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The ability for visitors to quickly find products is crucial for any ecommerce site. Certainly, if a visitor is unable to locate a product, they won't purchase it. We have attempted to determine how site visitors navigate and locate products on a site, utilising category and home page navigation.
Throughout our testing, we noticed that site visitors would frequently leave sites, since they weren't able to quickly locate the items they were seeking. Within this article we will examine several helpful guidelines that will assist you with e-commerce usability.
When your category hierarchy only consists of headers and labels, it often does not meet user's expectations and it can force them into sections that are narrower than they want, which limits their ability to explore your products by browsing.
To make your subcategory choices both scannable and manageable, it's important to group them properly in drop-down menus. Most sites do this, but on a number of the sites we tested, the categories in drop-down menus were text labels, and not clickable links. This did not meet the expectations of most visitors who were expecting that they would be able to be clicked.
The majority of site visitors had the expectation that all of the headings would be clickable and frequently attempted to click them in spite of a cursor indicating that they were not clickable. Site visitors had a desire to maintain a broad range of products with the anticipation that they would land on a page displaying a group of subcategories that would be of assistance to them in choosing a scope that was more defined, instead of a page with product listings. To support site visitor's product exploration it is crucial that you make your product hierarchy consist of parent categories and not provide text labels that are shallow. By doing this you make it easier for site visitors who have not completely decided what they desire or who are looking for purchasing inspiration by viewing broad categories prior to narrowing their search.
On sites that had headings that were parent categories that were selectable, visitors frequently relied on them to get an overview of a complete category. They then went on to decide which subcategories to choose.
This guideline should not be limited to only drop-down menus, since it is applicable to any hierarchy representation of categories. For instance, it could be applicable to categories that are shown in a sidebar.
Site visitors will frequently become confused when a subcategory would logically fit under more than one parent categories, but it is only present in one.
Depending upon the specifics of your site, you may have some subcategories that site visitors may expect to show up in several parent categories. For example, some site visitors may look for a kitchen table in both the "Tables" and "Kitchen" sections.
Ideally it is best to design top-level categories that have no ambiguity. However, this is not practical at all times. Consequently, in order to avert the usability issue of users being unable to locate a subcategory where they expected it, it is best to place the sub-category in more than one parent categories.
When implementing this functionality, there are two ways to proceed. One way is to place the subcategory in the taxonomy of the site and then link to it from several parent categories. The site visitor would jump immediately to their desired category regardless of the access point.
Another choice is to duplicate categories so each one of them constitutes a unique entry into the hierarchy of the site. The difficulty with this approach is its technical complexity. All of your products need to be consistently tagged across numerous duplicated subcategories. In addition, this implementation makes it a necessity to set up canonical pages to avoid duplicate page penalties from search engines.
Oftentimes, users will want to know what new products your store is offering, without needing to browse through products they have viewed in the past. Many visitors who are experienced with a brand or site and already have a good concept of the product line want to find out what is new on the site.
A new product category that is filter-based is an excellent addition to aid returning visitors, making it easy for them to identify new product arrivals. It is often helpful to make "new products" a filter, as opposed to having a separate category. This helps site visitors to find the new products that are in various categories.
Accessories, substitutes and alternatives to a product being viewed by a visitor are often difficult for the visitor to find in the absence of cross-selling and upselling on a product page.
Cross-selling and upselling will increase your sales, and when you implement them properly, they can increase the usability of your site as well. Having supplementary product suggestions works well for site visitors seeking accessories to a particular product, and the suggestion of products that are similar is helpful for visitors who are seeking product alternatives.
If a visitor lands on a product page and that product does not quite satisfy their needs, they will either abandon their search on your site or seek alternatives. Fortunately, the majority of site visitors have some degree of patience and choose to seek alternatives. However, if finding these alternatives is problematic, they will exit your site.
Finding a product again that was viewed previously can be needlessly complex when a user is forced to navigate categories again to locate the product.
Site visitors frequently want to return to products they visited in the past for a variety of reasons. However, the most frequent reason for returning is to re-examine product features and pricing while they are engaged in comparison shopping.
For a variety of reasons, visitors frequently want to find a product that they viewed previously. However, on sites that don't feature items that were recently viewed, they were only able to do this by searching for it again or repeatedly clicking the back button of their browser.
Site visitors find it difficult to locate products that are compatible with the one they are viewing and verifying that it is in fact compatible when a site does not specifically list products that are compatible or link to them.
Locating a cell phone carrying case may seem like a trivial task, however, it became quite difficult for visitors to many sites and their completion rate was only 35%. This indicates that two thirds of the site visitors gave up, or bought a product that they thought was compatible, but in actuality, it was not.
Locating compatible accessories may be tough. This is why you need to suggest both supplementary and alternative products on each product page, in addition to listing products that were recently viewed. If most of the accessories in the industry you are in are strictly compatible with certain products, then having entire pages that display compatible products may be beneficial.
Determining the compatibility of products in an e-commerce site offering thousands of product can be a large task. However, by using intelligent queries for every category that is compatibility-dependent, a significant portion of the work may be automated.
There are numerous benefits of compatibility determination. In addition to giving users the ability to vertically browse across categories, it gives you the ability to generate powerful filters. It is also helpful for SEO, since compatibility lists may be presented as pages in your site, providing you with a number of unique and targeted landing pages for every product.
Site visitors experience frustration when they see a product displayed within a contextual image and are unable to navigate to the product.
Although compelling images can certainly enhance the aesthetics of an ecommerce site and be a style-based path of navigation, the absence of a direct link to products that are displayed in your images will be a source of frustration to site visitors.
During our tests, site visitors were perplexed when a site did not have a direct link to products from their associated images and they were forced to search for them in order to buy them or learn more about them. This served to harm their perception of a site.
Images have a tendency to garner the attention of site visitors. When a visitor is searching for a product they will often scan the images on a page for any items that appear like the product they are seeking. Consequently, images should always be linked to their associated products, even if you have an image that is meant only as an inspiration for the products you are depicting. Site visitors are still likely to take notice of additional products shown in the image, particularly if they are in the midst of an active search for those types of products.
If a product is not currently being sold, then it should not be displayed. At times this can be problematic since images sometimes display products that were available when the image was created but are not currently available. Sometimes, creating a new scene that depicts multiple products is not feasible. In these cases, the product link should be replaced with a product description.
In an era when customers are accessing e-commerce sites with increasing frequency via social media and search engines that sometimes cause them to land deep into the hierarch of a site, enabling visitors to understand where they are positioned within the hierarchy and to easily navigate to the parent category is crucial. Even when visitors use the on-site search, they will be dependent upon the category taxonomy to understand the range of available products.
When a site visitor cannot find a product, it has the potential to damage your brand since they will infer that your site does not carry these products. This can lead to an immediate sales loss and future sales losses as well, since a visitor won't visit a site that does not have the products they are seeking. Even though you may actually carry the products they desire, in the eyes of the visitor, you do not, since they were unable to find them on your site.
Regardless of the time and effort spent on site aesthetics, landing page optimisation, and product images, the overall experience of the customer will fall flat if you do not have a solid category taxonomy.
Designing navigation that is category-based is not a simple job. It requires an excellent information architecture, logical hierarchy, systematic labelling, well thought out design of the home page, and curated pages for subcategories.
It is not possible to cover all of this information in this type of article, however the guidelines we have listed are a good start toward enhancing the usability of an e-commerce site.
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Ryan Hearnshaw and Olivia-Tegan 'Libby' Bond are an award winning cosplayers, who create the duo that is Corvidae Cosplay Emporium. Between Ryan and Libby they design, create and build custom costumes and props for a variety of clientele as well as representing companies & developers at numerous events, portraying characters through their hand made and articulate cosplays.
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Replacing the thermostat on Yamaha's F115 requires little more than opening a cover, removing the old thermostat and replacing it with the new one. One problem you might encounter, putting the thermostat and relief valve in backward, is resolved by taking careful note of the way the retiring thermostat and relief valve, sometimes called the poppet valve, are seated. Installing the thermostat and relief valve incorrectly causes the thermostat to remain closed and bar the passage of cooling water to the motor.
Locate the thermostat housing on the top-front of the starboard side of the powerhead. Remove the flywheel cover. Remove the five bolts and the gasket sealing the thermostat cover with a 1/4-inch socket.
Tap the outside edges of the thermostat cover using a rubber or plastic mallet, to loosen the cover's seal. Lift the cover from the powerhead. Remove the old thermostat and relief valve, noting the direction in which each is installed.
Set the new thermostat and the relief valve into the openings beneath the thermostat cover.
Ensure all traces of gasket and sealant material are removed from the cover and the mating surface on the powerhead by gently scraping both with the edge of the blade of a utility knife. Install a new gasket around the thermostat cover and apply a bead of gasket sealing compound to the gasket.
Thread the five bolts that hold the cover back through the cover and into the powerhead. Tighten the bolts alternately and evenly to 60 inch-pounds with a torque wrench
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Banana Republic's Bold Floral Maxi Dress
The second I saw this maxi, I knew I had to try it on. I love a good maxi dress, especially one that I can wear to work too! This print is so pretty…mix of different blues, oranges, greens…with pops of white. It's actually polyester, but feels silky. But that also means there is zero stretch, which is not ideal, but it has a beautiful flow to it when you walk. It's almost sold out online in the white version, but they have a lot of the blue color. Banana always has sales…so if you just watch, I'm sure you can score this for 40% off or more. I have a Banana card and got it for 50% off and used rewards. 🙂 And I scored tons of compliments when I wore it – an added bonus!
Dress – Banana Republic Bold Floral Maxi; Shoes – Coach Rosemary Floral Rivets (last season, but just scored at the Rack), Jacket – Big Star (old, but similar); Watch – Rolex; Tory Burch Fitbit bracelet; Lagos (old) and David Yurman bracelets; Earrings – Stella & Dot (old); Ring – Lagos


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If you lock a heroin addict in a room with heroin, you shouldn't be shocked if he overdoses. If you give unlimited license to Wall Street speculators, whose only function is to make as much money as possible, you shouldn't be surprised when the result is greed on steroids, reckless behavior and a disaster for ordinary people.Now we all wait to see whether the bizillions of dollars being spent by Wall Street to influence the Congressional debate on reform will prevail. As President Obama said,
What I don't want is a deal made that is written by the financial industry lobbyists; we've had enough of that."Enough, indeed. Enough that the vast majority of Americans believe that we must regulate Wall Street. But here's the problem: we Americans still worship the rich. We think the rich are smarter or better or at least luckier and happier than the rest of us. We want to be celebrities or sports stars or win the lottery or American idol to be like them. And we cannot have real reform when we simultaneously believe that greed is good. The answer to this contradiction lies not so much in the economic reform debate going on, but in another, more quiet movement for economic justice. The answer is to send some of the Wall Street fat cats to jail for their crimes against the people. And believe it or not, there is some movement afoot to do just that. A variety of Congress members are asking the Department of Justice to consider a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs. I realize sending fat cat bankers to jail is probably just a fantasy. And I'll admit that it is not the first time I have engaged in fantasy when it comes to the politics of the US. During the Bush years, when war became peace, lies became truth, greed was good and evil was necessary, I fantasized that Dubbya would be impeached and that his evil puppet master Dick Cheney would actually go to jail for crimes against humanity. In fact, I called then Congressman Sanders office on a weekly basis to suggest that my Congressman sign onto the impeachment protocols (he eventually did, but not because of me). [daylifegallery id="1272556119867"] But despite some real effort to bring the Bushies to justice, it all disappeared in a puff of bright HOPE and CHANGE and an exhortation from a new President to "move forward." Bye bye impeachment fantasies. Which was fine because I had new fantasies to dwell upon. In these fantasies, our representatives don some green tights and learn some serious archery skills. That's right- Robin Hood reps put those reckless, greedy Wall Street fat cats behind bars, taking their ill-gotten booty, and redistributing it to the very Americans whose riches the bankers had stolen (through usury, exploding interest rates, and other forms of infamy). And yet, deep down in my fantasy-laden subconscious, I know that truth and justice rarely occur in the real world. In other words, I'm crazy, but I'm not crazy enough to believe the bankers will be punished. And yet, there is a letter signed by more than 60 lawmakers to the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs. Spearheaded by Representative Marcy Kaptur, (D-OH), and containing more than 140,000 signatures from American citizens (a campaign spearheaded by Move On), the letter ends with these lines:
We in Congress stand ready to support you in protecting the American taxpayers from financial crimes such as the fraud that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goldman Sachs with committing. We ask that you take up this case, and others, to pursue justice for the American people, to put criminals in jail, and seek to restore the integrity of our nation's financial system.Ah, now that would be a fantasy come true.


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jriley wrote:I shot a large pano (344 images). Things look very strange on import into Autopano. After consultation on the other forum with Alexandre Jenny, he showed me that it appears that I failed to set the "HOME" location in Papywizard. Because of the position of the head when turned on, the pitch of all of the images is very close to the nadir, so they all appear to be basically stacked on top of one another.
I am looking for a way to rescue this without having to actually go into the xml file and edit every single pitch value by hand. Anyone have a good idea to help me?
The thread with pictures, files, etc., is at http://www.kolor.com/forum/t13842-import-wizard-failure
jriley wrote:The only thing with running a simulation is that it won't be the exact same positions as where the head actually went, but I guess it would be close enough.
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Captive tigers purebred ancestry raises their conservation valueApril 18th, 2008 - 2:15 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 18 (ANI): A new report has determined that many captive tigers held in captivity around the world represent purebred subspecies and harbor genomic diversity no longer found in nature, which may raise their conservation value.
The report, published online in Current Biology, used a new method for assessing the genetic ancestry of tigers.
Tigers in general are disappearing rapidly from the wild, from over 100,000 in the 1900s to as few as 3,000 last year.
By contrast, captive tigers are flourishing, with 15,00020,000 individuals worldwide, outnumbering their wild relatives between five and seven to one.
According to Shu-Jin Luo, of the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, US, Assessment of verified subspecies ancestry (VSA) offers a powerful tool that, if applied to tigers of uncertain background, may considerably increase the number of purebred tigers suitable for conservation management.
This approach would be of particular importance to tiger subspecies that have suffered severe population decline in the wild and/or lack of efficient captive breeding, said Luo.
For example, the Indo-Chinese tiger has been classified as a different subspecies from the Malayan tiger, leaving just 14 recognized Indo-Chinese individuals in captivity.
Thus, verification of VSA Indochinese tigers, establishment of captive breeding programs, and preservation of remaining Indochinese tiger populations in the wild should be set as one of the top priorities in the global tiger conservation strategy, said Luo.
A relatively small portion of the worlds captive tigerssome 1,000 individuals in allare managed through coordinated breeding programs that aim to preserve genetic variability representative of geographic and subspecies groupings found in the wild.
The rest are of hybrid or unknown origin and are kept in zoos, farms, breeding facilities, circuses, and private homes.
Scientists have long debated the role that captive tigers might play in conservation efforts.
To address the issue in the new study, the researchers developed a strategy for assessing the subspecies affiliation of tigers on the basis of diagnostic genetic markers obtained from 134 voucher tigers.
They applied the method to samples from 105 captive tigers from 14 countries collected over 20 years. Of those, 49 individuals were found to represent one of five purebred subspecies, or VSA. The rest of the tigers had mixed backgrounds.
According to the researchers, if 1423 percent of the over 15,000 existing captive tigers would prove to be VSA, the number of tigers with pure subspecies heritage available for conservation consideration would considerably increase. (ANI)
Tags: captive breeding, captive tigers, chinese individuals, chinese tiger, circuses, conservation management, conservation strategy, conservation value, current biology, genetic variability, indochinese tigers, luo, malayan tiger, national cancer institute, population decline, tiger conservation, tiger populations, tiger subspecies, top priorities, vsa


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Spring Vanilla Buttercream Raspberry Cupcake Recipe
Spring is in the air and winter is officially over. That means we can tuck away our winter coats and bring out our beautiful, flowery spring dresses. But besides all the bloom, it also means having to enjoy fruity flavored cupcakes like fresh strawberries, blueberries and of course, raspberries! So I started hunting the internet for spring flavored berry cupcake recipes for me to share with you and I came across Cannelle et Vanille Raspberry Cupcake recipe post. Her photos made this delicious recipe look Uh-Mazing! So amazing that of course I had to share her work and recipe with you:
Don't they look delicious?! The original recipe was adapted by the Magnolia Bakery Cookbook, but this post was inspired by Canelle et Vanille blog post. You could find this delicious Raspberry Cupcake recipe here.


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Happy ducks and happier hunters
SHUEYVILLE– Since 1911, Delta Waterfowl has been committed to preserving the future of waterfowl and waterfowl hunting. For a year now, the Hoosier Bay Chapter has been organizing and making plans for the future of local waterfowl and hunting, specifically in their namesake Hoosier Bay, located south of Ely in the Atherton Wetland.
The group with around 30 members is headquartered in Shueyville and covers a 50-mile radius.
Chapter founder Jeremy Stolba started a word-of-mouth campaign to organize after realizing that, despite having several conservation groups in the area, there was very little being done locally to preserve and improve wetlands. Ducks Unlimited, for example, has several chapters in the Cedar Rapids area alone, but most of their money goes to projects elsewhere in the state other areas of the country.
"The money we raise stays local," said Zach French, a Hoosier Bay member. "A lot of local chapter dollars go out the door, but doesn't come back. With Delta, there is a concentrated interested in keeping the bucks local."
"We wanted to concentrate on this (the east side) side of the reservoir in the Atherton Wetland," Stolba added.
The Atherton Wetland is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land leased by Kirkwood Community College. Jerry Reisinger, an instructor in the college's Parks and Natural Resources program, said Kirkwood uses nearly 600 acres of the wetland as an outdoor laboratory for its students. "The students apply their conservation and wildlife management skills on this land, including wetlands development, prairie establishment and maintenance, wildlife habitat development, trail construction and maintenance, and wildlife research and studies." The area is named after the late Steve Atherton, a conservationist and longtime Parks and Natural Resources professor at Kirkwood. "He was a lead college instructor and strong advocate for the program for more than 25 years," said Reisinger.
The college plans to increase wetlands by planting literally thousands of wildlife habitat trees, shrubs and other prairie species. The college works closely with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Corps of Engineers, Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS, through the Dept. of Agriculture), and other private conservation organizations to make improvements to the land, Reisinger noted.
The Hoosier Bay Chapter has entered into a partnership with Kirkwood to help with the effort. The group will begin working with the college this spring, and both Stolba and Reisinger are optimistic about what the joint venture could bring.
"Delta Waterfowl is a natural and perfect fit for what Kirkwood plans to do with the land, much of it creating and managing wetlands for more abundant waterfowl. The fledgling Hoosier Bay Chapter plans to provide assistance in the form of waterfowl management expertise, funding and labor to make our dreams become reality," said Reisinger. The group hopes to help with predator management (skunks, raccoons, coyotes, foxes, otters and minks), and build nesting houses for ducks to increase their population. "Kirkwood took on the Atherton Wetlands project with the intent of getting the job done largely with students who need opportunities at real life experiences," said Reisinger. "We simply couldn't do it without students and organizations who believe in the project and want to help."
The bottom line is "there's more ducks out there," said French. The Atherton Wetland is open to the public, with much of it open to hunting and trapping during designated seasons unless otherwise posted. The state's hunting and fishing laws apply at all times.
Providing additional hunting opportunities is part of the Hoosier Bay Chapter's goal for the area, as is instilling and developing in kids the ethics of hunting, hunter safety and respect for the outdoors. In Stolba's case, he has been a hunter since he was a kid, even taking up bow hunting while in high school. He went duck hunting once with a friend and was hooked for life. Now a parent, his son Dain, age 13, is following in his footsteps. Dain has also taken up duck calling, traveling the region to compete in tournaments. Stolba said his son, and the sons of other hunters, inspired him to form the chapter and try to make a difference.
"Nobody does anything around here (to improve the wetlands). It's depressing taking a kid out, and the area is a dump." Stolba said there seems to be more duck hunters than there are places to hunt. "A lot of duck hunters have nowhere to go."
"Its desirable to create more places to hunt," said member Mark Groth. It's also desirable, he said, to instill a culture of courtesy and respect not only among adult hunters, but especially in kids like Dain. The way to do this, Groth said, is to "set a good example, take them out often, and make it a good experience for them." The group also hopes to participate in the Corps of Engineers' Youth Day this fall to further interest kids and help develop the next generation of duck hunters and outdoor enthusiasts.
More immediately, though, is the chapter's first banquet, a gathering which hopefully will become an annual event. The banquet is set for Friday, Feb. 22, at the Cedar Rapids Horseman's Club at 11818 Club Rd., just north of Shueyville. The doors open at 5 p.m. with a general raffle, game raffle, silent and live auctions. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. and will be catered by Phat Daddy's. A variety of vendors will also be on-hand at the event, a feature French said was something a little bit different from most banquets.
Tickets start at $50 for singles, $65 for couples. The first youth ticket is $25 and each additional kid gets in for $10 each. A 50/50 raffle will also be held with tickets at $5 each and 500 sold. To purchase tickets or to find out more about the chapter, contact Jeremy Stolba at 319-521-4860 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The sums are a pittance — spare quarters and dimes, perhaps less in some cases — left behind on the unwanted MetroCards tossed to the station floor.
But add a few together, the thinking goes, and a downtrodden rider might have enough for a swipe. Combine a few more, and perhaps a job seeker who is homeless can find his way to a few interviews.
And if there was a means to recover all of the more than $50 million in unused balances wasted annually by New York City's transit riders? Then, Zachary DuBow thought, he would really be onto something.
So Mr. DuBow, 24, a consultant and recent New York University graduate, founded the Next Stop Project, in February. He would collect discarded MetroCards, ask station agents to aggregate the remaining balances into full-fare cards, and distribute them to needy residents — ideally partnering with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to gather the forgotten passes.
"Transportation is overlooked relative to food or health care," he said. "But people need it to access those resources."
In recent weeks, though, Mr. DuBow has found himself in an unexpected tussle with the transportation authority over the spare change. The authority has barred him from placing card-collection bins in stations and from soliciting card donations there in any way.
The agency could not condone the project, officials told him, because any money that the authority finds on MetroCards, however negligible, must be reported to the state, to comply with laws on abandoned property.
Reminded that the authority would not be collecting cards itself under Mr. DuBow's plan, an agency spokesman would not address how the laws applied in this case, or how they could be used to prevent Mr. DuBow from soliciting cards in the system. (Licensed charities are often eligible to operate in subway stations. The Next Stop Project has not yet applied for tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service.)
But officials noted that Mr. DuBow's plan could lead to a revenue loss for the authority if prospective riders were given cards to cover fares that they might otherwise have paid themselves.
The authority's stance, combined with a newly instituted $1 surcharge on the purchase of new MetroCards, has threatened to stymie Mr. DuBow's work before it even begins in earnest.
Though he has already donated dozens of full-fare, round-trip cards to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in Chelsea, much of Next Stop Project's money has come from cash donations from his friends and relatives and from himself, not aggregated cards.
"I do some collecting," he said of foraging for cards, "but I'm trying to do it more efficiently."
The authority has estimated that $52 million a year in unused balances is left on cards.
Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, a rider advocacy group, said he struggled to understand the authority's position.
"If it was Christmas, you'd call them Scrooge," Mr. Russianoff said. "It's not like they're allowing people to get illegally into the system. They're just taking money off the floor."
Mr. DuBow said he would like the transportation authority to take a longer view; he argued that helping homeless New Yorkers travel to job interviews in the short run will create more paying riders over time.
Richard Trifiro, the counseling services manager at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, said visitors often had to travel to distant corners of the city to retrieve benefits, seek counseling or be evaluated for a possible shelter placement.
Last week, Mr. DuBow arrived at the soup kitchen with a heap of round-trip cards, which would soon join the other stashes — condoms, toothpaste and deodorant — stowed away in containers in a small office.
"Forty cards," Mr. Trifiro said. "Jackpot."
Before connecting with Mr. DuBow, Mr. Trifiro said, the soup kitchen relied primarily on a typed statement, which the city's destitute were told to show to station agents in the transit system.
"They currently have an important transportation need that we are unable to provide for," the note reads, above a signature and phone number from the soup kitchen. "Any help that you are able to offer in allowing them the ability to use public transportation today would be so greatly appreciated."
Mr. Trifiro said that the authority's workers had rarely allowed for free rides.
"They don't want someone who's going to go down there and sleep on the train," he said. "That's about half of our clients who look like that."


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Ethernet (10/100), Token Ring and Telephone Testing with one Tool
The LanMaster 30 Outlet Identifier provides LAN/Telecom Installers and Maintainers a tool to quickly test an unknown wall outlet and identify the type of circuit. Connecting equipment to an unknown outlet can damage NICs, modems, telephones or test equipment that do not have a compatible electrical interface.
Some PBX systems can provide voltage and current levels that far exceed the limits of telecom or network devices resulting in equipment failure when connected. Knowing the type of signals present at an outlet not only protects against equipment damage, but also reduces troubleshooting time finding physical layer problems.


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Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
Title: Evaluation of EOL/used cell phones management & disposal alternatives: An ANP and balanced scorecard approach
Arvind Jayant is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Head, Department of Disabilities Studies, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Deemed University, Longowal, Punjab, India (Established by MHRD, Govt. of India). His research area expertise includes Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics & Simulation of Manufacturing System. He has published more than 100 research papers in International/national journals. He has completed three sponsored research projects of Rs. 10 Millions funded by MSJE, MHRD and CSIR. He is the members of different professional bodies like ISTE, ISME, IWS, IIE (USA), IACSIT (Singapore), IAEngg. (Hongkong). He had visited USA, Japan, England, Nepal and Singapore
Sustainable remanufacturing of mobile phones must meet the challenges of continuously falling prices for new phone models, short life cycles, disassembly of unfriendly designs and prohibiting transport, labor and machining costs in developing countries. One of the important problems faced by the top management in the mobile manufacturing/remanufacturing industries is the evaluation of various alternatives for end-of-life (EOL) mobile phones. EOL mobile phones should be managed carefully because of hazardous content especially in developing countries. The main objective of this study was to analyze the current status of used & end-of-life (EOL) management in Indian business environment, and to investigate the most appropriate EOL cell phone management and disposal option by using Analytic network process (ANP) based decision model. For this purpose, five different EOL cell phones management/disposal alternatives including Repair, Refurbishing & Reuse (RRR), Cannibalization, Remanufacturing & Reuse (CRR), Incineration with energy recovery for most of the elements & disposal to landfill for a few elements (INC), Recycling of complete mobile phone for material recovery (REC) and Disposal of Whole Product to Landfill (LND) were evaluated according to multi-criteria decision making technique ANP. In this context, benefits, costs and risks for the alternatives were taken into consideration. Data was collected and analyzed in order to quantify the environmental and economic outcomes of the current business environment. In the proposed model, uncertainties regarding quantity and conditions of mobile phones, reliability of capacities, processing times, and demand are considered. The few dimensions of reverse logistics for the EOL mobile phones have been taken from four perspectives derived from balanced scorecard approach, viz. finance, social, green business and internal operational perspective. The present approach links the financial and non-financial, tangible and intangible, internal and external factors, thus providing a holistic framework for the selection of an alternative for the reverse logistics operations for EOL cell phones. Many criteria, sub-criteria, determinants, etc. for the selection of reverse manufacturing options are interrelated. The ability of ANP to consider interdependencies among and between levels of decision attributes makes it an attractive multi-criteria decision-making tool. Thus, a combination of balanced scorecard and ANP-based approach proposed in this paper provides a more realistic and accurate representation of the problem for conducting reverse logistics operations for EOL cell phones.
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The image above shows a modern-day class of students studying at Namwon Sodang. This school has kept alive the style of teaching from the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). The master (center) and students wear white hanbok (traditional Korean clothing) as befits the yangban (upper) class. Students grew their hair long until it was bound in a top-knot during the important capping ceremony.
Sodang were local schoolhouses where the sons of aristocratic families studied until the age of fifteen, when they entered either one of four schools in Seoul or a country school in their vicinity. At these higher schools, they prepared to pass the first set of civil examinations that would admit them into the ranks of civil officials.
The boys in this image study Chinese calligraphy. Calligraphy is painted with brush and ink and can be produced in five different scripts. It is both an art form and a language. It originated with the ancient seal script found in ancient China on ceremonial bronze vessels and on oracle bones. Chinese writing systems entered Korea during the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE) probably assisted by Buddhist monks, who were proficient in the reading and writing of texts. Even after the Korean (hangul) system of writing was developed in 1446, scholars continued to read and write using Chinese calligraphy.
In calligraphy, each character is composed of different brush strokes. By learning many different strokes that make up thousands of characters, students learned not only a written language but also the expression inherent in brush painting. Calligraphy was therefore a window into one's personality. Mastering many brush strokes and scripts demonstrated one's education. Strong, well-painted characters showed the strength of one's character.
Key Confucian phrases and ideas would be placed on walls and over doorways to instill certain values. These values included human-heartedness, modesty, reciprocity and the cultivation of virtue. By cultivating one's moral qualities, and by acting in a virtuous way, one could improve the lot of society in general. Since scholar-officials were in positions of power, it was vital that they demonstrated these virtues through their behavior and through their actions.


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Officials on Tuesday said they have a possible break in the deaths of dozens of peacocks on the Palos Verdes Peninsula after a witness reported a man in a Mercedes-Benz shooting one of the birds with a pellet gun.
Officials released a sketch of the suspect, seen driving a silver Mercedes sedan. He allegedly stopped at about 8:20 p.m. July 9 in the 27000 block of Eastvale Road and fired from the driver's seat, killing a peacock that was standing in a driveway.
More than 50 of the exotic birds have been killed or injured in the last two years in the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Rolling Hills Estates areas. Some of the killings were accidental, but a significant number were apparently intentional, prompting an investigation by animal control and law enforcement officials.
The peacocks — imported to the Palos Verdes Peninsula a century ago — are a rustic part of life for many in the upscale suburb, but the birds have detractors who complain about their noisy, aggressive disposition.
The biggest complaints about the birds are that they peck at reflections on cars and scratch paint when perched on the hoods. Their calls can be loud and sharp, and droppings are common nuisance.
It doesn't help, detractors contend, that residents feed the peacocks, discouraging the birds from leaving the area to forage for food.
For decades, the city and surrounding peninsula communities have tried to keep the peace through regulations, education programs and behavior modification for the birds.
But two years ago the situation turned violent and peacocks started turning up dead, killed with arrows, bullets and slingshots, authorities said.
The man in the July 9 incident was described as white, 50 to 60 years old, with receding gray hair. He was wearing a white-collared shirt and aviator-style sunglasses.
Anyone with details about the suspect is urged to call Cesar Perea, director of SPCA-LA Animal Protection Services, at (323) 730-5300, Ext. 272. To remain anonymous, call the animal cruelty tip line at (800) 540-7722.
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Issuance of 2018 Certificates and Transcripts
Certificates for the students who graduated on 13th October 2018 are ready for collection at the Main Campus in Meru. Note that Certificates will only be issued from Main Campus ONLY. Check on the lists below for all the cleared certificates for collection. You are advised not to make any travel arrangements until you see your name in the website. The list will be revised regularly. Please bring the following documents with you;-
- Original and a Copy of your National ID/Passport
- A Copy of Form Four (4) "O" Level Certificate
- Duly Signed Graduation Clearance Form
- Certificate and Academic Transcript Release Form
Any query for a student whose name is not in the list can be made to the following person(s)
- Main Campus – Ms. Kinya Mucheke Tel. – 0721-781-796
- Nairobi Campus – Mr. James Muchai Tel – 0720-800-983
- Mombasa Campus – Ms. Irene Tuei Tel. – 0721-958-647
The certificates will be available for a period of three (3) months after publication of the names in the website. Storage charges will apply for certificates not collected within the time frame given.
The following 106 Certificates among those those which were returned for correction are ready and can be collected at the Main Campus, Meru as from Monday 8th April 2019. The list of corrected certificates will be updated periodically. Thank you for your patience


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The FlatRedBall Game Engine and Tools are all open source. All code is conveniently located in one repository:
Building the FlatRedBall Engine
To build the FlatRedBall Engine, follow these steps:
- Download the FlatRedBall repository (either clone it or download the .zip file from Github)
- Open the file <FlatRedBall Root>\Engines\FlatRedBallXNA\FlatRedBall\FlatRedBallXna4.sln
- Verify that your build configuration is Debug, x86
- Build the project
Adding FlatRedBall Source to a Game Project
If you would like to use the engine source in your game project:
- Open your game project in Visual Studio
- Expand the game project in the solution explorer
- Expand the References item
- Find the FlatRedBall entry. This is the reference to the prebuilt-dll
- Press the Delete key to remove this reference
- Right-click on the solution
- Select Add -> Existing Project…
- Navigate to the location of the FlatRedBall .csproj file for your given platform. For example, for PC, add FlatRedBallXna4.csproj
- Click Open to add the project to your game's solution
- Right-click on your game's References item and select Add Reference…
- Click the "Projects" category
- Check the FlatRedBallXna4 project (or whichever FlatRedBall project used for the given platform)
- Click OK
- Build and run your project
Building Glue
As of January 2020, FlatRedBall has a NetStandard branch which builds against .NET Standard/Core. To build this branch, you must have .NET Core 3.0.1 SDK for x86 installed:
The Glue solutions (.sln files) reference the FlatRedBall engine, so you do not have to open the FlatRedBall engine .sln files first. To build Glue, follow these steps:
- Download the FlatRedBall repository (either clone it or download the .zip file from Github)
- Download the Gum repository. Make sure to download it to the same folder where you downloaded the FlatRedBall repository, and name the folder Gum. See below for an example.
- Open the file <FlatRedBall Root>\FRBDK\Glue\Glue.sln. Note that if you are working on a project which requires building all plugins, you will want to open <FlatRedBall Root>\FRBDK\Glue\Glue with All.sln. This requires having the Tiled plugin repository checked out, as explained in the GlueWithTiled.sln section.
- Verify that your build configuration is Debug, x86
- Build the project
It's important that Gum and FlatRedBall are checked out to the same folder. For example, you may have:
- c:/MyDocuments/FlatRedBall
- c:/MyDocuments/Gum
GlueView.sln (aka Glue Preview Window)
GlueView, which is also referred to as the Glue preview window, must be built separately. To do this:
- Open the GlueView solution located at <FlatRedBall Root>\FRBDK\GlueView\GlueView\GlueView.sln
- Verify your build configuration is Debug, x86
- Make sure Glue is not running (otherwise the GlueView files will be in use so the build won't be able to overwrite them)
- Build your project. The project will automatically be built to Glue's bin folder, based on GlueView's project settings.
Glue relies on a project called NewProjectCreator for creating new projects. You may need to build and run this to create new projects with Glue. If the NewProjectCreator is missing, you will see the following error when creating a new project in Glue:
To build the NewProjectCreator:
- Open the NewProjectCreator solution
- Verify your build configuration is Debug, x86
- Build the project. It should automatically be built to a location that Glue will find.
The "GlueWithTiled.sln" solution includes Glue and the Tiled plugin. To build this plugin, you must also have the TMX converters. To build GlueWithTiled.sln:
- Download the TiledMap FlatRedBall Conversion library to MyDocuments, which can be found here: https://github.com/kainazzzo/TiledMap-FlatRedBall-Conversion. This repository should be downloaded or unzipped to the same folder as FlatRedBall, and the folder must be named TiledMap-FlatRedBall-Conversion, or else "Glue with Tiled.sln" will not be able to find the necessary projects.
- Open GlueWithTiled.sln
- Verify that your build configuration is Debug, x86
- Build the project
The "GlueWithGum.sln" solution includes Glue and the Gum plugin. If you run Glue from Visual Studio, you must first "Build Solution" so that the Gum plugin gets built. Simply debugging (pressing F5) does not build the Gum plugin.
Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets was not found…
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The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\8.1\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets
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Best hair salon:The stores which can bring you beauty
What is in a name if you search yellow pages.com, you will notice that the names of many of the salons listed under the beauty. What can you see on such founds? Obviously, most of salons belong to the beauty. Including hair salon. Maybe we can say like this: The existence of the salon is to make us more beautiful. Do you agree that I said like this?
In my opinion, salon is in order to meet our pursuit of beauty, is a springboard for us to arrive beauty. Like hair salon, its existence is to give us a good-looking hair. It enriches our hairstyles, bring us beauty and confidence. And it makes our beauty can be more full interpretation. That is the most important of the hair salons and other salons.
To make a new hairstyle, to enjoy the sunny day
How long have you keep your hairstyle from beginning to now? Do you like changing new hairstyle in some time? Although we can find many novel hair weaves on the street, and always we love to comment on someone else's hair, that is not necessary. Why don't you go to the hairs salon or hair stores, and ask the hairstylist to help you make a new hair look today. Do not feel cut hair is a very unfortunate thing, actually, it is not. You can get more new because of hair cutting.
To find the best hair salon in the local. Go and make a new hairstyle, then wear the new look dance on the street if you want to do that. No one will lough at you, they will envy and praise you because you are the most beautiful one in the crowd. Also, if you are a fashion lady and enjoy different hairstyle, you'd better to find a reliable hair supply which can provide you the best hair in the market.


text: July 21 Excited and weary Looking forward to presenting on the weekend at DigiCon15, another look at Flipping the Classroom, hope I am up for it… still feeling knocked around by the lurgy… we are well into week 4, and all I want to do is sleep! Now to get some work marked and organise myself!! Tags: #DigiCon15 Posted July 21, 2015 by Suz Arnott in category Uncategorized Post navigation Adobe T4T Live Session 2 Adobe opportunities


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Who are you?
When you look in the mirror what do you see?
Do you recognise that person who's looking back at you?
If you could write a list of words to describe what you feel when you look at your reflection what would it be?
Blessed or Stressed?
Loved or Lonely?
Strong or Weak?
In control or Trapped?
Focussed or Lost?
Happy or Sad?
Our mind has a habit of making us feel helpless and alone when things are not going to plan, and in turn the mirror which once gave us the confidence to handle any situation with honesty and courage starts to reflect back someone we don't recognise..
So yes you could sit, reflect and dissect every wound you've endured…or actually you could take a more positive approach and look beyond what you see and decide how you want to feel tomorrow?
What do you want from your future? What steps could you take to bring you closer to your goal?
Why don't we start with four simple tools:-
1. Gratitude diary –Write a list of all the things you are grateful for in your life, from the smallest to the biggest! Then write a list of things that you WILL be grateful for once they arrive. The purpose of writing this diary is to remind you, that you are already blessed, and that you are ready to receive more blessings as a result of your continuous appreciation for what you have.
2. Find your mirror – write the following words on a piece of pink card and place it on the mirror you use every morning -
"You are a beautiful soul who is loved and protected. Your life is full of blessings
And you have the ability to make your dreams a reality"
Repeat this affirmation every morning and before you know, it will form part of your morning routine. This will remind you of the importance of self- worth and the fact that you are a unique soul who has so much more to give and look forward to in life.
3. Like attracts Like –Decide to give out a loving energy to every situation you encounter, be it at work, in your relationships or to yourself. Think kind thoughts and say kind words, this will help the universe in ensuring that you receive a constant flow of love and kindness into your life.
4. Letting Go – let go of past fears and hurts, mediate and visualise forgiving people who have hurt you, forgiving yourself and letting them go. There is no benefit on holding onto memories that do not fill your heart with joy. Release yourself from this bondage so you can experience a happier you.
I pray that these tools help you on your journey and that your days are filled with a continuous flow of abundance!
Recommended reading:- The Power, Rhonda Byrne


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09's latest satellite data has just come in and it shows that at 3pm this afternoon he was on the coast of Mauritania. He is on his way home!
Having spent six months on the Senegal coast, yesterday afternoon he decided that the time was right to begin his spring migration. At 1pm he was 19 miles north of his wintering site, following the coast north-east at 53kph at an altitude of more than 3000 feet. He made leisurely progress north-east for the remainder of the afternoon, his route taking him east of St Louis and then over Djoudj National Park, an area I visited with John Wright and Paul Stammers last winter. By 7pm he had covered just under a hundred miles and had crossed the Senegal River (where he may well have caught a fish) into southern Mauritania. He then roosted amongst sparse vegetation in an arid area that looks typical of the Sahel.
This morning 09 resumed his migration some time after 9am. Interestingly he made a distinct shift north-west, and by 11am he had reached the Mauritanian coast. This was obviously a conscious decision, because he then followed the coastline north, covering another 63 miles at altitudes of between 300 and 1500 feet before we received the final GPS fix at 3pm. It will be really interesting to see whether he continues to follow the coastline, thereby avoiding the Sahara, or make the shorter, more direct, flight across the desert. We should get the next batch of data on Thursday and then daily thereafter. Our Google Earth pages are up to date with his latest movements.


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Absolutely love that song.
Anycase, it's Friday and it's been sort of a logistical nightmare of a week for me on the job front. Things are ramping up incredibly quickly and we don't have the right employees for what we need. I mean, they're okay, but we really need a creative director to handle a lot of these things, and my boss isn't very interested in doing that, apparently.
But, yeah, it's Friday and the sun is shining and it's time for love.
Just love somebody.
And if you want to review Noir: A Love Story or Twilight of the Wolves, or if you want to interview me about either, get in touch. I can probably send you a physical copy.
Also, there's a Goodreads giveaway for Noir: A Love Story right now.
Speaking of Goodreads and giveaways, the woman who won the Twilight of the Wolves giveaway wrote a review, and she loved it:
A fresh new vision which reads like an ancient ballad full of old gods and the white men half machines who destroy them. I wanted to sing it in an alternating upbeat tempo of wolves and old god joy and a slow and mournful tune that cries with the loss of innocence and light as I read it. Thank you Mr. Rathke for creating a feeling far different from anything I've read before.
That actually makes me happier than a thousand kind reviews from people I know. She also just got the novel, which is awesome.


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I must state that December was definitely not the best month to visit the scenic national park of Plitvice Lakes. The trees were barren, and the colours turned out quite cold in pictures. As I was researching about the location, the best period seems to be Autumn when the leaves turn to various shades of yellow, orange and red.
The national park is the oldest in Southeast Europe and the largest in Croatia. It boasts 16 lakes with 92 cascades and waterfalls, making it a World Heritage Site in 1979.
The park was very peaceful and rather empty. At some points, you find yourself alone with nature.
After walking a couple of hours, we took the Plitvice Excursion boat cruise to our hotel, Hotel Jezero, which was located within the park. We were supposed to have a mini train ride, but it was not available due to the season.
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It is very difficult to get the right saree for you. To get the right saree, you spend days moving from market to market in order to get the saree of your choice. It is very difficult to go out and search for the thing for you in this scorching summer. You could go for online shopping. Utsav fashion is that one site which has some amazing collection for you. They have amazing variety of saree for you. Trust me, if you visit the site, you would definitely get the thing of your choice. It is never easy to find the right thing for you and then it is never easy to find something while being exposed to a large collection. It is not possible to buy something while seeing hundreds of the products of same kind, but online shopping provides you this. Utsav fashion has some amazing sarees for you.
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On Thursday, April 6, the American Immigration Council hosted the annual Washington DC Immigrant Achievement Awards. As part of the Council's mission to "strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration," three extraordinary immigrants were honored for their enormous impact on their communities. The event was held at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
The event also provided exchange visitors with the opportunity to meet immigration attorneys, advocates, and Congressional staff members, the current administration—and supporters of sensible, fair and smart immigration.
This year, Doctors Krishan and Vimal Goyle were awarded for their work as community health advocates who have dedicated their lives to serving low-income and immigrant communities. Additionally, attorney Khizr Khan was honored for his work to defend and advance the contributions of America's immigrant and Muslim communities.
Originally from India, Doctors Krishan and Vimal Goyle came to Rochester, NY on a visa program and eventually naturalized as citizens. They later moved to Wichita, KS where Krishan served the community to providing pro-bono medical services to those in need while Vimal served the immigrant population delivering babies in a private practice. Later on, Vimal co-founded the Mayflower Clinic, a "safety net" clinic for low-income Kansans and immigrants located in Wichita. After spending decades serving the community of Wichita, Krishan and Vimal moved to New York City to be closer to their family. To this day, they continue to provide healthcare through the hotel workers union of New York City.
Khizr Khan, Constitutional Rights Advocate and a patriotic Muslim American, was born in Pakistan, He attended Punjab University and University Law School. He was licensed to practice law in 1974. He moved to the United Arab Emirates and later to the United States, where he attended Harvard Law School for his LL.M. degree. With Ghazala Khan he is a proud parent of three, including late U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan and four grandchildren. In 2016, Khizr spoke during the Democratic National Convention in an iconic defense for fair immigration and religious freedom. He continues to defend and advance the contributions of America's immigrant and Muslim communities through activism and legal defense.
Krishan, Vimal and Khizr now join the ranks of millions of outstanding immigrants who have made a lasting impact on the United States.


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Emmy-winning director Eduardo Angel knows filmmakers can be overwhelmed by the amount of post-production options. In this course, he takes you behind the scenes, sharing insights to help you maximize your post-production process while minimizing the impact to your budget. Eduardo focuses on the essential post-production steps and how to implement technical and creative solutions that help accomplish your vision. He shows you an entire post-production process, including planning, editing your film, working with a composer, adding audio, working with color, and distributing your project.
- Selecting an NLE (nonlinear editor)
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- Hi, I'm Eduardo Angel, and this is post production for ultra low budget films. We just shot an extremely low budget film and documented our experience. In this course, I'll share with you our complete post-production process. We'll take you from downloading memory cards to fine tune the edit, to enhancing the story, and getting it in front of an audience. We will discuss software applications, backup systems, apps, and many other hardware and software considerations.
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Are there people from Unity here or is this place totally user driven?
I'm asking because of the rapidly increasing number of posts regarding the bad Unity installer that leaves people with nothing but a gray screen on start. Has this information even reached the Unity developers, are they working on this?
Answer by Owen-Reynolds
Oct 16, 2016 at 04:38 PM
The main thing is that official communication wth Unity3D Co. is not conducted through here. For that, use the IssueTracker (top bar, middle) and, I would assume, the Installer category.
Posting about it here is more like saying "I'm having this problem, is it something I'm not understanding, or is there a known work-around, or should I probably report it as a bug?" For example, a number of people complaining about a grey screen in years past were new users erroneously complaining about all the panels being empty (and thus, grey.)
@doublemax, You do have some chance of catching a Unity employee's attention over in the forums - specifically Editor & General Support - much less so here it seems.
But yes, issue tracker is the official channel for reporting these issues.
Answer by SaraCecilia
Oct 21, 2016 at 09:17 AM
In general most of our devs are using the forums. I must admit I do spend most of my time there fishing up issues and feedback to bring back to the teams so they can go in and answer.
Unity Answers is almost completely user-driven I would say, it's more a place to get help with solutions when developing your projects, whereas the Forum has become more the place to discuss issues.
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IBM´s enhanced AI-powered automated video highlights for Wimbledon fans.
Ok, everybody is watching the World Cup right now, but Wimbledon is just around the corner.
So here are some AI-Tennis news.
As a learning system, IBM´s Watson has been taught to better recognize player emotion by increasing the quality of the output, while also increasing speed in turnaround time by
15 minutes. AI-powered automated video highlights are generated using Watson and other video and audio technologies to bring to life the most exciting moments of The Championships from the six main Show Courts.
With an average of three matches per court, per day, video from the matches can quickly add up to hundreds of hours of footage which could take hours to pull together into highlight packages. The AI system created by IBM Research scientists and IBM iX consultants auto-curates highlights based on analysis of crowd noise, players' movements and match data to help simplify the highlight video production process and focus on key moments in the match.
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Rhipidoglossum Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 80 (1918).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Crossangis Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 141 (1918).
Sarcorhynchus Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 104 (1918).
Plants with short or long stem, pendent or up-right, branched or not. Leaves coriaceous or fleshy, or thin-textured, unequally 2-lobed at the apex. Inflorescence emerging through the sheathing leaf-bases in the upper part of the stem. Flowers usually small to tiny, translucent. Sepals and petals dissimilar. Lip entire or obscurely 2-, 3- or 4-lobed, ecallose or with transverse or finger-like callus in the spur mouth. Spur prominent. Gynostemium erect, rather slender, distinctly swollen towards the base. Stigma elliptic, deeply concave. Anther incumbent, operculate, slightly elongate towards 1 the apex. Pollinia 2, ellipsoid, porate. Rostellum finger-like, fleshy, rather thick, acute. Viscidia ' double, more or less ovate-triangular, thin, delicate, lamellate. Tegulae double, linear, thin, deli cate, lamellate. Both viscidia and tegulae produced ( on both sides of the rostellum. Rostellum acute, finger-like after removal of pollinaria.
Trop. & S. Africa
Many of the white, pale green, or yellowish flowers of Rhipidoglossum species have a fan-shaped lip, and it was this feature which gave Rudolf Schlechter the idea for the generic name in 1918, from the Greek words rhipis, fan, and glossum, tongue. Schlechter proposed Rhipidoglossum as distinct from Diaphananthe and other African angraecoids because of the way the lip was attached to a short column foot in the 5 species that he recognised.
As the number of species described has grown, to a current total of nearly 40 in Rhipidoglossum and 25 in Diaphananthe, this feature has proved to be less easily observed, and some botanists have found it difficult to distinguish positively between the 2 genera. Summerhayes, in particular, found it so difficult that he proposed to amalgamate the 2I genera (1960). However, he treated Rhipidoglossum~ as a distinct section including all those species in which each of the 2 pollinia is attached by a short stalk to its own viscidium, whereas in Diaphanan the one viscidium is shared by 2 separate stipes.
Schlechter had not been so definitive about this feature. A callus or tooth on the lip, in the mouth of the spur, has sometimes been used as a distinguishing character for Diaphananthe, although it is not always present, but it is also present, to some degree, in some species of Rhipidoglossum. Garay,: (1972), Senghas (1986), and others have favoured treating the 2 genera separately.
Some plants of Rhipidoglossum species have a short stem with the flat leaves arranged in a neat rosette or fan, while others make untidy specimens in the wild, with straggling, branching stems that produce many elongated aerial roots. The roots are often the first part to catch the eye. The inflorescences are short or long and often produced in great numbers. The flowers are generally small, but when viewed close-up they are attractive and make distinguishing the species relatively easy by details of the lip and spur.
Sarcorhynchus was also established by Schlechter in 1918 for those species with a fleshy rostellum and4-lobed lip, but only 4 species have been assigned to it. These are currently included in Rhipidoglossum. Some species of Cribbia and Angraecopsis also have somewhat translucent flowers and a column with a 3-lobed rostellum, but they have not been confused with any in the genus Rhipidoglossum so far. Further investigation, especially the availability of DNA information, may provide the evidence needed for a new assessment of the generic limits in this group of orchids. In the folIowing account the species are presented in 2 groups, based on their habit:
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Stems short, usually less than 12 cm long, with leaves arranged in a rosette or fan, ar, in plants with longer stems, in 2 rows along the sides of the upper part of the stem.
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Stems elongated, at least 20 cm long in mature plants, leafy along most of their length.
All these species can be grown in cultivation without difficulty, though most of them grow better when mounted on a piece of bark than when planted in a pot. Due regard should be paid to the altitudinal range of each species in the wild, as some will require much cooler night temperatures than others.
Bibliography and References:
Carlsward BS, Stern WL, Bytebier B. 2006 Comparative vegetative anatomy and systematics of the angraecoids (Vandeae, Orchidaceae) with an emphasis on the leafless habit. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 151. 165-218.
Johansson D. 1974 Rhipidoglossum paucifolium, a new African species of Orchidaceae. Bot. Notiser 127. (1): 149-151 (1974) Illustrations. Geog=5 (KR, 197403793).
Summerhayes V.S. 1937. Rhipidoglossum brevifolium, Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé. Blumea, Suppl. I. 83.
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 17.03.2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/


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Researchers identify a new gene involved in Multiple Sclerosis.
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William Woods University students are hoping to set up a usability testing center on campus to study and improve website navigation.
According to Dr. Linda Davis, WWU professor of management information systems (MIS), usability testing, especially as it involves websites, is important.
"Many of you have arrived at a website, found it hard to navigate and became frustrated when it was hard to find the information or item you wanted. You soon left the website and continued to another website," she said.
"Websites that are hard to use, lose users," Davis said. "Losing users often relates to losing revenue. Businesses cannot afford to lose revenue. In addition, a poorly designed website can decrease employee productivity."
The MIS department and SWAT (Student Website Advancement Team), under the direction of Davis, are in the process of writing a grant to create a usability testing lab. They are working closely with the grant writing class at William Woods, under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Wells, assistant professor of English.
Recently six management information systems (MIS) students and Davis traveled to Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph to learn more about usability testing.
Davis said that usability labs can help identify problem areas on a website and then suggest new designs to help users accomplish certain tasks. With usability testing software and hardware, students can now watch live observations as participants complete survey delivery and tasks and then analyze the results.
Morae, one of the top usability softwares, will allow students the ability to capture every nuance of the testing session, providing students hard data and undeniable examples of usability problems. Stakeholders (clients) can observe the session live over the network. Students will take notes and index the task to the video, making it easy to work with the data later.
Students have been researching the design of a usability testing lab, along with the hardware and software needed to develop a solid testing center. The visit to St Joseph helped finalize the plans.
In 2009, "usability specialist" was named one of the top careers by U.S. News. Notes, YourCareer.com, "U.S. News has plowed through hundreds of careers, looking for the jobs with the best outlook in this recessionary economy (and beyond), the highest rates of job satisfaction, the least difficult training necessary, the most prestige, and the highest pay. These careers have staying power: They're smart moves now, and they'll be smart moves for years to come."
Davis states, "Usability testing is a wonderful compliment to what we are already doing in the classroom. In addition, it will give SWAT the ability to utilize testing techniques with client websites. Not only will this increase job opportunities for our students, but it will allow us to make more effective websites for our clients. We hope to even use the William Woods University website as one of our first clients."
She explained that there are limited programs to teach usability testing skills across the nation and only one master's degree program in Missouri (Missouri Western State University).
"Thus, the MIS department feels they are creating a niche market that will attract and retain students."
Dr. Jeremiah Still, director of the Human Factors and Usability Testing program at Missouri Western State University, discusses testing procedures and requirements as William Woods University students get ready to tour the usability testing facilities on the campus. Students Krista Preiss, Lisa Coppersmith, Colleen Daly, Tyler Hozie, Ryon McNeff and Matt Millard listen and take notes.
Joe Grgic, Usability Testing Lab manager and student in the master's degree program, shows students a current usability session. Morae software tracks task procedures while videotaping the participant and saves eye tracks. Data is then analyzed and redesign initiated.


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My favourite sin analogy is the one about the frog.
Catch him and stick him in boiling water straight away, and the intense heat will frighten him, burn him and tell his senses that the best thing to do is jump out quickly.
But popping the little green creature into a pan of cold water and turning on the heat, will make him stay where he is.
He is not alert to danger and as the water warms up slowly, his body quickly adjusts to the temperature.
Eventually the poor froggie will be cooked alive, all without a struggle from him.
God loves us greatly, so my prayer for me and you today is that we'll look around and see the steam and bubbles and realise that the water we're in is hotting up before we turn into poached human.
Have a really blessed day.
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Lighting That Will Enhance The Look Of Your Kitchen
Kitchen Lighting can be extremely challenging. The reason is that the lights in the kitchen aren't just about aesthetics but about functionality too. Several requirements need to be met, and therefore precise lighting is required too. Therefore, kitchen lighting is a combination of aesthetics and functionality, which warrants the use of ambient and task lighting. … Continue reading "Lighting That Will Enhance The Look Of Your Kitchen"
Faqs About Led Lights
We tend to receive many questions about LED lights. Hence, we have shortlisted a few questions and have provide our answers to them: What are the benefits of LED lights? The first benefit, one that we all know about, is lower electricity consumption. That tends to reflect in your electricity bills. They are more durable … Continue reading "Faqs About Led Lights"
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Pedestal fans are becoming increasingly popular in India. There are various reasons contributing to this phenomenon. Firstly, pedestal fans occupy less space. Hence, if you are a first time home buyer or own a small house – this form of fan would do the job for you. Moreover, pedestal fans in India are available in … Continue reading "How to select the right pedestal fans"


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Healthy Alternative Christmas Lunch
(no treadmill involved!)
The main attraction of the Christmas dinner. It is a great source of protein and B vitamins for energy. However, the skin of turkey, like other poultry, is where most of the fat lies. By pricking it, you can drain some of the fat. Then by removing the skin after the turkey is cooked, each portion saves roughly 40 kcal. When preparing the turkey, you can also trim excess fatty areas with kitchen shears. Also, choose breast over leg or thigh as it has slightly fewer calories.
Roast Potatoes:
These are a great source of carbohydrates. What makes these little treats a calorie nightmare is the oil or fat they are roasted in. By swapping roasted potatoes for baked potato, you can save on these calories and not skimp on the taste! An alternative is to create bakes with other roots, like parsnip and celeriac that also don't require oil.
Brussel sprouts are not everyone's cup of tea…but their health benefits and traditional presence on our Christmas plates cannot be denied. They are a great source of folate, vitamin C and fibre. What can be dangerous is smothering them in butter to hide the taste (which you might do with other veg). This can be avoided by using fresh herbs or citrus zest to add some flavour.
Stuffing can be full of fat if it is meat based. The best way to avoid this is by going for a vegetarian option, or a ready-made stuffing that is fruit or chestnut based (being high in potassium). If options at supermarkets still seem high in fat content, then try making your own! Be sure to use a variety of fruits and nuts, and flavour with cinnamon and garlic, which is particularly good for your liver.
Christmas Pudding:
Finally, desert! Christmas pudding has high carbohydrate levels without much fat. It contains a lot of minerals and nutrients, like fibre, iron, calcium, potassium and B vitamins. However, where it falls in the immense amount of sugar. Try using low fat custard or Greek yoghurt as an accompaniment, in place of creams and butters. For a healthy alternative, make your own! There are many recipes out there the involve adding our own fruit for the sweetness instead of added sugar.