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Asthma symptoms cause swelling or tightening in your airways. This swelling makes it difficult to breathe.
Some people with asthma can go about their daily activities. But others experience frequent, severe asthma attacks requiring immediate medical attention.
Physicians at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) are easing the impact of asthma on our community. We offer the latest asthma treatments and personalized support so you can live your life with fewer asthma-related interruptions.
Information about asthma attacks
When you have asthma, you may experience sudden symptoms such as wheezing and shortness of breath. These are signs of an asthma attack. During an asthma attack, muscles in your airway may narrow or twitch. You may also experience thicker or more mucous in your lungs.
Common causes (triggers) of asthma attacks include:
- Smoke, dust, and chemicals in the air
- Common respiratory illnesses, including colds and sinus infections
- Activities that make you breathe harder, including exercising or walking up stairs
- Winter weather, including cold, dry air
Asthma care at AHN: Why choose us?
Asthma can get in the way of daily activities, such as attending work or school. And the Pittsburgh area's poor air quality poses an additional challenge to getting asthma symptoms under control.
At AHN, we can loosen asthma's grip on your life. Our physicians consistently help people achieve lasting relief – even when standard treatments are not successful.
Highlights of our program include:
- Innovative asthma treatments: We offer newly approved treatments, such as biologic therapies, that are not widely available. Biologic therapies target and halt the biologic processes that cause severe asthma attacks. These treatments give more options to people whose symptoms do not improve with standard asthma medications.
- Access to new procedures: Asthma medications don't work for everyone, which is why we offer bronchial thermoplasty. This procedure is the first FDA-approved treatment of its kind. It has helped many people get relief from frequent, severe asthma attacks. Read RosaLee's story.
- Community outreach: We are increasing asthma awareness through research and outreach. Our efforts include studies measuring the impact of asthma on our community. We also regularly host public events with nationally recognized asthma care leaders to discuss how poor air quality affects people with asthma – and what we can do about it.
Our team approach to asthma care
AHN is among the first programs in western Pennsylvania using a team approach for treating uncontrolled asthma. Asthma doctors, nurse specialists, and pharmacists work together so they can tailor treatments to meet your needs. Most patients see multiple members of our team, receive necessary tests, and fill prescriptions in a single visit.
Read more about our Breathing Disorders Center.
Our asthma treatments
We offer the complete range of asthma care services to give you the best chance for successful treatment.
Your care may include:
An asthma action plan
Your asthma action plan includes written instructions for controlling your symptoms and getting help if you need it.
Asthma action plans often describe:
- Daily treatments, including the medicines you take and how often you should take them
- What to do if symptoms get worse, such as when to call us and when to seek emergency care
Standard asthma medications
Many people maintain good symptom control with medications you breathe in using a handheld device (inhaler). We teach you the proper technique for using inhalers so you get the most out of each treatment.
Standard asthma medications include:
- Long term (maintenance) medications: People take maintenance medications for a few days after being exposed to an asthma trigger, such as a cold. Maintenance medications often include steroids, which reduce inflammation and lower your risk for an asthma attack.
- Quick relief or rescue medications: For worsening symptoms, you may use a bronchodilator, such as Albuterol. This type of medication works within minutes to relax narrowing or twitching muscles in your airways.
Ongoing monitoring
Monitoring your progress with regular testing helps us know whether treatments are working. We often use spirometry and peak flow monitoring. These tests measure how well your lungs are working. If your symptoms are worsening, we use these tests to determine whether adjustments to your treatment plan have been successful.
Treatments for uncontrolled asthma
If standard asthma medications fail to bring you relief, other treatments may help. We offer the latest options for difficult-to-treat asthma, including:
- Biologic therapy: You receive injections (shots) of substances that stop the biologic processes causing inflammation in the lungs.
- Bronchial thermoplasty: This procedure uses focused bursts of heat to destroy swollen tissue in the lining of the lungs. Treating tissue in this way, along with standard medications, makes asthma symptoms less severe.
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Converge 45, in collaboration with Portland State University, is pleased to host a talk by Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker, Alfredo Jaar on December 17, 2019 at 6:30 in Lincoln Hall (Room 75).
The talk is part of Artistic Director Lisa Dent's three-year program, Facing Between Centers, presented by Converge 45. For Jaar's talk at Portland State University, the New York-based artist will discuss his multidisciplinary and prolific artistic practice exploring urgent sociopolitical and cultural issues such as unequal power relations, migration, globalization, and conflict. Jaar lives and works in New York, and has shown extensively around the world. He is known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. Through installation, photography, film, and community-based works, the artist examines and bears witness to the complexity of our current time.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 6:30 pm
Portland State University
Lincoln Hall, Room 75
1620 SW Park Ave
Portland OR 97201
The talk is FREE and open to the public but reservations are required to attend as space is limited.
Please RSVP by December 16, 2019
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York, where he has established an international reputation. He is known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2013), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Istanbul (1995), Kwangj (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006). His work has appeared regularly in exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, among many others.
I could say that most of my works are haikus in the sense that I am interested in the economy of means, how you can create an explosion of meanings with so little. I believe in the power of the single idea. - Alfredo Jaar
This event is part of the 2019-2021 Converge 45 visual arts programming curated by Lisa Dent: Facing Between Centers.
Cover Image: Alfredo Jaar, I Can't Go On. I'll Go On, 2016/2019
Neon and metal frame, 118.1" x 118.1" / 3 x 3 m
Courtesy Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh and the artist, New York.


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16 August 2013
Apple is rumored to announce not one but two new iPhones on september 10. One of them will be the new premium iPhone (5S). The other will be the "cheap" one (5C).1
It will be a big change in the current manufacturing strategy of Apple. Nowadays, there is three iPhones available: the flagship — the iPhone 5 —, and the older and (slightly) cheaper iPhone 4S and 4.
By releasing the 5C, Apple can get rid of the iPhone 4 and 4S once and for all. It means that there will be only the iPhone 5C, the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5S. Doing that was probably not possible for Apple before, without compromising the quality of the cheapest model and at the scale at which Apple operates.
We can infer (if the rumors are true) that Apple has now the production lines to release two new iPhones at the same time.
This has a big impact: In the fall, all the iPhones sold are going to be capable of using every features of the last OS. It's huge. For example, iOS 7 AirDrop only works on one current model: the iPhone 5.2
- It can put the iPhone way ahead of its competitors that struggle with OSes versions and hardware disparities.
- It will also unify the lineup around the new lightning connector and the 4 inches screen.
- It implies that the hardware and the software are going to evolve at the same pace.
The story is the same with the iPads. I am almost certain that the iPad 2 will disappear this year, leaving only the new Mini and classic iPads available.
The next year eventual iPhone five inches will fit perfectly in this new strategy: selling only renewed devices with state of the art hardware and software.
Update: Related, "It's the Production Line, Stupid".
Update 09/12/2013: Guess I was wrong. The new lineup is made of an iPhone 5C, 5S and the old 4S.


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Have you ever wished to be a citizen of this world? Yet in the other hand; have you ever felt somehow unadapted to this world? Did it discourage you sometimes? And rather than trying to adapt your business to this world, what if this world could adapt itself to you and your business? Truth, does the world own you, or do you own the world? What do you know?
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You have an intelligence beyond borders, beyond anything that you have imagined or believed; a amazing capacity that is here waiting for you to enjoy it. If you would choose to enjoy it, what would that create for your business? How this world could effectively fulfil your dreams (you know those things you once knew possible and yet have somehow given up on them)?
We have created the most impermeable intelligence, and we have done it our priority; individuality, (individual-duality), protection and separation. In brief; difference as the ground for judgment. That's what we were supposed to do, that's where we were supposed to thrive. What did that bring to you? Did you ever get truly satisfied with it? Is that really what you want to make as your reality? What else is possible?®*
I would like to walk you through a different point of view on your capacities, I would like to propose you another perspective. Are you willing to walk with me around one of the most limitative conclusions we have ever build? It's called comfort zone. What is beyond it, waiting for your success?
True story
Let's take an example; say you dream about going abroad and expanding your business to new countries, new cultures, new possibilities. Why not? What keeps you from having fun, ease and success with that? When I was 25 years old I shortly met in France a worldwide teacher whose name is Norbu Khyentse**, he was giving teaching about using our intelligence to create beyond the material conditions of this reality. I very much liked the ease that he was embodying, and how much it was generating joy and glory around him. Everyone was attracted by him. Everything looked so simple around him. After he left I was told that he was also a film director, and that he was shooting a full-length feature film in India for an Australian production, starting in one month. As I had been fascinated by cinema for years, I had a moment of crazy dreaming, where I imagined that I could be with him doing this movie together… How foolish! Me, with this international star? Right… That was just not possible. And even more; I was terrified by the idea of going to India. Well… However impossible that was, I still asked "What would it take to join him? Where is he now?". And from that moment on, from the moment I got out of my comfort zone of impossibilities, I left myself be driven by the irrational possibilities of this choice: I undertook the most wonderful journey ever, where the most unexpected opportunities where displaying before me as by magic. True story. Before I tell you more about it, let us look at what keeps us from actually thriving in the unexpected, unprojected and sometimes irrational yet wonderful possibilities that are ours. This limitation is what we use to call the comfort zone, this is what have made our intelligence impermeable. And it is a lie.
A confined space of impossibilities
What do you know about it? When you are in this comfort zone, in this comfortable distance, could you confirm that you actually have a so-called comfort, where you truly are in security, in ease, in enjoyment… Is it a place where you receive so much from life that you feel so relaxed with it? That is what comfort is suppose to mean, right? Or did you actually notice that this zone, this distance in which you keep yourself is in fact everything but comfortable? Did you see how much of your troubles and difficulties were actually created from this so-called comfort zone? Did you see that it was a no-space where you are compressed and separated from everything that would nurture you, care for you and give you true pleasure? I am sure you knew that. What a great choice we did there, isn't it? But did we really choose it, or did we just followed what we were told to do, what we were supposed to believe as a priority and a condition for living in this world? Truth; is the separation and the enclosure of you a condition for life or a condition for death? Would you live long in a box? And would it be comfortable?
Now imagine you are in the nature, in a place you really love, wether it is a mountain, or a see side, or a desert, whatever place you love to go in and enjoy… Get there now… Please. Are you comfortable in there? Are you in security, in ease, in enjoyment, are you relaxed? Are you nurtured, cared for, and do you have pleasure to be alive there? Isn't that the most comfortable experience? Now look… Where is your zone, where is your distance, that space that you would define as yours and would confine yourself into it? Oops… Where did it go? Aren't you now the whole space of what you are perceiving around you? Aren't you opening yourself to it, receiving the gifts here present for you? Don't you feel more alive in this world? So now would you choose the confined space of impossibilities, to maintain your terminal difficulties, or would you choose the open space of your perceptions, to create the ease and possibilities you once dreamt for?
The first language ever is energy
I know, this sounds irrational. But you know, rationality is what you have used to separate you from the world, from all the resources that the world has for you, unconditionally. Rationality is where you have separated your own capacities and possibilities from what they can generate. This is also where you have separated from others. It is where you have created the difficulty of not being able to be at ease with other cultures, other languages, other realities. You know, before words, before rationality, there's a primordial language. This first language ever is energy. It plays the fundamental role in communication, in interactions, in actually where you make things done, or not. However, we didn't learn that much about how to speak the language of energy, maybe because it would have expanded too much our possibilities… When you go out of your comfortable zone and comfortable distance, you make your impermeable intelligence to become an intercultural intelligence, because you start to communicate and interact through energy. You even become capable to understand and speak other's languages, somehow.
And let me tell you something else: you also become capable to communicate with machines and algorithms. Say what? Yes I know; now it really sounds too much irrational. Let me just give you a short example: imagine you are at an administrative national office and you need a paper from it now, but you're told that; 1: you don't have the prerequisites, neither legal nor for the IT system; 2: even if you had them it would take 7 weeks to get the paper you ask for; and 3: the IT system is blocked today… It looks quite impossible to get through that, right? Yet it happened to me, and I had that paper in half an hour. I could give you many other examples. But surely you wouldn't be able to do that… Just me. Well, that's just a choice. If you go out of your comfortable box, meaning if you don't get into the comfort of the conclusions you're given, you can have what you desire. It becomes possible. It looks like magic, but it is real. It is you choosing your reality. How much could you expand your business with that language of energy? This is where you truly get nurtured by the world, by life. This is where you get acknowledged for who you truly are. You start to be all of you. And your business needs, adores and worships it. You get out of the box that you thought was your condition for life; this so-called comfort. Guess what: it's not a condition.
Whose comfortable conclusions are those?
When I chose to ask what I could do to go to India and take part in shooting the movie, one day later I found again Norbu, the director of that movie. He was teaching in a place where there was hundreds of people hoping to meet him. Organisers told me there was no way to get to him. But before I get into the ccomfort of that conclusion, I wondered how I could ask for another possibility, and I saw the place where the teacher could be. I went in, and there he was, welcoming me. After I made my request for joining his team, he told me that it was just too late, he has just confirmed and completed the crew, refusing already 400 persons… But before I get into the comfort of that conclusion, I wondered how I could ask for another possibility…. And as I was leaving, he called me back and said "Listen Ivan, if you manage to be there, we'll see if we find something for you to do". I had one month before me. I had to find a work to pay my flight to India. But I hate to do a job just for money, it never gave me any fun. Yet, before I got into the comfort of that conclusion, I wondered what would be fun and easy here. I gave one phone call and had a job right away, next to my home. One month later I had earned the exact amount of the ticket to Dehli. I won't relate now the pure magic of that travel, maybe soon in another article, but I can already tell you that however India was the most uncomfortable place I could ever imagine, it has been the most comfortable experience ever. After 3 days and nights of an unbelievably easy travel, I arrived in the north of India, next to the Tibet border, opened the door of Norbu Khyentse's house, the whole crew was there in the patio, they all looked toward me in silence, the director said "Here he is!!", and everyone applauded and shouted… He then came to me and said "I was waiting for you, you arrive just on time; I need an assistant. Would you like to assist me during the shooting? We'll stay together all the time". The dream came true.
What change are you?
But of course this can happen only to me, none of that would happen to you… Right. It won't happen. Nothing happens. But you can still choose it. Things are created by your choices. As Gary Douglas*** says: "Choice creates". You can still refuse to take a conclusion for an answer, you can still ask what other possibilities you have. But you are not interested in having so many possibilities, right? You don't like when there is choice. I understand that. That's because we believe that when we choose we make a decision that will block us in that thing we have decided. Well, yes it will. Except if you choose again. Who can keep you from choosing? I mean who else than you? No one nor anything can resist your choice. Try me on that one. I've been changing by choosing more things in my life than its count in days. But surely you don't want change, I understand that; the dis-comfort of constant repetition is much more exciting. Or maybe you like change, as you get that change actually is the comfort you can have in life. Life is change, life is impermanence, and that's why it is comfortable, because it suits our nature, our body, our mind, it suits what we are. We are made of change. When you were a kid, did you ever expect things to be twice the same? No you didn't; change was your comfort. Where did you burry that comfort? In your comfort zone? Comfort zone is not just a box; it's the coffin of comfort, it's where comfort dies. What else of you and your business dies in there?
By the way; if you believe that when you were a kid you did expect things not to change, that's because you were already not a kid anymore. Sorry. You had already bought into the projections and expectations of your parents or other people. You had already made it yours. Is now the time to let them go?
Discomfort as the new comfort
You got to get that you have created the conditions of your life and living with the expectations and projections of others. That's how you separated yourself from those parts of the world that you could create with, those parts of the world that you believe you are afraid of. And that's exactly why you've been rejected several times, that's why people don't get you, or don't understand what you mean, and look at you with a gaze of "what's wrong with you?". The projections and expectations of others (that you took as your conditions for life), have generated your partial exclusion from this world, this world in its wholeness, in its oneness and richness. Not your best story. You have created an impermeable intelligence, impermeable to the infinite possibilities you truly have. What else is possible?®* What intercultural intelligence could you have if you would make discomfort your new comfort? What would that create for you and your business? What projections and expectations are you "buying" for your business that keeps it from going global?
On a general basis, the tool of excellence is called question. Whenever you use question, where you could have chosen a conclusion, you expand. Everything is possible. The question is – will you choose it?
Ivan Martin
*Access Consciousness®
**Norbu Khyentse is a Buthanese Lama, scriptwriter, film director and writer.
***Gary Douglas is a best-selling author, international speaker and facilitator, and a founder of Access Consciousness®


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How a Solo Camping Trip Helped This Mom Heal from Her Divorcef4d93e91bb3c35f08150eff94ddfd5d6
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With a shoebox of wedding cards and other mementos of her former relationship, a mom of two sets out on her first solo camping trip, a journey that would prove both cathartic and empowering.
My ex and I separated about a year and a half ago. During that time I had come to the realization that my true self — the person I was before being married — had somehow taken a backseat to everyone else's needs.
In December 2017 I started seeing a therapist who was incredibly helpful in guiding me to self-care, hard truths, healing wounds, and letting go of what I thought the future should be. She asked in one of our last sessions what my goals were. For me, this was a really hard question. What did I want to do?
For more than a year I had tossed around the idea of a solo camping/hiking trip to Cape Breton, here in Atlantic Canada. Canada Day was on a Sunday this year and as a government employee I was lucky to have Monday off, giving me a three day weekend. As I had access to a camper van from a family friend, I knew this wasn't going to be something I had to worry about. But the only thing I needed to sort out myself was getting the vehicle insured. I found out that I can get an any driver van policy too, along with other policies that will protect the van and me too. These are the essential parts of camping that a lot of people forgot, but I am happy that I was informed of this before setting off on my trip. I knew I was going to be safe. Plus, my children were going to be with their father, leaving me on my own. With the words of my therapist rattling around in my head, I made a quick decision. Road trip to Cape Breton!
I texted my sister, "Going camping/hiking in Cape Breton this weekend. Am telling you so you know where I am. Don't tell Mom." (She had slightly freaked out last year when I mentioned my idea for this trip.)
The kids went to their father's on Saturday morning. The car was packed with my tent, sleeping pad, Coleman stove, solar powered light, cooler (and Corona beer, the kind I used to drink in university), hiking boots, backpack. And a shoebox full of wedding cards and memories. It was time to let go.
I made it to my first camp site midafternoon and immediately set off on a hike to several lookouts over the Bras D'Or Lakes. It was spectacular.
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When I got back I built a fire to roast hot dogs and marshmallows. I was camping! When you go camping, you need to make sure you have all the necessary equipment. Of course, you'll need essentials like a tent, but you cannot forget the items you will need to prepare meals. That is one of the most important parts of camping! Before heading off on my trip, I was recommended to look into sites like campingcooks.com to ensure I had everything I needed to get the full camping experience. As the sun started to set I knew it was time. I went to the trunk of the car, picked up the box, sat down on my favourite camping chair (as I feel like it is the best camping chair that I could have found), took a deep breath and opened the lid.
I sifted through cards from people who had remained our best friends and people whose lives had taken them on different paths. A friend who had died too young, elderly relatives no longer with us. Some with only signatures. Some with beautiful messages telling us about the wonderful journey we were about to embark on.
I opened each card, read it and took in its message of love.
And then I burned it. Every single one.
I burned the card he had used to ask me out on our first date. I burned the card that came with the first flower he had given me. I burned a card from him thanking me for making Father's Day possible. I burned his wedding vows.
I even burned the box.
The only time I hesitated was with a card from my friend's parents who were killed suddenly in a motorcycle accident. Then I heard Carole's voice say, "Girl, burn that damn card!" So I did. Threw it right in the middle of the fire and watched the flames.
I said goodbye to the hope that had been our marriage and embraced my new single future.
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My campsite neighbour came over the next morning on the pretence of asking the time. Then she asked if I was okay. Apparently my sobs, which I thought were quiet, were carrying over to their campsite the previous night. I told this stranger what I had done. She hugged me and told me the cards were my past and now I could look to the future.
Thank you, Anne, for being the right person at the right time.
I spent the rest of the weekend hiking various trails on the Western side of Cape Breton. All by myself.
I met one other solo female hiker, passing in opposite directions on a trail. She gave me a big smile and nod. I felt like I was part of a club. And I met lots of other people, too. A lovely couple visiting from Holland, a man who had gone to the same university as me, a family from China, a stranger who needed help with a geocache, and lots of friendly dogs who were told "my kids would love you!" And I had real conversations with them because, with no one else in tow, I got to decide what to do with my time.
Did I miss the kids? Nope, and I don't feel bad about that. They were safe with their father who loves them. During the weekend, the only person I had to organize was myself. The only person who had to be happy with the plan or menu was me! Not once in three days of driving did I have to say, "Stop kicking the back of my chair!"
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I got to be Beth again. Not "Mom." Not "the wife." I needed this trip. I needed to prove to myself I could be independent. I needed a tangible journey to parallel the emotional one I've been on. The bonus was I got away from the mostly family-oriented Canada Day activities that would have reminded me that this was a holiday without my kids.
Ironically, the song playing on the radio as I crossed the causeway back to the mainland on Monday was Rita MacNeil's "Flying on Your Own." Rita was born in Big Pond, Cape Breton, is herself divorced, and many of her songs are written from her own life experiences. My parents had this tape on high rotation in our car when I was growing up so I know every word.
So I belted it out. "You were never more strong girl, you were never more alone. Once there was two, now there's just you, you're flying on your own!…First you stumble, then you fall. You reach out and you fly. There isn't anything you can't do!"
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Anjali and Elli are growing like weeds. Anjali learns more every day, loves Library Time, her Cars, and sitting at the kitchen table like a big girl now. We took her high chair apart, cleaned it, and are ready to introduce solids to Elli this week. Should be exciting! She's been eying our food for weeks, but we wanted to make sure we waited a while to avoid any allergy problems. Don't want to go through that again…
So, Women's Chorus concert this weekend! Saturday, 7:30PM. We're doing Ice Cream Sundaes at our place afterward. :) I'm really excited to see all the hard work that Dovy and I have instigated become a reality on Saturday. There have been a huge amount of tickets sold and we are all hoping to sell out this week! Please come if you have the time and want to see a super-de-duper awesome concert! http://womenschorus.com
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Definition of AFC Wild Card Games: Say What?
by Amy Lignor
What most fans will agree to when looking back on this Saturday and remembering the AFC Wild Card Weekend is that Big Ben is the "must-have" for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Without him, their particular team seems to be more than confused as to what game
they're even playing. This was proven yet again at the end of this game with a Pittsburgh win (18-16), when watching QB Big Ben being carted off the field…just to have him come back out and move his team down the field in order to take home bragging rights.
Now the Cincinnati Bengals, their archrivals when it comes to their division, were certainly not on the money, and they were more than depressed when they finally were able to get something going and pull ahead of Pittsburgh in the final quarter.
The "Say What?" moment for the Bengals came from the ridiculous hits they made that caused Pittsburgh to stay in the game. Everyone knew about the cloud that hung over the Bengals heading into this game – not winning a postseason match-up since the Lord was a boy. But this time out, people assumed that without QB Andy Dalton playing because of injury that the cloud would finally be lifted, they would indeed celebrate, and then head off to a…much better team than they are, where they would end up losing anyway. But, at least they would have one playoff game under their belts. …That was not to be.
The Bengals had two of their star players fined, one knocking a Steeler unconscious, and it seems their fans are right up there with them. One Cincinnati headline reported that six were "arrested in assaults" during the game. And with this…the cloud grows even bigger over the Bengals. Perhaps that would explain why the sky was pouring rain for most of the game.
The other AFC wild card had its own "Say What?" moments, when the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans began. The biggest question was: where, exactly, were the Texans? Yes, they already had a cloud as well in regards to winning a post-season game. But everyone loves J.J. Watt – the tough defender that can literally take a team apart piece by piece. But with this 30-0 final score, it looked more like the Texans had missed the plane to the game (much like an NFC player "decided" to do for HIS wild card game, but that's another article). Although J.J. Watt was even put in on one play in the offense to attempt to run the ball and nab a TD when the Texans were practically on the goal line, it was not to be for the big man. Leaving the game with a groin injury that many fans (and men) felt around the globe, Watt made no difference in a truly boring game that was basically over in the first few seconds with a runback and TD by the Chiefs on the very first play.
Pittsburgh now heads to the mighty Denver Broncos to meet up with the newly-bowed-to Peyton Manning. And the Chiefs head to the mighty New England Patriots to face a team that always seems to find some new no-name player to help out when necessary so Coach Belichick and QB Tom Brady can win.
Are we already looking at an AFC Championship Game starring the Patriots versus the Broncos? Wouldn't be a shocker.


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Hello Wishfire! Thanks for the reply. It does, however beg the question: is there a vessel with a third engine nacelle, and what is it called?
Greetings Voyager Recruit! Thanks for the info from Wikipedia and the tech manual. I'll check into them. I am fascinated by the variety of space vessels, and accompanying names, created during the ST era. I may choose to use one as a new avatar. But which one?? Decisions, decisions......... LOL!
Jaz4stfguy posted a topic in Ten ForwardIf I'm correct, the "Dreadnought" class of star ship - is a vessel similar to the "Enterprise" but with a third engine nacelle between and above the other two. I have seen pictures of them, perhaps at the official Star Trek site. Just a curious thought I had while lying awake. Thanks for any information.
Jaz4stfguy replied to hangon's topic in The Voting BoothLike hangon, I love pie too. But if I must choose, its Key Lime for me. How many others like Key Lime?
Jaz4stfguy replied to Jim Phaserman's topic in Parrises Squares Courtyes, Jim there are a lot of sad faces in Vikingland. This year goes from bad to worse (i.e. the "Love Boat" incident, for one). The only bright side to this is that........tada!......we are still ahead of the Packers! I just had to make that little jab, Jim. All in fun.
Jaz4stfguy replied to Jaz4stfguy's topic in Parrises Squares CourtGreat pic, Jim! :(
Jaz4stfguy replied to Dark Reality's topic in Star Trek: Deep Space NineI've been watching episodes of DS9 "intermitently" :( that are being aired on Spike TV. I will add my thoughts to this thread on certain episodes here or in another thread. I am beginning to understand why some favor this series over the other ST series, VBG ^^^^ being one. I especially like episode with Vic on the holodeck, giving pointers to Odo on how to woo Major Kira. The kissing scene in the promenade was nice, too.
What a long game for #3, and the first ever in Texas. Yee haw! LOL! I dozed off in the 14th (!) inning, so missed the winning run. As a previous poster said, this may be a sweep. I am still at a loss to understand why the home team cannot make the decision whether to keep the roof open, or to close it. Statistcally, the Astros do much better with it closed. This could be the talk in the off-season, and yet another possible rules change. The Astros stranded a bunch of runners, so it may be they "dropped the ball" in their shot at winning the game. :( It was great game to watch, nonetheless.
Jaz4stfguy replied to Stephen of Borg's topic in The Voting BoothVery funny, AE! However my wife doesn't like my snoring, but says it does comfort her to know I am there beside her, and not elsewhere. LOL! :(
I'm following the World Series. It seems the Sox are getting a lot of help from the refs, either bad calls, or just dumb luck on the part of the players, esp A.J. Per...... ( I won't try to spell his name........lol). Last night, the batter, whose name slips my mind, is given a passed ball, as the ref decided he was hit by the pitcher. On further review, the camera shows that it didn't happen. (!) That occurred in the 9th inning, w/ two outs. That call, blown or not, seemed to have made the difference and allowed the Sox to win again. I guess a win is a win, but this is tough for the Astros. I don't really have a fav, but i hope that the games can be , shall we say, "fairer"? I cannot imagine the feeling that the reffing staff must feel now. Wow!! :)
Jaz4stfguy replied to Itchygomba69's topic in Parrises Squares CourtIts good to see the NHL playing once again. I may need to keep an eye on the Oilers this year, as one of my fav players, Chris Pronger, is no longer with the Blues. I'm not singing "the blues", tho. LOL! :)
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Dispatch from Taiwan: channeling Tom Hanks from The Terminal, or how bad I am at international travelingPosted: March 24, 2013 Filed under: Dispatches | Tags: Taiwan Leave a comment
It's spring break, and I'm on the other side of the planet in Taipei, Taiwan. I wasn't quite sure that I'd make it; I woke up with a sore throat Friday morning that turned into a raging migraine and a case of the shakes that kept me from getting much rest Friday night. (Trying to sleep through the impromptu karaoke party in my living room didn't help, but that's a story for another time.)
In any event, Saturday morning finds me miraculously feeling halfway decent, and I pack and make my way to JFK. I board my flight and promptly pass out.
The first part of the trip takes around 15 hours, which passes surprisingly quickly, as far as 15 hours in a confined space go. I don't think I've ever flown China Airlines before, but it's really nice. In true Chinese fashion, the flight attendants give everyone slippers to wear on their feet. I have one of those seats at the front of a section, so there's no one in front of me, and I can stretch my legs on a flight for once. Even in coach, everyone has a private TV screen with on-demand movie selection. Unfortunately, technology still can't save airline food.
We have a layover in Osaka, making it the seventh time I've been to Japan without leaving the airport. We need to go back through security, and I have a total brain fart moment: I leave the security area and am halfway to the gate before realizing I've left behind my carry-on. When I run back for it, I find myself on the wrong way at the top of an escalator. I think about running down the escalator like an idiot, but before I do so I see a uniformed guy carrying my bag and manage to signal him. He comes up the escalator with my carry-on, inexplicably out of breath, and makes me write down my name and cellphone number in his pocket notebook. I can't figure out whether it's protocol or a come-on.
The Osaka-to-Taipei leg part of the trip takes about three hours. I figure that going through immigration will be no sweat, since it has never been on any of my previous trips here. It's kinda sexist of me, but I wait in line for one of the female agents, figuring that the questioning won't be as rigorous. I'm wrong.
"Where are you staying during your trip?" she asks brusquely, pointing to the part on the immigration card I've left blank.
"Oh, I'm staying with my uncle in Taipei," I say. I use English to be in full dumb American tourist mode.
"Do you know his address?"
"Sorry, I don't. I'm getting picked up."
"What about his number?"
"I don't have it. What about his email? Can I give you that?" I don't actually have that either, but I figure I can write my father's or something.
"Sorry. We need the address or a phone number of where you're staying during your trip."
"Oh, sorry. I don't have those written down. Can I go online and find it?"
"Can I get on the internet?"
"Can I get online and check my email for it?"
"Oh. No, sorry." She was getting kind of exasperated by this point. "What about your cell phone? We'll just use that, as long as we have a way to reach you during your stay. It works internationally, right?"
"Um, no?" Now I'm starting to get confused. Why do I need to be reachable? I've never had to write down an address, here or anywhere before… why now? Is it customary now to have an international cellphone? Just how behind the times am I?
"You're coming to Taiwan, and you won't have a working cellphone??" She looks at me like a Chinese mom whose kid's failed a math test. This doesn't help to quell my incipient self-doubt.
"Sorry," I shrug.
She sighs audibly and points down the long room. "Go to the first counter and talk to them."
"That way?"
"That way."
I walk past the other agents for the non-residents, the agents for Taiwanese citizens, then find myself between the counter for people with infants or something like that and the counter for diplomats and airline personnel. I'm not sure which is the first counter, if either of them are, if I'm capable of understanding simple directions. The two guys at the diplomat counter have spiffier suits, so I go there and explain my situation. They look just as confused as the original agent. They also ask me whether I have a cellphone for the trip and look stupefied when I say no.
Finally, one of them asks, "Do you know which airline you came on? Okay, you have to go back down that way, then there's an office on the right, and they'll help you get online there."
I head back where I came from, past all the counters and the masses of people still waiting. I find no office for any airline, China or otherwise. At this point I'm wandering around the airport, several yards from freedom, debating my limited options. I think I need to get online, but don't know who to contact even I'm able to. I wonder whether my ride will think I've missed the flight, and if he'd still be waiting if I'm able to get through.
I decide to solicit one more person for help, and I find this youngish-looking guy in an airport security uniform. I explain to him my situation:
"Hey, is there anywhere around here that I can get online? My ride is waiting for me outside, but the agents won't let me through without the number or the address of where I'm staying, and I don't have that written down."
He looks at me and shakes his head. "Sorry, there's no wifi on this floor. What's the number of the cellphone you'll be using this trip?"
I want to dropkick every iPhone Apple ever shat out.
"Okay, okay," he says. "No cellphone. Let's see here." He thinks for a few seconds and then grabs my immigration card and scrawls four characters in the troublesome blank with a blue pen. I stare at it, but my first-grade equivalent Chinese reading level isn't able to parse out what it says.
"Cool thanks. But um, what does it say?"
He looks around. "It's the name of a hotel," he says under his breath. "Just a random one. I know you're not staying there, but they just need it for the records. It'll get you through."
LOL bureaucracy. "Sure, whatever. What's the hotel called, in case they ask?"
I get back in queue behind all the other passengers waiting to pass through Limbo. I decide to avoid the original agent and take my chances with the first agent, a stern looking man with a close cropped haircut. He takes my passport, grunts, and taps away at his keyboard. I await the inevitable interrogation and receive only this observation:
"Wow, you're tall!"
Which is true. I can dunk on anyone here. He stamps my passport and waves me through. I'm back in the land where I breathed my first breath.
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Sea Turtle Inn, H.B. Kurtzwilde, Gressive Press, www.circlet.com, ISBN 978-1-61390-099-4 ebook, ISBN 978-1-61390-100-7 paperback, Word Count: 25,190, List Price: $6.99, reviewed by Barry Hunter.
The Sea Turtle Inn has quite a reputation in St Augustine, Florida as a bawdy house that has been owned by the same family for centuries. The family is descended from pirates and it makes for the perfect tourist attraction. It is also the home of several ghosts that have gotten more offensive to the customers.
Enter Andrew Wells, a noted local paranormalist, who has come to find out if the stories are tall tales, flat out lies, or a genuine manifestation of "pirates in the Bridal Suite". Black Roger and Dirty Davey Bonny are the two spirits that have been pulling pranks for years that have become more violent of late.
As Wells investigates at the behest of Miss B. A. Davis, "just Davis", he feels that there is more to learn about the Inn and Davis. During his investigation, he uncovers the story of Black Roger and Dirty Davey and feels that Davis has more to share that he has to discover on his own.
This is one of the more unusual books I have read from Circlet in that the story is extremely well done and the sexual content is not as prevalent as in their other works. When there is sexual content it is there to help the story to progress and help to reveal century's old secrets that continue till today.
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Back in July of 2016, Adobe released a major update to Lightroom Mobile for iOS that allows it to work directly with any and all raw files supported by the desktop version and to also sync them seamlessly with the desktop. But what does this actually mean for real-world use? What problem are we actually solving? Let's go on a trip with epic travel photographer Elia Locardi and find out.
It's really pretty amazing how far the digital photography workflow has come in just the past decade since the very first beta of Lightroom was released. We can now shoot on our very best cameras in remote corners of the earth, and without taking a step begin editing on one pound pencil-thin computers with large 13-inch screens, and then as soon as we've got a cellular data signal (if we ever lost it in the first place), share museum-quality representations of our work to the entire world. All of that can happen in minutes, and we're talking consumer-grade infrastructure.
So what does this actually look like in practice? In this slick and impressively edited 30 minute tutorial video, Locardi shows us how to recreate one of his famous images of the underground metro in Stockholm, Sweden using Lightroom Mobile in the field. I really appreciate the fact that when he says "workflow" he really means it, as that includes the capture. While a lot of us don't need to know the settings of the camera or how to compose the shot, let's not forget that it can be helpful to beginners. Ultimately, those files travel from the camera, to Lightroom Mobile, to Lightroom Desktop, and then to Photoshop for final tweaks.
After you've learned your fill, be sure to check out Locardi's websiteand follow him on Facebook,500px, and Instagram. He is genuinely one of the finest travel photographers on earth and is someone worth keeping up with.
There are a few release notes with regards to Lightroom Mobile itself I'd like to touch. Android has some of this functionality, but only with cameras that shoot native DNG. I'm sure they'll rollout full raw support at some point, but since it's a totally different development team, the timeline is up to them. This version 2.4 update for iOS also brought support for radial and linear gradient filters, which is a huge deal for those of us that use them heavily. And yes, there's the elephant in the room that Lightroom Mobile does not yet support user presets and custom camera profiles. This does relegate it to only quick social media use for many photographers who rely on these tools for their signature look and feel, that is until they get to a desktop to finish it up.
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Stop posting this "AMAZING" stuff. I can't afford to keep up and am buried in mountains of "wish list"!
lightroom mobile can read your raws, but
- you need a special card reader
- there's no user presets/camera profiles
- editing is very limited
- you can't finalize the picture on it
summing up: not amazing
Yes, you need a lightning compatible reader; so either a lightning to USB or a lightning SD reader.
There ARE user presets/camera profiles (I use them daily)
Editing is pretty close to what full LR allows. (my presets with curves adjustments transfer over just fine)
You can finalize images in LR mobile. I have delivered over 100 commercial jobs from my iPad Pro. Is it ideal? No. Not really. But it's getting there.
how you use presets? sync settings with previous photos?
Sorry, I'm just now seeing this!
Yes, I have been just syncing. It's a workaround and hopefully not a permanent one.
This is clearly just made for the American market where Adobe is offering Creative Cloud account for $ 9.99. I am pretty sure that this is not available for Europe.
I pay 93,- Nok in Norway for the Photography cloud deal :-)
I think I pay €12.29 for the same here in Europe.
A big step towards mobility.
Can't see however how full retouching on mobile can be done, ever.
Healing brushes, masking, etc, I can't see how one can do it on a mobile screen ( even on a 10.1" tablet )
I still don't see how people consider editing 20 meg and higher res files on a 10-inch or smaller screen, most of them uncalibrated, to be a really great idea...
12.9" and it's calibrated.
Oh yeah, that makes big difference. I appreciate your humor...
Very interesting. Could you please clarify how one can import RAW files directly in LR mobile and open them without going through the desktop application first. Thank you.
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What it's like to say good-bye
When we were married I knew that it was likely inevitable again, his deployment overseas. We survived one tour already, so hearing that he was deploying again didn't really hit me at first. During his first tour, he re-enlisted for another four years, this meant we were going to be moving to Kansas. Still, I didn't truly comprehend that I would be separated from my husband again.
The night it finally hit me, I can still vividly picture. I remember the evening under the stars; we sat on our tiny patio, the children tucked into bed a few hours earlier, a three year old boy and eight month old girl. The three of them were my entire world, and I imagine that this was the same in reverse for my husband. At this point in our lives, it was normal for my husband to have to leave; he had done two tours overseas already. One when we were together and one on his own to Korea, so this was not new territory for him, leaving. What was new territory for him was the fact that his family was living far from home now, nearly 800 miles away from those his wife could depend on and trust.
I started to feel as if something was dying inside. I remember us talking about all the details of his departure when I began to cry. This is the first time I remember my husband holding on to me, encompassing me in his arms as I cried. We have been married for a little over a year, and suddenly the thought about his leaving became all too real. I wasn't crying because of the extra load of work I would have to do with him being gone. I was crying because the man I loved, who had recently became my husband would be leaving me soon to go to a place that I was not allowed to go. I really did honor and love this man, and I was not prepared for this deployment.
Have you eve been more in love with someone that you can rarely put into words what their very presence in your life means? Perhaps this is a parent, spouse, or even a child. Think about that love as I talk about saying good-bye. Not a forever good-bye, but it feels that way. Some of you reading this know what I am talking about. This is the type of good-bye that rips into your gut and tears at your heart. This is the type of good-bye many parents, couples, and children have had to feel, saying good-bye as we watch a piece of our heart and soul walk away into a world that you are not invited. And with this feeling, with all our wonderful memories, we wait, holding on to any piece of them that we can.
I know now that I was meant to be a military wife, I am strong and determined. I am proud of my role in my family's life and oh so proud of my husband. I loved being the woman my husband could return home to. What I wasn't prepared for was the loneliness that I felt when my husband was gone. This is the part of the life that I do not miss. I enjoy being next to my husband in church or having him crawl into bed next to me. Sometimes I take these little moments for granted. Still, most times, even going to the hardware store, I stare at my husband in thankfulness for the opportunity to be with my husband and our children.
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- I am 22 years old
- I am from Anzara Boma Village in eastern Equatoria, South Sudan
- I am a member of the Madi tribe
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LASS is located near my village so I was familiar with the school. Unfortunately, we had to leave our home in South Sudan and flee to Uganda. I am proud of being a student at LASS; it is a family of friends in a home environment. We are all from many different cultures and LASS has brought us together as one. Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Information Communication Technology are my core subjects. We study quite a lot, but there is still time for fun. I enjoy playing futball, reading the Bible, listening to news and playing cards.
I would like to be a pharmacist in my country so people won't have to go to other countries for treatment.
One day I want to go to the United States to understand how they have maintained peace and pass it on to my country. We need to overcome the corruption and invest in quality education for all.
My Vision For The Future
- I want to be a servant leader in my community and I have learned that requires personal sacrifice in order for others to benefit
- I hope to have my own business as a pharmacist
- I want to use my leadership skills to influence change in my country, that is a young nation with many tribes and few options for a quality education for its youth
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A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance. Some of the beasts will be familiar to readers of the Harry Potter books - the Hippogriff, the Basilisk, the Hungarian Horntail...Others will surprise even the most ardent amateur Magizoologist.
Narrated by Eddie Redmayne, this is the first audio book edition of Scamander's textbook ever to be released. Having starred as Newt Scamander himself in the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, who better to narrate this Hogwarts Library book from one of the wizarding world's most famous Magizoologists? Eddie's film credits include The Danish Girl, My Week with Marilyn, Les Misérables and The Theory of Everything, for which he won a Golden Globe, an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor.Dip in to discover the curious habits of magical beasts across five continents...
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The Ashes and Arizona: an observation on colonial cultures - or why England is preferable to the United States or Australia
In my opinion the most cheerful event of the first week of 2011 was the England cricket team's completion of an impressive 3-1 victory over Australia in test cricket. And the most miserable was the assassination by Jared Loughner of his congressional representative and at least five other people. On the face of it there is nothing in common between these events; arguably, it is distasteful to mention them in the same paragraph. But I do think that the debates about them do have something in common which ought to be remarked.
It is doubtful whether a rational account could be given of Loughner's motives, but accounts of their context have emphasised the "vitriol" and "hatred" which now exist in American political life. Observations about the state of such debate are, naturally, also part of the debate.
The central problem with American politics, one might casually observe, is the impossibility of having a debate in what, in England, we would think of as a normal consequentialist style. Thus the issue of healthcare is not about calculating costs, death rates etc; it is about "socialism", American identity and the long-term direction of change. It must resort to fundamental principles and to - of all things - the views of a body of intelligent but normally mortal men who lived in the eighteenth century. Thus the phenomenon of "Tea Party" politics and the stridency and despair which they assume. A simple, boring reform, which could be reversed if it turns out badly, as most reforms do, becomes something which seems to threaten existence itself - or, at least, identity.
It is as if many Americans carry an internalised "Committee on Un-American Activities" round in their heads, making them so sensitive to breaches of Americanism that it hurts, that their very personal identity is in doubt. Every debate is about who we are and where we are going. The nation is a political and ethical project and if you are opposed to my construction of this project then you are opposed to my very being. I think this permeates every level of American political life.
I have mates who are Communists and republicans; of course, I'd try to shoot them if there were a civil war in which they attempted to impose their ideas, but I'm generally relieved that this is not the case. Most importantly, I don't regard them as un-English - not even the European federalists. I also have a wife who agrees with me about very little. But friends in American universities tell me stories of academics who have studiously ignored them for years because of an opinion expressed about Afro-American identity or US policy in the Middle East. Most people can handle disagreement, but not when it seems to deny their identity.
What on earth has this to do with England playing Australia at cricket? The answer becomes clear if you read the press and web comments about England's overwhelming victory. It isn't Australian to be stuffed by the Poms: the constant message is that is not who we are. The tone of many comments (though not all) suggests that some sort of defining national project has been betrayed by the current team. Legend has it that when Alan Border as Australian captain was faced with a number three batsman who thought he had flu and ought to be held back he (Border) asked for "an Australian" to take his place. "Australians" in this sense are virile and invincible; they have bluer eyes and bigger knives than the rest of us and they are not overweight wusses pampered by the nanny state at all. New Zealanders, incidentally, are even worse, at least in relation to rugby, as was exemplified by their hysterical reaction to defeat in the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
Make victory - or virtue - a part of your identity and you are in big trouble when you lose or virtue goes missing. It generates bitterness and confusion and a desperate search for those to blame. Also a kind of playground patriotism: there are several sites and columns in Australia which have said things like "We'll just go back to our beautiful beaches and warm climate and lovely cold beer and leave the Poms to their damp little over-crowded island". It is, after all, the nature of colonial identity that it must be better. "We" can't just be a bunch of shysters who speak somebody else's language and have somebody else's culture in our bones who have washed up on this particular shore and chased the natives away. We must be better in our purposes, "the last, best hope", "a shining city on a hill", "Paradise". No "we're shit and we know we are" for us, no Barmy Army who are prepared to travel thousands of miles to see the team lose.
Which is why, fond as I am of America and Australia, I can't stay there all that long before I want to be back in England or France where you can just be English or French without having any particular virtue or ideology. And you can accept that your fellow citizens are as English or French as you are without having to respect them or agree with them. Incidentally, Australia: good beer should never be cold and minus 8 degrees, which we had over Christmas, is infinitely more fun than plus 38 (which my Aussie relatives had) as well as being more appropriate.
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Ah, but it won't be reversed - none of them ever are. I don't blame Americans for their fear of the slippery slope to Socialism.Posted by: Robert Sharpe at February 23, 2011 01:56 PM
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Vendors Speak out on the Ongoing Pandemic
The virus known as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in the United States and drag the economy to a screeching halt. I talked with several of the major OEMs in the office hardware space about the impact the coronavirus has had on their manufacturing to this point.Read
Security, Production, and uniFLOW Also Highlighted at Atlanta Event
"The smaller, more intimate setting of our regionalized dealer events allows for more access to individuals that don't typically come to a larger national dealer event, such as sales reps and service technicians," said Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s Hiroyuki "Hiro" Imamura.Read
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April always marks the beginning of Kyocera's fiscal year—it's a time to kick off new initiatives and reflect on the last year.Read
Key Takeaways from the Company's Dealer and End-User Conference
Last week, BLI attended Toshiba's 2016 Dealer and End-User Conference in Las Vegas, and found a company that continues to solidify its relationship with its dealers, and poised to take more market share from some of the bigger players in the industry.Read
Will 3D Printing Be the Transformative Force Many Predict?
BLI took a deep dive with a number of industry insiders to sort through the technology, the fragmented market, the aftermarket potential, and what the future holds.Read
This month marks the silver anniversary of the introduction of Xerox's first DocuTech, a device that played a more than substantial role in ushering in the print-on-demand era, an era which has generated billions of dollars for the OEM and upwards of $30 billion for the document imaging industry as a whole.Read
It's a good time to be in the production space. As Annette McCrary, director of strategic marketing for Ricoh's Production Printing Business Group, put it, "Print is not dead, but has become a very interactive, dynamic media that people may have been overlooking." And judging from current numbers in the production space, people haven't been overlooking it as of late. In 2014, the market for production digital presses increased nearly 18 percent to over $2 billion, according to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Production Printer Tracker, and total market shipments were at their highest level since 2009, mainly due to the steady increase in the shipment of digital presses, which were also at their highest level since 2009. And there's plenty of room for more, as digital pages printed still only account for about 2 to 3 percent of the overall market in production printing, according to Xerox Vice President of Marketing Communications & Customer Engagement Beth Ann Kilberg-Walsh.Read
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