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CHUCK TODD: Scott Ferguson—he's upset about taxes. He says, "Explain how raising taxes on anyone during a deep recession is going to help the economy." And he actually wants you to look at historical markers where this has been, you say, where this has been a helpful thing in getting out of a recession.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, he's right. Normally you don't raise taxes during a recession, which is why we haven't and why we've instead cut taxes. So I guess what I'd say to Scott is: his economics are right. You don't raise taxes in a recession. We haven't—
TODD: But you might for health care, for some of the wealthiest.
OBAMA: We have not proposed a tax hike for the wealthy that would take effect in the middle of a recession. Even the proposals that have come out of Congress—which by the way, were different from the proposals I put forward—still wouldn't kick in until after the recession was over. So, he's absolutely right. The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up—take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
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IBM has announced a set of actions to add to its security solutions that can help clients save costs while navigating security threats created by a global economic slowdown, cybercriminal activity, and legacy security infrastructures.
The actions by IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division were prompted after IBM X-Force, a team of security experts, detected two startling developments. First, they identified a 30 percent increase in network and web-based security events over the last 120 days, with the total number rising from 1.8 billion to more than 2.5 billion worldwide per day, according to data pulled from its managed security services client base of approximately 3700 clients worldwide. Second, IBM detected a 40 percent increase within the last 120 days in its client's access of IBM virtual security operations centers. IBM's managed security services clients -- businesses and governments around the world -- can use the virtual operations centers (VSOC's) to monitor and verify network and web-based attacks. A significant portion of the increase came from clients that had not previously logged in to the security operations centers in more than six months.
In response to the findings, IBM said its ISS will:
-Introduce identity and access management services that help combat online threats. These services help organizations define system users and manage who has access to sensitive data and applications, increasingly vital as the IBM X-Force Quarterly Report released in early December shows more than 42 percent of vulnerabilities are caused by weaknesses in access and identity management.
-For the first time, offer a formal program that enables providers to resell managed security services. Under this program, providers would be able to offer IBM-backed managed security services, further expanding customers who can benefit from IBM's global expertise.
-Offer a financial assessment of a company or government's security infrastructure management costs and the savings attributed to implementing IBM's security services.
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Household Hazardous Waste Collections Scheduled:
The third annual Greater Ellsworth Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Universal Waste (UW) Collection is planned for Saturday August 26, 2006 at the Ellsworth High School on State Street. So far, residents of the following municipalities may dispose of a limited amount of waste at no cost: Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Castine, Dedham, Deer Isle, Ellsworth, Frenchboro, Gouldsboro, Hancock, Mariaville, Sedgwick, Sorrento, Surry, Trenton, Winter Harbor and the Unorganized Territories of Hancock County.
The annual MDI collection is being planned for Saturday October 28, 2006 at the MDI High School. Residents of the following municipalities may dispose of a limited amount of waste at no cost: Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Lamoine, Mount Desert, Tremont, Trenton and Southwest Harbor
Both collections will give residents an opportunity to safely rid their homes and garages of waste items that are caustic, flammable, toxic or reactive. Examples of HHW include cleaning solvents, oil-based paint, pesticides, used motor oil, old brake fluid, and battery acid. Universal waste commonly contains mercury and includes items such as rechargeable batteries, mercury thermometers, thermostats, fluorescent light bulbs, televisions and computer monitors. Residents will be limited to 25 gallons or 25 pounds of material disposal at no cost, plus no limit on computer monitors or non-console televisions.
Good latex paint will be collected separately for use by a non-profit organization. Unacceptable items include non-hazardous trash, propane tanks, flashlight batteries, asbestos, and biological waste. No commercially generated waste may be accepted at this event.
If your town is listed above, contact local officials to pre-register. If your town is not on either list above, contact local officials to remind them that communities may still register to participate with the Hancock County Planning Commission. If your town does not sponsor the event, individuals may call the HCPC to find out how they may participate.
Both collections will use the same contractors. Environmental Projects, Inc. of Gray, Maine will collect the HHW, while Uniwaste Services' Ellsworth branch will collect the UW. Sponsors of the event include The Acadia Disposal District, the City of Ellsworth, the Hancock County Planning Commission and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. For more information, contact Jef Fitzgerald at 667-7131 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
New Mom Apologies
I promise I'm not going to disappear.
Adjusting to being a new mom is more time consuming than I thought... even though Annabelle is a GREAT sleeper.
Forgive me for the sporadic posts... I do have a big list of posts to share, but I just haven't gotten around to writing them yet.
Birth story is coming soon... I need to get that all typed out before I forget details! Luckily, Dan took notes throughout my labor for me, so that should make it easier.
In the meantime, here's a picture of Annabelle and me when she was just FOUR DAYS old... now, she's already 25 days old... HOW???
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Do you call Annabelle ABC? Because I totally would haha!ReplyDelete
Oh so cute!!! :) You are a wonderful mama.ReplyDelete
She is just a beauty! Glad she is sleeping well- you look amazing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2015 at 11:59 PM
I know how that goes! Don't blink, momma! ;)ReplyDelete
She's too cute!!! I hear you girl! It's hard to find time to blog. And even when I could have the time, I prefer to snuggle Jaxon or do something around the house. No one judges you for not posting often. We all understand. I'm just happy to read whenever you do post and I really look forward to your birth story :)ReplyDelete
She is absolutely precious!!!!! No apologizing for your lack of blogging!!! Infants are needy little humans!ReplyDelete
She is adorable! That's awesome that she's such a good sleeper.ReplyDelete
Awwww I love newbs! So precious!ReplyDelete
Don't apologize for not blogging. You are doing what you need to do for your kid. Soak up all those little baby moments you can!ReplyDelete


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The worldwide public cloud services market grew 29 per cent in 2017, with customers spending US$117 billion in the space of 12 months.
According to IDC research, while the overall growth rate in 2017 was "marginally lower" than 2016, revenue growth of the top 16 providers by market share increased during the period.
Including the usual suspects of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, in addition to IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and Alibaba, the leading players continued to dominate the public cloud services market.
Of note the channel, their cumulative share of the market went from 47.9 per cent in 2016 to 50.7 per cent in 2017, accounting for just over half of all the worldwide public cloud services spending.
"2017 was a pivotal year in the expansion of public cloud service adoption," said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC. "This came as public cloud services continued to defy the usual laws of market gravity."
For the fifth straight year, Gens said spending growth remained at a "scorching" 29 per cent, with the size of the market tripling over that time.
"2017 also saw some intriguing market share shifts among the major players, as all of them have significantly increased their focus on the cloud, and competitive pressure has ratcheted way up," Gens added.
"The next three years will determine IT industry leadership for the next two decades and beyond."
From a technology standpoint, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) segment was characterised by supplier consolidation, maturing customer adoption, and steady growth.
Delving deeper, enterprise resource management (ERM), customer relationship management (CRM) and collaboration applications contributed the most to SaaS growth, accounting for 64 per cent of all SaaS-delivered applications.
Meanwhile, supply chain management (SCM) and content applications represented the fastest growing categories of SaaS applications at 27 per cent and 28 per cent respectively in 2017.
"The SaaS delivery model accounts for 68 per cent of worldwide public cloud services revenue," IDC research director of SaaS and cloud, Frank Della Rosa, added. "SaaS applications continue to grow at a respectable 22 per cent, reaching US$75 billion in 2017 and forecast to reach US$163 billion by 2022."
As explained by Della Rosa, in the system infrastructure software (SIS) category, security SaaS accounts for 42 per cent of all revenue, with a five-year growth rate of 13 per cent through 2022.
"While new SaaS companies launch regularly, technology mainstays like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Oracle remain atop the list of SaaS providers," Della Rosa said.
In the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) segment, year-over-year growth slowed slightly to 47 per cent from 48 per cent in 2016, reaching a little over US$17 billion in revenues in 2017.
Looking ahead, IDC expects this growth to continue as awareness of new development methods expands while the barriers to public cloud adoption decrease.
"Demand for applications has continued to fuel the growth of PaaS services to improve developer productivity," IDC research director of PaaS, Larry Carvalho, added. "Emerging technologies like containers and serverless computing are changing the delivery and consumption model of PaaS services.
"As more companies demonstrate value from platforms, adoption rates will remain high in the near future."
In the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) segment, enterprise adoption and growth in new regions continues to drive worldwide growth of IaaS revenue.
Despite the growth in revenue, revenue growth itself has slowed – to 40 per cent in 2017, down from 45 per cent in 2016 – as the market reached a total size of just under US$25 billion in 2017.
"Enterprise usage of public cloud IaaS is still in its early phase," IDC research director of IaaS, Deepak Mohan, said. "There is strong interest among enterprise IT organisations to increase use of public cloud IaaS and the major providers continue to address barriers for large scale adoption.
"These factors will continue to drive workload deployments in public cloud IaaS, and the market can be expected to grow at the current rate for at least the next two years."


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Holographic is something that shows all colors of rainbow when lights is reflect from its surface. It creates a silvery rainbow-like effect, kind of like the back of a CD or DVD. Holographic foils can come in patterns, like dots or prisms. It's appear as if its color keep changing because of the way lights reflects. When the light isn't reflect it appear silver or other color depends on what color underneath it.
If you want to create a business card that wows, you're going to have to do more than that. Having a business card that stands out and works harder than just a slip of paper with your contact details on is so important. It gives you the edge over your competitors and ensures new contacts remember who you are and where they met you. So in this post I've gathered 25 Gorgeous Holographic Business Card Designs that will leave a lasting impression.
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ESnet's Brian Tierney and Jason Zurawski will be the featured speakers at a workshop on "perfSONAR Deployment Best Practices, Architecture, and Moving the Needle." The Jan. 21-22 workshop, one in a series of Focused Technical Workshops organized by ESnet and Internet2, will be held at the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus. Read more (http://es.net/news-and-publications/esnet-news/2015/esnet-s-tierney-zurawski-to-present-at-workshop-on-perfsonar-best-practices/)
A joint effort between ESnet, Internet2, Indiana University, and GEANT, the pan-European research network, perfSONAR is a tool for end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting of multi-domain network performance. In January 2014, perfSONAR reached a milestone with 1,000 instances of the diagnostic software installed on networking hosts around the U.S. and in 13 other countries. perfSONAR provides network engineers with the ability to test and measure network performance, as well as to archive data in order to pinpoint and solve service problems that may span multiple networks and international boundaries.
At the workshop, Tierney will give an introduction to perfSONAR and present a session on debugging using the software. Zurawski will talk about maintaining a perfSONAR node, describe some user case studies and success stories, discuss "Pulling it All Together – perfSONAR as a Regional Asset" and conclude with "perfSONAR at 10 Years: Cleaning Networks & Disrupting Operation."


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Aleksei Stevens
US based
Interview: 10 questions
1. When did you start making music, what is/was your motivation to do it?
I started composing at age 15, when I began piano lessons. I was immediately more interested in how music is put together than in learning scales and etudes, which is probably why I never became a virtuoso pianist. Initially I wrote only for piano, but eventually I started writing for chamber ensembles, band, orchestra, and eventually electronics. About 2 1/2 years ago electronics became a major part of my work. I do still write some purely instrumental music, but I find I have such sonic and structural freedom in creating works for electronics alone or interactive electroacoustic music, that it now constitutes the majority of my work. I also have found the market for electronic and electroacoustic music to be much more active and interesting than that for contemporary chamber and orchestral music.
2. Tell me something about your living environment and the musical education.
I currently live in an apartment in Brooklyn with my wife. It's a quiet neighborhood, but not far from the bustling cultural centers of downtown Brooklyn & Manhattan. As for my education, I received a B.A. in music from Connecticut College and an M.Mus. in composition from Manhattan School of Music. I have studied composition with Nils Vigeland, Joel Chadabe, Noel Zahler, Dalit Warshaw, and Philip Lasser.
3.Is making music your profession? What is the context in which you practice music nowadays?
My professional life consists of composing, teaching, and curating/producing concerts. I work with a number of collaborators, including acoustic musicians, other laptop composers, dancers, and filmmakers. I teach digital audio and new media performance at Long Island University in Brooklyn. My concert production work is for Electronic Music Foundation. I perform on laptop at venues throughout NYC on a regular basis, and am in the process of forming an electroacoustic ensemble with several colleagues.
4. How do you compose or create music or sound? Have you certain principles, use certain styles etc?
I am very much interested in the experimental NY school of the 50s and 60s (Brown, Feldman, etc), and I use various aleatoric techniques in my own music. The computer expands the possibilities of aleatoric music by allowing for real-time algorithmic interaction with live players. The challenge is to set up an interaction which is clear and consistent without being predictable. I also enjoy making both interactive and static spatialized soundscapes and noisescapes. I am an avid field recorder, and I have a large library of original recordings that I use as raw materials for composing music.
5. Tell me something about the instruments, technical equipment or tools you use?
I write for most western orchestral instruments, and collaborate with instrumentalists regularly. As for the electronics, my main software tools are Max/MSP/Jitter and Pro Tools. I use a Marantz PMD670 to make field recordings. I have an AKG stereo mic and a Røde shotgun mic, and I use earthworks microphones for most of my studio recordings.
6. What are the chances of New Media for the music production in general and you personally?
I am excited by new media art for a number of reasons. First of all, it is exciting to a general audience and draws them in. That is, beyond the circle of people who have a deep aesthetic interest in new media art & music, there is a larger circle of people to whom it speaks on a cultural level. This kind of accessibility means more opportunities for everyone: venues, artists, producers, advertisers, etc. It also makes for a very active, fertile community of artists. For me personally, I love new media art personally because I believe we really are living in the information age, and new media art expresses the aesthetics, raises the questions, and borrows from the culture of our time.
7. How about producing and financing your musical productions?
I am lucky to have a network of collaborators with whom I work regularly. I am a concert producer myself, and make many connections with artists through that role. I have not reached a point yet where I'm making money by making music. I do get paid for gigs like everyone else, but my expenses in time and other resources far outweigh any income from producing work. Most of my income comes from teaching and production work, but the pay in these fields is high enough that I'm able to work part time and devote the rest of time to composing.
8. Do you work individually as a musician/soundartist or in a group or collaborative? If you have experience in both, what is the difference, what do you prefer?
I work primarily alone or in project-based collaborations. I do not have any continuous or long-running collaborations, although I am moving towards such an arrangement with a flutist and some other musicians. There are clear benefits to both. In a collaboration, you sacrifice a certain amount of control, which is difficult for a composer with a vision of a work, but you gain the benefit of another's creativity, which can feed your own.
9. Is there any group, composer, style or movement which has a lasting influence on making music?
There are many composers and movements that have had a lasting influence. The thing it's important to remember is that "you can't please all the people all of the time. you can only please some of the people some of the time". There are a wide variety of different audiences out there, all in search of something different in art and music. They have as much of an effect on what becomes a successful movement as artists do, and I believe that the practice of art, especially art that has not yet achieved wide acceptance, is a form of communication between artist and audience, and that each influences the other's development. I do not believe that any one movement is the most valuable or has the longest lasting influence, but rather that there's a mutual influence between artists and audiences, artists and business, artists and other artists.
10. What are your future plans or dreams as a soundartist or musician?
I am very interested in spatialized sound installation, and multimedia installation. I am also very interested in multimedia opera and dance using sensors and electronics to create music and sound through motion. I hope to collaborate more in the future with dancers, video artists, and singers to make the new Gesamptkuntzwerk of the 21st century!
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Aifa Predictive Business Intelligence
Focus Aifa – our artificial intelligence engine was built to achieve speed. That's why we call it the "Meeting Killer".
What does that mean? That means you can build reports but those reports should guide you not just tell you what has happened in the past. With our platform you have the ability to see the past and use machine learning derived from your data and external data sources to predict the future all in one platform.
Collect unstructured and structured data and automatically structure it for your needs
Setup rules for predictive analytics and the system will start developing forecast based on historical data to help manage promotions and optimize inventory
Instead of waiting for an event or time period the system can automatically alert and inform you of data you need to take action on whether it is risk or opportunity
Setup opportunity parameters and the system will automatically track for potential and alert you
Integrate and automatically take actionable data and send that to integrated system to take action whether that is an ERP, CRM or other applications
Leverage voice and natural type search to get information and reporting on the fly
Integrates with G Suite and MS Office 365
Thousands of integrations through Zapier and pre-built
Quickly build integrations with our RESTful APIs
Intelligence on business information shouldn't require special training or degrees. Aifa was created to democratize access and improve the speed of business. That is why we have built it in a way that it is easy to use, setup and automate. We believe if we can make it so easy that a child can make sense of it then we have done our jobs. With Aifa Preditive BI you can automate analytics on Assets, Financials, Customers, People, Time, Fuel, Risk, IoT and many other facets of your business.
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Guys, it finally is starting to feel a bit like summer! I was so excited that we spiked into the 80's this week! I spent my weekend celebrating Cinco De Mayo, drinking margaritas, and enjoying the much needed sunshine.
I have never been a huge fan of darker lips or colors. Browns, oranges, or anything relating to that family, has always been a turn off for me to wear. However, this year I promised myself that I would step out of my comfort and try to do styles that I normally wouldn't do.
I am a HUGE fan of these short high-waisted shorts. I got them from Akira (size small), and I love them because you can make them super dressy or super casual depending on the look you are trying to accomplish. I got the backless shirt from Forever 21(size small) and guess what, it was under 20.00!
I decided to class it up a tad because my husband and I were attending a Cinco De Mayo luncheon. Therefore, I added a bit of costume jewerly that I ordered from Amazon, and paired it with some nude colored heels from Guess.
I had so much fun creating this fun, dark inspired look for you all! Remember, to get out of your comfort zone. You never know what you may discover you'll like!
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In order to use the Terminus Engagements (formerly Sales Insights) portion of the package, you must have Ad Experiences as a part of your subscription to Terminus. You must have an active connection between Ad Experiences and your Salesforce. Additionally, in order to see web engagement and Engagement Spike data in the package, you must have Visitor ID installed on your website.
The Account Insights component of the package will require access to a Data Studio instance, and Terminus Sales Experiences as a part of your subscription.
Article quick links:
- Terminus Insights Package Overview
- Installing the Terminus Insights Package
- Adding Terminus Engagements Fields to the Page Layout
- Installing the Account Insights iframe
- Permission Sets Available in the Package
- How to Give Terminus Permission to Impersonate
- FAQs
Note for Customers Who Previously Installed Sales Insights / Account Insights (Unmanaged Packages)
As of May 2021, Terminus is an official ISV partner on the Salesforce App Exchange. With this update, we're now able to deploy the latest enhancements to our Salesforce package faster, and without any additional action needed from our customers.Customers who previously installed our unmanaged Salesforce packages for Terminus Engagements (formerly Sales Insights), and Account Insights should follow the instructions in this article.
The Terminus Insights Managed Package allows customers to access Terminus advertising metrics, website activity, intent signals, and other important account-level intelligence in one central and powerful location: Salesforce CRM. Depending on your subscription plan, the package will include the Terminus Engagements page layout view, custom Salesforce reports, and/or the Account Insights view.
Terminus Engagements (on Account page layout)
Account Insights (iframe on the Account object)
At any time during the installation and setup process, you can submit a ticket through the Terminus Support Portal, or grant Terminus login access to troubleshoot any unexpected issues.
Installing the Terminus Insights Package
Estimated Time to Completion: 30-60 minutes.
NOTE: If you previously installed the old (unmanaged) Terminus Salesforce package, please see these instructions.
Access the Terminus Insights Package via the Salesforce App Exchange and click "Install".
Note: Active Terminus customers can ignore the list price shown on the App Exchange listing.
The prompt will ask you which profiles you wish to install this package for. As a Managed Package, you can select any of the options. You can also select the "View Components" button at the bottom if you wish to view all components involved in this installation.
Recommended: Since we do not currently add any Apex workflows or triggers, we recommend that if you install this for an "Admin only", you have a plan to eventually make this Generally Available for your organization.
- Once you have selected your option, Salesforce will send you an email alerting you that the installation is complete. You can also verify the package has been installed by going to Setup -> Installed Packages. You should see "Terminus Marketing" installed.
For Ad Experiences Users: Once the package is installed, please verify that the Salesforce user used to authenticate Salesforce within your Ad Experiences instance has been granted a license to the package. The user also needs permission to update the Account object in Salesforce. If you are not sure what user was used to authenticate Terminus Ad Experiences in your org, you can check this by following these steps.
- Navigate to Setup at the top right inside Salesforce
- On the left hand pane click into the "Quick Find / Search", paste in "Connected Apps OAuth Usage"
- Click "Connected Apps OAuth Usage", on this page you should see a connected app called "MyTerminus"
- To the right of this you should see a column with "user count", please click this underlined number and a user name will be displayed
- Back in the quick find, search for "Installed Packages" and navigate to "Terminus Marketing" package
- Click "Manage Licenses" next to the package
- Click "Add Users" and add a license for the user identified in Step 4
Adding Terminus Engagements Fields to Layout
To add the new Terminus Engagements fields to your Account Layout, go to Setup > Object Manager > Account. From there, select "Page Layouts," and select the Account Layout you want to add Salesforce Fields to. Salesforce gives you "Account Layout" by default, but our fields can exist on multiple different variations of layouts that you create.
Recommended: These fields are available to all users of your Salesforce. It's our recommendation that you do not "protect" these behind permission sets or other roles without careful consideration.
- Once on your Account Layout, add a new section called "Terminus Engagements," and make it two columns wide. The installed package should have all fields available for you. We recommend that the fields you display follow a layout similar to this (See table and example below):
|Last Ad Impression Date
|Last Visit Date
|Ad Impressions (30 Day Snapshot)
|Web Visits (30 Day Snapshot)
|Last Ad Click Date
|People on Site (30 Day Snapshot)
|Ad Impressions (90 Day Snapshot)
|Engaging on
|Ad Clicks (30 Day Snapshot)
|Last Spike
|Ad Clicks (90 Day Snapshot)
|Spike Percent
|Terminus Account Lists
|Spike Heat
|Terminus Account Lists as of
|Most Visited Awareness Pages
|Most Visited High Value Pages
- Click Save.
- Once you have completed your O-Auth with Ad Experiences and have placed the Visitor ID tracking pixel on your website, these fields will begin populating with data within 24 hours of both activities
NOTE: As of June 2021, the "Associated Terminus Accounts" field in the package has been deprecated, and will not populate new data.
Installing the Account Insights iframe
This part of the installation process is only relevant to customers who have access to Account Insights as part of their Terminus subscription. Customers who have access to both Terminus Engagements & Account Insights should first complete the installation steps above, before configuring the Account Insights view.
Related Salesforce Resources:
- Permission Sets Overview - Salesforce Resource
- Permission Sets for Groups (assigning permission sets in bulk)
Terminus Permission Sets
The Terminus Insights managed package comes with three permission sets embedded within it. All three Permission Sets are available in a Salesforce instance upon installation of the Managed Package. See this section, below, for further details.
To assign out Permission sets for users, do the following:
- Go to Set up and Go to "Permission Sets".
- Find the "Terminus Insights" Permission Set.
- Assign all Users who have a Terminus "Activate" License to this Permission Set.
Important: Please ensure that the user that you have used to authenticate with Terminus has a license for the managed package.
Anyone who wants to be able to view the Terminus package needs a license for it on their user, this includes the user that is integrating with Terminus as well. By default, the package allows for 50 licenses.
For more information:
Adding Account Insights to the Account Layout
To add the Account Insights iframe to your Account layout, please reference these setup instructions.
Permission Sets Available in the Package
The Terminus Insights Package comes with 3 permission sets upon installation. O-Auth User, Terminus Insights, and Terminus Engagements. The permission sets allow users assigned to them to have the most access relevant to their role.
Permissions Available:
- Terminus Engagements:This permission set is the default assigned to all users of the package. This allows users to see the fields that are added to Account Layouts for reporting on the Terminus Engagement data pushed back to Salesforce. Users with this permission set will not be able to access our Account Insights functionality.
- Terminus Insights: This permission set allows users to see the i-Frame of Terminus Account Insights, as well as the Terminus Engagement Fields. Users with this permission set will be able to interact with all installed elements of the package and will require "Activate" as a part of their Terminus package.
- Terminus O-Auth User: This user has the ability to see all elements of the package without any type of restrictions. This permission set is by default granted to the O-Auth user. Our recommendation is that this permission is not granted to non-Salesforce Admins.
Further Resources:
- Salesforce Permission Sets Overview
- Assign Permissions to Individual Users
- Assign Permission Sets to Multiple Users
How to Give Terminus Permission to Impersonate
As a ISV Partner with Salesforce, Terminus has the unique ability to offer higher levels of support to our customers as they implement, optimize, and support their ABM Efforts in Salesforce. Should you have any issues that require collaboration on Terminus in your Salesforce, you can perform the following steps to best assist Terminus in troubleshooting & collaborating.
Granting Terminus Access
A Salesforce Admin needs to grant access to Terminus by going to the following:
Go to User > Settings:
Once here, go to the right hand side and click on "Grant Account Login Access":
Here, you should see all ISV partners that you have installed in your Salesforce account. You can select how much time you wish to grant to Terminus to login as your Salesforce Admin to login. We recommend anywhere between 1 day or 7 days, depending on the request.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What scenarios should I grant Terminus access for?
- Support for understanding discrepancies.
- Installation assistance.
- Unexpected behavior.
- How long will Terminus have access to login?
- We will only be able to login for the Access Duration you allow us to.
- What information will Terminus be able to see when impersonating?
- We will be able to see the same level of information as the user who grants us Login access.
- What will Terminus be looking for when troubleshooting/impersonating?
Commonly, we will be focusing on these areas:
- Account Layouts
- Permission Sets
- Field Permissions
- Will I be able to see what actions were taken by Terminus?
- We will commonly not make changes to your Salesforce on your behalf, more-so we will focus on understanding any root causes. Should you have any concerns, a Salesforce Admin can activate Audit Trails to track the activity we perform in your Account.


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It's a New Year and a New You! We'll be doing a few articles to get you thinking and searching, to support you on the journey that is 2016.
It's not always easy to pick a professional in any field with whom you feel comfortable and confident. While your hair may grow back after a misunderstanding with a new stylist, your health care provider is a more serious choice.
This includes searching for competent chiropractic care. As in many fields, diversity is common within chiropractic. Many practitioners practice similar techniques, focused on pain relief and joint manipulation (movement). However, there are a select few chiropractors that attend advanced training to specialize in specific, scientific techniques that are designed to correct the cause of the pain, and express life fully. How you choose to use chiropractic is dependent of your desires. Unfortunately, many chose to use chiropractic, not as a healing art, but as a therapeutic remedy for pain. This approach yields limited results and ofter allow the problem to reoccur and the individual to have multiple flare ups.
Here are a few points to consider and questions to ask as you choose a chiropractor.
- Friends and Family: A place to begin your search is with your friends' and family's referrals. Word-of-mouth is a powerful tool that can build or destroy a reputation. Find out who is trusted by the people you trust. What kind of results have they experienced? How do they feel about the wait time and welcome by the office staff?
- Call Ahead: Call ahead and find out if a chiropractor is a preferred provider with your insurance. This may not be a deal-breaker if you find a doctor with whom you are comfortable; ask what direct payment options are available. Ask about the initial analysis and the time required to start up. Ask if the intake forms are available online to expedite the time at you first visit.
- Go Online: Visit the chiropractor's website or call the office, and see if their mission statement lines up with your goals for achieving health. Review Social Media content (Facebook Page, Instagram and Twitter), review their community board and association memberships and see if there are common interests.
- Get Your Family Involved: Find out what is required to qualify for wellness care. Ask question pertaining to not just your health needs, but also for your families needs. See if there are family plans available and how soon children need to be checked for nerve interference.
At Dopps Chiropractic NE, Dr. Ryan Dopps believes in a wholestic approach to caring for our bodies. He sees each individual as having a unique set of needs, with chiropractic as a system of health care that helps retrain the body to care for itself.
A Board Certified Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Dopps has a warm personality with an objective approach to improving and maintaining his patients health. See the "Meet Our Doctors" page of this website for more information on his training and positions on various boards
NO INSURANCE IS NEEDED at Dopps Chiropractic NE. Contact the office with any questions or to schedule an appointment to meet Dr. Dopps.


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Yes we do dream big but look where we have come
Dreams do come true with Ruby Ribbon
If you can dream it work it you can do it!
Tonight is a special company-wide call called a dream big call
Do you have 30 minutes this evening?
Could you call in and log on to the webinar?
For every two guests that I have the company rewards us with business supplies
I am going to do a personal drawing for a special discount on FALL for guests that attend
What you have to do
1. call into 1-650-281-0004 guest passcode- 565618
2. if you have access to computer and internet we do a presentation on meet FM log on to meet.fm/rubyribbon.com
3. when Anna asks for roll call you say that Danielle Chapman invited you
4. e-mail me or text or message me that you got on to the call and 1 thing that you learned from the call to get entered into my drawing
You may win a gift from Ruby Ribbon during the call and guess what they are doing double the drawings tonight
I will be on the call as well so you can say hi on the chat if you want:)
What is the call for?
1. to explain what Ruby Ribbon is
2. offer the opportunity- customer, hostess, brand ambassador, stylist(I would love to have you on my Royal team)
3. show our process where we came from and where we are going(it is getting pretty exciting at Ruby Ribbon)
Dream Big
Yes we do dream big but look where we have comeDreams do come true with Ruby RibbonIf you can dream it work it you can…
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"Coal Miner's Daughter" remains Loretta Lynn's most famous track. However, it is no secret that many of her early hits were all based on her personal life, one that she kept a secret for years. Loretta Lynn addressed women's matters inconspicuously in her songs like "The Pill" and "One's on the Way". But, before these songs, Lynn made it simple that she was more than ready to shatter anyone who tries to take her man. Similar to her song "You Ain't Woman Enough", "Fist City" is part monographic, part public service declaration. What big experience did she have to go through to write such a strong, mean song?
"Fist City", the Story
"Fist City" was released in 1968 and had the character threatening another woman to stay away from her husband or bad things will happen. When asked about this song, Lynn said that it was based on her marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, the man she was with when her career started. Doolittle had affairs with other women who chased him while Loretta was busy touring.
Lynn married when she was 15 and had four babies by the time she was 20. Hitting it big in her singing career, she started touring while Doolittle stayed home and farmed their 350 acres in Hurricane Mills. However, Lynn soon discovered that some girls around their town were getting the attention of her husband. When she came home one time from a tour, one of her daughters told her her dad went out with the bus driver. Lynn confronted the bus driver, who did not deny. Lynn, without hesitations, went to attack and went for the hair first. However, the motivation for Lynn to write "Fist City" came later when she learned that another girl relocated close to Hurricane Mills to make a move on Doolittle. She knew that she could not threaten her, but when she heard rumors, she wrote "Fist City" in her head while furiously driving 75 miles home.
Do you Want to go to "Fist City"?
In the song, Loretta cautions another woman that if she keeps eyeing her man, she is going to take her to "Fist City", where she will deliver a whooping. You would not like that. Lynn also took her husband to Fist City for coming home drunk at times. Her husband, however, did not hear the tune until she sang it at the Grand Ole Opry. After the performance, he claimed that the song would never make it big. A claim he was ashamed for. So, you better be good, because as Loretta warned,
"I'm here to tell you gal to lay off of my man,
If you don't wanna go to Fist City."
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[…] "Fist City" is one of Loretta Lynn's classic country songs. It shows what a real woman can do when it comes to love. Lynn's 1968 single was based on an incident in her life. It may sound sad that she has to experience such in her marriage, but it also shows us that she's one tough woman indeed. […]


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Do You Believe In Magic?
new internationalist
issue 182 - April 1988
Do you believe in magic?
Magic or modern medicine: what's the difference? Not much,
argues Debbie Taylor - except that magic is more logical.
The X-ray showed there was something growing inside me,' Esther said. 'But the doctors at Harare hospital told me there was nothing they could do.'
She looked at me hard for a moment, searching my blue eyes with her black ones. 'Do you believe in magic?' she asked suddenly.
Esther had been ill for weeks, with a stomach pain so bad it made her groan aloud. Already slim, she grew gaunt and her bones began to appear as hard ridges in her dulled brown skin. She couldn't work she couldn't sleep; her younger sisters had to carry her from the bed to the toilet Eventually her mother summoned her son-in-law - the only one in the family with a car - and persuaded Esther to visit an apostolic healer.
'They use water and prayer, just like Jesus did. A quarter of people in Zimbabwe never go near a health clinic. When they fall sick they go straight to an apostolic healer. The healer prayed for a long time, then told me I had been bewitched.'
He told Esther that one of her neighbours was jealous because she was doing so well in her Ministry of Agriculture job. When Esther started building a new house for her mother, right next door to the neighbour's house, it was the last straw and the neighbour had sought the services of a nganga to punish Esther for her success. That was why she had fallen ill, the healer explained.
'Then he told me to take off my dress and lie on my back. And he pushed his hands into my stomach and pulled out a... a. something horrible.' Esther shuddered at the memory. It was a tangle of thorns, claws, feathers and the beaks of birds, about the size of a man's fist. There was no anaesthetic; no surgeon's knife: just the healer's hands reaching in and extracting the evil thing from her soft flesh.
'That was about three weeks ago. Look,' she said, lifting her blouse for me. I looked and my blood ran cold. On her smooth brown skin was a terrible jagged mass of livid purple scars.
Do I believe in magic? Yes, I'm afraid that I do. What's more, I believe that a magical model of the universe is a better one than the sterile scientific model that now holds sway over much of the so-called civilized world. By 'better' I mean not only richer, more meaningful, than the scientific model; but also more practically useful, more logically consistent, more comprehensive. More 'scientific' if you like. Magic wins over science not only on its own terms - but on science's terms too.
Take Esther's illness and cure, for instance. I have already given the magical explanation: A employs B to cast a spell on C, who falls ill; C then employs D to remove the spell; C recovers. For the people concerned every element of the equation is real: the malevolent intent, the spell, the illness, the healer's power, the recovery. Obviously the evil object was burnt immediately it was extracted, but if more 'objective' proof be needed, there is the hospital's X-ray and the scars on Esther's belly.
Science is nonplussed when faced with such occurrences. It calls them 'supernatural', on the astoundingly arrogant assumption that science has so complete an understanding of nature that anything puzzling to science must, by definition, be outside the realm of the natural. It then energetically sets about proving that the 'supernatural' is 'natural' - that is, explicable in scientific terms.
After all, Esther's scars could conceivably have been made by the healer's own nails; the evil object could have been produced by sleight of hand. In a cause célèbre in France a few years ago, for example, a renowned healer called Michel Carayon, who performed surgery with his bare hands in a similar way, challenged a prominent film-maker, Claude Sauvageot, to prove that his operations were hoaxes. After many hours of filming, Sauvageot exposed the healer as a fraud who used animal blood and sleight of hand to produce his spectacular effects. What were not fraudulent, however, were the thousands of real cures - often of otherwise incurable, inoperable diseases - he effected before he was unmasked. Regardless of the hoax theatrics, those cures were nothing short of miraculous.
Science doesn't approve of words like magic or miracle. It prefers to talk of 'spontaneous remission' or 'placebo effect' - in the hope that giving the inexplicable (in scientific terms) a polysyllabic name will be sufficient explanation in itself. This is understandable. Because if a scientific discipline such as medicine were really to acknowledge the power of the 'placebo', it would find its own claims to power disintegrating before its very eyes. In fact it has been said that the entire history of medicine as we know it in the West is tantamount to a history of the placebo.
So what is this magical mystery thing, the placebo? First here's science's definition: a placebo is a substance (a sugar pill, for instance) or procedure (such as bogus X-rays) which can have no direct physical impact on an illness, but which nevertheless effects a cure. In magic's terms a placebo is a spell.
Occasionally it's a question of kill or cure. George Washington's throat infection was treated originally with molasses, vinegar and butter. It turned into pneumonia, for which he was given purgatives which produced violent vomiting and diarrhoea. Mustard poultices were then applied to bring his skin out in blisters, and two pints of blood were drained from his body before, mercifully, he passed away. In those days only an estimated three per cent of medicines used by doctors were based on understandable scientific principles. The total is somewhat better today - but nowhere near the 100 per cent medics would have us believe.
Ironically it was the wise women or witches that the physicians replaced who were the true scientists of that time. These women practised - very much like Indian dais, Thai morpanurans, Zimbabwean ngangas today - with a mixture of herbal remedies, midwifery skills, psychotherapy and spells, the majority of which were based on experience and painstakingly tried, tested and refined over generations. In fact Paracelsus, the acknowledged 'father (sic) of modern medicine', burnt his textbook of drugs in 1527 confessing that 'he had learnt from the sorceresses all that he knew'.
Today's medical profession is still operating largely by means of magic and its recent attacks on the burgeoning 'alternative' medical disciplines, like acupuncture and homeopathy, shows it is still vigorously attacking practitioners who threaten to expose the magical means by which so many of its own cures are effected.
Take heart surgery, for instance. One experiment has shown that simply slitting a patient's chest open and sewing it up again has exactly the same beneficial effect as a real heart bypass operation. Placebo painkillers have been shown, on average, to be as powerful as 10 milligrams of morphine. In fact, placebos have been found to relieve cancer, angina, strokes, epilepsy, diabetes, ulcers, asthma and a huge range of minor ailments.
The funny thing is that the more 'scientific' the placebo, the greater the effect. For instance an elaborate dosage regime, coupled with monitoring by a complex-looking computer, followed by intricate surgery, has an incredibly strong effect. This means that every so-called 'scientific advance' in treatment methods could really be due to an increase in the power of the placebo effect.
The other major factors that increase the power of the placebo effect are the beliefs and attitudes of the person administering it. The confident doctor who has no doubts about the efficacy of the treatment is much more effective than the inexperienced novice hovering between one treatment and another. The beliefs and attitudes of the patient, on the other hand, have no appreciable predictable effect whatsoever. This means that many doctors are operating in exactly the ways that witches and magicians are thought to operate: magically.
But this magical power of belief is not only effective with other human beings. The humble planarian worm - which has no brain at all, let alone what we might normally call a psyche - is equally susceptible to control by the mind of the scientist. Experimenters were led to expect that one group of worms had been especially bred to behave differently to another group of (identical) worms and, lo and behold, that is exactly what they did. Scientists have called this power of belief the 'experimenter effect', a term with approximately the same explanatory value as 'placebo effect', namely zero. I prefer the word 'magic'.
If a sentient being like a human and a non-sentient being like a worm can be manipulated by - well, what shall we call them: thought waves? magic spells? experimenter effects? Take your pick. If humans are this powerful over their fellow living creatures, surely this raises the possibility that humans (or any other creatures, for that matter) can cast similar spells over non-living objects.
This, in essence, is what psychokinesis is: the magical movement of objects by the sheer exercise of the human will. Poltergeists - those mischievous spirits that literally go bump in the night - are similarly suspected (though not by scientists, of course) to be the manifestation of the power of the unconscious human will over material objects. Are such occurrences any more unlikely than Esther's miraculous cure?
The scientist would argue that such occurrences are counter to the very 'laws of nature'. What the scientist fails to realise, however, is that these seemingly incontrovertible, logical, immutable laws of nature are based on a simple act of faith.
The leap of faith, the crucial article of belief, to which the scientist clings as if for dear life, is that all events are caused by prior events. This is tantamount to believing in magic, because, as philosophers Kuhn and Popper have pointed out, there is absolutely no way of proving causation. That two events have always followed one another in the past is no guarantee that they will continue to do so in the future. We simply believe that they will. And so they do. But perhaps it is the very power of our belief that they will that makes them do so.
Debbie Taylor is a New Internationalist co-editor.
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Readers who have been following Two Coats of Paint since the beginning know that for ten years I taught at a state university in Connecticut and kept my studio in the attic of an old Victorian house in downtown Mystic. In 2010 I moved back to New York and, after commuting for a few semesters and taking a year-long leave of absence, I left the university. The beautiful blue house went on the market, and this month we sold it to a couple of young architects who apparently appreciate history and like living within walking distance to the historic downtown and the drawbridge. The closing is in a few days, and so we're in the process of organizing, packing, and redistributing everything. A lot (but not more than 3000 pounds!) went into a dumpster, some will come to New York, and the rest (mostly furniture and the art collection) has been moved to a temporary climate-controlled storage unit in Mystic. After twelve years of reckless accumulation, I'm having a hard time figuring out what to keep and what to throw out. I thought readers might enjoy snaps of some of the images and objects I found in the archive.
[Image at top: A painting my father made of his father in 1953. The painting is so odd that the first real estate agent asked me to take it down because prospective buyers asked too many questions about it. No brainer: this painting is a keeper.]
When I was a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Connecticut, my service job as a graduate assistant (UConn's MFA students have always been fully funded) was filing exhibition announcements in the Visual Resource Archives of the Art Library. That was when I realized that exhibition postcards have historic value, and now I have huge boxes of them. Storage or dumpster?
A Kodak slide carousel with an address label from a long-forgotten apartment on the front of the box. The carousel is inside, but the slides have been removed. I think it was from an unsuccessful application to Skowhegan during my senior year in the BFA program at MassArt. Definitely dumpster material.
An outtake from our 2002 holiday card photo shoot. Remember when we used to send holiday cards? Now she's seventeen. I might have to get a frame for this picture and keep it on the bookcase.
In the course of four days, we made several trips to Goodwill and nearly filled a 14-yard dumpster. I go back to Mystic this weekend for more work, but the project is almost complete. If you want an upright piano, make me an offer.
Studio update: Recent interview at Studio Critical
Is the east end of Connecticut the new Hamptons?
Studio update: Studio visits, exhibitions, new work
Two Coats of Paint is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. To use content beyond the scope of this license, permission is required.


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Besides getting a really cool chinchilla cage for your little friend, you might also like to know a little bit more about what you can feed him or her in order to ensure proper development. However, before getting into details, let's take a look at some general aspects of these fascinating pets.
Chinchillas have originally lived in the Andes Mountains located in South America and, unfortunately, they did not have the happiest story throughout time. Their luxurious and beautiful fur became an item of desire, so they were trapped and brought near extinction because of this.
Luckily, things have slowly changed and today they are popular pets around the world, with loving families offering them affection. Since they are sociable creatures, they are an excellent choice for parents who are looking for a way to teach their children a little bit about taking responsibility for raising a pet.
The average chinchilla lives quite a while, the range going from 8 to 15 years and, depending on the variety and gender, it can weigh up to 800 grams. What makes them excellent pets are their lovely and active personality and the fact that they are clean and easily adaptable to various environments.
Given their social nature, chinchillas are not solitary pets, so they should be kept in groups or pairs, in order to enjoy active days and healthy mental and emotional development. With this being said, let's take a look at some of the main feeding guidelines, before getting to the article's main question on whether carrots are a suitable choice when it comes to their diets.
Feeding principles
Chinchillas should enjoy a varied diet that can ensure their nutritional needs are met. This means it should include pelleted food, fresh veggies, as well as plenty of hay they can munch on. Just like most other types of rodents, this is one of their favorite activities that also helps them maintain healthy dental care.
Having constant access to grass foods and hay is important since this maintains the gastrointestinal health, therefore it should be the majority of their diet. Buying pelleted food ensures that they have everything they need in terms of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals since these are correctly balanced for their needs in this type of products.
Something worth noting here is that you should go for pelleted food instead of dry mixes since the former ensures they get a bit of every ingredient in each bite, given the structure of the pellets. This approach prevents those situations where you have to throw away significant parts of a mix because they only choose their favorite ingredients.
Of course, you should also include fresh greens in their diet, but keeping a balance is important in order to avoid any type of overfeeding that might upset their stomach. They are rather known for having a sensitive digestive system, so you might want to research a bit about any new element or type of food that you think about adding to their diet.
What about carrots?
These lovely pets don't need to consume as many fruits and vegetables as humans do since their diet mostly consists of grass, water, and pellets. However, providing them with some fresh veggies and fruits is definitely a good idea to ensure a healthy life. Always go for raw alternatives and avoid any cooked foods since these are not suitable for the little fellows.
Your chinchilla will definitely enjoy some cut apples, collard greens, strawberries, cabbage, as well as carrots. When it comes to carrots, in particular, these are actually highly nutritious for chinchillas and, given their structure, they are also beneficial for teeth.
On the other hand, you should make sure that you don't give your pet too many carrots at once since it can lead to an upset stomach. Just like it's the case for humans, too much of a certain food might end up having a reversed effect and cause more trouble than the benefits it brings.
In case you plan on giving your chinchilla carrots for the first time, you should start off by offering a small quantity, without mixing it with other vegetables or fruits.
This is just a preventive measure and, in case anything goes wrong in terms of digestion, you'll know what caused it. Otherwise, you might have to start guessing, and this is never fun especially if your chinchilla is not feeling well.
Some of these adorable creatures have an appetite for food in general, so they might try to eat the carrot as fast as possible, hoping to get some more. To avoid any choking hazard, cut the vegetables into small slices.
You can also get some baby carrots if you are a fan yourself. It's really up to you and to your pet's preferences, but do make sure that the initial amount is small so that in case it's not tolerated, the effects are not too significant.
Carrots pros and cons
Just like many other types of rodents, chinchillas have teeth that grow constantly, which means that they need to chew and bite on something to wear them and prevent any problems associated with overgrowing. Although pellets and other treats help in this matter, carrots can definitely do a very good job as well, while also being nutritious and rather gentle.
Carrots are also rich in vitamins A, C, and K, meaning that they can help maintain a healthy eyesight as well. The general rule says that a chinchilla should have about one carrot per week since they do contain quite a bit of naturally occurring sugar. On the other hand, you can also check this with your vet since your own pet might have different needs.
This goes for all fresh vegetables and fruits, but if you have a source of organically grown carrots that you can use in order to feed your chinchilla, it's even better for your pet since you avoid pesticides and other substances that can cause damage throughout time. After all, a chinchilla lives for quite a number of years, so you want to make sure that yours is in top shape.
Rotate treats
Chinchillas do have sensitive stomachs, so avoid any excessive feeding of fresh vegetables. These can lead to bloating, gas, diarrhea or, in extreme cases or for particularly sensitive pets, they can even lead to death. This doesn't mean that you should eliminate any such food from their diet, it only means that you need to be smart about it and always keep a healthy balance.
Since fresh veggies and fruits can be considered treats, you can include a little bit of one or the other every day, in order to ensure the right levels of vitamins and nutrients without jeopardizing your pet's health in any way.
And also, keep in mind that you should not feel bad if the little fellow begs for more of the good stuff and you resist the temptation of pleasing him or her. In the end, it's a matter of keeping everything within moderate limits.
On the other hand, if your chin is fussy, be careful when you are changing foods and make sure that you do this gradually over the course of a few days to prevent any major changes at once.


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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom is planning to participate in the construction of three major new international submarine cables between now and 2016, reports the China Post, with the combined undertaking likely to cost around TWD4.2 billion (USD138.5 million). Chunghwa hopes to elevate its overall network capacity to over 2TBps after the three cables are completed. Leng Tai-feng, president of Chunghwa Telecom's international business group, named the three projects as the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SMW5) and the New Cross Pacific (NCP) cable. The systems are expected to be finished by April 2015, mid-2016 and February 2016, respectively.
The Bangladeshi government has decided to sell unused bandwidth on South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE4), the country's sole submarine cable link, with a view to generating around BDT6 billion (USD75.9 million) in revenue. Previous plans to lease the unused bandwidth have been discarded in favour of an outright sale, but the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications & Information Technology (MoPTI) will retain enough bandwidth to meet the country's projected needs up to 2021.
The Djibouti Data Center (DDC) has announced the launch of a new internet exchange point (IXP) at its facility in Djibouti City. The new IXP will allow existing customers, carriers, ISPs, and others to keep local traffic in East Africa by reducing the need to exchange traffic at other peering points outside of the region. The DDC claims to be the first and only data centre in East Africa with access to all five major international submarine cables.
Israel-based international telecoms provider Bezeq International has deployed the Apollo packet-optical transport system from ECI Telecom, the latter has announced. Bezeq requires the upgraded capacity to keep pace with the demands of its large enterprise and business customers, and the deployment represents Israel's entry into the 100Gbps fibre-optic sector.
AccessKenya has acquired additional international broadband capacity on the SEACOM submarine cable system in order to support its future growth plans. The Synchronous Transport Module (STM-4) line has a capacity of 620Mbps and will bolster the firm's capabilities as it implements its network expansion strategy to cover all 47 Kenyan counties. AccessKenya is currently extending its fibre infrastructure in and around Nairobi, as well as linking to the northern and southern coasts.
According to local press reports, progress on Med Cable, the EUR12.3 million (USD15.7 million) submarine cable system that was acquired by Global Telecom Holding (formerly Orascom Telecom Holding), part of the Vimpelcom group, in November 2012, has ground to a halt, with no progress reported in 2013. As such, only the domestic Algiers-Annaba link is operational, with work on the Algiers-Marseille link believed to have been postponed indefinitely.
Telecom Egypt has announced that it has reached a USD12.5 million settlement with a tanker in compensation for damage caused to two of its submarine cables last March. The amount covers the repair costs for the EIG and TE North cables, which the B-Elephant ship cut and damaged, causing internet connections to drop off for broadband users across Egypt last spring.
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When in the presence of greatness, we must remember that Rob is only a local celebrity, hard as this is to imagine. However, there are times that Rob comes in contact with celebrities of a national nature. This was their time to experience the man we know as "Rob".
Erin Murphy is better known to most people as "Tabitha" from "Bewitched". Rob met her at Chiller Theatre in Seacaucus, NJ, about a week after (coincidence or wishcraft? - you decide!) I had come across her own (as in, really, her own) web site: http://www.tvtoys.com/bewitched/.
Unlike many people who meet her, Rob did not ask Erin to wiggle her nose with her finger (besides being unhygenic, imagine how YOUR nose would feel if you wiggled it with your finger a hundred times or so per day!).
Although Erin had previously appeared at Spooky World in Berlin, MA, it is unlikely at this time that she'll be making an appearance there in 1999.
This is a picture from Rob and Erin Murphy's second meeting - in Boston in July 1998 (but this time I was the photographer). Erin is a warm, funny, friendly person - her cheery attitude and great smile won over everyone who had the fortune to meet her that day.
I'll always have an image in my mind of of Erin leaning over at one point and asking me "What's an assimilated tribble?" (It's a Star Trek thing if you don't get it - actually, it's two Star Trek things).
Erin had participated in a show called "Fashion Emergency" on "E". After checking out her website, which includes many pictures of her personal appearances as well as meeting her in person, I would have to say that she is no fashion victim or emergency. She looked great and her outfit was outstanding.
I don't think it's a coincidence that someone started the Completely Unofficial and Unauthorized Erin Murphy Site.
Bryan Fortin (pictured at left), a friend of Rob's, had met Erin her at Spooky World in October, 1997. Bryan has his own cable show called "Zones of Evil". You can check out the Web site for his show here.
Rob has seen everything that Marjean Holden has ever done. You can tell that this is the same Chiller Theatre experience, as Rob has on the same "Shakespeare's Sister" shirt he had on when he met Erin Murphy (way to dress, Rob). I must state for the record, though, that Rob has not met anyone from "Shakespeare's Sister".
Marjean was good enough to give Rob her autograph. The text reads "To Rob, Thanks for Watching! You're great! Marjean Holden". Isn't that amazing? She thought Rob was great and I didn't even have to tell her!
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Anne Lockhart has done lots of voice work and has made many appearances as a special guest star on different shows.
But hello?
She was Sheba on Battlestar Gallactica! Sheba!
'Nuff said (except that this is again the Chiller Theatre expo, since Rob is still wearing that Shakespeare's Sister shirt).
Rob, when Sheba is paying you UNDIVIDED ATTENTION, do not look down at the floor!
Rob got autographs from both June Lockhart and Anne Lockhart. You must remember June Lockhart from Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction and C.H.U.D. II. And if I didn't mention it, Anne Lockhart was Sheba on Battlestar Galactica! Sheba!
June's signature says "To Rob, Best Regards June Lockhart"; Anne's signature says "To Rob - Great to meet you. God Bless you. Anne Lockhart". I'm not sure if she stole the part about "To Rob" from June's signature, but she included the words "Great", "God" and "Anne" in her signature. Curiously missing was the word "Sheba".
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If you don't recognize this picture then you can just go home now, thanks for playing. Linda Blair signed this picture for Rob. The signature says "To Rob - Lots of Love and Sweet Dreams! Love Linda Blair".
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Linda lists a URL for her official Website, but I prefer the one listed by the IMDb, even though both are done by the same person. You can check out the site HERE.
Rob wasn't able to get this picture taken. They only had time to take one picture and Rob wasn't able to get close enough to Patti LuPone, so I created this picture for him from the below picture. Sure it's photographic fakery, but at least I was able to make the picture he couldn't take.
I was able to find her unofficial home page.
|This is the original picture. Technically, this one has been reworked as well. There was a person in the background as well as a truck that had to be removed. The four people shown, however, are quite real and appear as they did that night.
Erin Gray is a stunning individual. In the time we were able to meet her, she told us stories of the days of Buck Rogers, extolled the virtues of Tai Chi and told us some stories of raising her own child. She has her own domain now that includes a number of pictures as well as her upcoming personal appearances. In addition, check out this site dealing with domestic abuse - I learned on an on-line interview that Erin is involved with the site.
|Claudia, I kept my promise (even she doesn't know what I'm talking about). You should check out Claudia Christian's Official Web Page. She has pages on merchandise, her appearance schedule and more. I must say - she was a really good sport when she experienced the regeneration of the assimilated tribble.
Bryan got to meet Robert Vaughn. This picture was taken at the Boston Expo in July 1998.
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RUSH: I have to let you in on a little secret. Well, it's not really a secret. I'll just let you in on things going on that otherwise you wouldn't know. You know we have people who are paid handsomely to endure nighttime cable shows, to watch them. I can't deal with it. Life's too short and I want to stay ebullient and in a good mood.
So there are people, employees here, who watch that stuff and then — because they know me, know me well — determine what, if anything, from these shows we should use as audio sound bites. And I think three of the five nights this week this new show Parker Spitzer has a mentioned me. And I told staffers here, 'They just want me to play sound bites on this show. They're just trying to get me to talk about this show,' and I said, 'I'm not going to do it. I know exactly what they're doing. I know how this works.' So I didn't talk about the show. I got a phone call this morning from the executive vice president of sales asking me to approve a buy from CNN for Parker Spitzer next week. They are buying some 30-second commercials on this program next week to promote their show because I wouldn't mention 'em. Now I have mentioned 'em of course, but we always do this with new sponsors. We give 'em a little bump. So… (interruption) Well, we rate card. We charge the normal rate card when we make a deal.
You know, it's like American Express will say, 'Can you give us a break?'
I say, 'Yeah, if you'll give me a break on my credit card bill every month.'
'Well, we can't do that.'
'Welcome to business. You pay what we charge, I pay what you charge, and everything's clean.'
Look, I use American Express as an example. That hasn't happened, but I always use it just as an example. I like it clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. So Parker Spitzer are sponsors next week and a sales guy called me up, 'Do you want to take their money?' I said, 'Hell, yeah! What's the question? I'll take CNN's money.' (interruption) It may lead to live reads. They may ask me to do endorsements. (laughing)
No. No. No, Snerdley, I wouldn't. Since we're talking inside baseball, my sales staff, folks, are some of the most frustrated people. You know, we are constantly sold out on this program. We have not had a down year since we began in 1988. I accept one out of every 11 or 12 requests to endorse or spokesmanship a client or product, and, you know salespeople. It's not in their DNA to say 'no' to somebody who wants to spend money, especially when they're offering me.
And when I turn it down 11 out of every 12 times, it's very frustrating at them. So, no. I will not do live reads or endorsements of Parker Spitzer. I don't even think they'll ask. (interruption) (laughing) Well, somebody might pay extra just to get one and to hear one. Yeah. You never know where these things go, folks. See, this is all the kind of interesting stuff that you would never, ever know about unless I inform you of it. Which I am doing.


text: Revenant100 Posted October 22, 2012 Hello, Doomworld! I come to you today looking for assistance. Many years ago, I came across a set of pre-release Doom 2 screenshots. If I remember correctly, they were distributed as a number of loose PCX files packed much in the same way as doomscn5.zip. I believe the set included about 6-8 images demonstrating some unique differences compared to the final, but the one I can distinctly recall was of MAP23: Barrels o' Fun. This screenshot depicted the brown hallway where you encounter some Revenants and an Arch-Vile. I don't remember if the Arch-Vile was visible, but I do know the pre-release image clearly exhibited a few Revenants. The interesting thing here was that these Revenant sprites appeared to be early less-refined versions of the final sprites. However, I can't for the life of me find these screenshots today. I don't remember exactly how they were referred to at the time (pre-release? promo? beta?), but Google searches for all the terms I can think of have proven fruitless. The closest result was this thread, but the box screenshots are different. I assume this was an official release from id, but I don't see anything relevant on the idgames archive. Does anyone recognize what I'm talking about? I swear I've seen these Doom 2 pre-release screenshots before, but now I can't find a single trace of their existence. 0 Share this post Link to post


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The little house in the forest
This afternoon I returned from my second trip to the "Lüneburger Heide" in Germany. I assumed that when I will visit this area for a week and in the last week of October, the forests would be coloured yellow/orange. This photo of the accommodation and Wanda is taken yesterday evening and the majority of the beeches is still green. The temperatures are too high and when some leaves coloured yellowish, the wind blowed them away immediately.
But, I had a very nice holiday: no computer, walking every day (with and without Wanda), go shopping, reading books, watching movies, sleep late, meeting friends and last but not least photographing some beeches and mushrooms.
Veerle Nijs
31/10/2016 07:10:37 pm
What a lovely house! Can I have the url from the site where this house can be booked please? Thanks! :-D
Silvia Reiche
31/10/2016 08:14:53 pm
I will send you the website address by email. Regards, Silvia
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Jibt dir dit Leben mal een Buff, denn weene keene Träne. Lach Dir'n Ast und setz Dir druff und baumle mit de Beene.
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Don't settle for off-the-rack weapons from the local blacksmith. Build your own! T Bone's Games Diner is proud to present GLAIVE Mini, your super simple, single page weapon builder system for GURPS – now updated to version 2.0!
Fresh off the anvil
The full (non-Mini) GLAIVE (GURPS Light Arms Invention Expansion) is a complete design system for low-tech melee and ranged weapons of any shape and size, generating unique thr and sw damage, readying time, Reach, and more, based on the inputs you provide. As you'd expect, though, a universal system like that won't fit into a short page or few. And while you can use GLAIVE with GURPS 4e, it's still awaiting complete modernization.
For the simplicity mavens, GLAIVE also offered an alternate system so simplistic as to be almost non-existent, amounting to little more than a suggestion to read weight and damage right off of GURPS' Size and Speed/Range Table. But with a little hammering and varnish, that turns out to be a surprisingly useful tool.
That's what I've extracted from GLAIVE to create GLAIVE Mini. At its heart remains a simple table tying weight to damage, but you now get weapon ST as well. From there you modify damage and ST up or down for simple considerations like unbalance, length, and two hands, and then… well, that's actually it. A new weapon, built in mere seconds.
It's very simple (and similar to building combat skills with COSH). Yet GLAIVE Mini will recreate most existing GURPS weapons with no change to stats (while recreating a few with changes that are arguably improvements). Best of all, like GULLIVER Mini it's a whole system in one page, with a bonus page offering system customization notes, ideas for handling a couple of oddball weapons, and a fully-developed new goodie for GURPS that even the full GLAIVE barely touches on: semibalanced weapons, great for heavy-chopping machetes, agile polearms, and other all-new instruments of mayhem.
It's a free PDF download made for GURPS 4e (though you can hammer the rules to fit 3e where necessary). Pick up your blacksmith hammer (i.e., your pencil) and churn out some custom steel!
Is GLAIVE Mini right for you?
Now that you know what GLAIVE Mini is, let me note clearly what it isn't:
- GLAIVE Mini is not my proposal for an ideal weapon design system for GURPS.
- GLAIVE Mini is designed to recreate existing GURPS weapons (primarily from the Basic Set, with a nod to Low-Tech as well), not to rethink weapon stats from the ground up.
As such, here's why you might not get big use from it:
- GURPS' weapon tables are pretty darn packed as they are! Whatever sort of weapon you're looking for, chances are you'll find something close in Basic Set or another book.
- While GURPS' weapon stats were (apparently) generated by the "eyeball it" method of balancing properties, not through some consistent system, they do a pretty good job with consistency! There are some rough spots, but overall it's hard to find a listed weapon that's inexplicably inferior, or one so superior within its category that other offerings seem moot. New rules releases generally keep improving things, too. (An example: The Basic Set's cutlass provides one minor peeve, in that it offers the same goods as a shortsword, plus free brass knuckles, at a lower price and with no drawbacks. Low-Tech nicely remedies this with a higher price for the cutlass.)
- GURPS has been rolling out rules for creating tiny or huge versions of weapons, one of the original omissions GLAIVE sought to fill. GURPS' rules are squirreled away here and there, and we may have to wait for Basic Set 5E to get them all in one place, but official rules do exist now.
- GLAIVE Mini doesn't attempt to solve all the oddities and mysteries of GURPS' weapon offerings. For example, I'm not a fan of how the move from a short unbalanced weapon to a long unbalanced weapon in GURPS generally hits the wielder with a sudden triple whammy: higher required ST, plus a requirement for two hands, plus unreadiness after a swing. GLAIVE Mini doesn't fix this with a smoother progression for these criteria. Likewise, it doesn't codify the seemingly-haphazard appearances of the "U" Parry on GURPS weapons, or provide a systematic way to determine a unique design's usable skills and appropriate defaults to other skills. These, and many other properties, remain something you'll have to eyeball.
- Generation of weapon cost would be a fine addition to GLAIVE Mini, but that's not part of the offering now!
- By intentionally trying to replicate existing weapon table stats, GLAIVE Mini is decidedly human-centric. That is, unless you break out GURPS' separate rules for tiny beings' weapons, a 0.25-lb. blade using GLAIVE Mini will – just as on GURPS' tables – inexplicably require a very human ST 5.
All right. That said, here's why you might find GLAIVE Mini useful after all:
- It remains a fine way to fill in gaps on the GURPS weapon tables. If you want a Pixie's or Giant's sword, GURPS' weapon scaling rules may be your best bet. But if you want, say, a human-scale longsword that's just a wee lighter or heavier to custom match a given PC's brawn, GLAIVE Mini lets you create such a design with systematic consistency.
- Likewise, where GLAIVE Mini results do veer a bit from the GURPS weapon tables, you may prefer its results! Redoing your campaign's weapon table entirely, knowing that all of the listings (as well as any future additions) are generated via a consistent design scheme, is the sort of thing some GMs like.
- The new Semibalanced weapon option is nifty, and is simply right for designs like hard-chopping machetes or agile polearms. Give it a try!
- Even where GLAIVE Mini doesn't address all the questions to be found in GURPS' weapon table stats, it does offer a few tools for standardizing things a bit. These include suggestions for handling stat oddities in flails and 1-hnd bastard swords, and the Semibalanced option for reworking other designs that seem a bit out of place.
- As noted earlier, while GURPS does a pretty good job of balancing its myriad weapons in terms of their merits and demerits, a few stand out as perhaps over- or under-powered. GLAIVE-based recreations of the weapons may yield improvements.
So. If this sort of thing interests you, give GLAIVE Mini a shot!
GLAIVE Mini needs your help!
No amount of time and testing reveal every flaw. Do you spot any design mistakes in GLAIVE Mini? Are there any important considerations left out?
And here's a good question for you. GLAIVE Mini is built on a reverse engineering of existing GURPS weapons, which is why it can recreate so many of those with no change in stats. Do you see a different set of modifiers and rules that does an even better job of recreating existing weapons?
Finally, what are your original GLAIVE Mini weapon designs? Let's see a Mini armory here!
Thank you. Now go treat your mightiest-thewed character to a real barbarian's axe.
v2.3 2019-04-16: Cosmetic update: A few tiny tweaks, plus alphabetical ordering of the Modifier Table.
v2.2 2019-02-25: Cosmetic update: no new content, but the reading experience should be better.
v2.1 2018/06/06: Tweaked some wording and fixed a typo. Not worth applying a new version number.
v2.1 2018/02/19: Fixed a couple of typos.
v2.0 2016/03/29: Modest-sized upgrade, with: notes addressing new weapon stats and options in GURPS Low-Tech; a new mod (Poor Stabber); revised and clarified explanation of GURPS' two-handed and unbalanced weapon rules; and overall clean-up and improved organization. See announcement of upgrade, with more detailed notes on making good use of GLAIVE Mini.
v1.1 2012/08/22: Minor clean-up, plus a change to skills for semibalanced weapons. The old rule specified the use of unbalanced weapon skills, or balanced skills at a -2 default. The new rule suggests either balanced or unbalanced skill as the natural skill (designer choice), with the other at a -2 default, depending on which is more natural for the weapon. Thus, a semibalanced weapon could be specified as using Axe/Mace or Broadsword skill normally, and the other at the -2 default, depending on whether it handled more like an axe or a sword. This change gives more freedom to the designer.
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Alright! My second cover for my ff7 extravaganza! I don't know what happened to the quality on this one but tell me what you think! (besides the quality) I'm gonna try to upload one every day or every other day :)
3 comments on Cid's Theme
This one is not as good as
This one is not as good as the latest ones, the rhythm part is a bit boring, the harmony doesn't sounds really good (octave harmony ?).
Needs more feeling and maybe an other tone.
Try to don't make the same mistake that i did, i mean, more cover and less quality !
So the 3/5 is a kind of warning note, take the time to feel the song (i don't say that i can do it easily).
Maybe use the "Work In Progress" topic to have critisisms before post it on youtube ?
Cid's Theme is one of my favorite FF7 music, so i'm maybe a bit tough, i apologize ^^
The rhythm's not too bad, but
The rhythm's not too bad, but again I scream for more distortion! :D I think this song would be great played with slides, bends etc on the lead.
Link is broken, says you've
Link is broken, says you've deleted the video.