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"George Gruhn knows more about guitars than anyone on earth," says Tom Wheeler, former editor of Guitar Player magazine. That knowledge has made Gruhn Guitars the world's most famous vintage instrument store and has brought George Gruhn worldwide recognition as an author of definitive books on vintage guitars, an innovative instrument and string designer, and a primary source for insight into the guitar market -- past, present and future.
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Who will be the Fever's top draft pick?
Who will the Indiana Fever select with its top pick in the WNBA Draft, scheduled for Monday, April 14 at 8:00 p.m. on ESPN2? That is the prevailing question being asked these days when the upcoming draft is mentioned. As always, of course I don't know. But, with the Fever holding the No. 5 pick, I can tell you who will likely be available - and it's an elite, narrow field. We are only days from watching the ...Read more ›

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Robert M. Hart has taught the seminar on Mergers & Acquisitions since 2004. From 1986 until that time, he taught the Securities Regulation II seminar. He is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Alleghany Corporation, a New York based diversified international holding company. Prior to joining Alleghany in 1994, Mr. Hart was Co-chairman of the Corporate Department of the law firm of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in New York, and his practice involved representation of public companies and financial institutions in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public offerings, private financings, development of new financial products and other capital market related matters. He has served on the Federal Securities Regulation Committee of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a member of the American Law Institute.
Mr. Hart received his J.D. in 1969 from Duke University School of Law where he served on the Duke Law Journal and was selected as a member of the Order of the Coif.


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Office of Research & Graduate Studies (ORGS)
The Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine's (CVM) Office of Research and Graduate Studies (ORGS) is a service unit that provides leadership in research administration and graduate education to CVM faculty, staff and students. CVM ORGS is overseen by the CVM Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies.
In the area of research, ORGS helps link faculty with funding opportunities, provides budget support and administrative guidance to CVM researchers during the process of grant proposal submissions, assists investigators in managing research accounts and supports the actual process of conducting and publishing research results.
ORGS provides administrative oversight and direction for CVM's graduate programs. The Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies serves as administrative officer for matters concerning the Veterinary Medical Sciences (VMS) MS and PhD programs and the PhD program in Environmental Toxicology. This includes all aspects of graduate programs from the initial admission process through the student's graduation with a MS or PhD degree.
The links at right provide resources for all CVM faculty, staff and students concerning research administration and graduate education endeavors. If you are unable to find information needed to complete your research or graduate student responsibilities, please let us know.


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With world-class service and many of New Orleans' businesses, restaurants and attractions just minutes away, you'll discover why guests prefer the Holiday Inn Express® Hotel of LaPlace, LA. Our hotel's location, near Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) and at Highway 51 near I-10 and I-55, makes it easy to travel around the region.
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Former US Border Patrol agent and award-winning writer, Francisco Cantú is joined by the best-selling author of McMafia, Misha Glenny to celebrate the release of his debut memoir of his time on the Mexican border, The Line Becomes A River.
Francisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012 working at the crossroads of remote drug routes and smuggling corridors. The job was to track people across a vast terrain, through blistering days and frigid nights. He detained the exhausted, the parched, and hauled in the bodies from where they had fallen. But as a third-generation Mexican-American, Francisco found that the line he was duty-bound to defend began to dissolve. Haunted by nightmares even after leaving the patrol, he found himself drawn back by friendship and plunged into a final confrontation with a world he believed he had escaped.
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Kim Kardashian Talks 'Theraflu' and Kanye West on 'Today'
Kim Kardashian appeared on the 'Today' show on Friday (April 6) where she talked about her relationship with Kanye West, as well as his new song, 'Theraflu.'
The reality show star and the rapper have reportedly been on multiple romantic dates together, although Kardashian hasn't being forthcoming about their budding romance. Yeezy made headlines when lyrics from 'Theraflu' revealed his feelings for Kim K, but when Ann Curry asked about their relationship, Kardashian politely refrained from offering up any details.
"I completely respect and understand that you have to ask these questions," she said. "But I've said before, I mean, Kanye and I have been friends for years. You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me."
We think it's taking you straight to Kanyeville, Kim! The star was careful not to let anything about Ye slip, making us think she underwent some serious media prep before the interview. As for 'Theraflu,' the fashionista only admitted that she likes the song.
Later in the interview, Kardashian opened up about her failed marriage to Kris Humphries, as well as the recent "flour bomb" incident where a PETA activist dumped flour all over the star during a promotional event in West Hollywood.
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A general query system for matching things (accounts, postings, transactions..) by various criteria, and a parser for query expressions.
- data Query
- data QueryOpt
- parseQuery :: Day -> String -> (Query, [QueryOpt])
- simplifyQuery :: Query -> Query
- filterQuery :: (Query -> Bool) -> Query -> Query
- queryIsNull :: Query -> Bool
- queryIsDepth :: Query -> Bool
- queryIsDate :: Query -> Bool
- queryIsStartDateOnly :: Bool -> Query -> Bool
- queryStartDate :: Bool -> Query -> Maybe Day
- queryDateSpan :: Bool -> Query -> DateSpan
- queryDepth :: Query -> Int
- queryEmpty :: Query -> Bool
- inAccount :: [QueryOpt] -> Maybe (AccountName, Bool)
- inAccountQuery :: [QueryOpt] -> Maybe Query
- matchesAccount :: Query -> AccountName -> Bool
- matchesPosting :: Query -> Posting -> Bool
- matchesTransaction :: Query -> Transaction -> Bool
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Query and QueryOpt
A query is a composition of search criteria, which can be used to match postings, transactions, accounts and more.
always match
never match
|Not Query
negate this match
|Or [Query]
match if any of these match
|And [Query]
match if all of these match
|Code String
match if code matches this regexp
|Desc String
match if description matches this regexp
|Acct String
match postings whose account matches this regexp
|Date DateSpan
match if primary date in this date span
|Date2 DateSpan
match if secondary date in this date span
|Status Bool
match if cleared status has this value
|Real Bool
match if realness (involves a real non-virtual account ?) has this value
|Amt Ordering Quantity
match if the amount's numeric quantity is less thangreater thanequal to some value
|Sym String
match if the entire commodity symbol is matched by this regexp
|Empty Bool
if true, show zero-amount postings/accounts which are usually not shown more of a query option than a query criteria ?
|Depth Int
match if account depth is less than or equal to this value
|Tag String (Maybe String)
match if a tag with this exact name, and with value matching the regexp if provided, exists
A query option changes a query's/report's behaviour and output in some way.
|QueryOptInAcctOnly AccountName
show an account register focussed on this account
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as above but include sub-accounts in the account register | QueryOptCostBasis -- ^ show amounts converted to cost where possible | QueryOptDate2 -- ^ show secondary dates instead of primary dates
parseQuery :: Day -> String -> (Query, [QueryOpt])Source
Convert a query expression containing zero or more space-separated terms to a query and zero or more query options. A query term is either:
- a search pattern, which matches on one or more fields, eg:
acct:REGEXP - match the account name with a regular expression desc:REGEXP - match the transaction description date:PERIODEXP - match the date with a period expression
The prefix indicates the field to match, or if there is no prefix account name is assumed.
- a query option, which modifies the reporting behaviour in some way. There is currently one of these, which may appear only once:
The usual shell quoting rules are assumed. When a pattern contains whitespace, it (or the whole term including prefix) should be enclosed in single or double quotes.
Period expressions may contain relative dates, so a reference date is required to fully parse these.
Multiple terms are combined as follows: 1. multiple account patterns are OR'd together 2. multiple description patterns are OR'd together 3. then all terms are AND'd together
simplifyQuery :: Query -> QuerySource
filterQuery :: (Query -> Bool) -> Query -> QuerySource
Remove query terms (or whole sub-expressions) not matching the given predicate from this query. XXX Semantics not yet clear.
queryIsNull :: Query -> BoolSource
Does this query match everything ?
queryIsDepth :: Query -> BoolSource
queryIsDate :: Query -> BoolSource
queryIsStartDateOnly :: Bool -> Query -> BoolSource
Does this query specify a start date and nothing else (that would filter postings prior to the date) ? When the flag is true, look for a starting secondary date instead.
queryStartDate :: Bool -> Query -> Maybe DaySource
What start date (or secondary date) does this query specify, if any ? For OR expressions, use the earliest of the dates. NOT is ignored.
queryDateSpan :: Bool -> Query -> DateSpanSource
What date span (or secondary date span) does this query specify ? For OR expressions, use the widest possible span. NOT is ignored.
queryDepth :: Query -> IntSource
The depth limit this query specifies, or a large number if none.
queryEmpty :: Query -> BoolSource
The empty (zero amount) status specified by this query, defaulting to false.
inAccount :: [QueryOpt] -> Maybe (AccountName, Bool)Source
The account we are currently focussed on, if any, and whether subaccounts are included. Just looks at the first query option.
inAccountQuery :: [QueryOpt] -> Maybe QuerySource
A query for the account(s) we are currently focussed on, if any. Just looks at the first query option.
matchesAccount :: Query -> AccountName -> BoolSource
Does the match expression match this account ? A matching in: clause is also considered a match.
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RICHMOND, Va. – Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores of Virginia, Inc. has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its complaint filed on Sept. 29 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Family Dollar Stores of Virginia, Inc. Civ. No. 3:11cv647 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division), the EEOC charged that Chanele Brown was sexually harassed by her male store manager at the Family Dollar store where she worked in Richmond, Va. According to the complaint, Brown worked as a customer services representative for Family Dollar from Aug. 18 through Sept. 5, 2009. The complaint states that the harassment included the manager groping Brown and propositioning her for sex. The manager also allegedly reduced Brown's work hours during one week and told her that in order to have the hours reinstated, Brown had to let the manager come to her home. Brown refused the manager's request and resigned the next day.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sexual harassment. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
According to the consent decree entered today, Family Dollar agrees to provide each employee working in stores located in Dollar Stores' District 184 copies of the company's anti-discrimination policies and complaint procedures. The company must also provide training to managers and employees on the same. Family Dollar will also post a copy of its harassment policy in its stores within District 184 and will post a notice about the lawsuit in the store where Brown worked.
"Employers are reminded that it is not enough to have policies prohibiting sexual harassment in place, hidden away in a handbook somewhere," said EEOC Charlotte regional attorney Lynette A. Barnes. "Employers must ensure that employees are adequately informed of these policies and of procedures for making complaints about sexual harassment."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Instagram will roll out ads in the next few months, says users will have some control over what's shown.
Ads are officially coming to Instagram, the company announced, putting an end to months of speculation.
According to a company statement, the ads will slowly trickle into U.S.-based users' feeds and will promote brands you may not follow. These ads, which will be both image- and video-based, will first come from only a handful of trusted brands.
"Our aim is to make any advertisements you see feel as natural to Instagram as the photos and videos many of you already enjoy from your favorite brands," read Instagram's blog post. "We want these ads to be enjoyable and creative in much the same way you see engaging, high-quality ads when you flip through your favorite magazine."
Instagram, which celebrated its third birthday last week, was quick to note that you will have some control over the ads you see: If it shows you an ad you don't like, you can hide it and provide feedback about what you didn't like.
Instagram also noted that the inclusion of ads won't affect the ownership of your photos and videos. Last year, Instagram made a change to the app's terms of service that implied that user content could be turned into ads. The company later clarified the language, saying that it did not plan to sell your photos.
Instagram did not say how much its ads would sell for, nor did it disclose any other details about how the initiative would work.
Instagram's ad announcement comes sooner than many anticipated. Last month, Instagram COO Emily White said the company was taking its time to figure out a way to integrate marketing without jeopardizing Instagram's "cool factor." "We want to make money in the long term, but we don't have any short-term pressure," she said, adding that ads would likely come in the next year.
Facebook, which acquired Instagram in April 2012 for $1 billion, announced last month that it, too, was testing a new video feature with a small group of users. When users pause on a video while scrolling through their news feed, the video automatically starts playing. This is similar to how videos on Instagram play.
Because of Instagram's tight affiliation with Facebook, it's likely that Facebook is using Instagram as a testing ground for its future mobile video ads. In July, reports swirled that Facebook planned to sell TV-style ads that would appear in users' news feeds for between $ 1 million and $2.5 million a day. The ads, which are said to be 15 seconds long -- just like Instagram's -- would be targeted to users' interests and demographics. Reports said that Facebook users could expect to see video ads in their news feed up to three times a day.
Originally posted on InformationWeek on October 7, 2013.


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Nigerian court grants U.S. extradition request
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court on Wednesday ordered the extradition of one of its citizens wanted in the U.S. for terrorism.
This month, the U.S. Embassy requested Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi's extradition on a federal indictment charging he provided support to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Court documents said Babafemi, 33, admitted to FBI agents he traveled to Yemen with AQAP members and received $8,600 to return to Nigeria and recruit English speakers to radicalize others. Federal High Court Judge Ahmed Mohammed ordered Babafemi to go to the U.S. to face the indictment against him.
Babafemi, also known as Abdullah Ayatollah Mustapha, didn't contest the order.
"Since there is no form of any objection by the respondent, Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi aka Abdullah Ayatollah Mustapha, to the application for his extradition, this court is satisfied that the application by the Attorney General for the extradition of the respondent to the United States of America is proper and in accordance with the extradition Act 2004," the judge said.
Babafemi remained in the custody of Nigeria State Security Service. The judge ordered that Babafemi be surrendered to U.S. officials within 15 days.
U.S. court documents said that Babafemi traveled twice from Nigeria to Yemen to meet and train with leaders of al-Qaida's branch in Yemen between January 2010 and August 2011. He assisted in AQAP's English-language media operations, which include the publication of the magazine "Inspire."
At the direction of senior AQAP commander Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed Sept. 30, 2011 in a drone strike in the mountains of Yemen, Babafemi was provided with the $8,600 to recruit English speakers from Nigeria to join the group, the papers said. While in Yemen, Babafemi also received weapons training from AQAP.
On February 21, 2013, a grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned a sealed indictment. The charges included conspiracy to provide material support to AQAP, and unlawful use of machine guns.
The Nigerian government started extradition proceedings in July.
The al-Qaida branch claims many terrorist attacks, including the 2009 attempted bombing of a Northwest Airline flight from Amsterdam to Detroit by a Nigerian with explosives hidden in his underwear.
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//build/ today with open source frameworks on Windows Phone 8
Added support for Windows Phone 8 in Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch, Cocos2D, Ogre3D and other open source frameworks.
The cool news for developers keeps on rolling at //build/ 2012. We're thrilled to relay the announcements from a broad range of open source communities that their support for Windows Phone 8 goes live on "Day 1" of the SDK availability, along with other partners. There are several open source frameworks to choose from today.
- Apache Cordova (known as PhoneGap) now supports Windows Phone 8
- The next release of Sencha Touch 2 arrives with added support for Windows Phone 8
- A new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 8 is available
- SQLite can be used to build Windows Phone 8 applications. You can find the bits here.
- Here is a preview version of Cocos2D supporting Windows Phone 8
- Ogre3D on Windows Phone 8
- Trigger.io has been updated to support Windows Phone 8
- SharpDX (an open-source C#/Managed DirectX API for.NET) is now available for Windows Phone 8
- Popular open source MVVM Light Toolkit gets a fresh new version supporting Windows Phone 8. Read the details on Laurent Bugnion's blog
The Windows Phone team and Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. engaged early in the process with open source communities to enable Windows Phone 8 in these popular open source and cross platform frameworks. We provided technical support and information, gave early access to the tools and MS Open Tech contributed code to the Cocos 2D and Ogre3D projects.
The market opportunity just got bigger and easier for all developers with this news. We believe it is important that developers have choices and can reuse their skills and code to build Windows Phone 8 applications.
This added support for Windows Phone 8 in diverse open source and cross platform frameworks was made possible thanks to new features in Windows Phone 8: native C++ programming and Internet Explorer 10 expanded HTML5 support.
Developers who have applications based on these frameworks can publish them to the Windows Phone Store in record time. And this applies to various domains, like gaming with C++ or C# frameworks such as Cocos 2D, Ogre 3D and SharpDX, or cross platform development with HTML5 and JavaScript leveraging Apache Cordova, Trigger.io, Sencha Touch or jQuery Mobile. Developers using popular open source tools and frameworks such as SQLite or GalaSoft MVVM toolkit will also be able to reuse their code and skills.
"Nearly 50% of Sencha customers have expressed interest in building apps for Windows Phone 8 in the next 6-12 months. Supporting Windows Phone 8 is a natural choice for Sencha to enable our customers to build universal apps for mobile devices." - Abraham Elias, CTO Sencha Inc.
Jay Garcia, CTO at Modus Create, and his team are developing a mobile companion application for the game Diablo III:
"Using Blizzard's Diablo III web APIs in combination with PhoneGap and Sencha Touch, we were able to hugely increase the game's fan base because we could build and publish our application to both iOS and Android with the same HTML5 and JavaScript code base. It literally took us a few days to get the same code to run on Windows Phone 8 thanks to this newly added support."
You can read more about Modus Create work to migrate their application to Windows Phone 8 on their blog post.
Craig Walker, CTO at Xero commented on the new support for Windows Phone 8 in Sencha Touch:
"Using web standards-based technologies such as Sencha Touch and Apache Cordova for our mobile accounting software application Xero Touch helped us target a wide range of platforms so our customers could focus on their business, not the underlying technology. Support for these technologies in Windows Phone 8 tools made it an easy Xero Touch build for our dev team, and a smart addition for our customers who need flexibility managing their business on the go."
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., supported the jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch communities to deliver themes that will allow developers to integrate their applications into the Windows Phone 8 user experience.
As Craig Walker from Xero stresses, it is crucial for developers to be able to deliver a seamless consumer experience integrated into the platform. You can see below a video demonstrating the Sencha Touch theme for Windows Phone 8.
Brett Nagy, Technical Director at Microgroove , and his team got a chance to try the Windows Phone 8 tools and the early Sencha Touch support for Windows Phone 8:
" Our apps have been making companies more productive for well over a decade. Sencha Touch support for Windows Phone 8 has made our engineer team more productive by allowing us to easily re-use code from one mobile platform to another.
Within a couple of hours, we had the basic Windows Phone 8 themed version of an existing app without requiring any changes to its JavaScript codebase. Now that producing builds that run on Windows Phone 8 is part of our regular workflow, the next step is to build out functionality that really takes advantage of that platform. Knowing that we can do that in HTML + JS allows us to extend our reach beyond iOS and Android with minimal change to our projects timelines. "
For developers using jQuery Mobile, Sergey Grebnov from Akvelon, who previously published a jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 7.5 is releasing a new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows phone 8. You can see below a short demo of how to apply the theme to a Windows Phone 8 application.
This is the first time so many open source and cross platform frameworks are on board with Windows Phone on the first day of a new SDK version release. It is great to see how much communities are eager to work with Windows Phone.
And today is just the beginning. We want to continue this effort to help open source developers enable their frameworks on Windows Phone 8. It's important for developers to reuse their skills, expand the market opportunity to make money on our devices, and build the next generation of apps. Imagine the possibilities.
Go check out the various frameworks and let us know if you think of other ones you would love to be able to use to build Windows Phone 8 applications.


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Embassy Suites to become independent property with new name
Embassy Suites Lake Tahoe – Hotel & Ski Resort will operate as an independent property with a new management company starting April 1.The hotel, which will be renamed Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel, will be owned by PHR Management Inc., an affiliate of Japan-based Ken Corporation LTD., will assume management. The company will retain the hotel's 220 employees, PHR Vice President Max Saito stated in a press release.Ken Corporation is also planning to invest $5 million to $7 million in property renovations starting in early summer. Saito indicated ownership's confidence in the property, its employees and the long-term prospects and reputation of Lake Tahoe as a leading vacation destination as the impetus for the move, the release stated.John Steinbach, a former executive with the property, will return as general manager, a position he held from 2004 to 2010.The hotel will focus on integrating the guest with the Tahoe environment, said Bill Cottrill, director of sales and marketing since 1998."As an independent hotel we can plan and respond to exactly what our customers want in their Tahoe visit," Cottrill said. "We'll utilize our local partners to enhance the guests' experience. The hotel has four doors and each leads to a unique Tahoe amenity — the beach, skiing, the forest, and entertainment. We'll connect our guests to all the Tahoe lifestyles and all they have to offer."The nine-story all-suite hotel has 400 rooms, 10,000 square-feet of meeting space, and a full-service restaurant and bar. The hotel opened in 1991.Ken Corporation is based in Tokyo with an affiliate office in Los Angeles, Calif. The company specializes in asset management, real estate investment, international real estate, office and retail real estate, property management, and residential leasing.


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June 27, 2012 -- Congress and the White House have reportedly reached an agreement
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For CFA purposes, all you need is a letter signed by all owners of the cat, stating:
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A lease must be recorded with CFA if the owner(s) of record leases a sire or dam to an individual(s) with the intent the registered owner's name(s) be excluded from all transactions during the specified lease period. The lease recording fee ($10.00) and a copy of the lease agreement, including the name and registration number of the cat, name of lessee(s), lease period (from-to) and signatures of ALL registered owner(s), must be sent to CFA prior to or in conjunction with the processing of the first transaction.
If any or all of the registered owners are to be included as lessees on a litter registration, complete the lease section on the litter application form only, it is not necessary to file a formal lease for this purpose (no additional fee is required).
The lease section on the litter application can still be used if the lease doesn't fall into the above scenario. There is no official lease form provided by CFA. If a copy of a lease has to be provided, it is the lease which exists between the two parties.
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Infants who receive sweet solutions before being immunised experience less pain according to new research.
Healthcare professionals should consider giving infants aged 1-12 months a sweet solution of sucrose or glucose before immunising a child, according to a team of international researchers whose findings have been published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Existing research shows the effectiveness of giving newborn infants and those beyond the newborn period, a small amount (e.g. a few drops to about half a teaspoon) of sucrose and glucose as analgesics during minor painful procedures.
Little is known, however, about the effect of such solutions on pain, so a team of researchers from Toronto in Canada, Melbourne in Australia and Sao Paulo in Brazil, funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Knowledge Synthesis grant, collected the findings from 14 relevant trials involving 1,674 injections given to children aged 1-12 months.
They found that giving a child a small amount of sweet solution, compared to water or no treatment moderately decreased crying in the child during or following immunisation in 13 of the 14 studies (92.9%).
The authors conclude that infants aged 1-12 months given sucrose or glucose before immunisation had cried less often and for less time.
The amount of glucose or sucrose given made a difference and the researchers found that infants receiving 30% glucose in some trials were almost half as likely to cry following immunisation.
The researchers could not identify the ideal dose of sucrose or glucose because of the variety of volumes and concentrations used in the various trials.
Analgesic effects of sweet solutions given to older infants were more moderate than those in newborn infants.
They conclude: "Healthcare professionals responsible for administering immunisations should consider using sucrose or glucose during painful procedures.
"This information is important for healthcare professionals working with infants in both inpatient and out-patient settings, as sweet solutions are readily available, have a very short onset of time to analgesia, are inexpensive and are easy to administer."
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I've lost count of the actual number of times Aliens have been pitted against someone in a comic. It's surely enough that it doesn't matter any more, and we can just throw them in the ring against anyone. I mean, if they can fight Batman and Robocop, then surely Master Chief — who fights in space for a living — is on the cards.
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It has been said many times that determination of income tax is based upon an annual accounting period. This concept is fundamental to the administration of our income tax law, but it contains inherent inequities
resulting from fluctuating incomes. The position of a taxpayer with a steady average income is far preferable to that of a taxpayer with alternating profits and losses. Under a strict annual tax year the taxpayer
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Early in the game, as early as 1918, (1) it was recognized that some relief had to be provided for taxpayers receiving fluctuating income
and the concept of net operating loss was introduced into the Act. With varying characteristics net operating losses remained in the Act until 1933 when a period of depression forced its abandonment. They were reinstated in 1939, (2) and in 1942 the concept of a carry-back in addition to a carry-forward was introduced into the Code. (3)
The rules and periods of carry-overs have changed, but the intent has been to provide a method of averaging income over varying periods. In actual operation the net operating loss carry-over and carry-back does not achieve a complete average because of progressive rates and exemptions, but many business lives have been saved by the application of these provisions which made it possible to recover taxes which under the concept of annual accounting would have been lost to the taxpayer forever.
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SugarCEO John Roberts: Why CRM fails, part 1
SugarCRM CEO John Roberts explained why 80% of CRM projects fail and how to reverse the trend, while in part two he described why CRM and Web services aren't a perfect match.
Proprietary customer relationship software (CRM) vendors gave a party, and all the guests left after one drink. Open source CRM can sweeten the user experience and keep CRM launch parties from falling flat, said John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM, in Cupertino, Calif.
In a recent interview, Roberts explained why 80% of CRM projects fail (according to Peppers & Rogers Group) and how to reverse the trend. In part two of this Q&A, he describes why CRM and Web services aren't a perfect match.
Why is the failure rate of CRM projects so high?
John Roberts: Billions of dollars have been wasted on CRM applications because users didn't adopt them.
In my presentations, I ask audiences how many of their companies have CRM. In most cases, 100% of the people raise their hands. Then I ask how many people actually use it on a daily or weekly basis, and only about 20% raise their hands, and even they have sheepish smiles on their faces.
In a lot of cases, companies deploy CRM, and there's a lot of euphoria over it for the first couple of months. Then, people stop using it. They look at it as 'Big Brother' watching them. CRM is sold as a tool to make an organization more effective and efficient; but the end user doesn't see CRM as making them more efficient and effective.
In general, what types of people use or don't use CRM?
Roberts: Typically, the people who actually use CRM are at a desk looking at their computer all day long. They're in one place, and it's easy for the company to train them on the detailed, intricate user interfaces found on proprietary CRM products today.The trouble is, the people who should be using CRM are not those who sit at their computer all day. They're salespeople. They have a different mentality than the person who is using CRM at a desk all day doing routine tasks like order entry. That's where you have this disconnect.
People in the field use CRM for about 15% to 20% of their time, and a lot of times it's voluntarily. They may get reprimanded, but they're not going to get fired for not using it if they're making their numbers.
What's needed to get field workers to use CRM regularly?
Roberts: They need an interface that is easy, efficient and fun to use. It's got to work with the fewest amount of keystrokes. They have a different user experience than the office worker does, and the interface is to appeal to them.
I think there is a lot of work to be done in terms of making CRM applications more intuitive, useful and mission-oriented in terms of providing the info they need to do their jobs better.
How well do business intelligence and CRM work together today?
Roberts: Business intelligence is only as good as the data in the system. Today, too many employees aren't putting their data into CRM. As a result, management didn't get the insights into operations that they'd hoped to get.
If your employees use CRM more, they'll create meaningful data to which you can connect business intelligence tools.
A year from now, there will probably be five to 10 open source business intelligence tools that will be comparable to the proprietary ones on the market today. They'll provide meaningful alternatives to proprietary-based intelligence platforms.
Why does SugarCRM build on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) stack?
Roberts: We wanted to build the fastest user interface on the planet. We decided to go with the LAMP architecture, which is an open, user-friendly open source language. Shipping a million lines of C++ isn't really useful for in-house developers. If you ship a million lines of Java, that's somewhat useful. PHP, however, is a mature scripting language that people are not afraid of. It's capable of supporting very large implementations and generating very rich user interface experiences. It's also extremely fast in the way that it renders, and it runs on pretty much every platform out there.
The LAMP stack works well on top of the service-oriented architecture for a large deployment. In some cases, it adds functionality to use the J2EE [Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition] infrastructure underneath LAMP.
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Fear1412 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
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iThanh is an online social hub for posting questions and getting answers. The targeted audiences will be students, professionals, hobbyists, and designers. Our functionalities and usage will be much similar to the site http://www.stackoverflow.com part of stackexchange (except their design), which can be seen as the most active Q&A website now.
The target audience will be students, professionals, hobbyists, and designers. These audience will most likely use the website to search for keywords, post the questions, and eventually share their questions via Facebook so that their family & friends can contribute to our Q&A community.
We want our business to have a modern, cool, "creative" and web 2.0 feeling. We will also be 100% ads-free to keep the site clean. What we mean in "creative" is that, you can greatly improve over the boring and old-style designs of typical Q&A sites. Be something different!
I know it can be challenging, but I believe you can do it!
We are a big fan of minimalism design style because it will simply draw attention to important parts without any unnecessary texts or boxes.
For a questions / answers site, we believe that too much texts is a common problem. Thus, minimalist type design is suitable.
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• Boring or old style designs
Please don't waste everyone's time and copy designs from templatemonster or any other website. We only want unique designs and true designers!
There may be the opportunity for further work for the winning designer - make us fall in love with your design!
The home page should have the following:
• Top links with these titles: Log-in (can be a drop down), FAQ, About, Contact
• A search box
• Logo (you can use text logo "ithanh.com" for now)
• A navigation menu with these titles: Questions, Tags, Users, Ask Question
• Large font text
• The body content includes list of most popular questions.
• Each question should have a prominent title. Each question should show the tags associated with it. Each question should display its statistic info: how many views, how many answers, how many votes. Each question should display the user (with his / her thumbnail photo) who asks the question. (please see http://www.stackoverflow.com for quick reference)
• Footer can include some basic links to Facebook and Twitter for now.
From this homepage, we will then use the general layout & button / header / colors/ icons/ text styles as website's theme.
Unfortunately, we have no favorite designs among those Questions & Answers current sites. Their content are really good, especially stackoverflow.com, but not their design. In other general sites, we love the following designs:
http://www.tumblr.com/ - very ELEGANT. The log-in screen is simply awesome. Not related to our website function, but you get the idea.
http://www.thememagazine.com/ - another well-themed website, beautiful menu
http://clearleft.com/ - minimalist, very elegant navigation menu
http://us.battle.net/en/ - super-cool. I love the top right log-in menu, and the search box.
http://www.chamainc.com/ - another minimalist. Looks comfortable, even with lots of texts.
http://getfinch.com/ - modern and clean design.
http://stackoverflow.com/ - this is my favorite Question & Answer site, the functionality is pretty much what we want for our site too, but please try not to get influence from their design because honestly, their design is lame.


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Ukraine's striker Andriy Shevchenko is rated a doubt to face England in Tuesday's crunch Euro 2012 Group D match due to injury.
The former Chelsea player was on Sunday ruled out of Ukraine's penultimate training session because of a knee problem. A Ukraine football association spokesman said: "Andriy suffered a kick to his knee during the second half against Sweden and then another kick in the same area against France.
"He is unable to train today and I would say he is doubtful for Tuesday. He has seen the doctor and is now having treatment. We hope he can still take part but I repeat, he is doubtful."
If Shevchenko is ruled out it will be a blow to his side's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the European Championship for the first time. The 35-year-old Dynamo Kiev striker may be at the veteran stage of his career, but he scored both goals in his side's 2-1 win over Sweden.
Shevchenko has also featured in all four previous meetings with England, stretching back to May 2000. England are currently second in Group D, level on four points with the leaders France, while the tournament's co-hosts Ukraine have three points.


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There's a format war going on, in case you've not turned on the TV, surfed the Internet, or stepped into a consumer electronics retailer for the past year and a half. But some news that has emerged from a couple of trade shows this week shows that the "war" is more like a slap-fight between a couple of preadolescent girls: it holds great significance to the parties involved and may be slightly entertaining to watch, but it does very little lasting damage.
Over the last couple of days, the North American HD DVD Promotional Group has sent out press releases trumpeting the format's momentum. HD DVD is going to start advertising on NBC's Sunday Night Football and will soon have 125 new HD DVD titles available. The trade group has also convinced PC manufacturer Acer to join and is highlighting a new Acer laptop (the Aspire 5920) with an HD DVD drive at this week's CEDIA EXPO 2007.
At the same expo, both Sony and Toshiba gave presentations on the strengths of their preferred formats. Sony played up Blu-ray's two-to-one sales lead over HD DVD when it comes to discs sold so far. Sony also says Blu-ray has 55 percent of the next-gen HD player market, compared to 43 percent for HD DVD and 2 percent for hybrid players. But if you take a closer look at the images snapped of Sony's charts by AnandTech, you can see a rather disturbing trend for both Blu-ray and HD DVD.
From their peaks at the end of 2006, both formats have seen a rather precipitous sales decline. According to Sony, Blu-ray sold nearly 70,000 discs per week during the last weeks of 2006. But by mid-May, the last week for which Sony provided data, that had slipped to less than 35,000 per week. HD DVD saw a similar decline, but not as steep, going from around 43,000 discs to a bit more than 20,000. At one point towards the end of April, sales of Blu-ray and HD DVD discs were in a virtual dead heat.
Toshiba blew HD DVD's horn as well. The HD DVD backer pointed out that the format has a 62.7 percent market share… for PC drives. Toshiba also pointed to some market research it conducted that showed consumers were more than twice as likely to buy an HD DVD player than they were a Blu-ray player. One problem: a majority were undecided.
Data source: Toshiba
Across the Atlantic, a panel at the International Broadcast Conference in the Netherlands discussed the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray. One panelist says that both formats could be in trouble if a clear winner doesn't emerge soon. "The longer the confusion exists for mass market consumers, they will want one format," said Jim Bottoms, cofounder of Understanding & Solutions, according to EETimes. "If the market does not have a one-format solution within 18 months, the consumer will start to turn away."
Other panelists weren't as pessimistic as Bottoms. One estimated that the format war will still be going strong in 2011, when the US will see a 60/40 split between Blu-ray and HD DVD, but with only 40 percent of US households owning an HD disc player of any sort.
Both parties are doing whatever they can to convince consumers to vote with their wallets. Blu-ray scored a couple of victories via agreements with Target and Blockbuster, while HD DVD scored a major coup by convincing Paramount to drop Blu-ray and embrace HD DVD. There has been some serious price-cutting, too, with the first sub-$200 (but 1080i-only) HD DVD soon to launch.
Despite their best efforts, there is still a lot of uncertainty on the part of consumers, and right now, Blu-ray and HD DVD are fighting over a very small piece of the hardware pie. Sales of DVDs and DVD players still dwarf those of both next-gen formats combined: the DVD of Happy Feet sold over 4 million copies during the last week of March, which is almost twice as much as the total next-gen disc format sales since their launch over a year ago. It's a vicious cycle for the next-gen formats: sales won't grow significantly because of consumer uncertainty, that uncertainty won't lessen until there's a clear winner, and a clear winner won't emerge until sales of one format are significant enough to bury the other.


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Lately, there have been a string of news articles regarding animals imitating human speech sounds. First, there was an account of the nine year-old beluga whale named NOC who was recorded making unusually low, clipped bursts of noise. Then, today, news from the University of Vienna was reported of an asian elephant named Koshik using his trunk to imitate Korean words. Koshik does attempt to match both the pitch and timbre of the human voice, though the researchers doubt there is any meaningfulness to his phrases beyond an attempt at social affiliation.
The more interesting aspect of NOC's speech is that, unlike the dolphins that are trained to imitate human noises or computer generated whistles, it is the first recorded spontaneous imitation of human speech. Similarly, the marine animals previously studied were raised primarily in captivity. NOC is not only a wild beluga whale, but his speech was also recorded in the wild. The study, published in Current Biology, can be found here (only the abstract is available for free).
Sam Ridgway, Donald Carder, Michelle Jeffries, Mark Todd. Current Biology – 23 October 2012 (Vol. 22, Issue 20, pp. R860-R861)
Angela S. Stoeger, Daniel Mietchen, Sukhun Oh, Shermin de Silva, Christian T. Herbst, Soowhan Kwon, W. Tecumseh Fitch. "An Asian Elephant Imitates Human Speech." Current Biology, 2012; DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.022


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UK fatties demand 'hate crime' status for lardo-baiting
German study shows 'overweight' BMI perfectly healthy
Woebegone British swingbellies have launched a campaign against anti-lardo "hate crime" and discrimination, even as a survey of possibly gutbusting Germans has revealed that being "overweight" is actually not a health hazard.
The British flab-lib campaign is reported today by the BBC, which quotes Kathryn Szrodecki - described elsewhere (and pictured) by the Beeb as "a full-figured woman firm in her belief that to be big is not to be bad" as saying that the long-belted community face a grim life of discrimination and abuse in Blighty.
"I have been discriminated against - I am a YMCA qualified fitness instructor, but I have gone for jobs and been laughed off the premises," the rotund campaigner told the Beeb.
"I have been punched, I have had beer thrown in my face," added globular persecutee Marsha Coupe. "They say 'Move out of the way fatty!'"
"Someone being beaten up should be a crime," commented Szrodecki.
Meanwhile in Germany, most people are judged "overweight" by the famously unreliable Body Mass Index (BMI) method. Top Teutonic boffin Matthias Lenz of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Natural Sciences of the University of Hamburg decided to look into this, compiling 42 different German health studies together to find out if being in the "overweight" BMI range (as opposed to "ideal" or "healthy") had any negative health consequences.
According to Lenz and his co-authors, being "overweight" (BMI 25 to 30) "does not increase death rates" at any age range, though being "obese" (BMI of 30 or more) does.
Regarding less serious outcomes than death, being "overweight" means an increased risk of heart trouble, but a decreased risk of bone and hip fracture. "Overweight" German men even had a slightly lower risk of dying from cancer.
In summary, the German study-of-studies found that "overall mortality is unchanged by overweight, but increased by 20 per cent by obesity, while extreme obesity raises it by up to 200 per cent... an increased morbidity and mortality risk has been confirmed for being underweight".
The results appear to chime with a recent study out of Canada which showed that being "overweight" was actually somewhat healthier than being "ideal" in terms of lifespan. Being "extremely obese" or "underweight", as in Germany, was a bad idea.
The German study can be read in full here (English pdf).
Meanwhile the UK porker campaigners are demanding San Francisco-style anti-fatscism laws, designed to prevent lardos being unfairly denied housing or jobs. In the UK there is currently no special legal protection for fatties as there is for those persecuted on religious, ethnic or sexual grounds. ®
Full disclosure: The author is 6'3" and 16 stone, ie one of the overweight. He feels able to survive in today's hefty-hating climate without special legal protection, however; though the memory of being refused a place as cox of a ladies' rowing team many years ago still stings.
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New Orleans and Indianapolis fans rejoiced Saturday as both hometown teams advanced to NFL title games in landslide fashion, crushing the competition to get one step closer to the Super Bowl.
The Saints tidily packed up the Arizona Cardinals in the first half of the evening, sending the defending NFC champion Cards home with a final score of 45-14 to advance to the NFC finals.
Drew Brees and Reggie Bush were in top form during te game, as Brees threw for three touchdowns and Bush scored on an 83-yard punt return and a 46-yard run, the Associated Press reported.
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"So much for being rusty," Saints coach Sean Payton told the AP. The Saints will host their first NFC title game in franchise history when they face the winner of Sunday's Dallas Cowboys/Minnesota Vikings matchup.
The second game of the night saw Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts crush the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl dreams with a 20-3 victory that sent the Colts to the AFC title game after a bye week.
The Colts, who own the best record in the league, overcame their "bye-week curse" to trounce the Ravens, building up a score of 17-3 by halftime.
Manning, a 4-time NFL MVP award-winner who picked up his latest honor this season, threw for two touchdowns Saturday.
The Colts will face either the New York Jets or the San Diego Chargers in the AFC finals.


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Signing out of my online account at my bank, I was just shown this ad boasting a package of benefits for the bride and groom. Now my bank knows my age, and knows I'm single – so I guess the Jewish urges took over and they just figured it's about time they asked: "Aren't you going to get married? I'm not getting any younger"
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– A gift of 360 Israeli Shekels
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– A wedding timed deposit
– VIP wedding checks depositing
– Waiver on all service charges
– Attractive mortgage terms


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Goodguys Truck Show - Make The Charlotte Scene
Goodguys 14th Southeastern Nationals
As part of our jobs here at CLASSIC TRUCKS we have to-or get to rather-travel across the country to cover events to share with all of you. It seems that we rarely have a chance to go all the way across the country with so many of the shows being located in the Midwest. Well, this time I got to fly practically all the way to the other side of our fair continent late last October to the 14th Annual Goodguys Southeastern Nationals at the Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina-my first trip this far South.
It's hard to realize sometimes that in a mere five hours on a plane you can be 2,500 miles away in a "whole other world", so to speak, especially coming from the hustle and bustle/concrete jungle of Southern California, but it's nice to get away! I enjoy visiting parts of the country I've yet to traverse as well as checking out the landscape, the culture, meeting new people, and of course, the food!
Goodguys shows always manage to pull in plenty of entries from surrounding areas as well as droves of spectators, rain or shine, thanks to their reputation. Unfortunately, Friday put this to the test with plenty of late October rain soaking the Lowes Motor Speedway, but that didn't stop the crowd armed with umbrellas and ponchos, in both storebought and improvised versions.
I did make use of the rainy weather later on to go visit a few nearby shops. First stop was Fatman Fabrications where at long last I had a chance to meet everyone who holds down the fort that I've only talked to on the phone, while Brent, aka The Fat Man, is out on the road as a vendor at large shows like Goodguys. I also talked my way into a tour of the grounds and checked out firsthand how all their products are made and engineered.
My next stop was to Dennis Carpenter Reproductions and it was a good thing I had my walking shoes on! Reading any of Dennis' catalogs gives you a pretty good idea that they know their stuff and make quality products-enough so that Ford gives them licensing for many of them. Actually seeing in person what goes into making this possible; however, is astounding. From all the weather stripping machinery to the building where huge multi-ton presses bang out things like stainless hubcaps, using the original Ford machines no less, the tour was eye opening. To top it all off, Dennis has his own museum on the property that's open to the public and is filled with more cool stuff than you can shake a stick at. From vintage Fords, motorcycles, pedal cars, signs, scooters, and plenty of stuff I missed I'm sure, it's a must for anyone in the area.
The rain cleared out by the time the show started on Saturday and soon there were around 2,000 entries filling the center of the Speedway along with a pretty decent swap meet. There was also the ever-popular Air Ride Autocross track where you run-what-ya-brung through a course outlined in cones, you are timed, and have the whole weekend to best yourself, a friend, or maybe even a friendly stranger.
All in all, the show was a success and a good opportunity for me to meet many of our readers on "that" side of the country as well as see lots of "new to us" iron. Get ready for the Goodguys '08 show season by logging onto www.goodguys.com to find out about event locations, dates, as well as past award winners and more. See you out on the road!


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Really good jazz....
Tjoe is a fine young guitarist from the Hong Kong Jazz scene.
Truly a great performer combining fresh ideas and traditional jazz vocabulary.
Come and hear him with Pierre Veniot and discover how experience and youth
are two facets of musicality.
Pierre's musical endeavour started in 1965 when he played first clarinet in the school stage band in Montréal. He was soon noticed for his persistance and his great musical sense. He then follow a path that brought him to study private with various teachers and later on went to McGill university as a jazz performance major. His musical carreer really started in 1975 when he did many appearances on local television as a sideman for many local canadian artists.
In the '80s he did his first album with a group called Agharta which was featured in the first ''Festival International de Jazz de Montréal'', a jazz–fusion band very much influenced by Weather Report. Agharta toured in many jazz venues in Quebec.
After Agharta he formed a group called ''Jouga'' with percussionnist Michel Séguin (Van Morisson, Don Alias). In the '90s as a musical director, he created a world-beat group called ''Anoosh'' which featured armenian singer/percussionnist Raffi Niziblian. The group toured in Europe and played in the prestigious '' Womad '' world of music and dance festival founded by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Brooman. Anoosh produced an album in 1992 and received a Juno Awards (canadian grammy!) nomination as best world-beat album. Pierre then participated as a freelance musician in many blues and R&B cover bands and finally teamed up with Jean-François Fabiano (Gato Barbieri, Jean-Luc Ponty) to form the ''World Unit'' composed of many of the finest world-beat and jazz mucians in Montréal, this group made an apparition on ARTV tv show called ''New World Symphony''
In 2007 Pierre produced and realised ''Storias'' a really modern acid-jazz oriented album.
With the group ''Storias'' he played in many venues in Montréal.
Since 2008 Pierre's has been mostly working as an arranger/composer for various artists:
Choirs, singers, theater, dance companies and instrumentists combining a fresh approach to arranging and a mastering of music softwares.
Now established in Hong Kong were he really wants to participate artistically to the effervescence going on in this wonderful city by playing and creating new projects with local musicans. He would also love to bring his vast experience to the profit of Hong Kong young musicians. '' Music is applied philosophy '' he likes to say.'' You can express nice principles and values but in music, as a musician or a teacher, you make them happen''
Come and hear Pierre play in a solo performance where all his talent and vast experience will make you feel, ''the joy of sax''
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As a follow-up to our Press Release this week about the 2nd quarter 2007 Junk Mail Report it appears we have created some discussion about Baby Boomers and who exactly is in this demographic and why are they one of the most targeted groups of shoppers.
According to Brent Green from www.marketingtoboomers.com and Author of "Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers", Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964, the youngest being 43, the oldest being 61. Our over 65 group is usually referred to as the Silent Generation or G.I. Generation.
When we wrote the article we were looking at our entire demographic of over 45's, which includes the Baby Boomers and Silent Generation and makes up for 63% of consumers who were polled in our survey report this past quarter.
In our surveys we are seeing a definite increase in the numbers in these age groups and Brent very studiously points a few reasons why.
He says that the Baby Boomers are a group who actually fueled the growth in the Direct Mail industry in the 1970's… " The reality is that Boomers are among the most direct mail responsive of all demographic groups. Nobody likes "junk mail," but well targeted mail is a delight to most Boomers who, for example, fueled the growth of the catalog industry from the mid-1970's onward."
He also says that "Busy Boomers love catalogs, as long as those catalogs dovetail with their shopping and lifestyle preferences." and "The influential over-50 segment has $2 trillion in annual spending power and today controls 50% of all discretionary income. Even more staggering is an unfolding demographic truth: more than 30 percent of Americans will be over 50 by 2010". So what does this say about the direction of Direct Mail industry? Are we in for a dramatic increase in the amount of junk mail we receive?
At stopthejunkmail.com we want to help these demographic groups define their preferences more clearly and in turn help catalogers more directly market to the groups of individuals who actually want to receive a specific type of direct mail. In general we get far too much direct mail we do not want and immediately throw it out. According to our report nearly 60% of our consumers polled throw it out before the day is up. They walk from the mail box to the recycling bin and don't even open the catalogs in a lot of cases.
I myself love catalogs because my life is so busy with kids and work, but I only like to receive the ones I prefer to shop from. I have used stopthejunkmail.com to achieve this in my own household. In actual fact I greatly prefer to find a catalog company online for shopping purposes. Why bother with paper when it is all online. Our survey actually shows that 41.1% of consumers polled would rather shop online too.
Brent also has an important point about getting in your car to shop at the mall, a further waste of resources getting there and, "…have you considered that retail shopping also creates a carbon footprint…" I do agree but what about supporting our local businesses and towns city taxes? These valuable $'s go towards creating more parks, schools, bike trails, etc… Can we not create a balance between the two?
Stopthejunkmail.com tries to empower the general consumer, including the Baby Boomers and Silent Generation, to do their part for the environment in any way we can. We do not want consumers to stop shopping all together, we just want to create a balance between the marketers and the shoppers.


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Making Sense of Email Clients: Desktop and Mobile
Here's the Lowdown: You want to easily access and manage your email from your computer and your mobile device, but the technical setup can be confusing. This article attempts to simplify the need-to-know information about SMTP settings, ports, and getting started with common email clients and/or mobile devices using IMAP, POP, or Exchange.
What's the difference between IMAP, POP, and Exchange?
Each of these email protocols operates on a web-based system to transfer messages from a server. In addition, each one supports most, if not all, email clients. So, no matter what email client you choose, you can access your email on a remote server.
IMAP supports both online and offline account access. It provides advanced sync features, and lets you view and manage messages without removing them from the server. Therefore, any changes you make are saved and reflected from all locations.
The POP protocol lets you read email messages without a constant Internet connection. POP downloads the messages from your server to your local computer or phone. While you can save a copy of the messages on your server, changes made from the local device are not saved on the server.
The Exchange ActiveSync® protocol provides a robust syncing tool for all of your email, calendar, contacts, and other communications between your desktop, mobile device, or Internet connection. With your Hosted Exchange Email account and your Exchange ActiveSync-enabled phone, you have secure access to communications from anywhere.
Note: For easy and safe access to your email accounts, IMAP is recommended. If you are a small business or need access to more than just email, Exchange provides the highest level of communication and syncing.
See Setting up Your Email with IMAP or Setting up Your Email with POP for general instructions, or see below for specific client setup instructions.
Note: To ensure that a copy of your email messages is left on the server, you can modify the settings of your email client.
How do I Set Up Email with my PC?
The following information provides instructions for setting up your email account with popular PC email clients.
Setting up your POP or IMAP email address in:
- Microsoft Outlook. Set up your POP or IMAP email address in Microsoft Outlook in moments. To start, from the E-mail Accounts menu, select Tools.
- Mozilla Thunderbird. Set up your POP or IMAP email address with Thunderbird in a couple of clicks. To get started select Account Settings from the Tools menu.
How do I Set Up Email with my Mac?
The following information provides instructions for setting up your email account with popular Mac email clients.
Setting up your POP or IMAP email address in:
- Outlook 2011. You can setup your POP or IMAP address with Microsoft Outlook. It takes just a few minutes, so follow this link to learn how.
- Apple Mail. Setting up your IMAP account with Apple Mail is a snap. Start by selecting Preferences from the mail menu.
- Mozilla Thunderbird. Set up your POP or IMAP email address with Thunderbird in a couple of clicks. To get started select Account Settings from the Tools menu.
How do I Set Up Email with my Mobile Phone or Device?
The following information provides instructions for setting up your email account with popular mobile phones or devices.
Setting up your POP or IMAP email address in:
- Any Mobile Phone. Set up a POP or IMAP account quickly with your mobile device of choice. To get started, create an account with your mobile phone.
- iPhone. Our help article makes setting up IMAP on your iPhone easier than ever.
- Android. Quickly and easily set up your POP or IMAP address to work with your Android Mobile Device. On your Android, from the Home screen, tap the gray Application button.
Note: Access your POP or IMAP mobile email through mobilemail.secureserver.net or mobilemail.domainname.com, where domainname is your domain name.
SMTP Troubleshooting
SMTP email problems are among the most common. While these problems are typically easy to find and fix, they often cause the most headaches for email account management. The first step is to identify the error or problem. Then, you can research the possible solutions and get back to emailing.
If you are unable to send email, you should:
- Verify your SMTP and account settings including the User Name and Password. See What are the SMTP Relay settings for my email client? TIP: The User Name is the full email address associated with the account.
- Make sure that your Firewall, AntiVirus, and ISP are not blocking the ports. Our SMTP server, on WIFI, is limited to the ISP's restrictions, so you may need to modify your port settings as indicated here.
- Check the bounceback information here and here. There are several reasons that a message might get bounced back. If there is a link in the error message, follow it to find and resolve the problem.
In addition to the above list, see What do I do if I have trouble connecting to my email? for more troubleshooting help.
Note: Many mobile service providers use their SMTP server port as a default. In most circumstances, this doesn't need to be changed.
Note: As a courtesy, we provide information about how to use certain third-party products, but we do not endorse or directly support third-party products and we are not responsible for the functions or reliability of such products. Apple Mail® and iPhone® are registered trademarks of Apple. Outlook® and Exchange®, are registered trademarks of Microsoft. Thunderbird® is a registered trademark of Mozilla. All rights reserved.


text: Indie film producer Megan Ellison has just bought the rights to the Terminator franchise. Annapurna Pictures (Ellison's company) will team up with director Justin Lin and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rumor has it they can make "at least two more" Terminator films, wrapping up the saga of Skynet, before the rights revert to James Cameron. [Deadline]