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Why is your PC slow at startup? First of all, out of the box, Windows should boot blazingly fast, no matter whether you're using Windows 7, 8, or 10.
It's what you do with your PC that actually causes it to slow to a crawl over time. The top causes of long boot times include:
- New drivers. Drivers control devices inside your computer. For example, they're responsible for making sure that your sound chip plays back your favorite MP3 and that your YouTube clips aren't just silent movies. If drivers aren't working properly, they could introduce some serious delays in your PC's boot time.
- Software. The more applications (such as PhotoShop or iTunes) you install, the slower your computer becomes over time. This is caused by 3rd party start-up items or background services that silently launch every time you turn on your computer. Some of these items you can find in your task bar (see below); others are invisible.
- New updates. Many applications check for product updates when you start your PC. Even Microsoft sometimes delivers cumulative updates or even new (Windows 10) builds that can drastically decrease boot time.
- Malware: Viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other malicious software can make your PC boot up much slower than when you first got it, so make sure you're running the latest antivirus software.
To figure out what's causing your PC to boot up slowly, use a Windows tool called Event Viewer. It documents all apps that drastically add to your computer's boot time. You can then turn off the worst offenders using the Windows startup manager or Task Manager.
All these tools are built in. But using them can be a bit complicated, as you'll need to jump between them to get what you want. It can be far easier to use a more integrated start-up manager, like the one in AVG TuneUp, that shows the impact of all automatically running startup apps and allows you to turn off these resource hogs with a simple click. (Yes, this is a shameless product plug; but our engineers put blood and sweat into this – and we want you to know about it and check out the trial version.)
We'll cover both methods below.
The do-it-yourself (expert) approach
For those who want to get their hands dirty with systems admin tools, figuring out how to speed up boot time can be a great way to better know your PC. Basically, you need to:
Identify slow-boot up times
Hold down the WINDOWS key on your keyboard and press R. This will bring up the Run menu:
Type in Eventvwr.msc and click OK. Expand the following folders: Applications and Services Logs, Microsoft, Windows, Diagnostics-Performance and Operational.
Watch for an event ID called 100. This one shows how long your computer takes to start up. In our example, it is 35 seconds. The 101 IDs then show you which applications slow down your computer. For example:
Here we can see that NVIDIA software took 6.5 seconds to load. This is 1.5 seconds longer than on the last boot, so there's clearly something wrong. NVIDIA drivers just give you access to some advanced graphics options which can be useful for intensive tasks like gaming. In most cases, you won't need it at startup, so you can safely turn it off by using the built-in startup manager.
To do that, hold down the WINDOWS key and press R again. This time, type in msconfig, hit ENTER, and go to the Startup tab. Now you can uncheck items or, if you're running Windows 8 or 10, go to Task Manager and right-click on an item to disable it.
Unfortunately, as you can see here, there may be dozens of entries that you'd have to manually research to determine if they're important or not. But there is an easier way.
The automated (and easy) approach
Using Event Viewer and the old-school "msconfig" tool may work, but it's far from convenient and user friendly. So it takes time. That's why we built an easier way to turn off slow moving applications when you boot your PC. It is a core part of our AVG TuneUp suite (try the trial version and see for yourself).
- Once you're running AVG TuneUp, head over to the Speed Up section and look at the total optimization progress bar.
You should see a slice of the bar that says Disable startup programs. Clicking on Show will give you an overview of all startup applications that slow down your computer, including whether they're actually necessary or optional. Moreover, instead of complicated file names, it shows you full product names, such as Microsoft Office or Skype. It also highlights new applications you may have recently installed.
- Flip off the switches. Easy.
And now some bonus tips
Upgrade to Windows 10
If you're still running Windows Vista, 7, or 8, we recommend moving to Windows 10. In most cases, the new OS has managed to reduce boot times by a few seconds when compared to its predecessors.
Install an SSD or move to a laptop with flash storage
If you're in the market for a new computer, just make sure that it's got flash-based storage (SSD, solid state drive), and not a traditional mechanical hard disk drive (HDD). Computers with SSD start dramatically faster and retrieve information that is in regular use almost instantly. The difference in boot times between SSDs and traditional hard disks can be night and day; so this is perhaps the biggest thing you can do to reduce your boot time.
These days, price declines mean even some low-end laptops should come with an SSD. If you are bold (and tech-savvy), you can also grab an SSD and install it in your PC or laptop yourself. (But that is another post.)
If you want extra PC-boosting tips delivered straight from our experts, check out our Ultimate Guide to cleaning up and speeding up your PC!


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Interactive visual programming environment for music, audio, and media. In use for over twenty years by performers, composers, artists, scientists, teachers, and students, Max is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams.
MSP Overview:
Max users are people who want to do things that go beyond the limitations of normal software. Max is a visual programming language -- you connect objects together with patch cords to design what you want. While people have used Max to create a wide variety of applications, it's primarily designed to handle the basic elements of media: time, interactivity, and control.
MSP Overview:
MSP gives you the building blocks of a synthesis and DSP language in visual form. But more importantly, MSP permits synthesis and DSP to be controlled in expressive and powerful ways. The fact is, there are only so many ways to make sound, but there an unlimited variety of ways to control sound, due the way MSP's audio objects work together with Max's timing, control, and user interface tools.
At its most basic level, MSP offers the basic building blocks for synthesis and audio processing: oscillators, filters, delays, and envelopes. In Max 5, they've added the ability to specify the time values of envelopes and phasors in tempo-relative units. The ability to combine low- and high-level components is one of the unique aspects of working with MSP.
Max Features:
- Time: Working with time is easier in Max than traditional programming because you use objects to create visual "timing machines" whose behavior you can see, hear, and modify as they operate. Learn More
- Interactivity: Working with interactivity is easier in Max because you can design interfaces visually, and the interfaces are then part of the program itself. For example, controls the timing and transport of the timing example above. Learn More
- Control: In Max everything can be connected to everything, because everything speaks numbers. Another way to say this is that modularity is a core design principle of everything in the software. Learn More
- Extensibility: Max users extend the environment in every possible direction. As a by-product of their work with the software, passionate Max users have contributed thousands of objects written in C, Java, or Javascript back to the user community.
MSP Features:
- Building Blocks: MSP offers the basic building blocks for synthesis and audio processing: oscillators, filters, delays, and envelopes. You can specify the time values of envelopes and phasors in tempo-relative units. The ability to combine low- and high-level components is one of the unique aspects of working with MSP.
- Sampling, Recording, and Playback: MSP provides a group of objects that work together for sampling and sample playback. All use the buffer~ object that manages sample buffers up to four channels. Learn More
- Compatibility: MSP supports up to 512 input and output channels. On the Mac, MSP provides support for Core Audio and on Windows, there is ASIO, DirectSound, and MME support. Learn More
- User Interface: MSP objects for audio signal display include an oscilloscope, spectral display, level meters, waveform display, and a sonogram. You can use faders with internal smoothing, design multi-band filters graphically and edit functions with arbitrary numbers of breakpoints. Learn More
- Polyphony: The poly~ object lets you use multiple copies of any patcher you make. It supports output mixing, note allocation and voice stealing, dynamic patch loading and voice allocation, and can run patchers in different threads to support multiple processors.
- Extensibility: If you want to develop your own low-level audio algorithms, Max/MSP provides an ideal platform with its C-based API for new unit generators. Max takes care of file I/O and user interface construction as well. Another option for lower-level development is mxj~, a modular Java-based system for audio development.
Jitter Features:
- Video: Although the Jitter architecture is general, it is highly optimized for use with video data, and performs with breathtaking speed. A robust set of mathematical operators, keying/compositing, analysis, colorspace conversion and color correction, alpha channel processing, spatial warping, convolution-based filters, and special effects deliver the building blocks for your own custom video treatments.
- 2D/3D Graphics: Jitter's integrated 2D/3D graphics support provides the tools to use hardware accellerated OpenGL graphics together with video, including the ability to texture 3D geometry with video streams in real-time, convert audio and video streams directly into geometry data, and render models, NURBS, 2D/3D text, and other common shapes.
- Ease of Use: Jitter is tightly integrated with Cycling '74's Max/MSP graphical programming environment which lets you visually connect data processing objects together with patchcords to create custom applications in a similar manner to analog modular synthesizers.
- Matrices: Jitter's strength and flexibility comes from the use of a single generalized matrix data format when working with video, 3D geometry, audio, text, or any other kind of data. Jitter matrices may be composed of one of four data types: char (8 bit unsigned int), long (32 bit signed int), float32 (32 bit floating point), or float64 (64 bit floating point).
- More Details: Jitter objects also make available many aspects of their internal state in ways which will be new to even the most seasoned Max/MSP veterans. Get details about performance, networking, programmability, interoperability, and key features.
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My only goals with Savvy Navigator are to have me and my team a) simplify our clients' lives, and b) make our clients' lives more interesting and fabulous!
I am the Savvy Navigator. A twenty-five-year veteran of the travel industry, I began my career at the age of 8, memorizing seating configurations on the newly launched 747. I went on to book all of my family's holidays, college friends' years abroad, and more honeymoons than Club Med. Over a decade with American Airlines, I concentrated on perfecting the customer experience, creating innovative inflight cuisine, pioneering airport automation, ticketless travel, and setting up the oneworld marketing alliance. From 2010 until 2014, I was the founder and managing partner of AfricanSafaris.com, which I recently sold to my business partners (but still run the USA offices for them)! As I again reinvented myself in the travel space as The Savvy Navigator, luxury-travel enthusiast and go-to guy, I now help my clients plan amazing trips using our global network of Virtuoso™ preferred partners.
I'm a native Texan, and received my MBA from the JL Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. When not traveling the globe to uncover luxury travel experiences, I commute between Manhattan's West Village in NYC and Hollywood, CA. And sometimes my spouse and extremely chill Golden Retriever, #CarlNYC, are in tow.


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I've been using Apache SOLR 1.4 as an indexing server for search lately. Among the fields I index are people's names. Most of the users are English speakers, and many use their proper English name on their profiles, but their friends or colleagues only know to search for them via their common nickname. Thus, if a user stores "Kimberly" as her first name, a search for "Kim" returns no results. That's because SOLR doesn't know how to "stem" proper nouns. Perhaps somebody out there has written a SOLR "common English names stemmer," but I haven't found it.
A seemingly easy solution would be to wrap all the search queries in wildcards under the hood, so if a user enters into the search field "Kim" we silently change that to "*kim*" or some such, and only use that wildcard pattern for the "name" field in the index. For example, our query might become something like:
q=(text:kim, name:*kim*)
Where the "text" field is an aggregation of all the fields we index for each document, and the "name" field only indexes the person's name.
Not only does this seem a little hacky, there's a few problems. One is that I use the DisMaxRequestHandler which doesn't allow wildcard search patterns. The other problem is that as of SOLR 1.4 leading wildcards generally don't play nice, though I believe there are ways to handle them. Also, a search for "Richard" could never find "Dick" (or visa versa) via this method. We need something more than just simple stemming.
SOLR provides a "synonyms" token filter. This essentially allows us to create a map of words that should be considered equals. Thus, we could map:
Kim => Kimberly
SOLR would then know that "Kim" can also mean "Kimberly" and it should search for both those tokens. However, searching for "Kimberly" does not also search for "Kim". The "=>" arrow delimiter specifies that the map is one way. By configuring the synonyms token filter to "expand" the map, designating this map:
Kim, Kimberly
(with commas) means that the synonyms work in both directions. Searching for "Kim" or "Kimberly" will search for both. And you can specify multiple synonyms in one line, like so:
Kim, Kimmy, Kimberly, Kimberlicious
Or, for one way (do you really want a search for "Kimberly" to also search for "Kimberlicious"?):
Kim, Kimmy, Kimberlicious => Kimberly
All we need now is a map file that has all the common english nicknames. UsefulEnglish.ru to the rescue! They have lists of common male and female English nicknames.
You can download my SOLR formatted synonyms file. You should note that this file doesn't do any "one way mapping" even though it probably should in some cases. For example, based on this synonyms line:
Caroline, Carolyn, Carolina, Carlyne, Carline, Karoline, Carrie, Carry, Caddie, Caddy, Carlie, Carly, Callie, Cally, Carol, Lynn, Lynne, Lin
A search for "Carlie" also searches for "Lynn" which is probably not desirable. In reality, this line should probably be broken up into one or more maps that make a little more sense:
Carrie, Carry, Caddie, Caddy, Carlie, Carly, Callie, Cally, Carol, Caroline, Carolyn, Carlyne, Carline, Karoline Lynn, Lynne, Lin, Caroline, Carolyn, Carlyne, Carline, Karoline
Here all the "nick names" become grouped even though the "real names" are repeated. For example, a search for "Lynn" now searches for everything on line 2… but not, say "Caddy". And, a search for "Carolyn" will search for "Caddy" and "Lynn" since "Carolyn" appears on both lines.
I have not done any empirical benchmarking using this synonyms file, but I can say based on my observations that searches do run slower using the synonyms filter. I don't know the exact performance implications of making the file more complicated, but I assume that length and overlapping maps/words would only serve to slow things down.
To use the synonyms filter with this file, I first created a special field type in my SOLR schema.xml file:
<fieldType name="textEnglishName" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/> <filter class="solr.ASCIIFoldingFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="english_names.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/> <filter class="solr.ASCIIFoldingFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldType>
Nothing fancy here! I'm using the ASCIIFoldingFilter to replace accented characters when possible with ASCII equivalents. Also, no stemming filter is present. And, the synonyms filter is only used during query, not during index.
Then, I just use the "textEnglishName" field type for any field that indexes a person's name:
<fields> <field name="name" type="textEnglishName" indexed="true" stored="false"/> </fields>


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You will discover several benefits on Nike Air Max Lebron VII shoes. Owing to their fashionable appearances as well as the extraordinary design; they're favored so much from day one of their birth. Nike Company adopt excellent material to create these footwear that happen to be likely to make these sneakers show satisfying performance. People want to have certain expectations every time a set of two sports footwear cost them $160. The truth is, all your above wises will likely be realized by choice of Nike Air Max Lebron VII shoes. Regarding Nike Air Max Lebron VII shoes, their edges are round, and patents, thick. The stitching on these shoes is very precise. Besides, Nike Company applies the most up-to-date technology in the design and making of which. Price usually reflects the product quality and performance of items. By tariff of that money, Nike Air Max Lebron VII shoes won't are truly disappointing.
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Special Education Parent Intake Center
Recognizing that parents, families and caregivers of special needs students have unique concerns and needs, the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) launched a Special Education Parent Intake Center to provide students with the special support they need.
The Dallas ISD Special Education Department created the Parent Intake Center to strengthen communication with parents and families of special needs students ages 3 to 21 who face significant challenges and need additional support.
The center is a point of access for parents with students in special education who need resources to:
- Resolve concerns regarding special education services and become involved in their child's education
- Become informed about educational processes and effective parenting
- Obtain services in the community and beyond
- Plan transitions for the special needs student
The center is staffed by social workers and supported by central staff from the district's Special Education Department. The center is designed to assist families in developing the communication, collaboration, and trust necessary to achieve positive outcomes for their students.
The Dallas ISD Special Education Department has developed a parent survey that will provide valuable feedback to help us improve the Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) process.
The survey will be given to parents at the close of each ARD meeting or they can also download it here.
Parent Survey- English Parent Survey- Spanish
Once parents have completed the survey, they can submit it in any of the following ways:
- Return it to their student's teacher
- Mail it to:
Attention: Parent Survey
9400 North Central Expressway
Special Education Box 24
Dallas, TX 75231
- Email it to:
For more information call the Parent Intake Center at 972-581-4120.
Coronavirus (COVID19) Resources List
The special education department has created a helpful resource list to assist families with details regarding support, community services, and programs during the Coronavirus (COVID19) crisis.
If you would like to submit a question about the Special Education Parent Intake Center, please click the link below and complete our online form.


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Law.Gov is a national effort to make all primary legal materials in the United States freely available in bulk, so the raw materials of our democracy can be used by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Carl Malamud will discuss how this effort grew out of the last Government 2.0 Summit to become a national movement involving top government officials, major law schools, the nation's law librarians, and a host of companies and researchers all dedicated to making the law more readily available.
Carl Malamud is the founder of Public.Resource.Org, a nonprofit that has been instrumental in placing government information on the Internet. Prior to that he was the Chief Technology Officer at the Center for American Progress and was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, where he ran the first radio station on the Internet.
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By: Alice
Apple's ipod has been long dominating the digital media player (DMP) market. And why not; ipod has been far superior in performance and features when compared to its rivals.
But Microsoft is set to change this by coming out with their own media player named zune, which will debut to the world on November 14, 2006. The product is being manufactured by Toshiba under Microsoft's name and will be available for exactly the same price as the 30GB ipod.
Here I'll compare and list a few key differences between zune and ipod. For example I'll take the 30GB ipod. Since, Microsoft is also offering 30GB storage for zune.
Below are the list of features supported by zune and not Ipod.
* Landscape video
* Preloaded Audio and video
* Built in FM tuner
* Social networking (and)
* Custom background.
But two major differences are file sharing and Wi-Fi (aka wireless) support.
Yes, every zune will have the ability to wirelessly share and play songs, videos and pictures with other zunes. Microsoft zune will be able to hold 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video.
With all the exciting and promising features, Microsoft will definitely take a big chunk of media player market form apple, but how much only time will tell.
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International Socialism Journal 124
The new issue of International Socialism journal (issue 124) is out now. This issue includes:
• Peyman Jafari on Rupture and revolt in Iran.
• Special collection on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, featuring Gareth Dale on the East German Revolution and Adam Fabry on the fate of Eastern Europe since 1989.
• Oliver Nachtwey on the rise of the German left party Die Linke.
• Interview with Michael Bradley and Charlie Kimber on the latest phase of class struggle in Britain.
• Andrew Kliman reviews Chris Harman's latest book, Zombie Capitalism.
• John Molyneux gives his views on democracy and Leninist organisation.
• Neil Davidson examines Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine.
• David Renton on the rise of the industrial tribunal system.
• Joseph Choonara on Goldman Sachs's estimates of profit rates.
• Plus: reviews, analysis and pick of the quarter.
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Flight from LHR – JED – DOH
The Oasis Hotel & Beach Club, Doha, Qatar
I was five minutes late getting to TriStar House this morning, where I was greeted by the scornful wrath of Helen, on the crewing desk. She was so annoyed that I fully expected her to say she was taking me off the trip (which would not exactly have made me cry!) but she obviously knew the best punishment would be to send me here.
On a positive note, Doha is dry, so with no alcohol in sight it'll give me a chance to catch up on some much needed sleep. We made a quick stop in Jeddah today, which always makes the duty day feel much longer but that's not why I'm knackered.
Just as I was about to leave the house yesterday, Jack rang.
"Sorry I had to cancel on Sunday."
"I take it you're feeling better?"
"Much better," he said. "Back at work today."
"I'm glad to hear it."
"What are you up to?"
"I'm just getting ready to drive to Hampton Hill."
"Hampton Hill? What's in Hampton Hill?"
"Three very good friends. And a flat. Where I'm spending the night."
He laughed. "Sounds like a big night ahead."
"I don't expect it to be, I have an early morning check in, hence the…"
"Oh, so you're free tonight?"
"Hampton Hill's my neck of the woods, I could meet you for a drink."
"You live in London!"
"You know what I mean."
I laughed. "You're nowhere close to where I'm going."
"I can be."
"Ok, let's meet for a drink," I said, surprising myself.
"Where?" he asked.
"I don't know the area that well and I hate driving in new places, so.."
He laughed. "Don't worry about that, just tell me where you'll be and I'll come and pick you up."
That's how it started; an incredible night in London with Jack, the guy I had no desire to kiss not even two weeks ago, when I feigned food poisoning just to get away from him!
And now, after our lingering kiss by the bus stop outside the flat last night, I can't wait to get home and do it all again.


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Reading scripture on the streets of St Paul often feels like a reality test. Am I reading about my present surroundings or about events 2000 years ago? I wonder at God's word present in this moment.
The Christmas gospel reading is no different. I will read it this Thursday as we prepare to welcome the baby Jesus, the light of the world, back into this world. At least, liturgically, clearly, he hasn't left us.
And so I will read, "In those days, a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria."
Doesn't take much to make this sound like present day events. A registration taken while Assad was president of Syria. Or, As minority President Trump called for a registration of all muslims. It doesn't feel far away. It feels as though this story of God acting in the world isn't 2000 years old. It isn't so strange sounding.
On the streets of St Paul, the next verses sounds more familiar. Our folks have to travel across county lines for court and medical care. They have to find ways to travel down to welfare in order to be counted for their benefits. It isn't so different from the traveling of Mary and Joseph. Transportation that isn't optimal. Timing that isn't optimal. A process that feels ridiculous and complicated.
And sometimes, in the traveling, babies come.
Several years ago, I knew a woman. She was released from the women's prison in Minnesota in mid November. She was from Red Lake in the far Northwest corner of Minnesota. She was released into the cold with no transportation back home. She was released a week before her due date.
I spent a few days in conversation with her mother, who just wanted to get her back to Bemidji for the birth. We had plans for a bus ticket. And, baby did what babies do best, she was born at an inopportune time. Baby girl made her appearance while her mother was pondering how to get from Minneapolis to Bemidji. Baby girl was born at Hennepin County Medical Center rather than the Bemidji Hospital.
There are so many ways in which this story illustrates the brokenness of our systems. A prison releasing a Native American woman to homelessness, in the winter, while 9 months pregnant. There are so many ways the story in Luke clues us into the injustices that surround Christ's birth. There is a foreign emperor making demands upon vulnerable people, with no concern as to their ability to complete the task demanded.
And we wonder, what is the good news here? How are the difficulties encountered by homeless mothers wondering if baby will come before there is a home ready good news?
But, that is just it.
Jesus came before things were perfectly ready in the home. The nursery wasn't set up. The cute onesies hadn't been bought. The registry, the one that is fun to do, hadn't been done. There were no ridiculous shower games played in preparation for baby to come. Jesus came as the most vulnerable of babies. He came as a child to parents not yet married. He came as a child to people under empire. He came as a child to parents with limited housing options. He came when the hospital refused the family's insurance.
And still, he came.
Jesus came into the hot mess of Mary and Joseph and their travels. God's only son came into the world in a messy family system. Step dad and mother, traveling to receive the benefits (or disadvantages) of the empire.
Jesus came. God came and dwelt among us. God came to experience the life that the lowliest of folks experience. God came. God came and gave us the hope that the brokenness of this world isn't too much for God. God came to know intimately the suffering of oppressed people.
I find it comforting that God can show up in this humble place. So simple. I find it comforting as I look at our altar table with treats and coffee and stains. I know that while sometimes God shows up with the host of angels, God also shows up on a sidewalk. God shows up at the gates of the prison. God shows up at the public hospital. God shows up where God's people are most vulnerable.
Take heart in the dark winter days. God is showing up for you and with you.
Keep hope alive!


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Somehow the Rat wasn't surprised to see the year 2000 problem rear its ugly head in a Page 1 story above the fold in his local newspaper. The buzz this time was about Maryland's $100 million code crisis.
The state has had to commit to spending about $20 per taxpayer to straighten out its discombobulated code. Now that's a figure the Rat really can sink his incisors into.
With the Federal Acquisition Regulation clause on year 2000 compliance finally out, the Rat figures a buffer full of money will start draining out from his departmental coffers into what he regards as the Ultimate Job Security Hack.
Yep, the wired one suspects that about 30 years ago, some farsighted code jockey figured out how to save precious register space while at the same time preserving Cobol career opportunities well into the next millennium: Use only two-digit dates.
That hacker ninja is probably pulling down at least $150 an hour somewhere right now, straightening out his old code as he designs an addition to his villa in Tuscany.
It's enough to make the cyberrodent wish for a reduction in force. He's been mulling over dusting off his Cobol notebooks and hanging out a consulting shingle: "Have Code, Will Travel."
After all, the world is going to have to cough up billions of dollars to avoid waking up on New Year's Day, 2000, and finding every computer blinking like a VCR clock after a power outage.
As a consultant, the whiskered one probably could max out his IRA contributions pretty easily.
And with half the office out on late-summer vacation, he's had lots of time to daydream about it.
In his flights of fantasy, the Rat would suavely wax his whiskers into a neat mustache, don a tie and sally forth to pass out his card to distressed-looking systems managers. Then he could tour the country in a private Amtrak car dispensing his Code of Justice--in exchange, of course, for a minority share in each business he saved.
Considering that it costs about a dollar per line of code to find and fix Cobol misbehavior, the scenario doesn't stretch the imagination too far. And it applies only to the lucky folks who have high-level source code for applications. Others are having to trawl for bad data fields in assembler code. Or worse.
Also, of course, there are plenty of computers with BIOS chips that will return their clock settings to 1981 or so each morning after Jan. 1, 2000.
Naturally, these things could have been fixed a lot more cheaply 10 years ago. It's a classic pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later situation. For some reason, nobody back in the 1980s thought the code would still be running today.
As the Rat is fond of telling his minions, "Old code never dies. It just gets patched."
He suspects his agency would still be functioning with punch card-driven Babbage engine applications if it could find anyone to maintain the gears and pins.
Suddenly the phone buzzed, stirring the Rat from his ruminations. It was his department head, who also had read the newspaper and just realized how many lines of Clipper code with two-digit year fields the agency is still running.
The Rat reluctantly put aside his newspaper and coffee to go talk the boss down off the ledge.
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Urban transport has historically not received the attention, careful planning and financial support it deserves in order to function in a sustainable manner. As a step to address this issue, this new GTZ Sourcebook module provides detailed information on available options for financing urban transport. It presents different financing instruments and ways in which they can be best used, and how to optimally combine them. This module is dedicated to policy makers, financial sector specialists and urban planners/practitioners working on key challenges related to financing urban transport systems. The sourcebook provides options to close the gap between the ever growing demand for efficient, equitable and environmentally friendly urban transport systems on one hand, and the dwindling financial resources available to state and local authorities on the other.
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Constance Foore "Connee" Boswell (December 3, 1907, Kansas City, Missouri – October 11, 1976, New York) was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. With her sisters, Martha and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell, she performed in the 1930s as The Boswell Sisters and became a highly influential singing group during this period via recordings and radio. Connee herself is widely considered one of the greatest jazz female vocalists and was a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald who said, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it….I tried so hard to sound just like her."[1]
Connie Boswell and the Victor Young Orchestra, "Blue Moon" 1935
In 1936, Connee's sisters retired and Connee continued on as a solo artist (having also recorded solos during her years with the group).
The Boswells came to be well known locally while still in their early teens, making appearances in New Orleans theaters and radio. They made their first recordings for Victor Records in 1925, which included "Cryin' Blues" where Connee is featured singing in the style of her early influence, the African American singer Mamie Smith. The Boswell Sisters became stage professionals that year when they were tapped to fill in for an act at New Orleans' Orpheum Theatre. They received an invitation to come to Chicago and perform in 1928 and honed their act on the Western Vaudeville Circuit. When their tour ended they traveled to San Francisco. The hotel that had been recommended had a less than savory reputation, and the man at the desk suggested that these three young ladies might be better off in another hotel. That man, Harry Leedy, would later become their manager on a handshake and become a permanent part of Connee's life.
1931 -"I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart"
The Boswell Sisters travelled to Los Angeles where they performed on local radio and "side-miked" for the soundies, including the 1930 production "Under Montana Skies." They did not attain national attention, however, until they moved to New York City in 1930 and started making national radio broadcasts. After a few recordings with Okeh Records, they made numerous recordings for Brunswick Records from 1931-1935. In 1935, the sisters had a #1 hit with "The Object of My Affection", the biggest of twenty top 20 records they would enjoy.
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
In 1936, the group signed to Decca Records and after just three releases called it quits (the last recording was February 12, 1936). Connee Boswell continued to have a successful solo career as a singer for Decca.
All through her career with The Boswell Sisters, and well into the 1940s, her name was spelled "Connie". She later changed the spelling to Connee, reputedly because it made it easier to sign autographs.
Connee Boswell was also an arranger (the Boswell Sisters harmony arrangements are hers) and a composer.
Connee sang from a wheelchair – or seated position – during her entire career, due to either a childhood bout with polio or a childhood accident (sources differ). The general public was not aware of her condition although Boswell herself did not keep this secret. During World War II, she tried to get involved with the U.S.O. tours but was not given permission to travel overseas. The Army thought it might not be a morale-booster to have a singer who used a wheelchair perform for the troops.
"I'll Get By"
Connee Boswell was a favorite duet partner of Bing Crosby and they frequently sang together on radio as well as recording several hit records as a duo in the 1930s and 1940's. Boswell, Crosby, and Eddie Cantor recorded a version of Alexander's Ragtime Band that was a #1 hit in 1938.In 1939, Crosby and Boswell had three hit duet records that each climbed into the top 12 on Billboard; "An Apple For The Teacher" climbed all the way to #2.
"Its The Talk Of The Town"
Boswell also had several dozen solo hits, including "Moonlight Moon" in 1942. Boswell's career slackened in the 1950s but she still recorded occasionally and would be featured on a number of television broadcasts including a regular stint on the 1959 series "Pete Kelly's Blues".
Connee Boswell died from stomach cancer at age 68 in 1976, in New York. A number of her recordings are now available on CD, both as a soloist and part of the Boswell Sisters.
Sources: Wikiepedia, youtube, imdb.com
The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (original name Connie) (December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988), noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation. They attained national prominence in the USA in the 1930s.
"Cheek To Cheek"
They were raised by a middle-class family on Camp Street in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Martha and Connie were born in Kansas City, Missouri. Helvetia was born in Birmingham, Alabama. (Connee's name was originally spelled Connie until she changed it in the 1940s.)
"Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter"
They came to be well known in New Orleans while still in their early teens, making appearances in local theaters and radio. They made their first record for Victor Records in 1925. However, the Boswell Sisters did not attain national attention until they moved to New York City in 1930 and started making national radio broadcasts. After a few recordings with Okeh Records in 1930, they made numerous recordings for Brunswick Records from 1931-1935. These Brunswick records are widely regarded as milestone recordings of vocal jazz. Connee's ingenious reworkings of the melodies and rhythms of popular songs, together with Glenn Miller's hot arrangements, and first rate New York jazz musicians (including The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Fulton McGrath, Joe Venuti, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Lang, Joe Tarto, Manny Klein, Dick McDonough, and Carl Kress), made these recordings unlike any others. Melodies were rearranged and slowed down, major keys were changed to minor keys (sometimes in mid-song) and rhythmic changes were par for the course. They were among the very few performers who were allowed to make changes to current popular tunes as during this era, music publishers and record companies pressured performers not to alter current popular song arrangements. Connee also recorded a series of more conventional solo records for Brunswick during the same period.
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
The name of their 1934 song "Rock and Roll" is an early use of the term. It is not one of their hotter numbers; it refers to "the rolling rocking rhythm of the sea".
In 1936, the group signed to Decca and after just 3 records, broke up (the last recording was February 12, 1936).
Connie Boswell continued to have a successful solo career as a singer for Decca. She later changed the spelling of her name from Connie to Connee in the 1940's, reputedly because it made it easier to sign autographs. (It's interesting to note that Connee sang from a wheelchair – or seated position – during her entire career, due to an accident she suffered as a young child. Amazingly, when she tried to get involved with the overseas U.S.O tours. during World War II, she was not given permission to travel overseas due to her disability.)
"Sleepy Time Down South"
The Boswell Sisters chalked up 20 hits during the 1930s including the number one record "The Object of My Affection" in 1935.
During the early 1930's the Boswell Sisters, Three X Sisters, and Pickens Sisters were the talk of early radio female harmonizing. The Andrews Sisters started out as Boswell Sisters imitators. Young Ella Fitzgerald loved the Boswell Sisters and in particular idolized Connee, after whose singing style she patterned her own.
Current groups The Pfister Sisters, Stolen Sweets, and Boswellmania, or the Italian trio Sorelle Marinetti continue to imitate the sisters' recordings. The Ditty Bops have covered Boswell sisters songs in concert.
In 2001, The Boswell Sisters, a major musical based on their lives, was produced at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California. The play starred Michelle Duffy, Elizabeth Ward Land, and Amy Pietz and was produced by the same team that produced Forever Plaid. The show was a hit with audiences and a critical success, but failed to be picked up for a much hoped-for Broadway run.
The Boswell Sisters were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. At a ceremony covered by the Pfister Sisters, the Boswells were inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
Solo Hit recordings For Connie Boswell
|Chart positions
|"Say It Isn't So"
|"Isn't It a Shame"
|"Moon Over Miami"
|"On the Beach At Bali Bali"
|"Whispers In the Dark"
|"Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)"(with Bing Crosby)
|"Basin Street Blues"(with Bing Crosby)
|"Fare Thee, Honey, Fare Thee Well"
|"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
|"Alexander's Ragtime Band"(with Bing Crosby)
|"Simple and Sweet"
|"An Apple For Teacher"(with Bing Crosby)
|"Start the Day Right"(with Bing Crosby)
|"At Least You Could Say Hello"
|"Between 18th & 19th On Chestnut Street"(with Bing Crosby)
|"On the Isle of May"
|"Let's Be Buddies"
|"Sand In My Shoes"
|"I'll Keep On Loving You"
|"South Wind"
|"Moonlight Mood"
|"Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me"
|"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"
|"Who Told You That Lie?"
|"Ole Buttermilk Sky"
|"You Were Meant For Me"
|"My Little Nest of Heavenly Blue"
|"Singin' the Blues"
|"Main Street On Saturday Night"
|"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"
|"The Philadelphia Waltz"
|"If I Give My Heart To You"


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Before you get too excited thinking this is a wanted poster in the criminal sense; it is not. It is an offer from Microsoft to pay a "bounty" to hackers who discover and document security flaws in its Identity Services software. So, crime pays? No, this is white hat hacking, and no crimes are being committed.
White hat hackers are security researchers and others who test software, firmware, and other computer tech to identify flaws that can be turned into exploits by the bad actors, or "black hat" hackers. These good guys of the "hackiverse" work to counteract the efforts of their nefarious counterparts. Sometimes the good guys steal a march on the bad guys and find flaws before they become problems for millions of computer users around the world.
A reasonable quest to ask is, "Why doesn't Microsoft do this type of research themselves? Wouldn't it be cheaper?" Of course, it would be cheaper, but software and hardware developers have proven over the last few years that they don't or can't find the flaws. Some of it comes from the "can't see the forest for the trees" effect. Developers are so close to the tech that they become blind to flaws. Another contributing factor is the sheer complexity of software and hardware. A third contributor can be pressure to meet release dates.
What they need are fresh eyes and minds taking apart their products in a real-world setting. The white hat hackers apply various tools and techniques to see what happens. They are people free to make things break, just what developers need.
An article in Hacker News goes into the details of the Microsoft Identity Bounty Program. Microsoft is trying to create software that eliminates the ability to compromise and use the digital identities of users. If they can secure this piece of the puzzle, Microsoft severely limits the value of any data stolen. It is the digital identity that gives stolen data maximum value on the dark web.
The payout range is from $500 to USD 100,000. Microsoft has set up specific criteria and conditions that determine how much each flaw submitted earns. The submittal must attack certain pieces of software related to creating and protecting digital identities and must be fully documented in a manner that allows replication by Microsoft.
Not being blessed with the mad coding skills of either white hat or black hat hackers, I cannot comment on how the bounty amounts are enough to entice people into trying to earn them. The amounts seem attractive, but I can imagine the value of stolen data exceeding the bounties by a fair amount, even if they score these sales with less frequency.
Perhaps this will spark a trend and encourage action on the part of the good actors. It will be nice to see our side beating the bad guys to the punch more often.
In the meantime, you can trust the security of your digital identity and data when communicating via the internet to the CRIP.TO end-to-end encryption solution. We use a unique recipe of encryption algorithms and custom hardware to provide the highest level of secured communications available to individuals, groups, and companies.
We all deserve the freedom to communicate fearlessly, free from worry over hackers or others intercepting and decrypting our messages, identities, and data. With CRIP.TO you get that freedom. Check us out to learn how.


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Jodha Akbar 29th May 2014 Written Episode Update
Jodha Akbar 29th May 2014 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
Scene 1
ruks is coughing, jalal and jodha comes there, jalal ask what happened, ruks says I am feeling restless, I am feeling dizzy, jalal takes her in arms and says nothing will happen to you, jodha says I told you to not take hookah this happened because of it, ruks ask jalal do you love me? jalal says I love you, I love you. jodha feels bad, jalal takes her to bed and says I am with you, jodha is with you don't worry, ruks says I feel nice that jodha is with me, she takes care of me, she says I have headache will you prepare remedy for me, jodha agrees and start making remedy, ruks says jalal take me in your arms, she tightly holds jalal and hugs him while jalal makes her comfortable, jodha sees it and feels bad, ruks thinks whenever jalal will come close to jodha I will come inbetween.
shehnaz comes in adham's room to find some proofs, she is tensed and says I have to take risk, she is searching when adham comes and hugs her from behind, she says who are you, he says for whom you came here, she says I came for doll, adham says I will bring many dolls for you, shehnaz pushes him and comes out of room. PRECAP. shehnaz starts laughing and says did you enjoy, jodha comes there, shehnaz says he snatched my dupatta, jodha ask adham why he did that, he says she came to my room not me went to her, jodha says that doesn't mean you will snatch her dupatta, she gives dupatta to shehnaz, adham says she is mad who roam in others rooms, her freedom should be snatched, jodha says things are changing in this palace and if you want things to not go further, remember my warning to not do this again, she scolds shehnaz to not roam around, they goes.
Scene 2
all prisoners who were freed comes in palace to get official freedom, zakira sees Rahim playing in lawn, she snatches knife from soldier and runs towards Rahim, she attacks Rahim, Rahim becomes unconscious, jodha salima comes there and finds blood on Rahim's face, jalal comes. jalal is stunned, jalal shouts on zakira that I freed you and you did this, he orders to put her behind bars, I will decide your punishment, zakira says my intention was not wrong, jalal takes out his sword, Rahim gets conscious, jalal sees snake in prickly plant, zakira informs jalal that I was waiting for you when I saw Rahim moving towards this snake, I was with snakes my whole lofe so I knew that this snake was very dangerous and time was less to save Rahim so I took soldier's sword and attacked the snake not Rahim, jalal says oh I didn't see it earlier, he ask soldiers to leave her.
Scene 3
in court, jalal thanks zakira, he says you took right decision and saved Rahim, zakira says you freed me, I did such a big mistake even then you forgave me, I took many lives when I was with Rahim but today I came to know its such I beautiful thing to save a life, I can even give my life for you. jalal ask what you need as gift, zakira says I don't need anything but if you want to give me then take in under your support, include in your shahi bandhies in palace, atgah says says she was with Benazir for long time tried to take your life, we cant trust her. jodha gets up and says I second atgah, she was with Benazir and maybe she did all this to get our trust then she can come close and will do what Benazir couldn't do, if she can snatch knife from soldier to kill snake then she can kill anybody else, she tried to attack jalal, how can I trust you, zakira says you gave me life, zakira says to jodha if you don't trust me then you can even behead, jodha says if that's the case then kill yourself, bandhi brings knife, jodha ask her to kill herself, zakira says I will be happy to give my life for you, she about to stab her but jodha stops her and says I was just checking your loyality you don't nedd to kill yourself, she ask jalal to take her in palace, salima says jodha is right, she saved Rahim's life, she did a big thing so we should take her as bandhi, jalal agrees, jodha says I want to take her under my control. jalal says you are very intelligent, 1st you checked her loyalty and when she was proved loyal you are taking her, jodha is stunned to see his taunt even in court, jalal says you want to take all loyal people under you, he gets conscious that he is in court and says okay she will work for jodha now, court meeting ends, jalal is about to leave but turns and smiles at jodha who smiles broadly.
SCene 4
ruks is in her, she sees jalal coming to harem, she says now jalal will only come to her room, she says jalal going to jodha's room, she says what he should be with me.
zakira thanks jodha to take her under her support, jodha says sorry I had to take your test just to satisfy myself, jodha says now I will ask ruks to take back hoshiyar, hoshiyar has wrked for her many years, he knows her likes and dislikes, she will happy to have him back. jalal comes and says whose happiness? zakira and moti leaves, jodha says you here, jalal says do I need any reason to come to you, cant I come with a reason that I want to come to you,i want to spend time with you. jalal says now I should be afraid of you as zakira is with you who was once with Benazir, now you can trap me, jodha says if that's the case then you should be, they laughs. jalal is holding his neck, jodha ask what happened, jalal says I have pain in neck, jodha says I will bring home cream, she comes and start massaging his neck, he says this cream is amazing, jodha says I learnt this cream from my amer doctor, jalal says I don't know magic is in your hands or in this cream, jodha says its not in cream neither in my hands but magic in your thoughts, it is said that when you enjoy someone's company, your pain also goes away with his company. jalal says I wanna ask you something serious, I am very busy in political matters as maham is not there and also ruks is not putting her inputs in politics so will you help me in political matters, jodha says how can I, I am taking care of ruks as she is giving birth to yur child, jalal says you take care of everyone bu doesn't think about yourself, this is also talent of you, jodha smiles. jalal and jodha comes close to kiss but bandhi comes and says ruks is calling jodha, jalal says again, jodha says yes.
PRECAP- jodha says to jalal that I wanna give you one gift, jalal ask what, jodha says for that you need to close your eyes, jalal closes his eyes and ask should I open it? jodha is shy and says no, jodha comes closer to her to kiss him.
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The Ameland-site: offers you a varied choice in holiday houses, apartments, rooms and caravans
belonging to private owners on Ameland.
This beautiful island is situated on the northern coast of Holland . You reach the island by the ferry service, which takes approximately 45 minutes
Ameland offers a variety of holiday accommodations, old fisherman cottages in the village, apartments and houses nearby the beach, bed and breakfast facilities and holiday houses in the dunes.
To book your holiday accommodation is easy. You can check the availability and book directly.
All of the villages have camp-sites with a wide variety of caravans and space for tents. The choice of recreational accommodation has been classified to each village.Ameland has a 27 km
long beach and 4 villages, you arrive in Nes.
Nes has many hotels and restaurants, In Buren you will find the holiday park Klein Vaarwater,
Ballum is a characteristic village and has a pub �Nobel� which has been voted the best in the Netherlands ,
In Hollum you will find the golf course which is near to the holiday park Boomhiemke.
Horse riding on the beach, walking in the dunes, swimming in the sea, sea fishing in the wad or simply lounging at one of the splendid beach pavilions, its all possible on Ameland.
If you want to bring your car , we recommend that you book it in advance at the Wagenborg reservation
office in Nes.
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Complete achromatopsia is an autosomal recessive inherited congenital disorder of retinal cone photoreceptors. Patients with complete achromatopsia experience extreme light sensitivity and daytime blindness, and best visual acuity under non-bright light conditions is usually 20/200 or worse and generally stable over time. In addition to poor acuity, hypersensitivity to light is an extremely troubling symptom. No specific therapy is currently available. Previous studies in a dog model of achromatopsia caused by mutations in the CNGB3 gene showed that subretinal injection of a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector expressing human CNGB3 rescued cone photoreceptor function but at high doses was associated with findings consistent with immune-mediated toxicity that may be due to the low amino acid identity between human and canine CNGB3. The objectives of the studies proposed in this Fast-Track Phase I/II STTR application are to confirm and extend these findings by comparing rAAV vectors expressing human or canine CNGB3. This will be accomplished by constructing an AAV proviral plasmid or rHSV helper virus containing canine CNGB3 cDNA driven by a cone-specific promoter and using the construct to produce rAAV vectors expressing canine or human CNGB3 that will be tested for safety and efficacy in the dog model of CNGB3-related achromatopsia. Previous attempts to clone a stable, full-length dog CNGB3 (dCNGB3) coding region into a plasmid to generate an AAV expression cassette that could be used to packaging a rAAV-CNGB3 vector have been uniformly unsuccessful. To overcome this problem, we will use two innovative approaches. In one approach we will modify the codons of the dCNGB3 cDNA in a way that they favor gene expression in humans but are rarely utilized in E. coli. To overcome toxicity related to a presumed cryptic promoter, we will also introduce a mutation at codon 340 (from methionine to leucine), and additional silent mutations (i.e. using synonymous codons) upstream of codon 340, in order to suppress possible internal promoter functions. In a second approach we will directly introduce a synthesized dCNGB3 expression cassette into a recombinant herpes simplex virus (HSV) helper virus that can be used for rAAV production using AGTC's HSV-based rAAV production system, thereby bypassing the potential of toxicity in E. coli meditated by plasmids containing a dCNGB3 expression cassette. These studies will also support development of several assays critical to support of human clinical studies of a product to treat Achromatopsia. A better understanding of the effects of rAAV-CNGB3 vectors in animals, especially with respect to toxicity seen at higher doses, will help to guide future development of rAAV-CNGB3 gene therapy for human patients.
Complete achromatopsia is an inherited retinal disorder characterized by severely reduced visual acuity, daytime blindness and complete loss of color discrimination. It can be caused by mutations in any one of four different genes. Gene therapy using a modified virus containing a normal copy of one of these genes can improve vision and correct daytime blindness in animal models of achromatopsia. The current research project will provide information on how to evaluate the safety of gene therapy vectors in an animal model of the disease.
|Ye, Guo-Jie; Komáromy, András M; Zeiss, Caroline et al. (2017) Safety and Efficacy of AAV5 Vectors Expressing Human or Canine CNGB3 in CNGB3-Mutant Dogs. Hum Gene Ther Clin Dev 28:197-207
|Petersen-Jones, Simon M; Komáromy, András M (2015) Dog models for blinding inherited retinal dystrophies. Hum Gene Ther Clin Dev 26:15-26


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The Probation Service in England and Wales supervised some 234,528 people in 2011. This is almost three times the number of people in prison, yet probation achieved this huge scale of supervision with a relatively small number of staff. On 30th June 2012, the Probation Service employed a total of just 17,881 staff (this figure includes Chief Executives).
The number of probation staff is limited compared to (for example) the 134,101 police officers in post on 31 March 2012, or to the 45,576 prison service and NOMS HQ staff in post on the same day.
In addition, the total of 17,881 probation staff was 585 staff fewer than the year before.
Staff working in management roles in probation accounted for 11.87% of the total workforce (or 2,123 staff).
Probation: Providing Real Value
While probation does not always get a fair press, it provides immense value to the taxpayer, particularly when viewed in the context of the fiscal cost of imprisonment.
In 2011/12, the average cost for each Community Order/Suspended Sentence Order supervised was £4,135. The cost per offender supervised on licence post-custody was £2,380. The cost of writing a Pre-Sentence Report was just £215.
These figures compare very favourably with the average cost of providing a prison place for the year, which is £37,648.
As the shift to privatisation of a substantial proportion of the work of the Probation Service's work flies, it is worth bearing the value offered by probation in mind.
Probation: A Representative & Diverse Service?
How representative of the wider population is probation? Women represented 71% of the probation workforce in post on 31 December 2011, whilst men were 29% of the total. The percentage of probation posts held by female staff has remained steady (hovering around 70-71%) since 2009, notwithstanding a 7% drop in the overall number of probation posts during this period.
The proportion of senior probation posts held by women rose by 5% between 2009 and 2011.
In terms of race and ethnicity, 14.1% of probation staff were from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BME) background on 31 December 2010.
Probation staff from a Black ethnic background represented 8.3%, those from an Asian background represented 3.5%, those of Mixed background were 1.8% and while those of Chinese or Other background represented 0.5% of the service.
The proportion of senior probation staff (that is, Chief Executives, Deputy Chief Officers, Assistant Chief Officers and Area/District Managers) from a BME background was 8%.
All of these figures suggest that probation has enjoyed more success in achieving diversity amongst its staff, including senior staff, than other criminal justice agencies.
At a senior level, 8.0% of staff identified themselves as from a BME background (up from 7.6% in 2009). Those from Black and Asian backgrounds represented 4.1% (up from 3.6% in 2009) and 2.5% (down from 2.9% in 2009) of senior level staff respectively.
Probation's Caseload
The annual total probation caseload (court orders and pre and post release supervision) grew by 39% between 2000 and 2008, peaking at 243,434. It then marginally decreased to 234,528 in 2011.
The total of community orders fell by 8% in 2011 compared to the previous year.
Out of a total of 28,638 community orders which were terminated in the quarter ending on 30 June 2012, over two thirds (67%) were successfully completed or alternatively were terminated early for good progress.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the growth in probation's caseload between 2000 and 2008 was propelled by
- Introducing new court orders, in particular the Suspended Sentence Order (SSO) in 2005 (under the Criminal Justice Act 2003).
- A rise in people receiving both pre and post-release supervision caseload due to:
- An increase in the total of those serving prison sentences of 12+ months who need to be supervised following their release;
- offenders who spend longer time on licence following release from prison with theCriminal Justice Act 2003
Supervision on Licence
Offenders serving a sentence of twelve months and over are released from prison (usually automatically, at the half way point of their prison sentence) and are subject licensed supervision by probation.
Between 1999 and June 2012, a total of some 590,000 offenders were released from prison on licence. Between April 1999 and June 2012, 143,000 of those released on licence were recalled to custody for breaching the conditions of their licence. This could be a result of various factors, including failure to report to their probation officer.
Of all those recalled to custody, only 976 had not been returned to custody by 30 September 2012. Of the 976 individuals, 117 were originally serving a jail sentence for offences involving violence against the person and an additional 33 people for sexual offences.
Probation is sometimes stereotyped as a service which is not sufficiently 'tough' on offenders.During the quarter ending June 2012, a total of 4,052 offenders had their licence revoked and were recalled. By 30 September 2012, 3,975 of these recalled offenders had been returned to custody. However, 77 had not been returned to custody.
Overall, around three quarters (76%) of orders and licences were successfully completed in 2011/12.
Probation & Community Payback
The Probation Service has operated offender behaviour programmes (for example, on domestic violence, sex offending, drug and alcohol treatment and thinking skills) for more than two decades. In addition, unpaid work is one of 12 possible requirements that may be attached a Community or Suspended Sentence Order.
While unpaid work is officially viewed primarily as a punishment, but may also fulfil the sentencing purposes of reparation and rehabilitation. The unpaid work element is known as Community Payback (previously Community Service). During 2011/12, approximately 8.3 million hours of Community Payback work were undertaken by offenders.
The government estimates that, calculated according to the National Minimum Wage, the annual value of Community Payback work to the community is over £50 million.
Should an individual fail to comply with the terms of their community sentence, 'National Standards for the Management of Offenders' require the supervising probation officerto take appropriate and timely breach action. In 2011/12, almost 95% of breaches were initiated within 10 working days.
To conclude the snapshot of probation in figures, it is worth recalling an earlier post on this blog:
"The Probation Service is one of the UK's most vital public services, and it is high time we recognised the huge contribution that it makes to our national life. For one hundred years, the service has helped damaged and vulnerable people rehabilitate themselves and rebuild their lives, while reducing reoffending and protecting society." – Brendan Barber, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress (Boroughs et al. , 2007:86)


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- Supervision over the required corrective actions (gaps) specified during the external audit
IPV Security's Governance, Regulation and Compliance (GRC) experts have successfully provided consulting services to various organizations. By using our professional consulting service, these organizations not only increased the probability of compliance, but it also reduced their effort required to meet or maintain it.


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If your business is like most these days, you're working on your content in order to bolster your digital marketing efforts. Maybe you've got a blog writer, maybe a few interns, perhaps you've hired a social media company to generate some social content. Content marketing is really taking off and is helping companies tell their story to the right audience, at the right time, and with the right message.
With so much content being produced on the Internet at any given moment, how can the content that your company is generating stand out amongst the sea of freshly added content? The Contentinators® have been around the block a few times and have assembled seven content marketing tips to help your business stand out in 2016.
7 Content Marketing Tips For 2016.
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- Quit Spewing Out Content: Are you producing content just to produce content? If that's the case, then you should stop. Keyword-laden content may have worked in the old days, but today's content perusers appreciate quality content over quantity, allowing you to captivate a robust audience base. Also, be sure to spend more time determining the best way to distribute your content. What social platforms would work best? Should you invest in native advertising on a social platform for that content to increase reach? Content marketing means just that: that content needs to be marketed, not just produced mindlessly.
- Stay Current: One of the worst things you can do with your content is to be too broad in your topics. Be sure that your content is current and relevant to the industry you are trying to connect with. By staying on top of industry trends, news, and legislation, you establish yourself as an industry leader, meaning more people will read your content, follow you for future posts, and share your content with others for an even larger reach.
- Make Social Media Work For You: Social media continues to evolve for the content marketer as it allows you to gain valuable insights into user demographics and behavior, so be sure you are delving into the analytic portion of all your social media accounts. Also, don't just use social media to promote your content. For every LinkedIn, Facebook post, and tweet, evaluate and adjust accordingly for each platform to establish yourself as a leader in your industry. It goes without saying that adding images to each blog breaks up the monotony, but how do those images appear on social media? Be sure all the images are sized correctly for the social media platform you are sharing your content on. Here is a nice little cheat sheet for social media image sizes.
- Never Stop Thinking About Mobile: Yeah, yeah…Google started penalizing websites that weren't optimized for mobile devices. This is old news, but with the ever-evolving advancements in mobile happening every day, it will truly transform how content is defined. Imagine that you are a small boutique and users, while on their mobile device, can virtually try on your clothes by uploading them to their image? Be sure to always be up to date on all emerging technologies and see if you can apply them to your content marketing strategies.
- Repurpose Content: First, let's discuss what repurposing means. It doesn't mean to change a few words and Viola! It is now repurposed! It means to take that original piece and transform it into something else. It may seem strange to repurpose content, but think about what the Internet is. Nothing is stagnant. Everything is always in flux; always moving. So, when you post content to social media, it eventually makes it to the bottom of a feed, lost in the shuffle. But you created content with invaluable insights that must be seen! Hello, repurposing.
- Let's say you wrote a fantastic blog full of great stats about the medical industry, then you can transform that blog piece into an infographic. If you are an auto dealership with content featuring current vehicles on the lot, highlight those vehicles in a short video on YouTube. When thinking about repurposing, visualize interactive content, which can be in the form of quizzes, calculators, contests, and polls and surveys.
- Wearable Technology: With 81.7 million Americans projected to use wearable technology in 2018, it cannot be ignored in regards to content creation. Five-hundred word blogs just aren't realistic for viewing on an Apple watch, so remember that you can use the power of video and graphics to deliver your messages. Also, remember that content must be optimized for geographical keywords so that those doing a local search for your type of business can be found on their wrist.
We know it can seem like a daunting task, trying to stay current with technology changing at the speed of light, but that is why The Contentinators® do what they do so well. Please give us a call at 866-471-4748, or contact us online, and learn how we can take your business from zero to hero with a solid content marketing strategy.


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Prior to CMG and Vostro, Mr. Mahajan was the CEO of Oshawa Power and Utilities, an Ontario based electric Utility, where he played a pivotal role in developing and implementing strategic plans, as well as being responsible for appropriate resource allocation to grow the Utility's business in energy distribution, energy generation and wholesale telecom, for more than a decade. Mr. Mahajan has extensive experience in successfully identifying, negotiating and structuring strategic partnerships and alliances. Mr. Mahajan has keen interest, knowledge and experience, in developing, building, financing, constructing and commissioning distributed energy infrastructure projects. Mr. Mahajan has been a frequent speaker at local and international conferences on emerging energy delivery solutions, such as distributed generation, solar, energy storage and microgrids. Outside of work, Mr. Mahajan has served on the Board of Toronto East General Hospital and is active in fundraising efforts for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.


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From the soil to the glass, there is a lot of work which goes into a bottle of wine. Knowing all you can about wine means enjoying it more than ever. This article has a ton of tips and tricks to make your own wine drinking a much more enjoyable pastime.
The best way to enjoy wine is responsibly. Know your limits and ensure that you don't overdo it, especially when with guests. While some wine with lunch or dinner is always in good taste, becoming sloppy afterwards due to drunkenness is not. Enjoyed in moderation, wine will be your friend for life.
Make sure that you drink at least one glass of wine a day with one of the meals that you have. Wine is great in helping with your heart, especially red wine. Do not drink too much though, as excess wine can cause you to feel groggy and can hurt your health.
To choose the best wine to compliment any meal you must know what type of wine goes with the different types of meat. One of the easiest ways to remember which wine to choose is to match the color wine with the color of meat. For example, most red wines pair beautifully with red meat such as beef; while white wines work well with white meats like fish or chicken.
If you drink wine for its health benefits you should stick with red wines. Red wines are full of antioxidants and are believed to promote optimal heart health when you drink it in moderation, ideally one glass a day. Other wines may have the same benefit in varying degrees, but red wine is definitely the best choice.
When you drink a bottle of wine, make sure that you do not throw it out, even if you have a small amount left. Wine can stay good for a long period of time and you never know when you may have a craving for that type of wine in the future.
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text: EXO 532 Posted May 16, 2010 Are you new to the world of Macross toy collecting or have a question that doesn't necessarily need a thread of it's own? Post it here and our resident Macross toy specialists will reply to you. Old thread: http://www.macrosswo...opic=11308&st=0 The initial one had answers that were so outdated, that first post is actually very funny. I'm going to try to dig thru that thread and link all relevant questions and answers here on the first post. First off... here's peolesdru's homepage at youtube which contains a lot of excellent transformation sequences you need for Macross Toys. http://www.macrosswo...showtopic=29393 Macrossworld's home page link to the toy section, for up to date stuff, you have to look thru the forums but the resource here is very invaluable: http://www.macrosswo...showtopic=28836 This is one of a few non discussion threads on MW, any comments not containing a scoop gets deleted after a few hours. LOCKED THREAD, PLEASE SEE FRONT PAGE FOR NEW SCOOPS CollectionDX's video reviews, search Macross for relevancy or find other toys there: http://www.macross2....ross-index.html MW = Macrossworld Valkyrie or "valks" = nickname for the transfoming jets most specifically used for the VF-1 but is an accepted term for any of its later successors (and the VF-0). CF = "Cannon Fodder"= refers to the brownie VFs that constantly get blown up in many episodes. FP = "Fast Packs" = external armor mounted on valkyrie, usually is exclusive to non atmospheric use. Fold Booster = additional equipment used by valkyries to jump from one space to another. Joke Machine = Bandai's Super Deformed versions of the Valkyrie HCM = High Complete Model, Bandai's original 1/72 version of the valkyries The Macross = The SDF-1 yammie = Nickname for Yamato Toys, most specifically a Yamato valkyrie chunky monkey = Nickname for the original Bandai/Takatoku 1/55 scale valkyrie what is a Joons? A popular bootleg version of the 1/55 what does GBP stand for? Grenade Box Protector, the heavily armored version of the VF-1 what's the difference between a super pack and a strike pack? The strike pack has a cannon attached to the right booster of the Fast Packs and was never seen in the TV series. What are TV hands? TV hands are the rounded version of the VF-1's hands, seen on the TV series and not in the movie (DYRL?) Also known as Mickey hands. What is DYRL?? Refers to the movie version Macross: Do You Remember Love? in which you see different versions of the valk flown by our heroes. There are also different versions of other mechas such as The Macross, The Quadleunn Rau and the Nousjadeul-Ger. Does Yamato or Bandai or any other Japanese manufacturers cater macross products to the US market? NO. Only japan. They WANTED to cater to us, but legality problems with Harmony Gold prevented them from doing so. Reference the HG debates thread for more info in the "other and science fiction" section. However OTHER non macross products from yamato are readily available in the USA. refer to this thread: http://www.macrosswo...p?showtopic=153 Do they offer parts for repairs? Still No... same reasons Why can't I find any news on the Alpha Fighter here? The Alpha Fighter was seen in the American series called Robotech, and was derived from Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada (which is where you will see the Legioss (Alpha Fighter) and Robotech is considered an off topic subject as this is a Macross forum. refer to this thread: http://www.macrosswo...p?showtopic=228 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites