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Proposals to change East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service have been unveiled ahead of a key Fire Authority meeting.
The Service has to meet the twin challenges of changing needs within the community and reductions in its funding.
The number of incidents has fallen over the years as prevention work continues to reduce the risks of fires and other emergencies. Meanwhile funding has been reduced due to cuts in Government grants and pressures to keep Council tax levels low.
At its meeting on 14th February 2014, the Fire Authority will consider its budget and Council Tax as well as decide whether to go to public consultation on a number of proposals to change the service over the next five years
The proposals under consultation focus on maintaining the provision of prevention, fire safety and response services against our current standards, while adjusting working practises to make the most of reducing financial resources.
Proposal 1
Brighton has three fire stations: Hove, Preston Circus and Roedean.
We are proposing to remove a fire engine from either Preston Circus or Hove. This means we continue to base four fire engines in the City which are crewed 24 hours a day. In addition, we will still provide an aerial ladder capability which can reach people in high rise buildings.
The provision of this will be reviewed in 2014/15.
This change would have no significant impact on life risk and attendance standards would still be met. This would mean a reduction in 24 posts.
If fully implemented, it could save us £1.066 million by 2018/19.
Proposal 2 a or b
These proposals are based on an "either/or" basis – only one would need to be implemented to contribute towards the savings needed by 2018/19
Proposal 2a
Convert Battle Fire Station from Wholetime (Day Crewed) to a new Day Crewed Duty System. The station could then provide the same standard of cover 7 days a week instead of 5, giving more support for Hastings.
We would therefore be able to remove the Retained Duty System fire engine from The Ridge Fire Station in Hastings. This attends a low number of calls and so removing it is predicted to have no significant impact on Service performance. This would mean we increase the establishment at Battle whilst reducing the number of on call firefighters at The Ridge.
If fully implemented, resources would be reallocated to increase the establishment at Battle, leaving us with a net saving of £14,000 by 2018/19
Proposal 2b
Convert Battle Fire Station from Wholetime (Day Crewed) to a retained duty system. This would reduce the number of Wholetime posts at Battle by 9.
This would mean both fire engines are kept at The Ridge in Hastings. Battle has a low number of calls and analysis shows there would be no significant impact on Service performance.
If fully implemented, this could save £200,000 by 2018/19.
Proposal 3
Introduce "Day Crewed Plus" at Roedean Fire Station in Brighton and The Ridge Fire Station in Hastings, both currently Wholetime stations.
"Day Crewed Plus" would be a new way of working for East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service and is successfully used by other fire and rescue services across England. It means that firefighters stay in accommodation provided by us on site on a self rostering duty system.
They are therefore still ready to turn out 24 hours a day. This option would mean we could save money by reducing posts but it would not affect attendance times.
This would reduce the number of posts by 20.
This could save us the Service £432,000 by 2018/19.
What happens next
Updates will be posted on our website www.esfrs.org following the meeting on 14th February.


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POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision which resulted in four people being taken to hospital.
The incident happened on the slip road from Newport Road onto the A66 west bound on June 24 at 5.45pm. The collision involved a Rover 25 and a Renault Megane. Both drivers and two passengers, one from each car, were taken to James Cook University Hospital but were not detained. Call PC Paul Dixon on 01642 326326.


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UPDATE: 7:40 pm seen running on the tracks near Vandalia and Transfer Road.
2285 University Avenue, St. Paul.
Loose brindle female named Maddie, 5 yrs old, wearing collar with tags, no leash or coat.
Last seen at 6:15pm running North on N Hampden Avenue. Industrial area near rail road.
Map of area: http://bit.ly/XTpElp
Call Kari #612-310-0765
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ABA Publishes Staff Analysis of Financial Choice Act
Posted on 5/8/2017
ABA has published a staff analysis of the Financial Choice Act, Chairman Jeb Hensarling's (R-TX-5) sweeping bill aimed at reforming parts of the Dodd-Frank Act's extensive supervisory regime and providing regulatory relief. The bill was recently advanced by the House Financial Services Committee in a party-line vote of 34-26. While the association acknowledged that there are several issues that will require closer consideration as the legislation moves forward, it called the bill "a good step forward" in bringing much-needed regulatory relief to banks.
A central component of the bill is the "regulatory off-ramp" for larger institutions subject to DFA's heightened prudential standards and Basel III's capital and liquidity standards, provided those institutions elect to maintain a 10 percent non-risk weighted leverage ratio. ABA noted, however, that the restrictions around the exemption -- including the rigidness of the leverage ratio requirement -- could cause some well-run banks to decide against opting in, thus missing out on the chance for regulatory relief. In addition, ABA pointed out that severe penalties would be imposed on banks that fall below the 10 percent standard, including the loss of all reg relief if the capital is not restored to the 10 percent level.
The Choice Act also focuses on ending "too big to fail" by replacing DFA's Orderly Liquidation Authority with a new Bankruptcy Code designed to accommodate the failure of a large, complex financial institution. ABA reiterated its longstanding view that no bank is or should be too big to fail, and encouraged Congress to consider whether repealing the Order Liquidation Authority in its entirety would eliminate some tools necessary for managing financial stability.
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Finally, ABA expressed support for a number of regulatory relief provisions included in the bill that are not tied to a specific leverage ratio. These include a Qualified Mortgage safe harbor for mortgage loans held in portfolio, more tailored supervision based on an institution's risk profile and business model, greater flexibility for mutual savings associations, relief from various reporting requirements, and repeals of both the Volcker Rule and the Durbin Amendment.
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All about Amy Huberman . . . and Brian too
She's the girl of the moment. Ever since she fell into the arms of iconic rugby star Brian O'Driscoll in 2007, La Huberman has handled herself with dignity and humour. But she's more than just the First Fiancee: now The Clinic actress can add author to her list of accomplishments. Barry Egan met her
'How to deal with love," Virginia Woolf once asked, "so that we're not all blushing?" Ever since she fell into the arms of Brian O'Driscoll in 2007, Amy Huberman has handled herself -- and the affairs of her heart -- with sufficient dignity to spare our blushes. She is tantalisingly more a mystery than most girls with even half her profile in Ireland.
It is admirable that she chooses not to spill to the media every last forensic detail of her life. Amy wants, she says, to keep a bit back for herself. And she has been true to her word.
When the blue-eyed actress and the iconic rugby star announced their engagement in May, the nation seemed to lift up its voices in delight. If there was, as a result, any extra psychological pressure on Brian and Amy to succeed in their relationship -- and in their marriage -- then it didn't appear to be showing when Ireland's First Girlfriend sat down in the Fitzwilliam Hotel last Saturday morning.
The five-foot-four blonde looked every inch the low-key high-street style queen in bluey grey waterfall cardigan made by Religion over a white Topshop T-shirt, jeans from Urban Outfitters and the shoes that are, she says, a cast-off from her character Daisy O'Callaghan's wardrobe in The Clinic (she is on the seventh series of the RTE soap).
When I say to her that the whole of Ireland is expecting a lot of you two and that must be a strain at times, she shakes her perfectly coiffed head.
"Not really, because when I see myself and Brian's world it is our little world. Other people's opinion on it -- and the papers stuff -- is so unimportant. There are little layers and that is like the peripheral. Sometimes that doesn't even come into it.... Our world is our friends and our family and we can handle it," Amy smiles, adding that Brian, currently away on rugby business with the Lions in South Africa, "is very protective of me. I think at the beginning he was kind of going: 'I'm so sorry for the photographers and everything' -- which wasn't, of course, his fault."
The Foxrock Loreto convent girl turned supernova is honest enough to admit that she did find it difficult in the beginning of her relationship with the Ireland rugby captain. "Even though I had been acting for years I never subscribed to that kind of life, but everything that comes with Brian being who he is, I did find that particularly unnerving," she says.
"I didn't have his profile. Apart from people who would watch The Clinic, people wouldn't know who you are or particularly care. As soon as I started going out with Brian, there were people suddenly saying, 'Oh, we would like to invite you'. I could see through that for what it was. People suddenly having an opinion on me, that did unnerve. But you don't want to look too precious either if you say, 'Well, hang on a second, I'm a woman in my own right.'"
Amy Huberman is implacably grounded, almost earthy. She is not one to give herself away. She found it hilarious, she says, "all the stuff in the press about the engagement where he had made me this dinner and brought me to the window to show me the flowers. There were flowers. There was no dinner. There was no bringing me to the window. Those things are just too special and too private," she adds.
Ask her who she looks like, and she laughs and says her late granny, May Morris, from Wexford, who passed away when Amy was 14. Hard as it might be to imagine, the icon of Irish glamour says she was a bit of a tomboy growing up. She can remember her mother trying to wrestle her into dresses. "No! The boys don't have to wear them! Why do I?" she would scream, in reference to her two brothers, Mark and younger sibling Paul. She remarks that her godfather Michael Fitzsimons videoed her Communion Day in Foxrock Church in 1986 "because it was the first time he had seen me in a skirt".
She recalls that when her dad, designer Harold, would try to coax his young daughter into his glamorous Audrey Hepburn-ish coats, her reaction was one of horror. "I'd be like: 'Oh, no, I want to wear a denim jacket!' she laughs. "As well, what would I be doing in this unbelievable cashmere coat at 15 when all my friends are wearing bomber jackets?"
She is here to talk up her debut novel, Hello Heartbreak, which is a spirited and sisterly tale of Izzy Keegan and her Britney-like public humiliations and ultimate redemption (she meets the love of her life whom she knew all along).
Amy writes well, with real flair, like Jane Austen on ecstasy. She confesses that she is on edge about the book's reception when it hits the shops next week. Honest to a fault, Amy says she is especially nervous about anal-retentive The View-types "with the fine-tooth comb, looking to pick holes in it".
"Not everybody is going to like it," she adds, philosophically. "Not everybody is going to like me. Not everybody is going to like everything I do."
And if they did, she laughs, it would be kind of uncomfortable. "At the end of the day I am so proud of it. I'm not claiming it is Booker Prize material. I hope people like it and that's all I can hope for. All the literary critics may not but if Mary on the 47 bus does ... ."
Unlike Izzy with Cian in Hello Heartbreak, Amy has never stalked a guy she broke up with. She does reflect on past break ups, however, in the sense that "at the time it is the worst thing in the world and how are you ever going to get over it, blah blah blah."
Nor has Amy, unlike Izzy, had a meltdown and had it subsequently posted on YouTube. "The whole Facebook thing is a bit weird," she muses. "You hear of pictures getting into the wrong hands. And the fact that you can't police it, because everyone has access to a phone. And this whole 'frenemies' idea that some people who pretend to be your friend and then do horrible stuff and then post minging photos of you. I haven't had that happen to me but I have seen photos up there that are not flattering."
At one point, the book's anti-heroine Izzy rings her boyfriend Cian to tell him the good news that they are going to be parents: the rabbit Dermot has babies.
"It is a pastiche of loads of stuff I have come across," Amy explains. "At that age, most guys are terrified because you don't think of being with this person for the rest of your life and suddenly we've got this responsibility."
Is that what girls do, I gasp? They road-test guys with pets first to see if they will make good dads?
"No! No! That makes us sound like that's all we want! I think they just want a fluffy fun thing in her life. Cian is not the right guy. He is a selfish f***er. It was kind of like the first love thing. He's not a bad person. He is a selfish guy who is involved with his own stuff at the moment and hasn't really grown up yet."
She says that she knew guys like that when she was growing up.
"Of course, but it is not sex-specific. It is not only guys. Izzy is too sensitive for him; I guess because he is this kind of social-climbing guy as well." She says those were the kind of guys she "would have run from -- I would find it hard not to hold my tongue".
"I hope I'd be a bit moreself-contained than Izzy," she laughs. "I have yet to publicly humiliate myself like she has done but of course everybody makes a tit of themselves at some stage."
Still only 30, Amy has several careers -- TV and screen actress and now novelist -- and appears to be always moving forward, pushing towards the centre of things, unfailingly ambitious. "I guess my ambition comes from the thrill you get from succeeding in something you want to do and love doing," she says. "I'm very appreciative of the opportunities I've been given to allow me to do what I love. And Hello Heartbreak came from keeping the brain active in between jobs and a love of storytelling and my love for the type of entertainment that this kind of comedy embraces."
I have to admit that in the early days of Brian and Amy's relationship there was a fair bit of comedy, albeit unintended. I am referring to the sight of her appearing to walk 10 steps behind him at events, with paparazzi in Marx Brothers-esque pursuit. Ireland's First Girlfriend laughs like a drain at it all.
"Mum used to ring me and say: 'You look so uncomfortable in photographs!' You know what it was?" she asks rhetorically. "I can never stand and just go like this (mimes dorky permanent rictus grin with hand on the hip).
"So I either burst out laughing or look unbelievably uncomfortable. Neither of us want to stop and kind of snog in the middle of the street for photographers! Brian's way of being really uncomfortable is to go 'Let's get out of here' and he usually marches so fast and I'm usually laughing behind him or looking incredibly uncomfortable.
"I think we've got better at it," she says, inaccurately.
Be that as it may, Amy says she experienced a sudden sense of perspective when Brian's best friend, Barry Twomey, tragically took his own life in May 2008. "Last year was a very difficult year for Brian," she says. "It makes you hold on to the people in your life a huge amount. And that is so important," she says. "We just all love him and miss him so much. That is so hard. It was his anniversary a couple of weeks ago. It is hard to think that it's a year. That broke a lot of people's hearts when that happened."
You suspect Barry's death put into proper context the other stuff around Brian and Amy. Like articles about them embodying the Irish zeitgeist and suchlike. "It is really flattering but if I took this on board I would be a twit," she says. "I'm saving the country from recession with my style? You take it with a pinch of salt as much as you take the lovely compliment from it. Myself and Brian are both really chilled-out people and, unless something is really slanderous or untrue, we have really good laughs about some of the stuff about us," she smiles.
Needless to say Amy wasn't smiling in 2006 when the People newspaper published a ridiculous article concerning Huberman and her role in a film called Hell's Gate/Bad Karma. They alleged that Ireland's First Fiancee had participated in an "XXX-rated movie shocker", and had a "role in sex, bondage and torture B-movie".
She says now that she wants to frame the offending article and put it up in the toilet of the south Dublin home she shares with Brian. "It is funny in hindsight. First I laughed then I cried," she recalls, revealing the headline: RTE Star In S&M Movie shocker.
"It was completely mistaken identity. They literally had this girl who is like a Page 3 ... whatever ... pornstar in. It was this film I did years ago. It was my very first film. It wasn't, shall we say, a good film. It wouldn't be in anyone's top five unless you were mental," Amy says, adding that Patsy Kensit was in it, reincarnated as Jack The Ripper. "The film was a stupid horror film with people running around screaming and I die! So then they brought it back to America and decided they wanted to sex it up a bit. They filmed this five-minute scene at the beginning with this random chick taking her clothes off. It is still on the internet because it is so hard to get those things off. 'Amy Huberman blah blah blah.' There is a picture of me looking more than angelic at the reception at The Clinic and there is one tied to a bed and stuff."
There is a pause here while she stops and breaks into laughter. "Sued them for libel. So, open and shut case ... "
After our tete-a-tete, she is off to the local pub to watch her beau play in the first game in South Africa. Amy says she had no interest in sport whatsoever until she took up with the Irish sporting legend. "I think ignorance is bliss in a way," she laughs. "If I had known about all Brian's plaudits and everything that he'd done, it would probably have intimidated me a little bit."
It also meant that there wasn't anything remotely Machiavellian about her meeting up with Ireland's most famous sportsman. "I had been living in London for two years and I was all in the world of the arts and I was like, 'Oh that's what he does. Good for him.'"
Good for them, even. Today, two years on, they share a house with a goldfish. What goes on outside the window is of relatively little interest to them. (Although Amy did stop her car on the road into town to check on a stray dog.)
"Brian is so chilled, so relaxed. He can read people so well." Asked how he read her, Amy replies with a chuckle: "Hopefully well, that's why we are engaged. It kind of took off for us when we met. He is incredibly funny. Very low-key. Very chilled. Rational. When I met him, of course I believed the stereotypes of these rugby players and he is just this incredibly low-key guy -- not a shout-y, scream-y, look-at-me person. He is humorous and very smart."
So is she. They are a good mix. A bit like Amy -- who is a mix of Catholic and Jewish heritage. Her father Harold Huberman, who designed coats with Henry White, came to Dublin in his 30s as a Jewish emigre from London. Her mother Sandra was from Wexford.
There were problems when they first tried to get married in mid-Seventies Ireland, says Amy: "They'd spoken to a good few priests but most didn't want to bend the rules to suit a marriage service that respected both their religions. I don't think it was anti-semitism, I think it was just Irish xenophobia. It was not out of any elective racism. It was more just that we were just a tiny, little, isolated island; culturally, I don't think you can blame people for thinking like that. That's all they know. We were so interlinked with church and State then. It shows, I guess, how introspective Ireland was."
In the end, Sandra Morris and Harold Huberman were married in the nuptial chapel at St Andrews Church on Westland Row in 1975 by a chaplain that Sandra met in UCD and "who was far more amenable than any other priest she had spoken to". As for Ireland's First Fiancee's own wedding, she says: "We plan to get married next summer and we're definitely looking forward to kids one day. Please God, we're blessed with them but that won't be for a few years yet."
Hello Heartbreak by Amy Huberman is published by Penguin Ireland on July 4, priced €14.99


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I got this phone recently, and I've been having problem with the SIMcard. I inserted the sim card, and the phone says the sim is not ready, and that in fact, there is NO sim, it says. And the phone IS unlocked... anyone know what seems to be the problem???
I've just bought this phone for my mum, and the camera on it is VERY blurry. I thought that it's meant to be 1MP? At first I thought I hadnt removed all the protective stickers, but even after doing that and adjusting the image quality to the highest level, the pictures I take on the camera are still so blurry.
Does anyone know what Im doing wrong?
Hi everyone
I got this phone yesterday and seem to be having some trouble charging it.when i put it on charge the bars on the battery dont move....in past nokia's the little bar has kind of pulsed so that you can see that tis charging.
I had it on charge for 10 hours yesterday and there are no bars on the battery picture.
is this normal? when you gusy charge it do the bars move?
i had the phone for a week now,everything seems ok.only the batt a bit weak,it last me slightly more than 48 hours,with minimum useage...now am trying to rin in the batt n see will it last longer than before..
can some1 tell me how long is the video
recording?(if it supports)
How do u like the phone?(who uses the phone)
Kittykat, that is annoying when that happens and the shop won't exchange it again even though they are just going to send it back to the manufacturer anyway!
I'm glad i returned the phone in time. I was very disappointed with it. Another feature which annoyed me was that keys on the top line of the keypad, even though i have slim fingers i still found it restrictive to type on them, and even though the camera was ok, the video limit was disappointing as was the lack of memory slot.
I got is a gift few days back, and must admit it turns heads. I wish it had the data cable in the box..no I must buy it for 40..just to have my mp3 loaded on it.
Also wish there was better support for Apple's Mac users, as the software that comes along is for PC's only..
What sucks is that there's almost none themes,ringtones etc available afaik.
Otherwise a great phone so far..
Ive had the phone 6 weeks and it has completely broken on me, took it back to O2 today and they said my only optin was to get it repaired. Obviously a fault with the phone and it will then break again and again and again.very very annoyed.
actualy it is the worst mobile i`ve ever seen,absolutly it is a bad phone..bad menu..bad performance..very slow operating system..ooooh the camera i wish they didn`t install it ever..one minute video recording!!!!!!!!i`m sooooo disappointed from NOKIA!!it doesn`t worth the price i bought with..too much for such phone i`d rather buy any other nokia phone but not this one..i swear i sold it in the same day day i bought..i advise all of NOKIA`S admires don`t even think to buy this phone because if you do you`ll change your good idea about NOKIA..i`m telling all this because i respect NOKIA..and i hate to see such product.
this is a very nice phone, i wish it had a memory slot though. It worked so well for me till now, had it for a month, and now somehow i lost picture on it, after sliding it open it gave me a frozen and static screen, then shut off n rebooted back for me, after few times, i lost all picture, now i jus have a white screen, but it still wrks, Can someone help me, or had same problem?
thnx. i found the shop. so far i havnt had any problems with this fone as everyone else has claimed. which is a good thing =]
To grrrrrrrrrrr:
There are nokia shops in australia, just go to nokia.com.au and look for the care centres.
In other news, there may still be hope, there are replacement ribbons for sale on i-phone.org
i'll buy one since i have no bloody warranty. I have no idea how to open the phone without breaking it though. Anyone wanna help? Perhaps the guy that made nokia6111sucks.com?
hey, how do u know wot firmware is on the fone? i just got mine today. and i wana update to the latest one. i dont think there are any Nokia shops in Australia. could anyone help? thanks.
Ok so after having this phone for 2 weeks and discharging and recharging the phone fully i only got a max of 3 days battery life even with minimal usuage. So yesterday i headed back to phones 4 u and exchanged the phone for a sony ericsson w800i and i love it, it is much better than the nokia 6111!
The white one now availlable in Thailand. Hope it has the new firmware 3.45, but not sure. I suppose the problems of some items from the first batch are fixed now, because I am going to buy it very soon.
You are holding the 0 too long, if you just tap it, it works. If you press and hold 0 it is a speeddial to the web services, as 1 is to voicemail.
I think people are just so paranoid about this phone now, they are finding faults.
Apparently, the ONLY fault that has been confirmed on this phone is some firmware may make the screen go blank or reboot.
I had that on my Nokia 6600 and a firmware update solved it. (I havent had that problem yet on 6111)
I have had the Nokia 6111 over a week now. The battery life is fine, once you get used to the fact it goes down to half quickly then takes 3-4 days to move again. People just panic when it halves cos I admit is isnt the best battery indicator.
I love the phone. The amount of heads it has turned is amazing! Everyone I have shown the phone to have gasped in awe.
I dont deny that some people have had problems, this can happen with a new release phone. But it can happen with ANY phone.
If you like it, I would recommend it. I still have the pink one on order too and am now selling my pink 6230i on ebay, as I have road tested this enough now.
Just been down my local shopping centre to buy the 6111 on orange pay as you go only to find out it is not avaliable yet. In all the shops i went in they hadn't got a clue when it will be avaliable on orange payg? Has anyone else had this problem or know any more information? Thanks.
To the person who comments they've only had the phone the few days and can't understand the complaints about it... give it a month.
you need to resize your pictures. it can be done by using the Nokia PC Suite software that comes with it.
hi i've placed order for the silver color as there's no stock.. but now hearing that there r so much complains i'm rather dishearten. Is it true that the sms doesnt shows time and date received? also.. can't make calls after changing wallpapers? If there's any of u who doesn't have this problem pls voice out.. at least i won't feel that hopeless then.. thx.


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I reached out to Denise to contribute to this blog post. She, along with her husband Glenn, did a Rock The Dress photography session with us last year. Many people are obviously apprehensive about jumping in to the Atlantic Ocean in their wedding gown. I wanted to hear why they did the photo session and wanted to hear more about the experience from their perspective.
Rock the Dress in Cocoa Beach
I had only vaguely heard of a "Trash the Dress" photo shoot prior to getting engaged. Once I got engaged and joined a wedding planning forum, many brides were talking about it and once I saw some examples of the pictures I knew I would want to do one of my own.
Originally I thought I would just buy a cheap dress from Goodwill to do it with because I planned to sell my gown after my wedding, but once the wedding was over, the bottom was pretty dirty already so I decided, might as well use my own dress since it's already dirty.
Trying to explain to my parents and in-laws what I was going to do was difficult, they just couldn't fathom why I would want to "trash" my dress. I tried to explain to them about the awesome picture opportunities that we would get from doing the session and that I saw no reason to clean and preserve a dress that was just going to sit in my closet for years serving no purpose like they did with their dresses. Once I explained that, they kind of saw the point, I mean, I spent a lot of money on this gorgeous dress, why not get a second chance to wear it and use it and the pictures are proof as to what a great sacrifice "trashing" my dress was!
Photo Sesson
The actual photo shoot was a blast. Since I knew I was going to be getting wet and sandy, I was so carefree and at ease, unlike my wedding day when I was paranoid about anything getting on the dress prior to the ceremony and reception (we had done first look pictures so there were a few hours of photographing prior to any of the guests seeing me in my dress, so of course I wanted it to still look clean and brand new). We decided to do the shoot at Jetty Park on Cocoa Beach and the weather was beautiful. The wind was slightly blowing, which for the most part helped the idea of beachy pictures and we took so many fun pictures just on the beach itself, on the lifeguard stand, and on the rocks.
We also took this opportunity to capture an announcement. My husband and I had just recently found out we were expecting and knew we were going to be announcing it to our friends and family the following week, so we took a very cute picture of us and in the sand we wrote "and Baby makes 3" – which later in the week was a big hit as we sent the picture out to share the news! Glad we decided to do the shoot when we did, because in a few months the dress isn't going to fit anymore 🙂
After all the sand and beach pictures, it came to the part of getting in the water, it was a little chilly, I won't lie. I wasn't really sure what to expect for most of this part, but my husband and I just had fun splashing each other and wadding in the water in addition to the posed shots that DSWfoto wanted to try. It was a ton of fun to literally be swimming in my wedding dress in the Atlantic Ocean!! (Getting out of the ocean on the other hand was definitely a task with my dress that now felt like it weighed 100 lbs!)
We finished the night with taking some beautiful sunset shots. It was also fun to see all the people at the beach watching us do the shoot. Some of them even praised me for being so brave to get into the water in my gown. About half way through the shoot, another couple started with their TTD shoot as well, so it was fun to see another couple mimicking all the fun we were having by having it themselves 🙂 Overall, for any bride that wants to do something fun and not totally ruin their dress, I highly recommend doing a TTD shoot with water, it was so much fun and the pictures are amazing!
And for the record, my dress can still be cleaned and preserved because it's just sand and water and depending on the material of your dress, you can still save it, I did some research on the subject and found some good info about the different types of material that are "safe" in the water 🙂
Here are some of the photos from their session. To see more, please check out the blog post – Denise and Glenn – A Cocoa Beach, Florida "Rock the Dress" Photo Session


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Hi! I'm Erin. This is me, with my partner in travel and in life — my husband Andrew:
We're Canadian.
Here's the backstory:
I have/had awesome parents. The older I get, the more I realize what an incredible gift that was. They worked very hard to provide for me and my brothers, and they always planned to travel when they retired. But, as they were easing into retirement and beginning to stretch their traveling legs, my dad passed away.
On the heels of this tremendous personal tragedy, we spent a lot of time reflecting, and realized that there actually wasn't anything stopping us from traveling now. Because… there might not be a tomorrow for us.
Soooooo… You probably didn't come to this page looking for this kind of a story, but it's the truth. The year after we lost my dad, we booked our first trip overseas… and we've been traveling ever since.
And I've been journaling about it ever since. And I'll now share our adventures via this blog.
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text: Seth Gordon writes: > > Company A is not willing to pay for development that company B could > > later get *for free*. However, if it saves Company A money up front, > > it would be happy to pay for development that company B would get > > later *for a price*. (Assuming, of course, that the software vendor > > is negotiating just as stiffly with B as with A.) > > [Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona:] > Why for free? Why is the maker of the software be willing to provide > it for free to B? In the situation you mention, only the maker and > company A have the software. Therefore only the maker and A can > redistribute it. You say that A is not willing to redistribute it, so > you only left out the maker. But the maker is making a bussiness from > selling the software. So probably is going to try to sell it to B > too... > > Am I missing something obvious? > > In that situation, company A might as well be purchasing a proprietary > software package, since none of the benefits of open-source > development apply to a product that the vendor and customer are > keeping to themselves. Probably this is going too far without having a detailed scenario about which to discuss. But just in case... I admit this could be seen as an extreme case, but even here, without wide redistribution, the customer may see benefits of libre software: - If the provider is using widespread libre software components, probably can offer a lower price/quality than propietary competition (the customer benefits of libre software). - The customer can later on contract maintenance with a third company which could have knowledge on the widespread libre software componentes and is willing to invest in knowing the rest of the components. In other words: competence in the maintenance, you are not locked in with your provider. - The customer can later redistribute the software, in case they perceive any advantage (tehy have the right to do so). However, from the purchaser point of view, maybe they can find none of these advantages for different reasons (or even get some of them by caefully hammering a proprietary contract). But even in that case, what we have it that libre products and proprietary products are equal, from this customer point of view. All other things equal, the best price/quality should win. Which may be the lbire software solution or not, but that's just how things work usually... Saludos, Jesus. -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones email@example.com / firstname.lastname@example.com | ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos tel: +34 91 664 74 67 | c/ Tulipan s/n fax: +34 91 664 74 90 | 28933 Mostoles, Spain


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Born in 1971 near Bordeaux, I grew up in South-west of France, among the vineyards, the pines, the Arcachon Bay and the ocean. I remain very attached to this crescent which extends from the Basque country to the estuary of the Garonne. Today, I live in Switzerland near Lausanne, in the peaceful village of Penthalaz located at the foot of the Jura.
My university and professional route is at least sinuous if not atypical. This is due as much to my curious and voluntary nature as to the vagaries of life that always ask us to adapt ourselves: I obtained a Bachelor degree in Applied Modern Languages in English-Spanish, another one in web design and a Masters in Sustainable Development. But I have worked for a long time in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, in Zurich, in computer science, translation and subtitling of films as well as claims in banking...From now on working as a freelance in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland), I animate painting workshops for children at Le Mont-Sur-Lausanne and I give tennis lessons at Bussigny.
Art and sport are essential to my balance, one does not go without the other. Despite my health concerns related to ankylosing spondylitis that requires a lot of effort and will, the need for expression has always been there, vital. Writing has long been my passion. I tried the novel, wrote some short stories and still compose today poems or songs with my guitar. In fact, writing offered me a springboard to a passion that took up all the space, painting.Click here to Read More
I have long felt the desire to paint without daring to take the step. In 2010, my brother left us and this drama darkened the existence. Painting, consciously or not, has become the most direct link to light, a means of priority expression, a necessity.
Being of a sensitive and false-quiet nature, the painting helps me to tame my fears, to channel my emotions and to express myself. All stages of creation are exciting, and it is a work as intense emotionally, physically as mentally. Self-taught by nature, I love learning, doing research, reading the methods of some, the opposite of others. Painting is real work, in the noble sense of the word. It requires a lot of humility, accepting failure, making mistakes and starting over. The more I paint, the more difficult I find the painting.
And if there is self-satisfaction, it is never very good sign because I often need to work again on the project to solve this or that problem that only a step back allows to see. However, I also learn to be in a dynamic of tolerance towards my work. You must also know how to let go of your project at a given moment. And then the desire for creation encourages me to start another project.
I work on series, often on several projects in progress. Today, I paint on medium and large formats mainly with oil. I use brushes, knives as well as oil sticks or oil pastels for their spontaneous, expressive character and the physical approach they provide.
My small format paintings and drawings are like recreations, they allow me to try new things. On sketches, I mix mediums, wax crayons, woody, pastels, blood crayons, black and white or color. This approach follows that for writing: when I was working on my novel, I wrote poems or short stories in parallel. This approach reassures me and allows me to keep a certain airiness. In fact, I have started writing again, haiku poems accompanied by abstract drawings.
As new technologies interest me, I also paint on a digital tablet. I use a digital pen or brush and an application. As with lithographs, I limit my creations to 10 copies and have them printed on art paper by a professional who makes good quality prints.
Like many, I admire the great impressionist painters, but all styles interest me as symbolism, expressionism or the works of contemporary artists. Getting all these energies, those of the past, of the present, following the artists of today who make admirable and stimulating work. I wish to try any style or technique. I might as well choose to confine myself to a medium to hope to master it one day, but it is very difficult and keeping this freedom of exploration also seems essential to me in the creative process.
I create mainly in my workshop but I love to paint more and more en plein air, even if I have to find adapted solutions because of my health concerns. Today, I mainly paint landscapes. In my approach, I wish to evoke or suggest the strength of nature, but also its softness, its fragility. The theme of "presence", among others, interests me a lot. Man's, like nature's. In fact, I do not believe that landscapes can be painted with total contempt for human nature. If the characters are rarely present in my painting or almost nonexistent, their presence is often somewhere: when we paint trees or apple trees, we must not forget that they have been often planted or carved by men. We could multiply the examples.
In my painting, I like the idea that there is no precise time. I do not claim a certain timelessness, this nuance is important to me because pretending to paint the timelessness is presumptuous. So I often remove electrical wires, barbed wire, turn roads into ways or simply hide them. It is not about being nostalgic, even if I am sometimes nostalgic by nature and too bad if it is not in tune with time. The idea is rather that we do not really know what time we are. Maybe it's yesterday, maybe it's still tomorrow. Keep the illusion that there will always be places a little wild, or at least where the presence of man will remain discreet, adapted.
Hence these notions that I like enough: melancholic agitation, balance in motion. I imagine nature as in a tremor, it is both motionless and moving. I try to make my painting alive and free to the one who looks at it to create his movements as his pause times.
One day, a very good friend suggested to me to paint subjects, that are more involved or related to what is happening in our world. This reflection makes sense. I'm not saying that I will not change themes or angles of approach. But for the moment, I consider that to paint landscapes remains a modern argument.
I feel close to environmental movements. I support actions that encourage personal and collective well-being. But my artistic work has neither the pretension nor the will to be part of a form of judgment, but rather to approach the themes with humility. This does not preclude doing so with strength and conviction, and it is also a form of commitment. To arouse an emotion, to accompany the spectator towards a kind of inner reflection, it will already be a beautiful success. I think I get tired of moralizing speeches.
If the creative process remains very personal and most of the time solitary, I like the idea that once finished, the work no longer belongs to me, or at least not quite anymore. Because then it also exists in the eyes of one or another. Finally, it is even a privilege to see one of our creations, even if only by the glance or a visit, enter the intimacy of others.


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Biotin Biotin is important for healthy hair and skin. 100 mg of biotin may prevent hair loss in some men. Biotin helps to relieve muscle pain. It promotes healthy nerve tissue, bone marrow and sweat glands. It also relieves seborrheic dermatitis in infants.
Biotin works with folic acid and vitamin B12 to break down fats, protein, and carbohydrates. Biotin is found in most foods and also manufactured by bacteria in the intestinal tract. Most biotin deficiencies are associated with the consumption of raw egg whites which contain avidin. Avidin binds with biotin to prevent its absorption into the blood. Cooking the egg whites deactivates avidin.
Biotin is non-toxic and probably not required in supplement form. Although biotin deficiencies are rare, they can occur when people have malabsorption problems. Some research indicates that male pattern baldness may respond to supplemented biotin, albeit in a very marginal fashion. Biotin is found in cooked egg yolks, salt-water fish, beef and poultry, milk, cheese, soy products and whole grain breads. If athletes are eating raw egg whites, extra biotin must be consumed. Reagent for enzymatic incorporation of biotin into nucleic acids. Biotin-21-dUTP is a dTTP analog with biotin covalently attached to the pyrimidine ring through a 21-atom spacer arm. It can be incorporated by nick translation, mixed primer labeling, 3'-end-labeling, or PCR. Biotin-21-dUTP has a 21-atom spacer arm, the longest spacer available, which reduces steric hindrance in subsequent detection using streptavidin-conjugated enzymes. 100 l is sufficient for 50 nick translation reactions.
Biotin-21-dUTP is provided with a complete User Manual (PT1464-1). Product Size Cat. # Biotin-21-dUTP (0.5 mM) 100 l 5021-1 Biotin-21-dUTP (10 mM) 100 l 5021-3 Form 100 l of 0.5 mM solution in 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) or 100 l of 10 mM solution in 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) Storage Conditions: -20C Biotin plays a key role in turning fat, carbohydrates and amino acids into fuel for the body. It also helps strengthen hair and nails. Food Sources 3/4 cup of soybeans or 1/2 cup of oatmeal = 30 mcg (Adequate Intake for adult male) Brewer's yeast, liver, oatmeal, soybeans, eggs, salmon, milk, mushrooms, halibut, bananas, peanut butter, cantaloupes, cottage cheese.* *Foods have been placed in descending order from best to good source. Deficiency Signs, Symptoms and Those at Risk Signs of deficiency in infants are skin rash and/or scaly inflammation of the skin.
Signs of deficiency in adults are dry, scaly skin; nausea; fatigue; depression; and hair loss. Infants under six months born with very low levels of biotinidase (the enzyme that activates biotin) are at risk for deficiency. Adults on long-term anti-convulsant drugs, which can inhibit biotin uptake in the intestines, are at risk for deficiency. Dosage Information Age Adequate Intake Under 6 months 5 mcg 6-12 months 6 mcg 1-3 years 8 mcg 4-8 years 12 mcg 9-13 years 20 mcg 14-18 years 25 mcg Males 19+ 30 mcg Females 19+ 30 mcg Pregnant 30 mcg Lactating (1st 12 mths) 35 mcg Toxicity/Possible Side Effects To date, no cases of biotin toxicity have been reported. [INDEX] 1-85 Deficiencies of Vitamins B1 (Thiamine), B2 (Riboflavin), B3 (Niacin) and the cofactor (helper substance) Biotin reduce immune resistance markedly. If B5 (Pantothenic Acid) or B6 (Pyridoxine) are deficient, resistance drops almost to zero.
A good B Complex is necessary to compliment Vitamin C when fighting infections. 1-144 Biotin is essential to the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats. It has no known toxicity. Any supplemental form is as good as another. The best natural sources of Biotin are soybeans and brown rice. Raw egg white contains a substance called avidin, which prevents Biotin from being absorbed into the body. Biotin can help with hair loss only when used as part of a complete vitamin and mineral supplement.
BIOTIN A coenzyme. In 1916 it was discovered there was a detrimental effect in eating raw eggs.* susceptible to strong acid and alkaline, UV stable in heat, visible light and air the D-isomer id its active form Absorption absorbed in the small intestine mainly by active transport (some passive absorption and possibly some bacteria synthesis) storage of biotin occurs in the liver, kidney and adrenals * inhibited by avidin which is found in raw egg whites Increased requirements alcohol, coffee, raw egg whites pregnancy, lactation aging athletes dermatitis Excretion In the urine mainly. Synergistic nutrients increases the synthesis of B12 convert tryptophan to B3 with B2, B3, B6, A in skin function with B5 in hair pigmentation Mg and Phosphorus are needed to convert biotin into its active form needed to activate B5, B9, B12 Zn metabolism Functions 1. carboxylation and decarboxylation reactions in protein metabolism 2. carbohydrate metabolism 3. synthesise and secrete insulin 4. glycogen synthesis 5. fat metabolism 6.
antibody and haemoglobin production 7. pancreatic amylase production 8. maintain health of hair, skin, sebaceous glands, bone marrow, sex glands 9. can help cholesterol plaques in blood vessels Deficiency Symptoms GIT - nausea, vomiting, anorexia Skin grey skin (although they are not dying), alopecia (hair loss), scaly dermatitis, skin dryness increased lactic acid levels increased blood cholesterol hypoglycaemia greying hair Reproductive abnormalities due to mothers deficiency - cleft palate, micromelia (abnormally small limbs) Therapeutic uses for the deficiencies above candida (biotin decreases levels of Candida) atherosclerosis acne leg cramps diabetes burns and scalds Toxicity None known. Dose RDA 200 mcg Therapeutic 150-600 mcg Sources Most animal and plant tissues, eg.
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Microsoft announced at the end of last month that it was acquiring Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services for the open source R programming language. R is focused on statistical computing and predictive analytics, which will be key to enabling Microsoft to offer customers the kinds of tools they need to make sense of data--big and otherwise.
"As their volumes of data continually grow, organizations of all kinds around the world--financial, manufacturing, health care, retail, research--need powerful analytical models to make data-driven decisions," wrote Microsoft's Joseph Sirosh, corporate vice president, Machine Learning, in a blog post. "This requires high performance computation that is 'close' to the data, and scales with the business' needs over time. At the same time, companies need to reduce the data science and analytics skills gap inside their organizations, so more employees can use and benefit from R. This acquisition is part of our effort to address these customer needs."
Indeed, when it comes to data analytics, what companies need to do and what they are capable of is often very different. How can R help Microsoft close the gap? For that matter, just what is R?
According to a whitepaper from Revolution Analytics, R is a programming language created in New Zealand in the early 1990s by the University of Aukland's Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. R, an open source descendent of the S language developed by Bell Labs, was written by statisticians for statisticians. This makes it well-suited for the increasingly complex analytics challenges companies today are facing.
Hadley Wickham of Rice University has contributed to many R packages. In the Revolution Analytics whitepaper, Wickham is quoted as saying that R is designed to help users do the kinds of things that you do most often when performing data analysis. For example, he noted in the paper, "R has data frames built into the core language. It's such a natural structure, and it makes working with data much easier. But very few other languages have data frames built in."
R is also known for its speed and effectiveness in generating charts and graphics from data. This is especially important as more and more people at organizations—not just data scientists and number crunchers—need to be able to make practical use of data. Data visualization helps stakeholders interpret data according to their department's or project's or customer's (or whomever's) specific needs.
"R is especially useful for generating charts and graphics, quickly and easily. The ability to create visual plots of complex data is more than just a handy trick; it's an incredibly important step in the analysis of data because it enables you to literally 'see' the patterns and anomalies hidden within the data," states the whitepaper.
In his blog, Sirosh says that the acquisition of Revolution Analytics will help Microsoft customers use advanced analytics on premises, in hybrid cloud platforms and on Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft has also promised its support for the "open source evolution of R and, particularly, the community of people that drives that evolution."
Microsoft—and its customers—have a lot to gain from nurturing the active R community, which extends the capabilities of R with packages that enable specialized statistical techniques and other features.
In a post published the day the acquisition was announced, Revolution Analytics Chief Community Officer David Smith concedes that some may consider Microsoft a "strange bedfellow" for an open source company, but he goes on to note the strides Microsoft has made in embracing open source, including specific use of the R language.
"Microsoft is a big user of R," Smith wrote. "Microsoft used R to develop the match-making capabilities of the Xbox online gaming service. It's the tool of choice for data scientists at Microsoft, who apply machine learning to data from Bing, Azure, Office, and the Sales, Marketing and Finance departments. Microsoft support R extensively within the Azure ML framework, including the ability to experiment and operationalize workflows consisting of R scripts in MLStudio."
Microsoft has not provided details on when the deal will close.
Have you used R? Visualizing a scale from one to 10, how big a deal is this acquisition when it comes to your big data needs? (With one being "little to none" and 10 being "it's a game changer.") Please let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.


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Thanks to a wealth of great medical websites, we've never had access to more knowledge about health conditions and treatment choices. However, the average caretaker or advocate knows much less about potentially-harmful complications known as "Hospital Acquired Conditions," or "HACs" that can be dangerous — even deadly.
National Patient Safety Awareness Week is March 3-9 and shines a light on the most common HACs and how to prevent them. Most hospitals set this week aside for special training for their doctors and nurses. They also reach out to their local communities with educational events that cover hospital safety tips like the ones in this article.
Three of the most common HACs are staph, MRSA (Methicillin-Resisten Staphylococcus aureus) and C. diff (Clostridium dificile) — hospital-acquired bacterial infections that can each cause complications including moderate-to-severe illness or death. But there are many more.
Infections, Falls, Meds and More
Patient Safety Awareness Week helps hospitals spread the message that the number one way to prevent infections is quite simple: Always wash your hands with good old-fashioned warm, soapy water before you ever touch anyone in your care.
Another common danger is falls — most often associated with the frail and elderly, but also common among hospital patients of all ages. Every patient is in an unfamiliar environment, and often weak from illness or woozy from medication making them susceptible to falling.
Again, preventing falls is really simple: Make sure every patient walks with a three-pronged cane or holds a willing arm to prevent dangerous spills.
Then there are medication mix-ups, which occur fairly often in the bustle of hospital care. So it's a good idea to ask nurses to double-check medications before administering them.
Other common hospital conditions include pneumonia, urinary tract infections, blood clots and bedsores. Bed rest causes many of these problems.
Prevention Tips
Now that you know more about HACs, what else can you to do protect your loved one while he or she is hospitalized?
- Try to choose a hospital rated highly on safety, with a low HAC rate. Talk to your doctor about them, or visit websites like HospitalSafetyScore.org, ConsumerReports.org, or HospitalCompare.hhs.gov.
- Always bring a friend or family member as your Care Partner. Patients forget about 80% of what their doctors and nurses tell them.
- Bring a notebook and checklists. Safe hospitals use checklists, and now patients have safety checklists too. Patient safety leaders endorse SafeAndSoundBooks.com and CampaignZERO.org. When you have your hospital checklists, you'll know what to look for, what to do, and what to say to prevent hospital conditions – and everyone will appreciate your help!
Overall, remember that patient safety is a team effort – every single week of the year.
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Number (64) on my 1001 Books And Authors List is the debut novel from Michael Faber, Under The Skin.
Isserly drives the Scottish highlands every night picking up hitchhikers and taking them back to a derelict farm. But she is no innocent sweetheart heading out for one night stands. Isserly is not from our world, has been painfully and surgically altered to look like us and is bringing back "Vodsel" males (their name for our species) to her farm to be fed up and slaughtered like cattle; later to be shipped off to her home world as a rare and extremely expensive meat. Sounds preposterous? Maybe, but instead of just any old piece of imaginative Sci-Fi, what we actually get here is a highly addictive and strangely compelling narrative that aims to subtly undermine conventional society and question everything we thought we knew and often take for granted.
Under The Skin asks some very important questions. If it is okay for us to harvest other animals for food, why is it so wrong for us to feed on each other? Why are some animals more exempt than others? Why IS it okay for us to eat cows, sheep and pigs but not okay for us to feed on dog or cat? Wherein lie the distinctions?
Isserly and her fellow visitors look on us as just dumb animals, referring to themselves instead as human. Often in her travels on the road, Isserly looks upon our race in disdain. And when a high-ranking member of her society pays a visit to our world and the hidden manufacturing plant that processes the meat and asks whether she or anyone else there has ever eaten sheep, Isserly looks on him with disgust. Namely because her race, in their native form, closely resemble sheep in appearance and it would be unforgivable to slaughter something so close to what they think of as human!
This is one of those novels that defy convention. Its style of writing is very much similar to that of Iain Banks and reads a lot like The Crow Road or The Wasp Factory. In the fact that it is mainstream Sci-Fi without actually reading like Sci-Fi means that it has much in common with Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and its ending is as poignant and it is tragic with a climax that will leave you gasping for breath. There is so much to like about this book that a single Blog Post cannot do it justice. It is everything I like to read in a very good novel ~ it has emotion, it has style and it forces you to ask questions both about yourself and the greater world you live in without you even realising you are doing it. I really cannot recommend this enough...which is why it makes the list!


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Even with thorough test cases, some subtle bugs might not be apparent unless you carefully study every single piece of output. You might not even notice the bug until after shipping. But if you assert every little assumption your code makes, then you'll have that much more warning if something goes wrong. Asserts take a conscious effort to ignore, and that's the point. Every time your program runs, that darned assert will pop up, reminding you to fix this bug, and the constant prompting encourages you to fix the bug sooner rather than later (if only to stop the annoyance of having to dismiss the assert each time).
Besides, even if the existence of a bug is obvious, the root cause of the problem might be occurring well before the symptoms manifest themselves. We don't want to spend time backtracking from the point of failure to the original cause. We want to launch the debugger on the very first warning signs.
One day, my friend Amy asked me to help debug some scientific measurement software. Data from physical sensors was automatically fed into a complex embedded spreadsheet, and based on those calculations, feedback to the system was introduced. But over time, a subtle bug somewhere caused the values in the spreadsheet to become inconsistent in a barely perceptible error that magnified itself with each iteration until the entire system crashed several hours later. Debugging this was extremely difficult because the actual bug was happening long before the symptoms manifested themselves. Stepping through the literally millions of iterations required for the crash would simply take too long.
I believe you can never be too rich or have too many asserts. So I helped my friend write a simple function that examined every single value in the spreadsheet to ensure the data was consistent. Of course, running this function took a long time. Then we found the ten places in her code that modified that spreadsheet, and after each one, we added our assert:
We recompiled in Debug mode, started the system again, and went home for the day. When we came back, an assert message was flashing on the screen. Now the code was frozen at the exact place where the data inconsistency first appeared. We had a stack trace and variable values and we now knew exactly which iteration was responsible for the initial inconsistencies in the data. Armed with that, fixing the bug was trivial.
What was the cost of adding those asserts? Well, in Debug mode, the performance hit was pretty drastic. The Assert function itself is fast, but the condition we were asserting on was slow. Validating the entire spreadsheet after each of the millions of iterations required huge amounts of processing time. But so what? Debug mode is for debugging—you can afford for the program to be slow then if that'll make your job easier.
The question is, what is the cost of asserts for the "real" version of the software that gets compiled in Release mode? And the answer is, absolutely no cost at all. Remember, debug asserts only run in Debug mode. The code inside the assert will be compiled away to nothingness in Release mode. So adding these debug-only asserts not only reduced a 3-day debugging task into a simple exercise, it didn't even cost the final product any performance at all.
This highlights an important lesson. Some developers think you should never write a debug-only assert that isn't also handled in Release mode. That is, some developers think we should have done something like this:
Debug.Assert(SpreadSheetIsConsistent());//Debug mode only if (!SpreadSheetIsConsistent()) {//Runs in Release, too //Handle error }
When performance in not an issue, that philosophy is definitely true. (See the sidebar "Asserts Are Not Error Handling.") If verifying data in Debug mode is good, then verifying data in Release mode must be good, too. But when performance is an issue, then that idea may be compromised. Such was the case here: Although we didn't care about performance in Debug mode, the SpreadSheetIsConsistent function was too time consuming to run a million times in Release mode. In cases where the validation might noticeably slow the product down, you have to be more aggressive with your validation checks in Debug mode than in Release mode. In every other case, though, you should have both error handling and asserts.
I've seen many developers declare that asserts encourage poor code by tempting programmers to skip writing error handling code. If so, that's a problem with lazy programmers, not with asserts. Some amateurs do indeed use asserts instead of error handling. These developers mistakenly believe that when the code runs without any asserts, there are no errors left, so why bother handling errors that will never occur? Programs developed in this fashion tend to crash-n-burn hard when confronted with the unexpected conditions of the real world. That's why some developers think asserts encourage sloppy code.
The developers who use asserts in this lazy way are half right. They litter their code with asserts and then test, knowing that asserts are a fantastic way to quickly identify and fix bugs. When your program runs in your development environment without asserts, you can indeed feel confident in it. But these developers don't realize that they'll never find all the bugs. That's why you still need error handling, too.
Asserts have absolutely nothing to do with error handling. They are not an alternative to error handling, nor a supplement, nor a special case. They serve an entirely different purpose.
Even after fixing the spreadsheet bug, we left the asserts in the code. They may be useful in the future if somebody introduces another, similar bug. Besides, the presence of those asserts gives us both a shot of confidence. When the Debug program runs and we don't see an assert, then we both feel more secure that the code is functioning correctly. In fact, that's a trick I've often used with great success. Ever see a bug that only manifests itself once in a while and you can't quite determine the pattern? Throw in a bunch of validation asserts all over your code and wait. Sooner or later, an assert will pop up to identify the bug at its root cause, which is way better than identifying the bug at its later symptom.
Naturally, if you use asserts heavily, you'll eventually assert on some condition incorrectly. Maybe when writing the code, you asserted a certain thing would never happen, but later on that assert fires on what you then realize is a perfectly valid case. So that particular assert is wrong and needs to be removed. That's another reason some developers don't like asserts: because you'll occasionally make a mistake and write an assert that shouldn't be there. Well, so what? As bugs go, an inappropriate assert is very benign. Aside from mildly annoying the developer, no harm is done to the product. Just remove that assert.
Besides, that incorrect assert taught you something about the code that you didn't know when you were writing it. The assert forced you to realize that the unexpected case was acceptable in this function. That's good information to have. Now you should review the code to make sure it can correctly handle this unanticipated case.
I can't count the number of times a team member has told me, "Your code is asserting and it's really annoying. Can't you take those asserts out?" We look at the code and see the assert was exactly right: My teammate was doing such-and-such wrong. In fact, the assert message even clearly said in plain English what the problem was—that's the entire point of using asserts. So we fix the guy's code and the asserts go away. But then he says something like, "Well, OK, I see. But can't we comment out those asserts anyway so that they don't bother us again next time?"
I always take the time to politely explain that we should leave the asserts because they're helpful when tracking down bugs. But I privately think, "You invoked my code in an incorrect way; but rather than making you spend an hour debugging, my code automatically told you exactly what you were doing wrong before you even noticed there was a bug at all, and yet you want to remove that safety net?" It's the ostrich effect— developers cringe at asserts because it proves they have a bug that they can't ignore. Whereas if there were no assert, maybe nobody would notice the bug until after the code shipped. Then they wouldn't have to deal with it because that angry customer will be somebody else's problem.
Don't be like that. If someone went through the trouble to write an assert, they probably had a good reason for doing it. Respect that reason and assume any assert you see is telling you something important.


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While there's some concern that Brexit may yet have an impact on the number of students from abroad coming to study in the UK, there's still great demand for student lets here in the UK and letting to students can be a lucrative option. With seven in ten landlords reportedly refusing to let out their properties to students, could entering this niche be an option for you?
Whether you're an existing buy to let landlord or a student who has a little capital behind them and contemplating buying to let to friends, it's worth noting that UK student accommodation yields have been fairly stable since 2006 according to Empiric. And as Richard Lambert, chief executive recently pointed out when speaking to the Telegraph, `'student lets offer the highest rental yields and are least likely to experience rental areas compared to other tenants, such as professionals, couples, or families." Since many parents usually act as guarantors for students, they could prove far less of a risk than other types of tenants. If this sounds like the type of investment you're looking to make, today we're sharing a few essential design features that can add appeal in student digs.
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The days when students were happy with a bed, desk and sink in their own room are long gone. As a student landlord you'll usually be expected to provide white goods along basic furniture like beds and desks, but students often expect a little more these days. Multiple bathrooms are a real plus when it comes to student living and if the accommodation houses bedrooms over multiple floors, it's useful to have bathrooms situated accordingly too. Bedrooms with en suites naturally command higher rental yields, so if you're planning some layout changes on a buy-to-let property you've bought, think carefully about whether fewer bedrooms upgraded to include en suites may be a smarter swap than creating more bedrooms. Be sure to check out the cost of the competition in your area before your embark on renovations too as well as getting a feel for which properties are snapped up quickly. While luxury student accommodation has become more popular in recent years it's not within every students' budget, so it's best to have a clear idea of what type of accommodation is already available and the type of students you'd like to attract.
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When you're renting to a group of students, equal if not more attention needs to be paid to the communal areas compared to the individual bedrooms. And from a landlord's perspective, you need to think of functionality as well as fun. When it comes to carpets, wall coverings and kitchen surfaces, it's sensible to choose hardwearing and easy to clean materials without compromising too much on appearance. While it's not fair to assume students will match up to their messy stereotypes, you ought to consider that such areas will undergo substantial use and thus wear and tear. Flat screen TVs, American style fridges and fancy hot tubs have instant appeal and as such are the latest must-haves in top end student accommodation. However, a great Wifi connection throughout the home and well thought out outdoor and indoor entertainment areas will be appreciated much more in the longer term. If you're working on a property with a garden, think about practical changes like adding secure bi-fold doors for use when your tenants are hosting summer barbecues or doing some study in the open air.
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There are larger student populations in some cities than others, and thus some areas continue to have a real shortage of quality, affordable student accommodation. One recent survey by SPCE found that 70 per cent of students feel that student accommodation is often in poor condition and run down. Commit to meeting that need and you could really be onto a winner. Proximity to a place of study, public transport links and other amenities such as supermarkets, bars and cafes are all likely to be part of a potential student letter's lust list. But don't overlook other potential pulls such as local gyms, parks and green spaces or doctor's surgeries. And, while parking won't be essential for all, it will definitely be seen as a plus, particularly by parents dropping off their offspring for the term ahead!
Have you let out property to students in the past? What would be your advice to other would-be landlords considering entering the market? And, if you're a student, have you thought about becoming a live in landlord?


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Registration begins on Monday, August 28 at 10 AM at the Library for the Junior Ranger's Club sponsored by the San Juan Island National Historical Park Service, San Juan Island Library and San Juan Island Family Nature Club.
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1 Up at The O2's Champagne Climb
Up at The O2 is inviting adventurous couples to celebrate Valentine's Day with a romantic trip to the top of the world's number one entertainment and music venue. The exhilarating 90-minute climb to the peak of The O2 is guaranteed to set hearts racing and can be made extra special with a champagne upgrade – choose a Champagne Climb and get a glass of Lanson champagne each to enjoy once you reach the viewing platform at the top! It's the perfect spot to take in the beauty and romance of London's skyline. Valentine's climbs are available on Wednesday 14 February, Saturday 17 February and Sunday 18 February, but if you miss out, Celebration Climbs, Sunset Climbs and Twilight Climbs are available outside of these dates. From £30pp (advance bookings recommended).
2 London Shell Co's Valentine's Cruise
Can't get to Venice this Valentine's Day? An intimate cruise through Regent's Park on London's Regents Canal is your next best bet. After last year's sell out run, London Shell Co is setting sail with another Valentine's offering. Their romantic two-and-a-half-hour dining cruises run for five days, with both lunch (departing at 1pm) and dinner (departing at 7.30pm) cruises. Both will offer a seasonal five-course seafood menu to be enjoyed whilst floating along the Regent's Canal. The menu will start with a traditional aphrodisiac of oysters, followed by the likes of devilled brown crab for sharing, Orkney scallops and wild salmon with sprouting broccoli. £45pp. Running Wednesday 14 until Sunday 18 February with jazz cruises on 17 and 18 February.
The Prince Regent, Sheldon Square, Paddington Central W2 6PY; londonshellco.com
3 (Art) Lovers Valentine's Late at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Loved up arty types can get their portrait painted by a professional artist at Dulwich Picture Gallery's forthcoming Valentine's Late. Taking place on Friday 16 February, (Art) Lovers: A Valentine's Late offers up the chance to sit for a guest artist (Ella Masters, Joseph Steele and Rachel Cheung). Also, artist Nikki Gardham will lead a printmaking workshop where you can create your own Valentine's etching using symbols to convey a secret message; and Dulcimer Draws will lead a drop-in workshop where you can sketch a dating profile picture for an imaginary singleton, before trading with someone else and creating a suitable sketchmate for theirs. There'll also be Valentine's Storytelling with Giles Abbott, who will recount the beautiful and passionate love stories of The Linley sisters. 6–10pm. Tickets £12 (concs £10).
Gallery Road, Dulwich SE21 7AD; dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
4 A Couples Flights with The London Helicopter
The London Helicopter is the only helicopter tour company to fly over the capital. It is also the UK's first helicopter sightseeing service that gives you the freedom to book, pay and check-in online. And what could be more romantic than treating your other half to a luxury, exclusive flight over the London skyline for just the two of you? You and that special someone will fly high above the capital taking in the breathtaking panoramic views in your own private helicopter, piloted by an experienced pilot. Choose from the London Buzz package, a 12-minute flight that takes in 18 landmarks at £600 per couple; London Sights, an 18-minute flight that takes in 25 landmarks at £880 per couple; and London Max, a 30-minute flight that takes in a whopping 36 landmarks at £1,400 per couple. Tours generally depart from Battersea but you can opt to depart from Redhill aerodrome, near Gatwick.
The Pod Building, Bridges Court, Battersea SW11 3BE; thelondonhelicopter.com
5 Old Fashioned Valentines Day, The Old Queens Head
The Old Queens Head in Angel hosts a monthly night called Old Fashioned, a vintage-style open mic with atmospheric jazz, soul, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll from pre-1965. Presented by house band and hosts, Stella and the Shakes and Danny B, in the upstairs bar, the evening encourages you to dress up, get up and sing up – grab the mic and belt out your favourite blues, hit the dance floor or just chill with a drink. The next event just so happens to fall on Valentine's Day, laying a good old fashion, romantic evening right at your feet for date night. Regulars have named it the best live soul blues jazz night showcase in London, and the house band is brilliant! Doors open at 7.30pm, £3 on the door.
44 Essex Road, Angel N1 8LN; theoldqueenshead.com
6 The Elmore Jam and Basement Galley's Quirky Supperclubs, East London
Supper club kings The Elmore Jam and Basement Galley have five quirky events lined up for diners looking for a more original dining experience. First up, transport nuts should love one of the two dinners and two brunches taking place on the Basement Galley's tube train on Thursday 15 February (sittings at 6pm and 8.30pm) and Saturday 17 February (sittings at 10am and 12.30pm). It's cosy, so the amorous can snuggle up, but equally, it's an equally great idea for groups of friends looking for a Galentines or Palentines date. The final event, at 7pm on Saturday 17 February, is The Elmore Jam's Fork Off Valentine's jazz dinner at Nick's pad in Leytonstone with a jazz trio setting the mood. Chef Alex Cooper will be rustling up dishes such as panzanella with seared mackerel, 24-hour braised lamb neck and a rich chocolate and ginger tart. Tickets from £35.
For tickets see basementgalley.com
7 Thames Dinner Cruise with Bateaux London
Bateaux London's Symphony vessel will take to the Thames for a Valentine's Day dinner cruise on 14 February, combining fine food with live entertainment, all set against a changing backdrop that takes in some of London's most iconic sights. You and your date will be welcomed on board with a glass of champagne before being shown to your table in the vessel's private Tower Suite for the evening where you'll be served a five-course meal with a selection of wine, beers and soft drinks, as well as a single red rose and entertainment courtesy of a live band and singer. Boarding begins at 7.30pm at the Embankment Pier, Victoria Embankment. The Valentine's Day river cruise lasts approximately three hours. Prices start at £145.
8 A Phone Free Dinner at The Savoy
This Valentine's Day, The Savoy is asking its guests to relinquish their phones in a bid to encourage couples to enjoy each other's company without interruption. Photography service The Collective You will set up a mini studio under the glass domed atrium of the Thames Foyer, so that you and your beloved can take home a professional portrait, shot by Canadian portrait photographer Dennis Goceras, as a memento. Sure beats a selfie! On arrival to dinner at Kaspar's, or drinks at the American Bar or Beaufort Bar, you'll be asked to hand in your mobiles, which will be placed in individual pouches and kept safely out of reach. Plus, you get to keep the pouch as a keepsake far more long-lasting than an Instagram post!
The Strand WC2R 0EZ; fairmont.com/savoy-london
9 Two Temple Place's Hanky Panky Cocktail Class
Two Temple Place near Victoria Embankment Gardens is running a Hanky Panky Cocktail Class on 14 February. The class, developed to accompany its latest exhibition, Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain, makes for a great alternative Valentine's Day date. During the class, AVM curiosities, which explores the relationship between art and food through a series of high-calibre events and edible interventions, will take you through a whistle-stop history of The Cocktail, from Ancient Egypt to the 1920s. The session will end with you blending your own Hanky Panky, a cocktail invented by the Ada Coleman, the first female head bartender at the Savoy's American Bar. 6.15pm-7pm, 7.15pm-8pm and 8.15pm-9pm. Tickets £20.
Two Temple Place WC2R 3BD; twotempleplace.org
10 The London Cabaret Club's LOVE Never Dies
This Valentine's Day, The London Cabaret Club at The Bloomsbury Ballroom hosts LOVE Never Dies, a spectacular evening of entertainment and music, expertly crafted cocktails and an aphrodisiac-based menu. Celebrate the most romantic night of the year at an experience inspired by one of the smoothest lovers ever – 007 himself – with a James' Bond themed show. Indulge on a decadent seven-course Valentine's Day menu, with fresh oysters, pan-seared foie gras, roast rack of lamb, Amaretto chocolate cream cheesecake and more. You and your beloved can also opt for a chilled bottle of Dom Pérignon. You can also add personalised desserts, beautiful bouquets of flowers and hand-written love notes to your experience. Tickets for LOVE Never Dies on the 14 February start from from £105pp, You can also add romantic extras to the Best of British Pop and London Never Dies shows on 10, 11, 17 and 18 February.
Bloomsbury Square, Holborn WC1B 4DA; thelondoncabaretclub.com
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