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Entry number: B08018
Statement of Design Approach:
Principally funded by private donations, the length of time from design inception to construction completion was extended over a number of years. Coupled with the long and beloved history of the school, the design process morphed into an extended collaborative effort including not only the administration and faculty, but also alumni and major donors. Furthermore, the design process continued during construction, making continuity in the overall design imperative. The new campus has reinvigorated the students and faculty, with the architecture reinforcing progressive education coupled with traditional religious teachings.
Ultimately the decision was made to acquire a thirty five acre parcel and build a new facility that could adequately meet the needs of students for decades to come. This new location provides ample area for athletic facilities, while permitting a comfortable educational environment for a maximum of 1,200 students. The new site includes a football stadium, baseball and softball fields, a soccer field with track facilities, tennis courts, and several large parking areas.
A unique, multi-function chapel is the religious center of the school. Subdivided by a movable partition, the space can function as a two hundred seat chapel and a fully functional classroom, or be opened up to a full three hundred seats allowing one class of students to attend mass at one time. Two main event venues, the gymnasium and a theater, are accessed from a large, central lobby. The theater includes 350 seats and a full height flyhouse while the gymnasium contains approximately 1,700 seats.
Strategically located in the center of the complex are the Library and Commons, the two centers of the daily lives of the students. As the intellectual center for the students, the library houses both traditional and technologically advanced media to broaden the educational experience. The Commons, where students gather for meals and to socialize, includes a demountable stage and sound system for school dances and other social activities.
Daylighting the interior of the school was of particular importance, not only to improve the performance of the students but also to reduce the energy consumption of artificial lighting. Clerestory windows bath all interior circulation spaces in natural light with wide roof overhangs shading the windows. The infusion of daylight continues in the classrooms, where indirect light fixtures augment the daylight thereby creating comfortable and uniform lighting levels while saving energy.
A state of the art mechanical control system strictly regulates building systems throughout the school day and year to reduce wasted energy and to focus central plan capacities in appropriate areas. To further reduce equipment loads and energy use, all rooftop equipment was placed within the building structure to reduce heat loads on the equipment.
Sustainable materials were incorporated in the project with an additional focus on durability. Most notable was the selection of linoleum for all high traffic areas including the student corridors and Main Lobby for ease of maintenance and durability. Another material extensively used in the campus is synthetic turf which significantly reduces water consumption.
Material in ASL Library: Form Core Boards, Project Description Form, Exteriors Photos, Location Map, Site Plan, Floor Plan, and Interior Photos
These images are low-resolution reproductions of the images provided for the AIA Nevada Design Awards. All materials should be considered copyrighted and may not be reproduced or used without permission.


I was only eight years old, during the Bicentennial year, when I came across an old, faded clapboard shed just south of Waitsfield village in Central Vermont. Centered in that room on the dirt floor was a small glass-melting furnace, roaring brilliantly orange. It was incredibly hot. It hurt to look directly into the flame but that’s what I did, fascinated by the power and majesty of glass. This was the domain of two local glassblowers, and their world of manipulating glass, one of the oldest and most basic craft materials.
And now, thirty-two years later, I am also manipulating glass to manifest my creative vision. With only a few basic elements, silica sand, soda ash, and limestone, I use intense heat to melt a clear base glass, which I then weave into a tapestry of art and objects from the simplest vase to the most complex sculpture.
Much of my work is an exploration of possibilities using intricate traditional Italian cane, in the Murano tradition. During a visit to my studio you might see my team at work producing these remarkable glass rods. Using a wide array of ancient techniques I blend clear base glass with colored glass from Germany and New Zealand, drawing and twisting large masses of glass into rods up to 50 feet long and sometimes no thicker than a familiar yellow pencil.
Making my own cane allows me the latitude to carry a creative concept from the very first hint of an idea to its full fruition. This cane, when broken into shorter lengths, informs the final design of much of my glasswork, both functional wares and sculpture.
I invite you to visit my glass studio in Central Vermont. I blow glass seasonally from May through October and then November through February. My studio has become a destination for people traveling the northeast. People tell me they learn a lot while visiting my studio. Describing the process as it unfolds brings the outsider closer to the actual experience of glass working. I love demonstrating glassblowing in the presence of visitors. Come and visit!


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I wanted to have a go of making something from gluten-free gingerbread dough for Christmas to bring a bit of Christmas cheer. Having experience of gingerbread houses collapsing I thought a lantern we used to make in my childhood would be safer for it doesn’t have the weight of the roof to withstand.
I am quite pleased that I got a finished lantern and it’s still in one piece as I’m writing this so I want to share how I made this if you want to make one yourself. Even if you don’t make this for Christmas day, you can make one during the winter holidays if you find more time on your hands. Decorating gingerbread is so much fun!
Making the gingerbread dough
I used the easy Nordic-style gluten-free gingerbread dough I posted a little while back to make the lantern. The syrup gingerbread is quite sturdy when you bake it for longer so I knew I’d have a good chance to succeed. When making the dough to build something from you need the dough to be quite firm so that it doesn’t spread much when baking. The amount of flour you use depends a lot on the gf flour mix you are using but I’d add 11-12dl of flour with 2tbsp of psyllium husk powder mixed in to start with.
After the dough has rested the minimum 3 hours in the fridge, see if you can roll the dough without it sticking much and if you can easily cut shapes from it and lift them to a tray. If the dough feels soft and unmanageable, knead a few tbsp of flour in at a time to see when the dough firms up so that it’s easy to handle. Leave a slight softness, for you add more flour when rolling the dough out, and too much flour starts to make the dough crack when rolling and baking.
I made the lantern a very basic shape, since I wasn’t really sure how the gf dough would bake and how sturdy it would really be. I drew a shape on baking parchment where there’s a semicircle on a 10cm X 10cm square. I used a large glass tankard to help me draw the semicircle. I found this size of a lantern small enough to hold together on my own and it was large enough to safely hold a tea light without it getting too close to the edges, but if you use battery tea lights instead of real ones, they are safer and you can make smaller lanterns that are even easier to hold together when assembling.
Do bare in mind that if you use cookie cutters to make the windows on the lantern that there’s at least a 15-20mm edge left to the sides, then the biscuit should stay sturdy enough to handle and won’t break so easily during the build.
Rolling, cutting and baking
When rolling your dough, use a generous dusting of gf flour on your worktop and on top of the dough. If you have a large spatula, it will help moving the base to a baking tray.
First make your base plate. The lantern is 10cm x 10 cm so check that it fits on your base and that you have a dish or tray where the base plate fits. If you end up having a base that doesn’t fit on a tray or a plate, of course you can cut out a piece from a cardboard box and cover that in tin foil to make a display tray for your creation.
Roll the base around 8-10mm thick, you want it to be quite sturdy. Roll the dough as evenly as possible to help an uniform bake and give a nice flat surface for your piece. If you want, you can cut the base out or leave unfinished more rustic edges. Using a spatula, lift to a baking tray lined with non-stick parchment paper.
When baking the base use 200C/185C (fan assisted oven). The baking time depends a lot on the size and thickness of the base, mine took 25minutes. I started from 15min and added 5min, then 2-3min at a time until I got a no ice dark bake that felt rather solid but didn’t burn from the edges. The gingerbread solidifies as it cools, so don’t wait it to feel totally hard, dark brown colour without catching the edges is what you want.
Roll out more dough to cut out the pieces for the lantern. Ideally you want to roll out enough dough to cut all the pieces from the same sheet so that they are of uniform thickness and quality. If you can’t get all the pieces from the one sheet, just roll out more and preferably measure that you have the same 5mm thickness in all the pieces.
Place the pattern on the rolled dough and cut pieces out with a sharp knife. Preferably prepare spares in case something brakes or burns… I made everything double just in case and then I could choose the best pieces.
When you have cut the pieces, move them to a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper using a spatula. Cut out the windows when on the tray, I found this easier than to move a piece with a hole in. You can use cookie cutters or cut out the shape you want. Just make sure to leave an edge of 1.5-2.0cm so that the pieces are sturdy enough to assemble.
Any excess dough left you can roll out and cut out gingerbread shapes and bake a couple of trays of gingerbread so nothing is wasted.
When baking the lantern pieces again go for a nice rather dark brown bake so that the gingerbread is quite hard when it cools down so that you can build with it. Mine took around 12min but keep checking every few minutes.
When the pieces are done, let them cool down properly until decorating the pieces or assembling.
Decorating and assembly
I like to decorate the sides of the lantern first before assembling because I feel it’s easier to decorate pieces that lay flat. You do need to wait until the icing has fully set before assembly and be mindful that you don’t damage the decorations when assembling
I like to use royal icing for decorating for it sets quicker than icing made with icing sugar and water. You also tend to get better control of the thickness of the icing. Royal icing is egg whites and icing sugar whisked together. I used one egg white which I whisked lightly with a fork and then kept adding tablespoonfuls of icing sugar until I got quite a thick icing that would be ok to pipe and wasn’t runny. If you are worried about food safety of raw egg, use pasteurised egg white which should be quite readily available in supermarkets.
If you want to use shop bought icing, do checked that they are ok for coeliacs so do not contain wheat, barley, rye, oats of have a ‘may contain’ statement to any of them or ‘cereals’ containing gluten’. I had a look in my local supermarket, and from their designer icings the white one was ok and all the coloured ones had wheat in. For a coeliac even a trace amount can trigger the auto-immune response and damage the lining in the small intestine undoing up to 6 months worth of healing, as that’s considered the minimum time the lining takes to heal, so it’s better to be safe than sorry.
With the decoration, you can go as minimal or as elaborate you like. If you want to use sprinkles and other decorations such as sweets, again make sure they are ok for coeliacs to use as that’s the tightest standard for gluten-free. Finding suitable decorations can be tricky sometimes at least in the UK, but the selection in supermarkets is improving. I found the golden stars and snow flakes from Sainsbury’s to be ok as well as the shimmering decorative sugars. From sweets Skittles and Haribo are typically ok, of course just to be safe, always check everything in case there’s been changes to ingredients or processing.
When your decorations are done and the icing set, you can assemble the lantern. I used the royal icing for this. You could use melted sugar to which you dip the edges and then join together. It would be the quickest one to set and a really solid way of fastening the pieces, but I find the hot sugar a bit too tricky to work with so I prefer to work with royal icing, even if it means staying still for a longer time holding the pieces together until they’ve set.
To assemble, pipe icing along all the straight edges of the lantern pieces and then join them together carefully one by one holding them together with your hands. Having someone help you with this makes things a lot easier but it can also be done as a one person job. You might want to put an audio book on or have a video to watch while you hold the pieces and wait for the icing to set for this might take nearly ten minutes. Or you can take it as a meditative practice and do breathing exercises while you wait…
When you are confident that the pieces are holding together, you can let go and let the icing dry out for 10-15min. After this you can tidy the lantern up and pipe icing on the corners and bottom of lantern to fill any gaps and make it more attractive. You can add again any gf decorations to get the finish you want. Making squiggles on the base with the icing and adding sweets or sprinkles is a good tactic that doesn’t require a steady hand but you can
Now your lantern is done! Wait for the icing to dry out before moving to a display tray. You can place a battery operated tea light inside to make it more festive. If you choose to use a real tea light, place it on a hard non-flammable surface underneath as per candle manufacturers instructions, I used a soy sauce dish. Also make sure the candle doesn’t get so close to the sides that they could start to burn. Stick to fire safety guidance and never leave a lit candle unattended, also keep away from children and pets. With an edible table decoration, children and animals might need to be kept an eye on even without a candle, to be fair.
When you make a lantern of your own or do a bake with my recipes, do let me know by commenting here and letting me know where I can see a picture or tag me on Instagram (@gf_lifetweaks). You can also come and share your creations on my Facebook (@gflifetweaks) by leaving a comment or sending a DM. I’d love to see how you get on and how you are finding the recipes. Hope you have a fun time making these, have a happy festive season!
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The Fuel Brand Network is pleased to announce the launch of Fuel Your Product Design!
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Website of VSU was awarded the 1st degree diploma in the category “The best website of a higher educational establishment” at the 18th International Specialized Exhibition “Education and Career” in Minsk.
University information resources were evaluated according to the following criteria: site content (volume and attractiveness of information, focus on the target user, consistency and literacy of the presentation of the material, etc.), website design (convenience of structure and navigation elements, quality, functionality, etc.), feedback with the target audience of the site, indexing in search systems and traffic.
The purpose of the competition is to improve the informational segment of the international educational Internet space, increase the reputation and prestige of the official sites of educational establishments.
The competition was organized by Education Committee of the Minsk city Executive Committee, “Minsk city Institute for the Development of Education”, exhibition company "Expoforum".


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by Jena Hengstler
Summertime is the ideal time to get outdoors for days filled with adventure, picnics, sunshine, summer sports and all things vitamin D and fresh air. However, an occasional rainy day may have the family stuck indoors.
While everyone can appreciate a lazy morning and the crisp smell of a rainy day, most parents know it won’t take long before boredom sets in. These days are perfect for longer, more involved activities with endless layers that take planning, preparation and can be played for hours. Translation: let the kids take over the house for the sake of meaningful play and imagination.
Build a Rube Goldberg Machine
When I think of a Rube Goldberg, also known as a chain reaction machine, I instantly think of the opening scene of Back to the Future. It’s essentially a carefully planned out sequence of events engineered to perform a simple task. A quick YouTube search offers countless examples, specifically those designed by kids. Some are simple, such as a row of cascading dominoes, while others can last for several minutes.
The beauty of these types of machines is that the activity encompases multiple science and engineering skills disguised as creative fun, utilizing levers, pulleys, energetic force, timing, gravity and physics.
A rainy day is the ideal time to launch this idea. Spark your child’s interest with a few videos and let them take it from there. Encourage the addition of more levels to their machine or even try to make it go through more than one room of the house. This activity is perfect for all ages, teamwork, ingenuity and trial and error. Many small adjustments are usually needed to make it all work just right.
You could even play the supporting role of videographer.
Creating and Running a Town
The depth of this project can go as far as you’re willing to help with or encourage. The idea is for the kids to turn various rooms of the house into different stores.
The kitchen can be a restaurant – complete with a menu, hostess stand, cash register and the prep and service of real food items – thought up, prepared by and served by the kids. A neatly set up table for guests makes the restaurant complete.
One bedroom can be a gift shop. The child in charge of that “store” can display several unique items for sale, marked with a price and offer customers shopping baskets or bags for their purchases. When the customer has picked out their items, the “cashier”can total the cost and learn to calculate sales tax. They can practice counting back change and even make their own credit card machine to use. Perhaps even offer to gift wrap the customer’s purchases.
Turn the living room into a library. The children could organize a selection of books alphabetically by author – ready for check out. Visitors to the library can select their books and use their library card (created by the librarian). After checking out their books, library patrons receive a sticky note with a due date on them. Maybe the librarian could even suggest certain books, based on their interests, or offer “story hour” at certain times, where they dress up as a certain character and do a read aloud.
Additional rooms could become a clothing store, sports store, movie theater, post office, bank or whatever the kids can think up. Each one complete with everything to make the play seem as realistic as possible.
Who doesn’t love a good carnival? When suggesting this idea to your children, be prepared for a squealing response.
This is the perfect opportunity to let your child’s imagination run wild. They can take inspiration from standard carnival games, such as throwing a ping pong ball into cups of water or invent their own. Maybe indoor bowling, knocking down stacked blocks with a foam ball, paper airplane building, bobbing for apples, pin the tail on the donkey or even face painting.
They can make tickets, decide how much each game will cost and make signs accordingly. They can set up their stations, decorate and even find prizes to give away. Top it off with a popcorn and lemonade station, add some cheery music and you’ll have a fun event right in your own home.
Any of these ideas can turn a rainy day into lasting memories. It will be time well spent, imagination will come to life and learning opportunities are woven throughout.
Jena Hengstler is an elementary teacher. She always knew she wanted to work in education and has had a 15 year career charged with just as much learning as teaching. Her teaching journey has been filled with successes, trials, love, heartbreak, celebration and humility – all for the love of children. Jena calls the beautiful state of Wyoming her home. She loves doing life with her husband, Larry and her son, Hudson. When she isn’t at school, she enjoys reading, writing, drinking coffee that is still hot, watching sports, being outside and will always make time to watch the sunset.


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Last October, the Estonian pilot plant (Demo) was started at the Viimsi Water Treatment Plant, thus initiating the tasks of validation and operation of the pilot plant.
The technological scheme consisted of aeration column, the Hydrous Manganese Oxide oxidation tank, and filtration columns that may be packed with different filtration materials. The efficiency of the filter materials as sand and zeolite, is studied in the project.
The pilot plant is designed in order to remove Ra-226, Ra-228 and the other water constituents under the regulation concurrently presented in the water. The pilot plant will be operating in the Viimsi Water Treatment Plant during the next two years.


Welcome to a showcase of my work.
Be it commercials, PSAs, web videos, political ads, museum programs, or event videos, I find the best way to present story and information in an engaging way. My focus on storytelling leads me to be the creative director on many projects and continues to grow my abilities well beyond the lens to include conceptualization and execution of immersive multi-channel campaigns.
USPS wanted customers to use the newly redesigned version of their premiere online shipping tool, Click-N-Ship®. The ad agency team and I collaborated on a creative concept that focused on the simplicity of the shipping tool. The result was "Flip Steps".
I wanted to create a seamless visual transition entirely in-camera, so we built a huge flipping table with set dressing attached to each of the four sides. It was a challenging dance of coordination that relied heavily on my directing and producing skills. In the end, simplicity was achieved through well-planned complexity.
Flip Steps: Photo Gallery
Creating immersive experiences inspires visitors' thoughts and leads them to make connections that they never knew existed. "Systems At Work" engages visitors in an epic presentation of a subject that, at first, might seem mundane to many. The goal was to create a fun, exciting, and stylized adventure through the tech-savvy process of getting mail where it needs to go.
I developed the creative concept then produced and directed the project. The centerpiece of the exhibit is the resulting film presentation projected on a massive 270º cylindrical screen.
The USPS sales team needed engaging materials to sell their services to a variety of industries. I developed three short films that are told from the perspective of these industries and suggest how mail can work for them within a modern context.
These short films are presented at USPS trade show booths on massive screens. We also developed an accompanying tablet app that the sales team uses to engage potential customers one-on-one after the main presentation. Example mail pieces were also created as collateral materials for customers to take back to decision-makers at their respective businesses.
I managed all creative aspects of the film production, app development, and print design. It is a unique, cohesive package that continues to help USPS drive sales.
It all started with dogs chasing (and biting) mail carriers. The shocking reality was that thousands of carriers are injured by this kind of incident every year. At the same time, there were plenty of other safety related incidents that needed attention as well. USPS asked me to design a campaign surrounding keeping their employees and the public safe. After reviewing mountains of actual incident reports, I devised a simple, clear, and shocking creative approach to presenting the danger in certain situations and tips to prevent potential incidents.
This was the first time I got to work with dogs and a stunt team. We hired dogs that worked on shows like "House of Cards" and many others. Our stunt team was one of the best on the east coast. I learned so much on this production. The biggest reward was knowing that the result of my work would help prevent people getting hurt.
Motion graphics effectively illustrate intangible ideas, visualize data, and make connections for viewers. My approach to motion design stems from my perspective as a filmmaker. I frequently use sweeping 3D camera movements and kinetic animation of graphic elements.I like to make use of practically filmed and scanned elements to add realism, texture, and depth to my designs.


Many WordPress themes require some specific elements in the menu items. A simple example is the Bootstrap 3 menu with specific dropdown elements. In this tutorial we will learn how to build your own WordPress custom menu with a Walker_Nav_Menu class.
Why Would You want a Custom Menu?
If you are a theme builder or you are even creating a custom solution, you would need a WordPress custom menu in several situations. Here are some of them:
- Show different menu items to visitors and logged-in users
- Add other elements requested in the navigation by frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, …)
- Include different information based on menu types (categories, pages, posts, tag, BuddyPress page, …)
These are only some of possible scenarios you could create your own WordPress custom menu walker.
Our WordPress Custom Menu
In this tutorial we will create a simple custom menu. Our menu will include the description of links and we will not create a link (
a element) if there is no link to it. We will then create a
We will do that using the theme Twenty Sixteen for styling purposes so that you can also try the code and the styling much easier. That is, if you are using the latest WordPress version.
We could use the
Walker class that is being used for many items inside WordPress, but we would need to set some other parameters. By extending
Walker_Nav_Menu all the default parameters are set from the beginning.
Base of our Custom Walker
This is just to start our walker. You can add this inside the
functions.php file in the folder
We are adding this before changing the theme’s header so that we do not get an error.
Changing the Twenty Sixteen Menu
To change the menu and add our own custom walker, open header.php and change this small part:
That’s it! We have added our walker and we can now start creating our own Custom WordPress Menu.
WordPress Custom Menu Item
The item is displayed by the static method
start_el. This method accepts few parameters, some of them are self-explanatory, but two of them are hard to work with if we don’t know what they contain.
The two of them are
$output is a variable passed by reference. This means that it does not have to be returned. Everything that happens in this method to that variable will be available in the next iteration also.
$item is an object that represents the an item of the menu. This is an example of a custom link:
Please take some time to read those values and understand them. Have some fun, change the menu items information and see what will change in there. For example, the
title is the value that you will type in the Navigation label input.
To make the Description label visible, you must scroll to the top and click on the Screen options. Once there, you need to check the Description to make it visible.
$args contains every information we pass into the function
wp_nav_menu. This can be used to enter some information from the arguments into our WordPress custom menu.
Some of the information inside the
$item object will be used in our custom menu. Let’s prepare them:
The variables that we will use here are actually
Creating the Menu Item
We are now prepared to create our menu item. Use this code for that:
We will first create our
li element with all the classes we have received from WordPress. This is done by using the PHP function
After that, we are checking if there is a permalink. If the permalink only contains # then we are not considering it a link. For that case we will create a
span element instead of
Once that is done, our output will get also the
title of our item.
We are then checking if there is a description. If the variable
$description is not empty and we are on the first level (
$depth==0), we will add the description to the output.
At the end of our item, we are again having the same check for the permalink, but not for opening our element. We are doing it for closing the element.
Adding the Styles
Since we are working with the Twenty Sixteen theme, I have also created some styles for our non-link elements and for the description. Add this:
With that styles I have now this:
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Creating WordPress custom menu can be a daunting task if you are not aware of all the information that is available to you. There are menu walkers out there, probably for any framework you work with. The most important part I wanted for you to take from this tutorial is that you can control every part of each menu item.
This really can come in handy when working on some custom solutions or very specific themes.
Have you worked with some custom menus? Did you build your own menu walker or used one? Please do share that in the comments below:)
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Thank you for the tutorial. Is there a way to customize only those menus in a sidebar of a specific ID? I want to create a walker that only applies to Navigation Menu widgets in a specific sidebar.
Hi Red, you can use the filter ‘widget_nav_menu_args’ inside that widget to check on the sidebar probably. This filter can be found inside
wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-nav-menu-widget.php. The variable
$argsshould contain every information about the sidebar. After that, you can easily change the
$nav_menu_argsparam to add your own Navigation Walker 🙂
Thank you for your time. $args does not store which sidebar a widget is stored in. $params lists sidebars, but I haven’t been smart enough to find a way to use them together. I need something like, “if this widget is in that sidebar, then use this walker, else use the default”
Here is information about $args where someone is trying to do something similar. I tried using a walker except on certain menu_id, but menu_id always comes up blank when following the directions here.
It would be easier to change the default walker and then just use custom walkers in the registered areas. If I change the default using the code below, then my registered areas menus ignore their custom walkers and use the default one instead.
So i’ve been trying to create custom menu markup for my theme but the more i try the more i get frustrated! Pls anybody willing to help me?
This is the markup i want printed out;
Anyway way i can do that? Thanks in advance!
I think I don’t understand the question. Can you use the menu Label field?
thanks for the info
how would this apply to a child theme structure?
The same way. If you’re doing a custom menu in your child theme, you could pass the walker directly into that function.
Thanks for this solution. But When I made custom navwalker as you did, I faced a problem that only one item is shown in menu. Can you help me for this?
Thanks for the tutorial. I have your tutorial up and running on my development server and all looks good. But would there be any chance the author could extend this tutorial here by showing how we could modify a nested list that is within an li element? for example, from within the walker go ahead and add an custom class to the sub list, or wrap that sub list in a div element.
It worked for me, thank you! (I’m developing a theme with Bulma.io)
Thanks for your very detailed post. I looked for something like that for months. I’ll check your blog to find more sweets like that one 🙂
Very useful tutorial. I’ve made a menu with images after reading this article.
Thank you for this!!!!!


10 Tips for Suit Wearers
Here's a few quick tips and reminders on how to look your best when getting suited and booted this weekend!
10 TIPS TO TAKE NOTE OF:
Tip 1) The tip of your tie should always meet your belt line, or hang just above it.
Tip 2) Your belt should be the same (or almost the same) colour as your shoes.
Tip 3) Make sure your tie and pocket square are different.
Tip 4) Don't go sockless! Just wear socks.
Tip 5) Tie bars are made to be worn between the 3rd and 4th button hole on your shirt and should never be wider than the tie you are wearing.
Tip 6) Try and match (as best you can) the width of your tie to the width of the lapel on your jacket.
Tip 7) Shirt sleeve cuffs should be exposed past your jacket sleeve about half an inch, around the same amount that your collar should be visible above the back of your jacket.
Tip 8) Make sure your socks are long enough to cover your leg if you cross your legs when sitting down (nobody wants to see your hairy calf).
Tip 9) As a rule of thumb its usually best to opt for a tie that is darker than your shirt.
Tip 10) Avoid over-accessorising. If you're already wearing a pocket square and a tie bar, maybe reconsider the lapel pin.
Have an awesome weekend!
Thanks for reading.


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The apartments in the Regensburg Marina Apartments are furnished and equipped in such a manner that you can use your living room as effectively as possible. The most up-to-date storage systems provide a lot of space during the day, even in smaller apartment, and can be used optimally. Our two-room apartments also contain these systems, with integrated fold-out beds that have been designed specifically for these apartments. With two bathrooms in these apartments, both you and your guests can enjoy comfort and privacy. Fold-out desks and dining tables also allow you to design your living space just as you like.
The execution of the apartments is impressive, with the use of floor-to-ceiling windows that have been made as large as possible in order to capture as much daylight as possible. All bathrooms have a whirlpool tub. Air conditioning in all apartments on the 4th floor, electronic access and locking systems for apartments, the basement, underground car park and main entrance, and a light switch that can be programmed by smartphone create a comfortable and modern living environment.
All apartments have a fully-equipped kitchen with high-quality electrical devices, a washing machine and dryer as standard, as well as a flatscreen TV and fast Wi-Fi, free of charge.
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Typical floor plans
Viewing of the Apartments in Regensburg
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This project sponsored by Eversource Energy as part of their grid upgrades. The project involves the elimination of existing Watertown 25R Substation located near 64 Echo Lake Rd. This substation is comprised of 50+ year old equipment and operates at 4.8kV Delta. Due to the age of the infrastructure and the obsolescence of 4.8kV Delta systems, this substation i9s being retired. In order to retire this substation the creation of a new circuit out of Shaw’s Hill 24H Substation is required. The proposed new circuit will need to be installed through 2,500 ft. of existing manhole duct infrastructure along Sunnyside to Edgewood Rd., at which point it will exit the underground and rise overhead. In addition, this design also calls for the installation of one new manhole duct being installed at the intersection of Sunnyside Ave. and Edgewood Rd.
Upon completion, this project will greatly improve service reliability for customers in the area. The anticipated work will eliminate 50+ year old equipment, update outdated system voltages to company standard, and create new automatic circuit ties that will assist in providing alternate source for over 6,029 customers during potential contingencies.
The contractor completing the work is Stone Construction Co. Inc. of Southbury. Sunnyside Avenue is expected to have single lane closure for 10 weeks. The project is anticipated to commence on September 11th. Upon completion of the duct bank all lanes will be restored for use. We thank you for your patience during this period of work and appreciate your consideration as this impacts travel and public transportation routes.


I have been using Clover Chibi Metal Darning Needles for the past five years or more. These Japan-made tools have been valuable in my knitting projects especially in making baby socks!
In the photo above, I am showing the straight darning needles. The curved darning needles (comes in a yellow case) are just as good and are great to use as well.
1. They are inexpensive.
2. The needles last for a long period of time.
3. The darning needles are sturdy and pleasant to use.
4. Clover designed a clear tube so that you can easily see what tools you have.
5. The container is easy to open.
6. The needles are blunt enough that they don’t hurt your hand when binding off socks, hats, fingerless gloves, or any knitting project where you’re sewing seams together as well.
7. The cap is easy to twist off.
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9. The needle set comes in three sizes and widths for various yarn weights and sizes.
Happy Baby Sock Knitting!


Digging into IAC parameters
You probably already know the two key aspects of IAC: (1) imperative vs declarative code and (2) immutable vs mutable infrastructure. Let's dig right into them.
I am aiming to give you a high-level refresher on these two aspects of IAC with the help of quoted experts.
You may get a new perspective for explaining to new engineers and leadership why you have architected your IAC files the way you have. After all, many of us still have to defend our choices well after making them. So let’s begin:
Imperative vs declarative configuration
The early days of IaC meant telling the computer exactly what you wanted it to do. In terms of infrastructure provisioning, the IaC provisioning tool followed imperative (also known as procedural) **instructions. In this paradigm, the engineer specifies the exact steps.
The system does not deviate from the instructions even if they are inefficient. For example, imperative code may execute from a command-line interface with a Bash script. It would then drive a step-by-step configuration of the infrastructure.
Its simplicity makes workflow audits easier, but imperative code doesn’t scale well because the results will vary depending on what’s going on in the infrastructure at the time. The code is not designed to be reusable.
If you run an imperative script multiple times, you may begin to notice variability in the infrastructure that is provisioned. This is especially the case if an error occurs somewhere along the execution process of the script. (Sai Vennam, Developer Advocate at IBM, 2019)
Declarative instructions, on the other hand, give consistent results as the code is about the end result. In your code file, you define the pattern required then leave it to the tool to work out how to achieve it. The system then works continuously until it reaches that state.
Declarative instructions are the better preferred way for IaC provisioning, to create and change infrastructure configurations. However, they may not be adequate for more complex infrastructure needs where the path needs to be as clear as the destination.
In high CPU workload situations, declarative code has the advantage. According to Martin Kleppman, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, declarative languages are better suited for parallel execution. He wrote that recent advances in CPU performance have been due to adding more cores and not through higher clock speeds than before”.
Imperative code is very hard to parallelize across multiple cores and multiple machines, because it specifies instructions that must be performed in a particular order. Declarative languages have a better chance of getting faster in parallel execution because they specify only the pattern of the results, not the algorithm that is used to determine the results. — Martin Kleppman
In some situations, using tools that allow for both imperative and declarative instructions may be wise. Most of the earlier tools that were originally imperative only now work in both imperative and declarative modes.
Mutable vs immutable infrastructure
A mutable approach to infrastructure is where you can change the state of the infrastructure to another. An immutable approach to infrastructure is when you don’t change the infrastructure to another form. Instead, you create new infrastructure and retire the old infrastructure.
There is a benefit to this non-changeability, which we will get to in a moment. But first, let’s go through an example, which is an abridged version of Armon Dadgar’s explanation of mutable vs immutable infrastructure.
Say you have a server version 1 running Apache and your team decides to switch to NGINX for version 2. In a mutable environment, you’re essentially upgrading the existing infrastructure. You’d run the IaC config tool (e.g. Ansible) to the Apache server to execute the change to NGINX.
There is a benefit to this:
We already have this existing server. Maybe we have data that we've written locally and that our web server is consuming. When we update in place [with mutable configuration], we don't have to worry about moving the data around to other machines, creating a new machine, all of the infrastructures already exists. All we're gonna do is perform this upgrade. — Armon Dadgar, CTO at Hashicorp
The issue with this is that things in the real world can go wrong, especially during an upgrade procedure. Mutable infrastructure faces the risk of messy version control, as we’ll now explore by continuing on with the Apache → NGINX example.
Let’s say we run this code to install NGINX: apt-get install NGINX
but then the APT repo isn’t responsive, or the network is lagging excessively, or a myriad of other things. The risk is that NGINX might not get installed properly or at all. So the provisioning tool has executed the version change, but it’s not what we expected.
This creates three inter-related issues:
You haven’t necessarily achieved the goal state of Version 2 having NGINX for the webserver
It’s difficult to test half-successful upgrades because there may be variability in performance
Upgrades done at scale means varying degrees of change depending on the real-world issue with the network, repo etc
In a large scale web server change configuration, you may end up with:
most servers having NGINX installed and running 😄
some servers with no NGINX installed 😔 and
a few servers with NGINX installed but no webserver running 😕
An immutable approach does away with the risk of half-upgraded virtual or physical servers. You would follow this process for the Apache → NGINX example:
Keep running Apache server while you complete steps 2 to 4
Spool up a new virtual machine
Install and configure NGINX webserver on that
Test that all parameters are performant
Retire the Apache server
It may seem a lot more work than simply upgrading the existing Apache server to NGINX, but may save on the above risk of varying NGINX installs.
Coburn Watson is head of infrastructure & SRE at Pinterest. His take on the issue might sum up the whole argument for moving away from mutable infrastructure. In the 2018 book, Seeking SRE, he wrote:
"I think we’ve all worked at companies where we upgrade something [mutable], and it turns out it was bad and we spend the night firefighting it because we’re trying to get the site back up because the patch didn’t work. [Now] when we go to put new code into production, we never upgrade anything, we just push a new version alongside the current code base.”
Note that immutable infrastructure works best if the various application components run on separate servers. In particular, store data on another server. So when you run a create-retire routine like above, you don’t risk precious user data in the process.
I hope you found this breakdown useful.


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Every element of branding and design contributes to the customer experience and creates an emotional connection. Good design is also good for business. In fact, companies that value design tend to outperform in terms of both revenues and returns to shareholders, according to the McKinsey & Company Design Index.
Brand Identity and Logo Design
Brand identity is more than just logo design – it’s an ongoing process of building your brand and creating a consistent brand voice in everything your company does. For a deeper dive into our brand identity development process, read our blog post Brand Identity: Love at First Sight.
Graphic Design and Infographics
Every piece of graphic design we create – whether a website, a billboard, or a restaurant menu design – is a concept come to life. Formal design elements such as color, typography, composition, and imagery carry meaning and tell a story. Infographics are an excellent way to help your audience better understand complex material such as a customer journey map or instructions.


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Liz has always loved found objects and fragments that are worn and weathered. These show signs of their past lives, make us wonder about their history, stir memories and feelings, and blend the passage of time, reality and imagination. This has parallels with the Japanese idea of Wabi Sabi, ﬁnding beauty in imperfection.


Now that the snow has finally melted here in the UK, I have decided it is time to bring out the spring wardrobe in the hope for some sun and warm weather!
I have been browsing the shops to find my favourite Spring pieces that are currently taking over the high street.
Last year was all about the statement tops, pairing simple jeans with the most amazing shirts and blouses. Whether it was the ruffle trend, stripes, pleats and lace, your top was doing all the talking. While this is still a key wardrobe piece this year, I believe that printed and modern length dresses are making the exact same impact.
As you can see below, these dresses range from midi to maxi length and all are bold in their own way. I feel that this is a great way to wear dresses even when it isn’t the warmest weather. Layering these pieces with jackets or even a light jumper will keep it practical but stylish at the same time. Leopard print was all over the catwalks and street style looks during last week's fashion week, wearing this print as a dress is a really easy way to incorporate it into your wardrobe.
Abstract Print Dress £49.99
Maxi Striped Dress £25.99
Leopard Print Dress £19.99
Wide Red Maxi Dress £39.99
Midi Striped Multi Coloured Dress £17.99
Probably my most favourite pieces in my wardrobe throughout the year are shirts. The items I have chosen below are amazing! The contrast stitching, collar shapes, stripes, colours, bow, sleeve and button details excites me so much! Shirts are so easy to wear but make a look so put together due to the sharpness of the cut and the smart feel. As you know from my previous blog posts I love to layer shirts under my knitwear, the white round collar shirt below would look so cute under any jumper!
Linen Contrast Button Shirt £39.99
Blue Elastic Sleeve Shirt £25.99
Bow Collar Shirt £49.99
Round Collar White Shirt £29.99
Contrast Stitch Blue Shirt £39.99
Sheer Stripe Shirt £25.99
I thought I was done with wearing knitwear until I saw Zara’s current collection! The colours are so cool and literally what I look for in my wardrobe! Even though the weather is getting warmer, these jumpers can be worn with simply jeans and youre good to go. Ill let the jumpers do the talking…
Open Textured Jumper £39.99
Multicolour Stripe Jumper £39.99
Jacquard Pink Jumper £39.99
Multicolour Embroidered Jumper £89.99
I wish I could have everything from this wishlist, hopefully I'll get my hands on some pieces soon!! Now that spring is approaching I am excited to experiment with more colour and styles!
What are your current high street faves?