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Has Yammer played out its role?
Tags: Yammer, Office 365
And is Yammer dead?
It is now three and a half years since Microsoft acquired Yammer and I think this is the end of Yammer, as a product/service. Let me explain myself, to avoid the flame war and hate mails that happened when I shared that my thoughts in the Team Sites are dead post.
I think Yammer as a brand will stay for a while, it's a strong brand and it's worked into so many PowerPoint decks from Microsoft that it would be hard to wash that away. But as a product or service Yammer is no longer of interest. I claim this due to a number of facts and observations over the last few years. People who follow me on social media cannot have avoided how I've been pretty aggressive in my comments about this product and I'm by no means alone.
Here are some things that I think points very clear what is happening with Yammer.
Yammer shut down its UserVoice channel: A couple of days ago Yammer out of the blue took down their UserVoice channel pointing to a custom feedback resource, that you have to register to get in to. This goes in the total opposite direction of what the rest of the Office teams are doing. And this on an area where Yammer actually was successful previously.
Lack of integration: As I said it has gone three and a half years since Microsoft started working on integrating Yammer with Office 365. And what has happened since then. NOTHING! Nothing at all. They haven't fixed the identity integration with Office 365. You need to maintain another profile in Yammer - not so much enterprisey. Sign in is a pain - if you choose ADFS single sign on then you don't have for instance the suite bar - which means that this is really standalone. If you choose O365 sign on then you have a separate password.
Also just recently the Yammer service moved into the Azure data centers, but still only in North America.
The list goes on. Microsoft/Yammer has failed miserably on this topic.
Enterprise Social Networks: Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) is on a decline in my opinion (I don't have any figures to back that with!). And what I mean with that is a standalone ESN is not interesting in the same way as before. There are some up comers, such as Slack, that does some really cool things but I think that audience is more narrow and I doubt Slack would work on some of the organizations that I work with. Generally thinking standalone ESN is a time waster, people and companies want to be efficient, so integration with other products is essential. Let's come back to this. Yammer is as much standalone as it can be, despite the Microsoft marketing stating it's a part of the Office suite.
All the former Yammer leaders are gone: As far as I know, all the Yammer brains are gone. I remember SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas many years ago where they made a big deal of Adam Pisoni and his team at Yammer. That was the only and last time I saw them….
Yammer constantly not listening at all, relying just on telemetry: I have had issues with Yammer since day one, issues that are bugs, feedback, not documented changes (dare I mention their APIs!) and I have tried getting in contact with the teams to give my feedback. It's been like talking to a brick wall! Basically any other team at Microsoft I can get in contact with if I need to, ranging from the Office teams, to the Windows teams and even CTOs has been taking my feedback and answering my questions. The only answer is when you have an issue with Yammer or give feedback is that - "we can't see that in out telemetry so then the users are not interested in that". If it's one answer I dislike, then it is that one. It becomes really comical when it comes to the "Mark all as read" function, that I think everyone using Yammer wants. But since that feature does not exist, they can't see it in their telemetry which in the Yammer world means that no one wants it. Duh!
Lack of innovation: Three and a half years! Can anyone give me any new major feature in Yammer since the acquisition? Well, the Apple Watch App doesn't count. No, there has been no development what so ever on this product, except for some failed A/B testing attempts. Competitors is running in circles around Yammer. Sporadically we see Yammer stuff on the Office Roadmap, but almost always after they are released - just another sign that the Yammer team is not integrated with the Office team or have a different agenda!
I probably missed a ton of other things, but this should make my point…
So what is Microsoft doing and what should they be doing?
Office 365 Groups and the Office 365 core services
No surprise to those who follow me that Office 365 Groups should be in here. But this is important! I said lack of innovation, lack of integration, ESN is dead etc. with Yammer. All this has happened with Office 365 Groups, where I see a lot of good things grow!.
First of all Office 365 Groups is integrating with the Office 365 service bringing the major key components together making it easy for users to collaborate, communicate, share and work together. Groups are bringing Exchange, SharePoint, Project and social networking together (could be under a Yammer brand) into one experience. This give Office 365 a unique experience compared to other competitors. With Yammer in the mix, it's a separate service, profile, user experience etc.
Innovation! The innovation are taking place within the core Office 365 services. Take a look at the new Praise feature (directly stolen from Yammer) that now lives within Office Delve - where it should be. Take a look at the new Like feature that allows you to like e-mail messages - no more +1 e-mail messages. The same goes for the @mentions in the Outlook inbox. The majority of the social collaboration goes on in your inbox, why not let these features live here. I think this is a bold and good move.
Actually I see the enterprise social pieces of this as an Enterprise Social Fabric that is tightly integrated with all the different core services and apps in Office 365. Not as a standalone service or product! And Yammer is not built for that.
And for all this good things the Office 365 team also builds API's for use to use, in the new Office 365 Unified API. Something that is documented (another thing Yammer couldn't spell to).
I'm seeing a really bright feature for Office 365 with Office 365 Groups and at the moment I will have hard to justify starting a Yammer on-boarding project with my customers. That would potentially lead them into a dead end and the off-boarding story of Yammer is most likely worse than the onboarding one. At least I will tell them this story, and they can make up their own minds.
I would not be surprised that we see a number of Yammer obituaries in the upcoming 6 to 12 months.
What do you think? Looking forward to an interesting discussion! Is Yammer as a service a dead end? Is the Enterprise Social Network "thing" going away?
33 Comments
John Liu said Reply
When I first saw the work done to 'integrate' yammer - particularly around SSO, that was the first time I thought Ah, SharePoint isn't the source of truth anymore.
See, I got used to, for years, that it is the mega back-office-server, SharePoint sucked all information into itself (user profiles, search) and then let you do something with it.
To get Yammer to integrate, Users has to get out of SharePoint. Azure Active Directory is the right place.
And as soon as Users gets sync'ed up to the cloud, suddenly we want Groups too - there should be a way to do groups - across products. Again, Azure AD owns the groups. Even adds additional flavours like Dynamic Groups - awesome.
Search is split out to Delve. Files to OneDrive.
In the same thought that parts of SharePoint (the mega-service) should now stand alone as cross-product micro-services, I think the same thinking is now hitting Yammer. It can still function as a tool all by itself. But its components are split out to work across services: e.g conversations, next-gen blogs replacing Notes. etc
So I think Team Office will keep carving out features that were once within siloes and make them cross-product micro-services, and that is where the collaboration would be happening. No more monolithic tool in the future.
Next one on my watch list - who would own Manage Metadata? "Boards" in Delve? Tags in Yammer? MM in SharePoint? Outlook now has @mentions - why wouldn't they have #tag next? The future is moving fast and is super interesting to watch.
Wictor said Reply
Thanks John for the comments. I agree. And this is what I wrote in December 2013: "[...]SharePoint as a product has played out its role in my opinion" and "SharePoint will be there in the form of building sites and acting like a glue between all the other services".
Turned out that I was not all wrong with that :-)
Marc D Anderson said Reply
As usual, I think you're spot on. I'd like to say that I've been questioning Yammer as you do here for quite some time, as have many others.
To me, the "external groups" idea of Yammer has become the MSDN forums of old. "We have 80000 members!" means there's so much noise and randomness it's impossible to use. And still there is no useful way to search.
All "social" communities - we used to call them forums or usegroups or listservs - seem to run their course. There's documented research around this (which I don't have at hand), and there are experts like Vanessa DiMauro we can turn to who can tell you exactly what is going to happen. All that without A/B testing. One absolute key tenet is that for social to be *productive* it must be actively moderated.
Couple all that with the fact that we're in the age of the"shiny penny" syndrome, and Yammer looks like my grandfather's Lincoln Continental at this point. Everyone else want a Tesla.
A funeral for Yammer at the next Ignite seems like it would be far more appropriate than the Infopath one that happened a few years back. Infopath is still alive and well.
Wictor said Reply
Thanks Marc. I've seen similar research and also read an article the other week about a company starting 6hr days (instead of 8) with the same productivity. They just made sure to not spend time on social networks during work hours. I think the ESN in its current form is a time waster.
Yammer as an external forum. I didn't bring that one up, but that must be the worst idea ever. Not even MS believes in it replacing ye olde Technet/MSDN forums - they are pointing people to Stackoverflow (well, except for some peeps in the marketing dept, that are measured on users in Yammer)
As for a funeral, I'll leave that to the social kiddos, and it will eventually happen...
Peter England said Reply
Hi Wictor. I have to say I was very sceptical about Yammer when our company started looking into ESN and despite the Yammer team seemingly ignoring user feedback and as you say relying of telemetry, our pilot group have found Yammer to be very useful for business generation.
We are also finding it more efficient than using email.
Biggest bugbear is their testing process, releasing features to half a tenancy to see if it's working well. Support goes out the window as documentation is out of date for half our users.
Office Groups really isn't there yet for us. It needs much more innovation before we can enable it. Like the fact users can set up group names with no consistency in naming convention. SharePoint sites are created with no admin access to manage them. No metadata can be forced onto documents etc.
SharePoint team sites are still very much required for us for the forseable future.
Wictor said Reply
Thanks Peter for your comments. Yammer can be useful yes, but I don't think it has a future. ESN as such are a time waster and doesn't integrate where the core business are. You say you prefer Yammer over Groups and you mention metadata and documents - in Yammer you have NO control over documents, in Groups you have some (with more to come).
If you are a company starting the journey now - I would strongly recommend them taking a look at Groups.
I also recommend you to read my series on Groups - using that you can overcome the majority of current issues: http://www.wictorwilen.se/office-365-groups-for-admins
Anonymous said Reply
There are some things that could explain lot of the Yammer stuff happening. One thing is internal politics at MS. My guess is that Exchange team is way more integrated to the other teams at MS than a company that gets acquired. Yammer has been directly challenging the whole concept of email which is a threat to Exchange team (obviously).
So. Creating a competing solution like O365 Groups with same kind of functionality as Yammer would be an ideal way for a team like Exchange to get rid of the competiton. Their connections to the other teams would be superior compared to Yammer coming from the outside.
I have no inside information. This is just independent thinking.
On the other hand, what is Yammer really? It's just a clumsy feed of messages with a like button. You can group the messages but that's it. A student could write similar solution over a weekend. (Not for such a large scale as Yammer is but the basic functionality for reasonable amount of users.)
The people at Yammer just happened to be succesful in building a brand and story around it. The problem is that Yammer cannot really be developed much without overlapping to Exchange, Onedrive or other products that MS already has. It would have to be assimilated into some other product. Exchange would be the logical one as it's about messaging. Maybe that's why the big boys left the company?
Personally, I hate Exchange. If not for anything else then for stealing the Office 365 as their own for many years. All of the Office 365 partner materials and MCP exams used to be 90% Exchange. Practically nothing about SharePoint. Those guys don't deserve the mind share that they get. I mean they invented the public folders after all. Shame on them! ;)
Bob German said Reply
@Wictor - I've wondered about this for long time now; somebody had to have the nerve to say it out loud! I wondered it when Yammer took off and then fizzled in my company; I wondered it when I failed to see adoption by any of my clients; I wondered it when Microsoft shut off some of its district Yammer networks that weren't getting a lot of use. Then there was the MS Ignite keynote, where they demonstrated O365 groups with not a yammer about Yammer.
@John Liu - I think you've hit the nail on the head. To provide collaboration services on premises, Microsoft did the right thing by developing Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync ... but in the cloud it should be microservices, not monolithic products. So now we are in the early stages of Microsoft picking the monoliths apart - very carefully so as to not cut off its on-prem business.
If you split SharePoint or Exchange into microservices, you get a lot of damned useful microservices with very little overlap. If you split Yammer into microservices, you get almost 100% overlap with SharePoint, Exchange, and AzureAD, with the Yammer service not quite as mature as the incumbent.
Add to that the fact that users are already overwhelmed with information and one more service to check is unwelcome at this point. The logical conclusion is that there should be no overlap: users want one place to check messages, one place to put files, one place to group their colleagues. And I don't think any of those will be Yammer. In the end, perhaps Yammer will just be a mashup view of Office 365 groups.
@Marc, I was laughing out loud when I read,
> A funeral for Yammer at the next Ignite seems like it would be far more appropriate than the Infopath one
> that happened a few years back. Infopath is still alive and well.
That's because InforPath is useful and Yammer... sorry... :-(
Wictor said Reply
Awesome thoughts Bob, thanks! Microservices is exactly how I see the future of Office 365. I already said that in my prediction blog post two years ago, even though I didn't explicitly said microservices.
Mikael Svenson said Reply
My my my.....what have you done Beelzebub? :) And I have to say I agree.
In terms of innovation they could have done a lot, but yammer conversations are the same today as they always were. Simple text with no ability to enhance/outline etc.
The mobile apps are **** and sluggish, with no support for multiple accounts or even display a poll.
That said, I see yammer working in our 20+ size company, but it's getting near flooding and my ability to keep up.
At my current customer 15.000+ it also works and have made their merger better. Seems they have many small local groups going. What they discuss, I'm not sure of, but the usage map is impressive in terms of metrics and info.dept says it's working. In the dev team I'm at yammer was working good a year ago, now it's very quiet - as yammer pushers are no longer in the project.
So....I agree groups can very well be the arena where discussions happen instead of on Yammer, and even the WM app is pretty good. And using Outlook as the main canvas should suit all office workers in the MS space.
Go groups!
Gustaf Westerlund said Reply
Very interesting post. I Work with Dyn CRM and it has a built in integration with Yammer, it's own activity feeds, quite recently Office Group integration and the Yammer integration has been decent, at best, being mostly a mash-up integration. I have also been thinking a lot about what Microsoft's strategy in this area is and you're post nailed it, I totally agree, either they don't have the right Resources any more or they have decided that the architecture is not right and O365 is better. I will most certainly change my advice to my Customers/students regarding this based on this post. Thanks a lot.
Wictor said Reply
The important thing is that you have this discussion with the client
Gustaf Westerlund said Reply
I wrote a follow-up post based on this from a Dynamics CRM perspective. http://gustafwesterlund.blogspot.se/2015/10/rumours-of-yammers-terminal-health.html
Wictor said Reply
Thanks for the writeup. Interesting read.
Darrell Webster said Reply
I blogged my response, http://webster.net.nz/2015/10/has-yammer-played-out-its-role-my-response/
But in the spirit of continue the conversation at the source, I am posting it here too.
I too agree that more needs to change with the core Yammer conversation experience. The Yammer Inbox experience is in need of attention, as you rightly point out Wictor, "Mark all as read" has been one of the most frequent feature requests. So has the "Edit a post" feature. Though let's be honest, can you edit an email once you have sent it? Many of us wish we could.
External networks...
One area that Yammer is still strong in is external user participation. It's easy to create an external network, groups in that network and invite people into it. Yammer provides a quick way to provision collaborative tools to external participants, hold conversations share documents, even edit them now using Office Online.
Groups will need to expand it's external participant mechanism. It's not enough to be part of an externally accessible distribution list otherwise organizations would just stick with that. External participants will want the full experience of collaborating in Groups. SharePoint Online use external user invites, authenticating using either a Microsoft or Office 365 account. It's likely this will be extended to give external users access to using Groups Files. Notebooks will be covered by this too.
The challenge is going to be how to give external users the Conversations and Calendar experience of Groups. It's sitting in a shared mailbox and accessible from 'Outlook On The Web' (OWA), Outlook 2016 and now Outlook Groups apps. How will Microsoft change access so an external user can open and participate in that underlying shared mailbox? They will still depend on authentication with a Microsoft or Office 365 account.
I'm sure Microsoft will come up with something. Maybe when Office 365 Groups has a complete experience for external user participation, Yammer might be breathing it's last. Or maybe not. What does Yammer's roadmap look like? Is it one of assimilation or integration? Are they beginning to ramp up innovation behind the scenes and the public aren't seeing it yet? Time will tell.
Notification Disruption...
It's commonly said that Yammer creates more email notifications and makes your Inbox busier. Let's compare this to Groups Conversations or email and distribution groups. Are Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) any more distracting than email when it comes to getting work done? In email centric companies, with all their distribution groups, reply-all's, CCs and BCCs, the volume and frequency of email in Inboxes is also distracting from getting work done. This is why features like Clutter and focused mailboxes have been introduced.
Groups experience the same notification behaviour as Yammer. When you subscribe to a Yammer group or Office 365 group, you will receive an email every time someone posts or replies.
This is no different to being part of a distribution group. But Yammer and Office 365 Groups have one thing in their favour over distribution groups. You can unsubscribe from notifications and check the group periodically for messages. Office 365 Groups has a further advantage that with Outlook 2016, you can periodically check the conversations easily alongside your own Inbox. You'll have to visit the Yammer site periodically to read conversations.
It's the way we use it, not what we are using....
ESNs are no more of a time-waster than email. Some of us use email in the same way we use Instant Messaging. An email notification pop-up appears on our screen and we are compelled to read it and reply.
Interruption Science is the study of the effect of disruptions on job performance. It identifies notifications of all kinds as the source of interruptions - email, text messages, application notifications, phone calls and more. How we manage our notifications matters more than the platform or appliance that the notification comes from. We are more productive in our day by turning off our notifications for blocks of time and periodically checking our messages. This is a discipline that many of us could benefit from. That same discipline can be applied to checking ESNs.
It's how we are using our chosen communication platforms that causes us to waste time. It's not the platform itself. Discipline yourself to get blocks of work done in 'quiet hours' with notifications turned off, the phone going to voicemail, and you'll find you get more done.
Yammer needs more work...
That's clear. But there's still a place for Yammer and Enterprise Social Networks, for those organizations who choose to communicate and discuss in different ways to traditional email.
I care less for the platform and more for the capabilities. Quoting from John Liu's response on this post, Groups are the direction Microsoft are taking "carving out features that were once within silos and make them cross-product micro-services." The micro-services are becoming more important and Groups are the mechanism for bringing those together. Groups are only going to get better. What part Yammer plays in this is still to be seen. We're starting to see social features such as the @Mention and Like come to email experience. Likes are already part of Groups. The decision to implement these may in part be to recreate an Enterprise Social experience in email. If the extent of Groups-Yammer integration is just to provision a Yammer Group when an Office 365 Group is created, I don't think that is enough.
Chris Slemp said Reply
Darrell, I think you're spot on. See my post from earlier this year that claims "which tool when" is the wrong question to be asking. Tools will be fluid from team to team and scenario to scenario. What matters most are the underlying principles we're learning: one canonical version of a doc (we learned this from SharePoint, and is now being reinforced by Outlook 2016), open conversations for transparency (started with Yammer, but moving to Exchange), increased search relevance by leveraging network signals (Delve, as inspired by Yammer's Open Graph implementation).
As I'm implying above, Yammer's influence on Office has been significant, and continues to be, even while user-facing changes have slowed while they spent time on backend integration, both technical and organizational.
I think a funeral is premature.
Wictor said Reply
Thanks Darrell. Great and interesting post. When I say time waster is the silo experience we have with Yammer today. If it was better integrated with Sites, Mail, Delve, Videos etc etc the experience would be so much better. The thing we waste time on the most is the actual context switching, something that we humans have big issues with.
Simon J.K. Pedersen said Reply
Hi Wictor,
Great to see a lengthy post about your opinions, and observations which I in large agree with.
But I don't agree with your conclusions, due to the fact there atm is no replacement or other service (within the MS ecosystem) that can fulfill the job that yammer does.
I'm not saying that yammer is awesome, but if you buy into the idea that enterprise social networks can improve productivity (as I see you don't anymore?) then yammer is your best option. Lack of updates aside, it is at least a complete product with apps and browser based solutions that works.
I hope your post is an attempt to wake up MS more than it's your final judgement.
Wictor said Reply
Simon, what I say is that I think the siloed ESN is going away in favor of an Enterprise Social Fabric that is integrated with other tools/solutions. That is the future. Yammer due to its nature and background and architecture can never be that solution.
Enterprise social is absolutely important, saying something else was not my intention.
Magnus G said Reply
Great article. I have also tried to get in touch with their team without any luck so this confirms my thoughts of what the "master plan" might be.
I am looking forward to the day when the Governance of groups are more manageable. Your article "Office 365 Groups for Admins - Group creation policies" were very helpful and makes Groups a little less "messy" :-)
Per Ove Sandhåland said Reply
Thank you for your excellent and deep investigation of the features today, and for your perception of the future of social work.
I do believe you are sincere. As a Yammer advocate, I am having a hard time to believe the conclusion that Yammer can never be a integrated part of a microservice world. In a way I am still hoping that Microsoft will surprise us with something awesome from the Yammer aquisition, that fills holes in the conversation technology today. I love Yammer and have seen how much help it is in gettting in tocuh with others of same interrests and finding people and earlier conversations.
It should be deeply integrated and natural to information in documents and on projects or products.
This is where I see Groups be on a better track. For a normal person (not an IT geek), the way of working is almost always the simplest way or by old habit.
To change habits, you need to provide a simpler way and make it attractive.
Yammer is not deeply integrated (yet). Groups conversations are. They are immediatle available.
So if Yammer would get this is well and be instantly available in a group or project, what is the reason to use group conversations?
Are they better? simpler? more sexy? easier to find in the long run?
Writing this, makes me think of some features Yammer should not have. Sharing documents.
When Groups Files get metadata I do not see Yammers features to be able to compete.
Yammer has not been deprecated as Infopath has been. Will it ever?
will it just be a supported system like Infopath until 2025?
If so, we should really like to know. Now!
Wictor said Reply
Per Ove - one of my main pain points with Yammer is its identity management. For three years Microsoft has been unable to use one identity for Office 365 and Yammer - so what are the odds that they will sort that out in the next coming years. Without a common identity system there is no way you can build efficient micro services.
Marc de Kleijn said Reply
Another hint that Yammer is slowly going away is that the Yammer certification program was discontinued a while ago (Power User, Community Manager, Trainer & Administrator).
Wictor said Reply
Thanks Marc - a good observation
Bart Swerts said Reply
Hi Wictor
I think you're really pointing out the most important success limiting issues of the platform. Too long have we been telling the enterprises that "great things are coming" and managing expectations without visible improvements. Also, the shift to the embedded web part should have been more gently in my opinion. But a lot of the issues could probably be deducted to the lack of an integrated identity system.
So is it dead? Maybe not yet, but it's slowly dying for sure. Until now, it has never been my first choice customer advice towards SharePoint ESN, but the conditions under which I would advice Yammer are becoming more restricted. For sure, some companies could benefit from it, but less and less of them qualify for a rollout. And that, not only from a technologic point of view but in general, is a strong indication that a certain level of maturity will never be achieved. Which of course is a smasher on the long term.
Time will tell, but it's going to need some killer features - and quickly!
Scott Jackson said Reply
As a big Yammer flag waiver, I have been concerned about Microsoft's long term direction for Yammer. When Microsoft introduced Office Groups last year without it being based on Yammer technology for me the writing was on the wall from that decision. On the YamJam with Microsoft on 1st Oct 2015, there was a barrage of questions from the Yammer community about the product direction, and the stated position is that Yammer conversations will be integrated into Office Groups in H2 of 2016, however, with the launch of Office Groups directly in Outlook 2016 for desktop, there is a lot of sceptism about how businesses will be expected to ask people to know which groups to use for what. The office groups engine is currently lacking in significant features that prevent it replacing all of Yammer at the moment, but you can see where the investment is being made.
Simon Denton said Reply
For me fabric is the right term, describing it as a network is a bad choice. SharePoint and Yammer are fabric services and we'll witness the continual slide of the products into the background. We'll consume the services in features like Groups and Delve but it would be unlikely that end users will interact with the products directly.
I also think that it appears like there is a lack of cohesion across the O365 platform with the SharePoint, Delve, OneDrive, Video, Groups etc. teams working in isolation to each other. I think perhaps this has contributed to Yammers drift and eventual slide.
One aspect that the blog misses is that Yammer still has a considerable standalone market. I do wonder what will happen to that.
Dave said Reply
Really enjoyed reading your post. I think you're right and one of your comments summarizes why (IMHO):
"The thing we waste time on the most is the actual context switching, something that we humans have big issues with."
I say let them fade into the background as Simon Denton alluded to above. Relevant content without the switching.
Christian Buckley said Reply
A lot of great points being made here. Rather than repeat what others have so eloquently stated, I'll just make one point: social is most successful when it happens within the workload -- not at a separate URL, or from a separate tab in the UI. And that's where Microsoft has failed over the past 3.5 years with Yammer, but is moving in the right direction with Groups, and, arguably, in a direction that is closer to where SharePoint native social features were headed with SP2013.
Not that I don't think there is value in Yammer. I am still an advocate for using it for external communities. But even there, OneDrive and external sharing diminish that value to some degree.
Pauli Sarkia said Reply
Yammer included some really neat ideas, but it always bothered me that it was so separate and didn't fit into the Office family. As a standalone solution it worked great.
It's great seeing Yammer's good ideas working themselves into Office 365 and bringing the goodness to it.
Microsoft is slowly removing integration with Yammer, such as Document Conversions, and all these clues tells that Yammer is slowly fading away...
Chris Slemp said Reply
They were pretty clear with the announcement that they were removing Doc Conversations that they are committed to the scenario and want to re-do it right.


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Part of the Casement, founded on high ground and well drained, may be used for bathing, and for taking the meals if the windows be situated so that the children can, from the tables, enjoy the view of the gardens, purposely ornamented. The dining-rooms must be numerous, small and neat; so that the children may be grouped in each as at a family table. The upper stories are devoted to sleeping apartments, infirmary, and the like. The dormitories are large, but in no instance should contain more than four to ten children with one attendant. These rooms are kept tastefully in order by the same attendant, assisted by her children. There are no means of communication from the side, story, or building occupied by the girls, to that of the boys.
The ground floor is the institution par excellence, the learning, moving, acting of the children, taking place on this floor, whose distribution must be entirely subordinate to the necessities of the treatment. When these shall be better understood, the reception-rooms and other accessories will be removed from this floor to give free scope to the general training. The partitioning of this floor must be so contrived that each room may be closed by itself, or all of them wide open, connecting as a single circular hall. This, as a whole, serves the various purposes of the general training. It may be seen at a glance that to be made serviceable in this wise, the space occupied by the school apparatus must be insignificant, compared to that left for the movements; otherwise, each room having its decorations, instruments, and character perfectly determined, according to its destination; and, as these apartments substantiate the special training, at least the greater part of it, we must describe the most important of them.
For these special purposes, the rooms must communicate freely, be closed easily, intercept the noises from one part to another, present large wall surfaces opposite to large surfaces of light; the ceilings must be lofty but even, without any relief or colors unduly attracting the attention. The floors must all be on the same level, for carriages to transport the most immovable pupils, and things generally; otherwise the floor of nearly each room be marked in a certain manner, for the different exercises to be followed in them, as we shall see.
Though it matters little which part of the institutions we describe first, we may as well begin with the delineation of one of the numerous recesses where an inattentive and ungovernable child is taken apart, now and then, to fix his attention and reduce his disordered movements to firm immobility. This is a mere nook, uniformly colored like a studio; lighted by a single window with no landscape, no accessory ornament, no furniture save two firm blocks, shaped like the sole of the feet, and destined to support, like pedestals, the child at a height from which he cannot escape, and whence he can, must, and finally will take notice of the presence of his teacher, or of a thing offered to his sight, in the absence of anything else to be seen.
Near at hand must be the large-sized room, in which involuntary exercises of the feet are taught; the self-acting swing, opposed to a spring-board, from which the feet borrow strength and elasticity; the ladder lying on the floor forcing the child, who must walk between its rounds, to raise his feet; the treadmill whose floor moves, and makes the child walk in situ; the blocks rising from the floor at regular walking distances; and parallel to them, the painted footprints on the floor; the former to make the regular walk compulsive, the latter to make it obligatory. Here, dumb-bells are only used as means of equilibrium, to give regularity and firmness to the walk. That room has an issue upon stairs, expressly built with series of various sized steps, to teach the going up and down: dumb-bells are carried there too.
The room in which are performed the exercises of personal imitation, must be exempt from noise, ornament, or attraction of any sort. Its floor must be marked here and there with straight and curved lines, and with series of footprints upon which each child is expected to stand, or fall back to in due time; these footprints affecting a straight or slightly concave line, or several such, according to the wants of the teaching; for, to imitate well, all the children must see equally the motions of the teacher. In some places are holes in the floor, used to secure blocks upon which unsteady children are forced into steadiness during the exercise, being unwilling to fall.
The development of the human voice being favored by the voice of instruments, there is a piano in the room devoted to purely vocal exercises. There, one child at a time, or many together, are trained to emit tones, short or long, high or low, single or by pairs, or in series. If this room be ornamented, its pictures must represent musical instruments, bonâ fide singers and even comical concerts. The articulation-room is more secluded, offering no distraction, not even through the unique window, which is rather high, and throws its bright light, not horizontally, but from above downwards, in order well to show the articulating movements.


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Dr. Christopher Godek of the Personal Enhancement Center Covers Some Facial Plastic Surgery Procedures That Can Help Counteract Signs of Aging From Life on the Jersey Shore
TOMS RIVER, NJ--(Marketwired - Jan 14, 2014) - "As a plastic surgeon here at the Jersey Shore, I tend to see a lot of sun damage and aging issues resulting from predominantly outdoor lifestyles," begins a recent blog post authored by New Jersey plastic surgeon Christopher Godek, MD. The entry, titled A Shore Solution to Cosmetic Facial Concerns, covers a number of common aesthetic concerns on the face, as well as several facial plastic surgery treatments and procedures available at the Personal Enhancement Center, Dr. Godek's private practice.
As highlighted in the post, cosmetic facial concerns that Dr. Godek hears from his patients most frequently include:
In order to improve the appearance of these concerns, Dr. Godek notes that he offers several surgical and nonsurgical options, some of which include:
The remainder of the post covers the New Jersey plastic surgeon's consultation process for facial plastic surgery. As part of a comprehensive assessment of the facial region, Dr. Godek says he looks at "all aspects of aging, including skin quality, drooping and sagging, facial imbalances, and loss of volume in the cheeks and/or other areas of the face." After his thorough evaluation, he then determines the most effective treatment plan based on the individual's unique needs. Additionally, he offers patients the opportunity to couple their treatment or procedure with a customized skin care program designed to expedite recovery and improve results.
About Christopher Godek, MD, FACS
A graduate of Syracuse University, Dr. Godek earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He then went on to complete a General Surgery Residency and a Plastic Surgery Residency at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, respectively. He has also completed a Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and he is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Godek is available for interview upon request.
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Yesterday my brand new (to be honest, it's used) Disposable Heroes & Coffin for seven Brothers rulebook and the four Armybooks "Angriff!", "Go forward together!", "Blood and Guts!" and "Urrahh!" have arrived!
(lots of "!" in one sentence... )
As far as I got, I can say they're a good read and very likely much fun to play! I especially like the russian optional rules "Liquid Courage" and "Women, Children and old Men" (even if this particular one is marked as political incorrect)
Now I have to go and get some D10 ;-)
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text: Help the helpless is an excellent motto in life. If it is anything in your power, don't hesitate to help someone in trouble. Such behavior is invaluable, so you should always try to give required help. However, most helpless creatures in the world are little pets. If this fact is combined with bad weather conditions, then you are really caught up in the situation when you need to help a cute puppy left outside at the rain. It is all wet and hungry, so you have to bath it and feed it. Also, the best thing is left for the last. Dress up this adorable doggy. Can you do all this?


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August 18 2017Echinacea are the jewel of the garden in late summer and gone are the days when purple and white were the only choice. Now they come in an array of colours to suit any perennial border. Cleopatra is named after a beautiful yellow butterfly from the Mediterranean and the sunshine colour of this variety conjures up images of summer days in that region. Give it a sunny spot and dead head regul
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July – Agapanthus campanulatus Navy Blue
July 03 2017Agapanthus in July always evokes memories of foreign holidays to the Mediterranean and South Africa. As the name suggests this beautiful and tall Agapanthus has stunning large flower heads of rich navy blue which sit well above the strappy green leaves. As a campanulatus variety, this Agapanthus will lose its leaves over the winter however this makes it a hardier choice to keep outside in
June – Lupins
May 26 2017Lupins are a favourite in any cottage garden with spires of bright flowers in late May and June. There are many different varieties to choose from including the very bright Lupin Manhattan Lights which have purple and yellow bi-coloured flowers. If you prefer something a little more subtle Lupin Masterpiece is the one for you as it is a lovely rich purple and red. Lupins prefer a well-drained s
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May 11 2017There has been a surge in popularity in Geums over the past few years, in particular Geum Totally Tangerine, which was seen in many gardens at Chelsea flower show in 2015. Totally Tangerine starts flowering in early May and will continue throughout the summer reaching a height of approximately 1.2m; it is perfect for the middle of a mixed border. The vibrant orange colour of this Geum goes parti
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February 05 2017A compact, evergreen shrub producing clusters of white flowers that have a reddish purple flush on the outside in late spring and early summer. These have a delicious scent and are followed by rounded red fruits. It is a wonderful plant to include in a mixed border or woodland garden, ideally close to a path or entrance so you can enjoy the scent of the flowers every time you pass. We suggest t


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The natural processes of the universe achieve some amazing results, and nowhere is this more evident than in crystals. However, they are much more than beautiful decoration.
It can take millennia for a crystal to form inside the Earth, and as such they are containers holding the power of the universe within. Shamans and mystics the world over have long known about the seemingly magical quality of these minerals.
Each type of crystal holds different powers, so when going to purchase one there are many things to consider.
You might ask yourself if you will be wearing or if it will be decoration. Will the crystal be held in a sacred place? Will you be using it to manifest spiritual growth?
Common gemstones and their uses:
- Clear Quartz: Promotes thought energy and scatters negativity. It is a natural batter, receiving, storing and giving off energy. Quartz can be used for higher-dimensional communication and is excellent for meditation.
- Amethyst: Has a calming influence, is protective and inspirational. It is good for dream states and also good for connecting to higher vibrations and meditating.
- Moonstone: Promotes intuition and perception. It also balances emotions, induces confidence and is an inspirational source in love and business.
- Citrine: Promotes self-esteem, mental clarity and aligns one with their higher self. Citrine also attracts abundance.
- Rose Quartz: Is good for balancing and healing emotions. It also stimulates the heart chakra, encouraging compassion and harmony while eliminating anger and jealousy.
- Kyanite: Aligns and strengthens the astral body and stimulates the third eye chakra. Kyanite also balances yin and yang and helps to clear blockages.
How To Choose:
Crystals all emit energy, so it is important to be open and have a positive intention to draw you to the stone that suits your personal needs. For this reason it is preferable to browse a reputable crystal shop rather than using an online resource.
You may find that a certain stone draws you to it. If you are purchasing your first crystal, this could be the one which starts your collection. Often, our intuition will pull us toward the gem that will benefit us the most, but reflecting on the purpose of the crystal is often vital to making a good match.
Obviously, if the stone is to be worn, you will want a size that is comfortable, but if it is intended to provide energy to a whole room or structure, you will want it to be large enough to fill that space.
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ANTARCTICA, ARCTICA:THE VANISHING NORTH, Climate Change, ECO ACTIVIST, GLOBAL GREEN USA, GREENLAND, NORTH POLE, PHOTOGRAPHER, POLAR EXPLORER, SEBASTIAN COPELAND, SEDNA, SOUTH POLE, TENEUES, UNITED NATIONS
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Award-winning photographer and documentary film-maker, polar explorer and activist, Sebastian Copeland continues to trek our arctic lands as an advocate for the environment, visually capturing the essence of places very few humans have ever seen. He has authored six books and journeyed 5,000 miles on skis, leading expeditions across the Arctic sea, Greenland and Antarctica, reaching both North and South Poles on foot. Copeland also founded SEDNA: The Copeland Foundation, which is dedicated to preventing Arctic drilling for oil, and also sits on the board of directors of President Gorbachev's Global Green USA.
An international speaker on the climate change crisis, he has addressed audiences across the globe, including at the United Nations, World Affairs Council, universities and Fortune 500 companies, speaking about systemic changes in the Polar regions and the urgent need for a market transformation towards a sustainable future.
"Globally, our collective passivity on climate change is slowly shifting thanks to irrefutable science and dramatic natural events, but we still face powerful deniers and are a long shot from taking conclusive action," Copeland explains. "In the end, we are the ones who have the most to lose, but also the ones who can effectuate change. We vote with our purchases, thereby sending a clear message to the business community. And watch what you put at the end of your fork."
Copeland has now released his latest book, Arctica: The Vanishing North (teNeues), which illustrates the breath-taking beauty, splendor and vulnerability of this pristine landscape, capturing our imagination through mesmerizing imagery. Through his passion and photography, Copeland hopes to raise awareness of the threat to this last true wilderness on the planet, while seducing and inspiring us into action to make critical changes for a cleaner and healthier world.


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For Better or Worse
The first week of July, the first week of my first full summer as a wedding celebrant, and I'm feeling pretty ready. The week's ceremonies are all written, approved and typed up on good paper, and the hand-made keepsake copies all nicely bound and ready for delivery. I've practiced with my new hand-held microphone, and I have my outfits, with the scarves that don't clash with the bridesmaids, all picked out. Not exactly laid out on the bed like the first day of school, but pretty close. All I have left to do, since hubby is out of town, is to sit down for three days and sink into my planned retreat to write the next batch of fall ceremonies, because July is about to come in like a lion.
Too bad about the patch of water I notice on the carpet in the hallway, which quickly turns into a little flood in my kitchen, which turns into a bulldozer in my front yard, tearing up the garden, the grass, the whole yard in search of a broken sewer main. Too bad about the three days that go up in smoke, or down the drain, or whatever metaphor is appropriate to my now addled and anxious brain.
If it's not the sewer, it's something else; that run of bad luck, that chain of events that is sent to test us, or to break us, or maybe isn't even sent at all, but just happens.
Thank goodness for the weddings. Thank goodness that during that first awful week, in the middle of my panic attacks, immediately after the bouts of self-pitying sobbing, I had weddings to show up for, that I had something to remind me what I really needed to focus on.
And what a week it was! The wind was ferocious up on Tunnel Mountain. It was warm, but the wind came in hot gusts from four directions, and knocked down the newly-decorated plinths, the tables, and sent my book and glasses flying, not just once, but several times. The gorgeous little flower arrangements were put back in their boxes and out of harm's way. The little cue cards we were using for the readings flitted like butterflies just out of reach. Hairdos were toast. The tent that had been promised to the violist, to keep her and her instrument out of the sun, laughed and flapped in the gale, and refused to be part of the wedding at all. Surely this was an awful situation. Surely this was a bride's nightmare.
The bride didn't seem to notice. Her smile was unstoppable. Her gown was delightful, sweeping and dancing across the meadow. Her groom was grinning. Their kids were laughing and happy, though they accepted their family tokens with great solemnity. And the violinist, whose husband sat beside her to steady the music stand, played the most exquisite music from beneath the shade of an old Douglas Fir.
The next day, the wind had stopped. All the fluffy white clouds had been driven away by the wind, and the skies were wall to wall blue. The sun was shining. Well, not so much shining as bearing down, beating, flooding with heat and light, the park where the white wedding chairs were neatly placed in rows. It was 31 degrees and there was no shade. Not a tree, not a bush, not a drop of shade. Surely this was a nightmare. I mean, the wee babies that were part of the processional. The grandmas. The young kids. It was much too hot for everyone.
Except the bride didn't seem to notice. And neither did her guests. They were attentive, and responsive, and they breathed in the smoke of the sage that the groom's mother smudged us with. They took the hand fasting ribbon when it came to them, and they gifted it with their best intentions before they passed it along. The groom definitely didn't notice. He only had eyes for her, and his eyes were brimming with tears most of the time anyway. And when it was all over, when those guests could have run for the shade, they stood a little longer, because the wedding party – the bride, tall and elegant in lace, and her very happy groom in his Black Watch kilt, and his friends and the two boys in their kilts, and the girls in their long black gowns – all lined up against the blazing backdrop of Rundle Mountain. And that was something to see.
I came home from those weddings to a kitchen that was out on the driveway, with the carpet all torn up and heaped into pile to go to the dump. I also came home to a husband who said, "it's only stuff", and "we'll figure it out", and, "sorry you had to deal with everything", and, "how did the weddings go?" I came home to a partner who had said some twenty-five years ago, "for better or worse". It was a good thing to come home to.
I don't know what will happen next week. None of us do. But I do know that we'll still laugh, and we'll probably cry (I will most certainly cry) and we'll deal with it.
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GPR assessment of a wooden floor in Sao Carlos Theater, Lisbon, PortugalPublicationsPosted by Lara Pajewski Sat, May 26, 2018 22:56:08
Paper published in May 2018 by TU1208 Members from Italy, Portugal and Spain, presenting the structural health assessment of a wooden floor in São Carlos Theater, Lisbon, Portugal. The study was carried out by using various techniques, including GPR. Read a full-text version here: https://rdcu.be/PaYv


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IMM Holiday Gift
Wanting to provide our clients with something a little more unique than a cookie cutter holiday gift, we partnered with local purveyors Boxcar Coffee and 303 Whiskey to give our clients a "Best of Boulder, CO" experience. We then bottled, packaged, sealed, screen printed and assembled each gift—completely by hand. Work done in collaboration with the IMM Creative Team.


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/The following is from a newspaper clipping included among the Jefferson Davis papers at Rice University.It is by Varina Davis and appeared in the New York World on Sunday, December 13, 1896. She writes about Christmas in the South during the War.
She says: "For as Christmas season was ushered in under the darkest clouds, everyone felt the cataclysm which impended but the rosy, expectant faces of our little children were a constant reminder that self-sacrifice must be the personal offering of each member of the family. How to satisfy the children when nothing better could be done than the little makeshift attainable in the Confederacy was the problem of the older members of each household".
She goes on to talk about the missing ingredients for the "mince pie" which was a must for Christmas. In fact, the children considered that at least a slice of that much-coveted dainty was their right, and the price of indigestion paid for it was a debt of honor!!!
She says that the many excited housekeepers in Richmond had preserved all the fruits attainable, (including apples from the plenteous apple trees, and these were substituted for the time-honored raisins and currants. The brandy and cider were forthcoming. Hooray, Christmas would be a success!!!


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AUBURN – "Roger Brown: Southern Exposure," a touring exhibition organized by Auburn University's Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art to honor Alabama native Roger Brown and his long artistic career, opens at the museum Oct. 6 and continues through Jan. 5.
The show is the first to focus on the Southern sensibility of Brown, an artist born in Alabama in 1941, who achieved fame in the 1970s and 1980s as a key figure of the Imagist movement in Chicago where he studied, settled and made his career.
Tracking Brown's life from his childhood in Alabama, through his working years and to his death in the South in 1997, the exhibition presents nearly 40 examples of the boldly patterned landscapes, figure-filled skyscrapers, news-driven narratives and biting commentaries for which he became famous.
"'Roger Brown: Southern Exposure' was planned as part of the museum's ongoing activities celebrating 2007 as the Year of Alabama Arts," said Marilyn Laufer, Director of the Jule Collins Smith Museum. "What better way to end the year of such a celebration than to recognize Roger Brown, one of the state's own native sons."
"Sidney Lawrence, who knew the artist and curated his first retrospective exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum, agreed to be guest curator for the show. In discussions with Mr. Lawrence, we determined this exhibition would differ from others of Brown's work by focusing on the importance of the artist's Southern heritage, an aspect of his aesthetic and sensibility not previously given full consideration."
The selection of paintings, three-dimensional pieces, prints and drawings is supplemented by personal and family memorabilia, works by artist-friends from his student years and examples of self-taught and vernacular art collected by Brown.
"By combining this breadth of materials, the show intends to reveal the origins and persistence of such recurring themes as folk craft, fire-and-brimstone religion, city awe, the great American landscape and a no-nonsense attitude about art, life and politics," said Lawrence. "The artist, who returned to Alabama at least once a year and kept in close touch with his family, proudly identified himself as a Southerner. This show will open the door to that sensibility."
From the Jule Collins Smith Museum, the exhibit will travel to the American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C. and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art at the University of New Orleans.
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Year Awarded: 2007
Otto Phanstiel
College of Sciences
I image myself as a co-journeyer, who walks with students through the key concepts of the course and challenges them to solve new problems using these ideas. Revising and creating new curriculum is necessary to prepare our students for their careers. Over the past three years I have worked with other faculty to facilitate the implementation of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biomolecular Science and the Ph.D. in Chemistry. The challenge was to find a common thread to weave together an interdisciplinary curriculum for students with diverse backgrounds in chemistry, biology and molecular biology. Structure-function relationships were chosen as the focus of the core course. In this manner students can bridge from the atoms-to-the-animals using their understanding of biomolecular interactions. I also revamped Applied Organic Synthesis, CHS 6251, to illustrate modern synthetic techniques using organometallic reagents. This change empowers our graduates to excel in any environment requiring efficient organic synthetic methods. Research students are trained in modern laboratory techniques such as organic synthesis as these skills are necessary for their future employment. The training includes weekly problem-solving sessions, which help students to think critically about their data and lab techniques. In short, it makes them better scientists.
Beyond providing a stimulating research environment, I assist students in achieving their full potential as evidenced by their matriculation into medical school or their obtainment of high paying jobs within the pharmaceutical industry. I believe in supporting Orlando's youth and have mentored local high school students and have judged local, regional and state science fairs. Perhaps, the most important outcomes from the students in my group are their numerous peer-reviewed publications and presentations and over $1M in acquired funding.
Organic Chemistry requires specialized instruction because a new chemical language must be learned. Students must understand why things happen and be able to explain these chemical concepts to non-scientists. By providing a highly structured environment and cooperative learning methods, I maintain a high standard and expect exceptional performance. The best gift I can give UCF students is to empower them with the ability to write and speak intelligently about science.


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It's not secret that I absolutely love Christmas, and everything that comes with it. I've shared our Christmas Bucket List which pretty much covers all of the big things I love about this time of year, so I thought that today I would share some of the little things that I adore about the festive season:
Hearing carols being sung as you walk past a church
Seeing people's Christmas trees through their windows
The smell as you open a tub of Quality Street
Finding that beautiful bauble that you had forgotten about
Perfectly sweet and juicy clementines
Sitting down to highlight everything you want to watch over Christmas in the Radio Times magazine
Eating all of the cheese
Finding the houses that have gone to town with the tacky Christmas lights
Wearing red lipstick all day every day
A glass or two of wine with lunch at the work Christmas meal
Seeing your child's face light up when they see Father Christmas
The feeling of magic that is in the air on Christmas Eve
Lighting the advent candle each day
Seeing wreaths on front doors
Getting a Christmas sandwich in your meal deal
Wearing a Christmas jumper to work
The smell of pine when you buy a Christmas tree or wreath
Burning all of the candles
The glow in the living room when you've got all the fairy lights on
Wearing Christmas socks rather than normal socks
The comfort of a warm cup of mulled wine
Curling ribbon when you wrap presents
When your shopping list entirely consists of Christmas food
Meeting up with friends and family who you haven't seen for ages, and it's like nothing has changed
The excitement when you remember you haven't opened your advent calendar yet
Finding yourself singing along to a Christmas song in the supermarket
Snuggling up with a big hot chocolate to watch a Christmas film
Finding yourself still buying presents on Christmas Eve
Putting fairy lights up in the office in a bid to make it more festive
Seeing all of the presents under the tree and wondering what could be inside
Having Christmas themed everything, including bleach and washing up liquid (just me?)
What are the little things you love about Christmas time?


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You may not use Corporate or Civilian characters to circumvent Main character standings - e.g. A Hutt member may not use a SoroSuub alt to make money for the Hutts. That member may still have that alt, but any money that exchanges hands between that character and his main or fellow main faction members must be justified. Else, this is considered metagaming.
I'm assuming this also applies to suppling stockpiles with materials as well? (Particularly when materials are sold in hostile territories.) This is going on quite a bit at the moment and as I understand things it shouldn't be allowed. Can I get some clarification to be sure?


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An intimate brew pub in the Old Mill area with 7 current styles of our own Brew Wërks beers plus 5 other great taps. Come en...joy the Irreverence IPA, Neurotic Blonde Ale, Rabble-Rouser Imperial Red Ale, Schizophrenic Stout, Shrunken Pumpkin Ale, Imperial IPA, and the Winter Warrior Lager. See More
Inspired by the everyday family cooking that we grew up with, you'll feel at home while savoring a great meal in our casual and relaxed dining room. Experience our inventive cuisine, attentive service, and a friendly atmosphere; come see what makes us one of the most popular restaurants in town. Moderately priced, casually presented traditional and playful elements from various cuisines,...
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They had 20 beers on tap and about half were their own. A good variety. The porter was tasty. The food was amazing: brisket burnt ends in a bun and a brisket burger. The service was good, but the place was almost empty on a Wed night.
First stop on the Bend Cycle Pub tour. Looks more like a restaurant than a brewery. The place has indoor and outdoor seating with a great view overlooking the Deschutes River. Our group was obviously looking to get in and out quickly. The order station was separate from the bar by about 20 feet. The bartender never bothered to checked the beer orders and we sat around for about 15 minutes...
Old Mill Brew Werks is located at 384 SW Upper Terrace Dr Ste 108, Bend, OR. This business specializes in Breweries.
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Listen to Duck Sauce's Surprising and Delightful New Album, Quack
If you went to a party any time during 2010 or 2011, Duck Sauce's "Barbra Streisand" probably blared through the speakers at some point. With its impeccable sampling (Boney M's "Gotta Go Home") and propulsive beat, the song was a ready-made dance classic. Now the DJ duo—comprised of Armand Van Helden and A-Trak—have emerged from an almost four-year hibernation and released a full album, Quack, for streaming.
The record is very good. There's no filler here; all the tracks are rooted in the duo's signature house and disco sound, but they feature an array of unexpected and triumphant genre inflection, from vintage doo-wop ("It's You") to 70's funk ("aNYway"). The pair's fine ear for appropriation is also welcome in a time when DJs seemingly toss in samples without regard for context—when Duck Sauce splices in an old cut, it seems chosen or calibrated for the specific feel and pace of their song. You can listen to all 12 Quack tracks below; the physical album will be released April 15.


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Susan Singleton is a solicitor and practises through her own firm of solicitors in the commercial, competition and intellectual property law area. After training at London solicitors Nabarro Nathanson (now CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, trading as CMS), she moved to the EC/Competition Department of City law firm Slaughter and May, solicitors and thereafter the London intellectual property law specilalist solicitors' firm Bristows, until founding Singletons, Solicitors. She has advised many major public companies in the UK and abroad.
She has served on the Contracts Group (formerly known as the Legal Committee) of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and was responsible for updating of the CIPS IT Model Forms of Contract.
Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association until 2016, Susan Singleton is author of over 30 law books and is a frequent writer in her field. Recent books have included Commercial Agency Agreements (Bloomsbury 4th ed 2015), Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses (10th edition, Jan. 2018, Beswick and Wine, Bloomsbury Publishing), Joint Ventures and Shareholders' Agreements, 5th edition 2017, Bloomsbury Publishing, and on competition, data protection, and internet law. She follows EC and UK general commercial law developments closely. She speaks frequently at UK and international conferences in this area and has spoken at about 1700 legal conferences. She is the editor of the three volume Graham & Trotman looseleaf Comparative Law of Monopolies.
See Susan Singleton's "Author Page" on Amazon and her author video.
On the intellectual property side she edits/publishes/owns the subscription newsletter IT Law Today, the UK's oldest IT law journal (published since June 2010 by Singlelaw) and also publishes Corporate Briefing and Finance and Credit Law and International Trade Finance newsletters available on subscription.
More generally in January 2014 she additionally acquired 6 more legal journals from Informa plc making the Singlelaw publications a stable of ten legal journals (see links on the home page of this site). She is a contributing author to Company Secretary's Factbook, Accountants' Legal Service, Employment Personnel and Procedures and other publications. She updates her textbook Business, the Internet and the Law (Bloomsbury) three times a year and is a contributing author and updater of Bloomsbury's EContracts looseleaf. She regularly updates parts of the Oxford Dictionary of Law - the 4th edition (1997) and 5th, 6th, 7th. 8th and 9th (2018) editions).
She is on the Committee and was former Chair of the Licensing Executives Society (EC Laws Committee) and until 2010 sat on the Board as an Independent Member of the Direct Marketing Authority.
Profiles of Susan Singleton1. From "Solo", Magazine of Sole Practiioners Group, Law Society - Autumn/Winter 2014
2. (Above from AWS (Association of Women Solicitors) Magazine LINK - 2005)
3. "IT Girl or Wonderwoman?" (Law.com 1 June 2000)
Susan Singleton
Leading IT lawyer Susan Singleton tells Chris Dignan of law.com how she risked leaving a big firm to go-it-alone - while bringing up five children.
Susan Singleton went back to work just two weeks after giving birth to her first child because she believed maternity leave was 'sexist'. She was 22 and was doing her articles at Nabarro Nathanson. Today, she has five children, is 38, and has left the comfort and support as a firm's employee to become a successful leading lawyer in her field, working solo from home. Singleton is unconventional, undaunted and hugely energetic which becomes infectious to most people she meets. She gives the impression that nothing is too difficult, with an enthusiastic smile rather than an arrogant declaration.
From her office window, she overlooks the family's large garden, in contrast to the bustling streets and grey buildings she could see from her desk when working for London firms. Her small office, lined with journals, is based in a ground-floor room in the family's large country home on Pinner Hill, Middlesex. No reception area dipped in chrome and marble with a team of stern-looking security guards waiting for you. Just walk up to the front door and knock and enter a family home. She sits behind her tidy desk and PC, children playing somewhere in other rooms, glancing at a diary full of appointments and deadlines for journals. 'I was the only trainee Nabarro had taken on who gave birth during their articles,' she says. 'I didn't take maternity leave because I thought it was sexist. It sounds very radical and will not please a lot of women. I didn't want time off.'
Inspired by television programmes about lawyers, such as Crown Court, she went into law after her father suggested she might like it. She worked at the property, taxation, litigation and commercial departments before qualifying in 1985 and going to Slaughter and May's EU and competition department where she learned from high-calibre lawyers. Three years later, it was off to Bristows where she forged her reputation as a copyright lawyer and began to write articles for specialist journals. However, with no partnership on the horizon, Singleton decided to risk everything and take the plunge by setting up her own practice in 1994. 'I didn't know anyone who had done this before so there was no-one's example I could follow. I just read a Law Society book on the subject and did it. I had no clients and earned money initially from writing articles.'
It was not long before she was in demand for her specialist knowledge in copyright and IT law. She is also thankful that the IT volcano had erupted by this time so her timing could not have been better.
The fact that she works on her own from an office in deepest Pinner without being part of an impressive firm does not deter clients either. 'People in this area are used to other people in their business working on their own, and many clients are young and so not conditioned by years of dealing with lawyers in massive firms.'
Today, she is ranked by Chambers & Partners as a leading IT/ computer lawyer, is editor of IT Law Today; Trading Law and Trading Law Reports; Comparative Law of Monopolies; and Purchasing and Supply Briefing; as well as writing for a host of other publications and being a guest on Radio 4 programmes.
So, surely, now that she's proved that she doesn't need a firm to be a success, she can take as much time as she likes off. 'Yes. I take one week's holiday a year. I really enjoy what I do ' it is my hobby. (She worked until 1.30am the day of this interview). I know I could take more time off if I wanted to, but it does not feel as though I am being forced to work late like perhaps I would if I was working at a firm. It is my choice. 'Because I am working from home, I can always take a small break and see the children, even if I am working, so I can see them whenever I like.'
Last year, Singleton had two twin boys, to add to her other children aged 15, 13 and 11. Full-time motherhood without working has never appealed. She employs a nanny and cleaner and enjoys the best of both worlds. 'I think it is much harder work staying at home with children all day. I would much rather write an interesting article on internet law than scrape remains off a saucepan. I like being with my children but don't want to be with them all the time.' Her dedication to work, impressive CV, client list and general success could create impression that she is a hard person. Far from it. She rarely stops smiling, is interested in gossip and is highly affable and charming. She met her music teacher husband, Martin, when he was a choirmaster and she sang at Chester Cathedral during law school. Singing and writing are two of her other passions. She dreamt of being a novelist if she hadn't been a lawyer and has written one or two books (as yet unpublished). The nearest she came to that a few days ago was when her home was used for the filming of a Ruth Rendell story. "


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Disney unveils line-reducing MyMagic+ technology
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A Walt Disney World vacation is meant to be magical, where families take a trip to see Mickey Mouse and pals. But many Orlando vacations turn frustrating as long lines persist for just about everything - rides, shows, even finding somewhere to sit and eat.
This week Disney has revealed a high-tech innovation aimed at solving this unpopular problem. It's called MyMagic+, a program announced to act as an "umbrella" under which a variety of technologies unite to help visitors plan vacations - including reserving FastPass times for attractions, booking dining reservations and paying for things such as theme park entry, items at shops and pre-ordered food.
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts chairman Tom Staggs explained in a statement the need for an overhaul. "Over the past few years, we've continued to build on our legacy of innovation to take the entire Disney guest experience to a new level. Our goal is to deliver a more immersive, more seamless and more personal experience to each and every guest who spends time with us."
That personal experience will unfold over the next few months with a launch date currently set for spring 2013. Walt Disney World hotel guests and those who purchase photo packages will be among the first to experience MyMagic+, ultimately available to all guests by the end of 2013.
Guests visiting Walt Disney World today will already see a few new perks. Disney spokeswoman Angelia Bliss noted, "Some examples of elements we have already available to our guests are both the free Wi-Fi throughout our theme parks and the My Disney Experience website and mobile app."
Available at no extra charge, vacationers can hop online to the new My Disney Experience section of the Walt Disney World website for advanced trip planning, linking family members and friends to share itineraries. The highlight is FastPass+, a new version of Disney's award-winning system that allows guests to skip lines for rides and shows.
The "plus" in FastPass+ adds the ability to reserve spots for parade and fireworks viewing for the first time - all in advance of stepping foot in the park. Guests can plan as little or as much as they'd like, even choosing specific ride times up to 60 days in advance, but leaving a window open to change plans on the fly after arriving. For those needing a little help, Disney's system can auto-magically offer a three "FastPicks" as suggestions on what to reserve.
While FastPass+ has already been tested among groups of Walt Disney World guests, another aspect of the program Disney introduced this week also includes an upcoming feature called the MagicBand. A simple looking, reusable wristband will feature embedded technology with radio frequency identification (RFID) capabilities enabling guests to simply tap these bands against - what else? - glowing Mickey Mouse heads throughout theme parks and hotels to activate a variety of functions.
MagicBands will serve as hotel room keys, simply tapping them against the lock to open. At theme park entrances, guests will tap to gain admission, never having to wait in a turnstile again. At retail and dining locations, guests may tap to pay if they've linked their MagicBands to a credit card. FastPass+ and Disney's PhotoPass system will too be accessed via MagicBand.
Disney's original FastPass system has received much acclaim since it was launched in in the '90s, and MyMagic+ is expected to do the same when it debuts this spring. Yet, other companies have already been employing similar technologies. Universal Orlando Resort's nearby Wet 'n Wild Orlando water park has used GO branded RFID wristbands since 2006 to allow its guests to easily make payments, and have cited an increase of food, beverage and merchandise sales by 15 percent to 20 percent per capita. In the same year the Great Wolf lodge in Wisconsin began using RFID wristbands for many of the same purposes Disney has in mind, including hotel room access, also adding interactive storytelling experiences and even the ability to share vacation photos on Facebook.
Disney's decision to invest in RFID now, part of their multimillion dollar "NextGen" project, stems from their core business model of always pleasing their guests.
"Disney cast, crew and Imagineers constantly ask themselves, 'How can we take what we do and do it even better?'" said Bliss. "We think that these enhancements and tools will enable our guests to have more control and make it easier for them to make the most of their time in our parks and resorts."
Making the most of their time means spending less of it waiting in line, more of it enjoying rides and, more importantly for Disney's investment, spending money in shops and restaurants, more easily than ever before.
Though many audiences will appreciate this high-tech approach to vacation planning, embracing MyMagic+ won't come easily for everyone. Disney acknowledges concerns regarding the security and privacy of information linked to their new MagicBands and say they are prepared.
"Guests will have the opportunity to choose what information they share with us - everything is opt-in - and nothing is more important to us than protecting that information," emphasized Bliss. "Guests should also know that the band does not store personal information." When asked if guests' every movement will be tracked throughout the Walt Disney World Resort, Bliss simply responded, "Not at all."
The MyMagic+ program is designed to evolve over time as Disney carefully watches how guests interact with it during its phased debut. For now it's planned only for Walt Disney World, not Disneyland in California or other parks worldwide. But the possibility is there for the future. Bliss added, "While we don't have more to share right now, the way we think about these experiences will vary based on the unique ways guests enjoy each of our parks, resorts and other vacation experiences."
Also, Walt Disney World visitors won't be required to participate in MyMagic+ to enjoy a trip to Orlando parks, but those who do should find a little time spent planning ahead will result in big benefits and more free time to enjoy a Disney vacation.


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Today was one of those strange days. My wife suffered a depressive episode. It was an odd reversal. As she talked about what she was feeling, she suddenly paused and asked me, "Is this what you feel like?" I had to tell her, yes, that is what it feels like, and that is what you're going through right now.
For me, the painful part was knowing that she was suffering, and wanting to do something about it. I wanted to lift her spirits, to get her out of the dingy, grey pit into which she had fallen. But I couldn't think of anything. So, we went for a drive, enjoyed the sunshine, and got a bite to eat. We talked some. I tried to listen, but mostly I said nothing. There was a lot of silence.
As wrong as it seems, that helped. I would have thought that a more active effort would have yielded results. Get her mind off of things. Encourage her. Get her to see that the troubles oppressing her were small indeed. I would have thought that I could draw upon my own experiences to help her.
But maybe she didn't need help. Looking at it now, I think that what she needed was for me to be there.
My Old Testament professor told us that Job's friends went wrong the moment they opened their mouths. If only they had kept silent and kept witness.
Our desire to do something I think says more about us. The focus comes off the one suffering to what we can do. Being present cedes the initiative. You watch, and wait. Perhaps more will be asked of you, perhaps not.
May I not tire in the waiting, O Lord.


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Hair loss in men is often seen at the end of 20s. In addition, the problem of hair loss can be seen in women. Our Team returns you to your old self in 1 day who had thousands of successful hair transplantation operation for over 20 years. In summary hair transplantation is the re-planting process that healthy hair follicles are spread to the area where the holes is opened. After the completely painless hair transplant procedures It is possible to get your old hair. In our hospital, hair transplantation procedures are performed by the Fue Hair Extraction method which is accepted by many authorities.
In this method, the hair follicles taken from the back of the head are planted in the area of hair loss by being kept in certain solutions.The new transplanted hair will start growing after 3-4 months and continue to grow for up to 12 months after the surgery.The final result may be observed after 1 year.
After hair transplantation, you need to preserve the transplanted area for a certain period of time to stabilize your hair follicles. This topic is more detailed at the bottom of the page.
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(Hypotermosol+ATP). Scientific essays report that this solution enables 99% graft liveliness in transplantations lasting more than 4 hours as compared with Saline solution or solutions such as Ringer Lactate.
FUE Hair Transplant or Follicular Unit Extraction is a method of harvesting hair follicles from the donor area (the back and side of scalp where hairs won't fall out during the patient's lifetime).In FUE hair transplant, the surgeon extracts each follicular unit one by one using a micro punch that varies in diameter from 0,7mm to 1,1mm. There are many types of punches and ways to use them (manual punches, motorized punches, sharp, blunt, among others) and all of them can offer good hair transplant results in experienced hands. What makes a big difference is the surgeon's ability and experience. There is even a robot which helps the surgeon in the extraction process of the FUE.
For our patients who do not want to cut their hair, Unshaven Fue Hair Transplant is done successfully by our doctors.There is no difference between shaved and non-shaved operations.The difference is that only a small part of the head area is shaved and the necessary hair follicles are removed from this area. There won't be any changes in your hair because your long hair will close the shaved area.
When you come to our hospital, your hair and hair bulbs are checked by our doctor before you start the operation. If there is no problem in doing hair transplanation , the doctor decides how many grafts should be transplant.After that, he draws your hair line and you will see that which area your hair will grow. Once approved you will be taken to the operation. You need to have a small breakfast before the operation . Please don't smoke and don't drink alcohol before the operation.Your health is always important for us.
After the first case, the nurses take you to the operation room. Local anesthesia is applied for you do not feel any pain at fort the first time of operation.Then the necessary hair follicles are removed from the back of your head and counted individually. Immediately after being kept in certain solutions then the channels will be opened in the areas where hair will be planted. After that, your lunch will be served in our room with a half-hour break. After dinner the extracted hair roots are carefully planted in the poured areas.
After the surgery our patient coordinators inform you about medication and what you should do. The necessary medicines are provided to you free of charge. The ATP given to you is one of the most special solution for healthy hair growth. After all the information has been provided, our transportation staff will take you to the airport or the hotel. Hospital, hotel and airport Transportation is covered by us. We are next to you after the operations is over. We answer your questions with 7/24 assistantship.
Hair Transplant Procedures are being done by Dr Tayfun Oguzoglu, a Specialist Doctor, who has signed thousands of successful operations for 20 years. If you have any questions about hair transplantation that you have in mind are answered very quickly, free of charge. Please contact us.
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Many physicians feel Liposomal ATP has been a game changer with respect to improving survival in hair transplantation. Especially with FUE where the grafts are finer and more fragile , it is extremely important to use Liposomal ATP spray during the post op period to ensure maximum survival of grafts.
• It supplies cells ATP to maintain the energy charge of the cell, and thus allow cells/follicles to remain viable during the post-transplant period;
• ATP is a potent vasodilator on dermal arterioles, which increases scalp blood flow to the area being treated;
• The lipid vesicles, once internalized by the cell, are an ideal energy substrate for proliferating cells.
Follicular Unit Extraction
Advantages and Disadvantages
Manuel FUE is managed by hand and it contains inside a cylindirical blade with a diameter of less than 1mm, the diameter of the ends of punches varies between 0.6-1.00 mm. Follicular units are removed manually from the skin by turning. In manual FUE, as well as in micro motorized FUE, according to the length of the follicular units the punch depth is determined manually and the follicular units are collected by hand one by one. It is possibile to extract 1500-2000 follicular units. It may be considered to remain less scar on the donor area after extraction when it is compared with micro motorized FUE. But so far there is no medical evidence to prove this.
The possibility of damaging to the follicular units is low because of the minimize speed rotation of the punchs. But at this point there is no any medical work or evidence.
Micro motor is a tool also called as FUE engine. As the name suggests this tool which contains a small motor inside is an electrical device with it's special ends. Micro motor tool has different sizes ends, the diameters of these ends can range between 0,6-0,9 mm depending on the patient's skin and hair.
The ends of the micro motor penetrates into skin by spinning during the extraction of follicular units and allows the extraction of follicular units easily. Punch depth is determined manually according to the length of the follicular unit.
The sessions generally takes less time. Because with micro motor tool the procedure is done more quickly.ıt is possible to extract 3000-3500 grafts follicular units a day and they are collected manually. Because of the importance of rotational speed of punch it may be considered to be damaging to the donor area. But this is not true when is realized by an expert.