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If there is one thing I would change about my playing today it would be my dependency on tone. I think this is true for everybody that has played for a number of years. The more refined your ear gets and the more in tune with nuance and touch you get, the harder it is to play when your sound is less than satisfactory. Of course there are many things you can do about it, from changing your guitars, amps, pedals—even down to strings, tubes and picks. But after you’ve gone through all that experimentation and you’ve established your signature sound, the curse of tone still hounds you. Now it has to do with the environment you’re playing in.
On tour this year over in Europe, I realize how much better I play when the sound is right. A three-piece band like mine needs a big room with a certain amount of live reflection but not too boomy. If it’s too live we hope the people will absorb some of the sound (they always do), but if it’s too dead we know it’s gonna be tough to get the cohesive sound we strive for. If you play down at the front of the stage you sometimes have to contend with front of house or worse, sub woofers under the stage. For me this can take all the definition out of the bass and mess up the low end of my guitar. A dry, dead room sometimes renders my distortion sound scratchy and brittle, and I have to compensate by turning down presence and treble and adding more delay.
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2019-04-26T05:58:41Z
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https://www.guitarplayer.com/myblog/81
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Mr. James E. O'Connor is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. O'Connor has more than 30 years of experience in the waste industry. He was most recently a senior executive at Republic Services where he served as Chief Executive Officer from December 1998 to January 2011 and as Chairman of the Board from January 2003 to May 2011. From 1972 to 1978 and from 1982 to 1998, Mr. O'Connor served in various positions with Waste Management, Inc., including Senior Vice President from 1997 to 1998, Area President of Waste Management of Florida, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, Senior Vice President of Waste Management—North America from 1991 to 1992 and Vice President—Southeastern Region from 1987 to 1991. Mr. O'Connor is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian National Railway Company, a Canadian company publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and Casella Waste Systems, Inc., a reporting company under the Exchange Act. Mr. O'Connor earned a B.A. from DePaul University. Mr. O'Connor brings to our Board substantial executive leadership experience, including his service as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a public company, along with extensive knowledge of, and key business contacts in, the refuse industry.
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2019-04-25T15:50:48Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/business/stocks/officer-profile/CLNE.OQ/1631516
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apple
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Ten years ago Rab learned the secret of the planet he calls home – and lost the young girl he’d vowed to protect; traded for a sweater, a set of gloves and a second-hand pair of boots. Since then, he’s wandered the barren surface alone searching for her, returning to the tunnels only when hunger, exhaustion or the inconstant seasons offer him no choice. When a freak accident occurs during the harvest, the death of an old friend finds Rab agreeing to abandon his search and guide Fin, now a tunnel-dweller, and Cloud, a former captive of the Top-siders, back to his old village to deliver a macabre and precious cargo. Although reconciled to honouring his word, Rab is convinced that their reckless journey south will tell him nothing he doesn’t already know and that the secret he has dutifully guarded all these years is in no danger of being exposed. He is wrong.
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2019-04-21T00:53:06Z
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https://books.apple.com/us/book/faithless/id1216890735?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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Arts
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Home
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altpress
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Overseen by producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters), AFI’s latest is top-loaded with atmosphere-enhancing, widescreen production that’s so grandiose, it should have Michael Bay’s name all over it. “No Resurrection” and “A Deep Slow Panic” come off as the steroid-laden progeny of post-punk godfathers. Vocalist Davey Havok veers between passionate poetry (“Greater Than 84”) and Clear Channel-approved over-emoting (“I Hope You Suffer”). There are a few manic diversions (the Social Distortion-meets-Interpol exercise “Heart Stops,” the rapid-pulsing “Wild”) before Burials peaks with “The Face Beneath The Waves,” the most romantically menacing thing AFI have created. The song is powered with an emotional context that’s more Emily Brontë than Stephenie Meyer—the kind of thing playing when lovers are ripped out of each other’s arms during the apocalypse. With Burials, AFI are going larger than life to get back into the small of their fans’ hearts.
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2019-04-19T05:09:36Z
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https://www.altpress.com/reviews/afi_burials/
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mit
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Why are we making hate studios?
Just one of those scratch undertale AUs.
every single person. You are the greatest!
Marisa's Adventure 2 has been given to bloplol07.
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2019-04-22T10:38:20Z
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https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ChaseSmith915/studios/
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Games
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responsesource
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Siobhán Géhin, who has worked for both Home Retail Group and ASDA-Walmart in a variety of senior management roles encompassing both strategy and operations for stores and online businesses, has joined the UK practice of Kurt Salmon the specialist global retail and consumer goods consultancy, as an associate partner.
During her 10 years in retail, Siobhán has successfully made the business case for new concepts and had financial responsibility for bringing them to market and for growing sales.
At Home Retail Group she delivered a strategic growth agenda, including the assessment of potential new markets and acquisitions. At ASDA-Walmart she headed up retail operations for new businesses (opticians, photoshops, pharmacies and financial services) across 65 stores.
Siobhán has also had experience within the food sector, rolling out the KFC brand in Germany and in operations and product development both at KFC and Mars.
Kurt Salmon is the leading global management consulting firm specialising in the retail and consumer products industry. We leverage our unparalleled industry expertise to help business leaders make strategic, operational and technology decisions which achieve tangible and meaningful results.
This press release was distributed by ResponseSource Press Release Wire on behalf of Laderman PR in the following categories: Food & Drink, Business & Finance, Retail & Fashion, for more information visit https://pressreleasewire.responsesource.com/about.
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2019-04-24T04:55:26Z
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https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/69633/kurt-salmon-strengthens-uk-retail-team-with-store-and-multi-channel/
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zdnet
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What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
It doesn't really matter how good your products or your prices are — if you can't look after those with whom you do business with, you'll quickly find that the phones stop ringing.
Customer relationship management (CRM) products have evolved through ever-increasing layers of complexity until these days they can basically head out and find new customers for you. That complexity can come at a price — how do your users make productive use of a product which can do almost everything for them? How can they make sense of mountains of data and, most importantly, how can they translate all this information into effective practices and workflows that will allow your company to grow?
Paradoxically, while CRM products have become more powerful, they've also become far more portable. Gone are the days when an enterprise-class business solution involved massive infrastructural investment. Datacentres and the expanding global bandwidth penetration means that companies can have entire solutions hosted offsite, giving them greater flexibility about when and where to deploy and, more importantly, how quickly. The drive to be first to market is incessant, and with hosted services or software as a service will allow companies to deploy rapidly and effectively.
In this round-up of CRM vendors, we were particularly interested in feature sets and the maturity and accessibility of their hosted solutions. As customer relationship management can sometimes be a vague catch-all phrase, we also wanted to get a sense of the vision these companies bring to their customers and to see what innovations they bring to market to stand out from the crowd.
We installed the latest stable release of SugarCRM Community Edition — 5.2.0f — using the Windows/MSSQL stack installer on Windows 2003 R2 Standard x86 SP2. There are a number of flavours of stack installers available, depending on the platform you're looking to support, and the wizard-based installation doesn't require the administrator to do much other than verify prerequisites and specify names and passwords.
We used the default bundled installation of SQL Server 2005 Express, but you can choose to use an already-available instance of SQL or MySQL on a local or remote server. The stack also installed Apache with PHP support and we were up and running within 20 minutes. All the installers are powered by Sugar's own FastStack software and are available for Windows, Linux, OS X and Sun platforms.
The functionality to import information into the SugarCRM system is quite basic. You can import users, contacts, meetings/tasks and account/sales data, but the only options are to import from a delimited file or from a CSV exported from Salesforce.com. There are a few more options when importing contacts, as you can use CSVs exported from Outlook or from ACT! or vCards. It is possible to integrate SugarCRM with an authoritative third-party user system like Active Directory or any other LDAP-compliant system. By default the web interface is somewhat cluttered, but this can be customised.
Email integration is handled using either SMTP or sendmail protocols — no native integration with specific vendor systems. Each Sugar user has a web mail interface as part of the online portal and can send mail to both Sugar users and contacts via the shared address book.
However, there is no internal email functionality and all mail is routed via the defined external email system. Users aren't obliged to use the web mail interface as there are plug-ins available for Outlook 2003/2007 as well as Thunderbird 1.5/2.x. Similarly, document management functionality can be enhanced with plug-ins for Word 2003/2007 and Excel 2007, and there is an external SourceForge project to bring the same functionality to OpenOffice. Through a variety of third parties SugarCRM can also be integrated with Lotus Notes, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and the iPhone.
In spite of SugarCRM's obvious lack of features and relative simplicity when compared with other CRM packages available on the market, we really like this product. It's surprisingly mature and covers all the basics well. There's a thriving online community dedicated to its continued success, it's both free and easy to install, and the system requirements are minimal, which makes it a very attractive and accessible solution to businesses of any size.
The downside with using open source products is that businesses are very much dependent on their own in-house technical resources or will have to pay for a contractor's services, and as reliance on the product grows, costs are more than likely to rise. Many businesses may prefer the Express, Professional or Enterprise editions which come with support models and are available as both on-premise and hosted solutions.
An Express package starts from US$499 per year, so it's a very viable option. It is also possible to install and develop a Community Edition and then migrate to a business account. There are SugarCRM partners and resellers globally, so companies looking to implement a solution will find local support.
With its clean user interface, SalesForce CRM offers a very intuitive online experience and is a breeze to set up. You can import account data and contacts from Outlook, ACT! or alternate sources from CSV using a straightforward upload wizard — our test Outlook CSV imported easily, automatically populating business account and contact details.
Salesforce.com doesn't contain an email package, but it does offer pretty tight integration with third-party products. We particularly liked the ability to configure emails sent via external accounts like Gmail to be logged against account activity and have bounce-back alerts within the system. The system can also be integrated with Google Apps for domain-based collaborative management so that SalesForce users can make use of components like Google Docs and Gmail from within the SalesForce portal. This is a particularly nice touch, and a solid acknowledgement that Salesforce.com is a true cloud application.
Application integration and offline access are major aspects of SalesForce products, and users have access to a suite of Connect desktop integration products — Outlook, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Word and Excel. Users can use the online portal to check for and install version updates. Customers who have purchased either the Enterprise or Unlimited Editions also have access to Force.com Connect Offline, another integration tool that lets mobile users access Salesforce.com data while disconnected, then sync any changes when they reconnect to the internet. System admins can create policy-based configs assigned to different organisational roles that define and restrict which datasets users can access offline, as well as calculate estimated data downloads.
We tested the integration apps on a 32-bit Windows Vista Enterprise SP2 system. The bundled installers didn't react well to UAC, even with administrator elevation, so we had to disable it to get a successful install. Connect Offline uses the local browser to deliver a mobile SalesForce interface, populated with datasets made available via system policy. The Office plug-ins give users the ability to import merge fields into Word and reporting features in Excel. Unfortunately, the plug-ins don't remember the SalesForce password, and given that you have to use a security token as well as a password for the offline APIs, this is quite frustrating.
For ultra-mobile users with smartphones (and who have purchased the Unlimited Edition), there's also the ability to provide access to the Salesforce.com system from Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone or Palm devices. Admins can set up different mobile configs assigned to various users, which define mobile time-outs, and can prevent users from accessing Saleforce.com from non-authorised devices.
There are four product editions available, each offering varying levels of online storage, support and feature sets, and the pricing varies accordingly although details are not published online. Extra services are available at cost, like LDAP single sign-on and integration with SAP or Oracle.
Salesforce.com is an accessible and flexible application for business who don't want to have to implement an on-premise CRM solution. It's suitable for businesses from just a few users right up to large companies. Of course, as with any hosted solution there are dependencies and points of failure outside your control, like ISP links, as well as greater bandwidth costs. But for many businesses this will be more than offset by the ease and speed of deployment.
Leveraging off Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS and Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is designed to fit seamlessly into a Windows environment. The system is accessible to users via a web browser or the CRM client, which integrates with Outlook, presenting users with a familiar UI to get them up and running quickly, and also has an optional SQL Server Express component for mobile users to house offline data. The system can route email from an Exchange server or with non-Microsoft systems via POP/SMTP. Dynamics CRM can also integrate with other Microsoft products like SharePoint.
Importing contacts and customer account data into Dynamics is a little different than with other CRM packages. You still export the data as a CSV, but the upload is done using the Dynamics CRM Migration Manager, which is a stand-alone tool you need to download and install and which talks to the Dynamics system via SQL. If you're using Dynamics CRM Online, there is a different Migration Manager package available.
Because of its tight integration with Outlook, Dynamics displays the online CRM data within the shared Outlook views — Calendar, Contacts, Tasks etc — or you can view them separately in dedicated views. This offers users instant familiarity with the UI as it slots into a pre-existing business tool — a distinct advantage when implementing a new system. We particularly liked the "Track in CRM" function which ties together data across all aspects of the system, and when used in conjunction with the "Advanced Find" feature it gives users a complete 360-degree overview of account communications, meetings and relationships with other contacts.
For highly mobile users, Microsoft has its free Mobile Express product for Windows Mobile devices — this uses HTML browsing for online access to the Dynamics system and doesn't offer any offline functionality. There are plenty of ISVs who have written products for Windows Mobile platforms as well as the BlackBerry, Nokia and iPhone, which offer a richer user experience and offline data. There is also a wide network of Microsoft partners who develop custom solutions in Dynamics leveraging off external resources like Silverlight and Virtual Earth, so external support is readily available.
Given the product dependencies, an on-premise solution is best suited to enterprises with a well-established Microsoft infrastructure. Hosted solutions are also available from many Dynamics CRM providers, and these tend to be much cheaper and easier to establish, scalable and suitable for businesses with a highly mobile workforce. The licensing is based on a per-user subscription model so there are significant cost savings to be made, and the offsite system can still be integrated with on-premise Exchange systems. Hosted data can later be migrated onto an in-house system.
A significant player in the big end of town, SAP's offerings are SAP CRM, which is part of the on-premise SAP Business Suite, and SAP CRM On-Demand, a fully-hosted subscription-based service.
SAP CRM is geared to provide real-time collaborative data to various enterprise departments — sales, marketing, customer service, call centre and internal/external e-commerce. As with the rest of the Business Suite, SAP CRM is platform-agnostic and can be implemented and supported on a wide variety of operating systems and databases to best fit in with the customer's existing infrastructure.
SAP CRM On-Demand is designed to facilitate rapid deployment of CRM solutions. Using a per-user subscription licensing model and fully integrated with on-premise CRM ERP installations, CRM On-Demand allows enterprises to deploy within weeks rather than months, and is particularly suitable for difficult geographical locations or for enabling a highly-mobile workforce to hit the market quickly. The product isn't as fully-featured as SAP CRM and is only suitable for sales, marketing and customer service lines of business, so customers requiring more functionality will either have to look at an on-premise solution or engage consultants to achieve the necessary customisations.
When we tested, we particularly liked the clean, stripped-back user interface. A mistake some CRM products make is to assume that users want access to all the information available to them, not realising this can make for a cluttered and intrusive UI with the result that it takes users longer to become familiar with the product which results in a drop in productivity. Although fully customisable with the ability to be as complex as you like, SAP's products are minimalist and intuitive out of the box, and accessible across a wide range of mobile platforms for road warriors.
An interesting emergent feature of complex products like SAP Business Suite is departmental sandboxing — products which are heavily designed and customised to meet a particular business need have a tendency to, over time, effectively become stand-alone entities. Individual products may enable disparate lines of business to collaborate on a particular business process, which has cross-department implications, but the data is not available to the wider context of enterprise practises. SAP is looking to reverse this silo effect in the upcoming release of Business Suite, which will be an interesting development for both existing and prospective SAP customers.
SAP is very much coming to market as a business solution architect, not a software vendor. This approach has certain implications for the type of customer SAP tends to deal with, which is (depending on your definition) definitely not SME. SAP's customer base is centred around enterprises with a $200+ million annual turnover. This is not to say that smaller businesses would not receive a great deal of benefit from SAP's product range, and the low entry-level cost of SAP CRM On-Demand is an attractive proposition as long as customisation costs can be avoided. Having said that, global financial crisis or not, you still get what you pay for, and SAP's CRM solutions are undeniably robust.
With its massive (and sometimes bewildering) suite of products, Oracle could be said to have a CRM solution for every occasion. Its CRM offerings come in the form of Oracle CRM, CRM On Demand, PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM, Social CRM, CRM Gadgets and, of course, Siebel CRM.
Entering the Oracle fold in 2005, Siebel CRM has since become the company's flagship CRM product. A massively-integrated on-premise solution, Siebel CRM handles everything from sales, marketing and call centres to customer self-service, e-billing and partner relationship management. Built on Siebel database technology, the product can run self-sufficiently or as an integrated part of a complex environment. It works alongside Outlook/Exchange to unify task and calendar management, and can be deployed to a wide range of mobile devices.
Working alongside Siebel CRM in a tag-team relationship is Oracle CRM On Demand. A key SaaS product, CRM On Demand is a hosted, subscription-based service that is designed to integrate tightly with both Oracle CRM and Siebel CRM. With licensing options starting from US$70/month per user, the product is designed to facilitate rapid CRM deployments. CRM On Demand is also an attractive proposition for new CRM customers, and the package features various data integration tools that allow a user to quickly import users, integrate with Outlook and access offline data.
Hosted solutions are often the poor cousins of the on-premise packages, with remote rapid deployment sites siloed off from the main centres of operation. Oracle has circumvented this problem with a custom integration application, which provides a unified user interface and data synchronisation between Siebel CRM and CRM On Demand. Leveraging off existing products in its own range (Fusion MiddleWare), this is an intelligent solution that gets users up and running quickly, and facilitates simpler, more cost-effective future transitions to on-premise installations. For existing customers, there are also CRM On Demand integration tools to connect to both Oracle CRM and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CRM.
Some features we particularly liked in Oracle's CRM range were Social CRM and CRM Gadgets. Social CRM moves away from the traditional data-intensive approach to CRM and instead focuses on the short-term needs of sales executives. The product delivers forecasting data and customer analyses based on private and publicly-available data which, when measured against executives' quarterly sales targets, gives employees the ability to better direct their efforts and create new sales opportunities. It also quickly puts executives in touch with colleagues, enabling them to follow up on leads and make new contacts.
While this functionality isn't exactly cutting-edge, Oracle has managed to create a product that is intuitive, impressive in its simplicity and delivered across a wide range of mobile devices. It's a powerful tool that enables a sales force to really capitalise on the data available to them, without bogging them down in detail.
Oracle CRM Gadgets takes this a step further. Built on Adobe AIR and available free to existing CRM customers, the gadgets are little desktop widgets that trawl enterprise data for information like Top Deals, Sales Quota and Search. This is a particularly innovative approach from Oracle — the gadgets can be delivered to just about any platform, will be capable of in-house customisation and make solid use of the popularity in social networking tools like RSS readers and Twitter clients.
As business solution architects, Oracle operates in the big end of town, so smaller enterprises may not think of them first when considering a CRM deployment. While there's no doubting that an integrated on-premise solution would require significant financial outlay, the CRM On Demand and Social CRM product offerings make compelling business cases, and should be investigated.
With its 2006 acquisition of SSA Global, Infor Global Solutions brought CRM solution Epiphany into its suite of products. Designed for companies from around 500 users and up, and available as a hosted solution, SaaS or an on-premise deployment, Epiphany brings CRM functionality to a business' sales, marketing and service departments. Epiphany is available as a generic product or as a vertical solution to suit the needs of a specific industry, like banking, manufacturing and retail.
Epiphany has a particularly strong focus in inbound and outbound marketing. Epiphany Interaction Advisor is designed to take advantage of the fact that every customer interaction is a sales opportunity. Whether it's direct contact like a service call or product query, or indirect like e-billing or online self service, each interaction is an active touch point between company and customer, and the ability to capitalise on these moments in time can make a critical difference to profit margins.
Interaction Advisor (inbound marketing) analyses each interaction as it happens. Employees are presented with a range of campaign offerings to suggest to customers, based on a real-time assessment of the customer's geographic and demographic data. Each campaign is assigned an acceptance probability and an expected benefit to the company, and these values are constantly adjusted as Epiphany records acceptances or rejections.
This data also plugs in to the marketing feature set of Epiphany, specifically the cross-sell, up-sell and customer retention aspects of channel marketing. Marketing executives can mine back-end data to identify appropriate targets across a range of market segments, create new campaigns on the fly and deliver the campaign message at all the appropriate points of interaction — phone, email, online, ATM etc. Again, acceptance and rejection data are gathered in real time so that executives can accurately track campaign effectiveness. Call centre staff and account managers also have access to this information so that customers are constantly matched up to the most appropriate offers and products.
We particularly liked the highly-integrated nature of Epiphany's intelligent use of customer data. We're all used to seeing banner ads when logging into online banking, but the particular banner ad that you see is aimed especially at people of your demographic, and the next time you speak to someone from the company, they will know whether you clicked on the ad or not because the back-end system will take note of it, which is very impressive. It effectively makes every customer-facing employee an active participant in the sales force. Large enterprises looking to push sales while offering customers a relevant range of targeted products should seriously consider Infor.
For small businesses looking to implement CRM, the various on-demand hosting solutions offered by the big enterprise players have changed the picture completely.
Traditionally, a company with half a dozen employees would not have considered vendors like Oracle, but now Oracle is serving customers in that space. So for small business there are plenty of compelling options to choose from, and none of them need to be on-premise. Companies should look to their long-term anticipated needs and see which vendor offers the best functionality in their industry, but in terms of rapid deployment and ease of set-up, SugarCRM, Salesforce CRM and Dynamics CRM all offer strong solutions.
Medium-sized businesses looking to deploy CRM will possibly be limited by any existing on-premise business solutions. Integration and leveraging off uniform platforms offer power and flexibility, and thus it's harder to make a business case to introduce a new vendor into the mix. For Microsoft-dominated environments, Dynamics CRM should be the first consideration, but both Oracle and SAP also offer rapid on-demand deployment with the potential to future moves towards SaaS and on-premise, and both vendors' data integration tools are excellent.
For large national and global enterprises, it's hard to look past Oracle's CRM product suite. Of course, all major players in this space offer custom vertical solutions, data analytics and business intelligence, but Oracle's innovation in sales force empowerment through Social CRM is very compelling and marks the company as a stand-out in this space.
What customer relationship management suite do you prefer? One of the big guns or a smaller player and why? Post your comments below in the talkback or drop us a line.
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2019-04-19T22:35:18Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-crm-suite-is/
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Arts
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Society
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berkeley
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These gifts were received between July 1, 2001, and March 1, 2002. The person remembered is noted in italics.
These gifts were received between July 1, 2001, and March 1, 2002. The honoree is noted in italics.
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2019-04-26T04:46:14Z
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http://ihouse.berkeley.edu/alumni/times/timesS02/gifts.html
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merton
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On 31st January 2019, Dragados, a division of the ACS Group and one of the leading construction brands in Europe, were invited by the work experience team to come to Merton College to deliver a talk to our students on Engineering and Electrical Installation courses.
In mid-January 2019, our Level 3 Health & Social Care students attended a Clinical Skills day at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. The day involved hearing about careers in the healthcare sector with insight into the skills practised by healthcare professionals.
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2019-04-24T03:57:42Z
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https://www.merton.ac.uk/news?start=6
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wordpress
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Losing weight can often feel like a full-time job. You have to eat (mostly) healthy and also make sure you're getting a healthy mix of strength training and cardio. But there are a few shortcuts you can take, which come down to picking the right kinds of exercise to maximize your efforts. Why do a bicep curl when you can work even more of the body by doing a squat with overhead press? And if you only have time to fit in one move today, don't you want it to be THE move? When it comes to toning up, encouraging weight loss, and working your entire body in one swoop, few moves can beat a deadlift, trainer Holly Rillinger told POPSUGAR. And Holly should know, besides being a Nike Master Trainer and Flywheel Sports Master Trainer, she also used to play professional basketball.
"It's such a great move because it uses the biggest muscles in your body: your legs — [and] the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism," said Holly. "Anytime we use our hips, our body releases testosterone and growth hormones, which can be scary words for women, but all you have to think of is 'lean' when you hear those words. So being able to work your hips and your lower body in one movement really ends up challenging your core and your shoulders so it turns this one move into this total full-body workout."
Single moves that do so much are a rarity, so incorporating deadlifts into your routine means you can sculpt the upper and lower body simultaneously, freeing up more time for you to get on with other things in your life. Just keep in mind that while a deadlift may look simple, it's not. Doing the move incorrectly could result in you not getting the full benefit of the exercise, or worse, injury. Holly, who is also a spokesperson for BIC Soleil Shine, attributes the difficulty of the move to the fact that "there's so much going on" when you perform the exercise, and given that it's such a powerhouse, it makes total sense. "I think it's totally worth having a trainer look at you when you start deadlifting or at least film yourself to make sure you're doing it correctly," she said.
Stand holding dumbbells in each hand, arms at your sides, with your knees slightly bent. If you don't have dumbbells, you can also use a weighted bar.
Squeeze your glutes to slowly pull yourself up. Be sure not to use your back or round your spine! Beginners should aim to take four seconds to bend down and two seconds to pull up.
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Jusus_1. येशु Christ. Wallpaper and background images in the येशु club tagged: love.
This येशु photo contains सूर्यास्त सूर्योदय, सूर्यास्त, and सूर्योदय. There might also be tepee, टीपी, teepee, टिपी, टीईपीई, and tipi.
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White Rabbit Is dead.He's lying on the floor next to me with a note saying "find Alice before they find her" now i need to know what happened here and find out who trying to find me.
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Dr. Kenneth Polse was born on April 4, 1941. He received an AB in Biological Sciences (1962) from the University of California at Berkeley, professional degrees from Berkeley Optometry (MOpt, 1965 and OD, 1968), and an MS in Physiological Optics at Berkeley (1969). He first lectured at Berkeley Optometry in 1969 while also in private practice in San Lorenzo, California. After serving as Associate Professor of Optometry and Director of Clinics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry (1970–72), he returned to Berkeley, where for more than 35 years he made significant contributions as a professor, associate dean, vision science researcher, and active member of the optometry profession.
In the 1970s Dr. Polse was among a handful of Berkeley faculty who successfully lobbied before the California legislature and professional optometry organizations for the passage of the state’s first DPA law (1976). From 1973 to 1981 he served as Director of Clinics, where he played a key role in implementing and expanding Dean Monroe Hirsch’s modular system of clinical training and patient care, a program based on the private-practice model that exists largely intact to this day. During the 1980s he was Associate Dean (1981–85) and Chair of the Faculty (1988–90). From 1992 to 1995 Dr. Polse served once again as Clinic Director (Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs), when he and future director Dr. Edward Revelli successfully solved fiscal and programmatic challenges by changing management, infrastructure, operations, staffing, and training. The clinic remains solvent today with an optometric training program second to none.
Dr. Polse’s research included corneal physiology, ocular disease processes, and contact lenses. In 1970 Polse, along with Hall of Fame member Dr. Robert Mandell, determined the minimum oxygen tension required to prevent edema at the corneal surface. They showed that oxygen deficiency was the main cause of corneal edema, which if prolonged, could result in physiological changes in the cornea, compromising visual acuity and lens comfort. These findings changed the direction of contact lens design as well as fitting methods. In 1976 Dr. Polse was awarded funding from the NIH (NEI) to investigate orthokeratology—a landmark study, as it was the first nationally funded clinical trial to be awarded to optometry. This study also marked the beginning of Polse’s collaborative research with experts in other disciplines, a concept relatively new to optometric clinical research. (He was also guided by the principle that first-rate clinical research required ongoing experience in clinical patient care.) Polse’s more recent research evaluated the impact of humidity, pH, and hypoxia on corneal hydration control; exploring the effects of aging, disease, surgery, and contact lens wear on corneal structure and function (including a corneal function test to provide quantitative information for evaluating normal and abnormal regulation of corneal function); developing and refining methods for measurement and assessment of corneal function; and understanding fluid dynamics to improve tear flow under contact lenses.
Dr. Polse has published over 120 scientific research papers. He has held many professional positions, including President, International Society for Contact Lens Research (1987–88); member, National Eye Advisory Eye Council, NIH/NEI (1988–92); Chair, Working Group on Adverse Effects of Contact Lenses, Committee on Vision, National Academy of Science (1988–90); and Consultant, NEAC, Program Planning Committee, Section on Cornea (1990–96). Dr. Polse’s many honors have included the Garland Clay Award (1984 and 1994); Senior Fulbright Scholar (1989); George Nissel Memorial Lecture BCLA, London (1994); and the British Contact Lens Society Medal (2005). Polse was the first recipient of the Morton D. Sarver Endowed Chair (1994–97).
Dr. Polse retired from teaching in 2004 as Professor Emeritus and was appointed Professor of the Graduate School. In 2005 he became Director of the Berkeley Clinical Scientist Development Program, which seeks to train clinicians and physicians in translational research, applying basic science to clinical treatment.
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I strongly believe the completely redesigned Discovery Place downtown Charlotte is the coolest science museum in the Southeast! Discovery Place is open daily 9AM to 4PM (6PM Saturday, noon to 5PM Sunday). Admission is $12 adults, $10 seniors, $9 children 2-13 and free for those under 2.
This post is about the “Rainforest” and “World Alive” exhibits, filled with North Carolina native as well as exotic animals from around the world.
At “Touch a Tank” children can pet horse and hermit crabs, star fish, and sea urchins. How cool is that?
The aquarium consists of 15 tanks featuring diverse ecosystems: Indo-Pacific coral reef, North Carolina coastal habitat, and a seafloor reef with small sharks, stingrays, jellyfish and more.
We spent the most time in the science lab. Lana was trilled to look at all sorts of objecs under the fancy microscope and to manipulate the images on the computer.
Your keys look huge mommy!
Yes, it’s real! Come enjoy an assortment of fresh wild animal poop, courtesy of black bears, bobcats, deer, raccoons and more…It stinks in here!
Dare to flex your bear muscles?
I was drawn to the carnivorous plants…good think they were behind the glass.
Tough as nails...watch out she will bite you!
Be forever childish at Discovery Place in Charlotte!
One of my favorite things to see at the NC Aviation Museum in Greensboro was the honor wall dedicated to famous women pilots, aviation pioneers and inspirational heroes for generations to come.
She obtained the license in 1911 and only a year later became the first woman to fly solo over the English Channel.
She did it using the 55 horsepower Bleirot monoplane.
Her meteoric life and aviation career ended abruptly.
On July 1, 1912, Harriet made a publicity stunt flight at an aviation exhibition near Quincy, Massachusetts.
As hundreds of spectators watched from below, Harriet and her passenger fell from the craft when it suddenly pitched forward.
Her dramatic accident sparked a fury of continued speculation.
See additional photos and an excellent bio summary “Who was Harriet” by Giacinta Bradley Koontz.
Bessie Coleman was unable to secure flight training in the United States. So she went to France and on June 15, 1921 became the first African American to receive a pilot license from FAI.
Her dream was to establish a flying school for African Americans. In 1925, she moved to Houston and succesfully performed exhibitions shows and parachute jumps throughout the South.
In April 1926, Bessie came to Jacksonville to pick up her first plane.
During a maintenance flight test, the plane malfunctioned and the mechanic, who was piloting the plane from the front seat, lost control of the plane.
Bessie fell from the open cockpit several hundred feet to her death.
Three years later, her dream of a flying school for African Americans became a reality when William J. Powell established the Bessie Coleman Aero Club in Los Angeles.
the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She did it in 1928, in a Fokker F-7 aircraft called Friendship.
In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared during her attempt to fly around the world. She and her navigator, Fred Nooman, left Papua Guinea on July 2nd 1937.
They sent a radio transmission nearby Howland Island in South Pacific and then they were never heard from again.
Here is a long list of her aviation achievements.
Jacqueline Cochran, “The Speed Queen”, is by far the most accomplished female pilot in the US aviation history.
In 1937, she was the only woman to compete in the Bendix race and by 1938, was considered the best female pilot in the United States.
She was the first woman to break the sound barrier, to fly a jet across the ocean and a bomber across the Atlantic, and to land and take off from an aircraft carrier.
She was the first pilot to fly above 20,000 feet with an oxygen mask and the first to make blind (instrument) landing.
Jacqueline Cochran was the only woman to ever be President of the Federation Aeronautique International (1958-1961). She was an important contributor to the formation of the wartime Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
Admission to the NC Aviation Museum is $8 adults, $5 students and free for kids 5 and under.
Good times roll at the Greensboro Children’s Museum!
The Greensboro Children’s Museum is located downtown, across from the public library. Admission is only $6 (free for kids under 1), however you can get in for just $3 every Friday evening 5 – 8PM.
Lets go, lets go, lets go! There is a fire going on!
While in Greensboro make sure to visit the super cool, wildly fun Natural Science Center where dinosaurs come to live! Their Animal Discovery Zoo is one of the best small size zoo I have ever seen.
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“Listen boy, if you bring the heart of your mother to me, I’ll give you money, jewels, and gems.
This entry was posted on October 9, 2007 at 3:51 am and is filed under The Stories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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With the shift away from traditional religion, humanity has not lost its deep need for religious sustenance, it simply finds it elsewhere. In the realm of popular culture, myriad aspects of entertainment bear hallmarks of thought and activity associated with traditional religion. This may at first glance appear to be a negative, possibly corrupting trend. However, religious strains in entertainment may point to ways in which traditional religion - particularly Catholicism - can respond to changing times and the accompanying changes in the needs of the religious person.
Master's thesis submitted to the faculty of Religious Studies at Sacred Heart University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Religious Studies.
Dupuis, Gordon P., "Strains of Traditional Religion in the Realm of Modern Entertainment" (2010). Master of Arts in Religious Studies (M.A.R.S. Theses). 4.
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PETALING JAYA, Feb 26 — Most would agree that you truly reach adulthood the moment you own your own property.
Just like any other major milestone in life, getting there comes with its own set of challenges that many young Malaysians have to overcome before they can successfully purchase a home.
1. Worrying about making the wrong choice, when is the ‘right’ time to buy?
Making the decision to buy a piece of property is a huge step that young locals aren’t quite brave enough to take yet.
Social news website SAYS’ 2019 Malaysian Home Survey among 8,568 Malaysians reports that one in five respondents had “(worries) about making the wrong decision”, especially since home ownership requires a hefty financial investment.
2. Unsure about loan application and loan rejections.
A difficult loan approval process is a huge factor that dampens many Malaysians’ prospects of owning a home.
PropertyGuru’s Consumer Sentiment Survey in 2017 states that 33 per cent of Malaysians reported a tough approval process for bank loan applications which presents a major roadblock on the path to home ownership.
3. Starter salaries, not enough money saved for a downpayment.
The thought of dealing with a mortgage on the salary of a fresh graduate is making many millenials think twice about owning a house.
The Employee’s Provident Fund statement in 2016 had said that 89 per cent of the working population in Malaysia earn less than RM5,000 monthly, making home ownership especially challenging.
Most millenials wouldn’t believe that they could own a house with that salary.
The hefty financial commitment to owning a home means young Malaysians will have to make some lifestyle changes if they want to stay afloat while having a house to their name.
This might mean foregoing luxuries such as weekend brunches and holidays overseas which have become staples for the modern generation.
Hence, a monthly instalment replacing these pleasures is the reason 33% of Malaysians in SAYS’ survey are saying ‘no’ to home ownership.
5. Lack of awareness on housing deals and promotions.
While initiatives are in place to help young potential homeowners, many do not even know about the resources available to them that can ease the burden of property ownership.
A shocking 65 per cent of Malaysians in SAYS’ survey said that they had no clue about current housing offers and promotions.
This means that many young adults are currently unequipped with knowledge about navigating the property market.
In light of this, property developers EcoWorld have launched HOPE (Home Ownership Programme with EcoWorld), a comprehensive solution that promises to aid young Malaysians in their journey towards owning their dream home.
HOPE aims to make the dream of home ownership a full-fledged reality for millennials with the STAY2OWN (S2O) and HELP2OWN (H2O) programmes.
S2O will allow those wanting to stay in an EcoWorld project to rent their ideal home first with the confidence that they can become homeowners in the future.
A low monthly payment similar to the market rental rate also makes it particularly attractive for first-time homebuyers.
The option to rent first before buying also gives customers ample time to get their finances in order before committing to a new mortgage.
To top it all off, the rental savings will be used to offset part of the purchase price of the home, making it even more affordable for young Malaysians.
The H2O had successfully helped approximately 1,800 young homeowners and upgraders own their choice EcoWorld home last year and you can be one of them too! For more information on owning your dream home, visit EcoWorld’s website https://ecoworld.my/hope/) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EcoWorldGroup/).
Resilient values: Geh believes that both landed and high-rise units in prime locations will hold their values. Research house sa..
WHEN I discussed whether to buy a car or a house first in my last article, I received a lot of feedback from friends and readers. Someone even sent me an interesting article entitled “Buying a New Car Is the Single Worst Financial Decision”.
The remark was made by Davis Bach, a self-made millionaire who is also one of the American best-selling financial authors, a motivational speaker and an entrepreneur.
He pointed out that a car’s value drops 20% to 30% by the end of the first year. In five years, it can lose 60% or more of its initial value. And, most people actually borrow money to buy a car.
“Why would you borrow money to buy an asset that immediately goes down in value by 30%?” says Bach.
His views concurred with the idea I have been sharing in this column over the years.
In my last article, I mentioned the value of my friend’s car dropped 70% from RM140,000 to RM40,000 over eight years. On the other hand, another friend who bought an affordable apartment during the same time, enjoyed a huge capital appreciation as the apartment increased from RM100,000 to more than RM200,000 during the same period.
Both borrowed money to buy their house and car respectively. However, there is a clear contrast between the two items by looking at their long-term values. A house is an appreciating asset, and a loan on such an asset I like to call a “Good Debt”; while a car losses money, and is therefore deemed as “Bad Debt”.
Not only does a car depreciate in value, but owning a car also comes with expenses such as petrol, maintenance, licence, toll, insurance and parking costs. A person who owns a normal sedan car and travels about 1,000 km per month, can easily spend about RM1,500 per month for car loan repayment and other relevant expenses.
With ride-sharing services (such as GrabCar in Malaysia, and Uber & Lyft in other countries) becoming so convenient, and with the LRT and MRT networks being more developed, we can now choose to be car-loan free. Imagine having your own “driver” and able to use your time productively to read a book or relax when being caught in traffic jam. We are now able to enjoy this with ride-sharing services on call.
For a more economical approach, you can even opt for a “hybrid” transportation mode by combining ride-sharing and public transport services.
Chua, a reader from Muar wrote me an email last month. He shared his experience of not having purchased a property when he was young and only bought one when he was in his mid-30s due to some misperceptions.
“Looking back, how wrong I was! But today, there are just as many graduates who think just like myself when I was in my 20s and 30s. Therefore, your constant reminder to Malaysians is valid and practical. Instead of a new car, get a used car. Buy a medical insurance policy, pay EPF and try to buy a small property. These should be the priority of any young Malaysian,” Chua wrote in his email.
That’s the sentiment that I had when I wrote about buying a house first before a car.
Buying a car may not be the single worst financial decision for everyone. There are different financial priorities at different stages of life. However, it may be the case if you buy a brand new expensive nice car prior to owning any long-run appreciating asset or investment, like a house!
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced the establishing of the Economic Action Council (EAC), which will respond to and take action to address economic issues faced by the public, based on their feedback.
The Prime Minister and his key economic and finance ministers feature in a 16-strong committee that will form the Economic Action Council.
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng’s qualification in accounting is the latest to come under scrutiny following a series of alleged false education credentials involving Pakatan Harapan leaders.
Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) president Wee Ka Siong, in questioning Mr Lim’s credentials as an accountant, said according to Monash University’s website, Mr Lim obtained his Bachelor of Economics in 1984.
“I have no doubt over his degree qualification. However, I wonder how he became a qualified professional accountant in 1983 before he even graduated (in economics)?” he asked in a Facebook posting on Sunday (Feb 10).
On Mr Lim’s website: https://limguaneng.com/ , https://limguaneng.com/index.php/biodata/ , it is stated in his biodata that he graduated from Monash University, Australia, with a Bachelor of Economics degree and was a qualified professional accountant by 1983.
Datuk Seri Wee, who is the Ayer Hitam MP, also wanted to know how Mr Lim’s qualification as a “qualified professional accountant” was accredited.
“Was it by a local or foreign institution? Which country accepts an economics graduate to pass as a ‘qualified professional accountant’?
For a minister who always stresses on the concept of Competency, Accountability and Transparency, please explain and don’t keep quiet,” he added.
Dr Wee also described as “suspicious” Johor Mentri Besar Osman Sapian avoiding questions from the media on his supposed UPM Bachelor in Accounting obtained in 1985.
“UPM’s official website stated that the course was introduced in 1985. How is it possible that there could be such a super-fast graduate produced in the same year!
“If Osman fails to prove the genuineness of his academic credentials, will he still have the dignity to lead the state? This is a question of integrity among leaders,” he said.
Citing examples of several world leaders who resigned or were sacked for having fake academic credentials, Dr Wee questioned if the Pakatan Harapan leadership would remain quiet and behave as if nothing happened.
“Or will they respond with the standard Pakatan answer, that a person’s academic qualifications have nothing to do with political position,” he added.
In Teluk Intan, Bernama reports Perak DAP chairman Nga Kor Ming as backing Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong Choo Kiong who comes under public scrutiny for his dubious Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Akamai University, United States, claiming that he had obtained it “legitimately”.
This is despite the fact that DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang had labelled the university as a degree mill in 2005.
Mr Yong, 48, was also questioned by Dr Wee as to how he could do his MBA without having a first degree.
The Perak executive councillor has in his biodata listed his primary and secondary school education followed by his MBA.
Responding to the controversy, Mr Yong claimed that his way to enhance his self worth has been blown out of proportion.
He, however, did not reveal how he obtained his MBA.
“What is the relationship between this and politics?” asked Mr Yong.
SC innovation, digital and strategy executive director Chin Wei Min said those who have identified themselves to the commission can operate up to March 1. “Even if they don’t want to be in this business anymore, whatever they are holding, whether it’s money, crypto assets or digital assets, should be returned to their clients. Otherwise, we will take action.
KUALA LUMPUR: All companies engaging in digital assets will have to make themselves known to the Securities Commission (SC) by Friday, even if they have decided not to carry on once the regulatory framework comes into force.
This includes operators who are not registered with Bank Negara under the anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism – digital currencies (sector six) and those operating “underground”.
The SC will reserve the right to take action against those who fail to identify themselves by Friday on grounds of breaching the securities law.
SC innovation, digital and strategy executive director Chin Wei Min said those who have identified themselves to the commission can operate up to March 1.
“Even if they don’t want to be in this business anymore, whatever they are holding, whether it’s money, crypto assets or digital assets, should be returned to their clients. Otherwise, we will take action.
“The reason we also allow people to continue with their withdrawals and sell down is to ensure that there is an orderly market.
“The last thing we want is to cause confusion, and hopefully, there are no untoward fraudulent activities that people will capitalise on in this transition period and take advantage of investors,” he told a media briefing here yesterday.
While the regulation does not affect operators who are not incorporated in Malaysia, the SC can still take action against them under the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 if the products are marketed, sold, or its operations exist in Malaysia.
Operators who identify themselves to the SC must state their intent, whether they want to resume their activities, of which certain obligations have to be met, or whether they want to wind down their business.
The SC will put up a list of operators and companies that have registered and received a letter from the commission for investors to check if their monies are with legitimate sources.
Chin also reiterated that operators are not allowed to accept new investors, list new products or conduct any sales and marketing activities during this period.
A statement by the SC last Thursday said platform operators would not be allowed to accept new investors and are only allowed to facilitate the withdrawal or transfer of client assets with the written instruction of investors.
They are also not allowed to conduct any initial coin offerings (ICOs) without prior authorisation.
Chin called on all ongoing ICOs to cease activities and the monies or digital assets to be returned to investors until the operators apply for authorisation and after they understand the SC requirements.
The guidelines are expected to be released by the end of the first quarter this year.
“If you are looking at the ones that are out there currently, the standards of the white paper are of low quality. It is important that this falls under regulated activity.
“We recognise that this is an alternative fundraising avenue. The idea here is to allow us to take out all the scams and fraudulent activities and at the same time, provide a platform for our early stage entrepreneurs to raise money,” said Chin, adding that the SC did not want people to take advantage of this as investors are pumping in money on the other end.
This is a high-risk investment and Chin also hinted that there could be a certain threshold for investors.
The Capital Markets and Services (prescription of securities) (digital currency and digital token) order 2019, which kicked in last Tuesday, will see those operating unauthorised ICOs or digital asset exchanges facing up to a 10-year jail term and up to a RM10mil fine.
The Finance Ministry said it viewed digital assets as well as its underlying blockchain technologies as having the potential to bring about innovation in both old and new industries.
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After starting to play music in semi-pro bands in Greenwich Village, Alan eventually moved to Japan in his late teens. Starting his professional career in music with the RCA-Victor Tokyo-based recording group, The Lead, in 1968, Alan replaced Mark Elder as guitarist in the band. They had one hit single, titled "Blue Rose". It was also then that his management changed his professional name to Alan Merrill.
When The Lead broke up, Merrill went solo, recording two albums: "Merrill 1" and "Alone In Tokyo" in 1970 -'71. He became the biggest foreign pop star in Japan's domestic market, hosting his own segment on the popular TV show, "Young 720", acting in the soap opera, "Ji Kan Desu-yo", and being featured in commercials, including major campaigns for Nissan cars and Jun clothing. He was signed to the most powerful agency in Japan, Watanabe Productions. Alan soon grew tired of being a "teen pop idol" and left the agency, forming the hard-edged glam rock group Vodka Collins (as lead singer and guitarist) in 1972, with Hiroshi Oguchi.
The charismatic Oguchi was already a well-known drummer and media celbrity who had been with the chart hit popular band, The Tempters. Vodka Collins recorded one album, "Tokyo-New York", for EMI Records, and it's proved their most-enduring work. Now available on CD, it remains a consistent seller. Vodka Collins had three hit singles off of the album: "Sands Of Time", "Automatic Pilot", and "Billy Mars". The song, "Scratchin'", was used as the theme for a gangster TV show. All these songs were Merrill compositions, with Japanese lyrics added on a couple (which then became domestic market hits) by drummer Hiroshi Oguchi. After a dispute with their manager in 1974, Alan Merrill left Tokyo altogether.
Relocated to London, Alan formed his next band, The Arrows. As lead singer/bassist of that group, he had hits with "Touch Too Much", "My Last Night With You",and "I Love Rock 'N Roll". He also hosted a weekly TV series in 1976-77 called "The Arrows Show", on ITV/Granada Television. A book was written about the Arrows by Liverpool legend Bill Harry, the former Merseybeat editor, on Everest Books. Famed hit-maker Mickie Most produced the Arrows on his RAK record label. There was even an Arrows cartoon strip which ran for over a year.
In 1980-83, Merrill toured and recorded with Rick Derringer, contributing to his "Good Dirty Fun" "Live at The Ritz" and "Rick Derringer and Friends" albums, writing songs, singing, and playing guitar on these projects. This Derringer lineup also made a concert film for Sony, "The Rick Derringer Rock Spectacular", which featured all-star guests like Ted Nugent, Southside Johnny, and Edgar Winter. In 1985, Alan released a self-titled solo album for Polydor Records, a collection of all self-composed tracks. Some heavyweight friends contributing to this album were Steve Winwood, Mick Taylor, and Dallas Taylor. The album was a critical success with great reviews, but wasn't a chart hit.
In 1986, Alan joined Meat Loaf for the remainder of the 1980's and recorded the "Live At Wembley" and "Prime Cuts" albums with the band. In 1990, Alan Merrill got a part in the HBO television series "Encyclopedia Brown" playing rocker Casey Sparks. He also wrote the theme song of the show, which was titled "Who Done It?". This was followed in the 1990's with his involvement as a vocalist in the Christmas album "Holiday Heroes" with a New York producer. Two albums of song demos which were essentially Alan Merrill solo albums followed, "Blue Guru" and "Yes I Ram" athough they were released under a band name. Due to a contractuall dispute these recordings are not endorsed by Alan Merrill. He did all the lead singing on these two discs, except for one vocal duet on each CD, with Arthur Alexander and Jim "Basketball Diaries" Carroll, respectively.
Meanwhile on a positive and fiscally rewarding note, public demand in Japan for a Vodka Collins reunion was overwhelming, and the band reformed in '95 to record the album, "Chemical Reaction". The band also recorded two more CDs, "Pink Soup" and "Boy's Life" in 1997-98, all featuring Merrill's lead vocals, guitar, and compositions.
In this millennium, Alan has released a new 21-song solo album, titled "Cupid Deranged", for sale in early 2002. The CD is a recorded look-back-over-the-shoulder at his career repertoire, spanning the years, mixed in with some newer Merrill compositions as well. For those of you who missed this artist the first time around, this record will fill you in on a most interesting artist. More recently, in winter 2002, he has released the seasonal solo album, "A Merrilly Christmas". In the spring of 2003, his double-album tribute to songwriters Arthur Alexander and Otis Blackwell, "Double Shot Rocks", was released to fantastic reviews. In the year 2004 Alan Merrill is releasing two new albums, one solo and one band. The solo album is titled "Aleecat" on MEC Records, and the Vodka Collins reunion reissue is titled "Boys In The Band", a compilation of three albums. In September 2006 Alan Merrill released a new solo album titled "At The Candy Shop" and this follows a July reissue of his early career album, "Merrill 1."
In the year 2008 Alan Merrill released two new albums, the solo albums titled "Alien In Tokyo," on MEC Records, and the live album titled "The Aleecat, Live In Japan. " Also in summer 2008 Alan Merrill released a new solo maxi single EP ttitled "Hard Road " to round up the releases for '08.
Alan Merrill currently resides in his hometown of New York York City.
As a composer, Alan Merrill has written songs performed recorded by such diverse artists as Lou Rawls, Rick Derringer, Chuck Jackson, Britney Spears, Runner, Freddie Scott, Felix Cavaliere, Queen Of Japan, Vodka Collins, Joan Jett, Five, Dan Penn, Mickey Curtis, The Arrows, Miley Cyrus, Spooner Oldham, Reverend Run, Monsieur Kamayatsu, Phoenix, Catherine Howe, and Troy Turner.
Alan was elected a New York Chapter Governor for NARAS, the Grammy Awards organization, for two terms in the 1980's.
He was the first successful foreign pop star in Japan's domestic market, scoring a top 10 solo hit with the single "Namida" from the album "Alone In Tokyo on Atlantic Records Japan in 1969, singing the entire album in Japanese.
Alan's composition, "When The Night Comes" (as recorded by R&B great Lou Rawls in 1983), was taken into space by the first black astronaut in history, Gulon Bluford. It was the first LP ever in outer space, and Alan Merrill wrote the title track! The album "When The Night Comes" by Rawls, also won two Beach Awards for best album, and the recording has a 5-star rating (full marks) in Rolling Stone magazine's album guide.
Alan was featured in a Nissan car commercial as a model in 1970, for the Nissan Sunny Excellent 1200 and 1400 campaigns. It was the biggest ad campaign ever by Nissan at the time, and the commercial ran 200 times a day on Japanese TV on all channels!
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2019-04-24T17:14:05Z
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https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/alanmerrill
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Catalogs.com is creating and powering Dynalog digital catalogs for big brand furniture retailers, including Tommy Bahama, Art Van and Baer’s, featuring extensive home furnishing and bedding products, and special promotions to showcase July furniture clearance events and announce August new furniture designs.
Five leading furniture retailers have recently tapped the Dynalog platform, an elegant, game changing, digital shopping experience from Catalogs.com, to market their home furnishing, accessories and bedding lines. These stores – Lexington Home Brands / Tommy Bahama Home, Home and Patio Décor Center, Baer’s Furniture, Art Van Furniture and Hansen’s Furniture – are creating interactive digital catalogs with the Dynalog patent-pending platform to add a dynamic and engaging new shopper-centric tool to web, social media and email marketing plans.
Furniture and bedding sales are expected to top $100 billion for the second straight year in 2016, according to Furniture/Today’s economic forecast. Furniture retailers prime their marketing efforts – leveraging the multichannel tools with the most potential for reaching and engaging consumers - for the July sales events, and for new merchandise roll-out in August.
“Furniture retailers are finding a competitive advantage at all times of the year by using the Dynalog technology as their multi-channel platform because people are discovering more when they shop, they are seeing more furniture pieces in a beautifully merchandised format, and they are buying more,” says Richard Linevsky, Catalogs.com president. Linevsky reports that furniture stores and manufacturers are reaping solid results by using Dynalog technology to connect shoppers with their products. This digital catalog marketing solution makes furniture shopping fun, beautiful and completely interactive. Linevsky emphasizes that brands seeing the highest levels of engagement are those using the highly interactive Dynalog to showcase their furniture lines on every device: desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Lexington Home Brands – Tommy Bahama Home is an international/national leader in the manufacture of upscale home furnishings, with an award-winning product line of indoor and outdoor living designs.
Home & Patio Décor Center specializes in online marketing of major brand manufacturers for home and patio furniture and décor.
Baer’s Furniture is Florida’s premier furniture store specializing in quality name brand home and patio furniture, decor and mattresses.
Art Van Furniture presents classic furniture reinvented for modern living. Art Van is a family run business operating 47 Art Van Furniture Stores and 54 PureSleep Mattress Stores in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Hansen’s Furniture is one of the largest furniture retailers in California’s central valley with a large selection of quality manufacturers and home décor accessories.
These furniture stores are leaders in international, national and regional markets, and are adding Dynalog to their marketing initiatives. As more furniture stores step onto the Dynalog digital catalog platform, Linevsky emphasizes, online shoppers will discover thousands of home furnishing options that they never even knew existed. “The Dynalog delivers shopper engagement, that’s the bottom line,” he adds.
Catalogs.com has been connecting shoppers with their favorite brands and products since 1996. Their newest innovation, Dynalog, is a responsive, interactive catalog that makes catalog shopping easier than ever before. Catalogs.com provides shoppers with access to more than 700 retailers and their products through mail, online and mobile platforms.
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2019-04-19T07:45:48Z
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/catalogscom/furniture-stores/prweb13302249.htm
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absoluteanime
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I've forgotten where this info came from. Sorry! Edited by yours truly (contact me). The image came from computerhumour.com.
In the wake of a biological war that has left a deadly cloud of bacteria hovering over the entire Northern Hemisphere, Newport City has a major crime problem. Spearheading the crime in the city is the gang led by the notorious Buaku and the mutant cat twins, Annapuma and Unipuma. Criminals for hire, they'll commit almost any sort of crime for a buck. The crime has become so troublesome that the Newport City Council set up a special Tank Police division to combat this plague of crime. The problem is, the Tank Police cause so much damage the question now becomes: just who are the bad guys?
Enter the Tank Police's first female officer: Leona Ozaki. She joins the ranks of Mohican, the Chaplain, Lieutenant Britian (the commander), and Al, the only other relative newcomer. And the Tank Police (including Leona) soon get their hands full as Buaku's gang makes another strike, and this time, they're playing for keeps! Nothing's gonna get in their way ...except maybe for Leona and Bonaparte, the little tank that could. It's firepower, shenanigans, some scantily-clad beauties, and lots of mayhem, so when you hear those tanks, run for cover!
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2019-04-24T02:26:22Z
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https://www.absoluteanime.com/tank_police/
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google
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It’s the mid-way point for mastery week. Today we are sharing how to use an equity lens when planning CBE communications. At 3pm EST today, August 16, join us for one hour to chat Moderated by Chris Sturgis. Educators from across the country will talk about how these topics interact and share their thoughts and best practices.
Use the hashtag #masteryweek tap into the conversation and share your thoughts!
Take some time to review our questions. It will be useful to have some answers typed up in advance.
Q1: How does mastery drive equity?
Q2: How can mastery approaches empower students?
Q3: How can schools use mastery and equity effectively in their communications?
Prepare a question of your own to ask during the Q&A.
Search for the #masteryweek hashtag on Twitter at 3pm on 8/16.
Be sure that you are following the “Latest” tweets.
When Chris posts a question, retweet, reply, and hear what others have to say.
We will use the Q1:A1 format, so be sure to put A# in front of your answers to any questions.
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2019-04-23T02:49:08Z
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https://sites.google.com/springpointschools.org/masteryweek/home/jointhemasterycommunicationstwitterchaton816at3pmet
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Anthony traveled to festivals around the country to try bold bites like this deep-fried root beer float. Browse photos of everything he ate.
Anthony dishes about his love for cooking, the craziest thing he ate while filming and what he would call his own carnival food stand if he had one.
Bring the state fair home with these portable gourmet fair snacks from Food Network Magazine.
Anthony Anderson is diving headfirst into summer with the ultimate vacation road trip, exploring the country's best carnivals. Whether they're ooey, gooey, crispy or crunchy, Anthony lets America's favorite carnival indulgences lead the way on a coast-to-coast adventure. Nothing says summertime fun like a carnival!
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2019-04-20T19:48:41Z
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https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/carnival-cravings-with-anthony-anderson
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Scottish country dancing and scottish fiddle music at its best.
Scottish Fiddle Orchestra conducted by John Mason MBE.
Filmed in the magnificent Great Hall of Borthwick Castle.
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2019-04-23T22:57:42Z
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCayM6aFJQ
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« Why to go to church?
In the story of the dinner where the woman anoints Jesus with an expensive perfume, only one of the gospels writers identifies the woman. This is John, the last of the gospels. The book was written much later than the rest.
The other writers pretend not to know the woman, probably because of her condition of sinful woman as described by Luke in Luke 7:37. “A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.” They don’t even mention the resurrection of Lazarus. How could they forget such event.
They were probably protecting Mary as well as Lazarus from the Pharisees, considering that the Pharisees wanted to kill Lazarus and Jesus and Mary was a sinner to them. Those gospels do not mention Nicodemus or the blind man who was blind by birth either. At the time the gospel of John was written, all these people were death. I guess, it was safe to talk about it.
But, maybe Judas The Iscariot disproved the friendship between Jesus and the sinful woman.
Judas couldn’t accept Mary’s conversion. He never really believed Jesus. He turned to the side of the Pharisees. He thought like they did.
Judas took the decision to deliver The Lord, just right after the dinner in the house of Simon.
Jesus not only favoured the woman with his parable of the two debtors, but he also accepted her anointing and besides he forgave her sins in presence of Simon and everyone who was there. Right after, Judas took the decision of handing out The Lord to The Pharisees. Peter also denies Jesus after he was taken by the High Priest. All the apostles left Jesus alone, except John. They were afraid, depressed. They were hopeless. They doubted.
This was only two days before the Passover.
According to The Gospel of Mary, Mary was present the night of the Passover dinner. That was when The Lord told Judas to do what he was going to do. Judas just went and delivered The Master to the Pharisees.
This probably did not scandalized all the apostles, but Judas. And probably it was one of the reasons why most of the Apostles left Jesus alone and doubted of Jesus as their Messiah while he was being crucified. They saw Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion as the end to all their dreams of glory.
The reason I say this is because later, Judas regretted what he did saying “I had delivered innocent blood.” At some point he thought Jesus was guilty of something.
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2019-04-20T21:02:24Z
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https://spiritualgod.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/why-judas-betrayed-jesus/
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You agree to indemnify and hold harmless RIIFF and its directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions and proceedings and any and all costs, fees (including attorneys fees), expenses, settlements, and judgments that result from your breach of these Terms or your access and use of the Site.
RIIFF grants you the privilege of accessing and viewing the text, graphics, audio, design, images, charts and other content (the “RIIFF Content”) on the Site solely for your personal, non-commercial use. RIIFF may revoke such privilege at any time with or without notice for any reason or no reason. Any and all RIIFF Content and other works on the Site and any reproductions of any of the foregoing (collectively, "Works") are the copyrighted works of RIIFF and/or its suppliers, and are protected under U.S. and worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. Other than the limited grant of access to and viewing of the RIIFF Content described above, RIIFF grants you no other privileges or rights in any of the Works. You acknowledge that any other use of the Works, including without limitation, reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, without the prior written permission of RIIFF, is strictly prohibited.
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2019-04-18T16:32:26Z
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http://www.film-festival.org/TermsofUse.php
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I have major problems with the sound in this game. The fx and speech stutters terribly, the music sounds just fine.
I installed the latest drivers for soundcard, Realtek AC 97, and even reinstalled directx after that, but didn't help.
Even tried the "trick" from Eidos itself and edited the ini file of the game and set 3d sound = on. But then I got no sound at all.
Tried the installation of OpenAL a couple of times but it still didn't help.
Anyone has the solution ?
its probably the software. there has been an endless stream of complaints about the whole game.... just wait until a patch comes out and just patch it up..... you could have went to easy way and just got the xbox version. you dont have to worry about that stuff w/ the console versions :-D. but yea... just need a patch most likely.
allright, found the problem/solution myself.
I have a small programm running called pcalert for keeping an eye on the cpu and system heat, etc.... When I close this program, no more soundproblems. Apparantly both programms want to use the same memory-range or something. And I thought this would't be a problem anymore with XP !
So if anyone else has a problem with sound with this game, try to close down the programms you have running either in startup or background.
Eidos does states in the readme-file to close down all other programms, even virusscanners ! Just close them down one by one untill you find the one giving the problems.
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2019-04-20T12:34:34Z
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https://forums.eu.square-enix.com/archive/index.php/t-56227.html?s=3a303be7af357da7b3415fc175463ab9&pda=1
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nytimes
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LINWOOD, N.J. — It was the electronic monitor around a student’s ankle that first gave Kelli J. Amaya serious doubts about the Harris School of Business.
The young man with the monitor was studying to be a pharmacy technician, and Ms. Amaya, who worked at Harris, a for-profit chain of trade schools, knew that the most widely recognized certification for pharmacy technicians excludes anyone convicted of a felony or even a low-level drug offense.
But the student received federal financial aid, and for the school to keep collecting it, he had to remain in the program and complete an internship. So Ms. Amaya said she was told to find him an internship, even if that meant deceiving the employer.
Her charges are part of a federal lawsuit filed by seven former employees against Harris and its parent company, Premier Education Group, which owns more than two dozen trade schools and community colleges operating under several names in 10 states. The suit contends that while charging more than $10,000 for programs lasting less than a year, school officials routinely misled students about their career prospects, and falsified records to enroll them and keep them enrolled, so that government grant and loan dollars would keep flowing.
The company’s lawyers and executives flatly denied many of the charges, and said others, like phony diplomas, reflected only isolated instances resulting from having a hard-to-serve clientele.
Some of the complaints against Harris, which has eight campuses in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, echo those made against other for-profit schools, and were documented in investigations directed by the Government Accountability Office, Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and others. Those include high-pressure enrollment tactics and misleading promises about job prospects upon graduation.
Compared with traditional, nonprofit schools, both public and private, for-profit schools disproportionately enroll low-income and minority students who qualify for significant government aid, and the schools rely far more on that aid for revenue. Federal records show that in 2011-12, Premier collected $112 million in federal Pell grants and federal student loans. For-profit schools also spend heavily on advertising, their students are far more likely to borrow money to pay for tuition, and those who borrow rack up more debt and are more likely to default.
Students at for-profit schools often do not realize that cheaper alternatives exist through public community colleges and trade schools. A study published this month found that the majority of people who had attended for-profit colleges and trade schools did not understand the distinction, learned of their schools through advertising and did not consider any other schools.
Ms. Amaya said she was promoted by Harris, and then fired for insisting on following the rules.
The former employees contend that school executives often skewed aptitude tests used to screen applicants by giving students extra time, letting them keep smartphones that could be used to help answer questions, and faking the scores by filling in correct answers after students had turned the tests in.
Several students interviewed outside Harris campuses said that when they took the tests, they were told not to worry because the results did not matter, and one said that she was surprised that she was accepted because she had not understood or answered most of the questions. Most of the students said they found Harris through ads or by word of mouth, then met with recruiters who sometimes pressed them to enroll immediately, saying that space was limited.
The lawsuit is unusual in that it is filed under the federal False Claims Act, charging that the conduct of Harris and Premier defrauded the federal government. Under that law, a defendant can be found liable for triple the actual damages, potentially enough to put Premier out of business, and the whistle-blowers can reap hefty paydays, collecting as much as 30 percent of any verdict award, which Premier’s lawyers say is a motive for the suit.
The case against Premier was filed in 2011, but was unsealed and available to the public last fall.
Premier is bigger than most for-profit chains but its name is not well known; it operates under eight different school names like Harris School, Branford Hall and Salter School, each relatively small and operating and recruiting in a limited region.
And Premier, like most for-profit school companies, is privately held, making information about its structure and finances hard to come by. The company is controlled by a single family based in the Philadelphia area; it is a limited partnership whose members are family trusts and individuals.
At one time, a central figure in the company was a man named Andrew N. Yao, an entrepreneur who owned several companies — including one making and servicing student loans — and was headed to a spectacular downfall. Mr. Yao had airplanes, multiple estates, a wife, and a girlfriend who was a former centerfold model in men’s magazines and would later testify against him.
In two separate federal cases, in 2008 and 2009, Mr. Yao was convicted of fraud linked to the financial collapse of his businesses. Federal records show that he was released from prison last year; attempts to find him were unsuccessful.
The Premier partners, including Robert L. Bast, a lawyer, and trusts for which his nephew, W. Roderick Gagne, was trustee, had invested millions of dollars in Mr. Yao’s companies, and lent them millions more at high interest rates before they went into bankruptcy. It is not clear if that is how the family of Mr. Bast and Mr. Gagne, as creditors, gained control of Premier.
Court documents and records filed with state regulators say that at one time Mr. Yao, or a company wholly owned by him, was the general partner of Premier — in other words, its principal owner. Yet Mr. Camp, who acknowledged that as chief executive he used to report to Mr. Yao, insisted that Mr. Yao was never an owner of Premier, and Mr. Farrell, the lawyer, said he knew nothing about the company’s ownership.
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2019-04-20T13:11:11Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/us/lawsuit-accuses-for-profit-schools-of-fraud.html?hp
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menshealth
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Yep, I did 4 intervals at 10.5mph for 1 minute with 1 minute rest in between. Legs were sore from yesterday's bodyweight workout - I certainly had the fitness to do a lot more.
Kekich Credo #7 - You’re successful when you like who and what you are. Success includes achievement…while choosing and directing your own activities. It means enjoying intimate relationships and loving what you do in life.
the physical progress...A body transformation cannot happen without a mental transformation as well."
I'll be here in snowy Toronto all weekend working on some really cool Turbulence Training projects for you. No fancy-schmancy trips this weekend.
Instead, I'll be in the lab.
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2019-04-19T22:40:21Z
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https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19519501/upper-body-bodyweight-workout/
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reuters
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ISTANBUL, June 1 (Reuters) - Turkey’s lira weakened as much as 2.5 percent on Friday before trimming some of its losses in afternoon trade, with investors turning their attention to inflation data next week.
At 1548 GMT, the lira was trading at 4.5920 per U.S. dollar, down 1.59 percent from 4.52 at Thursday’s close.
It had been strengthened this week by the central bank’s announcement on Monday that it would return to using the one-week repo rate as its benchmark interest rate, taking a long expected step to simplify policy and make it more predictable.
Resuming repo funding for the first time since January 2017, the central bank injected 29 billion lira at a one-week repo auction on Friday, with bids amounting to 56.77 billion lira.
At an emergency meeting last week it also hiked interest rates by 3 percentage points to support the lira, which has strengthened from a record low of 4.9290 hit on May 23 but is still down around 17 percent against the dollar this year.
Per Hammarlund, chief emerging markets strategist at SEB, said the lira weakness on Friday may have been linked to remarks overnight by President Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan said late on Thursday that citizens who keep money in foreign currency should convert it to lira and that this would teach a lesson to those who are trying to shake Turkey through exchange rates.
The main BIST 100 share index dipped 1.47 percent to 99,171 points. The banking index closed down 3.42 percent.
Investor attention was also focused on May inflation data, due on June 4, which could boost expectations of another rate hike at the central bank’s rate-setting meeting on June 7. In a Reuters poll, analysts forecast consumer price inflation would be up 1.45 percent month-on-month.
An adviser to Erdogan, Cemil Ertem, told state broadcaster TRT Haber that the bank had said it would respond as necessary if the inflation data is higher than expected, but he forecast inflation would be in line with expectations.
But “even if the lira comes through these upcoming events unscathed, the more fundamental point is that it remains vulnerable to a fresh deterioration in global investor sentiment”, Capital Economics said in a note to clients.
Investors were also monitoring Friday’s economic data, with a Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey showing Turkish manufacturing activity contracted in May, driven by a slowdown in new orders and market fluctuations.
Turkey’s exports surged 12.2 percent year-on-year in May to reach $14 billion, the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) said.
The yield on Turkey’s benchmark 10-year dollar bond rose to 14.81 percent from 14.13 percent in spot trade on Thursday.
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I caught up with DJ Babaloo after he did a great job DJing at Club 412.
Robert Abrams: Who inspires you and why?
DJ Babaloo: Celia Cruz & Tito Puente & Ernesto " Cachao " Lopez, Eddie Palmieri. Perez Prado. They are my sources of inspiration because of their accomplishments. The history of their music has left an indelible mark in Latin Music. Celia Cruz's la Guarachera had an attitude in life that sparked a positive outlook. As an artist she was adaptive & respectful of the Latin Culture and all its Diaspora . She overcame the barriers of her time. And anything she did she gave 100% of her artistry. Perez Prado because of his ecclectic taste and arrangements. He was not afraid to stand alone and do what he believed in. He was also a bit wacky in a sort of cartoonish way. Tito Puente was a genius, who studied rhythm and the Latin tempo ceaselessly, adept & adaptive, always pushing the Latin music rhythms to all its boundaries, recognizing it had limitless audiences. Ernesto Cachao Lopez, the Cuban Maestro composer, who's rhythms are still heard today. He is the grandaddy of Mambo Swing. Eddie Palmieri, another Maestro of Puerto Rican Heritage. Palmieri & Puente capture the essence of New York Salsa, the marriage between Latin Rhythm: Bomba Plena, Guaguanco, Mambo, Son Montunos & their jazz experience.
Robert Abrams: What are three of your favorite Salsa tunes?
Robert Abrams: Who are your favorite dance companies and why?
DJ Babaloo: Santorico Dance Company. They have kept the fun edge with elegance in the dance.
Robert Abrams: In addition to Salsa, what other styles of dance and music do you enjoy?
DJ Babaloo: I love hearing "Salsa" interpreted by other international musicians of other languages & culture. I enjoy Afro beat .I am an aspiring & developing producer I like the new Electronica genre… where music is being fused as in say, Gotan Project.
Robert Abrams: What do you like about DJing at Club 412?
DJ Babaloo: I enjoy 412 because it is open to all levels of dancing and all styles that are of NY Style of dancing. I also enjoy it because although deeply rooted in Latin Heritage, it is supported & admired by people of various backgrounds; as result I enjoy the appeals it has to diverse a crowd at venues where I play. New York City is a multi-cultural capital city. I grew up around a lot of Blacks & Latinos & Jews & Chinese. I enjoy ethnic culture more as an asset than as a difference. I celebrate it. I don't separate & divide culture. As a Native New Yorker, I have a dual culture with my relatives in Puerto Rico & in NYC, in addition to extended & surrogate family members that are Asians & Russian Jews. I can't see things in one cultural dimension.
Robert Abrams: What connections between music and dance motivate you?
DJ Babaloo: The connections that motivate in music and dance are the joy & fun of dancing to "Salsa Music". Understanding the rhythm in motion as it transpires onto the dance floor, whether I am dancing or playing as a DJ, there is something that happens when the flow of the rhythm zaps like an field of electricity which words don't describe.
Robert Abrams: From a musical perspective, what is the difference and connection between Salsa and Mambo?
DJ Babaloo: Salsa is a generic term, commercial term for a vast body of rhythms in the Latin Music Diaspora. Mambo was a specific style / genre of music played at certain periods in the history of Latin Music. The Mambo style is repeatedly used in modern day Salsa.
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Journalist Chris Forrester is reporting at the Advanced Television infosite that a European Space Policy conference, organized by Business Bridge Europe, created something of a stir last week when the European Digital Economy Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said the commission was fully backing the deployment and use of high-throughput satellites for the remotest regions of Europe in order to fill the much criticized broadband digital divide.
However, satellite industry experts, speaking at the same January 22nd event, said there is absolutely no evidence of any such formal or financial effort.
Gabriel reportedly said that it was the EU’s goal of guaranteeing at least 30 Mb/s of internet connectivity to all citizens by 2020, and 100 Mb/s by 2025, and stated that satellites were needed to ensure rural and remote areas received the same benefits.
Eutelsat’s CEO Rodolphe Belmer was quoted by Space Intel Report as saying that the satellite industry was not seeking cash from the Commission but wanted a coherent regulatory position.
Other criticism came from Evert Dudok, president of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association, ESOA, added that something was fundamentally wrong when such large minorities of a county’s population did not have reliable access to broadband and told the Commissioner that even in Germany, where a significant investment had been made in fiber that there was “no way” Germany could get all its citizens connected via fiber or terrestrial mobile.
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Keyboard troubleshooting: is “Sticky Keys” on?
Yesterday I received a call from someone who was rather distraught and frantic (this happens from time to time at my Tech Support business) because, all of a sudden, they couldn’t type on their computer. Actually, she could type.. but she was getting very strange results.
After determining that she had not recently poured an extra-large Cafe Latte on her keyboard (to read my article on what to do if you do spill on your keyboard, [or, if a single key has stopped responding] click here), and asking some other diagnostic questions, I determined that she had accidentally turned on Windows’ FilterKeys feature and simply needed to turn it off again.
FilterKeys is a subset of keyboard “Accessibility Options” included in Windows to assist people who have difficulties typing. These tools are activated (toggled on and off) by keyboard stroke combinations (shortcuts).
StickyKeys is an accessibility feature designed for people who have difficulty holding down two or more keys at a time. When a shortcut requires a key combination such as CTRL+P, StickyKeys will enable you to press one key at a time instead of pressing them simultaneously.
FilterKeys: You can set Windows to ignore keystrokes that occur in rapid succession, or keystrokes that are held down for several seconds unintentionally.
Bounce Keys: If you bounce your fingers on keys inadvertently, Bounce Keys will ignore repeated keystrokes until some time has passed. You choose the time period.
Repeat Keys and Slow Keys: The computer will ignore brief keystrokes according to the time limits you set.
To access these Options and turn them off or on, go to your Control Panel– click Start >Settings >Control Panel >Accessibility Options.
By default it opens to the keyboard tab. If you are experiencing a sudden onset of bizarre typing behavior, your first step is to visit here and ensure that there are no checks in the three checkboxes, which indicates these Options are in use.
I mentioned that shortcuts ‘activate’ these features — such as Tab+Enter, and a couple of Alt+a letter— and so you may have turned them on unintentionally.
If you do have some difficulty with your typing, such as happens when a Mr. Arthur Itis comes to visit, or/and if you have tremors, here is where you can enable these aids and tweak their settings to get the most benefit from them. Click on the “Settings” button to see the choices. Below is the FilterKeys Settings dialogue.
In the case mentioned, my client had first held down the Shift key long enough to activate FilterKeys (because a finger “rests” there). The lady was an extremely fast typist, and this setting ignored her strokes as being too short. Since she has no use for this tool, I recommended that she uncheck the top checkbox and disable the activating shortcut.
This screenshot shows the settings for StickyKeys, and unless you have trouble holding down more than one key at the same time — such as Ctrl+Alt+Del to activate Task Manager — I suggest you uncheck the top checkbox here as well.
For more on the keyboard Accessibility Options, click here.
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my keyboard decided to quit working after a grandson installed a hunting game which require use of the shift key to move the hunter…I have tried to remove stickykeys through the control panel and have been most unsuccessful what else can I do?
Boys and their games, eh?!
If the keyboard is attached via a USB cable sometimes simply unplugging it, counting to 5, and re-plugging it in again will correct weirdnesses. Similarly, if you are using a wireless keyboard, changing the batteries will fix little glitches (it is possible the game install is not related).
so i was playing World of Warcraft earlier tonight when my escape key decided to stop working. it has happened before but i dont remember how i fixed it. the caps lock key and the F-lock key soon followed, i believe it has something to do with sticky keys but cant figure out how to reset everything back to normal. some help would greatly be appreciated so i dont have to buy a new keyboard tomorrow.
But, follow the advice above to uncheck the “Use shortcut to enable..” checkboxes to disable the features, just to make sure.
If I understand your unusual request correctly, you might find ASCII Code Generator useful http://www.download.com/ASCII-Code-Generator/3000-2383_4-10116298.html?tag=pub&cdlPid=10116299 but, this is written for Windows 98 (the Windows 9x series– Win 95, 98, ME) it will probably work on all Windows platforms.
I have to ask.. what do you need this ability for?
I spilled some juice on my laptop and now a few keys do not work. So I cleaned it but the keys still do not work.
On my laptop, when I’m trying to scroll to a location of a file lower on display, it immediately zipped back to the top of the list of files.
Also, the scrolling is extremely slow in other programs and on the internet. I’ve tryed using a canister of compressed air to blow out any trash. Wasn’t the problem.
You’re right; that would only help you if you were using the PgDn key to scroll, and there was some gunk under there that prevented full key depression.
If you are using a touchpad to scroll, you might want to install the latest drivers, and see if that doesn’t cure your machine’s misbehavior. Click on my “Device drivers” category to see my articles on installing drivers, if you need guidance.
And although this is a rare symptom, it may be an indicator of malware. I would suggest you visit Trend Micro’s Housecall and run a scan.
I have this strange problem with my brand new keyboard.
While every key seems to be working well as a unit, when I try some specific combinations, the keyboard does not respond. For instance, if I press & hold the down+right arrow keys, these four keys: “q”,”w”,”j” and “k” are not responding. The rest keys respond perfectly, so I assume that this is not a “number of simultaneously pressed keys” issue.
Anyway, you can imagine how annoying is this especially in games that you need to use the directional and letter keys as well… Do you have any idea of what causes this kind of problem?
First, follow the steps in this article to make sure that NO “Accessibility Options” are enabled (as shown in the first image).. that is, no checkbox is checked.
Then, make sure you have the latest device driver from the manufacturer’s website installed.
While you’re on the keyboard manufacturer’s website, look on the FAQ and/or Support page for a description of this issue.
If these things don’t clear up the problem, contact the manufacturer. It may be you have a slight defect..
My wireless keyboard started to act weird today. It typing the letter x repeatedly. I changed batteries and check all of the obvious things. Even if i tried to back space it would just move forward with a row of x’s.
When asking for free troubleshooting advice, it is good manners to provide some basic details.. The norm is to at least provide the operating system XP/Vista/Mac/etc.. and also when it is a device that’s misbehaving, the make/model.
That is kind of unusual behavior, isn’t it? First of all, the ‘Sticky Keys’ article is not for this kind of malfunction, but the link provided (2nd paragraph) is. Please follow the cleaning steps found there first. (You may have to remove the keycap).
If that doesn’t resolve the issue, unplug the USB/base station, go into Device Manager, and uninstall the keyboard. Then reboot. When you are booted, and can see your Desktop, plug the USB back in. You should see a “Found new hardware” dialogue installing the keyboard’s driver.
If that fails to resolve the issue.. I would need to ask you some questions before offering any further advice.
I thank you for taking the time to post this nice comment on my humble tech blog… Glad it helped you.
Thank you very much. I am able to type at regular speed now. Great job.
I’m glad you found my site helpful.
I recently bought an eee pc laptop. When I turned it on today the keyboard was not working. I installed avg anti virus software yesterday so I thought this might have something to do with it. I uninstalled it but it still refused to work. Im confused with reguards to the problem. Its not old enough to be a dust or damage problem. Is there some way I might have locked the keyboard by mistake or is it an internal problem?
Is it a Linux unit, or XP? Is it still under warranty?
If it’s XP, you can try using System Restore (How To Use System Restore To Fix Windows to go back to a date when it was working.. and also look in Device Manager for your keyboard’s driver status.
If you can find a USB keyboard, plug it in and see if it works. That will help in your troubleshooting.
Sorry, though, I don’t troubleshoot Linux. The various User Forums are your best bet.
my child was on the computer now whenever i press the space bar down it opens the search results page how do i make things normal?
The proper procedure would be to track down just what your child did, and then un-do it. (It sounds like they set a hotkey assignment).
Since I am not looking at your machine, perhaps the easiest thing would be for you to “go back in time” to before this happened using System Restore.
When asking for help, it is … um, standard practice to state the operating system, and the make and model of unit. My answer might be different between a Mac and a Windows XP and a Windows Vista.. i.e..
But I am going to answer assuming your PC is a Windows machine.
Your problem may be mechanical and it may be software-related.
If this is a quite recent development, the fist thing to try is System Restore – choosing a date prior to the malfunction.
If that doesn’t resolve the issue, next go into Device Manager and Uninstall the keyboard; then reboot (restart) the unit. Windows will “detect” the keyboard and re-Install it at startup.
Of course, the problem may be mechanical, in which case I recommend replacing the keyboard assembly. While this can be done as a D-I-Y, I advise taking it to a qualified technician.
I have windows XP. Yesterday our very old keyboard stopped responding, so I bought a wireless one. The keyboard assigned keys worked (Home, calculator etc) but none of the alphabetical or numerical keys. I tried lots of things (re-installing etc) but in the end returned it to the shop and exchanged it for a plug in USB keyboard.
This new keyboad is doing EXACTLY the same thing! Only the previously assigned keys are working (home, calculator, volume etc) and none of the alphabetical or numerical ones.
The new keyboard is plug and play. I have tried three different USB ports and still no joy. THere is no CD or insallation disc.
My articles on device drivers are here, https://techpaul.wordpress.com/category/device-drivers/, and you may need to scroll past a few to find the appropriate How To.. but it’s there.
You are amazingly quick – thank you. Sorry to be stupid, but my old keyboard was plugged in with a PS/2 connector but I am unable to find the drivers in the device manager list as I can’t work out which is the relevant bit to click on and it isn’t obvious to me which one it is.
In Device Manager there is a category labeled “keyboards”.
Click on the + sign to ‘expand’ the keyboard category.
Right-click on each entry you see there, and select “Uninstall” (answer “yes” to any warning dialogue).
Power down the computer when finished. Plug in the new keyboard, and then power on again. Windows will detect the new keyboard and install the appropriate drivers.
Ah!! Maybe this is the problem. There is no keyboard category. I have also tried looking with the new keyboard plugged in or not and whichever I do there is no keyboard drop down.
Please reboot the computer with the keyboard plugged in. Them make sure you are not seeing “keyboards” in Device Manager.
Click Start > Run and enter devmgmt.msc.
If there is no keyboards category now, you can try the Add New Hardware wizard (found in Control Panel) and tell it you are adding a keyboard.
You can also try opening a Command Prompt and running “sfc /scannow” (no quotes) and then repeat the steps.
Have tried all this but still not working. THank you for your help I will try and get someone in, California is probably a bit too far from the UK!
Here’s one more thing to try. Visit the keyboard manufacturer’s website, and see if there is not a driver for XP available for download.
Every time I press my control key, it launches Internet Explorer. I went to accessibility options and “StickyKeys” in not on. What can I do to return the control key to normal?
I have no idea of what you did to the computer to initiate that behavior, but if you know (or can guess) what that was, you might try un-doing it (perhaps with System Restore). You might also try the technique mentioned here, What To Do When Your Mouse Plays Dead. Or Your Keyboard.
I have a prob in logging in via win XP pro. the sticky keys get activated…and i have to deep press the digits to get it typed and then enter. I tried disabling sticky keys everything. Doesnt help. Also the cursor goes thick black while blinking. please advise….
I have to assume you changed the settings as Administrator, yet they revert.
I would start by making sure the machine was clean of malware. My next step would be to open a command prompt and run both sfc /scannow and dskchk /f /x.
well….I was the administrator in this case and i tried cleaning up the system and performing a malware check too (malwarebytes). Other stuffs like the tabs and the toolbars, seems fine to me, but the problem is only during the windows login. I get that big font when i click the password area and you cannot enter any characters. only if i press and hold the key, the password enters in. I tried a system restore too…but in vain.
This is not a problem whose answer helps “everyone”, and so you are asking for free support. I do not provide my professional support outside N. America. I am going to tell you that the only (few) times I personally have encountered your issue was on bootleg copies of XP (which I do not support) or on malware infected systems.
* Run sfc /scannow from the command prompt.
* Visit an online antivirus scanner and perform a Full system scan — I prefer Trend Micro’s Housecall.
* Create another User account and use it to logon.
* Change the way you logon (so that entering a password isn’t required [“auto logon”]).
* Perform a repair install of XP.
* Take your computer to a qualified tech.
please help me with my netbook problem, it’s ASUS eepc series with microsoft windows XP.. it was bought i think just last year and now most of the keys are malfunctioning, either it cant be pressed or other keys will appear.. i’ve tried this tip but it didnt work.. i’m afraid i broke something from the USB socket on the side of the laptop, and now im thinking it may caused all of this.. but all the USBs i inserted are still working well, do you think it would be solved by more of your tips? or it’s a hardware malfunction now?
First, I would try the method described here, What To Do When Your Mouse Plays Dead Or Your Keyboard.
But, to be any more specific, I am afraid you would have to hire me (or another technician) to look at your device.
Yes, it could be a hardware problem.
Maybe.. you have to “reset” it to factory condition (wipe the hard drive and reinstall Windows) and maybe not.
Also, if you are familiar with forums, you might try posting your question on the eeepc user forum, here.
This sounds like a hardware issue. While shutdown, disconnect all external hardware, except KB, mouse, monitor. Also remove any floppy disks or CD’s. See if that helps.
If the problem still persists enter the BIOS and Enable “legacy USB devices”.
If that fails, you can use your favorite search engine to search for the string “log in to windows with mouse”.
Please read What To Do When Your Mouse Plays Dead. Or Your Keyboard.
I wonder if anyone can help, I pressed and held the shift key down for to long and a box popped up I cant remember what I clicked but since then my keyboard wouldnt work, I can make it work by pressing and holding the shift key down for about 8 secs until my comp makes a funny noise then I can type normally, when I log out and back in I need to do this again before I can type.
Any ideas how to stop it from happening?
The answer is in the article. This is a “Accessibility Options” (FilterKey) and you should go into Settings (in Control Panel > Accessibility Options). Open ‘accessibility options’ & select ‘Settings’ un-select ‘use shortcut’ & apply it, the problem should be solved.
I checked my setting which are just fine, I didn’t spilled anything on it (plus it’s a 6 month old laptop so it can’t be dust, I did a complete and extended scan with Avast which came up clean and I turned my computer off and on… It did the same thing couple of days ago but the problem disapeared after 2hours of trying to solve it (and surely without having any idea on what I did to fix it). I have an azerty keyboard on a ASUS K53SC SX050V – Pentium 2 GHz laptop.
hum, sorry, I’m on window 7. Thank you in advance for any help!
Check to make sure the language is correct in Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > “Change keyboard and other input options” (opens “Text Services and Input Languages).
If you installed any keyboard mapping programs/utilities lately, uninstall them.
Refer to the article mentioned in my answer to morgan (above).
Call the laptop manufacturer (a 6 month old laptop gets free support).
Waouh, that’s a fast answer! thanks a lot, but it still doesn’t work….. I guess I’m good for longterm trouble with the manufacturer… anyway, thanks a lot and have a great evening (or day, depending on where you live).
Well, you can hire a pro to look at it, but I think ASUS phone support will prove less painful than you might think.. and you already paid for it.
I have to keep tapping the keys over and over to get it to write the keys do not seem to want to work. this does not do it all the time its very bad doing e mails it is taking for ever to write. it mises out letters if I dont watch it all the time. thank you Carol.
I have about a 3 year old dell laptop (windows 7). My “V” “h” and “C” keys are not working in my browser, but they will work in Word. I looked and none of the Accessibility Options are on. Do you know what it might be? Thanks!
I have not seen or heard of this on a Windows 7 machine (yet), but on a laptop, holding down the Fn (function) key and pressing the Windows logo key has worked for me in the past. This article http://jamesisin.com/a_high-tech_blech/index.php/2008/03/keyboard-input-ignored-for-c-h-t-and-v-keys-in-specific-applications-only/ closely matches my (limited) personal experience, and has a few other useful suggestions.
1. A double-tap of the Windows (or Super) key.
2. A double-tap of specifically the right Super key.
7. Fn key and Super key may toggle problem on and off.
delete all keyboards other than your language and delete all instances of “Ink Correction”.
But I have no idea what keyboard you are referring to (and there are thousands).
Typically, gentle pressure, and they should ‘snap’ into place. If that hasn’t worked, go to the device manufacture’s Support pages, and search using the keyword “keycap”.
so my issue is, my computer’s keyboard will either not type and just sit there and eventally will let you type, then when you get to punch a few keys in it repeats whatever key it feels like over and over forever ex: wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…….
i took it to the shop they formated it and charged 115.00 turned it on today and what do you know same thing , its not they keyboard i have used 3 different ones brand new. anyone have any idea what it could be?
i tossed out the usb keyboard and went with the old keyboard and works perfect… idk if there could be something with whatever controls the usb but its working perfect now.
I guess I assumed from the way you posed the question, that your keyboard troubles happened to a single keyboard, and happened even though it had just had Windows re-Installed.
What if it’s a Mac ?
Some of keyboard troubleshooting techniques discussed here (and in the Comments, above) can be applied to Apple products – in a general kind of way.
The first step is giving the keyboard a good cleaning.. maybe a vacuuming. If, when you banged the keyboard on the desk a bunch of grit/sand/rice grains/etc. did not fall out, then perhaps a sticky fluid got under the keys and dried.. in which case, the “bathtub trick” (or dishwasher trick) may be a good thing to know about.
But if it is no longer broke.. don’t fix it.
Glad to hear you got it resolved.
We have no more “Accessibility Options” in the Control Panel of W7. Are there any plans to update this page here?
Though they changed the name (in Windows 7) to “Ease of Access Center“, and the option name to “Make the keyboard easier to use“, everything else is the same.. so, sorry but no, I am in no hurry to update all my prior articles (1,800+ of them) to reflect Windows 7 (nor 8) ‘adjustments’.
In Vista, but more so in Windows 7, and it’s practically mandatory in Windows 8, they want you to – instead of looking for an icon (or word in a menu list) – type what you’re looking for into the Search pane (above the Start button); whether that be a document you worked on recently, or a program you want to launch, or, whatever.
So if you do not see “Accessibility Options” or “Ease of Access Center”, click Start and then start typing in a-c-c-e-s-s. It will appear in the list of results by the time you get to the 3rd “c”.
Looking for an icon (aka “hunting”) is now “old school” and passe. But if you want Windows 7’s Control Panel to be more detailed, and look more like XP’s did, change the “View by” to “small icons”.
I appreciate your taking the time to let me know you found my writing beneficial.
1) Uninstall the keyboard in Device Manager, as described here: What To Do When Your Mouse Plays Dead. Or Your Keyboard..
2) Search the Lenovo user forum and if you don’t find an answer, post this question there.
3) Have a tech take a look.
If the whole range of keys intermittently stops responding, you might try uninstalling the keyboard in Device manager, then reboot. If the problem continues, and the laptop is new, call HP support. You might have a defect.
I have windows 7 home premium on my computer. all was well with the keyboard and now thhere is a click sound each time a key is pressed. No letter shows up on the screen unless I hit the key for 2 clicks and then it appears very slowly. PLEASE help me reset the keyboard to normal.. I have a Dell system.
In my other answers, above, you will see – several times – links to another article (“What to do when your mouse plays dead”). You can try the uninstall technique described there.
But I don’t want to alarm you with what I say next.. if the machine is still under warranty, call Dell. If it’s not, you may want to have a tech take a look.
Thank you. I type faster than my keyboard was allowing me to, and it seemed to happen all of a sudden, and I read the above, and it’s fixed. I can type as fast as I want and don’t have to hard press on keys or wonder why accessibility comes out with only one “c” and I have t go back and add it in. Many thanks. I didn’t know this stuff was here, but apparently I did something somewhere along the line. New Windows, new computer. I’m happy now.
I am very glad to have helped out.
Thank you for letting me know I helped.
I am using Windows 7 Home Premium on an ASUS Notebook UL50a. The keyboard allows me to type fluently and fast, but after a few words the cursor moves sporadically to a random place somewhere else on the page. Very often, the text that I have typed is highlighted and then disappears with the next keystroke. I am a fast and accurate typist and have never encountered this type of problem on any other keyboard. It is making the Notebook unusable. The settings above are ok. I would really appreciate your help.
You might try adjusting the “repeat rates” of the keyboard (Start > Control Panel > Keyboards & Mice).
And you might also try watching to see if your wrists (or bracelets) are brushing the touchpad, and or the left hand ‘function keys’ (Fn, Ctrl, Windows key, Alt). If so, you might need to turn off the touchpad and plug in a mouse.
Well, Fn+F9 should work, but I found a reply in a forum that said to try Fn+F10 instead.
open Control Panel and select Classic View (for easier approach), click for “Mouse” which will open the mouse properties, and look for the tab with the word “ELAN”. Click the tab and look for the check box that says “Disable when external USB mouse plug in”. Check it, press Apply then close. You can also disable the touchpad here for good by selecting “Elan Smart-Pad” at the list and clicking the “Stop Device”.
If those ideas don’t help you, you can “disable” the mouse (trackpad) in Device Manager (again, Google).
I first had to go to the Asus website and download the Elantech software. Then I was able to do as you suggest and disable the touchpad, Great – thanks a lot for this. And so far it seems to have done the trick and my problem is solved. Thanks a lot!!!
I suspected that you might have to download the driver.. but wasn’t certain (and didn’t want to daunt you with TMI, should there prove no reason). Thank you for letting me know the fix.
Congratulations on solving the puzzle! I hope it proves a permanent cure.
If you read my answers to people’s questions (above yours), you will see a pattern of three things to try starting to repeat themselves.
If you read my replies to questions above yours (in the Comments section) you will see a pattern — of an article, and a few things to try — emerge: check for viruses, uninstall the keyboard in Device Manager, etc..
I know there are many comments, but it won’t take you long to skim them. I think your answer will be in there.
thanks I had already read the hole post and tried everything except totally uninstalling keyboard so I did that b4 riposting.
to many keys are involved for it to be a dirt problem, and it does same thing with an old crap board I had laying round.
does it sound like maybe an input card problem or software to you?
I apologize. It seems my “read my other answers” response was inappropriate in your case. And I thank you for pointing out the broken link, though I doubt a device driver is the issue (and uninstalling [all] the keyboards in DevMgr should have removed/reinstalled a/the driver anyway). The link should work now.
And I might uninstall all keyboards in DevMgr once again. I have found that sometimes I need to repeat actions two, three times before they “stick”.
Did you make any changes in your BIOS?
well I thought I would fill you in on the latest.
I removed my hard drive and replaced it with another one I had around that had windows xp on it.
to rule out either hardware or software.
(if it continued it must be hardware — if not software).
i lucked up and found the problem.
i was trying to configure my razor naga gaming mouse.
and when I hit one of the side keys it started filling the txt area I was in with 0000000000000 as it had before.
when I hit any other side key it would stop.
It has been the mouse that was malfunctioning all along, and since the naga’s extra keys mimic keybaord keys this is what you get.
I even think I remember setting the naga to past the clipboard at one time in the past.
Well, that would be under the heading of “mapping” (and also “undo any recent changes” [aka “configuring my mouse“]). I am glad to hear you puzzled it out, and I thank you for the update. I join you in hoping it helps some future reader.
If you read my replies to other questions (above) you will see the things to try (including reference to another article/technique).
But if you have already tried those things, well, if the laptop is new enough (1 year) you can contact ASUS’s support. If it is out of warranty, you should have a tech take a look.
In Windows XP, execute control access.cpl from the Command Prompt to access Accessibility Options directly.
In Vista/Win7/Win8, execute control /name Microsoft.EaseOfAccessCenter from the Command Prompt to access Ease of Access Center directly.
Hello, kind soul. I’d google this if I could, but I don’t have the slightest idea of what exactly to search for, so please bear with me and help me if you can.
My laptop has an odd case of sticky keys. Every key I press is followed by a phantom m stroke. K turns to km, a to am, all the ctrl and function keys result in an m as well. If I press m by itself it tends to behave most of the time, except for when it throws up a bunch of ms.
I thought it was windows being weird, but a restart didn’t help. Taking the button off and cleaning the accumulated fluff didn’t help. This article didn’t help. I’m at a complete loss.
Any ideas of what could help? Or should I just assume the keyboard has died and get it replaced?
I’m running Windows 7 home premium sp 1 on an emachines laptop that has seen better days.
I have added supplemental answers in questions posted above, and these answers may answer yours — I’d suggest starting with Comments 27, 29 and 32.
Thanks to a required high school typing course in 1972, I am a speedy touch typist. Unfortunately, my keyboard cannot always keep up. It often stops typing as my fingers continue to hit the keys. I have to go back, left click where it left off, and re-type. (Just happened again!) I have a new Asus “Republic of Gamers” laptop with Windows 8. No sticky keys or any other filter keys are being used.
Thank you, by the way!
If I understand you, the machine actually ignores/forgets your keystrokes after some point, and you have to go back and retype (as opposed to there just being a delay between keystrike and letter appearing on the screen).
I think I would have to look at your problem to give a better answer. But I can tell you it is a problem: a new gamer should not have that. My suggestion is to visit Trend Micro’s online scanner Housecall to look for any malware. If the problem persists after that, contact ASUS.
I can assure you your troubles are not related to the Accessibility Option named “Sticky Keys” (the subject of this article).
But as to why your computer suddenly started acting so strangely, there might be several causes, ranging from hardware to software.
The first thing to try (always) is a reboot.
Then I would suggest downloading and running MBAM (http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html) to look for viruses.
Then I might try uninstalling any recent software changes (starting with GOM Player).
Then maybe do a System Restore.
If those don’t solve it, have a tech take a look.
Thank you soooo much! I couldnt type multiple of the same letter at once, but this helped me a lot to fix it!
Thank you for taking the time to let me know you found my article helpful.
My keyboard is acting funny. It was working a while ago but suddenly something has happened (i doubt that I have pressed some key). Some examples–desktop coming when I press key D, “my computer” opening up on pressing key E, the window size reduces on pressing the down arrow key, increases with up arrow key etc.
Therefore, I am unable to type anything. Cannot even google. PLEASE HELP.
Sounds like your Windows key (bottom row, left) has become stuck down/’activated’/’toggled). Try pressing it once, and if that doesn’t cure your sudden change, reboot the machine (restart).
See my comment #39 (above). If that repair doesn’t work, substitute “fujitsu” for “lenovo”. And if you’re still under warranty, call Fujitsu tech support. (If not, take it to a tech).
Very first thing to do with a new oddity = restart the computer/digital device. If that doesn’t clear it up, proceed to troubleshooting.
Next, If you recently installed some new keymapping software (such as with a fancy new mouse), or plugged in second keyboard, uninstall them.
Next (presuming no luck) refer to my answer comment #39 above.
If you read my answers in the comments above (yes, I know, there’s a lot of them), you will find several repairs you might try. There is also (several times) a link to another device repair article quite appropriate to keyboards, as well as more answers/repairs in that comment section as well. Good luck.
My external keyboard which i used to use for playing games worked fine till yesterday but today it is showing some unusual problem.
When i press shift tab button they function like caps lock.
Typing the alphabets button also resluts in some random inputs when pressed.
what can i do to sort this out?
Like the last two commentors, I am going to refer you to previous answers I’ve given in the comments (above), particularly Comment #39.
which one is the comment 39?
my original keypad is working all but fine and i have problem with only the external keyboard.
The comments are numbered (yours was #57). I have given answers previously that may help you.
But to be clear, uninstall any keybord mapping software, and uninstall the external keyboard in Device Manager (there is a link to my article for how to do that in my reply to comment #39.).
That’s one I haven’t heard before.. only one letter, and only in your browser? If it happened in other programs, I would suspect a malfunctioning key (mechanical).
If you read my answers in the comments above (yes, I know, there’s a lot of them), you will find several repairs you might try. Good luck.
when I touch ‘control’ key, I am knocked offline. Every time; also text on websites is jumbeled on top of itself badly.
I would have a pro take look at your machine.
Do you have a search feature??
Yes, in my widgets column on the right. It’s labeled “Previous tips and answers”.
I have a Sony laptop, running Vista. Just recently the keyboard started ddoouubblliinngg every keystroke if I’m in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I am typing this post in Notepad to copy and paste, and it works fine. I also tried WordPerfect.
Problem is ONLY in browsers.
This is really giving me a headache. Do you think I have a virus?
That is one possibility, I think. A good way to check is to visit an online AV scanner, and I start with Housecall.
You can also try “Reset”-ing the browser. My How To for that is here.
I tried Housecall, but I was unable to install it. I got a message that it was corrupt. Huh!
But it looks like my existing anti virus must have taken care of it, because the problem has left the building.
Thanks again. I’ll be checking out some of your other helpful posts in an attempt to educate my non-geeky brain.
How right you were to be suspicious. The problem is bbaacckk and I can’t get Bitdefender to run either.
I have the name of a local computer fix it shop with good referrals, so my next stop is there.
Thanks again for your help, not just for me, but for all the others you help too.
I think thats the right move.
When you get it back from the shop, it’d be wise to change all your online passwords.
My keyboard has a problem. I am a gamer, and not only do i like pc and console games but also flash games, such as those found on armorgames.com. Anyhow whenever I play a flash game that uses wasd or arrow keys, sometimes whenever i press the proper key it sticks. Like if in order to move left you press d, whenever i do so my character keeps moving to the left even though i pressed d again or tried pressing other buttons.I have found that clicking the right mouse button and the corresponding key helps a little but the problem is still there.
Edit: My moniter is hooked up to a labtop because the labtop screen got messed up somehow and now the screen is white and in the lower right corner theres some weird black ink-like stuff, and some of it is highlighted in blue. So I plugged in my montier into it so i could still use it, so i plugged a keyboard and mouse into the labtop so i could use both in conjunction with the moniter. The keyboard im using, not the labtop keyboard, is the one thats malfunctioning.
Thanks and ill try those remedies.
Recently the labtop power moduel (that thingy that the cord goes into) got messed up and now wont charge unless the wire or the lab top is in a certain position. As for the key thing i dont know how old it is because were renting it. What i do know is that its an acer hp labtop, if that helps somewhat.
Well, if you mean the power jack on the laptop itself (the ‘socket’ the cord’s plug goes into) got broken and is now loose in there.. that part is often soldered directly onto the mainboard (aka “motherboard”). A shop could disassemble the laptop and resolder that.. might clear up a few issues (maybe the screen, even) and .. I wouldn’t delay. It’s not going to improve by itself, and might get worse (as in unrepairable).
But I’m not clear.. the laptop is a rental?
Try pressing the Function key once (sometimes labeled “Fn”). If that doesn’t work, you can try contacting HP customer support; and/or also review the answers I have given in previous comments (above).
I’m currently having trouble with my computer my younger brother was irritated with it and I’m not sure what he did but he made it where my computer makes these weird bloop sounds and kind of sounds like a video game everytime I type and the spacebar wont work and I need my computer anyway you can help please do!
Well, that’s one I haven’t seen before.. It almost sounds like a ‘macro’ (or maybe a custom “theme”) has been set.
my com puter keyboard is totype specifically a,q,1 in this characters to typing to auto attached (-) symbol it is how to solve the problem?
How do I disable sticky keys on my computer when I can’t type in my password?
If you already replaced the keyboard assembly.. You might try going in to Device Manager and “uninstall” the keyboard and reboot/update the driver/replace the keyboard’s ‘ribbon’ cable/take the machine to a technician.
i donot know why some times is defect (gapes or spaces), other times not.
And thank you for the follow-up.
But one thing.. you said (maybe it was a typo) “if u believe now it is working without fault“. I never said that. Only you can say that.
Intermittent bugz (glitches) are sometimes called “ghosts in the machine”, and they’re just as hard to find and fix — the bane of tech support technicians.
The answers I provided in the article, and to previous questions, (posted above) similar to yours, should help.
Thank you so much! My keys were suddenly acting up and this article explained perfectly what had happened, thanks for this! Totally fixed my problem, I guess I accidentally turned on toggle keys! Great website, really appreciate it.
If I drag my finger across the touchpad it scrolls up and down the page. The only way I’ve found to be able to actually move my cursor is to hold down the left mouse button, but then everything gets highlighted and sometimes things get accidentally moved. Can you help? Thanks!
In my answers to previous questions (above) I mention (and link to) another article I wrote that tells you how to uninstall the device driver. I would do that for the touchpad.
If that doesn’t work, you could plug in a wireless mouse..
Or have a tech take a look.
hello there, there’s a problem with my number ‘four’ key, i can press the other numbers with ease (123567890) but not ;four. and sometimes i will get random strings of ‘fours’ coming out. Do you have any idea what might have caused this issue? i am using a laptop and have clean the key but its still not working.
Please read my answers to previous comments/questions (above).
tks for getting back to me so soon, i went to https://techpaul.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/what-to-do-when-your-mouse-plays-dead/ and read it up but ‘ A yellow triangle with a black exclamation point symbol will indicate a problem with the device.’ There’s no yellow triangle or black! anywhere with any of my device(mouse or keyboard). do i still go ahead and uninstall them ?
That will (re)Install the device driver. Which will either resolve your issue or tell you that the trouble almost certainly is mechanical (and you need a new keyboard).
Thank you! This helped me fix my problem!!
And thank you for taking the time to let me know you found my writing useful.
I have a lenovo thinkpad SL500. I had to take it apart to replace the power jack. Once everything is back in place it works beautifully, but one issue. The “D” key is way too sensitive. It is the only one behaving this way. I took the key off and cleaned away anything obstructing and it still is too sensitive. It does not stick. Did I miss something when putting the keyboard back on? Thanks!
I doubt it. I have not disassembled that particular notebook, but my thinking would be more along the lines of a long screw – such as the one on the bottom that comes up through and holds the keyboard unit in place – may have been over-tightened, and needs to be backed off a twist or two.
But it sounds like a replace the keyboard, or live with it, kind of .. quirk.
I am working with an Acer Aspire 5253 with the built-in keyboard Windows 7. For 2 weeks now the Left-ALT ESC FN F3 F5 F6 F7 F9 F10 and F11 keys do not work in Windows or applications. Sticky Keys, Key Filters, etc. are off. The keys appear to work correctly with a USB keyboard although I haven’t tested everyone. I have Dritek WMI loaded as well as Acer Launch Manager. Are you aware of a specific issue that can cause these keys to fail? I’ve searched the web for situations similar to mine and they appear on a sporadic basis. All or a subset of the keys mentioned fail in the reports. After 2 weeks of looking for a solution, I don’t know where else to look. The problem is months old so system restore is not an option.
Nothing like an intermittent glitch to drive one nuts, right?
I uninstalled the keyboard a few times and no help. I can plug in a USB keyboard and it works correctly, so I’m assuming it may be software related. Maybe I have an incorrect version of Launch Manager installed. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yes, more likely. But hardware (the keyboard assembly or ribbon cable) is also possible. If you did any key mapping, undo it. Reinstalling the model-specific Dritek WMI and Acer Launch Manager from the Acer website is a good next step.
The only trouble I’ve had on my 5253 was LCD screen related; which I almost didn’t replace, as the machine is old, and cheap (lowest-end) to begin with. But I see a keyboard assembly for $20, so..
If it’s a bad enough problem, you could copy off your files, do a ‘factory reset’, and reinstall/copy back.
I am trying to help a friend with her Acer Laptop. It is running Windows 7. She said that “her babies” got hold to it and were banging on the keyboard. It was displaying weird stuff when you mash the keys, ie; letter o with’ off the side, letter h with the u coming up right beside it, letter j with the m coming up abd others stuff. The / key acted like it was sticking, so i checked and turned off sticky keys. I have also uninstalled the keyboard in Device Manager and even after re-installed, it continues to do the same.
ONE NOTe, i took the / key off, cleaned it and re-installed it. Not seeming to stick any more, BUT, all the other issues still there.
I plugged in a USB keyboard and it works fine.
SO, am I correct to assume that the keyboard itself, may need to be replaced ?
Yes, I’d say it was a safe bet.
Fortunately, keyboard replacements are not too expensive, ($30 or so) and a fairly simply ‘disassembly’.
thanks, yeah, i have done a few of them.
My computers keyboard is not functioning correctly. I was using the Internet and tried to type in something and before I finished it automatically switched back to Google home screen. I kept trying with the same results… so after that I typed in letters one at a time so that I could see with keys were affecting the search. The only key that acted up was my c letter key… after each time I pressed it it sent me back to the home screen… I have been researching what it might be with no luck except everyone saying it is the sticky keys, I have tried the solutions to sticky keys with no luck… the keyboard has a few years of use on it but has never had any problems before that. I am starting to think the keyboard has just gotten to old and needs to be replaced but I would like to know if there is a way I can fix it and I can’t use certain programs until I fix it… please help.
In my replies to previous questions, (Comments), above, I have already provided the complete DIY repair options (including a link to another keyboard repair article). Read those and, good luck.
It was very helping reading this article.My queation is about my android phone.It just has happened with the keyboeard of my samsung note 3 android phone.the problem is that while typing when i tape on asingle so it taped on mre letters with yhe letter i tap first.so whats this kindly let me know soon and what solutions are there.
I don’t know. But the Standard Troubleshooting flowchart should help.
2) Do a “hard reset”.
3) If under warranty, contact the device manufacturer. If not, read their FAQ and Support pages.
5) Have a Tech take a look at it.
I don’t understand your writing. But I can tell you to refer to my previous answers in the Comments above; or call HP tech support; or take it to a technician.
I have a new Acer, Aspire E 15 Start ES1-512-P8NA I usually useaplug in keyboard butbecause this one has an “on board numeric pad” I have done away with it. My problem is the space bar is not working properly. I type away, tapping it both soft and hard and it doesn’t space the words all the time and I have to gobackeach time and separate them. I am trying to gather some samples for you while writing this but it has only happened a couple of times but maybe that is because I am not typing at my usual speed. What can I do itisdrivingmecrazy!
First I would use compressed air/soft brush under the spacebar to make sure there’s no little bit of grit/dirt interfering with the motion. Then I might go into Control Panel > Keyboard and fiddle with/adjust tyhe “repeat rate” sliders to see if quickening or slowing better matches my typing..
I have posted several DIY repairs in previous Comments (above), you could try some of those.. But since you said your machine was new (meaning under warranty) you could contact Acer tech support.. maybe there’s a defect.
Though Microsoft has “modernized” the control windows somewhat, so they look different, the Ease of Accessabilty function has not changed. You simply need to turn off Sticky Keys… and get your own computer for games.
Go into Control Panel, then Ease of Access Center, then “Make the keyboard easier to use”.
hello, i have this problem on my keyboard that when i press any button and hold it for a couple of seconds, it repeats itself for a couple of more seconds. do you know what the problem is?
Doesn’t sound like a problem. It sounds like you need to adjust the “repeat rate” to something matching your expectations.
You violated protocol/etiquette by not stating the type of device you are referencing.. but in Windows PC’s, that adjustment is found in the Keyboard section of Control Panel (which you may have to change the “view” to “icons” to easily find), while in Macs it’s found in Preferences.
Hi something hapened to my computer… When i try to type something It wont typing but when i press the button In the browser or anywhere the tool bar settings on.. For example In top of the browser are File Tools and… ant at the serch area Itrying to type for example Fools and then the file options show off . When i try to type T.. and again shows Tools options show. If you understand what i Trying to say please help.
Nobody should be using XP any more.
That said, follow the instructions in this article to make sure none of the “Accessibility” functions are enabled, and then read through the Comments (above) where you’ll find all the DIY keyboard repair techniques.
Hi. Some help would be appreciated.
I bought a new laptop- HP Pavilion15-ab032TX which comes with Windows 8.1.
I only can explain my problm very elaborately.So please be patient.
When I play a game on my laptop the character should only move/walk when i am holding any of the arrow keys and it should stop moving as soon as i release the key. But some time it so happens that even if i have released a key, the character keeps on moving in that direction unless i press the same key again. I use W,A,S,D as the arrow keys.
Please help me sort this problem out.
In Windows, the adjustments for keystroke/keyboard are found in Control Panel > Keyboard, and the Ease of Access Center. I would start my ‘tweaking’ by going in to the latter, and making sure that Filter Keys was off (unchecked). If that doesn’t resolve it, try adjusting the other settings. If that doesn’t help, contact HP.
I think maybe autosuggest is getting in your way. Try going in to Settings and turning that off.. see if it doesn’t behave more like normal. Another thing you might try is taking it in to the store (you bought it from) and showing them what it’s doing.
Another option is to call Lenovo’s tech support; or post this question on their User Forum.
Thank you for taking the time to let me know you found my article helpful. Glad it resolved your difficulty!
Um.. on all my keyboards, Shift+7 does place the &.
aswell shift plus underscore now becomes a question mark, and instead of alt gr + 2 becoming @ it becomes nothing and shift + 2 works instead. and wierdest of the all shift + 6 becomes ^ really wtf.
Well, okay. My answer is the same: read my previous answers in the comments above.
I have now scrolled trough all answers above and i can’t find anything that can help me.
If you read the two other articles referenced, and the repairs mentioned, in comment replies did not help, have a tech take a look.
The touchpad on laptops have a “scroll slider”, usually along the right edge. Maybe you are accidentally resting (or brushing) your hand there?
I have written three keyboard articles, and provided several tips/repairs in the comments. You might find a repair there. Or you may need to have a tech take a look.
Yes, going in to Device Manager, and Uninstalling (or “disable”-ing) any keyboard other than your main one, is one of the “answers” provided in my previous “Comments”. I’m glad you solved your trouble, and thank you for sharing.
My keyboard suddenly got tHis issue wHere I HaVe to Hold sHift to use V, H and C. Can you Help or suggest a fix?
EDIT: THey work in my search bar without HaVing to Hold sHift.
Um… you may have set a “macro”, or accidentally “mapped” those keys.. so you may want to look up “how to undo” those things. Also, in previous Comments (above) I have provided the DIY repair methods for keyboards. You can read through those.
I am astounded by the number of people you have helped. Really impressive work. I like to dig up solutions to my tech problems on my own, so i wouldn’t be asking directly if i had been able to find anything like the issue i’m facing. I think it’s really novel, hope you can think of something though.
I just bought a new plug-and-play, wired keyboard to replace my old worn-out one, and they’re of the same model. Everything is working fine EXCEPT the secondary “&” symbol (shift-7) gives me nothing (i typed that using the on-screen keyboard). Get this, the physical key itself seems to me to be working cause i’m typing the primary “7” perfectly right now. The previous unit did not have this problem.
– I’ve checked my installed languages/keyboards in Control Panel, removed English entirely and re-added it with only the US keyboard and Ink Correction with default settings.
– I’ve gone to Device Manager and uninstalled all the Human Interface Device drivers then unplugged and replugged my mouse and keyboard to make them re-install their drivers automatically.
– It’s a Microsoft product so i’ve gone to the Microsoft support site, downloaded the latest drivers and re-installed everything with default settings.
– I’ve gone to the Ease of Access Control Panel and ensured all keyboard Accessibility functions are disabled.
I can’t go to tech support for help because i have no warranty. Any ideas?
Well… aside from taking it back to the store for exchange, no I can’t think of anything. You’ve done a comprehensive set of troubleshooting steps. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Ah darn. Thanks anyway. What do you think could be the underlying cause though, hardware or software?
If you can plug it in to a different computer, you can (usually) determine that. But I can’t tell you that from here.
Hi Paul, just to keep you updated, my problem somehow resolved itself today, which is 6 days after i first plugged the new keyboard in. When i first wrote, that was the first day of use. I put it down to a new device shaking off the dust of storage and sorting out its teething problems. Thanks for the help anyways!
if I type on ms word, file name, prg. result of my laptop, some falsh slashes are typing there like ////////////// and it happen before typing any letter . how release from these problem?
I’m not sure I understand you.. But it may be that that you have set a “macro”, or altered the “normal.dot” file.
I suggest you start by trying to reset the “new blank page” (aka Normal.dot) as per my old tutorial, here, https://techpaul.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/how-to-make-word-open-a-normal-blank-page/.
If that doesn’t clear things up, Google “MS Word remove macro”.
I spilled wine onto keyboard and a number of letter keys stopped working. However when I switched computer back on this morning some had started working again. How long should I wait to see if they are all OK? I am currently using an external keyboard and mouse and this is working fine. The spill was about 3 days ago. Would welcome your advice.I don’t want to have a new keyboard installed if its not necessary. Thanks.
caroline ford, I doubt giving it more time will restore it to full functionality.
. The only ‘trick’ is making sure you get the part, and the guide, specific to your make and model.
Thanks for your advice. I’ve had a very reasonable quote for replacing the keyboard. Just didn’t want to do it if there’s a chance the laptop will dry out and recover!
Um… did you follow the steps outlined in the article?
And thank you for taking the time to let me know my writing has been helpful.
Thank you!!!! I was bafflled, (and so was my husband) when I tried to type and it would make a ticking sound, but not type anything. But if I held down the key, it would work. (It would also work when I needed to type in my password after start up). I googled the symptoms and your article popped up. Sure enough, the filter keys option was turned on. Turned it off, and it works!! Hooray! And thank you!!!
Thank you for taking the time to let me know I helped you.
your question is exactly like the scores I have already provided answers to in the comments above.. and i provide links to two other articles. Read those. Try those repairs. Maybe you’ll have luck. But since keyboards are mechanical, it may prove that you’ll have to replace the keyboard. Good luck.
hello friends… i have a serious problem in my laptop keypad. actually my friend took my laptop for seeing movies. after he return my laptop the “print screen” button on my laptop seems to be always pressed and i cant do anything such as cut, copy of any files. if i am trying to copy a word doc means after copied and while pasting it to the destination system do paste the screen shot of the current window only but not the copied word doc. i cant do anything with this. when i checked, my friend newly installed kmp player in my laptop. also my lap is getting hang very often. i am using Lenovo laptom and windows 7 OS. kindly help me to get ride of this issue. awaiting for the solutions. please help me …. Thank you….
Take your laptop to a professional. (or call Lenovo.) Your problem is bigger than a ‘stuck key’ on your keyboard.
I could say also, your friend should pay… and never let others touch your devices.
Hello, Paul. I have an optical wireless mouse and when ever I plug it into any of the 3 USB ports on my laptop the volume goes all the way up. Trying to lower it, either with the icon or the key board, only results in the volume going right back up. Everything is fine though if I unplug the mouse. I’ve tried rebooting the laptop, updating the drivers for the sound and uninstalling the mouse as well as the speakers but the problem persists. The laptop is an Acer Aspire, probably 4 year old, and I’m running windows 10 (thanks to the free upgrade). I’ve had the upgrade for at least a few months and the mouse for nearly a year but the volume problem started last night and I wasn’t using the key board when it started. Oh, and it’s the same when I have the head phones plugged in too but I didn’t have them plugged in at the time. I’d be ever so grateful if you could tell me how to fix this.
Huh. That is a new one on me. Did you install a new app or program last night?
If it proved to be the laptop (i.e., if you plug a different wireless mouse in, and the same trouble exists) I’d next try uninstalling the USB controller(s).. And then I’d quit trying. I don’t spend too much time or money on old machines.
On my laptop keyboard, when I hit “O”, it responds as if I am hitting “Enter.” How do I fix this?
Your question is exactly like the multiple dozens I have already provided answers to in the comments above.. and I provide links to two other articles. Read those. Try those repairs. Maybe you’ll have luck. Good luck.
Please read my previous answers in the comments above for more repair methods. If those don’t help, have a tech take a look.
Please read my previous answers in the comments above yours.
My keyboard is working perfectly in other programs, however as of yesterday when using Microsoft word 2010, it gives trouble. I have to be constantly pressing keys to type their assigned letters. It has made typing in word a task as I have to constantly read back an ensure no letters or numbers are missing from sentences. Please help! I don’t know what happened. It was working fine the night before and the problem is only when using word.
As always, the first thing to try is a reboot (restart the computer). Then try (briefly) pressing the Shift and F1 keys (together same time) and then let me know if it worked. If it didn’t, I need to know if you are on a Mac or a PC.
Hope you can help, my keypad and left and right arrows key have suddenly taken it into their minds to play up. With Nu Lock on, pressing the number 9 key or plus key gives me 9+ on one key press. Pressing the left arrow key gives me a hyphen and the up arrow key gives me a full stop. I’ve checked keyboard languages, key board setup and sticky keys, all to no avail. Any help you could give would be most welcome.
I’m sorry I don’t have a specific answer for the symptoms you describe. I can only suggest you read through my previous answers in the comments above (I know there’s a lot of them).
So i read all the comments and your article and i have googled this problem alot but cant seem to find an answer. My keyboard works fine plugged into and other PC its a razer Anansi and im using software version 1.18. but on my pc when i try to use it, i lag or sometimes a key just wont respond till i push it 5 times then it only puts in 1 letter/number. its not a constant thing. happens at most 1 time every five minutes. or whenever i seem to be typing in a password.
except my UPS but it shouldnt cause anything like this.
the wierd part is that when i was at my old desk i never had this issue.
but now that my new office was completed and i have move into it, i get this issue.
hoping you’ll have some ideas for me that i havent already tried, because im out of ideas.
No its a wired keyboard. it even uses 2 usb slots itsself. but yes it is right next to my wireless/wired razer mamba mouse. my wireless phone, and bluetooth speakers. Al the wires go through the same desk grommet on my desk. do you think the wires being so close like that(magnetic field?) + the wireless devices next to it are causing interference?
i havent tried the sensitivity but i cant find a setting for it in windows8.1.
Well, I don’t use Win8, so a quick google search for that. (But I believe the built-in Search, start typing “keyb” will get you there.) As for EMF interference, I believe its possible.. I guess. Another possibility might also be small break (a “short”) in the cable itself… A process of trial and error might find a happy result. Try moving/adjusting things.. Not sure what else to advise, frankly, besides a new keyboard maybe.
When typing all of a sudden I was getting all kinds of symbols, rather than the letters typed. What did I so?
Read the comments above yours for answers I’ve previously provided. Good luck.
Issue is keys are delayed when pressed. Now if I hold any one key they all work normally. For example if I just hold down ctrl and type every key types right away. If I release the ctrl key then they are all delayed once again. I’ve checked all the sticky keys, Accessibility Options, and filter keys. Nothing is checked. I’ve even gone as far to restore to factory. Wiping all data. Nothing so far has worked. Any ideas what could be the problem?
Not really, no. What happens if you plug in a USB keyboard?
yes it works if i plug a usb keyboard in. although the usb keyboard will beep randomly when i press some keys and its not always the same key.
Well.. go into Control Panel > Accessibility Options > Make typing easier and make sure all options are disabled/off.
If that is a no-go, try (after unplugging any USB keyboards) going into Device Manager and “uninstall” the keyboard and reboot (google search “device manager + uninstall + Keyboard” if you don’t understand my instruction).
If that’s a no-go call the manufacturer if you’re still under warranty, or post your question on their make/model User Forum.
Hi, I’m using Acer Aspire E 14. I’m not sure what I did but my arrow keys are not scrolling but instead adjusts the brightness/volume of my laptop. If I press Fn then it will scroll but this activates numpad then I have to press Shift to get it back to normal. Any help on how I’ll be able to scroll and type normally without having to use Fn or Shift? Thank you in advance.
Yeah… Sorry but I’m not sure what you did either. I am only vaguely familiar with this issue, thanks to people who wanted it set this way (gamers and Media Center PC) a while back, and then you had to install key mapping software to do it. You might search on/post this question on the Acer forum (or if still under warranty call them).
It may also help to go into Accessibility Options and UN-check every keyboard-related option.
there is a problem in my laptop as when I press any key there appears a dash on it like á and also hash before any alphabet /k…… will it please tell me what is it?
First thing I’d do, though, is go into Control Panel > Regions and languages > Change keyboards, and check to make sure the language is set to your native language..
If that wasn’t the issue, I’d contact the laptop manufacturer (if still under warranty) or look in their FAQ’s, support, and user forum.
Thank you for taking the time to let me know I helped out.
i`m using an LG windows computer with a DELL keyboard in my school and i was trying to get the caret key by pressing ctrl, shift and 6 and i guess i accidentally pressed the ctrl button to or something else and now, shift and 6 is giving me this `?` while the forward slash which should normally give me a question mark is giving me `É`. I cant even use the inverted commas again. its like all the keys i get when i combine them with shift have become messed up.
The caret is simply Shift+6. If I understand you, it is the school’s computer? Tell the teacher.
If it’s your own computer, you can read through my previous answers in the questions already asked above yours. Good luck.
thanks! i read through but i didn’t see this particular problem. i normally use shift + 6 for the caret but i think i accidentally pressed ctrl and shift while trying to get the caret. after i pressed that, a lot of my signs have changed. i cant get a forward slash again i get this instead é and my inverted commas i just noticed have shifted to shift + full stop and comma and my curly brackets give me¨¨ÇÇÇ when i use shift with them.
this is not the firs time this is happening. the first time, i thought it was a fault with the computer but now similar thing is happening..
Reset your keyboard language, and go into Accessibility Options > Keyboard and make sure everything is unchecked.
If those don’t work, the other techniques in previous answers may.
try plugging in a USB keyboard.. if the attached keyboard behaves normally, you know you have a bad (onboard keyboard) and you need to replace it or have a tech do it. If it does the same thing, your computer has a problem and you should have a tech take a look.
When 2, 3, “.”, right ctrl, numpad 9, numpad 2, numpad +, f9 right arrow key is pressed, it keeps flashing around different parts of the screen extremely fast. It is a brand new logitech k120 with drivers all up to date both for computer and keyboard, and power management is turned off on usb input devices on device manageer. Have tried turning off computer on and off too, works only for a while. Happens whether on chrome, windows or ingame but works fine on discord only. Thanks for your help if possible.
when click a button on my keyboard it keep typing even when i remove my finger (i stop clicking) what should i do?
Scroll up and read my previous answers (“Replies”) in the Comments (above). Your question has already been asked a few times.
Also: when you ask someone for help, you have to tell then WHAT KIND of device (the normal way is to state Make & Model) you have.
I typed a 6 and I get a 56. I think the letter characters are fine because I was able to type my email address but typing the numbers, brought up multiple numbers but not the same number. I turned off my computer as I’m worried that it’s because I wiped the keys with a wet tissue.
Let it dry more than thoroughly before turning it on again. Good luck.
I just turned it on now, hoping it would be ok by now. At first I tried the numbers and characters and I thought it was fine but then I typed r and found out that I got r6 and if I type y, I get y8. :(. I depend on this laptop and I can’t afford another laptop or pay for repairs. I turned it off again. Do you think it will work if I wait some more or there’s no point?
Thanks for your help techpaul. The problem is no longer there. I thought I should give an update.
I told a friend about it and she sent me a web link of someone else having the same issue with getting those certain letters returning y8, r6 but their problem went away on it’s own. I hoped that it would for me too but I waited days and I still had the problem.
I kept it turn off for days with no power with the charger unplugged and i also tried to blow dry it with a hair dryer lightly and then left it turned off more hours and after waiting so long, I finally I turned it on but the problem was still there. Then the next day I took the laptop to a friend to uninstall a security firewall that was installed a couple of days before. She also had an external keyboard which worked which worked properly. But my keyboard still didn’t work and I found that typing l, produced l9. And also that if I typed 6, 8, and 9, it would print out r6, y8, and l9 which I didn’t notice before. I turned off the keyboard each time and let the battery drain out, I went to the computer repair shop ask for a cost estimate to replace the keyboard. By the 6th day, I also found other keys that didn’t print out with the shift key. For example, I could type e and r but not shift capitals E and R but typing Q worked and not left curley brace and many characters just didn’t print with the shift key. I was worried that what if I replaced the keyboard and it still wouldn’t work. I even thought that I would have to pay for a diagnostic test. I turned it on because there was no point waiting it to dry anymore and the problem was still there. I turned it off. Then I think 2-3 hours later, at 2am, I turned on the laptop without thinking about it and all the keys worked. What a relief.
I’m glad it works but I still don’t know what happened and why.
I was having several issues with my keyboard and have been able to resolve all of them by reading and implementing information from your blog………. THANK YOU!!!
However, one issue remains….. when I’m typing my k eyboard enters spaces whenever it feels like it!!! Examples are within this paragraph. Either it will enter spaces where I do not what them, or NOT put a space between words. I’m a very quick typist an d having to constantly correct this is a pain.
I’m hopeful you can be of assistance.
Whenever I’ve heard this complaint, it is from a ‘very quick typist’. The first thing to do is try typing very slowly (for you.. what others might call ‘normal’ XD ) and see if the issue remains.. if so, repeat the experiment, but try going even slower.. if it still remains, you might need a replacement keyboard/pad (not a terribly big deal, actually).
If it proves that your speed is the issue (the computer’s just not keeping up), Go into Control Panel, Keyboard, Keyboard Properties, and try adjusting the repeat rate, and repeat delay.
It may be that your wrist/jewelry is brushing the spacebar (or, ‘trackpad’) .. removing bracelets, slightly shifting your hand position may help, too (maybe disabling the trackpad, if that’s the culprit).
Please let me know if you have any advice! Thank you!!
I was having trouble with the first letter not typing until I hit the key twice(very annoying) I even bought a new keyboard.
After running adaware and malwarebytes(which picked up 9 problems but did not affect this one) I started d/ling and reinstalling programs. I discovered my “Tor” browser was interfering with my Firefox(or vice versa) either way I reinstalled both and my problem was solved.
Thanks for the guidance Paul, it was greatly appreciated.
I am using a Logitech K330 series keybord… some of my keys are working strangely, caps lock keys press shows numeric 8, Down arrow key press alphabet D appears, Esc key is working as help function key. please help.
Please read my previously posted answers in the comments above.
I HAVE DISABLED COMMENTS AS I HAVE NO NEW ANSWERS, AND YOUR KEYBOARD PROBLEM IS NOT SPECIAL – I’VE JUST BEEN REPEATING MYSELF.
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https://techpaul.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/keyboard-troubleshooting-is-sticky-keys-on/?like_comment=20185
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Cast member Meryl Streep attends a panel for the second season of the HBO series "Big Little Lies", during the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California, U.S., February 8, 2019.
There was a major occasion of female power here at the mid-season TV critics press Tour. It was cheerful, chatty and some awe was evident from the throng of quizzical journalists. It was the cast of HBO’s Big Little Lies, season two.
That means Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz and Meryl Streep were all in attendance. That’s A-list and all women. Writer David E. Kelly who adapted the Lianne Moriarty novel for the sensationally strong first season in 2017, and wrote this new one, coming in June, based on new material provided by Moriarty, sat in the middle. Not forgotten. But certainly not the focal point.
As viewers will remember, season one ended with the killing of Perry (Alexander Skarsgard), the quietly abusive husband of Celeste, played by Nicole Kidman. Only the five main female characters, all mothers linked by secrets in the posh bourgeois setting, saw what happened. They decided to keep another shared secret about precisely what happened, it seems. And that is the engine of the new episodes. In season two, Streep plays Perry’s grieving and snooping mother, Mary Louise, arriving in the Monterey community to connect the dots and connect with Celeste.
And how might Celeste and Mary Louise connect? Streep hesitated, briefly. “So…the dynamic between Celeste and me? I mean… .” Then Kidman turned to Steep and cooed, “You love me.” Streep smiled. “I do love her,” Streep cooed back directly at Kidman’s face. Pause. “And that’s the only thing I’ll tell you about my character,” she fake-snarled, turning to the critics.
It was one damn fine show, watching these actors interact.
That is probably unfair to Vallée, whose framing of even banal scenes had a baroque quality, but this is categorically an all-women production and the cast glory in that.
All the cast nodded along with this sentiment. Streep, however, was more interested in talking about the impact of the series; the story the first season told about ostensibly tough women leading private lives of desperation. It came on the cusp of the #Metoo movement all reverberated with all that movement has revealed and meant.
Only Streep could summarize the impact of the first season with talk about ”incipient awareness.” It was, after all, a mystery story, told backwards, and brilliantly, about a death.
This coming season – the last, swear they all – might yet disappoint in terms of flair and mystery. We’ll see in June. But on this day, the phenomenon of Big Little Lies was all about female power. It was there, raging among the group of female stars talking up the show. And that was powerful enough in itself, for now.
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2019-04-23T12:40:30Z
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-big-little-lies-more-lies-more-female-power-than-ever/
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Next fall, Houghton Library will publish a gift-book edition of some lesser-known lines by Emily Dickinson: her recipe for black cake, brief on the page but epic in scale. The librarians have twice undertaken making this dessert, which calls for, among other things, two pounds of butter, five of raisins, and 19 eggs. As documented on YouTube, this batter’s not hand-mixed so much as rowed through, or maybe shoveled, before filling a kitchen’s worth of pans and going into the oven for three hours.
Poet James Merrill and Thomas H. Johnson, who edited the three-volume 1955 edition of Dickinson’s poetry, once tried to contact her via Ouija board, hoping to learn of some long-lost caches of her letters in houses across New England. For the librarians faithfully following Dickinson’s words—even hunting down fresh citron and candying it themselves—the cake seems to have been a different kind of communion. They got a sense of her tastes. They conjured up a friendly ghost of her material existence.
As embodied by actress Cynthia Nixon, Dickinson vibrates at a higher frequency than the people around her. She is brittle, vulnerable, witty, and wry. The contradictions that rule her life keep her in a kind of suspended animation: porousness and flinty resolve; rebellion against convention and submission to her father’s will; freedom and limitation. She sometimes acts out in childlike ways—as when she begs the household staff to forgive her snapping at them, or cries to her sister, Vinnie, “How can you go on loving me?”—because she can’t comprehend compromise. At the same time, she is capable of ruthless clarity about herself that others achieve only with hindsight and age. “You have your poetry,” says a friend, trying to console her. “You have a life; I have a routine,” Dickinson responds.
Various incidents eddy on the surface of the film. Her brother, Austin, gets married, and the sisters befriend his new wife, Susan; a dear friend gets married, and is felt to have been lost. The editor of The Springfield Republican improperly punctuates one of Dickinson’s poems upon publication. Her mother dies, and then her father. She chooses to wear white. But the story is in the undercurrents: her struggles with her art and her convictions, and her eventual withdrawal from the world. Insofar as the movie has a plot, it’s seeded in the first scene, of Dickinson as a young student at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Refusing to profess a faith she doesn’t hold, she is scolded for being a “no-hoper.” Her face lights up with joy when her father and siblings arrive to take her home. Shortly after, Davies skips ahead to her adulthood. But the episode hints at how deeply she feels both the stirrings of her conscience and her filial ties. When, decades later, she walks in on her brother having an affair with an Amherst acquaintance, Mabel Loomis Todd, it’s an offense against both. Her fury is almost blinding.
For readers acquainted with the history of Dickinson’s posthumous publication, this drama may seem to presage not just the family conflict that resulted in her papers being split, but the institutional rivalry between the schools that are now their stewards. The portion belonging to Vinnie was purchased from the last surviving Dickinson heir by a Harvard alumnus, who gifted the archive to the University. Houghton’s collection includes her 40 hand-sewn manuscript booklets, or fascicles, curator Leslie Morris told the HFA audience. The library also holds 300 of the 1,000 surviving Dickinson letters, and 1,023 of the 1,789 distinct poems. The other major trove was held by Todd, who was a co-editor of early editions of Dickinson’s verse. Her cache now resides at Amherst College: some 850 poems and fragments, and 350 letters. But in truth, Morris said in a later interview, Emily never met her brother’s mistress in person.
About this and other liberties questioned at the screening, Davies had this inarguable, if unsatisfying, reply. “I was contractually obliged to deliver a film of two hours and no more,” he said cheerfully. His vision of Dickinson’s life was subjective, “and all subjectivity is unfair and partial.” The youngest of 10 children, raised in a Catholic faith he later rejected, Davies was drawn to Dickinson’s religious iconoclasm, her love for her siblings, her joy in their friends. And while his Liverpool youth was far removed from nineteenth-century western Massachusetts, he felt a kinship with what he saw as her parochial upbringing and intense homesickness at school.
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2019-04-24T15:37:42Z
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https://www.harvardmagazine.com/node/56358
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GREENFIELD, Wis. - A dog stolen from the backyard of a Milwaukee home, burned over most of her body and then left in the cold received a skin graft surgery on Monday involving pigskin - a procedure usually done only in humans.
The 5-year-old black Chihuahua mix, named Beatrice, was snatched March 13 and found 11 days later outside a casino with burns over 90 percent of her body. Her whiskers and eyebrows were also singed.
The hourlong surgery performed Monday involved putting pigskin over the dog's burns to let them heal. It will eventually come off.
The foot-long piece of pigskin was donated, as was the time of Dr. Marla Lichtenberger, a veterinarian, and Dr. John Weigelt, a surgeon from Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Lichtenberger estimated it would have cost around $4,000 if the services and skin weren't donated, on top of the owner's estimated $5,000 in vet bills.
Lichtenberger, of Milwaukee Emergency Center for Animals in Greenfield, said people wanted to help because they were moved by the dog's story.
"Everyone has this sense of love for something that just isn't fighting back and has no fight back and has no say because they can't talk, they can't get away, they can't do anything," Lichtenberger said after the surgery.
She has never used pigskin before for burns and said she has been unable to find any reports of anything similar on dogs.
Earlier this month, Milwaukee police said they had identified a 21-year-old man they think is responsible for burning Beatrice. He's being held in the Waukesha County jail on unrelated charges. The Milwaukee County district attorney is still considering charges.
Beatrice's owner, Karen Burns, 61, said she had let Beatrice and her two miniature Doberman pinchers out March 13, but had called one back. While tending to that dog in the house, she heard Beatrice bark twice and her other dog "go crazy." She looked out and Beatrice was gone.
Beatrice will need wound care and additional skin grafts to heal completely, Weigelt said in a statement.
The idea of the pigskin came up after Lichtenberger asked a friend at Froedtert for advice "out of sheer frustration that her skin wasn't healing," she said. Only about 40 percent of the burn skin had healed.
Burns was hopeful the surgery would help.
"She is not completely defeated by this," Burns said. "She's still got a good spirit."
Even so, she hasn't been acting normally at home, Burns said, and at least one of her other dogs seems to know Beatrice needs extra care.
"The male of the two has been giving her licks and he has been cleaning her ears for her," she said.
Animal Fairy Charities is raising money to help with Beatrice's medical bills.
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2019-04-22T08:23:55Z
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dog-stolen-from-backyard-and-set-on-fire-gets-skin-graft-surgery/
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This altarpiece was painted in Rome in 1527, after the painter's arrival there from Parma (1524). Traditionally entitled 'The Vision of Saint Jerome', that saint is, unusually, depicted asleep, his cardinal's hat balanced on the jaw of a skull.
John the Baptist, a saint who also retired to the wilderness, has a bowl, which he employs for baptism, attached to his belt and holds a reed cross; he directs our attention to Christ above, whose coming he predicted.
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2019-04-20T16:39:47Z
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https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/parmigianino-the-madonna-and-child-with-saints
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of job satisfaction and preferred work environment of community college administrators. Administrators from four southeast Lower Michigan community colleges were the population (N = 50). The administrators in expanding areas (N = 29) were compared with those in contrasting areas (N = 21). Members of each group completed a demographic questionnaire developed by the researcher as well as the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al., 1967) and the Work Environment Preference Schedule (Gordon, 1973). Survey instruments were mailed to each administrator and non-respondents were telephoned to determine reasons for noncompletion.
A direct relationship was found between job satisfaction and preferred work environment for administrators in expanding areas. Differences were not found between the contracting and expanding groups of administrators in terms of total job satisfaction or preferred work environment.
DuFord, Susan Dunn, "The Relationship of Preferred Work Environment and Job Satisfaction of Community College Administrators" (1983). Dissertations. 2426.
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2019-04-21T07:19:15Z
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https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/2426/
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"Advanced directional drilling technology for gas drainage and explorat" by Fangtian Wang, Ting Ren et al.
Wang, F., Ren, T. X., Hungerford, F., Tu, S. & Aziz, N. (2011). Advanced directional drilling technology for gas drainage and exploration in Australian coal mines. 1st International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering, ISMSSE 2011 (pp. 1195-1206). Netherlands: Elsevier BV.
With the continuing technology innovation, directional drilling technology has provided the coal mining industry with effective and practical options for pre- and post-drainage and exploration in Australia. In the past thirty years, in-mine borehole steering equipment has been developed from the single shot camera survey systems to the advanced Directional Drill Monitor utilizing Modular Electrically Connected Cable Assembly (DDM-MECCA) survey instruments, which provides rapid and easy underground borehole survey measurements whilst drilling. The presence of coal seam gas such as methane poses a significant safety hazard to underground coal mining all over the world. However, gas can be captured using pre- and post-drainage techniques to improve coal production, energy recovery, enhance safety, environmental mitigation. An additional benefit of directional drilling is geological explorations in advance of mining. As any discontinuities intercepted during in-seam directional drilling, such as faults, folds and igneous intrusions, can be monitored by drilling fluid pressures, changes in thrust, vibration, rate of penetration and inspection of cuttings. Directional drilling technologies offer coal operators a cost effective exploration alternative without speculation. Applications of the directional drilling technologies in Australian coal mines have established the benefits of the methodology for gas control and geological explorations. Directionally drilled flank boreholes provide shielding to the gate entry developments, horizontal goaf boreholes for gas drainage in deep multi-level mines, and hydro fracturing and exploration in advance of mining. However, there still remains four major problems associated with directionally drilling, and these include: sticky drilling in complex conditions, sensitivity of down hole probe, in-hole stability and drill depth capacity.
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2019-04-21T00:40:30Z
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https://ro.uow.edu.au/engpapers/3399/
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shef
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Yet it never lost its metaphorical nature. It stood simultaneously for ‘sustained international conflict short of “hot” war’, as its very opposite (‘a form of peace’), and for the techniques and actions needed to ‘fight’ it. In short, ‘Cold War’ could stand as a metaphor for both war and peace.
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2019-04-26T00:21:53Z
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http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/understanding-cold-war-imaginary-war/
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Fields include areas of theoretical and experimental condensed-matter and materials physics, optical and laser physics, quantum engineering, and nanoscale science. Specific programs include surface and interface science, first principles electronic structure methods, photonic materials and devices, complex oxides, magnetic and superconducting artificially engineered systems, quantum computing and superconducting device research, quantum transport and nanotube physics, quantum optics, and random lasers.
The prerequisites for work toward a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics include a sound undergraduate training in physics and a good mathematical background. The GRE General Test is required, and the Subject Test in Physics is strongly recommended.
Students applying to the Ph.D. program in Applied Physics may also apply to be part of the PEB program. See the description under Non-Degree-Granting Programs, Councils, and Research Institutes for course requirements, and http://peb.yale.edu for more information about the benefits of this program and application instructions.
The student plans a course of study in consultation with faculty advisers (the student’s advisory committee). There are a minimum of five core courses, two electives, and two Special Investigations (APHY 990), for a total of nine graded term courses. Core courses will be chosen from four groups: two from the QM group, and one from each of the other groups. Quantum Mechanics I (PHYS 508), Quantum Mechanics II (PHYS 608), and Electromagnetic Theory I (PHYS 502) will be default courses from their groups, with place-up option to others in the QM and E&M groups based on passing the Physics department exam. There will be no placing out of the required seven courses, except for incoming students with master’s or equivalent degrees, who are allowed to place out of three core courses.
Group 1 (QM, two courses required): Quantum Mechanics I (PHYS 508)*; Quantum Mechanics II (PHYS 608)*; Quantum Information and Computation (APHY 601); Quantum Optics (APHY 691).
Group 2 (E&M, one course required): Electromagnetic Theory I (PHYS 502)*; Principles of Optics with Applications (APHY 675); Techniques of Microwave Measurements and FR Design (APHY 816).
Group 3 (CM Physics, one course required): Solid State Physics I (APHY 548); Solid State Physics II (APHY 549); Statistical Physics I (PHYS 512); Introduction to Light-Matter Interactions (APHY 676).
Group 4 (one course required): Mathematical Methods of Physics (PHYS 506); Solid State Physics II (APHY 549); Principles of Optics with Appliations (APHY 675); Noise, Dissipation, Amplification, and Information (APHY 677).
PHYS 508, PHYS 608, and PHYS 502 are default courses requiring place-up exam in order to choose other courses from these groups.
Any of the courses from these groups not taken to meet core requirements may be taken as electives. Students who place up from a required course and prefer not to take any of the other courses in that group to satisfy the core requirement may petition the director of graduate studies (DGS) to substitute a different elective. Electives may be widely chosen, but will typically come from the following: Mesoscopic Physics I (APHY 634); Introduction to Superconductivity (APHY 633); Quantum Many-Body Theory (APHY 610); Theory of Solids I, II (APHY 650, APHY 651); Statistical Physics II (APHY 628); Nonlinear Optics and Lasers (APHY 679); Materials Topics (course number TBD); Biological Physics (PHYS 523); Introduction to Dynamical Systems in Biology (PHYS 561). Students may also petition the DGS to substitute an elective not on the standard list. The required seven courses are just the minimum, and students are strongly encouraged to take additional courses that are centrally related to their Ph.D. research. The DGS will work with students and their advisers to ensure that students are prepared for success in their field of research.
Students must take Responsible Conduct in Research for Physical Scientists (APHY 590), which discusses ethics and responsible conduct in scientific research and fulfills the requirement stipulated by the National Science Foundation for all students and for all postdoctoral researchers funded by the NSF. Note that APHY 590 may not be used to fulfill the nine-course requirement.
Each term, the faculty review the overall performance of the student and report their findings to the director of graduate studies (DGS), who determines whether the student may continue toward the Ph.D. degree. By the end of the second term, it is expected that a faculty member has agreed to accept the student as a research assistant. By December 5 of the third year, an area examination must be passed and a written prospectus submitted before dissertation research is begun. These events result in the student’s admission to candidacy. Subsequently, the student will report orally each year to the full advisory committee on progress. When the research is nearing completion, but before the thesis writing has commenced, the full advisory committee will advise the student on the thesis plan. A final oral presentation of the dissertation research is required to be given during term time.
Teaching experience is regarded as an integral part of the graduate training program at Yale University, and all Applied Physics graduate students are required to serve as a Teaching Fellow for one term, typically during year two. Teaching duties normally involve assisting in laboratories or discussion sections and grading papers and are not expected to require more than ten hours per week. Students are not permitted to teach during the first year of study. Students whose advisers experience disruption in funding may require additional support from Yale. In these cases, students will be required to teach for up to an additional two terms, but would not be required to teach more than three terms over their first five years.
If a student was admitted to the program having earned a score of less than 26 on the Speaking Section of the Internet-based TOEFL, the student will be required to take an English as a Second Language (ESL) course each term at Yale until the Graduate School’s Oral English Proficiency standard has been met. This must be achieved by the end of the third year in order for the student to remain in good standing.
Students must meet the Graduate School’s Honors requirement in at least two term courses (excluding Special Investigations) by the end of the second term of full-time study. An extension of one term may be granted at the discretion of the DGS.
M.Phil. See Degree Requirements under Policies and Regulations.
M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) To qualify for the M.S., the student must pass eight term courses; no more than two may be Special Investigations. An average grade of at least High Pass is required, with at least one grade of Honors.
Terminal Master’s Degree Program Students may also be admitted directly to a terminal master’s degree program. The requirements are the same as for the M.S. en route to the Ph.D., although there are no core course requirements for students in this program. This program is normally completed in one year, but a part-time program may be spread over as many as four years. Some courses are available in the evening, to suit the needs of students from local industry.
Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, PO Box 208267, New Haven CT 06520-8267; e-mail, applied.physics@yale.edu; website, http://appliedphysics.yale.edu.
Basic concepts and techniques of quantum mechanics essential for solid state physics and quantum electronics. Topics include the Schrödinger treatment of the harmonic oscillator, atoms and molecules and tunneling, matrix methods, and perturbation theory.
A two-term sequence (with APHY 549) covering the principles underlying the electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties of solids, including crystal structures, phonons, energy bands, semiconductors, Fermi surfaces, magnetic resonance, phase transitions, and superconductivity.
A two-term sequence (with APHY 548) covering the principles underlying the electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties of solids, including crystal structures, phonons, energy bands, semiconductors, Fermi surfaces, magnetic resonance, phase transitions, and superconductivity.
This course is an introduction to modern nanophotonic theory and design. We introduce a broad range of mathematical and computational tools with which one can analyze, understand, and design for a diverse range of nanophotonic phenomena. The course is meant to be in the orthogonal complement of traditional courses working through Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics—we (mostly) avoid specialized high-symmetry cases in which Maxwell’s equations can be solved exactly. Instead, our emphasis is on general mode, quasinormal-mode, and scattering-matrix descriptions, as well as surface- and volume-integral formulations that distill the essential physics of complex systems. The unique properties and trade-offs for a variety of computational methods, including finite-element, finite-difference, integral-equation, and modal-expansion (e.g., RCWA) approaches, comprise a significant portion of the latter half of the term. The robust open-source computational tools Meep, S4, and NLopt are introduced early on, to be learned and utilized throughout the term. Prerequisites: undergraduate-level electromagnetism (e.g., APHY 322) and linear algebra (e.g., MATH 222 or 225); familiarity with any of Matlab/Python/Julia/etc., or a willingness to learn.
Required seminar for all first-year students.
Identical particles and second quantization. Electron tunneling and spectral function. General linear response theory. Approximate methods of quantum many-body theory. Dielectric response, screening of long-range interactions, electric conductance, collective modes, and photon absorption spectra. Fermi liquid; Cooper and Stoner instabilities; notions of superconductivity and magnetism. BCS theory, Josephson effect, and Majorana fermions in condensed matter; superconducting qubits. Bose-Einstein condensation; Bogoliubov quasiparticles and solitons.
An advanced course in statistical mechanics. Topics may include mean field theory of and fluctuations at continuous phase transitions; critical phenomena, scaling, and introduction to the renormalization group ideas; topological phase transitions; dynamic correlation functions and linear response theory; quantum phase transitions; superfluid and superconducting phase transitions; cooperative phenomena in low-dimensional systems.
Introduction to the principles of optics and electromagnetic wave phenomena with applications to microscopy, optical fibers, laser spectroscopy, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. Topics include propagation of light, reflection and refraction, guiding light, polarization, interference, diffraction, scattering, Fourier optics, and optical coherence.
Graduate-level non-equilibrium statistical physics applied to noise phenomena, both classical and quantum. The aim of the course is to explain the fundamental link between the random fluctuations of a physical system in steady state and the response of the same system to an external perturbation. Several key examples in which noise appears as a resource rather than a limitation are treated: spin relaxation in nuclear magnetic resonance (motional narrowing), Johnson-Nyquist noise in solid state transport physics (noise thermometry), photon correlation measurements in quantum optics (Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment), and so on. The course explores both passive and active systems. It discusses the ultimate limits of amplifier sensitivity and speed in physics measurements.
This course provides descriptions of advanced concepts in synchrotron X-ray and electron-based methodologies for studies of a wide range of materials at atomic and nano-scales. Topics include X-ray and electron interactions with matter, X-ray scattering and diffraction, X-ray spectroscopy and inelastic methods, time-resolved applications, X-ray imaging and microscopy, photo-electron spectroscopy, electron microscopy and spectroscopy, among others. Emphasis is on applying the fundamental knowledge of these advanced methodologies to real-world materials studies in a variety of scientific disciplines.
An advanced course covering the concepts and techniques of radio-frequency design and their application in making microwave measurements. The course begins with a review of lumped element and transmission line circuits, network analysis, and design of passive elements, including filters and impedance transformers. We continue with a treatment of passive and active components such as couplers, circulators, amplifiers, and modulators. Finally, we employ this understanding for the design of microwave measurement systems and techniques for modulation and signal recovery, to analyze the performance of heterodyne/homodyne receivers and radiometers.
Faculty-supervised individual projects with emphasis on research, laboratory, or theory. Students must define the scope of the proposed project with the faculty member who has agreed to act as supervisor, and submit a brief abstract to the director of graduate studies for approval.
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What is the Honors Option Contract? (PDF): Use this to learn about converting a regular course into Honors.
Honors Option Contract: Fill out this form to convert a regular course into Honors.
Independent Study Form (PDF): Use this to get a head start on your thesis research.
What is an Honors Course? (PDF): Use this to understand what makes a course "Honors."
Tasks for Thesis Advisors (PDF): Understand your role as a thesis advisor.
Team-Taught Proposal Cover (PDF): Attach this form to your proposal when you submit a team-taught course via CIM.
CIM Guide (PDF): Follow these instructions on how to submit a team-taught course proposal.
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2096. Crown-glass, as it can be manufactured nearly equal to sheet-glass in strength, is now generally preferred to it for horticultural purposes, as it prevents the formation of lenses. Crown-glass cannot, however, be made so large as the sheet-glass, the largest crown-glass being only about 9 in. wide, and from 20 in. to 22 in. long; whereas the sheet-glass may be had 33 in. long, and 12 in. wide, or even larger, if requisite.
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https://www.gardenvisit.com/book/gardening_tools_equipment_and_buildings/chapter_6_structures_used_in_gardening/crown_glass_for_hortifulture
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By HERBERT I. ABELSON, Ph.D. Chief Psychologist Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton N.J.
SPRINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. New York, N. Y.
Publication information: Book title: Persuasion:How Opinions and Attitudes Are Changed. Contributors: Herbert I. Abelson - Author. Publisher: Springer Publishing. Place of publication: New York. Publication year: 1959. Page number: iii.
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It is now widely acknowledged that what sparked the most devastating attack on the American mainland in history was the continued presence of US troops on Saudi Arabian soil after the Gulf War–which, in 1991, prompted the disaffection of Osama bin Laden, until then part of the Saudi political/business establishment. With US troops, warplanes and other military hardware stationed in all the gulf Arab monarchies, and the Pentagon’s Fifth Fleet headquartered in the island state of Bahrain, why does the United States need to maintain a military presence on Saudi soil?
America’s insistence on imposing its will on Riyadh is fueling the anger many Saudis feel toward Washington, especially regarding its unquestioned support for Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which generates sympathy for Osama bin Laden. A secret survey in mid-October by the kingdom’s intelligence agency, Istikhabart, showed that 95 percent of educated Saudis in the 25-to-41 age group supported “bin Laden’s cause.” Given this sociopolitical fact, it seems unlikely that the regime in Riyadh can continue its tight military links with Washington. The writing is on the wall. “Since September 11 America has lost the Saudi people,” said Dr. Abdulrahman al-Zamil, chairman of the al-Zamil business group. “America tried to convince people that they are here to protect the [Saudi] regime, and that is total garbage. Their presence is a liability to the Saudi government.” The airing of such a view by an affluent businessman, who is also a member of the consultative council appointed by the monarch, could have happened only with the connivance of the royal family.
Perceiving widespread opposition to the presence of US troops in the kingdom, the top decision-makers in Riyadh may have decided to raise the previously taboo issue in public, if only to signal to their subjects that their views are being taken into account. However, along with their American counterparts, they face a dilemma: How can US military presence in the kingdom be curtailed or ended without appearing to reward bin Laden? There is no easy way out.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/saudis-us-go-home/
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The following is a reference / historical listing of the 70-millimeter presentations of “Hoffa” in North America. The film’s 70mm prints consisted of letterboxed imagery (approximately 2.39:1) sourced from anamorphic 35mm photography. The audio for the majority of the 70mm prints was Six-Track Dolby Stereo (“A” encoded “baby boom” format). A few of the 70mm prints appear to have been SR-encoded and are noted as such in the listing below.
“Hoffa” was among ten confirmed first-run films released in 1992 with 70mm prints for selected engagements. The Jersey Films production and 20th Century Fox release — directed by Danny DeVito and starring Jack Nicholson — opened December 25th.
For the release of “Hoffa”, Fox employed the services of Lucasfilm’s Theater Alignment Program (TAP) to evaluate and approve the cinemas selected to book a 70mm print.
Trailers for “Jack the Bear” and “The Vanishing” circulated with the “Hoffa” prints and which the distributor recommended be screened with the presentation.
This information has been principally referenced from film industry trade publications and regional newspaper promotion, with thanks to Laura Baas, Don Beelik, Andrew Crews, Kathryn Devine, Heather R. Edwards, Christine Filippelli, Wendy Hall, Sarah Kenyon, J. Klamm, Bill Kretzel, Ronald A. Lee, Adam Martin, J. Odenthal, Stephen Rice, Melissa Scroggins, Cliff Stephenson, Robert Tucker, Troy Valos, and Vince Young.
Additional 70mm prints were screened internationally but have not been accounted for in this article.
If you believe this article contains any errors or omissions, please consider emailing the author or editor.
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https://in70mm.com/library/engagements/film/h/hoffa/index.htm
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IP Manor – A haven for Intellectual Property related matters.
WIPO Appoints New Legal Counsel: WIPO has recently appointed Frits Bontekoe to head its legal team.Frits will be replacing Edward Kwakwa who now is a senior director of the WIPO Department of Traditional Knowledge and Global Challenges, in the Global Issues Sector. Frits joins WIPO from his previous role as legal counsel at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). More on that here.
What’s so moral about the “moral rights” of copyright for academics?
Should employees be bothered with innovation?
Learn more about the patenting culture in Scandinavian Countries and Germany in respect to Lithuania here.
WIPO Publishes Global Innovation Index 2016: Last week, we mentioned that the results of the Global Innovation Index 2016 would be released soon. Well, the 2016 rankings in the Global Innovation Index, was released by Cornell University, INSEAD and WIPO on August 15, 2016 with Switzerland, Sweden, UK, USA, Finland, Singapore taking the lead. For the first time, a middle-income country (China) has joined the ranks of the world’s 25 most-innovative economies since inception of the survey. More on that here.
India Launches first IP Crime Unit: In order deal with the menace of piracy, the state of Telangana, India has launched India’s first IP Crime Unit – Telangana Intellectual Property Crime Unit (TIPCU). The Unit is modeled upon UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit and will operate under the cyber crime wing of the CID. TIPCU’s main task will be to monitor online piracy and recommend blocking of websites providing pirated contents, identify the perpetrators and pursue action. More here, here and here.
Readers of WIPO Magazine have been invited to complete this survey ‘to better understand your interests and reading habits so that we can deliver the content you want to read in the formats you prefer’. The survey will close on September 9, 2016.
The 2016 Global Innovation Index. Lazy read here.
What have ‘cobots’ to do with IP?
Shooting a movie in India and wondering if the movie title can be protected? Not shooting, but curious anyway? This is for you.
Not a lazy read per se, but readers of WIPO Magazine have been invited to complete this survey ‘to better understand your interests and reading habits so that we can deliver the content you want to read in the formats you prefer’. The survey will close on September 9, 2016.
Not so IP-related, but I have always found the concept of data and privacy protection fascinating.
WIPO to Open External Offices in Africa: Following the submission of hosting proposals by African Member States in respect of hosting WIPO external offices, voting was held in Geneva on August 4, 2016 and Algeria and Nigerian were chosen to host WIPO external offices for North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa respectively. Only six African countries (Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya and Nigeria) filed their hosting applications before the deadlines set by the United Nations. More on that here and here. The hosting proposals can also be read here.
Ghana IP Registry Closed Due to Strike Action: Following the nationwide strike action embarked on by the Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSSAG) on July 27, 2016, of which the Ghana Intellectual Property Registry staff are members, the Ghana IP Registry remains closed. The strike is due to government’s failure to pay CLOSSAG members interim premium (a monetary incentive paid to attract and retain critical skills in short supply). More on that here and here.
Ed Sheeran is being sued by the family of a co-writer of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” who believe that Ed Sheeran’s hit, “Thinking Out Loud” is based on it. More on that here.
WIPO to release Global Innovation Index 2016: The results of the Global Innovation Index 2016 will be released on August 15, 2016 at a press conference in the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2016 will focus on global innovation networks, ranking the innovation performance of 128 countries and economies around the world, based on 82 indicators. Follow the press conference live and join the conversation using #GII2016.
The August 2016 edition of WIPO Magazine is out and in the spirit of the ongoing Olympics, there’s an article on that. IP-related of course.
We had previously mentioned here, that Angela Daly‘s book Socio-legal Aspects of the 3-D Printing Revolution was scheduled for release in June 2016. It’s out now and Nicola Searle has been kind enough to review it here.
If you have been following the US Presidential elections, you would have heard by now the plagiarism allegations leveled against Melania Trump for copying parts of Michelle Obama’s speech. IP Whiteboard has this to say about that.
WIPO is about to open external offices in Africa – Algeria and Nigeria. 6 African Member States submitted their proposals, which you can read here. Looks like the right time for the Lady to update her CV. WIPO, here we come!
Ever wondered why you can’t find some of your favourite music artistes on Spotify? Here’s why.
Recently, the Lady came across a tweet that forbade someone for using the Rio2016 hashtag and thought it was ridiculous. Well, it appears not to be hence the question – Are companies allowed to tweet about #Rio2016?
Winners of IPKat‘s IP Limmerick competition have been announced and not only are the entries witty, they also provide concise information on IP and related matters from around the world.
In case you missed it, the Nigerian Copyright Commission’s website is back up and along with the revamped website comes the Commission’s Q1, 2016 Report. According to the report, the proposed amendment of the Copyright Act is complete and waiting to be passed into Law. You would recall that submissions and comments were invited on the Draft Copyright Bill, 2015 between late last year and early this year.
From UK Intellectual Property Office comes ‘IP and BREXIT: The facts‘. You can catch up on other BREXIT related articles here.
The access to medicine debate never ends. This time, India and HIV/AIDS are at the forefront.
Still on access to medicine, a Commitment on Investment in Access to Essential Medicines was signed at UNCTAD14.
IP Watch analyses the significance of Uruguay’s Win Over Philip Morris International in relation to plain tobacco packaging.
Significant developments in cloud privacy within Europe and US.
Japan Establishes Overseas Intellectual Property Litigation Insurance Scheme Established for SMEs: The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has established Japan’s first insurance scheme to cover the cost of overseas intellectual property (IP) litigation, to provide a safety net for SMEs that become embroiled in disputes over IP infringements in other countries. The premium will be halved for SMEs enrolling in this insurance scheme if they belong to a nationwide organization that includes SMEs among its members. More on that here.
Medicines Patent Pool Signs New Round of Generic Manufacturing Licences for HIV and Hepatitis C Treatments: Earlier this month, the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced new generic manufacturing licences for four antiretrovirals and hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral daclatasvir. The organisation signed licences with Aurobindo, Desano, Emcure, Hetero Labs, Laurus Labs, Lupin and new partner Zydus Cadila for a total of nine new sub-licensing agreements to produce generic versions of key World Health Organization-priority HIV and hepatitis C treatments. According to MPP’s Executive Director – Greg Perry, it is expected that these new sub-licences will secure greater volumes of low-cost medicines for people living with HIV and hepatitis C in low- and middle-income countries.
British IP Day: July 5, 2016 marked the first British IP Day intended to celebrate the huge contribution that Intellectual Property (IP) makes to the UK. More on that here.
V4 Countries Launch Visegrad Patent Institute: The four member states of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) launched the Visegrad Patent Institute (VPI) on July 1, 2016. The Institute is aimed at strengthening regional cooperation in IP. Applicants will be allowed to communicate with the institutions in their respective mother tongues, and fees for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications will be reduced by as much as 40 percent, according to Poland’s Patent Office (UPRP).
Intellectual property fees rise by up to 6,200% in Gulf countries: IP fees have risen in Arabian Gulf countries (UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) by as much as 6,200%. While there has been no official explanation from the governments of the affected countries, some lawyers believe that the hike may not be unconnected to attempts to increase revenue following the global oil price slump as well as the move by the Gulf countries to unify their trademark laws and move services online. More on that here.
Thomson Reuters to Sell Intellectual Property and Science Business: Plans are underway for Thomson Reuters Corp. to sell its intellectual property and science business to private-equity funds affiliated with Onex Corp. and Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.55 billion in cash. About $1 billion of the proceeds will be used to buy back shares and the balance will be used to pay down debt and reinvest in the business.
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Gerald Prolman is a man with an organic-flower plan. The California entrepreneur is not only after a significant chunk of the $20 billion-a-year cut-flower industry in the U.S. — he’s hopeful that cultivating demand for organic bouquets will transform grower practices in Latin America and Africa, where pesticide use in flower agribusiness has long poisoned workers and harmed the environment. Organic Bouquet, Prolman’s company, is tracking to earn about $3.5 million this year — much of it from organic long-stemmed roses. He envisions notching that up to $100 million within the next five years. Some fellow floral merchants are skeptical that Americans will care about going organic with a product they don’t eat. But Prolman’s optimistic, and has over a decade of entrepreneurial successes to back up his instincts. “I believe, within [about five years] … you won’t be able to sell a flower in America unless it’s been deemed sustainable,” he says.
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The Irish Republic has had its credit rating downgraded by a leading ratings agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P).
S&P fears that the growing cost of propping up the country’s troubled banking sector will further weaken the government’s finances.
It now thinks that the Irish government will spend 90bn euros ($101bn; £74bn) helping the banks, 10bn euros higher than previous estimates.
The country’s own debt agency described the analysis as “flawed”.
It claimed that S&P’s outlook was based on an “extreme and unrealistic” scenario of the cost of recapitalising the banks and questioned its calculations.
S&P cut the rating one step to from AA to AA-, its lowest since 1995.
This follows clearance earlier this month for an additional injection of 10bn euros into Anglo Irish Bank.
The agency now forecasts that net government debt – the sum of all borrowing – will rise to 113% of GDP in 2010. That would be a substantial increase on the 64% level recorded in 2009.
Officials from Pakistan are holding talks with the International Monetary Fund to discuss its $11bn loan package in the wake of the devastating floods.
The IMF’s regional director, Masood Ahmed, told the BBC the organisation wanted to find a way to help Pakistan “through this difficult phase”.
This could include lowering some fiscal targets or allowing Pakistan to apply for emergency natural disaster funding.
Earlier, UN officials described the humanitarian situation as critical.
They said that although the UN had raised 70% of the $460m (£295m) needed for emergency relief, many people had yet to receive any help. In the UK, relief agencies say public donors have now given £29m ($45m).
Government officials and aid agencies in the southern province of Sindh said 80% of those affected had fled their homes.
The Indus river outside the city of Hyderabad is at its highest for more than 50 years and is expected to rise further on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to hold high level talks on Tuesday on Pakistan’s medical needs, amid growing concern of a public health disaster.
Doctors have been overwhelmed by the need in some areas – skin rashes and dehydration are common, many children have diarrhoea and there is concern about the spread of cholera.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated it will release the next tranche of a multi-billion dollar loan to Sri Lanka.
Following a two week mission to the country, the body gave an upbeat assessment of Sri Lanka’s economy.
It said government targets for deficit reduction were on track, with taxes increasing and spending being cut.
An IMF mission also arrived in Serbia on Monday to assess its economy with a view to releasing a loan payment.
The body agreed a 3bn euro ($3.8bn; £2.4bn) loan with the country last March.
The IMF approved a $2.6bn (£1.7bn) loan to help Sri Lanka weather the global economic crisis last summer.
The Sri Lankan government also said it would use the money to pay for post-war reconstruction following the end of fighting with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Iceland’s central bank has cut its key interest rate to 7% from 8%.
A rate cut had been predicted after inflation eased and the country’s currency strengthened, although the reduction was larger than expected.
Iceland’s interest rate hit a peak of 18% in October 2008 when the country’s banking system was thrown into crisis by the global credit crunch.
The crisis led to the country’s largest banks being taken over by the government.
In late 2008, the International Monetary Fund approved a $2.1bn (£1.4bn) loan for Iceland, making the country the first Western European nation to get an IMF loan since 1976.
A member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted again for a rise in interest rates.
Minutes from the MPC’s August meeting show Andrew Sentance voted to raise the Bank rate to 0.75% from the record low of 0.5%, citing high inflation.
It is the third month in a row that Mr Sentance has called for a rate rise.
The other MPC members at the meeting all voted for rates to be held at 0.5% for the 17th month in a row.
They also voted not to pump any more money into the economy under the programme known as quantitative easing (QE), but said they were ready to do so should conditions require it.
The Bank has already pumped £200bn into the economy under QE to help stimulate demand.
The MPC also said that financial markets had improved since its last meeting, thanks largely to the European-wide bank stress tests, which increased confidence in the banking sector.
But it added that lending conditions look set to remain tighter for longer than it had previously forecast.
The World Bank is to loan $900m (£574m) to Pakistan to help it recover from its worst ever flooding.
The devastating floods have affected up to 20 million people and left some 2,000 dead, say officials.
But the UN says international aid has been slow and that it has raised only a third of the $460m (£294m) needed for emergency relief.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain said it could take five years and $15bn (£9.6bn) for the country to recover.
The World Bank funds will come through the reprogramming of planned projects and the reallocation of money, a World Bank spokesman said.
“We are reprioritising to make the funds immediately available,” he told Reuters news agency.
Health officials have warned that disease could spread quickly among the millions of displaced people and that 3.5m children are at risk.
Maurizio Giuliano, of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), warned that Pakistan would face “a second wave of deaths” from water-borne diseases and food shortages unless more aid arrived soon.
Gabon has signed deals to diversify its economy in an attempt to be less reliable on its dwindling oil reserves.
The government has announced contracts with Asian companies worth $4.5bn billion dollars.
President Ali Bongo signed the agreements on the eve of the country’s 50th anniversary of its independence from France.
The projects will revamp infrastructure and create about 50,000 jobs.
Gabon’s oil output has been declining for years and the new deals are presented as the first steps towards diversification.
The largest deal is the with OLAM, a Singapore-based company which plans to develop a huge palm oil plantation in the south east.
The government wants to become the leading palm oil producer in Africa.
In terms of infrastructure, the OLAM deal involves the construction of a refinery, and there are plans for a possible port.
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Http://www.Gov20LA.org – FREE to Individuals thanks to Sponsoring Companies.
You’ve been hearing rumors of some LA “Camp” thing. We are here to let you know that you don’t have to wait until Summer time for Camp! In order to get a dose of sunshine and inspiration Gov 2.0 Camp is moving out of the Beltway and off to sunny Los Angeles, CA. You may be asking, why take the Camp on the road, outside of the obvious reason of early Spring Break?
The first Government 2.0 Camp in Washington, DC was a great way to bring awareness to who is working on these issues and how to start working together. Now, that we know who’s who in the space, it is time to start including the rest of the community. That community is made up of people like you.
Government cannot hope to provide better services to our citizens, integrate social media and develop new ways of doing business without the help of the entire community.
When we talk about Government here, we aren’t just talking about the Federal Government.
We are talking Federal, State, local and international.
Yes, you heard right! This is all about contributing to finding better ways to make the world work.
• Address the challenges of government – privacy, legal, records management, accessibility, copyright, creative commons, security and more!
• Provide insights in language use and how best to position transformational technology change.
Most importantly, we are looking for ways to help citizens better participate in Government. How can we empower them? How can we help their voices and opinions to be heard? How do we make Government and Government officials more accessible? How do we help people trust the job the Government is doing? We need your help to make this a reality!
Any one who is interested in helping make governments better and who has an interest in social media.
The location of the Camp is still TBD. We are working on procuring a location in West Los Angeles.
This will be the first time we have gone out of our way to practice what we preach and see real world applications in actual use. Come to Los Angeles to get a fresh perspective and to explore new ways of doing business.
This will not be like any other conference you have ever attended. We will be utilizing a hybrid of the bar camp format, traditional conference structure thus taking community interaction to the next level.
The Planning Committee will provide sub themes for the Camp (some of which have been highlighted above). We will select some speakers and panel sessions to meet some objectives of those sub themes. There is plenty of room for you to propose your own sessions and ideas.
In order to ensure we develop the right discussion, we will conduct community voting on all community submitted proposals. Space will be limited and number of slots per sub theme will be announced before the end of voting. Expect voting to begin in January 2010!
Register to attend the Camp here. Determine if you or your organization would like to sponsor the Camp. Think about ideas you have for a session or if you have a recommendation for a speaker(s).
Contact us at register@Gov20LA.org or on Twitter at @Gov20_LA . Also, don’t forget to ask your friendly Planning Committee member any additional questions you may have! They are here to ensure we provide the best camp experience ever!
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I do not like the implication that the Gov 2.0 Camp I co-hosted in DC in March 2009 was not inclusive. People traveled from as far away as England to be there.
I do not like the implication that the Gov 2.0 Camp in DC was only about the Federal government. That was absolutely not the case.
I do not like the implication that Gov 2.0 Camp is something unique to DC and now LA. Numerous other cities and even countries started planning their own camps immediately after the original.
I do not like the implication that “we” (whomever that is) know “who’s who in the space” – there are many undiscovered talents working on Gov 2.0 right now.
I do not like the implication that Gov 2.0 Camp LA will “start the conversation across levels of the government” – it has been going on for some time. Perhaps someone didn’t notice that, for example, all the winners of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase lived outside the Beltway, and four of them worked on non-Federal issues?
I do not like the implication that Gov 2.0 Camp LA will be “unlike any conference you have ever attended” merely because it is a hybrid between a barcamp and a traditional conference. I attended one of those last week.
I do not like the implication that “This will be the first time we [again, whomever that is] have gone out of our way to practice what we preach and see real world applications in actual use” at all. Was that statement dreamed up out of thin air?
The world is a big place. There are lots of different approaches, and lots of different practical ideas. While your points above could be taken apart one by one, as I have said consistently to you over the last few months, we would like your involvement; and will put on a powerful event with or with-out it. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
It has been a good few days since these comments on Gov20 Camp LA first appeared, and while some people familiar with the behind-the-scenes factors that most likely brought about its posting have said it is an emotional appeal not worth responding to, I feel that for those who do not know the inevitable human factors that shape these actions, or are following with keen interest the dialogue on government innovation, for these folks I must set the record straight – the rest already know or suspect.
For the purposes of this comment, Mark, I must point out that a common ‘debate’ tactic of yours is to deliver a hit job, then retreat to a higher road by admonishing any response as personal attack on your impassioned commentaries “made for the good of the community” – this latest post, this hit job, has however made the path to a higher road too treacherous for even you to climb. And so you will have to bear with me, here on the ground, as I address your comments and hold them accountable.
Gov20 Camp LA is an upcoming event to foster discussion and collaboration on innovation across the government landscape, an event shaped by the community, driven by attendee participation, whose ultimate success and value can be judged only by the ideas and energy brought to it by those who take the time to sit at the table.
The volunteer organizing team draws from extremely diverse experiences in government innovation, from grassroots organizers to the State Department and Intelligence community, from backgrounds in Congress, a former Administration and the military to those who engage the public discourse with the most powerful tool of all – their voice.
I get the feeling from your comments, however, that you feel you stand to lose something from this occurring – and if the case, I think you may be right.
We use terms like transparency and inclusion to bring more voices to sit at the table of decision in government. Each mission is different, each need is different, but in each their own way we look for ways to apply innovations in order to improve processes, and give individuals the strength to understand or even participate in what was once the exclusive playground of the ‘Good Old Boys Club’ as some would say, whether created by power, educational or privilege hierarchies.
Some, however, have used Government 2.0 tools instead as a means to try to make themselves a member of the Good Old Boys Club. You speak always “for the good of the people” and are quick to remind anyone who will listen that you lead a community, that you move needles, and that you have the community’s best interests in heart – criticism of your comments or approach become not just that, but a criticism of the community itself.
We should be grateful to have such a benevolent patron – for someone whose actual government experience is limited to a research fellowship at NDU, being a prolific Twitterer and community spokesman has been good to you. You are invited to sit on panels, contribute to blogs, attend the parties many actual government innovators don’t attend because they are on government salary or have their work to do, and at times you can even be praised for slapping down participant, community-driven events like the ones that put you on the map out of fear that someone might follow your trail of breadcrumbs and spoil the self-perceived level of prestige.
As many know, you now work with Tim O’Reilly, who to many is the embodiment of everything Government 2.0 aims to break up. He creates prestige events that attendees must pay thousands of dollars to register for in order to gain access to his tent – a tent which you now call home, as your post thoroughly illustrates with your plugging of Gov20 Expo and the rest.
Mark, a reasonable, community driven event like Gov20 Camp LA will not threaten the business model you are now a cog in. I should rephrase that – Gov20 Camp LA ‘alone’ will not threaten that business model.
Gov20 Camp LA is not about you, despite your perceived role in the community. You don’t have to attend, you don’t have to read about it – if it makes you bristle that this Government 2.0 event is being held and you have nothing to gain from it, do what I do with your Twitter feed: don’t follow it.
The participants of Gov20 Camp LA, and any other similar event, will determine its own value – and you may find it surprising, but many find an inherent value with an event that isn’t under your current tent.
A long comment from me, I know, but it went quickly. I’ll end with quick responses to each of the points you made on the You2Gov blog which I think could far more concisely sum up whats going on here.
Response: It’s not about you, Mark, its about Government 2.0.
Response: It’s not about you, Mark, its about Government 2.0 – is there a theme here?
Response: You’re taking a creative hook out of context and presenting it literally. Will you also criticize the use of Spring Break when clearly February is not Spring?
Comment: “I do not like the implication that Gov 2.0 Camp LA will “start the conversation across levels of the government” – it has been going on for some time. Perhaps someone didn’t notice that, for example, all the winners of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase lived outside the Beltway, and four of them worked on non-Federal issues?
Response: Nice plug for O’Reilly, but its not about you – I thought this was already established.
Response: Creative response, not about you, broken record.
Response: After writing all of this, I’m now thinking that WAS about you.
In short – and I myself will lend you a hand in climbing back up to the high road – its not about you, its not about Tim O’Reilly, and knowing at least some of the people attending, including myself, I am confident Gov20 Camp LA will be great. No one will confuse its value with that of prestige events like Gov20 Expo, if nothing else because there are women on Gov20 Camp LA’s organizing committee.
I apologize for that last zing, but I suppose I just decided to take the “Mickey Mouse” gloves off you referenced – and now that I am done, I’ll go wash my hands of it in some of that kool-aid.
Everyone is entitled to their own approach. O’Reilly Media approaches Gov 2.0 very differently than, say AFCEA. I think that’s fine because both of their approaches are logical within some framework, and don’t overpromise. As I stated above, and as I mentioned to you long ago, I think there is over-promising here, a good deal of hype, and some inconsistencies and phrases that don’t seem to make sense to me. I’d love to see the event more rigorously defined and see it be successful. But at present I don’t necessarily get that vibe. I’m curious to hear the rest of the planning committee weigh in on these issues.
I think Mark’s comment was in a negative tone and I feel bad he interpreted the efforts by this committee to that side of the spectrum.
As part of the planning committee of the first Government 2.0 Camp in Washington DC I am able to bring best practices from that event, as well as others to help this one be a success in its own right. Additionally, this event is expecting a new breed of participants. As there are many all over the world as we know that would have liked have attended that event, now have another chance gather.
As I read above, it never states that there was not diversity in representation of global citizens or types of Government. And such diversity will also be solicited for this future event as well as others.
I do know there have been smaller Government 2.0 camps in other cities, was it Oklahoma City? (Brain is a little foggy this Monday AM).
I don’t think we can promise enough for this event. The ideal is to get citizens and Government to think outside of the box to create programs, solutions, and better practices in Open Government, efficient Government, and stronger voices for Citizens.
I’m a bit confused here. O’Reilly put on a great conference with the Gov2.0 Camp in Washington DC last March from all reports.
This conversation seems to have devolved from “we’re excited about what we’re bringing to the LA Gov2.0 Camp” to point-by-point dissection and lengthy posts implying that someone (the other guy) is being less that genuine.
Is this post a little glossy and maybe hyperbolized? Sure.
Because who the heck would attend a conference without any innovation?
Should it say “it will be just like every other conference and since someone did one in DC last March you probably won’t really be interested in this one, so why bother, but hey if you really want to come…” instead? Of course not. Who in their right mind would find something like that appealing?
Mark: I hope that you find good, compelling reasons to change your mind over the next few weeks – that’s the objective I think all of us on the planning committee have: to plan an event that people WANT to come to, will have reasons to look forward to, and will be eager to participate as well as having valuable take-aways.
It is my belief that when someone criticizes your work, it is not necessarily a reflection of your person. It doesn’t look interesting to Mark? Great, we’ll incorporate that into our thinking as we plan.
There is more than enough space in the world (and in this corner of it in particular) to encompass many, many “Gov2.0” camps. Because it’s not Gov2.0 if we’re not participating.
I’m happy to learn from Mark’s comments elsewhere that there’s a Gov2.0 Denver in the works – since I live here, it will be much easier for me to get to that than to LA – but then, I’d like to go to both. I’m not convinced that Gov2.0 practicioners and advocates have yet realized that we are not as geographically dependent as we once were.
I am a voter. I’m on the Internet. Therefore, I can be anywhere.
@Lucretia — O’Reilly (the company) was not involved in the planning or execution of the original Government 2.0 Camp. But I was and I am bringing my lessons learned to LA.
O’Reilly did I think contribute sponsorship funds I believe.
I think its Awesome that Denver is also planning an events.
As the initial organizer and planner of Gov20LA – I thought I have been careful to not only seek input from all who were on the original Government 2.0 Camp Planning Committee for the March ’09 event in DC; but to thank all of you and acknowledge what you did by building off of it.
Within days the planning committee will be receiving the first major communication from me, as well as having a conference call on many of the areas discussed above.
I will reveal this: There are at least two Emmy and Golden Globe Winning writers who will be running a panel on the language in technology, how to make it more simple and easier for people to achieve buy in with.
Several Government agencies on the West Coast have approached the Camp about presenting some case studies about implementation and integration of social media tools across wide and diverse sets of Government applications.
Additionally, Microsoft will bring some of their social media team to demonstrate integrative tools they have developed that work cross platform with their products and JOOMLA and DRUPAL.
The event is going to have tremendous support from the community and we will be announcing the support from broad Government coalitions and inter-agency work groups shortly.
The blogs and other materials written to date have not been misleading at all.
1. It is a hybrid event. This means it will take on multiple characteristics – but will be focused and results driven.
2. The tools to support the camp have mostly been put on http://www.gov20la.org through the social network, groups, forum and we have made it easy and transparent for people to be involved. More tools are available and will be deployed like live video streaming and archiving, live twitter stream integration, and social media tools to support conversations at multiple levels.
3. I personally have made it my mission to be inclusive, open and direct about who is involved, where the camp is going and how it will be achieved. This will continue through the posting of panel decisions, speaker decisions, committee decisions on http://www.gov20LA.org.
4. We are doing this event in Los Angeles for many reasons, but here are a few: America’s Second Largest City. America’s Second Largest Media Market. Hub of Technology, Defense, Aerospace, Entertainment and Politics. Most of the Government 2.0 truly innovative companies are West of the Mississippi.
5. As the founder of http://www.you2gov.org – I am not surprised by “attacks” on innovation or leadership. Innovation and executed ideas often bring about negative reactions – many times simply out of self preservation. I don’t think Mark was or is attacking me or the idea of the Camp. But I hope this whole episode just is one more good thing for the Government 2.0 Community to get over; as it transforms itself from an infantile new industry sector into an ever growing one headed towards adolescence.
As an interested Gov2.0’er, an honoured and excited member of the planning committee I think the discussion taking place above speaks volumes to the passion people hold for the evolution and success of the Gov2.0 movement.
No one conference, change camp, unconference or other event will ever be able to address the varied and numerous challenges Governments of all levels face.
As a Canadian, I’ve had the pleasure of attending #w2e in San Francisco, speaking at a conference in Philadelphia and participating in numerous conferences here at home and around the world – just as many of you have. The connections and intelligence they’ve offered me have been invaluable, including my membership on the planning committee for Gov2.0LA.
The themes selected for this event; its openess and inclusiveness do not make it unique. It simply provides yet another venue and opportunity for all us to to build on the success, as Andrea points out, of past events and to raise the bar.
We are aiming to bring governments together and to provide value, start new discussions, build on old ones, and continue the momentum.
Here’s to continued discussion and progress.
Awesome response Alan. Looking forward to talking with you more about it all next week.
@Andrea – I believe I knew that, was half replying to comments above about O’Reilly being everything wrong with 2.0 – they aren’t in my book.
Excellent response Alan, I’m very excited about Gov20LA and have registed as a sponsor for the event to show my support.
I hope that Mark’s comments provide motivation and inspiration to the GOV20LA planning team and not just a reminder of Carly Simon’s song You’re So Vain.
But as others wrote in the comments, many communities have held, and continue to hold, barcamps based on the DC model. So, how is this LA event any different than what’s happening in Denver, Boston, and London, among other places?
I take offense from that extracted quote because you’re not moving anything; you merely convening another event in another city. Perhaps that’s why Mark’s up in arms; if so, I don’t blame him.
Ari, as always I appreciate your input. Hope you can come, and I point you to my reply to Mark’s comments above.
Unless you or someone has the funds to fly me to LA and put me up on someone’s couch, I don’t think I can make it. That is, until income stability enters my life which is not the status quo.
Gov2.0 LA Camp is gearing up to be the event of 2010 on the West Coast!!
“Refreshing, innovative engagement, openness, flexible to new ideas, citizen participation…” these are thoughts that resonate with me as I review the great content and upcoming lineup of activities.
The agenda sounds very impressive but most compelling about this event so far is the leadership and passion of the planning committee. You know this will be an event you will not want to miss!
I think I need to do my part by dusting the couch in our suburban LA home – and then watching airfares – as I can’t imagine any of us (especially Ari and Mark) missing *any* event their schedule permits to further our common mission.
Yes, debate and passion are good – but for every upside of being in [name a city] there are always as many downsides.
I hope my schedule will permit me to meet many of you in Los Angeles.
Gov2.0 is achieved when we stop shoveling money and start stacking ingenuity.
Thanks so much for your continued support and I truly hope you can make it, if not you need to send someone else from LAFD to speak about your awesome use of social media in emergency communications! We will make a special place for you. For whoever gets to crash on Brian’s couch, you will likely be staying on the safest couch in Los Angeles, hand down!
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Because we find in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, that our bodies are the temple of God and that we need to take care of them to honor and glorify Him. If you want to know how to do that, then you came to the right place! Thanks for stopping by my website! Please share it with your friends and family.
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Yet again, the month leading up to a Camp NaNowrimo session disappeared into the mist and left me wondering what I had planned. At least it’s a familiar feeling.
This Camp, I am going to actually try and do something from the Deborah Chester book. It’s called Planning. And I am terrified. By which I mean I have drawn on all the help I can to make myself try out the Big Scary that is Planning.
The story is a modern fantasy, set in Melbourne, with a young woman by the name of Emilie as the main character. She seems normal enough, except since she’s the main character clearly she’s not. A sudden ‘promotion’ at work throws her out of her depth and into a world she didn’t realised existed. Which only gets more complicated when a puppy suddenly appears.
Or, as the Deborah Chester method would have me write it according to SPOOC: When she is specifically requested to manage interersonal conflicts for two big charities working towards a combined event (Situation), Emilie (Protagonist) is determined to prove herself capable (Objective) despite the added distraction of a stray puppy claiming her as it’s own. But can she acquite herself with skill and composure when she’s been set up (Opponent), and the people she’s working for are far more dangerous than they appear (Climax).
Okay, I did modify the last bit, because spoilers. But look, it’s got a structure!
I have also done a ‘plot’ breakdown, which I tried to get as a scene/sequel break down. Honestly, I had a lot of trouble with it because I’ve done a bit of script/screen writing and the word ‘scene’ doesn’t mean the same thing in that context. Thankfully, a friend of mine helped me work out what would happen sequentially, and made note of the plot points. That’s what the scenes are, key plot points. They’re the hooks you hang the story on. The sequels are the bits right after that when your characters process what just happened. That made it a whole lot easier.
So, the goal is to follow the outline. If I get 50,000 words then even better, and should I happen to crank out the full draft, hopefully around that magic 95,000 words Chester recommends, that is brilliant. Fingers crossed.
Bring on Camp! I am prepared for procrasti-baking!
And necessary bunny post. Duchess being a shoulder bunny. She’s such a funny floof.
It Begins! Taking on the Writing Excuses Season 10 Masterclass.
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In typically developing (TD) children, sleep problems have been associated with day-time attentional difficulties. Children with developmental disabilities often suffer with sleep and attention problems, yet their relationship is poorly understood. The present study investigated this association in school-aged children with Down syndrome (DS) and Williams syndrome (WS). Actigraphy and pulse oximetry assessed sleep and sleep-disordered breathing respectively, and attention was tested using a novel visual Continuous Performance Task (CPT).Attentional deficits were evident in both disorder groups. In the TD group, higher scores on the CPT were related to better sleep quality, higher oxyhemoglobin saturation (SpO2), and fewer desaturation events. Sleep quality, duration, and SpO2 variables were not related to CPT performance for children with DS and WS.
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Worn over a simple cotton slip or sundress, it’s equally at home away from sun and sand. It’s fetching over a short slip that shows leg through the lace or over a longer sundress that peeks out from below the hem.
Splash is knit seamlessly from the top down, with increase rounds that widen the lace pattern along the shoulders every 4 repeats. The same swelling pattern is repeated along just the sides of the body for a subtle flare. The lace is softly clingy, with a gentle drape.
Each of the two sizes fit a wide range. Bust measurement may have positive or negative ease depending on your size, as the soft, lacy fabric will drape elegantly over a smaller bust or expand willingly over a generous bustline. You can get a sense of the range of each of the two sizes from the two models: Charlene (blonde) wears a size 6 and measures 36-28-38, while I (brunette) wear a size 10-12 and measure 40-31-44. I also tested it with a padded push-up bra (taking me up to 43-inch bust) and the fit was still excellent and relaxed.
Do keep in mind that the wider your bust and hips, the shorter the dress will be on you. Also remember that silk knits often get longer over time. While this minidress won’t become a ball gown, it may creep closer to your knees with wear. Of course, the top-down design means you can frog any excess if you decide later on that you’d prefer it shorter.
S/M (L/XL) Shown in S/M on both models.
CO 120. Join in the round and PM with the contrast marker.
Rnd 1: K24, PM, K36, PM, K24, PM, K36. This marks off the future sleeves.
Rnd 1: *[K2tog] 2 times, [YO, K1] 4 times, [K2tog] 2 times, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 3: *K3, [YO, K1] 6 times, K3, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 1: *[K2tog] 3 times, [YO, K1] 6 times, [K2tog] 3 times, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 3: *K6, [YO, K1] 6 times, K6, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 1: *[K2tog] 4 times, [YO, K1] 8 times, [K2tog] 4 times, repeat from * to end.
Size S/M: Skip the rest of this section and jump to Sleeves.
Rnd 3: *K9, [YO, K1] 6 times, K9, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 1: *[K2tog] 5 times, [YO, K1] 10 times, [K2tog] 5 times, repeat from * to end.
Note: The last patterned round you worked will be your main pattern round for the rest of the garment (Rnd 1, below).
Rnd 1: *[K2tog] 4(5) times, [YO, K1] 8(10) times, [K2tog] 4(5) times, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 3: Purl to first marker, knit to second marker, purl to third marker, knit to end.
Rnd 5 (Please review special instructions below before working): BO 48(60) stitches over sleeve, work next section to marker as for Rnd 1, repeat from * to end.
Maintain your pattern alignment by BO the stitches above those earlier purled stitches.
To keep the pattern in line, make sure you BO only the stitches above those purl stitches from two rounds earlier. Don’t start by binding off the first stitch of the sleeve with the last stitch of the previous round – instead, work up to the marker and drop it, then knit 2 and BO the second stitch with the first (counting this as your first BO), then continue binding off, counting each stitch as you bind it off (not as you knit it).
When you BO your last stitch, you’ll have BO all the sleeve stitches and your current live stitch will be sitting right over the first stitch of your pattern repeat (the first stitch not resting above a purl from two rounds back).
… And proceed with the pattern from Rnd 1 (starting with a k2tog, working that slipped stitch together with its neighbor – the first three k2tog of the pattern are shown above). Work in pattern to the next marker and repeat process for the second sleeve.
Rnd 6: CO 12, PM, K to next sleeve, PM, CO 12, PM, Knit to end. PM for end.
Rnd 8: P to first marker, K to next marker, P to next marker, K to end.
You’ve set off two side panels (12 sts each) and front and back panels with your stitch markers. You’ll work the Shoulder pattern, complete with increase sections, within those side panels only, and the main pattern along the larger front and back sections. By the end of the shoulder increases, your patterns for both sections will be exactly the same, and from that point, you can drop your extra markers and work the main pattern for the whole thing.
Rnd 1: *[shoulder pattern], marker, [main pattern], marker, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 3: *[shoulder pattern], marker, knit to next marker, repeat from * to end.
Rnd 3 will be knit straight across on most rounds, but will also include an increase over just the side stitches every 4th set, as per the shoulder instructions. Once you’ve finished your last increase, drop the markers and work the main pattern all the way around.
After this point, figure out how much yarn you’re using per round. You can either do this by measuring out a set amount (start with 15 feet for a S/M or 20 for a M/L) and tying a slipknot in the yarn, then knitting a round to see how much less/more it uses up; or by knitting a round, tying a slipknot at the end, and frogging that round, then measuring what you used.
As you approach the end of your last skein, measure out from the end enough for 4 rounds and tie a slipknot to flag it. Stick a locking stitch marker or safety pin through the loop for good measure. Keep an eye out for the flag. When you reach it (you can go up to a quarter rnd past it, but no further), if you need more to finish your current round, you should tink back to the end of your last round.
Note: Garment will look shorter than expected. It will grow several inches longer after its bath.
Weave in ends. I like to weave in just enough to hold the ends in place, then use the special weaving technique below after blocking.
Soak in water, then press or spin out excess and spread on a flat surface block to a length of at least 32 inches (mine was 34 inches), measured from center neckline, and a width of 32(40) – 16(20) inches flat – at the bust.
If you need to adjust the shape of the scallops or remove the blocking crease after it’s dry, use a steam iron and a soft touch.
For slippery plied yarns and lace patterns, I like to use a special technique to weave in the ends securely without adding bulk. I find this is not only more delicate looking, but less apt to unravel.
Before blocking, weave in a quarter inch or so of each end – just enough to hold pattern in place – leaving long tails loose. You can skip the CO and BO ends entirely for now.
Pull end taut. Note plied appearance.
Twist yarn against the ply so that it unravels and the plies run fairly straight up and down (they’ll twist together again if you let go).
Gently separate plies with a knitting needle or the blunt end of your darning needle.
Using a sharp darning needle and working through yarn (splitting the yarn or sewing through it, not weaving around it), work in each ply as a separate end.
Work each ply in a different direction to avoid building bulk, then snip end close to the fabric.
If you prefer something firmer to the flexible, off-the-shoulder neckline, or if you just want an extra little decorative touch, weave a ribbon along the top edge and finish with an off-center bow.
You can use the same technique under the bust or at the waist to add figure definition and a decorative touch. This example uses a wider ribbon, just the eyelets, and skips every other set.
Wear over a longer dress with the skirt showing for a casual look, or over a shorter slip or sheath for a sexier cocktail look.
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2019-04-22T14:02:42Z
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https://makezine.com/2015/05/04/flashback-splash-swimsuit-cover-up/
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Roppongi Hills includes a major TV studio, movie theatres, a museum, office, apartments.
There is a prospect facility-Tokyo City View on the top floor.
From Roppongi (Hibiya Line) exit 1C, connected to the entrance.
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2019-04-23T02:54:04Z
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http://accessible.jp.org/tokyo/RP506_en_0_11.html
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With the advent of the cellular phone, things picked up rather quickly. We moved from being able to talk over the cell phone to being able to communicate through instant messaging, text messaging, and phone calls through the Internet. Speaking of the Internet, not only could you call, but you could video chat, including conference calls, and livestream from anywhere in the world. Of course, the world of social media opened up ways of communicating through Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter, turning our lives into a communications hub for the world around us. If I factored all the ways I communicate on a weekly basis, it is truly remarkable (cell phone, text, email, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter, livestream, and video chat).
But this morning it hit me. I’m talking about the most amazing medium of communication. What am I referring to?
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening, the Union University campus was devastated by serious tornadic activity, resulting in extensive damage to the facilities. Following a nearly five-hour emergency effort, all students — including the 13 who were trapped in the fallen rubble — were rescued. Fifty-one students were taken to the hospital, nine of whom suffered serious injury. By God’s providence, no lives were lost.
5. Plans to regroup and rebuild the campus will help focus us for the future. The rebuilding efforts will be lengthy and extensive.
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2019-04-19T08:34:42Z
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https://timmybrister.wordpress.com/tag/communication/
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What happened? Later in the month, during a Hot 97 VIP Lounge session with Angie Martinez and studio audience, Nicki directly addressed Kim, likening her to a disobedient child in need of a spanking. She even brushes her off saying, “Put your music out and when I see your name on Billboard that’s when I’ll respond to you.” But Nicki really lets off when says, “You’re going to go down in history now as a sore loser, as opposed to going down in history as the Queen.” Insisting that it doesn't take away the love that she has for Kim, but stressing that she is not to be toyed with, Nicki warns, "Don't play with me."
Complex says: But wait, aren’t Barbies meant to be played with?
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2019-04-18T16:47:24Z
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https://www.complex.com/music/2010/11/a-history-of-lil-kim-nicki-minajs-beef/Nicki-Disses-Kim
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Loot boxes provided random virtual objects, such as weapons.
However, people do not know what their box will contain until they buy it.
Many video games use the loot boxes, and they are hugely popular.
The Government responded at the time, saying the Gambling Commission had strong powers to regulate gambling and was monitoring convergence between gambling and video games closely.
A survey of 2,865 children aged between 11 and 16 by the regulator last year found that 31% had paid or used in-game items to open a loot box.
A separate study by experts at the University of York and York St John University previously claimed that spending on in-game loot boxes could be as closely linked with gambling issues as alcohol dependency and drug problems.
The same year, Belgium ruled that loot boxes were in violation of gambling legislation, effectively banning them.
Fortnite's maker Epic Games has decided to show gamers what is inside the loot boxes before they to purchase.
"Previously known as V-Buck Llamas, X-Ray Llamas will now show you the contents before you purchase it," the company said in an announcement.
"Not interested in what the Llama offers? Simply wait until the daily store refresh and there will be a new selection."
The changes will only affect Save The World and not its more-popular Battle Royale counterpart, where the V-Buck Llamas were never available to buy.
It comes as Fortnite continues to smash records left and right.
A new report from gaming data firm SuperData found that the massively successful battle royale game was the top-grossing free-to-play game in the world in 2018.
In total, Fortnite raked in a whopping $2.4 billion over the course of 2018, according to SuperData.
What's more, Fortnite's status as a pop culture phenomenon is catching the attention of the likes of Netflix, who said in an earnings report released Thursday that it considers the game to be bigger competition than media giants HBO and Disney, as well as Amazon.
Fortnite's user base has skyrocketed alongside its revenues.
In November, it was reported that Fortnite had amassed 200 million users, which is a 60 percent jump from the 125 million users it had in June.
Much of its revenue comes from in-app purchases like including new skins, dance moves and accessories for in-game avatars. The most expensive in-app item is £99.99 ($130).
However, SuperData said that 34 percent of all US players purchased a 'battle pass,' which rewards players for playing during a 'season,' with prizes like exclusive challenges, among other things.
Fortnite eclipsed other free games in terms of revenue throughout 2018.
'The games and interactive media industry grew 13% in 2018 as Fortnite disrupted the status quo,' SuperData explained.
Fortnite's closest competitor, 'Dungeon Fighter Online,' earned $1.5 billion vs. Fornite's $2.4 billion, while League of Legends brought in $1.4 billion.
By comparison, Pokémon Go, also a global sensation, brought in a meager $1.3 billion.
Fortnite has captured the attention of adults and children alike since it was first released in 2017.
Enough that Netflix is now considering Fortnite a major competitor, according to its latest earnings release.
'We earn consumer screen time, both mobile and television, away from a very broad set of competitors,' Netflix wrote in a letter to shareholders.
'We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO.
'Our focus is not on Disney+, Amazon or others, but on how we can improve our experience for others,' the company added.
Aside from Fortnite, Netflix also called out Google's YouTube as a competitor it's keeping an eye on.
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2019-04-21T14:33:12Z
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6641477/Fortnite-stop-selling-controversial-loot-boxes.html
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This mask was created about 3000 years ago, perhaps as a portrait of a leader among the Olmec people of Mesoamerica (present-day southern Mexico). It was likely reserved for ceremonial use. An artist sculpted it from jadeite, then carved lines and highlighted them with a red mineral powder of mercury sulfide (cinnabar). These lines may replicate face paint or tattooing. The rare materials and symbolic designs, like the supernatural human-jaguar whose face hovers above the right eye, reflect the ruler's religious and political power.
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2019-04-22T16:13:47Z
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https://collections.artsmia.org/art/62148/mask-olmec
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94.715 Pest management for schools.
94.73 Agricultural chemical cleanup program.
94.76 Honeybee disease and pest control.
94.761 Beekeepers, etc.; agricultural pursuit.
Ch. 94 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See definitions in s. 93.01.
94.01 94.01 Plant inspection and pest control authority.
94.01(1)(1) In the conduct of survey and inspectional programs for the detection, prevention and control of pests, the department may impose quarantines or such other restrictions on the importation into or movement of plants or other material within this state as necessary to prevent or control the dissemination or spread of injurious pests.
94.01(2) (2) In accordance with sub. (1), the department, by summary order, may prohibit the removal of any plant, host plant, or other pest-harboring material from any private or public property, or any area of the state which in its judgment contains or is exposed to injurious pests, except under such conditions as in its judgment are necessary to prevent the dissemination or spread of pests, giving written notice thereof to the owner or person in charge of the property. While such order is in effect no person with knowledge thereof shall cause or permit the removal of any such plant, host plant or other pest-harboring material from such property or area, unless it is in compliance with the conditions of such order. Orders issued under this subsection shall be in writing, have the force and effect of an order issued under s. 93.18, and are subject to right of hearing before the department, if requested within 10 days after date of service. Any party affected by the order may request a preliminary or informal hearing pending the scheduling and conduct of a full hearing.
94.01(3) (3) No person may obstruct or interfere with the examination or testing, by authorized inspectors and agents of the department, of any plants or other material suspected of being infested or infected with any injurious pests; nor may any person move any plants, plant parts, pests or pest-harboring materials contrary to the terms of any quarantine, rule, notice or order under this section.
94.01(4) (4) The department, through its authorized agents or inspectors, may enter at all reasonable times any property for purposes of inspection, investigation and control of suspected pest infestations or infections and may intercept, stop and detain for official inspection any person, truck, vessel, aircraft or other conveyance believed to be carrying plants or other materials infested or infected with pests, and may seize and destroy any such plants or other materials moved, shipped or transported in violation of any law, rule, quarantine notice or order.
94.01 History History: 1975 c. 394 s. 18; Stats. 1975 s. 94.01.
94.01 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also ch. ATCP 21, Wis. adm. code.
94.02 94.02 Abatement of pests.
94.02(1)(a) (a) If the department finds any premises, or any plants, plant parts, or pest-harboring materials located thereon are so infested or infected with injurious pests as to constitute a hazard to plant or animal life in the state, or any area thereof, it may notify the owner or person having charge of such premises to that effect, and the owner or person in charge shall cause the treatment of the premises or the treatment or removal and destruction of infested or infected plants, host plants, or other pest-harboring material as directed in the notice within 10 days after such notice, except as provided in par. (b).
94.02(1)(b) (b) If the department, in a notice provided under par. (a), directs the owner or person in charge to treat late blight of potatoes with an antisporulant, the owner or person in charge shall cause the treatment as directed in the notice within 24 hours after the notice is issued. If the department, in a notice provided under par. (a), directs the owner or person in charge to remove and destroy infected plants, host plants, or other pest-harboring material due to the existence of late blight of potatoes, the owner or person in charge shall cause the removal and destruction as directed in the notice within 72 hours after the notice is issued. The department may extend the time periods for compliance under this paragraph if it determines that the treatment or the removal and destruction cannot be completed within the applicable time period.
94.02(1)(c) (c) No person may violate the terms of any notice received under this subsection, nor may any damages be awarded to the owner for such treatment, removal or destruction. Any person affected by a notice or order may appeal to the department and request a hearing under s. 94.01 (2).
94.02(2) (2) If the owner or person in charge fails to comply with the terms of the notice within the time period described in sub. (1), the department or any cooperating local unit of government may proceed to treat the premises or to treat or destroy the infested or infected plants or other material. The expense of such abatement shall be certified to the town, city or village clerk and assessed, collected and enforced against the premises upon which such expense was incurred as taxes are assessed, collected, and enforced, and shall be paid to the cooperating unit of government incurring the expense, or into the general fund if the control work was conducted by the department.
94.02(3) (3) If a serious pest outbreak constituting a significant threat to agricultural production or plant life occurs, and cannot be adequately controlled by individual property owners or local units of government in any area of this state, the department may petition the joint committee on finance for emergency funds with which to conduct needed control work independently or on a cooperative basis with the federal or local units of government.
94.02(4) (4) This section does not affect the authority of the department of natural resources under ch. 26.
94.02 History History: 1975 c. 394 ss. 5, 19; 1975 c. 421; Stats. 1975 s. 94.02; 1977 c. 418; 1981 c. 20; 2011 a. 254; 2017 a. 45.
94.03 94.03 Shipment of pests and biological control agents; permits.
94.03(1)(1) No person may sell or offer for sale, or move, transport, deliver, ship or offer for shipment, any pest, as defined in s. 93.01 (10) or any biological control agent as defined in sub. (2), without a permit as prescribed by rules of the department. Such rules may provide for reasonable exemptions from permit requirements. Permits may be issued only after the department determines that the proposed shipment or use will not create sufficient hazard to warrant refusal of a permit. Permits shall be affixed to the outside of every shipping container or accompany the shipment as the department directs.
94.03(2) (2) The department may by rule regulate and control the sale and use of biological control agents to assure their safety and effectiveness in the control of injurious pests and to prevent the introduction or use of biological control agents which may be injurious to persons or property or useful plant or animal life. The term “biological control agent" as used in this section means any living organism which because of its parasitic, predatory or other biological characteristics may be effective for use in the suppression or control of pests by biological rather than chemical means.
94.03 History History: 1975 c. 394 ss. 6, 17; 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (20).
94.10 94.10 Nursery stock; inspection and licensing.
94.10(1)(a) (a) “Christmas tree grower" means a person who grows evergreen trees in this state for eventual cutting and sale as Christmas trees.
94.10(1)(b) (b) “Nonprofit organization" means an organization described in section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code that is exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
94.10(1)(c) (c) “Nursery" means premises in this state on which a person propagates or grows nursery stock for sale. “Nursery" does not include heeling-in grounds or other premises where a person holds nursery stock for purposes other than propagation or growth.
94.10(1)(d)1. 1. An employee of a person licensed under sub. (2).
94.10(1)(d)2. 2. A nursery grower licensed under sub. (3) who only sells, offers for sale, or distributes nursery stock that the nursery grower has grown.
94.10(1)(e) (e) “Nursery grower" means a person who owns or operates a nursery in this state, except that “nursery grower" does not include an employee of a person licensed under sub. (3).
94.10(1)(f) (f) “Nursery stock" means plants and plant parts that can be propagated or grown, except that “nursery stock" does not include seeds, sod, cranberry cuttings, annuals, or cut Christmas trees.
94.10(1)(g)1. 1. A nursery dealer licensed under sub. (2).
94.10(1)(g)2. 2. A nursery grower licensed under sub. (3).
94.10(1)(g)3. 3. A source outside this state that the department recognizes under sub. (10) as an officially inspected source.
94.10(1)(j) (j) “Sell" means to transfer ownership, for consideration.
94.10(2) (2) Nursery dealer; annual license.
94.10(2)(a) (a) License required. Except as provided in par. (f), no person may operate as a nursery dealer without an annual license from the department. A nursery dealer license expires on February 20. A nursery dealer license may not be transferred to another person.
94.10(2)(b)1. 1. The applicant's legal name and address and any other name under which the applicant does business.
94.10(2)(b)2. 2. The address of each location in this state at which the applicant proposes to hold nursery stock for sale or distribution.
94.10(2)(b)3. 3. The license fee required under par. (c).
94.10(2)(b)4. 4. The surcharge required under par. (d), if any.
94.10(2)(b)5. 5. Other information reasonably required by the department for licensing purposes, including information related to the types and sources of nursery stock that the applicant sells or distributes from locations in this state.
94.10(2)(c)1. 1. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of no more than $5,000, $30.
94.10(2)(c)2. 2. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $5,000 but not more than $20,000, $50.
94.10(2)(c)3. 3. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $20,000 but not more than $100,000, $100.
94.10(2)(c)4. 4. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $100,000 but not more than $200,000, $150.
94.10(2)(c)5. 5. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $200,000 but not more than $500,000, $200.
94.10(2)(c)6. 6. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $500,000 but not more than $2,000,000, $300.
94.10(2)(c)7. 7. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $2,000,000 but not more than $3,000,000, $400.
94.10(2)(c)8. 8. If the nursery dealer has annual purchases of more than $3,000,000, the amount of the nursery dealer's annual purchases times 0.0005.
94.10(2)(cm) (cm) Fee exemption. Notwithstanding par. (c), the department may not require an individual who is eligible for the veterans fee waiver program under s. 45.44 to pay a nursery dealer license fee.
94.10(2)(d) (d) Surcharge for operating without a license. In addition to the fee required under par. (c), an applicant for a nursery dealer license shall pay a surcharge equal to the amount of that fee if the department determines that, within 365 days before submitting the application, the applicant operated as a nursery dealer without a license in violation of par. (a). Payment of the surcharge does not relieve the applicant of any other penalty or liability that may result from the violation, but does not constitute evidence of a violation of par. (a).
94.10(2)(e) (e) Annual purchases; nursery dealer.
94.10(2)(e)1.1. For the purposes of par. (c) the amount of a nursery dealer's annual purchases is the total cost that the nursery dealer incurred during the nursery dealer's last completed fiscal year for all nursery stock that the nursery dealer acquired for sale or distribution from locations in this state, except as provided in subd. 2. The amount of a nursery dealer's annual purchases does not include the cost of nursery stock that the nursery dealer grows under a license under sub. (3) or an equivalent license in another state.
94.10(2)(e)2. 2. If a nursery dealer made no purchases of nursery stock during the nursery dealer's last completed fiscal year, the amount of annual purchases is the nursery dealer's good faith prediction of purchases described in subd. 1. during the nursery dealer's current fiscal year.
94.10(2)(f)1. 1. A person who sells or distributes nursery stock only at retail and whose total sales from all locations in this state during the license year do not exceed $250.
94.10(2)(f)2. 2. A person who sells or distributes nursery stock solely for the benefit of a nonprofit organization, for a total of not more than 7 consecutive days in this state during the license year.
94.10(3) (3) Nursery grower; annual license.
94.10(3)(a) (a) License required. Except as provided in par. (f), no person may operate as a nursery grower without an annual license from the department. A nursery grower license expires on February 20. A nursery grower license may not be transferred to another person.
94.10(3)(b)1. 1. The applicant's legal name and address and any other name under which the applicant does business.
94.10(3)(b)2. 2. The address of each location in this state at which the applicant operates a nursery or holds nursery stock for sale or distribution.
94.10(3)(b)3. 3. The license fee required under par. (c).
94.10(3)(b)4. 4. The surcharge required under par. (d), if any.
94.10(3)(b)5. 5. Other information reasonably required by the department for licensing purposes, including information related to the types of nursery stock that the applicant grows in this state.
94.10(3)(c)1. 1. If the nursery grower has annual sales of no more than $5,000, $40.
94.10(3)(c)2. 2. If the nursery grower has annual sales of more than $5,000 but not more than $20,000, $75.
94.10(3)(c)3. 3. If the nursery grower has annual sales of more than $20,000 but not more than $100,000, $125.
94.10(3)(c)4. 4. If the nursery grower has annual sales of more than $100,000 but not more than $200,000, $200.
94.10(3)(c)5. 5. If the nursery grower has annual sales of more than $200,000 but not more than $500,000, $350.
94.10(3)(c)6. 6. If the nursery grower has annual sales of more than $500,000 but not more than $2,000,000, $600.
94.10(3)(c)7. 7. If the nursery grower has annual sales of more than $2,000,000, $1,200.
94.10(3)(cm) (cm) Fee exemption. Notwithstanding par. (c), the department may not require an individual who is eligible for the veterans fee waiver program under s. 45.44 to pay a nursery grower license fee.
94.10(3)(d) (d) Surcharge for operating without a license. In addition to the fee required under par. (c), an applicant for a nursery grower license shall pay a surcharge equal to the amount of that fee if the department determines that, within 365 days before submitting that application, the applicant operated as a nursery grower without a license in violation of par. (a). Payment of the surcharge does not relieve the applicant of any other penalty or liability that may result from the violation, but does not constitute evidence of a violation of par. (a).
94.10(3)(e) (e) Annual sales; nursery grower.
94.10(3)(e)1.1. For the purposes of par. (c) the amount of a nursery grower's annual sales is the nursery grower's gross receipts, during the nursery grower's last completed fiscal year, from the sale, consignment, or other distribution of nursery stock that the nursery grower grew at nurseries in this state, except as provided in subd. 2.
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2019-04-19T21:02:52Z
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http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/94/10
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JB Pritzker: “We face big challenges, and under Bruce Rauner things have only gotten worse.” Learn more about this candidate.
Pritzker running mate Juliana Stratton: “We need to lift up your voices, we need to bring people together to move our state forward.” Learn more about this candidate.
Bruce Rauner: “This election isn’t about Republican vs. Democrat. It’s about the people of Illinois vs. our corrupt political insiders.” Learn more about this candidate.
Rauner running mate Evelyn Sanguinetti: “You can’t overturn decades of mismanagement in just four years. We need another term to finish our fight for reform in Illinois.” Learn more about this candidate.
Grayson Kash Jackson: “I want to start fixing the problems in this state without putting the burden on the citizens of Illinois.” Learn more about this candidate.
Jackson running mate Sanjeev Mohip: “A lot of candidates say they want to be the mouthpiece for their party or their movement; I would like to be the earpiece.” Learn more about this candidate.
William “Sam” McCann: Did not participate in Candidate Free Time.
McCann running mate Aaron Merreighn: Did not participate in Candidate Free Time.
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2019-04-24T18:24:30Z
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https://news.wttw.com/2018/10/09/2018-general-election-illinois-governor
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^ a b Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2002): Nematoda. Version of January 1, 2002. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
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2019-04-25T01:49:11Z
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https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%8C%E8%85%BA%E7%B6%B1
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San Marco is much older than most Western European cathedrals. Some of the mosaics are more than a thousand years old. The gold dome glitters in the candlelight of Easter vespers.
Saalfurt is the site of one of the Roman frontier forts, built along the northern border of the Roman empire. It was reconstructed in the early 1900s and is the most complete example of a Roman fort.
Looking down on the Upper Lake. This spot was named because Queen Victoria's ladies-in-waiting came here during the Queen's visit to Ireland in 1861. But I prefer to remember far older times, when Finn and his Fianna hunted here and there were talking eagles in the hills.
Saint Finbarr, founder of the city of Cork, came here 1400 years ago to live in solitude by the lake at the source of the Lee. Gougane Barra is still a lovely, quiet place.
One of the many unknown soldiers of Omaha Beach.
Here rests a comrade in arms known but to God. June 6, 2004.
Omaha Beach seen from the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, after the ceremonies on the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
Pointe du Hoc, where the Rangers climbed a hundred-foot cliff under German fire, is a place of grown-over bomb craters and blasted German bunkers, where the huge destruction of war can still be seen.
Omaha Beach on June 8, 2004. This sculpture, by a Frenchwoman born in the 1960s, Anilore Banon, is called Les Braves. I would have preferred to see the beach empty forever, but the sculpture is somehow appropriate.
Mont-Saint-Michel is named after the archangel who defeated the devil. Long before there was a Christian church here, the island was sacred to a Celtic god. You see the "Marvel" being built on its platform at the beginning of the Bayeux tapestry.
The Ridgeway is an ancient, pre-Saxon, pre-Roman, even pre-Celtic track of more than a hundred miles through the English countryside near Stonehenge and Avebury. It has never been plowed over and runs past many ancient sites, including ringforts, Wayland's Smithy, and the White Horse of Uffington. Even though it is in one of the most overcrowded areas of Europe, it is a lonely, beautiful place to walk.
Iona is the isle where Saint Columba founded his great monastery. The island is considered remote in modern times but the Irish Sea is full of islands and there was much travel among them. It is a beautiful part of the world.
Including Saint Denis, first bishop of Paris, who was martyred on the hill Montmartre by the Romans. He was said to have picked up his head and walked north with it till he came to a stream. Then he handed it to a woman to wash. Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, built the first church of Saint-Denis on the spot, where the Cathedral of Saint-Denis now stands just north of Paris, on the road to the airport.
In this section you see the damned in Hell, being tormented by demons, with the saints above.
This is the Last Judgment. At the top is God seated on his throne. At the bottom, the righteous arise from their tombs, summoned by an angel with a trumpet. In the central section, an angel and a devil weigh each soul in the balance. The blessed, on the left (the right hand of God), go off to Heaven. The doomed, on the right, go off in chains to Hell with demons.
The Hotel de Sens is my favorite building in Paris. It was built for a bishop and is now a public Fine Arts library.
This was the site of an important battle of the English Civil War, on 29 June 1644, where the army of King Charles beat the Parliament forces.
At the time it was built, Bede's monastery was one of the grandest new buildings in England since Roman times. The king lived in a wooden hall.
The oldest part of this church was built in the time of the Venerable Bede and was one of the first stone buildings in Anglo-Saxon England, at a time when the king lived in a wooden hall.
Norman remains at Lindisfarne, the "Holy Isle"
Site of the battle that dashed the hopes of Bonny Prince Charlie and marked the end of traditional Gaelic Highland Scotland: 16th April 1746. Today it is a beautiful peaceful place. The visitor center stands where the British army faced the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. A new center is planned on neutral ground.
The Irish soldiers at Culloden were regulars from the French army and were treated honorably as prisoners of war, unlike the Highland Scots, who were considered traitors and rebels.
During the 18th century, an ambitious Irish Catholic man had no choice but to go abroad, because of the Penal Code enforced by the British colonizers at that time in Ireland, which condemned more than 95% of the population to the role of illiterate peasants. Many Irishmen served in the armies of Austria, Spain and France in these years.
The French soldiers who fought at Culloden for Prince Charles Edward Stuart were in the same volunteer tradition as Lafayette fighting for American independence. They were treated honorably after the defeat and returned to France.
This is a pre-Celtic burial ground, dating to 4000 years ago. A Victorian landlord planted the trees. It is a lovely, quiet spot.
Originally the stones making up the graves were multicolored. There are two concentric rows of large stones, with the largest facing the direction of the winter equinox; between them are many smaller stones of pink and gray.
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August 31 is the deadline to apply for Robb Funds. EECS graduate students who are seeking supplemental travel funds for the fall semester are eligible. The support is made possible through an endowed grant to EECS by Dr. David D. Robb. For more information and an application, go to Robb Awards.
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http://eecs.ku.edu/news-anncmnts/graduate-student-travel-funds-available
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cartoonstock
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"Doctors said that although the approach is still experimental, it may prove an effective weapon in the fight against health-care reform."
"It's the lost of side effects that came with my medication."
"Actually, a side effect like this is fairly common with that prescription!"
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https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/big_pharma.asp
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University of Northern Iowa Alumni Association, "The Alumnus, v55n2, May 1970" (1970). The Alumnus. 45.
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https://scholarworks.uni.edu/alumnusnews/45/
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Arts
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Helsinki has more than 400 outdoor statues, public artworks and historical monuments. The oldest public sculptures date back to the late 19th century and some monuments to even earlier times.
Public artworks in city parks, on streets and at squares are part of the Helsinki Art Museum collections. Artworks owned by corporations, the Finnish State and private owners are also placed in public spaces as well as on private property near public spaces. Helsinki cemeteries have approximately one hundred statues and monuments, but only the public monuments are listed on the City Museum pages.
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https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/culture/city-culture/art/
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purseblog
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Hi! is this sit for girls only?
hi! can anyone tellme is this sit for girls only! im a boy can i join in?
Welcome to the forum! We embrace everyone...so long as you love to talk about bags!
hee hee! im a boy! BUT I LOVE MY BAGS!
just got 1 x prada sport and 2 x burberry bag! last weekend in the sale! both over 70% off!
how many boys use this sit??
There a couple of guys on here that I know of. Probably more.
shopping_monkey> show us your new bags.
i will try itdo it tomorrow! it is 00.30 am over here in UK, Scotland.
Don't you love Burberry's sales!! Welcome!
Welcome! Wow your from Scotland, how awesome! That is one of the places that I most want to visit someday! There are some other guys here.
That would be me male. I have A nylon sling when in the Woods for sport and wanted to say at first I do not carry A Bag.
Men definitely welcome In fact we need more!
Well I will point the man of this site your way, my man. He started as the only guy here and will L-O-V-E your company!!!
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2019-04-26T03:03:36Z
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https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/hi-is-this-sit-for-girls-only.2210/
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How do I receive QC notifications?
If you wish to receive TV QC notifications, enable Content notifications in Manage Users.
How do I receive Newsletters from iTunes?
If you have an iTunes Connect account, you will receive all Newsletters for your content type.
How do I obtain reports listing my content on iTunes?
Click on the Catalog Reports section from your iTunes Connect home page. Select the type of report you wish to receive. When the report has been processed and is available to download from iTunes Connect, you will be notified via email. You are only allowed to request one catalog report of each type per 24 hours for your content provider. The reports you request will remain available on iTunes Connect for 30 days.
How do I remove TV content from the iTunes Store?
To remove a season or episode permanently from the iTunes Store, uncheck Cleared for Sale in My TV Shows. Let us know before you do so, though.
To remove episodes temporarily from seasons that don't have an active season pass, set an episode sales date in the future instead.
Where can I find my season or episode Apple ID?
You can see your season or episode Apple IDs in My TV Shows, at the top of every season or episode page.
Also, Catalog Reports include the TV season's and episode's Apple ID.
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2019-04-26T13:49:53Z
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https://itunespartner.apple.com/en/tv/faq/Managing%20Your%20TV%20Content_Using%20iTunes%20Connect
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Background: Human Norovirus (NoV) is recognized as a major etiological agent of sporadic acute gastroenteritis worldwide.
and asymptomatic children in rural South Africa.
Study design: Between July 2014 and April 2015, outpatient children under 5 years of age from rural communities of Vhembe district, South Africa, were enrolled for the study. A total of 303 stool specimens were collected from those with diarrhea (n=253) and without (n=50) diarrhea. NoVs were identified using real-time one-step RT-PCR.
Results: One hundred and four (41.1%) NoVs were detected (62[59.6%] GII, 16[15.4%] GI, and 26[25%] mixed GI/GII) in cases and 18 (36%) including 9(50%) GII, 2(11.1%) GI and 7(38.9%) mixed GI/GII in controls. NoV detection rates in symptomatic and asymptomatic children (OR = 1.24; 95% CI 0.66 – 2.33) were not significantly different. Comparison of the median CT values for NoV in symptomatic and asymptomatic children revealed significant statistical difference of estimated GII viral load from both groups, with a much higher viral burden in symptomatic children.
Conclusions: Though not proven predictive of diarrhea disease in this study, the high detection rate of NoV reflects the substantial exposure of children from rural communities to enteric pathogens possibly due to poor sanitation and hygiene practices. The results suggest that the difference between asymptomatic and symptomatic children with NoV may be at the level of the viral load of NoV genogroups involved.
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2019-04-19T05:34:16Z
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https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/publications/norovirus-prevalence-and-estimated-viral-load-in-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-children-from-rural-communities-of-vhembe-district-south-africa(2ec33681-9b42-4037-882f-1e48fdd3f94a).html
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PAUL Pogba and Jose Mourinho’s relationship has taken another hit with the Manchester United manager reportedly annoyed at his star man’s decision to throw a party in Los Angeles.
France international Pogba has been enjoying his downtime in the wake of clinching the World Cup with his country in Russia this summer.
That has included hanging out with friends and family stateside for the last few weeks as well as French teammates and fellow Red Devils man Marouane Fellaini.
But while other United players such as Romelu Lukaku have followed their manager’s request to return to training before the end of their post-World Cup holidays, Pogba has shown he is very much is own man.
According to reports in Italian newspaper Tuttosport, the 25-year-old invited family and close pals to the party in LA before then moving on to the more tranquil setting of French Polynesia.
That decision is another blow to a relationship between player and manager which has become increasingly strained in recent weeks.
Mourinho brought the midfielder back to Old Trafford for £89 million in August 2016 but the former Juventus man has struggled to live up to the Special One’s high expectations for his player.
He has also failed to replicate his Serie A form and has made it clear he would not mind a return to Turin.
Barcelona could also be another destination for the unhappy Frenchman however with the Spanish giants said to be interested in the swoop for him.
Manchester United open their Premier League campaign at home to Leicester City on August 10.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6940974/mourinho-fumes-pogba-la-party/
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Tonight marks the release of the AIR 2.0 beta to the Adobe Labs! This is truly a remarkable release that I’m sure will allow web developers to continue to build cutting-edge, multi-platform applications that we have come to expect from AIR.
So, what’s new? Well, you can check out some release notes here, or this Adobe TV session from MAX last month.
What am I excited about? Well, there is a whole lot packed into this release, but some of the things that I personally have been playing with are the new API’s that allow us to directly work with the audio we get from the Microphone (check out www.getmicrophone.com for more information about the back story). This new API allows you to get the raw ByteArray data right from the microphone and save it to disk, interpret it, or manipulate it. You can check out my ADC article here.
Another cool feature that AIR 2.0 is getting is IP Multicast support. Yes kids, you heard me right — AIR 2.0 will be able to do peer-to-peer audio and video streaming in a way that allows you to save bandwidth and create highly-scalable video applications. This is one of those things I have been waiting on for years.
Oh, and did I mention that AIR 2.0’s memory and CPU use footprint is 100x better than before? Well, that may be an exaggeration, but lets put it this way. An application that I used to run 24×7 on my server used to accumulate about 10MB an hour, filling up my RAM quickly and crashing out after about a day. The exact same app compiled with AIR 2.0 has been running for about 14 days now, and is still using nearly the same amount of memory as it did when it launched (about 20 MB). Simply amazing!
So, download and enjoy TODAY!
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https://quetwo.wordpress.com/2009/11/
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What looked like a log in the water was actually an alligator.
The trucks were loaded with logs, headed for the sawmill.
Logs and branches were strewn in the road after the storm.
The natural log of e is 1.
Find the log of 120 in base 10.
This old math book has log tables listed in the back in Appendix A.
Mary kept a log of her body temperature in order to track ovulation times.
The captain recorded their progress and position hourly in the ship's log.
The court has issued subpoenas for the company's email logs.
The operating system keeps several logs automatically on database activities.
This float with a knotted line is known as a log and measures a ship's speed by dropping segments of line in the water and measuring the corresponding time.
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http://verbs.colorado.edu/html_groupings/log-n.html
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rte
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Brexit - can you fix stupid?
It takes a lot to surprise the BBC’s John Humphreys but that’s what happened yesterday morning.
Professor Anthony Seldon is an eminent historian and current Vice Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
Michael Cockerell is a respected documentary maker and he has made outstanding programmes about the likes of James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
As the BBC’s Today programme sometimes does on a Saturday morning, it reviews the story that has dominated the week’s output. In this case, Brexit.
Seldon said: "The current turmoil in British politics totally eclipses Suez, totally eclipses everything, we have never been here before. The lengths of fixation of government on this one issue, the complexity of the problem...20 resignations utterly eclipsing Suez, Falklands, Iraq War, the country more evenly divided, more deeply divided, families, communities, churches, than on any issue. Scotland and Northern Ireland’s future in the union both up for question at the same time, the Conservative party more deeply divided in its 200 year history..."
Cockerell then chipped in: "It is the most extraordinary time I have seen in British politics. One of the times which it does remind me of, in some ways. was when Jim Callaghan was prime minister and we had a huge economic crisis and we went to the IMF, we wanted a loan from the IMF to stop the country going bankrupt, we asked for a loan of three billion, that was in the old days when a billion was a lot of money and that was more than the IMF had loaned anyone but the Labour cabinet was absolutely split on this."
Seldon came back in and said: "If we get it wrong, I feel as a historian the social fabric of the country will be stretched to breaking point."
Humphreys jumped in and asked him: "What does that mean, rioting in the streets?"
Seldon replied: "It could do, yes, I think this is a moment of significant peril. Imagine, for example if there is a second referendum and the country is very divided, it was pretty evenly divided at the referendum in 2016 and now the balance of voting is just the other way, think of how angry the Brexiteers will feel if there is a second referendum that goes against them, this is a moment of significant peril and that is exactly why we need to have grown up MPs thinking not of their egos, not of their ideologies but actually a novel idea of the nation at this moment of real, significant national peril, they should be thinking of the nation, not plunging the country into a no-deal Brexit."
Cockerell came back in saying: "I do think what we will be hearing from the prime minister and other ministers who support her is the national interest; but of course behind the scenes they are plotting and scheming. It used to be said that loyalty was the Tories secret weapon. It seems now that disloyalty is the Tories default setting."
Humphreys said: "Thank you very much indeed..."
Seldon said: "Not very optimistic, have a nice weekend."
Humphreys had the final word: "Thanks for cheering us up."
While the slice of Radio Four was enlightened and mesmerising, it didn’t even mention, never mind attempt to analyse the blindingly obvious. Possibly because most of the contributors are ignorant about it, the very same stark naked Emperor element was avoided during the three-hour pummelling of British Prime Minister Theresa May in Westminster during the week.
It is the orange/green factor, the Irish Question, that dominated and often poisoned Northern Ireland politics for decades; the row that frequently spilled over the border and stunted North/South relations.
Seventeen months ago the germ crossed the borderless Irish Sea, found its way to Westminster and contaminated the Conservative Party and British politics.
And Theresa May, the heroic figure of last week’s absorbing political thunderstorm, is, unwittingly responsible for it.
The problem was created by her decision to call a general election in June 2017. She was attempting to strengthen her forces in order to combat the hard Brexiteers.
The catastrophic contest produced a situation where ten DUP members hold the balance of power in Westminster, keeping her minority government in office.
Another significant consequence of the election was the removal of three SDLP MPs who would have acted as a counter-balance to the DUP and certainly would have contributed a different narrative during the past week in Westminster.
Mrs May didn’t intend it but by calling an election she brought calamity upon herself.
Last Wednesday night she cut a heroic figure outside Downing Street, speaking from her heart, without notes. There was an even more telling angle than the head-on camera shot. It was the side view, showing her slightly curved figure, utterly alone providing a statement that was being watched by probably hundreds of millions of people.
Politics is indeed a spectator sport but the House of Commons became the Coliseum on Wednesday as several Conservative MPs seemed to revel in publicly seeking out the most vulnerable zones of their party leader.
The contribution of Jacob Rees-Mogg was particularly revealing. As an educated, practising Catholic, he would be familiar with the scourging at the pillar and the crowning with thorns.
In the dozens of contributions, it was striking how the unavoidable truth about the island of Ireland question did not feature. The Conservatives are obsessed about themselves. The Brexiteers want out of Europe at all costs. The Labour Party has amnesia about the Blair/Brown contribution to the peace process and its sole objective is to get into power.
But if Westminster is showing little appreciation of the Ireland question, the opposite is the case with the other side in the Brexit negotiations, the European Union. The remarks made by the Belgian politician, Philippe Lamberts, a member of the European Parliament’s Brexit committee during the week, make the case.
On BBC’s World Tonight radio programme on Thursday, Mr Lamberts said: "This deal is the best that is achievable within the constraints set by a number of factors, not least of all the Good Friday Agreement.
"This (the GFA) is a treaty that the UK has voluntarily signed and it creates constraints that made a clear-cut Brexit impossible actually because it is predicated on the common membership of both Ireland and the United Kingdom to the same political body called the European Union."
"The UK leaving without a deal would of course hurt the United Kingdom. The supply chains would be disrupted; free circulation would be disrupted, airline flights would be disrupted, goods flow would be disrupted. I think than no one really knows how deep the implications would go but there are the practical implications and they would cut both ways - they would hurt the United Kingdom but also the European Union, especially those countries bordering the United Kingdom, Ireland to start with, and then the countries that border on the North Sea including my own country, Belgium. This is not a very encouraging prospect."
When Mrs May gathered her cabinet members at Downing Street on Wednesday, she followed the logic of Mr Lambert’s arguments.
In 1995 Bill Clinton, and his wife Hilary, became the first serving US president to visit Northern Ireland to assist the peace process: in 1998 Tony Blair was guided by the hand of history to help negotiate the Good Friday Agreement. In 2011 Queen Elizabeth bowed in the Garden of Remembrance and alongside Mary McAleese, said "A Uachtarain agus a cairde" in Dublin Castle. In 2015 Michael D Higgins said in Windsor Castle, "ar scáth a chéile a mhairimid" (we live in the shadow of each other).
Theresa May’s stance on Brexit during the week was an acknowledgement (belated) of that thread. It accepts Northern Ireland is unique, that the relationship between the neighbouring islands is special and that shared membership of the European Union has helped to remove centuries old poison and distrust and change the dynamic.
On Thursday night last I sat with Sammy Wilson at his constituency office in Larne’s quiet Main Street. The previous night he said in one television interview that the European Union was intent on giving Northern Ireland a punishment beating over its decision to leave. Sammy has a reputation for delivering such soundbites.
On a personal level I’m very fond of him. Like most of his DUP colleagues he always tries to oblige when, on RTE’s behalf, I come looking for an interviewee. In this case it was a stretch because the request was for a late night insert to Prime Time.
Even though Mr Wilson had been on the go, full-on in Westminster and arrived back in Belfast a few hours before, he agreed to participate in the programme. To acknowledge his kindness, I travelled with a cameraman to be in Larne during the link up to Donnybrook.
In the minutes before Prime Time began, we were having our chat. Mr Wilson was telling me about how he wanted out of Europe. I said my respect for what the EU stands for is personal because the E112 form that brought me to Sweden for cancer treatment 20 years ago saved my life.
Sammy was telling me about the frenetic mix of meetings and interviews around Westminster the previous night and how he finally got a late night feed of chips and stuff. He is 66 now. I told him how I had a stent inserted last month so the puncture is fixed and the blow-out and car crash avoided, hopefully.
Interactions like that with the likes of Sammy Wilson, Arlene Foster, Gregory Campbell, Gareth Robinson, Jerffrey Donaldson and Diane Dodds remind me, time after time, of how much we have in common with unionists.
They enjoy conversation about what matters. Yet, as a party, the DUP has built its philosophy on principles of confrontation - No Surrender, Sell-Out, Not an Inch. Due to often bitter and sometimes violent experience, down the years, the suspicion was warranted. But nowadays, like much of US President Donald Trump’s antics, often the fear and rhetoric have little basis in reality.
The proposition that the Irish approach to Brexit shifted when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney replaced Enda Kenny and Charlie Flanagan doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
What changed was that the shadow of Brexit took over all agendas and that Leo Varadkar became Taoiseach the very month that the DUP became the power bloc required to keep Theresa May’s minority government in power.
In public the DUP seem to thrive on being outsiders. Their founder, Ian Paisley, had a limitless capacity to invent bogeymen. Lundy was the Church of Scotland solider who went soft on defending the walls of Derry in 1689 and the DUP can rhyme off a long line of Lundys who have attempted to sell loyal Ulster down the river since.
The Brexiteers recognise this instinct in the DUP and they make common cause in confronting the EU bogeyman. The thesis to set DUP pulses racing is the notion that Northern Ireland is about to be cut adrift from the United Kingdom, as part of a cunning plan to facilitate a united Ireland and confine Ulster unionists to a life of subservience.
The tragedy, so far, is that unionists are not prepared to look beyond their own traditional suspicions. The Republic of Ireland they fear no longer exists. Drew Harris, the Garda Commissioner, the son of an RUC officer, murdered by the IRA, is this week wearing a poppy. The kind of Irish language provisions some campaigners were attempting to introduce in Northern Ireland do not exist south of the border yet the more creative approach it has taken to the language is allowing for more organic growth and popularity.
If there was a poll taken in the Republic in the morning and the options were push for a united Ireland or commit to a 'live and let live' friendly relationship with our next door neighbours, the vast majority would probably opt for the latter.
One of my happiest, most illuminating days in the company of the late Ian Paisley, was a time he spent in south Sligo. He was invited down to a peace park in a small village of Aclare; the organisers provided accommodation and lodgings for the extended Paisley family in the Yeats Country Hotel in the little village of Curry.
Ian Paisley and his family were so contented during that visit because they felt welcome, among their own and they had a sense of the commonality between the people of Cullybackey, Co Antrim, and Tubbercurry, Co Sligo.
The tragedy of the DUP’s current position is they are not prepared to explore the nature of the Brexit deal on offer to them. The fruits of the haggling between Theresa May’s main negotiator, Ollie Robbins and Michel Barnier’s European Commission team, is Northern Ireland has been offered unique status within the European Union and the United Kingdom.
Although she is on maternity leave, Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, was quick to spot this. So too was Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish Nationalist party. Like pupils in a classroom seeing some student offered a special arrangement, the SNP is envious. And the Scottish Conservatives know the Northern Ireland concession could be used by the SNP as a stick to beat them in future Scottish independence debates.
Northern Ireland business organisations have spotted the advantages of the deal. They issued a joint statement, praising it on Friday.
Significantly the Ulster Farmers Union, too, has come out in favour of what’s on offer. It wasn’t just the organisation’s chief executive, Wesley Aston, or its former president, Ian Marshall,who is now a Fine Gael appointed member of the senate. The UFU’s current president, Ivor Ferguson, a farmer in Markethill, Co Armagh, is also publicly supporting the deal.
The chief constable of the PSNI, George Hamilton (above), has stood by his warnings about the significant problems that could flow from a no-deal Brexit.
It is also true that Mrs May is seeking to reach beyond the Westminster bubble and use public opinion and different sectors as persuaders in her tussle with Conservative MPs and the DUP.
Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State, left the Westminster chamber on Wednesday to meet business groups in Belfast. A number of meetings with business groups, using Chatham House rules (no leaking), were hosted by Ms Bradley’s team of persuaders last week.
Might the DUP change tack? If a car is heading for a wall, or a ship for an iceberg, in order to avoid trouble something has to change. Had David Cameron been offered some recognition that he might have put his finger on something when he went looking to the EU for help, Angela Merkel might not be in the political departure lounge and the Remain Camp could have won the Brexit referendum.
The DUP and Northern Ireland have indeed been offered a sweetheart deal. Not due to the European Union’s special affection for Northern Ireland but because it is the practical way to structure the withdrawal agreement, the border question included.
Now the challenge for Theresa May and others is to persuade the DUP to see the merits of the offer or at least have its MPs abstain if not back the prime minister in the Westminster vote.
Mr Varadkar has already acknowledged the realities in some of his comments at his party’s weekend Ard Fheis. He is attempting to signal that a goal of the negotiations of a future EU/UK trading partnership would see no need for a backstop or any sort of significant border.
The Brexiteers will cling closely to the DUP as their new best friends, their pit bull in the Westminster battle. Northern Ireland was used as the off-shore vehicle to fund all of the final stages of the Leave Information campaign. The DUP’s ten MPs are crucial in the Westminster balance of power and Brexit voting equations.
The package promised by the Brexiteers to Leave supporters is the UK’s right to make its own trade deals with outside countries and an EU that would only be delighted to give the UK unfettered access to its markets. If there is no border down the Irish Sea (a DUP demand), and no border on the island of Ireland (an Irish/EU stipulation), would the EU insist on checks at Calais, Rotterdam etc for Irish as well as EU goods?
That’s the thinking of the Brexiteers who see a borderless Irish Sea and island of Ireland as the formula to shift the pressure onto the EU, Ireland included. The DUP as the Brexiteers' foot soldiers, the island of Ireland as the Trojan horse.
For the past week news bulletins and newspapers were dominated by the Brexit story. But within Northern Ireland, two highly significant developments that play into the bigger picture took place. On Tuesday night BBC’s Spotlight transmitted a programme that got little or no traction. It was about the Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry in which the DUP, its leader Arlene Foster and the party’s modus operandi are under severe scrutiny.
Witnesses to the inquiry voluntarily submitted their email and telephone activity to the investigators and the relevant and often controversial information surfaced during the hearings. But Mr Justice Coughlin and his team may now seek a further information trawl, this time conducted by independent experts to supplement what came from the voluntary provision of information.
This may lead to further revelations but it will also take time. It is not implausible that the Inquiry’s final report, expected in March/April could be further delayed - a far from encouraging omen for the resumption of power-sharing at Stormont.
A second significant development relates to the long-planned motorway between Counties Monaghan and Derry. In the absence of a power-sharing, decision-making minister, a Stormont department had sanctioned the construction project but it was being challenged by landowners.
Sensing it might be over-stepping its remit, the department has now pulled back from the project, the legal proceedings become unnecessary as the motorway work is put in cold storage.
Northern Ireland adds to its reputation for procrastination and paralysis.
These two developments feed into the pattern of the DUP as a party locked in the process of blocking, defending, confronting, saying No. Within unionism it has no opposition. The highly influential Jim Allister is a tougher version of the DUP but he is the sole Assembly member if the Traditional Unionist Voice. The Ulster Unionists continue to be an ineffective form of DUP lite.
But if the DUP’s behaviour is spreading the notoriety of the brand, it is taking the party further and further away from power and power-sharing in its own backyard.
One is torn between two Brexit questions: Can you fix Stupid?; Is Have To the Ultimate Master?
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Pick over chickpeas, put them in a large bowl and cover with cold water. Soak for at least 8 hours, preferably overnight.
Put olive oil in a deep, wide skillet over medium-high heat. Add the diced onion, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add the chorizo and let it fry a bit, then turn heat to medium. Add the garlic, pimentón and 1/2 teaspoon of the cumin, and stir to coat. Add the cooked chickpeas and 1/2 cup broth. Bring to a simmer, add the greens and sprinkle with a little salt. Stir to allow the greens to wilt. Put on the lid and cook for 4 to 5 minutes, until greens are completely cooked. Stir well, taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. To serve as a tapa or side dish, transfer to a cazuela or deep serving platter. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon cumin and the pine nuts, if using. Alternatively, to serve as soup, spoon the garbanzo-and-greens mixture into 4 deep soup bowls. Ladle 1 cup heated broth into each bowl, and sprinkle soup with the remaining cumin.
Featured in: The Roaming Chickpea Comes Home To Roost .
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While many tenets of SRE were shaped within the walls of Google, its principles have long lived outside our gates. Many standard Google SRE practices have been discovered in parallel or otherwise been adopted by many other organizations across the industry.
SLOs are fundamental to the SRE model. Since we launched the Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team—a group of experienced SREs who help Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers build more reliable services—almost every customer interaction starts and ends with SLOs.
Here we present two stories, told by two very different companies, that outline their journeys toward adopting an SLO and error budget–based approach while working with the Google CRE team. For a more general discussion about SLOs and error budgets, see Implementing SLOs in this book, and Chapter 3 in our first book.
Evernote is a cross-platform app that helps individuals and teams create, assemble, and share information. With more than 220 million users worldwide, we store over 12 billion pieces of information—a mix of text-based notes, files, and attachments/images—within the platform. Behind the scenes, the Evernote service is supported by 750+ MySQL instances.
Move engineering focus away from undifferentiated heavy lifting in datacenters and toward product engineering work that customers actually cared about. To that end, we stopped running our physical datacenters and moved to a public cloud.
Revise the working model of operations and software engineers to support an increase in feature velocity while maintaining overall quality of service.
Revamp how we look at SLAs to ensure that we increase focus on how failures impact our large global customer base.
These goals may look familiar to organizations across many industries. While no single approach to making these types of changes will work across the board, we hope that sharing our experience will provide valuable insights for others facing similar challenges.
At the outset of this transition, Evernote was characterized by a traditional ops/dev split: an operations team protected the sanctity of the production environment, while a development team was tasked with developing new product features for customers. These objectives were usually in conflict: the dev team felt constrained by lengthy operational requirements, while the ops team became frustrated when new code introduced new issues in production. As we swung wildly between these two goals, the ops and dev teams developed a frustrated and strained relationship. We wanted to reach a happier medium that better balanced the varying needs of the teams involved.
We attempted to address the gaps in this traditional dichotomy in various ways over the course of five-plus years. After trying out a “You wrote it, you run it” (development) model, and a “You wrote it, we run it for you” (operations) model, we moved toward an SLO-centric SRE approach.
So what motivated Evernote to move in this direction?
At Evernote, we view the core disciplines of operations and development as separate professional tracks in which engineers can specialize. One track is concerned with the nearly 24/7 ongoing delivery of a service to customers. The other is concerned with the extension and evolution of that service to meet customer needs in the future. These two disciplines have moved toward each other in recent years as movements like SRE and DevOps emphasize software development as applied to operations. (This convergence has been furthered by advances in datacenter automation and the growth of public clouds, both of which give us a datacenter that can be fully controlled by software.) On the other side of the spectrum, full-stack ownership and continuous deployment are increasingly applied to software development.
We were drawn to the SRE model because it fully embraces and accepts the differences between operations and development while encouraging teams to work toward a common goal. It does not try to transform operations engineers into application developers, or vice versa. Instead, it gives both a common frame of reference. In our experience, an error budget/SLO approach has led both teams to make similar decisions when presented with the same facts, as it removes a good deal of subjectivity from the conversation.
Align teams internally around Evernote SLOs, ensuring that all teams were working within the new framework.
Incorporate Evernote’s SLO into how we work with the Google Cloud team, who now had responsibility for our underlying infrastructure. Since we now had a new partner within the overall model, we needed to ensure the move to GCP did not dilute or mask our commitment to our users.
After actively using SLOs for about nine months, Evernote is already on version 3 of its SLO practice!
Before getting into the technical details of an SLO, it is important to start the conversation from your customers’ point of view: what promises are you trying to uphold? Similar to most services, Evernote has many features and options that our users put to use in a variety of creative ways. We wanted to ensure we initially focused on the most important and common customer need: the availability of the Evernote service for users to access and sync their content across multiple clients. Our SLO journey started from that goal. We kept our first pass simple by focusing on uptime. Using this simple first approach, we could clearly articulate what we were measuring, and how.
This was an uptime measure: 99.95% uptime measured over a monthly window, set for certain services and methods. We chose this number based upon discussions with our internal customer support and product teams and—more importantly—user feedback. We deliberately chose to bind our SLOs to a calendar month versus a rolling period to keep us focused and organized when running service reviews.
We specified a service endpoint we could call to test whether the service was functioning as expected. In our case, we have a status page built into our service that exercises most of our stack and returns a 200 status code if all is well.
Frequency of probe: We poll our frontend nodes every minute.
Location of probers: This setting is configurable; we currently use multiple probes in North America and Europe.
Definition of “down”: If a prober check fails, the node is marked as Unconfirmed Down and then a second geographically separate prober performs a check. If the second check fails, the node is marked down for SLO calculation purposes. The node will continue to be marked as down as long as consecutive probe requests register errors.
Finally, we carefully documented how we calculate the SLO from the raw data we received from Pingdom. For example, we specified how to account for maintenance windows: we could not assume that all of our hundreds of millions of users knew about our published maintenance windows. Uninformed users would therefore experience these windows as generic and unexplained downtime, so our SLO calculations treated maintenance as downtime.
Once we defined our SLOs, we had to do something with them. We wanted the SLOs to drive software and operations changes that would make our customers happier and keep them happy. How best to do this?
We use the SLO/error budget concept as a method to allocate resources going forward. For example, if we missed the SLO for last month, that behavior helps us prioritize relevant fixes, improvements, and bug fixes. We keep it simple: teams from both Evernote and Google conduct a monthly review of SLO performance. At this meeting, we review the SLO performance from the previous month and perform a deep dive on any outages. Based on this analysis of the past month, we set action items for improvements that may not have been captured through the regular root-cause-analysis process.
Throughout this process, our guiding principle has been “Perfect is the enemy of good.” Even when SLOs aren’t perfect, they’re good enough to guide improvements over time. A “perfect” SLO would be one that measures every possible user interaction with our service and accounts for all edge cases. While this is a great idea on paper, it would take many months to achieve (if achieving perfection were even possible)—time which we could use to improve the service. Instead, we selected an initial SLO that covered most, but not all, user interactions, which was a good proxy for quality of service.
Since we began, we have revised our SLOs twice, according to signals from both our internal service reviews and in response to customer-impacting outages. Because we weren’t aiming for perfect SLOs at the outset, we were comfortable with making changes to better align with the business. In addition to our monthly Evernote/Google review of SLO performance, we’ve settled on a six-month SLO review cycle, which strikes the right balance between changing SLOs too often and letting them become stale. In revising our SLOs, we’ve also learned that it's important to balance what you would like to measure with what’s possible to measure.
Since introducing SLOs, the relationship between our operations and development teams has subtly but markedly improved. The teams now have a common measure of success: removing the human interpretation of quality of service (QoS) has allowed both teams to maintain the same view and standards. To provide just one example, SLOs provided a common ground when we had to facilitate multiple releases in a compressed timeline in 2017. While we chased down a complex bug, product development requested that we apportion our normal weekly release over multiple separate windows, each of which would potentially impact customers. By applying an SLO calculation to the problem and removing human subjectivity from the scenario, we were able to better quantify customer impact and reduce our release windows from five to two to minimize customer pain.
A virtual wall between customer and cloud provider concerns might seem natural or inevitable. While Google has SLOs and SLAs (service level agreements) for the GCP platforms we run Evernote on, Evernote has its own SLOs and SLAs. It’s not always expected that two such engineering teams would be informed about each other’s SLAs.
Most service providers manage to the published SLO/SLAs for their cloud services. Working within this context is important, but it can’t holistically represent how well our service is running within the cloud provider’s environment.
For example, a given cloud provider probably runs hundreds of thousands of virtual machines globally, which they manage for uptime and availability. GCP promises 99.95% availability for Compute Engine (i.e., its virtual machines). Even when GCP SLO graphs are green (i.e., above 99.95%), Evernote’s view of the same SLO might be very different: because our virtual machine footprint is only a small percentage of the global GCP number, outages isolated to our region (or isolated for other reasons) may be “lost” in the overall rollup to a global level.
To correct for scenarios like this, we share our SLO and real-time performance against SLO with Google. As a result, both the Google CRE team and Evernote work with same performance dashboards. This may seem like a very simple point, but has proven a rather powerful way to drive truly customer-focused behavior. As a result, rather than receiving generic “Service X is running slow”–type notifications, Google provides us with notifications that are more specific to our environment. For example, in addition to a generic “GCP load balancing environment is running slow today,” we’ll also be informed that this issue is causing a 5% impact to Evernote’s SLO. This relationship also helps teams within Google, who can see how their actions and decisions impact customers.
This two-way relationship has also given us a very effective framework to support major incidents. Most of the time, the usual model of P1–P5 tickets and regular support channels works well and allows us to maintain good service and a good relationship with Google. But we all know there are times when a P1 ticket (“major impact to our business”) is not enough—the times when your whole service is on the line and you face extended business impact.
At times like these, our shared SLOs and relationship with the CRE team come to fruition. We have a common understanding that if the SLO impact is high enough, both parties will treat the issue as a P1 ticket with special handling. Quite often, this means that Evernote and Google’s CRE Team rapidly mobilize on a shared conference bridge. The Google CRE team monitors the SLO we jointly defined and agreed upon, allowing us to remain in sync in terms of prioritization and appropriate responses.
After actively using SLOs for about nine months, Evernote is already on version 3 of its SLO practice. The next version of SLOs will progress from our simple uptime SLO. We plan to start probing individual API calls and accounting for the in-client view of metrics/performance so we can represent user QoS even better.
By providing a standard and defined way of measuring QoS, SLOs have allowed Evernote to better focus on how our service is running. We can now have data-driven conversations—both internally, and with Google—about the impact of outages, which enables us to drive service improvements, ultimately making for more effective support teams and happier customers.
The Home Depot (THD) is the world’s largest home improvement retailer: we have more than 2,200 stores across North America, each filled with more than 35,000 unique products (and supplemented with over 1.5 million products online). Our infrastructure hosts a variety of software applications that support nearly 400,000 associates and process more than 1.5 billion customer transactions per year. The stores are deeply integrated with a global supply chain and an ecommerce website that receives more than 2 billion visits per year.
In a recent refresh to our operations approach aimed at increasing the velocity and quality of our software development, THD both pivoted to Agile software development and changed how we design and manage our software. We moved from centralized support teams that supported large, monolithic software packages to a microservices architecture led by small, independently operated software development teams. As a result, our system now had smaller chunks of constantly changing software, which also needed to be integrated across the stack.
How reliable is your service? Is it built for three 9s, three and a half 9s, or four 9s (or better)? Is there planned downtime?
What kind of latency can I expect at the upper bounds?
Can you handle the volume of requests I am going to send? How do you handle overload? Has your service achieved its SLOs over time?
If every service could provide transparent and consistent answers to these questions, teams would have a clear view into their dependencies, which allows for better communication and increased trust and accountability between teams.
Before we began this shift in our service model, The Home Depot didn’t have a culture of SLOs. Monitoring tools and dashboards were plentiful, but were scattered everywhere and didn’t track data over time. We weren’t always able to pinpoint the service at the root of a given outage. Often, we began troubleshooting at the user-facing service and worked backward until we found the problem, wasting countless hours. If a service required planned downtime, its dependent services were surprised. If a team needed to build a three and a half 9s service, they wouldn’t know if the service they had a hard dependency on could support them with even better uptime (four 9s). These disconnects caused confusion and disappointment between our software development and operations teams.
Define SLOs in the context of THD. Define how to measure them in a consistent way.
Spread the word across the company.
Create training material to sell why SLOs matter, road shows across the company, internal blogs, and promotional materials like t-shirts and stickers.
Enlist a few early adopters to implement SLOs and demonstrate the value to others.
Establish a catchy acronym (VALET; as discussed later) to help the idea spread.
To reduce the friction of adoption, implement a metric collection platform to automatically collect service level indicators for any service deployed to production. These SLIs can later be more easily turned into SLOs.
Establish annual goals for all development managers to set and measure SLOs for their services.
Establishing a common vernacular was critical to getting everybody on the same page. We also wanted to keep this framework as simple as possible to help the idea spread faster. To get started, we took a critical look at the metrics we monitored across our various services and discovered some patterns. Every service monitored some form of its traffic volume, latency, errors, and utilization—metrics that map closely to Google SRE’s Four Golden Signals. In addition, many services monitored uptime or availability distinctly from errors. Unfortunately, across the board, all categories of metrics were inconsistently monitored, were named differently, or had insufficient data.
None of our services had SLOs. The closest metric our production systems had to a customer-facing SLO was support tickets. The primary (and often only) way we measured the reliability of the applications deployed to our stores was by tracking the number of support calls our internal support desk receives.
We couldn’t create SLOs for every aspect of our systems that could be measured, so we had to decide which metrics or SLIs should also have SLOs.
We decided that each microservice had to have availability and latency SLOs for its API calls that were called by other microservices. For example, the Cart microservice called the Inventory microservice. For those API calls, the Inventory microservice published SLOs that the Cart microservice (and other microservices that needed Inventory) could consult to determine if the Inventory microservice could meet its reliability requirements.
Because THD didn’t already have a culture of capacity planning, we needed a mechanism for software and operations teams to communicate how much volume their service could handle. Traffic was easy to define as requests to a service, but we needed to decide if we should track average requests per second, peak requests per second, or the volume of requests over the reporting time period. We decided to track all three and let each service select the most appropriate metric. We debated whether or not to set an SLO for traffic volume because this metric is determined by user behavior, rather than internal factors that we can control. Ultimately, we decided that as a retailer we needed to size our service for peaks like Black Friday, so we set an SLO according to expected peak capacity.
We let each service define its SLO for latency and determine where to best measure it. Our only request was that a service should supplement our common white-box performance monitoring with black-box monitoring to catch issues caused by the network or other layers like caches and proxies that fail outside the microservice. We also decided that percentiles were more appropriate than arithmetic averages. At minimum, services needed to hit a 90th percentile target; user-facing services had a preferred target of 95th and/or 99th percentile.
A service should not indicate an error in the body of a 2xx response; rather, it should throw either a 4xx or a 5xx.
An error caused by a problem with the service (for example, out of memory) should throw a 5xx error.
An error caused by the client (for example, sending a malformed request) should throw a 4xx error.
After much deliberation, we decided to track both 4xx and 5xx errors, but used 5xx errors only to set SLOs. Similar to our approach for other SLO-related elements, we kept this dimension generic so that different applications could leverage it for different contexts. For example, in addition to HTTP errors, errors for a batch processing service might be the number of records that failed to process.
We summed up our new SLOs into a handy acronym: VALET.
How much business volume can my service handle?
Is the service up when I need it?
Does the service respond fast when I use it?
Does the service throw an error when I use it?
Does the service require manual intervention to complete my request?
Since developers were now responsible for the operation of their software, they needed to establish SLOs to demonstrate their ability to build and support reliable software, and also to communicate with the consumers of their services and product managers for customer-facing services. However, most of this audience was unfamiliar with concepts like SLAs and SLOs, so they needed to be educated on this new VALET framework.
As we needed to secure executive backing for our move to SLOs, our education campaign started with senior leadership. We then met with development teams one by one to espouse the values of SLOs. We encouraged teams to move from their custom metric-tracking mechanisms (which were often manual) to the VALET framework. To keep the momentum going, we sent a weekly SLO report in VALET format, which we paired with commentary around general reliability concepts and lessons learned from internal events, to senior leadership. This also helped frame business metrics like purchase orders created (Volume) or purchase orders that failed to process (Errors) in terms of VALET.
We set up an internal WordPress site to host blogs about VALET and reliability, outlinking to useful resources.
We conducted internal Tech Talks (including a Google SRE guest speaker) to discuss general reliability concepts and how to measure with VALET.
We conducted a series of VALET training workshops (which would later evolve into FiRE Academy), and opened the invite to whomever wanted to attend. The attendance for these workshops stayed strong for several months.
We even created VALET laptop stickers and t-shirts to support a comprehensive internal marketing campaign.
Soon everybody in the company knew VALET, and our new culture of SLOs began to take hold. SLO implementation even began to officially factor into THD’s annual performance reviews for development managers. While roughly 50 services were regularly capturing and reporting on their SLOs on a weekly basis, we were storing the metrics ad hoc in a spreadsheet. Although the idea of VALET had caught on like wildfire, we needed to automate data collection to foster widespread adoption.
While our culture of SLOs now had a strong foothold, automating VALET data collection would accelerate SLO adoption.
We built a framework to automatically capture VALET data for any service that was deployed to our new GCP environment. We called this framework TPS Reports, a play on the term we used for volume and performance testing (transactions per second), and, of course, to poke fun3 at the idea that multiple managers might want to review this data. We built the TPS Reports framework on top of GCP’s BigQuery database platform. All of the logs generated by our web-serving frontend were fed into BigQuery for processing by TPS Reports. We eventually also included metrics from a variety of other monitoring systems such as Stackdriver’s probe for availability.
TPS Reports transformed this data into hourly VALET metrics that anyone could query. Newly created services were automatically registered into TPS Reports and therefore could be immediately queried. Since the data was all stored in BigQuery, we could efficiently report on VALET metrics across time frames. We used this data to build a variety of automated reports and alerts. The most interesting integration was a chatbot that let us directly report on the VALET of services in a commercial chat platform. For example, any service could display VALET for the last hour, VALET versus previous week, services out of SLO, and a variety of other interesting data right inside the chat channel.
Our next step was to create a VALET application to store and report on SLO data. Because SLOs are best leveraged as a trending tool, the service tracks SLOs at daily, weekly, and monthly granularity. Note that our SLOs are a trending tool that we can use for error budgets, but aren’t directly connected to our monitoring systems. Instead, we have a variety of disparate monitoring platforms, each with its own alerting. Those monitoring systems aggregate their SLOs on a daily basis and publish to the VALET service for trending. The downside of this setup is that alerting thresholds set in the monitoring systems aren’t integrated with SLOs; however, we have the flexibility to change out monitoring systems as needed.
Anticipating the need to integrate VALET with other applications not running in GCP, we created a VALET integration layer that provides an API to collect aggregated VALET data for a service daily. TPS Reports was the first system to integrate with the VALET service, and we eventually integrated with a variety of on-premises application platforms (more than half of the services registered in VALET).
Register a new service. This typically means assigning the service to one or more URLs, which may already have VALET data collected.
Set SLO objectives for any of the five VALET categories.
Add new metrics types under each of the VALET categories. For example, one service may track latency at the 99th percentile, while another tracks latency at the 90th percentile (or both). Or, a backend processing system may track volume at a daily level (purchase orders created in a day), whereas a customer-serving frontend may track peak transactions per second.
The VALET Dashboard lets users report on SLOs for many services at once, and to slice and dice the data in a variety of ways. For example, a team can view stats for all of their services that missed SLO in the past week. A team seeking to review service performance can view latency across all of their services and the services they depend upon. The VALET Dashboard stores the data in a simple Cloud SQL database, and developers use a popular commercial reporting tool to build reports.
These reports became the foundation for a new best practice with developers: regular SLO reviews of their services (typically, either weekly or monthly). Based upon these reviews, developers can create action items to return a service to its SLO, or perhaps decide that an unrealistic SLO needs to be adjusted.
Once SLOs were firmly cemented in the organization’s collective mind and effective automation and reporting were in place, new SLOs proliferated quickly. After tracking SLOs for about 50 services at the beginning of the year, by the end of the year we were tracking SLOs for 800 services, with about 50 new services per month being registered with VALET.
Because VALET allowed us to scale SLO adoption across THD, the time effort required to develop automation was well worth it. However, other companies shouldn’t be scared away from adopting an SLO-based approach if they can’t develop similarly complex automation. While automation provided THD extra benefits, there are benefits to just writing SLOs in the first place.
Since we were developing an SRE culture at the same time, we found that VALET supported our destructive testing (chaos engineering) automation in our staging environments. With the TPS Reports framework in place, we could automatically run destructive tests and record the impact (or hopefully lack of impact) to the service’s VALET data.
With 800 services (and growing) collecting VALET data, we have a lot of useful operational data at our disposal. We have several aspirations for the future.
Now that we are effectively collecting SLOs, we want to use this data to take action. Our next step is an error budget culture similar to Google, whereby a team stops pushing new features (other than improvements to reliability) when a service is out of SLO. To protect the velocity demands of our business, we’ll have to strive to find a good balance between the SLO reporting time frame (weekly or monthly) and the frequency of SLOs being breached. Like many companies adopting error budgets, we’re weighing the pros and cons of rolling windows versus fixed windows.
We want to further refine VALET to track detailed endpoints and the consumers of a service. Currently, even if a particular service has multiple endpoints, we track VALET only across the entire service. As a result, it’s difficult to distinguish between different operations (for example, a write to the catalog versus a read to the catalog; while we monitor and alert on these operations separately, we don’t track SLOs). Similarly, we’d also like to differentiate VALET results for different consumers of a service.
Although we currently track latency SLOs at the web-serving layer, we’d also like to track a latency SLO for end users. This measurement would capture how factors like third-party tags, internet latency, and CDN caching affect how long it takes a page to start rendering and to complete rendering.
We’d also like to extend VALET data to application deployments. Specifically, we’d like to use automation to verify that VALET is within tolerance before rolling out a change to the next server, zone, or region.
We’ve started to collect information about service dependencies, and have prototyped a visual graph that shows where we’re not hitting VALET metrics along a call tree. This type of analysis will become even easier with emerging service mesh platforms.
Casting metrics in business terms and sharing a visible goal (an SLO!) between product and development will reduce a lot of misaligned expectations about reliability often seen in large companies.
Introducing a new process, let alone a new culture, to a large company takes a good strategy, executive buy-in, strong evangelism, easy adoption patterns, and—most of all—patience. It might take years for a significant change like SLOs to become firmly established at a company. We’d like to emphasize that The Home Depot is a traditional enterprise; if we can introduce such a large change successfully, you can too. You also don’t have to approach this task all at once. While we implemented SLOs piece by piece, developing a comprehensive evangelism strategy and clear incentive structure facilitated a quick transformation: we went from 0 to 800 SLO-supported services in less than a year.
SLOs and error budgets are powerful concepts that help address many different problem sets. These case studies from Evernote and The Home Depot present very real examples of how implementing an SLO culture can bring product development and operations closer together. Doing so can facilitate communication and better inform development decisions. It will ultimately result in better experiences for your customers—whether those customers are internal, external, humans, or other services.
These two case studies highlight that SLO culture is an ongoing process and not a one-time fix or solution. While they share philosophical underpinnings, THD’s and Evernote’s measurement styles, SLIs, SLOs, and implementation details are markedly different. Both stories complement Google’s own take on SLOs by demonstrating that SLO implementation need not be Google-specific. Just as these companies tailored SLOs to their own unique environments, so can other companies and organizations.
1But that’s a story for another book—see more details at https://bit.ly/2spqgcl.
2Training options range from a one-hour primer to half-day workshops to intense four-week immersion with a mature SRE team, complete with a graduation ceremony and a FiRE badge.
3As made famous in the 1999 film Office Space.
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7&11. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the aléatoire club tagged: flower.
This aléatoire wallpaper contains bégonia, begonie, bouquet, corsage, posy, nosegay, camélia, and camelia.
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We've been busy at 7-128 Software, too.
We released our Top 25 Web Sites for Gamers who are Blind this October.
Got a lot of help from folks here on that.
The surprising thing is how much has changed just in 3 months.
The Code Factory in Spain stopped shipping accessible games.
Richard left the Game Accessibility Forum and that's kind of drifting now.
Oh, and the latest issue of Audyssey is dynamite!
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The XLE energy ETF just posted its 10th straight day of gains, its longest daily winning streak since 2006. Some see even more room to run.
"We're high conviction overweight," Mark Tepper, president and founder of Strategic Wealth Partners, told CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Thursday. "You look at these escalating geopolitical risks with Iran and that could lead to oil supply issues down the road, so that's obviously going to add a premium to prices."
Oil prices have been on a tear over the past month as the possibility rose of sanctions against Iran. President Donald Trump announced last week that he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and that he would restore sanctions against the Middle Eastern country. As of Thursday, West Texas Intermediate crude had risen 2 percent since then.
"Look at the difference between oil price appreciation versus the XLE price appreciation," said Tepper. "Oil is up 40 to 50 percent year over year and it's up over 20 percent year to date and we do see an additional 10 to 15 percent upside before the end of the year. Energy stocks haven't done quite as well. The XLE is up 9 percent this year and it's up 17 percent year over year."
Brent crude oil traded above $80 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since November 2014. WTI ended at $71.49 a barrel, levels not seen in more than three years. Friday morning, Brent was at $79.62 and WTI was $71.56. The energy sector is the second-best performer on the S&P 500 this year.
Another long-time energy bull is beginning to lighten his exposure to the sector as investors pile into the space.
"We've been pounding the table on the XLE and the energy space," Larry McDonald, editor of the Bear Traps Report, said on Thursday's "Trading Nation." "The awareness level of the bull case is very, very well known right now. Extreme overbought conditions … so we've been selling shares this week and we're lightening up on your energy position."
The XLE's relative strength index has spiked to above 80, suggesting overbought conditions. A reading above 70 typically separates normal from overbought levels. The XOP S&P oil and gas exploration and production ETF has an RSI of 78.
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Nearly 32 million viewers watched the two-hour coronation of David Cook on "American Idol" on Wednesday -- the show's third-largest finale crowd ever.
The singing derby's biggest finale audience remains the more than 36 million who watched in '06, when Taylor Hicks took the "American Idol" tiara. Ironically, Hicks is widely regarded as the show's least successful winning Idolette.
Next in line is '03, when more than 34 million tuned in to see whether Clay Aiken or Ruben Studdard would become Idol 2, following Kelly Clarkson.
This year's finale clocked about a million viewers more than last year's, when Jordin Sparks beat out Beatbox Boy Blake Lewis for the crown.
Wednesday night's show, which saw David Archuleta finish second, also copped about 19 million more viewers than the night's second-most-viewed program -- the season finale of "Criminal Minds," which had promised fans one of its regulars would get blown up.
More important to Fox, the "Idol" finale's rating among 18-to-49-year-olds -- the hot blond chicks of Madison Avenue -- is virtually on par with last year's, though that puts it at the bottom of the heap among "Idol" wrap-ups. On Wednesday, about 11.4 percent of the country's 18-to-49-year-olds checked out Cook's win.
Overall, it was the second-best Wednesday number for "Idol" this season, behind only the very first one, back in mid-January.
It's a nice way to end the season for Fox, which saw the franchise's numbers hit record lows over the course of its four-month run.
After Tuesday's performance show, a record 97.5 million votes were cast for the Two Davids.
· Fox series "So You Think You Can Dance."
· New flick "The Love Guru."
· Ford Escape Hybrid SUV.
· Upcoming Crosby, Still & Nash tour.
· Donna Summer's new single.
· Bryan Adams's new CD.
· The Jonas Brothers' upcoming tour.
· Upcoming "Tropic Thunder" flick.
· Carrie Underwood's new tune.
· George Michael's new CD.
The "Idol" closeout night marked the end of the 2007-08 TV season, in which, for the very first time, Fox had the most viewers of any network in the country.
Fox also won the official TV season for the fourth consecutive year among those 18-to-49-year-olds -- again, the HBCs o' Mad Ave. This season, Fox took that age bracket by the largest margin of victory (40 percent) since the start of people-meter technology in the 1987-98 TV season.
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Carr, Les A. and Hall, Wendy (1998) The Implications of XML for Open Hypermedia. Submitted to the 4th Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems at Hypertext '98. (Pittsburgh, America).
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We present Four steps that we believe necessary to know before you jump to seek employment.
Second step. From graduate to professional.
Fourth step. Fitness for the post.
First of all... You've changed its attitude?
The new model of labor market needs to change your attitude, you're brave that you try to move you participating and organizing activitiesand acquire knowledge in new skills, better languages and open options beyond your neighborhood and your city.
The European area of higher education implies that the last educational frontier has fallen. Europe is closer to home than you think, so if before one was raised to go to work in another city in Spain now you will have to consider go to work to another city in Europe.
It is what we call internationalization, on the free movement of candidates and employers through the continent.
Starting with this change of attitude, have already given the Primer Paso.
A graduate or entitled person can you consider with your title under his arm. That is fine and will surely make you feel proud and proud of your work.
But the employer it will not tell you anything. If something goes missing in the market they are graduates.
What they really require employers? Professionals.
And this change should be your second step.
Mentalizing you to leave behind the University, books and tutorials, and jump head into the world of professional activities, Exchange forums, interviews, projects and analysis of attitudes. Become a proactive person.
With the passage of graduate professional you put at the head of all those who are still looking for employment feel still "students".
From the University Observatory of labour inclusion of the University of Alicante we offer you a wide range of units and public institutions to be able to go , as well as some practical advice in the area of employment resources.
We're going for parties, as you would Jack the Ripper.. .and for the third step.
First of all, have more success the planned job search processes. Experience dictates little serving throwing resumes at the discretion or show a multi-profile "person for everything". Especially with the current situation, where the employer is looking for conscientious professional that best service can provide.
For this reason we encourage you marques a Career goal. That is, define what you want to work. In this way you can channel your effort best, set your credentials presentation and time to participate in activities that will help you achieve your target.
This career goal determined by the current analysis of the situation of the labour market, the sector or sectors who want to go, and a reflection on your experience and knowledge, experiences, skills, attitudes and interests that you think you have. I.e., it will require a previous work to Autoconocerte .
This self-knowledge as well as determine your career goal will help you to identify your strengths and less strong in the face to a selection process better.
Finally, touch plan and organize the search.
* Use your own methods of organization, such as tabs, excel sheets... Do not forget that information is power.
And we got to the Fourth step.
We must reflect on the training and/or professional experience we need for the job that we choose, and see what we need to achieve it.
Collect everything you can offer as a person, your training or your experience.
It examines the professional profiles required for the chosen profession.
It identifies skills you must acquire to insert yourself into your career goal.
To plan your itinerary and to compare it, you can count on us, as well as participate in activities where you go to meet people who are working in the same field to which you aspire.
You must remember to check it all with your personal characteristics.
And, remember, there are no bad candidates, but no right to the job candidates.
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2019-04-24T16:17:25Z
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https://web.ua.es/en/oil/employment/first-steps-to-employment.html
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Are you a morning person? If so, and you’re blessed with clear skies, the next several mornings are for you. Just look east, the direction of sunrise. You’ll find the moon sliding by three bright morning planets.
From top to bottom, this planetary lineup showcases Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Wake up no later than one hour before sunrise to see the spectacle. Think photo opportunity!
On the morning of February 27, 2019, the waning crescent moon closely couples up with the brilliant planet Jupiter as viewed from North America. Elsewhere around the world, the moon is not as close. From the world’s Eastern Hemisphere – Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand – the moon shines to the west of Jupiter on February 27. For all of us, Jupiter and our companion moon will appear very bright and close enough to make waking up early more than worthwhile.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Steve Pond in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, caught the waning moon and planets the last time the moon moved through this part of the sky, in late January and early February 2019.
The lighted side of a waning crescent moon points east, the direction of sunrise. The planets Saturn and Venus lie to the east of Jupiter, so the lit face of the moon will point toward the other two planets on the morning of February 27. Notice that the planets and moon make a line on our sky’s dome. This line shows you the whereabouts of the ecliptic, or Earth-sun plane. Since the other planets in our solar system – and the moon – all orbit more or less in this same plane, we often see them strung across our sky in this graceful line.
Each morning – in the hour before sunrise – you’ll see the moon farther east relative to this lineup of planets. Watch for the moon to pass Saturn and then Venus, as it makes its way toward the sunrise.
From various parts of Earth, the planets and moon will appear oriented differently in your sky. No matter where you live, though, fainter Saturn will lie between much-brighter Venus and Jupiter. Saturn, by the way, shines as brilliantly as a 1st-magnitude star. Jupiter outshines Saturn by about 11 times. And Venus outshines Jupiter by nearly eight times!
All are bright. If your sky is clear, you’ll be able to see all three planets with the greatest of ease.
After the moon drops out of the morning sky in early March, you can continue to find Saturn in between Venus and Jupiter for several months to come. Day by day, however, Jupiter and Saturn will drift farther west of Venus (opposite the sunrise direction) in the morning sky.
By the way, when we see the moon as a thin crescent in our sky, someone on the moon would see Earth as almost totally full. The sunlight reflected from the nearly full Earth onto the dark side of the moon is called earthshine. Look for its ghostly luminescence on the nighttime side of the moon in the mornings ahead.
Bottom line: A beautiful scene awaits you in the early morning sky. It’s a golden opportunity to see the moon sweep past 3 glorious planets: Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.
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2019-04-19T06:32:45Z
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https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-3-planets-spectacular-before-dawn
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When visiting KICC please enter via the IoA entrance on Madingley Rise where our main reception area is located.
The Institute of Astronomy main entrance is situated on Madingley Rise which joins Madingley Road opposite JJ Thompson Avenue. The map of the KICC site shows available parking.
The main car park is the first entrance on the right after leaving Madingley Road and has about 30 parking spaces.
Additional parking is available (out of office hours) further up Madingley Rise. If you follow the main rise up and round where it turns to the right there is a larger gravel car park to the right (with about 50 spaces) and more parking in front of Greenwich House right at the end of Madingley Rise.
Alternatively parking is available at the Park and Ride, which is less than 10 mins walk away from IoA, along Madingley Road, and also nearby street parking is available along Clerk Maxwell Road.
A disabled parking space is available immediately outside the main entrance.
A citi 4 (or uni 4) bus is the best route from the city centre to the Institute of Astronomy, though the service is infrequent, especially on the return journey later on in the evening. Ideally leave the bus at the stop at the entrance to JJ Thomson Avenue and cross the road to Madingley Rise.
General information about UK train services is available at the National Rail Enquiries website. In general, trains are quicker but more expensive than coaches.
Stagecoach Cambus runs services between Cambridge rail station and the city centre, or take a taxi from the queue just outside the station.
There are regular train connections to Cambridge from London. Trains depart from King's Cross or Liverpool Street stations in London. The journey time of the faster King's Cross trains (Cambridge Cruiser trains) is about 45 minutes, while the other trains are slower and take around 70 minutes, or longer.
Maps of the London underground are available on the TFL website.
London can be reached from Paris or Brussels by the Eurostar train which uses the channel tunnel. You will arrive at London St Pancras International station. King's Cross station is next to St Pancras, so walk to King's Cross and catch a train from there to Cambridge (timetables).
There are frequent coach connections from the centre of London to Cambridge. These depart from Victoria coach station (near Victoria railway station) and take about 2 hours (more in peak hours). Coach tickets can be bought from the driver. Please note that delays are common because of heavy traffic in and around London.
The Cambridge coach station is close to the city centre and there is an adjacent taxi rank.
Long-distance coach services are run by JetLink and NationalExpress. A combined timetable can be found at the National Express website. Stagecoach Cambus runs services in Cambridge and to/from nearby villages and towns.
The University has compiled further information on local bus travel.
This is the closest major airport, about 25 miles (40 minutes by car) from Cambridge. It is well served by airlines flying to European destinations. For flight information contact the BAA Stansted website or contact the airlines directly.
Cambridge is within easy reach by rail, coach or taxi. The railway station is part of the terminal. The services to Cambridge run frequently and take about 30 minutes. The service operates seven days a week, the first train departing at 05:51 (Monday to Sunday). The last direct train to Cambridge departs at 21:18 Monday to Saturday and 22:40 on Sundays.
Many airlines fly to London Heathrow. There is a direct coach service to Cambridge (JetLink 797) which operates every 2 hours at 20 minutes to the hour and the journey takes 2 hours 20 minutes. National Express web site. Another coach (JetLink 787) departs at 20 past every 2 hours but the journey takes 20 minutes longer than the 797 service.
A fast train service, the Heathrow Express, connects the airport with London Paddington station. From there use the Underground to connect with rail or coach services listed above to reach Cambridge. The Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines operate between Paddington and Kings Cross.
We suggest you take the Piccadilly line from Heathrow Airport to Kings Cross. Change to the main line Kings Cross station, from which fast trains depart to Cambridge railway station.
Black cabs outside the airport can be three times the price of a pre-booked taxi.
This airport is located to the south of London.
The Thameslink service (operated by First Capital Connect) from Gatwick Airport to St Pancras is the most efficient way to reach the King's Cross mainline station (which is situated adjacent to St Pancras) and take the fast trains to Cambridge. The Gatwick Airport railway station is accessible from the South Terminal.
We do not recommend travelling from Gatwick to Cambridge by coach. The journey takes about 4 hours.
Some budget airlines (e.g. EasyJet) use Luton airport, which is about 35 miles from Cambridge. No intercontinental flights operate from Luton. Contact the Luton Airport web site for a list of operating companies.
There is no efficient train connection from Luton airport to Cambridge, but there is a coach service (JetLink 787) once every two hours, departing just outside the terminal building. It takes about 1.5 hours to reach Cambridge.
The City airport is located very close to the centre of London. It serves major European cities. See the London City Airportweb site for details. There is a shuttle bus from the airport that connects with the London Underground network.
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2019-04-25T00:26:52Z
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https://www.kicc.cam.ac.uk/events/copy_of_past-events/elgmos/travel
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Sagebrush once covered more than 500,000 square miles of the West. Today, it’s about half that, thanks to development, wildfire, invasive species and poorly managed grazing. The greater sage grouse has been vanishing along with its habitat, which supports some 350 other species, from sage thrashers and pygmy rabbits to sandhill cranes and elk. In response, federal, state and local agencies, tribes and private landowners have collaborated on plans to conserve sagebrush habitat and keep the grouse off the endangered species list (“Little Big Bird,” HCN, 8/17/15).
Now, a new report from the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies says that sagebrush is rapidly losing ground to invasive plants and wildfire. More than 157,000 square miles are infested with exotics such as cheatgrass and medusahead, which crowd out native species and increase fire danger, and lack of funding hinders effective management as well as post-fire restoration. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is rewriting the collaborative plans meant to protect the grouse.
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2019-04-23T12:18:42Z
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https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.11/latest-sagebrush-conservation-efforts-are-failing/print_view
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The Real Housewives of New York City mogul is expanding her BStrong relief org's efforts beyond Puerto Rico.
Bethenny Frankel would never give up on Puerto Rico; The Real Housewives of New York City humanitarian's BStrong group is still providing aid to those affected by Hurricane Maria and its tragic aftermath. But now, she's also expanding her attention to focus on the latest region affected by natural disaster whose people need help: Guatemala. There, the Fuego volcano erupted about 25 miles from the country's capital of Guatemala City. At least 72 are dead and thousands are evacuated.
On her social media channels, Bethenny shared a photo of volcanic ash decimating an otherwise pastoral Guatemalan village, with the hashtag #BStrong, as well as a gallery of images showing the destruction.
She captioned it, "The crisis in #Guatemala is very serious. Over 1.7M people will be affected & casualty numbers are growing. #BStrong is mobilizing as we speak. Visit http://www.bethenny.com/bstrong to donate. To allocate your donation, please write GUATEMALA. #thisisacrisis #globalempowermentmission"
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2019-04-25T06:02:20Z
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https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city/jetset/bethenny-frankel-mobilizing-aid-for-guatemala-through-bstrong-relief-org
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These are perfect edge punches for cards, scrapbook pages and many other craft projects. EK Success slim profile punches powered by the Paper Shapers patented thumb punch lever. Creative engineering makes the squeeze action of punching even easier. These lightweight punches lock shut for stackable storage and are labeled for easy identification. Easily line up your borders - use the template plate on the base of the punch to line up punched images for a punched edge of any length.
EK Success is my new favorite brand for punches. The slim design makes it easy to store; the quality is top-notch; the design is easy to follow which helps keep the paper straight. I like this Open Scallop for any design on cards or scrapbook pages.
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2019-04-25T00:44:44Z
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https://www.scrapbook.com/store/ek-54-40035.html
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Reference
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Using a familiar tool in a way it was never intended to be used can open up a whole new method to explore materials, report UConn researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. Their specific findings could someday create more energy efficient computer chips. But more broadly, their approach should spur scientists worldwide into trying to use this new approach for a wide range of other materials and eventual applications.
The research is based on Atomic force microscopes (AFM), which materials scientists and other researchers use to carefully trace an ultra sharp tip across the surface of all kinds of materials. The tip can ‘feel’ where the surface is, and sometimes can also sense properties like electric and magnetic forces emanating from the material. Then, in the same way a farmer methodically drives a plow back and forth or up and down a rolling field, an AFM can scan the hills and valleys at the surface of a material, developing maps of its holes and protrusions, and even its properties, all at length scales a thousand times smaller than a grain of salt.
Unlike the farmer’s plow, AFMs are generally designed to barely touch the surface in order to prevent damage to the sample (churning up the field). But sometimes it happens anyway.
A few years ago, Yasemin Kutes and Justin Luria, graduate student and postdoc members of UConn materials scientist Bryan Huey’s lab, dug into solar cells they were studying. At first thinking this was an irritating mistake, they noticed that the properties of the material looked different from pictures of the original surface alone. That wasn’t too surprising—for materials used in real-world applications, often the surface is actually engineered to have different properties. Yet before, there had simply been no way to measure such underlying properties with the resolution offered by AFM.
The answers, as Steffes, Huey, and their colleagues report in the highly competitive journal PNAS, are yes and yes. To demonstrate the approach, they dug into a sample of bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3), which is a room temperature multiferroic provided by project collaborator Ramamoorthy Ramesh of UC Berkeley. Multiferroics are materials that support both electric and magnetic properties at the same time. For example, “BFO” is antiferromagnetic—it responds to magnetic fields, but overall does not exhibit a North or South magnetic pole—and ferroelectric, meaning it has switchable electric polarization. Such ferroelectrics usually comprise tiny ‘domains’ that all have similarly oriented electric fields. Think of a whole bunch of tiny batteries, clusters of which are aligned with their positive terminals pointing in one direction, alongside other clusters pointing another direction. These are very valuable for computer memory, because the computer can flip the domains, ‘writing’ data into the surrounding material. These domains can be fine enough to be serious contenders for replacing the enormous market of thumb drives and other solid state memory that is now in every smartphone, tablet, camera, and most computers.
But when a material scientist “reads” or “writes” such data in BFO, they can normally only see what happens on the surface. Yet they really need to know what lies beneath as well—if that is understood, it might be possible to engineer more efficient computer chips that run faster and use less energy than those available today. That’s a very important goal for society—already ~5% of all energy consumed in the US goes just to running computers.
So Steffes, MSE Department Head Huey, and the rest of the team used an AFM tip to meticulously dig through a film of BFO and measure the interior piece by piece. They found they could map the individual domains all the way down, exposing patterns and properties which weren’t always apparent at the surface. Sometimes a domain narrowed with depth until it vanished, or split into a y-shape, or merged with another domain. No one had ever been able to see inside the material in this way before. It was revelatory, like looking at a 3-Dimensional CT scan of a bone for the first time, when you’d only been able to read 2-D x-ray films before.
“The systems we have in the IMS are special in many ways, including one we are now developing to advance Tomographic AFM even further thanks to a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation alongside support from UConn, the School of Engineering, and UConn. But worldwide there are something like 30,000 AFMs already installed. A big fraction of those are going to try Tomographic AFM in 2019 as our community realizes that we have literally just been scratching the surface all this time” predicts Huey. He also thinks more labs will buy AFMs if 3D mapping works for their materials, and some microscope manufacturers in this substantial high-tech industry will shift their focus to volumetric instead of surface scanning.
This entry was posted in faculty, materials science and engineering, microscopy.
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2019-04-25T16:19:08Z
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https://www.ims.uconn.edu/2019/01/28/a-microscope-as-a-shovel-uconn-researchers-dig-it/
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J.P. Riccardi | Wassup Sports!?!?!?!?
Pirates’ shortstop Jack Wilson and P Ian Snell to the Mariners for SS Ronny Cedeno, C Jeff Clement, P Brett Lorin, P Aaron Pribanic, P Nathan Adcock: The Mariners proved everyone wrong when they traded for Gold Glove shortstop Jack Wilson from the Pirates. Seattle, thought to be out of the AL West race and would be sellers, upgraded their team’s defense as well as adding starting pitching depth in Ian Snell. The Pirates on the other hand acquired shortstop Ronny Cedeno, who had been a surprise thus far. The Bucs also got catcher Jeff Clement, who was a top prospect for the Mariners, but struggled mightily in the Majors. The three pitchers just add to the Pirates surplus of prospects, as they build toward a strong future.
Pirates’ second basemen Freddy Sanchez to the Giants for P Tim Alderson: The Giants added another bat Wednesday in second basemen Freddy Sanchez. Luckily for Sanchez, he didn’t have to go far seeing as the Pirates were playing the Giants in San Francisco. The Giants fill a void that they’ve had at second base all year, and build up their offense to take a run at the Dodgers in the NL West. The Pirates get yet another top prospect in P Tim Alderson, as they build towards the future.
Blue Jays’ P Roy Halladay to…..no one: It’s sad when the most talked about deal of the deadline is one that hasn’t been made, and now most likely will not be made. The Phillies acquiring P Cliff Lee yesterday made one thing much clearer, and that is that Roy Halladay will not be moved. The Phils had been the favorite to get Halladay from the start, because they are the only team with the type of young top prospects that absolutely blew GM J.P. Riccardi away. Although, the Phillies were not willing to mortgage their future for Halladay, and got their second choice in Lee, at a much lighter price.
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2019-04-19T14:51:08Z
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https://wassupsports.wordpress.com/tag/j-p-riccardi/
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Arts
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zdnet
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JPFlatTextGadget class is a replacement for TTextGadget class. Now it supports a message on status bar. It can act as a flat-style button like Office 97 and IE4. For Win16 and Win32 target applications. For Borland C++ 5.01 and 5.02 users.
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2019-04-25T05:09:54Z
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https://downloads.zdnet.com/product/2352-75180688/
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Arts
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Computers
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infoplease
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Aleandro, Girolamo jērô´lämō älāän´drō [key], 1480–1542, Italian scholar, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also called Hieronymus Aleander. A principal in the Lutheran crisis, he obtained the condemnation of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms (1521), and he made an outline of policy for the Counter Reformation . His grandnephew Girolamo Aleandro, the younger, 1574–1649, was a humanist, known for his antiquarian studies.
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2019-04-22T06:31:11Z
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https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/religion-phil/catholic-orthodox/aleandro-girolamo
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Reference
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google
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When can baby have juice. Hindu baby boy names starting with s.
350 Calories. Lactose free. Complete, balanced nutrition. Concentrated calories to help gain or maintain healthy weight. Made with real cocoa. Better tasting chocolate! No. 1 doctor recommended (among high-calorie nutritional supplements). Natural and artificial flavor. Easy-open and reclosable. For over 25 years, Ensure has been helping people bridge the gap between what they do eat and what they should eat. Ensure Plus is a source of concentrated calories to help you gain or maintain healthy weight. Use it as a delicious meal supplement, occasional meal replacement or a convenient between-meal snack. An excellent source of 24 essential vitamins and minerals; Zinc, Vitamin C and Vitamin E to help maintain the immune system; Protein to help build muscle tissue; Carbohydrate to provide energy; Folic Acid to help promote growth and development of red blood cells; Antioxidants to help protect cells from damage; Low in cholesterol.
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2019-04-25T12:42:54Z
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https://sites.google.com/site/archiethompsonbigbaby/when-can-baby-have-juice-baby-have-juice/
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The Links in North Hills LI is a luxury homeowner’s association community in Nassau County’s North Shore.
Built in the 1990’s and 4 new structures in 2009, The Links can reached by The Long Island Expressway Exit35S or The Northern State Parkway Exit 27S . Convenient to major roadways and upscale shopping, The Links is situated within The Herricks School District #9. This luxury community of slightly over 200 residences, offers the security of a gated entry, clubhouse, indoor and outdoor pools, gym, tennis courts, racquet ball, library, and catering kitchen with banquet hall. Only approximately 25 minutes to New York City, this is a private established enclave, with mature landscaping and mostly semi-attached residences on beautiful tree-lined streets. According to public records, in 2009 The Links in North Hills had closed sales between $1,200,000 to $1,629,000. Call For Current Pricing 631-805-4400 c).
If you are interested in buying a home in the luxury community of The Links in North Hills Long Island, or any other home or condo on the North Shore, please contact LARRY AND SHEILA at 631-805-4400. Are you looking to sell your present residence? When you list with LARRY & SHEILA we can feature your home on our popular websites. Ask your friends and neighbors about us. Are you relocating to Long Island? We are Certified Relocation Specialists!
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2019-04-19T23:17:47Z
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https://larryandsheila.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/north-hills-lithe-links/
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chicagotribune
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Atari changes mind: Nintendo of America Inc., Nintendo Co. and Atari Corp. said Atari withdrew its appeal of a verdict in favor of Nintendo in an antitrust case. The withdrawal comes with Nintendo`s decision not to proceed with its request to recover certain legal costs from Atari. Atari and its unit, Tengen Inc., filed a $100 million antitrust case against Nintendo in December 1988, alleging that Nintendo monopolized the U.S. home video-games market through the use of an exclusive lock-out chip, punitive licensing agreements and other ''anti-competitive'' practices.
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2019-04-26T01:12:20Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-07-04-9202290702-story.html
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Home of the computer cluster for Silliman, the digital media lab provides both PCs and new Macs for students writing and printing essays, working on online projects, and exploring graphic design and other digital media, including video and sound recordings. The room is large, spacious, and well-lit. Open to all Sillimanders. Email our Digital Media Coordinator, Julie Zhu, for access.
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2019-04-26T12:16:07Z
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https://silliman.yalecollege.yale.edu/spaces/digital-media-lab
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Arts
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Computers
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reuters
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Nine current or former college coaches are among the 50 people indicted in a nationwide college admissions scandal, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday in Boston.
The alleged scheme involved getting students admitted to some of the top schools in the country as recruited athletes — regardless of athletic ability — and helping those applicants cheat on their entrance exams, according to the documents.
He said part of the charges were related to securing admission to elite colleges by bribing coaches under false pretenses.
The documents unsealed from the investigation — called Operation Varsity Blues — showed Tuesday that Yale women’s soccer coach Rudy Meredith is alleged to have helped non-recruits get into the prestigious Ivy League school by claiming they were recruits.
The charges involved 33 parents “who paid enormous sums to guarantee their children’s admissions to certain schools through the use of bribes and fake academic and athletic credentials,” Lelling said.
One of the schemes involved parents paying William Singer, the founder of a college prep business, $15,000 to $75,000 to have someone take the SAT or ACT for their children. He was expected to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon, according to prosecutors at a press conference.
The schools involved — Stanford, UCLA, Wake Forest, Yale, Georgetown, University of Texas, University of San Diego, USC — are not believed to have taken part in wrongdoing. The indictment documents, for example, suggest Meredith accepted funds via a charitable organization and did not report any of the details of the plot to Yale officials, including payments.
Other named in the indictment are current Texas tennis coach and former Kansas tennis coach Michael Center, Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer, former Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst, several USC coaches and UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo.
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among the indicted, according to reports.
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2019-04-20T00:30:45Z
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https://ca.reuters.com/article/canadaSportsNews/idCAKBN1QT29Z-OCASP
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With nearly 80 percent of the Earth covered in water, there are plenty of places to explore from the deck of a yacht. From the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, there are breathtaking places to visit around the circumference of our planet. Yachting in the Mediterranean dates back hundreds of years and many towns along this coastline have a rich history of piracy, explorers and riches. Today these areas combine a mix of natural beauty and history with the glamour of modern European luxury to offer a yachting destination that ranks far above all others. Many argue that it is the Mediterranean that is home to the world’s most uniquely spectacular ports of call that should not be missed by any keen yachtsman.
Nothing can quite beat gently floating up down, cocktail in hand and the sun setting behind you as a Formula 1 car whizzes by on the picturesque landscape. Monaco is the place of the ultimate yachting fantasy – the luxury, wealth and opulence epitomising the break from the mundane that a holiday is supposed to be. Situated in the most famous section of the French Riviera, or the Cote d’Azur, Monaco is well known for its glitz, glamour and celebrity appeal. But this area is also steeped in history and natural beauty.
Monaco is the ideal northern location to begin a yachting charter through the Italian Riviera, but with so much to do in this ancient medieval town an entire vacation can be spent without ever leaving the port. The principality is barely one square mile in total size with the port’s mooring sites close to the shore. Being so small and compact, everything in Monaco is within walking distance, allowing you to come ashore and explore at your leisure. From the Prince’s Palace to the Oceanographic Museum and Botanical Gardens, culture and history abounds in this city and the casinos, tax-free boutiques and elegant restaurants offer an unforgettable nightlife.
Besides its glamorous people, fabulous nightlife and cultural attractions, the port of Monaco has one attraction that is unparalleled by any other yachting location. For two days in late May, the winding streets of Monaco come alive with the roar of engines and the cheers of the crowds. This 78 lap race is a highlight in the Formula 1 calendar and attracts spectators from around the world. The city of Monaco comes alive at this time of year, with parties and festivals accompanying the event. Formula 1 supercars fly through the very streets where you would walk in a truly unique sight. What makes this event even more unique is the opportunity to watch it from the deck of a luxury yacht. Drinks flow and the atmosphere is electric as a community of yachts moor in the port to watch the race, partying well into the night.
Once a small sleepy fishing village, Portofino has now become a favourite port of call for yachtsmen and charters. This is a quintessential little Italian village that, despite being under French rule in the beginning of the 19th century, offers unique insight into Italian life. Originally named Portus Delphini after the abundance of dolphins that congregate in the bay, Portofino was a quiet and unknown fishing village until the 1950s. A triumph of word of mouth, a few people discovered its beauty and the news soon spread, turning the town into a playground for the rich and famous.
Situated in the bay within the Gulf of Tigullio, this port is filled with luxury yachts of every description. Each yacht is overlooked by tall pastel coloured buildings and cliffs that seemingly rise straight out of the sea and are decorated by trailing scarlet bougainvilleas. The sea itself is a rich sapphire colour and offers spectacular delights for both snorkelers and scuba divers. Red coral flourishes in these waters and a little further out, dolphins and whales relax in the surf.
On shore, the luxury of the yachts in the port is mimicked by the upmarket restaurants and shops. Louis Vuitton and Gucci are among the names you are most likely to see and quaint cafes and gelatarias line the harbour side piazza. Sitting back with a cocktail or an ice cream is a great way to spend an afternoon as the glamorous yachts sail by below. The cobble stone streets are ideal for exploration and the town is surrounded by silvery olive groves that add a pleasant aroma to the air. This naturally breathtaking environment includes a national park to the north, where you can follow the paths and trails through miles of beautiful Italian countryside.
The year was 1956 and Bridgette Bardot visited the tiny town of St Tropez to film a little movie called And God Created Woman. The rest, as they say, is history. In peak yachting season, from around April to October, the cobbled streets and patisseries are filled with celebrities and tourists and the port is lined with luxury yachts, literally lined up fender to fender.
Visiting this section of the Cote d’Azur at this time guarantees a glitzy time of beautiful people, good food and unforgettable nights. But it is when you come in the off-season that the real St Tropez shines. With a little more breathing space, it is easier to explore this spectacular stretch of coastline, from the famous Pampelonne Bay in the east which offers over three miles of unspoilt white sand to the quirky back streets filled with delis, boutique shops and cafes.
The Citadel, an ancient fortress, takes pride of place in St Tropez and lovingly protects the colourful fishing houses below. Nothing quite beats sitting on the deck of your yacht, watching the evening lights flicker off the pastel yellows, pinks and oranges of the houses of St Tropez. While in this port, don’t forget to buy a famous pair of Tropéziennes sandals or to sample a slice of Tarte Tropézienne, the cream and sponge cake that the area is renowned for.
Being able to visit even one of these famous ports of call in a lifetime is a privilege, but with a luxury yacht charter, such as the ones offered by brokers like Yachting Partners International, you can see all three. Such a yacht charter company helps you to plan the ideal yachting itinerary that suits your exact needs and interests. Planning a yachting holiday in this way allows you to peruse all the best ports that the Mediterranean has to offer, stopping at each for however long you wish to. A yacht charter company will also organise everything else for you, from the crew to the paperwork, leaving you free to explore Monaco, St Tropez and Portofino at your leisure.
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