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5 Ways LTE & 5G are Changing the Branch
From large retailers and restaurant chains to financial service companies and many others, most organizations with lots of locations understand that LTE has become a crucial part of branch networking. But where is LTE's "sweet spot" in branch settings?
Join Cradlepoint's Anthony Lawson, Technical Marketing Engineering Manager, for a live webinar exploring the best ways to maximize the benefits of LTE within branch network architecture. You'll learn how other companies are winning with wireless WAN and and getting on the pathway to 5G.
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Today's retail technologies and wireless WAN are well-suited partners. Retailers need reliable, easy-to-manage connectivity at the edge of their networks so enhanced POS, digital signs, kiosks, and numerous omni-channel devices applications can drive efficiency and customer satisfaction. With the right solutions and best practices in place, wireless WANs — including Gigabit-Class LTE and 5G — offer the flexibility, performance, and security necessary to enable all of these tools.
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Most Americans are hard pressed to identify presidents by their landmark accomplishments or failings. No doubt most remember Abraham Lincoln as the president who led the country through the Civil War, and Richard Nixon as the only chief executive to have resigned the office. But could more than a handful say what Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, or Theodore Roosevelt achieved during his White House term? How many Americans know that Woodrow Wilson was the architect of the Federal Reserve; that the Securities and Exchange Commission and the minimum wage began with FDR's New Deal; or that Lyndon Johnson was responsible for Medicare and federal aid to elementary, secondary, and higher education?
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How Books Become Immortal (September 1891)
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15. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsThomas Jenkinson Oct 11, 2011 7:34 AM (in response to Mark Little)
I think your case 2 covers my concerns. I was thinking that if the subordinate decides to timeout but the root TM then commits the transaction (as the timeout thread is blocked say in the parent) then we would have an issue as the subordinate would say "I can't find this transaction" but based on what you said below, it should just work, thanks for clarifying
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It's not needed. If the subordinate times out "early" and there are only two scenarios when the coordinator eventually times out too:
1: it hadn't been prepared, so the "I can't find this transaction" message that comes from the subordinate is OK, i.e., the coordinator knows that the subordinate rolled back anyway.
2: if it had prepared and decided to roll back then the "Heuristic Law" states that the subordinate needs to remember the fact and it can't ever say "I can't find this transaction". Instead it needs to say "I found the transaction and rolled back" or "I found the transaction and committed".
Case 2 has to be considered even without user level transaction time outs since it's basic heuristic capabilities.
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Tom Jenkinson wrote:
I don't think I am explaining this well enough.
Say there is a root TM and a subordinate TM with a timeout of say 2 second
time T+0: root TM starts transaction timeout of 2
time T+1: tx flows to subordinate TM (using the remaining amount of timeout at root TM as the timeout for subordinate TM, i.e. the timeout value appears to be 1 at the subordinate TM)
time T+2: subordinate TM timesout and forgets about the transaciton AND root TM timesout. The root TM timeout cascades the abort to all XAResources (remember in the model we are going for subordinate transaction managers are registered as XAResources so each subordinate gets a call to abort from the root tm)
time T+3: the subordinate transaction manager receives the abort message from the root TM via the proxy XAResource but by now has cleaned up the transaction so will return an error indicating that it can't find the transaction
Yeah I get the potential issue. The extra time added has to be greater than the expected latency between the time the root controller issues the timeout notice and the time that the subordinate can receive and process it.
That said, we need some level of tolerance for the case where the given extra time is not sufficient and the subordinate node is unable to abort the transaction because it's already gone, because it will happen at some point. Ideally, this transaction abort would be idempotent.
16. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsThomas Jenkinson Oct 17, 2011 5:20 PM (in response to Thomas Jenkinson)
Just to confirm, I have now committed a unit test that proves Marks assertion to be true: https://svn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbosstm/branches/JBOSSTS_4_15_0_Final/atsintegration/tests/classes/com/arjuna/ats/jta/distributed/SimpleIsolatedServers.java -r 37580
When flowing the transaction you can just use the value obtained from TransactionTimeoutConfiguration::getTimeLeftBeforeTransactionTimeout(boolean) (/1000)
17. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsDavid Lloyd Oct 17, 2011 7:04 PM (in response to Thomas Jenkinson)
Excellent, thanks.
18. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsDavid Lloyd Oct 27, 2011 1:47 AM (in response to David Lloyd)
Just an update here, we're observing that if we start a subordinate transaction with a timeout, and the transaction is completed well ahead of that timeout, we are seeing messages like this after the timeout:
21:32:26,085 WARN [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (Transaction Reaper) ARJUNA12117: TransactionReaper::check timeout for TX 0:ffff7f000001:c478e9b:4ea82d79:7a in state RUN
These are logged at a WARN level. Are these spurious messages, or did we do something wrong?
19. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsJaikiran Pai Oct 27, 2011 2:44 AM (in response to David Lloyd)
To add a bit more details to that WARN message - It appears that when a subordinate tx is imported as follows (that 300 value is a example timeout):
final Transaction newSubOrdinateTx = SubordinationManager.getTransactionImporter().importTransaction(xidTransactionID.getXid(), 300);
it ultimately leads to com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.subordinate.SubordinateAtomicAction constructor which adds it to the TransactionReaper. But I don't see any code which removes it from the reaper once the SubordinateTransaction is committed/rolledback well before the timeout. As a result, the TransactionReaper ends up logging that WARN. So I'm not sure whether it's just a case of removing the ReaperElement from the TransactionReaper or something more. Let us know if you need more details.
20. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsThomas Jenkinson Oct 27, 2011 4:23 AM (in response to Jaikiran Pai)
Hi guys,
Thanks for the report. My initial view is that for your purpose this shouldn't really affect testing the component (as far as I can see), but it will look strange to JCA users so I have raised a Jira for you as it also affects that: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-935
21. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsDavid Lloyd Oct 27, 2011 12:51 PM (in response to Thomas Jenkinson)
Okay, glad to know it's not a problem. It does look weird though, so thanks for accepting the issue.
22. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsThomas Jenkinson Oct 28, 2011 4:14 AM (in response to David Lloyd)
No worries, thanks again for the report!
23. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsMark Little Oct 28, 2011 5:38 AM (in response to Thomas Jenkinson)
When a transaction is terminated it (or something acting on its behalf) should remove the transaction from the reaper.
24. Re: remote tx inflow: timeoutsThomas Jenkinson Oct 31, 2011 9:04 AM (in response to Mark Little)
Yeah, that is what I imagined also. I took a very brief look at the time and couldn't spot this happening, though I am moving back onto this now as it is an issue that will affect raw JCA as well (I believe).


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Frontlines: Fuel of War - aktualizacja do gry wersja - v.1.1.0 - v.1.1.1 PL - Download
Uaktualnienie (patch) do gry Frontlines: Fuel of War z gatunku Gry Akcji, wersja v.1.1.0 - v.1.1.1 PL, data publikacji 7 listopada 2008.
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Poprawka do gry Frontlines: Fuel of War. Poniżej znajduje się jej oryginalny angielski opis:
Frontlines: Fuel of War v1.1.1:
Players will no longer be kicked by PunkBuster for using the comma "," or forward slash "/" character in their names in multiplayer matches.
The binding for the Action key (E) has been fixed. This is also used for the Exit Vehicle function.
Keys that have already been used will be checked for when changing control key bindings.
The distance for melee attacks has been shortened.
The "pipe" character will no longer hide text in the server information window.
Chinese translation errors on the server browser have been fixed.
The Frontline will show up properly on the map.
Fixed first-person weapon animation blends between run and sprint.
Added functionality to allow firing of a weapon to break sprint. Previously you had to come out of sprint and then left-click to fire.
"Master server connection ID verification failed" error has been fixed.
Frontlines: Fuel of War v1.1.0:
New Features
PunkBuster anti-cheat has been added
Spawn Protection – To prevent spawn camping, players will spawn with a few seconds of invulnerability that will end if they perform an action
New Server Browser
Phase 1 of the NEW Server Browser
New streamlined design with easy to use layout
Added text filters for the following categories: Server Name, Player Count, Ping, Map Name & Version Number
Server Name filter will search entire through entire server names for matching criteria
Player filter will default to the minimum number entered. This field also accepts ranges such as 10-40
Ping filter will take the number entered as the max ping allowed. This field also accepts ranges as well
Server Information Box
Added server IP display
Added server name display
Added text clan/server company/message of the day support
Added ability to cancel server search and the server browser will continue to display already pulled servers
Can apply filters to pulled servers
Server browser no longer refreshes when coming back from the server info screens
Enter IP address can now use IP's with ports and can use alpha characters
Players can no longer stick landmines onto their legs
Invert controls for land vehicles has been fixed
Turrets will no longer continue firing when squad menu is raised
All passengers in a vehicle will see hit notifications
Sentry guns take slightly less damage to destroy
Sentry guns will cause slightly less damage
Sentry guns will no longer respawn after being destroyed (single-player game)
Grenade launcher damage vs infantry has been slightly reduced
Railgun rounds, clips, fire speed and damage radius have been modified, increasing the effectiveness of the weapon
Character Movement Changes
Forced pause which prevented the player from moving when recovering from a jump has been removed
Player will be prevented from jumping immediately after landing for 0.5 seconds (stops the bouncing bunny syndrome)
Multiple fixes should result is much less visible "sliding", "worming" and "Dolphin" effects from transitioning between crouch to standing, crouch to prone and prone to standing
Sprinting while crouched or prone has been removed
Jumping from and to prone should now be impossible
A minimum timer has been set in between changing positions. (This will prevent crouch/prone spamming)
Character ground speed has been slightly increased, this includes strafe speed
Free fall speed has increased for a more realistic feeling
Single Player: Graveyard – Destroying all tanks will now always advance the frontline properly
User Interface
Action key (E) can now be changed to any key. This key is also used for "Exit Vehicle" functionality and is listed under Infantry controls.
Scoreboard bugs related to double entries and zero point entries fixed
Scoreboard now displays server name, server IP and personal ping
Player can now paste text longer then the max characters set for a text box
Fix for reported ATI X800/X850 user crashes on start up
Vsync default setting is now turned to off, solving some crashes for lower end cards (this is the Maximize Framerate option in the Video- Advanced tab)
Added NULL check to stop players from inputting illegal characters and crashing the game
Systems with the Ageia PhysX card will no longer result in game crashes
Server crash caused by PhysX issue has been addressed
Polish language fixes to load screens and gameplay text
Registry fix to document the running version number and installed SKU (EFIS, E, EG etc). This will allow for improved patch installation detection
Known Issues (to be addressed in a hotfix coming shortly)
Changing keys in the Control options will not check to see if a key is already bound. This is planned to be fixed in a future patch
Punkbuster will kick you off the server if you use the following special characters in your display name: comma, forward slash, or backslash
Effective melee distance to be reduced
When using the pipe character in a server name, text after the pipe will not be shown in the upper right server information window
Frontlines: Fuel of War v1.02:
Crashes when locking the screen during loads has been fixed (i.e. Using Alt+Tab).
Server browser will no longer show servers that are not running.
Alt+Tab will work properly in Windows Media Center.
Lockups/crashes while "Please Wait" popup is on screen has been fixed.
Player no longer becomes stuck in an unresponsive menu after quitting a match at the end of a round.
NAT (Network Address Translation) – Listen Server now shows public IP and can be joined.
Fix for infinite loops that occasionally appear in single player.
Fix for hang issue/crash for Chinese and Korean native operating systems.
Game will no longer crash when the user suspends the game using Ctrl+Alt+Del or Win+L on the splash screen after the game launch.
New .dll's to address sound card issues added.
Fixed Japanese character issue on scoreboards.
Russian fonts fixed.
Polish, Chinese, and Czech language support added.
Player count sort fixed on server browser.
Frontlines: Fuel of War v1.01 Hotfix :
SecuROM issue with emulation software which will not allow the game to load.
Possible fix for Vista crash related to certain sound cards.
Frontlines: Fuel of War v1.01 patch fixes :
Holding the TAB key will display the scoreboard.
Server browser will not show servers that are no longer running.
"ResolveScenePosition" crash fixed.
Motion blur overload when redeploying fixed.
Autobalance - first person on a server can now switch teams.
Player model is no longer visible when ascending steep inclines.
Parental controls now work. (Windows Vista)
Using ALT+TAB to minimize game will now function correctly.
Frontlines: Fuel of War is an open-world First Person Shooter set in the next great war. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and economic depression, players assume the role of an elite soldier in the Western Coalition Army on an epic crusade against the Red Star Alliance to control the lifeblood of the world's economy. Frontlines: Fuel of War combines intensely cinematic, non-linear game play, with next generation firepower and a revolutionary Frontline Combat System to deliver the most thrilling and engaging FPS to date.
In both single player and multiplayer, players join the forces on the frontline that result in focused combat and increased intensity while allowing player choice.
In both single player and multiplayer, players can create their own path to victory with non-linear mission objectives and destructible environments. The player chips away at the battle instead of standard die and redo system.
Over 60 next generation vehicles and weapons inspired by military designs of the near future. Including Jets, helicopters, tanks, APC's and more.
Character customization allows you to represent your play style through character choices, weapon load out and role specialization.
Supports up to 32 players on Console and 64 players on PC via LAN or Internet with shared targeting systems, squad based VOIP and more.
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Kisenkov handed six match spitting suspension
Tom Tomsk defender Vladimir Kisenkov has been handed a six-match suspension for spitting at referee Aleksandr Egorov.
The incident occurred in the 73rd minute of the Russian Premier League side's 2-0 defeat at Terek Grozny on Sunday and earned the 32-year-old a second yellow card.
But the Russian Football Union have now dished out a lengthy ban that will see Kisenkov out of domestic action until April.
The Kaluga-born player has earned himself something of a reputation for ill-discipline in the Russian top flight this season, avoiding a yellow card in just two of his seven appearances.
In addition, he received eight cautions in 13 league fixtures while on loan at FK Rostov from Dynamo Moscow last season.
Tom finished the game in question with nine men after goalkeeper Petr Vasek was given his marching orders in stoppage time, with Terek Grozny netting from the subsequent penalty, and currently sit 13th in the league heading into the mid-season break.


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First look: MW Restaurant
MW Restaurant, the venture of husband-and-wife team Michelle and Wade Ueoka, officially opens today for lunch and dinner. It's on the Makaloa side of the Shops at Kapiolani development, in a bright, inviting space of tall windows, high ceilings and an open kitchen. There, you'll see Wade directing traffic in the kitchen and Michelle, despite the stunning amount of counter space, confining herself to a small square of real estate, plating desserts.
We attended the friends and family soft opening; here's a look at some of the dishes:
In the foreground: pickled beets with an ume beet vinaigrette, dill and goat cheese. In the background: fried oysters with chili mayonnaise, pickled tomato sauce and namasu.
Spicy tuna, ahi poke, ikura and uni, topped with rice crackers
Oxtail soup: Unsatified by the soups he found around Oahu, Wade set out to make the version he wanted. If this is his perfection—oxtail soup with corned beef, pork belly and lots of peanuts—no wonder nothing out there lived up to his standards.
Uni pasta with housemade linguine, Kauai shrimp, shiso and nori.
A deconstructed cheesecake of li-hing ume jelly filled strawberries, strawberry yogurt sorbet and graham cracker crumbs made with kiawe flour (ground from kiawe pods and gluten-free).
MW Restaurant, 1538 Kapiolani Blvd., 955-6505


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Bearings are used for a wide variety of purposes in all kind of railway vehicles. They are key components in axleboxes and drive systems such as traction motors and suspension units. Other applications include gearboxes, shock absorbers, tilting mechanisms, doors etc. The latest development involves sensors to detect speed, direction of rotation, bearing condition and bogie stability. These are now becoming standard equipment for several modern train designs. Some product examples are:
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Even though this film is 56 years old, automotive starter motors really haven't changed much. If you're unfamiliar with how a car's starting system works, this could help you understand how it works, and more importantly, how it can malfunction.
One of the most important parts of fixing your own car is trying to learn as much as you can about how it works. So get down to basics with Uncle Sam, maggot! He's got something to teach you that might help you diagnose your car next time the starter goes AWOL.
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Liz Goodwin
March 25, 2013
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in two cases that have the potential to transform American society and the status of gays and lesbians in it.
In oral arguments on Tuesday morning the 9 justices will consider whether California's voter approved ban on gay marriage, Proposition 8, unfairly discriminates against gay people. On Wednesday, they'll consider whether the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act barring the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex marriages, even in states that allow them, constitutes federal overreach.
Both cases could change the everyday lives of gay people and transform the larger, decades old gay rights movement, which has pursued both a court-based and political strategy to gain more legal protections for gay people. But the California Prop 8 case in particular, called Perry v. Hollingsworth, is considered by both pro and anti-gay marriage camps to be the most important, and potentially sweeping, of the two.
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Ran Blake has been playing piano for about 75 of his 78 years. Growing up in Springfield, where his mother was a renowned gardener and his father was a professor of French and algebra, he remembers that there were three upright pianos in the house, and that he would sit at one of them, a young solo artist in the making, inspired by what he heard on the radio.
"Even though I wouldn�t have known their names, I�m guessing I played something like a combination of Debussy, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and then later Mahalia Jackson and some of the blues."
Blake, who has lived since 1980 in the same Brookline basement apartment, where shelves are overflowing books and a DVD collection of his favorite film noir directors, and where he plays piano for an hour every day with no lights on, is set to do his annual solo appearance at the Regattabar in Cambridge on Wednesday. Blake will be happiest if, as at home, the lighting is subdued.
"The room will be as dark as they�ll let me have it," he said. "I really love the dark."
Blake, who loves movies as much as he loves music, especially the works of Claude Chabrol, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Siodmak, and Bernard Tavernier, long ago found a special connection between the two art forms that serves to drive his own creative forces at the keyboard.
"When I�m playing all alone, I recall movies that I�ve seen recently," he said. "I�ll go back to [Siodmak�s] �The Spiral Staircase� and [Hitchcock�s] �Vertigo,� and I�ll use some actual themes from the movies. I also sometimes recall what [composer] Bernard Herrmann wrote for �Taxi Driver,� and I�ll have my own impressions of what happens when Robert De Niro suddenly goes to a Brookline Garden Club meeting, and maybe he will use no four-letter words for 10 minutes, and he�ll have a cup of tea and a brownie. This goes through my head. It�s me wanting to tell a story on the piano."
Blake is known internationally as a jazz pianist, mostly as a solo player, but also has a fine reputation as a member of various duos and trios. He refers to his playing as orchestral, and admits that he once considered becoming a classical player.
"But by the age of 8 or 9 I knew I wouldn�t cut it," he said. "So much of the music I was playing when I was young was early 20th century classical, I began to think it was jazz. Now I guess I�m labeled jazz because I do the roots and the repertoire."
It�s not difficult to hear the influences of some of Blake�s heroes when he plays. There�s definitely a hint of Duke Ellington and of Thelonious Monk, but Blake has found a way to use those ingredients, add a wholly original layer to it, and make the sound his own.
When Blake isn�t practicing or performing, he�s teaching at New England Conservatory, where he�s been ensconced since then-president of the school Gunther Schuller, a former teacher of Blake�s, hired him in 1967.
"I teach five courses there," said Blake, my favorite being Film Noir. I�m doing one this semester on harmony and one on how to develop a personal style."
At the Regattabar he�ll take to the stage with a set list, but may or may not stick to it. There will most likely be an original piece that speaks to the recent bombing in Kabul, and one for his sister Marthe, who died in January. He�s also thinking of performing some works from his 1966 album "Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano," as well as standards such as "Sleepy Time Gal" and "Good Morning Heartache." If the mood is right, he�ll also be ready to play "Brazil" and some tunes by Stevie Wonder.
"There will be one long set," he said. "I�ll get up and say a few words because somebody urged me to, but basically I�d rather just play. What would be great is if the Regattabar could be one-eighth its size, and I would be given a week there, and only 20 people could get in."
Ran Blake
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1�Bennett St., Cambridge
INFO: 617-395-7757; www.regattabarjazz.com
Brookline's Ran Blake connects movies to his music
Ran Blake has been playing piano for about 75 of his 78 years. Growing up in Springfield, where his mother was a renowned gardener and his father was a professor of French and algebra, he remembers that there were three upright pianos in the house, and that he would sit at one of them, a young solo artist in the making, inspired by what he heard on the radio.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
DMEautomotive will present Moving Beyond Retention: A New Paradigm to Grow Your Service Business, based on original research, at the DrivingSales Presidents Club in New York City April 16th, 2014
Daytona, FL and Salt Lake City, UT – April 2, 2014 – DMEautomotive has been selected as a finalist for the 2014 DrivingSales Most Valuable Insight Award, which was created to foster the spirit of progress and thought leadership in the auto industry.
Applicants were asked to provide an insight, based on comprehensive original research, which can provide significant value to dealership executives. DMEautomotive was selected as one of four finalists from a competitive field of submissions and will present Moving Beyond Retention: A New Paradigm to Grow Your Service Business as part of the Most Valuable Insight Competition at the 2014 DrivingSales Presidents Club event, held at the Grand Hyatt in New York City on April 16th, 2014.
"Given the high level of investment and management attention directed at retention in the auto industry, we were surprised when our research showed how unreliable traditional retention metrics can be, especially in times of dramatic change as we've experienced over the past few years. We look forward to showing dealers at the President's Club a new way of measuring customer retention and loyalty based on specific customer data. We believe the dealers who utilize this new metrics approach today will be the market leaders of tomorrow", states Doug Van Sach, DMEautomotive Vice President, Strategy & Analytics.
Moving Beyond Retention: A New Paradigm to Grow Your Service Business will demonstrate that traditional retention metrics have become an unreliable way to measure customer loyalty and could be leading auto dealers to make poor business decisions. The presentation will offer a new approach for monitoring loyalty: GRO (Gross Revenue Optimization), which measures the percent of potential lifetime value a dealer is currently capturing from its customers. GRO enables dealers to better understand performance at each stage of the customer lifecycle and it provides a higher level of precision needed to compete in today's hypercompetitive marketplace.
"This year's DrivingSales Most Valuable Insight presentations are destined to get our industry talking about key areas for process innovation and improvement. Each is based on deep research and promises to help our dealer attendees increase profits and build for the future," said DrivingSales Founder and CEO Jared Hamilton. "Congratulations to DMEautomotive for offering original thinking and an insight so valuable that our dealer panel has selected it to be presented to hundreds of their peers. We look forward to learning more about Moving Beyond Retention: A New Paradigm to Grow Your Service Business in New York in April."
The DrivingSales Most Valuable Insight finalists were exclusively chosen from online applicants by top decision-makers from innovative dealerships across the US. The Dealer Panel based their decisions on the following criteria:
• Topic relevancy to a Dealer Principal or GM
• Magnitude of results or impact of the insight to a dealership/group
• Insight originality
Each finalist company will have the opportunity to present its insight onstage at the 2014 DrivingSales Presidents Club. The presentation includes a Q&A with a panel of dealer judges who will score each insight. The finalist company determined to have the Most Valuable Insight will have the opportunity to present findings in more detail at the 2014 DrivingSales Executive Summit in October.
The Most Valuable Insight Competition is part of a high-level line-up at the DrivingSales Presidents Club that includes Gary Vaynerchuk and DealerTrack's Mark O'Neill. Visit www.drivingsalespresidentsclub.com for more information and to register for the event.
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About DMEautomotive
DMEautomotive (DMEa) is the industry leader in science-based, results-driven automotive marketing, and provides turnkey marketing to the largest and most innovative automotive organizations, from automobile dealers to many of the largest aftermarket companies in the U.S. DMEa's uniquely panoramic view of the complete automotive sales and service market, combined with its cutting-edge, science-based marketing programs, increases customer yield, conversion and retention.
DMEa does not take marketing performance on faith, and each product and service is measured by a simple, precise scientific approach: Is it true? Prove it. Will it work? Test it. Does it generate results? Show it! Supported by DMEa's proprietary, cloud-based Red Rocket Technology Platform, the DMEa product suite includes science-based, data-driven, multi-channel customer acquisition and retention marketing programs; best-in-class campaign reporting; data management and analytics; auto-focused Customer Interaction Center solutions, and complete on-site mail and email fulfillment services. Headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, DMEa also has major operations in Jacksonville, Fla.
About The DrivingSales Presidents Club
Held annually on the east coast, The DrivingSales Presidents Club offers dealer principals a place where they can access the right, relevant information to lead their dealerships – profit-building information filtered through those who understand it best: innovative leaders from inside and outside the industry who have built great business strategies; progressive dealerships who are making a difference on the ground, and the forward-thinking general managers and dealership principals who not only know what information matters, but how it matters. The event, which is dealer-designed to cover the topics most relevant to the challenges of dealership leadership today, also emphasizes peer interaction and idea-sharing forums. Discussions and presentations focus on the three foundational assets of successful dealership operations, Capital, Brand and People and the event includes The Most Valuable Insight competition.
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posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 10:53 am
In a series of papers, Bob Mislevy outlined procedures for exploring the variance in a latent trait across manifest subpopulations and the covariance of the latent trait with manifest collateral variables. For example, based on NAEP math assessments, what is the difference in math abilities between boys and girls? His approach shrinks individual scores toward model-based expectations. The scores are sampled from a posterior distribution and can then be fed to analysis programs like Wesvar and HLM. The collateral variables used in shrinkage can differ from those used in analysis.
Can MPLUS be used to create such scores? If so, any examples?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 11:25 am
Mislevy's NAEP approach is akin to multiple imputation for the latent ability variable (which is the missing data). The current Mplus version does not yet generate multiple imputation data. Mplus can, however, analyze multiply imputed data and summarize the results properly.
An alternative that is feasible when the item structure is not too large and complex is to do the analysis in a single step, directly estimating regressions involving the latent ability variable.
David Judkins
posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 2:31 pm
Thanks for the speedy reply!
The disadvantage with a single step is that one is not free to use a richer set of variables in the shrinkage of the ability estimates than what one wants to use in the regression model. Such a procedure is of interest to me because I am analyzing an experiment in which there are post-randomization covariates which I would like to use to reduce the uncertainty about each person's ability but which if used in the regression would remove some treatment effects.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 5:53 pm
I agree and understand. Multiple imputations is on our long list of things we want to add to Mplus.
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In life, we plan for many things- education, vacation, retirement. Yet many of us delay making end-of-life plans.
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Temperature for October 2004
In October 2004 the average high temperature in Alice, TX was 0.0°F, and this was 86.5°F cooler than the average of 86.5°F. The hottest day in October 2004 was 0 October when the temperature reached 0.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in October is 63.0°F and in 2004 the average overnight temperature was 63.0°F cooler at 0.0°F.


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Interview with Hoya's Pentax Top Officials at China P&E
See this latest and exclusive interview report:-
(Simplified Chinese, Google English Translation Here)
So, the main points of the interview are summarised as below:-
1. 135 full frame DSLR is not urgently required for Pentax as there is the 645D, which has better IQ. However, Pentax is not eliminating any possibility for making one whenever market need is there. In the meantime, Pentax will continue to concentrate in the development of the 645D system before a 135 FF one would come.
2. There is no plan to develop 135 FF lens lineup as there is no plan for a 135 FF body and system.
3. A new digital zoom lens for the 645D is under development.
4. Whilst Pentax is making many colours for the new DSLRs, the black colour ones have still been the most popular choices for the market in China, of which the buyers are possibly still being more conservative.
5. The 3-11 earthquake and tsunami at Japan does not affect Pentax and the production much in general, but it is not totally unaffected and the actual impacts are indeed unsure.
6. The spy photos of the new EVIL/ILDC products leaked in the Internet this April are true but then it is only prototypes of new products under development.
Speaking of the new products and the last Pentax teaser, actually even Mr. Blurry Cameraphone, the General Manager of Pentax Shanghai Company, Mr. Jopy Yang (the guy dressed in blue shirt in the above interview photo), does not know what is covered under the black cloth, as it was told! :-o It seems that the Hoya/Pentax Japanese officials have treated that as top secret. Anyway, there may be nothing under the cloth, as possibly it is simply just a teaser, but nothing else! >:-(


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Leone ahead of Kolenberg in special election
Longtime state representative Carlo Leone is moving to the state senate after beating out Republican opponent Bob Kolenberg in Tuesday's special election, which had Leone ahead by 1,000 votes.
Leone, who was elected to a fifth term as state representative for District 148 in November, said Tuesday he plans to use his new position as state senator for District 27 to push for a reduction in state spending and borrowing and to advocate for transportation initiatives.
"We have a lot of challenges ahead of us, but the state of Connecticut, every time we've met difficult challenges, we've risen above," Leone said to his supporters shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday.
"We will come out stronger, we will come out better."
Results Tuesday night had Leone with 4,517 votes to Kolenberg's 3,725. Write-in candidate Rolf Maurer had 25 votes.
District 27 includes parts of Stamford and Darien. Kolenberg picked up 480 votes in Darien to Leone's 223. About 20 percent of the overall district's 41,794 registered voters went to the polls Tuesday.
Tuesday was Kolenberg's second defeat in his efforts to represent District 27 in the General Assembly. In November, he lost a race against the seat's longtime incumbent, former state Sen. Andrew McDonald, who then resigned in January to serve as general counsel for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Kolenberg, 48, ran a campaign focused on addressing the state's struggling economy and high unemployment. He had pledged to stand against Malloy's plan to raise taxes to meet Connecticut's $3.2 billion deficit.
Kolenberg said Tuesday he and his election team had "closed the gap" between Democratic and Republican votes compared to previous races.
"Last time we lost by about 3,500 votes," he said. "This time we lost by about 700 votes. We definitely picked up momentum. We closed the gap. Had it not been a holiday, I think we would have won."
Both Stamford and Darien Public School Districts are currently out of session for February break.
"There's always next time, I guess," Kolenberg said.
After conceding to Leone by phone from Republican headquarters at Shelly's on the River restaurant Tuesday night, Kolenberg said he plans to continue to advocate for fiscal responsibility from his position as vice-chairman of Stamford's Board of Finance. A former owner of the wholesale car remarketing business CorporateCars.com, he recently founded a new online car business, ClubAutoNetwork.com.
Kolenberg said Tuesday he expects to take the reigns as Stamford's Board of Finance when Chairman Joe Tarzia officially steps down Wednesday.
"My brother worked harder than anybody I know in recent times running for office," said Tom Kolenberg. "Certainly being in the spotlight so much recently, he has passed all the tests.
The negative publicity -- that was not true -- certainly didn't help, but he didn't let that distract him."
Leone, 48, celebrated his victory Tuesday night with about a hundred supporters, including his parents and sister, at Stamford's Democratic headquarters on High Ridge Road. Several prominent members of the local Democratic Party were in attendance, including McDonald, state Rep. William Tong, D-147, state Rep. Gerald Fox, D-146, and Democratic Town Committee chairwoman Ellen Camhi.
McDonald announced Leone's victory to cheers, a standing ovation, and chants of "Carlo, Carlo!"
"Today is yet another great night for Stamford and Darien," McDonald said. "We voted to send the most skilled, the most talented and the nicest damn guy you ever met to the state Senate. As the outgoing state senator of the 27th District I am most thrilled."
Leone's apparent victory forces a second special election to fill his now open seat in the state House of Representatives. Leone said that he would support whomever the Democratic Town Committee nominates as a candidate.
"There's a number of people interested," he said. "So I'll let the process work and of course we'll back whoever we need to get in to show a united front."
State Rep. Gerald Fox (D-146) said he was happy to see Leone move on to the state senate.
"Carlo has been a terrific legislator and he's been great for Stamford," Fox said. "He's worked extremely hard and he ran a good race."
Leone immigrated to the United States from Italy with his parents at 2 years old. A former member of the U.S. Air Force, he is a program manager for the Veterans Workforce Investment Program for the
Bridgeport-based non-profit The WorkPlace, Inc. As state representative, Leone served on three committees: Finance, Revenue and Bonding, Regulations Review and Transportation.
Maurer, 48, was the race's third contender and ran as a write-in candidate for the Green Party. He is a freelance writer and editor and former associate editor with Folio magazine. Maurer's election platform focused on promoting more alternative transportation options and establishing a state public bank modeled on the Bank of North Dakota, which he said would generate much-needed revenue while preserving social services.
Tuesday's election was the first federal or state special election Stamford has seen since the late 1980s, said Av Harris, spokesman for Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. The last state special election the city saw was in January 1988, when a race was held to fill District 148 in the General Assembly. The year before, a special election was held to fill the fourth congressional district,which includes Stamford, following the death of Republican Congressman Stewart McKinney, Harris said.
Nine special elections were held throughout Connecticut Tuesday, the largest number scheduled for one day in at least 60 years, Harris said.
District 27 includes Waterside, downtown, the South End, Glenbrook, Springdale, the East Side, Belltown, Turn of River, the Cove and Shippan, and parts of North Stamford, the Ridges and the West Side, and Noroton and Tokeneke in Darien.
Staff writers Maggie Gordon, John Nickerson, and Ben Holbrook and Correspondent Olivia Just contributed to this story.


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By Jessica Hopper and Meghan Frank
Rock Center
Jin Xing is one of the brightest personalities in China today. She's a film star, talk show host and celebrated dancer, but it's her life off stage that's propelled her into the spotlight. She was the first person to have a sex change operation in China, and go public with it. Seventeen years later, she's become a cultural icon in China and the government even uses her as an unofficial ambassador of the arts.
"They want to tell the world, 'We do have an independent, free artist like Jin Xing," Jin explains.
Jin recently embarked on her first U.S. tour with her company, Jin Xing Dance Theatre. The premiere was in New York City, the place where she studied modern dance 20 years ago. Now 44, her return to New York fulfilled a promise she made and kept for two decades.
"When I left New York, I said, 'I only come back [to] New York with my own dance company. I don't even come back [to] visit," Jin told Rock Center's Kate Snow.
Her return to New York was also the first time she experienced the city as a woman. The last time she was here, she was a man.
From an early age Jin loved to dance and perform, but he felt different from the boys around him. He preferred playing with girl's toys and wished he was a girl like his sister. One night during a thunderstorm, he ran outside in the hopes that lightning would strike him and transform him into a girl. To his dismay, nothing happened.
When Jin was nine, he was selected to attend a military school for dance, but his parents didn't approve. When they refused to send him, he went on a hunger strike for two days.
"It worked. Then my mom said, 'Okay, if you made a decision, you have to write a paper, promising you won't regret your choices and you won't put that regret on your parents in the future," she said.
At the military school, Jin learned to fire a machine gun and blow up a bridge using a bomb, but most importantly, he learned to dance. The dance instruction was strict. The military instructors would tie each student's leg to a vertical column so that they were forced into the splits.
"We are screaming and shouting, but the teachers, our teachers, are sitting there reading a morning newspaper and looking, 'five more minutes.' I think, according to America or western law, this is completely child abuse, no doubt," she said. "But in China culture, you have to sacrifice."
Jin threw himself into dancing. He thought if he could only become a famous dancer, people wouldn't pay attention to his personal life. By the time he was 18, he had won acclaim as the best male dancer in the People's Liberation Army. He was selected to come to America to study modern dance in New York City. He arrived barely knowing any English and said at first he felt overwhelmed.
"I was standing on Madison Avenue with my backpack…I see people rushing beside me. Then I say, 'Wow, this is my city," she said. "I [felt] a little bit lost because I was the best dancer of China…[but] nobody knows."
Jin quickly found his footing, training with top tier dance companies and emerging choreographers like Mark Dendy.
"Jin Xing was amazing, is amazing, still amazing," Dendy said. "There's always a look in the eye when someone's really, really great and we just say, 'They've got it.'"
Dendy said that Jin's speed and ability to use space set him apart as a dancer.
"Pirouettes, grand jetes… he had, she had amazing air," Dendy said. "It's the ability to go up in the air and have a cup of coffee and come down."
Jin describes this time in New York as liberating but confusing. He began to date men but something didn't feel right. He had big questions about his sexuality and his identity as a man. He wasn't sure if he was gay, or if he was transgender and what should he do about it. He left New York for Europe, but after a few years he made up his mind to return to China and undergo sex reassignment surgery. Jin was 28 when he underwent the operation.
Jin's mother struggled with her son's decision. She was worried the surgery wouldn't go well, and afraid for her son's future. Jin was even more scared to tell his father, a former military officer and member of China's secret police, about his decision to become a woman.
Jin told his father, "I become a woman. I become your daughter." Jin's father was silent for a moment, then he got a cigarette out and said, "Okay, finally matched.'"
Her father said, "Strangely enough, 20 years ago, I look at [you], I was wondering, I have a little boy, but you behave everything like a little girl. So after 28 years, you find yourself, congratulations."
Jin Xing became one of the first people to have a sex change operation in China.
The surgery went well, but there were complications. The operation damaged Jin's left leg and she feared she might never dance again, but three months after the surgery, she was back on stage in Beijing.
Her performance prompted some to complain about Jin to Beijing's cultural bureau.
"The best male dancer becomes a female dancer," she said. "I think people tried to find different ways to find an explanation for me."
Following her surgery, some said that Jin had sacrificed her body for dance or to make it more acceptable for her to date men. Jin quickly dismissed those claims.
"It's completely for myself. This is my life. I have to [be] honest with my life," she said.
Jin said at first, the Chinese authorities didn't address her sex change.
"They stand back a little bit. One side, they appreciate me, still appreciate that I'm a good dancer," Jin said. "But somehow, they have no comment, no opinion about my personal choices."
In 2000, Jin Xing's life changed again. She became a mother, adopting her son Leo, then her daughter Vivian and lastly, her little boy Julian.
She was content as a single mom, until she unexpectedly fell in love with a German man on a flight from Paris to Shanghai.
"I'm in the lounge and I'm waiting for boarding and a Chinese lady appears at the lounge. I wouldn't say low key. She was wearing a long leather coat, miniskirt, leather boots, Louis Vuitton bag on one side and a Chihuahua in her hand," said Heinz Gerd Oidtmann.
The two were seated next to each other on the plane and quickly connected. The next day, Oidtmann called Jin and asked her out.
On their first date Jin revealed to Oidtmann that she was once a man.
"I was shocked," Oidtmann said. "This image of a sexy, attractive woman was gone and I was really confused."
Oidtmann took a day to sort his thoughts but he returned to Jin and said that he wanted to continue to see her. A year later, he proposed and they've been married for seven years. But Oidtmann admits it's still strange for him to see photos of his wife as a man.
"Somehow, I'm not really connected to that part of her life. I want to keep pure the female image that I have of my wife and it is very purely a female impression that I have of her," he said.
It's been 17 years since her sex change, and Jin Xing's star continues to rise. In addition to dancing and choreographing, she's acting in films and appearing on China's versions of Dancing with the Stars and American Idol. Her popularity continues to grow and the regime that was once quiet on her sex change now pushes her out front as a cultural leader.
"They give me the space to become who I am in China as an independent artist and [at the] same time, I'm getting a lot of positive image [for China] as an artist, as a cultural ambassador for China," Jin said.
The Chinese government, while more comfortable with Jin, still monitors her closely. She says the government watches what she posts on China's version of Twitter and keeps a close eye on her dancing.
"In China, before all the performing arts are only used for propaganda use, but if the art form [is to] become independent, that takes a little time," Jin said of China's censorship.
And while Jin acknowledges that some people come to see her perform because of her personal transformation, it doesn't seem to bother her.
"If my personal story can bring [the] public into the theater, I'm already successful," she said. "Because after one and a half hour, they're talking about my dancing, they're not talking about my sex change."


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Rail union RMT has announced new strike dates on Scotrail over Driver Only Operation.
The new days of strike action are: Sunday, August 7 from 00.01 hours to 23.59 hours on Monday, August 8; Thursday, August 11 – 00.01 hours to 23.59 hours and Saturday, August 13 – 00.01 hours to 23.59 hours Sunday, August 14.
In addition to the strike dates, the union has also recently announced a series of public meetings and other campaign activities.
The new dates follow a series of strikes across Scotland, which have still not produced any movement on the core issues.
As a result, the union executive has decided there is no option but to move forward with a new programme of industrial action.
RMT's policy is for no extension of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on any route or service and for the guard to be in full operational control of the power operated doors.
Furthermore, the union has made it clear that the union is totally opposed to any proposals for extending DOO, reducing or abolishing the safety role of the guard in the operation of the doors.
Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said; "Recent rock-solid strikes on ScotRail have been supported by the travelling public who understand that the staff are fighting for the basic principles of rail safety.
"In spite of this Abellio/Scotrail continue to ignore the strength of feeling amongst their staff and passengers over the extension of DOO. That is why we have no choice but to announce further strike dates.
"The workforce knows only too well that there is a very real threat to passengers of watering down and wiping out the safety critical role of the guard on these Scotrail services. That is a lethal gamble with basic rail safety.
"We have had fantastic support from the travelling public for our action as passengers know full well that this strike is all about their safety."
A spokesman for Scotrail said: "Just this afternoon we held discussions with the RMT which we would describe as encouraging. We talked through some ideas and we agreed to come together again to discuss them further.
"It really is the most extraordinary act of bad faith for the RMT to leave these positive talks and to immediately announce another round of strikes.
"These needless strikes are really hurting our people financially. We have guaranteed the jobs, pay and terms and conditions for our conductors and we have said that we will always schedule a second member of staff on board to look after our customers.
"59 percent of people who travel by train in Scotland do so on a service where the driver opens and closes the doors, while a second member of staff is there for safety and customer service duties. This has been the case for decades."
The spokesman added: "The people who regulate safety on our railway - and we have the safest rail service in Europe - have said that this is a safe way of working."


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The Fern Lake Fire in Estes Park, Colo., has crossed to the southern side of Spruce Creek, spurred on by red flag conditions, Rocky Mountain National Park officials reported Tuesday (Nov. 27).
The fire, west of Moraine Park, was mapped Saturday at about 1,370 acres. Strong winds and low humidity have increased the fire activity. Ground attack has been difficult for firefighters because much of the blaze — fed in part by beetle-killed trees — is in steep, rugged terrain. Use of a helitanker was limited Tuesday due to the wind, the Longmont Times-Call reported.
Smoke from the fire was visible in several places along the Front Range. A fire and smoking ban is in effect in the park's backcountry until further notice. Moraine Park Campground is still open and campfires in grates are allowed there.
Trails in the immediate area of western Moraine Park are closed to hikers, including: Fern Lake Road beyond the winter parking lot, Fern Lake Trail all the way to Lake Helene, the Cub Lake Trail from the trailhead to The Pook, and the Mill Creek Trail from the Mill Creek Basin campsites to the Cub Lake Trail. Hikers on closed trails will be ticketed.
Information about the fire is available at inciweb.org/incident/3294 and at the parks's website,www.nps.gov/romo. A recorded fire information number can be called at 970-586-1381.


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ARDMORE, Pa. — Tiger Woods made birdie at the first hole, only to watch his day go racing downhill from there.
By the time it was over, Woods skidded to seven bogeys and a 6-over-par 76 Saturday, tumbling down the leaderboard and matching his worst round as a pro at the U.S. Open. That left him 10 strokes behind third-round leader Phil Mickelson, the only player under par at the short but devilishly tough Merion Golf Club.
Despite leading the PGA Tour in putting in recent weeks, Woods needed 36 putts on the severely undulating greens. He blamed his inability to gauge the speed of those baffling putting surfaces for his three days of uneven play.
"It's certainly frustrating because I was feeling like I was playing well this week and I just didn't make the putts I needed to make," he said afterward.
"The first two days, I had, like, three 3-putts and I was four shots off the lead, and I missed a boatload of putts within 10 feet. So I really wasn't that far off. If I clean up the round and don't 3-putt, I'm one shot back starting out today. ..." Woods added.
"Basically, I just didn't have the speed right this week and it certainly showed."
Woods' toughest stretch came at Nos. 3-6, where he made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch. He blamed the last of those for setting the negative tone that hung over his round like the storm clouds that rolled over Merion throughout Thursday's opening round. His troubles at No. 6 included a tee shot that finished up in another player's divot in the fairway, as well as a delicate greenside chip that rolled back and left him facing his next shot from farther back.
"I think the (bogey) 5 really turned my round around," Woods said. "I drove it right in the middle of the fairway and I end up in a ball mark from somebody else's ball mark, so it was kind of the way it went."
This U.S. Open marks exactly five years since Woods won his last major, at Torrey Pines, which he captured in a playoff against Rocco Mediate, despite hobbling around with ligament damage. His pursuit of Jack Nicklaus' career record of 18 majors remains stalled at 14.
Woods also shot a 76 in the final round at Shinnecock Hills in 2004, as well as two rounds of 76 at Winged Foot in 2006 when he missed the cut.
Woods' worst round ever at an Open was a 77 at Oakland Hills in 1996, when he was a 19-year-old amateur.
Woods matches worst US Open round as a pro
ARDMORE, Pa. — Tiger Woods made birdie at the first hole, only to watch his day go racing downhill from there.


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Welcome to the Celtics Forum! All new members and Celtic fans post in here and introduce yourselves.
Favorite Current Celtic?
Favorite Former Celtic?
Best Celtics Memory?
Other NBA Teams You Root For?
Other Sports Teams You Root For?
i'll start
Location- Newburyport, MA. About 30 miles north of Boston
Favorite Current Celtic- Paul Pierce
Favorite Former Celtic- Bill Russell, have to love those 11 rings
Best Celtics Memory- May 25, 2002. Celtics are down 19 to the Nets after 3 quarters. Then go on an impossible run and score 41 in the 4th quarter to win
Other NBA Teams You Root For- Pheonix I guess is my next favorite.
Other Sports Teams You Root For- Boston Red Sox are my #1. I also root for the Patriots, Bruins, anyone that plays the Yankees. The Bills because they are terrible, will be terrible for a long time and I feel bad for their fans.