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Pushing the Boundaries of Voice.
Involvement in R&D funded projects and collaboration with high profile partners, organizations, universities and laboratories, are essential to helping us meet our goals, to fulfilling our role as ground breaking inventors of leading-edge speech solutions. As an expert and innovative bespoke player we push the boundaries of voice.
Projects involving Acapela Group since 2001:
Humanoid intelligent companions, multilingual conversations, singing speech, expressive reading and transmission of emotions, Internet of Things, biometrics and multimodal man-machine interaction are some of the domains we have been seriously involved with for over a decade, partnering with experts worldwide.
2014 – ChaNTeR
2013- I-Treasures
2012 – Mardi
2012 – Content4All
2009 – Franel
2005 – BOON Companion
2003 – E! 2990- MAJORCALL Majordome CRM Call Centers
- Project Description:People with autism have significant communication problems undermining their integration into society. Autism is a severe and persistent neurobiological disability.
The diversity of needs of each person with autism involves the need for flexible and individualized communication tools. PATH aims to provide individuals with autism, families and therapists custom tools to generate or enhance communication via a collaborative platform.
PATH combines technological dimension (speech synthesis – recognition – eye movement tracking – embedded technologies) with a participatory dimension (cloud computing – sharing – "custom" adaptation).
- Partners:Mons University (SUSA), ULG , TRIPTYK, MULTITEL
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2013- I-Treasures
- Project Description:Intangible Treasures – Capturing the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Learning the Rare Know-How of Living Human TreasuresCultural expression is not limited to architecture, monuments or collections of artifacts. It also includes fragile intangible live expressions, which involve knowledge and skills. Such expressions include music, dance, singing, theatre, human skills and craftsmanship. These manifestations of human intelligence and creativeness constitute our Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). The main objective of i-Treasures is to develop an open and extendable platform to provide access to ICH resources, enable knowledge exchange between researchers and contribute to the transmission of rare know-how from Living Human Treasures to apprentices. To this end, the project aims to go beyond the mere digitization of cultural content. Combining conventional learning procedures and advanced services, such as Singing Voice Synthesis and sensorimotor learning through an interactive 3D environment, the i-Treasure is expected to break new ground in education and knowledge transfer of ICH.
- Partners:Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (http://www.certh.gr/), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (http://www.upmc.fr/), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (http://www.cnrs.fr/), Université de Mons (http://www.umons.ac.be/), Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (http://www.cnr.it/), University College London (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/), Turk Telekom Company (http://www.turktelekom.com.tr/), University System of Maryland (http://www.usmd.edu/), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (http://www.auth.gr/), University of Macedonia (http://www.uom.gr/)
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- Project Description:
A generic dialog box for multilingual conversational applications.D-Box' main goal is to develop an architecture to support collaboration between users through a multi-lingual conversational agent embedded in an interactive application.
D-Box's main goal is to develop and test an innovative architecture for conversational agents whose purpose is to support multilingual collaboration between users on a common problem in an interactive application. The interactive agent will enable type-written and/or spoken collaboration in the users' native language by mediating communication: all user interactions will be transmitted through the D-Box multilingual agent.
- Partners :
Mipumi (http://www.mipumi.com/), IDIAP (http://www.idiap.ch/), KOMEI (http://www.koemei.com/), Saarland University (http://www.uni-saarland.de/)
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21012 – Mardi: Man Robot Dialogue
- Project desription:In this project, we intend to study the human-computer interaction in situated manner. We believe that the interaction must have a physical realization, anchored in the real world to be natural and effective. In order to embody interactive systems, we propose to use humanoid robots. Robots, endowed with perceptions, but also means to act in the environment, allow the integration of a physical context in the interaction for the machine as well as for humans.
- Partners :SUPELEC (http://www.supelec.fr/), LIA (http://www.univ-avignon.fr/), LAAS (http://www.laas.fr/)
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2012 – Content4All
- Project description:The main goal of the Content4ALL project is to improve text to speech synthesis system for long texts (story telling – newspapers). The basic concept behind this project is to allow anyone including people suffering from visual disabilities (Elderly or Blind) to access to the same information as other people.
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D2011 – DIYSE (Do It Yourself)
- Project description:The Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences project (DiYSE) aims at enabling ordinary people to easily create, setup and control applications in their smart living environments as well as in the public Internet-of-Things space, allowing them to leverage aware services and smart objects for obtaining highly personalised, social, interactive, flowing experiences at home and in the city.
- Partners : The partners are coming from France, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Finland, IrelandAlcatel-Lucent Bell, Bell Labs (http://alcatel-lucent.com/), Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France,(http://alcatel-lucent.com/), AnswareTech (http://www.answare-tech.com/), Archos (http://www.archos.com/), Atos Origin (http://www.atosorigin.com/), Catholic University of Leuven – Distrinet (http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/), Catholic University of Leuven – CUO (http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/), ENSIIE (http://www.ensiie.fr/), FeedHenry (http://www.feedhenry.com/), Finwe (http://www.finwe.fi/), Forthnet (http://www.forthnet.gr/), Geniem (http://www.geniem.com/), Geosparc (http://www.geosparc.com/), Information & Image Management Systems (http://www.ims.es/), Institut TELECOM Sudparis (http://www.telecom-sudparis.eu/), Mobilera, Neotiq (http://www.neotiq.com/), Philips Innovative Applications (http://www.philips.com/), Pozitim (http://www.turkcell.com.tr/), Rinnekoti-Säätiö (http://www.rinnekoti.fi/), Tecnalia-European Software Institute (ESI), Tecnalia-Robotiker (http://www.robotiker.com/), Thales Communications (http://www.thalesgroup.com/), There (http://therecorporation.com/), Turkcell Teknoloji (http://www.turkcell.com.tr/), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (http://www.upm.es/), University of Alcalá (http://www.uah.es/), University of Applied Sciences LAUREA (http://www.laurea.fi/), University of Mons (http://www.fpms.ac.be/), University of Oulu (http://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto), University of Tampere (http://www.uta.fi/), Videra (http://www.videra.com/), Vrije Universiteit Brussel – SOFT (http://soft.vub.ac.be/), Vrije Universiteit Brussel – SMIT (http://smit.vub.ac.be/), Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Starlab (http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/), VTT – Technical Research Centre of Finland (http://www.vtt.fi/), Waterford Institute of Technology (http://www.wit.ie/), Wiktio
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2010- EMOSPEECH (EuroStar Project)
- Project description :Virtual worlds are a very new way for socializing. They allow users to embody an avatar evolving in a three dimensional representation of a real or imaginary place, in which they usually can meet other users and interact with them. In this case, such applications digitally extend users social life. E-Learning solutions can appear as simple as forms to fill-up or be developed using technologies from the Computer entertainment field. The later type of E-learning solutions is known as serious games. They aim at merging educational content in a gaming design, allowing users to actively learn and improve their skills.Virtual worlds and serious games offer a good technological answer to this challenge since they give users virtual experiences of real situations. If actual existing solutions reached a satisfying level of physical immersion, the next steps consist in providing users with a higher level of interaction both with other users and with virtual humans populating the digital environments. Today's applications lack of verbal and emotional interactions. Filling this gap would give the virtual experience a better realism. For instance, avatar's lips and face animation should be coherent not only with the phrasing but also with the emotional message (anger, pity, etc.). Thus, spoken interactions (in other words, dialogs) are an important aspect to focus on in order to improve users' experience. More precisely, synthesized speech and face animations should take into account verbal and non-verbal components (mainly emotions) to fully represent speaker intentions. Allowing users' avatars but also virtual humans to handle emotions will definitely improve the immersiveness of the virtual worlds and serious games.
- Partners :INRIA Lorraine (Parole and Talaris), (http://www.inria.fr/centre/nancy), Artefacto (http://www.artefacto-ar.com/)
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2010- BIOSPEAK (EuroStar Framework)
- Project description :BioSpeak aims to improve the ALIZE open source software to generate a commercial quality toolkit for real time voice biometrics validation at variable risk levels. BioSpeak partner companies will benefit from state of the art algorithms for speaker validation integrated into their products. The BioSpeak project aims to create robust and scalable tools for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, able to process thousands of channels in parallel using state of the art algorithms. These tools will allow multilingual interoperability and they will be designed to work on security and telephony focused environments.This project will develop biometric tools based on ALIZE, an open source library designed for research and experimentation of signal processing algorithms and statistics used on biometric authentication. Although very complete, ALIZE is not ready to be used in a large scale commercial application with real time and multiple audio channels processing needs.
- Partners:Univeristy of Swansea (http://www.swan.ac.uk/),ValidSoft (http://www.validsoft.com/),Multitel (http://www.multitel.be/), Calistel (http://www.calistel.com/), Univeristy of Avignon (http://www.univ-avignon.fr/)
- Project description:Romeo is a project led by the French Cap Digital business cluster and funded by the Ile-de-France region, the General Directorate for Competitiveness, Industry and Services (DGCIS ex DGE) and the City of Paris. This 10 million Euros project is subsidized up to 4.9 millions.The project's objective is to develop a humanoid robot that can act as a comprehensive assistant for persons suffering from loss of autonomy. With this target in mind, the robot has to be able to interact with most familiar objects/movements (open and close a door, grasp a glass, a bottle, a bunch of keys…). But it will also have to assist people who need to move around their home and be able to help them should they fall on the ground.Beyond its physical abilities, Romeo has to come with a very "human-friendly" interface, voice and gestures being the principal means of communication with the robot. It will have to understand what is said to him, carry out simple talks and even feel the intentions and emotions of its interlocutor in order to deduce the actions it has to realize.
- Partners:ALDEBARAN (http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/), VOXLER (http://www.voxler.eu/), SpirOps (http://www.spirops.com/), AsAnAngel (http://www.asanangel.net/), LISV (http://www.lisv.uvsq.fr/), LIMSI (http://www.limsi.fr/), LAAS, (http://www.laas.fr/), CEA-LIST (http://www-list.cea.fr/), Paris Telecom (http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/), INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/), LPPA (college de france), Institut de la Vision (http://www.fondave.org/-Institut-de-la-Vision-.html),
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2009 – GVLEX, Gesture and Voice for expressive reading
- Project description:GV-LEx is subsidized by the French National Agency for Research (ANR) in the scope of the 2009 project "Content and Interaction". Members of the consortium are ALDEBARAN Robotics (holder of the project), Acapela, CNRS/LIMSI and Telecom Paris Tech. Its aim is to make the robot NAO and the Avatar Greta capable of reading texts for several minutes without boring the listener with a monotoneous computer voice. To reach this objective, we propose to bring expressiveness into the speech synthesis itself as well as to take advantage of the robot or virtual human being: they are capable of performing expressive gestures while talking.
- Partners:Aldebaran Robotics (http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/), LIMSI (http://www.limsi.fr/), Telecom, Paris Tech (http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/)
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2009 – Franel
- Project description:Franel is an innovative project in language teaching, which offers a unique opportunity to the people of West Flanders, Wallonia and France (Nord / Pas-de-Calais) to know the neighbor's language.Specifically, learning activities developed from reports of regional television stations WTV (West Flanders), C9 (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and NoTV (Hainaut) and three universities: KULeuven Campus Kortrijk on the Flemish side, the University Lille III Charles de Gaulle on the French side and the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons in Wallonia.
- Partners :K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Lille3 Charles De Gaulle (http://www.univ-lille3.fr), Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (http://www.fpms.ac.be/), WTV (http://www.wtv.be/), C9 (http://www.c9television.fr/), NoTélé (http://www.notele.be/), Televic, BLCC (http://www.blcc.be/), VDAB (http://www.vdab.be/), Forem (http://www.leforem.be/), AVnet (http://www.avnet.kuleuven.be/), ILT (http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/ilt/)
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- Project description:Intelligibility and expressivity have become the keywords in speech synthesis. For this, a system (HTS) based on the statistical generation of voice parameters from Hidden Markov Models has recently shown its potential efficiency and flexibility. Nevertheless this approach has not yet reached its maturity and is limited by the buzziness it produces. This latter inconvenience is undoubtedly due to the parametrical representation of speech inducing a lack of voice quality. The first part of this thesis is consequently devoted to the high-quality analysis of speech. In the future, applications oriented towards voice conversion and expressive speech synthesis could also be carried out.
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FPMs (http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/)
- Project description:FP6- European Project : Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled RobotsA key enabling technology for next-generation robots for the service, domestic and entertainment market is Human-Robot-Interaction. A robot that collaborates with humans on a daily basis – be this in care applications, in a professional or private context – requires interactive skills that go beyond keyboards, button clicks or metallic voices. For this class of robots, human-like interactivity is a fundamental part of their functionality.INDIGO aims to develop human-robot communication technology for intelligent mobile robots that operate and serve tasks in populated environments. In doing so, the project will involve technologies from various sectors, and will attempt to introduce advances in respective areas, i.e. natural language interaction, autonomous navigation, visual perception, dialogue systems, and virtual emotions. The project will address human-robot communication from two sides: by enabling robots to correctly perceive and understand natural human behaviour and by making them act in ways that are familiar to humans.
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FORTH-ICS (http://www.ics.forth.gr/cvrl),Univ Edinburgh (http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/),Uni Albert Ludwigs of Freiburg (http://ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/),University of Athens (http://ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/),University of Geneva (http://www.miralab.ch/),NEOGPS (http://www.neobotix.de/en/),HANSON (http://hansonrobotics.wordpress.com/),Fondation Hellenic World (http://www.fhw.gr/index_en.html),NCSR (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/)
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Demonstration video of the final system = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzBx4LzGak
2005 – BOON Companion (ITEA project)
- Project description:The Boon Companion project aims at investigating and demonstrating an autonomous cognitive system (ACS) integrating perception, reasoning, and learning. The consortium's interest in ACS is motivated by the desire to develop intelligent companions and domestic assistants that could exhibit some human-like cognitive abilities (e.g. adaptiveness to the interaction context, adaptiveness to the user) and thus gain in acceptance.
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BERCHET, France (http://www.groupe-berchet.com/), CEA List, France (http://www-list.cea.fr/), Wany Robotics, France (http://www.wanyrobotics.com/), Eurecom, France (http://www.eurecom.fr/fr),Generation 5, France (http://www.generation5.fr/), Thales, France (https://www.thalesgroup.com/fr),Philips, Netherland (http://www.philips.nl/fr), Sound Intelligence, Netherland (http://www.soundintel.com/en/home-en), University of Gröningen,Netherland (http://www.rug.nl/?lang=en), University of Utrecht, Netherland (http://www.uu.nl/en/pages/default.aspx), CRIFA, Belgium (http://www.crifa.ulg.ac.be/)
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European Project FP6-IST-2002-002034 DIVINES: Diagnostic and Intrinsic Variabilities in Natural Speech
The goal of DIVINES is to develop some new knowledge towards renewed feature extraction and modelling techniques that would have better capacities, particularly in handling speech intrinsic variabilities. First, human and machine performance and the effect of intrinsic variabilities will be compared based on a diagnostic procedure. The outcomes of this analysis will then be exploited to target feature extraction, acoustic and lexical modelling. Compatibility with techniques dealing with noise and integration within current systems are also part of the objectives.
The project is relevant to the "multimodal interfaces" objective as it concerns more accurate and adaptable recognition of spoken language. This is central to the concept of multimodal man-machine interaction where the speech understanding service is likely to remain an independent component in a modular design. Advances in this field could be decisive in realizing the vision of natural interactivity.
- Partners:THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (MCGILL UNIVERSITY) (http://www.mcgill.ca/fr),FRANCE TELECOM SA (http://www.orange.fr/),LOQUENDO SPA (http://www.loquendo.com/en/), UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON ET DU PAYS-VAUCLUSE (http://www.univ-avignon.fr/),INSTITUT EURECOM (http://www.eurecom.fr/),CARL VON OSSIETZKY UNIVERSITAET OLDENBURG (http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/),POLITECNICO DI TORINO (http://www.polito.it/
2003 – E! 2990- MAJORCALL Majordome CRM Call Centers
- Project description:INTEGRATATION OF SPEECH TECHNOLOGY WITH COMMUNICATION, MARKETING AND CUSTOMER RELATED SERVICES IN A SINGLE COMFORTABLE PROCESS ENABLING INSTANTANEOUS MOBILE ACCESS TO CRUCIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION.
- Partners:MULTITEL – Belgium (http://http://www.multitel.be),Software 602, Czech (http://www.602.cz/), GVZ, Turkey,Vecsys, France (http://www.vecsys.fr/),ENST, France (http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/),Knowledge S.A., Greece (http://www.knowledge.gr/ksa/shared/index.jsp?context=101),University Of Patras, Greece (http://www.wcl.ece.upatras.gr/),Harpax, Italy (http://www.harpax.com/)
2003 – STOP : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/projects/stop/index.html
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Speech dynamics and voice Quality analysis for improved speech synthesis
The STOP Project aims at studying the relationship between speech dynamics and voice quality, based on home-made tools for efficient source-tract separation. STOP stands for "Synthèse Technologique Optimisée de la Parole" (Optimized Technological Speech Synthesis).
It aims at improving speech synthesis technologies by exploiting speech dynamics, a field that has been unexplored till now. The aim of the project is to compute a software library to modify dynamics in concatenative speech synthesis (diphones and Non Uniform Units). For this, not only the modification of the prosody is envisaged, but also the voice quality should be adapted to the desired perceived phonation.
- Partners :"5e Saison", a French society oriented towards digital sound processing, located in Boulogne-Billancourt (France),
Development of the arabic TTS system, New voice: Bruno has been recorded in this project.MixLP method : separation of signal source and vocal tract, TCTS lab, the Circuits Theory and Signal Processing laboratory of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) (http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/)
- Project description:The project aims to strengthen the French contribution to international standardization entities in the field of speech technologies, and to work on standards committees in the French industrial and academic community, organizing regular information of this community . To achieve this objective, the project consortium brings together seven partners from industry and academic players in the field of speech technologies in four complementary angles: upstream research, speech technology vendors, sellers of voice platforms, component vendors. This sub-project is divided into two phases: the first is more general and covers all relevant standards for speech technology, for 1 year and the second concentrating on the main standard, VoiceXML, over a period of 2 years .
- Partners:SIEMENS (http://www.siemens.com/),TELISMA (http://www.telisma.com/),IDYLIC (http://www.idylic.com/),ST Microelectr.( http://www.st.com/),LORIA (http://www.loria.fr/),ENST Paris (http://www.tsi.enst.fr/)
BABEL Technologies (Now Acapela Group) and EZOS (with Twin Development and Automobile Gillet) were working together on the UlyCEs project, which aimed to develop a Telematic platform for the automotive industry, based on Win CE technology.
- Partners:EZOS,TWIN DEVELOPMENT (http://www.twindev.be/), GILLET Automobile (http://www.gilletvertigo.com/)
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- Project description:The EVASY project is dedicated to the evaluation of speech synthesis systems for the French language. The project is financed by the French Ministry of Research in the context of the Technolangue programme. This evaluation campaign is intended to expand upon the ARC-AUPELF (now AUF) campaign of 1996-1999, the only previous evaluation campaign for text-to-speech systems for the French language. The EvaSy campaign is subdivided into three components :
– evaluation of the grapheme-to-phoneme module,
– evaluation of prosody and expressivity,
– global evaluation of the quality of the synthesised speech.
6 systems have been evaluated: three systems based on diphones (marked D1, D2 and D3 as before), and 3 systems based on the unit selection method (S1, S2 and S3). It came from the following entites: Acapela Group, Multitel, CRISCO, ELAN, ICP, LIMSI-CNRS.
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ELDA (Evaluations and Language Resources distribution Agency) http://www.elda.org, LIMSI (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur) (http://www.limsi.fr/), Equipe de recherche DELIC (Description Linguistique Informatisée sur Corpus), Université de Provence (http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/delic/), CRISCO (Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la Signification en Contexte) (http://elsap1.unicaen.fr/), ICP (Institut de la Communication Parlée), LIA (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon), MULTITEL ASBL http://www.multitel.be/
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Synthesised talking face derived from speech for hearing disabled users of voice channels
- Project description:Many hard of hearing people rely on lip-reading during conversations, which makes it difficult for them to communicate over the telephone. SynFace is a technology allows an animated talking face to be controlled by the incoming telephone speech signal in real time. The talking face facilitates speech understanding by providing lip-reading support. This method works with any telephone and is cost-effective compared to video telephony and text telephony that need compatible equipment at both ends. The SynFace technology has many other potential areas of application, for example in the areas of education, entertainment and public information systems.Development of the SynFace technology was funded by EU IST program (project number IST-2001-33327) between 2001 and 2004. During this time a multilingual, real-time prototype of the SynFace talking head telepone was developed and evaluated this hearing impaired users in Sweden, Holland and England with positve results. A summary report of the project is available.
- Partners:Viataal (formerly Instituut voor Doven), The Netherlands (http://www.viataal.nl/),RNID, UK (http://www.rnid.org.uk/),Dept Phonetics and Linguistics, University College of London, UK (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/),Dept of Speech, Music and Hearing, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden (http://www.speech.kth.se/)
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Founded in 1968 in La Roche-Sur-Yon (Vendée, on the west coast of France), Groupe Atlantic is an industrial group specialized in heating solutions and in continuous growth. Structured in 6 branches, Groupe Atlantic remains true to its roots and continues to design, develop and manufacture most of its products (heaters, radiators, air conditioners) in France.
2016 Key Figures
- 5900 employees
- turnover : 1.3 mln €
- Production sites : 16 factories of which 13 are located in France.
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Prepare the migration of the email system Lotus Notes to Microsoft office 365
There are many email migration software tools available on the market. Problem with these is that they only deal with the pure migration from old mailbox system to new mailbox system.
The preparation phase or so called pre-migration is usually not included in these tools.
What you need to do during the pre-migration:
- Collect data on users and mailboxes
- Check and correct the data collected.
- Qualify the users and mailboxes to migrate
- Create "slots" and how to make them available for the migration.
Development of a custom application to collect the data from the email system. Use of audit4mail to analyse the messaging flows
Nicolas Chauvière, Head of communication systems at groupe Atlantic, tells us about the added value audit4mail has brought to the success of the email system migration project.
Better knowledge about the mailboxes to migrate
"audit4mail gives us a precise state of the art of the messaging usage within the group. Our IT managers can cross the data and consolidate their knowledge with the information collected by the application."
A financial optimisation
« Groupe Atlantic has experienced a strong growth in the past years. Numerous acquisitions have led us to develop the enterprise messaging. With audit4mail we have been able to identify the mailboxes no longer used. These have not been migrated to office 365 therefore savings on migration tool licences and Microsoft subscription costs have been possible."
A better user adoption
« We had a large number of mailboxes to migrate, for that reason we couldn't go for a "one shot" migration. The audit4mail custom application enabled us to constitute groups of mailboxes organized by department or by project, based on the e-mail relationships. The period of co-existence of the 2 e-mail systems has run smoothly. "
Audit4mail solution strengths
- Simple to use
- Directly plugged into the e-mail system
- Consulting on both e-mail systems
- Rental based subscriptions
- Flexible evolution.


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Electric Fuel Pumps
Electric Fuel Pumps – Getting To Know Them Better
No matter whom you are and no matter what car you drive, you should know this that your vehicle just cannot move an inch without the use of an electric fuel pump. These days, most vehicles come equipped with this gadget to ensure that engine gets the requisite amount of fuel to get the power needed to make it run. But most people don't really know its importance in the overall working mechanism of your car.
Prior to fuel injection there was the carburetor. Carbureted engines had a mechanical fuel pump mounted on the engine. This style of pump usually was driven off of an eccentric lobe on the camshaft. Carburetors did not need a lot of fuel pressure to feed them; in turn created a small problem with this style of setup. This format created the issue of vapour lock – low fuel pressure and heated temperatures, whether generated from the engine or from the ambience and atmosphere outside, causes the fuel to evaporate. And as mechanical fuel pumps are not designed to handle vaporised fuel, the engine of the car had to go through a lot of trouble. Vapour locking caused the vehicle to spit, sputter and sometime just die; when the engine finally cooled down then the vehicle would start up just fine.
This is the one of the main reasons why automobile designers and engineers decided to include an electric fuel pump into the set up of the modern day car. These pumps are generally located in the fuel tank and play a strategic role in the overall working of the vehicle. In fact, there are several reasons why this set up is preferred by car manufacturers and engineers. Let us look at them closely.
· The advent of modern fuel injection systems had created a need for high pressure pumping of fuel into the engine. Electric fuel pumps are much better equipped to handle high fuel pressures and have been designed to function in accordance with modern engine requirements.
· The combination of higher operating pressures and mounting these pumps in the fuel tank; eliminates any possible vapor locking. This justifies the strategic placement of the pump in the overall system of the modern day car.
· The idea of keeping the electric fuel pump submerged in the fuel tank offers many added advantages as well. The pump remains cool throughout the combustion process and gets unrestricted access to fuel which eventually enhances the performance of the engine.
· With the fuel pump submerged in fuel, there is a least likelihood of an explosion. Liquid fuel does not explode, fuel vapors do.
· Having a suction style pump can create a situation where it might end up sucking in air through a bad connection. Modern electric fuel pumps are placed inside the tank which makes any leakage in the pressured line easy to identify and diagnose, which is actually a hard task with other types of pumps.
If you wish to know more about electric fuel pumps, you can simply visit the website EPartsSolution.com.
About The Author
Timothy Gibbs is an expert mechanical engineer who also likes to write many interesting articles and blogs, helping people to understand more about their cars and how they work. He recommends EPartsSolution.com as the best name to trust when it comes to electric fuel pumps, control arms, ignition coils and more.


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How new material health standards will impact LTC facilitiesNovember 06, 2013
Clean living environments are essential to long-term health. The more time we stay in a building, the more impact its environment has on our health. Long-term care residents will spend much of their later life indoors and increasingly the focus is put on making these years as healthy as possible. Green building and good indoor air quality enable residents to maintain respiratory health and reduce their risk of disease. Many long-term care facilities recognize the life-changing correlation between healthy buildings and residents, making the conscious decision to invest in non-toxic building products.


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A physical therapy for treatment of sports injuries that involves the application of an external force to take an injured joint through a predetermined range of motion. Special devices are available to deliver continuous passive motion, but an exercise bike can be used with the non-injured leg creating the required force. Continuous passive motion is sometimes used immediately after surgery to relieve pain, enhance nutrition of the joint, and to discourage the formation of contractures or adhesions in and around the injured joint. It is also used after total joint replacement.
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7 Times Choi Min Ho satisfied our chocolate craving by flashing his abs
When it comes to chocolate cravings — chocolate ab cravings to be more specific — the thirst is real, and the only thing that can truly quench it is to indulge in just a little. Well, I don't know if you're aware but actor and SHINee member Choi Min Ho of new drama Because It's the First Time has chocolate abs for days, and I thought I'd give you a taste with these 7 delicious bites.
1. For your first taste, here's a yummy chocolate ab roll!
2. And for your second taste, here's a chocolate ab thrust, served two ways.
3. Here's a tasty sample of Minho chocolate abs in To The Beautiful You.
4. And a quadruple zoomed in chocolate ab souffle.
5. A little dash of chocolate abs goes a long way...
6. Tada! A slice of chocolate abs for everyone!
7. And finally, a rapid-fire chocolate ab round to end our meal!
Thanks for the treat, Minho! It's so good to see you back in Because It's the First Time. We'll be waiting patiently for our dessert in your new drama too!


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This guide is made for webmasters who need to limit the number of posts a user can publish in a certain period of time. That is great for multi-user websites. Once having the post creation limited, users can only publish a specified number of posts. In this way, webmasters can take full control of the number of published posts as well as avoid an excess of posts on the site.
Who Need to Set Posts Limitation for Each User
Post creation limit is an effective method to help webmasters publish posts systematically. That is particularly useful for the websites with multiple users. Here, we select some typical cases as below. Readers who are running those websites need to make use of post creation limit.
- Review Website – The review websites that allow registered users to make reviews to a service, product or any other items need post creation limit. In this case, each user is only allowed to publish a certain number of reviews on the website so as to prevent users from abusing reviews.
- eCommerce Website – Webmasters who are running an Amazon-like ecommerce site need to limit posts creation. This great feature makes it possible to limit the release of product information in a set period of time.
- Multi-User Blog – Since more people come up with more ideas, many bloggers tend to develop multi-user blogs. All users have the right to write and publish posts to embed rich content in the blog. The best way to control the number of blog posts is to limit posts creation.
Besides the above three typical types, some other websites should also be taken into consideration, like real estate site, forum, dating site, and so on.
Add Post Creation Limit in WordPress Website
There are multiple WordPress plugins made for posts creation limit, among which Bainternet Posts Creation Limits is selected here. With this user-friendly plugin, users add posts creation limit in their sites within a few steps. Besides posts, it also limits the number of pages or any other custom post types.
The latest version of this plugin enables more advanced features for users. Install and activate the plugin to get more possibilities. Search for Bainternet Posts Creation Limits via WordPress dashboard and then install it.
Since you have this plugin installed on your website successfully, a new item "Posts Creation limits" is shown under Menu > Settings. And now, you are required to create the first limit for users. Go to Settings > Posts Creation limits to enter the Posts Creation Limits settings page.
Click "Add New Limit" option. A window pops up and that is used to add a new limit rule. Customize the given options to set posts creation limits for a user role or a specific user.
- User Role – The post creation limit applies to the user role that is selected from the drop-down list. Perhaps, you can enter a user ID in this field to enable the post creation limit for a certain user.
- Post Type – Make a decision on which post type should be under the limitation. The "Any" means that the post creation limit is available for all post types.
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- Time Span – Customize how long the limit is valid for this user. That should be in hours. By the way, if you type "Forever", then this user can no longer publish more posts since he/she has reached the limit.
Finally, click "Add" button to confirm all changes. You can add as many post creation limits as needed to different user roles or users by complying with the above guide. Click "Save Changes" to confirm all limits you have created just now.
The two actions including Edit and Remove are used to modify and delete a certain post creation limit. If there is a need to change the settings for a limit, the "Edit" action can help you a lot. Besides, for any useless post creation limits, you should use "Remove" action to delete those limits.


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August 5th: Hotel Chocolat H-Box Praline Selection
We've recently had the pleasure of trying all of Hotel Chocolat's revamped H-Box selection boxes and in true ChocolateMission style we have saved one of the best until last. The focus of the review today is this Hotel Chocolat H-Box Praline Selection - a collection that Hotel Chocolat themselves describe as a collection of truffles with 'chocolate and nuts in perfect harmony'. Given our previous experiences with Hotel Chocolat's amazing praline chocolates we saw little reason to doubt this so we were tremendously excited to be trying this one.
This Hotel Chocolat H-Box Praline Selection consisted of 14 chocolate pieces of which there were 10 different varieties. With the theme of the selection clearly focused on pralines (duhhh!) we were surprised to see the wide variety of different flavours on offer. As you will see below this mixture of truffles was really very varied, ranging from basic hazelnut pralines to the elaborate Florentine Isabella offering.
Before getting into the specific chocolates we must of course make mention of the wonderful presentation of both box and truffles.As ever the Hotel Chocolat quality standards were superb with the outer packaging establishing a premium look and feel from the outset. This was all further compounded by the appearance of the inner chocolates - all unique and accurate in regards to their representation in the accompanying menu.
The first three pieces you see above were some of the plainer offerings in the box - The Pecan Praline, Dizzy Praline and Mocha Praline. The Pecan praline offered a more buttery nut taste whilst the Dizzy Praline established a creamier initial flavour journey - Very Good. Out of the three the Mocha Praline was the standout for me - thank heavens this was one of the pieces portioned twice :-) we couldn't get enough of the nutty roasted coffee hazelnut flavours - Superb.
Next up three of the more complex pieces offered further chocolate and nut amazingness. The Double Nut Praline shown on the left was again just Superb - salted almond and woody hazelnut working in perfect tandem. The Pecan Brownie at the back was a more cocoa intensive version of the aforementioned Pecan Praline - Very Good. The Orange Praline (guess which one haha!) could have been a tiny bit fruitier though by this point criticisms seemed a little ridiculous to be making - Good.
Lastly the familiar Gianduja Bombe, Pistachio Praline, Chilli Praline and Florentine Isabella rounded off what was an amazing selection. The others we have lauded about already in reviews of the revamped selections recently - one perhaps that hasn't featured as much as it should have done the Florentine Isabella encapsulates everything that Hotel Chocolat are all about - a cocoa laden, variable textured biscuity caramelised praline - we could eat these all day Superb.
Overall we don't want to tell you how good this Hotel Chocolat H-Box Praline Selection is - we want you to go out and try it for yourself if chocolate and nut combinations are your thing.We already knew of Hotel Chocolat's capabilities in this area so to be treated to selection box that lived up to its billing was nothing other than a thrilling experience to behold. The collection manages to keep the quality of the pralines high, whilst also mixing up the flavours to create further interest. Every piece in the selection would have a shout for the title of best chocolate, but personally I (Jim) would have a real hard time picking between the Mocha Praline, Pistachio Praline and Florentine Isabella as the winner. If helping me out determine which of them it is isn't a big enough excuse then I don't know what is :-) A real treat of epic proportions for all chocolate nut fans.
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Oct. 14, 2010) - Units of the Jarislowsky Fraser Funds (the "Funds") are now available for purchase by Canadian investors at management fees below those of their respective category median.
The portfolios of the Funds are managed by the investment team at Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited whose philosophy is founded upon conservative, time proven principles of fundamental investing.
The Jarislowsky Fraser Select Canadian Equity Fund invests in equity securities of large-capitalization companies that are industry leaders, have strong management, an earnings track record and limited financial leverage. The Jarislowsky Fraser Select Balanced Fund adopts a prudent investment approach aimed at preserving capital with a portfolio combining high-quality equity securities and investment-grade fixed income issues. The Jarislowsky Fraser Select Income Fund seeks to generate a consistent stream of income while minimizing default risk.
Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited has been managing investment portfolios for individuals and institutions for more than half a century and currently manages approximately $45 billion in assets. Their investment approach has produced consistent returns through changing economic environments and has been particularly effective in minimizing the volatility prevalent in today's global markets.
National Bank Securities, the Fund's manufacturer, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Bank of Canada, which has been serving the financial needs of Canadian governments, corporations, businesses and individuals for more than one hundred and fifty years.
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Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited is a registered investment counselling firm, managing pension funds, foundations, corporate and private portfolios for clients in North America and overseas. The company was founded in 1955 as an investment research firm. In the early 1960s, the firm began to use this research material to counsel private investors and, in 1966, extended its client base to include pension funds. For more than half a century since its founding, the firm has held a leading position in the field of investment management. With assets exceeding $45 billion Canadian dollars and offices located in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, the firm manages investment funds on behalf of governments, corporations, universities, labour unions and individuals. The firm's primary objective is the growth of its clients' capital through conservative, low-risk investment in high-quality securities, selected through stringent fundamental analysis. This approach has produced consistent results through changing economic environments. The firm believes that investing a portion of the clients' portfolios outside of Canada is key to achieving its objectives of protecting capital and long-term growth. Non-Canadian markets offer unparalleled opportunities to invest in global companies operating in sectors otherwise unavailable to Canadian investors. The firm is known for defending shareholder rights and is actively committed to promoting strong corporate governance, as well as exercising influence to ensure that shareholders' interests are at the forefront of corporate actions. For more information, visit the firm's website at www.jfl.ca.
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The Second World War is infamous for unprecedented crimes against humanity. Most infamous was the German systematic execution of 12,000,000 Jews, Roma, homosexuals, blacks, and other minorities during the Holocaust; these German actions received most of the attention both in the aftermath of World War II and by current scholars. Atrocities also took place in the East Asian and Pacific theatres, but were afforded less attention and scholarship. The human rights violations that did receive contemporary and scholarly attention were those committed by the Japanese. Atrocities committed by the Allies, specifically China and the United States, were all but ignored by scholars and entirely neglected during the war years. This thesis examines the attention—or lack thereof—that the Roosevelt administration paid to the war crimes in East Asia during World War II. In doing so, it seeks to understand the assumptions under which the Roosevelt administration operated, the priorities of the Roosevelt administration, the administration's wartime response to atrocities, how it planned to address the atrocities in East Asia during the postwar period, and what conclusions can be made regarding the nature of the Roosevelt administration's policies given its response to these atrocities. This thesis argues that in order to maintain the priorities of a Europe-first approach to the war and protection of American lives, operating under the assumptions expressed in American exceptionalism and the Just War theory and imbued with a sense of racial and cultural superiority, the Roosevelt administration turned a blind eye toward atrocities in East Asia and justified violence committed by the Allies.
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St. Patrick's Festival aims to strengthen the deep cultural connection between Ireland and its diaspora by showcasing the world's largest collection of Famine-related art never before exhibited on Irish soil.
In a unique celebration of St. Patrick's Festival, Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, is sending its acclaimed art collection to Ireland in March 2018. The works will go to Dublin Castle, West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, and Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry for the exhibition Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger. The museum's collection, the only one of its kind in the world, constitutes an incomparable direct link to the past of almost 6.5 million Irish and 40 million Irish-American people.
The Great Hunger has had a significant impact on Ireland's history, land, politics, culture, character and relations with others. This exhibition documents the scale of the Famine, the horror of it, how it permeated and changed Ireland and its diaspora irrevocably.
The death and dispersion of 2 million people, followed by a further 2 million emigrations to the end of the century, makes the exhibition an important gesture of cultural reconnection. The Irish diaspora defines Ireland's place in the world today. The impact of the Famine is still with its descendants—both at home and abroad.
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Originally posted by maybereal11
I'm calling your bluff. How about you link a few since you're the one defending BH - ....
Links, or it didn't happen.
Originally posted by sos37
reply to post by Annee
So, what CNN or MSNBC is now your station of choice because of their clear and unbiased coverage of the current administration?
Makes perfect sense. :shk:
The point is, there is NO media out there that doesn't lean one way or another, aiming to be controlled by one administration or another.
Originally posted by marg6043
Sorry to burst this my friend but she is not lying, and for the media been controlled this started to happen many years ago when the independent media was bought and monopolized.
This one of the ways that the elite in nation can manipulate the masses and bring only what they deem important, still we got the internet to do the research but many fail to even take the time to find the truth.
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
And your inability to understand basic market messaging strategies and the terms used within it completely baffles me...
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Everything she said is textbook marketing. If you don't control the message, and by that token the media, then you suck as a public affairs professional PERIOD.
Originally posted by maybereal11
She discusses strategy for getting the actual message/speech/policy position out intact rather than the news media's edited "interpretation" or spin.
The goal of those creating the press release should be to get the release conveyed to the end consumer and fully articulated without it becomming fluff and spin or reduced/edited context by the news organizations.
Originally posted by maybereal11
But then again it is WND...distraction and spin....
Originally posted by 12GaugePermissionSlip
There is another post above that also points out how Bush did this very well, as did other presidents. So don't try to make out like this is an Obama tactic. It is a political tactic that is used all the time.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
You need to pull your head out and accept that this is not about the "current administration". This has been going on for decades.
Why do you think you're never told about the oil companies being sued by thousands of people for massive destruction of land and environment? Why are you never told about the thousands of people in various countries poisoned by a major drink brands factories? Why are you never told about the medical companies making billions of $ through immoral practices?
I'll tell you why...
Because your media is owned and operated by the wealthiest people in the world, just as your government (Dem. or Rep.). They'll tell you what they want you to know and nothing else.
These are the same people who own the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and all the other central Banks around the world.
It's really not hard to work out. Find the wealthiest people on Earth, and there you have the culprits of the greatest crimes committed against humanity. There you have the people controlling everything you hear, see, eat, drink...
Originally posted by wanderingwaldo
I'll say it again if nobody else will. This is not what this thread is about. This thread is about a misleading headline which was misinterpreted by the OP. If you watch the video it is a PR person associated with the Obama Campaign talking about how they did their press releases - nothing more.
Originally posted by wanderingwaldo
Seriously people stop jumping all over things that support your pre-concieved notion of reality BEFORE ACTUALLY VIEWING THE EVIDENCE FOR YOURSELF. The bulk of this thread is talking about how stupid this thread is and the rest is full of people who jump all over it based on the title without actually knowing what is actually stated in the video.
Originally posted by wanderingwaldo
Please consult one of the other 20-30 posts about why this thread is about nothing if you do not believe me.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
isnt it funny how people can watch the same thing and get completely different things out of it.
See, to me...when she was talking about how they controlled their media wing on their campaign trail, what that meant to me was they controlled their media wing on their campaign trail..whereas you somehow heard "we currently tell the media what to report now that we are in the white house.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
there is either denial going on here, or some serious mind control...
simply amazing. Done with this nonsense also.
Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview
The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency and other Washington institutions.
But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included. The pool informed Treasury that Fox News, as a member of the network pool, could not be excluded from such interviews under the rules of the pool.
Originally posted by Fromabove
Hmm... the last time someone was controlling the picture and the sound and the clarity... controlling everything that we see and hear... I was watching "The Outer Limits".
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
I am done with trying to keep happy the leftwingers who only accept news from leftwing sources. Such people have no idea what unbiased, and reliable news means, and they have no idea in what country they are living either.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
At least on this occasion the pool of 5 networks which the Obama administration was allowing to make the interview interceded for Fox News, perhaps it is time for the leftwingers to realize what the Obama administration is doing, but i doubt it...the Obama fans will find some new way to dismiss this information....
Originally posted by Jezus
You really believe Fox News is unbiased and reliable?
Originally posted by Jezus
Think about that...
Why would the other networks do this?
Why wouldn't they let Fox be excluded?
You are doing EXACTLY what "they" want....
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Yes, much more so than MSNBC, or Castro's News Network (CNN), or the like... but then again even when i know such news networks are very far left, it is up to every American to decide what they want to watch or listen to...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Could be because there are some people, including some liberals who think, and understand that the First Amendment Right, which includes FREEDOM OF THE PRESS is not just for liberal news sources, but all of them including Fox News....
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Then again, why do you think they did this?.... and how in the world am i doing "EXACTLY" what they want?....


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After "Community" creator Dan Harmon served as an executive producer on Oscar-nominated stop-motion drama "Anomalisa," directed by Charlie Kaufman, he now has his sights on using the format to tell the story of one of Micheal Jackson's most famous confidantes: his pet chimpanzee, Bubbles.
According to Deadline, Harmon and his Starburns Industries production company have acquired a script titled "Bubbles," and plan to make it into a stop-motion animated feature.
The script tells the story of Jackson's life through the perspective of Bubbles, from being adopted by the King of Pop from an Austin, Texas, research facility to the chimp's time at the Neverland Ranch. Bubbles was eventually relocated to a Florida monkey sanctuary in 2005 due to over-aggression, and at the time there were reports that he may have attempted suicide.
If the movie is anything like "Anomalisa," a black comedy highlighting a lonely man's anxieties, expect a unique story. But there is some method to Harmon's madness here.
To tell a story about the life of someone as famous as Michael Jackson, you need approval from his estate or, at the very least, obtain the rights to a book or story written about him. Telling the story from the perspective of Bubbles is a creative way of not needing permission.
Harmon will be a producer on the project. There has been no director attached yet, but that's not the only reason why the movie won't be in theatres any time soon, since stop-motion movies take a long time to make.
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Nebraska Reenactments
May 19 - 21 2018Camp Clarke Raiders Spring Rendezvous - Bridgeport
A celebration of the lifestyles and traditions of hunters and trappers with powder shoots and other activities.
May 26 - 28 2018Memorial Day Living History Weekend - Kearney
A weekend filled with demonstrations and an 1860s soldier and civilian encampment. Sat-Sun, 9am-5pm; Mon, 9am-2pm.
May 26 - 27 2018Rock Creek Trail Days - Fairbury
The first weekend in June gives locals and visitors a chance to travel back in time when covered wagons and the new railroad were the principle means ... more »
Jun 8 - 9 2018Annual Ash Hollow Pageant - Lewellen
The Ash Hollow Pageant celebrates the spirit and perseverance of the pioneers who traveled this area. A cast of 30 perform "The Lighter Side of Life o ... more »
Jun 11 - 21 2018National Pony Express Reride Across Nebraska - Gothenburg
Riders will gallop across the state carrying personal mail and commemorative letters. Watch the riders exchange the mochila on the 96 Ranch, 2 mi S. o ... more »
Jun 30 - 1 20184th of July Living History Weekend - Kearney
Demonstrations, special events and an 1860s encampment display. Reenactors will be at Ft Kearny to demonstrate a typical day at the fort. There will b ... more »
Aug 25 - 27 2018Labor Day Living History Weekend - Kearney
Re-enactment of Civil War camp and living conditions. 10am soldier revelry, 2pm Cannon firing. 9am-5pm.
Sep 2 2018Annual Ridge Cemetery Historical Walk - Fremont
See characters from the past and hear their true stories brought alive through local talent. Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm. In case of inclement weather ... more »
Sep 13 - 15 2018Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous - Hayes Center
Son of Russian Czar, Alexander II, the Grand Duke Alexis visited Nebraska in 1872 for a buffalo hunt led by Buffalo Bill Cody, General George Custer, ... more »
Sep 23 - 14 2018Living History Days - Nebraska City
These four fall weekends give visitors a chance to step back in time. While visiting Arbor Lodge, you can get a first-hand feel of how Americans lived ... more »
Sep 30 - 14 2018Living History Days - Nebraska City
These four fall weekends give visitors a chance to step back in time. While visiting Arbor Lodge, you can get a first-hand feel of how Americans lived ... more »


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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
New & Old
..Freshly scanned art cards. I must say, I don't know how to use my camera, scanning helps a bunch. So here are repeats, and new cards.
There is a ghostly boy in this one, you can't see him very well. ^^^
They really do look different when scanned, All the impurities just jump right out at ya.
There is a ghostly boy in this one, you can't see him very well. ^^^
They really do look different when scanned, All the impurities just jump right out at ya.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
My first Atc's!
Okay, this is very exciting. I discovered something new, and now, for the time being, I'm hooked.
I realize they were taken with a digital camera that I don't know how to use. The flash is wacky, let's look passed that...k thnx.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Trying to document things....
I don't usually enjoy blogging, but I thought documenting, or trying to document the things I do, or see, or make would be a positive thing. Thus a picture from the beach. I went to the beach, I saw the beach, I photographed the beach, and now here I am documenting that whole process, FTW.
I've recently become a fan of ATC's, (Artist Trading Cards), And well, I need to browse more blogs with like-minded people. So what better way to do that then connect with them on my own blog. Am I right, or am I right. I'm right, you know I am. It's okay. That will also be another reason for this blog. Exciting new blogs with like-minded persons, hopefully....
So anyways, this is my obligatory "Hello, here is my purpose" first blog entry. Let's see if I ever keep up with it.
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St Edward's in Knighton had a lime mortar wall which collapsed a while ago. The PCC contacted the local Community Payback Scheme who repaired the wall under the guidance of a trainer. They worked hard and found the work really rewarding.
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A mothballed Scotch whisky distillery is to start production again after a 22-year gap, thanks to a 5million Dutch investment consortium.
Highland distillery Glenglassaugh, which was owned by The Edrington Group, ceased production in 1986, and was a contributor to the Famous Grouse and Cutty Sark blends.
But a 3m cash injection from The Scaent Group, as well as a further 2m start-up funding from Barclays Commercial's Scotland team, will see 20 jobs created at the distillery, which is located in the village of Portsoy on the Moray coast.
A visitor centre will be opened once the distillery is operational, and at first, older remaining stocks of whisky will be sold.
Stuart Nickerson, a consultant on the project and now managing director, said: "The start-up funding will cover running costs for the first year - we estimate it will take six or seven months to bring the distillery back to full working order.
"Glenglassaugh has the capacity to make one million litres of whisky a year, and has high growth potential. The product will appeal to malt collectors, those on high disposable incomes, and target markets include eastern Europe."


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Aussie Book Review: Tears of the Cheetah by T.M. Clark
"The fight to save the cheetahs is a race against time.
Mackenzie came to South Africa to escape the trauma of her past and build herself a bright new future: love is the last thing on her mind. But she's finding it increasingly hard to ignore her feelings for the strong-minded Cole, who runs the game reserve for cheetahs just outside her town. Cole has made no secret of his feelings for her, but he realises that Mackenzie cannot be rushed so he is prepared to wait.
However, neither could have predicted the terrifying events that are about to overtake them. When Cole saves Mackenzie from a vicious attack, it is only the beginning of an ever-spiralling maelstrom of violence.
Someone is decimating Africa's cheetah population, and when the poaching threat comes to their door, Mackenzie and Cole have only one option: they must fight to save the animals and life they love."
Did you know that the Cheetah (also known as "the Cat that cries") is one of the most difficult big cats to breed and that the process is a huge challenge to conservation because the female makes the choices when it comes to mating?
While this is not what T.M. Clark impresses upon us in this novel, I thought I'd just let you have a fact! Instead, she focuses on the seedier side of illicit game hunting and brings home to us the sad truth that the fastest land animal in the world is losing its most important race – the race for survival!
An estimated 100,000 cheetahs lived throughout Africa and parts of the Middle East and Central Asia at the turn of the century and there are now only about 10,000 cheetahs left, with South Africa being home to fewer than 1,500 of these magnificent cats. Without the conservation measures that are now being taken (and have been for a number of years), those well-known Cheetah tears will soon dry up and become just a distant memory.
Part of the success of the Cheetah population thriving is the need to have reserves free of predator competition and this is where Cole, Tina's main male protagonist, comes in. Dedicated to his work with the Cheetahs and his fierce determination to halt the indiscriminate capture and removal of cheetahs from the wild, he offers them a home where they are able to live without fear of poaching and other predatory game such as lions, enabling their population to have the best chance of survival.
Tina's female protagonist, Mackenzie, is an American girl, who has been running for the last two years from her past, the grief of losing someone close to her and a family that became too cloying for her free-spirited nature. Like the Cheetah, Mackenzie is trying to win the most important race of her life – in her case, it is one of self-sufficiency and the need for independence.
Together, Cole, Mackenzie and the plethora of distinct characters around them make a formidable team when both Mackenzie and the Cheetahs are threatened. And there just might be a beautiful love story to soothe the adrenalin.
Having had the pleasure of reading every one of Tina's books since she was first published, I find myself waiting eagerly for her annual contribution to the literary world and, one of the things I love about her writing is that, except for Shooting Butterflies, she tends to place a stranger in her South African settings. In doing so, she allows her audience to see life through a non-resident's eyes and learn about the realities faced by the country's people on a daily basis.
Tina even goes so far as to have that character relate its history which, in turn, educates those readers who have never had the opportunity to live in a country that is holding on by threads. Weaving fact into fiction, she not only validates the realities of daily life but showcases the largest threats to both wildlife and humanity in this country.
The intensity of T.M. Clark's storytelling is as powerful as the pulsating heart of the Continent of Africa itself - from the booming mini-bus taxi industry, overcrowded buses, illegal shebeens, informal settlements where crime is rife and the markets where illicit trading can occur at any time, to the spectacular scenery of the open veld and mountainous region of the small farming town of Underberg in the Drakensberg Mountains, Tears of the Cheetah transported me right back to the place I left seven years ago.
If you enjoy books by Tony Park or Bryce Courtenay, don't hesitate to pick this one up.
I wish to thank Harlequin Australia and Morey Media for providing me with a hard copy of this novel.
About the Author
Born in Zimbabwe, Tina Marie completed her primary school years at boarding school in Bulawayo, but on weekends and holidays, her time was spent exploring their family ranch in Nyamandhlovu, normally on the back of her horse.
Her teenage years were totally different to her idyllic childhood. After her father died, the family of 5 women moved to Kokstad, a rural town at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa, where she lived in the boarding school hostel as her home. In winter she walked to school in the snow and could never get warm, and in summer she sweated having to wear an impractical, but smart, blazer on the same trail.
She began writing fiction when she moved to the UK while being a stay at home mum to her two sons, following a suggestion from her husband Shaun during a trip to Paris, and she hasn't looked back.
Now living on a small island near Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, Tina Marie combines her passion for story telling with her love for Africa. When not running around after the men in her life, she gets to enjoy her hobbies, which include boating, reading, sewing, travel, gardening, and lunching with her friends. (Not necessarily in that order!)
Passionate about Africa, different cultures and wildlife, most of Tina Marie's books are set somewhere on that ancient continent.


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Was scanning the CIA World Fact Book last night to compare the AAA rated Country's Public Debt/GNP ratios, in addition to looking at the other economic growth indicators. Seems all of them have higher debt ratios than USA, except China and India (not surprising) as their denominators are growing quickly. As I understand it, the concern is the dramatic increase in our ratio over last 5 years. So with a combination of growing the GNP and reducing the size of government we could reduce or maintain the ratio. On growth, most of the large GNP Countries have very low growth rates in the last couple of years, except for you know who. I do subscribe to the Creative Destructive model and I believe the USA is still the best innovator for creating products. But here is the catch. A lion's share of our workforce still need jobs in traditional product build sectors. I do support global markets. I understand the need for corporations to seek profits by outsourcing manufacturing to low cost labor markets, but here we are. Some will say its a transition. But what is the growth plan when you have a huge burden of entitlements, 50% of the population paying near zero tax and a large number of displaced aging workers, who are not capable of relearning high intellect skill sets. Is it time to rebuild modern manufacturing plants in the USA? Wages and inflation in China are approaching 10% this year and although the government there is trying to cool off their growth, it won't be long before the attractive labor rates shrink. Anyway, I am hoping that the USA takes another look at reclaiming some new production manufacturing within our borders, as we need a balance of jobs directly mirroring our work force. btw. A little of topic, but why do mega corporations like GE and Exxon, who yes, do their part by creating markets, products and employment, not pay any tax. We need everyone, individual and corporation to chip in and pay something. But to pay nothing? while our debt is rising out of control, I have to shake my head. Are corporations and investment bankers beyond national borders? Perhaps its their mission to enslave all economies into a never cycle of debt repayment.
I'm back, and it's the same old subject: the national debt (...more precisely, the federal debt). Instead of the same boring debt clock we see everyplace else, I decided to display a debt meter, showing the debt as a percentage of the economy. Notice where it is today compared with where ...


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The already-high turnover rate among large companies gets even more so; many of the departed are leaving the finance profession altogether.
David McCann, CFO.com | US
July 29, 2008
The rate of CFO turnover continued to be brisk in the first half of 2008, when the chairs became vacant at 106 Fortune 1000 companies, according to new data from recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles.
Add in the 52 positions that were unfilled as the year commenced, and almost one in six of the largest U.S. companies had finance-chief positions open at some point between January 1 and June 30. New CFOs were named at 116 of the companies, meaning 42 posts remained empty as of June 30. At the current pace there would be more than a 21 percent flip in these jobs by year-end.
The numbers show a slight increase in CFO churn over 2007, when 46 positions were open at the beginning of the year and 104 more became available during the first half. That surprised Michele Heid, co-managing partner of the finance practice at Heidrick & Struggles. "I thought it would slow down, but it hasn't," Heid told CFO.com. Altogether last year 188 Fortune 1000 CFO postions opened up.
For this year, Heid said, logic might have dictated that the struggling economy would motivate CFOs to delay retirement. "Your stock is probably at a low point, and your options in many cases are under water," she observed. "So you wouldn't think this is the ideal time to retire."
Yet among the finance heads who departed this year, 30 percent retired, according to Heidrick's data. And at least half got out of finance, including the 20 percent who moved to other positions at their existing companies. All in all, a significant number of CFOs felt they had something better to do.
Some of them, though, are likely to be missing from the profession only temporarily. Quite a few people "retire" then show up later as the CFO somewhere else, Heid noted. Additionally, while most companies looking to fill their top finance job put a premium on landing a sitting CFO from another company, at the moment, with the high turnover rate, the demand for them substantially exceeds the supply. That means management executives with previous CFO experience fill some of the open positions.
Among the 50 percent of CFOs who exited their companies to "pursue other opportunities," Heid could not, of course, say with any precision how many were forced out and how many left voluntarily. But clearly poor earnings results have pushed some of them out the door. "Companies that are performing don't change their CFOs," Heid said.
Other key factors contributing to the high turnover rate include a greater workload and increased legal liability, both thanks in large part to heightened government regulation over the past few years.


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Your initial appointment with a Ocean City New Jersey pest control company can be arranged through a salesperson. A salesperson is trained to discuss with you their insect control products. Salespeople are determined and several have been known to inform clientele of a detailed check that is necessary and will fit your needs and budget. Advertising those bug control products are prohibited by the insect control regulations. On the other hand, homeowners still have to purchase bug control products and choose services intelligently.
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Is the van they used unclean and cluttered? Is the automobile clearly marked with the logo of the corporation with whom you are dealing? At the same time as performing their profession, are they thoughtful, polite, and cautious with your furniture? Do they put back the furnishings they move while they are working? Are they prepared, or did they repeatedly go to the van/vehicle for materials? Does the bug control staff always present himself as clean and proficient?
Insect killer must never be prepared as a solution in your house, or even in your workplace. Insect repellent must at all times be prepared in or at the service automobile or at the insect control group business place. Several technicians that prepared insect killer in your residence are not using standard bug control observance. The bug control staff must at all time keep the service paraphernalia and insect killer in a protected bug control automobile or examination cubicle when not in use.
It is truly against the rules for a bug control staff or its workers to carry out insect control products in a careless way. It is as well against the regulation for whichever insect control group or its workers to intentionally create fake or deceitful assertions, feign the outcome of resources or techniques, or fall short in utilizing techniques or equipment appropriate for the insect control agreed. Deceitful or confusing publicity is, furthermore, against regulation.
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Do Pest Control Companies Spray Attic Areas?
Do They Take Care Of The Interior/Attic Areas Every Time They Come Out? I Live In Tennessee And We Have Bug Problems Right Now...
It depends on what kind of bugs you are fighting, how they might get in, and where they might live. The first time my pest control company came, they did spray inside the house to get rid of the bugs that were already inside. Since then, they have only sprayed outside to keep them from coming in.
I use Cook's Pest Control.
Is It Worth It To Pay A Pest Controller To Mouseproof Your Apartment? ?
I Live In A Studio Apartment, And Have A Mouse Problem Now That Winter Is Coming. I Am Not Very Handy, But I Need To Get Any Entry Points Filled With Wire Mesh/Caulking Asap So I Can Completely Sterilize My Apartment And Move On.
Or Is The Cost Of Having A Company Come Do That Way Too Much? I Would Probably Do It If The Cost Is $100 Or Less, Just So I Can Get It Over With Quickly.
No it's not worth it because your in a studio apartment and unless the apartments in your entire unit around you are checked and repaired you will not be doing anything except keeping them from entering your personal living space.
Also it is the responsibility of the company that owns/runs the place for pest control; I would contact them with your concerns.
Gettin Rid Of Bedbugs!?
How Do You Get Rid Of Em????
Mah Place Is Crawlin With Em.......I Havent Slept In The Past 6 Days!
UH OH. You are in for a tough one. I know from experience.
1. Most important thing is to remove as many of your belongings/clutter as possible. Your apartment should literally be as empty as possible. Only keep the MINIMUM of what you need. The rest, get rid of it or put it into storage (Note: you will need to store the items for over 18 months in order to ensure that all bugs and their eggs have died. Yes, these little monsters can survive that long without eating). This step is key as you are trying to reveal the bedbug hiding spaces to allow for the exterminator's chemicals to get at them.
2. Get an IPM (integrated pest management) service. Not all exterminators can offer this service. Plan on having them treat your unit a MINIMUM of two times (preferably 3) spaced at regular intervals (maybe every six weeks...you will need to look into the bedbug life cycle in order to determine the timing). The reason you need them to visit more than once is that the chemicals they use will NOT kill eggs and therefore you will have new hatchlings before long. You need a series of treatments to finish them all off. Also, the chemicals they use only stay effective for maybe 4-5 weeks max.
Check with your urban housing office...your landlord is probably required to pay for this service, but make sure they get someone who knows what they are doing. Regular "fogger" treatments are 100% ineffective against bedbugs.
3. Buy some FRESHWATER diatomaceous earth on the internet. (Make certain you get the freshwater version as the saltwater version can damage your lungs if you inhale it.) Sprinkle this powder all over your apartment (along the floorboards, etc.) It's nontoxic and damages the shells of the bugs, eventually killing them (this will help your problem but is not an end-all solution...you still need IPM).
4. Timed along with the treatments you will need to treat ALL clothing/laundry/bedding. You may wash and dry all of the items or dry clean them. As a shortcut, you may simply toss things in the dryer on medium or high (as long as it's hot to the touch it will kill them). Once the clothes are heat-treated, bag them up in plastic.
5. You can also spray lice bedding spray on the floor around your bed and on the bed legs. However, I don't think it's a very safe product as it's semi toxic and I had terrible allergies to it.
6. Vacuuming is very important...do it as often and thoroughly as you can...but as inf pye said, you MUST remove the vacuum bag from the premises and discard immediately (as an alternative, you can put it in a plastic bag and stick it in your freezer until you're ready to do it again).
Do you live in a home or a large apartment building? If it's a larger building and/or your landlord does not take it seriously it's unlikely that bedbugs will be completely eradicated from your building. In this case, I suggest you MOVE!! You will need to be extremely cautious and careful about anything you bring to the new place. (I would just get rid of all of the furniture. Smaller items...e.g purses or books can be de-bugged by placing them in the freezer for more than one week.)
You will overcome this one day, but let me tell you it's an unpleasant experience.
For those of you who don't already have them, prevention is key. Do NOT take in used furniture from the street or buy it from thrift stores. It's not worth the risk!!! You can buy used clothes but seal them in a plastic bag until you can wash and dry them (on high) or freeze them for a week. Inspect used books carefully. Be cautious in hotel rooms because you can bring them back home in your luggage.
Feeling Crappy After House Fumigation?
I Just Feel Blah. I Kinda Got A Headache And My Head Feela Stuffy. But No One Else Does. So Maybe It'S Just My Anxiety Freaking Me Out. I Do Seem To Think Things And Then Believe Them. Is It Possible For Just Me To Get Any Effects From The Gases? The Tenting People Called This Morning And Said It Was Fine To Come Back In. And We Didn'T Even Get To The House Till About An Hour Or Two Later.
Continue to monitor the way you feel. I hope by now you feel better. Usually it takes longer than an hour to two after fumigation to enter the home. You usually need to air out the home for a while longer. It could be possible it was from that and then again it could be from something else all together. If you still feel bad, I would suggest seeing a medical professional and they should be able to help you know why you feel the way you do. Good luck and sorry you feel/felt crappy.
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In Growing Roses, How Effective Are Phytoseilus Persimilis Against Redspidermites
I haven't had good success using any predator mite species against spider mites on roses, unfortunately (I've had great success on other plants). It seems that roses attract a different pest-mite species than the more common two-spotted spider mite that Phytoseiulus persimilis is typically used on.
Of course, Phytoseiulus persimilis can't fly.
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"A Brief History of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany"
The mission of the Church of England in what is now the Diocese of Albany began in 1674 with a chaplain assigned to the English garrison at Albany. He made occasional visitations by traveling up the Hudson River from New York City. In 1704, in response to the petition of five Mohawk chiefs, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel sent two missionaries to the Indians in the wild Mohawk Valley, where the first Anglican church building was erected in 1711. It became the base from which further missions to the Indians spread.
Meanwhile, in 1708 another S.P.G. missionary settled in Albany and his coming marked the founding there of the Diocese's oldest parish, St. Peter's. He extended his ministry to nearby Schenectady, and by 1763, St. George's Church was built in that town. In 1765 the last of the colonial parishes, St. John's in Johnstown, was established. By the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Anglican missions were springing up in surrounding counties. However, the War proved disastrous to the English Church which for almost ten years after remained leaderless and disorganized.
With the formation of the Diocese of New York in 1785 (comprising the entire state), the Church began to reorganize its scattered life. By 1790, during the "Second Great Awakening" expanded missionary activity, begun under strong episcopal leadership, was largely sustained by a vigorous laity. By 1810, 14 priests served 25 parishes in buildings made possible by grants from Trinity Parish, New York City.
In 1868, nineteen counties in the northeastern quarter of the state were organized into the Diocese of Albany. Its first Bishop, William Croswell Doane, was elected in 1869 by a convention of 62 priests and 127 delegates. Bishop Doane's principles and personality had a profound and enduring effect upon the character of the Diocese of Albany. He organized the newly formed Diocese after the English model with a Cathedral See, and his "high" Churchmanship found expression in his establishment of St. Agnes School, The Child's Hospital, a community of women religious, and St. Margaret's House and Hospital for Babies.
Bishop Doane served until 1913. There have been eight subsequent Bishops of the Diocese of Albany, each with a unique and devoted service to the people of God, clerical and lay:
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