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Long Range Systems (LRS), the global leader in guest messaging, guest management, tracking and customer survey technology today announced the hiring of Kevin Ruhman as senior vice president of sales. Ruhman, formally with NEC, brings over 20 years of sales experience driving incremental revenue within sales, channel and customer organizations. In his new senior executive role at LRS, Ruhman will be responsible for creating and implementing strategies designed to achieve the company's revenue and business growth objectives.
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"Kevin's extensive experience in sales, product development and the hospitality industry made him a natural fit for this position," said Skip Cass, the company's chief executive officer. Known as the inventors of the ubiquitous "coaster pager" found in restaurants worldwide, LRS has recently jumped to the forefront of technology with the launch of new, complementary software based solutions and services to its well established hardware solutions, with innovative offerings in the areas of tracking, guest management and customer measurement. "His understanding of creating, communicating and executing programs for revenue generation and sales effectiveness around new products will help LRS scale its sales programs and expand into previously untapped vertical markets," said Cass.
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Gloria Victis dark medieval MMORPG
Looking for MMO? Gloria Victis: MMO RPG with mature plot set in Dark Ages; advanced crafting, housing systems and dynamic PvP.
Gloria Victis dark medieval MMORPG
Looking for MMO? Gloria Victis: MMO RPG with mature plot set in Dark Ages; advanced crafting, housing systems and dynamic PvP.
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Viktor Magyar on
Already did for a while now :P
Black Eye Games Creator on
Meanwhile you an support us by voting for Gloria Victis at http://www.indiedb.com/games/gloria-victis
Black Eye Games Creator on
We still working, there is nothing to worry about. We will try to share a Paypal soon:). As you can see we going to start again with kickstarer. Perhaps it will be a long time when we prepare better materials and campaigns.
@Julio Sousa
Of course, we need programmers. Do you have a lot of experience with the network? Unfortunately, 90% of the mmo game is the network structure.
Julio Sousa on
I'm so sad this didn't work out. :( I would love to contribute with more but I really can't ATM. What I can do is help in the development process if the devs need/want. I'm and experience programmer/unity developer. I would also love to see this project have a similar business model to Path of Exile. If you need anything Black Eyes Games, just PM me, no matter what it is (except money, I don't have much of that :( ).
stilzkin88 on
Ready to support again, maybe with more money. Love your project :)
Jason Dupree on
I'll be ready to support again and for even more next time around!!!!!
Viktor Magyar on
Olbert Aarsand I love you for that comment! You just made my day. Anyways Next time it will succeed for sure!
Olbert Aarsand on
And my axe!
Leo Alexeeva on
Do not worry, you have my support! Just start next time and you will have my one thousand of pounds.
MadJackMcJack on
I think the the MMO aspect is a huge repellant for many people. I've shown this game to a fair few forums and the response has almost always been "Huh, looks nice, but it's an MMO, so I'll pass." With the failure of many recent big-name MMOs, a Kickstarter MMO looks like an even bigger risk to put money down for then other genres, with Star Citizen being the exception to the rule (and having a weighty single-player campaign and a Big Name at the helm doesn't hurt).
Viktor Magyar on
@James Binnie
"Thank you so much guys! Do not worry, we are going to start once more a few weeks later. Also we will open paypal at our site.
Just stay in touch with us!" - Black Eyed Games (1 day ago)
I also feel the same way. Just scroll down a bit to see they said that. :)
Infinite Dimensions Games on
Of course I still hope this project gets funded, but in the event it does not, I am glad to hear you will not give up on this game as it looks to be one of the best MMORG ideas I've seen and something I hope I can contribute to even if this Kickstarter does not meet its goal. On that note, how can we continue to pledge for this game if the kickstarter falls short?
Black Eye Games Creator on
I think our biggest problem is that, Kickstarter don't support some of cards and Amazon since we have choosen pounds instead of dollars.
That was a bad move, but no one knew that there are way more restrictions while using pounds.
Next time we will not repeat this mistake ;)
Viktor Magyar on
Indeed it is weird how slowly the funding is progressing, when it really is one of the best projects on Kickstarter. But there's still 2 days to go, anything can happen.
Marvin Riess on
That good news :) i will watch your site
Black Eye Games Creator on
Thank you so much guys! Do not worry, we are going to start once more a few weeks later. Also we will open paypal at our site.
Just stay in touch with us!
Linsday Joston on
+1. Btw Joistiq brought me here.
TheWayItIs on
How the heck this game is going to be not founded?! It's better than 90% of projects here.
Just pledged for 2000, lets make people see how it should be done!
Black Eye Games Creator on
Thats great, thank you.
You are welcome to join our community http://forum.gloriavictisgame.com/index.php
Michael Smith on
Just had to back this project been watching your updates on the unity forums for some time..
Have posted a link to this on my facebook and other pages hopefully you guys will be able to get the rest of the cash in the last 7 days..
Good luck.
Black Eye Games Creator on
Thank you so much!
Anyway, we are going to open PayPal payments as fast as possible and keep development flow.
Just remember, that if Kickstarter is going to be unsuccesfull you will be charged nothing.
Damjan Mozetič on
I upped my pledge to £135, I really want this project to be backed!
Black Eye Games Creator on
hehe thanks;) yesterday we made one too:)
We hope this helps a little:). Anyway, at this point, the focus is on getting to the big media.
Viktor Magyar on
Hmm I realized that most of them are quite old, so it's better to upvote a new one (which I quickly made). Here's a link: http://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/13koy0/an_upcoming_medieval_mmorpg_gloria_victis/
Viktor Magyar on
Something that I think would help as much as facebook (or even more) is if it got a lot of attention from reddit. So if possible anyone who pledged, upvoting anything Gloria Victis related would really help. Here's a link: http://www.reddit.com/search…
I'll post this on the forums as well, in case some people don't check the comments here.
Black Eye Games Creator on
Thank you so much* ;)
@Josh Parnell, I love Morrowind too, main theme is one of my favourites!
Black Eye Games Creator on
That you so much guys!
We would be so glad if you could help us by telling your friends about our project.
Together we can do this!
Josh Parnell on
I am stunned that you guys have not seen more activity. I am awed at the quality of this work so far, and, personally, can't wait to play! Reminds me of so many good hours spent playing Morrowind! :)
Viktor Magyar on
Some fun facts/statistics on Kickstarter: "Of the projects that have reached 20% of their funding goal, 82% were successfully funded."
I cross my fingers so that this will be one of the 82%! Two weeks is plenty of time, so let's go out and spread the word for more people to see and hopefully pledge!
Black Eye Games Creator on
Still trying to draw media attention to our project. Time will tell with what success. You can always support us in this.
Black Eye Games Creator on
Such a great idea for an update. :) Just give us some time and we will write a note about it.
Kennethmk-Ranger of the Obsidian Order on
Not sure if you have an update planned about this, but what kind of variety of weapons and such do you have in mind?
Black Eye Games Creator on
@stilzkin88 Great! Don't forget to join our forum! ;)
stilzkin88 on
Finally, a low fantasy mmorpg! Come on, you have my support!
Black Eye Games Creator on
@bu-sa7ek Yes, there will be healing during combat, but only as healing over time system.
@Kennethmk-Ranger of the Obsidian Order & @Viktor Magyar
Thank you guys! Help us make the world know about our game!
Viktor Magyar on
I was already excited about just Gloria Victis, but when i read Gothic 1-3 which are my favorite game series, I just had to pledge.
Kennethmk-Ranger of the Obsidian Order on
I am really excited to see this sort of game happening, I'll be sure to pass on the word to my friends.
Black Eye Games Creator on
Thank you for your help! We'v just hit 10000£!
About Mac, its not that simple, since it have to use another anticheat systems, which we already have anyway ;) So yes, at this moment we have build working at Mac.
Damjan Mozetič on
I really hope this campaign succeeds. I love the notion of a mature and realistic low-magic MMORPG, it was about time someone decided to make it.
As you are developing on Unity, I was really hoping you could push out the Mac alpha version in the first stage. It is just a matter of compiling for the mac platform, isn't it?
Black Eye Games Creator on
Thanks for backing us, we really appreciate it! We won't let you down, that's a promise! :)
Black Eye Games Creator on
Housing will work in two ways: first are actual physical spaces in the game's world (unless the owner requests otherwise). Those houses can be acquired by supporting the project on Kickstarter. Houses that will be purchased later, once the game is released, will be instanced (portal-based) spaces. So I'm afraid building villages is not possible, unless they will be an instanced group of few houses (also, portal-based). While it would be an awesome idea to have them appear on the main map, it would be near impossible to manage in an MMORPG game of this sort at current time due to interactions with NPCs, multiple servers and obviously a limited world-space. But if a group conquers an existing castle, they will have management options available, including hiring a guard.
@Liam Day
Linux is a delicate topic. Unity supoorts it and we are currently testing that option. It all depends on whether the engine and all of its functions will work flawlessly on Linux.
Gallant on
I'm not that clear on housing, do houses, manors and mansions occupy physical spaces within the game world or are they controlled via a portal system? If the former is the case then will players be able to build alternate structures such as smiths and market stalls in order to form villages? I'm supposing there would be npcs to run these if such buildings existed.
Thanks guys you're doing a smashing job!
Black Eye Games Creator on
@Justin Merithew
We've been talking with each of those websites for a while. Let me just say: soon we'll have a big announcement that was a surprise even for us!
@ Ryszard
Thank you! Since Kickstarter began, we've received so many offers from skilled people willing to work that we could build a team twice as big now. Wow!
@ Kordian
Great! We're very grateful to Gamersgate for writing about us. Thank you for the support!
@ Bryanette
You will be able to be a lord of your own manor and this house will be placed on the main map, visible for everyone. Houses purchased via Kickstarter are not instanced. You will also have a chance to design your house alongside our designers. We may even create special model so you can have your dream-house. The house will be placed on all of the servers and you will be the only person deciding whether its door will stand open to the passerbys or not. :)
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Thanks for your support!


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Jobless Claims Rise More Than Expected
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WASHINGTON—The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week, the latest indication of volatility in the nation's job market.
Initial claims for jobless benefits, a measure of changes in employment nationwide, rose by 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 348,000 in the week ended Feb. 22 from the previous week's downwardly revised figure of 334,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had predicted claims would come in at 335,000....


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The bank did say problems remain in lending portfolios and that another downturn in the economy would hurt profitability. But unlike the extremely cautious tone banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. have taken in recent days, Wells Fargo provided a brighter picture for 2010.
Mike Loughlin, Wells Fargo's chief credit and risk officer, said, "while losses remained elevated during the quarter as expected, a more favorable economic outlook and improved credit statistics in several portfolios further increase our confidence that our credit cycle is turning."
Analysts weren't as sure about Wells Fargo's statements on a potential recovery.
"I think it's still too early to make that prediction," said Adam Barkstrom, a managing director at Sterne Agee. Barkstrom said the bank is still highly exposed to risky mortgage markets like Florida and California.
Economists and investors also have doubts about consumers' ability to pay their bills because many banks are still reporting a high number of loan defaults. But Wells Fargo said it was seeing improvement.
"We think the consumer is getting a little bit better now," Howard Atkins, Wells Fargo's chief financial officer, said during an interview with The Associated Press. He said the pace of that improvement is likely to be slow in 2010 and will depend on unemployment, which remained at 10 percent in December.
The San Francisco-based bank earned $394 million after paying preferred dividends, or 8 cents per share, when analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting a loss of 1 cent per share. Earnings were reduced by 47 cents per share because of costs tied to repaying $25 billion in government bailout money.
Wells Fargo lost $3.02 billion, or 84 cents per share, during the final quarter of 2008 when the credit crisis peaked.
Quarterly revenue exceeded expectations. Wells Fargo generated $22.7 billion in revenue during the quarter, compared to analysts' forecasts of $21.97 billion.
The company's shares initially rose on the news, then turned lower as the overall market declined, trading down 31 cents at $27.97.
Loughlin did say deterioration in the broader economy could hinder a further recovery in the bank's performance. Losses on loans are still a problem as people default on debt including mortgages and credit cards.
Loans written off as being uncollectable nearly doubled from the year-ago period to $5.9 billion. However, the most recent quarter's results include the additional loans acquired when Wells Fargo bought Wachovia Corp. just over a year ago.
Wells Fargo set aside $5.91 billion for loan losses during the quarter, a 30 percent decline from the same period a year earlier.
Credit losses are lower than the bank projected when it acquired Wachovia. The purchase of Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia added a big pool of risky mortgages that were among the worst-performing types of loans during the recession. Wachovia's portfolio was considered riskier than Wells Fargo's.
Atkins said Wells Fargo's aggressive approach to tightening lending standards and managing risk in its portfolios over the past two or three years is one of the primary reasons the bank believes it will see improvement in 2010. Wells Fargo was able to significantly write down the value of Wachovia's risky mortgage portfolio immediately after it bought the bank.
The bank said losses on bad loans could peak even earlier than previously expected based on its fourth-quarter performance. After the third quarter, Wells Fargo said consumer loan losses would peak in the first half of 2010 and commercial loan defaults would peak during the second half of the year.
Wells Fargo issued new stock during the last quarter of 2009 as part of its repayment of government bailout money. The bank was one of the final large, national banks to pay back the $25 billion it received as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Wells Fargo was able to more than offset continued loan losses and the charges tied to repaying TARP through growing fee-based revenues, such as mortgage banking and credit and debit card fees.
For the full year, Wells Fargo reported a profit of $7.99 billion after paying preferred dividends, or $1.75 per share. It earned $2.37 billion, or 70 cents per share, in 2008.
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Rebuilding the World Trade Center
A project executive looked out his window on the morning of September 11, 2001. Not a cloud was in the sky, and he had a clear line of site from his office to lower Manhattan. In the moments that followed he witnessed an event he will not soon forget — the collapse of the Twin Towers.
Leonard Impastato, a 40-year electrical industry veteran who works for Five Star Electric, is now working with John McManus, the general foreman, to supervise a team of 45 electricians on the landmark $700 million initial rebuild of the World Trade Center. Five Star, E-J Electric Installation Co., and Zwicker Electric are providing electrical, lighting, and control services for the construction of No. 7 World Trade (7 WTC). The destruction of the Twin Towers structurally weakened 7 WTC, which was built on top of a substation building that supplied electricity to downtown Manhattan. The construction crew leveled the existing building and cleared the land for the new 7 WTC. Five Star and E-J Electric are preparing the space for the Con Ed utility substation, which will include five 138kV transformers. Once that phase is complete, Zwicker will provide electrical services for the core of the 50-story, parallelogram-shaped high-rise, which will be built on the footprint of the former 7 WTC and the surrounding area.
Dwight Millman, a project manager for E-J Electric, says his team faced many challenges in the initial phases of the project. Because the team was working on the site of the wreckage of an existing building, it was difficult to safely access the jobsite. The construction workers also encountered underground obstructions, remnants of the former building, and massive amounts of groundwater. To make the building structurally sound and protect it against future possible attacks, the engineers specified that many of the walls be 2 feet thick in the lower levels of the building. The first five floors were constructed of poured concrete, and a steel-based structure will be built on top of this foundation to form the shell of the building.
"There are massive amounts of concrete from the cellar to the fourth floor," Impastato says. "It looks like a fortress."
On a traditional high-rise construction project, a team builds one floor at a time, but on the 7 WTC project, the electricians are working on four or five different floors simultaneously. Five Star is installing thousands of feet of cable tray, conduit, and power and control cable, putting in lighting fixtures, and placing conduit into the poured concrete. E-J Electric, the Long Island City, N.Y.-based firm that installed the security system for the original WTC, is providing a temporary service of 4,000A for the initial and future phases of construction, installing nine miles of conduit for medium-voltage and high-voltage distribution duct banks and putting in 8-foot by 8-foot horizontal ground plates and ground rods for lightning protection.
In late December, New York's governor and mayor led a "topping off" ceremony to celebrate the end of the first phase of the project — the completion of the five-story concrete base of the building. But the construction project is far from over. In the early part of this year, Con Ed will power up its substation equipment to supply electricity to the future World Trade Center projects, including the construction of the proposed 1,776-foot tall Freedom Tower, which will feature 60 floors of office space. In the meantime, the electrical firms added manpower and ramped up on overtime to meet their obligation to Tishman Construction, which promised to turn over 85% of the space to Con Ed by the first week in January. Five Star's electricians worked 10-hour days during the week and 8 hours on Saturdays to get the job done on time. Despite the heavy workload, Impastato says the construction team has pulled together to complete the 7 WTC project.
"There's a real spirit of cooperation that you normally wouldn't see on a construction project," he says. "You can almost feel it when you walk through the area. It's heartening to see the area coming back and becoming more and more vibrant. Every week I go down there I see an increased level of activity."
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Openness in the news
A few tidbits highlighted in the inner pages of a friend's WSJ this morning. All are about (to some degree) IT openness.
Comcast is partnering with Clearwire (and thus Sprint) to resell its WiMax service to its existing cable modem subscribers. In integrating its offerings, Comcast is seeking to increase switching costs. More fundamentally, either this suggests that Comcast realizes that revenue growth in its core business is over, or it decided it needs to bundle in-home and coffee shop Internet access for residential users to compete with AT&T (DSL + Wi-Fi hotspots) and other integrated telecom companies.
Meanwhile, Clearwire is eager to generate revenue and win WiMax adoption before the more widely endorsed LTE tsunami comes flooding in.
The EU has forced major mobile phone makers to adopt a standard recharger plug by 2010. Nominally to reduce the number of chargers in landfills, of course it's really about forcing an open standard to reduce switching costs. While I think this is exactly the sort of trivial economic micromanagement that governments should avoid, fortunately the government didn't have to push too hard as European and US telecom trade associations had previously brokered the plan.
Alas, the format is the relatively new (and incompatible) micro-USB instead of the ubiquitous mini-USB that I already have on all my hard disks and some of my existing cameras and cellphones.
Dell is rumored (by the WSJ and earlier reports) to be planning an Android device aimed squarely at the iPod Touch. This makes a lot of sense, since for many users, the value of the iPT comes from its WebKit web browser, a mail client, Google maps and an RSS reader. Assuming Android has gotten around to fixing their awful email client, the open source (and thus inherently commoditized) platform makes perfect sense for the company that seeks to copy Apple's new technology innovations (and old production innovations) as its core commodity business declines.
As with other Dell technology efforts, it would enable the low R&D company to build upon the R&D efforts of others, a classic (if decades old) example of open innovation.


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Norma Aguilar (Federal Defender), San Diego, CA
Ramon Alvarado (Attorney at Law), Norcross, GA
David Baugh (Attorney at Law), Richmond, VA
James Beane (Attorney at Law), Washington, DC
Hon. Charles Becton (Judge), Durham, NC
Marilyn Bednarski (Attorney at Law), Pasadena, CA
Jerilyn Bell (Georgia Capital Defenders), Atlanta, GA
Keith Belzer (Devanie & Belzer, S.C.), LaCrosse, WI
Cathleen Bennett (Committee for Public Counsel), Boston, MA
Barbara Bergman (University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law), Tucson, AZ
Alison Bloomquist (CT Division of Public Defender Svcs.), Hartford CT
Melody Brannon (Attorney at Law), Topeka KS
Juanita Brooks (Fish & Richardson, P.C.), San Diego, CA
Raymond M. Brown (Attorney at Law), Newark, NJ
Beattie Butler (Attorney at Law), Charleston, SC
Yasmin Cader (Office of the Federal Defender), Los Angeles, CA
Jeff Chapdelaine (Attorney at Law), Boston, MA
Judy Clarke (Capital Resource Counsel), San Diego, CA
Dale Cobb (Attorney at Law), Charleston, SC
Angie Coggins (Houston Co. Public Defender), Perry, GA
Herschella Conyers (Mandel Legal Aid Clinic), Chicago, IL
Candace Crouse (Attorney at Law), Cincinatti, OH
Tony Cueto (Attorney at Law), Durham, NC
Charles Daniels (Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court), Albuquerque, NM
Denise deLaRue (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, GA
John Delgado (Attorney at Law), Columbia, SC
Sam Dennis (Sam D. Dennis, P.C.), Atlanta and Valdosta, GA
Roger Dodd (Dodd Law, Dodd & Burnham, Spohrer Dodd), UT, GA, FL
Pete Donaldson (Attorney at Law), Albany, GA
Jodie English (Attorney at Law), Indianapolis, IN
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Drew Findling (Findling Law Firm), Atlanta, GA
Kobie Flowers (Brown Goldstein Levy LLP), Washington, DC
Bob Fogelnest (Attorney at Law), San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Fernando Freyre (CO Public Defender), Denver, CO
Patrice Fulcher (Public Defender Training Director), Baltimore, MD
Isaiah "Skip" Gant (Federal Public Defender, Middle Dist. of TN), Nashville, TN
Edward Garland (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, GA
Andy Gavaldon (Gavaldon Law), Ft. Collins, CO
Shawna Geiger (CO Federal Public Defenders), Denver, CO
Andrea George (Federal Defenders of E. WA & ID), Spokane, WA
Kyana Stephens Givens (Federal Public Defender Western Dist. of WA), Seattle, WA
Robert Glass (Attorney at Law), New Orleans, LA
Andres Guevara (Attorney at Law), Greenwood Village, CO
Annabelle Hall (Attorney at Law), Reno, NV
Steve Harmon (Attorney at Law), Riverside, CA
Carey Haughwout (West Palm Beach Public Defender), West Palm Beach, FL
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Frank Hogue (Hogue and Hogue), Macon, GA
Laura Hogue (Hogue and Hogue), Macon, GA
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Christina Hunt (Federal Defenders, Middle Dist. of GA), Macon, GA
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Richard Kammen (Attorney at Law), Indianapolis, IN
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Cat Kelly (MO Public Defender), St. Louis, MO
Michael Kennedy (Law Offices of Michael Jerome Kennedy, PLLC), Reno, NV
Terence Kindlon (Kindlon Shanks & Associates), Albany, NY
Christine Koehler (Koehler & Riddick, LLC), Lawrenceville, GA
A. J. Kramer (Federal Public Defender), Washington, DC
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John Lentine (Sheffield & Lentine), Birmingham, AL
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Steve Lindsay (Attorney at Law), Asheville, NC
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Randi McGinn (MCML - Albuquerque Attorneys), Albuquerque, NM
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Bert Nieslanik (Attorney at Law), Grand Junction, CO
Michael Pancer (Attorney at Law), San Diego, CA
Robert Pepin (Federal Public Defender), Denver, CO
Marty Pinales (Attorney at Law), Cincinnati, OH
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Martin Sabelli (Attorney at Law), San Francisco, CA
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Dumaka Shabazz (Federal Defender, Middle District of Tennessee), Nashville, TN
Barry Scheck (Cardozo Law School), New York City, NY
Juval Scott (Federal Defenders of WI), Milwaukee, WI
Jennifer Sellitti (Deputy Public Defenders Middlesex Trial Region), New Brunswick, NJ
Laurie Shanks (Kindlon Shanks & Associates), Albany, NY
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Jeff Sherr (Dept. of Public Advocacy), Frankfort, KY
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Colette Tvedt (NACDL), Washington, DC
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Jamaica, Queens is getting a massive rooftop greenhouse, according to DNAinfo.
The greenhouse is anticipated to produced more than 500 tons of fresh, pesticide-free vegetables and herbs annually.
It will be operated by Gotham Greens, which already runs a greenhouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, spanning 15,000 square feet.
The Queens location will be the largest of its kind nationwide at 55,000-square feet.
The project is funded by a $902,000 grant from the Regional Economic Development Councils. According to the Regional Councils, it will create 40 permanent and 50 construction jobs.
Plants in the greenhouse will be able to grow hydroponically in sand or liquid, but without soil. It will also include installation of a state-of-the-art LED lighting system and other efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation is working to find a building for the greenhouse.
"Urban farming is a very exciting development and it would be really great to have an operation doing it in Jamaica," said GJDC spokesman Fred Winters.
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Morocco has a long history of weaving some of the most beautiful rugs in the world. The ancient weaving started before the 7th Century with the Berber tribe, people of North Africa who settled in Morocco during this period.
For thousands of years, the women of the tribe have woven exquisite hand knotted wool rugs inspired by tribal ceremony and symbolism. The Berber tribe still exists today, living in the Atlas mountain regions of Morocco, where the ancient weaving techniques are preserved and passed down from mother to daughter.
The natural and black wool used comes directly from sheep and goats in the area, like the black-haired goats that roam and climb the Atlas mountain areas. Each weaver determines the design, pattern and color as the rug progresses, so no two rugs are ever alike and each rug can take years to weave.
A Moroccan rug is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a work of art, that will provide beauty for a lifetime. With proper care, colors will not fade and wool will not wear out, leaving a rug that can be passed down for generations.


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Marketing Director
As Director of Marketing, Chris Fox leads digital consumer experiences and marketing for uDirect IRA Services, LLC. In this role, Mr. Fox focuses on continuing uDirects' digital evolution through the development, implementation and scaling of world-class digital services and marketing content strategies. He also helps oversees the business intelligence group and leads comprehensive marketing programs to acquire, retain and engage audiences across platforms for the benefit of member stations.


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Treat and prevent a calf strain with these strategies.
The symptoms of mild (grade 1) calf strains include a twinge of pain in the back of the lower leg, with tightness and discomfort for 2 to 5 days afterward. Severe (grade 3) strains are marked by immediate excruciating pain, usually at the V in the calf muscles, along with an inability to contract the muscles. Bruising and swelling can appear later.
What's Going On In There?
The calf muscles are the gastrocnemius (the larger one, which attaches above the knee joint) and the soleus (the smaller one, attaching below the knee joint). Both attach to the heel via the Achilles tendon.
Muscle strains happen when you sprint and the muscle isn't prepared for the effort expended. Contributing factors include overuse, muscle weakness or tightness, and overtaxing a "cold" muscle.
Fix It
Dynamic rest. Avoid lower-leg work as much as possible. Do core and upper-body work to maintain your fitness.
Ice it. Ice the muscles for 15- to 20-minute stretches during the first 24 hours to help reduce pain, inflammation and muscle spasm.
Try a compression bandage. Compression can help keep swelling down during the first 24 to 48 hours after the injury. Compression sleeves are easiest, and elastic bandages work, too, but be sure not to wrap it too tightly. If your foot turns color or gets cold, it's not getting enough blood.
Elevate it. This can help draw fluid away from the injury. Try to keep your lower leg higher than your hip as much as possible during the first 48 hours after the injury.
Shorten the muscle. For the first couple days after the injury, heel pads can raise the heel, shortening the muscle to reduce the strain on it.
Try an NSAID. An anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen or naproxen can help.
Work on flexibility. Stretch the gastrocnemius by sitting on the floor with your leg straight out in front of you. Pull your toes and foot back, hold for several seconds, and relax. Repeat 10 times. To stretch the soleus, sit on the floor with your knees bent. Support yourself with your hands behind you as you lean back, lift your leg and point your toes toward the ceiling, holding for several seconds. Repeat 10 times. Another good option? Regular yoga practice.
Prevent It
The best way to prevent a calf strain in the first place is building limber lower legs. An underlying lack of flexibility in your calf muscles and Achilles tendon is usually the primary cause of lower-leg problems.


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If you love something, thrash it. That's exactly what Kenny has done with this bike. When he picked up this frame off local Craigslist, he was looking for a classic steel workhorse. It just so happened that he snagged a De Rosa… for a song. If you're going to spend all day on a bike, it might as well be a great ride, right?
Using mostly spare parts and some swap-found components, he built it up with SRAM force, Profile hubs to H+Son Archetypes, trigger shifters on riser bars and kept the vintage 3T stem. A Wald Basket helps out in light and easy carries while Kenny still wears a backpack throughout the day for the bigger hauls.
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For the most part, I agree with you....but for a franchise to make a decision like this that as we have seen has ticked off a good majority of those fans you speak of, in my opinion is not very smart since it is those fans that talk the most on ther internet today, give the most feedback, go to multiple showings which today is a good way for these franchises to make their money, and they buy the merchandise that goes along with this brand. So to even come close to nullifying this part of the movie going audience, IMO is a pretty stupid move on the part of Fox. Especially since that portion of the moviegoing audience is still pissed from the first 2 tries for the most part.
Again. Most of these fans, like it or not, will still be in line if it looks amazing and gets good reviews. Fanboys are no where near the majority to make or break a film. How many Scott Pilgrims or Judge Dredds do we have to have before we get over ourselves a little?
Plus, in the era where a multi-ethnic series like Fast and the Furious is pulling down 200 million plus. I don't see why letting some black 6 year-old is kid maybe have a black Johnny Storm toy to play with is going to ruin the world of a 30 year old grown men.
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I fear blogging has fallen by the wayside thanks to a variety of other draws on my time. But I can still post my new Christmas desktop for the holiday season.
Photograph from Pixabay.
I don't even remember making this decision, but I recently discovered my motherboard's storage controller was set to RAID for my SSD and spindle hard drive. I was trying to see how much life was left on my SSD after seeing a friendly reminder on Reddit. But SSDLife couldn't see either drive. They were hidden behind a RAID configuration I didn't even want.
When I switched from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS, Windows 7 wouldn't boot. Fortunately, changing it back to RAID fixed that.
If you can believe it, I fixed the not-booting issue with two lines. They were registry edits I found on Microsoft's answers site.
Here they are:
REG ADD HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci /v Start /d 0 /f /t REG_DWORD
REG ADD HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi /v Start /d 0 /f /t REG_DWORD
I've heard people claim commands like these are magic. I know better than to make that claim myself, but I have to admit, going from not booting to a fully working system without RAID enabled felt magic. I love it when a plan comes together.
It could be my imagination, but even after a day of having switched over to AHCI, the SSD and the spindle drive both feel much snappier. I didn't run any benchmarks, but everything on my system feels lighter and faster. I like it.
And the good news is, at least according to SSDLife, my SSD has another 8 years left (taken with a large grain of salt of course).
I was surprised to see it's only been powered on 58 times in 5 years. That's probably due to monthly Windows updates reboots. Windows reliability has come a long way.
As I've done in previous years, here's my Christmas desktop for this year.
I used DesktopSnowOK, which is nowhere near as good as Xsnow on Linux, but it's something.
The falling snow blends so much with the background it's hard to even tell it's there.
I've been using MailChimp for my Riddles and Brain Teasers site for the past five years. When I first started, it was free. Then it bumped up and leveled out at $50/month. I was okay with that.
The price began another ascent when the list reached 5,000 subscribers. It leveled off at $75/month and I was somewhat okay with that.
In the past few months I've been going up the third staircase. It's longer and steeper than the first two and it's painful. Every 200 subscribers adds $5/month, and I was heading for $150/month. Halfway up the staircase, I was no longer okay with it. I couldn't justify paying $150/month to send out a monthly newsletter.
So I began my search through nearly a dozen alternatives, and last month my search ended at EmailOctopus, which uses Amazon SES behind the scenes. I will be paying $35/month until I reach 100,000 subscribers. That would have cost me $500/month with Mailchimp.
If anyone from Mailchimp comes across this, my suggestion would be to stop the $5 bump for every 200 subscribers. It's frustrating and feels unfair when you've been adding thousands of subscribers and remained at the same price. I felt like I was being punished every time I bumped up a step. The 10% discount for enabling two-factor authentication was appreciated, but not enough.
Instead, keep it simple:
5,000 subscribers = $50
10,000 subscribers = $75
25,000 subscribers = $150
Now that I have a successful campaign under my belt, I am pleased to report that my first campaign with EmailOctopus had similar click and open rates as Mailchimp (even higher on open rates). The higher open rate could have been due to the new email template I used, but at least I know deliverability isn't suffering with Amazon SES.
The migration was painless. I exported the list from Mailchimp, imported it into EmailOctopus and requested Amazon increase my sending limit, which they did in a matter of hours. It was also simple to enable DKIM on the domain in Amazon SES.
EmailOctopus doesn't have as many features as Mailchimp, but they have the essentials that I use, like autoresponders, scheduled campaigns, subscription forms, unsubscribe support and campaign analytics. Plus they're adding new features. Since I created my account they've added email templates and two-factor authentication. Their customer support has also been responsive and helpful.
And I love the price!
Ever since Windows 10 came out, my Windows 7 updates have gotten really slow. It started taking days instead of minutes or hours to run, with no end in sight. And the whole time it was cranking my CPU fan and still stuck at 0%.
My first solution was to disable Windows Updates and use WSUS Offline Update instead. I would follow these steps:
This worked until recently, when Microsoft started using an all-in-one update instead of piecemeal. When I tried WSUS Offline Update, it just failed.
Back to the drawing board, I discovered Woody Leonhard's InfoWorld article on this very topic, and his solution worked!
I don't use Bluetooth on my desktop, but you should be aware that's still a potential pitfall.
Otherwise, here's the process I used to get Windows Updates working in minutes instead of days:
This issue has plagued me for months now. It's quite satisfying to have finally found a solution. If you've had the same problem, I hope this works for you too.


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2NE1 is appearing on 'America's Next Top Model' season 21
2NE1 will be appearing on the final stage of the American reality show, "America's Next Top Model." K-Pop idol group BTOB has also been confirmed to appear on the show as special judges.
Season 21 is going to be a star-studded affair! The final fashion show of the season will be filmed in Korea for Seoul fashion week, where 2NE1 will be in attendance. The filming will take place on April 2nd at Banpo in Seoul. One source revealed, "2NE1 was asked to be on the show because they are a representative K-Pop group and they are also well-known to be fashionistas."
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Financially troubled Hawker Beechcraft posted a $90 million net loss in May, including $33 million in operating losses, the company said this week in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York.
The income statement was filed to comply with Chapter 11 reporting requirements, the document said.
In May, the company posted $144.8 million in sales of aircraft, parts and services and $148.1 million in costs related to those sales.
Hawker Beechcraft posted $43.8 million in interest expenses, $4.2 million in restructuring charges, $4.8 million in reorganization items, $5.8 million in research and development costs and $19.7 million in selling, general and administrative expenses, its filing said.
The financial information is preliminary, unaudited and subject to future adjustment, it said.
Hawker Beechcraft filed for a pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring agreement on May 3.
The company said at the time that the plan is supported by the majority of its senior secured lenders and senior bondholders.
Its May losses are in line with expectations, said an analyst who didn't want his name used because he is not authorized to speak publicly for his company.
"I think most people's view is that Hawker Beechcraft is kind of in a holding pattern right now," he said.
When a company first files for bankruptcy, there is a lot of uncertainty, the analyst said.
"After a few months, people get more comfortable with what's happening and understand that the company isn't going to liquidate and go away," he said.
As they do, they get more confident and come back to resume business.
Hawker Beechcraft is selling and delivering airplanes, he said.
The key item analysts and investors are looking at on the company's income statement is cash on the balance sheet, the analyst said. They look at whether the company has the liquidity to survive.
"The cash looks fine," he said.
Hawker Beechcraft began May with $25.1 million in cash and ended the month with $145.0 million in cash, not counting foreign cash or cash collateralizing letter of credit accounts, it said in the filing.
The company's assets totaled $2.75 billion at the end of May, while liabilities totaled $3.96 billion.
Hawker Beechcraft's goal in the bankruptcy is to reorganize and eliminate about $2.5 billion in debt and about $125 million of annual cash interest expense, the company said at the time it filed.
To fund ongoing operations, Hawker Beechcraft has secured a commitment for $400 million in "Debtor in Possession" financing.
Hawker Beechcraft filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring following a prolonged downturn in the business jet industry and a heavy debt load undertaken when Goldman Sachs and Onex Partners bought the company in 2007 from Raytheon Inc.


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It's not Friday and it's Sabrina here, popping by with an extra post; to mark the start of the traditional holiday season here in Europe I am using the "To find a seashell" stamp from Art Neko to create a Seashells and Summer project.
I'm sure I mentioned when I first uploaded a project using this stamp that I grew up within earshot of the sea – and we also spent most summer holidays somewhere within walking distance of the sea too – or at least a lake. Isn't there something so relaxing about being beside water? And even on a lake beach you can find shells to add to the magic of the day. Something my husband and I bring along with us on most holidays is a couple of origami books and a small supply of paper – a great rainy-day activity. So I have combined summer shells and origami for this little shadow box.
There are some great shell collage papers in the Art Neko store – my finished project uses the Printed Collage Seashells on Sand , which has a great sandy colour, but I confess that originally I wanted to use the Printed Collage Seashells on White version, but I got a couple of blue splashes on it and I am too much of a perfectionist. As you can see, I stamped my sentiment directly on the collage paper and embossed it with clear embossing powder for a little extra definition. WIth a curved die, I cut a shoreline edge, and layered it on top of a piece of card which I had coloured by smooshing it in a couple of distress oxide inks (I used salty ocean and faded jeans), and I also added a sprinkling of chunky white embossing powder for some salt spray. I trimmed this to 4″ by 6″ to fit in my shadow box frame.
My origami shell was folded from some old paper I found on my shelves, using a design by Tomoko Fuse. I have a couple of her books, but not this particular one. I found a great video on YouTube which she had authorised, you can find it here. Luckily I had made two shells, because this one looks better with the sand-coloured collage sheet, whereas the other one looked great on the white shell background. My first trial version I folded from thin copy paper, and it too is lovely enough to use on a project some time, and is almost flat. This one is quite dimensional, which I hope you can see a little in the final photo.
Thanks for coming by this week. Enjoy what's left of the summer, and capture some memories of it for the winter.
p.s. – did you check out the lovely Mermaid release from Art Neko? I think this sentiment goes well with mermaids, once you have a seashell in there somwhere!


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