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Who is my Neighbor?
Who is my neighbor? It could be someone in close proximity impacted directly by tragedy. It could be the person who loses a loved one in a fire that completely destroys his home. Such an event will be a test of your capacity to be a neighbor. I had an opportunity to reach out to a man who found himself in that very situation yesterday. And in the process, I was reminded once again of the true definition of a neighbor.
A Story of True Neighbors…
· Gracious hospitality was extended. I stood outside with the man who lost his wife and other family members, as the firefighters completed the final tasks of putting out the blaze. We all felt the January chill during the early morning hours. It wasn't long before a lady, who lived nearby, came out and offered her home. "Please come in my home. I will cook breakfast for you, if you are hungry." Her gracious spirit brought the offer of warmth in more ways than one. She was a true neighbor.
· Volunteers served coffee and cold water. A kind smile from two ladies volunteering with The Salvation Army could not help but stand out, as tired firefighters took a brief rest from their duties. Their offer of a cup of coffee was simple, but definitely needed. They were true neighbors to the first responders.
A Story of the Those Who are Still Learning…
· There is never a shortage of gawkers. Human curiosity has a morbid component. For some reason people are drawn to slow down and take in all of the visual details of a major accident, or in this case a fire that completely destroyed a couple's home. Neighbors offer their home, or a cup of hot coffee on a cold morning. Gawkers stand in their yard and watch…The family feels like they are on a morbid stage for everyone to observe. It's the worst day of their life, and they are forced to endure the first moments of their grief under the careful scrutiny of those who choose to gawk. If you are inclined to be such a casual observer, I would urge you to find a need and fill it. True neighbors are not spectators.
· There are those magnetized by social media. A person loses their home from a fire! And there has been a death in that home as well. Social media draws people like a magnet. Such news must be posted! Right? Wrong… Do you know if all of the deceased person's family and close friends have been notified? Do you have all of the facts together? What is your post on social media going to accomplish? What is your intent? True neighbors are too busy serving the family in need to pay any attention to their Facebook or Instagram accounts.
Who is my neighbor? It could be a person in close proximity to you who is experiencing the worst day of their life. What will you offer to them on that day? Choose to be a true neighbor.


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1. Keith Jensen, Ph.D. (MIT, USA)
"Continuous Manufacturing of Tablets via Hot-Melt Extrusion and Coupled Injection Molding"
Dr. Keith Jensen has been consulting for companies in the US and China on continuous manufacturing and pharmaceutical formulation and process development. Before consulting, Keith was the Associate Director and Principle Investigator of the Novartis-MIT Center of Continuous Manufacturing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) from 2014 to 2017. The Center was a 10-year research program on developing end-to-end continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. He led a translation team of research scientists, engineers, and post-docs. They developed new technologies and processes for continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals from proof of principle, scale-up, and translation (transfer and implementation) into pharmaceutical product production.
Keith's background includes a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Chemistry, Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah before entering the pharmaceutical industry. He joined LTS Lohmann where he led a formulation group developing oral thin film dosage forms. The main emphasis of research centered on solving difficult drug delivery problems via buccal delivery and solving poor solubility challenges. After +10 years at LTS he joined the Center at MIT. For the last two years, Dr. Jensen has been a member of the USP Expert Panel on Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals.
2. Niklas Sandler, Ph.D.(Abo Academic University, Finland)
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Niklas Sandler received his M.Sc. (Pharm.) in 1998 from University of Helsinki, Finland. He got his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical technology from the University of Helsinki 2003. He was lecturer at the Pharmaceutical Technology Division, Helsinki between 2003- 2005 and in 2005-2006 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Otago, New Zealand, focusing on research on solid- state characterization of drugs. He became an adjunct professor in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Helsinki in 2007. Between 2006 and 2008 he had a senior researcher position at AstraZeneca, Pharmaceutical and Analytical R&D in the UK. From September 2008 until July 2009 was a temporary professor in Industrial Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki. Since August 2009 he has been full professor in Pharmaceutics at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Turku, Finland and heads the research group in drug-delivery and pharmaceutical technology. He has pioneered in research about printable drug-delivery systems. The current aim of his research group is to increase the understanding of material behaviour in fabrication of printed drug-delivery systems and to explore various printing techniques in drug manufacture. He is the president of the Finnish Pharmaceutical Society since 2012. Vice rector responsible for research affairs and innovations of Åbo Akademi University since 2015. He has been an Executive Board Member of EUFEPS from 2013 onwards.
He has published about 100 papers in major international peer-reviewed journals since 2000, with ca. 1600 citations (approximately 1300 since 2012), h -index of 24. The publications have been published in wide range of scientific journals. In addition, 3 granted patents and several patent applications. He has been managing projects as Principal investigator in various research and commercialization projects funded by the Academy of Finland, Business Finland (National Innovation Agency), and the pharmaceutical industry.
3. Kenji Sugibayashi, Ph.D. (Josai International University, Japan)
Kenji Sugibayashi, Ph.D. is the president of Josai International University, a trustee of Josai University Educational Corporation and a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University. He received B.S. and M.S. from the University of Toyama in 1974 and 1976, respectively. He started to work at Josai University from 1976. He got a Ph.D. from Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1981. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and University of Utah in 1982-3, working for Dr. William I. Higuchi. Dr. Sugibayashi's major is pharmaceutical and cosmetic sciences. He has written more than 300 original articles, 120 reviews, 50 patents and edited several books. He has just published a book named "Skin Permeation and Disposition of Therapeutic and Cosmeceutical Compounds" from Springer. He was the president of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan (APSTJ) during 2009-10, a vice-president at the Japanese Cosmetic Science Society (JCSS) till the last year and a board member of directors at the Japanese Society for Alternative to Animal Experiments (JSAAE). He received many scientific awards; like the Asian Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (AFPS) Nagai Distinguished Scientist Award 2017, the JSAAE Achievement Award 2015, the Shukri Distinguished Keynote Lecture Award at the Asia Pacific Pharmacy Education Workshop in 2014, the APSTJ Award 2013, APSTJ Best Paper Award in 2013, 2011, 2009 and 1993, JOC (Japan Oleo Chemistry) Best Editor Award in 2012, AATEX Best Paper Award in 2002, APSTJ Young Researcher Award in 1996, and many. He is now a key member in the Asia Pacific Pharmacy Education Network (AP-PEN).


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"Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented."
Oh MY my. This was a quote by Truman Capote that rattled around in my head for years and years. But I only remembered the gist of it, something about not remembering when we've been happy. Like all Capote quotes, it was elegant, graceful and went straight to the point. I never thought I'd find it again, and even doing a google search was pretty unfruitful (to coin a phrase) for the first couple of hours or so. Then, under the tag "happiness". . .
Oh yes.
Back in his youth, he was a sort of male literary Marilyn Monroe, probably showing his hairy leg to journalists if it would get him laid. He was like that.
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Lawmakers advance bill for Bible classes in public schools
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JEFFERSON CITY - A freshman representative is hoping to add a new elective for Missouri public schools: Bible classes.
Rep. Ben Baker, R-Neosho, said the class would not teach religion, but teach the Bible from a historical and literary perspective.
"It's not teaching worship practices, it's not proselytizing or any of those things," he said.
Baker also said having an understanding of the Bible will help broaden their education to understand cultural and political references.
"If they don't have a least a rudimentary understanding of the Bible, they're gonna miss those references," he said. "So even understanding the culture that we live in the United States of America, I think our students need that."
Brian Kaylor, a writer for a Baptist magazine, was one of the nine people who testified at the bill's hearing, but the only person who was opposed.
"One of my problems with it is by singling out this text and saying this is the only religious text worthy of its own entire class, is itself the state starting to play favoritism over one religion or the other," he said.
Lashunda Glasgow, a mother and daycare owner, agrees that it could make students of other faiths feel excluded, but thinks they can all benefit somehow.
"I think that the Bible teaches you morals and values," she said.
Glasgow also said that the class could provide the opportunity for students to explore Christianity.
Baker however said he wants to emphasize the class would solely be taught in the context of history.
"It's not teaching worship practices, it's not proselytizing or any of those things," he said.
However, Baker said he has bipartisan support on the bill, but said he understands how some find it controversial.
The committee voted 8-2 to advance the bill to the full Missouri House for debate.


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Some things are hard to put into words.
As a kid and even as a younger person we all know sadness.
When things go wrong, when people die or friendships are lost that gut feeling of unhappiness, of weakness and despair is an all too familiar one. We learn to get over it.
As you get older, events repeat and we learn to deal with loss.
Clarity overcomes confusion.
What remains after we filter out these feelings is quite scary.
It's a gut feeling below grief and despair.
For me, it's loneliness.
Two of my family regularly clash. Both are adamant that they are right. I act as mediator and referee and most days manage to calm things down, find resolution, help them look for balance or just an unhappy compromise.
While I do it, I have an overwhelming feeling of being on my own.
I have to be.
These people are dear to me and to side with either one would cause chaos.
I honestly don't think either of them have a clue how I feel. They're so wrapped up in their own extreme anxiety, they don't see the damage that they do to me as they tear each other apart.
Anxiety is a deep and dark pit which blinds you to everyday events. It drains you of all your energy so housework doesn't get done, calls aren't made, and the sanctuary of sleep is always there.
Discussion of this mess is out of the question. As I tiptoe round the sensitive folk, even doing housework is seen as an affront, an attack on their self esteem.
When the house is empty I race around trying to catch up. Just to save the scowls and feelings of offence.
I'll admit that sometimes these feelings do overwhelm me. I find myself crying at sentimental bits on soap operas, no matter how badly written or cliche.
Coping is a daily struggle. I often do my own shopping as the fridge and cupboards are aimed at the kids. I get in from a shift at half past 9 and sometimes have to start mediation, or housework or even delivering beds to top floor flats! On Sunday I was up at 8 to take someone to a kitchen job several miles away – after doing my own 8 hour shift the night before.
People ask me what I do with my spare time – but there really isn't any. I don't socialise as I have to provide the flex for others. Holidays are a thing of the past – it's been over 11 years since we went for a few days in a friend's caravan in North Wales (the kids have been to Austria, Netherlands, adventure breaks and a few weekends breaks in Blackpool.)
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Elmer Reyes fired 16 points while Kenneth Yap added 13 as the 60s of the Filipino-Chinese Basketball Veterans Association (FCVBA) advanced to the final with a 58-37 drubbing of host Club 51in the 26th ASEAN Veterans Basketball Tournament on Thursday at the MABA gym here.
Though slowed down by numerous injuries in the past, the 58-year-old Reyes still managed to flash some of his patented moves to lead the 60s to their 9th final appearance in 10 years.
For their win, FCVBA now has two teams in the finals with the 65-years-and-above team -- also being handled by Edster Sy -- cruising first after completing a two-game sweep of their group elims.
Backed by Ironcon Builders' Jimi Lim, Freego's Eduard Tio, Johnny Chua and Rain or Shine's Terry Que, the 65s will be going for a title repeat against Hatyai of Thailand -- the same team they beat in the elims.
FCVBA can make it 3-of-3 if the 50s of coach Mac Tan hurdle Hatyai of Thailand. They were still playing at presstime.
Bannered by Allan Caidic, Benet Palad, Gerry Tee, Bong Tan, Joey Sta. Maria, Rodolfor Noel, Jr. Aristeo Guevarra and Stephen dela Cruz, the 50s swept the five-team Group 1 elims Thursday.
Both the 50s and 60s are seeking a three-peat in the annual tournament for players with Chinese blood.
Reyes was ably supported by Julio Cruz, Kenneth Yap, Aris Franco, Andrew Ongteco, Jose Lao and Conrad Siy.


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The 2019 Dublin U20 Hurling Management team is made up of Manager Paul O'Brien (Crumlin), alongside his selectors Fintan Clandillon (Lucan Sarsfields), Mike O Dwyer (St Sylvester's) & Conor O'Shea (Faughs).
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Its rear hinged door is the same that is for example has the bodywork from the nose to the A-pillars. However, from the door backwards, it is designed differently. Like the other phantoms, the aluminum panels are draped over a welded aluminum skeleton. Here, the rear bodywork kicks up behind the driver's seat from where an aluminum roof is formed forwards, thus meeting the steel header rail above the widescreen. Overall at 5609mm in length and 1592mm in height and 1987mm in width, it is not very short when compared to the saloon.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe Exterior
The lights clusters have a glowing day light running bar via the centre of the headlight, that comes along with dipped and high beam functions illuminating the top and bottom sections. With a slight re-design, that the Phantom Coupe boasts of, this car comes with a brushed stainless steel outer to compliment the optional brushed steel bonnet and A-frame widescreen surround, and the outer grille could be color-matched to the body color to give the best look ever. This luxury car comes with 16 colors to choose from and offers 44,000 hues.
Customization such as two tones finishes and hand-painted five-metre coach-lines could also be done. Further designing could be done without any compromise with 12 different wheels to choose from, 5 designs with up to 3 finishes each one with their own special character. All the wheels feature are unique and self-righting wheel centres that display the Rolls Royce monogram the right way up.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe Interior
The thicker rimmed power steering ensures that you get a comfortable grip and the fluid lines on the driver's seat gives an effortless driving experience. In fact Phantom Coupe's sporting nature could be experienced even when it is not in motion. Giving a contemporary look the new three flute designs enhances the interior beauty. There is also a newly updated central console presenting everything within easy view.
The 8.8 inch of centre console display sports new buttons bookmarks effortless operations. There is an option to select a full metal facia or to match it to the veneers that run through the rest of the interior.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe Engine & Transmission
This car delivers an incredible power from the direct injection V12 Engine. At 70mph over 90% of the power is reserved, thus making for effortless acceleration. This car is bestowed with a strong and dynamic 6.8 litre of V12 engine. This engine churns out 453 bhp of peak power at a rate of 5350rpm and also 720 Nm of maximum torque at 3500rpm. It is intelligently mated with an 8 speed automatic transmission making sure that the drive is smooth.
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2016 Jeep Patriot Concept Design and Price : 2016 Jeep Patriot Front Design
Underneath the hood of the brand new Patriot can be a 2.4 liter DOHC engine with a twin VVT that's immediately mated to a 5-pace handbook transmission, whereas the ability shall be equipped to all wheels. The ability output of this motor is about 158 horsepower and 141 lb-ft of torque. Furthermore, this engine has the estimated gas consumption of 30mpg. There can even be a stronger model of this engine with a 4.0 liter capability and with the Twin Turbo VVT that can have the ability to ship as much as 172 horsepower and a hundred sixty five lb-ft of torque. This poweplant might be accompanied with a 6 pace automated transmission with energy going to all 4 wheels. The typical gas consumption will, nevertheless, be 27mpg.
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American golfer Stacy Lewis banished the ghosts of her nightmare final round at the 2008 U.S. Open when she took the Kraft Nabisco Championship by three shots on Sunday.
The 26-year-old, whose grandfather died on the eve of the contest at Mission Hills in California, claimed the first title of her professional career in the first of four major events in the 2011 women's season.
"Everybody in the family knew that he would have wanted me to finish out this week," she told the LPGA website.
"I mean, he lived through my golf. He loved watching it on TV. He recorded it every week so he could keep watching it over and over again.
Lewis, who won an unofficial rain-shortened LPGA Tour event as an amateur in her native Arkansas in 2007, had looked set to pursue that up three years ago when she led the U.S. Open heading into the last day, but a final-round 78 ended her hopes of glory.


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This annual Festival of Lesson and Carols for Christmas is held at the University Church, next to the University Catholic Chaplaincy. This traditional candle lit festival is open to everyone of all ages. There is wheelchair access.
You are invited to join the Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University, Prof Colin Riordan along senior academics, members of Cardiff University Chaplaincy, University staff, students, alumni and friends of Newman Hall to prepare for the celebration of Christmas 2019. After the Festival, feel welcome to come to the University Catholic Chaplaincy at Newman Hall for mince pies and mulled wine.
Additionally, at the back of the university church, there will be a collection for Llamau. This is a charity that helps the homeless. If one could donate sanitation products and/or spare clothes this would be a great way to help those less fortunate than yourself.
There is no admission fee for the carols.
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Everyone in Cebu knows what Tres de Abril is. Tres de Abril is a street in Cebu City. The first time I heard Tres de Abril was when I arrived in Cebu in 2000. I asked why the street is called a such. A Cebuano officemate told me about the battle that took place on April 3, 1898. He also narrated to me about Leon Kilat.
I was mesmerized as if I had the anting-anting (amulet) of Leon Kilat. It was also the first time I heard about him. Leon Kilat is also a name of a street in Cebu City in honor of Pantaleon Villegas "Leon Kilat" for his great contribution to Cebu history.
It was then that I learn to value not only Colon Street but also other notable streets in Cebu such as C. Padilla, T. Padilla, Gen. Maxilom, A. Abellana, among others.
Tres de Abril
Tres de Abril or April 3 is an important date in Cebu. Every year, Cebuanos celebrate it as the date when major resistance movement was staged against Spanish rule.


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TROMSØ, Norway -- This summer, under the leadership of multi-talented artist Lisandro Guarcax, the group called Sotz'il took part in the Riddu Riddu Festival. On 25 August Lisandro Guarcax was abducted. The next day he was found assassinated and his body showed clear signs of torture.
Expectations were running high this summer when Riddu Riddu received a visit from the famous group of performing artists "Sotz'il". This theatre, dance and music group comes from the village of El Tablón in the municipality of Sololá. Led by Lisandro Guarcax, the group lived up to all expectations.
Lisandro Gurcax was far more than just an artist. He was also the rector of a primary school in Chuacruz with 500 pupils. Chuacruz is a very poor area of Solola where nearly 100 per cent of the inhabitants are Mayan indians.
On Wednesday, 25 August, Lisandro was on his way to a parent-teacher meeting in the his father Anastasio´s car. He was stopped and abducted. His father then got a phone call from a stranger who was using his son´s telephone. The message was clear: unless a substantial amount of money was paid immediately, Lisandro would be killed.
The Norwegian embassy in Guatemala was made aware of the abduction through Lisandro´s father, and tried to help find a solution. The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) was brought into the case. The Commission immediately dispatched investigators from Guatemala City to Solola to follow up, but Lisandro had been found dead by the time they arrived.
It is not clear who is behind the assassination of Lisandro Gurcax. However, this is not the first time that a champion of Mayan culture has been assassinated. In May 2009, two other members of the Jay Sotz'il Cultural Centre, Guarcax Ernesto and Carlos Emilio were found murdered. A bulletin issued after the murder of Lisandro Guarcax states:
"The intention is to overshadow and choke the artistic work done by the Mayan people in our country."
We can do no more than speculate about who murdered Guarcax. Having said that, for a long time, powerful forces in Guatemala have wanted to put an end to activists who champion Mayan culture.
When Gurcax was found on 26 August, he exhibited clear signs of having been tortured.


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TimeLog version 2017 (6.1) - Release date 11 June 2019
This is the latest version with general improvements
Updates to TimeLog Tracker
We have optimised the tracker, and now it will hide the user's total billable hours, when Show billable hours in the timesheet is turned off in the system administration.
Updates to TimeLog Mobile app
Now you get a better overview and easier entries. We have replaced all drop-down menus with a brand new floating panel design making it easier to enter workdays, currency, factor and payment methods for expenses. Your screen finger will love it!
Would you like to make use of the new features we present in the release notes, but you are not upgraded yet?
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Inspirational People – Ama Ntowaa
Ama Ntowaa, a widow in her sixties who supports six children, single handedly stopped an aggressive timber company extracting lucrative mahogany trees Illegally from her farm. This is her unique and inspiring story.
Inspirational People – Bertil Lintner
Bertil Linter is a Swedish journalist who has written numerous books and articles on Burma and is considered to be one of the most knowledgeable foreign journalists on Burmese affairs.


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If NAB showed anything, it demonstrated that LED lights have most definitely come of age.
It's been a while since every new LED lighting release was always big news. That's an indication of the fact that the technology is now completely mainstream, with options to suit most applications and most budgets. Most of the world's low energy lighting now offers at least reasonable colour quality and works fine.
The pickings at NAB 2019 are particularly rich, though, and worth a bit of thought. Perhaps the technological marvel of the show is Hive's 575-watt LED, shown as a prototype at such an early stage of development that it was apparently only assembled in the week before being exhibited. This is significant for several reasons, but particularly that it's among the highest-power single-source LEDs of any type, let alone with colour mixing. Hive have long made the sensible decision to keep away from the well-populated soft light sector, clogged as it is with a lot of perfectly decent lights. Instead, Hive have built an impressive range of PAR-style hard lights which all offer full colour mixing, and seem dedicated to pushing power levels up in exactly the way the market needs. And yes, we're told it'll be cheaper than an equivalent - and much less flexible - HMI.
At the other end of the wattage scale, Litra launched the LitraTorch 2.0, barely more than an inch cubed and with an array of sixteen little LEDs on the front. This sort of thing has been done before, but it's a useful indication of the state of the technology that a simple bank of white LEDs - albeit carefully-chosen white LEDs - can achieve such good colour rendering. A rather unscientific test with the UPRTek CV600, on the trade show floor, revealed a perfectly adequate TLCI in the mid-90s. Perhaps the days of basic LEDs struggling for colour quality really are over. There's an optional filter kit that will attract DPs on sci-fi movies who want to fill their horizontal anamorphic lens flares with a bit of colour - the greenish cyan is particularly Ridley Scott. Litra refer to the LitraTorch as "adventure lighting," possibly with the idea that it'll be strapped to someone's helmet during a trip down the whitewater rapids at night, but it has applications way beyond that.
Best-in-show awards always end up feeling rather politica, but if there's an award for sheer quantity of engineering work done it must go to Aputure. The company has been teasing its full colour mixing panel light for some time, and to be fair it's still teasing the light, but there's now a price - $1600, or thereabouts, for a 300-watt colour mixer that's significantly smaller and lighter than some of the best-known competition. The assumption might be that it would be rather lightly-made to achieve that, but it's fine: it's built around a metal back panel with chunky plastic ends, again, like some of the most prominent options around. It will inevitably be compared to those options, but it's worth being clear that some of the best known LED panels have a reputation which may sometimes exceeds their performance and it won't be hard for Aputure to do well in that comparison when we can get one under controlled conditions.
Aputure's panel light is part of what's being called an ecosystem, and for once that term seems well-applied. At the same NAB event, the company announced a lightbulb-styled device of similar design to many replacement bulbs for domestic use, but which produces a colour-accurate and flicker-free output with, again, full colour mixing. Springing from the same technology, the AL-MC is another colour mixing light in much the same vein as the AL-M9 that we reviewed some time ago, but which offers wireless charging, and can be purchased in lots of twelve in a case fitted with twelve bays into which the magnetic AL-MC lights neatly snap, for wireless charging.
All of these lights are controllable from a phone via the improved Bluetooth variant Sigmesh. This allows all of the lights in a group to act as mesh network nodes, ensuring that messages will be passed on from the controller whenever there's a workable signal path through the mesh to the target device. The controller can use the phone's software to snap photos of things and sample their colours for application to a colour mixing light.
This is all fine. Aputure have long made a business out of selling products which have a price-performance ratio that works for a lot of people, in which vein they've also announced improved versions of the COB open-faced lights. What earns the company this mention, however, is that it has also announced a bridge between its Sigmesh network implementation, supported by current and presumably future lights, and the older, simpler radio remote technology supported by its legacy products. This means that an original COB-120 light, or even the older flat panel white lights, can execute the same stroboscopic and flicker effects as the modern equivalents. This sort of refusal to forget past customers is exactly the sort of thing that ensures a company's popularity, and it'll be a pleasure to look more closely at some of Aputure's new lighting options as and when they become available for review.


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First, have a look at this thread where the question about a new Python was asked years ago and ALL the internet experts weighed in and said absolutely not, Colt will never make another new Python again. https://www.coltforum.com/forums/python/103252-colt-going-reintroduce-python-revolver.html
Now it should be agreed that Colt will 99% never make a new Python like how it did the old one (i.e., hand made). It would be CNC made and everyone here is saying it won't be as good as the old, hand-made ones were. This is not necessarily true.
Consider an older Python to be like a Browning B25. Both were made by hand to exacting tolerances and are excellent firearms that are highly desirable. The B25 is still made that way. Is it the best there is? Browning says so Tullio Fabbri would disagree. His guns are considered the absolute best shotguns on earth and are almost completely machine made (apart from assembly). He has a $10 million CNC machine just to make screws. Korth went from making its revolvers like old Pythons and B25s (all hand made) to making them like Fabbris. They are different from the older models but still highly desirable.
If Colt can use very high quality materials and mfg these guns to exacting tolerances, there is no reason to believe that a new Python would not be a desirable gun in its own right. If it could make the new Python to be the equal or better of a new Korth National Standard, I would love to have some.


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Military Personnel Fire At Man Trying To Ram Checkpoint At US Air Base In UK
US military personnel fired shots at a man who tried to force his way into a military base in central England used by the U.S. air force on Monday. The Mildenhall Royal Air Force base in Suffolk, eastern England said security staff locked down the base, used by the United States to refuel U.S. and NATO aircraft in Europe, at about 1300 GMT following reports of a disturbance. The man was subsequently arrested after the incident.
The U.S. Air Force said the incident had been contained and that the suspect had been apprehended. Police said they remained on the base. The U.S. embassy declined immediate comment.
The UK Ministry of Defence said that the incident took place at the entrance of the base after the driver tried to force the car past the gates.
"Shots were fired by American service personnel and a man has been detained with cuts and bruises and taken into custody," Suffolk Police said. "No other people have been injured as a result of the incident."
Police have responded to reports of a disturbance at RAF Mildenhall in #Suffolk and a man has been detained with cuts and bruises and taken into custody. No other people have been injured as a result of the incident.
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— Suffolk Police (@SuffolkPolice) December 18, 2017
The 1,162-acre base, which houses about 3,100 U.S. military and an additional 3,000 family members, is set for closure after the U.S. said it was going to move is operations from the base to Germany. "The base was locked down and emergency personnel are responding to the situation," RAF Mildenhall said in a statement. "Individuals in the area surrounding the installation are asked to avoid the base at this time."
A statement for the base said the lockdown had later been lifted.
Police are continuing to deal with an ongoing incident at RAF Mildenhall, it is considered that there is no wider threat to the public or occupants on the base. One man has been arrested and police are not looking for anyone else on the site.
Read more – https://t.co/sgjJOkntCQ
— Suffolk Police (@SuffolkPolice) December 18, 2017


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Don't you just love edgy, anti-establishment comedians with their sharp wit and brutal satire, bravely holding the powerful to account and criticising the tax avoidance of large corporates – all in between appointments with accountants in which they effortlessly reduce their own tax exposure to a whole per cent?


text: Burglars smashed the lock on the entrance door of The Other One, in The Cockpit, on May 2 and conducted a messy search inside before getting away with thousands of pounds worth of stock. The estimated value of the products stolen amounts to between £5,000 and £7,000. Paul Palmer and his partner Kirsty Sinclair opened the shop, which they describe as Saffron Waldens first eclectic boutique, in September last year. The store was broken into at some point between Tuesday evening (April 30) and Thursday morning (May 2) and Kirsty and Paul are appealing to anyone who noticed anything suspicious. They took nearly all of our jewellery, Kirsty said. Ive found it really upsetting and its hard to keep a business running with all this mess to deal with on top of everything else. We couldnt open for a few days so we could clean up the mess. Its never happened to us before, at either shop. It feels as though it was hardly worth the hassle. Why would you do it? Anyone with information about the burglary should call the Uttlesford local policing team on 101.


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On April 25, more than two dozen Dallas restaurants will converge on Centennial Hall at Fair Park for Iron Fork, a foodie extravaganza with seemingly endless food samples, beer/wine/cocktail tastings and a live chef competition that will pit two Dallasites against one another in real time. We just got a peek at this year's lineup (with more to come), and it may be one of the best Iron Fork rosters yet:
Arepa TX
Asian Mint
Avoca Coffee
Cuban Dulceria International Bakery
Dot's Hop House
El Come Taco
Empire Baking Company
Gather Kitchen
Hash House a Go Go
Hutchins BBQ
Meso Maya
Mozzarella Co.
Norma's Cafe
Paul Martin's American Grill
Pollo Campero
Pudding on Smiles
Sandwich Hag
Snappy Salads
Sundown at Granada
Terra Mediterranean
Unrefined Bakery
XO Coffee
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Fusion arepas from Royal Lane's fun new Arepa TX; tasty Cuban pastries from Cuban Dulceria; tacos from El Come, one of the city's best taquerias; meaty Hutchins BBQ; bites from Cedars banh mi hot spot Sandwich Hag — that's a lot of goodness in one night.
If you have yet to snag tickets to this year's event, you'd better do it soon. Right now, tickets for general admission are $35 and VIP are $65. On Friday, March 16, those prices increase to $45 and $75. If you're on the fence about which to buy, keep in mind that VIP tickets get you into the event an hour early (gotta beat those lines, baby) and include complimentary valet before 6:30 p.m.
Get on it, Dallas. Find more information on Iron Fork's website.


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What would summer be without a vacation to my favorite battlefield? This summer has absolutely flown by. I don't think I have ever been busier, working hockey camps at two locations as well as managing a few websites and social media/publicity for different businesses and projects, and then of course, working at the museum. For this reason, I have not had much time to write, but I hope to crank out a few pieces next week from Gettysburg. Since I have been there so many times, I am eager to try something new. While I have denounced some of the commercialized ghost tours in the past, there is a ghost hunt program run out of the historic Farnsworth House that seems rather intriguing, one where they actually give you equipment and let you investigate the basement of the house as well as lead you to a part of the battlefield. The price for this is very fair (I'm a pretty good judge considering all the hunts/tours I have given or overseen myself here in New Jersey), so my father and I will definitely be giving it a try (I promise to write about my experiences, if there are any!). He is looking forward to getting away too, because he had surgery last month, making this not exactly the greatest summer on record. But he is doing well now, and the two of us will be taking the trip out there.
I've also decided that I'm going to be taking all of my battlefield pictures in black-and-white this time around. Being that I have thousands of pictures and really have no motivation to take more, I figure this will prompt me to be creative with some of my shots, and who knows, maybe I will capture something paranormal! As I said last month, in all the visits and rummaging around the battlefield and town, not once have I ever encountered something ghostly. Hopefully that will change! I will try to write something else this weekend, if not, you will hear from me next week!


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Meeting – March 25, 2019
Record of discussion
LDC Secretariat
- The Right Honourable David Johnston, Commissioner
- Mr. Michel Cormier, Executive Director
- Mr. Bradley Eddison, Director, Policy and Management Services
- Ms. Jess Milton, Director, Communications and Outreach
- Ms. Jill Clark, Senior Communications Advisor
- Ms. Jaanu Varaprasatham, Office Manager
- Mr. Stephen Wallace, Senior Advisor
LDC Advisory Board
- Mr. Jean La Rose
- Ms. Megan Leslie
- Dr. Chad Gaffield
- The Honourable Deborah Grey
- Mr. Craig Kielburger
- The Honourable John Manley
- The Honourable Louise Otis
- The agenda was presented by the Commissioner and agreed by the Advisory Board. Board and Secretariat members introduced themselves.
Setting the Stage
- Members discussed the Commission's mandate and reviewed the participation criteria outlined in the Order in Council (OIC),
Framing the Advisory Board
- The Terms of Reference for the Advisory Board were agreed
Consultation Summary
- While more than 40 consultations have already taken place, it was recognized that ongoing stakeholder consultations were important and certain consultation gaps needed to be addressed.
Request for Proposals Process
- A two step process (Request for Interest followed by a more detailed Request for Proposal) was agreed, including the bundling of production, distribution and promotion activities. Timelines were reviewed.
Awareness Raising and Outreach
- Beyond the promotional activities of the winning bidder(s), it was recognized that the Commission would need to undertake significant awareness-building activities, acting in concert with interested organizations (a number of suggestions were reviewed in this regard). The scope of these activities will be further defined and discussed at the next Advisory Board teleconference, recognizing that the Commission would have to be selective and adopt a pilot-project approach.
Report to Parliament
- Timelines were reviewed, suggestions were made on the overall approach and it was agreed that the Secretariat will present the proposed scope of the report to the Advisory Board as follow up.
Next Meeting
- A teleconference will be scheduled for the beginning of May.


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By Richard Menta 8/26/03
Last year we reviewed a unique item, a unit that was an extension of MP3 portable jukeboxes. This model, the Archos Jukebox Multimedia, became the first jukebox style player capable of playing MPEG-4 video files. Dubbed a "mediabox" by us, this new class of player addressed that part of the digital media audience who would like their digital movies "to go", too.
This milestone portable fully achieved its purpose of liberating digital video files from PCs (despite having a few flaws like a small screen). A year later Archos has released its successor, the AV320, and this portable is even better.
The Archos AV320 digital audio/video recorder is available on Amazon
The Player
The Archos AV320 is a notable improvement over the Archos Jukebox Multimedia. The key is a significantly larger 3.8" display that takes up most of the AV320's sizable faceplate. The Archos Jukebox Multimedia, released at a time when color LCD displays were much more expensive, utilized a 1.5" display to keep its price reasonable. It was a very good display for its small size, but we still wanted a larger screen.
The display is not the only area where the Archos AV320 makes improvements. You can see both significant and subtle progress in the evolution of this new breed of portable, one whose niche Archos still has mostly to itself. (RCA has a unit coming out in the fall and rumors are that a video iPod is in the works. Sharp and Panasonic have units in the Japanese markets, but they use low capacity SD cards instead of a hard drive for storage so they don't really fit in this class).
As of this writing the Archos AV320 sells for a healthy $600, a price that includes the digital video recorder module.
The most important element to the Archos AV320 is its ability to record video on the fly from a VCR or DVD. The Archos Jukebox Multimedia was also designed with this in mind, but Archos has yet to release the video record accessory for that player.
The module attaches to the side of the player and allows you to take a video signal from a TV, VCR, or DVD player and convert it on the fly into an MPEG4-SP (Simple Profile) file in the AVI format. The module has an RCA jack for composite video, a MiniDIN socket for S-video and will read/record both the American NTSC and British PAL broadcast standards. These files can be read by XviD or DivX* players.
An unexpected benefit of the module is that it also comes with a remote control feature. Without the module attached, users need to operate the AV320 manually. With the module they can utilize the remote, even at times when the player is not actively recording.
Other features of the unit include modules to read various flash memory cards and an FM radio that connects to the AV320 via a cabled remote control.
The AV320, like the Archos Jukebox Multimedia, offers a digital camera/camcorder module. The Jukebox Multimedia camera module offered middling results with its 1.3 pixel resolution and 2x digital zoom. The AV320 improves upon that significantly by upping the resolution to 3.3 megapixel and by utilizing a 3x optical zoom and a 10x digital zoom. We did not test the camera module for this review.
The Archos AV320 runs on rechargeable lithium batteries that power the color screen and the 20GB hard drive.
Getting Started
Fire up the AV320 and the screen lights up brightly, then in a couple of seconds the best display we have ever seen on any media portable appears. The body of the Archos AV320 is 90% display -- that is a big plus. Nine clear icons come alive to navigate the user between recording and playback duties, as well as through various setup controls.
Our test player already had some music and a movie, "Ice Age", installed. When we toggled over to the music icon and opened it, up came the music list. Click on a song and you're greeted with a graphical music player similar to Winamp. A nice touch, but one that will consume significant battery time if left on continually. To avoid wasting power, Archos has included a timer that shuts the display down after a given amount of time. Users can adjust how long in the setup menu.
Next, we switched to video and played "Ice Age." What we saw in the first few minutes was impressive. The video quality was excellent, better than what we expected and an improvement over the Archos Jukebox Multimedia. Of course, the better the video quality the higher the file size, but the Archos has an ample 20GB worth of memory.
We loaded the supplied drivers into our test computer and the unit was recognized immediately. Archos keeps file transfers straight and simple. The user's PC sees the unit as another hard drive. Simply drag and drop files into the proper folder and you are done. Make sure it is the right folder, though. We dragged a video file into the music folder just to see what would happen and when we powered the unit back on it did not appear on the AV320's menu.
The unit plays compressed AVI files or those later converted to comply with MPEG-4 Simple Profile (there are two implementations of MPEG-4: Simple Profile (SP) and Advanced Simple Profile (ASP). Like the Jukebox Multimedia, the AV320 can't play the latter). There are also several flavors of AVI files that will need to be converted using a video translator like Virtual Dub before the unit will play them. For those who have tons of files in the MPG format, you are out of luck unless you can convert them to AVI.
The unit comes with the Archos Jukebox Multimedia MP4SP program which incorporates Virtual Dub to handle the conversions. When we first loaded the program it directed us to the Virtual Dub site to download that freeware program. MP4SP also prompted us to download DiVX, which did not exist on our test computer. Adding all the needed programs was an uneventful procedure.
Those who trade movie files online today will find that most of the files they download will have to go through the conversion process, a time consuming job.
Playing videos on your TV
To play the Archos AV320 on a TV set, simply use the composite video/audio cable that comes with the unit. As long as your TV or VCR has video/audio inputs, you should have no problem playing your files. There are three cables; one for video and two for the left and right audio channels. Stereo TVs will take all three while Mono sets will only accept one of the audio cables.
Once the player was attached and the TV was set to AUX, we were ready to start. For those who wonder why the TV is not put on channel 3, like it is when used with a VCR, it is because the Archos puts through a straight video feed as opposed to a VCR that transmits its picture via a RF (Radio Frequency) signal.
Once the player is started the picture will appear on the unit's display, but not immediately on the television. We needed to toggle the signal to the unit's output setting. This is handled by holding the 'On' button down for a couple of seconds, which activates and displays the file on the TV.
The AV320 comes with all the cables needed to connect to a video source such as a VCR or DVD. Most television sets don't have output jacks, so to record your favorite TV shows, you just need to use the VCR tuner.
Of course, all of these cables create a jungle of connections that one has to weed through. Our DVD player feeds into our VCR, which feeds into the television set. This normal tangle of wires lies hidden most of the time behind these players since they usually remain stationary. The Archos is a portable unit, which means every time you want to record you have to fight through the wires, connecting and disconnecting them as needed. A docking station/port permanently attached to the home video setup would be ideal here. Archos should seriously consider developing this convenient accessory for the AV320 and future digital video products.
Our VCR has a set of unused output jacks that we used to connect the Archos. The video cable went into the jack on the recorder module and audio line plugged into the audio in jack on the unit's body.
Once we had all the connections made, we toggled to the Archos' VideoCorder icon and hit enter to begin the recording process. This menu is only accessible when there is a signal feeding through the unit. Once in, we immediately saw the signal come up on the AV320's screen, a baseball game between L.A. and St. Louis. We hit record and the player did just that. Even though connecting the player to the source was a fuss, recording was effortless.
The AV320 plays and records both in the American NTSC standard and the British PAL standard. There is a menu in the record screen that allows you to select the proper standard and to adjust the recording quality. Another interesting feature we did not expect since it was not mentioned in any of the literature was a programmable record timer.
The timer itself looked simple enough, but it was less intuitive than we thought. While we could get the thing to start recording at the proper time, for some reason it would not stop recording at the set end time. Since we had no instructions for the timer, and only so much time to fiddle with the feature, we didn't put too much effort into trying to solve the issue. It might have just been a quirk in the firmware that Archos will eventually correct with an upgrade or it might just have been us.
The recordings came out very well. They were less sharp than the "Ice Age" recording that came with the player, but the color was excellent and the resolution was satisfactory.
File Trading
It is fair use to record a show off of television for later viewing; it doesn't matter if you use a VCR or a digital video recorder. It is fair use to lend that tape or file to your friend next door so they can watch it. Is it fair use to trade with 4 million "friends" simultaneously on the Internet? In Canada it is, but the US is another story. That's what the RIAA is suing individual music file traders over (the MPAA -- the RIAA's motion picture lobby equivalent -- is waiting before taking the same route, they too might consider the same tactics against file trading.)
Since the Archos allows users to make good quality recordings of TV programs and DVDs, you will start to see more such programming reach the Net as the mediabox niche grows. The Archos player records via analog methods (a cable to a DVD or VCR), so it is unaffected by any Digital Rights management protections added to DVDs. If you can view it on your television, the Archos can record it. This doesn't make the media companies happy.
In our opinion, file trading is not the threat the entertainment conglomerates make it out to be. Yes music sales are down and that allows the record companies to blame it all on file trading, but DVD sales are up. Way up. Every major movie release has made it on the Net, usually well before the DVD comes out. Did DVD sales go down? No. Did they stay the same? No. Did they go up? Yes, by 61 percent.
But our protests and logic mean little if Disney takes you to court. You lose the moment you have to shell out for that first session with the lawyer, so our advice is to be cautious with the files you create and remember, Micky Mouse is not a nice guy in real life.
The controls and buttons on the AV320 are located on the right side of the player and are an improvement over previous models. The buttons have different sizes and shapes, which makes identification easy when not looking at the unit. The keys operated with a clean solid click and worked very well in tandem with the screen interface. Most notable is a toggle switch which shuttles from icon to icon and file to file on the screen. Recessed indentations make access easier, but some of these switches are not labeled - a minor quibble. Their function may seem obvious, but it was unusual to see the descriptions omitted.
Elegant is the word for the Archos' display. Within a few seconds, a colorful GUI appears, more akin to a Windows Pocket PC than the command line displays on most portables, including the Archos Jukebox Multimedia. The unit displays icons for audio/video/photo file storage, audio recording, video/photo recording when the right module is added, and a setup section.
The GUI makes the unit friendlier, easier to navigate and sets a new standard for other high-end digital portables to mimic.
The sound was fine. Music came across clear as a bell as did the audio track on the various movies and TV shows we recorded. One suggestion for Archos: since the screen on the AV320 is large enough for more than one person to view, the addition of a small internal speaker seems like a good idea. While the purpose of this class of unit is personal viewing, I can think of few better uses than loading some cartoons for a couple of bored and restless kids to watch in the back seat of a car. This would make the player attractive to quite a few parents. Archos should consider such a feature for future players.
Size to Capacity Ratio
The Archos screen is wonderfully large, but the tradeoff seems to be a player that is quite heavy. It weighs in at 12.5 oz, more than double that of the latest iPod's 5.6 oz. With rumors of an iPod DVR coming, the weight issue could make Archos vulnerable when, and if, such an Apple device appears. It is a little surprising that more digital music portables haven't adopted the Toshiba drive. It is not a competitive issue now - unless you want to use the player to listen to music while exercising - but down the road it might be.
Calling the Archos AV320 an iPod on steroids is more than an understatement simply because the iPod is not yet in this class. Word is an iPod mediabox is in the works, but until that happens it is the iPod that aspires to be the Archos AV320. For the most part, this player does everything right. The unit is heavy relative to an MP3 portable and that may make it vulnerable to future competition, but everything else about it was great.
The player isn't cheap, but it is ideal for mass transit commuters who have to suffer through their boring twice-daily trek on a stuffy bus or train. The ability to record your favorite shows to watch during the ride in may be compelling reason enough to consider the expense. Prices will drop over time, too. So for those of you reading this review, the price may be right in 2004.
Overall, the Archos AV320 is a milestone player. It, along with its predecessor the Archos Multimedia Jukebox, has set a standard that we hope will soon be equaled by every other major electronics manufacturer. It's a class product and if you have the money is worthy a good strong look
The Archos AV320 digital audio/video recorder is available on Amazon
Other MP3 stories:
CDs and the Scarcity Principle
Copy Protection and the Reasonable Man
Rumor: The iPod Movie Player


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I'm upgrading to a new SATA 2 HDD over the coming weeks and I want to image my current IDE drive to the new drive. Obviously the IDE image won't have the SATA drivers so the image won't boot - is there anyway around this?
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I've Googled and a few programs pop up, but all are rather vague with the IDE to SATA issue.
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Wilson named honoree of WWI hero award
June 07, 2019 07:38 AM
ALBANY - It's Henry Johnson Day in Albany - the city remembers the Albany-native of the Harlem Hellfighters who earned the Purple Heart and Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts in World War I.
To mark the occasion, the city presented its third annual Henry Johnson Award to Tabetha Wilson, an Albany school board member and activist. She was chosen for making outstanding contributions to her community.
Wilson oversees a variety of programs that help low-income families and serves on many non-profit boards.
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A must watch!!!
PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub: PeopleSoft in the Cloud featuring Jeff Robbins In this episode, Marc talks with Jeff Robbins about PeopleSoft in the Cloud. URL: https://youtu.be/5MFnq7pu5sg
The Time and Labor Auto Enrollment VFO is now publicly available. View the video here:
PeopleSoft Time and Labor Auto Enrollment can streamline your administrator's work by easily automating the enrollments in Time and Labor for all hires, terminations, and job data changes.
Getting to know PT 8.55: Deployment Packages
Have you heard about the Deployment Packages (DPKs)?
Read about them in the new document PeopleSoft PeopleTools Patches Home Page (Doc ID 2062712.2), sections Learning about the PeopleTools Patches and What are PeopleTools DPKs.
And, more information is in the Getting Started on PeopleSoft Installation document, found on the PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55 Installation Home Page (Doc ID 2068525.1).
In PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55, Oracle recommends that you use the PeopleSoft Deployment Packages (DPKs) to install and configure your
PeopleSoft environment.
The PeopleSoft PeopleTools DPKs for Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems are supported for customers on Oracle database platforms
beginning with the PeopleTools 8.55.01 patch.
The PeopleSoft PeopleTools DPKs for Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems will be available at a later time for customers on DB2 for
z/OS, DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms.
Applications DPKs will be available after the new year.
Using DPKs, you can bypass these tasks in the classic installation process:
--install Tuxedo and WebLogic and their patches
--install of PTools and patch
--install of Ps App Home
--configuration of domains (app / web / batch servers)
Cloning of an environment is easy. Save off the configuration files and apply to the next environment.
For additional information on using the DPKs, use the documentation found on 2062712.2 in section PeopleTools Patches Home Pages /
Installation documentation: PeopleSoft Deployment Packages Installation (PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55).
Do you want to know more about PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture? Please review the following FAQ which we hope will answer some commonly asked questions.
The questions answered so far are.....
What is PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture (PCA)?
How is PCA delivered?
When will PCA be available?
Do I need to purchase PCA?
Will PCA change the commercial terms for PeopleSoft (licensing and/or support)?
Does PCA turn PeopleSoft into a SaaS solution?
Now that PeopleTools delivers patches using Deployment PacKages (DPKs) for Linux and Windows, where do I get them?
I understand that DPKs are provided for Linux and Windows operating systems, but I don't run on those – is PCA still applicable to me in some way?
How do DPKs differ from Oracle VM templates or VirtualBox appliances that were previously delivered?
Besides the flexibility in configurations, the automation capabilities, and the compatibility with multiple virtualization technologies, are there other benefits that PCA will provide?
Is that it? Are there any other benefits of PCA?
I've heard that DPKs will simplify how PeopleTools patching is performed, but how?
Will DPKs change how I currently use Update Images and PUM?
What is PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture (PCA)?I have my own processes in place to provision PeopleSoft environments. Can I continue to use them or are Deployment Packages required?
Will PCA help me with refreshing environments, and if so, how?
Each time I apply a PeopleTools patch, I need to tweak some settings in the environment – will DPKs overwrite my changes?
Update Images required a bare metal install – do DPKs also have this requirement?
Is deploying PeopleSoft to the cloud using PCA a requirement?
Where can I find more information on PCA?
Now Available... 11 documents for PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface Standards. PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface and Navigation Standards White Papers contain information about using key PeopleSoft functionality to create highly usable, efficient, and productive experiences for Oracle customers.
We are in the process of moving all these PeopleSoft Fluid UI Standards into a web based HTML site. For the time being, you can access the PDF format documents in the following knowledge document:
PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface and Navigation Standards White Papers (Doc ID 2063602.1)
The topics of the white papers include:
In PUM 15, PeopleSoft enhanced existing Guided Self Service (GSS) with new features and functionality for the manager and HR Admin. We delivered the following new features:
1) The new 'Last Day Worked" field for Retirement/Termination transaction
For details, see Last Date Worked.doc attached below.
2) New GSS transaction "Request Reporting Change" – updates Reports To for an employee (and upon approval will update Position Management and Job Data).
For details, see reports to_update.doc attached below.
The new PeopleTools release: 8.55
When is this Generally Available?
The new PeopleTools 8.55 release is currently available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, at https://edelivery.oracle.com
Looking for the Documentation Home Page, the Upgrade Home Page, and more
Oracle's PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55 Documentation Home Page (Doc ID 2052626.1), with links to
PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55 Installation Home Page (Doc ID 2068525.1)
Includes document Getting Started on the PeopleSoft Installation / see section Reviewing Hardware Recommendations
PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55 Upgrade Home Page (Doc ID 2070772.1)
Looking for the Release notes: what is new?
PeopleSoft Planned Features and Enhancements (Doc ID 1966243.2)
see tab Technology, then PeopleTools 8.55
Platform change of note
SAP Crystal Reports and Business Objects Enterprise (BOE) are no longer supported in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55.
Crystal Reports and BOE will not work on new PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55 installations, or on environments that are
upgraded to PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.55.
See Tech Update – Oracle Retires Support for Crystal Reports (Doc ID 1927865.1) for more information.
For more info on changes to Oracle supported platforms, regularly check the Tech Updates.
The main index page is Tech Update - Main Page (Doc ID 764222.1)
Product releases supported for use with PeopleTools 8.55 (among others)
Windows 10
WebLogic 188.8.131.52
Oracle 188.8.131.52.0 and 184.108.40.206.0
Msft Sql server 2012, 2014
Office Word 2013, 2010 and Excel 2016, 2013, 2010
Tuxedo 22.214.171.124.0 and 184.108.40.206.0
For all supported platform information, see MyOracle Support / certifications /
search on Product = PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools and Release = 8.55
Applications supported on PeopleTools 8.55
See documents
E-UPG: PT8.4x, PT 8.5x: What Versions of PeopleTools Will Your Application run on? (Doc ID 1915747.1)
Lifetime Support Summary for PeopleSoft Releases (Doc ID 1348959.1)
You've probably already heard, but just in case you haven't, Campus Solutions 9.2 is now available. Campus Solutions 9.2 is a low impact, high return upgrade that addresses the key imperatives of the modern campus: a modern user experience, flexible functionality, and a product lifecycle platform that enables institutions to better manage system maintenance costs. With the 9.2 release, Campus Solutions joins the rest of the PeopleSoft pillars in continuous delivery, use of PUM and Selective Adoption, and of course the ability to introduce and take advantage of the latest Fluid capabilities and other product advancements.
Please refer to the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Upgrade Home page (Doc ID 2078564.2) for links, instructions and documentation.
What's Available Now:
Key links for more detailed information:
And if you're interested in an index of all PeopleSoft Information Centers which enables you to drill down to the most recent information on solutions to problems, how-to information, bugs, etc., please visit the Catalog Index of Peoplesoft Enterprise Information Centers (Doc ID 1427453.2).
The SCM Maintenance Schedule for 9.1 SCM Bundles is now available. The schedule for 2016 is within Document 1948816.1. SCM 9.1 Bundles will be delivered about every three months starting with SCM Bundle #37 in February.
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I genuinely have no idea about what I want to get across on Autistics Speaking Day. This time last year, I felt the same. What I would like to mention is that the messages we are sending today will have an audience made up of both autistic and not-autistic people. Hello to whoever is reading, whether you are autistic or not, by the way.
I would go into how my chronic anxiety impacts the way I do every-day things, like writing this post. However, I don't have to go into it here. I'm not going to try and describe what it feels like in detail and the theories I use to get through the day. Yes, anxiety can be disabling and so can autism. I have both and I'm definitely not the only one.
I also am sure I can't be the only one who feels like they have to justify the words "I'm disabled" every time I need to say them. With the current climate in the UK leading to the need for things like Pat's Petition to exist, it's easy to feel like I don't deserve privacy. You could say I'm taking it too personally and I would agree with you. Only, however, if you would agree not to ask what it's like to be autistic the next time you find out that someone you know is autistic.
Although I did just say that I don't want to go into the chronic anxiety, I will point out one aspect of it. I sometimes get anxious when I know I won't be believed. Because of my autism, I get sensory overload a lot and even walking through a crowded room can be too much to cope with. Having too much sound and noise to deal with at one time can have a lasting impact. I can spend days recovering from one moment of having too much sensory input. That sounds unbelievable but it is true. I understand that I am very different to the majority of people but I know where my limits are from years of experience. When I say I shouldn't do something, I mean it. When I say I can't walk across a crowded room because I will then be too overwhelmed to stock up on food later, I mean it. The anxiety that comes from things that are extremely hard for me being accepted as generally very easy is hard to live with.
Disabled people deserve privacy and we deserve to be believed. We are the ones who know most about how we get through life. It's a big subject and can feel like too much to think about, especially if you're disabled yourself. It's always worth taking a step back and realising that being autistic means developing coping mechanisms all the time. Just because those coping mechanisms are not "normal" does not mean they don't exist, just that they are invisible to most. It took me years of trying to see my own coping mechanisms and, for a long time, I thought I didn't have any at all. Just because my way of working is "weird", it doesn't mean that I can't get through life. I can, and you can too. It happens every day and it's not, by definition, inspiring.


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Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, Anton von Werner (1877)
Rev. Nick Blaha ('02)In his homily this past Sunday, alumnus priest Rev. Nicholas Blaha ('02) took up the topic of the Reformation — the 500th anniversary of which falls on October 31 — and its meaning for Catholics today.
"Throughout my studies, I've wondered why was it that God allowed His church to be divided in this way, especially because much of Jesus' prayer and ministry was centered on creating and fostering unity within the body of His believers," he began. "For five centuries, Western Christianity has been divided, afflicted by a deep lack of unity in faith and belief and in worship. And while this is objectively undesirable — it's explicitly contrary to Our Lord's wish — still, I think, as Catholic Christians we have to hold fast to the truth that God is at work in this."
A priest in the Diocese of Kansas City (Kansas) who runs the Didde Catholic Campus Center at Emporia State University, Fr. Nick was careful to note that the differences that divide Catholics and Protestants are serious. "Are we being faithful to God's intentions for receiving the gift of eternal life?" he asked. "That's not a trivial question. That can't be brushed aside." Nonetheless, he continued, "In the context of the Reformation, our approach should be: What gifts can we receive from one another? How can we learn?"
To that end, Fr. Nick then considered each of Luther's three "solas" — scriptura, fides, and gratia (Scripture, faith, and grace) — through the lens of the teachings of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, with an eye toward areas of compatibility with Catholic doctrine. "We can benefit, I think, from receiving a great love for the words of Scripture and the revelation that comes to us through it," he said, as an example. "To have the same eagerness to receive the gifts of grace through Scripture that Luther and other reformers did, I think, would benefit all of us enormously."
The full podcast is available via the Didde Center website.