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Quick Facts
What's New
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MX Player offer features like hardware acceleration, which can be applied to more videos with the help of a new H/W decoder. You also have multi-core decoding which test results prove performance boost up to 70% better in dual-core than single-core devices.
Pinch to zoom, zoom and pan. Subtitle gestures: scroll forward/backward to move to next/previous text, up/down to move text up and down, zoom in/out to change text size. Kids Lock, allows you to keep your kids entertained without having to worry that they can make calls or touch other apps (plugin required).
- Plays almost every movie files including .3gp .avi .divx .f4v .flv .mkv .mp4 .mpeg .mov .vob .wmv .webm .xvid and many more.
- Hardware decoding (with h/w+ decoder)
- Better hi10p support.
- Processor optimization
- High speed rendering for ARM NEON compliant processors.
- Provides processor specific Codecs including Tegra 2 processor.
- Audio track can be changed dynamically.
- Quickly change decoding mode - Click S/W or H/W button on the screen while playing to change decoding mode seamlessly.
- Network stream playback.
- Move forward/backward (Optional)
- Aspect ratio selection.
- Deinterlacing (S/W decoder only)
- Previews while seeking.
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Space: Resume / Pause
- DPAD Left / Right: Seek backward / forward
- Menu shortcuts
- Toggle between elapsed time and remaining time - touch elapsed time text on the video control panel.
- Background play - Long press play button.
- Selectively disable HTTP/HTTPS video link handling - To prevent unwanted video play when a video link is clicked on a web browser.
- Easy User Interface
- Folder List - Lists only folders that contain movie files, instead of all folders.
- Tags - Draws subtitle tag if a movie contains subtitle track or has associated subtitle file. and 'new' tag for recently copied file.
- Display the last watched movie and finished movies in different color.
- Maintains resume position for every movies.
- Display cover arts.
- File Management
- High speed SD Card scan - it can scan entire SD card in a few second.
- File and folder editing.
- Movie search
- Multiple themes
- Supported Subtitle Formats
- DVD, DVB, SSA/ASS Subtitle Tracks. (However, subtitle scrolling will be limited.)
- SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass) with full styling.
- SAMI(.smi) with ruby tag support.
- SubRip(.srt)
- MicroDVD(.sub/.txt)
- VobSub(.sub/.idx)
- SubViewer2.0(.sub)
- MPL2(.mpl/.txt)
- PowerDivX(.psb/.txt)
- TMPlayer(.txt)
- Teletext
- PJS(.pjs)
- WebVTT(.vtt)
- Multi-subtitle support
- Can read and display multiple subtitle files simultaneously.
- Subtitle Gesture
- Scroll forward/backward - Move between subtitle texts and change video playback position quickly.
- Up/down - Move subtitle texts up and down to move text up and down.
- Zoom in/out - Change text size & scale. (Scale is only for ssa and image subtitles)
- mx videoplayer subtitle scrolling
- Clear Text
- Increased subtitle readability with ticker border and shadow.
- Typical video player
- subtitle compare other
- MX Player
- Supports text styling and coloring script.
- Supports user fonts of TTF and OTF format.
- Sync adjustment.
- Fade out effect - Makes texts to disappear smoothly.
- Optional Italic styling for lines starting with "/" (slash).
- (Android 4.0 and later) H/W Acceleration - Improve drawing speed of text subtitles (except SSA)
- Gestures
- Pinch to zoom and/or pan(optional).
- Drag Horizontally - Change playback position.
- Drag Vertically on right half of the screen - Sound volume control.
- Drag Vertically on left half of the screen - Brightness control. (On some devices, system's auto brightness control should be turned off to use this function.)
- Double tap - Play/Pause toggle. (optional)
- Screen Settings
- Adjust screen and subtitle display settings without leaving the video playback screen.
- Optionally display current time and battery status.
- Video zoom - Long press zoom button.
- Lock target selection - Long press lock button.
- Shuffle / Loops - Long press next button.
- Kids Lock
- Makes unlocking difficult to prevent kids from making calls or starting other apps.
- Colorful and animating shapes appears responding to screen touch. (optional)
- Touch 4 corners clockwise to unlock screen.
- Can be selected in Settings > Player > Touch controls > Lock mode > Kids lock (+touch effects)
- Supports Samsung Multiwindow.
- Volume boost (200%)
What's New:
- Offline sharing now Available in Edit mode
- Use System Brigthness controls while using PIP
- FAB & Playback Indicators (folder level) work erll with Background Play
- Filename (MX Share) & Notch Screen (lock Mode) issues fixed
India users:
- We are excited to introduce MX Games - take part in tournaments and track achievements
- Add Songs to Queue in Music section and Share with friends
- Also introducing News powered by NewsPoint
- Stay updated with breaking news powered by from 1000+ most-read newspapers
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Plex organizes all of your video, music, and photo collections, no matter where you keep them, and lets you enjoy them on all of your screens.
- Freeware
- Android
VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.
- Freeware
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Get ready, friends –Thanksgiving is almost here.
Soon, turkeys will be roasting, pies will be baking and there will be enough dinner rolls to fill an amusement park-style ball pit. Green bean casserole will come out of hiding as will cranberry sauce, and the pièce de résistance (in this humble blogger's opinion) of the meal – the heavenly substance known as stuffing.
There's a lot of work that goes into fixing the family favorites and traditional Thanksgiving treats. But, as with any meal, food safety is critically important. Thanksgiving memories shouldn't include that one time when Aunt Petunia got everyone sick by washing the raw turkey next to the pumpkin pie. Here are some tips and tricks to help avoid any feast-ruining foodborne illness.
- For the love of Thanksgiving, don't wash the turkey. According to a study cited by USA Today, washing raw poultry in the sink can fling bacteria up to three feet. Think about what is within three feet of the sink – prepared foods, other ingredients, high traffic surfaces.
- While we're talking turkey, ensure the bird is cooked to 165°F (yes, that means using a thermometer. Color alone isn't a good indicator that the bird is cooked to a safe temperature).
- Avoid cross-contamination (e.g., using the same utensils, cutting boards, etc. for raw meat as is used for other items, especially items that won't be cooked). Ensure these items are properly washed before changing up food items.
- Thawing a turkey? Place it in the fridge (40°F is a safe temperature). It takes about one day for every 5 lbs. of turkey. Once it's thawed, it's safe for roughly two more days in the fridge, according to Foodsafety.gov.
- Food should not be left out for more than 2 hours (1 hour for temperatures higher than 90°F).
- Clean kitchen work surfaces, especially if exposed to raw meat and egg.
- Hold off on licking the spoon. Sure, dessert batter or dough may be delicious but if it contains egg it may also harbor pathogens such as Salmonella. (For food safety tips on baking and pies, click here.)
From all of us at Neogen, have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!
For more turkey and Thanksgiving safety tips, check out the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection website here.
For some Thanksgiving trivia, check out this article from Yahoo. Quick quiz: how many calories does the average person consumed during a Thanksgiving meal? Answer: Roughly 3,000 – 5,000.
Need some last minute recipes or inspiration? Check out these ideas from Food Network.

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text: Bananas are a great food to provide nutrients and give you those carbs you need as a runner both before the workout and during recovery. But, this fruit can also help to satisfy you when you are poking around the house for something sweet. Last night my wife made something she calls banana cream, which is made from frozen bananas that are blended until smooth. She puts some chopped dates on the top of it […] Read more »


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Captains Take on the open
Congratulations to Carl Ford and Jimmy Dolman on winning the Men's Pairs Open 61 net. I had the pleasure of marking the winning card and handing over the £5 wager. Apologies to my partner Bob Hatton on my poor play, we finished with a 69 net. There were some great scores in windy conditions and the greens were tricky and running fast, thanks to Alan and all his staff on the condition of the cours...e. Many thanks to all the volunteers on the day , Bob Waters, Richard Thomas and Ian Cartwright for manning the desk and Joy Thomas and Robert Pointer and staff for their hospitality. Thanks to Phil Challis on another well organised event... 1st Carl Ford & Jimmy Dolman 61 Back 30 2nd Gaz Burrows & Pete Gilliver 61 Back 31 3rd Tibby Evans & Ray Evans 61 Back 33 4th Gary King & Mark Capewell 63 5th John Rawlings & Martin McCracken 64 back 31 6th Malc Cannon & Frank Morewood 64 back 33 Best Gross : Oliver Tomkinson & Ian Wiffy Smith Nearest the pin 6th Phil Shackleton Nearest the pin 16th Danny Keyte Longest drive 17th Danny Keyte


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August 21
N.C. State is traveling to the moon.
Or, rather, its designs are.
Graduate and undergraduate students and two professors are working with Team Stellar, a team of electrical, computer and aerospace engineers, to produce a rover that will land on the moon.
They are doing so through the Google Lunar X Prize, which is awarding $30 million to the winning team, of which there are 14.
The rover must land on the moon, travel 500 meters, and send high-definition video, a text message and an e-mail back to Earth.
There's only one snag in the project: funding.
Team Stellar still needs to raise $200,000 -- counting money, sponsorship and in-kind donations -- to keep the project going, according to Dick Dell, a member of the team and executive director of the Advanced Vehicle Research Center. The AVRC also worked on the self-navigating DARPA vehicle.
"The biggest challenge to the challenge is bringing the funding," Dell said, adding that outside resources must cover the cost of the project, which he predicted to lie in the $50 to $100 million range. "We have the technology, and we have the people there at N.C. State that can do it."
The rules
The high-definition video must stream everything from the rover's landing on the moon to its travel, according to Gordon Jeans, a member of Team Stellar and a senior in computer engineering.
According to Google's rules for the X-Prize challenge, the rover must complete a set of tasks, two of which include sending an e-mail and text message to Earth from the moon.
"That's kind of tongue-in-cheek for me," Jeans said, adding that Google will be the first to send such information back from the moon.
But before they even get to the moon, the team has got some work to do.
The team
The main team is composed of seven men, each of whom has a distinct role in ensuring that each aspect of the rover -- from what wheels to use to what technology will help transmit a text message -- is completed in time for the launch.
Andre Mazzoleni, a professor of engineering who works with the rover's engineering and design aspects, joined Team Stellar last spring.
Dell, he said, had found him through the work he was doing with the N.C. Space Grant. Since Mazzoleni was involved with NASA projects and rover design, he was a prime candidate for the position.
The team then looked toward Jeans.
"They wanted students who knew other students to get together people to work on the project," he said. "I didn't actually know about it until they approached me that summer."
Jeans, who worked with tanks during a 10-year stint in the army, said he knows about making vehicles that can stand conditions of extreme cold, heat and darkness -- conditions that the moon cycles through during every rotation.
Jeans also worked with Lego robotics, and Dell happened to be sitting through Jeans' presentation on that subject.
When the two met after the presentation, "one conversation led to another and we found out that we were both in love with space."
It's this knowledge about computers and engineering -- an education he got through both classes and experience with the army -- as well as a background in outer space exploration that he adds to the team.
Jeans submitted one of the initial designs for the rover. It was a simple design, he said, but would be able to navigate the surface of the moon. Its materials, he said, have to be chosen carefully.
"You have to use materials that can survive in those conditions," he said. "For example, silicone works great in heat but shatters in the cold. You have to have it operate on solar power and batteries, because batteries don't work well in the cold and you have a fixed amount of power."
Although Team Stellar is based primarily in Raleigh and on campus, there are people across the eastern states who are helping to move the project along.
The rover
Jeans' designs are not the only ones that have been submitted. Graduate students have been working over the summer to complete a functional design for the rover.
Undergraduates, many of whom have not been working on the project during the summer, will start their design this fall.
The team is focusing on the structural aspects.
"We're looking at multiple designs right now, and then we'll select the one that will end up working the best," Mazzoleni said. "The one the graduate students are working on is a little bit more mature. They've already focused in on a particular design."
This design is one in which the wheels can move independently, which, he said, should help it climb over rocks and maneuver around obstacles.
The students, including Jeans, will design and build several prototypes. Graduate students will build their prototype this semester and start testing it. Undergraduate students will work through next semester.
But the final product, which will use better, more durable and more costly material, won't be ready until the end of the upcoming spring semester. The working design must stand extreme heat and cold.
"It's a team effort," Mazzoleni said. "The ultimate rover might act be a combination of what Gordon's working on and what the graduate students are working on and what the undergraduate students are working on. We're going to learn from each of the prototypes and, from that, decide what goes in to the final version.
It's not like there's a winner."
The challenge
So the team has the resources and the support -- at a public meeting on Centennial campus Monday night, more than 200 people showed up to learn about and volunteer for the project.
At this point, it's the funding that is proving difficult to come by.
As per Google's rules for the X prize, only 10 percent of the team's funding can come from public funds. This rule, Jeans said, will ensure that the teams cut excess spending and only produce what is necessary to send a rover to the moon. Jeans also said it would encourage private companies to sponsor space travel to the moon, which he said will be the "next Antarctica," a place where researchers from many countries will do research and tests. No single entity will have ownership over it.
And although the team has no plans of stopping mid-project, it still must find funding from somewhere -- $200,000 of it. This funding can come in the form of donations, both monetary and of equipment like computers, and private sponsorship.
"All the teams are facing the same challenges," Dell said. "Only one of two of the teams have major funding. The rest of us haven't found a major sponsor yet."
Corporate sponsorship will make going to the moon easier, more cost efficient and more likely. Google's lists this as one of its goals, according to the Lunar X Prize Web site. A quicker and less costly ride to space will push companies to take an interest in space and the potentials it has for aiding some of Earth's energy crises.
The future
This project is not only a place to "put N.C. State on the map," as Jeans said, but also a place for practical application of in-class lectures.
"This is a perfect project to teach the process of engineering design because, in engineering design, you end up using a combination of learning all the scientific and engineering principles along with trying to use what you've learned in the classroom to create something new," Mazzoleni said.
"This is one more application of something in the department that students were very interested in and invested with."


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I've played around with mechanisms for spell retention many times since I first began playing AD&D a long time ago; my first attempts were very clumsy, and later I developed a system of spell points which was ridiculously complicated and required me to rewrite and modify almost every spell. Needless to say, they were all tossed out eventually.
This system is, to me, far more elegant and also a bit more chaotic, which I think fits the Old School feel much better. It is a deceptively risky system, utilized rarely by my players since they've gotten to know it more closely; the minor damage suffered can be devastating for a lower-level wizard, and at higher level the risks increase drastically.
The fact that the entire rule can fit on one page, and that I've playtested it with good results for a while, means I wanted to share it here.
You can find the Weird Magic rules in this document or in the Library.


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This article contains NO SPOILERS for Thor: Ragnarok that aren't in the SDCC trailer.
Kevin Feige has revealed what he believes is the biggest Easter egg in Thor: Ragnarok - and director Taika Waititi has thrown his own thoughts into the ring. Right from when a mock-up of Captain America's shield turned up in Tony's lab in Iron Man, background references have been an essential part of every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, with clues to the future and nods to the comics aplenty.
Thor: Ragnarok comes at a pivotal time for the MCU. The mega-culmination event Avengers: Infinity War is less than a year away, and the God of Thunder is leaving the glistening home of Asgard for more overtly sci-fi lands like Sakaar. There's a lot of room for cool Easter eggs, and now Kevin Feige's said what his favorites are.
Related: Why Marvel Put Planet Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok
Speaking at the Thor: Ragnarok junket press conference where Screen Rant was in attendance, the super producer said that the biggest Easter eggs in the film are the heads of previous gladiatorial champions on the side of the Grandmaster's Sakaar palace:
"There might be some things in the trash piles. I mean, the biggest - the biggest Easter eggs are on the side of the Sakaran Palace - right, Taika? There are - there are previous Grandmaster champions that we see, as one for Hulk is being constructed, and those are all sort of Easter eggs for the deeper comic universe - that may or may not ever show up in the cinematic universe, but we thought it'd be fun to celebrate."
Feige doesn't say explicitly what these Easter eggs are of, but as this building is seen in the marketing (it's the opening shot of the official trailer), fans have already done the digging. These heads have been concluded to be of Beta Ray Bill (top left), Ares (top right), Bi-Beast (bottom right) and Man-Thing (top). The bottom left and bottom heads are still debated (although some believe the latter is Fin Fang Foom). While this isn't any of those characters appearing proper, it does confirm they exist in the universe (or did at some point). Whether they'll turn up in future MCU movies Feige is coy about, likely because the Cosmic future after Phase 3 is still being mapped out.
Related: Australian TV Host Totally Spoils Thor: Ragnarok Reveal
After Feige's answer, Taika Waititi jumped into detail his own, literal Easter egg:
"And in the trash pile, there is one Easter egg, an actual egg. If you were in - yeah, I mean, it's - it's one of the small ones - well, it's one of the tiny little chocolate ones, and it's the wide shot."
The director is most likely joking - he's not one to avoid trolling the press in a conference - although his commitment to the bit is sure to have fans scouring the film's wide shots of Sakaar to find any chocolatey clues.
Of course, while Feige singles out the busts as his biggest Easter egg (and Waititi a Mini Egg), both of these are spoiler-lite and already known by many. It will be interesting to see what other secrets emerge once Thor: Ragnarok is on general release in a couple of weeks.


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We talked to Brennie Conkle, VP of Customer Strategy at Invoca, about how to contact centers can use data to put the customer first. You can watch the interview and read the transcript below.
What do you think is the biggest thing financial institutions are overlooking?
I think the biggest thing quite frankly is just putting the customer at the center of everything. Having worked at larger banks and as scale starts to happen, we start to focus on what technologies we need to get. How do we make that work together? And we start to get away from how do we put the customer at the center and make this an experience that works for them.
What does Invoca do for financial institutions?
Invoca is a call intelligence company, and we basically connect phone calls the way that Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics connects your clicks. So once a customer comes to your website and typically they would go through your website and get to an application, it's the same thing we do.
If they drop off that application and instead make that phone call, we follow that customer through, all the way through that phone call. All the way to completion, so that we can then give you that data.
So not only things like call duration, where that phone call came from (i.e. channel), so was it a paid search click, was it a banner ad, was it an actual search, what page they came from. But also things like what keywords were they using, did they come through a paid search ad and then they were telling you things like "yes, I'm interested in a mortgage, I'm new to the area, I haven't picked a lender yet, I don't even have a checking account set up here in the state, I need some help."
Then you can use that information to help retarget that customer and help to really use that information there's analytics to really cross-sell that customer in a much more rich way.
It basically uses the same kind of analytic data points that you would use with clicks, and uses the more holistic data points. So it enables you to use that not only for say cross-sell opportunities, but also in your optimization. Most of the time, actually all of the time, unless you're using a platform like Invoca, you're missing out on your optimization.
You're only optimizing for your paid search keywords that you're getting through clicks, and Google Adwords and Bing and possibly Yahoo. But you're missing all those rich phone calls, and you're not able to discern which are quality calls and which are not quality calls for you.
What's an example of when you've seen this work well?
I actually came to Invoca because I used to work at Suntrust, and one of the great things we did I thought we started looking at new vendors for paid search, and they were like what are you doing with all these phone calls? Especially for mortgage.
We had a huge number of phone calls that were driving to mortgage, and we knew they were going to the mortgage, we had unique phone numbers for each landing page, but I didn't know which were sales, which ones were service.And that was kind of the basic use case. Let's figure out which ones are sales and which ones are service first, and then once we learned which ones were sales and which ones were service we started to look at which ones are coming from which keywords.
And once we got that, we were like okay which ones are quality calls and which ones aren't quality calls. And we started looking at just applications, which ones were getting us applications and which ones are not.
Once you can kind of get those metrics and then you look at, do you want to look at booked loans. Which keywords are getting us booked loans? Which are not? Adding that to your mix the same way you would if you were looking at paid clicks coming through your website.
So the same way you want to optimize that, you would want to optimize your phone calls.
What's new for Invoca?
One of the things we are working on right now is refining our signal product and working with automating, everyone is working with artificial intelligence today.
So it's a big word, and everybody is kind of asking what is that. But we're using it in a way, especially with financial institutions today to look at a refined set of keywords, say for mortgage and be able to say this indicates a closed loan, and start to really learn about and compound on those keywords that we're listening for.
Say okay these indicate certain things within a call that this is happening. These are outcomes that are happening. So that's one of the things that we're really starting to look more into.
We work with IBM Watson on that to really make sure we are getting those outcomes in more real time back to our customers so they can really understand what's going on in the call and get those insights back into the tool so that they can then use it for segmentation and personalization in their other marketing tactics.


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By Eric Huebner
Nothing matches the Detroit Auto Show in terms of size, grandeur and pure, awe-inspiring spectacle. Officially known as the North American International Auto Show, Detroit is the granddaddy of them all and this year we saw several automakers attempt to push the bounds of performance and luxury further than ever. Here are five of our favorites:
Acura NSX
The original NSX broke the performance-car mold without an Italian pedigree or German engineering. It showed that all you needed was an uncompromising dedication to great engineering and functional design. The new model promises much of the same.
The 2016 Acura NSX is being billed as a Ferrari 458-killer though hard performance numbers aren't available yet. The gearbox will be a dual-clutch nine-speed that delivers power from the mid-mounted twin-turbo V6 hybrid power plant.Acura's target price is roughly in the $150,000 range. If this car truly turns out to be a legitimate rival to the 458, it's a bargain.
Ford GT
Another update to a beloved automotive classic was unveiled last week: the Ford GT. Unlike the NSX, barely a whisper outside of edge-of-the-Internet rumors have circulated but just like that, the GT is back. Part car, part myth, the GT was famously born from the bitter resentment held by Henry Ford towards Ferrari owner Enzo Ferrari. After killing a deal in the eleventh hour that would have seen Ferrari sold to the American Ford, a team of engineers was assembled with one goal in mind: beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
Ford's GT40 won at Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969.
The new GT will be powered by a 600-horsepower twin-turbo V6 (technically an EcoBoost) that's mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. The styling is provocative and unusual, the large wind scoops that run the length of the car and exit behind the engine, conveniently mounted in the center of the car. The dash is fully digital and completely customizable, and the steering and pedals mimic those of an F1 car. How fast will it be? We don't quite know yet, but we do know that when it goes into production next year, there will be a long waiting list to get behind the wheel.
Ford Shelby GT350R Mustang
It's something of a shame that the GT350R has been upstaged by the GT, because the latest Shelby Mustang really is quite something. For the uninitiated, Shelby Mustangs are best described as weapons, tools of destruction, track-devouring monsters with the sole purpose of leaving everything and anyone in its dust.
Shelby's latest track demon gets its power from an enormous 5.2-liter, 500-horsepower V8. It boasts a modified aerodynamic profile, designed to reduce what little drag the car had and a new, hardcore chassis, intended to further stiffen the suspension and make the car even more nimble in the corners. Ford also shaved off about 130 pounds from the basic GT350 by removing things like the air conditioning, trunk lining and a few seats.
It's the latest in a long line of purpose-built racers, evolved from one of America's most iconic cars. What's not to love?
Cadillac CTS-V
Aimed straight at the heart of its German competition, this powerful American sedan is looking to serve on the frontlines of the American Reconquista of the luxury market. And in what has become the tradition of the new Cadillac, the CTS-V swings for the fences.
This refresh packs a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 that boasts a stratospheric 640 horsepower and 630 pound-feet of torque. By way of comparison, that's more than the Lamborghini Huracán. In a sedan.
The CTS-V possesses almost more than 100 horsepower more than its closest rivals from BMW and Mercedes-Benz. It will sprint from 0-60 in a scant 3.7 seconds, thanks to a brand-new launch control system and a beefy eight-speed automatic transmission. Years of track testing have informed chassis upgrades, structural improvements and the installation of a new braking system. The interior of the car continues Cadillac's high luxury aesthetic. No pricing information is available yet, although sales numbers will be interesting to track as the Americans strike the latest blow in the automotive war against the German luxury market.
Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion Concept
Luxurious, driverless, and autonomous: simply put, this is the future of motoring. Will this take the joy out of driving? Yes, though being driven is better than ever. The oblong sedan's four doors open to reveal pivoting bucket seats and an interior resplendent with wood, glass and touchscreens that amount to less of a backseat and more of a modernist living room. This type of luxury though is quickly becoming limitless. What's really important with the F 015 is that automakers are starting to invest in the R&D that up until now have largely been shouldered by tech giants like Google. Automakers are finally making the cars of the future.
Honorable Mention:
Buick Avenir Concept
This isn't what Buicks look like. This is what Italian Renaissance sculpture looks like. Buick's new flagship luxury prototype has consistently blown away onlookers and is set to continue to do so. If this car is indicative of Buick's future design language, this classic American brand's resurgence could grow on an exponential scale.


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Both consultations and Users must be assigned to a Department when they are set up. Therefore, Departments must be added to your Citizen Space before you can create consultations. Departments can only be created and edited by Site Administrators.
Adding Departments
Step 1
To add a Department, click on the Departments link in the administrator's 'Manage' bar, and select Add Department:
Step 2
On the next screen, enter the Department name and a description:
Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have added all of your Departments.
Editing Departments
You can also edit the Department title and Description here, however it's worth knowing that this will not change how the Department/Team name appears in the URL of any consultations in that Department, this is so as not to break any in-progress responses. For that reason, please do ensure you enter your Department/Team names correctly.
From the same page, you can export a list of all your Departments to an .xlsx file, should you need to review or share them with someone outside of your Citizen Space administrative team.
Important note: consultations are owned by Departments. Therefore, if the User who created a consultation moves to a new Department or leaves the organisation, their consultations must be re-assigned to other Users within the originating Department.
Note: If you are looking to review your department structure please contact your Delib Account Manager who will be able to help advise on this.
Related articles:
Moving a consultation's department
Suspending and deleting departments
Why can't I find my consultation(s)?


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When I Came Home is a documentary film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight to receive their benefits from the Veterans Administration.
Through the story of Herold Noel, a homeless Iraq war veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living out of his car in Brooklyn, the film reveals a failing system and the veteran's struggle to survive after returning from the war. When I Came Home follows Herold's battle with homelessness and PTSD as he tries to get help from the VA, city agencies, and various veterans organizations.
With temperatures dropping in New York, Herold meets fellow vet Paul Rieckhoff, founder of the country's largest Iraq veteran advocacy organization. What follows is a media blitz that transforms the young, homeless veteran into the leader of a new movement.


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Aberdeen UK Property announces promotions
Aberdeen Asset Management's property division has announced the promotion of Simon Moscow to become head of Asset Management for the UK and Stephen Walker to deputy head of Asset Management for the UK.
This follows the departure of Giles Easter, the current head of Asset Management, who plans to pursue interests elsewhere in the industry.
In their new roles, Moscow and Walker will lead the team in developing the firm's UK property business, cementing Aberdeen's position as one of the largest British property asset managers. Moscow will oversee the team's asset allocations for the firm's UK property business. Walker will support Moscow in his new position while continuing in his role heading up the Edinburgh team.
Simon Moscow and Stephen Walker have worked for Aberdeen since 2008 and will continue to bring to bear their considerable experience at the firm in their new roles. In his previous role as Head of Retail Asset Management in the UK, Simon has been responsible for a Specialist Retail Parks vehicle and has also overseen the asset performance of retail assets on behalf of a number of AAM clients.
He has over 15 years' experience in the UK retail market and has worked in an investment agency, asset and fund management. Prior to joining Aberdeen, Simon was an Investment Director at PRUPIM and was responsible for an out of town retail portfolio.
Stephen Walker is currently head of Edinburgh Asset Management for the UK property team. He has wide-ranging investment and strategic asset management experience gained in both private practice and client side positions, including roles at Ryden, Lloyds TSB Bank and a secondment to the Royal Mail.
Tonny Nielsen, head of Asset Management and Transactions, Property, commented: "Our UK property business is one the largest in our peer group so it's essential that we have the right people leading it. I am grateful to Giles for his work over the past few years and wish him well for the future. Simon and Stephen bring nearly 30 years of experience to their roles and I am confident they will continue to grow the business in the years to come. It is a mark of the firm's ability to foster the best talent that we have been able to recruit these positions from within the business."


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Care-for-Rare's funding is divided into five main areas:
Care-for-Rare Alliance
The Care-for-Rare Alliance is made up of a growing network of doctors and research scientists, who work together across national borders in order to gain an understanding of the causes of rare diseases and to develop new treatments. Designated members of the Care-for-Rare Alliance are able to establish Care-for-Rare centres. These Care-for-Rare centres can then, in a united worldwide mission, all share the burden of giving children with rare diseases the appropriate care, so that, in the future, no child need die from his or her disease.
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Care-for-Rare Aid
Thanks to funding from Care-for-Rare it is possible to support individual children with rare diseases as well as their families. The charity wishes to convey the message that no child with a rare disease should be sentenced to suffering or even an early death. Every child should, regardless of their nationality or ethnic background and their family's financial means, have access to the best possible medical care.
Care-for-Rare Awareness
It is the job of the Care-for-Rare Awareness programmes to make an important contribution towards ensuring that children with rare diseases are able to gain quicker access to competent, individualised care and that long treks from doctor to doctor become a thing of the past. Another aim is to inform, not only doctors, but also the public at large, about the special needs and difficulties related to delayed diagnoses and a lack of available treatments.
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Gavin Thomas introduces the work of Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997).
For all the modern world's obsession with technology, Conlon Nancarrow remains the only classical composer to have established a lasting reputation on the basis of music written almost entirely for a machine.
Not only does his remarkable sequence of player-piano studies prove that it's possible to do without human performers entirely, they also offer a compelling exploration of the myriad new structures and sonorities obtainable through mechanical means.
Born in 1912 to a respectable family of Arkansas worthies, Nancarrow spent a wayward youth learning trumpet, developing a passion for jazz and determining to become a musician.
In 1934, braving parental displeasure, he trooped off to Boston to study composition with arch-academics
Roger Sessions
Walter Piston
, an experience which seems to have borne little immediate fruit, although he would later emphasize the value of Sessions' obsessive contrapuntal training.
In Boston, Nancarrow also joined the Communist Party, and in 1937 went to Spain, fighting for two years in the Civil War as a foot soldier with the Republican forces.
In 1940, having been denied a passport by a US government suspicious of his Communist past, Nancarrow decided to leave the increasingly repressive political climate of the States for Mexico City, where he lived for the remaining 58 years of his life, acquiring Mexican citizenship in 1956.
The immediate effect of Nancarrow's move to Mexico was less than propitious. Already politically ostracized, he now found himself almost entirely cut off from US musical life and the chance to have his increasingly challenging music performed.
Making a virtue of necessity, in 1947 Nancarrow acquired a player-piano, or pianola – a mechanical piano operated by a roll of punched paper – on which he could "perform" his own music.
The player-piano's ability to execute any sequence of notes – no matter how fast or rhythmically complex – also allowed Nancarrow to explore the arcane rhythmic structures which became the basis of his mature music, and whose difficulties would have defeated even the best performers of the time.
The following quarter century was one of extreme musical isolation, as Nancarrow laboured on the immense series of
Studies for Player Piano
which form the bulk of his output.
The first step towards recognition was the 1969 Columbia recording of twelve of the studies, but it wasn't until 1977, and the first part-publication of the studies, followed by further recordings, that Nancarrow's work began to be widely known.
In 1981, in the wake of his burgeoning reputation, he returned to the US for the first time since 1947 – though subsequent enquiries about the possibility of his going back to live in his home country were stymied by the bluestocking attitudes of American officialdom.
More positively, Nancarrow also found a new generation of virtuoso performers rising to the challenge of his music:
Yvar Mikhashoff
's pioneering orchestrations of selected piano-player studies were brilliantly realized and recorded by the Ensemble Modern, whilst the wizardry of performers such as pianist
Ursula Oppens
and the
Arditti String Quartet
persuaded Nancarrow to return to writing for live performers after a gap of some forty years.
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This is what I openly say to not only my customers but also to NRCS engineers and other interested parties: 'I believe that the GroPoint sensor provides the best value to my customer because of its accuracy, reliability and the fact that it requires no additional maintenance or calibration once installed.'
The instrument receives a fair amount of 'abuse', being carted over logging slash, through salmonberry and other brush vegetation and has been used in the rain. However, it has been rugged and reliable. The measurements generated are believable and repeatable and nicely relate to patterns of precipitation occurring at the site.
The alternative to [the GroPoint Profile] is trenching with horizontal insertion of numerous (short) probes. The effort of trenching alone is a deterrent, and the disturbance of soil and root systems is yet more of a deterrent. I find it difficult to fathom why a researcher would use this alternative.
I have used GroPoint sensors and data loggers to schedule deficit irrigation over thousands of acres of premium wine grapes since 1999. The data on soil moisture status has proved accurate and consistent during and between seasons. Importantly, running a network of 80+ sensors over this time, I have had only 2 sensors and one logger fail from non-mechanical causes. I also have a network of [competitive] loggers/sensors, which demonstrated a 15-25% failure rate in the first 2 seasons.
We innovate to deliver more value from our sensors
Introducing the GroPoint Profile
TDT5: GroPoint's patented technique for soil moisture measurement
GroPoint™ sensors utilize the field-proven Time Domain Transmission (TDT) method of reliably measuring soil moisture, which is a refined version of the Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) technique. TDT-based sensors do not need to be calibrated to each type of soil they will be buried in.
Our proprietary TDT5 technology further enhances TDT in five key ways:
- Measures with a patented antenna woven into the full length of the internal circuitry – reduces the impact of noise to achieve a high accuracy and averages measurements across the entire length of the probe
- Averages 400,000 samples for each measurement – boosts accuracy to ±1% and repeatability to < 0.2%
- Captures measurement in less than 100ms – reduces power consumption
- Embeds antenna and circuitry on a single board – dramatically reduces cost to manufacture
- Encases entire sensor in a durable, sealed engineered resin housing – maximizes durability
The GroPoint Profile represents true innovation, with a design that allows for multiple simultaneous moisture readings at different depths with a single probe. It's also the only probe of its kind that averages readings across each segment and does not require augured holes or installation of access tubes. Its low price point allows multiple sensors to remain permanently installed for ongoing soil profile monitoring.
The GroPoint Profile represents true innovation, with a design that allows for multiple simultaneous moisture readings at different depths with a single probe. It's also the only probe of its kind that averages readings across each segment and does not require augured holes or installation of access tubes. Its low price point allows multiple sensors to remain permanently installed for ongoing soil profile monitoring.
The Patented GroPoint Antenna
The antenna design is another key to producing robust sensors with such high accuracy at such a low price. Our patented design weaves the antenna through the circuit board 20 times per centimetre, and much like a coiled spring the effective length of the antenna is 5 times the physical length it consumes. A larger antenna increases the resolution of each sample, allowing more noise to be filtered out, and ultimately increasing the accuracy and the precision of measurements. GroPoint sensors based on this technology deliver scientific-grade measurement for less than the price of most competing probes.


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Oracle shuts down Oracle VDI, Sun Rays, and lays off most of the desktop virt. staff worldwide
Over the weekend, ZDnet broke news that Oracle would be announcing the discontinuation of new development Oracle VDI, and, perhaps even more importantly, Sun Ray software and hardware.
Over the weekend, ZDnet broke news that Oracle would be announcing the discontinuation of new development Oracle VDI, and, perhaps even more importantly, Sun Ray software and hardware. Frankly, I keep checking the calendar, expecting this to be "screw with the heads of IT writers" day or something, but I also received an email from Oracle PR stating:
In an effort to more tightly align Oracle's future desktop virtualization portfolio investments with Oracle Corporation's overall core business strategy, we have ended new feature development for Oracle Sun Ray Software (SRS), Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software (VDI), Oracle Virtual Desktop Client (OVDC) Software, and Oracle Sun Ray Client hardware (3, 3i, and 3 Plus). Customer support and the renewal of support contracts for these products will continue uninterrupted. Customers can continue to purchase new licenses. Exact timeframes for a last order date for Oracle Sun Ray client devices will be announced shortly.
Going forward, Oracle's desktop portfolio investments will be focused on continued development and new enhancements to both Oracle Secure Global Desktop and Oracle VM VirtualBox software.
What they didn't say is that in addition to discontinuing the software, they also let go the majority of employees focused on the technology. While I haven't seen this information in any official channels, multiple sources have confirmed that there have been extensive layoffs worldwide as a result of this decision. The only people that remain are a skeleton crew that are simply there to ride out the support obligations and Sun Ray inventory.
When picking a VDI solution, "will this product still be around in 3 years" only comes to mind for smaller companies that only recently crept on to the radar. I feel bad for Oracle customers that bought into the stack, only to find out that all of it is essentially a relic now. I mean, part of the reason people buy an Oracle solution is because it's from Oracle.
Regardless, the pool of talent floating around Silicon Valley is huge now. Every engineer I've ever interacted with at Oracle has been amazingly technical (one could argue that you'd have to be to use the product). Complexity, however, doesn't mean it's a bad product, it just means that to get all the features that the Oracle VDI / VirtualBox / Sun Ray stack offered, you had to jump through some hoops.
Frankly, I've been called to the table before for using the word "complex" to describe Oracle VDI, and while I've seen many demos and understand that it's easy enough to stand up once you get familiar with it, the entire process, if you're a non-Solaris person, is more complex than the other VDI solutions. It's like batting right handed your entire life, then switching to left. In the end you're just swinging a bat, but it all feels different, and each movement that used to be automatic takes more effort. That was the uphill battle that Oracle had to fight with every single feature (protocol, hypervisor, endpoint support, etc…).
What really surprises me is that Sun Rays are also being discontinued. Over the years, we've cultivated a relationship with Sun Ray fanatics that usually falls into something like this:
- We write something about thin clients
- Sun Ray fans see that we left out Sun Rays
- Sun Ray fans write emails and post comments
- Comment war begins until one of us admits to the existence of them and our own neglect for not mentioning them sooner
The thing is, the Sun Ray solution is incredibly powerful and flexible. I do believe that its performance in VDI environments was surpassed long ago by RemoteFX, PCoIP, and HDX (it still worked, but not as well as the other protocols), but Sun Ray fans weren't just in it for the VDI. They were remoting any application, from DOS to Ubuntu to NT 3.51 to their users because the platform was flexible enough to take just about any input and send it over the wire. They were in it for the wacky ways you could configure terminals, as kiosks, with multiple displays, or even having multiple thin clients be aware of each other and share screens, mouse, and keyboard. Sure, those are mostly parlor tricks used to get a "gee whiz" during a demo, but those features are there because somebody needed them.
While nothing is filling the void left by Oracle VDI, Oracle is continuing development on Secure Global Desktop, which, frankly, has been the product that's seen the most change in the last few years. SGD could use a new name, perhaps, and some fresh marketing, but they're on the right track of mobilizing just about everything in a datacenter for any device, anywhere. I've always considered SGD like a web-based version of Sun Ray, and I suspect that's what Oracle is doing, too.
We'll keep an eye out for any more information. In the meantime, let us know in the comments if and how this effects you. And, if you're looking for great technical minds in the Bay Area, you won't have to look too hard.