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4:41 AM: Alarm #1
4:41:02 AM: The sound of me smacking Alarm #1.
4:45 AM: Alarm #2 (Yes, it's a different alarm clock).
4:45:02 AM: The sound of me furiously tapping the touch screen on Alarm#2 to MAKE. IT. STOP!
4:51 AM: Alarm #1 again.
4:55 AM: Alarm #2 again.
Me: Got to get up. Clothes are laid out. Gotta go to bootcamp.
The Resistance: But you're going to run at lunch. You can sleep in.
Me: But what if I don't run at lunch. I won't get to work out tonight. And I've got that run tomorrow. That run will feel like crap tomorrow if I don't get a workout in today.
The Resistance: Oh well, if you're running tomorrow, then you don't even need to run at lunch today. Just go for a walk. You could use a rest sweety. You're tired. Go back to sleep.
Me: (to myself) C'mon. You know you need to get this bootcamp in or Monday's bootcamp is just going to feel twice as hard. You know you're getting up, now put your feet on the floor. You're just making it so you're going to have to rush and you know how you hate to rush. With all this thinking, you're already up, you might as well sweat. You'll feel better sweaty.
The Resistance: See, you're running late now. Why do you want to rush? Go ahead and sleep in today.
Me: (to myself, as I am doing my best to ignore The Resistance) That's a good girl. Put your feet on the floor. There you go, and up out of bed.
5:02 AM: I am downstairs throwing on a sportsbra & my Nikes.
Yaaaaa'll – it was a hard morning to get out of bed for that early wake-up. But I did it and I'm glad I did it, though I still feel pretty tired. I'm still stubborn-ing through runner's block. I fought through Tuesday's run. Did Wednesday's bootcamp. Took a rest day on Thursday as I thought a visit to the chiropractor might help me shake off the fatigue, and then Bootcamp this morning.
I'm planning to go to running group tomorrow morning for a short 3 mile preview of a 5k the group is doing next weekend, and then I have a fun run – a 4k Tap 'n Run I'm registered for tomorrow night. So 2 runs tomorrow (though I'll probably walk a good part of the second one) on a body that is just so. damn. tired.
And I don't think it's even the workouts that are killing me – they're hard, but not any more extreme than usual. They just feel a lot harder than usual. I think I'm going through what I call a "teardown" cycle. Just like we cycle through fits of enthusiasm and doldrums in our workout routines, the body has it's own cycle of plateaus and progress. Mine usually cycles through a plateau, then a "teardown", then a really short plateau, and then a huge spurt of progress.
The first plateau can be indefinite – from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 months. The scale doesn't move a whole lot and I feel better with the workouts, but nothing hugely noticeable. Then a teardown cycle usually lasts about 3 weeks – that's where everything hurts and workouts feel way harder than they normally do. And because it feels so hard, and you're so
bitchy tired, the motivation just isn't there. Also, I want to eat like crap, so I have to wage that war at the same time. MUST. EAT. LOTS OF YUMMY CARBS!!! THE GREEN THINGS. The Resistance is a pro at taking advantage of the the teardown cycle – tempting me to skip workouts, sleep late, and eat way too much of all the wrong stuff. It's like watching the Energizer Bunny crap it's batteries, flip you the bird, and go crash out for a long nap in front of the TV – but only after he tells you to turn the volume down on the show you're watching 'cause it's not like he can just GO IN THE BEDROOM and take that stupid nap.
That is one crabby-ass bunny sometimes.
Teardown is a prick too. And if I'm not careful – and stubborn – I can undo a lot of good work I've done in the previous weeks. Got to fight the good fight.
But I'll get through it. And I'll fight to keep as many of the good things on track as I can. And eventually it won't feel so hard – I'm almost through week 1 already. And then I'll move through to the next part of the cycle where things feel alright again. The fatigue starts to lift. Everything isn't irrationally exhausting. I begin to enjoy the running and the workout routines again. Optimism strikes. After that, it's like someone throws some nitrous into my muscles and that huge burst of progress hits. THAT, my friend, is worth working it out for. In the progress cycle, I'm ten feet tall and bulletproof (though still irrationally afraid of bugs and heights – some things don't change). I can leap tall buildings, or at least press the 'up' key several times really fast, and I'm almost faster than a rickshaw
stuck in traffic. In the progress cycle, I OUT-AWESOME MYSELF. And since I'm already awesome, that's even awesomer. The scale starts to move down, I feel GREAT and alll of the parts that have been 'torn down' are built back up and stronger than they were before. Did I mention that I feel GREAT? and FAST? and STRONG?
Thinking about that happy feeling – grasping at that straw of hope – is what gets me through the 3 weeks of teardown. Knowing that at the end, if I just keep working through it, I'll end up stronger because of it. Before the cycle starts again.


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Speaking during the Parliament open session on Wednesday, Larijani accused the US and Israeli regime of supporting terrorists against defenseless people of the regional countries.
Pointing to the recent Herzliya Conference held by Israeli regime, Larijani said, "an American senior figure had claimed the Zionist regime today is in the best security conditions, since other countries have been involved in security and terrorism in the region, however, the worst is when the terrorists are suppressed and Iran and Hezbollah manage to come out of it".
This evil thought shows, Larijani underlined, that the Americans and Israelis, against their false slogans, have no will to fight terrorism and seek a greater purpose behind their pervasive adventure in the region.
Larijani also expressed regret over the comments expressed during Herzliya Conference; "Israel is in best security conditions to be preserved; even if ISIL is suppressed, Israel should immediately establish deeper ties with al-Nusra Front," Larijani quoted an Israeli security figure.
"This shows very well the evil nature of the terrorists," Larijani said pointing to Leader's remarks against the US and Zionist regime as saying, "Iran and the US strategies in the region are in stark contrast."

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First a slide show...
Dennis Flood wrote up his ride a few years. His photos are much better.
Day 1
We flew into Taidong airport on the 6:30AM flight from Taipei. We arrived at Songshan Airport at 6am, which have us plenty of time to 'pack' the bikes. For those who haven't flown with their bikes in Taiwan, this means cutting up cardboard boxes (provided by the airline) and taping the resulting pieces onto your bike so that you won't get other people's luggage dirty. You do not have to take your bike apart, and there is no extra charge. Pretty cool.
A note of warning though--not every airport in Taiwan is big enough for a plane that can take your bike this way. Kaohsiung, Chiayi, Hualien, and Taitung are all fine. Pingtung's old airport was not. Not sure about the new one.
A second word of warning is that this great service may soon be over. I suspect that the increasing popularity of biking is starting to cause problems. We had a bit of argument with the baggage handling people at Far Eastern about this although we eventually prevailed. In general EVA (Lirong) is the most helpful while Far Eastern is more and more reluctant.
We arrived in Taitung hungry and exhausted since we had only gotten a few hours of sleep the night before. So instead of getting on the road immediately, we headed across the street to the restaurant/gift shop across from the terminal and had a hearty breakfast. This included a carimoya milkshake (釋茄牛奶). The wonders of papaya milkshakes have long faded for me, but this was a delicious new surprise even if a bit expensive at NT$70.
Well fed, we hit the road at about 9:30am--just as it was starting to get intensely hot. We wanted to avoid Highway 9 (台9線) and keep to the smaller county roads in the Rift Valley, so we made for Route. 197 which runs more or less parallel to Route 9 up the Rift Valley through the foothills of the coastal mountain range on the east side of the valley.
To get to 197 from the airport, turn left on Minhang Rd. 民航路 when you reach the T instersection on the road leading out of the airport. Stay on Minhang to the left and pass the Naruwan Hotel. You will cross a bridge and then reach the junction with Highway 9. Cross Highway 9 and you will now be on Highway 11B (台11乙). It's 4.1 km from here to the junction with 197 on your left.
We started climbing on 197 in the brutal morning heat. It's another 3 or 4km to Fuyuan at an elevation of about 300 meters. Make sure you bring water because the few shops and restaurants up here are not reliably open and there is little shade.
We rode the next hilly 10 km to the Luanshan Bridge (巒山大橋), stopping off at a small local temple near Liji 利吉 for a muggy, buggy afternoon nap. Somehow we missed the Liji hot springs although it may have been too hot even for me to try them out.
After crossing the bridge to Luye (鹿野), we had a fairly dismal lunch in a cantina by the 711. The people were friendly even if their food was bad. By the time we finished, ominous looking storm clouds had gathered and we heard from a traveling salesman type that it was already raining in Guanshan, our intended destination.
Rather than pushing on, we decided to head up the hill to Longtian and knock off early. Longtian, it turns out, was a sort of Japanese settler community and has the oldest nursery school in Taitung along with lots of beautiful old trees and a generous sprinkling of buildings from the colonial era. And of course there are hotsprings, although the main hot spring hotel in town was being renovated. On their recommendation, we headed to the end of town and aftera short downhill, turned left onto Taidong Co. Rd. 33 where we found the colossal Zixi Hotel ( 紫熹山莊) built entirely out of wood. A huge clean double was NT$2,200 and we settled into enjoy clean beds and hot showers. The food was inexpensive but tasteless jiancan (microwaved stuff out of packages).
Day 2: Longtian to Lidao
Greatly refreshed, we were on the road by 5:30am the next morning. We headed back across the bridge and continued north on 197. The road climbed up sharply to about 400m over four or five km. For next 14km the road is unpaved gravel. Unfortunately, a new layer of gravel had just been put down and was therefore quite deep and loose in some spots. There were a few spills as a result, but I would guess that in a month or so, enough traffic will have gone over the road to pack things down better and make it a good but unchallenging off road ride. This side of the valley is noticeably more tropical than the west side--reminded me a lot of Palawan in parts. There is absolutely nothing out here--you will need water and food.
At Bauhuashan Monastary (寶華山慈惠堂) there is a rest spot and a road that goes down to the Baohua Bridge. We stayed on 197 (paved at this point) and enjoyed a lovely downhill stretch into the rice fields on the valley floor. After another 3 or 4km of flat, we crossed the Diangguang Bridge (電光大橋) into Guanshan.
Guanshan seemed like a big place after the solitude on the other side of the river. We had a couple of filling biandangs from the Yuanchang Biandang Shop just outside the train station. The biandangs use the fabulous local rice to create a perfect meal for starving cyclists. Bellies full it was time for a nap. The airy Sun Moon Belvedere (關山日月亭) is at the end of Minquan Rd. (民權路) on the west side of town, and we unrolled our air mat to sleep for an hour or so in afternoon heat.
When we woke up, the sky was overcast, meaning that we could ride earlier than usual (on summer days I try not to ride between 10am and 3:30pm to avoid sunstroke). We headed back into town on Minquan and had some excellent lattes at a very old-fashioned coffee shop (Royal Bakery and Cafe?) on the main drag. Deng Lijun played on the ancient boom box and there was an excellent selection of pictorial magazines from the late 1980s to complement.
We left Guanshan by riding parallel to the Route 9 on Sanmin Rd (三民路) out to 大同 where we took a left. Datong curves around and turns into Taidong County Road 5 but there is a confusing junction near Hongshi (紅石). Ask at the betel nut stand if you are not sure which way is the right way to Haiduan (海端). Haiduan is just a few km down the road and you will come out on the Southern Cross Highway (Route 20) at around km 208.
From Haiduan, it is about 35 km to Lidao at an elevation of about 1000m. The grade is pleasantly gradual all the way to Wulu, about 10km from Lidao. There is a good, inexpensive restaurant across the street from the Tianlong Hotel. Am early dinner for two was NT$300 and was far more than we could eat. If you have time, check out the suspension bridge on the other side of the parking lot hotel--one of Taiwan's highest.
After Wulu there is a long climb through a beautiful rugged canyon that will remind you of Taroko. In the past, I've always done this section in the late morning heat. It was much, much easier and more pleasant in the cool early evening as the mountainsides came alive with the roar of cicadas, chirping birds, and howling monkeys.
We arrived in Lidao (elevation 1000m) just as it got dark and stayed at the Xianfeng Hostel (賢鳳民宿) for NT$1000. Basic but very clean. Xianfeng is run by a very pleasant young teetotaling Bunong couple who are tea farmers by day. I bought a half catty (斤) of tea for NT$750--it's excellent. There are a few shops where you can stock up on snacks for the next day and Big Sister Chen's (陳大姐) as you come into town is a good place for a hearty lunch or dinner.
Day 3: Lidao to Baolai
We were on the road before 6am the next morning and we needed all that rest for the glorious but exhausting ride that faced us. From Lidao to Yakou (亞口) it's 28km and 1,700 meters to climb. The road is achingly beautiful and cool because of the altitude. You need to be well prepared on this section with sufficient food and water and ready to get wet and cold. The fog usually sets in by around 9am obscuring the magnificent views but we had relatively good luck in that the fig kept rolling in and then rolling out producing spectacular Chinese landscape types of views. We finally reached the Yakou Hotel (at around km. 150) at noon and stopped for instant noodles and a nap. The last 10km is especially difficult because of the altitude. Take it slow and steady.
At around 1:30pm we were on the road again. Somewhat disappointingly, there were two coffee trucks at the pass (elevation 2700m) but no one selling coffee. Visibility inside the tunnel was very poor even with our lights because of the thick fog streaming in from the Kaohsiung side. Coming out of the tunnel you could barely see the side of the road for the first five or six km. That was disappointing because this is one of the most spectacular sections of road in Taiwan, but you should expect this after 9am. Still, the fog lifted a few km down the road near the Cypress Valley (檜股) and there were great views of the Laonong River making its way out of the mighty canyons at the foot of the Yushan range.
Contrary to Dennis's description, the downhill from Yakou lasts for a good 50km all the way down to Taoyuan. There is a gentle climb for about 250 meters a few kilometers outside of Meishan and another climb of about 500 meters in length (not elevation) into Taoyuan itself. The rest is all glorious downhills.
We really should have stayed in Meishan, but we had hot springs on our mind, and foolishly decided to push onto Baolai some 30km away. Meishan to Baolai (c. 20km) is 90% downhill, but the last 10km from Taoyuan to Baolai was up and down through the hills in the dark. Fortunately, there was almost no traffic and lots of fireflies. I actually kind of enjoyed it, but by this point we had been riding for nearly 14 hours (including rests) for well over 100km. This meant that I was afr too tired to shop around for place to stay in Baolai, which is a rip-off tourist trap like Jiaosi or Jhiben. We ended up staying at the New Baolai Holiday Village (新寶來溫泉渡假村). NT$3,000 for a very mediocre double room and a scanty Chinese breakfast the next morning. All of this was forgotten though as we rooted the Yankees and Wang Chien-ming onto a glorious victory over the Mets.
We did make a new discovery on the main drag--No. 36 Aiyu and Coffee Specialty Shop (36號咖啡愛玉專賣店). Now I'm not generally a fan of Taiwanese desserts and ices (although iced Tofu and the Ice Monster's mango ices are important exceptions), but the jelly fig in ice with sour plums (酸梅愛玉冰) was one of the best summer ices I've ever had. I especially liked the tangy sour plums, which were probably the best I've ever had. Refreshing and not overly sweet. The coffee is good too.
From Baolai we rode down to Liugui (六龜) on Kaohsiung County Rd. 131 (note this is mislabeled as 113 on the Sun River maps) stopping at the waterfalls on the way. We would have taken 133 on the other side, but it is closed to repair a landslide, so we were forced onto Highway 24 (台24線). It's about 12km through rolling hills down from Baolai's elevation of 500m. to Liugui's 200m or so.
We took the bus from Liugui to the Kaohsiung high speed rail station in Zuoying the next morning. Note that the first bus (c.5:45am) does not go to the high speed rail station. The second bus at 6:45am does, and you can get there in time to catch the 8:30am train to Taipei. You will need to take the bikes apart and bag them to take them on THSR. We did this in Liugui the night before and put the bagged bikes in the bus's luggae compartment. I'm not sure you could get a full size bike in there without disassembling it.
A note on getting back. I strongly recommend putting your bike on the bus at Liugui or Meishan. The ride back to Tainan via Jiasian (甲仙) or Liugui/Meinung is hot, unpleasant, and hilly. The bus from Meishan goes through Zuoying, but I'm not sure it actually stops at the HSR station.
From Baolai we rode down to Liugui (六龜) on Kaohsiung County Rd. 131 (note this is mislabeled as 113 on the Sun River maps) stopping at the waterfalls on the way. We would have taken 133 on the other side, but it is closed to repair a landslide, so we were forced onto Highway 24 (台24線). It's about 12km through rolling hills down from Baolai's elevation of 500m. to Liugui's 200m or so.
We took the bus from Liugui to the Kaohsiung high speed rail station in Zuoying the next morning. Note that the first bus (c.5:45am) does not go to the high speed rail station. The second bus at 6:45am does, and you can get there in time to catch the 8:30am train to Taipei. You will need to take the bikes apart and bag them to take them on THSR. We did this in Liugui the night before and put the bagged bikes in the bus's luggae compartment. I'm not sure you could get a full size bike in there without disassembling it.
A note on getting back. I strongly recommend putting your bike on the bus at Liugui or Meishan. The ride back to Tainan via Jiasian (甲仙) or Liugui/Meinung is hot, unpleasant, and hilly. The bus from Meishan goes through Zuoying, but I'm not sure it actually stops at the HSR station.


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Hospital corridors can be long, featureless spaces, so six of the main corridors in the new building have been treated as 'gallery walls'.
were each invited to create a series of landscape photographs for a particular corridor - a series of small galleries within the building.
'The History Wall' by John Gillett and Bashir Makhoul, runs along the entire corridor, drawing people from the old building to the new. This work has been created from a remarkable collection of archive photographs, recalling life in the Churchill Hospital from its ealiest beginnings in World War II, and collected by Ken Hanks, a former Head of Estates and Facilities.
The artists were invited to consider a way of presenting the archive as a history wall for the new wing. The resulting work combines historical and contemporary images using Microlens glazing to combine multiple images which change as you pass by: before and after; past and present.


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Password Security Advice for Users and Enterprises
By Victor Garcia
Password management remains a constant nuisance for users, and a security risk for businesses and organizations. There are basic steps the employees of your business can take to protect themselves and improve their password security practices.
This blog offers an entry-level view of current best practices for password security; however, changes to password security policy are coming on the enterprise level. Look for an upcoming white paper from Sword & Shield Enterprise Security Inc. on the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) digital identity guidelines.
The human factor
Security breaches can result from employee mistakes or failure to follow policies. With all the credentials for separate accounts that a typical worker must juggle, it can be easy to rely on a handful of easily remembered passwords.
Even IT security professionals can be lax in maintaining proper security hygiene in their personal lives with nearly 30 percent of participants in a survey conducted in February 2017 saying they used "birthdays, addresses, pet names, and children names" for social network passwords.
Passwords based on personal information that can be found on social media sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn or through public records are unsafe. A skilled hacker can research personal information online and use it to make educated guesses about passwords.
In fact, social engineering has become such a threat that NIST has begun advising organizations to stop allowing login applications to store password hints for account holders, especially those related to personal information.
Therefore, do not use anything as a password that can be tied back to your personal life. Here are some examples:
- Personal or family name
- Date of birth
- Names of family members
- Pet names
- Home address
Remember: You could be setting yourself up to be compromise if you use easily guessable personal information in a password. Hackers are smart. Your personal information is available in public records as well as on social media. Don't give anyone an easy way to compromise your security.
Best practices for password composition
Currently, many companies are not using best practices for password security. Typically, organizations leave password choice to the end users. From an IT policy perspective, password security can be improved by managing what users can define as their passwords. By doing this, it makes it harder for hackers to use "brute-force" attacks, which consists of trying many passwords or passphrases, with ultimately guessing the correct password, allowing account compromise due to weak password complexity.
A strong password includes the following characteristics:
- Upper-case and lower-case letters
- One or more numerical digits
- Special characters such as #, $, %
The minimum password length should be more than 12 characters and should not include personal information – including license plate numbers – or use common words or numbers.
The more characters used in a password, the harder it is for hackers to guess or to use brute-force methods to crack. For instance, it would take decades, using current technology, to crack a 15-character password that adheres to best practices.
If you have more than one account to manage, do not store your passwords and credentials for your accounts in a text file and save on your computer, especially if the title of the document contains tell-tale names such as "passwords".
There are software applications that can make it easier for individuals to manage their passwords securely. Password managers store your login information and assist you in keeping your passwords safe. This is typically achieved by storing your passwords in an encrypted database, that only you can access. Password managers are essentially centralized databases that allow the storage of all credentials, and can only be accessed by using one master password.
By using a password manager, you can generate secure passwords for multiple accounts without having to remember each individually.
Using best practices for password composition does not deter an increasingly common security threat: phishing.The NIST defines phishing as: "A digital form of social engineering that uses authentic-looking —but bogus— emails to request information from users or direct them to a fake Web site that requests information."It doesn't matter how long and complicated the password being used is if your employee falls for a fraudulent email from a supposedly trusted source and hands over their credentials and login information to a bad actor.
The best defense against phishing and other social engineering attacks is consistent employee awareness training.
Enterprise concerns
To increase their chances of successfully cracking a password, hackers can employ automated brute force attacks that use combinations of millions of words and phrases found in online dictionaries or in dumps of compromised passwords from previous data breaches.
Company computer systems can be secured against brute force attacks by corporate IT departments through two simple steps. First and foremost, change your requirements regarding password complexity. You can also take it up a notch and limit the login attempts allowed. Be sure to limit a user to three login attempts. Once that is exceeded, the account should be locked out.
Limiting login attempts will make it harder for a hacker to compromise a corporate account. By enforcing a strong and complex password to the end user, the chance of the password being cracked are slim to none, thus making your enterprise environment more secure.
Two-Factor Authentication
In addition to a strong password, we also highly recommend two-factor or multi-factor authentication. In this approach, authentication requires not only credentials such as username and password but the use of something that only the user has physical possession of. This step often involves a device, such as a smartphone in order to receive a text, or a biometric factor, such as a fingerprint, for confirmation. This provides an additional layer of security. By implementing two-factor authentication, the chances of an adversary compromising an account are lowered since username and password alone will not allow access to the targeted account.
Victor Garcia is a security analyst for Sword & Shield Enterprise Security. His primary role consists of conducting network vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and web application assessments but also performs firewall configuration audits, wireless assessments, and social engineering engagements.
He has more than 7 years of experience in the technical field in roles such as help desk, network and system administration, auditing, and information security.
Sword & Shield specializes in security, risk and compliance assessment, managed security services, enterprise security consulting, security incident response and forensics, and technical solutions.


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Happy Weekend all!
This is just a heads up that we will be discontinuing our Classy on Sunday posts till the beginning of the new year. Too many busying events have popped up on our calendar, so as to prevent us from attempting a COS that has as much time and love put into it as the rest of our posts. Thank you for your lasting support of this series, as with all of our posts! We love your feedback, and always feel blessed to bless you 🙂
For those of you who haven't been following along this series, here's a link so that you can look back on what we've done over the past year. It's fun to see the form and quality of the post evolve from early 2013 to now 🙂


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Google has been going flat for a long time. Since the launch of Android 4.0 near the end of 2011, Google's new style of user interface design, called Holo, has been making its way into every Google service imaginable. This Holo design language includes many things besides just a flat shading type of design; it also includes things like slide-out left-hand menus, additional settings stored within a button on the top right of the screen and other some such things as found in the Holo Design Guidelines. Google Now was the first major app that Google launched with this new flattened style, and since then they've rolled out a complete overhaul of their main Android apps including Gmail, Drive and others. In addition to Android apps, Google has also overhauled pretty much all their web apps, and today they are putting the finishing touches on this overhaul with the launch of their redesigned home page and logo.
The iconic Google logo has remained more or less what it was, but has received a completely flat design and a slight color change on a few of the letters. Gone is the late 90s shaded version of the logo, and the webpage itself has received a nice facelift too. It's still mostly populated with a white background, but now the upper navigation resembles that of a mixture between Chrome OS and Google+. Instead of a black bar running across the top of the page with a text list of Google's services, there is now an app drawer icon that contains what looks like apps for all of Google's services. This helps create a more familiar look, and likely is a move on Google's part to get more people used to the Chrome OS interface as well. We imagine Google will continue to update its apps and services with easier navigation and simpler styling. Holo Light and card interfaces seem to be where Google is going these days, and it likely gives us a look at just what the next big version of Android will look like as well. Whether or not that's Android 4.4 Kit Kat or Android 5.0 remains to be seen. The new Google homepage is rolling out to users in waves, so if you haven't received the update yet you should in the coming hours and days.


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- Leading individual and recommended lawyer in 'Dispute Resolution'
The Legal 500 Caribbean 2020
- Recommended lawyer in 'Insurance/Reinsurance'
The Legal 500 Caribbean 2020
- Recognised by Who's Who Legal Insurance & Reinsurance 2019 Analysis
"Alex Potts QC is a very well-regarded litigator who is frequently recognised by respondents for his expertise in insurance and reinsurance matters."
- Ranked as an 'Insurance and Reinsurance' leading individual and recommended lawyer (Tier 3) by The Legal 500: Caribbean 2019
- Notable practitioner (Band 1) for 'Dispute Resolution' (Bermuda)
Alex Potts QC took silk in 2018 and has a wealth of experience in both litigation and arbitration. Sources describe him as being "among the best" in Bermuda, with one client going so far as to call him "the cream of the crop: focused, knowledgeable, articulate, organised and forthright."
Chambers Global 2019
- Alex Potts is an "excellent lawyer" who advises on a wide array of complex issues. He has a "very good presence in court and in arbitration".
Who's Who Legal 2018
- Alex Potts is an experienced practitioner who is noted by interviewees for his insolvency expertise. He also handles a wide range of other commercial disputes, including insurance, trusts and investment funds cases. Sources say: "He is very good lawyer in terms of analysing the law. His written work is first-class and he is an effective advocate."
Chambers Global 2018
- Alex Potts is an "excellent litigator", who is "always well prepared and on top of the issues"., Alex Potts is "highly responsive and client focused".
Legal 500 2017/2018
- Qualified in England and Wales
- Qualified in Bermuda
- Qualified in Cayman Islands
Alex is a partner in our Bermuda office. He is admitted as a barrister and an attorney in Bermuda and in England and Wales, and he was appointed as a Queen's Counsel of England and Wales in 2018. Alex was also admitted to the Cayman Islands Bar in 2005.
With a particular focus on complex disputes, Alex handles matters in the fields of banking, financial services, investment funds, (re)insurance, professional negligence, company law, trusts, asset recovery and contentious insolvency; his practice also extends to matters of public, constitutional and administrative, regulatory, telecommunications, employment, planning, and environmental law.
Alex has conducted cases and appeared as leading counsel before a variety of first-instance and appellate courts, arbitration tribunals, and regulatory tribunals, in England and Wales, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. He is frequently instructed as counsel in 'Bermuda Form' international insurance arbitrations, and associated legal proceedings.
Alex has also provided expert evidence on Bermuda law and English law for use in foreign legal proceedings.
Alex is a member of a number of professional organizations including: INSOL International, COMBAR, and the Chancery Bar Association.
He is also an active member of the Legal Focus Group and the Trust Law Reform Sub-Committee of the Bermuda Business Development Agency, a committee member (currently the Secretary) of the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association of Bermuda, and an appointed member of Bermuda's Copyright Tribunal.
Alex is the author of many publications on issues of Bermuda law, and he is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars, both in Bermuda and internationally.


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I'm Miss World, don't hate me!
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Georgea Blakey shares her experiences of Miss World 2012 "Welcome to the holly [sic] land of Genghis Khan. The city of green and pleasant cool." These are the words written on the side of the car collecting me from Ordos airport. The light summer breeze blowing through this wealthy oil and mineral rich … Continue reading "I'm Miss World, don't hate me!"


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Uglyworld #2162 - A Years Supplier - (Project Cinko Time - Image 359-365), a photo by www.bazpics.com on Flickr.
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Talks about a super mega awesomers Christmaser, nots only dids I get all kinds of cookies from Baz, Mireille and all of my buddies here in the cookie cave, but I also winnereds a competitioner!
A years supplier of tictacs, checkers them out, holy crapstickers, they givereds me so manys of them that I thinks I will have enoughs for the nexts year and also have plentys left over to gives out to my buddys!
Merry Christmasers everyone outs there in internetsland!
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Many women have been inculcated with the ideology that beauty is barely pores and skin deep & quite were instructed that outer beauty shouldn't be as necessary as internal character. I used to assume I was fats, but these days I have been studying up lots on this type of thing and I've decided that I like my body the best way it's. I hope this hub evokes different girls as effectively. There are glitz pageants, pure pageants, semi-glitz pageants, face pageants, on-line pageants, online photograph contests, scholarship pageants, and coed pageants.
The guts speaks volumes of whether or not that true beauty is there inside, no matter if one is beautiful on the outside or not within the eyes of the world's view. I really did love the story of "Beauty and the Beast" as a toddler and discovered a lot from it. Thanks too for the votes and share.
Anything less than a lofty purpose for the purpose of beauty pageants, classify them as expandable entertainment, a triviality selling the worship and or objectification of its contestants. You will love the number of mascaras, blushes, eyeshadows and nice makeup tools that may have you ever feeling like a professional.
Not everyone seems to be born with a curvy, thick physique, and the slender-figured girl ought to be as acclaimed as the fuller-bodied ones. When my granddaughter has lost in beauty pageants, we at all times congratulate the winners. If we go too lengthy between beauty pageants, they nag us about doing another one.
I feel that pageants are a manner for younger kids to realize self-worth in addition to have enjoyable but it surely have to be something that the kid needs and never forced upon by the dad and mom. I really feel that in case you are a positive and cheerful particular person yourself then you definately feel the beauty of other issues.
With skin as white as snow, hair as black as ebony and lips as pink as blood, it appeared that Snow White is blessed with such good beauty. The lessons from the movie Malena – about probably the most lovely lady in the town"cursed for her beauty".


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I recently went to hear Paul Greenberg speak, author of Four Fish, a NYT bestseller.
The lecture was held at The Explorers Club on the Upper East Side, which was sort of like stepping into a childlike fantasy, a Tudor style mansion outfitted with oak panelled walls, naturally.
But the stuffed Polar Bear, Elephant Tusks, and gigantic vintage globe really added to the euphoria.. if you have the opportunity, Go!
But to the important stuff.. Fish!!
Specifically Salmon..
(most of what we eat in this country is farmed)
The largest remaining Wild Salmon habitat on Earth is close to becoming no more!
Millions of sockeye, Chinook, chum, coho and pink salmon return from the sea to their spawning grounds in the pristine waters of Bristol Bay each year.
Sadly it may become the home to Pebble Mine, which would be the largest open-pit mine in America.
Help out Bristol Bay by going to SaveBristolBay
Also locally try to always buy Sockeye Salmon, which more than likely is fished from the Bristol Bay. Lets save some Salmon!


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Smoke from a number of wildfires burning in Montana and Wyoming has raised some air quality issues throughout the Sheridan region. While it may be some time before the sky is clear from the haze, as there are wildfires to the north, south, west and east of Sheridan County, there are some things people can do to keep the carcinogen inhalation to a minimum.
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If indoors you should try to keep windows and doors closed. Keep the fresh-air intake closed and the filter clean if you run an air conditioner. When smoke levels are high, do not use anything that burns, such as candles, fireplaces or gas stoves, and try to vacuum as little as possible, as vacuuming stirs up particles already inside your home.


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Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many Artist Showcase articles here on the Strictly Average site. The plan is to take a few moments and celebrate creators, artists, and craftsman that are making cool things related to this awesome game. I am currently opening this up to anyone interested in having their work showcased and discussed on the site. Submissions can be sent through the Contact Us form. These articles can showcase items that are for sale, or just plain interesting and creative. In regards to artists selling their wares, I am merely going to share how to contact them to work out the details. I do not encourage competition among the artists, as I believe it is possible to support all without tearing anyone down.
Today I bring you the amazing handmade deck boxes from Spencer Baumgarten. Spencer is a fixture among the PucaTrade Discord community and an avid user of the PucaTrade platform. On Puca and Discord, he is better known as 10101010101010. He has successfully married his love for the game of Magic, and his talent with handcrafts to produce some very beautiful and well-crafted deck boxes. I recently ordered 2 EDH boxes, one for myself and one as a giveaway for my Patreon subscribers to protect the Battle Box that is going out at the end of the month.
The packaging and delivery of the boxes were flawless, and I was really pleased with Spencer's turnaround time. My initial thought of these boxes was that they seem really light for such a solid piece of woodwork. At first, I was nervous as to how solid they would be, but they are strong and not flimsy at all. As far as space goes, I am able to store 120 double sleeved cards, a divider, and my silica pack (TIP: You can use these to remove moisture from around Foils, to avoid warping.) I have become very familiar with my sweet new deck box, and I am happy with the quality and space.
The finish on these boxes is so clean that they almost appear to be machined, but after closer inspection, it becomes obvious that they are hand made. The two boxes I received were slightly different, as the lighter one has felt on the inside. I chose to keep the dark wood for myself, as I had no preference to the felt or not, and I just like the dark wood personally. I have already ordered a third one for a friend.
Spencer was also kind enough to share some photos of the next batch of boxes he is working on. These are from his personal workshop in his basement. Not only am I jealous of his skill, but I would also love to have a work area like he has.
The current price for the deck boxes varies based on the project, the ones that I ordered run about $40. Spencer takes custom orders for different sized boxes. Being as these are works of art, each request will be quoted differently.
Also keep in mind that as a small operation, Spencer is also at the mercy of supply costs, so if you are reading this long after the posting date, the details of cost may no longer be accurate. If you're interested in contacting spencer to acquire some of his great work you can email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
May all your deck boxes be this awesome,
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Zucca Bistro is an Italian restaurant based in the West coast of Scotland. We worked on their re-brand which is to be implemented to their existing chain of restaurants over the next 12 months. A consistent style was needed that could be applied to signage as well as marketing material and web-based content, an ongoing project for an energetic and growing new business.
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The group consists of two members, Carina Johannson Frick and Ola Frick. According to the band's bio, they've been making music since the late 1990's and are still going strong. They don't like to make comparisons to their sound, and why should they, because their sound is unique in their own way. With the millions of songs out there now, I'm still amazed how musicians are able to come up with their own sound. Moonbabies, you are one of a kind!
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To Intervene or Not to Intervene: How States Are Helping and Hindering Local Governments
The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
April 23, 2014
The Civic Federation partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to present a half-day forum: After Detroit: How Will Illinois and Its Communities Respond?. Jim Spiotto was a panelist, speaking on an Illinois-specific proposal to help distressed municipalities.
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Kelly Fleming Winery is located in the northern part of the Napa Valley, nestled in a narrow canyon against the steep hillsides. From this part of the Napa Valley you hardly know you are in the Napa area. Rugged hillsides, narrow secluded canyons and forested slopes all form the backdrop for Kelly Fleming's nearly 12 hillside planted acres of Cabernet Sauvignon. This is prime Cabernet Sauvignon country and nearby neighbors include Araujo Estate and Hundred Acre.
Kelly founded the winery in 2002 after she and her then husband Paul (Paul co-founded Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar – the first Fleming's is still operating in Fashion Island in Newport Beach – Paul also co-founded P. F. Chang's China Bistro) purchased the site in 1998; Kelly visited the Napa Valley for over 20 years and and like many others before her fell in love with the natural beauty and lifestyle of the wine industry. Soon after their purchase the property was planted with various Cabernet Sauvignon clones on an assortment of root stalk. This particular hillside soil is extremely rocky and well drained. As a result, cover crops and the addition of organic layers to the surface are extremely important which help with erosion control as well as ensuring the soil retains additional moisture. The vineyards are certified CCOF organic.
Because of their very rugged and natural surroundings, they often have visits from wildlife including foxes and sometimes a local bear.
As Kelly says, building a winery and brand come in small steps. She made these steps one at a time. Initially the Kelly Fleming wine was made at another winery in the south part of the valley but with the completion of her caves, all wine making operations moved on site in 2010. Both arms of her cave were drilled through solid rock so the shotcrete covering typically used in wine caves wasn't used except at the entrance (to protect against dripping water). Natural rock is exposed in the rest of the caves. These were not easy caves to drill – the drilling took nearly 2 years (much longer then expected) because of the intensity of the compressed volcanic ash.
The entire property is 300 acres; the vineyards are only a small portion of the total acreage. Kelly is a firm believer in creating a healthy balance between the vineyards and the natural environment. Bee hives have been introduced to the property, a native plant reseeding program is in place and additional plans call for solar generated power (replacing a small block of vines).
Speaking of wind, it is often breezy in this area from the steep canyons that rise behind the property. One advantage of this over the valley floor is these winds mitigate stagnate air and colder temperatures which can produce frost damage during and after bud break.
Kelly Fleming's first vintage was in 2002 with merely 300 cases released at that time, but since then each vintage has grown slightly; they do have the capacity to produce additional amounts. They focus on three wines each vintage, a Sauvignon Blanc (sourced from several premium vineyards in Napa), a rosé of Cabernet Sauvignon made with just a few hours of skin contact, but with excellent texture and richness of flavor, the Big Pour – a red blend which varies in varietal percentages each year (and has a good accompanying story in reference to it's catchy name), and a 100% varietal Cabernet Sauvignon.
Kelly was the "face" of the winery for many years; the team is still very small with son Robert and daughter Colleen involved as well as a tiny wine making and hospitality team. Colleen also founded and runs the well-respected Cadet Wine Bar in downtown Napa.
The Big Pour is a newer wine to the portfolio – Kelly earned the nickname "big pour" while visiting Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (one of Burgundy's most storied Pinot Noir producers). Her command of French is not so good – while tasting these special (and expensive) wines the host thought he heard Kelly indicate that she wanted more wine. He then poured more wine in another glass and gave it to her. Someone else in the tasting quick with tongue and wit, simply stated "I want to be next to the Big Pour"!
The 2012 Big Pour shows a voluptuous nose that is generous with layers of fruit aromas including ripe blackberry, some intriguing spices, spicy plum, and notes of tea. Good acidity, leads to a mouth watering finish. Darker fruit shows, along with notes of mocha and brown chocolate. The tannins feel nice on the palate – not rough or with any sharp edges. Long lasting finish. The labels for this wine are highly personalized and change each year. One year Kelly's sister took the photo for the label – another is of Kelly standing with a rifle and their winery dog.
During one of our earlier visits we tried the 2004 100% Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. Every vintage, their Cabernet Sauvignon is always 100% varietal. All the Cabernet clones in this wine are picked separately based on individual ripeness, and are also fermented and aged separately until the final blending. This wine is inky and dark in color which are perfect color characteristics for hillside fruit. As the wine opens up seductive aromas of ripe juicy blackberries are revealed along with exotic earth driven spices. The palate is rich and well layered with lots of fruit on the mid palate which leads to a well structured elegant finish.
The 2013 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon shows a sweetness on the bouquet – with a ripeness of fruit but manages to keep a certain elegance of aroma at the same time. This bouquet is well layered and aromatic showing aromas of boysenberry, blackberry and sweet plum notes. The palate is generous with flavor as this vintage certainly was for Napa as a whole – however this wine has excellent acidity to balance and match that level of flavor. Smooth mouth feel mid palate with tannins showing up noticeably on the finish.
Visits are for serious wine enthusiasts and are always highly personalized. Tastings are either in a semi-enclosed room, or inside their hospitality room; either place is ideal for relaxing while enjoying these some premium wines – and at the same time overlooking their vineyards and the rugged natural landscape surrounding this hidden gem.
You can find their wines locally at ACME Wine shop in St. Helena with select International distribution to Switzerland and parts of Asia. Total production annually is around 3,000 cases. Visit: www.kellyflemingwines.com
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Saw this last night on Funny or Die and had to share.
I've been so busy working on the campaign to #savecarlsbad #nolagoonmall #notincarlsbad that I haven't been paying enough attention to blogging. All the info is at http://www.citizensfornorthcounty.org if you're interested in how a group of concerned neighbors are fighting to save our lagoon from bad city leaders and their outside billionaire developer friend.
Angel Boy and preggy DIL are here and I prepared a delicious Vegan Veggie Pot Pie for dinner last night; took pics and was gonna share the recipe, but it'll have to wait until there's a lull in the action around here.
A quote about the real meaning of Thanksgiving from my secret crush…Jon Stewart
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."


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NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki's new generation Swift Dzire will no longer carry the Swift brand.
Swift Dzire, which is Maruti's second-biggest selling model after Alto, has been re-done and the company is driving in the new version next month amid heightened competition-both from within the segment as well as other categories such as mini SUVs.
The absence of the Swift brand, say company officials, is an indication that the car is "ready to go solo".
The Swift Dzire was launched in 2008, keeping in mind the love of Indians for a car with a boot. Models in the mini sedan category have often been characterised by truncated boot, and tighter cabin space, as companies kept the length under four metres to take advantage of lower excise duty, reserved for smaller cars.
Maruti's entry sedan has always been known as 'Swift Dzire'-a mini-sedan derivative of the Swift hatchback. However, over the years the model has moved on, and carved out an independent identity.
"It can hold on its own," says C V Raman, head of Maruti's engineering division. "The brand aspiration is changing... (the new model) is different in design and performance aspects." Maruti sold 1.99 lakh units of Dzire in 2016-17, down 13% against 2.3 lakh units in the previous year.
The category itself declined by around 8%, though companies are hoping that product refreshes and new cars will help revitalise the segment. Tata has launched Tigor, while Hyundai has also upgraded Xcent mini sedan. Ford has also driven in a new sports variant of Aspire .
RS Kalsi, sales and marketing director of Maruti, said he expects sale of Dzire to go up after entry of the new version. Maruti made changes in exterior and interior as part of upgradation, apart from step-up in safety compliances.


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Listen: I'm not one to get into too many Internet flame wars. Especially not inter-city ones. (We've got plenty of petty bullshit to put up with here, thanks.)
But, OK, since these dudes think I should say something about the post written yesterday by our pals at the Houston Press music blog called "Vanilla Ice and 11 Other Artists Dallas Can Keep," then fine, I'll do it. Because, I'm a good sport, mostly.
First off, I apologize for not sharing that post with you readers yesterday. Unlike our colleagues to the south, I generally don't keep Houston in mind. At least not like they do with Dallas. We all know that Houston sucks. We don't have to write blog posts telling anyone. It's just... known. No one needs a reminder. It's not a cause that needs rallying behind.
I'll give Houston credit where it's due: The hip-hop scene down there, yes, is pretty great. We know that. Everyone knows that. But before Houston gets all high and mighty on that horse, let's remember this: Bun B, Houston's finest export, is a friend and frequent collaborator of Dallas' two-time Grammy-winning Play-N-Skillz. And before you pull out your Slim Thug card, let's hold on just a second. Dude's clearly a fan of Dallas hip-hop, too--the guy's appeared on pretty much every remix that the Boogie movement has ever produced. It's obnoxious.
But, hey, I know hip-hop is a losing battle in the Dallas-Houston argument. Point, Houston. Congrats.
Too bad you don't win a single other one.
Moving on: The 12 artists that appear on this list--Vanilla Ice, Steve Miller, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Boz Scaggs, Ashlee and Jessica Simpson, Don Henley, Neon Indian, Ryan Cabrera and Jason Castro--are, admittedly, mostly terrible. But it's not like we go out of our way to claim them. Sure, we write about Lovato and Gomez--but that's mostly because our corporate overlords love web hits, and tossing Lovato or Gomez's name in a headline is like gold in Internet currency. And doing so keeps us from having to spend all day writing stupid lists.
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As for Neon Indian: Color us a little confused. How can the guy responsible for this list, the estimable Craig Hlavaty, hate them--and yet at the same time, have them on his top albums of 2009 list?
Now, the rest of the called out acts? Well, Henley, say what you will about him, is headlining ACL with his bandmates in the Eagles. Has a Houston band ever done that? And Castro and Cabrera? It's not our fault that Hollywood loves casting reality show stars from Dallas. It really isn't.
The bigger issue here, Houston, is that I can't even think of 11 artists from your city that are worth giving a second thought.
As for overall quality? You kind of made our point for us when you listed eight Dallas artists that are OK in your book (Pantera, Reverend Horton Heat, Meat Loaf, Dixie Chicks, Erykah Badu, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Jonathan Tyler and Edie Brickell) and only offer five (ZZ Top, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bill Hicks, Beyonce Knowles and the Wild Moccasins) in your city's defense.
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And, really, I didn't wanna have to bring this up, but you guys love Dallas music. You know you do. You named Dem Southernfolkz your artist of the week back in 2008. And you once publicly bitched about us not giving the late, great Macon Greyson enough shine--again, presumably because there was no Houston music worth sharing.
No worries. I'm here to help. Here are four Houstonians worth your time: Hayes Carll, Indian Jewelry, Solange Knowles and Buxton. Next time you get the urge to start an inter-city flame war, maybe write about one of them instead.
Or, at the very least, next time, before you decide to call us out, keep all these other North Texas-bred acts in mind: The Polyphonic Spree, the Toadies, the Old 97's, Norah Jones, St. Vincent, The Secret Machines, Centro-matic, Midlake, Ben Kweller, Sarah Jaffe... The list goes on-- way on. But consider that your primer. You're welcome, by the way.


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occasionally after my very so often cooking up wonderful cuisine because that is what a goddess do everyday, Batrisyia would come up to me and hug me and said, I love your cooking Ibu. You are a great cooker.
Ha ha ha, laughs Haziq. Ibu is a cooker! Ibu is a cooker.
Thank you Batrisyia, I said, because that is what you said when you receive a compliment. I am a cooker just like you are a drawer.
Ha ha ha laugh the comical Haziq. Sya is a drawer.
You know what. I looked up at answers dot com. One of the meaning for cooker is this
A person employed to operate cooking apparatuses in the commercial preparation of food and drink.
And one of the meanings of drawer is this
An artist skilled at drawing
I am confused now. My Ingris so bad.
The school new term is starting tomorrow. Sya knew that she is changing school but thank goodness she didn't ask me why she is not in the same school as Haziq. She asked me the name of her new school. I said D0ha M0ntessori British School.
She asked back, "D0ha MONSTERsorri"?
Ha ha ha, Haziq laughed at her. You are going to a monster school.
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Well the four bankers have said sorry so can we move along now and get on with our lives please?
"What!" I hear you cry. You want your pound of flesh?
Well you may have to wait awhile longer. I doubt whether they are going to be thrown to the lions just yet and I seriously doubt they are going to fall on their swords.
After all they did say they were sorry, maybe even very sorry. So that should be hunky dory then shouldn't it? Forgive and forget. Everyone can make a mistake can't they? Live and let live. More like live and let die.
Amazingly I still get the impression that they feel that they haven't really done anything wrong. That the decisions they made were ruined by the cruel hand of fate. That circumstances beyond their control contrived to make a good plan bad.
I don't think they were hiding their head in the sand and couldn't see the storm that was about to break. More likely they couldn't see because they had their collective heads too deeply into the trough. You tend not to worry too much about starving when you are attending a perpetual banquet.
They are apologizing because they have to. Not because they want to. There is a difference.
There's a lesson to be learnt here and I don't think they are good pupils. Probably because not so long ago they were the teachers.
So next time to you are unable to pay your credit card bill or miss a payment on the mortgage why not take a leaf out of these financial geniuses notebooks?
Just utter that little five letter word, look chastened (but not overly chastened) and everything will be okay.
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Less than 12 minutes. That's how long it took CrucialLogics to prevent a hacker from stealing data from one of its client's email accounts....
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Travis Street was still in college when he started offering home-based IT services in his Muncie, IN neighborhood. It didn't take long for him to figure out he could make a living from his small business. Three years later, he hired his first employee and in 2003, Complete Technology Solutions (CTS) was born.
CTS is a consulting firm that offers managed IT services including network cabling, a help desk, voice and video, email protection and offsite backup. Travis has 75 customers in Indiana, with 5 to 200 employees. He currently employs 5 people.
"Managed services are the major selling point for our company." Travis Street, founder of Complete Technology Solutions
Street is very aware of his customers' needs and has always been an early adopter of new technologies. So when the first Voice over IP and SIP applications were released, he developed an interest for Private Branch Exchange solutions. Convinced he could get his share of a market that was dominated by major telecom providers, he took the leap. Along with the wiring, network design and configuration, CTS also provided local phone system equipment.
"We started offering local PBX a few years ago. We've put in place Voice over IP with technologies from Avaya and Toshiba."
Although these vendors deliver reliable phone system hardware, not all of Street's customers were able to afford such PBX solutions. Also, there were upfront costs for ordering and shipping the equipment, which CTS and its customers had to cover. Street would only get the full payment after the project was delivered, which meant it could take weeks to get a return on his investment. This was due to delays in shipping hardware, setting it up and configuring all phone services.
"We sold local PBX to companies with 20 to 50 users."
Because he wanted to satisfy more customers who were adopting SIP services, Street started looking for less costly solutions. That's how he built a list of potential hosted PBX providers.
"With the availability of high broadband everywhere, I wanted to get into it as well. We want to be a solution provider. I looked online to find companies that would help me easily resell cloud PBX."
He picked a renowned vendor and signed up as a reseller. However, after reading the fine print of the terms and conditions, he soon realized he had made a mistake. He found himself lost in the abyss.
"I made a wrong choice. I had to pay a minimum $250 monthly commitment for a year. If I sold $250 of services, it was kind of a wash. They'd also charge $150 monthly to do the taxes for the services and phones I sold. So, I had to pay their accounting firm for them to tell me how much I owe so I could charge my client. I would need to bring in $800 monthly revenue just to break even!."
A lack of technical support was another issue. Street thought he would have easy access to technical assistance, but it didn't happen. Instead, he had to learn how to program the phones and the auto attendants by himself.
"They have an extensive education program on how to use their product. That's the drawback. We had to physically and virtually configure everything ourselves. They'd give us zero support in that. They'd give us access to a portal and said: 'This is how to set it up. You do the programming. We're not responsible for programming.' "
The pay CTS received just wasn't worth the effort it was putting into each project. The company had barely cut its service delivery time and wasn't getting much from its relationship with the provider.
"It was very time consuming. Especially when you have customers who don't always know what they want. They call you and say, 'Why don't you change this option?' and all of a sudden, you have a lot of time to spend configuring these things."
80% of the products and services CTS provides are Microsoft technologies. The company has been doing a lot of SharePoint development and local SQL Server deployments. Street has also taken advantage of the hype and success of Office 365.
Like many other MSPs, Street was baffled because he had to spend a lot of time reconciling monthly billing information for each Office 365 client. Even after the CSP program was introduced, he was still struggling. He was looking for a solution when he heard that SherWeb provided a centralized portal for Office 365 resellers. He joined the Partner Program.
"We've been reselling Office 365 for 4 to 5 years. One of my biggest challenges was managing the accounts separately. I couldn't keep track of the licenses. I met SherWeb last year, I got one pane of glass to manage all accounts."
A few months later, SherWeb launched its Cloud PBX solution. When Street heard about it, he provisioned the solution for his company.
After testing the product, he started offering it to his customers. CTS is now making 11% of its SherWeb billed revenue from Cloud PBX. This includes the Office 365 seats he already has, plus Azure and Hosted Exchange.
"My first Cloud PBX client was myself back in February. Cloud PBX is very easy to sell and deploy. We've rolled it out for a client's automotive service center this week and we've helped him cut his bill in half. I've been able to slash one of my other client's bill from $358 to $98 for 4 lines!"
Street is making more new customers and can't wait to transfer clients from his previous provider to SherWeb Cloud PBX. To avoid penalties with that provider, he has to wait for each contract to expire, another condition he regrets committing to. The good news is, his clients won't have to change their phone numbers, as SherWeb allows number portability from any provider in the U.S. or Canada.
There are more good features that come with SherWeb Cloud PBX. Not only is it easy to sell, but partners are free to develop and bill other services around it. Street said CTS makes more money working on Voice over IP projects end to end.
"The nice thing about Cloud PBX is it's a gateway to other services as well. Your product is a great starter to get additional revenue from clients. I did the assessment of their network and it was not ready for Cloud PBX. So, this was a great opportunity for me to sell more services. I'm replacing all the hardware, the access points and installing new wiring. So, I was able to make around $1,000 in services just by selling Cloud PBX."
SherWeb Cloud PBX allows CTS to provide its clients with a complete internet phone system that responds to all business needs. Because Cloud PBX comes with more than 40 features, every client is guaranteed a maximum return on investment, thanks to options like: Audio Conferencing, Auto Receptionist (IVR), Voicemail to Email, Hunt Groups, Call Forwarding and Fax to Email.
All PBX and end-user configurations can be done from a secure web dashboard. The phone service is billed monthly and includes unlimited continental minutes. SherWeb Cloud PBX is built with redundancy and can be used from any internet-connected device, which covers businesses for all mobility and disaster scenarios.
Ask Travis Street to compare SherWeb with his previous hosted PBX provider and there is little doubt where his loyalties lie.
"With you guys, I make money off the bat! The more sales I do, the more margins I get with you. What I love about SherWeb is that your engineers are awesome, I can just send an email and say, 'Here's the configuration we need' and they're getting the changes done. Seriously, your engineers are quick. I love that because it makes me feel like an all-star to my clients too."
Street is also enthusiastic about SherWeb's partner program. CTS has been able to save on time-consuming billing and account management activities. This gives the company more bandwidth to follow up on prospects and make new deals.
"I've saved at least 10 hours a month. I use the Cumulus portal very frequently, especially when I need to do billing. I got an Azure project recently, and it was easy for me to see the amount of data used, so I was able to accurately bill my customer. Cumulus is also my tool to know who my clients are, and when to reach out to them. I can see how many accounts they have. I don't have that pain to go look and directly access each account on Microsoft's portal so I can do my Office 365 billing properly. It's all there in Cumulus. I also love the sales resources, the knowledge base, and the migration service."
Street sees a great opportunity in his partnership with SherWeb. There's no doubt CTS is on its way to achieve more success and grow. SherWeb Cloud PBX is an evolving product that will soon allow more integration with popular cloud platforms.
Want to Learn More About SherWeb Cloud PBX? Visit our website: https://www.sherweb.com/voip
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Spain's debt grows as regions struggle to control finances
Spain's public debt rose 16.5% in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2010, according to Bank of Spain data. The overall public debt was €702.8bn equivalent to 65.2% of GDP, above the eurozone's 60% of GDP limit.
Spain's public debt rose 16.5% in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2010, according to Bank of Spain data. The overall public debt was €702.8bn equivalent to 65.2% of GDP, above the eurozone's 60% of GDP limit.
There was a rise in indebtedness across all public sectors with the debt of 17 autonomous administrations reaching €133.17bn, equivalent to 12.4% of GDP. The regions' debt rose 7.98% compared to the first six months of 2010. The central government debt rose to €531.99bn or 49.4% of GDP.
Controlling the autonomous regions' debt is traditionally difficult for the central government, but it is crucial to government efforts to cut the public deficit and public debt.
Earlier this week, Fitch Ratings downgraded five Spanish regions, Andalusia, Catalonia, Murcia, Valencia and the Canary Islands, following a comprehensive review. The agency will publish shortly a review of the remaining five Fitch-rated Spanish regions, but the long-term outlooks for all 10 autonomous regions are negative, it said.
The downgrades reflect the sharp fiscal deterioration seen in recent years which has led to big increases in debt levels. While regional governments are reining in expenditure, the weak economic recovery will limit fiscal revenue growth, the agency said.
According to the ministry of economy and finance, aggregate revenues for the first six months of the year for all Spanish regions are estimated to have declined by 3.59% compared to the same period last year. The regions have reported an aggregate deficit of 1.2% of GDP close to a 1.3% limit for the full year.
"Considerable efforts will still need to be undertaken by the regions, particularly in the area of cost control to ensure adherence to the established limits," Fitch said.
The agency expects the majority of the regions to report at least a break-even current account balance by 2013. This should be achievable given the recent greater focus on the control of expenditure by the autonomous communities, though there are "execution risks" in implementing some of the cost cutting measures announced.


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