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Investment: Technology
Thought-Wired: Join us as we charge ahead to launch nous™, thought-controlled software for people with severe physical disabilities.
Minimum target: NZ $200,000
Days left: Closed
Funded: NZ $285,188
Investment: Technology
Thought-Wired: Join us as we charge ahead to launch nous™, thought-controlled software for people with severe physical disabilities.
Minimum target: NZ $200,000
Days left: Closed
Funded: NZ $285,188
NZ $285,188 pledged
171 people pledged
NZ $200,000 minimum target
Pledges will only be confirmed if the target is reached by: 19/09/2016 at 7:00 PM (NZST)Make a Pledge
Thought-Wired is a high-tech social enterprise making nous™: a thought-controlled communication system for people who cannot move or talk because of physical disabilities
Together we want to make life better for millions of people
There are more than 6 million people around the world who cannot move or speak because of severe physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy or motor-neuron disease.
Often they have sound, healthy minds.
People with profound physical disabilities and their carers have to go to extreme lengths in order to communicate. And in many cases they simply cannot communicate at all. Given the technology available today, it shouldn't be that hard.
Introducing nous™: thought-controlled communication software
nous™ uses brain-sensing technology. Users don't need to be able to move or speak. Just think. A lightweight headband detects the user's thought patterns and translates them into signals, which the nous™ software then translates into actions.
nous™ teaches people how to control their thought patterns so that they can select words and images on a computer screen, allowing them to communicate.
Beyond communication, the possibilities are endless. Anything that can be controlled with a computer, a smartphone or a tablet could be operated via nous™. It could be a motorised wheelchair, the lights in your home, a bionic arm...
We have proven our prototypes work and there is market demand
We have successfully trialled the nous™ prototypes and are now ready to finish building and launch the first commercial version.
During our research and customer trials, we have confirmed that nous™ will improve the quality of life for our customers. We have also confirmed that our proposed subscription model at the price of $199 per month is affordable and represents good value for our customers.
Our share offer
We are seeking between $200,000 (7.58%) and $350,000 (12.54%) (NZD) of capital in this round of funding. Investor shares are priced at $1 each, with a minimum purchase of 500 shares.
Investment Tiers & Rewards
Depending on the sum of your investment you'll be entitled to these investor rewards:
Discounts – you'll be entitled to a discount on nous™ subscription for life and a discount on brain-sensing devices such as Muse that we resell (one-off or lifetime depending on the investment tier). Subject to investor discounts Ts&Cs.
You can gift your nous™ subscription discount to anyone who needs it!
- Recognition – we will immortalise your support within nous™ itself either in the Help/About screen and in the special section of our website. Unless, of course, you ask us not to.
Rights attached to all shares
The shares on offer are investor shares. These are non-voting shares, except in very limited circumstances. This ensures that shareholders' core rights are protected and gives shareholders the right to one vote on a proposal or resolution:
- That would affect the rights attached to the investor shares;
- To put the company into liquidation;
- For the disposal of the whole, or a material part, of the property, business and undertaking of Thought-Wired Limited.
Investor shares will give the holders:
- The right to an equal share in dividends and other distributions made by Thought-Wired Limited (subject to the rights of any other class of share);
- The right to an equal share in the distribution of surplus assets of Thought-Wired Limited.
Investor shares do not give shareholders any rights to vote on the appointment or removal of directors.
We recommend that you read our constitution.
a) F&F Investors are friends & family who joined us in 2014 through a convertible debt mechanism. Details available on request.
b) NB: Additional 40,000 shares issued to the Employee Share Option Pool (ESOP) as part of this share issue. Hence the discrepancy between the percentage of PledgeMe investors shares indicated at the top of the PledgeMe campaign page and the real percentage listed here. (PledgeMe's built-in calculator could not accommodate for this scenario)
About our Team
Dmitry Selitskiy, Founder & CEO, left his IT career to start Thought-Wired, motivated by the experiences of his relatives. His cousin lives with severe cerebral palsy which has left him locked-in for life. Dmitry has five years' experience in IT. His previous roles included business and systems analysis, systems architecture and implementation and project management. He received his BBIM and BCom (Hons) degrees from the University of Auckland. Since founding Thought-Wired, he has received extensive mentoring and coaching from the experts at Ākina Foundation, ICEHOUSE, and independent entrepreneurs. Dmitry is responsible for all non-technical & commercial aspects of the venture.
Dr James Pau, Product Lead & Co-founder, joined Dmitry because he believes that brain-computer interfaces have the potential to add the most value to the lives of those with disability, and is an expert in this technology. James has six years' research experience and knowledge in working with brain and muscle activity. He first completed a BE (Hons) in Mechatronics Engineering (a fusion of mechanical, electrical and software engineering) at the University of Auckland, followed by a PhD and Postdoctoral research in Biomedical Engineering. He has experience working with brain-sensing technology, and understands its capability and where the limitations currently are. James's primary responsibility is leading the nous™ product development.
Sarvnaz Taherian, User Research Lead & Co-founder, wants to address the fact that people who have severe disabilities and their support network are often let down by society and industry. Sarvnaz is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Auckland, and a former research assistant at the Cerebral Palsy Society of New Zealand. She has three years' experience working in the disability sector. Her work focuses on the usability and effectiveness of hi-tech assistive devices, and the aspects of human- computer interaction that need to be taken into consideration when designing such systems. She has a deep understanding of user needs, from a multiple stakeholder perspective, and the processes required to improve the adoption of assistive technology. She leads user research, field work and nous™ trials at Thought-Wired.
Konstantin Selitskiy, Non-executive Director & Co-founder, is passionate about the translation of new technology into commercial products. His background is in science and technology and he brings 25+ years of experience in entrepreneurship and management. As a co-founding, non-executive director he ensures that there's a healthy balance between our ambitions and being realistic. We lovingly call him our Chief Sceptical Officer.
Stefan Rochfort, Advisor & Software Engineer, brings 18 years of experience in the IT industry as a software developer, analyst, DBA, project manager, digital media creative, and head of department. He consults on many aspects of the business, engages his generous network of industry professionals, and keeps his hands dirty with digital media production and software engineering.
See our full investment memo to read about our amazing extended team of experts and advisors.
What we've done so far
Over the last 5 years we have actively involved our potential customers in the design process. We have interviewed, demonstrated and trialled our concept to hundreds of people in order to gather their feedback.
This has given us valuable insights, including:
- Even the most basic communication, such as "Yes" and "No" responses is hugely valuable
- It is critical to guide the user through the learning process to achieve good results
- Gamified training leads to higher user motivation and better performance
- We can greatly improve quality of life by connecting to music and entertainment applications
- Our potential customers believe nous™ is well worth the price we have indicated
We have been recognised through wins in Microsoft's Imagine Cup, The University of Auckland's Velocity Entrepreneurship Programme, and Akina Launchpad Accelerator. As well as gaining support from Callaghan Innovation through two successful R&D Project grants.
The feedback from the community of end users, carers and support organisations such as ATANZ, TalkLink, Cerebral Palsy Society of New Zealand, and Carlson School for Cerebral Palsy to name a few, has been extraordinarily positive.
"This technology can revolutionise the lives of our students, families and our lives. It's absolutely amazing." – Cathy Herries, former Deputy Principal at Carlson School for Cerebral Palsy, Auckland
What's next?
With this investment, we aim to achieve the following:
- Finish building the first commercial version of nous™
- Sign-up the first individual customers and produce case studies with them
- Formalise key strategic partnerships to access the early adopters
By doing this, we will be ready to launch nous™ internationally next year.
The first version of nous™ is targeted for 600 customers in the first full year of sales, out of a potential addressable market of 360,000 people.
Our initial focus is to sell directly to people with disabilities and their families, while we set up other channels for sales and funding.
In the future, our goal is to have nous™ partially funded by healthcare agencies and insurance companies, and revolutionise the care given to all of the people who are limited by their physical constraints today.
This is a chance for your money to fundamentally change people's lives
By creating and delivering nous™ to people with profound disabilities in New Zealand and internationally, together we will:
• Empower individuals with disabilities to live healthier, happier lives by being able to communicate;
• Reduce stress and improve quality of life for caregivers supporting these individuals;
• Promote better social integration and equality in communities.
See our full Investment Memorandum HERE for all of the details of our plan.
Risks and Challenges
How we'll mitigate it.
Loss of key staff: we are heavily reliant on our founders, especially Dmitry and James to run the business and develop the product
We are actively documenting and sharing knowledge between team members.
We will expand the team so that responsibilities and knowledge are not concentrated to a small number of people.
We will set up key person insurance.
Cash flow: we are a tech start-up that is yet to start generating revenue from its core product so borrowing money is not easy
We will always exercise caution and planning in preparing our budgets by consulting our advisors.
We will attract financing via multiple sources in the future (pre-orders, R&D grants, equity) until we reach scale and profitability as described in the full Investment Memorandum document.
nous™ does not work well enough for intended users
We employ user-centred design process which means we are developing nous™ with our users incorporating their feedback into development as fast as possible.
We have advisors assist us in ensuring that we follow this practice effectively.
nous™ does not gain approval or support from funding agencies
We will initially sell nous™ directly to customers to avoid delays in securing agreements with funding agencies.
Funding agencies support solutions that demonstrate impact and there are enough early adopters who can purchase nous™ without funding and can contribute evidence to gain their support.
We are also looking at sponsorship models to assist those who cannot afford the product.
Distance to market: New Zealand is geographically remote from many of our key international markets
We will establish a network of partners in key markets to drive sales and provide support to customers.
Our selected entry markets are strategic beachheads to greater regions, e.g. Australia to APAC.
In the long term, we aim to establish our own local offices or subsidiaries in key markets such as the US.
Regulations: nous™ could face regulatory hurdles in international markets
nous™ is not a medical device or product so it will avoid many hurdles.
We have received advice from peer companies who are developing assistive devices and are preparing for any regulatory approvals we may require in the future.
We will employ a regulatory compliance specialist if we anticipate significant regulatory barriers.
Competition: there are currently no existing strong competitors in our space, but that could change
We are carefully watching both the technological and application sectors of the industry.
We have the first-mover advantage in New Zealand and are not planning to slow down. Our ability to innovate grows exponentially as we develop our technology.
We can partner instead of competing. We can potentially licence some of our intellectual property to other market players instead of engaging them in a race.
The total global market is large enough to support multiple successful players.
Note from PledgeMe
We have completed a Veda check on the company and their directors, as well as a google check. There were no adverse findings.
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T-3 days: 137-strong and pushing to the max!
16/09/2016 at 1:19 PM
It's been a month since we launched our equity campaign and what a month it's been!
137 investors | $240k invested | Minimum target achieved | 3 days to go
One hundred and thirty seven investors make up a very special group who believe in our mission, our team and our tech.
They say it better than we could, anyway:
We are continuing to be humbled and encouraged by the level of support we've received and the calibre of people joining us as foundational investors. We thank you all!
We aren't lifting the foot from the accelerator, though. There are still three more days to go and we have the controls set for the max target. Do share the campaign with one or two friends or colleagues who you feel would get most excited about Thought-Wired. There is still time!
> If you're following this campaign and have not made up your mind–now is the time: http://pldg.me/tw
You still have a chance to join the 137-strong community who believe that the world can be made universally accessible with our technology!
Our campaign closes on Mon Sep 19th, 7pm sharp.
Our stories & more
- New blog from Dr James, Main Tech Brain: "When the best tech is not the best tech" where he breaks down why we are building nous™ the way we are
- Dmitry's blog post on "Where it all began" for Thought-Wired
- Sarv's blog post "Why designing for disability is being 'human', not 'humane'"
- Vote for Thought-Wired in NZ Innovation Awards People's Choice Awards
Thanks for continuing to be awesome!
The Thought-Wired team.
Three weeks in, sights set on max!
09/09/2016 at 2:57 PM
Thanks to 112 investors who believe in us, our mission and our venture, we're less than $17k away from meeting our minimum target! You daily blow us away with your considered, forward-thinking support!
When we cross this threshold, those pledges become real investments, and the team will have the resources to push forward to our goal of launching the first commercial version of nous™ next year.
Minimum threshold vs Maximum target
Crossing the minimum threshold will be an excellent outcome, but together we can do more.
We did not set our maximum funding goal at $350,000 arbitrarily. The closer we get to the maximum amount, the more we can do without distracting ourselves by needing to secure more funding. Every extra $25k means another month's worth of brain-power hours to pump into building the best possible product and reaching more people who need it, faster.
> If you have already invested, you're a hero! What makes a hero into a super-hero? They keep doing more heroic things. Tell a few of your friends and colleagues about Thought-Wired, about nous™ and about your pledge, and you'll be superifying your hero status! Thank you!
> If you're following this campaign and have not made up your mind about becoming an investor - now is the time: http://pldg.me/tw. Join the other 112 kind-hearted forward-thinkers who believe that the world can become universally accessible through our technology!
Hot off the press this week
NZ Innovation Awards Finalists
We're super excited and humbled to be selected as finalists for NZ Innovation Awards 2016 in two(!) categories: Innovation in Health & Science and Excellence in Social Innovation. Check out the calibre of our fellow finalists on Idealog.
The Everywhere Initiative by VISA Finalists
Earlier today we also got word that we've been selected as a finalist for the Visa Everywhere Initiative! So we're off to Sydney in two weeks' time to compete for up to AUD$70,000. Exciting times!
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge TOP 500
On top of all the local recognition, Thought-Wired's been recognised internationally by the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit & Challenge. It's quite incredible to be selected alongside other top 500 deep-tech startups in the world!
Upcoming events
Auckland, Wednesday Sep 14th
We're coming back to GridAKL (101 Pakenham St West, Auckland Central) for an interactive demo session at the TechCafe. You'll be able to drive our thought-controlled robot with your mind, see nous™ in the flesh, and ask us your curliest questions between 11am and 1pm on September the 14th.
> Details & RSVP at https://attending.io/events/thought-wired-gridakl-demo or on Facebook. Almost 50 people are already going!
> Watch the recording of this week's Wellington event on Youtube.
In the media and on the blogs
- URGENT! Tune in to Drive with Duncan Garner on RadioLive this afternoon: Dmitry will be talking about nous™ and the finalist selection for the NZ Innovation Awards at around 3.50pm today (Friday, Sep 9th)
- "A few things about the Internet of Things" on Idealog where Thought-Wired is featured and Dmitry comments on incredible possibilities of the nous™ technology
- "Thought-Wired is crowdfunding the way to innovative thought-sensing tech" on TechDay's bizEDGE
- Sarv's blog post "Why designing for disability is being 'human', not 'humane'"
- Dmitry's blog post on "Where it all began" for Thought-Wired
Thanks for continuing to be awesome!
The Thought-Wired team.
Two weeks, $166k and 83% of the minimum target. Wow!
31/08/2016 at 4:30 PM
Two weeks, $166k and 83% of the minimum target. Wow!
96 kind-hearted, smart-headed investors have put us within lunging distance of our minimum target. At 200k the pledged investments become real and so does the dream of making the world accessible to the millions of people for whom it currently isn't.
At 200k we'll be able to finish building nous™ v1, launch it in New Zealand and grow organically from there. But we won't be taking our foot off the gas when we get to that minimum - if we make it to 350k we can prepare and execute a large-scale international launch of nous™ faster, and get the technology to more people who need it sooner.
> If you're following this campaign and still thinking of becoming an investor, time is fleeting - get in quick: http://pldg.me/tw
> If you already invested, THANK YOU and congratulations – welcome to Thought-Wired, we know you'll be very happy here! Please consider spreading the word to your trusted networks about your excellent and good-hearted investment!
Upcoming events
We've a couple of events in the next two weeks for you. You can find out more about us, ask us anything about the technology and the business, and even try nous™ interactive demos yourself!
Wellington, Wednesday Sep 7th
Dmitry is coming over to meet Wellingtonians on September the 7th. A meet and greet session will be hosted by the PledgeMe team at Southern Cross Garden Bar & Restaurant (39 Abel Smith St, Te Aro) from 5.30pm.
> Please RSVP at https://attending.io/events/thought-wired-investor-meet-greet if you are attending in person
> Save the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSNcmkXlJGg to catch the livestream
Auckland, Wednesday Sep 14th
We're coming back to GridAKL (101 Pakenham St West, Auckland Central) for an interactive demo session at the TechCafe. You'll be able to drive our thought-controlled robot with your mind, see nous™ in the flesh, and ask us your curliest questions between 11am and 1pm on September the 14th.
> Details & RSVP at https://attending.io/events/thought-wired-gridakl-demo
In the media and on the blogs
- Dmitry's blog post on "Where it all began"
- Sarv's blog post "Why designing for disability is being 'human', not 'humane'" which is a must read - she gets to the very heart of why we do what we do.
- PledgeMe's blog post catching up with us a week into the campaign
- Stuff.co.nz story about us: "Thought-Wired crowdfunding to launch brain-controlled technology"
Thanks for continuing to be awesome!
- Dmitry & the Thought-Wired team.
We're over $120k!
23/08/2016 at 3:31 PM
Well.. can you believe we only launched on Wednesday? We can't... So much has happened!
We reached $120k!
Here we are, not even one week later and we've passed the $120k mark! Given that our minimum target is $200k in order for these pledges to be a real and actual thing, we are totally thrilled with that. For us, watching that number go up and up has been like watching a Telethon. So exciting! If you're one of the people who has already pledged - THANK YOU!
We really appreciate all of the support we've received so far. The sooner we get across the line the sooner we can start instigating our plans to get this technology to those who need it.
If you know anyone who might also be interested in supporting us, we'd love if you could share this campaign on.
If you're following this campaign and still thinking of becoming an investor, please get in quick: http://pldg.me/tw
Leave it too late and you might miss your chance to become one of the original investors in Thought-Wired. You know, one of those visionaries who could see where the technology was going and got in on the ground floor.
We were on TV!
Oh and we may have mentioned (only a few million times on social media already) that we managed to get ourselves onto Seven Sharp on launch day. They did a pretty decent job of explaining what we're about. If you haven't watched it yet, here's the link again. Please pass it on to others who haven't heard about us yet:
We're listening
If you've been paying attention, you'll know by now that we develop nous™ by closely listening to feedback from our users.
We apply the same principle to everything else we do.
We had some feedback that the summary metrics table that we used in our investment document (pages 2 and 8) and on our campaign page was confusing. So, we've taken another shot at it here:
The numbers are still the same but should now be easier to follow. If you come across anything else in our documentation that makes you scratch your head, let us know!
We're always happy to answer your questions.
Did you miss our launch event?
If you missed your launch event, you may have heard that we demonstrated our technology on the night and everyone had heaps of fun with it. So if you couldn't make the event but would like to see the technology for yourself, please get in touch. We're arranging some casual events where you can drop in and try the technology and ask us questions.
Thanks for your continued support!
- Dmitry & the Thought-Wired team.
Offer Details
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Explanation of valuation:
We have valued Thought-Wired at $2.4M (prior to the issue of investor shares).
This is based on 4x projected revenue for the first full year of sales, which is the
minimum multiplier expected in our industry.
See our investment memo for detail.
Financial Summary
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Company Details
Company Name: Thought-Wired Limited (registered as THOUGHT-WIRED LIMITED)
Company Number: 3779156
Companies Office URL: https://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/3779156
Incorporation Date: 13 Apr 2012
Company Status: Registered
Entity Type: Registered
Constitution Filed: Yes
Annual Return Filing Month: June, last filed 03 Jun 2016
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9 Prospect Terrace
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9 Prospect Terrace
Company Documents
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|Dmitry Selitskiy
|Konstantin Selitskiy
|Non-executive Director
|Dr James Pau
|Product & Tech Lead
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Will the technology be on display at Wednesday 7 event, if I brought my friend with cerebral palsy who is non-verbal but can write/type slowly,
Has the technology been shown to add benefit for someone functioning at this level?
Hi Rob!
Dmitry will have the demo set up with him exactly for a situation like this.
That said, if your friend can slowly write or type, then nous™ ver. 1 would not be of huge benefit at this point in time as it is aimed at enabling basic communication to start with.
We still encourage you to come and have a chat so we can see which future possibilities will be of benefit to your friend!
Answered on 31-08-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Could I have more details on event on 7 Sept please.Posted on 31-08-2016 by Chuck Bird
Hi Chuck,
On the 7th I'll be over in Wellington to meet with anyone interested in our venture, the nous™ product and an opportunity to invest. The bulk of the time will be devoted to Q&A with people attending and wrapped up with an interactive demo of the current nous™ prototype.
It is hosted by the PledgeMe team at at Southern Cross Garden Bar & Restaurant (39 Abel Smith St, Te Aro) from 5.30pm on Sep 7th.
Please RSVP at https://attending.io/events/thought-wired-investor-meet-greet
Hope this helps and we'll see you there!
Answered on 31-08-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Has there been other uses of the product considered? One good use would be to monitor long distance trucker to alert them before they fall asleep.Posted on 01-09-2016 by Chuck Bird
Hi Chuck,
Indeed, great idea! There's a lot of research into potential uses of such technology (EEG). There even has been a trial project in Australia looking at drivers' attention. Also, headsets like the ones we use, are being used in applications designed to improve people's ability to focus, for example for children with ADD/ADHD.
From our perspective, we're open to such future opportunities and will leverage them to grow the business as long as it does not detract from our core purpose of enabling people with disabilities.
Thanks for the question!
Answered on 01-09-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Hi. With the gifting of the discount, is it possible for multiple investors to gift their discount to one person who needs it for a combined discount? Cheers. Malcolm.Posted on 01-09-2016 by Malcolm
Hi, Malcom.
Thanks for the great question. Yes, it may be possible unless you are already at the maximum 20% tier. We will need to confirm your exact situation and the final discount individually with you and your group. Happy to discuss further. My contact details are in the Investment Memorandum on the cover page. Cheers, Dmitry.
Answered on 01-09-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Amazing work Dmitry and team. Well done for getting this far! I have been watching from afar for a while and am really interested in helping the company grow.
I have a few questions (that you have probably asked of yourself a few times in the last few years!)
Funding R&D/early sales growth:
In your estimates, you have very aggressive sales targets. Do you think that you will be able to scale the business to move from an R&D-led company to a production and sales-led company?
Much of your early revenue expectations rely on equity crowdfunding and R&D grants via Callaghan Innovation. What is the backup plan if those don't eventuate?
Sales & marketing questions:
How have you devised the total market size?
Have you verified that your market is willing to use a subscription-based model for care?
Are insurers be willing to fund a subscription to nous? Do you have the resources to undertake those negotiations to get nous to be an approved intervention?
Do you have any keystone customers/partners that are willing to (part-)fund trials or medical-grade validation? As an outsider looking in, a natural local partner would be F&P Healthcare.
Who are your distributors for offshore markets?
What are your sales channels for offshore markets?
What regulatory or trade barriers exist in those jurisdictions for EEG-type devices? Does the team have the legal capacity to push through them those barriers?
Product questions:
Do you have secure supply agreements for the 3rd party devices that you are intending to deploy with/for nous? What happens if one of the suppliers goes under?
The company doesn't seem to have reserves to cover a possible (probable?) full product recall for its early products. Is that the case? What steps are being taken to mitigate that risk?
Operational questions:
Operating expenses seem to be fairly conservative. For example, you are modelling on 6 FTEs. Yet none of your current staff appear to be focused on production and/or customer support (see also the first question). Scaling to 10k customers within 3 years sounds hard.Posted on 02-09-2016 by Tim McNamara
Hey Tim!
These are excellent questions, thank you for taking the time.
We took the time to address them as well. Being unable to format the answers here, I've put them in a neat list: http://bit.ly/TwPmQA1
There are some details that I avoided going into publicly for commercial reasons. Happy to talk further offline in confidence. Cheers, Dmitry.
Answered on 03-09-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Hi there. Is the IP action plan referred to in the IM available?Posted on 05-09-2016 by Finn
Hi Finn.
Please email directly to discuss. This is getting into strategy so we will not share this information publicly.
Cheers, Dmitry
Answered on 05-09-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Dmitry, I've been unable to access your Q&A response to Tim http://bit.ly/TwPmQA1 - would you please provide a valid hyperlink. Thanks BevanPosted on 07-09-2016 by Bevan Wallace
Hi Bevan.
Apologies, indeed there's an issue with the link. We emailed you the answers direct. Hope this helps!
Answered on 07-09-2016 by Dmitry Selitskiy
Hi Dmitry, it's Danny Squires here - looking good for your first target now! I'm keen to see the answers to Tim's earlier questions - are you able send these through to me please?Posted on 10-09-2016 by ecoArk Ltd
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- A can or small pot for base - I actually prefer using a pot but I didn't have one
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- Wire cutters or scissors you don't mind cutting wire with
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WILMINGTON, N.C. – UMBC softball's senior Caitlin Chance (Easton, Md./Easton) batted in three runs on a 1-1 afternoon for the Retrievers. UMBC opened the day with a 5-3 victory versus Norfolk State, but closed out the Seahawk Invitational with a 4-3 loss to host UNC-Wilmington on Sunday at Boseman Field.
UMBC finished out its season-opening weekend with a 2-2 overall record, while Norfolk State dropped to 0-3 and UNC-Wilmington moved to 4-3.
The Retrievers put one on the board early in game one, as a one-out double into left center field from sophomore Bridget O'Malley (Brooklyn, Md./Seton Keough) put a runner in scoring position for Chance. Chance knocked a two-out single up the middle to put the Retrievers on the board in the top of the first.
UMBC was able to add to its advantage in the top of the third, again with two outs. Junior Taylor Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby) singled to left field and back-to-back doubles from freshman Kaelin Jackson (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional) and Chance extended the Retrievers' advantage to 3-0. The Spartans were able to get one back in the bottom half of the inning, as a leadoff fielding error from the Retrievers allowed for senior Nikki Jones to advance to third, setting up an RBI single from sophomore Heather Dunning.
The Retrievers knocked NSU's starting pitcher senior Jamie Schulle out of the game after stringing together four straight hits to start out the fourth inning. UMBC would score two runs in the frame, with senior Chelsea Bertoglio (Laguna Hills, Calif./Laguna Hills/Saddleback College) and O'Malley picking up an RBI in the frame. Schulle allowed all five earned runs in three innings of work, despite fanning five batters.
Three straight singles and a fielder's choice in the bottom of the sixth inning scored two runs for Norfolk State to make it a two-run ballgame, 5-3, but UMBC starting pitcher Jessica Holte (Ashland, Va./Atlee) held off the Spartans in the bottom of the seventh to earn her second complete game victory of the weekend. Holte finished the afternoon with six strikeouts and surrendered two earned runs.
Freshman Jaclyn Buckley (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Camden Regional) was a perfect three-for-three from the dish in game one and finished the day with four hits in six at bats.
In game two, the Retrievers scored all three of their runs in the third inning and held an advantage until the host Seahawks were able to punch home a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to snag the come-from-behind victory.
UNC-Wilmington took a one-run lead in the second inning, as a walk from junior Jessica Rappe, coupled with a double from freshman Merritt Wilkinson and a sacrifice from sophomore Erin Brown brought home the game's first run. The Retrievers wasted no time responding, once again doing all of their damage with two outs in the inning. Hall doubled to center field to score the runners on first and second and Jackson followed with a single through the right side to drive in pinch runner Kathleen Sharp (Toms River, N.J./Toms River/Brookdale CC) from second.
Pitcher Peyton Jordan (2-2) got the last out of the third inning and went on to pitch 4.1 scoreless innings to pick up the victory.
A lead-off single in the bottom of the fourth, followed by a triple from Wilkinson brought the Seahawks back within one, 3-2. Wilkinson continued to be a problem for the Retrievers, as her two-run home run in the sixth proved to be the difference in the contest. Wilkinson finished the contest with three hits and three RBI.
Lane (0-1) surrendered four earned runs in six innings and struck out three.
The Retrievers return to action on Tuesday, Feb. 18 when it travels to George Mason for a single game.


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Manchester United have agreed a mammoth £750million sponsorship deal with adidas.
The German sportswear giant has stepped in after Nike pulled out of negotiations over a new deal last week because it felt United were demanding too much money.
The adidas agreement, described in a statement as "a global technical sponsorship and dual branded licensing deal", will run for 10 years from the 2015-16 season.
The deal with Nike, United's kit manufacturer since 2002, runs out at the end of the forthcoming season.
United believe it is the biggest kit deal in sport, surpassing the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid as well as major American sports, which tend to sign league-wide deals covering all teams.
A United statement read: "Manchester United plc has reached a 10-year agreement with adidas for a global technical sponsorship and dual branded licensing deal for a minimum guarantee of £750million, subject to certain adjustments, beginning with the 2015/2016 campaign.
"For the 2014/2015 season, Nike will continue in its role of technical sponsor and trademark licensee."
The deal is more than twice as big as the Nike agreement signed in 2002, which was worth £303million with extra income from a profit share agreement from merchandise sold worldwide.
In a statement last week, the sportswear giant said: ''Manchester United is a great club with passionate fans.
''We are proud to have partnered with them for the last 12 years and will continue to sponsor the club until the end of the 2014/15 season.
''Any partnership with a club or federation has to be mutually beneficial and the terms that were on offer for a renewed contract did not represent good value for Nike's shareholders.
''We look forward to a successful final season with the club.''
This season also sees the beginning of US car giant Chevrolet's kit sponsorship deal with United, which is worth a reported £53million per season.
Meanwhile, after leading his native country to third place at the World Cup at the weekend, new United manager Louis van Gaal will have just two days off before beginning his job at United later this week.
The 62-year-old will spend time with his new players at United's Carrington training ground before flying to the USA for the club's pre-season tour.
Van Gaal said on manutd.com: "That is no problem for me, I don't need a holiday.
"It's great to have such an exciting challenge. To work daily with young people is something that I don't need time off to rest for.
"I'm looking forward to it. I've only met two people from the daily management at the club - the chief scout and the chief executive officer. And I've met two of the owners.
"It's time that I get to know more people at the club."
Holland saw their World Cup hopes ended in the semi-finals with a penalty shoot-out defeat by Argentina but went out on a high note in the third-place play-off as they beat Brazil 3-0.
Van Gaal will adopt the same approach at United, saying: "I hope the group in Manchester will become like this (Holland) one.
"We have to sing from the same hymn sheet. I hope at Manchester United I can do my best. I will do my best.
"Whether that's enough for the fans I will wait and see, but I genuinely hope that will be the case."
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(a) The authority may issue its bonds or notes to fulfill the purposes set forth in this article.
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Emergency response team to monitor weather over the weekend
Environment Waikato's emergency response team will remain on standby throughout the weekend to monitor rainfall and river levels and keep land owners and agencies updated.
Environment Waikato's emergency response team will remain on standby throughout the weekend to monitor rainfall and river levels and keep land owners and agencies updated.
Environment Waikato emergency management staff remain on alert as the Waipa and Waikato rivers continue to rise.
Environment Waikato is to re-advertise the position of chief executive.
More rain fell across the Waikato overnight, with heaviest falls recorded in western parts of the region.
Environment Waikato is offering assistance and technical advice to Hauraki District Council as HDC works to shore up a stop bank beside the lower Waitakaruru River.
Environment Waikato's river management systems are coping well as a burst of severe weather moves over the region.
The CBD Shuttle bus service in Hamilton is now even easier for people to use as part of an Accessible Journeys trial.
Environment Waikato staff are braced for a second burst of severe weather due to hit the Coromandel and Thames Valley areas from this afternoon.
Waikato rugby fans can again take a free bus to the Air New Zealand Cup home games in Hamilton this year, thanks to Environment Waikato, Hamilton City Council and the Waikato Rugby Union.
River monitoring systems in the Coromandel region have coped well with the significant rainfall that has fallen in the area over the weekend, says Environment Waikato chairman Peter Buckley.
Hamilton city bus travel will be free this Saturday as Environment Waikato says thank you to passengers who have collectively made three million passenger trips in a year for the first time.
Waikato beaches are being treated like giant ashtrays. A recent report to Environment Waikato's environment committee showed school groups removed 2414 cigarette butts while cleaning up 11 Coromandel and west coast beaches earlier this year.
From July 1, Environment Waikato stopped collecting money from its ratepayers to help pay for the Animal Health Board's bovine Tb eradication programme. Councillor Andra Neeley explains the regional council's position.
The latest phase of a major research project aimed at helping meet Waikato's future transport needs gets underway later this month.
Te Awamutu residents are invited to grab their gumboots, spades and raincoats and plant trees beside the Mangapiko Stream at Eileen Montefiore Reserve on July 23.
Environment Waikato is working to help Te Kuiti tackle air quality problems.
Environment Waikato's regional pest management committee has decided to recommend to full council a proposal that gives landowners greater influence over how pest control is carried out on their land.
Environment Waikato is inviting farmers to a free workshop that could save them hundreds of dollars on fertiliser costs every year.
Environment Waikato has contracted Chris Hale of Pest Plant Management to protect the King Country from weeds that threaten the local environment and economy.
The Te Kuiti Pig Hunting Club is working with Environment Waikato to tackle an increased population of feral pigs affecting farming operations upstream of the Mangaokewa Gorge.


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While I've expanded my comic book consciousness significantly over the past decade or so, I'll always be first and foremost a super hero guy. That said Archie Comics has always been near and dear to my heart.
When I was a kid, while I was only picking up the occasional spare issue of Spider-Man or Avengers, I'd regularly grab all the Archie I could get my hands on, from Archie & Friends to Laugh to Jughead to Betty & Veronica (if nobody was looking). I totally went in for Jughead's Time Police, Archie 3000 and whatever that weird sci fi book with Dilton was.
I vividly remember that I would take baths when I was a kid (not showers? I don't know) and while I didn't want to "damage" my super hero books, I'd always bring an Archie double digest in the tub and end up with my toes and fingers wrinkled because I wanted to finish the whole thing.
Something about the clearly defined characters, classic art, and easy-to-follow storylines appealed to me; it was like comfort food comics. At the same time, even at that age with my writing muscles barely flexed, I had a lot of respect for the guys who wrote Archie because they had to take a pretty firmly and inflexibly established set of guidelines and then create within those, but for the most part, they cranked out a ton of new ideas and stories each month (with the occasional unintentional repeat).
These days, I'm fortunate enough to know one of those writers: the immensely talented and congenial Alex Segura, a good friend as well as PR guru for Archie who has taken up the pen on several high profile stories as of late. Since Alex started at Archie, coincidentally or not they've been grabbing a lot of headlines with cool concepts like the stories set in parallel futures with Archie married to Betty and Veronica, openly gay character Kevin Keller and more.
Most recently, in a move right up there with the seminal Archie Meets the Punisher one-shot from the 90's Alex has helped bring the legendary band KISS to Riverdale in a four-part story currently unfolding in the main Archie book. It's been a fun read that made me realize how much I've missed these characters.
In that vein, with the sky seemingly the limit as far as who could show up in an Archie comic and a pipeline to the powers that be, I've compiled a list of crossovers I want to see. Now it would have been easy to come up with "Yeah, that makes sense" stuff from a pop culture standpoint just by surveying the stuff my wife watches on TV and suggesting Jersey Shore and Kardashian knock-off stories, but this is a purely Ben Morse fantasy list, so those ideas get benched regardless of financial appeal (but you can have them too, Segura).
After KISS, this is the next logical step, right? To the best of my knowledge Archie doesn't have plans to start a mature readers line, so I'll likely never see them do the Motley Crue story I really want to see, but there's still plenty of potential. Maybe it comes down to the Crue against the Archies against Josie & the Pussycats in a Battle of the Bands. Maybe Reggie becomes a roadie for Motley and has to spend a week trying to make sure Nikki and Vince don't kill anybody in Riverdale. Maybe you can just get Tommy Lee to co-write the story with the part of his anatomy that co-authored Tommyland (look it up if you can't guess). Regardless, Bret Michaels makes a last page cameo to set up the Poison guest shot to end the trilogy.
The well-known chef, food critic and crank is already doing some sort of gastro comic I believe this year and there's few better known characters who love to eat than Jughead, so this seems a perfect fit. Bourdain could be coming to Riverdale for No Reservations and give Pop's a savage review that prompts Jughead to challenge him to an eating contest. It's classic "heroes fight and then team-up" stuff. Bobby Flay can be the real bad guys trying to open a chain soda shoppe down the street.
Kiel will back me up on this one. I would love if there is a to-this-point-unseen Upper East Side section of Riverdale that houses analogues of the Gossip Girl cast and a school redistricting moves them into the orbit of Archie and friends. Archie and Dan switch places in their respective love triangles with Betty/Veronica and Blair/Serena. Chuck introduces Jughead to the world of true hedonism. Jenny and Cheryl Blossom have a mean girl throw down. Nobody from any of the bands has any idea who Rufus is. Nate and Reggie have a really boring storyline. Serena sleeps with Mr. Weatherbee. It writes itself!
Because everybody in comics crosses over with Witchblade eventually. Also, Archie has two of the most iconic female comic book characters in history and I want to see how the artists handle this.
Archie goes nuts when his favorite WWE Superstar comes to town, because you know he's totally a Broski. Really I just want to see Archie with spiked hair and a Broski headband. I'm not quite sure what the story would be.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Who I Want Archie to Meet Next
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This is awesome. Thanks, Ben! Glad ARCHIE MEETS KISS helped bring you back to Riverdale.
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- January 15, 2012 at 9:45 PM
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I like that you post as Anonymous and then still sign your name :-p
Thank YOU! Archie Meets KISS is awesome!
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We can all agree that Millennials are the worst. But what is a Millennial? A fight between The New York Times and Slate inspired us to try and figure that out.
After the Times ran a column giving employers tips on how to deal with Millennials (for example, they need regular naps) (I didn't read the article; that's from my experience), Slate's Amanda Hess pointed out that the examples the Times used to demonstrate their points weren't actually Millennials. Some of the people quoted in the article were as old as 37, which was considered elderly only 5,000 short years ago.
The age of employees of The Wire, the humble website you are currently reading, varies widely, meaning that we too have in the past wondered where the boundaries for the various generations were drawn. Is a 37-year-old who gets text-message condolences from her friends a Millennial by virtue of her behavior? Or is she some other generation, because she was born super long ago? (Sorry, 37-year-old Rebecca Soffer who is a friend of a friend of mine and who I met once! You're not actually that old!) Since The Wire is committed to Broadening Human Understanding™, I decided to find out where generational boundaries are drawn.
I started by calling the Census Bureau. A representative called me back, without much information. "We do not define the different generations," she told me. "The only generation we do define is Baby Boomers and that year bracket is from 1946 to 1964."
Next, I spoke with Tom DiPrete, a sociology professor at Columbia University. And he agreed with the Census Bureau. "I think the boundaries end up getting drawn to some extent by the media," DiPrete said, "and the extent to which people accept them or not varies by the generation." DiPrete explained that there was a good sociological reason for identifying the Baby Boom as a discrete generation. It "had specific characteristics," and occurred within an observable timeframe. World War II ended. You had the post-war rise in standard of living and the rise of the nuclear family. Then societal changes disrupted those patterns, and the generation, for academic purposes, was over. His main point: "History isn't always so punctuated."
I understood why Generation X, a generation defined by turmoil and uncertainty, would be poorly defined. But what about Millennials? Doesn't their shared experience of the millennium transition and technology provide similar markers? "I actually haven't seen efforts to document [generations] rigorously, and I would be somewhat skeptical that they can be documented rigorously." DiPrete said. The things that have shaped Millennials — the rise of technology and social networks, for example — "affect people's lives differently."
"The media in particular wants definitions, identities," DiPrete said. "I don't know that the definitions are as strong or as widely shared across all the boundaries. … At the end I think it gets fuzzy."
Well, yeah. We do want definitions. And if it's the media that draws the boundaries, then allow us to do so definitively.
Your official demarcation of generational boundaries
We identified six different generations, and labeled their eras.
Greatest Generation. These are the people that fought and died in World War II for our freedom, which we appreciate. But it's a little over-the-top as far as names go, isn't it? Tom Brokaw made the name up and of course everyone loved it. What, you're going to argue with your grandfather that he isn't in the greatest generation? The generation ended when the war ended.
Baby Boomers. This is the agreed-upon generation that falls within DiPrete's punctuated timeframe. It began when the Greatest Generation got home and started having sex with everyone; it ended when having sex with everyone was made easier with The Pill.
Generation X. George Masnick, of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the timeframe of 1965 to 1984, in part because it's a neat 20-year period. He also calls it the "baby bust," mocking "[p]undits on Madison Avenue and in the media" that call it Generation X. Ha ha, tough luck.
Generation Y. Masnick addresses this group, too, putting it "anywhere from the mid-1970s when the oldest were born to the mid-2000s when the youngest were." But mostly Generation Y is a made-up generation when it became obvious that young kids didn't really fit with the cool Generation X aesthetic but not enough of them had been born to make a new generation designation. NOTE: Generation Y is a fake, made-up thing. Do not worry about it.
Millennials. In October 2004, researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss called Millennials "the next great generation," which is funny. They define the group as "as those born in 1982 and approximately the 20 years thereafter." In 2012, they affixed the end point as 2004.
TBD. But that means that kids born in the last 10 years lack a designation. They are not Millennials. Earlier this month, Pew Research asked people what the group should be called and offered some terrible ideas. In other words, this is the new Generation Y. We'll figure out what they're called in the future.
Here, we made a helpful chart.
There you have it. The experts say the media get to determine when generations happen, and we're the media. We also get to say which generations are the worst, and the Millennials are the worst. But you already knew that.
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Til I buy that Bentley, bitches came from Santa
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After getting out of jail with a shortened sentence, Lindsay Lohan may be about to do the same with her stint in rehab.
LiLo, who started a court mandated 90-day stay in rehab August 2, may be released early according to the New York Post.
The prosecutor in the case, Danette Meyers, told RadarOnline that it was likely that Lohan would not serve her full time.
"My understanding from conversations with Shawn Chapman Holley is that Miss Lohan could be released early from the treatment facility," Meyers said.
Holley, Lohan's attorney, said that her client appears to be in good spirits during her stay at the UCLA Medical Center.
"Ms. Lohan looks very good. She looks healthy," Holley said. My client is looking forward to returning to work on her many creative endeavors upon her release from the treatment facility."
Meyers said that her office would most likely continue to follow up with the "Mean Girls" star after her release to make sure she was receiving proper treatment.
Lohan served just two weeks of a 90-day jail sentence for a parole violation related to a 2007 DUI conviction.
Selected Reading: RadarOnline, New York Post, UsMagazine


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A week after former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the winds of change now blowing through the Middle East could yet whip up a storm in Russia, the nation's current president vowed that uprisings in the Arab world will not be repeated here.
In comments that betrayed Kremlin nervousness, President Dmitry Medvedev today warned that the pro-democracy wave sweeping Egypt and other countries could bring "extremists" to power.
"Let us face the truth," Mr. Medvedev said, "they have prepared such a scenario for us too, and they will try to carry it out. But this scenario will not pass." He did not elaborate on who "they" might be.
To be sure, Russia is very different from the Middle Eastern societies currently seething with pro-democracy turmoil, but nagging parallels are beginning to worry many in the country's top elite. And who better to make those comparisons explicit than Mr. Gorbachev, the man who tried to foster democracy in the former USSR before being swept from power by the very forces he had unleashed?
"If things continue the way they are, I think the probability of the Egyptian scenario will grow," Gorbachev said in a radio interview last week. "But here it could end far worse."
Gorbachev outspoken in criticisms
Gorbachev has grown increasingly outspoken about Russia's vulnerabilities to Egypt-like unrest, warning in the past that Russia could collapse without sweeping democratic reforms. He describes Russia as a throwback to Soviet times, with muzzled media, sham elections, a Potemkin parliament, a Kremlin monopoly of power, and a corrupt ruling party that's a "bad copy" of the former Soviet Communist Party.
In a Moscow press conference Monday, Gorbachev slammed the political system built by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as an elaborate fraud. "We have everything – a parliament, courts, a president, and a prime minister, but these all are to a great extent just an imitation," he said. In another interview he said that Russia's democratic facade is a "cover for arbitrary rule and [official] abuse ... society has been broken, it's accepted the falsehoods."
Russia is heading into an intense political season, with regional polls next month, elections for a new Duma (parliament) in December, and a presidential vote in just over a year from a field that has not yet declared a single candidate.
Recent regional elections have looked so unfair and blatantly stage-managed that even Medvedev criticized them, although – in what seems to be a pattern with Medvedev – he took no further steps.
Democracit reform needed, says finance minister
Last week, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Russia was not meeting economic growth targets and that foreign investment fell sharply in 2010, suggesting this is happening because Russia lacks sufficient democratic legitimacy to carry out needed reforms.
It is important, he told an economic conference, that the upcoming elections be "fair and honest, that they represent all leading political forces of society. Only this will give the mandate of confidence that is necessary for economic reforms," he said. "If a lack of confidence emerges, we will be unable to fulfill our tasks properly."
That drew a tough rebuke from leaders of the ruling party United Russia, who saw it as an attack on their party's electoral monopoly on the use of government resources and state media as well as – it has been frequently alleged – outright fraud to dominate virtually all the country's legislatures, from the Duma down to small municipal councils.
Tough words for Putin and Medvedev
United Russia is headed by Prime Minister Putin, but its membership is so heavy with officials and others who depend on state largesse that critics describe it as a "trade union for bureaucrats."
Gorbachev described the party, which is headed by Putin, as a "rotting monopoly" that is hampering Russia's democratic development. "United Russia reminds me of a bad copy of the Soviet Communist Party," which Gorbachev himself once led, he added.
But he reserved his toughest words for Putin and Medvedev, who have pledged to decide between themselves which of them will run for president next year.
Gorbachev called that "incredible conceit" and a show of deep disrespect for Russian voters.
"It's not Putin's business. It must be decided by the nation in the elections, by those who would cast ballots," Gorbachev said. "Can't other people also run?"


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A user learned about a new product, a company and wants to go to their site on the Internet to obtain some additional information. For example, he needs to know more about the company "NewCompany". The first thing he is trying to do is to type in the browser window something like "http://www.newcompany.com". In most cases he will be successful; otherwise without wasting time in vain, he would appeal to a search engine for help, hoping to find the desired site among the outstanding results.
This is not optimal. We are losing time while searching. On the way to the desired result, we are forced to read the obtrusive advertising. Can we make our work more comfortable without wasting time for searching? Yes, it is possible. With the NNRS (New Name Resolving System).
NNRS is a system which is able to replace DNS and tackle its shortcomings. NNRS is able to resolve any names in any syntax in any language! It will be sufficient to type into a browser "http://NewCompany" to access the site of the company "NewCompany". There is no need in specifying the domain .com, .biz ... since the record "NewCompany" was registered in the system NNRS as a first level domain in terms of DNS.
In the past, when the speed of Internet communication channels and the computational power were low, the introduction of a hierarchical tree domain structure was justified. The load of DNS queries was distributed; a dedicated server could serve a domain zone. Zone delegating allowed decentralizing management of the entire DNS infrastructure.
Currently, high speed channels and high computational power allows for a new Name Resolving approach. A good example is the recently launched Internet services: OpenDNS, UltraDNS, and Google Public DNS. These services can reduce the response time, implement web content filtering, anti-phishing, whitelist/blacklist etc.
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Facebook looks inward with Graph Search
ANALYSIS With new Graph Search, Facebook is bucking online trend, looking to keep users engaged inside its own walled garden
Over the coming weeks, Facebook will roll out a new tool called Graph Search, a search engine focused on its users - and an effort to keep users within the walled garden of its Internet empire.
On Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg presented what he called "the first big product announcement" for Facebook, showing off a search engine that scours the data the social network has gathered about its users and creates a mathematical mapping of the way people relate to each other online, typically called "a social graph."
The aim of the new tool is to allow Facebook users to make specific searches of their network of friends and find out their interests. For example, one could search "Who are my friends who like football?" or "Which of my friends like jazz and Italian foods?" and then see results matching those queries.
"Graph Search is not Web search," Zuckerberg said, emphasizing its internal focus.
Zuckerberg's distinction is worth noting. These sorts of queries - while perhaps limited in the number of times users will actually ask them - could pose a competitive threat to Web-based review sites like Yelp or Rotten Tomatoes.
Fundamental difference
In a bigger sense, however, they highlight a fundamental difference in the way Facebook and neighboring Internet giant Google are approaching making money on the Internet. Zuckerberg called Graph Search one of the three "pillars" of the social network, alongside Timeline, a collection of a user's life events, and News Feed, the daily stream of friends' activities. All three features exist within Facebook's website.
While no detailed specifics were given on how Graph Search would generate revenue, ostensibly Facebook will package up the search data to sell to advertisers and create better placement of ads in the results. Graph Search results will respect all privacy settings a user has set when returning results to other users, the company noted.
Google's revenue is primarily wrought from advertising on its search results that link to the rest of the Internet. The company almost seamlessly keeps users within its underpinning ecosystem, via tools like the search bar in the upper corner of the Mozilla Web browser, the Android operating system and its own Chrome browser. Most nontechies never realize that these pieces of software, not to mention huge websites like Gmail and YouTube, are Google products designed to feed digital data on people's online habits back to the search giant.
Another key distinction between the two approaches: Facebook makes you take an extra, active step to give them data - via check-ins, likes, follows, etc. Most Google data are gathered in people's natural use of the Web. You give Google important information whenever you search, answer an e-mail or watch a video - without having to take an extra step.
Filters featured
For Graph Search, Facebook will use natural-language processing of the text. Though Zuckerberg ripped on search filters - a common tool employed by Google and other search engines to specify queries - most screenshots of Graph Search featured filters, and demos by other Facebook staffers on hand Tuesday required using filters.
When asked how Facebook determined that this new function is what its users want, Zuckerberg admitted he didn't know if they necessarily want it, but that Facebook believes it's what people need to help them figure out what the masses think - though in this case, the results will be only from your Facebook friends.
Releasing features that people "need" before they realize it was a hallmark of the late Steve Jobs. The best example: the iPhone, a device years ahead of its time.
Zuckerberg's allusions to the late Apple co-founder didn't stop there; at the end of his presentation he used the line "one more thing" - a line Jobs famously used during his many grand product releases - to announce that Microsoft's Bing search engine would facilitate any searches of the Web launched from Facebook.
(Regarding the relationship with Bing, Zuckerberg noted: "I don't think a lot of people will start coming to Facebook to do Web searches." And he laughed at a question on whether he'd tried to work with Google.)
Rampant speculation
Since Facebook cryptically alerted the media to Tuesday's announcement last week, speculation had been simmering on what it might unveil. Theories had ranged from a new phone to compete with the likes of the iPhone and Android devices to a new messaging system between users.
Instead, it rolled out Graph Search. Certainly it's a neat tool to sort through lots of data. But its usefulness for average Facebook users is questionable. Not to mention, the value of the search depends on your friends using Facebook's "like" function or discussing the topic in their Facebook posts.
So instead of going big, maybe releasing its own operating system to compete with platforms like Android, iOS and Windows 8, Facebook seems to have rededicated itself to the idea that it can create a walled garden on the Internet.
What other company does that bring to mind? Maybe AmericaOnline? AOL was a walled garden that fought the tide of the growing Internet - and we know how that worked out.
Facebook, of course, is still a huge company with a huge budget and resources, so it can still pivot at any point to try new measures that embrace the natural trends of the Web.
But for now, it appears, the social network is choosing to fight them.
Caleb Garling is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Whether you choose one of our single or multi-speeds; 24", 26", or 29" wheels; men's or women's; themed or not, a Felt cruiser is guaranteed to make every ride an adventure and every window-check another reason to smile.


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Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street has been at the center of a major debate with fans calling it an cutting criticism of the American drive for excess, and detractors declaring it a glorification of the very debauchery it claims to critique. No matter which side of the debate you stand on, you can probably recall one scene where the repercussions of Jordan Belfort's reckless hedonism are made clear for one brief but unforgettable moment. I'm speaking of course of the scene where a female employee of his firm has her head shaved in front of hundreds of men hooting like animals so she might get $10,000 for a boob job.
As someone who regularly took an electric shaver to her scalp in college, I watched that scene thinking, "They didn't fake this. This woman was absolutely shaved." But thanks to the investigative work of Vanity Fair's Katie Calautti, we now know all the gritty details of this unnerving sequence. I highly recommend you read her terrific piece in full, but we'll break down its major points below.
First off, it wasn't some fame-seeking ingénue who sat down in that impromptu barber's chair. She didn't give up her hair for a chance to meet Scorsese or the film's star Leonardo DiCaprio. In fact, she'd known DiCaprio for years, being a sister to a good friend of his. Her name is Natasha Newman Thomas. She's a Los Angeles-based stylist, and this beautiful women gave up her locks solely for the cinema.
Those who've never gone from long locks to a buzzed cut (or in this case totally bald) may not understand how traumatic such an experience can be. (Watch just about any season of America's Next Top Model for a crash course.) But the head of Wolf of Wall Street's hair department Michael Kriston was aware, so a back-up person was cast in case the pressure proved too much for Thomas. Remember, she wasn't only having her head shaved--which can be a pretty emotional experience--she was also having it done while DiCaprio goads a room full of 250 bellowing men, 40 strippers strutting around, and of course a marching band reduced to their underwear.
Adding to her potential anxieties, it wasn't a professional hair stylist who would be administering this cut. Instead, it'd be actor P.J. Byrne who was playing Rugrat. To prepare, Kriston set Byrne up with the very powerful electric razor in advance, and let him shave wigs to get a feel for it. To keep her stress level as low as possible, Scorsese stayed away, watching everything unfold via monitor so his presence wouldn't overwhelm her. But once they go the shot, Marty personally came out to thank her, and "everybody congratulated her."
Asked if there was any way they could have faked this scene, Kriston said:
" Oh no, there was no way we could do it with a wig. The budget on this film was very tight while we were shooting it—there would've had to have been a prosthetic-makeup artist, $1,500 a day, or more, to put a bald cap on this girl. And then the wig would've had to be fine lace, custom-made, around $8,000 or $10,000. And then the whole thing would've had to be glued to the bald cap and then the clippers would've had to have gone through three layers. And if you made a mistake and cut through the bald cap, you're done. So in order to do that, I would've insisted on having at least three wigs."
To thank Thomas for her sacrifice, Kriston not only cleaned up Rugrat's messy shave job, but also offered her a special gift:
"Afterward, she came back into the trailer, and I had set aside a wig for her that I was going to give her. I didn't tell her that, because in production it wasn't budgeted for her to have a wig. But just as a human being, I wanted to have something. But she was cool with it! She went with it, and so I finished it off and made it neat, and that was that. I mean, we shaved it right to the bone! There was nothing left! By now [a year later], her hair would probably be to the point that it would look like Jennifer Lawrence's."
Cheers to you, Natasha Newman Thomas, for making one of Wolf of Wall Street's balliest scenes possible!


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Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life
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Página 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Página 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Página 23 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Página 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Página 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Página 35 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Página 2 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Página 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 165 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...


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The WebFAS service will be retired on Friday December 20, 2019.
The MyApps service, https://myapps.yorku.ca/ is replacing WebFAS and it offers a more modern and convenient solution for delivering software to students, faculty and staff.
For additional information, please refer to https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/09/15/uit-launches-a-new-service-called-myapps/.
WebFAS is a web-based virtual desktop and Windows application delivery service. Remote access to home directories and shared folders on FAS is available through this service.
How do I get it?
WebFAS requires your active Passport York username and password, and is available through any computer which meets the system requirements below:
How do I get help?
- Specific directions for connecting using:
Microsoft Windows
Please follow the steps below:
- Login to https://webfas.yorku.ca using Internet Explorer or Firefox.
- If this is your first time accessing WebFAS, you will see the message "Install Citrix Receiver to access your applications".
- Click on the check box beside "I agree with the Citrix license Agreement" and click on Install. This will start the Citrix Receiver installation process.
- When prompted you can save (and run) or directly run the file to continue the installation process.
- You may get a message saying "Do you want to allow this this program to make changes on your computer." Click Yes.
- You should see a pop-up window titled "Welcome to Citrix Receiver". Click Install.
- You may get a yellow bar on the top of your browser stating "This website wants to run the following add-on: Citrix Systems". Click on the bar and click on "Run Add-On".
- You may get a window stating "Do you want to run this ActiveX control". Click Run.
- Once the Citrix installation is done you will see the screen message "Welcome to WebFAS". Enter your Passport York credentials and click on Log On.
- Click on the "+" symbol on the left or on the centre and then click on "All Apps" and choose the application you want to work with. These application icons will go to the centre of your screen.
- Click on the application you wish to launch.
The Citrix client for Ubuntu is available for download at the following page. UIT does not provide any support for webfas on Linux.
Frequently Asked Questions
- I have installed the Receiver Client but it still isn't being detected by Firefox.
This can happen if Firefox was installed by another administrator of the system. To rectify this issue please re-install Firefox and the Receiver Client.
- How do I launch applications for WebFAS?Click on the desired application to launch it within the Receiver Client.
If you are prompted with "Client file security" select Full Access to see your local resources in the session; then, select Never ask me again to disable the prompt and prevent it from appearing in the future.
- I am logged in to WebFAS but cannot launch applications. I am using Windows 8.1. What should I do?
Click on your name on the top inside WebFAS and then click on "Activate". Click on Open with to open the receiverconfig.scr file and click on OK . When you are prompted with the question "Do you want to add "WebFAS" provided by "York University" click on ADD.
- How do I save and attach files to an email from within WebFAS?
When saving a file from WebFAS, a user needs to explicitly browse to the save location. All the local machine drives (C:, etc.) as well as network drives (H:, X:) are available as save locations.
A user can save files to 'My Documents' and then browse to attach the file.
- How do I un-install the Receiver Client?Windows: Use the Add/Remove programs to uninstall the Citrix Receiver Client.
Windows:Click on the desired application to launch it within the Receiver Client.
Mac OS X: Click here for an article on how to uninstall the Citrix Plugin in Mac OS X
- I get an error stating that I am logged in from another location.What can I do?
You can click on "Log Off" located on the top beside settings. Close your browser and re-launch it. Log in to https://webfas.yorku.ca/ to connect to WebFAS.
- How can I see my shared drives from off campus locations using WebFAS?Log in to https://webfas.yorku.ca/ to access WebFAS.
Launch "Windows Explorer" to access your files and folders in your shared drives.
Note: You can only see actual files and folders in shared drives that you have access to. You will not be able to see any short cut drives that were individually mapped for you. However you can access all the files and folders within these individually created short cut drives, through your shared drives.
If you cannot see any shared drives that you have access to in your office workstation, then please contact us at email@example.com or submit a ticket .
- How can I transfer files between my shared drives and home computer.Login to WebFAS and launch "Windows Explorer".
You may get an alert asking for permission for a remote application trying to access files on your workstation:
Click Yes.
If you wish to strictly read the files and not edit them then you can click on the box beside Read Files only.
You can transfer files between your shared drives and your personal workstation within this Windows Explorer. You cannot drag and drop files from this window to your personal desktop.
- What is the current UIT supported Citrix Receiver version?
UIT currently supports Citrix Receiver for Windows 4.4.1000 and Citrix Receiver for Mac 12.2.
- My browser did not detect the Citrix Client or prompt me to install it. How can I install it manually?
If you have checked Add / Remove programs, and do not see Citrix Receiver installed then you can download the installers from the following locations:
Citrix Receiver for Windows 4.4.1000
Citrix Receiver for Linux 13.4
Once downloaded please install then access WebFAS through your chosen browser at https://webfas.yorku.ca/
- The Citrix receiver states "Enter your work email or server address. What should I do? In the Citrix Receiver window type in "https://webfas.yorku.ca"
Click on Next to complete the process.
- Why does my session time out?
- Idle session time out:
Your session will end if it is idle (no keyboard input or no mouse input) for 1 hour.
- Disconnected session time out:
If for some reasons (such as disconnected internet, disconnected wireless) your session gets disconnected, you will be able to re-connect to the same session within 15mins.
- How do I keep a session from timing outYou will not be prompted to re-authenticate if you launch an application within 5 minutes after you closed your last application.
- How can I avoid losing my work? If you are editing a new document, we advise that you save it to a location such as a department share (H: drive) or personal home directory (F: drive for students, X: drive for some faculty and staff). There's a risk that you may lose your work if you don't do so.
There are added benefits with the auto-save functionality in some applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel. In doing the above, your document will automatically save every 10 minutes.
- Should I modify my device power management settings?You are required to modify your device power management settings (Sleep and Hibernate mode, NIC settings) in order to keep your WebFAS session alive. Minimum recommended is 1 hour / 60 minutes.
- I cannot see my local drives via Citrix/WebFAS. I answered "No" when I was prompted with the question of whether or not I wish to provide access to local drives. How do I fix this? 1.If you are running a York University machine with Citrix setup:
- Click on Windows Explorer (within the Citrix window) to launch it (it will take the usual 30 or so seconds to start up)
- You should see the Citrix icon on their system tray (normally next to the clock on Windows OS)... right-click that Citrix icon and select "About" and a pop-up will appear.
- In the About popup, expand Advanced and select Connection Center and another pop-up will appear
- In the Citrix Connection Center pop-up, on the left side in the ICA connections section, make sure the yellow folder is selected ( CASTELAO) and then on the right side you can make changes to the Session security drop down menus like Files: setting it to Full Access.
2. If you are running Citrix because you started using WebFAS and it loaded Citrix that way:
- Click on Windows Explorer (within the Citrix window) to launch it (it will take the usual 30 or so seconds to start up)
- You should also see the Citrix icon on your system tray (normally next to the clock on Windows OS)... right-click the Citrix icon and select Preferences then Plug-in status and then the link to access the Connection Center
- In the Citrix Connection Center, on the left side in the ICA connections section, make sure the yellow folder is selected (CASTELAO) and then on the right side you can make changes to the Session Security drop down menus like Files: setting it to Full Access
Log out and log back in to WebFAS and launch the applications.
System Requirements
|Microsoft Windows minimum requirements
|Mac OS X minimum requirements
|Linux /Unix minimum requirements
Windows 7, Windows 10
Internet Explorer 11
Latest release of Mozilla Firefox
Citrix Receiver for Windows 4.4.1000
|Mac OS X 10.11, 10.12, 10.13
Latest release of Safari
Latest release of Mozilla Firefox
Citrix Receiver for Mac 12.2
|Linux min. requirements
Firefox 48 and higher
Replace ICS client for linux with Citrix Receiver for Linux 13.4