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Historia vol.55 n.2 Durban Nov. 2010
I've been inspired and influenced by so many
V.C. Malherbe
So much in my life seems to have "just happened". Asked now who inspired and influenced me, I have followed a trail way back to my parents. They surely exerted a powerful influence on their two children: we both studied politics, both became writers.
I grew up on a farm in Maryland, just north of Washington DC. Family members, my father included, had served in the state legislature. It seemed the most natural thing in the world - when droughts, blizzards or pests were not our priority - to talk politics at breakfast, lunch and dinner: county, state and international, in more or less that order. We listened faithfully to radio broadcasters Lowell Thomas and Fulton Lewis Jr - one suave, the other edgily displeased with FDR, our president. These habits were formed before we got wind of the view that politics is a "dirty game" and (with religion) better not discussed in company.
Our mother weighed in when it came to language: no "real good", "sure am", or (heaven forfend) "ain't got" for us. Dad, who was southern where she was northeastern, could not resist the odd "hickish" remark, just to tease her. As hope faded that Tom or I would shine by singing, playing the piano, drawing, dancing, or winning sport or beauty trophies, prospects narrowed to vocabulary ("word power"), the odd spelling bee and the art of writing a fair sentence. English teachers approved, and a modest skill was rewarding in the other subjects. In these ways, and others not recounted, my parents both inspired and influenced.
In 1952 I married a South African. By then I had a BA (Politics and English) and no idea what I might do with it. We lived in Natal where Paul's father was vice-chancellor of the university and his mother engrossed in the province's history - especially the Voortrekker part of it, a weak third fiddle to Brit and Zulu. Happily, I had joined an exuberantly political family. Public figures were revered or denounced in pithy terms, with much by way of first-hand anecdotes. Among them were full or part-time historians (all, I hasten to add, respected): Leo Marquard, Edgar Brookes, Alan Paton, C.W. de Kiewiet, Eric Axelson, Jean van der Poel, Sir Keith Hancock. My father-in-law, E.G. Malherbe, had written a history of education in South Africa. But this is to jump way ahead: historians were not of special interest as yet. They were one cohort only of the parade of inquiring, brainy, achieving - yes, inspiring and influential - individuals who passed through my parents-in-laws' open house.
Paul worked for Standard Vacuum Oil - in time Mobil Oil, and then Engen. In 1965 the firm moved us from the Durban refinery to head office in Cape Town. Our children, Paul Jr and Louisa, were fast becoming independent and I enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a Secondary Teachers' Diploma. How influential that would prove to be! With my university major not a school subject, I feared I was stuck but the administrator who took my details had an instant solution: "Never mind! We will count it as history." With those words - though I could not know it - my future was launched. In the meantime, we had bought a house. "Rooi Dak" had been the home of noted historian, Eric Walker, and not long after, he returned for a visit.
In the 1960s, married women were not eligible for permanent posts - especially if history and English were their subjects (maths and science stood a better chance). Armed with my diploma, I hoped to teach but was jobless when the '67 school year started. In the second quarter came an opening: history, at a girls' high school in Rondebosch. The job entailed eight classes, drawn from all five standards, and required a mark each month, based on two pieces of marked work for each of some 225 pupils. Add the fact that all I knew of South African history was what I'd heard from the Malherbes and their numerous guests! Head-down work is the abiding memory. The following year - different school, same pattern - was less traumatic, thanks to some teaching under my belt. I was feeling let down by my profession but the experience produced an idea and for that I was grateful.
The idea was not original: would not we, like history teachers in other school systems, find it helpful if the treaties, letters, diaries, ultimatums referred to in our dry-as-dust textbooks were assembled in a handy format? At Maskew Miller I met old-style publisher, Mr Nicol (Scribner's Maxwell E. Perkins was the prototype). Non-committal but not discouraging: Mr Nicol had the recipe by heart and sent me home with a measure of hope. I can't remember how it happened that I asked Professor Arthur Davey of UCT's Department of History to read and comment on my manuscript. Out of kindness, he gave me the help I needed and that went far with Mr Nicol. Maskew Miller published What They Said: 1795-1910 History Documents, in 1971. Davey and Nicol: they made a big difference.
Eminent Victorians in South Africa followed. The Strachey masterpiece, which graced a bookshelf in my first home, was inscribed to Dad by our mother - presumably before she knew him well as he was not that sort of reader (he would have been "tickled" by her error). Where Strachey used his subjects to define an era, I simply wrote of famous Britons who, for diverse reasons, visited South Africa. It was high time to study history, and how to write it, formally. That began to happen in the 1970s.
Explorers of the past are deeply influenced by the present in which they live - its culture and its politics. When, post a master's degree, I resumed research and writing, "resistance" by colonised peoples (many newly independent) had become a focus. Archaeologists and anthropologists questioned some of the interpretations, and an inter-disciplinary approach to South Africa's past gained traction. From time to time there was space for something I have always enjoyed: recording the stories of the elderly. UCT established a Centre for Popular Memory. Greater interest was taken in school histories: the products of schools are, after all, what arrive in tertiary history classrooms. It's rewarding to share discoveries and theories in the human sciences with children, who grasp complexities if they can be presented in plain language. New texts encouraged all ages to explore their neighbourhoods, interview the people around them, question what was put before them.
I've deliberately not referred by name to the living. I've been inspired and influenced by so many exceptional and generous people that a list would look something like a phone book. A historian's life is not all hugs and kisses but starting as I did - late and from an oblique angle - has kept me in a comfort zone: no negatives, all plusses. As for youthful ambition, it was vague at best but I've found out that history is where politics end up, and there seems to be no end to writing.


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Telenor is set to acquire a digital advertising start-up as it looks to add marketing technology to its capabilities.
New data has shed light on the impact that the cyber attack TalkTalk suffered last year has had on its business.
Telecom Italia (TIM) has unveiled its new corporate branding that is designed to highlight its status as a converged player.
Proximus' Ariane Marchant said telcos need to dare to embrace consumer emotions as she was crowned CMO of the Year 2015.
Ariane Marchant, Chief Marketing Officer at Proximus, has been crowned European Communications CMO of the Year for 2015.

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A Los Angeles Dodgers fan who was banned from Cincinnati's ball park after a melee at the stadium six years ago was arrested during Tuesday night's Dodgers-Reds game after he allegedly violated the terms of the ban.
Troy Sexton, 44, of Hurricane, West Virginia, was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass and obstruction of official business, according to Hamilton County jail records. He is accused of trespassing and making threats when he showed up at Great American Ball Park Wednesday in downtown Cincinnati.
He also faces a felony count of burglary charging that he trespassed intending to commit a crime, court records showed. Bond was set at $40,000 and a court date was scheduled for June 18.
Sexton was ordered to stay away from the baseball stadium after his arrest when the Dodgers visited Cincinnati in 2008. A fight broke out during the game, prompting a delay.
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His court-appointed attorney, Amy Williams, told the Associated Press she is reviewing the most recent case.
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"Apparently, he's been obsessed with the Dodgers for a long time," Williams said.
Sexton's online video posts are well-known among Dodgers fans. The posts by "Troy From West Virginia" are about the Dodgers and players, but he has displayed a particular fascination with former Dodgers relief pitcher Joe Beimel.
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In the 2008 case, Sexton pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct while intoxicated, with prosecutors dropping a resisting arrest count, according to the AP.
The Dodgers are scheduled to close a four-game visit to Cincinnati with a game Thursday afternoon.


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But, oddly, technology is also what keeps them around. The evolution of software and mobile phones has allowed some messenger companies to work in autonomous cells, rather than as an overhead-heavy hierarchy. A central headquarters is now obsolete, and profit-sharing employees take turns dispatching and making runs.
"Bike messengers will always exist," says messenger entrepreneur Josh Weitzner, citing all the inventions that were supposed to spell the end for bike messengers but didn't — the latest being 3-D printers with their ability to produce product prototypes from anywhere in the world.
Weitzner's Samurai Messenger Service in Manhattan is a new breed of messenger company that employs mobile technology and software to keep expenses to a minimum, while cranking up efficiency. Conversely, the non-adaptive, old-school veterans still remain in the game, but they face a bend-or-break dance with changing times that are squeezing their market.
And so the cargo has evolved. Messengers now routinely transport hard drives with terabytes worth of information for video-production studios. It's an inflation of information that bandwidth has yet to catch up with.
Even when the digital pipeline does catch up, there will always be the tangible objects — garment bags, fabrics, proofs, promotional materials — that need to get from Point A to Point B. Until someone concocts an effective form of particle teleportation, these things will keep at least some of the messenger industry on the street.
Above: Samurai messenger Austin Horse, 29, is a two-time North American Cycle Courier Champion and has garnered sponsorship from Red Bull and Brooklyn Machine Works Bikes.
He tweets from his Nextel Blackberry during runs to stay in touch with his cycling buddies and market his profile, which keeps his sponsors happy. (Horse is pictured on pages 1, 2, 6 and 7 of this story.)
Wild Bill Meier (above) has been a messenger since 1982. Back then, he worked for Western Messengers in San Francisco and his pockets were always filled with quarters because he had to use the payphone to figure out where his next pick-up was.
Years later, he was equipped with a pager, then a two-way radio and now a cellphone. Fax machines encroached on his business in the early days, but nothing close to the aggressive advances of the internet.
In 1992, Meier moved to New York City, where he is now a veteran of 28 years. Meier used to do regular runs for Corbis, a stock photo agency, but since the advent of FTP and e-mails, he has not been to Corbis in years.
"They just zap that shit," he says.
At 47, Meier has no thoughts of finding another profession. Messengering keeps him fit and pays the rent, but it also defines him. He works as an independent now, picking up work from a variety of courier companies.
Messengers have had a long back-and-forth race with technology. Evidence of bike messengers in Paris shows them operating as early as the 1870s. According to the San Francisco Bike Messenger Association, bike messengers first appeared in the Bay Area in 1894 during a railway strike. They couriered letters and packages between Frenso and San Francisco.
In the 1900s, Western Union and even the United States Post Office used bicycles for delivery service. Despite the ubiquity of the automobile, bicycle-messenger service remained a fast, affordable way of transporting goods locally in urban centers.
The service has survived planes, trains, automobiles and now the internet. Its continued survival is clear, but surprising, evidence of its utility to even the most technologically advanced metropolis.
At Samurai Messenger Service in Manhattan, each employee helps run the business and takes turns dispatching and riding.
Rather than working out of a massive call center, founder Josh Weitzner works from a home office with nothing more than a computer, business phone and two-way radio. When others are dispatching, he forwards the business line to their mobile.
Most of the company's orders are placed through software called Courier Connex, which allows for easy online ordering and billing. As the orders come in, Weitzner or another dispatcher assigns them to the riders, depending on their location. A good dispatcher organizes the runs close to each other for maximum efficiency.
E-mailing jobs reduces the errors in reading addresses over a staticky radio connection. And once the order is delivered, the client can log in to see real-time proof-of-deliveries (PODs). This frees up the dispatcher's attention so he can focus on good routing.
Except for insurance, the operating costs for Samurai are almost negligible. Technology has liberated the company from the rent and the stress of a brick-and-mortar office, allowing employees more time where they're the most comfortable — on the streets.
While Weitzner is not making quite what he was before the recession, the business is growing through word-of-mouth and the profits are rising. Instead of the $4 to $6 a rider might make with a conventional company, a Samurai messenger averages around $10 an order and an average day pays out between $130 and $200.
The longstanding trend with messengers is the fixed-gear bicycle: Bikes that have only one gear that works in direct proportion to the pedaling speed of the rider so if the back wheel is moving, so are the pedals — no coasting.
This allows the messenger to control his speed with his legs, keeping his hands free for the radio and, ideally, some steering. Many of the messengers may also have 27-speed carbon fiber bikes, but most prefer to work on fixed or single-speed bikes that they can ride through any conditions and lock up anywhere — and that require little maintenance.
Many messenger services also have a cargo bike (above) on hand for larger packages that would usually require a truck or van for delivery. Increasing the allowed package size is another way messengers have adapted to keep their services relevant.
Being able to see what riders are up to and get a sense for their personalities gives clients a new connection to the messenger business. Like many industries before it, technology has helped bike messengering evolve, rather than supplanting it.
"Literally the only thing that will put an end to bike messengers is the ability to move physical things cheaply and quickly through the data stream," says Weitzner. "Which doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon. If anyone's doing serious research into this, please give us a call, I'd like to invest now."
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Over the next few days, I want to wrap up a whole series of posts on a variety of topics, most of them centered on those last few features of Rubicon that I haven't yet talked about, plus a few things that came up at our Town Hall meeting on Saturday.
That starts with a question that I was both asked directly recently (twice!) and which also came up in the Town Hall: "What do I think about Time Dilation?" And my position on TiDi is fairly simple: I think it's a brilliantly designed, brilliantly implemented band-aid that I wish was not necessary to the survival of EVE Online.
Now granted, TiDi is immensely superior to what came before: black screens, unpredictable behavior, massive lag, et cetera. TiDi is better than all of that. No question. But is it introducing its own problems?
If CSM8 Chair Trebor Daehdoow had a law, it would be "Fleets expand to fill the lag available." Back when TiDi was first introduced to the game, I predicted that it would simultaneously be the best single change ever for the game and the worst piece of garbage ever to be inflicted on the game. These were not incompatible beliefs. Enormous fights are good for EVE Online: they great for the game's publicity and press, great for marketing and promotion, and contribute to the epic feel of the game. But I also predicted that it would simultaneously increase alliance sizes such that they could put thousands of ships on the field if they wished to attack or defend a position.
Both of those predictions have come to pass: enormous fights have been successfully used for marketing EVE Online and alliances sizes and fight sizes have doubled since TiDi was introduced with no corresponding increase in PCU count. Trebor's law has been coming to pass: since alliances could put thousands of ships on the field, they have been.
And with these changes, the underlying problem that caused TiDi to be added to the game in the first place is again starting to rear its head. We've all now seen TiDi inflicted on us during routine in-game situations. Alliances are now large enough that they can reinforce 15 targets at once across multiple regions and then pick and choose which of those 15 they're actually going to attack when the timers hit. They're even big enough to show up to attack more than one of those targets simultaneously if they choose to. That makes asking CCP to reinforce the right systems tricky or impossible. Does the attacker or defender ask for all 15 systems to be reinforced? Even when the node is reinforced, some TiDi happens anyway.
TiDi is a brilliant band-aid and for now, it's still holding the wound closed. But yeah, we can now see it's not going to hold forever.
At the Summer Summit, I and other members of the CSM warned CCP Seagull directly that her vision for EVE, while fascinating, promises to create the biggest timer in the history of EVE Online. If a few thousand people wanted to be in Asakai for the fight there, can you imagine how many people are going to want to be in the system to see the first player-constructed stargate brought on-line… or not, depending on how the fight over this goes? I certainly want to be there, and I suspect there will be thousands and thousands of others that will be too, enough to make any prior gathering of players in a single system look like a faction warfare skirmish.
EVE is soon going to need more serious band-aids or — preferably — it's going to need an architectural redesign at some fundamental level to handle bigger and bigger fights. This isn't the job of one team; this is soon going to be a challenge facing the entire company.
In the meantime, TiDi is causing problems that couldn't have been predicted back in 2011. At that time, I wrote:
In order to survive in 0.0, you have to learn, develop, and practice a whole skill-set around managing deficiencies in the so-called "game" you are playing.
And that's swiftly becoming true around TiDi as well! One of the key components that made the recent live event so deadly for high-sec players, after all, was the fact that the null-sec alliances living around Doril had something like two hours to prepare their kill box… thanks to TiDi. Had TiDi not been a factor, the kill box wouldn't have been nearly as efficient and the event might well have gone differently.
So now TiDi's not only impacting the game, it's creating an all-new meta-game, an emergent game-play mechanic that didn't exist and couldn't exist without TiDi! I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent. But it's interesting, don't you think? Discuss.
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I just seen this crazy video on vimeo. (sorry I embed utube, don't know how to embed vimeo) and its quite shocking. Ok, all of this is a first impression, so pardon me for strong words and emotions. but. it looks so bloody amassing. To be honest I am not sure if this is a plugin written by someone (Thiago Costa?) and will be sold separately, or will it be part of softimage. But this looks quite amasing. (to say the least)
Ok. on a second thoght…. we have stuff to simulate similar things. But two things I haven't seen yet are:
1. In begining of video u see stuff braking apart. Its like a solid material braking apart. hard to explane, I mean stuff is braking to bouth small and big peaces. U can imagine big rocks and derby… and I havnt seen this yet. Ofcourse one can make this easily with two seperat simulations..I guess… Like having one solution for big things cracking, and other for small dust like particles.. but this seems to be "one button" solution .. also I am sure one could achieve something like this in reel flow from next limit. Still it does look amasing. And nice to see someone challenging next limit. It seems to be a king of this physics simulation game :)
2. It is semy liquid blobby stuff which tears apart. In other words mesh that not only deforms but also brakes apart..
This I have never seen that yet. I would love to read some papers on this. anyone? How do we solve mesh topology problems?????? I have no clue, my imagination doesnt help here… any ideas? anyone?
anyways, be sure to see all of this:
I am no expert on it, but I would guess that ICE was something to make or help it happen… or?


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One day after endorsing gay marriage proposals in Washington and Maine, President Obama told MTV viewers Friday that he would not be pushing gay marriage in his second term, ABC News reported.
According to Obama, "it would be up to future generations of Americans to implement meaningful reform," ABC added.
"First of all, I've been very clear about my belief that same-sex couples have to be treated before the eyes of the law the same way as heterosexual couples," he told MTV's Sway Calloway. "I think that's the right thing to do. It's based on my personal experience, seeing loving couples who are committed to each other, raising kids and are just outstanding people," he added. "And I was supportive of civil unions, but they taught me, if you're using different words, if you're somehow singling them out, they don't feel true equality."
Over the years, Obama has held different opinions on the subject. In 1996, he supported gay marriage, but held a different opinion in 2004.
"What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman … What I believe, in my faith, is that a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God, and it's not simply the two persons who are meeting," he said when running for the Senate.
In 2008, he supported civil unions, but did not support gay marriage.
"My feelings about this are constantly evolving. I struggle with this. At this point, what I've said is, is that my baseline is a strong civil union that provides them the protections and the legal rights that married couples have," he said just two months after telling liberal bloggers that he was "unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage."
In May, however, he reverted to his 1996 position and came out in support of gay marriage, causing a backlash from black churches.
Obama rejected the idea of federal legislation mandating gay marriage and said that it should be decided at the state level.
"For us to try to legislate federally into this area is probably the wrong way to go," he said.
One of those in the audience was a young man identified as "Tucker," who said he was from Washington State.
"I love having a president in the White House who can go on MTV and say that he thinks gay and lesbian people should get married, that's great," he said. "But the fact is, it's been four years and the Defense of Marriage Act is still on the books, and I don't think the conversation should be left to the states," he added.
He said that he was "very afraid" that Washington voters "are going to vote on my rights to marry in a way that I don't think is right."
Supporters of Washington's ballot measure, known as Referendum 74, have raised nearly $11 million to finance a well-oiled campaign designed to convince voters that gay marriage is necessary, even though the state already has an "Everything But Marriage" law that gives same-sex couples full legal rights.
A post at Twitchy wondered: "Does this mean Obama will have to stop hijacking gay pride for his own gain?"


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Even people with no interest in birds can find themselves enjoying the sight of Britain's largest seabird patrolling the waters off the Pembrokeshire coast and diving spectacularly into the sea to catch their prey.
It is a memorable experience to watch the large cruciform shapes of gliding and plummeting gannets, with their sparkling white plumage and long black-tipped wings. With a body the size of a goose and a six-foot wing span, their presence in St Brides Bay, and other locations round the Pembrokeshire coast, can not be missed, particularly as they are so numerous, some 70,000 pairs nesting every summer on Grassholm island about nine miles off the west coast.
They nest so closely together on the rock that on clear days their massed white plumage make Grassholm look like an iced cake on the horizon from the vantage point of the cliffs overlooking Newgale beach. By taking advantage of the many tourist boat trips which are available round the island, visitors can see the gannets at close quarters, although the experience has its drawbacks, one of which is the strong odour given off by the colony, which caused one witty watcher to ask: "Is this gannetry really sanitary? Adult gannets are a yard long and weigh about 7-lbs and at close quarters observers can appreciate their beautiful plumage, their yellow-buff head and their dagger-like blue beak. First cousins to pelicans they are far more elegant and graceful than those clumsy birds, and their breakneck dives after they have spotted their prey beneath the surface from a hundred feet up, are cushioned by air-sacs like bubble-wrap in their head and neck as they hit the surface at about 70mph, their forward-facing eyes providing binocular vision which offers unerring aim. Years ago fishermen who resented their toll of the shoals in the area often resorted to the mean trick of tying a fish to a plank to operate a cruel cull of their avian competitors. Local fishermen often camped on Grassholm in the summer to be nearer the rich fishing grounds where they used to drop their lobster and crab pots, often baited with gannet meat.
The gannets catch mackerel, pollack and seabass and can be seen all the year round off the coast and even up the tidal estuaries of Pembrokeshire following the shoals on which they feed. Grassholm is one of the largest gannet colonies in the UK, outnumbered only by the huge populations at St Kilda and other parts of Scotland. The gannet, also known as the Solan goose, was a food source in olden days, and the fishermen of Marloes and Dale used to collect them and their eggs for food, a practice which still goes on at Ness in Scotland to this day. Its feathers were also prized as down for stuffing mattresses and eiderdowns years ago. The gannet's voracious appetite for fish has caused its name to become an uncomplimentary label for human gluttons.


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Toby Gerhart didn't have long to enjoy the fact that he is one of five finalists for the 2009 Heisman Trophy.
Just minutes after his name was unveiled Monday, Stanford's star running back rushed to take care of other important business -- a final exam.
"There was a lot of chest bumping but it was short lived," Gerhart said Tuesday in his first meeting with the media since the announcement. "I had to run and take a final."
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But there was a silver lining for the nation's leading rusher.
"It put me in a good mood for my test, at least."
Gerhart is in the midst of a whirlwind week. The senior has already taken two finals, with a paper and take-home exam still to complete, in addition to one final test, which he will take in a hotel room in Florida. That's because before the Heisman presentation on Saturday in New York, Gerhart will be in the Sunshine State for the Doak Walker Award ceremony on Thursday.
To accommodate all the award honors, the Cardinal's MVP admitted he had to upgrade his wardrobe by purchasing another suit. He now has two.
But while Gerhart is proud of this individual accomplishment, he remains a team-first guy. That's why he didn't want Stanford to do much Heisman campaigning on his behalf. Despite that, he still cracked the list.
"I let my production and play speak for itself," he said. "Being recognized for what you do on the field and not being a media baby makes it that much more special."
Gerhart hasn't had much time to contemplate what will happen if he actually wins the Heisman Trophy, but the thought has crossed his mind.
"If I do win it I'll be speechless. It will be the greatest moment of my life."


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In the Hot Seat
Before Sept. 11, many of us would never have believed that George W. Bush had the potential to be more than a mediocre President [WAR ON TWO FRONTS, Nov. 5]. In the days following the tragedy, we watched Bush gradually grow. Yes, he had Cabinet advice and very effective speechwriters, but we have seen his personal leadership evolve. I hope that with continued success against terrorism, Bush will go down in history as one of our greatest Presidents. VIRGINIA LAIRD La Jolla, Calif.
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This guide briefly describes how you can customize the application icons shown on the home screen.
|TODO: Merge with Hacking the UI. MinhHaDuong 07:31, 27 October 2008 (UTC) (See: To-Do List)
FSO and OM 2008.8
At FSO application icons are stored below /usr/share/pixmaps/. Those icons are just little image files ou might already know from your PC desktop. To avoid scaling the images should be of 64x64 pixels. The icons are referenced by the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/.
Assume the following shortened example file /usr/share/applications/my-app.desktop which provides a clickable icon on your phones home screen: [Desktop Entry] ... Icon=my-icon ...
This desktop entry references an image "my-icon" which, because of the missing full path and extension, causes the desktop to search for image files below its stndard search path. this will find the icon file /usr/share/applications/my-icon.png.
You can also provide a full path, for example: Icon=/home/root/my-icon.png
Icon sources
Where can I find Free icons ?
- http://www.kde-look.org/
- http://www.gnome-look.org/
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_icon_sets
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/06/35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/
- http://www.maxpower.ca/free-icons/2006/03/05/
Yeah, but where can I find Free icons sets, 64x64px png, designed for 250dpi for smartphone functions ?
- Maybe someone will do http://www.openmoko-look.org someday ?


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Understanding the Cultural "Other"
Well before the Arab Spring, European filmmakers have been attracted by the particular charm of Morocco's landscape. It has been known for some time that Caroline Link, whose exceptional familiarity with the African continent was amply displayed in her Oscar nominated film "Nowhere in Africa", would be shooting her next film in Morocco. Accordingly, there was a great deal of anticipation as to how she would deal with the issues of the region.
In "Exit Marrakech" (click here for a link to the movie trailer with English subtitles), Caroline Link sends a successful German theatre director on tour through Morocco with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's stage classic "Emilia Galotti". The piece is performed in exquisite theatres for selected audiences. This serves as the background to a relationship drama between Heinrich, the director, and Ben, his 17-year-old son, who lives with his divorced mother and at boarding school, and now has to spend the summer vacation with his father in Morocco. As such, Link was quite clever with her choice of literary allusions.
Blind megalomania of rigorous absolutism
Lessing's play is one of the most important works of the European Enlightenment. In a most penetrating and emphatic manner, the play scrutinizes the values of bourgeois autonomy, while highlighting the dangers posed when morality falls under the blind megalomania of rigorous absolutism.
Lessing's work is depicted only once in the film, and that is the play's final scene, in which the bourgeois father strangles his own daughter in order to preserve her virtue. "And now you have to torment the Moroccans with this classical shit," says Ben, who just arrived in the city, not to be met by his father at the airport, but instead picked up by a limo, having to find his way to the theatre by himself and managing to catch the final minutes of the performance.
What the young Ben, played with remarkable subtlety and sophistication by Samuel Schneider, expresses here with all of his adolescent impartiality is nothing less than the fundamental dilemma characterizing his father's theatrical tour, namely, that this cultural exchange is a one-way street. It is no wonder then that Heinrich (confidently portrayed with his characteristic dreariness by Ulrich Tukur) takes no interest whatsoever in the culture and people of Morocco, but instead makes a quick retreat after the polite applause in the theatre to the pool of his luxury hotel and whiles away his time with American travel literature.
Curiosity about his foreign surroundings
By contrast, his son Ben takes advantage of every opportunity to satisfy his curiosity about his foreign surroundings. This is clearly the same curiosity that propels Caroline Link.
Ben goes off on his own to explore the city, meets children in the souks, sees two Moroccan men who he had previously met after one of the performances, and, finally, encounters Karima (superbly played by Harsia Herzi), who apparently works as an occasional prostitute and approaches him at a seedy nightclub. Ben gives her money without wanting to sleep with her, so that she doesn't have to prostitute herself, at least for this evening. He escorts her home and looks for her the following day, eventually accompanying her on the ride to the remote village where her family lives.
His actions may be motivated by his youthful inexperience, yet, at the same time, they clearly express an openness toward those who are totally "other". This is in marked contrast to his naively lethargic father, left back in Marrakesh. After Heinrich finally discovers the location of his son, the two manage to draw nearer to each other during a road trip through the Moroccan landscape. This rapprochement is, in no small measure, equally due to his son's lack of inhibitions as to the Moroccan culture of hospitality and willingness to help.
Incorporating Moroccan culture and its people's
And as for the Moroccan aspect of this exceptionally successful film, the most remarkable thing is the way in which Caroline Link incorporates Moroccan culture and its people's way of life into the scenario. The insight of the director is all the more astonishing – and for German films extremely unusual – in the way that she expresses respect, esteem, and an openness for the "other", here to be found in Maghreb culture.
It is this fundamental stance that allows the images in this film to unfold with such acute precision and intensity. With "Exit Marrakech", Caroline Link demonstrates a sensitivity to Morocco – the beauty of its landscape, the social diversity, and the country's cultural wealth, as well as for its social extremes and contradictions.
In what is perhaps the greatest achievement of the film, the camera lens never lets the audience forget that the story is seen from a European gaze, from the viewpoint of a guest. The film attempts to be open and understanding. It aims to draw near, but at no time wants to impose solutions to phenomena that can only be overcome internally, by Moroccan society itself. In light of all this, the director not only devotes great attention to her protagonists, but also to all of the minor characters, who grace many scenes in the film with a profound touch.
Kaleidoscopic portrait of Morocco's society
Sometimes, they only appear briefly in a scene, such as the hungry beggar, who desperately knocks on the window of a restaurant, the young poet, who wrote a gay romantic novel, the strict, patriarchal father of Karima, and her younger sister, overcome with fear of the foreigner. With her delicate and precisely placed images, Link offers her viewers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society marked by huge economic and ideological differences – and one that is unmistakeably caught up in a process of transformation.
Yet, this is clearly a transformation that does not erase Moroccan cultural identity. Many Western films employ the call to prayer by the muezzin as a metaphor for a threat. Caroline Link takes a completely different stance. In one of the five scenes of the film in which the call to prayer can be heard, a desert guide translates the call for Ben word for word in English. German audiences are provided with subtitles. Such is the portrayal of religious identity in a globalized world.
While Heinrich and Ben manage to find reconciliation, the fate of Karima, whose father has for the time being banished her from the family home on account of the visit by the foreigner, remains unresolved. It is not a matter for the director to settle. This approach is one that would most certainly be criticised by those constrained by a sense of rigorous moral absolutism, namely, those who believe they have a ready-made solution for everyone. And we cannot thank Lessing enough for showing us the extent to which such moral absolutism is prepared to act. Caroline Link's fabulous film creates a space in which we can come to better understand the totally "other". More can hardly be expected from a work of art.
Christoph Leisten
© Qantara.de 2013
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de


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NHL Game Night: 1-1-14 Lightning at Canucks
After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.
Ben Bishop allowed 2 goals on 30 shots for the victory. He was a little iffy on his puck handling tonight, but otherwise had a workmanlike evening in a game where the Lightning didn't force him to have to stand on his head to get the W.
First Period
Second Period
11:25 VAN Richardson (8), (Higgins)
15:27 TB Filppula (15), (Purcell, Killorn)
15:47 TB Johnson (11), (Palat, Barberio)
16:01 VAN Dalpe (1), (Weise, Sestito)
19:57 TB Kucherov (4), (Gudas, Carle)(PP)
Third Period
7:28 TB Killorn (10), (Hedman, Filppula)
Valterri Filppula and Tyler Johnson were the game's first and second stars.
I would like to think this effort tonight will raise some eyebrows around the NHL. True, Vancouver was without the injured Roberto Luongo, but the Lightning pretty well carried this game from start to finish. They jumped on Vancouver, which appeared unprepared for the Lightning's speed and system, early on, handled what little bit of a surge the Canucks could muster, and eventually cruised through the Third Period to the 4-2 win. Even better, the Lightning's puck movement on the PP was excellent tonight, eventually resulting in the game winning goal by Kucherov.
The Lightning closed out the 4th 10 game segment of the season with 15 points, earning 3 insurance points and giving them 4 total insurance points for the season. Those points may become valuable given how many road games the Lightning will be playing in January.
Tonight's game also put three prospects (Johnson, Killorn, and Palat) one game away from graduating from prospect status here on Bolt Prospects. The trio should cross the finish line Friday against Calgary.
Radko Gudas had a helper and was -1 with 1 shot in 20:19. He had a mistake on the Dalpe goal but got it back assisting on Kucherov's game winner.
Mark Barberio had a helper and 1 shot and 1 blocked shot in 10:11. He got caught stepping up into no-man's land in the neutral zone on Richardson's goal.
Johnson had a goal and was +1 with 3 shots and 1 hit in 20:14. He was also 24% on draws. Vancouver was legitimately unprepared for Tyler Johnson's speed tonight, which resulted in his 2-on-1 tap in goal, a penalty he took on a near breakaway, and a few other dangerous rushes.
Alex Killorn had 1 goal and 1 assist and was +2 with 3 shots, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 17:44. He got his helper leading a nice rush and setting a screen in front driving the net and he got his goal off a deflection. He's just a good complimentary scoring line winger. That's his role and he does it well.
Ondrej Palat had a helper and was +1 with 4 shots and 1 blocked shot in 17:56. He made a nice pass to Johnson for the tap in goal and just flubbed a chance early on for a 1-timer point blank in the slot.
J.P. Cote had 2 penalty minutes, 1 shot, and 2 hits in 8:33.
J.T. Brown had 1 shot and 2 hits in 13:11.
Andrej Sustr was +2 with 1 blocked shot in 15:15.
Richard Panik was -1 with 1 shot in 6:51.
Nikita Kucherov had the game winning goal, 3 shots, and 1 blocked shot in 12:38.
The common thing you'll note that is the younger prospects, going against a high quality opponent like Vancouver, saw their ice time reduced to protect them. Well done by the coaching staff.
Box score and extended statistics from NHL.com.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In a victory for Gov. Rick Scott and Republican legislative leaders, a deeply divided Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 2011 law that requires government workers to chip in 3 percent of their salaries to the state pension system.
Justices, in a 4-3 decision, overturned a Leon County circuit judge who found that the law violated the constitutional rights of government workers hired before July 1, 2011. Legislative leaders had feared that a loss at the Supreme Court would blow a hole in the state budget.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Joe Negron, R-Stuart, said he thinks the state could have been required to repay more than $1 billion to workers if it had lost the case. He and other supporters of the 2011 law say government employees should help pay for their retirement packages, as private-sector workers do.
"I think the ruling reaffirms the wisdom of having all state employees, including legislators and judges, contribute something toward their retirement benefits,'' Negron said. "People in the private sector do that. I think that our constituents want us to live by the same rules that exist in their workplace. We can now move forward with crafting our budget."
But opponents described the required contributions as a tax on hundreds of thousands of public employees, ranging from prison guards to teachers. Ron Meyer, an attorney who argued the case for the Florida Education Association, said the law was passed to balance a cash-strapped state budget "on the backs" of government workers, and he dismissed arguments that it was needed to keep the retirement system financially sound.
"That argument is bogus,'' Meyer told reporters at the teachers union headquarters. "It was bogus from the day it was first uttered."
The case primarily centered on whether a 1974 retirement law created contractual rights that shielded public employees from having to contribute money into the pension system. The FEA said the law prevented the state from collecting money from workers hired before July 1, 2011, the date that the 3 percent requirement took effect. The union acknowledged that people hired after that date could be subject to the contributions.
But a majority of the court rejected the union's interpretation of the 1974 law and also turned back an argument that such changes to the pension system needed to be subject to collective bargaining. In a concurring opinion, Justice Barbara Pariente said nothing in the 1974 law indicates that the Legislature intended to "bind itself for all time to preclude future legislatures from ever altering the future benefits" in the retirement system.
"Ultimately, I recognize the frustration of state employees who have in effect experienced a 3 percent reduction in their net pay as a result of the Legislature's changes to the retirement plan,'' Pariente wrote. "Indeed, those changes affect judges and all judicial branch employees as well. However, this case is not a referendum on the Legislature's policy decision. It is not this court's role to express any position on that issue. Instead, as the majority has ably done, it is this court's task to carefully analyze and determine whether the Legislature has acted within its constitutional limits."
But Justice R. Fred Lewis, in a dissenting opinion, wrote that the court could not ignore the contractual rights given to workers in 1974 and go along with the conflicting 2011 law.
"This conflict impacts a significantly important category of Florida workers, our first responders, those who provide safety and security for all citizens, those who provide education and safety for our children, and thousands of other Floridians who provide essential services for all Floridians each and every day,'' Lewis wrote. "These governmental employees are not second-class citizens but are entitled to the full protection of the law just as all other Floridians enjoy."
Justice Jorge Labarga wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Pariente, Justice Charles Canady and Chief Justice Ricky Polston. Along with Lewis, the dissenters were justices James E.C. Perry and Peggy Quince.
Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford struck down the law in March 2012, and the state's appeal was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. Though Fulford ruled against the state, it was able to continue collecting the pension contributions during the appeal.
The 2011 law, which also involved revamping a cost-of-living adjustment in the retirement system, touched off a political battle in the Legislature. Critics argued that government workers should not see their paychecks shrink by 3 percent when many also have not received raises in recent years.
But after Thursday's ruling, Scott issued a statement saying it "supports our efforts to lower the cost of living for Florida families. This means even more businesses will locate and grow in our state, which creates even more opportunities for Floridians to live their version of the American dream."
Scott's statement drew a sharp response from FEA President Andy Ford, who said the multimillionaire governor does not understand what it is like to live on a salary of $50,000 or less --- as Ford said most of his members do. Ford also vowed to try to unseat Scott and other supporters of the pension law during next year's elections.
"The 2014 campaign begins today,'' Ford said. "We're going to have to have a focus on changing the politicians in Tallahassee who don't care about working Floridians and making sure the people who come back here in January of (2015) actually care about the working men and women of this state."


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contingent deferred sales charge(redirected from Deferred Sales Charges)
Contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC)
The formal name for the load of a back-end load fund.
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge
The formal name for the load in a back-end load fund. A CDSC is the fee paid when a shareholder sells shares in a mutual fund within a certain number of years. That is, when an investor initially buys a share in a back-end load fund, he/she agrees to pay a third party, usually a financial institution or broker, a certain percentage of the share's value if he/she decides to sell it within five to 10 years, depending on the specific nature of the agreement. The CDSC usually declines by the year until the maximum number of years is reached. See also: B-share.
contingent deferred sales charge
A mutual fund redemption fee that is reduced or eliminated for specified holding periods. For example, a fund might charge a 6% redemption fee for a holding period of less than one year, a 5% fee for a holding period of one to two years, and so forth. Mutual funds with a contingent deferred sales charge also generally levy an annual 12b-1 fee.


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(Or "Why Thai billionaire settled")
Thai billionaire, Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, offered S$8.88bn (US$7.3 bn) in cash for the 70% stake in F&N that he did not already own. The belief was that that he wanted to kill the sale of F&N's APB shares to Heineken.http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/thai-billionaire-in-7-3-billion-bid-for-fraser-neave/?src=dlbksb
Well he didn't. Instead he has agreed to support the sale of F&N's stake in APB to Heineken NV. As part of an agreement, Heineken said it will not make a general offer for shares in F&N under the Singapore merger code.
Below was the analysis I was planning to publish before news of the deal. Tot readers might be interested in my analysis on why he wouldn't block the APB deal, and why he wouldn't get F&N at $8.88.
The shareholders of F%N should note that about a third of APB's revenues come, not from Tiger, but from products licenced from Heineken. And some licences are going to renewed soon: in Indon and Vietnam. So if F&N shareholders reject the sale of F&N's share of APB to Heineken, and if Heineken cuts its nose to spite its face, APB is worth only S$36.7. Actually, this fact explains something I never understood: Tiger was not APB's premier offering in a number of regional products; a Heineken product was. Now I know why: ang mohs (APB is managed by Heineken) clever to ensure that Heineken products have a presence.
So this is shumething the Thai bidder of F&N has to take into consideration given that he is geared to his eyeballs and beyond. He also has to take into account that APB could be delisted if the free float drops a little more. Co must have free float of at least 10% of shares.
All F&N shareholders also have to take into account that
— Heineken's shareholders don't want it to overpay for APB,
— Heineken has mgt control of APB, and
— even if Heineken withdraws its bid, it can take control of APB via arbitration and has the right of first refusal over F&N's APB shares. F&N directors have said that in case of dispute over valuation, the mechanism is not related to its share price. So could get less.
My guess is that he will not try to block the sale at the coming EGM of F&N. He wants the cash and other assets of F&N (soft drinks?) in a break-up of F&N. But his offer of S$8.88 is too cheap. F&N closed yesterday at 8.97. Note F&N plans to return effectively S$2.12 a share if its shareholders approve the sale of APB shares.


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Bonfire bangers & beans
Nutrition and extra info
- kcal454
- fat28g
- saturates8g
- carbs28g
- sugars13g
- fibre5g
- protein23g
- salt2.66g
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 2 celery sticks, finely chopped
A collection of long, thick, juicy stalks around a central, tender heart, celery ranges in…
- 4 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 2 x 400g cans chopped tomato
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 2 tbsp dark brown sugar
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2 thyme sprigs
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 x 400g cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
Cannellini beancan-a-leen-ee been
Slightly kidney-shaped with squarish ends, cannellini beans are from Italy and are creamy white…
- 2 red peppers, deseeded and chopped
- 2 x 450g packs herby sausages
- handful parsley leaves, chopped, to serve (optional)
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a large flameproof casserole. Add the onion, celery and bacon, then cook for 5-10 mins until softened. Turn up the heat and add the tomato purée. Cook for 2 mins, then add the chopped tomatoes, sugar, mustard, thyme, Worcestershire sauce and 200ml water, then bring to the boil. Cook, uncovered, over a low heat for 15 mins. Add the beans and peppers, then simmer for 15 mins more, topping up with a little boiling water if needed.
Meanwhile, heat oven to 190C/170C fan/ gas 5. Toss the sausages with remaining 1 tbsp oil and spread out on a baking tray. Cook for 30 mins until browned all over, turning occasionally. Nestle the sausages among the beans, then cover and place the pan in the oven. Cook for 30 mins more. Remove from the oven, sprinkle over the parsley, if using, and serve with the baked potatoes (see 'Goes well with'). Can be made up to 2 days in advance and reheated in a low oven or on the hob.


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Linux Burrows Deeper Into the Enterprise
Aug 15, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Server-side Linux has been pushing into the enterprise for some years now, and 42 percent of respondents to a survey conducted on behalf of Linux vendor SUSE said it was either their primary server OS or one of their top server platforms.
Perhaps more importantly, Linux is extending its reach beyond its traditional areas of supercomputing, Web servers, Internet hosting and application development to mainstream computing environments ranging from departmental servers to datacenter server clusters.
"The top three reasons people are switching to Linux are they get better performance for a lower cost; they reduce their risk of vendor lock-in; and innovation -- it helps mitigate the risk of technology obsolescence," Kim Kerry, director of solutions marketing at SUSE, told LinuxInsider.
Linux "has long been on edge-of-network devices [and] on email and other, less mission-critical applications," Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, pointed out. "In recent years, it has become the underpinning for SAP and mainframe applications -- 37 percent of mainframe owners use Linux."
Databases were the major new area. Sixty-nine percent of respondents were either running databases on Linux or planning to do so within the next 12 months. Business intelligence came next with 62 percent of the respondents either running BI applications on Linux or planning to do so. CRM applications accounted for 42 percent and ERP 31 percent.
Nearly 200 IT executives at businesses with more than 500 employees in fields ranging from financial services to healthcare to manufacturing to government were polled for the survey. More than half worked in organizations with at least 5,000 employees.
More Findings
Moving to open source platforms can help avoid vendor lock-in, most respondents agreed. Nearly half said Linux was currently either widely or significantly deployed throughout their organizations.
When respondents consider migrating mission-critical applications to Linux, they consider security, total cost of ownership and high-availability features. The biggest impediments to greater adoption of Linux are third-party service and support; security; and lack of in-house technical skills.
However, moving to Linux is not suitable for every organization.
"If it's a Windows shop and everybody is trained on Windows, the total cost of ownership savings are not as good, because most Windows servers run on x86 hardware," SUSE's Kerry said. However, "if you're in an environment where you've got large Unix servers -- AIX or Solaris -- running proprietary RISC environments, there's a substantial TCO benefit in moving to Linux."
Myths About Linux
Better TCO has long been the argument forwarded for moving to Linux -- after all, it's an open source OS, which means the software itself is free.
"Look at what it costs to run Windows and VMware versus Linux solutions with KVM for virtualization infrastructure and management," Clabby told LinuxInsider. "There's a huge difference in ISV software license costs versus open source."
However, moving to Linux can be more costly than expected.
"It's not just the software acquisition costs," said Kerry. "You also have to figure in the installation, configuration, deployment and ongoing management costs, and whether or not your employees have the training and expertise to really leverage these solutions."
Further, vendor lock-in does exist in Linux just as it does in proprietary platforms. It just takes a different form -- and because Linux is open source, enterprises do have alternatives.
"There's hard lock-in, which is contractual or legal, and there's what I like to think of as soft lock-in, where your switching costs are so high that even though everything is open and free, you have to take those into consideration," Kerry explained.
Some Linux vendors use soft lock-in, offering a product stack that works well with all their other products. SUSE works with third-party providers and optimizes their technology to work with its own.
"We want to deploy best-of-breed solutions using third-party technology," Kerry explained, evoking echoes of the 1990s when this approach was common.


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The navabi collection
spring/summer 2019
Classic tailoring pieces with a soft twist, the navabi Collection creates a perfectly contemporary capsule range. From sleek suits to chic patterned dresses, the Spring/Summer designs will become permanent wardrobe favourites.
Modern luxury
Designed in our Italian atelier and imagined in flowing chiffon, opulent silk and natural cotton, these pieces have been created to stand the test of time. They will feel beautiful against your skin and drape to create elegant silhouettes.
The art of colour
Sweet sugary shades dominate our tailoring this season. Fill your wardrobe with powder pink, sky blue, dusky lilac and soft coral to put a new twist on power dressing for spring and summer.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Thanks for the reply! I was able to get it to work, but now that I updated to OS2008, here we go again:-)Lets see if I can get this to work before I come crawling back (or does it work yet for 2008?)Thanks again, you guys are awesome


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Wondering why your phone keeps dying after a session or two of Angry Birds? One study says it's because you're too cheap to pay.
According to scientists at Purdue University who examined apps on Windows and Android-based phones, free applications only require about 10-30% of the energy they actually use. On the flip side, the scientists say that a whopping 65-75% of that energy goes toward powering third-party advertisements—the ones that keep those apps free. Buying the premium versions of games like Angry Birds could help alleviate this problem.
In other words, free apps aren't really all that free.
Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads [New Scientist, via Touch Arcade]


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Here's the first one, Nasi Briyani (Spiced Rice)
Ingredients A
3 cups Basmati rice
4 cups water
1 tbsp chicken stock essence
3 tbsps raisins (original called for 1 tbsp)
Ingredients B
1" cinnamon stick
3 cloves
4 cardamoms
1 tsp tumeric powder
Ingredients C (fried)
1/2 small bowl garlic and shallots
1 cup cashew nuts
~ Heat up 2-3 tbsp margarine in pot, stir fry ingredients B until fragnant.
~ Add in ingredients A (except water) and fry evenly.
~ Add in water, cover with pot lid and bring to boil. Reduce to low heat and cook for 10-15 minutes or until rice totally cooked.
~ Sprinkle with fried garlic and shallots and cashew nuts and serve.
2nd one, Kampung Mutton Curry
Ingredients A
500g topside mutton (cut into chunks)
400g potatoes (peel and cut into small cubes)
1-2 cups water
Ingredients B
3 tbsps chilli powder
5 fresh red chilli
1 slice galangal (lengkuas)
3-4 stalks lemongrass
100g shallots
100g garlic
2 candle nuts
Ingredients C
5 cardamoms
3cm cinnamon
Ingredients D
200ml coconut milk
salt and sugar to taste
~ Heat up 4-5 tbsps oil in pot, stir fry ingredients B and C until fragnant.
~ Add in mutton and potatoes and stir fry until even. Add in 2 cups water, cover to cook at low heat until tender.
~ Stir in ingredients D, bring to boil. Remove and serve.


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Welcome to our calendar. We are still in the process of populating events for this season. Events are currently up to date until end of April. Thank you for your patience. Check back regularly.
An event every 2 weeks that begins at 10:00am on Friday, repeating until October 18, 2019
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The wicked warm spell that bedeviled the region's ski areas last year has been broken. Snow guns, ably assisted by Wednesday's surprise storm, are turning the brownscape of late fall into the dazzling white of winter.
"That storm gave us a big kick. We're opening Friday," said Katrina Gayman, marketing director at Pennsylvania's Whitetail Mountain Resort, 90 minutes northwest of Baltimore. "Now we're going to be sitting pretty."
That goes for Whitetail's sister resorts — Liberty and Roundtop — which expect to open some trails Saturday morning. All three ski areas will start small and then ramp up operations as the weekend progresses and the snow gets deeper.
Until days ago, snow-making machines were engaged in a futile attempt to create a wonderland. After each teasing dip, the temperature soared, changing snow to slush.
"It was frustrating, tough to take," Gayman said.
But with another storm drawing a bead on the area Saturday and cold weather to follow on its heels, the resorts are feeling better about the coming holidays: New Year's Eve and then the bookends that make up the heart and soul of the ski season, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Presidents Day weekends.
"We've broken the fall weather pattern. Once we get open, I don't think we'll be fighting to stay open," said Anne Weimer, Liberty's marketing director.
Liberty's crews were making snow Thursday afternoon and into the night. Roundtop, just south of Harrisburg, Pa., fired up the snow guns Wednesday and shifted into around-the-clock snow making on Thursday as temperatures remained below freezing.
At Wisp Resort in Garrett County, Maryland's only ski area, snow-making has been sporadic since Thanksgiving, but efficient to the point of creating a 12-inch base that has allowed the opening of eight trails and five chairlifts. Snow guns are putting down a layer of white on eight other trails.
"We're telling people we're making snow 'as weather permits' — that's the everything phrase to us now," said resort spokeswoman Sarah Duck.
The same good news for skiers and snowboarders has spread from Maine to California, where some resorts are reporting more snow now than they had all of last season.
"We came into this season with high hopes, and we're being rewarded," said Kelly Davis, director of research for SnowSports Industries America, which tracks retail and manufacturing trends.
Resort operators acknowledge that they might have become a bit jaded in an industry that lives and dies by conditions beyond their control.
After several seasons of typical winter weather, last year was a meltdown. Liberty, Whitetail and Roundtop, which usually have all trails open well before Christmas and operate for more than 90 days each, were able to squeeze in about 66 days each. And even when the resorts had good conditions, the skiing public in the Baltimore-Washington corridor wasn't in the mood.
"It almost felt like the wheels never got rolling. When you live down in Baltimore and you're wearing a light jacket and out walking the dog and playing tennis, you're not thinking about skiing," Gayman said. "Only the die-hards showed up."
Davis agreed. "It's not just having snow, it's having snow fall in major metropolitan areas. When snow falls on the heads of people in the city, it gets them amped up."
Last year, U.S. resorts reported a 15.8 percent drop, to 51 million skier and snowboarder visits, the second-biggest decline on record, according to the National Ski Areas Association. Kelly said sales of snow sports equipment fell 6 percent from 2010.
That pattern looked to be repeating itself this year, when above-average temperatures lingered through the fall.
Retailers nationwide reported a 30 percent drop in sales of cross country ski equipment in October compared with the same period last year. Snowboarding equipment sales fell 19 percent and alpine ski gear slipped 8 percent, Kelly said.
Locally, it meant that several thousand seasonal employees hired to run the lifts, rent equipment, work in restaurants and bars, and patrol the slopes remained idle.
"All the seasonals hope to work before Christmas to make some extra money for presents," said Gayman. "It was a struggle. But we have good folks who stuck it out."
It also could have meant continued struggles for Wisp, which emerged from bankruptcy protection this month when EPT Ski Properties of Kansas City bought the property for $23.5 million. The resort is being run by Salt Lake City-based Pacific Group, a firm involved in ski resort condominium developments in Squaw Valley, Calif.; Park City, Utah, home of the 2002 Olympic ski venues; and Whistler, British Columbia, site of the 2010 Winter Olympic skiing events.
Instead, the Maryland resort is getting ready for a full schedule of ski camps, lessons and Governor's Cup racing in March.
It takes Liberty less than an hour to crank up its 350 snow guns once the computerized system senses conditions are right, said Ron Crozier, the mountain manager.
While water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, snow makers say ideal conditions occur when the temperature dips below 28 degrees. Low humidity is part of the cocktail, too. A wet-bulb temperature in the low- to mid-20s is optimal.
In just 60 seconds, Liberty's system pumps 5,200 gallons of water to make 21.66 tons of snow, or 1,300 tons of snow an hour. As the snow piles up, the crews fire up the massive machines that sculpt the surface to perfection.
"And then," said Crozier, smiling and savoring the thought of a season unlike the last one, "we charge the hill."
The wicked warm spell that bedeviled the region's ski areas last year has been broken. Snow guns, ably assisted by Wednesday's surprise storm, are turning the brownscape of late fall into the dazzling white of winter.


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If Congress fails to reach a budget deal this week, California will lose more than $500 million in funding for schools, the military, disability services and other federal spending, according to a report released by the White House.
More: Specifics on how California will be affected
The steep cuts, put into place in 2011 as a way to dissuade the ever-feuding Democrats and Republicans in Washington from refusing to reach a deal, are set to go into effect March 1. They have become known in politcal jargon as "sequester cuts," or "sequestration."
Local news from across Southern California
In California, the cuts would trim $87.6 million in federal funding for primary and secondary education, and $62.9 million from special education, the Obama Administration's report said.
About 10,000 college work-study jobs be eliminated, along with spots for 8,200 children in the public preschool programs Head Start and Early Head Start, the White House report said.
In addition, 64,000 civilian defense employees would be furloughed for some period of time, and army base operations would lose about $54 million in California, the report said.
About $3 million in funds for job support for the unemployed would also be affected.
The administration's decision to release the report on Monday was part of a nationwide media blitz aimed at persuading Republicans to sign on to a deal. Some Democrats have also opposed compromise on issues that are keeping the two sides apart.


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Lawmakers to reintroduce bill in wake of shooting
Bill previously introduced in 2009
MADISON, Wis. — Democratic state lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill designed to take guns away from perpetrators of domestic violence.
The call to pass the proposal comes in response to a shooting Sunday in a spa near Milwaukee in which authorities said Radcliffe Franklin Haughton killed his wife and two others before killing himself.
A judge issued a restraining order against Haughton on Thursday and prohibited him from owning a firearm.
Democratic state Sen. Lena Taylor said there are inconsistent standards across the state for the collection of weapons. The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department has not responded to messages left asking whether Haughton surrendered any weapons as ordered.
Under the bill previously introduced in 2009, those ordered to turn over their weapons would have to comply within 48 hours or face arrest.


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With Porn Filters Going Oh So Well, UK Roars Ahead In Expanding Them To Include 'Extremist' Content
from the things-are-getting-a-little-dystopian deptThe UK government's futile and ham-fisted attempts to purge the Internet of all of its rough edges and naughty bits are about to see international escalation. The country is only really just kicking off their campaign to impose porn filters that not only often don't work, but also have so far managed to accidentally block numerous entirely legal and useful websites including technology news sites like Slashdot, digital rights groups like the EFF, rape counseling websites, and more. David Cameron's government has long-stated they want this filtering to eventually extend to websites deemed "extremist" by the government, and it appears that new proposals being drafted hope to make that a reality sooner rather than later.
Just as child porn is used to justify broader porn filters, beheading videos appear to be the magic bullet into scaring people into accepting filters that move well beyond porn. According to the BBC, government-funded operations within the counter-terrorism referral unit will soon order UK broadband ISPs like TalkTalk, Virgin Media and BSkyB to expand filters to include websites declared to be promoting terrorism. As most filter opponents have warned, the slope in the UK is moving beyond slippery and is getting downright muddy thanks in part to new UK Immigration Minister James Brokenshire:
"Terrorist propaganda online has a direct impact on the radicalisation of individuals and we work closely with internet service providers (ISPs) to remove terrorist material hosted in the UK or overseas," said Brokenshire. "Through proposals from the Extremism Taskforce announced by the Prime Minister in November, we will look to further restrict access to material that is hosted overseas - but illegal under UK law - and help identify other harmful content to be included in family-friendly filters," he added.In other words, because of pesky things like the Constitution in the United States and instead of just using existing, vast international resources to prosecute criminals and terrorists, we're going to be expanding broken ISP filters against the advice of pretty much everybody. Granted what is deemed "extremist" will likely be entirely arbitrary, and as we've seen with the porn filters, there's probably no limit to the number of entirely legal and legitimate websites UK citizens will find suddenly inaccessible.


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Over the weekend, David Nash drew my attention to a book that he found on Amazon, that purported to contain bilingual crosswords puzzles in English and Wageman.
I was a bit perlexed by this, since, well, Wagiman doesn't have much in the way of practical applications such as second-language learning, that is, of course, beyond the community of Wagiman people. It should be noted at this point though, that this book is not being marketed towards the small community of non-Wagiman speaking Wagiman people, but to a North American audience.


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Allan deSouza: Through the Black Country...
Sept.4-Nov. 4, 2018
Through the Black Country, or, The Sources of the Thames Around the Great Shires of Lower England and Down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean is based on the expedition diaries of deSouza's avatar, Hafeed Sidi Mubarak Mumbai, a fictional Zanzibari who explores London during the 2016 Brexit vote. Combining text and image, intrigue and artifice, Hafeed's mixed-media accounts upend imperial narratives of discovery to cast critical light on the city's neoliberal present.
Organized by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Using Bluetooth in a car is pretty damn snazzy—whether it's just a headset or integrated with the entertainment center, it's just a nice convenience. The one problem that still remains with these types of systems is dialing. In most cases, you still have to grab your phone and find your way through a phonebook, therefore taking your eyes off the road. Bluetouch is looking to solve that problem.
BlueTouch is a touchscreen Bluetooth module that includes a keypad for easy dialing. You simply sync your phone with the BlueTouch. BlueTouch then syncs with your car's entertainment center. It can stream music from your phone or do all of the calling jazz, as well. It's available for $400, unfortunately. [BlueTouch via ChipChick]


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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Tuesday's Tip - Check your Spam Folder!
Almost all email tools have a Spam or Junk folder where your email provider attempts to route emails it thinks are spam. The problem is that legitimate emails can get routed here too. I check my Spam folder daily and find at least one or two legitimate emails a week. In the case of my Yahoo email, I can designate the legitimate email as "Not Spam" and it will be moved to my Inbox.
Blog posts can also be routed to a Spam folder. Blogger divides comments into Published, Awaiting Moderation and Spam. It's a good idea to check the Blogger Spam folder once in a while just to make sure you didn't miss a valid comment.
To check for spam comments on your blog, first go to your Design page. For my blog, a Design button is visible on the top right of my blog page, but your location may vary depending on your template. This is the page where you can customize your blog template and settings. Once you're there, select "Comments" from the list in the left-hand column and you should see a list of Published Comments. The left-hand column has selections for Published, Awaiting Moderation, and Spam. Click on Spam and from there you can review any comments in the Spam folder. Since I started moderating my comments, I haven't received any comments in the Spam folder, but I suppose it's still possible.
My most recent contact was someone requesting more information about a Creedon family that was in the Guion Miller rolls. I emailed back to tell him that I would scan the rest of the information and to watch for another email. I didn't hear back which should have been a clue. I went ahead and scanned and sent the information, but didn't hear back again. Did he receive it and not answer? Or did it wind up in his Spam folder? I'll probably never know!
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- AnonymousSeptember 8, 2013 at 2:51 PM
I would love to know where the Blogger spam folder is LOL. I'll find it one day.ReplyDeleteReplies
David, I'll update the tip to include some instructions. You can get to the Blogger Spam Folder from the Design page. From there, select Comments from the left-hand column. That brings up the page where you can manage comments posted to your blog. If you look in the left-hand column under Comments, there is Published, Awaiting Moderation, and Spam. Click on Spam to see if you have anything in there. Hope that helps!Delete
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US-Afghan base attacked in eastern Afghanistan
Taliban suicide bombers assaulted a joint U.S.-Afghan air base in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, detonating explosives at the gate and sparking a gunbattle that lasted at least two hours with American helicopters firing down at militants before the attackers were defeated.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said they first exploded a car bomb at the entrance of Jalalabad Airfield then stormed into the base. A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, confirmed that car bombs were used at the gate but said none of the militants were able to enter. The NATO military coalition also described it as a failed attack.
"We can confirm insurgents, including multiple suicide bombers, attacked Jalalabad Airfield this morning. None of the attackers succeeded in breaching the perimeter," Lt. Col. Hagen Messer, a spokesman for the international military coalition, said in an email. He said that the fighting had ended by mid-morning and that reports showed one member of the Afghan security forces was killed. Several foreign troops were wounded, but Messer did not give any numbers or details.
"The final assessment of what happened this morning is not yet complete, but initial reports indicate there were three suicide bombers," Messer said.


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Utah opens new review of suspended swimming coach
- Greg Winslow was suspended amid allegations of abuse of a swimmer 6 years ago in Arizona
- Utah has hired two outside attorneys to lead investigation
- Lawyers will examine whether there was wrongdoing during Winslow%27s tenure as head coach
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah announced Monday it is hiring a pair of outside investigators to review allegations of physical abuse and inappropriate behavior by the school's ousted swim coach.
The university already has said it won't renew the contract of suspended swim coach Greg Winslow based on allegations that he sexually abused a teenage girl he coached in Arizona six years ago.
Winslow has been on paid suspension since Feb. 28, when University of Utah officials were made aware of the Arizona allegations.
He has not been arrested or charged in either state. The Maricopa County attorney's office in Phoenix is reviewing a 97-page police report from Arizona State University.
Winslow commonly came to practice drunk; had outbursts of anger, including once punching an assistant coach; used racial slurs; and once forced a team member to swim underwater with his hands tied to a PVC pipe that was strapped to his back until he blacked out, parent Matt Fiascone said. Fiascone's son, Austin, swam on the University of Utah team for three seasons while Winslow was coach.
"He's a monster," Matt Fiascone said of Winslow.
Winslow did not answer phone calls for comment from told the Associated Press, and his voicemail box was full. He has denied the Arizona allegations.
Utah athletics director Chris Hill said he's not aware of the any of the allegations at Utah being of a sexual nature.
Matt Fiascone said he called to tell Hill about Winslow's behavior in March 2012. He said he now knows other parents lodged complaints as far back as 2008. He criticizes Hill for not properly investigating.
"The pattern here is one of just absolute disrespect for the welfare of the student athlete," said Matt Fiascone, whose son was dismissed from the team in November for going to a weekend party after Winslow asked team members not to.
In an interview Monday, Hill said he went to University of Utah President David Pershing on Sunday and asked him to take an independent look at Winslow's tenure after new information came to light this weekend. Hill declined to elaborate on the new information but said the investigation will look at the entirety of Winslow's nearly six-year tenure running the swim team.
"We have to look both backward and forward," Hill said Monday. "It is important to have it be thorough."
Pershing said Monday he has chosen two attorneys to do the new investigation: Michael Glazier, a Kansas City, Mo.,-based attorney with experience doing college athletic investigations; and Alan Sullivan, a Salt Lake City attorney.
They will be asked to determine if any wrongdoing occurred during Winslow's tenure. The investigators also will be asked to find out what was reported to university officials and how those reports were handled.
The University of Utah did an internal investigation of some of these allegations in the fall but found no wrongdoing, university spokesman Keith Sterling said. Hill said that probe was triggered by a letter sent by a swimmer's father. Hill declined to discuss what they investigated or what the findings were, saying that will be revealed at the conclusion of the new investigation.
"The issue is to find out what we know, what the athletic department knew, what the athletic department maybe should have known, what are the things that happened," Hill said. "What, if appropriate, improvements need to be made in our program."
The university does not yet have a cost estimate or timetable for the outside investigation, though Hill said it will be done quickly.
Winslow denied the sexual abuse allegations at Arizona State University in an interview with ASU police. The police report shows Winslow was 32 when he took a special interest in a 15-year-old swimmer on the Sun Devils Aquatics club in Tempe, Ariz.
The girl's father reported the abuse to ASU police in September 2012 after his now-22-year-old daughter attempted suicide. The father told police that the sexual abuse went on for three years until Winslow left to take the job at the University of Utah, according to a police report obtained by the AP. The abuse occurred after swim practice in Winslow's locked office and included kissing and fondling, the report shows.
Winslow urged her to keep quiet about the abuse, saying, "People will think I'm Chester the Molester," according to a police report. The woman told police in Arizona that Greg Winslow was "like the creepy uncle you know hugging you too long."
The University of Utah conducted a criminal background check of Winslow before hiring him as a swim coach in June 2007, Sterling said.
Prior to coming to Salt Lake City, Winslow was assistant swim coach at ASU, the Air Force Academy and St. Cloud (Minn.) State. He is originally from Colorado Springs and was an All-America swimmer in 1996 at the University of North Dakota.


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Round-Neck Sweater with Stripes in 100% Merino's Wool Extrafine. Light Sweater. Available in Plus Size too. Entirely made in Italy from Italian manufacturing
- Round-neck sweater with stripes in Merino's Wool has the rib cuffes and rib bottom two for one that has the good quality to maintain the elasticity in the time also after many washing.
- The border of the neck has linked seam. On the linked machine you can manually give the right elasticity to offer the best comfort and flexibility. The seam of the hips is realized by the same linked machine so the stripes can be perfectly match. The only solution to give a pleasant image to the sweater. Youtube Video Linked Machine
- Sweater's knitwork, after ribbed two for one, is a stockinette stitch realized on 12 GG made one lenght of cloth at time. This thing on the knitwear machine, also if the production time is longer, is very important because the Merino's knit shows an ordered and homogeneous aspect, necessary prerogative for an high quality sweater that give massimum vestibility and comfort. Youtube Video Knitwear Machine
- The yarn's title used with Merinos Woll's sweater, measure's unit utilized to measure the thicknes, is 2/30 long hair extrafine in 100% Merino's Wool Extrafine. The long hair of the yarn is very important because after the twisting it consideraly riduces pilling effect so it'll not never seems a Merino Wool's old sweater. An adeguated washing really reduces the possible felting. So we reccommend to follow letterally the washing instructions and to not wear the Round-Neck Sweater with Stripes not more of of two days so the beauty of the wool isn't compromise. Advices to wash the sweaters
- The sweater's border finishes are entirely realized by hand with the yarn of same colour of knitwork, this to delete the antiestethic presence of yarn of different colour, used from flat machine that degrade the quality of the sweater
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Hello and welcome back to the links of the week. After a break over the last weeks I have collected enough sites about ASP.NET, Application Lifecycle Management, Windows Store App development, and Windows Azure from the last three weeks that I want to introduce to you.
- Four new single page application templates. Gunnar Peipman introduces the four new single page application templates Ember (uses Emberjs and Handlebars), Durandal (uses Durandal, Bootstrap, Knockout, and Sammy), Breeze (uses Breeze, Knockout, and g), and Hot Towel (uses Durandal, Bootstrap, Breeze, Knockout, g, Sammy, and Toastr).
- Building Amazing Apps with the ASP.NET EmberJS Template. Nathan Totten explains the above mentioned new Ember template in more detail and shows you how you can get started with it.
- Bundling and minifying in ASP.NET MVC. Another post from Gunnar Peipman about the bundling and minifying feature in ASP.NET. He shows how you can use it and gives you some tips and tricks.
Application Lifecycle Management
- ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and updates to two other guides. The ALM Rangers have published some new and updated guides. Willy-P. Schaub introduces them in short and gives you the appropriate download links.
- Run CI builds in your Git team project. Andy Lewis shows how you can create a CI build process with Git.
Windows Store App Development
- How to profile a XAML Windows Store App. Does your Windows Store App has not the performance which you want to have? Then have a look at this post from Andrew B. Hall which shows you how you can profile your Windows Store App.
- Alive with activity, Part 1: Working with tiles, badges, and toasts. A great tile experience is a key factor for the success of a Windows Store App. Kraig Brockschmidt explains why your app should be "alive" and how you can achieve this "aliveness".
Windows Azure
- Choosing between SQL Server in Windows Azure VM & Windows Azure SQL Database. Often comes the question "What should I use? A SQL Server running in a Windows Azure VM or should I go with Windows Azure SQL Databases?". Madhan Arumugam and Guy Bowerman post will help you to decide in which situation you should use one of them.
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GDPR | Seers Article
The GDPR assessment cost is an evaluation assessment for the new Data Privacy European Law. In this present day, companies are obliged to comply GDPR rules and so as assessment. There is a certain amount of everything in this world. It has been seen that certain aspects have a great impact on GDPR assessment costs. For example, the scope of the environment, nature of the collected data, size of the organization, number of geographic locations and data centers, the complexity of the IT infrastructure so on and so forth. Professional advisors have to be competent because there skills and experience values a lot in terms of GDPR assessment cost. One more advantage of skilled advisors is that they know how to meet requirements and cater to cost-effective approaches without sacrificing legal obligations. $10,000 is just an initial cost for the GDPR assessment project. The TrustNet team is well-known for serving cost-effective cybersecurity services for many years. The service is being provided to uncountable organizations and industries all around the world. Here, the question may arise, that how much it can cost you?
As mentioned above, several aspects, like the size of your organization and volume of personal data, affects the cost of GDPR assessment. Certain steps and phases can be taken while assessing the GDPR process. Each step has a particular cost and time requirements. The GDPR assessment covers the data discovery process, customer GDPR privacy notifications, and training of employees.
Microsoft gdpr self-assessment is also a useful tool by Microsoft corporation.
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Arcade Era Karaoke (CANCELLED)
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An event every week that begins at 8:00 pm on Sunday, repeating indefinitely
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I got this DVD last week and already watched it twice and used it in my training. I was cautious at first and then amazed at the positive effect of the bodyweight massage for myself and my partner.
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|[An Nahar] Attackers have stormed a church service in a town in Nigeria's volatile northeast and killed 15 people in the latest such violence targeting Christians in recent days, an official said Monday.
News of the killings emerged after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
questioned whether deadly Islamist attacks on churches in his country and other violence worldwide could be signs of coming "end times".
Jonathan also suggested that the Islamist turban group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
aimed to take over the Nigerian capital Abuja, but vowed the group would be defeated and claimed that progress had been made in thwarting attacks.
Details were still being confirmed from the remote area where the latest church attack occurred, but it appeared the victims had been shot, said Mohammed Kanar, regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency.
"We received information from our personnel in Chibok that some attackers stormed a church during Sunday service yesterday and killed 15 people," Kanar told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The attack followed violence on Friday that saw attackers slit the throats of 15 Christians in a pre-dawn raid in Musari, also in the northeast. Musari and Chibok are located in Nigeria's Borno state, where Boko Haram has been based.
During a Christmas Eve service last week, gunnies attacked a church in northeastern Yobe state, killing six people, including the pastor, before setting the building ablaze.
Violence linked to Boko Haram's insurgency in northern and central Nigeria is believed to have left some 3,000 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, roughly divided between a mainly Moslem north and predominately Christian south.
While the violence has been severe in certain areas this Christmas season, it has been less bloody than in 2011, when scores were killed in bombings and shootings at churches and other locations.
Last year's violence had prompted Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in the hardest-hit areas.
During comments Sunday in which he mentioned attacks on churches in Nigeria, Syria's war and the situation in the Central African Republic, where rebels have pushed their way across the impoverished country, Jonathan spoke of the Biblical end times.
"I was just wondering, could this be a clear way of telling us that the end times are so close?" he told the church congregation.
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