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Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as software marketsGoogle's Android is working to match the iPhone App Store's mobile software market but with fewer restrictions for developers. This article is the fourth in a series examining how Android stacks up in comparison to the iPhone as a smartphone software platform, with this segment looking at third party support.
Articles in this series:
Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as core platforms
Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as business models
Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as advancing technology
Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as software markets
Previous articles in this series have examined the underlying core technology and business models used by Apple and Google to create their smartphone platforms. This segment looks at how each platform compares in terms of third party software offerings and the market for those apps available to both users and developers, and how they stack up against previous attempts to deliver third party mobile software markets. On page three, there's a direct comparison of the Android and iPhone software stores, along with some serious issues affecting the platforms' futures.
How important are different mobile software platforms? Microsofts chief software architect Ray Ozzie recently told his audience that, among smartphone platforms, "all the apps that count will be ported to every one of them." However, this summer Google's VP of engineering Vic Gundotra said that even his well funded company does not expect to port its apps to every platform, insisting that "we're not rich enough to support RIM" and every other proprietary smartphone platform available.
Ozzie's claim is not just challenged by Google, but also belied by the reality that popular platforms always get the best apps first, if not exclusively, and that this makes a huge difference in how attractive the platform is to users. Microsoft knows this is the case in video games, where relatively poor sales of the Nintendo GameCube and the original Xbox resulted in far fewer gaming titles for those platforms compared to the PlayStation 2. Microsoft subsequently worked hard to fund differentiating, exclusive game software for the Xbox 360.
Every other consumer market for products capable of running third party software has similarly required unique offerings to stand out and attract hardware sales that could stoke demand for additional software development in order to keep the platform fresh and popular. While the total number of available apps isn't critically important, the quality, variety and depth of third party offerings are. It is clear that there will not be a large number of successful smartphone platforms that every developer will spend equal resources porting their apps to; there will be winners and losers.
Success and failure in third party mobile software
Apple's iPhone App Store and Google's Android Marketplace are widely considered to be the two most viable mobile software platforms today. Apple boasts a library of more than 100,000 iPhone apps while Google touts around 11,000 apps for Android; both stores are growing rapidly. However, long before Apple and Google first announced their plans back in late 2007 to create mobile platform Software Development Kits for the iPhone and (future) Android phones, a series of smartphones with their own SDKs had existed for more than half a decade.
Symbian, Palm OS and Windows Mobile have been marketed to both users and developers dating back to the beginning of the decade. Other software platforms capable of running across multiple mobile operating systems have also existed for years, including Sun's Java ME (J2ME), Adobe's Flash Lite, and Qualcomm's BREW. These have been broadly licensed among phone makers and adapted by certain vendors such as RIM's BlackBerry or Danger's Sidekick (both of which run specialized Java ME software), LG's Flash Lite phones (such as the Prada, Chocolate, Dare, Venus, and Voyager) and Verizon phones that use the BREW platform to rent game applets through the "Get It Now" service.
Considering how long these various alternatives for creating and selling mobile software have existed, it may seem puzzling that Apple's App Store was able to make such an immediate and profound impact on the mobile software business. What made Apple's entry into the market so successful? In order for Google's Android (or any other aspiring platform) to catch up to and surpass the iPhone App Store, it will have to figure out what has worked in Apple's favor and what has resulted in the failure of other earlier platforms.
Third party mobile software success: development tools
Some pundits credit Apple's robust development tools, its market buzz and media attention, or its status as the first mover in its field as being the reason for the company's current success; these factors suggest that a challenger could simply swoop down and take Apple's business away by doing the same thing on a grander scale, an implication that frequently references how Microsoft Windows overshadowed the Macintosh in the mid 90s. None of those factors are really unique to Apple, however.
Apple's App Store success wasn't merely due to the availability of familiar coding tools facilitating new software. If that alone was the key to Apple's success, the much larger reach and far more entrenched ecosystem of third party developers behind Sun's Java ME or Microsoft's Windows Mobile would have resulted in similar success for those platforms. Java has a strong presence in server applications and has been one of the most popular languages and APIs in computing for over a decade; Microsoft's licensed Windows Mobile devices use a different operating system kernel than Windows PCs, but their apps are created using the same tools and very similar APIs to desktop Windows apps. Both mobile platforms have been available for well over a decade, an eternity in tech time.
Microsoft introduced Windows CE (the core OS inside Windows Mobile) back in 1996 with an SDK familiar to Windows developers. It invested lots of effort in making WinCE a viable mobile handheld computer platform in reaction to the 1994 Newton Message Pad, then a PDA platform in reaction to the Palm Pilot in 1998, then a smartphone platform in reaction to the Handspring Treo in 2002, then a portable media player in reaction to the iPod in 2004. Microsoft is now working to build touchscreen handheld devices in reaction to the iPhone and iPod touch. Despite years of massive investment, Microsoft has now reached its 13 year anniversary of WinCE without having attracted the same kind of attention as Apple's iPhone SDK in its first year and a half on the market.
Clearly, just having familiar and functional development tools is not enough, although it is essential. One of the problems limiting the software available for the Newton MessagePad was that Apple delivered largely unfinished and very unique tools that involved a significant learning curve for coders. Both Android and the iPhone provide adequate development tools, although Apple has a significant head start in having shipped its native SDK.
Third party mobile software success: buzz
The iPhone's software success wasn't merely due to favorable buzz either. The Palm OS once created such heady anticipation for devices running mobile software that by 2000, the company's IPO earned $874 million and the fledgling new company (built on a half decade of work within US Robotics and then 3Com) reached a market valuation of $54 billion, twice that of Apple at its own dotcom peak, despite having actual revenues that were only about a tenth of Apple's. That year, the Palm OS was powering 85% of all PDAs as the company broadly licensed its operating system to power some of the first advanced phones on the market.
Palm's unit sales were hovering around 5 million per year, nothing to sneeze at in an emerging market with so much potential. Palm even began licensing its Palm OS to Sony to create a new line of Clié handheld devices. The company also lined up an impressive roster of developers and at one point claimed a library of 50,000 Palm OS apps. And yet Palm's software business never resulted in much actual success for the company or its users, and is now a historical footnote.
Palm's second wind with the Palm Pre and its WebOS this year similarly caught an enormous wave of buzz, but that alone failed to actually result in a sustained success for its second attempt at a software store.
Similarly, Java was once the biggest buzzword ever to grace computing. But while Sun has earned lots of revenues from licensing its mobile version to phone makers, the widely deployed technology hasn't actually created a functional platform nor kicked off any sort of popular and viable marketplace for Java ME developers and phone users with Java ME capabilities, largely because the Java ME platform is so fractionalized between "almost compatible" variants.
It is critically important to generate excitement around a platform, and both iPhone and Android have created lots of buzz. However, Apple has targeted its buzz at iPod users and retail consumers and its own Mac OS X developer base, while Google's buzz has largely been confined to punditry and open source advocates who neither buy a significant number of products nor develop the commercial software that mainstream users want.
Google is not even advertising Android as a brand name. In contrast, Apple now has everyone from broadcast networks to insurance companies to newspapers to rival music services prominently advertising their apps for the iPhone and its App Store within iTunes.
Third party mobile software success: first mover
The iPhone wasn't just first time lucky either. Apple's previous attempt to float the Newton MessagePad in the early 90s as the first mainstream handheld computer platform wasn't successful. Palm or perhaps Symbian could be credited with first mover status in the smartphone industry, yet despite valiant efforts to establish third party development programs, neither has achieved the kind of success Apple has with the App Store.
Danger produced what may be the first functional app store, but could not attract enough third party attention to remain viable. Microsoft purchased Danger and largely dropped it into maintenance mode (without the maintenance), and lots of Danger's original talent has joined Google's Android efforts. However, the ideas behind the innovative software store Danger created have not been put to use by either Microsoft or Google.
Palm and Symbian are now retooling, along with Microsoft's Windows Mobile, to deploy software stores in imitation of Apple. Microsoft's efforts to copy the App Store are lifted clearly from Apple's blueprint, and Windows Mobile kicked off its new Marketplace with thousands of existing developers and their apps created over the past decade and an installed base similar to the iPhone's. Still, Microsoft's store opened with barely a trickle of interest.
The history of high profile failures and reversals of fortune in the mobile business suggest significant potential for Android as a third party software platform, if it can copy what Apple got right and improve upon that. Unfortunately, Google has not copied many of the factors leading to Apple's success, and has instead emulated the course of mobile platforms that haven't done well. The following page outlines how Google's platform strategy differs from Apple in key areas.
On page 2 of 3: Third party mobile strategy, Security, and APIs.


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This comic is pretty good. I mean, who doesn't chuckle when they're anticipating under-age rape? Only normally-adjusted adults, and none of them read (or blog about) xkcd anyway. But we can't just settle for "pretty good" and "chuckles" and "rape" and move on with our lives because our blog a mission (see left). Does our friend Randall have a mission? Is he using protection? Is it ribbed or spiraled? This comic helps us look at these tough questions.
The most important thing about "Voting Machines" is that it uses dialog at the thorough expense of any visual humor.
"But Stan," you may ask, "isn't this true of every xkcd? I mean, they're all talking stick figures."
"Huh. I GUESS," I might reply.
"Furthermore," you may continue, "aren't the emphasis on dialogue and the deliberately amateurish art part of the fun, even the satire, of the strip?"
"Well, crap, you've got me there," I might say. But I wouldn't say that because I've got a bigger, rantier point to make.
Indeed, the satire of using stick figures for a comic is pretty neat. Next time you open a newspaper, think about how many of the comics could have their figures replaced by featureless stick-figures with no loss of effect. Consider today's "Pearls Before Swine,"
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The early xkcd comics ingeniously comments on this sad state of affairs. The smudgy hand drawn-art and the stick figures devoid of any expression cleverly show what little art is left in today's comic strips.
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But we all get into trouble when we forget the joke. For example, I used to deliberately mispronounce "Chipotle" as "chä-pōt-əl" to make fun of people who said it like that. Now, I've just gotten into the habit and look like an ass when I say "Guys, let's hit Chä-pōt-əl," without realizing it.
So it is with Randall. These days, his characters aren't so amateurish and unexpressive that they're a form of statement -- they're just poorly drawn. Like today, they've got some expression (what with the pondering in panel one and the gesticulating in panels two and three), but it (1) doesn't add anything to the comic and (2) weakens the satire. I could point out the weaknesses with this xkcd strip by replacing the characters with early-xkcd characters.
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And when you produce the thing you used to satire, it's time for a little soul-searching.
I don't agree with everything he wrote, but it's still interesting. I'll have a post later tonight about the actual text and joke of the comic.
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Golden Mask One 24 is a 24 kHz digital/analogue metal detector with simple controls and fixed ground balance. Despite it's simplicity, this machine performs extremely well on coins and even relics. The recovery speed is lighting-fats that allows for successful search on iron-infested sites. The fixed ground balance means you don't have to set the ground balance, you just turn-on your machine and start searching.
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Centrality dependence of charged hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au + Au collisions from square root of s(NN)=62.4 to 200 GeV
(American Physical Society, 2005-03-04)
We have measured transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons produced in Au + Au collisions at square root s(NN) = 62.4 GeV. The spectra are presented for transverse momenta 0.25<p(T)<4.5 GeV/c, in a pseudorapidity ...
Energy dependence of elliptic flow over a large pseudorapidity range in Au + Au collisions at the BNL relativistic heavy ion collider
(American Physical Society, 2005-04-01)
This Letter describes the measurement of the energy dependence of elliptic flow for charged particles in Au+Au collisions using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Data taken at collision energies ...


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Rihanna Posts Bikini Photos, Announces Clothing Lineby Hilton Hater at .
Rihanna posted new bikini pictures of herself and assistant Melissa Forde over the weekend, during the same time period when she also announced her first-ever clothing one, one we presume will cover a lot more of the body than the outfits donned by the singer in these photos:
I've been wanting to design my own collection for some time," Rihanna said of the fashion endeavor, which will involve the company River Island and debut in 2013.
"River Island is the perfect partner for me to collaborate with and working with a British, family run business also really appealed to me. I find London really inspiring and River Island loves to have fun with clothes. I'm looking forward to working with them and creating something really special."
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Railroad fans who are also Disney fans looking for a fun out of town trip need go no further than the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, CA.
The museum boasts one of the largest collections of Pacific Electric Red Cars, similar to the ones that now run at Disney California Adventure. Many of the cars also run on the museum's tracks.
While researching the project, Disney Imagineers paid several visits to the museum to research the Red Cars prior to building the Disney versions.
Click here to watch the video.
The museum was originally started because of the Red Cars. People riding the Red Cars in the late fifties realized the trolleys would soon disappear as the freeway system expanded. They formed a group known as the Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California.
The equipment that group collected was originally kept at Travel Town in Griffith Park, but as the group expanded, and some land at Travel Town would be lost to those freeways, they moved the collection to the current site in 1958.
But as the site grew it began to collect other train-related items including a collection that has another Disney connection, the Grizzly Flats Railroad. That railroad was the private rail line of one of Walt Disney's nine-old-men of animation, Ward Kimball.
Kimball owned two steam locomotives, some passenger cars and other train-related stuff that he ran on tracks at his home in San Gabriel.
Before he passed away, he donated money for a train barn to be built at the museum. The barn is named for his railroad now holds all of Kimball's train collection.
Over the years the museum has added to its collections. Now there are more than 200 railroad cars and locomotives on the property, most visible either outside, or inside the numerous buildings. There's even a station at the front where visitors can purchase tickets to ride the Red Cars, or take a train ride.
On weekends during the winter months, those rides could be sitting inside some antique cars pulled by an oil-burning steam engine that used to run as part of the Ventura County Railway.
In November, Thomas the Tank steam engine pays a visit to the museum that brings out all the kids for a chance to ride on a train pulled by the famous faced engine.
Lest you think it's just about the trains, it's also about train lore. Currently the museum is putting together a place to hold a tribute to the Harvey Girls, waitresses that staffed the Fred Harvey Houses and restaurants that were fixtures on the old Santa Fe passenger lines.
The all-volunteer staff prides itself on restoring and maintaining all manner of railroad equipment. One of the buildings houses a full machine shop that includes numerous specialty-testing devices to ensure that all the different air brakes work properly.
Because it is run by volunteers, members can learn how to do almost anything. Don't expect to be the engineer behind the controls of a steam engine day one. That takes years to learn and get certified by the state.
Orange Empire Railway Museum
Location: 2201 S. "A" Street; Perris, CA 92570
Phone: 951-943-3020
Website: oerm.org.
Hours of operation: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Prices: The grounds are free, except during special events; check the museum's website for special event information. All-day passes to ride the trains are $12 for adults, $8 for kids 5-11, free for those under 5.
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Walmart Touts Crowd Experts It Used To Develop Black Friday Plans
If you're looking for bad news on this Black Friday, you're probably Googling "Walmart." The massive discount retailer has been the scene of injuries, arrests, pepper-spraying and general pandemonium at locations across the country today.
Asked about the stories of fights over sale items and arrests, Walmart touted its pre-planning for the biggest shopping day of the year, though acknowledged the chain is "always learning" about how to deal with the crowds that pack its stores.
"I would just tell you that the plans we have in place were developed with nationally recognized crowd experts and really were the first of their kind," company spokesperson Greg Rossiter told TPM Friday. "Having said that, we always look at the way we run our stores."
Those plans Walmart used this year were drawn up following much darker incidents than the ones that have marred the day at some locations of the massive retailer. In 2008, a store employee was trampled to death as a crowd surged into a New York Walmart to snatch up deeply discounted merchandise in the ritual that kicks off the holiday shopping season. A lawyer for the family of the dead man chided Walmart for not providing the employee with crowd control experience.
The 2008 death was sparked by more than 1,000 shoppers who broke down locked store doors to get at deeply discounted TVs and other items inside. That came during the simpler time when Black Friday sales actually began on Black Friday, rather than in the late evening of Thanksgiving Day like this year.
Many of the Walmart incidents in 2011 seem connected to the way the store has set up the sales in the years since, which this year began at 10 PM and midnight on Thanksgiving. The sales were described this way in a corporate press release:
10 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 24) - Top Toys, Home and Apparel
Midnight on Black Friday (Nov. 25) - Electronics! Electronics! Electronics!
Rossiter said the timing of the sales was driven by customers who told Walmart they preferred to "to stay up later in the day rather than getting up early the next morning" for sales that kicked off in the wee hours. The sales didn't include as many customers queuing outside the store, thanks to policies that keep many Walmarts open 24 hours a day. So customers were already in the stores and directed to sale items under tarps placed around each location strategically.
"We might position some of the items in housewares, some in apparel, so you have the traffic in the store is managed so that it is evenly distributed," Rossiter said.
This is where the trouble started. As the Los Angeles Times reported first in a tale that repeated itself across the country in reports Friday, customers already milling around the Porter Ranch, CA Walmart lost their cool when sale time came around.
The customers were already in the store when a whistle signaled the start of the Black Friday sale at 10 p.m., sending shoppers hurtling in search of deeply discounted items.
[A witness] said that by the time he arrived at the video games, the display had been torn down. Employees attempted to hold back the scrum of shoppers and pick up merchandise even as customers trampled the video games and DVDs strewn on the floor.
Rossiter said the store does try to mitigate this kind of situation, first spacing out the merchandise and letting customers who are waiting know they're likely to be too far back in line to snag one of the limited deeply-discounted products.
"They manage the queue," the spokesperson said.
Walmart is a huge company, with a number of locations vastly larger than its competitors. Rossiter preferred to focus on what went right rather than what went terribly wrong at a few sites.
"Overall, it's been a very safe event," he told TPM. "There are thousands of Walmart stores open for Black Friday, and there were a few unfortunate incidents but mostly" people were able to shop for bargains without trouble, he said.
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Am working on a column for Friday's print editions about Thursday's news that Boston has been selected as the United States candidate city to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Basically, my column will say that the Bay Area was fortunate not to be picked and I'll explain why. The column should also be up online within a couple of hours.
Mainly, however, the decision by the US Olympic Committee not to anoint the local bid as the best one of the four competing cities just proves I was correct last June when I wrote that the Bay Area proposal had almost zero chance of succeeding.
Not to say I told you so but . . . I told you so.
And for reference purposes, here was that previous column.
Purdy: San Francisco Olympics in 2024 unlikely
By Mark Purdy
Mercury News Columnist
June 14, 2014
Consumer tip: Do not start saving up money to buy those tickets for a 2024 Bay Area Olympics just yet.
In fact, by my estimation, odds are 99-1 against the games ever happening here. Admittedly, those are unscientific odds. They are based solely on my four decades of covering the Olympic landscape. The actual odds could be much worse.
Frankly, it came as a surprise last week when the United States Olympic Committee announced that San Francisco was one of four cities identified as "potential candidates" for a USA bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in just 10 years. The other three cities were Los Angeles, Boston and Washington.
Why was it such an eyebrow raiser to see San Francisco's name on that list? Because it was the first time most of us knew that anyone in Northern California even had any interest in the 2024 Games.
It turns out that the USOC sent out letters to 35 cities, asking if there was interest in bidding for the 2024 Games. San Francisco's mayor, Ed Lee, decided to respond in the affirmative, along with five other cities. And wow, what do you know? Lee made the cut down to four! Sounds like it was the equivalent of getting one of those letters from a time-share condo resort that begin: "You may have won, if you reply now!"
In fairness, Lee did do a little groundwork. He assembled a few people to examine the Olympic possibilities. The group includes Anne Cribbs, who worked so strenuously and passionately to help assemble Bay Area bids for the 2012 and 2016 Games — both of which ultimately failed.
"It's really preliminary," said Cribbs of this potential bid. "It's all just exploratory."
The exploration surely will uncover nothing new. We all know that San Francisco cannot be the host "city" for any Olympics in a singular sense. It's too small a municipality, both in population and square mileage. Thus, any local bid for the Olympics must involve the entire Bay Area, with the bulk of events taking place outside San Francisco.
And therein lies the rub.
Like so many outside entities, the U.S. Olympic Committee doesn't "get" how Northern California works. That effectively doomed previous Olympic bids.
Yes, San Francisco is our undeniable postcard/tourist capital. But eight of 10 people in the Bay Area live somewhere else. More dwell in San Jose, which is the larger city. The area's business capital is in Silicon Valley. The education capitals are in Berkeley and Palo Alto. Right now, Oakland might be the Bay Area hipster capital. Marin County has its own center of attitudinal gravity.
In other words, this isn't like other metropolitan areas in America, which have one dominant city and entirely subservient suburbs. Each corner of the Bay Area has its own vibe and agenda. Getting all the political entities on the same page is terribly difficult.
But incredibly, with Cribbs and her people working overtime, such cooperation actually occurred in 2002. That's when the Bay Area made its last serious run at an Olympics, bidding for the 2012 Games. The plan was realistic and budget conscious. The proposed track and field venue was the old Stanford Stadium. Other events were assigned to existing facilities all around the bay. The Athletes Village was planned for Moffett Field in Mountain View.
The USOC shot down the bid dismissively, saying that too much stuff was too far apart.
In response, Bay Area Olympic boosters submitted an alternate and more compact plan in a bid for the 2016 Games four years later. The fulcrum was a proposed new 49ers stadium at Candlestick Point that would serve as the primary venue. But the football team felt it was being ramrodded into accepting the plan. As discussions disintegrated, the Olympic bid went south, and so did the 49ers — who grew tired of dealing with Mayor Gavin Newsom's imperiousness and evacuated to Santa Clara.
Which (shock!) proved once more that San Francisco can't go solo on something like this. To his credit, Mayor Lee says he will reach out to other Bay Area mayors who are interested. But time is relatively short. The bid must be submitted by 2017. Plus, the USOC may still decide to not even submit an American bid this time around. Stiff global competition such as Paris and Rome and Istanbul are expected to compete against any USA bid.
Cribbs is still not dissuaded. She thinks the bid-selection process is more fair than it was in 2002 and worth pursuing. As a teenager, she won a gold medal in swimming at the 1960 Rome Games and has been a lifelong Olympic evangelist.
"I love the Olympic Games, and I love the Bay Area," she said Saturday. "I could still see them here. After we didn't get the bid for 2012, I could still drive by Moffett Field and see the Olympic Village that would have been there."
The 2024 Bay Area Olympics is also a nice vision to embrace. Don't expect to ever actually touch it.
Read Mark Purdy's blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/purdy. Contact him at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/MercPurdy.


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An energy-rich electrolyte replacement and nutritional supplement for young calves, lambs and foals. Restores normal body fluid and electrolyte balance to help reverse loss of body weight. Contains: potassium, sodium acetate, sodium chloride, sodium citrate, dextrose, glycine and glucose. Give 2 quarts solution to calves and foals twice daily for the first two days, then on days 3 and 4, mix 1 qt. solution with 1 qt. milk or milk replacer. Lambs require about 1/4 of the above dosage.
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SKF at bauma 2016: new mining, mineral processing and cement industries capabilities catalogue
2016 April 12, 13:58 CET
SKF has released a new mining, mineral processing and cement industries capabilities catalogue to give an insight into the company's products and services for the sectors. Included in the publication are SKF's world-class bearings, sealing and lubrication solutions and reliability services, which will be showcased at the bauma 2016 trade fair (Munich, 11 – 17 April).
Gothenburg, Sweden, 12 April 2016: SKF has launched a new capabilities catalogue to highlight its comprehensive range of solutions for optimising and maximising machinery service life in the mining, mineral processing and cement industries. The publication brings together a wealth of expertise and knowledge to form a single reference source of information about the vast and varied range of SKF products and services for applications across the sectors.
Created by industry experts, the new 88-page catalogue includes the latest information on SKF's experience in the mining, mineral processing and cement industries and explores the options available for enhancing the efficiency of rotating machinery. For example, end-users, original equipment manufacturers and consultants alike can discover the many bearing and sealing products available to help increase production and reduce energy consumption. Many of these, such as the SKF Explorer spherical roller bearings, will be on display at the bauma 2016 trade fair.
In addition, the publication provides guidance on how SKF solutions can optimise machine life cycles through effective lubrication, maintenance and condition monitoring services to cut the total cost of ownership and improve worker safety in the sectors. The SKF asset management offerings are proven to help firms reduce downtime and maintenance cost to increase overall profitability, while safeguarding the environment.
The SKF solutions for the mining, mineral processing and cement industries publication is particularly easy to navigate and makes product identification simple. It includes a feature, on pages six to 33, that examines 12 industry applications and highlights some specific solutions for each, as well as a chapter, on pages 34 to 37, dedicated to overcoming common challenges, such as contamination, high maintenance costs and lost productivity, with a remedy for every issue. Meanwhile, there is a cross-reference chart, on pages eight and nine, which allows the reader to find the most ideal SKF solution for each type of machinery and the latter half of the catalogue, from page 40 onwards, features each solution organised by type for quick reference.
"The launch of this brand new catalogue demonstrates that SKF has a very broad offering for the industry," says Thibaut Leconte, SKF's Global Applications Engineering Specialist for Mining. "We can now show in a single reference source that we provide a comprehensive and diverse range of proven solutions that help mining, mineral processing and cement industry professionals to get the very best from vital machinery, while lowering the total cost of ownership and boosting operational performance."
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Without to much more preamble!
Well done to both!
Major kudos to all the players involved in the Helbyssia plot - it was a long one, and had tons of great roleplay. Very well done by team and PCs alike.
MJ's rangering is consistently among the finest on avlis, but this month she really blew my mind. Stunning!
Arcadia has bravely done something I haven't seen in years. Picked a very involved game she knows nothing about, somehow stuck with it and found enjoyment. Truly commendable. I am so glad she's around and helping make the place better.
Zander has done a great job helping me out in game with a complex uphill but enjoyable task. I am very grateful for his efforts and would without question be worse off without this character here.
Sammuel Valorian, wow. My first encounter with him (and Fock) was amazing, and he just got better from there.
Gurkz, you gotta love him. He's always great fun to play with.
Ernst & Solveig: About time that pair grew a pair, if you know what I'm sayin'!
I voted Geris Grey and Kynthalas this month.
Gweyn can always be counted on for some thoughtful discourse or in the case of my PC, some witty back and forth and a zap or two.
Vintrinia is amazing.
If I could vote for more, there is a lot of unsung Heroes on Avlis, that I would vote for. Honorable mention to everyone at the Hel'Byssia event.
Kice Ansu's struggle on the Helbyssian peninsula was compelling and powerful. She took elements of a story that most would deliberately gloss over, mixed them with the subtle strengths and weaknesses in her persona, and shaped them into elements of true Lovecraftian Horror. Rarely have I seen any character do this, let alone do it so well. The event simply would not have been the same without her.
Ferria "the one that keep the Mouzekateers in order" Mouze
Vaako "he's heading for the top if only he could reach it" Sandfirestorm
Zander! Zander! Zander! He is the warrior dude that is just there, and yet he has so much depth that you barely notice. How exactly is that possible?
Kohav'yoom, just met this guy today. New to the server and everything. Too cool! Keep up the good work! If you can keep your cool whilst taking a bath, then you HAVE to get my vote!
Sam'ghul has been a fresh Breath of Valorian this month, helping turn a relatively slow Avlis into Boomtown. Just don't give out any more scrolls, damn you.
Geris' current incarnation is fun to watch prowling around.
Set is always fun to roleplay with, while seeing how his quest for profit is progressing.
Thienna has always been the Lady of Lore, the Maiden of Mythology, and the Damsel of Doctrine.
I wish I could vote for three! I have recently roleplayed with Kia'len Amore'fiden as well, so I would vote for her too if I could. Having a great time here, on Avlis!
Gurkz has been great this month between his tournament and teaching me about drinking while fighting bears!
Kice once again shows she is one of the best at delivering quality roleplay.
The wee little Bard, Gordy, always knows how to make characters around him have a good time and enjoy the adventures they share together.
Rode..... aka Serenity, tough, disciplined, strong. Just the way a warrior should be. Seems she found a cause, or a calling, and is pursuing it with everything she's got.
My vote goes to Mchek's finest halfling. Vaako
Sammy. Funny and slightly scary.
Deo. So fun to play with when she is nice. Even more when the niceness goes away.
Lily! Lily is so much fun to be around. Just when you think the situation is under control? Yeah right, Lily to the .... rescue? Better bring your fireproof suit! Its gonne get hot! And her comments? Holy crap, you never know what's going to come out of her mouth!
Tris - Badass that takes gruff from no one
Thorfinn proves once more that there is so much more then just the drunken warmaster. Touching stuff!
BBF is one creepy motherfucker, which is to say he's smart and is always true to his core. The guy just never takes the easy way out. Ever. Cheers for that.
Zander's meteoric rise recently has left me both breathless and more than a little excited, he's a guy who's going places, a stalwart companion on even the roughest adventure and a great guy to hang out with afterwards, immeasurably kind and generous, always with time for anyone who needs it. My new favourite Barbarian has arrived
I can honestly say I hadn't really noticed Rode until recently, she was always there, but kind of in the background, but, I am happy to say all that has changed, my character has had reason to interact with her recently and i've found it a very enjoyable experience, I was expecting indifference, but what i got was welcoming, interesting RP that seemingly attempts to include as many people as possible. The Layten's mercenary company "Serenity's Swords" is awesome, and with Rode at it's helm, I can't see it disappearing any time soon.


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Staples wrestling falls to Greenwich
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After being sidelined with an injury last season, Alex Jarombek is back on the mat in a big way for the Greenwich High School wrestling team.
A junior, Jarombek has emerged as a 132-pound wrestler to watch out for in the FCIAC -- a grappler who has helped the Cardinals start their season strong.
Jarombek continued to impress in his weight class, winning his match by pinfall in Greenwich's convincing 69-9 victory against visiting Staples Wednesday.
With their sixth win in seven matches, the Cardinals raised their record to 6-2. Back in solid form, Jarombek pinned Staples senior Lamont Johnson in 3 minutes, 1 second in a 132-pound matchup.
"I haven't really seen that kid before, so I went out there with a strong mind, worked my offense and got a take down in the first period," Jarombek said. "The second period, I got my escape took him down again, worked the bar, kept it in and pinned him."
The triumph upped Jarombek's mark to 12-3 for the season. He missed last season with a knee injury and underwent microfracture surgery.
"I wrestled as a freshman before missing last season," Jarombek said. "Missing the whole season gave me a lot of motivation going into this season. It's great to be back with the guys again and wrestling. I was rusty at first, it took me a few weeks to get back into it."
His brother Tim Jarombek, a 2006 Greenwich High graduate, wrestled for the Cardinals, as did his other brother Mark, a senior at GHS (he is currently running indoor track).
"It's a nice luxury to have Jarombek back in the lineup," GHS coach George Albano said. "To have a kid like that who kind of sets the tone for the rest of the team is important."
Alex Margeotes (113-pounds), Wyndsor Doyle (120), Brandon Aguda (106), Jack Freiheit (152) and Dan Gutman (160) also won their matches by pinfall for the Cards against a young Wreckers squad.
"In a match like this we're not looking at team scores, we're looking at how well the team wrestles and I thought the team wrestled well," Albano said. "We are finally getting into a rhythm. With our schedule, it took us a while to get going, but I'm happy with where we're at right now."
Margeotes pinned Staples freshman Kieran Clarke in 33 seconds for Greenwich, which won 12 of the 14 matches.
"At the beginning of the match we were feeling each other out, but once I took a shot and got a leg I had a bit more confidence from them on and did better than at the beginning of the match."
According to Margeotes, depth is one of the Cardinals' strengths.
"We have a lot of depth in every weight class," Margeotes said. "Since I was a freshman, this is the first year that we have a real solid chance of winning at every weight class."
Aguda won by pinfall in 1:34, Doyle pinned his opponent in 48 seconds, Freiheit won his match in 1:41 and Gutman needed just 1:31 to put his foe's shoulders to the mat. In one of the hardest-fought matches of the evening, Staples senior Jake Santo edged sophomore Bryce Stanback, 12-9. The Wreckers other victory came from junior Justin Ludel (138), who won by injury default against Greenwich sophomore Ethan Ross (bloody nose).
Freshman Mike Ceci, the younger brother of former Cardinals star grappler Ben Ceci, gave GHS a win in the 126-pound class. Ceci took an 8-2 decision from Staples' Matt Prior. Justin Montier (170), Thomas Williams (170), Mitchell Nethercott (195), Erik Menchaca (220) and Chris Fischer (heavyweight) were each victorious by forfeit for the Cards.
"We are definitely getting on a roll now," Margeotes said. "Our first match of the season we lost to Fairfield Warde, but having such a tough match at the beginning of the season was an eye-opener. It showed us the type of work we have to put in."


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Market Outlook
Robot Sales Jump, Fueled by Automotive
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Monday, October 1, 2007
New orders received by North American-based robotics companies climbed by 39 percent in the first half of 2007, according to statistics from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, MI. Through June, North American manufacturing companies ordered 9208 robots valued at $525.2 million. RIA traces the gains primarily to a 76-percent jump in orders to automotive manufacturers and their suppliers, even as non-automotive orders declined five percent.
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Eliza Acton
Elizabeth "Eliza" Acton (April 17, 1799 – February 13, 1859) was an English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional cook or chef, Modern Cookery for Private Families. In this book she introduced the now-universal practice of listing the ingredients and suggested cooking times with each recipe.
Song (1826)[edit]
- In Beauty's dwelling all things fair,
And rich, to win her sweet smiles strove;
But still young Beauty's only care
Was, to watch o'er the lamp of Love.
- But tir'd at length poor Beauty slept,
And while she rested, wearied quite,
Indifference to the dear lamp crept,
And quench'd its warm, and splendid light.
To Caroline (1826)[edit]
- To win, beloved Caroline from thee,
One thought, in years when we shall sever'd be--
--Sever'd, perchance, by those deep waves, which pour
Their billowy murmurs round our native shore,--
For this, I wander'd round the Bow'rs of Song,
A weary, and rejected suppliant long,
And of the Muses crav'd in humblest tone
From their rich wreaths, one simple bud alone:
They did but fling their wildest weeds at me,
And thus I twin'd them into verse for thee!
Acton's recipe for Bakewell Pudding[edit]
1½-2lb mixed preserves
10 egg, yolks only
½lb sugar
½lb butter
lemon brandy or other flavouring, to taste
This pudding is famous not only in Derbyshire, but in several of our northern counties, where it is usually served on all holiday-occasions. Line a shallow tart-dish with quite an inch-deep layer of several kinds of good preserve mixed together, and intermingle with them from 2-3oz of candied citron or orange rind. Beat well the yolks of ten eggs, and add to them gradually ½lb of sifted sugar; when they are well mixed, pour in by degrees ½lb of good clarified butter, and a little ratafia or any other flavour that may be preferred; fill the dish two-thirds full with this mixture, and bake the pudding for nearly an hour in a moderate oven. Half the quantity will be sufficient for a small dish.
Baked in moderate oven, ¾ to 1 hour.
Obs. This is a rich and expensive, but not very refined pudding. A variation of it, known in the south as an Alderman's pudding, is we think, superior to it. It is made without the candied peel, and with a layer of apricot-jam only, 6oz butter, 6oz of sugar, the yolks of six, and the whites of two eggs.


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Security and Monitoring
Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) offers a wide range of features and tools to help organizations monitor and secure applications and data within on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud deployments. Security and monitoring are particularly important when deploying an application and desktop delivery solution in government, finance, and health sector environments, where data protection is an essential—and often regulated—requirement.
Pervasive Security
By delivering server-based desktops and applications from a central location, IT can easily back up endpoints, deploy and maintain security, and meet compliance regulations. Parallels RAS adds to the security advantages of centrally managed published resources with extra layers of protection. It helps organizations protect their assets with strict system hardening and a lockdown of data access.
Multifactor Authentication
A second-level authentication is enabled in Parallels RAS to provide a high level of protection with different types of security tokens for multifactor authentication. Users are required to authenticate through two successive stages to access the virtual workspace. The second level of authentication can be provided by Azure MFA, Duo, FortiAuthenticator, TekRADIUS, RADIUS, DeepNet, Google Authenticator, or a SafeNet server.
Smart Card Authentication
Parallels RAS provides an easy-to-use smart card authentication on a server-client connection, allowing organizations to authenticate users access by smart card on published applications and desktops.
Kiosk Mode
The Parallels RAS Client Manager module allows administrators to convert Windows devices running Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 into a secure Kiosk-like mode without replacing the operating system. The Kiosk Mode option limits users from changing system settings or installing new applications, providing the administrator with a higher level of control over connected devices.
Encryption Protocols
Parallels RAS Secure Client Gateway encrypts with SSL or FIPS 140-2 protocol the users' connections to the farm, helping organizations adhere to data compliance policies such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.
Advanced Filtering
Granular filtering rules can be created to restrict users' access to the farm, adding another layer of data protection. IT staff can define several filtering rules to decide who can access a published resource based on user, IP address, MAC address, and gateway.
Data Segregation
Parallels RAS supports data segregation in a multi-tenancy environment by allowing the creation of an unlimited number of independent sites inside the same farm. No applications, desktops, and data can be shared between sites, ensuring data protection. Multiple sites can be managed from the same instance of the Parallels RAS Console, streamlining the management of a multi-tenancy environment.
Clipboard Restriction
Organizations can avoid any unwanted data leakage from published applications by disabling paste and copy on the clipboard, reducing the risk that sensitive data such as credit card details or patient records can be stolen.
Client Policy
A client policy is a set of rules defined by the administrator to manage, control, and restrict the settings options available to users. The Parallels RAS Console provides IT administrators the ability to set the client policy from within.
Monitoring server, desktop, and application performance is critical to provide users with a seamless and productive UX. The Parallels RAS reporting engine transforms raw data into instant, visual, and intuitive reports, proving IT with an overview of their infrastructure at any time. Unlike other solutions, this feature is available with a standard license and does not entail any additional license cost.阅读更多
Reporting Engine
The Parallels RAS Reporting Engine relies on Microsoft SQL Express or full edition (SSRS), enabling real-time reporting about the farm activities. By extracting raw data from the SQL database, Parallels RAS Reporting Engine creates detailed reports about the server usage, what devices are used, what applications are accessed, and more. By scanning these reports, organizations can enhance the performance of Parallels RAS and Windows server components.
Available Reports
The Parallels RAS Reporting Engine provides IT with insight about users, Active Directory (AD) groups, devices, servers, and applications activities.
Users Reports
Receive real-time information about the users connected to the Parallels RAS installation, the sessions activity, the devices connected, and the client OSes used. With this information, IT administrators can adjust the servers and devices availability to match the traffic requirements on the farm.
Group Reports
Users' activity can be also monitored at AD group level, providing insight into the group dynamics. By checking the group activity, IT admins can adjust the settings of the Parallels RAS installation to meet the different groups' requirements.
Device Reports
The devices report provides IT administrators with information on all the devices used on the Parallels RAS installation. IT administrators can plan for future expansion or development based on this report—for example, purchase the most commonly used device for future expansion.
Server Reports
Servers activity running on RD Session Host and VDI are monitored in this group of reports. Organizations can discover and remove bottlenecks by evaluating server sessions activity and reallocating the hardware resources.
Application Reports
Published applications usage on the Parallels RAS installation is monitored in this group of reports. IT administrators can track which applications are most commonly used, forecast the license consummation, or remove unused applications to save up hardware resources.


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How to setup an UDP communication over a GPRS network?I am still missing something...
Thank you for your reply, but I have now an issue when I have both the include:#include <GSM.h>#include <SoftwareSerial.h>SoftwareSerial mySerial(10, 11); // RX, TXDo you know why?!?
If the GSM TimeStamp is not affordable just like the previous one I reported here, I'll try to do a UDP connection with a NTP Server by GPRS.
AT+CCLK is a method to write the actual date and time in the GSM Module, and using its internal RTC it's possible anytime retrieving the timestamp with the same command.It can't be used to know the Timestamp without first have written in it (in a GSM module setup phase).
So the only method I think to use to know the actual Timestamp is a NTP or Daytime service over internet.For what concern NTP I am still at the beginning of my first sketch (it needs an UDP communication with a NTP server)...if someone could help us, it would be appreciated!


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It's not even spring yet, but there's a lot of bike and transport news items happening in Nashville!
Last week, I attended a "visioning session" at Oasis Bike Workshop about the Tennessee portion of the United States Bicycle Route System. The route system, which was started in the early 1980s, has ramped up again in the last 10 years—six new routes were added in 2011, and two in Minnesota and Michigan last year.
Now, they want to plan a route to bring USBR 25 through Tennessee, connecting Franklin, Kentucky, with Ardmore, Alabama, and passing through Nashville. David Shumaker and Bruce Day from Bike/Walk Tennessee came to explain the concept of the Bicycle Route System.
After their talk, we divided into two groups and marked a map of the greater Nashville area with stickers, highlighting places of interest (yellow), bike-friendly routes (green) and places to avoid (pink).
Once a route is pulled together, it will have to be submitted to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials at their spring or fall meeting for approval. Looking at the map made me realize that I need to expand my biking horizons a little—there wasn't much that I could add outside the urban center and the greenways! Maybe it's time for a more ambitious ride…
You can follow the USBRS on Facebook or Twitter (@usbicycleroutes)—and of course I'll be posting anything I hear here. If you have a brilliant idea for a route through Nashville (or between Nashville and Franklin—we were slightly stumped!), email me and I'll pass it along. If you're curious about what might be going on with the USBRS in your state, this PDF gives a brief update, state-by-state.
The other Tennessee project I got a glimpse of this month was the Nashville Bus Rapid Transfer project, which is going full steam on the East-West Connector. They wanted input from cyclists about how we might use the BRT, and where they should put bike racks (answer: all of the stops!). It was encouraging to see that the people involved really cared about getting this right, for the city and for the citizens—including cyclists.
The buses, which will be double length and hold around 80 people, will have designated lanes for most of the route, which goes down West End from St. Thomas, merges onto Broadway, then takes a left on 5th to Church and then across the Woodland Street bridge to Five Points in East Nashville.
I won't lie, I'm kind of bummed we aren't getting light rail—but BRT is about a million times cheaper (why yes, that is an exact figure!) and quicker to build. There will be kiosks at each stop, where you can buy tickets, as well as sheltered waiting areas and the aforementioned bike racks. There will be park-and-ride locations and extra bike racks at both termini. And the buses are going to act like light rail, which is the important thing. You don't have to consult a schedule, because they'll be coming by every 10 minutes.
We were told that it currently takes 16 minutes to get to downtown from St. Thomas. If traffic continues to grow at the pace it has been over the past few years, and no major transportation changes are implemented, by 2018 the same 5-mile trip will take more than 30 minutes, so this project is definitely needed. Construction could start as early as this fall, although it probably won't be completed until 2015. For more on the BRT plans, this video is a good summary.
What's going on in your city's transportation world?


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Two Stars: At Marcus Samuelsson's new Harlem restaurant, the scene is cheerful and the fried yard bird is worth a trip from anywhere.
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The elusive GOP alternative on health care
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin doesn't criticize congressional Republicans often, but last week, she called congressional GOP leaders "weak" when it comes to offering detailed policy proposals, especially in one notable area. "Where is the market-based health-care plan?" she asked, adding, "Without it, [Republicans] weaken their own case against Obamacare and give the president the opportunity to say they've got no alternative."
The Associated Press also picked up on the absence of a GOP health care plan the other day.
Three years after campaigning on a vow to "repeal and replace" President Barack Obama's health care law, House Republicans have yet to advance an alternative for the system they have voted more than three dozen times to abolish in whole or in part.
Officially, the effort is "in progress" – and has been since Jan. 19, 2011, according to GOP.gov, a leadership-run website.
But internal divisions, disagreement about political tactics and Obama's 2012 re-election add up to uncertainty over whether Republicans will vote on a plan of their own before the 2014 elections, or if not by then, perhaps before the president leaves office, more than six years after the original promise.
The AP quoted Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) saying his caucus will "have a replacement bill ready" just as soon as they're done destroying the Affordable Care Act – which is to say, never.
Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), the DCCC chairman this cycle, added, "Every voter knows what Republicans are against. They don't know what they're for" on health care.
And while I'm generally sympathetic to that argument, it's not entirely correct. Most of the political world has forgotten about this, but in the summer of 2009, congressional Republicans swore that they would produce their own health care reform plan and present it to the public for scrutiny.
In November 2009, GOP leaders actually delivered on this promise and released the Official Republican Health Care Plan. Why doesn't this sound familiar to you? Because it was a spectacularly awful proposal that even GOP lawmakers hoped you wouldn't hear about.
As we talked about a year ago, congressional Republicans missed a series of self-imposed deadlines in 2009, before throwing together a half-hearted joke – the GOP "policy" largely ignored the uninsured, did nothing for those with pre-existing conditions, and offered nothing for those worried about losing coverage when it's needed most.
We learned shortly after the Republican plan was defeated that the proposal included provisions that mirrored "the suggestions put forth by the lobbying entity of the private insurance industry way back in December 2008." Imagine that.
As Matt Yglesias noted at the time, the Republican approach to reform sought to create a system that "works better for people who don't need health care services, and much worse for people who actually are sick or who become sick in the future. It's basically a health un-insurance policy." And as ThinkProgress added in 2009, the CBO crunched the numbers and found that the Republican alternative would leave "about 52 million" Americans without access to basic medical care.
Pressed for some kind of alternative to Obamacare, this was the best congressional Republicans could do.
And here's the punch line: in July 2012, Tom Brokaw asked House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), "[W]hen will we see a Republican plan that would replace more meritoriously the Obamacare plan that you're so unhappy with?" Cantor replied, "Tom, you knew back in 2009 when the Obamacare bill was being considered on the House floor, we put forward our alternative. So to sit here and say we don't have a replacement is not correct."
In other words, the demonstrably ridiculous reform "plan" that Republicans were embarrassed by in 2009 was still considered Eric Cantor's go-to replacement for Obamacare as recently as a year ago.
So the point isn't that GOP lawmakers can't come up with a health care plan; the point is they can't come up with a good health care plan.
And why not? Because to address a problem like this one – a dysfunctional health care system that costs too much and covers too few – requires government spending and government regulation. There's just no way around this simple truth. So Republicans have faced a straightforward question for the last several years: do they (a) address a national problem that prevents millions of Americans from receiving affordable health care and literally bankrupts countless American families; or (b) stay inside their ideological comfort zone.
Take a wild guess which option they prefer.