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"The Johnson City Police Department has identified the individual responsible for delivering packages to numerous businesses throughout Johnson City as well as the Tri-Cities area. After speaking with this individual, it has been determined that there was neither criminal intent nor threat to harm by this person. The packages were meant as gifts. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Area Explosive Ordnance Units also assisted."
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UPDATE: 10:48 AM..: According to authorities there are ten additional sites that have seen similar threats. View photos: Bristol, Johnson City bomb scare
Our crews in Johnson City tell us seven locations were threatened there. Police revealed Omnisource, the post office on State of Franklin, the bus station in downtown as well as the library in downtown were on that list. We've also learned the U.S. Forestry office and an outfitter business in Unicoi County were also threatened.
We learned an investigation into a location in Greene County turned out to be a legitimate package delivered over the weekend.
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They found out about the package after a report was made in a phone call.
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UPDATE 8:50 A.M.: Investigators on the scene at the Bristol Post Office say the suspiciuos package is about six inches in diameter.
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We are still working to gather more facts about the similar investigations underway in Johnson City, Unicoi County, and Greene County.
UPDATE 8:35 A.M.: Investigations now under way in Bristol, Johnson City, Greeneville, and Unicoi County.
Bomb squads across the region are being called in to action after a series of suspicious packages have been found in several locations across the Tri-Cities.
We know investigations are currently underway in Bristol, Tennessee, Johnson City, and Unicoi County.
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Sorry for the long post, but I fear I cannot describe it shorter :)
I am running kdenlive 0.9.5-git20130403 on a 64bit ubuntu 12.04, AMD quadcore @ 2.7 Ghz and 8GB of RAM.
In my current project I use stills ( 8MP up to 18MP ) and movie clips (1080p and 1080i) to create a movie of my last trip to new zealand. I have appx. 1000 stills and 250 movie clips to be added to the final edit. The project setting is for output to 1080p @ 25fps.
With this setup I have several problems:
1.) I have now added ~200 stills/movie clips and kdenlive will constantly use up my memory after a while of editing ( > 5.6 GB after 1 hr work) which will cause the system to swap once I start rendering out ( melt using up to 3 GB) in my current setting. Also the loading time for the project is already very long. I am forced to split the project into several sub projects and do a final edit from the parts, which is not really very convenient.
Are there any tips on how to tackle this problem ?
2.) This is the one which bothers me most: When working with the setting of 1080p@25fps the playback is slow. For the clips and stills alone without any effects it is at ~ 15fps but as soon as transistions and effects ( most notably pan and zoom) are used the frame rate drops to 1-3 fps and sometimes even below that. Even with the realtime setting checked I do not get any usable feedback about the timing and needed editing of the movie. It is mostly guesswork and the turnaorund cycles via rendering are very long.
If I reduce the project settings to 1/4 (480x270@25fps) I manage to get a realtime display almost throughout the project. Working with this setting helps tremendously.
Now the problem is, that I cannot simply switch the project back to 1080p, as all the effects with transformations or cropping are using absolute values, thus ruining all my hard work in setting up the correct transformations (still image clipping, Ken-Burns Effects etc).
I tried all sorts of approaches but never got any settings which gave me a fast playback and a FullHD output.
Right now I have hacked together a dirty program which adjusts the effect settings to the proper values for either the 1080p or the 1/4 settings. This works astongishly well, but directly manipulating the .kdenlive project files is not a good way to deal with this.
Have I overlooked something obvious or is there no support from kdenlive to edit in a low resolution and render it out in a high one ?
Any thoughts and ideas are highly appreciated.
Sun, 04/07/2013 - 22:52
you need to go to the project settings and check the use proxy clips option. then every clip you want to proxy you right click on the clip in the project tree and check use proxy. then wait for it to render.
Mon, 04/08/2013 - 11:04
Can you share your 'quick and dirty' hack?
I experience exactly the same problems. I'm working with proxies, but once effects, still images, pan+zoom etc are included I'm essentially editing in the dark, with painfully dragging playback - I have no idea how cuts are flowing, how the music fits, if audio is in sync, and it means I miss lots of simple errors. The only way to know for sure is by rendering out the project/parts of a project which is a huge amount of time to waste when you just want to know if everything's in sync.
Kdenlive 0.9.4
64-bit Ubuntu Studio 12.10
2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo (3.8GB RAM)
Mon, 04/08/2013 - 22:50
thank you very much! I'll try it out.
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 02:33
This sounds like a feature request could be made on Mantis along the lines of "proxy clips for still images". I would think there would be a good chance such a request would get up since higher resolution is what it is all about these days.
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 09:18
As far as I'm aware image proxies has been available for many releases probably back to when video proxies were introduced not just recent builds. The problem as ttguy has mentioned appears to be no control over resolution, putting in 4k stills gives project resolution output in a quick simple test which at 1920x1080 is not ideal although they play fine here.
Feature request really, probably a simple job. As proxy generation already exists.
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 10:52
@mlubich - "Slow playback" - this is in the kdenlive preview right? But your hack fixes it right? So maybe the still image proxies is not really working ?
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 12:44
Image proxies are generated. However putting 4k stills off a DSLR into a 1920x1080 project, 1920x1080 proxies are created. But putting a 1920x1080 image into a 1920x1080 project an image proxy is generated but again it's the full 1920x1080 image, not scaled down lower than project resolution.
So the ability to create proxies at 25%, 50% and 75% of project resolution would be useful.
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 14:34
I've been using kdenlive for over 4 yrs, you arrive this month and tell me proxies don't work like I think they do? :-)
I'm more than aware of what proxies are and how they are impmemented, I've made numerous posts about making sure one uses proxies for decent playback and that that custom profiles can be made.
So back to my previous post, I'm describing what I see, if I add a 4k image to a 1920x1080 project, create proxies set in project settings and I look in ~/kdenlive/proxies folder then I see a project resolution png proxy of the DSLR 4k image, if I add a 1920x1080 image to the project and generate a proxy I see same 1920x1080 png in the proxy folder. As I said this is not very helpful.
Conclusion, proxies for images appear to go no smaller than project resolution and therefore a feature request for reduced size smaller than project size proxies for images would be good, similar to video proxies where we can set a resolution reduction in a CUSTOM PROXY PROFILE.
Now do I still misunderstand?
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 18:29
Right then, so a feature request for custom size proxies for images is the way to go, as the mechanism in code for image proxies already exists it shouldn't be too time consuming for a dev to implement, which I mentioned previously.
You say that its not proxy generation anymore that is the issue but size of proxies being equal to project resolution, which is funny as that's what I said previously, twice. :-)
As an aside, stacking multiple pan and zooms I'd hazard a guess will still cause issues with playback with proxies. Not sure if the code for pan and zoom is OpenGL but we'll have to wait a while longer for movit GLSL code in MLT to be transferred to kdenlive, then proxies probably won't be needed at all on a reasonable spec'd machine.
Good luck and I hope you can realize your project with kdenlive.
Wed, 04/10/2013 - 09:17
" ...What I was saying is, that I find it a problem that kdenlive seems to process the whole effect pipeline for a frame in the project's target resolution, making no distinction between final render or 'realtime' preview editing work. ..."
That's why proxies exist and why we can playback h264 video sources in realtime because in fact we aren't we're playing back a proxy of it, whether that be mpeg2, mjpeg etc and at half or quarter size. BUT as I mentioned image proxies do exist, are generated but no smaller than project resolution, that's not what you originally said. :-)
Kdenlive also now has settings in the monitor preview to use lower quality interpolation.
In kdenlives config have you chosen to playback using OpenGL, if not you could try that, also if you're not using a proprietary graphics driver you could try it with that addition, it may help.
"....This results in stuttering preview. And this is done regardless if you are using proxies as input or not. At least that is my obervation. And that is what my dirty hack is providing for me: working in a reduced resolution and rendering out in the final one...."
On my old machine I can add DSLR images of 4k resolution, generate 1080P proxies due to project resolution and playback without stuttering, they wouldn't play at full size, its only when adding effects to the project size proxies that stuttering starts.
So for both images and video proxies are created and used for preview playback including when effects are added and only at render time are the full resolution used, this ia all based on project profile that proxies are enabled for anyone else reading.
So to say no kdenlive makes no differation between rendering output and realtime preview based on your stuttering playback observations is the wrong conclusion, its just that image proxies are TOO BIG. :-)
Yes your hack is a work around, but a simple feature request to achieve the same within kdenlive is the way to go, you don't appear to have got on Mantis and done that?
The time we're bickering over this nonesense a dev could probably implemented it. Its laughable. :-)


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Lift is an interesting framework for Scala. The practical advantage of Scala is that it can use any existing Java libraries.
There are many many more (even I'm developing one in F#) but I think these (and Lift, already mentioned) are the most complete/popular/documented. I can't comment on Erlang frameworks.
There's a list of web frameworks available for Erlang. Summarizing that list here:
Of those the two that look most of interest to me are webmachine and nitrogen. YMMV.
Noir is beautiful, functional and simple (in the Rich Hickey "Simple Made Easy" sense):
I particularly like the way that you can then build your entire web application just using function composition, supported with a few macros to enable a nice declarative DSL.
Compojure is an open source web framework for the Clojure programming language.
As you have left any languages out of the question, I guess you accept multiple languages...
So for the language F# there exists FSharp.WebTools.
I recommend looking into Erlang and yaws. Erlang is a lightweight functional programming language with a great set of features, good libraries and an active development community. Yaws is efficient and well matained.
Snap is a nice and really fast web framework for Haskell.
There is a comparison of Erlang web frameworks on Github:
I haven't played with all the frameworks listed there so I don't want to judge, but I've been using Zotonic quite extensively in my currently project and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. As far as I know it's the only Erlang framework which is not only a framework but also a full-blown CMS. So you can start easily with just the CMS features and then expand the website by adding your custom functionality using your own modules. In my case I am using it purely as a framework because at this moment the CMS features work only with PostgreSQL and I can't use a separate database. But even just as a framework it offers lots of features not always found in the other frameworks.
What's very nice is that the project is being very actively developed because the people behind Zotonic design and implement websites and they use it as their CMS of choice.
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He was a patient at Providence Hospital rehabbing a broken femur. She was a nurse's aide with a lovely smile.
She wasn't his aide, per se, but if she walked past his room, he would often flag her down, asking for help: a glass of water, perhaps, or a urinal that needed emptying. Mundane tasks eventually grew into longer conversations and, finally, to phone calls after discharge.
"I've always thought of it as a very romantic story," she mused.
James Haviland was 85 and widowed, a prominent local doctor, long retired from regular practice. Mary Burden was 35, divorced, and trying to balance a career and four kids.
"I had no desire to get involved with a man," Mary recalled. Still, they began to date.
Right from the start, she said, she told him about her past — the homelessness, the troubled marriage, the prison term — and he didn't seem to mind. She was a new woman now, a Christian. And Jim, she said, was "a real treasure."
Do you love her? a longtime assistant asked the doctor. He answered with a laugh.
In 1997, less than a year after they met, Mary walked down the aisle in front of 100 guests, wearing a pale blue dress printed with delicate flowers. Jim stepped along with a cane. She promised to "love, honor and obey," preferring to treat marriage in a way that was "biblically correct." And for 10 years, Mary said, that's what she did, until Jim's death at age 96.
This is where things get ugly. Jim's final will pretty much cut out his four children; that left Mary to inherit what appeared to be millions. The ensuing court case encompassed two weeks of trial, hundreds of exhibits, two trips to the Court of Appeals and one to the Washington Supreme Court. The money might have run out, but the fight hasn't stopped.
"Jim was my husband," Mary said tearfully. "I loved him dearly and he loved me.
"What they've done is just so … it's just so wrong."
Very different backgrounds
Before we begin this story, a little bit of background is in order. Dr. Haviland was the sort of man who had buildings named after him. In addition to a successful private medical practice, he was a professor and administrator at the University of Washington. In 1953, when he was acting dean, he played a big role in the construction of the university's hospital.
But his most significant achievement, perhaps, was co-founding the world's first outpatient dialysis clinic, now known as Northwest Kidney Centers. Outpatient dialysis improved the lives of thousands of kidney patients.
Personally, Jim was a great conversationalist, a man of many interests whose Mercer Island house was filled with books and records. For more than six decades he attended Emmanuel Episcopal Church, where he sang in the choir through his 90s. He had a strong will, a conservative political bent, and a relatively frugal lifestyle.
Jim's first wife, Marion, died in 1993 after 50 years of marriage. Together, they had four children, all now in their 60s.
Mary Burden was born in Idaho, but her family moved around, so she grew up feeling isolated, aspiring only to "cook, clean, sew, have babies and be around children," according to a psychological report. She met her first husband, Steven Burden, when she was 15.
Steven, six years older and an assistant manager at a grocery store, "swept me off my feet," she recalled. By 16, she was pregnant. They got married and eventually had four children, but struggled to pay the bills. She wound up living in campgrounds, a roach-infested hotel and a "little barn of a house you could hear the wind whistle through," with neither stove nor refrigerator, she later said.
In the early 1990s, she became a member of the Bible Baptist Church in Poulsbo. Later, she began working as a nurse's aide and discovered it was fulfilling. Between 1997 and 2003, she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing, and she held several jobs in the field, including a position teaching nursing at Seattle University.
Jim helped make that possible. Not long after they met, he agreed to put $100,000 toward her education and create a $300,000-$350,000 "nest egg," according to court records.
She says their relationship started after he was discharged from the hospital, and he hired her to be his driver. The idea was, she would wait in the car and study while he went to appointments. But he would press her. Why sit outside when he had two tickets to the opera? How about dinner? "It was his way," she later realized, "of keeping me in his life."
A month or two into this arrangement, he said he wanted to pursue a romance.
"Jim was a person, when he wanted something, he would go after it and he would get it," Mary said. She told him about her agreement with her older brother, George Cook: if someone wanted to "court" her, he'd have to get George's permission. "So the man would know there's oversight in my life," she explained.
"He comes to the house, and he has this financial portfolio," George recalled of their meeting. "He said, I want you to know I have the means to take care of your sister."
George said he didn't even look at it. "Don't you think you're awfully old to be dating someone my sister's age," he recalls asking. It turned out age "wasn't an issue to either of them," George said. He gave the couple his blessing.
"None of us could figure it out," George continued. "And yet you watched them. They held hands and loved each other and doted on each other."
When asked what attracted her to this much older man, Mary rattles off a list.
"He was a gentleman. He was very romantic. He respected me ....
"For me it was never about money," she said. For instance, she noted, "he gave me three pieces of jewelry in the whole time we were married: a ruby pendant the first time he kissed me, ruby earrings the first time he told me he loved me, and a ruby wedding ring, our favorite stone."
She doesn't say this, but the ring was worth $20,000.
A troubled past
Mary didn't keep her past secret from Jim and his family, but talking about it today clearly makes her uncomfortable. For years, she was a thief — a very, very good one.
In 1992, she pleaded guilty to 14 counts of possession of stolen property and conspiracy to commit theft. According to court records, Mary would pick out an item at a store — say an expensive KitchenAid mixer — and switch the price tag to a much lower amount. She'd pay for the KitchenAid at the reduced price, then return it for the higher price. She traveled the country for weeks at a time doing this. Sometimes, she and Steven would bring the kids along to sit in the car. Other times, she traveled alone, wiring up to $40,000 a month back home to Kitsap County.
Mary's work on the road made the family quite comfortable.
"Steven purchased several homes, extensive amounts of clothing … employed men to work on his own home full time, hired a governess … and gave sums of money to friends and members of their church," court records state.
One day in Illinois, a store guard followed Mary outside. When he put his hands on her, she bit him and "evidently attempted to shoot him with a stun gun from her purse," court records state. In her station wagon was $5,000 in stolen property and maps showing shopping centers all over the country.
Mary later gave a full confession — albeit mostly blaming Steven, describing their relationship as one of control and isolation, anger and threats. Mary said she stole out of fear.
"He told me how to do it, when, where," she told a psychologist at the time. "I didn't have a choice. Who could I tell? All I had was him.
"I couldn't leave. I was his as much as a car was his. And a car doesn't leave."
Psychological tests found this submissiveness was a deeply held personality trait, a "lifelong pattern of looking to a dominant man to create her identity and tell her what to do." She displayed characteristics of an abused spouse, the report said.
A judge sentenced her to two years in prison. She and Steven, who was also convicted, were ordered to pay $350,000 in restitution. She served more than a year behind bars, qualified for a work-release program, and landed the hospital job where she met Jim. She has satisfied her restitution and the court deemed her rehabilitated.
"In Jim's eyes and the eyes of the criminal-justice system I was/am a success story," she wrote in an email.
"Good for each other"
Mary and Jim did the typical married-couple things: She went with him to conferences; he attended her graduations. They went to the symphony and to church. She hosted huge 90th and 95th birthday parties for him at the Seattle Yacht Club.
Friends and family said they seemed happy. "Very much so," a longtime friend of Jim's would later testify. "Both were good for each other."
They traveled to Alaska and China — him in his wheelchair.
"He had a gentle touch. He liked to hold hands," she said. "We had a physical attraction. We enjoyed the physical nature of a married couple."
Jim's money flowed. During their marriage, they gifted hundreds of thousands of dollars to both sets of children. He helped Mary's kids' with college. He loaned Mary's family money to buy homes or to renovate. His own children and grandchildren had mostly moved away, but he was able to enjoy Mary's large extended family.
"From his perspective, when he married Mary, it was like Little House on the Prairie," said George, Mary's brother. "He was adopted into this family that met so many of his needs. He [had been] living alone on Mercer Island. [With Mary,] he had grandkids hanging on his wheelchair."
George continues: "Maybe there was, in some sense, a marriage of convenience. He got a lot of what he wanted, and Mary got what she needed, (including) security."
Inevitably, Jim's health declined.
"His physical health," Mary notes. In 2005, she quit her hospital job to care of him full time. They had the house renovated for his wheelchair. But still, Jim was able to read his newspapers, help out with the cooking, and enjoy their time together, she said.
In November 2007, he became dehydrated and disoriented so she took him to the emergency room. The chart notes that Jim was confused and agitated. "Advanced dementia," it said. Mary took Jim home to be comfortable. A week later, he passed away.
"Undue influence"
The time had come to sort through Jim's estate.
Decades earlier, Jim and his first wife, Marion, had placed considerable sums into several trusts. Upon their deaths, the money was to go to their children and to favorite charities.
But through Jim and Mary's time together, his estate plan would change. The day before they married, he amended his will to include provisions for her. He made several additional revisions after that.
With each change, Mary's share grew larger. Under Jim's final will, signed in January 2006, his planned charitable bequests had been halved. And his kids didn't get anything in the will, other than a "right of first refusal" to buy property he owned on Shaw Island, if Mary decided to sell it.
Three of his children challenged the will in court, alleging that it was the product of Mary's "undue influence" and that their father lacked "testamentary capacity." The central question became, was his mind sound through all these changes?
At trial, several people testified about Jim's decline. At his 95th birthday party, in 2006, some guests recalled him staring blankly, as if he didn't know who they were. Even before that, he sometimes appeared to be in a stupor. There were times when he didn't even realize he was sitting in a wet diaper. At some point, he couldn't recall how to brush his teeth.
Other witnesses saw Jim mentally alert up through 2007. The lawyer who drew up the final will testified he didn't notice anything amiss when Jim signed it — though the only thing Jim said during the five- to 10-minute meeting was "yes."
The children produced emails Mary had sent to keep them apprised of their father's condition. In one, she said he often didn't recognize her. A doctor who reviewed the records concluded Jim had been suffering from dementia.
Ask Mary about all this and she seems puzzled. She said she provided Jim years of good nursing care, yet now it was being transformed into evidence against her.
Sure, there were times when he was temporarily out of it — that often happens to the elderly when they get infections. She maintains his mental function returned as soon as the infection cleared.
"If I didn't love Jim, or if I was just after his money, it would have made a lot more sense to put him in a nursing home rather than take care of him."
All those changes to the estate? They were orchestrated by Jim, she maintains, not her.
"In my world, the men wear the pants and make the decisions," she said. "We followed Biblical precepts. It's just how I think it should be."
She wondered: "Is that bad?"
Full circle
The battle over Jim's estate is now approaching six years, with lawyer fees in the hundreds of thousands.
The courts have sided with Jim's children. They declined to speak to a reporter.
Their lawyers spoke at length, but later insisted the conversations were off the record.
Mary had engaged in a "systematic, persistent, and unexplained pattern of transferring assets from (Jim's) estate" when it was clear his faculties were declining, one ruling said. There was "little evidence" where the money was ultimately spent. What was clear was that "substantial sums" went to Mary and her interests (including $345,000 to her church, and $843,000 to family and friends) without comparable gifts to his.
While there wasn't conclusive evidence Jim had dementia when he signed the will, it was clear Mary had exerted "undue influence" over him.
A judge homed in on a letter prepared by Mary under Jim's signature, two days after she took him to the emergency room, disoriented. Jim's "parting wish," it said, was to withdraw money from one of the trusts to pay off $700,000 in debt, including the mortgage on the house where Mary now lives.
The letter did not sit well with the court. The trust had been set up years ago by Jim and Marion to be their children's inheritance. Mary's claim the deathbed letter was Jim's last wish, the court wrote, "strains credulity."
After years of litigation, Mary has been disinherited. But it may all be moot anyway. Mary said the money is gone — gone to lawyers, gone to pay off debt … just gone. By Mary's initial accounting, the estate was $45,000 in the negative. The children don't believe she could have spent Jim's millions, that she must have money socked away. It would be up to the estate's personal representative to track assets down, should it come to that.
As the legal battle dragged on, Mary said she's been struggling. The court case cost her the teaching job at Seattle U, she said. Now, she makes her living providing in-home care.
Not all that different from life before she met Jim.
News researcher Gene Balk contributed to this report.


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When you are selling your products or services, how do you handle the objection that you are too expensive? Andy Preston of Outstanding Results has four ways to help you sell without having to resort to discounting
I recently noticed a fellow professional speaker post on his Facebook page that a potential client had told him that the fee he wanted to charge them to speak was "too expensive". He went on to say he was a bit surprised, as he doesn't normally get that kind of reaction.
Now I know this particular speaker pretty well, and I know that he's good value for money, but what was most interesting was one of the responses to his post. The person who commented wrote, "You can't be too expensive. And you're value for money. They must have cash flow issues!"
Now whilst I would agree the speaker concerned is most certainly value for money, there are four quick things we can learn from the other person's comment.
The problem I see here is that I think you can be too expensive! One of my favourite sayings when it comes to sales (and pricing in particular) is that people's beliefs are reality — to them.
If someone says "that's too expensive" it may be that in the moment they do consider you too expensive — as long as it's not just a negotiation tactic to bring your price down of course.
But there will be some context behind them saying that. They might think it's too expensive compared to their budget. They might think it's too expensive compared to what they've paid in the past. They might think it's too expensive compared to what they were expecting to pay.
However, unless you deal with the fact that right now, they consider you too expensive — it's unlikely you're going to be able to win this deal, and bring them on board as a customer. Fail to change their belief (and therefore their reality), and you'll fail to pick up their business.
If someone says to you that you're "too expensive", make sure you don't dismiss them (and the sales opportunity) too quickly. As an ex-sales director, I often used to hear my team come back from new business appointments with excuses like "they weren't ready to buy", "they didn't have the budget", and "our price was too rich for them".
My response was usually something like, "Ahh, so you failed to deal with their price concern then?"
My belief is that the majority of the time, a price concern (or price objection) is normally the salesperson's fault, not the prospect's.
It might be that:
How many of the above are you and your team guilty of right now? Stop putting the blame for price concerns on the client, and see what you and your team could do to handle them better.
One of the biggest reasons people get price objections is that the price they want to charge isn't what the prospect was expecting to pay.
This often occurs when the salesperson fails to find out, manage, or — on some occasions — set the price expectations of the prospect.
In the old days, sales managers used to lecture their reps to "make sure you get the customer's budget before talking about price".
Back then that was pretty solid sales advice, but these days people don't always have budgets. They don't always have cash available right now. But they always have price expectations. And if you don't find out what they are and re-set them if necessary — or even set them in some circumstances — then you're always going to struggle with objections to your price.
How well do you and your team set prospects' price expectations currently?
Another reason I find that salespeople come up against price objections is that often they're sitting in front of (or speaking to) the wrong people. People that may not have the money to be able to pay the price the salesperson wants to charge, or have the authority (and ability) to find extra money if necessary.
This is usually caused by a failure to qualify well enough (or hard enough) earlier in the process. This often results in the salesperson spending lots of their precious time dealing with people that aren't able to buy what they offer at the price they want to charge.
Often this leads to the salesperson becoming frustrated, having to walk away from deals, or heavily discounting just to win the business — none of which are good outcomes for the salesperson.
How well do you and your sales team qualify your opportunities right now?
Follow the tips above and watch your performance and that of your sales team soar!
Written by Andy Preston of Outstanding Results.


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ad revenue will take a hit at tmj as their viewer numbers take a hit without Time Warner.
less viewers = less ad revenueHide replies
I now enjoy witi6 and tv58, will turn on over the air for Packers.
I cut the cable cord and never looked back. Just have over-the-air now and Netflix.Hide replies
Me too, although for me it was cancelling DirecTV. We have both Netflix and Amazon Prime, at a combined fraction of the cost of satellite/cable. We're thinking of splurging and also getting Hulu Plus, but even with all three services it's a drop in the bucket compared to our old costs.
Yep. I've had over-the-air, netflix, amazon prime, and hulu plus for the past two years. Fox Sports for Brewers and Bucks games is all I miss. I thought I had the Brewers figured out, but MLB.TV blacks out your home team's games. Cable content needs to be opened up now! It sure takes a long time for the free market to resolve these issues.
For those of you who bailed on cable or sat. TV, do you get Packer and Badger games? I have a buddy that went to all computer (hulu?) and he now comes over to see games. Packers and Badgers are one of the few things care about on TV.
Hey cleatmarks! you like paying $1000.00 yr. for games. you can find a nice local tavern, a quite place or a noisy place, and enjoy the games with like minded people and better snacks than you can make yourself.
So... can you answer the question? Do you get Packer and Badger games?
what free market?
Cable TV is losing about 1% of subscribers per year. If revenue is rising, I would like to see the average and median cable bill. Both must be going up up and away since I dropped cable tv over a year ago.
Cleatmarks: I can get all Packers games over the air, as I live in the Milwaukee market. By NFL rule, even the Monday night games on ESPN or whatnot, have to be also shown over-the-air in the local markets (Green Bay and Milwaukee).
Badger games are another issue. I won't be able to see the Badger games that are on the B1G Network or ESPN or whatever. That's definitely a sacrifice. No FSN-Wisconsin for Brewer games is an even bigger sacrifice. But after a lot of thought, it just wasn't worth ~$1,000/year just to watch those games.
All Packer games are broadcast on the air in the Milwaukee market. Badgers? who cares.
cleatmarks, without cable you can still easily get all Packer games (even the one's on the NFL Network. You'll have to find a bar for Badger games since apparently the NCAA is more greedy than the NFL.
For those with Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and Netflix. I like Netflix. I have also tried Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime, but I thought they were horrible (horrible selection - Amazon, horrible amount of ads - Hulu). Am I missing something?
I don't have Hulu so I can't speak to that. But between Netflix and Amazon Prime: If I had to pick just one, it would be Netflix. But Amazon Prime does carry some TV series that Netflix doesn't, and it's cheap enough to have both. I actually like the interface of Amazon Prime much better, so if there's a series on both, I'll watch it through Amazon.
Is it possible to get Dolby 5.1 digital sound through Netflix?
Seriously. I want to know whether a Netflix offering that comes in via a computer can do HD w/Dolby surround.
Also, when watching You Tube concerts I haven't had problems with "freezing" momentarily to wait for the buffers to reload but it has happened. And videos from TMJ4 freeze, like the graphic on the Great Lakes Sunday did.
As long as you or someone else pays for your Internet access, podcasts are free. The best ones have no ads, either.
I admit, I dont know all the laws surrounding pay TV, but I think the one who goes ala cart first could be king. I would drop TW in a second if I could pick each channel I want from a competitor.... CBS is 100% right, we watch way less than what we pay for. We have been getting closer and closer to getting rid of cable. If they keep blocking out, but not lowering my bill, we will get rid of it. We have other choices...Hide replies
If you go ala carte, the cross subsidies stop and then variety of programming decreases. On second thought that would be a good thing.
What is meant by Cross subsidies stop and variety of programming decreases? I am able to find all the shows I watch on cable( a variety of shows if you will), on the internet, Netflix, Amazon, Etc. What am I missing here? Can someone explain what LostWisdom means?
Call them and they will lower your bill. Mine went down $20.
eshea, cable companies sell you a package of channels and charge you an obscene amount. They (the cable companies) argue that if they went ala carte (where you pick what channels you want) that would lessen the variety of channels available. In other words, maybe 4 of the 30 ESPN channels would cease to exist and someone wouldn't be able to get the Bird Feeder channel off the ground.
I really get a kick out of the posts saying to leave TWC, Dish, etc... What do you think would happen to WTMJ or any other broadcaster if there were no subscribers to cable services and therefore no rebroadcast revenue?Hide replies
They'd have to cut back on their budget for Breaking News and Weather Alert graphics.
might have to cut back on speed busters. Or faking police bribe videos.
I'd start with cutting executives pay and stop all bonuses.
Or how about selling more on-air commercials?
Please! No more commercials. Any more and an hour program will take an hour and a half to air.
ohbrad, in case you hadn't noticed, the "program" that you are watching is chopped into little pieces and DESIGNED I tell you, to lure you to sit through a commercial OR 10, because, ohbrad, the program is the filler that is there to force you to watch the commercials which actually PAY for you show.
In order to prevent us from DVR'ing the show to be reviewed later while 3X'ing the commercials, TW, in their latest "update" to the DVR/CABLE boxes removed the "commercial skip" feature that WAS "compensation time" for your reflexes.
A week or so ago I noticed that, having mastered the art of 3X FF through the commercials, all of a sudden the video stopped the instant I hit "PLAY" right where it was. For those who may not know, there used to be a menu selection that allowed for ANTICIPATE TIME more/less/normal/none. It is gone. I thought someone messed up my remote control and couldn't remember where that selection was located, finally "googling" the problem to learn that it was removed and is NOT coming back.
I want to dump TWC but can't find any a la carte products that carry internet and cable services without being loaded with some phone package that I don't want as a magicJack satisfied customer.
Fortunately there are enough lemmings out there to force feed their hard-earned money to cable and network execs. Thanks for paying for my free TV!
For whatever reason, Mr. Dudek consistently gets this wrong:
The dispute between Time Warner Cable and CBS involves stations in New York, Los Angeles and Houston -- NOT Chicago. Time Warner has ZERO presence in Chicago; the cable provider there is Comcast.
As for the TWC - JBG dispute, let me paraphrase a Jay Leno line: It's like Donald Trump versus the IRS -- who do I root for in this battle?Hide replies
Viewers in Racine and Kenosha who get WBBM would lose that station under the same dispute because they get TWC service in those markets, though they would still have HD access to CBS via WDJT (WBBM isn't carried in HD in those cities). All TWC customers would possibly lose Showtime/The Movie Channel/Flix, CBS Sports Network and the Smithsonian Channel as they're all owned by CBS.
"...retransmission payments to stations by pay-TV services will reach $3 billion this year, doubling to $6 billion by 2018"
What sort of fantasy world are these media execs living in? This is not sustainable. We're already rapidly approaching $100/month for a regular tier of cable (plus the required equipment, franchise fees, and taxes). $200/month just isn't going to happen. There will be a breaking point for most consumers before that happens.Hide replies
what's funny about your post is that you consider subscribing to a cable channel.
How would you know, hassmer? I cut the cord two months ago.
hassmer, why do you belittle people who use TWC? We all have our own economic/social/commercial tendencies and this is a quasi-free country.
Please don't go with the "I know better than you" silliness.
And it's not "A CABLE CHANNEL" as far as I've read. I don't need Dolby surround for Packer preseason games and have access to over the air broadcasts. I certainly wouldn't go nuts and say, "OH I NEED to buy that monster robber baron that is TWC so I can watch without using my TV remote to change the INPUT.
I think paying enormous subscriber fees for cable is really dumb. Views can have an abundant selection with better content from antenna TV and all it'll cost is a one time purchase(less than one month fee for cable) of a converter box that will work with any tv.Hide replies
If you have a newer TV, you don't even need a converter box. If you have an old TV, cut your cable and for the cost of 6-7 months cable fees you could have a nice new TV.
That's true. the converter box is only for older non-digital TVs. any modern LCD/etc will be digital-cable ready. There are digital antennae you can buy, but for me, at least, my old-school 20-year old rabbit ears give me good reception.
Gary, I got a large rooftop antenna and put it in my attic. Works pretty nice. A few days a year with poor reception on a few channels, but nothing worse than when I had a dish.
Unfortunately for me, the channels that I actually WATCH are NOT any of the over-the-air fare. Discovery, History, Nat Geo, TNT, USA, but I would be willing to try "a la carte" subscription but only for HD and Dolby surround.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but it seems it would be a relatively simple matter for DirecTV or Time Warner to build a digital antenna right into their DVR/receiver, and then integrate it right into the channel guide/tuner. So as you change the channel, say from ESPN to NBC, it automatically switches from the cable/satellite to the antenna without the viewer even noticing a difference. Then they wouldn't have to pay the networks anything for any re transmission rights.
Is my idea too brilliant, or am I missing something?Hide replies
Yes Gary. Radio waves continue to be fickle things that have a property known as "wavelength". It has to do with the ability of the antenna to orient with the polarity (vertical or horizontal), and the frequency (has to be reasonably close to the wavelength which changes with frequency) and the direction to the source.
With newer broadcast systems the frequencies get higher and higher to the point where the wavelength is measured in centimeters. THAT is a good thing because for a one centimeter wavelength, the antenna can be less than an inch long. There are VOLUMINOUS other issues but in general, even your cellphone has a "compromised" antenna system because one function called "gain" can be overcome with amplifiers and stuff.
Your brilliant idea has been "under advisement" for a couple of generations at least. But yours ARE great ideas.
Give it UP!TWC has got you on your knees,And quit dangling the Packers game,The Packer Fans A Smarter than that.The will see the Games with or with out you!
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Television news channel NDTV said a person was killed and 10 others were injured in the fire at the refinery in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam. The company has shut the refinery as a precautionary step and it is too early to estimate the loss from the fire, according to Hindustan officials.
By SAURABH CHATURVEDI
NEW DELHI -- State-run Hindustan Petroleum partly shut its
refinery in southern India on Friday following a fire at
a cooling plant that left one worker dead.
The fire "is under control now," Hindustan Petroleum
Refineries Director B.K. Namdeo said by phone from Mumbai.
The company shut one unit of the refinery at the coastal city of
Visakhapatnam as a precautionary step, Mr. Namdeo said. It is
too early to estimate the loss from the fire, he added.
Visakhapatnam Police Commissioner B. Shivadhar Reddy said
the death toll could go up.
"As many as 40 people were injured in the fire, out of which
35 were taken to hospital with burn injuries," Mr. Reddy said.
One of them died later, he added.
The Visakhapatnam refinery has a crude oil processing
capacity of 8.3 million tpy, or about 166,000 bpd. The company
has another refinery in Mumbai, western India, with a capacity of 6.5
million tpy.
It also runs a joint-venture refinery with Mittal Energy
Investment Pte. at Bhatinda in northern India. This refinery can process
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In my opinion, root cause analysis of the accident is to be done considering relevant evidential DATAs.Historical data of such incident reveals some untouched lapses in the system. Undoubtly,HPCL is the big HC processing company which must be following & complying with basic process safety requirement. But the incident is eye opener & there must be root cause analysis of the incident to avoid such re-occurance elsewhere.Dharmendra Patel+919898005472
K L Pai Goa/Mangalore
From the report I understand that the fire is in cooling towers area.Following is my experience:In cooling tower circuit water comes to top of tower and is exposed to sunlight, and this leads to algal growth. eventually it generates Methane and the gas traps in some voidages in the piping system.Whenever repair/welding is crried out on the pipeline this trapped methane gas can catch fire and can proagate in the piping system which may lead to explosion.Normally whenever a connection is to be made to the existing pipe a small pilot hole is drilled and possible presence of explosive gas is found using a explosive meter.KLPai09449835098
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It is one of the very good refinery. It is sad to have incidence of fire
Gopal Alag
Dear fellow HPI readers,To assess root cause, we would like to know 'what part of the Refinery facilty caught fire?' . Fire at Cooling Plant is pretty vague. Is it a Chilling or Refrigeration Unit? If so, which part of the refinery process is this? Was it in Secondary Processing unit at downstream of Crude unit? or Any petchemicals unit,if HPCL has at its downstream? or Fire occured at one of the Utility units? Appreciate input to suggest the cause of the fire.
we nee to know the rootcauseof the fire
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Dear Sir Through investigation consequent to the incident which is usual.but what we need to understand why such a complacency on the part of HPCl which witnessed major accident when one of its tanks under fabrication exploded causing human loss ,few years ago.Don't they follow a very common safety check and work permit system with all sincerity.any person who works in a petrochemical complex knows the impending dangers that are most likely to occur when laid out procedures are not followed. from every accident we should learn and we need not have fresh accidents to refresh our knowledge.
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I'm trying to use Blizzard's SystemCheck tool to opt-in for future Blizzard game betas.
When I run it I see a page with my system information, but when I click "send" I get the error:
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And in addition my browser opens on this page, which looks like an attempt to send me to a support page further explaining the problem, but it's actually just an error page.
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This movie is very current (post 2000). I remember I deleted the movie from my laptop because it had too much adult scenes like bed scenes etc. The broken parts which I remember are as follows:
1) The movie had an essence of Roman era Gladiators etc.
2) Two countries have been fighting from long time ago (?). One country then thinks to invite the other country to make friend. The other country comes with the emperor himself. The host countries emperor offers his queen to do sex with the invited emperor. Although, the invited emperor chooses the sister of the queen over the queen (Most probably it was planned by the queen herself). All the invited persons who came with the emperor also enjoy a grand party along with grandeurous eating, dance and sex with most probably any girl they want to pick!
3) At the end it is revealed the invited emperor had an ill plan. He killed the host countries army when they were sleeping. We all see that from the POV of the queen. The sister is also killed in this process!
4) The movie as far as I can remember was most probably part 2 of some franchisee! (Of course, not so popular!)
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Right now I'm doing a work term through my school and they want me to write a report on something I've worked on. They are really serious about "proprietary reports" and reports requiring destruction after they've been marked. I'm planning to write about becoming PCI compliant and my boss tells me not to worry about marketing it as a "proprietary report". My question is, does making security details public increase or decrease security? I can't find the wikipedia article I read this on but after 9/11 a report found that agencies such as the FBI didn't share information enough, each agency felt that they worked to obtain the information and wanted to keep it confidential and to themselves which ultimately was counterproductive. Can it be seen as the same, the more people who look over a PCI implementation the more likely someone can spot a weakness?
In general, the consensuses within the security community is that disclosing security practices (aka, transparency) leads to improved security. Transparency has many benefits:
That said, transparency is really only beneficial if you plan to respond to security problems. If you aren't planning on it, transparency can cause problems because you make the attackers work less hard to find vulnerabilities.
PCI is a public standard that a lot of people conform to, so it's unlikely that very many of the details related to your implementation will be very unique. It's possible your boss doesn't think that information about proposed PCI compliance would be harmful.


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I would like to tell you about my personal productivity system and get your opinion, since I think it could be enhanced, but right now I do not know how would I do it.
Ok, so I have all information about different projects in paper but mostly on the computer (Macbook pro using OS X Lion). The main information sources I use on my laptop are;
freemind mind maps: I use one mindmap per project. I work constantly with them tracking next actions to do, information organized, etc
emails: using Mail.app in OS X Lion, I use a different mailbox for each project, where I track necessary actions to perform for each project. Messages to process are flagged as unread, and important emails to answer with a red flag.
folders and files: each project uses a folder under the main "work" folder, where I place all the necessary files for each project
calendar: I use iCal. There are some weekly events. For each day, I put in advance, without any order an previously, all actions I think need to be performed that day. When the day arrives. I move and arrange tasks, more or less one hour per task. The non-urgent or non-priority tasks are displaced to the next day.
task managers: every time an idea or something that needs to be done comes to my mind and does not belong to a specific project, I write it into the inbox of Wunderlist. Later, I try to organize them into different contexts, at_home, at_ipad, free_time, and so on
paper system: I use different folders for different information related to the different projects, which is only available in paper form, or for which I have written down some scribbles or similar. In the mind maps of the projects, concrete nodes are associated to thus physical paper information units.
So my main daily work review (the first things I do at the beginning of the day, and which take around 45 min for me) is:
- a) I think about what I did wrong yesterday and write those things down. Repeated things get one point more, and so on. So things with a high score mean that I should really be serius about them and find a solution soon.
- b) Mail check; first I go to the "sent email" folder and assign a blue flag to the emails I consider are important to get an answer. Then I empty my inbox folder; emails that take less than two minutes to answer are instantly processed. The rest, which need more time, are put into their specific project mailbox and conserving the unread flag. Finally, I have three review mailboxes; daily review, weekly review and monthly review. During the day, I move there emails which are not relevant to be answered at the moment. Depending on the importance, urgency and other factors, are put into one or another mailbox.
- c) iCal planning: I check things that need to be done that day (phone calls, meetings, etc) and the ones that need to be done at a specific time, are thus moved. The others are moved following the criteria; the more important, the sooner to do. The easier the later.
- d) I check and organize tasks in Wunderkit
- e) I clean and organize my paper system
Ok, I think this is enough. After this I start to work in 50 minutes block. During this time I switch off email alerts and twitter and close the door, so I can clearly focus about what I am doing. My system works bot badly at the moment but I think it can improved; after this daily check I feel like I have burned a lot of energy and I start the rest of the day sometimes a bit tired. But from the other side, if all the things have been successfully managed, I feel very well and can commit with a lot of energy for the rest of the day.
What is then your opinion about my system and how do you think I could improve it?


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I've seen a lot of videos at channel9 and I find it incredible how easy it was to gain free access to computers in the US back in the 80s, even if people complain it wasn't. I wasn't even born in 1980 and while studying my way through high school in Portugal, I
only managed to see some computers at my school in 1992/3. And even then, access was extremely limited... it was only in 1996/7 that my parents offered me a programming training course (few people had internet access at where I lived), so there I was learning
QUICK BASIC!!! in 1997.
Note to self: blame the parents for not having moved to the US when I was a child ;P.
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From Today's NY Times:
By DANIEL J. WAKIN AND ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Allison V. Smith for The New York Times
Christopher WheeldonThe choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, three years after forming the Morphoses company to much excitement in the dance world, is walking away from the ensemble amid apparent friction with his executive director.
In an interview Sunday evening, Mr. Wheeldon said there was not enough of a cadre of full-time dancers to work with.
"If I have to consider a new crop of dancers for each tour, then the conditions aren't much different from what I have elsewhere as a freelance choreographer," Mr. Wheeldon said.
"As a freelancer, you fly in, you choose your dancers, you make a ballet, you fly out, then you do it all over again with a different company. The beauty of having a permanent company is to have dancers who know just how you like them to move, the way you want them to cut shapes in space, the way you ask them to respond to music."


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Faculty Profile (Back to Menu)
Matteo Gatti
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Gatti received his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Milan, his LL.M. from Harvard Law School and his S.J.D. in Corporate Law from the University of Brescia. He began his legal teaching career in the corporate and commercial law department at the University of Milan School of Law then, after receiving his LL.M., taught courses and seminars in securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance as an assistant professor at the University of Milan–Bicocca School of Law. In 2003 Professor Gatti joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as an associate, working first in Rome and Milan and later in New York. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2012, he was the director of legal affairs at Scripps Networks.
Professor Gatti is the author of a book on tender offers published in Italy in 2004. His scholarly articles have been published in the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance, the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, as well as in European and Italian law journals, and have been quoted by the Italian SEC and Italian courts.


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I was wondering how to block diagonalize a $10\times10$ antisymmetric matrix into block matrices along the diagonal. Can I just diagonalize each non-diagonal block?
I was wondering how to block diagonalize a $10\times10$ antisymmetric matrix into block matrices along the diagonal. Can I just diagonalize each non-diagonal block?
Without knowing what level of understanding you're looking for, I'm going to respond with some high level remarks. Feel free to ask for clarification if something strikes your interest.
A widely referenced work for eigenvalue and decomposition algorithms is Golub and van Loan's Matrix Computations (3rd ed., 1996), and Chapter 7 ("The Unsymmetric Eigenvalue Problem") in particular. In Sec. 7.4 you would read about the real Schur decomposition in which real matrix $A$ can be factored as $Q^T T Q$ where $Q$ is orthogonal and $T$ is quasi-triangular (block upper triangular such that the diagonal blocks are either $1\times1$ or $2\times2$ blocks). Hereafter we may refer to sections of this book by prefixing GvL to the section numbers.
In your case there is special structure in that $A$ is real(?) antisymmetric (or skew symmetric as many prefer), and its eigenvalues will occur in purely imaginary conjugate pairs. Thus the matrix is orthogonally similar to a block diagonal form with $2\times2$ blocks like:
$$ \begin{pmatrix} 0 & \sigma_i \\ -\sigma_i & 0 \end{pmatrix} $$
It is natural to ask if structure-preserving algorithms will have any special advantage in speed or accuracy, and the answer seems to be yes.
Note that the related matrix $iA$ is Hermitian, and by standard direct algorithms (GvL8.3.1 and problem P8.3.5 at end of section 8.3) is unitarily similar to a real tridiagonal matrix. This suggests there should exist a real orthogonal $Q$ such that $Q^T A Q = T$ is antisymmetric and tridiagonal (and thus has all zeros on the diagonal). Such a direct computation is the first problem in this course assignment (see also problem GvL8.3 P8.3.8).
As it happens, M. Wimmer in Efficient numerical computation of the Pfaffian for dense and banded skew-symmetric matrices (2011) connects the tridiagonalization of a even-dimensional real antisymmetric matrix with its ("real" Jordan) canonical form (Sec. I.B). Appendix A spells out the details of this connection, which requires the SVD of a bidiagonal matrix easily derived from $T$. Sec. II compares several ways of tridiagonalizing a real antisymmetric matrix, including by the Householder transformations required by the references above.
Here is my quick-and-dirty version of tridiagonalizing real antisymmetric matrices:
A brief test case is this:
Note that this tridiagonalization does not depend on matrix size being even.
The above procedure is equivalent to the Hessenberg transformation and may be achieved in Matlab using


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BUCHANAN, Howard E. Sr., 80, of Lecanto, FL, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013.
He was born July 2, 1932, in Wellsburg, WV, the son of late Walker and Elizabeth Buchanan.
Howard was a Korean War Marine Veteran and a member of the 25-Year Club of Weirton Steel.
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He was preceded in death by his first wife, Virginia Graziani Buchanan, his daughter, June McCarty, his sister, Annabelle Serafine, and brother, Harley Buchanan.
Surviving are his wife, Jeanine, his children, Bonnie (John) Torino of Belleview, FL, Jess (Danette) Buchanan of Follansbee, WV and Howard (Lorraine) Buchanan Jr. of Tampa, FL, his grandchildren, Jeremy and Tyler Buchanan, Jason and Jenna McCarty, Jessica and Nicholas Torino and Blake Buchanan, his sisters, Maxine Diserio and Ruth Doyle.
Arrangements are under the direction of Wilder Funeral Home in Homosassa, FL. Graveside services will be held on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at 3 p.m. at Fountains Memorial Park Mausoleum, Homosassa, FL. www.wilderfuneral.com


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Researchers have found another way the stuff that makes a lot baked goods, fried foods and processed foods taste so good is bad for you.
A new study found trans fat specifically, which you'll now find indicated on labels, is the culprit. Researchers at the University of North Carolina found postmenopausal women with a diet high in trans fats are at higher risk for certain types of ischemic stroke.
Stormont-Vail Education and Development Specialist Susan Gray, RN, BSN, explains that blood gets to the brain through the arteries in the neck. Fat can clog those arteries and either a piece breaks off or a clot forms in the brain, causing the most common types of stroke. Gray says fat is needed in the diet, but there are good fats and bad fats - trans fat being among the bad.
No matter what you eat, Gray says it's vital to know the early signs of a stroke. She says every second there is a blockage to a part of the brain you are losing thousands of brain cells.
An easy way to think of the symptoms is the acronym FAST. "F" is how it affects the face - does their smile droop on one side. "A" is their arms - stretch them out and see if one starts to drift. "S" is for speech - is it slurred or garbled or can they not think of the words. "T" means time to call 911 and get an ambulance. Gray says EMS crews know what information to look for and can relay it to the hospital staff ahead of a patient's arrival so they're immediately able to start treatment.
Gray also points out that smaller strokes, known as lacunar strokes, can happen without you even knowing it and set you up for the larger, ischemic varieties. The study found trans fats also increased the incidence of those, which is all the more reason to make sure it's not on your plate.


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CAPS launches new service center
Container and Pooling Solutions (CAPS), headquartered in Livonia, Mich., has launched a new reusable shipping container service center in Southern California. In order to support a steady increase in West Coast customers requiring bulk liquid storage containers, CAPS has recently moved its California operations to a larger facility located in Norco, CA.
Since 1998, CAPS has served the automotive, general manufacturing, food, beverage, cosmetic and non-hazardous chemical markets, providing returnable shipping container rentals, in addition to tracking, cleaning and repair services to companies throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. In addition to its headquarters and flagship service center in Livonia, Mich., CAPS has several other service centers located throughout the United States.
"We are very excited about the launch of our new service center in Norco," said Robert Wiedmaier, CAPS' CEO. "With the rate of growth we're experiencing on the West Coast, it has become increasingly clear this market requires a flexible, scalable operation to efficiently and effectively service our customers' ever-changing supply chain demands."
The new facility is primarily aimed at meeting the needs of liquid container rental, cleaning and repair. In addition, however, clients required CAPS to secure a warehouse meeting the most stringent food grade manufacturing standards to ensure compliance with all food and beverage industry guidelines.
"Our new larger CAPS' facility is fully sourced with state-of-the-art cleaning, sanitizing and repair equipment," said Ivan Waterbury, CAPS' director of operations. "Additionally, our Norco Service Center team has years of returnable container cleaning and processing experience, guaranteeing CAPS' customers will experience the same quality of service that meets the rigorous cleaning standards customers have come to expect and demand."


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The Fresno State Alumni Association (FSAA) leads all the 23 alumni associations of the California State University system in annual student scholarship giving. The FSAA is proud to award more than $146,000 in student scholarships in the 2015-16 academic year.
The FSAA offers a variety of scholarships to students based upon academic achievement, financial need and service to the community. The Board of Directors has also committed annual, generous scholarship support to the Smittcamp Family Honors College.
Each fall, the FSAA publiclly honors its student scholars at the annual Top Dog Alumni Awards Gala held at the Save Mart Center.


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The "vermeil" technique of plating sterling silver with gold originated in France in the 1750s. It differs from "gold filled" or "gold plated" in terms of the thickness or thinness of the microns over sterling silver. "Gold filled" pieces have a much thicker layer, between 15 and 45 microns, which is mechanically bonded to the base metal with heat and pressure. Vermeil is a more expensive version of "gold plated". It does not wear off as quickly as gold plating does. However, over time, vermeil wears off and therefore will require re-plating.
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Amethyst, the most precious member of the quartz family, exhibits purple shades ranging from pale lilac to deep purple, sometimes exhibiting reddish or rose overtones. Very deep-colored amethysts are the finest and most highly valued. Some stones are so over-saturated with color they have areas that are blacked out, which can negatively impact their value. Paler shades, sometimes called "Rose of France," were common in Victorian jewelry. Banding—darker and lighter zones of color—is also a common occurrence. Occasionally, amethyst is even found combined with its sister quartz, citrine, into a single stone called ametrine.
The birthstone for February, amethyst is an extremely popular gem for jewelry because of its regal color, variety of sizes and shapes, affordability and wide range of hues. It also is the recommended gem for couples celebrating their 6th and 17th wedding anniversaries. With a hardness of 7.0 on the Mohs Scale , amethyst can occur as long prismatic crystals that have six-sided pyramids at either end, or can form as drusies that are crystalline crusts that only show the pointed terminations.
The ancient Greeks believed that amethyst made one immune to the effects of alcohol. In fact, the name even comes from the Greek word amethystos, which means "not drunken." Legend has it that the amethyst originated from Bacchus, the god of wine. Bacchus became angry at the mortals and vowed that the next mortal to cross his path would be eaten by tigers. Amethyst, a beautiful young maiden, was on her way to worship the goddess, Diana. Diana turned her into colorless quartz to keep her from being eaten. Bacchus observed the miracle and repented his hasty decision. He poured wine over the young maiden, leaving her feet and legs colorless. This is the reason that amethyst crystals are usually uneven in color and have a colorless base at the bottom. Because amethyst was believed to prevent drunkenness, wine goblets were often carved from it in ancient Greece. Today, the gem still symbolizes sobriety.
Amethyst has been a part of history throughout the ages. Evidence suggests that prehistoric humans used amethysts for decoration as early as 25,000 B.C. Legends suggest that the Egyptian queen Cleopatra wore an amethyst signet ring, as did Saint Valentine, who bared an amethyst engraved with the figure of Cupid. During medieval times, people used the stone as medication to stay awake and alert. Leonardo Da Vinci claimed that amethyst could dissipate evil thoughts and quicken the intelligence. In some legends, the stone represents piety, celibacy and dignity. In the Middle Ages, for instance, the gem was an important ornamentation for the Catholic Church and other religions. It was considered the stone of bishops, and they still often wear amethyst rings. In Tibet, amethyst is considered sacred to Buddha and rosaries are often made from it. Amethyst has also long been a favorite of kings and queens for its royal purple hues that symbolize wisdom, strength and confidence. Amethysts are even featured in the British Crown Jewels and were worn by Catherine the Great.
Amethyst's availability and magical qualities make it the stone of preference in ancient lore and mysticism. As a meditation stone, it is said to quiet the mind, promote contemplation, sharpen psychic powers and uplift the spirit. It is a stone of deep wisdom. Folklore says it can quicken the wit, calm fears, ward off anger and overcome alcoholism. It has a royal purple essence that is said to lend courage to travelers, scare off thieves and protect travelers from harm, sickness and danger. Placed under the pillow or worn to bed, there are claims it promotes peaceful sleep, pleasant dreams, and the healing of tired joints and muscles. Amethyst can also be worn to supposedly make the wearer gentle, amiable and happy.
The stone is mined in Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina, as well as in Zambia, Namibia and other African nations. Very dark amethyst in small sizes also is mined in Australia. But the ideal for fine quality amethyst was set by a Siberian variety, often called Russian or Uralian amethyst, which is now considered a defunct source. Generally, South American amethyst tends to come in larger sizes than African amethyst, but the African variety has a reputation for having deeper color intensity and is therefore considered more valuable. The African version also is harder to come by than amethyst mined from South America. Most of today's amethyst comes out of Brazil.
Zircon often suffers for its name's similarity to "cubic zirconia," the simulated diamond. The stone zircon, however, is actually a beautiful natural gemstone. It is named from the Persian word "zargun," meaning "gold-colored." This is despite the fact that it comes in a wide range of rainbow colors. The majority of zircons are brown or yellow-brown, while pure red and green are the most valuable colors. The yellow-red to reddish-brown variety is called "hyacinth."
For many years, the most popular type of zircon was the colorless variety. More than any other natural stone, colorless zircons produce a brilliant sparkle similar to diamonds. The most popular color today tends to be the bright pastel blue variety. Sometimes called "starlite," blue zircon has recently become considered an alternative birthstone for December.
Zircon is one of the heaviest gemstones, meaning that it will look smaller than other varieties of the same weight. It ranks a hardness between 6.5-7.5 on the Mohs Scale and is mined in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar and Australia.
Travelers during the 11th century wore zircon amulets for protection and to encourage welcome greetings on their journeys. In the Middle Ages, the stone was said to bring wisdom and prosperity to its owner. Hindu mythology even mentions the gem when referencing the Kalpa Tree, which was a glowing tree covered with gemstone fruit and leaves of zircon.
Chrome diopside, also called Russian diopside, offers an intense forest green color. Because it is the most affordable gemstone with a pure, rich green color, many jewelry designers predict chrome diopside will be the world's leading emerald substitute by the end of the decade. It is mostly available in smaller sizes, with the rare larger sizes becoming much more expensive and too dark. A 26.17ct oval cut chrome diopside may be the largest known example of the faceted stone, but there is also a 25.33ct stone that is brighter and more intense in color.
Chrome diopside is relatively soft, with a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs Scale. Mostly mined in Yakutia and Siberia, the liberalization of the economy of the former Soviet Union has made chrome diopside more available, and more popular, than ever before.


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Let $G := SO_n(R)$ be equipped with the Euclidean metric on vectors of length $n^2$. Is it true that for any $\epsilon >0$, there is a finite subgroup of $G$ which intersects every metric ball of radius $< \epsilon$ in $G$?
Generalizing Robin's answer to arbitrary $n$:
Jordan's theorem implies that for any $n$ there is an integer $J(n)$ such that the index of a normal abelian subgroup of a finite subgroup of $GL(n,\mathbf{C})$ and hence $SO(n)$ is $\leq J(n)$. A theorem by Boris Weisfeiler (based on the classification of finite simple groups) implies that there are real $a,b$ such that $J(n)<(n+1)!n^{b+a\log n}$. See http://www.pnas.org/content/81/16/5278.short?related-urls=yes&legid=pnas;81/16/5278
So any finite subgroup of $SO(n)$ is included in $\leq J(n)$ copies of the maximal torus and so if one takes $n\geq 3$ and small enough $\varepsilon>0$, then for any finite subgroup $G$ of $SO(n)$ there will there elements $\varepsilon$ or further away from $G$ (with respect to any say left-invariant metric)
The only finite subgroups of $G=SO_3(\mathbf{R})$ are cyclic, dihedral or of order 12, 24 or 60. The latter three can't work for small enough $\epsilon$ but neither can the cyclic or dihedral groups as each one of the these lie inside a $1$-dimensional Lie subgroup of $G$ which is not dense in $G$.


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What happens to my horse if I ride another horse?
While I was doing a quest called "The Battle For Fort Dunstad", I got off my horse outside of the fort so it won't get killed while I was killing the enemy. After I killed everyone, I saw a random horse and when I walked towards it, it said "A: Ride Horse". I accidentally pressed A and I mounted the horse. I dismounted it then fast traveled to a city to complete the quest. I went to Katla's Farm to find my horse for another quest but it wasn't there. Instead, the horse I accidentally mounted was there. I went back to Fort Dunstad and went on a scavenger hunt to find my horse all around that area but I still couldn't find it. I DON'T WANT TO BUY ANOTHER HORSE !! I love that horse T _ T


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I'm using
ksshaskpass to add my password protected keys into
ssh-agent upon logging into KDE, is there something similar for kerberos?
I would look into using pam-krb5.
On Debian and Ubuntu, it should be
The PAM configuration would look something like:
It takes the password you used to authenticate locally, e.g. the password in
If your Kerberos password is the same as your system password, you don't need to type it again.
If your Kerberos password is different from your system password, what happens depends on whether you used
Note that this probably makes ksshaskpass redundant too, because you can also have:
On Debian and Ubuntu, that requires installing libpam-ssh.
Normally, Kerberos would be integrated with PAM pam_krb5.so. It will attempt to acquire a Kerberos ticket based on your username and the password you supply. It can also use that to verify whether you are allowed to login, but that can be set to ignore if you just want the ticket. It needs to be added as both an auth and a session module, probably also password if you plan to keep your Kerberos password in sync with your desktop. If you plan to use Kerberos for verifying a user's login, you should also setup your keytab file at /etc/krb5.keytab with a key for email@example.com replace hostname and example.com as appropriate for your environment.
It is possible to automate


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I have heard that the spiciness of Palak paneer is regional, but I don't have any historical or geographical facts to confirm this. So, is there anybody around here that knows if a proper, old-school traditional Palak paneer is hot spicy, medium or mild, and which are the various regional traditions?
Palak paneer is originally a North Indian dish- what you get in South India has been adapted to local tastes. If you want an absolute answer - it is quite mild compared to other paneer dishes. North Indian dishes have a base gravy made of tomatos and onions with red chilli powder and garam masala - this dish is an exception.
Hot, medium and mild are very subjective terms, which is why it is difficult to qualify regional variations in India. I have had palak paneer in north India and south India. Generally, this dish is hotter in south India. I am a south Indian, but have lived in north India for most of my life, and would call the north Indian (traditional) variety medium. Again, what I consider medium may be mild for some people, whereas for others it may be hot.


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The School of Law offers dual degree programs in conjunction with the university's graduate schools. These dual degrees offer the concurrent pursuit of a JD degree along with a master of business administration (MBA) or a master of arts in international relations (MA). Since these programs allow the concurrent pursuit of two degrees, with some courses credited to both a JD degree and a master's degree, students can generally save one semester of time and expense. However, graduate credits may not be transferred to the law school until completion of the entire first year of law study is completed.
Students interested in dual degree programs must apply to and be accepted by both schools. Students generally begin the dual degree programs in their second year of law school.


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Philip A. Abramson, a member of the Class of 2011 at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been awarded a Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. Fellowship by the Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association (APA). Abramson is the first New Jerseyan and the first Rutgers student to receive the prestigious fellowship, which is given to only two people each year. The late Daniel J. Curtin was a well-known author and legal expert on planning law, land use regulations, and the California General Plan.
"Land use and planning decisions are of critical importance to cities and suburbs across the country," said Dean Stuart L. Deutsch. "Phil Abramson has demonstrated a remarkable commitment to learning the fundamental issues needed to make the right decisions. We are very proud that APA has named Phil a Curtin Fellow, and certain that his perspective as a resident of the nation's most densely populated state will further understanding of land use, planning and their interrelationship with the law."
Abramson has always wanted to practice law and assumed that his career would be in criminal law. His interest in the juncture of law and planning was stoked as an Honors College student at Rutgers-Newark, where he studied criminal justice. He finished his thesis on the 1967 race riots in Newark with, he recalls, the realization that the riots "were not an instance of mass criminality, as I had first thought, but rather an episode in failed planning and civic leadership." That insight led to his postponing law school so he could pursue a master of city and regional planning at Rutgers' Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. After receiving his degree, he worked as a land use paralegal with Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. before entering law school.
At Rutgers, Abramson is the recipient of the 2008-09 David Haber Scholarship for Environmental Law. While attending law school as an evening student, Abramson works as a staff land use planner at Pennoni Associates, Inc., a consulting engineering firm. | Read Story


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Talon Shallow Water 8' Anchor, Silver with White Cover - Minn Kota
Half the battle is hitting your spot precisely and staying there. Talon deploys quickly and automatically to get you in position, so you can get ready to reel 'em in. Talon delivers the strongest possible hold with Auto-Drive, which automatically powers the spike into the bottom with three successive hits, using increasing force on each. For an even stronger hold, activate Rough Water Mode, which performs three Auto-Drive sequences at ten second intervals. Other features include: built-in wave absorption, rugged anchoring spike, noise dissipation, LED depth indicator, and deployment notification alarm. Two wireless remotes come standard to give you push-button control of Talon from anywhere on the boat.
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Suppose for projects, I will have a bunch of WIP (category) posts. Then once it's done I will create a Portfolio post for it. I will want to link this Portfolio post with the WIP (similar to related posts).
Then I will also want WIP posts of the project to be excluded from my main WIP listing. How can I achieve this effect?
In WIP page, I want a listing like
- Project 1
- Project 2
- Project 3
Showing only all the incomplete projects. Perhaps, I can have a "discontinued" listing too, but separate.
Each link will go to the page showing all (WIP) blog posts of a project. How can I achieve this? I am thinking WIP will be a category, do I put the project as a tag? I will want to associate each project with a thumbnail & description too.
Since I am a developer I could code something, but I am new to WordPress so will require guidance.


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Internet is the main source of information in 21st century and most of the information is easily accessible. But, this ease leads to addiction where an individual seeks more fresh information daily.
This addiction leads to time wastage. Most of the information might not be of much use for us but still we gather it because we are addicted to it.
How to get out of this trap?


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