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Tomorrow we play Coventry in the FA Cup. The 1882 will be there in block 30 of the Shelf Lower.
The aim of the 1882 movement is to support our team and the shirt they play in as voraciously as our lungs will allow. We want to hark back to the days before the Premier League, when how loud you sing and how passionate you became wasn't dependent on how well Tottenham were playing.
We don't claim to be better than other supporters and we're not trying to segregate our fans. We simply want to make noise and get behind the team, which hopefully creates a more enjoyable match-day experience.
Below is a short compilation of the 1882 support at games against Barcelona in the NextGen Series and Maribor in the Europa League. Get involved.


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The Rotational Trainers are an amazing tool that not only help athletes improve their rotational mechanics for their jump rope technique but can also provide a pretty awesome low impact work out in the process.
Rotational Trainers are utilized in place of an actual jump rope. They eliminate the need to time the jump with the rope and risk catching their toes. Instead the athlete can stand flat-footed and mimic the hand and arm motion utilized when jumping rope. This would be very similar to a baseball player swinging a bat and working on proper swing mechanics before introducing a ball into the mix.
Rotational Trainers are a key tool used in Rx Method Clinics to teach athletes the proper relaxed rotary method for turning a jump rope. The larger handles cause the athlete to open their grip up and allows them to use a more disengaged wrist when turning the Rotational Trainers. This results in improved efficiency and reduced fatigue in the shoulders and forearms. Once coordination is improved the athlete can then introduce a small bounding motion while turning the Rotational Trainers in order to mimic the full jump rope movement.
The knot at then end of the rope provide resistance, which will allow the athlete to gain better awareness through feel as well as visibly see the path of rotation. Then the athlete will be able to determine independently what each hand is contributing to the overall rotary motion. It is very common for athletes to have a dominant hand showing more coordination while the non-dominant hand is trailing behind. This can lead to an imbalance when jumping rope that can cause frequent catching.
Rotational Trainers are also a great substitute for athletes newer to jumping rope who need to scale their work out. Now the athlete can practice the full movement and receive the benefit of the heavy resistance while still gaining the cardiovascular benefits without having to stop because there is no rope to catch on the athletes toes.
This is a great sub for athletes with leg injuries that may need to scale jump roping into their workouts.
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Really taught the correct rotation mechanics and teaches how to check in to proper position during my bounds
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Like most clickbait, the title of this post isn't quite accurate. For one thing, this post isn't about a trick, it's about a technique that's been painstakingly developed and tested over the course of the past six years. And it isn't weird — unless you think really, really smart ideas are weird.
We ignore IE 7 users at our peril. At the time of this writing, IE 7 has 15% market share. This doesn't sound like much, until you translate that number into 15 out of every 100 living, breathing human beings who come to your site and are rebuffed by its poor usability.
The three greatest third-party performance culprits — performance-leeching widgets, badly designed ads, and poorly optimized pages — and real-world tips for dealing with them.
It's not enough to have a fast site. Time after time I see "high performance" sites that make the same mistake: having their most important content load dead last. Here's a case study from Symantec.com.
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Friday Four: Right to broadband in Finland, jobless comp-sci grads in the UK, and iTunes in the cloud
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There are two main web performance problems I see over and over again: the sheer size of web pages, and how these pages are built for, and consumed by, different browser types. As a parallel issue, we also have users' page-load expectations, which are currently outpacing most websites' ability to deliver.


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Summer days can be lazy days, but so far it's been a whirlwind of activity. Trying to keep up isn't always easy. So, I've decided that a person can only do what she can do and that has to be ok.
I'm working on new projects......a wall hanging which is both fabric and wool. Some fun stars that are a little different and with wool applique in the borders. It should be ready soon.
Fun small projects that are easy to make and that you must have more than one of.........either for yourself or as a give away. I really do love projects that are small and I can't think of a better gift, for a friend or relative, than something that is handmade.
Sewing roll-ups - now how many of those do you have? lol You mean you don't have a collection of these? (It reminds me of pin cushions.....my collection of those just keeps growing and growing as well)
Pattern bags - Oh, I think these are fun. I have two for me....a small and a large one, I've given some away.
Wool table rug........all coming soon!
I will share these with you as soon as the pictures have been taken. If you are in my pattern club you will be the first to see everything when it's ready. You can join by signing up on my website: http://www.primitivepiecesbylynda.com
Hope all of you have a great day.
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Venice italy the city by the canals that makes you a believer in happy ending and fairy tales. Cars are not allowed, so the only way to get around the 1,500-year-old city is by foot or by water taxi.better yet great gondola ride From these vantage points, you'll be awed by the this city splendid beauty. La Serenissima, "the most serene one," is filled with palaces tiny streets of tiny stores with colorful window displays and art, fine shopping and excellent food. feed the birds in Piazza San Marco, visit the basilicas, drink coffee at the "Bar" while standing as seating is few euro extra. wander the alleyways and tiny and large bridges. Consider an off-season trip to have more of the city to yourself, as in summer times the city is really too busy yet its part of the fun of visiting venice.
traveling with my better half Albert is one of the magical times any couple can have. we are so thankful for our times together and i am thankful for being able to share my life with such a great person that we both share so many heavenly spots on this earth ~ for good times, health and ton of blessing to all of us~
venice~ italy the color of the water in the canals have a glow.
the water in the canal, the old boat.... so venice.~
and only venice can have...
the gondola's...such a venice icon.
we are on top of the tower...
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
" A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
Nobody's out of place in Venice.
My beautiful, my own
My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!
~ George Gordon Noel Byron "The Two Foscari"
Navale is my nick name...they didnt have to anme it after me...really...
Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
~ George Gordon Noel Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Until it seems the whole city
will be covered with gold pollen shaken
from the bell-towers, lilies plundered
with the weight of massive bees . . .
~ Hilda Doolittle "Tribute to the Angels"
A city for beavers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better."~ Fran Lebowitz
the are using such old building for new art...ok maybe not art new ads.
"In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theatre. The play is finished, but the echoes remain."~ Arbit Blatas
There is something so different in
Venice from any other place in
the world, that you leave at
once all accustomed habits and
everyday sights to enter an
enchanted garden.
Mary Shelley
what a view from our hotel room ~ lucky us~
the side streets are all full of walkers endless walking~


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By Robert Segawa
The most wanted Kifeesi boss Paddy Sserunjogi a.k.a Sobi has been transferred to Nalufenya from Nsangi police station where he was arrested from.
Sobi has been arrested along side with two others namely, Shafiq Kasozi and Twaha Otim during interview with some journalists at Rose garden hotel in Nsangi.
The self confessed criminals will be interrogated on claims they made on one of the television stations that they have been involved in top crimes in this city. A video of these claims have since gone viral.


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'What are you doing staring at that fake from Aix?'
Julian Bell
- Rembrandt by Himself edited by Christopher White and Quentin Buvelot
Yale, 272 pp, £25.00, June 1999, ISBN 1 85709 252 X
- Rembrandt : The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering
Amsterdam University Press, 340 pp, £52.50, November 1997, ISBN 90 5356 239 7
With Rembrandt, as with other totem figures of the arts (Shakespeare, Mozart), longstanding reverence from fellow practitioners coincides with immediate appeal to the community at large. In Rembrandt's case this appeal comes chiefly from his treatment of the human figure, in his portraits especially, and above all, the self-portraits he painted in his old age. In the current exhibition in the National Gallery basement, seventy-odd likenesses of the artist have been brought together. Its central hall, holding more than a dozen of the late self-portraits, compactly presents the case to be made for Rembrandt.
The appeal of these paintings stems from our capacity to empathise with the subject. As we turn to the portraits, the subject's eyes draw ours into their darkness, and we infer a consciousness. We feel that this consciousness is of the same stuff as our own and that it relates to the spread of oily marks on the canvas in the same way that our self-awareness – our sense of owning an identity with a history – relates to the body it occupies. The physical evidence – the variegated clots, swathes and traces of paint with which Rembrandt represents the figure – is not what we identify as the subject's conscious life or spirit; rather, we feel it as a weight to which that life or spirit is inextricably bound.
This weight, heaving forward into a geology accreted around the bridge of the nose, is then diffused over the breadth of the canvas, in the broadly-brushed clothing. It subjects the warm, indefinite darkness underneath it – to which the consciousness held within the painted eyes seems to belong – to a determinate, clenched form. The ease with which Rembrandt conjures up gold chains and fabrics loosens the tensions of a flesh that is felt as tremulous and awkward. When he paints the young, they are vulnerable, open-mouthed, waiting to be bruised by experience; he celebrates the old for their evident display of such bruises. Each painted figure offers cues for the viewer to infer a narrative of passions suffered. At the same time, this manner of painting seems to set up a model for our own experience; it makes some kind of general proposal as to the nature of human life.
In response, we attempt to supply the pictures with narratives, relating the poised stance of the Vienna portrait of 1652, say, to the assurance of international fame that had accompanied Rembrandt from his late twenties; or the wrinkles and pinched lips in the Washington portrait of 1659 to the painter's recent bankruptcy and critical eclipse. Then, perhaps, the Zeuxis from Cologne of 1662 could take up the story – Rembrandt now defiantly posing as the painter whose unfashionable images of ugly humanity caused him to laugh himself to death.
Further, sensing that Rembrandt's proposal about human experience is in some way exemplary, we reach for terms of value to corroborate it. Critics regularly invoke Shakespeare, plucking down phrases like 'the tragic experience of all mankind', or call the self-portraits 'the greatest autobiography ever presented to posterity'. They speak of psychological penetration and posit in Rembrandt 'a conscious and progressive quest for individual identity in a truly modern sense'. The 'keen and steady eyes seem to look straight into the human heart'. Rembrandt, in sum, is our culture's chief pictorial repository for the so-called human condition.
John Rupert Martin, Kenneth Clark, H.P. Chapman and E.H. Gombrich (respectively) were, each of them, writing out of a scholarly knowledge of the 17th century. Nonetheless, their terminologies raise a major problem: does the strength of our emotional response to Rembrandt lead us into conceptual anachronisms? Did 'the tragic' or 'individual identity' or 'the humane' carry the weight for a painter living in Holland between 1606 and 1669 that they do for 20th-century writers? What, if anything, in Rembrandt's cultural equipment could suggest that a series of paintings might constitute an autobiography, let alone an analogue for King Lear? Did any sense of a 'series' exist for Rembrandt? Isn't that simply a retrospective fancy in the minds of cataloguers and biographers, finally given concrete reality in this exhibition?
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Yesterday I decided I didn't have enough mugs at home, so I went out to buy a new one. But when I was on my way to the city centre, I thought about something I always wanted to do: decorating a mug with a sharpie (or other permanent pen). So I got to the nearest all-one-pound-store and got a simple white mug and a pack of 4 sharpies, all for less than 2 pounds.
And here's the result!
Like it huh? Go on and you'll know how to do it…
What you need:
– White mug
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– Oven
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– Cotton or toilet paper.
How to do it:
– Draw something in the mug. If you make a mistake, just rub a bit of cotton with alcohol on it.
– Let it dry for half an hour.
– Put it in the oven, and switch it on. When it reaches 180ºC (350ºF), set the timer and let the mug inside for about 40 minutes.
– Take it out of the oven carefully …and IMPORTANT: don't touch the ink while it's hot, it will only be fixed when it's cold.
Now you can use your mug, wash it and event put it in the dishwasher without worries!
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Photo by Chris Martindale
In 2016, the world is getting a closer glimpse at what it might look like to live in a dystopian society. The planet as a whole isn't there yet, but the tipping point is within sight. Civil war in Syria, populist isolationism in the United Kingdom, increasing global temperatures and a U.S. presidential candidate using dictatorial language (and boasting of sexual assault) all serve to remind us that it can get worse—much worse. And it might not be that far off.
That ominous feeling of global dread has been fueling the flames of inspiration for songwriters for decades, but that darkness seems particularly overt now. For metal, darkness is a nearly constant motif, but Salt Lake City doom quintet SubRosa have channeled a more literary, allegorical form of dystopia into their new album For This We Fought the Battle of Ages . Singer/guitarist Rebecca Vernon was inspired by We , a 1924 novel by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, when she began to write the songs on the album. It was the first time that the band took a top-down approach to writing an album, beginning with the concept and then finding ways to translate that into their songs. As such, themes of oppression and freedom are intertwined throughout the album, from a line like "Choice is too precious to be wasted on vermin" on "Wound of the Warden," to the bleak description of "A city laid waste, where everything's been decided for us," in "Killing Rapture."
It's easy to draw parallels to contemporary society, where corporations are all powerful and surveillance is ubiquitous. Yet Vernon, in a phone interview from her Salt Lake City home, says it wasn't so much the political commentary on We that was important to her, but rather the idea of personal freedom.
"It captured so many philosophies I've had my whole life about freedom and happiness, and just really broad sort of themes like that. So yeah, it just really resonated with me," she says. "The book inspired George Orwell's 1984 ...but I connect to We more. I feel like 1984 explores more of the political side of freedom and control, but We explores the spiritual side of freedom and control. Like how it benefits man as an individual."
For This We Fought the Battle of Ages is as ambitious musically as it is thematically. Spanning a staggering 65 minutes and featuring six tracks, it's a work of great sprawl. Each song—two of which are longer than 15 minutes apiece—is as much a crushing work of modern doom metal as it is a constantly shifting symphonic piece with various movements. That the group features two violinists, Kim Pack and Sarah Pendleton, makes the musical comparison to a symphony all the more apt.
Putting together an album that intricate and carefully composed, however, presents some serious challenges. Several songs had to be reworked in the process of making the album. And Vernon says that SubRosa is, first and foremost, a live band, so if something doesn't work on the stage, it probably won't make it onto the album.
"We kind of create the songs to play live," she says. "There are lots of organic transitions from one part to the next that we all feel together. It was so hard to capture in a recorded sense. Especially with tempos, trying to get parts going into other parts. We sometimes would think we had a tempo on a click track, and then realize we were going too slow or too fast. We had to tear the whole thing apart and start over. It was just tedious work trying to get these parts to flow into each other and sound natural."
The last song on the album, "Troubled Cells," partially breaks with the theme of the album. At seven minutes long, it's relatively brief by SubRosa's standards. And where much of the album ties in to the themes in We , this song was a response to an increase in suicides by LGBTQ youth in the Mormon community after the announcement of discriminatory directives by the Church of Latter Day Saints (which has a huge presence in the band's home city). The band also recently finished a video for the song aimed at drawing attention to the crisis, and held a crowdfunding campaign in which all non-production costs would be donated to outreach groups.
"This song, I wrote it feeling like it was very important to me personally. And I would hope that it has some kind of impact," Vernon says. "We always hope our music reaches people and helps them through tough times. That's one of our main objectives. And we hope this song will do the same thing, but maybe will be even more concentrated in its deliberateness."
Yet "Troubled Cells" is part of a broader motivation behind SubRosa's music. Vernon says that, despite the heaviness and the darkness in their music, they're always working toward something more positive.
"The music should inspire a feeling of power and strength," she says. "We want people to feel this inner strength listening to it. Overcoming this world and the vicissitudes of life—that you can do it. At the same time, there's a lot of darkness in the music, too, so the music is acknowledging that it can be a living hell sometimes. So there's this dark and light kind of play in the music, acknowledging the reality of suffering and how hopeless it can be, but offering this ray of hope. Offering some encouragement."
SubRosa play November 12 at Soda Bar


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Got a new Android phone? Of course very enjoyable, because many existing android app on Google Play. But after a Google account log in for complete, got even download process it can not . There is a notification like this "could not be downloaded due to an error ( 403 ) . Wow, of course will be surprise us to be bad mood .
yes already rather than added difficult , tried Google ask first how to overcome this android error 403. According to some sources, this error occurs because of a problem that we use the Internet network, whether WiFi or cellular or Google account .
rather than lets linger, there are several ways that we can do to overcome the error 404 in android .
- If the 404 error occurs when you are connected to a Wifi network . Try turning off wifi , and switch to the cellular network .
- If the problem is in your Google Account
In the drop down menu options in Google Play, select the account and select the account that you would use on Google Play . If not successful, the same drop down menu select Settings > Clear search history. Still no luck ? From home select Settings > Application > Google Play > clear data and clear cache . Then open and log in again to Google Play .
- If this happens when you use the cellular network .
Check if proxy is enabled, if active, turn off Settings > Wireless & Networks > More > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names ( APNs ) > network operators > Proxy ( disable / remove )
- If the proxy is not active, the other possibility is a matter of setting your internet provider. Make sure the APN settings for broadband internet use instead of setting WAP / GPRS . If the APN option was not available, create a new APN. The trick, Settings > Wireless & Networks > More > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names ( APNs ) > New APN ( from drop down menu ). Enter the name of the APN, APN, username, and password of a broadband connection provider you use.
Try to Install the latest version of Google Play Store. The cause had some fails download at Play Store could may your Google Play Store has been expired / old.
Flash ROM on mean reset your android
This may be the last option . Flash your android ROM, It could restore to default Google applications system (other than the Play Store ) it may missing from your mobile phone.
If you have any doubt in the case just try flashing, to do flashing go to Factory Reset.


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"I choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard..." (inspired by JFK)
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Today Sian came off her horse during a riding lesson. For once Phil hadn't come with us as he was nipping into Chester to pick up the very last pair of size 7 Converse trainers in Sole Trader for Sian's Christmas present. As we headed off to the riding school I realised I hadn't got my phone but didn't go back for it as I assumed I wouldn't need it.
Sian was riding Bruno, my favourite horse. He's a gentle and loving horse but he can get overexcited sometimes during lessons. He squealed and shied at nothing a couple of times, but another horse was the one we were all watching as he raced round the school at top speed! Sian was riding really well and coping with B's occasional strange manoeuvres. Until during a canter he bucked once, unseated her, then bucked again and swerved on landing. She so very nearly stayed on but didn't....I watched in horror as she fell off and landed head-first. Everything stopped....
Sian's instructor was holding her head and neck still as she lay crumpled on the ground. The first aider arrived and we decided to call an ambulance as Sian was complaining of head, back and neck pain. I had to borrow a phone to call home and leave a message as I couldn't remember Phil's mobile number and Kate was out too.
Phil met us at the hospital and after x-rays we were told Sian was just badly bruised. She had been really brave and cheerful but was clearly scared. The worst point for Sian was that her much loved Hollister hoodie had to be cut off her!
The staff at the hospital were great, as were the riding school staff.
All sorts of thoughts went through my head while we were waiting to find out how Sian was. I had put off letting Sian ride for two years before I caved in - as a rider myself, i know it's a dangerous sport and that horses are unpredictable, even the best of them. I was wondering if I should have given in and let her start. I'm so proud of her riding skills; and that she shares my love of horses. I wondered if I was living my own dreams through Sian and putting her at risk. All the usual sort of guilty stuff you think when your child's been hurt.
I realised anew that my family and friends are the dearest things in the world to me and the only things worth worrying about. I'm so thankful for the good care Sian received today and grateful beyond words that she's going to be ok.
10 comments:
- Annie said...
OMG Julie you must have been beside yourself when Sian fell. I'm glad she wasn't hurt any worse than bruising, although I'm sure she'll be pretty sore for a few days. Please send her my love and tell her i hope she gets better soon. Shame about her beloved hoodie. I bet that was more traumatising for her than the fall LOL
Love and hugs for you both
Annie xxx
- 9:08 am
- Scriptor Senex said...
After a lifetime of worrying about minor things I too can confirm that the only things really worth worrying about are one's children.
Glad Sian has no long term damage and I'd try not to feel guilty. Imagine if you had stopped her horse riding and she'd done something 'safer' instead only to suffer an injury travelling to her ballet class! Parents will always find something to feel guilty about....
- 9:14 am
- Akelamalu said...
It's your worst nightmare when something happens to your child. Glad to hear Sian is OK. Don't feel guilty m'dear it wasn't your fault. x
- 7:15 pm
- Kerri said...
I am crying as I read this post! I know exactly what you mean. Brianna had an accident earlier this week too. I am so happy that Sian is OK!!!
- 12:04 pm
- Cathifach said...
What a traumatic time you've had. Sounds like a nightmare of a day. So glad to hear Sian's ok but you mustn't feel guilty in the slightest. Life is about taking calculated risks and the pleasure she will gain from riding will far outweigh the rare injuries that happen. X
- 3:02 pm
- mrsnesbitt said...
OMG I read this with haste as I wanted to see that everything was OK!
HUGS hun You are right, ie what life is all about! I too worry, and worry that I worry, Dxxx
- 5:30 pm
- Anisa said...
I am soooo glad my Sian wasn't badly injured. Poor baby. I can imagine your scare.
- 4:46 am
- cheshire wife said...
It must have been awful for you. Pleased that Sian is only bruised and sorry that it had to happen.
I used to worry about 'what ifs' that might never happen but eventually realised that life is too short.
- 8:51 am
- Dianne said...
I can imagine the moment she fell
my son played football and hockey and raced bikes and ...
I am so very glad she's OK
- 2:24 pm
You are so right, worrying about one's children is the worst! I am so glad Sian is going to be okay. But try not to feel guily -- my brother-in-law always reminds me that she could just as easily have tripped and fallen going down the stairs, with a similar result. Still, perhaps for the next few months Sian might enjoy something more sedate, like piano lessons!?
I too am the sort to always worry about something. One thing that I have always found comforting is something the pastor said at church: Over 95% of what we worry about never happens. I try to bear this in mind whilst I am going bonkers worrying about someone or something.
Take care and have a great Christmas!
Canadian Chickadee
- 1:47 am


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Routes : North America : United States : California : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Cathedral Rocks : Rocks : Middle Cathedral Rock : Northeast Face : Bircheff- Williams
Bircheff- Williams - 5.11bAverage Rating : 4.50 out of 5
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Cams, Doubles to 2" especially .3 - .75 and 1 #3. Nuts, 1 set, RP's offsets usefull.
Description:Just to the left of Central Pillar of Frenzy lies a lonely left facing dihedral system. Splitter cracks, polished face and adventurous climbing up physical and sustained moves. Some dirt and munge along the way, but nothing too bad. The first 3 pitches are 5 star pitches.
Descent Options:Rap the route.
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Route ID: 99020
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Onsight ascent by: Rockjunkie15 on 2009-07-11 (View Climbing Log)
Do This
Only did the first 2 pitches but they were great. First pitch is a thin corner crack with strong stemming the entire way, the crux is definitely stouter than 11b but only for one move. Second pitch is no harder than 10a but you get to pull a really fun roof with good gear the entire way. I would of done more of the pitches but I used this route to gain access to the bad ass face climbing route that starts on the second pitch ledge
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Heady climbing
The whole route feels as if it were one pin scar less, it wouldn't go. It seems every pitch has an improbable looking section that turns out much easier than it looks. On the other hand, every pitch seems to have an easy looking section that turns out to be much harder than it looks. I thought .11b curx on the first pitch was more likely in the .12 area but only for one move. The route could use some cleaning especially in the upper pitches. Some of the anchors after the traverse need to be replaced. It would be wise to bring a bolt kit, knife and some webbing to back up these anchros. The climbing is very physical and sustained the whole way. A total overlooked classic for the grade.
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This Blog…
… has been a little quiet these past two weeks. This is mainly as I've started a new job over at the TUC as Senior Policy Officer covering macroeconomics.
I'm now blogging at the Touchstone blog – you can find my posts here.
I am planning on continuing this blog although posting will be a bit less frequent (I'll aim for one or two posts a week). In the meantime please do check out Touchstone though.
Credit Easing – Five Questions
The big announcement in Osbone's speech from a macroeconomic point of view was the talk of 'credit easing' – Treasury action to ease loan availability to small and medium sized businesses.
Implicitly the Chancellor has therefore acknowledged that the 'Project Merlin' deal with the big banks to ensure credit gets to SMEs is failing. This is a good start but the devil will of course be in the details. Those details remain sketchy but is seems likely that credit easing will take the form of some sort of securitisation process whereby banks (or other investors) lending to SMEs can bundle those small loans into larger bonds and sell them on either to the Treasury, some new government arms length agency or maybe to the Bank of England. In effect this would make the funding of new SME loans much easier – and possibly cheaper.
This all raises a few questions. First, and crucially, how quickly could such an operation be gotten up and running? I suspect it could easily take well over a year. This is is not a quick fix to poor credit availability for SMEs.
Second how large will the programme actually be? This is the kind of crucial detail we really need to be able to assess the impact of such a move.
Third – what does this announcement, from the Chancellor, say about diverging views between HMT and the Bank? MPC member Adam Posen floated a similar (but more comprehensive and BOE funded) scheme a few weeks ago, has that been rejected by the Bank?
Fourth – what will the OBR make of this? Assuming the Treasury can pull together a concrete proposal soon it should be included in the autumn forecast numbers released at the end of November.
Finally – why an indirect scheme like this rather than some form of state backed investment bank focussed on SMEs? Surely that would be a more direct way of dealing with the problem of SME credit access.
Osborne's Mandate: There is no flexibility
In the past week both Nick Clegg and Vince Cable have admitted the obvious –Britain faces a demand shortage.
As I've argued previously they are quite rightBritain has both an immediate demand problem and long term supply side problem. An increase investment has the potential to help resolve both of these issues by increasing demand in the short run and addressing supply side issues in the medium term. The problem of course is that the private sector, stuck in a deleveraging, balance sheet recession is unwilling to invest.
Hence the recent talk (denied) of a £5bn investment led government stimulus.
Now I'd start by noting that £5bn is a mere drop in the ocean in terms of the UK macroeconomy – welcome but nothing to get excited about. The amount of investment needed is much higher and it cannot all come from a government stimulus anyway. This is why banking reform to ensure it supports the real economy and wider structural reforms to the UK economy are much needed (proper structural reforms that actually help – not a handful of enterprise zones and talk of cutting maternity pay!).
But the talk of a £5bn stimulus (coupled with the FT's revelations about a £12bn 'black hole' in the public finances) has led to a discussion on the nature of George Osborne's fiscal mandate and the question of how much flexibility he has.
Both Vince Cable and Chris Huhne have emphasised that Osborne is targeting the structural deficit and so has room to allow the 'automatic stabilisers to work'. I.e. if the economy slows further and tax revenues drop whilst welfare spending increases, Osborne will not have to bring in extra tightening to counter act this.
Huhne has gone further and argued that Osborne is targeting the 'current structural deficit' so could actually increase investment whilst still meeting his target.
Do these claims stack up?
Not really.
Osborne set out his formal mandate his Budget speech last year:
The formal mandate we set is that the structural current deficit should be in balance in the final year of the five-year forecast period, which is 2015-16 in this Budget.
This mandate is:
Structural – to give us flexibility to respond to external shocks;
Current – to protect the most productive public investment;
And credible – because the Office for Budget Responsibility, not the Chancellor, will decide on the output gap.
So far so good – he's targetting the current structural deficit so (if the FT is wrong about the OBR's likely downgrade to the output gap) then he would have room to both allow the automatic stabilisers to work and to increase investment.
But, but, but… Osborne went on to say something he may well regret:
In order to place our fiscal credibility beyond doubt, this mandate will be supplemented by a fixed target for debt, which in this Parliament is to ensure that debt is falling as a share ofGDP by 2015-16. (my emphasis)
It's this fixed target for a falling debt to GDPratio by 2015/16 that causes the problems. The current OBR forecast (almost certain to be revised heavily in November) is that debt/GDP will peak at 70.9% in 2013/14, fall to 70.5% in 2014/15 and 69.1% in 2015/16. I.e. Osborne is on course to meet his target two years early but by the narrowest of margins. The downgrades this Autumn are likely to mean he is meeting his second target just on time and with no rrom to spare.
In other words Osborne has no room to for a discrectiobnary stimulus without breaching his mandate. There is even a chance that the automatic stabilisers may have to be scaled back if he is to meet his target.
Grim Public Finances
Today's public sector borrowing numbers are pretty grim.
A few quick bullet points:
- Public sector net investment so far this financial year is £8.0bn against £10.9bn last year. Despite all Clegg & Cable's talk in the past few days about 'government investment as a stimulus'.
- Welfare spending is up 5% year on year. Nearly twice as much as the OBR forecast (3%).
- Overall borrowing is down 7% this financial year. The OBR predict it will fall by 16% in 2011/12.
That last point is crucial. We are already undershooting the OBR's target and the economy (according to just about every independent forecaster) is set to slow further.
The November Statement is going to be grim for the government. Not only are the growth forecasts for 2011 and 2012 (and possibly 2013 & 2014) going to be revised down heavily but borrowing is going to be revised up.
There is no Eurozone Crisis
The Eurozone doesn't have a debt crisis. Individual Eurozone countries obviously do – and these individual problems are being exacerbated by the common currency. But at the level of the zone as a whole the debt dynamics look pretty robust.
The two charts below (data from the IMF's April World Economic Outlook database) clearly demonstrate this.
All of which makes a Eurobond more appealing as a crisis solution – but as Chris notes maybe the problem is that I'm seeing this as a technocratic rather than a moral problem?
For the most vivid demonstration of this – I highly recommend the Eurozone crisis explained with Lego (as explained by JP Morgan)…
The £12bn blackhole: What Next?
Today's FT story on the structural deficit is potentially very big news.
As the paper reports:
The Financial Times has replicated the model of government borrowing used by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, which suggests the structural deficit in 2011-12 is now £12bn higher than thought, a rise of 25 per cent.
By repeating and extending the fundamental elements of the OBR methodology, it is clear that even if there is no slippage in borrowing from previous forecasts, the level of spare capacity in the economy is lower than expected, so the OBR will not be able to forecast as much catch-up growth as it did in March.
(Presumably they used this OBR briefing paper to replicate the exercise).
£12bn might not sound like much in the context of the deficit – but what really matters is that this is a forecast of the structural deficit. That's what makes this story far more important than previous revisions to the deficit forecast. An increase in the structural deficit (the assumed deficit at a time of 'normal' growth) cannot by definition be eliminated by economic growth – it requires tax rises or spending cuts.
Before proceeding it's worth noting two important caveats:
First – we shouldn't really blame a higher structural deficit forecast on George Osborne. The OBR forecast is driven by a belief that the economy is actually capable of less growth than previously thought rather than by the current slowdown. That isn't the governments fault. How they respond to this potential new forecast is what matters and we can judge them on that.
Second – Estimating the structural deficit is notoriously difficult. Although that said, Osborne has made this notoriously hard to calculate variable a target of fiscal policy so complaining that structural deficits are hard to estimate would make little sense from the government now.
Caveats aside let's remember that raising £12bn more than targeted means putting VAT, for example, up to 22.5%.
So, if the OBR model does indeed imply that the structural deficit should be revised up by £12bn in November, what happens from here?
The best case for the government is that the OBR either changes it's methodology (not impossible – they changed in June last year how they calculate public sector job losses) or decides that the structural deficit isn't £12bn higher – which they can do without changing their methodology:
It is also important to bear in mind that these techniques are used to inform the judgement that the OBR makes about the size of the output gap in its central forecast, but that we do not apply them without question. We might make (and would clearly explain) a judgement that diverges from what they tell us if we felt that the weight of other evidence suggested that would be appropriate.
So it may be that the OBR decides that although its methodology implies a £12bn higher structural deficit, they 'judge' it to be lower. I can't see Robert Chote, who has long warned that the UK's growth potential has been badly damaged by the financial crash going for that – although the figure they come up with may be lower than £12bn (they might decide for example that enterprises zones and corporation tax cuts have raised potential growth – this seems unlikely).
The second thing that could happen is that Osborne could announce that he will no longer meet his fiscal rule of eliminating the structural deficit this Parliament. In effect this would be pushing £12bn of austerity back into the next Parliament. For Osborne to be forced to abandon a fiscal rule 18 months after making it would be highly embarrassing. Assuming the markets don't panic at that (and I see no reasons why they would), this would be the best outcome for the UK economy if there is an additional shortfall. Osborne should accept the political hit and not try to shift it into an economic hit on the economy.
The most worrying outcome would be if the OBR announced that the structural deficit was £12bn higher and Osborne was determined to stick to his fiscal rules. In which case an additional annual £12bn of tax rises and spending cuts would be required this Parliament. Just what the economy doesn't need in its current weakened state.
The November Statement is starting to look very interesting.
Posen's Radical Call
I've noted before that I have a lot of time for MPC member Adam Posen, in particular his views of the likely path of consumption. Which are turning out to be rather accurate.
As an expert of the Japanese lost decades (and often missed off plural is important here!) it is perhaps unsurprising that he worries more than other MPC members about how an economy recovers from a balance sheet recession.
This week he made a superb speech, which I'd highly recommend.
Posen not only retiterates his call for more QE (on which my own views are a bit more nuanced) but also sets out a truly radical plan to get credit flowing. One that I will quote extensively:
Yet most if not all countries have ongoing public lenders of various types (even the US has the SBA), and their existence on a limited scale, while perhaps wasteful at the margin, does not lead to the destruction of the private-sector banking systems in those countries. (Posen (2009a)) Let us remember that the UK and other western private-sector banks did that themselves during a period of financial liberalization and privatization unprecedented in postwar economic history.
In any event, these are not normal times. The existence of such a public institution for lending to SMEs and new business is a response to the dysfunctional credit system we now have, and is likely to allocate capital better under such circumstances than in the normal situation. Since adverse selection is at work in the banking system, it will be easier to find good investment projects and borrowers that were overlooked than in normal times. Ultimately, this entity can and should be privatized, perhaps in more than one part depending upon its scale, when the situation improves. And just like with the financial institutions currently in the government's hands, such privatization would be an opportunity to restructure the British financial system to a more competitive one which provides better high-street lending, our historic financial weakness.
The other institution I would encourage the Government to set up would be an entity to bundle and securitize loans made to SMEs. Essentially, we need a good version of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to create a more liquid and deep market for illiquid securities which can then be sold off of bank(s) balance sheets. It is worth remembering that for decades the mortgage 'agencies' in the US provided a vital service and did not undermine financial stability. It was only in recent years when they were allowed to keep mortgages on their own books in pursuit of excessive short-term payouts to their management, and were not strictly enough supervised given their perceived government guarantees, that they did harm (admittedly quite serious).
That is why I suggest that such an entity should be a separate institution than the bank or banks which do the new SME lending, so it can be incentivized to scrutinize the loans being offered for securitization. I would also suggest requiring that the securities being issued by this agency – let's call it Bennie, the "British Enterprise Investment Entity" –be comprised of loans very transparently sorted and distinguished by type, so segregated (no general Bennie securities). And I would say we should insist that the securities that emerge meet all the standards for high quality assets that the Bank of England currently insists upon to be willing to lend against something. And this is where the Bank of England comes in. Both of these entities, the new SME lender(s) and Bennie, would need an initial infusion of capital. The Bank could then commit to discounting the securities from Bennie (so long as they meet our previously set standards) and, as needed, various loans and other assets from the new SME bank (though obviously not individual corporate loans and not those bundles of loans rejected by Bennie as sub-standard). Some might say the Bank can already do that without any further agreement or announcement. I would suggest that this misses the point and perhaps an opportunity.
I.e. he not only calls for a state backed lending institution but notes how it could be funded using QE. Something I proposed two years ago. Radical indeed.
The UK Trade Balance: Good and Bad News
Tony Dolphin has a good post up at Left Foot Forward highlighting the UK's diminishing prospects for export-led growth. He notes that:
A year ago, there appeared to be a decent chance the UK would enjoy an export-led recovery. Export volumes, excluding oil and erratic items, were up 18% on a year earlier, boosting growth in manufacturing. RealGDPwas increasing strongly.
Now the picture is far less positive.
The latest figures on trade, released by the Office for National Statistics, show export volumes increased just 3.7% over the last year, and were down 2.8% comparing the latest three months with the previous three.
Import growth was 3.6% over the last year – just about matching export growth – and 1.1% over the latest three months. The export boost to growth has faded away.
Export growth is currently running at 3.7% per year and import growth at 3.6%. This compares to the OBR forecasts for the full year of 7.9% and 5.0%.
Whilst export growth is no where near as strong as predicted by the OBR, import growth is also weaker than it anticipated. The end result is that the trade balance is actually in better shape than the OBR forecast back in March. Back then it expected the Q1 trade balance to come in at -£13.1bn and Q2 at -£13.7bn.
The actual outturn (-£8.5bn & -£11.3bn) is therefore better than anticipated. That's the good news.
The bad news is that this isn't being driven by better-than-expected exports but by lower-than-expected imports and the reason we are importing less is because domestic demand has collapsed.
This is why the consensus view of the independent economic forecasters surveyed monthly by the Treasury is that the economy will now growth by only 1.2% in 2011. And the entirety of that growth will come from net trade. Domestic demand is expected to contribute zero per cent to GDP growth.
So the better performance in net trade is actually driven by domestic weakness and isn't enough to offset the fall off in domestic demand. I'm not sure this is how George Osborne saw 'rebalancing' panning out.
Keynes on the Eurocrisis
Paul Mason has an excellent post up on the notion of a German Marshall Plan for the European periphery. Whilst such a plan sounds good, I have my doubts about whether it will actually happen.
Towards the end of his post Paul writes:
Keynes comes in for a lot of stick these days but his greatest achievement was not to design the rescue of 1930s capitalism through state intervention: it was two-fold.
It was to say:
(i) in 1919 don't punish Germany and push it into a downward economic spiral that will cause social chaos; and
(ii) in 1941: hey, fellas, what's the world going to look like when we win? Here's an idea…
This parallel between the Europe of 1919 and the one of today is an interesting one.
To see what Keynes would have to say, I went to his short essay of 1919 'Proposals for the Reconstruction of Europe'.
Keynes begins by noting that the notion of cross border financial payments really only dates to the mid century on any large scale.
"the system [of international payments between nations] is fragile; and it has only survived because its burden on the paying countries has not so far been oppressive'.
After the Great War these payments became larger with both reparations and inter-allied loans. Keynes doubted this could continue:
'I do not believe that any of these tributes will continue to be paid, at the best, for more than a very few years. They do not square with human nature or agree with the spirit of the age'
Keynes goes on to suggest a solution to this problem, based around inter-allied debt forgiveness, treaty modification and the establishment of a proto-IMF from which nations could borrow administered by the League of Nations.
Having sketched out a solution though, Keynes then writes:
'It is useless at the present time to elaborate such schemes in further detail. A great change is necessary in public opinion before the proposals of this chapter can enter the region of practical politics'
With a policy change not coming and with populations unlikely to revolt, Keynes predicted what lay ahead:
'There may, therefore, be ahead of us a long, silent process of semi-starvation, and a gradual, steady lowering of the standards of life and comfort. The bankruptcy of Europe, if we allow it to proceed, will affect every one in the long-run, but perhaps not in a way that is striking or immediate'.
Unsustainable cross-European transfers? Lack of policy will? A long period of declining living standards ahead? This all feels very familiar.
China to solve the Eurocrisis: We've heard this before
The past 24 hours have seena lot of comment on the notion that China (holder of $3.2 trillion of foreign exchange reserves) may intervene to buy Italian government bonds, providing vital support to the market.
I'm not holding my breath, mainly because this all seems very familiar:
October 2010 – China pledges to buy Greek bonds
December 2010 – Portugal asks China to buy its bonds
January 2011 – China backs Irish bailout
January 2011 – China promises to buy Spanish bonds
For the last two years the Euro-Crisis has worked to a familiar script, roughly put is goes something like this:
Government denies it is in trouble, government passes austerity package, growth slows, deficit either widens or refuses to come down, bond yields increase, government denies a bailout is coming, bond yields rise, EU authorities deny a bailout is coming, more austerity, deficit still high, bond yields hit 6%, talk of Chinese (other Asian) support, EU 'rescue' agreed at last moment – in reality just kicks the can down the road, more austerity, deficit rises.
It looked a few weeks ago like the ECB might have broken the circle by heavy intervention in the Spanish and Italian debt markets. I speculated a month ago that this wasn't panning out to plan.
Post the resignation of Stark, and the rise of Italian yields to back about 5.7% it looks like we are back on script.
The problem is that Eurozone leaders are running out of road to kick the can down.


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Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Stroke
Do it or Lose it
STROKEAHA: February 6, 2013
Background and Purpose—The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke may be affected by the relative timing of imaging. We measured the impact of scanning an individual patient late versus early after TIA and minor stroke.
Methods—Two hundred sixty-three TIA or minor stroke (National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score ≤3) patients with a baseline MRI completed within 24 hours of symptom onset and a follow-up MRI at 90 days were included. Baseline and 90-day scans were assessed independently for the presence of any stroke lesions that could explain the presenting symptoms. The presence and pattern of any stroke lesions were compared at the 2 time points. Read More


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Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria is a 25 mile wide circular island whose core is a massive volcanic cone.
As such, it offers all the contrasting scenery you would expect – from rugged mountains and coastlines to lush fertile valleys growing tomatoes and bananas.
Las Palmas is the largest town in all the Canary Islands, is one of the most important ports in the world, and has all you would want from a historic, modern Spanish city.
There are a number of naturist beaches in different parts of the island.


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A man has been attacked with a hammer in his own home by two would-be burglars, police have said.
At around 11pm yesterday police received a report that two men had entered a house on Castle View, Castletown, Sunderland.
They assaulted the 34-year-old male occupant and proceeded to strike him with a hammer before fleeing the scene empty handed.
Emergency services attended and the man was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
Officers continue to investigate the incident and are appealing for anyone who has any information, or saw anything unusual in the area yesterday to get in touch.
Extra officers will be in the area throughout the weekend to carry out inquiries and reassure any concerned members of the public.
If you have information that could help police contact officers on 101 quoting log number 1496 of 10/06/2016.


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rencontre femme musulmane belgique Have you heard the term Massive View Controllers? It's a term frequently used in the iOS dev community that refers to large view controllers problem that is faced by developers because of the way Apple enforces to some extent and guides developers to build iOS applications. View Controllers become too large due to the amount of responsibilities it has and the duties it must carry out.
next Today I bring to you two of my favourite patterns that I have used to resolve Massive View Controller problem.
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I have chosen the Model-View-ViewModel pattern and the Coordinator pattern as a method, when combined, to solve a number of issues with Apple's MVC. I have bent these patterns a little bit to my style and might not be adherent to the others definition of these patterns.
This tutorial is not about explaining these two patterns in depth but rather show in code how the combination of both can provide a powerful solution for making good software.
Before I dive into patterns, let me summarise the need of having good software architecture. There is plethora of definitions out there that define good software and the need of good software architecture. My take, in short, on why to have good software architecture is to abstract some code by behaviour to aid common understanding between those working on the project or to have consistent software structure that allows for a mental visualisation of the software before it is written; I have found that a mental visualisation of the software structure graph helps me towards speeding test driven development.
There is plenty of material lightly covered in the implementation process of this tutorial but here is list of some of the material. Familiarisation of the following is recommended:
- Coordinator pattern.
- Xib's
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- XCode 8.x
- Swift 3.x
- Model-View-ViewModel
- Interface Builder
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Show me how its done!
In this tutorial we will be creating a single view iOS application that will retrieve a list of movies and display it. First we will implement Model-View-ViewModel into a ViewController followed by Coordinators to manage that ViewController, which will finally leads us to wiring it all up.
All right straight into coding. Go ahead and create a new project and choose single view application template. I am just calling it Movies-Coordinators.
First up: let's delete the Main.storyboard file, ViewController.swift and remove the Main storyboard file base name key from the Info.plist file. Why? We are going to make use of Xib's in this tutorial.
I believe the power of Coordinators is really shown by the ability to instantiate a ViewController with its expected dependencies. Xib's allows us to do so (alternatively achievable by creating a ViewController programmatically) whereas Storyboards do not. Furthermore it enables us to test ViewControllers by applying inversion of control. Rather than the ViewController doing a discovery of the dependents objects or creation, our ViewController will declare its dependencies as part of the initialisation process. Every time a new dependency is declared in the init method the test target will no longer compile until the required changes are made. But testing is beyond the scope of this tutorial.
Creating the Movies View
Create a new Cocoa Touch class and along with it create an associated Xib file. Click on click reference File > New > File… or just hit the cmd + N keys. Select Cocoa Touch class and then next. Let's call our Xib and Swift files MoviesViewController. Make sure to subclass UIViewController. Tick Also create XIB file. Set Language to Swift. Click Next.
By now you should be able to see two newly created files. One called MoviesViewController.swift and another one called MoviesViewController.xib. Let's have a look into our MoviesViewController.xib file. Click on the file and once loaded drop in a UITableView. Make sure that the table view takes up the whole screen – right at the bottom of the XIB view click on the add new constraints such that the UITableView fills the whole screen.
Next create a @IBOutlet reference to the table view in the view controller.
We will be using the table view reference to set the UITableView's datasource so it can it display our movies list.
The view model
The view model will represent the state of our MoviesViewController. We will now be implementing it.
Create a new swift file and name it MoviesViewModel (File > New > File… or just hit ⌘N).
Insert the following code to your newly created MoviesViewModel.swift file:
There are two view models in the code above: MoviesViewModel, the ViewModel for the corresponding views state of the MoviesViewController and the MovieCellViewModel which will hold the state for the cell views of the table view.
We have not yet created the UITableViewDataSource. We could just make our view controller become the data source for the UITableView. But remember we are trying to take responsibilities away from the View Controller as much as possible. So we will create a dedicated class to manage the data source of our table view. The UITableView data source will be managed by the MoviesViewController. The MoviesViewModel is also managed by the MoviesViewController. The MoviesViewController's responsibility will be to bind the state to the view, but the View Controller will have no notion of the underlying cell view of the table view. Therefore it is just a question of passing the CellViewModel to the manager of the cell which will be our UITableViewDataSource.
The table view data source
Let's create a new class that will manage the data source for our UITableView and conform to UITableViewDataSource. Go ahead and create a new Swift file and name it MoviesTableViewDataSource for simplicity 😅.
MoviesTableViewDataSource will be straight forward. We will only implement the two required functions from the UITableViewDataSource protocol. Copy and paste the following code into your empty file:
The first function will just be returning the number of cells required in the table view which will be the number of entries in our array of MovieCellViewModel. The second function will be binding the state with the view. Whenever we want to update our view we will have to update our array of MovieCellViewModel and call reloadData() function of our table view.
Wiring View Controller, View Model and Data Source
For the next section we will make our MoviesViewController able to receive ViewModels. Upon receiving a new instance of the ViewModel, the view controller will update the table view's data source with the new array of MovieCellViewModel and tell the table view to reload its views. Copy and paste the following two functions into the MoviesViewController:
In the code above we separate the binding of the view model from the setter function. We want to be using the binding logic in the viewDidLoad function of the UIViewController as we might set the viewModel before the view controller is is fully loaded. Therefore we have to wait for the view to be loaded first otherwise the table view property won't be set and our app will crash trying to access a nil value when a UITableView instance was expected. On the setter function we save a reference to the latest view model, if the view is loaded then we can call bind otherwise we allow the viewDidLoad function to take the latest view model and bind it when the views are ready. Replace the viewDidLoad function with the following code:
So far we have laid down the classes that will be managing our views, we have understood what we will be presenting and implemented the code to do just that. The structure of our MoviesViewController looks like the following:
We now have to retrieve the movies we would like to display. We will present the title of the movies followed by the year in brackets as the main label in the cell. The details label will present the genres of the movie, comma separated.
We will now create our MoviesViewCoordinator. The coordinator will be responsible for presenting the view controller. It will also be required in gathering the necessary data for the views. Furthermore our movies data structure won't come in the format we need to present, therefore the coordinator will also be required to do the transformation of such data into the expected format of the MoviesViewModel. Once the data has been transformed, the coordinator must pass the MoviesViewModel to the MoviesViewController.
Let start by creating a new file and naming it MoviesViewCoordinator. The coordinator will take a UINavigationController as the first dependency (make sure to import UIKit). We will be pushing an instance of MoviesViewController to the navigation controller. Our file should look like the following code:
Now add a new function called start that takes no parameter and returns Void (you don't have explicitly return Void as this is the default of all functions). This is where our coordinator will create a new instance of MoviesViewController and pushing it to the instance of UINavigationController.
We will also be calling to fetch our movies from the start function. In a real world scenario this would be an asynchronous call and therefore it is possible we won't receive our data before the screen has loaded. This will be depending on the internet connection. Our fetch movies function will take a closure that will take an array of Movies and return nothing. In this closure we will transforming the movies into MoviesViewModel and then passing the ViewModel to the ViewController.
To implement the above we will have to create an object that represents a Movie. Let's create a struct that will represent a Movie. It will have 3 properties; title as a string, year as a string and genre as an array of strings. Create a new file and call it Movie. It should look like the following:
Back to the MoviesViewCoordinator. We left off at the point where we required the coordinator to fetch movies through a function that would take a closure upon fetching the movies. Let's add the function to the coordinator. For now lets make the function's body just call the closure with an array with a single movie. The movie will be an example just to see our code working. The fetchMovies function body could be replaced with a call to a repository for example.
By looking at the the Movie instance we expect the "Movie title (2017)" to be printed in the main label of the cell and "Action, Adventure" for the details label.
Now we need to transform or convert a Movie instance into a MoviesViewModel instance. It would be ideal to have a dedicated class that could be unit tested to convert, but for simplicity we will just add it to our coordinator as another private function. Copy and paste the following code:
Let's make our start function call fetchMovies and the use the convert function to convert the result of the fetch within the closure. Lastly we'll make it call the MoviesViewController's set(viewModel:_) function with the result of the conversion. The MoviesViewCoordinator should now look like the following code:
We're getting close to the end of this tutorial. Let's get the app running with one final coordinator. The AppCoordinator.
App Coordinator
Create a new file and call it AppCoordinator. This will be the root entry point to our application. The AppCoordinator is the best place to decide which screen to present based on the application state. For example, depending on whether the user is logged in we will present either the login screen or the main screen. The app is very simple though and the responsibility in this case of the AppCoordinator will just be to present our MoviesCoordinator. The coordinator will be created at the AppDelegate, which will call the the start function on it. The only requirement the AppCoordinator will need is an instance of UINavigationController which is required by the MoviesViewCoordinator instance. Ideally I would be using a dependency injection framework such as Swinject to pass the value around as AppCoordinator does not make any use of it, but rather it is pass through dependency. Copy and paste the following code to the AppCoordinator.swift file:
Finally to wrap things up, edit the AppDelegate to create and start the AppCoordinator after finishing launching the app through the application(_ application:, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions:) function. Remember to keep a strong reference to the AppCoordinator instance in the AppDelegate. Your AppDelegate should look like the following:
All set. You can now run the app 🎉.
Final thoughts
The app that we have create in this tutorial is not very complex. Applying Coordinators and Model-View-ViewModel is an overkill. As some apps grow in size they also grow in complexity. Patterns like Coordinators and MVVM are just amongst many that help reduce complexities and bring consistency to a project.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please feel free to like and share if you like it.
P.S. This is the first tutorial I write, drop me a comment and let me know what you think or if you would like to cover some topic.


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La Chou!
I finished the front of Mon Petit Chou, with minimal issue. I also cast on for the back, and linked up with the Invisible Cast On row. Meanwhile, Max has knit right up to Row 20-something! Let's take a look, shall we?
I'm finding the pattern to be....well, it makes sense, yes, but I am finding it could be simplified in how it is written. Take, for example, this very simple instruction:
With straight needles, CO ...
Easy, no? But I find it....vague - in terms of matching gauge, in terms of knitting with what you have or prefer (I prefer circs, and almost always knit with them - better for commuting). My pea-brain would more easily translate this if written as needle size. It's simple enough to figure out, but I had managed to lose that first page, leading to much running about, etc.
I prefer lace patterns that are charted, so my issues with the pattern may simply stem from this pattern having been written out. The "voice" of this pattern is off for me; it is almost telling me TOO MUCH in many places, while leaving other things much...less detailed. For instance, I like having a stitch count every once in awhile, especially when dealing with patternwork and YOs and whatnot; it acts (to me) as a fact-check. Also, the pattern repeats as presented didn't seem to flow for me - I would have preferred if I was presented with "*blah blah *6 times" rather than "*blah blah, repeat from * 5 times". Again, just my personal opinion here - the actual knitting is coming out wonderfully, and it really truly is a cute garment:
I'm quite happy with the (so far) finished result! I think that the pattern manages to incorporate the (minimal) shaping quite nicely. I'm going to go with some pink ribbon for the ties. Though I doubt that there will be a model post here..............


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country,—as false as they were repeated,—that the navigation of the Mississippi was interrupted, if the virulent writings by which the public mind was heated, and which led to compromit the American government and tarnish the good name of that of Spain, were causes that the inhabitants of the western territory of the United States could not form a correct idea of what passed at New Orleans; and if, in this uncertainty, they were disappointed in the extraction of their produce, or suffered other inconveniences,—they ought to attribute the same to internal causes, such as the writings before mentioned, filled with inflammatory falsehoods, the violence of enthusiastic partisans, and other occurrences which on those occasions served to conceal the truth. The Government of Spain, so far from being responsible for the prejudices occasioned by these errors and erroneous ideas, ought in justice to complain of the irregular conduct pursued by various writers and other individuals in the United States, which was adapted to exasperate and mislead the public opinion, and went to divulge sentiments the most ignominious, and absurdities the most false, against the government of his Majesty and his accredited good faith."
Not satisfied with this rebuttal, Cevallos added that the persons who complained of this trifling inconvenience "had been enjoying the rights of deposit for four years more than was stipulated in the treaty, and this notwithstanding the great prejudice it occasioned to his Majesty's revenue, by making New Orleans the centre of a most scandalous contraband trade, the profits of which it is not improbable but that some of those individuals have in part received."


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-- Barbara Diamond
Once upon a time there was a little princess. Her name was Joan.
Princess Joan's father died when she was two, but she still had
her mother, Athalie, and her grandfather, the powerful King James II
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|Tony Stewart has decided not to race at Michigan.
Credit: Charlotte Bray for Skirts and Scuffs
Tony Stewart will miss another Sprint Cup race in the wake of Saturday's tragedy at
. Canandaigua Motorsports
The three-time Sprint Cup champion decided to sit out Sunday's Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway, Stewart-Haas Racing announced Thursday.
Jeff Burton will fill in for Stewart in the No. 14 Chevrolet.
According to the team release, the driver change applies only to
Michigan. Stewart's plans
for upcoming Sprint Cup races have yet to be determined.
Earlier this week, Stewart canceled plans to compete in a sprint car race at Plymouth Speedway in
Earlier this week, Stewart canceled plans to compete in a sprint car race at Plymouth Speedway in
Stewart decided not to compete in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen one day after the sprint car Stewart was driving at
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Motorsports Park New York hit and killed racer Kevin
Ward Jr., 20. Regan Smith replaced Stewart in the No. 14 at the last minute.
Ward's funeral was held Thursday near his hometown of Port Leyden in upstate
New York.
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When talking about Nebraska bat pest control one must be concerned with the recent loses in the bat populations across the country. This is for varied reasons in each different region. What is known that the combined effort of these loses is affecting each state and the number of bats that are in the area. Many times these bats are dying because people are disturbing their natural habitat especially when bats are hibernating. Often times bat caves can hold thousands of bats at one time. In these bat caves colonies will hibernate for the winter. They do this so they can use each other for warmth. Their body heat is given off just like ours. With these bats they will feed on 100,000s of insects over the summer building up their bulk for the winter. Once they find a spot for hibernation bats will slow their bodies down with their heart rate so their metabolism goes down to a rate where bats are not burning large amounts food. Bats store as large amounts of body fat as they can to get them through the long winters. When these bats are disturbed from this hibernation they can start burning off reserved fat at a much rapid pace than is good for the bat. Once they are able to stop burning energy they must then get themselves back into hibernation. This is not an instantaneous procedure. Nebraska bat removal specialists will see this when removing bats from homes during the winter. Now these bats are moving around burning off the storage they need to survive the winter. With this two things can happen first they can now freeze since they do not have fat storage and they go out looking for food before the winter months are over. Secondly many of these bats will starve since there is no food to be found. A large instance of this is happening in the northeast as many bats are dying from white nose syndrome. With this syndrome bats are not able to hibernate because of this. Bat removal specialists have seen over 500,000 bats dies in the last 2 years alone. Many people do not realize the harm on the environment they will be doing as they affect these bats. Bats are vital to the environment as many bats eat thousands of insects and others can move pollen and seeds around the globe allowing more and more plants to fruit each year. Before disturbing a bat colony contact a bat pest control company to find out the best time to do bat removal. Professional
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A drug referred to in Homer's Odyssey as bringing relief from anxiety or grief; hence, any substance seen as bringing welcome forgetfulness or relief.
- n. A Southeast Asian plant of the genus Nepenthes.
- n. Plural form of nepenthe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Same as nepenthe.
- n. A genus of climbing plants found in tropical areas of India, Malaya, Australia, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A magic potion, mentioned by ancient writers, which was supposed to make persons forget their sorrows and misfortunes.
- n. A genus of pitcher-plants, comprising 31 species, and constituting the order Nepenthaceœ, found especially in the Malay archipelago.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. pitcher plants
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Helena's bowl, the sole nectar of the gods, or that true nepenthes in
[* I have since learned that this is an ascertained fact, and that nepenthes are among the insectiverous plants.]
You can imagine the joy of getting into my hands these wonderful nepenthes or "monkey cups" for the first time.
In pain itself I seemed to find the nepenthes that others seek from pain; in suffering was my Lethean draught that brought the only oblivion that I craved.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
The graceful pitcher-plants (_nepenthes_) are wonderful and so are many other extraordinary plant creations here, but they cannot be classed as beautiful flowers in the common acceptation of the word.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
I have since learned that this is an ascertained fact, and that nepenthes are among the insectiverous plants.
You can imagine the joy of getting into my hands these wonderful nepenthes or "monkey cups" for the first time.
The orchids were of the most brilliant colours; and now and then they passed a lake or pool in the depths of the jungle which would be covered in places with the flower of the lotus, while in every sunny opening the great clusters of nepenthes -- the pitcher plant -- brightened the scene.
Here was a panacea, a pharmakon nepenthes for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages: happiness might be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket.
Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
Isis, and nepenthes whose intoxicating odour makes one forget everything, even the far-distant home.
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
"A magic potion, mentioned by ancient writers, which was supposed to make persons forget their sorrows and misfortunes. Used poetically, and commonly in the form nepenthe, for any draught or drug capable of inducing forgetfulness of pain or care."
--Cent. Dict.
ne·pen·thes /nɪˈpɛnθiz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciationni-pen-theez Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -thes.
1. nepenthe.
2. any of various tropical Asian and Australian pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes, having leaves usually in the form of cylindrical tubes.
ne·pen·the (nĭ-pěn'thē) Pronunciation Key
1. A drug mentioned in the Odyssey as a remedy for grief.
2. Something that induces forgetfulness of sorrow or eases pain.
Alteration of Latin nēpenthes, from Greek nēpenthes (pharmakon), grief-banishing (drug), nepenthe, neuter of nēpenthēs : nē-, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + penthos, grief; see kwent(h)- in Indo-European roots.
ne·pen'the·an (-thē-ən) adj.


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I learned the hard way that cashing in on travel rewards isn't always a – let's put this diplomatically – straightforward process. Having left for Calgary from my hometown of Toronto in a move referred to as fleeing the nest, I felt confident that returning home for holidays would be a breeze – seeing as I had been using a travel rewards credit card for some time. Fast forward to that first fateful Thanksgiving: going on 8 months away from home cooked meals (and my beloved cats), I was eager to cash in on those points and fly myself in for turkey and mashed potatoes. After calling the hotline to redeem, however, I was gutted. Turned out, there were only two airlines I could use my points with – and both had booked up their limited rewards seating months prior. Needless to say, I had neglected to read the fine print that accompanied my card. So, I did what any aspiring young adult would do – I called home – and I begged.
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Challenge at Les Bois Park
Les Bois hosts three Challenge races during the weekend.
August 6, 2014
Q-Racing Journal
A very interesting $70,000 Bank of America Les Bois Championship Challenge – with the three-fastest qualifiers winning their trials in nearly identical times – lead a trio of Racing Challenge Stakes at Les Bois Park on Saturday.
Also on the card is the $22,500 John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge and the $15,000 Merial Les Bois Distaff Challenge. The winner of each race earns a berth in their respective finals during the Bank of American Challenge Championships at Prairie Meadows on October 18.
In the three trials to the Bank of America Les Bois Championship Challenge, PF Flyair (Dashair-Pretty N Famous by Pretty Boy Perry) was timed in :21.612, Margaritas N Coronas (Corona Czech-Fly Margarita by Strawfly Special) was clocked in :21.615 and Ill Be A Dasher (Carters Cartel-First Down Dream by First Down Dash) turned in a :21.625 mark.
Tony Greaves' PF Flyair battled with JR Dynasty Mountain before winning by a neck. The Susan Hadley-trained gelding won three-straight races last year, culminating with a three-quarter-length win in the $30,000 Blane Schvaneveldt Handicap at Los Alamitos.
Robert Hickman's Margaritas N Coronas, a $7,500 claim three starts ago, pulled out to a length trial win as the 7-5 favorite for trainer Bret Vickery. The 4-year-old gelding won the $17,677 Les Bois Bonus Challenge in his start before his Bank of America Les Bois Challenge trial.
Owned by RTM Stables LLC and Two The Max Investments LLC, Ill Be A Dasher battled to a head win over odds-on favorite Vodka With Ice in their trial. The gelding was second to Margaritas N Coronas in the Les Bois Bonus Challenge in his previous start.
In the John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge, trainer Mark Hanson has the top-two qualifiers with James First Affair (Ivory James-Fancys First Affair by First Down Dash) and Steinway Ivory (Ivory James-Christie Jo Dash by First Down Dash), who each dominated their trials.
Owned by Robin Dunn, Larry Chapple and RTM Stables, James First Affair pulled away to a 2 3/4-length trial win with a :17.546 time for the 350 yards. It was his second win from three starts. He also won his maiden at first asking at Los Alamitos in April.
Rob Evans and Hanson Racing LLC's Steinway Ivory is a promising 2-year-old with three wins and a third in the $150,324 Bitterroot Futurity in his latest four starts. He rolled to a 2 1/2 length trial win with the second-fastest time of :17.586.
In the Merial Les Bois Distaff Challenge, Tony Greaves' Feature Miss Alibi (Feature Mr Jess-Alibi Fame by Dash Ta Fame) raced to her first win from five 2014 outs when she took her trial by one-half length as the 13-10 favorite. Her time of :19.715 for 400 yards topped the two trials.
The Susan Hadley-trained mare has been on the board four times this year with a third-place run in the $28,000 Merial Sun Downs Distaff Challenge.
Gerardo Prado's Ms Eaves (Tres Seis-Little Ms Tuff Stuff by Chicks Beduino) battled to a neck win in her trial while recording the second-fastest time of :19.787. She was the winner of the 2012 $58,680 John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge and third in last year's $44,190 Adequan Les Bois Derby Challenge.
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