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"With Salesforce we have new levels of cross-selling and communication. It's really transformed our business."
Westfield increases sales with a mobile app built on Salesforce App Cloud
Westfield's business is all about selling. The company, which owns and operates 100+ shopping centres worldwide, is expert in helping retailers build thriving businesses. Westfield's own business is also flourishing because of a custom lease management app built on App Cloud that lets the company do more to help its customers meet their goals.
Westfield's specialty leasing group — which sells retail carts, kiosks, temporary stores, sponsorships, and brand activations, as well as trade shows and other special events — wanted to improve the way its sales reps find and showcase inventory to customers so they could close more deals, faster. "The tools we had been using were archaic," explains Jeri Erling, Senior Director, Specialty Leasing. "We wanted a rich, interactive way to show inventory to customers, with data that's always up to date."
Since Westfield's sales team is constantly on the road, the app lets them easily showcase inventory from their iPads. Reps can easily locate malls that suit a retailer's ideal geography and demographics and find out what's available during a specific timeframe. They can also see maps of each floor within a mall, so they can find the best location for each customer, and find detailed information on nearby retailers. The app shows space availability and lets reps quickly generate costs and proposals.
Westfield's app also includes Salesforce Chatter, so reps can share best practices and collaborate to close deals quickly. They can also contact local personnel to get fast answers to questions about specific mall locations — like where's the closest power supply, water hook up, or elevator.
"In the past our reps would pull information from multiple systems and give customers mall maps with handwritten notes of proposed kiosk locations," explains Erling. "Now they can show computer-generated maps with real photographs, and automatically generate contracts. It's reduced our sales cycle from months to days."
"Our reps can show computer-generated maps with real photographs, and automatically generate contracts. It's reduced our sales cycle from months to days."
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DUNEDIN, Fla. — Quick update on Scott Rolen, who just held court with us scribes in the classroom down in the Jays' clubhouse a few minutes ago. Rolen said that he was told by his doctors that he would likely miss 4-6 weeks from the date the operation took place.
So, my writing the other day that he could potentially miss the season's first month seems about right. Rolen is scheduled to have the pin removed from his finger on April 7 and it's unclear how much time he'll miss after that. He said the doctors believe throwing will be the main issue after having the pin removed, considering his right middle finger is integral to making strong throws.
Rolen did not, however, lose his fingernail. Apparently, Rolen thought he was going to lose the nail at first because it looked like it was bent at a 45 degree angle. It turned out that it was actually the broken tip of his finger that was bent at a 45 degree angle. Ouch.
The freak accident happened on a line drive hit to Rolen during fielding drills. Rolen thought the low liner was going to be played like a short hop and the ball didn't drop, drilling his finger at an unfortunate angle. When asked if bench coach Brian Butterfield was the culprit behind the line drive, Rolen smiled and joked:
"No, it wasn't Butter. It was @!&#&@$ Butter."
I'll have more on this on bluejays.com in a while.
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How was the six week holiday? Did you catch any big fish, or is that exclusively Jeremy Sandler's domain?
I can't quite say I truthfully understand the purpose of you returning to Toronto tomorrow and then jetting to NYC on Monday for the game. Wouldn't that give you, like, 30 hours in Toronto? Seems to me with waiting to clear customs and all it may not be worth it. Why not just go to NYC early and tour the sushi restaurants or something to that effect? They have some really fancy ones there — tuna sashimi for dessert — and I think Yahoo! did an indexing of them recently if you're interested.
Oh, well. Enjoy Monday at Yankee Stadium. Being one of the last dudes in the press box for the last home opener ever at that place should be pretty cool; count it as a life highlight.
Do you find any difference in the personal attributes/amicableness of beat writers, from, say, a market like Kansas City as opposed to the NYY's guys?
The Jays improved depth will be put to the test in the early months and seeing Scutaro hit the way he has this pre season makes me feel he can hold up the hot corner until Rolen returns. Barajas has also played pretty good this spring as well and if Zaun is banged up to start or slumps expect him to jump at the #1 catching spot.
I really like our pitching going into the season… Expect some close games all year.
I think Barajas should be definitly platooning equal games to start the season. Let Zaunie take it easy at first and at the same time see who really has the stuff and go with the better choice. Barajas has had an amazing spring training…we should roll with it into the reg season…
just as an update Glaus is hitting .364 this spring. not bad…of course he usually breaks down the more he plays…but obviously he has recovered from his issues for now.
MARCHESANO: I wouldn't exactly call this a "holiday", though I guess I can't complain too much about having a job that sends me to Florida for six weeks in February (though it'd help if I liked Florida more). I don't do the whole fishing thing. My dad tried to take me once and, honestly, I just never got the appeal. So, I guess that'd be more Sandman's domain. … As for my travel plans, I'm bolting for TO Friday morning early and jetting to NYC Saturday night. That allows me to dump all my luggage back home, have an evening with the misses, and scratch the dog on his belly before I head to the Big Apple a night ahead of the workout. Basically, it's a way for me not to go to Philly, get away from work for two days, even if I am traveling, and say hi to the wife before the season begins. Call it a mental break. … And, man, thanks for the suggestions, but I don't dig on sushi. I can point out some great eats in the Apple, but sushi joints won't be on the list!
I remember there was a lot of angst in the comment section of this blog when the Jays let Lee Gronkiewicz and Ty Taubenheim go. Just as an update, both of these guys didn't make the big league roster and were assigned to the minors.
And in other former Jay news, meat-baller Josh Towers was cut from the Rockies….
haha, take that Towers !
You know i don't think that anyone expected Gronk to get chosen to be apart of the best bullpen in baseball.
Gronk isn't that good.
I think people thought he could have fit into a bullpen that wasn't in the top ten. Maybe one that needed help. Im sure he'd fit right in with the Tigers, which is pretty rediculous if they expect to make the post season.

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This disruptive ability has the potential to reduce our dependence on dirty energy and make society cleaner, more efficient and powered renewably. But as we applaud the positive, visible impacts and measurable, game-changing potential of IT, we also need to pay attention to what's behind the curtain.
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PHILADELPHIA — Eagles offensive tackle Lane Johnson has been suspended for the first four games of the season for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drugs policy.
The fourth pick in the 2013 draft will be eligible to return to the Eagles' active roster Sept. 29. He'll miss games against Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Washington and San Francisco. Johnson started all 16 games and played all but one snap in a solid rookie year.
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An ACI target statement specifies the entry, attributes, or set of entries and attributes for which you want to control access.
An ACI target statement has this syntax:
(keyword = "expression")
The following values are used in the target.
Indicates the type of target.
Identifies the target. The quotation marks ("") around expression are syntactically required, although the current implementation accepts expressions like targetattr=*.
Indicates that the target is or is not the object specified in the expression.
The != operator cannot be used with the targettrfilters keyword or the targetscope keyword.
For a description of target keywords, see the following sections:
The following table lists the target keywords and their associated expressions.Table 2–1 Target Keywords and Their Expressions
Type of target
A directory entry or its subtree
The attributes of an entry
A set of entries or attributes that match an LDAP filter
An attribute value or combination of values that match an LDAP filter
The scope of the target
base, onelevel, subtree
The target keyword specifies that an ACI is defined for a directory entry. The target keyword uses the following syntax:
(target = "distinguished_name")
(target != "distinguished_name")
The distinguished name must be in the subtree rooted at the entry where the ACI is defined. For example, the following target may be used in an ACI on ou=People,dc=example,dc=com:
(target = "ldap:///uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com")
The DN of the entry must be a distinguished name in string representation (RFC 4514). Therefore, characters that are syntactically significant for a DN, such as commas, must be escaped with a single backslash (\).
Wild cards, show as asterisk characters can be used in the expression for the target keyword. The asterisk matches an attribute value, a substring of a value, or a DN component. For example, all of the following expressions match uid=bjensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com.
target= "ldap:///uid=bj*,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
target= "ldap:///uid=*,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
target= "ldap:///*,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
target= "ldap:///uid=bjensen,*,dc=com"
target= "ldap:///uid=bjensen*"
The following further examples show permitted uses of wild cards.
This target matches every entry in the entire example.com tree that has the UID attribute in the entry's RDN.
This target matches every entry in the ou=People branch whose RDN ends with Anderson, regardless of the naming attribute.
This target matches every entry in the example.com tree whose distinguished name contains the uid and ou attributes.
Other usage of wild cards to such as target="ldap:///uid=bjensen,o*,dc=com" might be accepted, but are deprecated.
The targetattr keyword specifies that an ACI is defined for one or more attributes in the targeted entries. The targetattr keyword uses the following syntax:
(targetattr = "attribute")
(targetattr != "attribute")
If no targetattr keyword is present, no attributes are targeted. To target all attributes, the targetattr keyword must be targetattr="*".
Targeted attributes do not need to exist on the target entry or its subtree, but the ACI applies whenever they do.
Targeted attributes do not need to be defined in the schema. The absence of schema checking makes it possible to implement an access control policy before importing data and its schema.
The targetattr keyword can be used for multiple attributes, by using this syntax:
(targetattr = "attribute1 || attribute2|| ... attributeN")
If you configure attribute aliases, you must specify both the attribute name and the alias in the targetattr keyword for the ACI to take them into account.
Targeted attributes include all subtypes of the named attribute. For example, (targetattr = "locality") also targets locality;lang-fr.
Wild cards can be used in the expression for the targetattr keyword, but the use of wild cards would serve no purpose and may reduce performance.
The targetfilter keyword is used in ACIs to target entries that match an LDAP filter. The ACI applies to all entries that match the LDAP filter and that are in the scope of the ACI. The targetfilter keyword uses the following syntax:
(targetfilter = "(standard LDAP search filter)")
The following example is for employees with a status of salaried or contractor, and an attribute for the number of hours worked as a percentage of a full-time position. The filter targets entries for contractors or part-time employees:
(targetfilter = "(|(status=contractor)(fulltime<=79))")
The Netscape extended filter syntax is not supported in ACIs. For example, the following target filter is not valid:
(targetfilter = "(locality:fr:=<= Québec)")
The filter syntax that describes matching rules for internationalized values is supported. For example, the following target filter is valid:
(targetfilter = "(locality:2.16.840.1.1137184.108.40.206.18.1.4:=Québec)")
The targetfilter keyword selects whole entries as targets of the ACI. The targetfilter keyword and the targetattr keyword can be used together to create ACIs that apply to a subset of attributes in the targeted entries.
The targattrfilters keyword is used in ACIs to target specific attribute values by using LDAP filters. By using the targattrfilters keyword, you can grant or deny permissions on an attribute if that attribute's value meets the criteria defined in the ACI. An ACI that grants or denies access based on an attribute's value, is called a value-based ACI. The targattrfilters keyword uses this syntax:
(targattrfilters="add=attr1:F1 && attr2:F2... && attrn:Fn, \ del=attr1:F1 && attr2:F2 ... && attrn:Fn")
represents the operation of creating an attribute.
represents the operation of deleting an attribute.
represents the target attributes.
represents filters that apply only to the associated attribute.
The following conditions must be met when filters apply to entries, and those entries are created, deleted or modified:
When an entry is created or deleted, each instance of that attribute must satisfy the filter.
When an entry is modified, if the operation adds an attribute, then the add filter that applies to that attribute must be satisfied; if the operation deletes an attribute, then the delete filter that applies to that attribute must be satisfied.
If individual values of an attribute already present in the entry are replaced, then the add and delete filters must be satisfied.
The following ACI allows users to add any role to their own entry, except the superAdmin role. It also allows users to add a telephone number with a 123 prefix.
(targattrfilters="add=nsroleDN:(!(nsRoleDN=cn=superAdmin)) \ && telephoneNumber:(telephoneNumber=123*)")
The targetScope keyword is used in ACIs to specify the scope of the ACI. The targetScope keyword uses this syntax:
The targetScope keyword can have one of these values:
The ACI applies to the target resource only
The ACI applies to the target resource and its first-generation children
The ACI applies to the target resource and its subtree
If the targetScope keyword is not specified, the default value is subtree.


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Maine adventure: Travel our state in 10 photos
Here are the 10 favorite photos that I've taken in our great state. Each represents a certain memory and a particular place in time that will forever be ingrained in the back of my mind. Read on
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Rare sight: A bald eagle photographed in a Maine snowstorm
If I were to bundle up the photos I feel most lucky to have photographed, these would surely be in that selection. Few things embody the quintessential American spirit like a bald eagle. Read on
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A cold Saturday brings ice fishing success
Temperatures on the ice were below zero and the third hour of not catching fish led us into conversations and a quantity of cold beers I could never have imagined. Ice fishing has a way of helping bond friendships. Read on
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Top 10 Maine Outdoor Instagram accounts you need to follow
These Instagram accounts will provide you with daily Maine photos - from the coast to the mountains. Some of these folks brave the coldest Maine mornings to capture the best sunrises you've seen! Read on
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72 hours at Sugarloaf: What to do & 3 ways to save $700 +
Nearly every winter weekend I was in the mountains, just not at Sugarloaf (that's where the hardcore skiers went). I thought it was an exclusive, expensive social club. But this year, extraordinary December snowfalls drew me in. And then I learned the truth. Read on
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14 ways to stay warm while ice fishing in Maine
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Douglas Mountain: The perfect local snowshoe trip (with a great view)
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A beautiful sunrise and a brand new year
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Photographer Christian Houge took these beautiful pictures of a science research base in the Artic circle. The ion cannon is really a radome, a weatherproof dome that protects a radar antenna.
And those dishes waiting for Imperial AT-AT walkers are not going to fire anything. They are probably just microwave communication towers.
Or secret anti-matter ray cannons. It can go either way. [Christian Houge via DRB]


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Sing the Delta
Iris DeMent (Flariella Records, 2012)
At 51, Iris DeMent is no spring chicken, but her music can seem like a time capsule from someplace long, long ago. She was born near Paragould, Arkansas, but when DeMent was very young, the family moved to Southern California, where she grew up in a transplanted bubble of traditional Southern culture and the ecstatic embrace of the Pentecostal church.
From 1992 to 1996 DeMent put out three well-received albums of original songs. But then the tunes stopped coming. According to DeMent, her mother's death at age 93 opened a gate, and all the songs on Sing the Delta came rushing out.
DeMent's last album, released eight years ago, was Lifeline, a collection of Southern gospel hymns sung with her deeply down-home quaver and accompanied mostly by the gospel piano she learned from her mother. Musically many of the original songs on Sing the Delta would have fit on Lifeline, but the triumphal certainty in the lyrics of the old hymns is here sometimes replaced by achingly honest doubt.
Certainly many of the best songs on this collection are rooted in DeMent's childhood. There are tributes to her mother, who was always "telling her truth," and her father, who went to work "wearing his name across the pocket of his shirt." And then there's "The Night I Learned How Not to Pray," an unsparing child's-eye view of a sibling's accidental death that taught young Iris "not to pray because God does what God wants to anyway."
But in the end Sing the Delta is still a religious album because most of the songs treat questions of human purpose and destiny with the gravity they deserve. The song "There's a Whole Lot of Heaven" even makes this a sort of gospel album, with the good news, "I've been saved by the love of the people living right here . . . there's a whole lot of heaven shining in this river of tears."
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I am so happy that you are not mad at me! I am about to get ready for meeting so I will right more later. Hope to hear from you soon! Your ever Faithful ,
p.s. Shoud I call you Bostan Natsuko?
p.p.s. how did you come up with the name for your blog?
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Is It Safe to Sell Your House Now?
It might finally be time to come out of the basement.
Seven years after the housing market began to collapse, rising prices and thinner inventories are presenting new opportunities for home sellers. Some hot markets are even seeing multiple offers for the same property—a phenomenon rarely seen since the boom years—as buyers become more confident and seek to take advantage of today's near-record-low mortgage rates.


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Jamaican trials: Bolt loses to Blake in 200m
Blake set up a stunning 200 meters victory by beating world record holder Usain Bolt for a second time in three days.
Blake set up a stunning 200 meters victory by beating world record holder Usain Bolt for a second time in three days.
Kingston: Yohan Blake set himself up as the man to beat in London with a stunning 200 meters victory, beating world record holder Usain Bolt for a second time in three days to bring the Jamaican Olympic trials to an explosive conclusion on Sunday.
Blake, who shocked Bolt with an emphatic win in the 100m on Friday, followed it up with an even more impressive performance in the 200, catching the triple Olympic gold medallist down the stretch before holding him off in the closing meters.
The winner clocked a time 19.80 seconds to a massive roar from a frenzied crowd at the National Stadium. Bolt secured his Olympic spot by taking second in 19.83, grinning as he hugged his training partner in the finish area.
"He (Bolt) said, 'Congratulations good run, you won,'" Blake told reporters. "'You're the better man on the day,' and I just gave him thanks because he has always motivated.
"He told me coming into the race to keep calm and that's what I did.
Warren Weir earned the third spot on the Jamaican team, taking third in 20.03.
Bolt ended the race lying flat on his back on the track grimacing in pain as medical staff rushed to his side to work on a cramped right thigh.
The lanky sprinter was quickly back on his feet accepting his defeat with grace and putting on a brave face after what had to have be an extremely trying weekend for the world's fastest man.
If Bolt was concerned, however, he did not show it, instead looking ahead to the London Games and defending his 100 and 200m titles.
"Definitely (I have something to prove)," said Bolt. "I'm the Olympic champion so I have to show the world I am still the best.
"It's not like I was blown away, I know what I need to do to get it right. I just have to get my stuff together.
"It's all about putting in the work. I need to figure out what I did wrong and just work on that."
Bolt will certainly have plenty to occupy his time in the next four weeks before he settles into the blocks in London.
His coach Glen Mills confirmed earlier in the week that Bolt was not 100 percent fit and it became obvious throughout the trials that he needs to spend time on his starts after struggling out of the blocks.
"I'm a little bit weak but I have a few more weeks to get myself back into shape," assured Bolt. "I'm not far off, I know I can get it done, I'm not worried.
"Everyone is talking about Yohan Blake and he is proving himself as one of the greatest, but for me it is just going back to training and work on what I need to work on and get it done.
"I can never be discouraged. I'm never worried until my coach gets worried and my coach is not worried."
Blake, who trains with Bolt, gave credit to his team mate for helping him get to the top of the podium in Kingston but the "The Beast" might not be getting too many more tips following four-days of total domination.
Bolt ends the Jamaican trials still in possession of his world records in the 100 (9.58) and 200 (19.19) but those and his Olympic titles could soon be in the hands of the powerful Blake, who heads to London bristling with confidence.
"He (Bolt) has helped me a lot in training and the mental part of the game," said Blake. "I know Usain's strengths and his level and he is not 100 percent so I will just keep working on my form going into the Olympics."
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, winner of Friday's 100m in a Jamaican record time of 10.70, also doubled up by powering her way to a convincing victory in the women's 200m in 22.10, with Sherone Simpson a well-beaten second in 22.37.
Veronica Campbell-Brown, the 200m gold medallist in Beijing and Athens, secured the third Olympic spot clocking 22.42 and heads to London bidding to become the first athlete to claim a 200m hat-trick.
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John Lennon
In the Beatles, the alliance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney produced some of music's greatest songs.
Never content with the status quo, Lennon then launched a solo career marked by experimentation, political activism, embrace of the counterculture and more enduring songs: "Imagine," "Working Class Hero," "Instant Karma!" and "#9 Dream."
Most of all, he proved that musicians could successfully reinvent and transform themselves, and carve out success on their own terms.
John Lennon had already started a solo career by the time the Beatles dissolved in 1970. In fact, he and new wife Yoko Ono had released three experimental LPs chronicling their lives together, and he had two hit singles under his belt: the anti-war anthem "Give Peace A Chance" and the Beatles-reminiscent "Instant Karma!"
Unsurprisingly, Lennon's post-Beatles solo work would also follow a more offbeat path. He made very few live appearances, and preferred to chase his own artistic muse and focus on political activism. In short, it was the perfect second musical act for the life-long outspoken nonconformist.
Lennon was born in 1940 in bombing-ravaged Liverpool, England. His parents' marriage was rocky and ended in divorce when the future Beatle was very young. In fact, Lennon never developed a relationship with his merchant seaman dad. He was instead raised by his aunt Mimi and uncle George, who provided him with the kind of stable home environment his biological parents could not.
Lennon's mother nevertheless encouraged his nascent musical talent, showing him rudimentary banjo chords and buying him his first guitar when he was a teenager. Thankfully, Lennon showed aptitude on the instrument and had designs on making his band the Quarrymen successful. Since he was a poor student and lasted only a year at art school, music was a good backup plan.
The Quarrymen—which at a future point also featured Paul McCartney and George Harrison—would eventually morph into the Beatles. Lennon's tenure in the Fab Four would've been enough to cement his musical legacy. In hindsight, however, it's even more impressive that he made such a clean break from the band that made him so popular.
1970's Plastic Ono Band LP was a direct result of the primal scream therapy he and Ono had with Dr. Arthur Janov. The straightforward, unadorned music was often emotionally piercing: on "Mother," Lennon sounds as if he's in agony recounting being caught in the middle of his parents' traumatic separation; the acoustic-driven "Working Class Hero" is an unsparing condemnation of how workers are treated; and on "God," he sounds weary renouncing everything in his life and belief system but "me, Yoko and me."
The next year's rowdy, inspiring "Power To The People" single and Imagine LP were more political and musically adventurous. (Sometimes both at once: witness the gnarled, psychedelic "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die" and the touching, piano-based title track.) Imagine was also marked by brutal honesty, between Lennon's admissions of cruel behavior on "Jealous Guy" and alleged digs at Paul McCartney throughout "How Do You Sleep?"
Lennon's next few years were marked by ups and downs. 1972's Sometime In New York City and 1973's Mind Games didn't replicate the success of his first few solo albums. He separated from Ono for over a year and moved to Los Angeles to have a multi-month "lost weekend" marked by partying, heavy drinking and a production credit on pal Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats (1974). To add insult to injury, Lennon was also trying to fight off being deported, an order that came down from the Nixon administration in 1973 due to his politics.
Still, there were bright spots. Lennon's horn-peppered, soul-influenced single "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" hit Number One in November 1974. The pianist on that song, Elton John, even persuaded Lennon to guest at his Thanksgiving Madison Square Garden show, where the pair performed "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There." And Lennon and Ono got back together and decided to have a baby.
Save for a few more high-profile appearances—including co-writing and performing on David Bowie's 1975 Number One hit "Fame"—he effectively took off the second half of the '70s to raise their newborn son, Sean Ono Lennon. He only returned to music in 1980, with the Ono collaborative album Double Fantasy.
Lennon never had a chance to experience a career resurgence while alive. On December 8, 1980, three weeks after Double Fantasy's release, the unthinkable happened: Mark David Chapman shot and killed Lennon outside his apartment in New York City.
The entire world stopped to grieve, and musical tributes poured in from all corners for years to come. These even included one from his Beatles bandmates, who all appeared on George Harrison's 1981 single, "All Those Years Ago."
Yet most of all, people found solace in Lennon's music. After his death, Double Fantasy's "(Just Like) Starting Over" hit Number One on the singles charts. Roxy Music covered "Jealous Guy" and made it their own. And Lennon's posthumous 1984 album Milk & Honey, was marked by the great "Nobody Told Me"—whose line about "strange days, indeed" was both bittersweet and comforting.
(Born October 9th, 1940, Died December 8th, 1980)


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2009-10 Indoor: Ran a career-best 3,000-meter run at the New York Armory in 8:45.02… Set a season-best time in the 5,000-meter run at the New Balance Invitational in 14:51.48… Both the 3,000 and 5,000 are UMBC's fastest returning times.
2009 Outdoor: Finished the 1,500-meter run at the Bucknell Team Challenge in a season-best time of 4:17.42… Ran a season-best time of 15:43.80 in the 5,000-meter run came at the Penn Invitational.
2008-09 Indoor: Ran a season-best time in the 1-mile run at the George Mason Invitational in 4:52.01… Finished the 3,000-meter run at the Maryland Invitational in a season-best time of 9:19.15.
2008 Cross Country: Finished 32th in the 8K run in 26:56.5 at the America East Championships… Placed 101st in the 8K run at the Princeton Invitational… Finished 15th in the 8K run at the TowsonInvitational… Placed 71st in the 8K run in 27:49.4 at the Navy Invitational… Started the season with a 32nd-place finish at the Mount St. Mary's 5K Duals.
2008 Outdoor: Placed 13th in the 5000-meter run at the America East Championships.
2007-07 Indoor: Finished 9th in the 5000-meter and 11th in the 3000-meter runs at the America East Championships… Finished fifth in the 5000-meter run at the Penn State National Invitational… Placed 10th in the 3000-meter run at the Terrapin Invitational… Finished fifth in the one-mile run at the Gulden Relays.
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The journalists at ABC News have not made an effort to hide their disgust with the conservative effort to oppose funding ObamaCare. On Wednesday, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos derided Ted Cruz's fight against it as "bizarre." On Thursday night, World News's Jon Karl sneered that it was "absurd." [MP3 audio here.]
Karl described the possible government shutdown as a situation where "we've got a furious President calling his opponents crazy...and a Republican Party willing to go to the brink." The journalist brought up past confrontations between Obama and the GOP, petulantly wondering, "Lessons learned? Nah." The supposedly neutral Karl skewered, "The absurdities were on display when Tea Party hero Ted Cruz gave his 20 hour-plus speech demanding an end to ObamaCare in exchange for funding the government."
Late in the segment, Karl offered an equivalence between the two sides:
JON KARL: Instead of negotiating, they are name calling. Today, one of the President's top aides said of Republicans, quote, "what we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest." While Senator Ted Cruz compared those willing to fund ObamaCare with those who appeased the Nazis in the 1940s. And that's where we are, Diane.
However, he did not refer to the White House as "absurd" or "bizarre."
Instead, the follow-up World News segment featured a snippet of Stephanopoulos's upcoming interview with his old boss, Bill Clinton. In the clip, the host offered no tough questions. Instead, he tossed this softball: "You're not going to negotiate. You're betting on the other side caving."
A transcript of the September 26 segment is below:
DIANE SAWYER: Now we head to Washington and the growing frustration in the country over another round of name calling and threats to bring the government to a standstill. ABC's George Stephanopoulos is standing by, but we begin with Jonathan Karl who tells us what the opposing sides are saying about each other tonight.
JON KARL: Here we go again. We've got a furious President calling his opponents crazy.
BARACK OBAMA: Congress needs to put an end to governing from crisis to crisis.
KARL: And a Republican Party willing to go to the brink.
REP. ERIC CANTOR: More debt and no reform is absolutely unacceptable.
KARL: The upshot for America, we're just days away from a government shutdown, and worse, today Republicans upped the ante, putting together a laundry list of demands including everything from delaying ObamaCare to more off shore oil drilling and spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. The President called that blackmail. Sound familiar? Of course it does. Two years ago, the same confrontation caused the stock market to tank and America, for the first time ever to lose its AAA credit rating. Lessons learned? Nah. The absurdities were on display when Tea Party hero Ted Cruz gave his 20 hour-plus speech demanding an end to ObamaCare in exchange for funding the government. Bedtime story included.
TED CRUZ: Do you like green eggs and ham?
KARL: John Stewart responded with his own Seuss-ism.
JON STEWART: In the land of D.C., in the Senate of snooze, lived the show boatiast blab whose name was Ted Cruz.
KARL: Over at the White House, they have decided the best way to strike a deal is not to try. [At the White House.] Let me be crystal clear. The President's position is you still not negotiate over the debt ceiling?
JAY CARNEY: Correct.
KARL: Instead of negotiating, they are name calling. Today, one of the President's top aides said of Republicans, quote, "what we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest." While senator Ted Cruz compared those willing to fund ObamaCare with those who appeased the Nazis in the 1940s. And that's where we are, Diane.
SAWYER: Ratcheting up the words, tonight. Thank you so much, Jon. And now I want to bring in ABC's co-anchor of Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos, for the bottom line. So, George, what's going to happen? October 1, is the government going to shut down?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: It could, but maybe only for a day or two. Most people I talked to in Washington today believed that even if the House doesn't match what the Senate did, they'll probably work that out within a couple of days. The big fight is over the debt limit and everyone I spoke to, Republicans and Democrats, House, Senate, White House, say that the waters are as unchartered as they've ever been.
SAWYER: So , here we go again. But it's October 17th, that is the one they're really worrying about?
STEPHANOPOULOS: And the consequences are so much more severe. Right now, Diane, both sides are betting that the other side is going to cave. And, you know, when I spoke to President Bill Clinton today, former President Clinton, he completely backed up President Obama's position on not negotiating over the debt limit. He said the Republican cuts are "chilling, almost spiteful." So, he said even though the consequences are severe, the President must not negotiate. Take a look. [To Clinton.] You're not going to negotiate. You're betting on the other side caving.
BILL CLINTON: That's right. This is the House Republicans and the Tea Party people saying we don't want to negotiate with the Democrats. We want to dictate over the Senate, over the House Democrats, over the Speaker of the House of our own party and over the President and we insist on dictating the course of the country
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, you're saying you have to stand up to that no matter what the consequences?
CLINTON: I think you do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And the consequences are more severe than you can calculate. Everyone knows that this will create an economic catastrophe but right now no solution in sight.
SAWYER: He is saying dig in.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Dig in.
SAWYER: Thank you, George.


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First Impressions of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3
Over a week ago I finally got my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and I will try to cover my first impressions in this blog post. Two years ago I replaced my notebook with the Surface Pro and one year later I replaced the Surface Pro with the Surface Pro 2. I have used both devices as my primary work devices for work as a consultant, at university and at home. The Surface is the perfect work device since I travel a lot. With the Surface I replaced my notebook, my desktop and my tablet with one single device. I always had one complain about the Surface and this was the screen size. If you travel and you work 8-10 hours in front of a 10-inch screen, you start thinking about a bigger screen. Lucky with the Surface Pro 3 Microsoft changed that. Now the Surface Pro 3 got a 12-inch screen and they also changed the ratio from 16:9 to 3:2 which makes a huge difference in terms of space on the screen. I just love the new screen size, it is absolutely perfect and still not too large for traveling. But let me jump back to the review.
Technical Specifications
First of all I got the I7 version with 265GB of storage:
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Size: 292.1mm x 201.4mm x 9.1mm
- Weight: 800 grams
- Screen: 12" ClearType Full HD Plus
- Resolution: 2160 x 1440
- Aspect Ratio: 3:2
- Touch: Multi-touch
- Battery Life: Up to 9 hours of web browsing
- Storage and RAM: 64GB or 128GB storage with 4GB RAM and 256GB or 512GB storage with 8GB RAM
- CPU: 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family (i3, i5, i7)
- TPM Chip for enterprise security
- Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11ac/802.11 a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth® 4.0 Low Energy technology
- Full-size USB 3.0
- microSD™ card reader
- Headset jack
- Mini DisplayPort
- Cover port
- 5.0 megapixel rear-facing camera
- 5.0 megapixel front-facing camera
- Stereo microphones
- Stereo speakers with Dolby® sound
- Ambient light sensor
- Accelerometer
- Gyroscope
- Magnetometer
- Surface Pen
- 36W Power supply
Design and Durability
For me a great device includes three different things, design, features and a great eco system for applications and accessories. And this was one of the reason why I was a Apple user for a long time, because they offered great design, great hardware features and they had an ecosystem were software and hardware worked perfectly together. Microsoft does not disappoint with the Surface line, the first and the second generation was already great and the third generation does not stop there. With the Surface Pro 3 Microsoft could finally make the device a lot thinner and than before. The device now has a larger 12-inch screen and a new 3:2 ratio instead of the 16:9 ratio before. This makes a huge difference if you hold the device in portrait mode to read something or browse the web and it also offers you a lot more space on the screen. Another change Microsoft did was to change the color from the dark VaporMg from the Surface Pro line to the silver color of the Surface 2. I am still not sure which color I like more, but both look great to me. After the size and the color the third big change is the new kickstand. The new kickstand does not only offer two position like the Surface Pro 2, you can now put the Surface in any position you want.
As always the build quality of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is just impressive. As a former Apple product user, I am really happy with quality, design and the durability of the Surface Pro 3. Microsoft sends a clear message here to his partners and competitors, about quality of tablets and notebooks. Everything seems to be at the right place and all buttons and the whole chassis is feeling very "high-class". I really like the size and dimensions of the Surface Pro 3. The Surface Pro 3 is not only thinner as the Surface Pro 2, it is also lighter. The Surface Pro 3 is 9.1mm thin and 800g light, which makes it a lot more portable than most ultrabooks out there but of course heavier than most tablets.
Display and Audio
For a tablet the display is the key component, and Microsoft did a great job with the Surface Pro 3. I already liked the screen of the Surface Pro 2 but the new screen is just amazing. Not only do I like the new high resolution (2160 x 1440) and the aspect ratio of 3:2, I also love the colors. One of the most underestimated features of the Surface Pro line is the integrated digitizer pen, which allows you to use digital Ink.
The Surface Pro comes with a digitizer pen which is perfect to take notes with OneNote and other stuff. As I mentioned I am using the Surface Pro at work and at university. At university I am using the pen mostly to take notes and mark some important stuff in documents and PDF files. At work I am not only using it to take notes, it's also great during workshops or presentation, where you quickly want to draw something instead of using a whiteboard or a flipchart. And for all iPad or Android users, this is not just a normal Pen which buses capacitive touch, which basically is just a simulated finger, this is a digitizer pen which only works with special displays and for example offers pressure sensitivity and automatically deactivates touch input during your writing so you can place your hand on the screen.
The new pen also adds an OneNote button. If you press the OneNote button once you will open up a new page in OneNote even if the Surface is locked. This feature really helps you if you have an idea you want to write down really quickly. If you press the OneNote button twice you will be able to quickly mark the spot on your screen and quickly take a screenshot and save it to OneNote. This feature is just one of the example where Microsoft brings together there products and services for a better customer experience.
Microsoft again improved the audio on the Surface Pro 3. And it is great if you want to watch a movie in the hotel room and it is pretty much better than on any other notebook or tablet I have used. But still if you are a music lover you better get some headphones or external speakers.
Ports and Internals
The Surface Pro 3 has full-size USB 3.0, microSDXC card slot, a Headset jack, a Mini DisplayPort and at the bottom a Cover port for the Type Cover 3. Of course also the older Covers work perfectly but they just don't match in size. The position of the ports have changed a little bit from the Surface Pro 2. The great thing here is that Microsoft moved the Mini DisplayPort to the upper right side which allows you now to use that port even you have docked the Surface into your docking station. So you can easily use to 4K displays at the same time.
One the power adapter you get another USB port for charging other devices like your phone, so you can still use your USB 3.0 on the Surface for other things.
Heat and Fan Noise
The Surface Pro 3 comes equipped with a powerful 4th generation Intel i3, i5 or i7 processor. For myself I got the i7 version and if you run some heavy workloads the device gets a little hot. You can feel a little bit of temperature on the back site and you can some fan noise. In normal conditions the Surface stay cold and you can't here anything from the fan. I think the heat and the fan noise are the result of the new and thinner design.
The wireless performance on the Surface Pro 3 seems to be great with no issues or troubles at all. I really can't wait to get one of the Miracast adapters to stream my display to a beamer or another display.
Type Cover 3
One of the great features of the Surface product line are the covers. With the Surface Pro 3 Microsoft also released the Type Cover 3 which is basically the successor of the Type Cover 2 and is even thinner. Microsoft are claiming there are a lot of optimizations in Type Cover 3 and the two you will really see are the size which matches the Surface Pro 3 now and the new trackpad. The new trackpad is key here, it is bigger and a lot better than the trackpad of the Type Cover 2. They changed it back to a hard plastic and made it clickable again, which just feels a lot better if you work with it but it does look better than the first version of the Type Cover. The new Type Cover 3 comes with backlit which makes it perfect if you are working low light conditions like the Type Cover 2. The backlighting is automatic and turns of if you are not using it. If your hover over the keyboard with your hand, the Type Cover will automatically turn on the light again. They also added new color options two the lineup, the Type Cover 3 is available in purple, red, blue, cyan and black.
Again the Type Cover is on of the must have accessories if you want to use you Surface as a laptop replacement. It works pretty well with the build in kickstand.
Battery life and Performance
The first thing I realized when I did start the Surface Pro 3 was that this thing is a screamer. The performance seems to be amazing but since the Surface Pro 3 is using the same generation of Intel chips I don't think there is a huge difference between CPU performance. I think the key difference could be that Microsoft is using faster SSD storage in the Surface Pro 3 than in the previous generations. Since performance never was an issue for me I still like the new performance boost. With the new core i7 version you should not only get more CPU power, you should also get some more graphics power.
Microsoft is claiming that you get up to 9 hours of battery life, which fore me is a little more than with the Surface Pro 2. In my first test I think I am pretty close to get this 9 hours. But what impresses me even more is the Connected Standby or InstandGo features which allows you to wake up the Surface Pro 3 within an second. In my first tests the I charged the Surface on Friday and worked during Friday, Saturday and Sunday around 7-8 hours and the battery life was okay until late Sunday evening. But to get exact numbers I still have to run some more tests and see how it behaves in day to day usage.
Finally Microsoft also upgraded the front-facing camera to a 5 megapixel camera like the Surface 2 already had, but the Surface Pro 2 didn't get. For me this gets even more important if you do a lot of Conference Calls via Lync or Skype for example.
Software and Accessories
Software is where everything comes together. Windows 8.1 works perfectly on the Surface Pro 3 and I really like the mix between touch and keyboard usage. I use it as a tablet with touch apps and can run a full desktop applications like Office to get real work done. I really love the combination of different Microsoft Services such as Skype or Lync for communication. But where the real power comes together is with OneDrive and OneNote. The new Surface Pen and OneNote are already a perfect combination. You can press the OneNote button on the Surface Pen and OneNote opens instantly and you can start taking notes, even if you are not logged. The notes from OneNote get sync via OneDrive on all your devices like your phone or desktop pc. Microsoft is not only bringing software services together, they are now also integrate hardware.
Microsoft also offers a lot of different accessories like display or Ethernet adapters which you just need to work efficiently. But they also offers some great accessories like the Type Cover 3 which allows you to use your Surface Pro 3 together with the built-in kickstand as notebook replacement or the Surface Pro Docking Station which allows you to dock your Surface if you are at the home or in the office and connect automatically to external displays, external hard drives, keyboards and other stuff. This two accessories complete the whole story of the Surface Pro 3.
Now what can you expect from the Surface Pro 3? The Surface Pro 3 is a high class work machine which can transform to different devices such as a tablet or notebook and with the Surface Docking Station you can even replace your desktop. For me the Surface Pro 3 replaced three devices. It replaces my notebook which I need to get work done and I also use it as my tablet at home or when I watch movies on flights or in the hotel. At home I got the Surface Pro 3 docking station which allows me to use two external displays. Of course if you are looking for just a tablet or just something to replace your iPad, the Surface Pro 3 is probably not the right device for you. But if you like to replace your classic notebook and your tablet with one device, the Surface Pro 3 is just the best machine available right now.


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A 57-year-old man was sentenced to a year's probation for threatening to blow up Brisbane, Australia with his TV remote. Geoffrey Fryatt's drunken stunt prompted Australia to declare a state of emergency in the city, send in paramilitary police to pelt Fryatt with rubber bullets and arrest him. Fryatt expressed concerns that probation would interfere with his trip overseas to do humanitarian aid work. Hmmm, a bit ironic? [Reuters]
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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
The port city of Guayaquil is the largest metro area in Ecuador and also the country's economic core, accounting for about a quarter of its gross domestic product. But its path to prosperity over the years has been anything but linear. For much of the late 20th century, Guayaquil was plagued by cultural degradation and political instability. That changed in 1992, when the country embraced a new development model that made it a recovery blueprint for other cities to follow.
Alina Delgado - a former resident of Guayaquil who took part in the redevelopment and is now an urban planning researcher at K.U. Leuven, in Belgium - chronicles the city's rise, fall, and rebirth in an upcoming issue of the journal Cities.
"I can see the case of Guayaquil from two points of view: as a common citizen and also as participant of the urban process," Delgado says. "I thought that a more complete view of the whole process should be given, pointing out the circumstances in which the model was implemented in order to give a more balance and just overview of the model outcomes."
Located on the Guayas River, Guayaquil emerged as a critical port city in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, the city experienced a banana boom that led to the formation of a robust central business district. Beginning in the late 1960s, however, Guayaquil began to suffer what proved to be a prolonged period of urban decay. Sprawl pulled the population into the suburbs, businesses fled the core, infrastructure deteriorated - all problems compounded by the city's political chaos and corruption, as well as the El Niño natural disaster. For roughly three decades, until the early 1990s, Guayaquil was reduced to what Delgado calls in her upcoming paper "a city without citizenship."
In 1992, the city made a serious attempt to address its problems and reverse its negative momentum. A reorganized municipal government emphasized civic campaigns designed to increase residential connection with the city. A partnership of public and private institutions, guided by the stronger local leadership, implemented a development model that encouraged the improvement of public space. This effort's chief aim was the renovation of the city's riverfront area, which became known as the Malecon 2000 project.
Malecon 2000 - which cost roughly $100 million in U.S. dollars - was completed in early 2002. It was funded by a new law that enabled urban Ecuadorians to donate up to 25 percent of tax payments toward the project. The riverfront now boasts an array of cultural attractions that include a shopping center, a cinema, a museum, walking areas, and public gardens. One of the most critical results of Malecon 2000 was the recovery of "pride in the city," says Delgado, who was part of the project's design team.
"It was not just about rescuing the city from the physical chaos in which it was, but recovering the self-esteem of its inhabitants - using strong messages recalling the recovery of citizenship, the collective memory of the city, and its former relation with the river," she says.
The success of the Malecon 2000 project soon elevated the condition of its surrounding areas. Crime fell 70 percent in the once dangerous neighborhood of Santa Ana Hill, for instance, as an influx of cafes and galleries replaced run-down buildings. A look at Santa Ana Hill before and after its regeneration, from Delgado's upcoming paper:
Other public infrastructure improvements followed — perhaps none more important than the city's new bus rapid-transit system, the Metrovia, which began service in 2006. As a result of its impressive rebound, the United Nations named Guayaquil the best-managed city in Latin America in 2004, and for the city's efforts at improving transportation, Mayor Jaime Nebot received the Sustainable Transport Award from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in 2007. Other cities in Ecuador have since replicated Guayaquil's recovery model, Delgado writes.
That doesn't mean it's been perfect. Residents of Guayaquil weren't always incorporated into the decision-making process, as in the case of Santa Ana Hill's redevelopment. Crime remains a problem in places, so much so that gated communities have emerged, further segregating higher-income groups. Around 70 percent of city residents can't cover the cost of basic needs, Delgado reports.
To address these problems, Delgado believes resources from the regenerated areas should be redistributed across the city more evenly. Such a strategy would be the first step toward a more inclusive development approach that would ultimately connect fragmented parts of the city and reduce local tensions, she believes.
"A more balance approach should be given with this respect — recognizing the work of the municipality and private companies that take care of the regeneration and maintenance of those public spaces, but at the same time consulting citizens about those rules and really integrating them as participants in the regeneration process," she says.
Delgado's comments, provided via email, have been edited slightly for clarity.
In an excerpt from the new book The Future of Transportation, CityLab's Laura Bliss adds up the "price of anarchy" when it comes to traffic navigation apps.
The good news: Transit ridership is booming in the French capital. But severe crowding now has authorities searching for short-term solutions.
"Mobility as a Service" boosters say that technology can nudge drivers to adopt transit and micromobility. But big mode shifts will take more than a cool app.
Seasonal acqua alta reached the highest level since 1966, leaving two dead and devastating damage. The city's ambitious flood barrier isn't ready yet.
An excerpt from Newcomers, a new book by Matthew L. Schuerman, documents the early history of the anti-gentrification and back-to-the-city movements.


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Workforce management solutions (WFM) would be the driving pressure for insurance providers particularly bigger departments for example policy administration, underwriting, claims processing, shared services, and phone centres.
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AchieveTM Workforce Management program requires a modular approach that mixes an excellent eWFM (electronic Workforce Management) platform with best-practices which are efficiently used in the insurance coverage talking to services.
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Many firms have responded to the globalization of business by developing international supply chains1 in which the various value-adding activities comprising a finished product are dispersed geographically in a number of countries.2 At the same time, many businesses have tried to understand and implement lean production systems, pioneeered by Toyota, that encompass goals such as just-in-time (JIT) delivery, low inventories, zero defects, flexible production in small batches, and close technical cooperation with suppliers. While the business press has championed both globalization and lean production as inevitable and valuable, there has been little investigation into the interaction of the two. Are they compatible? Or will they collide?3
Managers are, of course, aware of the logistical problems in operating international value chains, such as longer lead times and higher transportation costs.4 Some writers have challenged the benefits available from international sourcing and have raised strategic concerns, such as the potential for "hollowing out" the corporation.5 Nevertheless, many writers optimistically presume that technological advances in communication and transportation are quickly scaling the barriers of distance.6
In a study of a company in the personal computer industry, I examined the implementation of lean production in an international value chain. The study demonstrates that the rapid flow of goods and information required by lean production is costly and difficult to achieve. Lead times are longer and inventory levels higher in international supply chains compared to domestic examples. Longer supply chains are also associated with poor sales-forecasting accuracy and significant delays in resolving technical problems. The study suggests that managers systematically underestimate these costs because they tend to plan for a relatively stable chain and do not fully appreciate the complex, dynamic way in which various disruptions affect a geographically dispersed supply chain.
The study also suggests, somewhat tentatively, that some elements of lean production facilitate globalization. The reduction of defects and engineering change orders to very low levels helped to stabilize the computer company's supply chain and enabled it to accelerate the transfer of production of new products offshore. Lean production may be more difficult and expensive in the international context, but it may still be worthwhile.


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2020 Ford Explorer Specs Update And Price
2020 Ford Explorer. The cars today review are Ford Explorer model 2020. Here renewed is our key the key to the Explorer Ford 2020 we see that the same key is the trend lately the generation matters emergency key. And we have several specific functions unlock lock the touches for the remote start, opening of the tailgate and panic speaker in the back and as always the Ford logo.
This model presents subtle changes in front of the generation of 2017, starting with the pressure to have a variation in design as always the huge sport beautiful logo. We have a camera here in the front a 180 degree viewing angle and sprinkler to clean it. We have large spaces for cooling of efficient way this engine that in this case brings a pretty big change 2.3 liters compared to the previous 3.5 liters v6 this is a four-cylinder in line, but now equipped turbo compressor.
Now i'm going to talk about the technology of this great present engine also in this generation sensors parking assets including for blind spots on the sides pretty important and here we see the two major significant changes in design of this new Ford Explorer. Its lights we have combined technologies, such as led resistance and led for our directional lights towards the bottom part now our lights scouts are much smaller. This is the trend we're seeing lately in fort inclusive what we were seeing earlier in the Ford mustang. These elongated lights and a little smaller and not exactly because that are less powerful i can even say that this led light is much more powerful than that of the generation of 2017. Now as removed the design type c in the scout lights we have curtains 100% functional as we are talking of the limit version let's find many appliques in chrome for this generation. I'm seeing that fort has implemented combined materials we are talking about a type d. And fiber would appear at the top of glass or a special type of aluminum as always a sculpture and some designs here in the field pretty beautiful. This is for the wind to be directed towards the sides and not make aerodynamic drag with the crystal.
In the glass we are seeing a sensor a radar and a camera this is for the automatic braking, in the event of a collision. We also have the abandonment system of involuntary lane and especially the adaptive cruise control according to the vehicle speed ahead apart from this the sensor is synchronized with the cameras in the front. On the back the active sensors of parking for the autonomous parking in perpendicular and also in parallel. In this time we have our mirrors lateral led technology directional lights are electrochromic and apart from that too.
We have blind spot system too we can heat them on this occasion the ring has also changed 20 inches to the action in aluminum we have this extra tab is what i see of different in front of the generation or version of 2017 is that this tab has changed and a little about the design of the ring already. We know 20 inch aluminum alloy we have a ventilated disc system, here in the front part and system of ventilated discs in the back. You also help bs bdba already had said from the sensor it is synchronized to autonomous braking we have control of traction stability control.
We have 4×4 smart integral 4×4 on the back and smart 4×4 here in the front only when you need this power the designs that i'm seeing around the ship for this generation or for this 2020 model i see that it is the same light adapter line the belt this line up here that comes from the front part pretty musculature this skirt for the vehicle it seems a little higher than what it really is. Also this that is included here in this part and how it is about the limited version. Chrome or pretty chrome Explorer our side mirrors can be killed manually or when we block the vehicle so automatic making mention about the key now that i take it out. We can have the key close unlock the truck by passing our hand over here behind or block it and unlock the from this button also unlocking is included password this termination here type piano is preserved against the 2017 model.
Well here in the back i'm seeing more subtle changes than those we see in the front here. We have the same floating type window with a termination link type piano the same light type entity of the generation 2017 and light technology led third stop technology led this spoiler to zoom out the limit wind chrome and now for this generation it integrates or for this 2020 version. It integrates chrome in this place and chrome in this part of here we also have active sensors of parking, plastics with memory for if we hit the vehicle is not going to damage it and if we hit a pedestrian this go to work as cushioning this is a special plastic type camera 180 angle of view and also to your person to clean it. The logo Ford Explorer and now the great ecobus logo technology directly and exclusively from fort our gate here in the part of back is electric we have also the position to be able to open it from our key from that place in an electric way and we can also close it from this part of electric form manually, as you see fit if we have our hands busy we can simply open the vehicle, thus and close it in the same way.
The space here in the trunk part it's pretty good the same as the version 2017 the chairs here in the part from behind can be shot down electronic we can knock down the to be able increase the total payload space. We can even fold the second row of seats for much larger space payload we see hooks i like to see that we have a spare tire directly here in the trunk and not under the vehicle as it is quite bothersome when it's time to change the rim. And it is bogged down or in turn nothing we have lights a 12 volt socket of classic shape hooks, 8 hooks here in the back for hold pretty well i was looking at that. This keypad has several functions and is to make normal the third available row of seats for two extra people knock them down to the front or fold them towards the back. That a full tray let's put it at that moment in the opposition for two extra people and now let's look at how much space we would have in this third row of seating
as always you know that i like it talk about the engines of these 2020 Ford Explorer. The first thing we find is that we have data assistance and confirmed the theory that this is a type of material different from that of the structure of the ship last year the 2017 we were reviewing the version with 3.5 engine liters v6 this time we have 2.3 liters but here is already incorporated turbo eco bus technology. It's pretty good and now i'm going to give it specific figures for you to they are amazed what per small does not mean that it is less efficient otherwise 22 percent more powerful than the 3.5 liter generation v6 with four cylinders here we have 280 horsepower between the 5600 revolutions but 310 foot pounds of torque from the three thousand revolutions. As we have a turbo ecobus system is always going to give that same torque and those same horsepower here does not equate to what altitude are you so they can ask about what does the ecoboost technology because they are a system of turbos but here are directly developed by the brand by Ford are a few small tubes.
They work similar to geometry variable of other brands we do not have whiplash effect when we accelerate our vehicle thoroughly and in low revolutions we also have the good response from engine is what we need exclusively for cities we need a good torque at low revolutions to minimize consumption of fuel before we had a 3.5 v6. Now we have a four-cylinder with 22% more torque or more pounds-foot of torque than this 3.5-liter version we are talking about total efficiency a of the things that were left for them this 2.3-liter engine is about fuel consumption. The box that fits for this 2.3 liters is automatic 6-speed.
We have supports in the arms very quilted seams plus seams is wood type inlay. I do not know if it's wood or plastic brushed aluminum finishes door opening handles chromed plastics and three memories special for three ways of handling or three different drivers blocking unlocking the doors a small tweeter horn and here we have the keypad for our windows with just one touch automatic and imaginary that are anti thinking we can knock down our side mirrors from this position or blocking the truck with our key lifts lock glasses and power settings organize side mirrors the right and the left strong space drink space slide here in the inner part and starting with our helm outside covered on the inside seams is a really beautiful vehicle we have piano type ending here in the center part the Ford logo.
Marks us that has good brother this it is adjustable in height and in electric distance the configuration of our seats they are adjustable in height distance position of the bench tilted or towards down inclination of the backrest. And here lumbar adjustment it has three different positions and the multimedia screen. Also the brand that we can receive a very comfortable massage both in the part of the pilot's seat as well as in our passenger's chair here.
We have a pretty driving position good horita we look at the second and the third row. I feel so much space we would have continued with the rudder in the left part we have the configuration of navigation in the onboard computer full color and in the bottom part the configuration of our cross control adaptive according to the speed of the vehicle. That goes ahead of us we can configure it in this way we have on the right side the infotainment configuration with a small screen next to also our speedometer and we have several entertainment settings, navigation and configuration of our phone to the bottom hang pick up our phone, change tracks, change radio tracks, controls by volume voice more and volume less.
The full dashboard we are talking about of very high padded plastic quality that feel very good the touch automatic lights here is the sensor the multimedia system provided we already know by sony. We have android car and apple car play the multimedia system is 8 inches we have the technology without trex of the multimedia screen towards the part of down what we always have power verify what is happening there in the front part with the camera 180 degrees we can also divide it we have the parking system button autonomous in perpendicular or parallel the air conditioning system is automatic double zone are independent for the pilot for the companion apart from this our chairs through the micro perforated here in the front we can transmit heating with three levels and air ventilation system conditioning through also the themselves to the bottom of our air conditioning system we have storage space even for our phones cell phones we have there the usb jack and a classic 12 volt socket lever the changes is the is chip be kind trigger if we move it to reverse.
We have parking guides right here gear lever console space for two drink holders with the big one small and that light feature that comes including fort in your vehicles four selections of different terrain up to normal mode until groove mode, until sand mode, and we also finally have the mode. Snow gravel grass we have control of decline. Towards the back uncomfortable armrest this is a material very soft very special feels like the one on the dashboard of our mirror rear view is electrochromic, our lights here in this console led technology and we have the keypad for our roof panoramic glass that reaches the second row of seats or until the end of the second row of seats. The glove box with descent control we have quite large spaces
Which we can ensure through our key and has that kind of completion i do not think it's wood here in the second row of seats the portfolio materials are the same very special way the incrustation wood type up here until the part of back aluminum type termination brushing also plastic handles chromed. Speaker hides quilted, same materials space drink holder slide we're going to look at how much space we would have configuring a good position of driving.
We have very good space on my knees here in the back. I have a quite comfortable three fingers position approximately so that my knees stick with the backs we also have high leather wallets quality leather on the front chairs leathers here in the back with seams that sports line that handles. Ford is also included in exploring the seat belts in the part front are adjustable in height we have handles here in the back ducts of air conditioning we have control of air conditioning for this area. Two fast-charging usb ports and one take of what we normally see in the 110 volt house good last year can not explain a lot about these screens multimedia for those who have families those who have small children quite important these multimedia screens we can have a control in fact remote and headbands are included. We have a usb port and auxiliary towards this side we have the configuration of auxiliaries for our system divides. We have parental control in these multimedia screens are 7 inches and much is appreciated for the families. That we have children young children can that they are quite comfortable here in the back and apart from that entertained in their programs in the stafFord's highest position Explorer three fingers in my head We have four fingers in my head we have this curtain we have anchors system specials for hundreds of children isofix in this part and in the right part apart from this in matters of security. We have airbag system in the seat belts here in the back of this vehicle as such has 9 airbags or rather i would say 10 airbags are two pilot fronts knee companion for pilot and companion go four laterals up the third row of seats go six of fall in the front for a pilot and co-pilot hand eight would count this as an airbag 9.
And would also count this other as airbags in total the technical sheet says that they are 9 i count 10 totals in this new 2020 Ford Explorer We believe that the generation previous also equip goes in the same number of airbags in the center we have in leather also a like armrest with space for two porta drinks to enter the third row of seats with two movements this lever and here we can easily enter the third row of seats as you can see the space here in the back. Obviously and because of my stature it is a little bit limited but if we set positions of driving for people of a meter seventy-five of a meter eighty and positions for the people of the second row of seats, one meter seventy-five one meter eighty easily seven adults. We have spaces to provide drinks on the side and side slides and more spaces towards back side horns on this side and to this other and rewarding to see pipelines of air conditioning up to this third row of seats so people who go here in the back do not they have to suffocate. We have to safety belts also with pretense to dor of three points and systems also isofix system special anchors for hundreds of children in these rows of seat the last row of seat.
Look for a new 2020 Ford Explorer to show his face in early 2019, possibly at the detroit motor show, with sales soon after. Prices must start in the range of $30,000 low, with st sports access to the nearest $50,000 before the options. Dear friends and fans of the cars we have reached the end of the revision of Ford Explorer 2020.


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