the repo on GitHub and send me a pull request.
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/ perl
/ qa
/ website
Enjoy The Silence
Posted on 4th May 2013
Unfortunately I've been having problems with my outbound mail from my personal mail server. I recently updated the server, and although the mail software was also updated, the problem seems to be regarding resolving IP addresses to the Virgin Media nameservers. I can resolve DNS lookups via my laptop, but the server gets stuck and times out :(
If I don't get it fixed soon, I'll have to look at using Gmail on a more permanent basis, so that I can at least reply to messages again and know they're going to get through. Although I don't mind using Gmail on occasions, storing all my mail with them does make me a little uncomfortable.
So if you haven't heard from me, and have been expecting a response, it's likely that I replied, but it never got through. By all means send me a reminder so I know to send a reply through Gmail to make sure you get the reply.
I've also been quiet on my blog for quite sometime. I have been rather busy with work, family, work, Perl, open source and work, and finding time to write here has been low on my list of things to do. However, I have a few posts coming soon to help redress the balance.
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Lost In The Echo
Posted on 26th August 2012
I've just released new versions of my use.perl distributions, WWW-UsePerl-Journal and WWW-UsePerl-Journal-Thread. As use.perl became decommisioned at the end of 2010, the distrubutions had been getting a lot of failure reports, as they used screen-scraping to get the content. As such, I had planned to put them out to pasture in BackPAN. That was until recently I discovered that Léon Brocard had not only released WWW-UsePerl-Server, but also provided a complete SQL archive of the use.perl database (see the POD for a link). Then combining the two, he put up a read-only version of the website.
While at YAPC::Europe this last week, I started tinkering, and fixing the URLs, regexes, logic and tests in my two distributions. Both distributions have had functionality removed, as the read-only site doesn't provide all the same features as the old dynamic site. The most obvious is that posting new journal entries is now disabled, but other lesser features not available are searching for comments based on thread id or users based on the user id. The majority of the main features are still there, and those that aren't I've used alternative methods to retrieve them where possible.
Although the distributions and modules are now working again, they're not perhaps as useful as they once were. As such, I will be looking to merge both distributions for a future release, and also providing support to a local database of the full archive from Léon.
Seeing as no-one else seems to have stepped forward and written similar modules for blogs.perl, I'm now thinking it might also be useful to take my use.perl modules and adapt them for blogs.perl. It might be a while before I finish them, but it'll be nice to have the ability to have many of the same features. I also note that blogs.perl.org also now has paging. Yeah \o/ :) This has been a feature that I have been wanting to see on the site since it started, so thanks to the guys for finding some tuits. There was a call at YAPC::Europe for people to help add even more functionality, so I look forward to seeing what delights we have in store next.
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/ perl
/ website
Every Day Is Exactly The Same
Posted on 15th July 2012
Recently Mark Keating of the Enlightened Perl Organisation created a new Google Calendar for Perl community events, particularly for Perl Monger group meetings. As I haven't been updating the other calendars I have access to for some time, it gave me the push needed to clean-up my script, and post all the forthcoming events to the calendars.
I've now updated the Birmingham.pm events page, to display the new calendar, as well as the West Midlands Tech Events calendar.
If you have access to any similar calendars, you can now update them with Perl (if you weren't already), with the aid of my helpful script. Feel free to use and abuse as you wish. Note that you will need to have a login to Google Calendars, and have access to the calendars you are submitting to.
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Red Velvet Cupcakes
It's not so much the taste of these cupcakes but the look of them that makes them so fabulous. The gorgeous, deep-red colour of the sponge alongside the snow-white cream cheese icing makes the cupcakes seem very luxurious. Makes 12 cupcakes
You will need
- 65 g butter, softened (preferably unsalted)
- 155 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons red food colouring
- 120 ml buttermilk, divided
- 150 g plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- salt
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon bread soda (bicarbonate of soda)
For the icing
- 300 g icing sugar, sieved
- 50 g butter, softened (preferably unsalted)
- 120 g cream cheese
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Line a muffin tin with 12 paper cases. Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric beater, until pale and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined.
In a small bowl, mix the cocoa powder with the food colouring to make a very thick paste. Add this paste to the butter and egg mixture, and beat well to combine. Pour in half the buttermilk and beat again until well combined.
Sift the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt into another bowl. Pour half this flour mix into the batter in the large bowl and beat well. Add the remaining buttermilk and beat again. Now add the remaining flour mix and beat well for a few minutes. Place the vinegar and bread soda in a small bowl and stir to combine. Add this mixture to the cake batter and beat well for a few minutes.
Use a spoon to divide the cake batter evenly among the baking cases, so that they are two thirds full. Bake for 20 minutes, until springy to the touch and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave the cupcakes to cool in the tray for a few minutes before removing them to a wire rack.
Meanwhile, make the icing. Beat the icing sugar and butter in a medium bowl with an electric beater until combined. Add the cream cheese and beat again. Beat the mixture for about 5 minutes to get a really fluffy, pale icing.
When the cupcakes have cooled fully, dollop a spoon of icing on top of each one. Spread the icing but make sure you don't cover the cupcakes completely – the pretty red sponge must be visible. You could also use a piping bag to put a pretty swirl of icing on top of each cupcake.
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