Brooklyn Supreme and Family Courthouse is an important element in New York’s courthouse renovation and construction. Jonathan Stark, principal and director of Perkins Eastman, outlines the complexities of designing a classically imposing structure that is also a state-of-the-art office building.
At 32 storeys and 473ft high, totalling more than 1.1 million ft², the Brooklyn Supreme and Family Courthouse at 330 Jay Street is New York State’s largest and most programmatically complex courthouse and office building.
It is home to the New York State Supreme Court, with 50 courtrooms; the Kings County Family Court, with 34 courtrooms and hearing rooms; and a number of state and city agencies.
The building also includes a 750-person jury suite, a 250-person detention facility, support spaces for the courts’ administrative functions and 150,000ft² of speculative office space.
The project represents more than 10 years of development, design and construction, and has become a major addition to the landscape and the local economy of downtown Brooklyn.
In support of the New York State Office of Court Administration’s initiative to move towards a unified court system, the decision was made to move the Supreme and Family Courts to a single location in Brooklyn. This will allow judges to oversee multiple types of cases and increase the overall efficiency of the two courts.
A multi-year effort to find a suitable location for the new courthouse was conducted throughout the Brooklyn downtown area. This resulted in the selection of a site controlled by Forest City Ratner Companies, the prominent developer of the MetroTech Center in Brooklyn.
The site is in close proximity to the downtown Brooklyn Civic Center and is easily accessible by public transportation.
Philosophically and architecturally, the courthouse traces its roots back to ancient Greece and Rome. To this day, the word ‘courthouse’ evokes images of classical architecture, precisely because many of those early public buildings were designed to reflect the order and harmony of the young US nation.
The modern courthouse, however, is in a period of transition. It is no longer limited to heavy stone and columns, and now aspires to be a less foreboding, more user-friendly environment.
Nevertheless, the design must still convey the dignity of the judicial system, providing a sense of ceremony from the approach to the courthouse to the corridors leading into the courtroom.
The modern courthouse should demonstrate an appreciation of detail and of how the language of civic architecture has evolved. It must also incorporate technological advancements designed to expedite the judicial process and tighten security.
The design should be influenced by its surroundings, present a positive image of the government, and create a space that is user-friendly, open and accessible. It should aim to be well regarded by the wider community and refrain from any inappropriate aesthetic flourishes.
The ideal courthouse is, above all, a rational building, epitomising good judgment and perfect harmony with its immediate environment.
Although the site was originally earmarked for an office building, the developer offered the City of New York the chance to become the primary tenant.
The site’s location near the existing Supreme Court, Family Court and Government Center, its size – sufficient to house both courts and related government agencies in one building – and the opportunity for the city to lease the building and avoid a lengthy and complicated procurement process made it the ideal new home for the Brooklyn Supreme and Family Courts.
Ultimately, the project was developed as a turnkey public / private partnership between the City of New York and Forest City Ratner Companies. The site did come with some complications.
To allow for the development of over a million ft² of space on the site, the developer and an adjacent hotel entered into a Zoning Lot Development Agreement (ZLDA), which stipulated the maximum height of the new building (473ft), as well as numerous setbacks for the building and sight lines that could not be obstructed.
This helped create a fixed, tight envelope which Perkins Eastman had to adhere to when designing this state-of- the-art courthouse.
Designing a major new courthouse in a busy urban environment such as downtown Brooklyn presented special challenges:
Given the tight envelope and the predetermined building mass, the design team concerned itself primarily with laying out a modern court floor plate that was functional, efficient and easy to navigate by all occupants of the building. This gave rise to a number of design challenges involving the building’s exterior.
Influenced by the local context of the MetroTech office complex and surrounding residential districts, the façade combines elements of brick, glass and stone into a traditionally inspired piece of courthouse architecture, which also satisfies the developer’s requirement for a state-of-the-art modern office building.
Brick, a common building material in Brooklyn, gives the building a feeling of solidity, while vision and spandrel glass windows suggest the façades of modern steel and glass office buildings.
The verticality of the façade, highlighted by the brick, serves multiple purposes. Stylistically, it makes subtle reference to the columns of a traditional courthouse. The vertical expression also brings order to the many different floor-to-floor heights visible on the façade.
Supreme courts, which have a larger footprint, require higher ceilings than family courts, and those floors with courts are generally taller than floors that contain offices alone.
These vertical lines also take advantage of the building’s shape, as determined by the sightline preservation requirements. Corners by the setback of the tower and the building’s curved torso create a harmonious whole, with the vertical lines guiding the eye in a single direction.
Perkins Eastman approached the design as a means of reviving the failing image of the city’s courts, as well as addressing its physical inadequacies.
Combining 84 courtrooms and ancillary spaces for two court systems with 150,000ft² of office space into an existing envelope required more than the usual amount of programming and planning expertise.
Each of these uses – the Supreme Court, Family Court and the commercial office space – had such specific needs that it made more sense to use a building-within-building layout.
Each is accessible only from the ground floor, and has its own circulation system, lobby and entrance. The building’s layout is further broken down so that the Supreme and Family Courts can provide circulation paths for judges, public visitors and prisoners.
Judges take special access-restricted elevators to their chambers, courtrooms and dedicated parking, while the public takes elevators located right off the main spine of each floor, leading to the courtrooms and State and City agencies.
This reinforces the idea of the procession; the clear delineation of spaces as one moves from the lobby through to the courtrooms themselves. Prisoners take elevators located at their arrival points, which lead directly to holding areas assigned for every two courts.
The commercial office spaces are located on the uppermost floors of the building, occupying the 26th-30th floors.
The rest of the building, however, is devoted to the courts and more than a dozen City agencies, including: the New York City Corporation Counsel; the New York Police Department; the New York City Department of Corrections; the New York City Administration for Children’s Services; the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice; the New York State Office of Children and Family Services; the Kings County District Attorney; Victim Services / Safe Horizons; Legal Aid and The New York State Office of Mental Health.
The design team worked with representatives of the courts and each City agency to determine space needs, functionality requirements, adjacency requirements, paper flow and work conditions in order to develop innovative planning solutions both within and among the agencies.
Determining the appropriate locations of the agencies involved a lengthy process of consensus building, as each agency had its own agenda and requirements.
In many cases, each of the agencies became separate design projects in their own right. Ultimately, the individual requirements of each agency and the courts had to result in a harmonious layout and circulation patterns that were simple and intuitive for employees and visitors alike.
Building security, both structural and electronic, is a major concern for any new building in New York.
For the Brooklyn Supreme and Family Courthouse, the design team incorporated advanced physical and electronic security throughout the building. The structure system was designed to resist a car bomb and to protect against progressive collapse of the columns.
The slab between office floors and court occupancy is hardened for blast protection, as is the truck dock on the commercial lobby level and the separation between court and commercial spaces.
The windows are a composite material of laminated and tempered glass, with blast-resistant frames. The curtain wall at the judges’ chamber floors conforms to UL Level III anti-ballistic construction, while the blast protection measures used in the building meet GSA modified level C blast requirements.
Specific criteria were developed through a Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) in cooperation with the courts, the Department of Corrections and the NYPD.
Bollards placed around the building provide protection from vehicular threats. Exterior columns and all interior columns in public lobbies are jacketed in concrete for protection from hand-held explosive devices.
Public lobbies, loading docks and vehicular entry areas have blast-strengthened walls and slabs. In addition to the structural enhancements, sophisticated electronic security has been incorporated throughout the building. In fact, the building contains more than 4,500 units of the most advanced electronic security equipment.
The design team addressed community concerns regarding quality of life and neighbourhood security issues, believing these to be an equally important part of the project. These concerns include increased traffic in and around the area, as well as queues of buses and visitors outside the building.
The design team performed numerous studies and came up with the solution of constructing a full-floor sally port in the first level basement, along with parking areas and stacking and queuing areas for buses, to avoid having to park on the street with prisoners.
A cellblock for 250 prisoners permits a reduction in the number of trips the buses make in and out of the building due to court scheduling. In addition, a number of courtrooms are wired for video arrangements and motions, making it unnecessary for some prisoners to go to court at all.
The large lobby not only gave the courthouse the requisite sense of scale, it also allowed visitors that typically queue inside and outside the courts to remain fully indoors rather than standing outside the building.
A separate study to determine how quickly people could go through the magnetometer allowed the design team to ascertain the number of magnetometers needed at any given time to accommodate pedestrian traffic through the lobby area.
The structural engineer was Gilsamz Murray Stefick and the general contractor was Turner Construction. The steel structures of the building were erected by DCM Erectors and the other steel parts and frames was erected and created by Empire City Iron Works.
The ornamented steel frames were created and erected by A-Val Architectural and Metal Corp. The aluminium curtain wall was placed by Enclos Corp. and the metal deck was erected by a joint attempt of the Solera and DCM Erectors.
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To draw this Airplane step by step, follow along with the video tutorial below and pause the video after each step to go at your own pace. You may find it easier to follow the step-by-step drawings below. The new lines in each step are shown in red, and each step is explained in the text below the photo, so you'll know exactly what to draw in each step. You may want to open the video in a new tab and use both drawing methods! Take your time and draw at your own pace.
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Intro: Start off with a pencil sketch. In the beginning stages, don’t press down too hard. Use light, smooth strokes for sketching.
Step 1: Draw a small trapezoid for the airplane's front window. The shape should be wider at the bottom than at the top. Tilt the shape a bit. Draw a small line through the middle of the shape.
Step 2: Starting at the top of the window, draw a line that slopes toward the lower, left side for the top part of the plane. Curve the shape above the window. The longer this line is, the longer your airplane will be.
Step 3: At the end of the line, draw an oval for the front part of the airplane's first engine. Sketch lightly at first so that it's easy to erase if you make a mistake. When you get the shape right, darken the line.
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More Than A Marathon 5K series keeps runners ready
- The More Than A Marathon 5K race series is put on by the Michelob Ultra El Paso Marathon organizers.
- Runners take part in eight designated 5Ks from May to February.
- After the ninth race, participants receive a 5K Race Series Finisher’s medal at a special party.
Tom Roche loves running.
He also loves his wife Martha, so naturally it makes sense that he would combine the two.
Tom and Martha Roche are enjoying the best of both worlds as part of the More Than A Marathon 5K race series challenge.
"We do it together," Tom Roche said. "Of course, I'm a little faster than my wife but we run together and we have fun together. It's a good way to spend some time together, which a lot of husbands and wives don't do."
The More Than A Marathon 5K race series is put on by the Michelob Ultra El Paso Marathon organizers. Runners take part in eight designated 5K races from May to February and collect More Than A Marathon bracelets. After the ninth race, they receive a 5K Race Series Finisher’s medal at a special party.
"The series gives them the opportunity to be engaged throughout the year," said Mike Coulter, the race director of the Michelob Ultra El Paso Marathon. "Of course, it helps the marathon by giving it visibility throughout the year, but it also helps the people running in the series by keeping them focused on a goal and that's what it's really all about."
This is the third year of the More Than A Marathon race series.
The El Paso Marathon, which consists of the marathon, the half marathon and a 5K run/walk, will be Feb. 19.
"If you aspire to get at that longer distance, the key is fixing you eyes on that goal and working toward it several months in advance, and these 5Ks help," Coulter said. "The series starts in May and ends in February, so it gives people an opportunity to work throughout the year toward that end goal, which is to accumulate more than 26.2 miles."
Coulter said the marathon (26.2 miles) and half marathon (13.1 miles) require more focus and commitment.
"These 5Ks gets them in that frame of mind," he said. A 5K is 3.1 miles.
But more than that, it provides an opportunity for families to participate together.
"We have several families who sign up for the series in May and they race together throughout the year," Coulter said. "It's really neat. It could be father-son, father-daughter, or mother-son or husband-wife. It's a family thing that happens throughout the year."
For the novice runner, the series can proved that much-needed confidence boost.
"They're not just showing up for the event," he said. "The competitive bug nips at people once they get involved. Competition isn't limited to yourself and someone else. It really starts internally, yourself against yourself. The question becomes, 'Can I motivate myself and continue to be active and be consistent and doing these runs?'"
There are 14 5Ks on the More Than A Marathon schedule. The next one is the 10th annual Up and Running 4th of July 5K. The race starts at 7:04 a.m. July 4 at the West Side Up and Running store, 3233 N. Mesa.
There are 165 runners signed up for the 5K challenge, and there's still plenty of time to sign up for the free series.
Coulter said as awareness builds, so will the participation.
"Last year, we ended up with 225 people," he said. "It's free, so that's a cool thing. You pay for the races as you go along, but you get the big finisher medal at the end-of-the-year party and that's free."
Up and Running also provides two group runs – at 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Mesa Street store and at 6 p.m. Thursdays at the East Side store, 1475 George Dieter.
"This provides people an opportunity in all categories to come out and be involved, and be part of a group and take advantage of the experiences from other runners," he said. "The goal is to make it a lifestyle. We want people to get motivated and involved in the running lifestyle. In El Paso, you can run year-round and it's good for you, whether you're running or race walking."
The series provides runners an opportunity to keep focus throughout the year and to run on a consistent basis.
"We started out with 18 races, and we'll probably add more throughout the year," he said. "We don't have any races on the calendar right now for January or the beginning of February because that calendar hasn't been set yet, so there'll be plenty of opportunity for people to get involved."
Tom Roche has taken part in More Than A Marathon all three years.
"It motivates you and it gives you something to do in between the marathon to get you ready," he said. "They spread the races year out, so it makes it easy to schedule your races to continue running."
For Roche and his wife, it's also an opportunity to run and train with great friends.
"We see the same folks get together and run," he said. "We're all out there just to run and have fun, and it keeps you motivated during the year. Our goal is to finish."
Roche said he started running in the series to stay healthy.
"I've been running for a long time and I had knee surgery two years ago," he said. "I started doing this to continue to get back into shape, which I'm there. I'm back to where I need to be."
He said this series is not about how fast you can run or winning your age group; it's about staying in shape and having fun.
"There are people who are under 20 and over 70 who run with us," he said. "It's a great way to spend an early Saturday or Sunday morning with a bunch of people who look to go out and run. Whether it's fast or slow, it doesn't matter, it's just an enjoyable experience."
And it's about spending quality time with his better half.
"There are about six of us who run together, but I love running with my wife," he said. "We go out and do our run and we relax when we got home. At the races, I always finish before her and I turn around and go back so I can meet my wife when she's coming in so I can run with her to the finish. We enjoy it."
Victor R. Martinez may be reached at 546-6128; firstname.lastname@example.org; @vrmart on Twitter.
More Than A Marathon
What: The More Than A Marathon 5K race series challenge. Runners take part in eight designated 5K races and collect More Than A Marathon bracelets. After the ninth race, they a receive a 5K Race Series Finisher’s medal at a special party.
When: May through February.
Next up: The 10th annual Up and Running 4th of July 5K at 7:04 a.m. July 4 at the West Side Up and Running store, 3233 N. Mesa.
How much: Signing up for the series is free; races are not.


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Every creative professional’s heard the suggestion at some point: “Why don’t you start a blog?” Maybe you dismissed it as too time-consuming, or feel like you don’t have any design, art or photography blog ideas. As a creative professional building an online presence, a blog is a great way to add personality to your portfolio, helping you attract clients and adding dimension to your work.
You don’t have to go full-out lifestyle blogger and start photographing every meal you eat to create a blog for your portfolio. Your blog can be your space to share personal projects that don’t fit in with your professional work. You can use it as an online diary of works in progress, travel images, or news about exhibitions or events you have coming up. You can use your blog to share behind the scenes looks at what you’re doing or to discuss what inspires you.
As long as you commit to updating your blog on a regular basis, you don’t have to stress about posting super frequently. Even monthly updates can be enough to keep your online portfolio feeling fresh and interesting.
We put together 30 blog topic ideas that you can adapt for your personal style. There’s also examples from other portfolio blogs so you can see how others turned simple ideas into something fresh and interesting.
1. Cover an Event
This is still a great blog post idea even if you aren’t a professional photographer. Try snapping a few photos at the next creative event you attend and make a post about it. If you are a photographer, use your blog to share event coverage that doesn’t fit in with your main portfolio. For example, wedding photographer Jack Davolio used his blog to share some incredible images from a festival he went to.
2. Talk About Work You Admire
You don’t have to post just your own work on your blog! Make a post about a favorite artist to share insight into what influences you.
3. Link to Your Press
Your blog is a good place to share links to any interviews you’ve done or places where your work has been featured or recognized.
4. Turn Your Blog Into a Diary
New York photographer Shriya Samavai uses her blog as a photo diary, sharing images from different places she visits without any explanation, so the photos speak for themselves. Your blog is the perfect place to share where you’ve been and what you’re doing without having to explain too much or worry about things looking polished.
5. Link to Content You Like
Share a link to a friend’s project or work by another creative you admire. Who knows, they might even return the favor! You can also make a post sharing an interesting link that’s relevant to your field, like an article, video tutorial, or gear review.
6. Review a Product
If you’re a photographer, this could be a new camera, or if you’re an illustrator, maybe it’s a new set of pens. You don’t necessarily even have to purchase the product to do this—you could just discuss a new innovation in your field using info you find online. This quick post by Canadian photographer Joe Martz offers a summary of a new lens he tested and a few images made with it.
7. Post Personal Work
Keeping your portfolio looking professional and consistent is a priority when you’re using it to attract new clients. That means that your blog is the perfect place to share more intimate, less professional work. A self-portrait series, goofy cartoon project, or casual shots from a friend’s event are great examples. Get inspired by this blog post where Mexico-based photographer Ana Topoleanu shares a moving series of intimate portraits of friends.
8. Share Some Outtakes
Recently added an editorial shoot or portrait session to your portfolio? Share some of the images that didn’t make it into your portfolio or weren’t chosen by your client. This is a good way to share lots of work while ensuring that your portfolio stays neatly curated.
9. Try Something New
Test out a brand-new medium or method of creating, and discuss. If you’re an artist who specializes in painting, try your hand at making a sculpture, and document the results.
10. Talk About Your Hobbies and Interests
This might not seem relevant to your portfolio, but sharing your interests you’re your blog readers gives them more insight into who you are. You can also challenge yourself to showcase your hobbies in a creative way. This blog post about baking a cake, from Canadian photographer Amarpreet Kaur, offers a chance for her to demonstrate her video and photo skills, revealing a bit about her personality too.
11. Talk About Challenges
Do you have a procrastination problem? Stuck trying to think of inspiration to complete a big project? Write a post about it. It’ll show that you take your work seriously, and that you care about doing the best possible job.
12. Make A Playlist
Share the music that you like to listen to when you work, when you’re looking for ideas, or when you’re trying to unwind after getting an important task done. If you want to get creative, you could create an image to go along with as well.
13. Tour Your Workspace
Share some images of your desk setup or art studio. This can be a simple, quick post for when you’re not feeling up to something more lengthy—or, you could make the post a detailed tour of your workspace. For example, see Colorado-based painter Laura Guese’s blog post sharing a studio visit she had.
14. Link to Content on Your Portfolio
This is a good idea especially if your portfolio is large and you want to make sure that visitors see your best content. Make a post about why a certain project was challenging to complete, or why it’s your favorite.
15. Share Your Process
Post pages from a sketchbook, preliminary designs, talk about how you set up a photo shoot. Discussing how you create gives visitors to your site a deeper understanding of your work.
16. Do A Year-End Summary
When January starts approaching, make a blog post discussing the biggest projects, challenges, and accomplishments of your past year. This is a nice way to re-share previously posted content. This blog post by Scottish photographer Neil Buchan Grant is a great example.
17. Share Your Goals
This could be a New Year’s Resolutions-themed post, or you could do it at any time of year. Share some personal and/or professional goals you have for yourself and how you’re currently working towards them.
18. Announce Upcoming Events
If you have a show coming up, share it on your blog. Even if visitors to your site can’t attend, it’ll be a useful update on your current work.
19. Write a Travel Diary
If you’ve recently gone on a trip, do a post about it. Share some images and experiences you had. Travel photographer Jon Reid uses his blog to share his many stunning travel photos, letting him keep his portfolio from getting too cluttered. This image is from a blog post about a visit to the Scottish Highlands.
20. Offer A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Your Work
Write a post explaining what went into a project on your portfolio. Designer and illustrator Chris Haughton has an incredibly detailed example of this on his blog, where he shares the fascinating process of creating a children’s book from start to finish.
21. Share A Lesson
Talk about a time you learned something important on the job. These kind of posts are interesting to other people in your industry, and also show your commitment to your work.
22. Take a Day Trip
You don’t have to go abroad or take a long vacation to write a travel blog post. Try visiting a nearby park or natural area, or even just part of your town or city that you haven’t been to before. Document the results in a post.
23. Share A Work in Progress
If you’re working on a big painting or an ongoing photo series, share what you’ve completed so far. This is an easy way to keep your portfolio freshly updated when you don’t have any new finished content to add to it.
24. Link to Your Social Media
Do you post frequently on Instagram or Tumblr? Do you have a professional Facebook page for your creative business? Make sure visitors to your site know about it by mentioning it in a blog post. Try making a photo roundup of recent images you’ve shared on Instagram that can’t be found in your portfolio.
25. Create a Tutorial
It can be time-consuming, but making a tutorial to share on your blog can help you get visitors to your site engaged and interesting in returning to your blog. Visual artist Amir Zahed’s post “How to Make Your DSLR Video Look More Cinematic: Color Grading Tutorial” is a perfect example of an interesting, relevant how-to post that will have readers coming back for more.
26. Challenge Your Readers
Suggest a challenge that people reading your blog should try. If you have blog comments enabled, ask people to give you feedback. Encouraging visitors to your blog to engage with you is a great way to get people invested in your site. In this blog post, photographer Neil Ta challenges readers to photograph family and friends more often.
27. Share What Motivates You
Is there someone whose career you look to for inspiration? Do you find a certain activity is always conducive to creativity? Write a post about what keeps you going. Get inspired by Colorado-based photographer Chip Kalbeck’s blog post about his work essentials.
28. Make A List
List your essential gear, your favorite websites that relate to your field, your favorite types of projects to work on, the best places to get work done… Lists make great blog posts. You can even incorporate advice into a list, like in this blog post where travel photographer Steph Ridenour shares a list of tips for planning a cycling tour.
29. Celebrate a Holiday
Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and any other holiday can provide inspiration for timely blog content. Multitalented creative Brandon Titaro made a festive blog post to share a holiday card he created.
30. Get Seasonal
You don’t have to wait for holidays to be inspired by a certain time of year. Try using the current season as the framework for a blog post.


UX Designer- Bigpark Studios Vancouver Job
Are you passionate about developing ground-breaking consumer entertainment experiences? Can you collaborate with and inspire a group of designers, artists and engineers with your ideas to create world-class interactive products? Do you want to reinvent the way fans follow, watch, and enjoy new stories or their favorite sports while working with industry-leading partners like Bonnaroo, NFL, ESPN, or UFC? Do you have experience across a wide array of devices and inputs? The Interactive TV group within Microsoft Studios/Xbox is looking for a UX Designer to realize our vision to be the #1 choice for sports and television entertainment.
We are seeking an energetic and flexible UX Designer with a strong foundation in designing interactive experiences for web, mobile, and game services. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high quality multi-device consumer experiences. This role reports into our UX Design lead and will work closely with the technical team, producers, and other leaders to develop and release world-class entertainment experiences.
Conceive and develop well-crafted user experiences with teammates.
Develop feature design briefs, logic flows and screen wireframes within evolving technology, business, and time constraints.
Provide a magic touch for the feel of experience through controls and user feedback.
Author and own clear, concise and complete documentation including diagrams, visual content, and prototyping.
Work effectively in a team of designers, artists and engineers.
Able to communicate target quality and feature behavior.
Handle the most complex, technology constrained or iteration sensitive systems.
Partner with production, technologists and art team to prioritize work.
Stay on top of contemporary UI design concepts and patterns.
Attends software reviews and supports production and marketing as subject matter expert and user advocate for their product areas.
Bring energy and positivity to your design work and see it through to completion.
Take ownership of user and product stories and balance your user-centered design practices with business requirements.
Minimum 2 to 4 years of UX design experience in a production environment.
Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, HCI, Human Factors, Cognitive Psych, or similar field, or equivalent experience.
Superb communication skills. Able to work with other disciplines.
Effective at problem solving skills, group brainstorming and problem solving / iterative design.
Must have experience working with research.
Hands-on experience on at least 1-2 different products (apps, video games, social or location based services).
Technical experience prototyping, delivering, and tuning online multi-platform experiences (web, mobile, tablet or PC based).
Experience with multiple prototyping, presentation, and documentation methods.
Experience working on at least one product with significant online functionality.


20th November 2020, 18:00
A trade and security agreement between the UK and the European Union is close to being finalised, EU ambassadors have reportedly been told. However, UK press reports that contentious issues are only "slowly shrinking".
A senior official at the European Commission says that the majority of the 11 key negotiation issues now had joint legal texts with fewer and fewer outstanding points. Issues with fishing waters remain unresolved.
For her part, the European Union Commission President says that there has been more movement on important files over the last few days, describing it as better progress.
Ursula Von Der Leyen says that three main difficult issues: governance, fisheries and the level playing field remain. She said that progress had been made on the question of state aid.


In Fallout 4 you can equip your companions with all sorts of armor that you come across, and Dogmeat is not left out. Unfortunately, these armor pieces just change appearance of your companion and have only cosmetic purpose. They cannot provide any protection for dogmeat. In this guide we’ll show you how to equip Dogmeat’s Armor and where to find it.
How to put gear on companionEquipping your companion with new armor items is pretty easy:
- Open up trade with your companion.
- Select the item you’d like them to equip.
- Press Triangle on PS4, Y on Xbox One, and T on PC.
Dogmeat’s Armor LocationMost of Dogmeat’s Armor items can be taken off of the dogs used by Super Mutants and Raiders.
|Light Dog Armor||In a cave just south from Concord, near the bridge.|
|Heavy Dog Armor||001C32C7|
|Dog Helmet||In a cave just south from Concord, near the bridge.|
|Chain Dog Collar||0018B210|
|Gunner’s Camo Bandana||0017E922|
|Gunner’s Green Bandana||0017E923|
|Leopard Print Bandana||0017E91B|
|Stars and Stripes Bandana||0017E925|


ICON Stage 5 Suspension Kit w/Billet UCAs - K53005 with Delta Joint Upper Control Arms
ICON Vehicle Dynamics Toyota Tacoma suspension systems are designed with maximum performance and the serious driver in mind. ICON engineers’ primary focus is to increase wheel travel and damping ability, which translates into outstanding vehicle control and ride quality both on and off-road. The Stage 5 system includes vehicle-specific tuned 2.5” Extended travel coilover shocks featuring an remote reservoir for exceptional cooling properties and ICON-engineered coil springs for superior vehicle “feel” through the range of travel. These coilovers are also height adjustable from 0-3.5” (2005-2015) and 0-2.75" (2016-current) allowing the use of larger, more aggressive wheel and tire combinations. These extended travel remote reservoir coilovers combined with ICON's UCA add a full inch of droop. ICON 2.5 Remote Reservoir Series rear shocks utilize a vehicle-specific valving that balances the performance of the truck from front to rear. The ICON Vehicle Dynamics 2005-current Toyota Tacoma 4wd/PreRunner Stage 5 suspension system is an excellent choice for those drivers looking to enhance the capabilities of their pickup on the road as well as in the dirt.
Note: See manufacturers website for wheel requirements.


Lot 316 - 2002 Aprilia RSV
|Odometer reading||15,529 miles|
|Estimate||£2,000 - £3,000|
|Result||Sold - £2,352|
The Aprilia RSV Mille was manufactured from 1998 to 2003 and. offered in three versions, RSV Mille, RSV Mille R, and RSV Mille SP. The first RSV Mille (ME) was made from 1998 to 2000, the updated RSV Mille (RP) from 2001 to 2002 and the last update was made in 2003. With a 998cc, 60° V-twin engine built by the Austrian company Rotax, the RSV Mille was the first large displacement motorcycle made by Aprilia that up to then had made up to 250cc engines. This same engine was used unmodified in the Tuono and in slightly modified form in the SL1000 Falco. The Mille featured a type of slipper clutch which worked by using a vacuum on a closed throttle from the inlet manifold to give the effect of slipper clutch but only on a closed throttle. The first changes were made in 2001 when the fairing was restyled adding wind deflectors to improve airflow. The fuel tank was changed to a plastic item and the rear shock on both the standard and the 'R' models was revised. In 2002, the front brake calipers were changed to Brembo Monobloc four-pad callipers, each piston having a separate pad gave an increase in braking performance and feel.
This hugely sporting machine has a number of modifications which just go to enhance the look and feel of this already stylish example. These include a number of carbon fibre sections and a more toned-down matt black paint work. It is also worth noting that this is the larger engined model with a 1000cc, V-twin motor and a Datatag electronic security system installed. Supplied with a V5 registration document and an MoT test certificate valid until May 2016, this striking and extremely rapid sports bike is now available for its next brave owner.
Interested parties should satisfy themselves as to the description and condition of each lot prior to the sale. Accordingly, buyers are on notice that each vehicle is offered ‘as is/as seen’ subject to the Terms and Conditions for the auction. Buyers are advised to inspect the vehicle in person or use a professional to carry out this service. Historics will not entertain disputes over descriptions.


BANGKOK - Asian stock markets were pummeled Monday by weekend election results in Greece and France that heightened uncertainty about Europe's ability to solve its debt crisis.
Signs of a faltering economic recovery in the U.S. compounded the dour mood while oil slid below $97 a barrel. Japan's Nikkei 225 index plunged 2.6 per cent to 9,134.26 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng slid 2.4 per cent to 20,582.24.
Election results in Greece sent tremors throughout Europe as voters punished the parties responsible for highly unpopular austerity measures instituted to prevent the country from defaulting on its massive debts.
No political party won enough votes to form a government — leaving the political and financial future of the recession-hit country in serious doubt.
Meanwhile, in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy lost to Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, who had criticized the country's austerity program and wants to boost government spending.
Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong, said the election results were likely to heighten political instability and market volatility.
"Thus, in the short run, risk aversion is the name of the game," he said in an email.
Elsewhere, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.8 per cent to 4,316.20 and South Korea's Kospi shed 1.7 per cent to 1,955.53.
On Friday, U.S. stocks plunged after the government reported that hiring slowed sharply in April.
A report from the Labor Department Friday showing that U.S. jobs growth slumped in April for a second straight month. The 115,000 jobs added in April and the 154,000 in March were down form an average of 252,000 a month from December through February.
Energy stocks were among the hardest hit after the price of oil fell below $100 a barrel Friday, the first time since February.
Hong Kong-listed China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, tumbled 4.5 per cent. Japanese energy explorer Inpex Corp. lost 4.9 per cent. South Korea's S-Oil Corp. fell 3.7 per cent.
Benchmark oil for June delivery was down $1.87 to $96.62 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $4.05 to settle at $98.49 in New York on Friday.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2985 from $1.3089 late Friday in New York.
The dollar fell to 79.83 from 79.87 yen.


New Delhi, Feb 11: South Africa’s Cape Town city was in news recently for its lack of drinking water. So much that the Indian cricket team members were asked to finish their showers in just 2 minutes and flush only if ‘absolutely’ necessary. Also Read - Robot That Can Test For Covid-19 Trialled in Egypt, It Will Also Warn People Not Wearing Masks
However, Cape Town is not the only city which is facing water crisis situation but India is also struggling with this problem. Also Read - Indian Navy Inducts Two American Predator Drones On Lease, Can Be Deployed On China Border
A media report has listed 11 cities across the world which is likely to run out of drinking water in future. And India’s IT hub Bangalore city stands at the second position in the list. The report notes that not a single lake in the city is suitable for drinking or bathing purposes. Also Read - India’s Ban on 43 Chinese Apps May Affect Beijing’s Digital Silk Route Ambitions | Here’s How
Local administration is struggling hard to manage the city’s water and sewage system due to growth of new property developments. The scarcity of water in Bangalore or in India is not a revelation though. According to an estimate by the Asian Development Bank, India will have a water deficit of 50 per cent by 2030. Other estimates have suggested that the people may evacuate the city by 2025.
There is another report which shows that Bangalore had 285 lakes in the 1970s, the number of which reduced to 194 lakes in 2017.
Check the list of cities which will face water crisis:
- Sao Paulo
- Mexico city
Although the problem was detected in the 1930s, seawater still leaks in, especially because the American city has experienced faster rates of sea level rise, with water breaching underground defence barriers installed in recent decades.
Neighbouring cities are already struggling. Hallandale Beach, which is just a few miles north of Miami, had to close six of its eight wells due to saltwater intrusion.


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Companies require analytics to measure and track their results, across time and convert ‘data’ to ‘actionable data’.
MangoApps provides analytics at 3 levels, to analyze and delve into employee engagement inside your domain. Which are:
I. Network level.
II. Team level.
III. Individual level.
I. Network level analytics.
Network level analytics gives you idea of how many users are using MangoApps. What kind of activities, such as posts, views, likes and comments, they are performing in the portal. Network analytics consists of 3 sections.
Steps to view analytics at Network level:
I. Login to MangoApps.
II. Click on the ‘Profile Photo’.
III. Select ‘Network Analytics’ from the drop-down.
IV. You can view of the generated report to evaluate engagement at network level.
a. ROI Dashboard – Return On Investment (ROI) feature allows you to track user engagement and figure out whether MangoApps is giving you the most returns. You can access the dashboard which calculates your savings per month, time saved per month and amount of improved productivity per month. Savings per month and time saved per month are calculated based on the activity of users within your domain, so the more active your users are in MangoApps, the higher your ROI will be.
* We recommend waiting about 6 months before taking your ROI seriously.
b. User Engagement.
User Engagement chart buckets your users into four separate groups, based on their level of engagement. The chart will give you an idea of how active your users are, help you set goals and monitor how the success of your MangoApps is improving. You can even dig deeper into who’s not engaged or only moderately engaged by downloading the report and analyzing it.
MangoApps classifies the users under four categories:
I. Highly engaged users –These are the users who on multiple occasions perform an activity on MangoApps daily. They contribute both as a reader and a contributor to the activities on their MangoApps domain.
II. Engaged user – These are the users who perform activity on MangoApps daily. They contribute both as a reader and contributor to the activities on their MangoApps domain.
III. Moderately engaged user – These are the users who perform activity on MangoApps occasionally. They at least contribute once both as a reader and once as a contributor to the activities on their MangoApps domain.
IV. Not engaged user – These are the users who can wait as long as a month before logging into to MangoApps. They do not perform any activity on their MangoApps domain.
d. Content Analytics.
MangoApps content analytics will showcase the amount of content that is being created. The nature of that content and how it is used on the MangoApps domain. The Content Analytics section shows actions or activities from: Posts, Comments, Likes and Views, your users are performing.
Note: Posts are the equivalent to sending an email. Views are the equivalent of reading an email. Likes are the equivalent of replying to an email with a short “got it” or “received.” Comments are the equivalent of responding to an email with a full response.
II. Team level analytics.
Leaderboard added to a team, will help you to find out who the active users are, inside that team.
You can view ‘Top 10 Contributors’, ‘Top 10 Replied to Members’ or ‘Top 10 Popular Members’ and filter it for Week/Month, Last 3 months, Last 6 months and Last 1 year.
Top 10 Contributors are those who have the most ‘Updates’ inside a team. Top 10 Replied to members, are members who got the most replies. Top 10 Popular members, are members who got the most likes.
Leader boards bring in the social aspect of points and badges. They instill a sense of competition by letting users see how they are performing overall, relative to their peers.
Navigating to the leaderboard of the team. You will first need to enable leaderboard module inside the team. The module can only be enabled by a network admin or team admin or team creator.
Steps to navigate to leaderboard inside a team:
1. Navigate to the team.
2. You can edit the team, if you are a team admin or network admin or team creator.
3. Navigate to ‘Configure Modules’, enable ‘Leaderboard’ and Select ‘Save & Continue’.
4. Leaderboard module will now be available inside the team.
Apart from leaderboard, you can view ‘Project Statistics’ and ‘Project KPI’ as well. ‘Project Statistics’ provides details such as Total number of members, messages shared, documents, posts inside a team. Project KPI is specific to project and provides critical information such as ‘Project Health’, Task Details (Total Tasks, Completed Tasks and Pending Tasks)’ and ‘Project Deadline’.
Project KPI can also be viewed inside the project. Project Health KPI shows project health and Project parameters that includes ‘Overdue Tasks’, ‘Pending Tasks’ and ‘Completed Tasks’.
b. Identify experts under Idea Management.
You can identify network users who have posted the most number of ideas and users who have the most number of their ideas implemented from the ‘Leaderboard’ module of idea Management.
This helps you identify experts who have contributed the most number of ideas.
Steps to navigate to Leaderboard in Idea Management.
1. Navigate to Ideas > Leaderboard.
2. You can view ‘Top 10 Contributors’ and ‘Top 10 Ideas’ in various time-frame (Year/Month/Week)
c. Identify experts in ‘Questions’ module.
You can view ‘All Time Leaderboard’ which shows network users who has given most number of answers and whose answers have got accepted the most.
Steps to navigate to Experts in Questions.
1. Navigate to Question > Experts.
2. You will be able to view who has responded to most number of questions, along with accepted answers.
III. Individual level analytics
At individual level, analytics is handled using Gamification. Gamification is the concept of applying game-design thinking, to non-game applications. Making them more fun and engaging. Gamification in MangoApps to reward users with points, levels and badges.
Individual level analytics can be accessed clicking on your profile photo and clicking on ‘View My Profile’.
a. Points – Points are allocated for activities a user performs across the domain. Receiving points also broadly depends on certain key attributes such as frequency of participation, type of contribution, contribution to projects, etc. These points create a sense of progression. This way the system keeps count of the player’s actions, pertaining to the targeted behaviors in the overall gamification strategy.
b. Badges – Once the player has accumulated a certain number of points, they are awarded with badges. They also earn badges for performing certain activities and missions. Badges are a form of virtual achievement by the player. They provide a positive reinforcement for high value user behaviors. These badges become part of the identity of the user and appear on the user’s “profile page.”
c. Levels – Levels of engagement act as gateways into new challenges. They becomes a basis for awarding the users with badges. Once a user reaches a specified level, they’ll receive a badge. Levels become harder to get as the user accumulates them or masters the system.
Level & badges updates reinforce activity feedback and increase social interaction
Leaderboard brings in the social aspect of points and badges. They introduce a sense of competition by letting users see how they are performing, overall relative to their peers.
Based on network users engagement in the portal. Leaderboard will show rankings of network users inside the portal. You can view these details on office-card or even customize your dashboard by adding the ‘Badges’ widget to it.


Montana Tech’s program offers graduate courses and research projects in the areas of electric energy and power, automation and control systems, signal processing, and instrumentation. Other areas of emphasis may be tailored to the students' needs.
The faculty of the Electrical Engineering program of Montana Technological University has an excellent track record in attracting industry and government funded research projects. The projects provide students the opportunity to solve many challenging real-life engineering problems. Recent funded graduate research projects include:
- Development of a battery diagnostic instrumentation system for NASA for next-generation hybrid and electric vehicles. Several students worked closely with researchers from the Idaho National Laboratory.
- Development of blade pitching control algorithms to improve the efficiency of wind turbines. Many of the concepts are now used in industry.
- Researching new control schemes for improving performance and preventing blackouts in large power grids. Students work closely with other universities, industry, and researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Working with researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory, students are designing and implementing an instrumentation and control system for mine-waste remediation.
Get more detailsVisit official programme website
- Advanced Signals & Systems
- Engineering Optimization
- Embedded Controllers
- Random Signals
- Discrete-Time Control Systems
- Advanced Control Systems
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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DisciplinesElectrical Engineering View 308 other Masters in Electrical Engineering in United States
- Official transcripts are required from all undergraduate and graduate schools attended
- An undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or above is required for full admission. For provisional admission status, an undergraduate GPA between 2.7 and 3.0 is required
- Personal/Professional Statement
- Three references are required for admission
- Students who have not attended a college or university in the United States or in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand must provide evidence of English proficiency
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores
International25840 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the original amount of 12920 USD per semester and a duration of 12 months.
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61: Mark Ferguson Live at Real Estate | BARE
This week we are featuring a special episode from the first Real Estate | BARE event. This is the talk from Mark Ferguson of InvestFourMore.com
Mark has been investing in real estate for almost 20 decades and needless to say he has learned a lot of lessons in that timeframe. In this talk he walks us through his story and how he has taken those lessons to build a growing and sustainable business that has been able to survive the long haul while still increasing in profits along the way.


The Pelvis, the largest bone in the body, is the foundation of our structure. This bone is held static by muscles. When one of these muscles becomes weak for any reason, injury, poor sitting or lifting habits, the weight of pregnancy the hips will tip. When this happens the red chakra becomes obstructed and the body is not able to receive this basic life force energy from the Earth, so one becomes ungrounded.
The hips are the axis of the body. they can rotate posterior (back), it causes one leg to look shorter. When rotated anterior (forward), it will cause one leg to look longer, giving the appearance of the legs being a different length. When the pelvis rocks out of balance it can also involve the sciatic nerve.
The pelvis requires 80% to retain balance. This area is the most difficult structural part of the body to maintain. The most common involvement is when the pelvis rotates back on the right. This imbalance will also cause the spine to become out of alignment if not corrected.
This rotation of the pelvis twists the large intestine, causing waste removal to become impeded. The kidneys, small intestine, bladder, gall bladder, stomach, spleen/pancreas, circulation-sex and thyroid systems will also be affected. When the pelvis has rotated out of position, then energy of the red chakra is diminished.
This balancing technique is one of the most profound adjustments that can be done to the human body and will help strengthen 90% of the organs.
The hip bones correspond with the mastoids, these are the large bumps behind the ears. If the hips are out of position the mastoids will rock the same way.
When the hips go out of place this will encourage the other bones especially the bones of the leg and the spine to go out of alignment.
If there are any vertebra misaligned then correct the vertebra first before adjusting the hips because with vertebra out the spine cannot lay flat and the hip adjustment will not be as effective.
The muscles that hold the pelvis in place are the Psoas muscles.
One leg appearing longer then the other or shorter, Curved spine, Sciatic nerve pain down the leg, lower back pain, bladder problems, uneven hips, sexual numbness, painful intercourse, irregular or painful menses, inability to conceive, Prostate problems, Difficult childbirth, Main cause for cesarean section. standing on one leg, crossing legs while sitting or standing. Loss of 2-3 inches in height, Pain in thigh and lower groin, related to neck ache, knock knees, deformed feet, varicose veins, Pigeon toed. Numbness or tingling in the legs, Hemorrhoids, Incontinence, Inability to stand straight, bent forward look, slouching
check to see if any vertebra are out and fix first before adjusting hips
Lay flat on solid surface, place first wedge at the top of the hip bone that is rocked back. line up 2nd wedge to the bottom of the first wedge and place on the other side of the body on the opposite hip. block high on the indicated side. Remain on wedges for no longer then ten minutes.
after the wedges are out walk for a short distance. if there are no hip blocks available use firmly rolled towels 3-4 inches in diameter placed about 4-5 inches under the hips.
Wedges are 4x4 rough cut, 8 inches long cut diagonally.
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Every block is carefully inspected to ensure integrity and quality. The process to turn a log into a set of completed hip blocks takes hours of effort and time. They are each carefully hand crafted and made one block at a time. There will be minor variations in each block due to being hand crafted.
Every effort is made to ensure quality. The colors and availability will depend on supplies. If a color is out of stock the order will be filled as soon as the material becomes available. Every order will be filled as soon as possible but we ask for your patience as they are all hand made.


The Hatari is our flagship rifle offering, seamlessly blending artistic elegance with the flawless functionality required for a true dangerous game rifle.
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Racing driver Scott Bloomquist’s chief crew Cody Mallory was arrested yesterday during preparations for races in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series at the DIRTcar Nationals.
It has been reported that officers from the Volusia County Sheriff department detained Cody at the Volusia Speedway Park to serve an arrest warrant. The crew chief of was then taken into custody as shown in the photograph below.
The 33-year-old reportedly had a warrant out for his arrest, issued over an alleged contempt of court related to child support payments. He is currently in jail with a $92,682 bond, as Bloomquist prepares to race three more times this week.
Bloomquist was penalized earlier this week for a diver swap at the East Bay Raceway Park.
Cody Mallory replaced Tommy Hicks in 2015 as the Bloomquist’s crew chief.
Bloomquist has been racing since the 80s and recently picked up the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Champion trophy in 2016.
Scott Bloomquist has not publicly commented on Cody Mallory’s arrest. It is unclear at the time of writing whether the chief crew member will bail out of jail where he is currently being held in custody.
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Submission to the ECJ on expert advertising and the nutrition and health claims regulation
Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 (the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation or NHCR) sets out the requirements for and the presentation of nutritional and health-related information for foodstuffs. It serves both to provide consumer health protection and to protect the consumer from misinformation. During the legislative process, both the passing and the content of the NHCR were already highly controversial and even today courts are still deliberating over the interpretation of this body of legislation. The Regional Court (Landgericht) of Munich I currently has to decide on the applicability of the NHCR on “expert advertising” (“Fachkreiswerbung”). By way of its decision of 16 December 2014, the court submitted this legal question to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a decision.
Submission to the ECJ
The proceedings before the Regional Court are concerned with competition-law cease-and-desist claims for alleged violations of the NHCR. The Defendant markets the food supplement “i.Vitamin D3”. The Defendant distributed advertising in letters sent only to doctors and used health-related information which failed to meet the material requirements for health claims under the NHCR. The outcome of the dispute therefore depends on the question of whether or not the NHCR is also applicable to advertising intended for expert groups, such as doctors, pharmacists, alternative practitioners, nutritionists or dietitians. The NHCR contains no express provisions in this regard. This aspect is the subject of even more controversial debate in the literature on foodstuffs law.
Arguments in favour of the application of the NHCR to expert advertising
|Those who support the application of the NHCR to expert advertising primarily base their arguments on the wording of the NHCR in Article 1(2) which states:
“This Regulation shall apply to nutrition and health claims made in commercial communications, whether in the labelling, presentation or advertising of foods to be delivered as such to the final consumer.”
According to this wording, therefore, the provision certainly does not differentiate on the basis of the addressee of the communication. It is argued that the scope of application is determined solely with reference to the product and that the Regulation applies to communications intended for expert groups as long as the remaining requirements of the Regulation are met. In addition, the objective of the Regulation – consumer protection – is also argued to require the application of the NHCR to expert advertising since advertising intended for expert groups directly affects consumers. As expert groups are information intermediaries who are not always familiar with the latest scientific findings, it is argued that advertising aimed specifically at them is capable of winning them over so that they will then recommend certain products.
|The counterargument is that the NHCR only covers B2C communication. It is therefore argued that the differentiation on the basis of the addressee of the communication in Article 2(1) of the Regulation is not necessary and that the wording of the provision is not decisive. In addition, both the recitals and numerous restrictions of the NHCR are said to be geared to the consumer and to his or her understanding of nutritional and health-related information. The scheme of the Regulation also allows arguments against the application to expert groups to be raised. The legislator is thus said to have recognized the need for a legal regulation pertaining to expert groups as Articles 11 and 12 of the NHCR both contain specific provisions relating to information provided by certain expert groups. Had the legislator wished to also include information intended for expert groups, it would – according to those who argue against the application of the Regulation to expert groups – have expressly stated this. Furthermore, they say, it should be considered that the NHCR offers no possibility of obtaining an authorization to submit such information to expert groups; the general requirement of Article 10 of the NHCR whereby only information that is comprehensible to the consumer should be authorized, ought then also to apply to expert advertising. However, it is argued, this fails to take account of the fact that expert groups possess different background knowledge than the average consumer.
The forthcoming decision by the ECJ is of supreme relevance to legal practice. If the NHCR’s scope of application is widened to include expert advertising, commercial information provided to expert groups which – usually – functions as advertising, must meet all requirements of the NHCR. In particular, the health claims intended for expert groups could only admissibly be made if included in a list compiled by the Commission. Furthermore, nutritional value labelling would also have to be adapted in line with the information contained in expert advertising. If the ECJ deems that the NHCR is not applicable to expert advertising, however, then the restrictions and requirements set out therein could be disregarded. The making of health claims intended for expert groups would then be fundamentally admissible as long as such claims are not misleading. The ECJ decision will bring clarity and, it is hoped, somewhat more legal certainty overall to an important interpretation issue.
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Recognition for result success
CLEVEDON School has been recognised for rapidly improving its GCSE results.
It has been praised by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust for meeting the criteria in the trust’s ‘most improved’ category for GCSE results and as a result headteacher John Wells was invited to a celebratory dinner in London on March 23.
This followed year-on-year successes in both the 5A*-C category and the 5A*-C including maths and English category, in which the school has achieved increases of 30 and 20 per cent respectively.
Mr Wells said: “I was extremely proud to represent the community of Clevedon School at the awards ceremony.
“This achievement is the result of the hard work of staff and students and really the positive ethos that epitomises the school’s values.”


As previously mentioned, this isn't even a discussion we should start for a long time. It's too early in the metagame to look at playstyles when we're still trying to figure out the initial banlist. However, if we absolutely must entertain this discussion now, there's a few things I'd like to talk about. Let's maybe try and get some objectivity on the matter. I have some personal opinions against how trapping in general is discussed in the context of the last 2 or 3 gens, but I'll try and keep this post to some facts only. Let's use some data to try and build up a real argument here. ORAS can only provide a limited view to the future of the SM tier, but it's at least an indicator of rough patterns based on past tiering decisions. Of course, there's the obvious one that we'll get out of the way first: We went to save Sab once with a STag ban, then ended up banning Sab in the long run. I feel like talking about this is beating a dead horse, but there's at least some precedent that removing trappers does not significantly reduce the power of Sableye in a metagame. It cuts off one of its best support options, but the fundamental issues of why Sableye is the core of every stall team is still there. It still prevents hazards and stallbreaking options like Status and Taunt from really impacting most stall teams, where as otherwise those types of stallbreakers are significant threats to those team types. Again, everyone's heard this one, so let's move onto something that's a little more recent. The impact of Sableye's ban on Dugtrio in ORAS. Dugtrio is significantly more powerful in SM, and I doubt it'd fall from OU without Sableye's presence, but the incredible impact Sableye has when leaving a metagame can't be understated. I'll be looking at a number of stats here: Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Dugtrio's usage pre-Sab ban (ou-1695): | 51 | Dugtrio | 3.73668% | 73067 | 1.292% | 53932 | 1.294% | Dugtrio's usage last month (ou-1695): | 70 | Dugtrio | 1.98665% | 17494 | 1.455% | 13185 | 1.525% | Dugtrio's current performance in ORAS SPL: | 33 | Dugtrio | 1 | 5.00% | 100.00% | Current SM Duggy usage: | 19 | Dugtrio | 9.04439% | 88332 | 3.941% | 64191 | 3.889% | SM SPL results: | 7 | Dugtrio | 10 | 16.67% | 60.00% | ADV SPL results: | 7 | Dugtrio | 5 | 25.00% | 60.00% | ADV OU usage last month (ou-1695): | 14 | Dugtrio | 16.92944% | 4352 | 14.203% | 3075 | 12.746% | As stated earlier in this thread, it's not impossible to build a decent Sab-less stall team, and Dugtrio is still fairly good in non-stall teams. However, let me remind you all that there was serious discussion to try and ban Dugtrio from ORAS for the sole reason of keeping Sableye in the tier. The argument ended up being shut down since Dugtrio never really compared to its Shadow Tag brethren and ultimately Sableye left the tier. In it's wake, we see a Dugtrio that's overall underperforming. It has won in its single appearance in SPL, but if it really was something that could be squeezed onto non-sableye stall to great effect we'd be seeing more of it. Its usage in OU mirrors this sentiment. If we want to analyze this data to project the impact of Sableye on Dugtrio's usage in the SM OU metagame, you can look at varying factors, including team mate statistics, percentage point drop, or raw percentage drop depending on how you want to interpret the data, which would leave Dugtrio with 4.83% to 7.29% usage, heavily favoring the 7.2% zone. The significance of those statistics can project the impact of Dugtrio and Sableye on the metagame, to an extent. One point I'd like to bring up that a Sableye ban would certainly bring Dugtrio's usage to less than half of gen 3 usage stats, and I can't even remember a time where I heard someone bring up banning Duggy in ADV OU. Obviously the more gens we drift from SM the harder comparing gens becomes, but data does drive a significant point: At all levels of play, Dugtrio performs better by itself in RS (the metagame where Dugtrio's place in the metagame is most similar: a very strong "generic" trapper) than in SM, and only at the top level of play in combination with Sableye does it exceed that level of power (Sab 80% WR, 4/5 games). I'd also like to throw in there that removing Sab stats from current SPL record would leave Duggy at 5 games and 40% WR, which isn't exactly outstanding. The reason I bring this up is to remind everyone here that "trapper hate" is an extremely recent and maybe misguided approach to the game. Sableye+Dugtrio is quite strong, but there isn't an objective measurement to really say it's Dugtrio that's overperforming. We've survived ADV where Dugtrio was in an even better position and nobody even bats an eye. On the other hand, I'm sure there's a number of you that are looking at this thread and would ban Dugtrio even if we got Sableye out of the way first. The point I'm trying to make here is that I don't really think that a lot of the Sab or Duggy ban talk is being very objective, and is mostly down to discussion between pro players about what types of games pro players do and do not enjoy playing. There's a good amount of statistics we can look at that we can really use to create an argument very much bound in realism, and most people tend to ignore it for anecdotal discussion. I'm pretty tired and I went and re-edited this post a few times before submitting, so I might've had some repeat phrases in there or something, but I'll cut it down into a tl;dr: We're not far enough into the metagame to really make a call yet. However, current evidence implies heavily that Dugtrio isn't inherently broken, especially when compared to previous metagames, and likely not the Pokemon at fault if stall becomes an issue in the future. P.S. Less subjectivity, more objectivity.


CLEVELAND — KeyBank Real Estate Capital, a Cleveland-based lender, has provided $74.6 million in FHA financing for a six-property seniors housing portfolio located across the state of Texas.
The skilled nursing facilities total 806 beds. The loans will refinance existing debt.
The borrower is a joint venture between Capital Senior Ventures and Blue Mountain Capital Management. Details on the specific properties were not disclosed.
John Randolph, Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the financing through the FHA 232/223(f) mortgage insurance program.


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...perhaps they could teach me to boil water!
Sounds like a place I'd like to visit!
Too bad this is closed as it looks like a great place to eat.
Perhaps the cooking school closed because people don't cook that much. (I hope not.)
Sounds like quite an important establishment...
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Writing and Language Learning
I’m a big fan of noting things down. I write, I draw and I do it all the time. I do it on paper most of the time.
I’m a big believer that in language learning writing with your hand is one of the great techniques to remember things. That’s why I was really happy to have discovered a board that allows me to write as many language drills as I want and without wasting any paper !


So as you may have already noticed, I am not really much of a blogger. I have a super busy year ahead of me in the studio, big changes, big shows and lots of new work to make! I have decided to take the blog off of my list of things to do, so I can spend more time making and less time on the computer. This doesn't mean I am going to leave everyone in the dark. If you want to hear about exciting news in my jewelry world and see pictures of my work in progress, studio shots and shows "like" my Facebook page, it will definitely be full of updates this coming year. Also, I recently discovered Pinterest and totally love it! It is so great for finding and sharing inspiration, check out my Pinterest page to see the things that I am inspired by.
It is still a little too soon to start sharing the details, but I can say I am very excited about all of the opportunities coming my way!