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(San Diego, CA)
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Tales of peer review, episode 1: Boyer and Moore's MJRTY algorithm
September 23rd, 2011
I'm generally a big fan of peer review. I think it plays an important role in the improvement and "chromatography" of the scholarly literature. But sometimes. Sometimes.
|The Boyer-Moore MJRTY algorithm allows efficient determination of which shape (triangle, circle, square) is in the majority without counting each shape.
This past week I was reading Robert Boyer and J Strother Moore's paper on computing the majority element of a multiset, which presents a very clever simple algorithm for this fundamental problem and a description of a mechanical proof of its correctness. The authors aptly consider the work a "minor landmark in the development of formal verification and automated reasoning".
Below is the postscript to that paper, in its entirety, which describes the history of the paper including how and why it was "repeatedly rejected for publication". (It was eventually published as a chapter in a 1991 festschrift for Woody Bledsoe, ten years after it was written, and is now also available from Moore's website.)
In this paper we have described a linear time majority vote algorithm and discussed the mechanically checked correctness proof of a Fortran implementation of it. This work has a rather convoluted history which we would here like to clarify.
The algorithm described here was invented in 1980 while we worked at SRI International. A colleague at SRI, working on fault tolerance, was trying to specify some algorithms using the logic supported by "Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover." He asked us for an elegant definition within that logic of the notion of the majority element of a list. Our answer to this challenge was the recursive expression of the algorithm described here.
In late 1980, we wrote a Fortran version of the algorithm and proved it correct mechanically. In February, 1981, we wrote this paper, describing that work. In our minds the paper was noteworthy because it simultaneously announced an interesting new algorithm and offered a mechanically checked correctness proof. We submitted the paper for publication.
In 1981 we moved to the University of Texas. Jay Misra, a colleague at UT, heard our presentation of the algorithm to an NSF site-visit team. According to Misra (private communication, 1990): "I wondered how to generalize [the algorithm] to detect elements that occur more than n/k times, for all k, k ≥ 2. I developed algorithm 2 [given in Section 3 of [9]] which is directly inspired by your algorithm. Also, I showed that this algorithm is optimal [Section 5, op. cit.]. On a visit to Cornell, I showed all this to David Gries; he was inspired enough to contribute algorithm 1 [Section 2, op. cit.]." In 1982, Misra and Gries published their work [9], citing our technical report appropriately as "submitted for publication."
However, our paper was repeatedly rejected for publication, largely because of its emphasis on Fortran and mechanical verification. A rewritten version emphasizing the algorithm itself was rejected on the grounds that the work was superceded by the paper of Misra and Gries!
When we were invited to contribute to the Bledsoe festschrift we decided to use the opportunity to put our original paper into the literature. We still think of this as a minor landmark in the development of formal verification and automated reasoning: here for the first time a new algorithm is presented along with its mechanically checked correctness proof—eleven years after the work.
I have to think the world would have been better off if Boyer and Moore had just posted the paper to the web in 1981 and been done with it. Unfortunately, the web hadn't been developed yet.
Subscription fees as a distribution control mechanism
September 11th, 2011
|Stamps to mark "restricted data" (modified from "atomic stamps 1" by flickr user donovanbeeson, used by permission under CC by-nc-sa)
Ten years ago today was the largest terrorist action in United States history, an event that highlighted the importance of intelligence, and its reliance on information classification and control, for the defense of the country. This anniversary precipitated Peter Suber's important message, which starts from the fact that access to knowledge is not always a good. He addresses the question of whether open access to the scholarly literature might make information too freely available to actors who do not have the best interests of the United States (or your country here) at heart. Do we really want everyone on earth to have information about public-key cryptosystems or exothermic chemical reactions? Should our foreign business competitors freely reap the fruits of research that American taxpayers funded? He says,
You might think that no one would seriously argue that using prices to restrict access to knowledge would contribute to a country's national and economic security. But a vice president of the Association of American Publishers made that argument in 2006. He "rejected the idea that the government should mandate that taxpayer financed research should be open to the public, saying he could not see how it was in the national interest. 'Remember — you're talking about free online access to the world,' he said. 'You are talking about making our competitive research available to foreign governments and corporations.' "
Suber's response is that "If we're willing to restrict knowledge for good people in order to restrict knowledge for bad people, at least when the risks of harm are sufficiently high, then we already have a classification system to do this." (He provides a more detailed response in an earlier newsletter.) He is exactly right. Placing a $30 paywall in front of everyone to read an article in order to keep terrorists from having access to it is both ineffective (relying on al Qaeda's coffers to drop below the $30 point is not a counterterrorism strategy) and overreaching (since a side effect is to disenfranchise the overwhelming majority of human beings who are not enemies of the state). Instead, research that the country deems too dangerous to distribute should be, and is, classified, and therefore kept from both open access and toll access journals.
This argument against open access, that it might inadvertently abet competitors of the state, is an instance of a more general worry about open distribution being too broad. Another instance is the "corporate free-riding" argument. It is argued that moving to an open-access framework for journals would be a windfall to corporations (the canonical example is big pharma) who would no longer have to subscribe to journals to gain the benefit of their knowledge and would thus be free-riding. To which the natural response would be "and what exactly is wrong with that?" Scientists do research to benefit society, and corporate use of the fruits of the research is one of those benefits. Indeed, making research results freely available is a much fairer system, since it allows businesses both large and small to avail themselves of the results. Why should only businesses with deep pockets be able to take advantage of research, much of which is funded by the government.
But shouldn't companies pay their fair share for these results? Who could argue with that? To assume that the subscription fees that companies pay constitute their fair share for research requires several implicit assumptions that bear examination.
Assumption 1: Corporate subscriptions are a nontrivial sum. Do corporate subscriptions constitute a significant fraction of journal revenues? Unfortunately, there are to my knowledge no reliable data on the degree to which corporate subscriptions contribute to revenue. Estimates range from 0% (certainly the case in most fields of research outside the life sciences and technology) to 15-17% to 25% (a figure that has appeared informally and been challenged in favor of a 5-10% figure). (Thanks to Peter Suber for help in finding these references.) None of these estimates were backed up in any way. Without any well-founded figures, it doesn't seem reasonable to be worrying about the issue. The onus is on those proposing corporate free-riding as a major problem to provide some kind of transparently supportable figures.
Assumption 2: Corporations would pay less under open access. The argument assumes that in an open-access world, journal revenues from corporations would drop, because they would save money on subscriptions but would not be supporting publication of articles through publication fees. That is, corporate researchers "read more than they write." Of course, corporate researchers publish in the scholarly literature as well (as I did for the first part of my career when I was a researcher at SRI International), and thus would be contributing to the financial support of the publishing ecology. Here again, I know of no data on the percentage of articles with corporate authors and how that compares to the percentage of revenue from corporate subscriptions.
Assumption 3: Corporations shouldn't be paying less than they now are, perhaps for reasons of justice, or perhaps on the more mercenary basis of financial reality. It is presumed that if corporations are not paying subscription fees (and, again by assumption, publication fees) then academia will have to pick up the slack through commensurately higher publication fees, so the total expenditure by academia will be higher. This is taken to be a bad thing, but the reason for that is not clear. Why is it assumed that the "right" apportionment of fees between academia and business is whatever we happen to have at the moment, resulting as it does from historical happenstance based on differential subscription rates and corporate and university budget decisions? Free riding in the objectionable sense is to get something without paying when one ought to pay. But the latter condition doesn't apply to the open-access scholarly literature any more than it applies to broadcast television.
Assumption 4: Corporations only support research through subscription fees. However, corporations also provide support for funded research through the corporate taxes that they pay to the government, which funds the research. And this mode of payment has the advantage that it covers all parts of the research process, not just the small percentage that constitutes the publishing of the final results. Corporate taxes constitute some 10% of total US tax revenue according to the IRS, so we can impute corporate underwriting of US-government funded research at that same 10% level. (In fact, since many non-corporate taxes, like FICA taxes, are earmarked for particular programs that don't fund research, the imputed percentage should perhaps be even higher.) The subscription fees companies pay is above and beyond that. Is the corporate 10% not already a fair share? Might it even be too much?
If we collectively thought that the amount corporations are paying is insufficient, then the right response would be to increase the corporate taxes accordingly, so that all corporations contribute to the underwriting of scientific research that they all would be benefitting from. Let's take a look at some numbers. The revenue from the 2.5 million US corporations paying corporate tax for 2009 (the last year for which data are available) was about $225 billion. The NSF budget for 2009 was $5.4 billion. So, for instance, a 50% increase in the NSF budget would require increasing corporate tax revenues by a little over 1%, that is, from a 35% corporate tax rate (say) to something like 35.4%. I'm not advocating an increase in corporate taxes for this purpose. First, I'm in no way convinced that corporations aren't already supporting research sufficiently. Second, there are many other effects of corporate taxes that may militate against raising them. Instead, the point is that it is naive to pick out a single revenue source, subscription fees, as the sum total of corporate support of research.
Assumption 5: Subscription fees actually pay for research, or some pertinent aspect of research. But those fees do not devolve to the researchers or cover any aspect of the research process except for the publication aspect, and publishing constitutes only a small part of the costs of doing research. To avoid disingenuousness, shouldn't anyone worrying about whether corporations are doing their fair share in underwriting that aspect be worrying about whether they are doing their fair share in underwriting the other aspects as well? Of course, corporations arguably are underwriting other aspects — through internal research groups, grants to universities and research labs, and their corporate taxes (the 10% discussed above). And in an open-access world, they would be covering the publication aspect as well, namely publication fees, through those same streams.
In summary, maintaining the subscription revenue model for reasons of distribution control — whether for purposes of state defense or corporate free-riding — is a misconstruction.
JSTOR opens access to out-of-copyright articles
September 8th, 2011
|Cover of the first issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, dated March 6, 1665. Available from JSTOR's Early Journal Content collection.
JSTOR, the non-profit online journal distributor, announced yesterday that they would be making pre-1923 US articles and pre-1870 non-US articles available for free in a program they call "Early Journal Content". The chosen dates are not random of course; they guarantee that the articles have fallen out of copyright, so such distribution does not run into rights issues. Nonetheless, that doesn't mean that JSTOR could take this action unilaterally. JSTOR is further bound by agreements with the publishers who provided the journals for scanning, which may have precluded them contractually from distributing even public domain materials that were derived from the provided originals. Thus such a program presumably requires cooperation of the journal publishers. In addition, JSTOR requires goodwill from publishers for all of its activities, so unilateral action could have been problematic for its long-run viability. (Such considerations may even in part underly JSTOR's not including all public domain material in the opened collection.)
Arranging for the necessary permissions — whether legal or pro forma — takes time, and JSTOR claims that work towards the opening of these materials started "about a year ago", that is, prior to the recent notorious illicit download program that I have posted about previously. Predictably, the Twittersphere is full of speculation about whether the actions by Aaron Swartz affected the Early Journal Content program:
@grimmelm: JSTOR makes pre-1923 journals freely available http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content Would this have happened earlier or later w/o @aaronsw?
@mecredis: JSTOR makes all their public domain content available for free: http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor%E2%80%93free-access-early-journal-content I think this means @aaronsw wins.
@maxkaiser: Breaking: @JSTOR to provide free #openaccess to pre-1923 content in US & pre-1870 elsewhere – @aaronsw case had impact: http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor%E2%80%93free-access-early-journal-content
@JoshRosenau: JSTOR "working on releasing pre-1923 content before [@aaronsw released lotsa their PDFs], inaccurate to say these events had no impact."
@mariabustillos: Stuff that in yr. pipe and smoke it, JSTOR haters!! http://bit.ly/qtrxdV Also: how now, @aaronsw?
So, did Aaron Swartz's efforts affect the existence of JSTOR's new program or its timing? As to the former, it seems clear that with or without his actions, JSTOR was already on track to provide open access to out-of-copyright materials. As to the latter, JSTOR says that
[I]t would be inaccurate to say that these events have had no impact on our planning. We considered whether to delay or accelerate this action, largely out of concern that people might draw incorrect conclusions about our motivations. In the end, we decided to press ahead with our plans to make the Early Journal Content available, which we believe is in the best interest of our library and publisher partners, and students, scholars, and researchers everywhere.
On its face, the statement implies that JSTOR acted essentially without change, but we'll never know if Swartz's efforts sped up or slowed down the release.
What the Early Journal Content program does show is JSTOR's interest in providing broader access to the scholarly literature, a goal they share with open-access advocates, and even with Aaron Swartz. I hope and expect that JSTOR will continue to push, and even more aggressively, towards broader access to its collection. The scholarly community will be watching.


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(November 22, 2013) - The Portland Bureau of Transportation is offering the news media an opportunity tonight to see its newest street sweeper in action – a machine that is small and narrow enough to fit bicycle lanes and other hard to reach places in addition to performing regular duty as part of the city's fleet of larger sweepers.
A city crew will clean the protected bikeway along NE Multnomah Street. Typically, city crews sweep major commercial streets at night when traffic is light and there are few parked cars. The crew will sweep from NE Grand Avenue to 21st Avenue from 9 p.m. to midnight.
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WHERE: The street sweeper will begin its NE Multnomah Street route at NE Grand Avenue and sweep east to NE 21st Avenue then turn around and return to Grand Avenue. The protected bikeway, a lane that is buffered from auto traffic by planters and parked cars, extends to 16th Avenue. A traditional bikeway extends to 21st Avenue.
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Oh Edinburgh! Such a pretty city, and one that has been on my bucket list for years. Liam whisked me away for the Easter break where we rented an Air BnB and prepared ourselves for eating a lot of food and a lot of cake. We had such a lovely few days exploring, getting lost in the back streets and stumbling upon little bars and cafes to take breaks in. I took my new camera away with me for the trip and managed to film some footage for my first 'vlog' which can be found at the bottom of this post. Bear with me – I'm still getting used to this talking to the camera business!
We ate in so many lovely places over the weekend, I just had to share some of our favourite spots with you. I always like to plan a full itinerary including restaurants and bars before I go away anywhere – so hopefully if you are like me, you might stumble upon this post in your research phase!
Mother India's Cafe
Indian AND Tapas? Probably the best combination ever. Mother India's Cafe is a small Indian restaurant tucked away in a side street near South Bridge. They recommend about four dishes to share between two along with rice and naans, which for us was the perfect amount of food. There's something about a tapas eating experience which always gets me excited – we had a lovely meal and the staff were really accommodating. Tip – the peshwari naan is amazing!
Miros Cantina Mexicana
I booked this restaurant after watching KateLaVie's Edinburgh vlog – and being massive fans of Mexican food it was a no-brainer. With frozen margaritas, authentic dishes and music to match – we ate until we could not eat anymore. It was nice to have choices outside of the standard 'tacos' and 'fajitas' – and it beat going to a chain restaurant any day. The staff were a little on the 'rushed' side and made a few mistakes with our order, but granted it is a very small restaurant and that particular night they were very busy.
Tower Restaurant
I've never been to a proper 'afternoon tea' and so this was the perfect way to end our Edinburgh Easter weekend. The Tower Restaurant is situated above the National Museum of Scotland, and has amazing views of the castle from their terrace. We had a great afternoon eating many sandwiches, scones and cakes and again, the staff couldn't do enough for us.
The Elephant House
If you are a Harry Potter fan, no trip to Edinburgh is complete without a visit to The Elephant House. The cafe claims to be the 'birthplace' of Harry Potter (although debatable as J.K.Rowling herself recently tweeted that the books were started in Clapham), but there is no doubt that she wrote parts of the Philosopher's Stone within their walls. A visit to the toilets is worth the trip in itself, with Harry Potter inspired graffiti covering the walls, ceiling and sinks! Dumbledore's Army have certainly left their mark.
Alongside great places to eat, there are so many other things to do if you are visiting Edinburgh for a couple of days.
Take a look at my vlog to see what else we got up to – and if you like the video please be sure to give me some feedback in the form of a thumbs up, a comment or even a cheeky subscription.


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Monday, January 30, 2012
Mascara - Fairy Drops, Benefit - They're Real
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I am in LOVE with they're real. I haven't tried the fairy drops yet.ReplyDeleteReplies
I was really impressed with They're Real, so of course I bought it as soon as I saw how it looked on me.Delete
Fairy drops gives pretty good length because of the fibers. If you keep going over the tips of the eyelashes the fibers build on one another so it just keeps getting longer. It has hit my glasses before which has only happened with false eyelashes in the past haha
ooh the fairy drops have the same wand as rimmels sexy curves i think.. have been meaning to do a review on it.. thanks for reminding me unconsciously lol.. I dont really like to pay a lot for mascara's or eyeliners =.=.. maybe i can get a sample version somewhere first lolReplyDeleteReplies
I love the wand, it took a few times to get used to it but it covers every little lash. I haven't tried the Rimmels Sexy Curves, I'll check it out when one of my mascaras runs out. :)Delete


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DEAF EVENT DecEMBER 2018 with Peter Cook, Keith Wann, Santa, and olaf!
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2015 Deaf awareness week Staring: Peter Cook, Keith Wann, and Wink
Deaf Awareness Week 2015 Slide Show
Deaf event halloween, 2015
A big thanks to keith wann & wink for joining us at bridgewater state university on september 12th, 2014 for deaf awareness week.
Our April 27th yard & bake sale was a HUGE success! Here are some pictures below from the busy day!
Our December holiday event was wonderful. A special thank you to our "Signing Santa" who "flew" in via fire engine and handed out gifts to all of the kids. See you next year!
Free Halloween Deaf Social October 29th was TONS of fun!
Thanks for coming! See you next Halloween :)
Thanks for coming! See you next Halloween :)
Camp Kiwanee Outdoor Deaf Event 9/17/11
GREAT SUCCESS! See you next year!
GREAT SUCCESS! See you next year!
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Sepertinya, tema Weekly Photograph Challenge minggu ini adalah yang termudah dibandingkan tema minggu-minggu sebelumnya. According to Google Developments , donut (blue line) has a transparent advantage over doughnut on the web, and is simply rising in reputation. Then, to step it up yet one more notch, what about combining doughnuts with some of our favourite foods, like a doughnut bowl with bacon and Mac n' Cheese, pizza doughnut, or a biscuits and gravy doughnut.
Cellular vans that serve doughnuts, traditional or jam, are often seen at spectator occasions, carnivals and fetes and by the roadside close to excessive-traffic areas like airports and the carparks of huge shopping centers. Donut Dash is honored to be a part of that initiative by pledging to raise $500,000 in contribution to 's pledge in honor of our beloved alumni advisor, Bob Dax, who died from ALS in 2017.
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The AP Stylebook favors doughnut, to adapt with Webster's New World College Dictionary, the Stylebook's major reference. Candy pastries just like old school doughnuts called badushahi and jalebi are also fashionable. Shayt is happy that the Institution also has in storage 4 empty paper sacks every labeled with the proper components for Krispy Kreme doughnuts.


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Inspiration comes in so many different forms.
This time it' quite obvious. This time it's all about the "STEAMPUNK CARTOUCHE".
I've said this so many times but it never ceases to amaze me when I look back at something I've created and see a little of something from the past peeking through. Something it's quite obvious. Sometime it's so obscure that I don't see it until much later. That's when the "WOW!" factor kicks in the strongest.
This time it' quite obvious. This time it's all about the "STEAMPUNK CARTOUCHE".
|The "STEAMPUNK CARTOUCHE by DSC"
The name cartouche was first applied by soldiers who fancied that the symbol they saw so frequently repeated on the pharaonic ruins they encountered resembled a muzzle-loading firearm's paper powder cartridge (cartouche in French). In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name, coming into use during the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu.
At times amulets were given the form of a cartouche displaying the name of a king and placed in tombs. Such items are often important to archaeologists for dating the tomb and its contents. Cartouches were formerly only worn by Pharaohs. The oval surrounding their name was meant to protect him from evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become a symbol representing protection from evil and give good luck. Egyptians believed that if you had your name written down in some place, then you would not disappear after you died. If a cartouche was attached to their coffin then they would have their name in at least one place. There were periods in Egyptian history when people refrained from inscribing these amulets with a name, for fear they might fall into somebody's hands conferring power over the bearer of the name.
All this information can be found on Wikipedia. For me, the Cartouche touches something deep but obscured by who knows what. I could be something from a past life. I could be my connection with travel and/or fantasy. It could be simply because I'm a big Stargate SG1 fan.
I designed this piece with only the aesthetic in mind but it seems to have captured a little bit of the luck vibe of the ancient pharaohs. I have plans for a few different versions of the "STEAMPUNK CARTOUCHE". I'm even thinking of turning it into a birthstone pendant. Soon you'll be able to pick your style, metal and stone making it even more your own.
I've been thinking of adding a 3D printer to the tools in my workshop. The idea is to make it easier to construct some of my designs that need to have a more polished and clean-cut look and feel. Mostly, I enjoy the aesthetic of the "Artifact". I love it when a piece I create looks as though it could have come from an archaeological dig site or have been made many years ago and shows the touch of the hands of time.
From time to time it's a good idea to think about what others might want to see. You know. Good business practice and what not. I have a great many ideas that could be made by hand like 99% of my work but won't look as clean. I can design the pieces, 3d map them on the computer, print them with the 3D printer, mold them and then cast them in whatever metal I wish or whatever metal my client wishes.
It's also a great way to keep prices down. If a client wants a piece done in gold, I can remove coverage for scrap in the cost of the piece. The original model would already be done in plastic saving me from having to produce waste by cutting the piece in metal. It's a great way to stay GREEN as well. The plastic can be easily recycled and reused for creating new work. It's that simple. The one setback… 3D printers ain't cheap. I'm still not raising my prices.
Now, we move on to the tasty part of this little adventure.
Normally I feature other jewelers on Etsy or other artists that have inspired me in my art. This time we're hitting something completely different.
My wife and I had a date recently. Sure we took the baby with us. It was awesome to be able to get out together. We went to a killer Thai restaurant. We took a walk through the park to work off the killer Thai food. It was a hot day and we wanted ice cream. What we got was more of a treat than we expected.
|My Cherry Vanilla & Rum Raisin at Eddie's
We had a choice of a chain or a "Mom & Pop" type spot we discovered on the corner. You know we chose "B". We walked through the door and I was blasted into the past with the biggest grin on my face.
What we found was an old style ice cream parlor and candy shop like the ones I remember as a kid. Even then there weren't many left. What we found was ice cream heaven in Queens. They even made sodas the old fashioned way. What we found was Eddie's.
Located at 105-29 Metropolitan Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375, this outwardly unassuming corner shop is so super cool on the inside that you'll swear you can see your breath as you walk in the door. The marble countertop, the serving dishes and the serving sizes and toppings will take you back to the 1940s or 50s. (I was born in the 70s, if you must know.) The staff is happy to be there and that makes it a happy place to be.
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A new singing group for people with dementia and their carers is being launched a week on Tuesday (December 20) in Queensferry Parish Church.
The venture is a partnership between North West Carers, South Queensferry and District Dementia Friendly Initiative and Queensferry Care, and will run from 2pm to 4pm at the church at The Loan, South Queensferry, EH30 9NS, from 2pm to 4pm.
The aim of the group is to provide a safe, friendly, relaxed and stimulating environment in which people with dementia (who must be accompanied) and their carers can socialise and sing, with the emphasis on enjoyment and fun.
It is also an opportunity to meet others, have a chat and enjoy a cuppa – and is not a choir.
In the new year the group will be held on the first and third Tuesday of the month, so the first meeting of 2017 is January 3.
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Southampton Imperial Porter
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Southampton Imperial Porter
Southampton Imperial Porter
Brewed by:
Southampton Publick House
Southampton, New York, USA
American Porter
Commercial Description:
Our imperial, Baltic-style porter is inspired by the strong, dark brews exported from Great Britain to Eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rich and flavorful with upfront notes of chocolate, caramel and toffee.
General Pricing:
12oz bottle, ~$8.00 6pack, ~$31.00 case
No rhyme or reason for this one. I just saw it at the store the other day and picked it up to review. I've had quite a few good beers from Southampton so I'm expecting good things from this one. I'm a sucker for a good porter so lets see how this Imperial Porter shapes up.
The beer pours a dark brown with just a hint of ruby hues sneaking around the side of the glass and a tan head.
The nose is rich with sweet dark malt aromas and notes of coffee and chocolate.
It starts out with sweet dark roasted malts up front then a rich but smooth mouthfeel through the middle of the sip. The back-end is fairly easy drinking with a carbonation release during the swallow. The flavors really start to show toward the end of the swallow into the finish. The finish is very flavorful with rich toasted malt flavors and just a hint of hop bitterness. There are also notes of toffee, caramel and chocolate on the finish. The final aftertaste is a pleasant lingering flavor of caramel malt and toffee.
This is a very good tasting porter. I'm really surprised at the 7.2% ABV. The alcohol is not detectable at all; although the alcohol may account for some of the sweetness and soothing aspect of this Porter.
Well, this review is going to be pretty short for me. But this one was so good it's gone already.
I'm going for an A- on this one. This is an excellent porter; smooth, rich and delicious with just a hint of hop bitterness on the finish.
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Millionaire real estate and used car dealer Sheron Sukhdeo lived his life in the fast lane.
He loved fast money, gold jewellery and fast cars.
This was evident in the posts he made on social media showcasing his luxury vehicles and racing cars.
But while police probe a possible family link to his death, officers of the Central Division police said members of the Rasta City gang of Beetham Gardens were planning to kill Sukhdeo years ago, even though he was well protected by members of the main rival Muslim gang.
In 2016, an attempt was made on his life but he escaped. Sukhdeo is reported to also have had several police officers on his payroll and used them also to keep his enemies at bay.
Despite the murder attempt, Sukhdeo took precautions to protect his family.
Members of the Muslim gang knew Sukhdeo well and became his bodyguards. He helped one of the Muslim gang leaders to set up a car dealership in Laventille, which was financed by money launderers and the drug cartel.
Despite the threats on his life, Sukhdeo, 33, would be seen walking in Charlieville and along Caroni Savannah Road Chaguanas, where he operated his business. He flashed his wealth by wearing lots of gold jewellery and even bought a private plane.
He travelled frequently abroad with his wife Rachael and in one Facebook post, Rachel was seen posing with American reality television personality Kim Kardashian.
They had been together since Rachael was 14 and he was 16. They got married two years later and had two children.
However, their marriage became the subject of public scrutiny since 2016, when Rachael posted photos of herself showing injuries she suffered during a beating from Sukhdeo.
He was charged twice for assault in February 2016 and later in May 2017 but the charges were dropped after his wife refused to testify.
On January 11, Sukhdeo posted a meme featuring Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar, whom he admired. The post read, "I can replace things but I could never replace my wife and kids."
Like Escobar, Sukhdeo wanted to share his wealth with the poor, having experienced financial difficulties himself before he went into business. During the recent floods, Sukhdeo distributed hampers.
Police said they were bracing for reprisal killings following the death.
Two days after Sukhdeo was gunned down near her parent's home, Rachael Sukhdeo was taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility after suffering from a medical complication. Homicide officers said around 10 am, Rachael was taken to a health facility where doctors had to give her emergency treatment. Her two young children have been staying with her parents as police try to find the people behind Sukhdeo's untimely demise. Region Three Homicide officers are continuing investigations into Sukhdeo's death.
Source: www.guardian.co.tt


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Laws don't often get their own parties. But for the irresistibly named Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, President Obama held a rare public ceremony in the White House's Rose Garden in its honor. Even more notably, this party was quite bipartisan—Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor stood right next to Obama as he signed the legislation. Since that day in April 2012, the most common criticism about the JOBS Act has been that it doesn't really exist yet. Many provisions, such as the more controversial element of the act allowing companies to raise financing through public "crowdfunding," are still undefined by the SEC. Other sections remain untested.
Now, almost a year after it was signed into law, the JOBS Act has, at least temporarily, quieted many of its critics. That's because its primary goal of giving some companies an easier path to completing an initial public offering (IPO) seems to be gaining traction.
How so? First of all, the JOBS Act provisions are popular. Two-thirds of the U.S. exchange-traded IPOs in 2012 were by companies taking advantage of a new category of equity issuer established by the act: the "emerging growth company" (EGC). This designation provides options for lighter regulation such as exemptions from certain provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Second, in a year that was considered a poor one for public offerings, marred by looming fiscal cliffs (the only kind) and overhyped social media IPOs (the only kind), shares of companies that went public under the JOBS Act outperformed those of companies that took the more conventional route. That has prompted growing optimism that 2013 may be a turnaround year for IPOs and new business growth.
No matter how the year unfolds, one thing is certain. As outgoing SEC Chair Elisse Walter acknowledged recently, the JOBS Act signals a "seismic shift in the way companies, particularly small and emerging ones, raise capital and how individual investors participate in that process."
If the earthquake metaphor isn't telling enough, perhaps a nautical one will convey the act's potential impact in terms of encouraging investment: "a rising tide lifts all boats." Business leaders and legal professionals typically regard taxes and regulation as some of the biggest impediments to starting and expanding companies—tying them down. Sarbanes-Oxley, for example, sank some companies' plans for going public—a step that often precedes an upswell in hiring. At the same time, conducting an IPO has always been an expensive and complicated process that prevents many companies from even considering the option. In a tough economic climate, the JOBS Act throws a lifeline to many small and mid-sized businesses seeking to raise capital.
So what exactly is this new breed as defined by the JOBS Act? It will be helpful to understand exactly what qualifies as an emerging growth company and how the legislation that defines it is intended to create an "IPO on-ramp" for such entity.
An EGC is a company with less than $1 billion in revenues for its most recently completed fiscal year. That deliberately covers a wide swath of businesses, and those businesses can now talk to the market in a variety of new ways. For example, EGCs can engage in oral and written communications with potential investors and the SEC. In effect, an EGC has a unique opportunity to "test the waters" to assess interest in, and the potential success of, an IPO.
Plus, to make an IPO even more attractive (and to reduce the costs typically associated with going public), the act creates a transition period of up to five years during which a company does not have to comply with certain ongoing disclosure and compliance requirements. For example, an EGC is exempted from the requirement under Sarbanes-Oxley to have an independent auditor attest to the company's assessment of its internal controls and procedures. There are also reduced disclosure rules regarding executive compensation and relief from complying with financial accounting standards that are not generally applicable to private companies.
That just leaves one question: why wouldn't a company considering an IPO do so as an EGC? The advantages seem self-evident, and the disadvantages almost non-existent. So far, the exceptions would appear to be when a company is competing with others with non-EGC status and the disclosure exemptions might actually put the company at a disadvantage, or when there is a clear indication from the market that a company should not take the approach.
Either way, the game has definitely changed. The jury is still out as to whether the JOBS Act will live up to its name, even if early indications look promising, and there are plenty of critics waiting to pounce with noisy "I told you so" pronouncements about the risks associated with so much reduced accountability.
Still, attorneys advising companies will at least want a rudimentary understanding of these fun new options available, so they can provide informed guidance and smart insight.
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2018 Honda Indy Preview
The Honda Indy is happening this weekend in Toronto, Ontario, as the lakeshore will be home to the only Canadian stop on the Indycar tour. It is a weekend-long event held at Exhibition Place that features many races throughout Saturday and Sunday, all leading up to the final Indycar Series race on Sunday afternoon.
Thursday was the day for drivers to get a feel for the facilities, as their teams are setting up their equipment, ensuring everything is up to standards, while giving the drivers a chance to interact amongst each other, the media and fans. The pre-race press conference saw a couple batches of drivers from various races and backgrounds give introductory words, and field questions in a Q & A. The atmosphere was an interesting one. Despite the fact that the drivers are adversaries on the track, they are extremely friendly with one another off the track. Various times drivers would take friendly jabs at one another while giving their answers, especially the select English drivers who just had to watch their soccer team get eliminated from the World Cup. It is clear that the drivers are all motivated to win, but have the utmost respect for those they race against.
Friday will be a day full of practice runs for all the different races. It will give the drivers a chance to get a feel for the track which takes over the streets of downtown Toronto. The track features a long straightaway down Lakeshore blvd, while making turns on Ontario drive, Princes' blvd, Manitoba drive, and Nova Scotia ave. The course circles Toronto hotspots such as BMO Field and the Beanfield Centre, while running adjacent to Ricoh Coliseum. The 2.8km long track is one of nine street courses on the Indycar Series. The Honda Indy is the only Canadian stop on the tour, which also features races in Japan, Australia, Brazil and the United States.
Saturday and Sunday is when the cars come out and show what they have to offer, as they are days full of racing from the crack of dawn. Saturday's first major race is the Pro Mazda Championship series race. The race is the second step on the road to the Indycar Series, and the winner of the Pro Mazda Cup gets a chance to compete at the next level of the ladder. Following the Mazda Championship will be the USF2000 Cup by Mazda, which is actually the step before the Mazda Cup on the Mazda Road to the Indycar Series. Brazilian driver Igor Fraga will be competing for Exclusive Autosport with hopes of advancing themselves up the ladder of the series. That race is then followed by the Indy Lights Race which is the final step of the ladder before the big dance of the Indycar Series.
The Indycar Series will then do their qualifying run for pole positioning, which will be followed by the NASCAR Pinty's Series Race. Veteran Canadian racer Alex Tagliani will be competing in the race, as he will be looking for his first win of 2018, and seventh of his career in this particular series.
Rounding out the day of racing will be the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge. As one might expect, is a race full of Porsche cars. Last year's gold winner Roman De Angelis will look to improve on his already impressive career. At just 16 years old, he is the youngest driver in the Cup's history. He picked up his first platinum victory just one month ago at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Sunday will follow a similar schedule of races, with the USF2000, Pro Mazda, and Indy Lights series all running a second race. That will make way for the main attraction: the Indycar Series Race. Last year's champion Josef Newgarden will have a chance at his third career title. Also gunning for the three-peat is veteran racer Sebastien Bourdais, who won his first Honda Indy almost 15 years ago. All the attention, however, will surely be on Canadian driver James Hinchcliffe. The Oakville, Ontario native has been attending the Honda Indy since he was a small child, but the closest he has ever come to winning were two third place finishes which he attained in the past two years. Hinchcliffe comes into this year's Honda Indy ranked 8th in the series with one win this season, which came in his last race on July 8th in Iowa Corn 300. He will look to ride the momentum of his recent win to make his way up the series standings. He would be the second-ever Canadian to win the Honda Indy (Paul Tracy, 1993, 2003).
Indycar's second-longest street race turns Ontario's capital into a racing hotbed for one weekend every July. It gives those who may not be interested in racing an opportunity to check out a new sport. The first competitive race will be the Pro Mazda Championship at 10:50am on Saturday morning.


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I am very inspired by the budding Jewish intentional communities movement. As someone who has farmed for more than a decade and thought a lot about past Jewish farming communities in America and how to build ones today, I'd like to share some thoughts on developing communities based around agriculture.
My first suggestion, which has been made by others, is to stay close to the city, even right in a city. Jewish farming communities in the past near metropolitan areas thrived for a generation or more (Petaluma CA; Farmingdale; NJ Lebanon CT area, among other places), while those far out in rural America were quick failures (farflung settlements in Kansas, the Dakotas and elsewhere). Being close to markets, family, friends, and Jewish community made all the difference.
Participating in Jewish life is much easier when you are not far out in the country. Working part-time off farm jobs, shopping and taking children places are also much easier in my experience. One of the best things about the movement as it is taking shape is that noboby is advocating for one specific model or specific place. Still, since many Jewish people attracted to the idea of a Jewish agrarian community feel conflicted about going far from what the city offers, establishing most communities near cities will mean more people actually joining the broad movement. A few years ago in one of my sporadic blog posts, I wrote more about why not going far from the city is key.
Today it is much easier to establish a farm within a metropolitan area. Land trusts and preserved family farms offer land to rent that would be much too expensive to purchase. Also, the urban agriculture movement continues to flourish. The city of Baltimore recently started to take applications to rent vacant lots for urban farms. With this city initiative and vicinity to Pearlstone, my hometown of Baltimore is on the forefront but other cities offer similar opportunities. The vision of an urban co-housing community where residents tend an adjacent urban farm or fields a little out of the city is no longer too much to ask.
For people looking to be in a more traditional farm situation just a little outside metropolitan areas I have three specific suggestions. My wife and I have been searching for a larger farm for some time now and in the course of our search have come across two places where a good number of Jewish people farmed in the past that would make good locations for new communities today. The first is the Connecticut River valley area near Hartford. As detailed in a book published by Jewish Historical Society of Greater Harfford and other publications, successful Jewish farming communities existed in places like Lebanon, Ellington and Colchester. They thrived for a good generation or two running chicken, vegetable and dairy farms. In some places like Colchester, synagogues still exist, waiting to be rejuvenated. This area is also not far from Hartford's Jewish community or the great Isabella Friedman. On a whole the Connecticut Jewish farmers may have been the most successful of the past century, good fortune that may transfer to people today. The Connecticut farmlink is a good place to start looking.
Using the Farmlink website for New Jersey, we located a farm in Elmer, New Jersey a few years ago. When we visited the farm we learned the farm was once part of one of the first long term Jewish farming communities in America, the Alliance colony. Today there is a beautiful synagogue and a large cemetery for the members of the colony and Jewish farmers who settled in the area later in the twentieth century. Elmer New Jersey is in many ways a perfect spot for a community for people who want to live on their own traditional farm with a house surrounded by ample fields. With the synagogue, abundance of affordable preserved farms, nearby Jewish federation in Vineland, and vicinity to Philadelphia, it has the infrastructure to support a new community of Jewish farmers.
I loved the farm in Elmer, a flat forty acre piece of light soil good for vegetables that once was a working chicken farm owned by a Jewish family. I considered renting the farm from the family of the farmers who had taken the noble action of making it a preserved farm. This was the third former Jewish farm we had learned about by searching Farmlink websites. We came across two others in the Lebanon Connecticut area. Come to think of it, nearly all of the few farms we considered seriously turned out to be former Jewish farms.
Before going to the farm, I visited the Alliance cemetery. I randomly walked to one row of graves and picked a stone to read. The gravestone told me that the man buried there was a member and the historian of the Alliance community. Out of the hundreds of graves, this was the first person I, an amateur historian of Jewish farmers in America, randomly picked to read about.
Blossom Frankel, a real estate agent in the Elmer area and daughter of dairy farmers, showed me the farm and house lovingly renovated by the farmer's daughter. At one point Blossom asked me if I had turned on the kitchen sink which was running. We were in the next room and neither had touched the sink. I've asked a few people about this. One person said it was probably some sort of bad sign. My friend Dan Zisken, founder of Jews of the Earth, told me it meant my family would have continuity with the previous farm family.
In the end, I did not make the move to Elmer, and not because I determined what to make of the sink incident. Even though I have a difficult farming situation now (we cultivate fields on five separate properties around our home), I have a flexible part-time job that is a good match with farming and hard to give up. I'm a visionary but conservative, risk adverse one. My role in all this I suppose might be just to point people to places like Elmer.
The last of the three places I suggest is a wildcard and a contradiction. In 2012, CBC Radio had a show about how the small Jewish community in Saint John's New Brunswick is recruiting young people to move there. Generally I recommend becoming part of the closest community. If you are in Philadelphia look at Elmer, etc. Going to Canada is hardly staying close to where you are now but what you might just need to feel settled is to leave America and all its acute problems. The area has plenty of good farmland and will be a good location as the planet heats up.
Just a few more suggestions. One is to stay in what they call the agriculture loop. Borrow money from the farm credit cooperative bank, consult with the agriculture extension and generally stay connected with established agriculture organizations. As detailed in Gertrude Dubrovsky's book about growing up in Farmingdale, New Jersey, Jews helped pioneer farm credit unions, insurance companies and extension educational services. Today we don't have to create these institutions. This is not to say we don't need a contemporary version of the Jewish Agriculture Society , that works as a consultant that helps people find farm communities that meet there specific needs.
All the communities will take different forms when it comes to how much to share resources like land and equipment. With the changes in America squeezing the middle class, becoming part of a community that shares a good deal of expenses and perhaps even some profits from cooperative marketing, may be a financially wise decision. At the very least, groups that purchase land together (crowdfund) will obtain a much better farm than alone.
These are wonderful days for Jewish agrarians. The philosophy and material circumstances are all in place for a new era of Jewish farmers in America. The philosophy is developed because of the great work by Adama, Hazon, Pearlstone, the Jewish Farm School and other people and organizations. That the circumstances are also in place call for gratitude.


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Celebrate in Style: Specs + Sunnies for July 4th Merriment
Calling all patriotic party-goers! July 4th is coming up fast, and with a plethora of pool parties, BBQs and get togethers to attend, it's the perfect time to elevate your revelry garb with red, white and blue specs and sunnies. Properly clad yourself for the celebrations, by popping on a pair of ultraviolet (UV) protective… Read more »


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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 35 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover a possible future Apple Watch band with smart links that could be used to add batteries, a camera and various sensors and haptics. Apple was also granted a patent for a long standing project with Apple's Israeli company relating to in-air gaming gesturing and gesturing to control other applications such as Apple TV. The technology is proven technology as it was first used in Microsoft's Kinect. We wrap up this week's granted patent report with our traditional listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.
Granted Patent: Apple Watch Smart Band Links
Apple's newly granted patent 9,553,625 covers their invention relating to a possible future Apple Watch Band that is constructed with smart links that carry new functionality for the watch.
Apple's Patent FIG. 1 noted above is an isometric view of an example system including a wearable device and a band including multiple links; FIG. 3C illustrates the mechanics inside the links.
Apple notes in their patent application that "The electronic components included in the modular functional band links may be any kind of electronic component associated with any kind of functionality. Such electronic components may include adding one or more batteries, input devices, output devices, haptic devices, displays, sensors, actuators, processors, electricity generators, photovoltaic cells, cameras, photo sensors, indicators, accelerometers, speedometers, compasses, gyroscopes, global positioning systems, thermometers, hygrometers, blood pressure sensors, sweat sensors, magnetic field sensors, antennas (such as a WiFi antenna, a Bluetooth antenna, a cellular antenna, a near field communication antenna, and so on), vibrators, speakers, track wheels, track balls, touch sensors, buttons, sliders, force sensors, and/or any other electronic component."
Patently Apple first covered this invention as a patent application last April which you could review here for more details.
Granted Patent: Optical Pattern Projection
Apple's newly granted patent 9,554,122 covers their invention relating to optical systems and designs, and specifically to methods and system for optical pattern projection. Today's granted patent covers 3D projection for many types of possible future applications including an in-air gaming user interface.
Apple' patent FIG. 1 is a schematic, pictorial illustration of a system for optical 3D mapping, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a projection assembly.
Patently Apple reported on this invention as a granted patent one year ago which you could review here for more details. Apple has updated and added their patent claims to cover their invention.
Apple Granted Design Patent for Apple Watch with Woven Nylon Band
Apple was granted design patent D777,163 for Apple Watch with Woven Nylon band. Yesterday Patently Apple posted a report covering Apple being granted three design patents covering the same thing in Hong Kong which you could review here.
The Remaining Patents granted to Apple Today
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Broncos Insider: What happens to Peyton Manning's legacy as a result the Chargers game?
Good Friday evening, Denver Broncos fans. If you're new here, welcome to our daily Broncos Insider newsletter, which we'll publish daily as long as the Broncos remain in the playoffs (and then step back to once-per-week). Here's the latest and greatest from Broncoland.
COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 2 days
That Broncos defense has been forced to overcome attrition this regular season and the playoffs, writes Joan Niesen. "… the Denver defense has been plugged with replacements, caulked with other teams' castoffs. There's a defensive end who doubles as a rapper and was cut by the flailing Jaguars in November. There's the NFL's lone remaining XFL player. There's undrafted players and rookies, and there's [Brandon] Marshall.
"By the numbers, the Denver defense — ranked 19th in yards allowed this season — doesn't even deserve to make the playoffs, except that these playoffs are teeming with poor defenses throughout the AFC: the Patriots, the Chargers, the Colts. The Broncos have a chance. In fact, the odds are in their favor — even if the numbers aren't quite." http://dpo.st/19jnZ51
Derek Wolfe out again … writes The Denver Post's Irv Moss from practice on Friday. He hasn't played since suffering seizure-like symptoms before a game on Nov. 29.
Quotable "We've been talking about it this whole week. That was the last team to come in and beat us. Basically, they did everything better than we did," says Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas. But Wesley Woodyard adds: "I guarantee we're going to be ready this week." http://bit.ly/1cMw54n
Kiszla talks to Champ Bailey, who says in Kiz's column: "I've listened to the radio. I've read the newspaper. And I've heard all these things: 'He's done. He's lost a step. Yada, yada, yada,' " Bailey told me Thursday. "It's funny. Because those people don't know me, they don't understand me, and they don't know what it takes to play in the NFL. So I took it all in stride. But it's all motivation. I used every little thing I heard as motivation. Did I ever think I was done? Hell, no." http://dpo.st/19jojAI
Peyton Manning's legacy as a player, fair or not, hinges on how he does in this game against the San Diego Chargers, writes ESPN's Adam Schefter. But… "Of Manning's 11 postseason losses, seven came in games that if one other player made one other play, Manning easily could have won. But certain Broncos and Colts could not come through, and the loss followed Manning, which is how football works. […]
"So when people are discussing Manning's 9-11 postseason record, they need to consider the full body of work, not just the final result. […] For argument's sake, let's just say two had. Then, with a winning postseason record, the narrative about him is entirely different."
It all comes down to … that Chargers defense, writes Bill Barnwell of Grantland. "If [San Diego] continues to play at its league-average level, this would essentially be a fair fight, with two league-average defenses and two great offenses. Of course, that undersells Denver's offense, which has the sixth-best offensive DVOA of the past 25 years, but you get the idea. If the Chargers' defense is back to its old ways, then it's a shootout with the best quarterback in the history of football against one of the worst defenses in recent memory. … I suspect that the Chargers will try to run the ball to keep Manning on the sideline and hope that they get pressure … but I don't think it will work out quite as well for them this time around." http://es.pn/KbfQDC
What does that hop/leap/jump before Matt Prater kicks field goals actually do? Columnist Benjamin Hochman investigates, without trying to pull a hammy in the process. http://dpo.st/1dkD47s
Shaun Phillips is needed now more than ever, writes ESPN's Jeff Legwold. "In the end, the Denver Broncos and Shaun Phillips find themselves in a need-need situation…
"With the list of marquee quarterbacks left in the postseason — Brady, Luck and Philip Rivers in the AFC, and Drew Brees, Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick in the NFC — the Broncos have to find a way to make the opposing uber-thrower uncomfortable. Enter Phillips, who led the Broncos in sacks this season after the team's original plans up front on defense took a few hits along the way."
Simmons picks the Broncos 48-28 — writing for Grantland on Friday: "Why You Eventually Regretted Taking the Broncos: You didn't pay enough attention to Manning's playoff legacy. You ignored how good San Diego's defense looked these past few weeks, and how secretly mediocre Denver's defense has looked without Von Miller. You didn't pay enough attention to that Week 15 game. You forgot how frightening Keenan Allen and Danny Woodhead were. You didn't remember that San Diego can run the ball and use the Giants' Super Bowl XLII strategy of "Chew up clock, keep the other team's offense off the field. … "Why You Eventually Regretted Taking the Chargers: So the Chargers beat Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton in a playoff game. Wow! Congratulations, fellas! What an impossible task! Now they're going into Denver and beating a fired-up juggernaut that just scored more than 600 points, and they're going to be doing that for the second time in four weeks?" http://es.pn/1aP0ewX
Knighton emerges as a leader — Terrance Knighton emerges as Broncos' defensive leader, by Mile High Report's Kyle Montgomery. Champ Bailey on the defensive tackle: "I didn't know him before he got here, but just to be able to come in and figure out where he fits in and know his role, but also understand that he's a leader on this team. And we need him to be that." http://bit.ly/1cMtMOF
We interviewed Knighton on The Press Box earlier this week:
WILL DENVER OR SEATTLE LOSE? — USA Today's Chris Strauss writes that Seattle or Denver will lose this weekend because "if recent history is any indication, at least one of the two number one seeds is going down. Since the 2005 season, both the AFC and NFC's top-ranked playoff teams have advanced to the conference championships just once. In 2009, both the Saints and Colts won their divisional round matchups. Both ended up advancing to the Super Bowl the following Sunday." http://usat.ly/1d9xumR
Chargers running back Ryan Matthews misses practice again … listed as QUESTIONABLE
It's the first time he's missed a Friday practice since he injured his ankle against Oakland three weeks ago, writes ESPN's Eric D. Williams. Matthews ran for 127 yards against the Broncos when the Chargers beat them.
Can the Bolts win? — SB Nation's John Gennaro examines the three reasons why the Chargers will beat the Broncos: 1. Their 2-0 record again Manning in the playoffs … 2. They're 5-0 with Melvin Ingram back … 3. Their 8-3 record with King Dunlap in the lineup. http://bit.ly/1lKFhLl
And the three reasons why they'll lose: Ryan Matthews, Philip Rivers and Mike McCoy. http://bit.ly/1ewECry
Welker won't be ignored by the Bolts D — The San Diego Union-Tribune's Tom Krasovic, speaking with Chargers coach Mike McCoy Friday, "He's one of the best slot receivers of all time. It's another weapon for Peyton to have. They have plenty of good players, and they've had a lot of success without him in there. But his production the past few years speaks for itself." http://bit.ly/1ku8xrE
Believing big — Mike McCoy has Chargers believing big, writes ESPN.com's Eric D. Williams. "That's his whole thing — he's intelligent," said Ron McBride, McCoy's college head coach at Utah. "He doesn't get rattled. He's confident. He knows what to do. Pressure doesn't bother him. He's the same way coaching. He doesn't get rattled. He has the same demeanor throughout the game." http://es.pn/1cMoinc
Keys to the game for San Diego — Chargers.com's Ricky Henne takes a look at the five keys to the game for the Chargers, including running the ball: "Another key stat from the win in Week 15 in Denver was the Chargers ability to run it effectively. … Whether or not the Bolts go heavy on the run once again will depend on the flow of the game according to Head Coach Mike McCoy, who says the team will do whatever is necessary based on the opponent's defense." http://bit.ly/1lZwd2s
The Battle On: Broncos offense vs. Broncos defense, with MMQB's Andy Benoit analyzing: "Yes, John Pagano's defense stymied Peyton Manning in San Diego's upset at Mile High four weeks ago. But keep in mind, that was a Thursday game and Wes Welker was out. Manning, who thrives on preparation, had only three days to adjust from a three-receiver based offense that centers around slot option routes to a two-tight end based offense that used more isolation routes. And with Welker out, Eric Decker worked more in the slot, which meant Manning's No. 2 receiver was out of position." http://bit.ly/1itIz33
AND … in case you were wondering, the people who were stabbed after the last Chargers-Broncos game at Sports Authority Field are banned from the stadium for a year (even if they did pay $750 for playoff tickets on Sunday): http://dpo.st/1cV4b2O
Have a safe and enjoyable weekend, everyone.
Like what you see? Did we miss something? Tweet us comments, tips, thoughts, and your best Matt Prater acrobatic impressions to @PostBroncos or email email@example.com. This letter is edited by The Denver Post's Daniel Petty and Joe Nguyen.


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Today's world 95% of all businesses, shops why even government organization is completely computerized due to this the consumer/customer/client behavior changes according to. CRM plays an important role on all aspects of business, which is related to customer/client interaction and providing, support for a service or sales.
Goals of CRM
CRM ( Customer Relationship Management) is a system which comprises of business strategies, goals of an enterprise and business processes. In simple terms, it can be explained as a business strategy for supporting customers/clients well. To accomplish customer satisfaction, it is very necessary to understand your customers based on their purchasing behavior, demographics and in depth understanding of the customer behavior.
CRM goals are to increase customer satisfaction through good interaction methods caring each customer and to increase the revenue of the company through customer satisfaction.
Different Types of approaches in CRM
Outsource your CRM
There are many providers who are really expert in providing CRM solutions in a web based manner for your business. This kind of approach will be very suitable for your company, if you don't have the infrastructure or necessary skills to manage your client/customer queries.
Customized CRM solutions
To implement CRM in your business you need to customize the CRM solution to your need and tweak it according to your requirements, and also you need to align your CRM according to your software, which is very essential to remember. However, the cost of it will be very high, but I suggest it is worth doing it.
Managed CRM solutions
You either make it according to your requirement or buy it. You can search about Managed CRM, there are many of the website companies offering customized Managed CRM solutions. You can just browse and get a reputed good Managed CRM solution.
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Well, after more than 40 pitches and nearly 200 comments, here's our winner of the second annual GeekWire/Founder Institute pitch competition: Portals.
As a result of the win, the Seattle startup earns a chance for a full scholarship for the Founder Institute's fall semester entrepreneurial mentorship program, which begins this week. It also qualifies for a spot in the GeekWire's Elevator Pitch Meetup, taking place October 23rd at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle.
Here's the full pitch from the startup:
Portals is an online HTML5 application and website builder that allows businesses and consumers with no programming experience to easily create an online presence that is automatically optimized for every device, including desktops, smartphones, and tablets.
- The pitch: either original, or modified based on feedback
- Big idea/Big market
- Uniqueness of the idea
- Viability
My company, OkCopay, is developing a website that helps people who pay out-of-pocket for medical care find the right doctor at the right price, by allowing them to view often hidden and inconsistent pricing information, compare local health providers, and uncover deals.
A SafeWayHOME is the world's first 24 hour designated driver mobile application that provides users with 3 designated drivers, and a 24 hour taxi service that is available anywhere in North America.
QThru is a mobile shopping platform that helps retailers get customers to the front of the line by allowing them shop, scan, get deals, and then checkout with a smartphone app.
PatentCloud is a Bigdata Platform that helps lawyers and anyone interested in patents to detect trends and mine anomalies on active and abandoned patents using custom dashboards, analytics and reporting.
Want to see some other great startups pitch their wares? Make sure to sign up today for the GeekWire Meetup where a handful of startups will get the chance to pitch their ideas to Zillow co-founder Rich Barton; GeekWire chairman Jonathan Sposato and Ontela/Sparkbuy founder Dan Shapiro.
Thanks to everyone for participating.
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