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Mindfulness for athletes – will increase yoga sessions and meditation help your athletic performance? Mind Trainer Pierre Gagnon talks about the importance of practicing mindfulness with athletes in this blog.
An elite athlete no doubt needs outstanding physical abilities. But who can deny that possessing resilience, mindfulness, a positive outlook, keen self-awareness and the ability to focus with greater attention, can all contribute significantly in reaching our goals. Resilience is the ability to quiet signals coming from negative emotions and allow the brain to plan and act smoothly without being disturbed by these negative emotions. A positive outlook allows us to experience joy more often even in more difficult situations. Self-awareness is a capacity to stay connected to the body and avoid slipping into a state of sudden panic and fear. Attention is our ability to stay on task without being interrupted by trivial thoughts or outside phenomena.
Elite athletes have to go through a lot of athletic and mindfulness training in order to achieve their goals. The accomplishment of repetitive tasks is a necessity in order to achieve excellence. There will be ups and downs along the road. Injuries will occur, a person will feel a little bored some days, and arguments with a coach or a friend are simply part of life. An ability to shrug off more difficult moments in a matter of minutes or even seconds will be a great asset. The amount of signals coming from the amygdala (the fear center) to the prefrontal cortex tells how fast a person can recover from an unpleasant experience. The prefrontal cortex is the control center of the brain. Its ability to quiet signals coming from negative emotions allows the brain to plan and act smoothly without being disturbed by negative emotions. That’s a good definition of resilience. We can improve our resilience through knowledge and mindfulness.
Greater activity in the left prefrontal cortex is associated with positive emotions and a greater activity of the right prefrontal cortex with negative emotions. What’s more interesting though is those people suffering from a depression experience “happy” feelings but do not experience them for a long time compared to healthy people. An inability to sustain a pleasant emotion or experience in more depressed people seem to matter more than the capacity to live this pleasant emotion which is seen in both depressed and nondepressed subjects. This is true for subjects experiencing depression but also true for healthy people. How can athletes remain positive about their lives amid the normal turmoil of human existence? How can they remain joyful about what they are doing even though there will be tough moments to go through?
Athletes can face enormous pressure at times. To be aware of the physical sensations that come with pressure is a great asset. If a few minutes before the beginning of a competition you feel extremely tense. To have the ability to experience this sensation and to disconnect it from your thoughts gives you an advantage in mindfulness. The part of the brain that receives signals from the very important visceral organs is the insula. High levels of activity in the insula support a high level of self-awareness. Regular meditators have more neurological thickness in their insula than non-meditators. The insula looks at body sensations from a physical point of view more neutrally than thoughts do. An athlete who is knowledgeable about his brain will simply recognise these sensations as physical sensations, no need to feel tension or panic about what is material not psychological.
There is so much information entering the brain at every moment that it is almost a miracle that we have an ability to concentrate on one object. There are two mechanisms that regulate attention. As you are reading these words, the first mechanism enhances the strength of the visual signal and the second mechanism inhibits the sound signals that might be around you. The activity of the prefrontal cortex is paramount in the regulation of selective attention. Athletes need to access their prefrontal cortex as often as possible especially when focus is needed.


text: Welcome to the Leicester Tree Surgeon listing for Tree Surgeon Finder.co.uk. The Leicester arborists and tree surgeons listed here offer a range of services to help you cultivate and maintain your trees and shrubs, including pruning, trimming, cutting and felling. They also offer tree and plant appraisal services and can diagnose and treat tree diseases. Our detailed profiles include client testimonials, addresses, phone numbers, and location maps for tree care professionals in Leicester. If you are the provider of tree care services and products in Leicester, submit your listing using the Get Listed link at the top.

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Pre-processing Streaming Data - Stream Processor 4.2.0 - WSO2 Documentation for your Wiki!
In the previous tutorials, we learned how to create a simple Siddhi application and capture the events coming from external sources for analysis. This tutorial shows how to pre-process data before analyzing them.
The sweet category produced is either eclair or gingerbread.
The amount produced is greater than 10.
The results generated must be presented with the name of the sweet, the total value of the batch and the currency unit. Each eclair and gingerbread costs £0.4 to produce. In addition, the production overhead per batch is £2. The currency unit is GBP.
This tutorial reuses the source configuration that was first created and explained in Consuming Events. Therefore, it is recommended to try Tutorial 2 before following this tutorial.
Start the WSO2 SP in the editor mode and login to the Stream Processor Studio. Then open a new Siddhi file.
In this tutorial, you can use the same input stream that you have been using in all the previous tutorials where the events receive include the sweet category name and the quantity produced. Let's add it as follows.
Let's define the output stream based on what information you require as the output. As mentioned in the introduction, this scenario requires the output to include the name of the sweet, the value of the batch and the currency unit. Therefore, let's add an output stream named FilteredSweetStream with an attribute for each detail mentioned.
To process the input data and insert the results into the FilteredSweetStream stream, let's add a query as follows.
In this query, the amount produced of sweet category is multiplied by the production cost per unit, and 2 (representing the production overhead per batch of £2) is added to the result to derive the total production cost per batch. This is a Siddhi transformation where the value of an input attribute is changed while processing.
Also note that the GBP static value is specified as the currency. This is how static values are added to data streams. Each event that goes through this preprocessing step contains this static value for the intended attribute.
The query added in the previous step outputs all the events after calculating the batch value. However, the output must consist of only events where the sweet category is either eclair or gingerbread, and the amount produced is greater than 10. To achieve this, let's add two filters as follows.
Add a filter with the [ ] notation to specify the conditions based on which the events are filtered.
In the above step, you have specified the conditions to be met, but not how those conditions work together. You can use and, or, and not operators to specify how the conditions are related.
In this scenario, the sweet category can be eclair or gingerbread. Therefore, the or operator is used to denote the connection between the conditions [name == "eclair"] and [name == "gingerbread"] where it indicates that either condition can apply. The [amount > 10] must apply together with either of the first two conditions. This is indicated via the and operator.
The query with the completed filter looks as follows.
The completed Siddhi application (which you can name as SweetProductionFilteringApp) looks as follows.
To see how the output is generated by this Siddhi application, let's start the application in the editor and simulate five events by issuing the following cURL commands. Only the last two events sent match the filter conditions. Therefore, only those two events are returned with the pre-processed values.
Only last two events are returned with the pre-processed values.

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For anyone remotely interested this is a summary of my week fishing on The Skeleton Coast..
I've chatted with you a couple of times on the prom whilst out for a walk from the ferry at Seacombe back to the B & B ( Sherwood) in New Brighton !
Certainly have something to talk about if there's a next time !
Thanks for sharing your adventure !
Those sand spikes seem to stand up to some hard strikes. Great vid.
What was the hotel like? Goblin Teasmade?
Well done Richie. Some lovely fish there.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Gutter Guard keeps a very low profile....so it goes nearly unseen from street level. Gutter Guard rests on top of the hidden gutter hangers and should be over lapped 1/2".
It should be riveted or screwed to the front lip of the gutter. Gutter Guard is available for 5" and 6" K Style Gutters.
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We help in building reliable and consistent healthcare solutions to reduce cost and time.
We have a suite of services / solutions that address the challenges of supply chain & logistics industry.
We help financial institutions to be more efficient, reduce cost, and offer more innovative products.
Ejyle offers various solutions that address various challenges that are inherent to the insurance industry.
We have helped many clients streamline their hospitality business by providing reliable technology solutions.

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The U.S. Postal Service has chosen 10 acres at the corner of Park Avenue and Tanglewild Road as the site for a new post office.
Guy Bennett, facilities coordinator for the Orlando region postal service, said the office will be 3 1/2 times the size of the current building on U.S. Highway 441.
The postal service expects to close on the deal in the next three to four weeks, Bennett said. He declined to give the price of the land.
The new post office will be 20,000 square feet, compared with 6,540 square feet at the current office. The same number of people who work in the present office will work in the new building. More workers will be added as the area grows.
The postal service will own the new building. Bennett said he did not know what would happen to the old post office. The postal service leases the building, he said.
The postal service had outgrown the old building, which had traffic and parking problems, he said.
Bennett said the postal service will seek proposals to draw the plans, then seek bids for the building. He said the office is expected to open in 19 or 20 months if there are no problems.
The cost will be about $1.5 million.


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Banter M Issue 53 is now out!!
Guns, Breasts and Massacres - The manifestations of male sexual repression are creating frightening spectacles of aggression against women and homosexuals, argues Ben Cohen. And they are becoming more volatile and harder to predict.
Losing My Religions (Part One) - Tommy Christopher describes his descent from devout fundamentalist Christian to a mortal sinner.
How One Great Educator Can Change the World - Bob Cesca was once a Catholic Republican, until he met Mr. Duddy, a once in a lifetime educator and biology teacher who turned him into the liberal Daily Banter writer you see today.
To read this week's issue of Banter M, please go here. Purchasing a Banter Membership gets you weekly access to the digital magazine and all our Members Only Articles. Your financial contribution keeps us completely independent. Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Fulton County High School students in crisis situations now have an easy way to get in touch with a licensed professional. The Fulton County School system has partnered with the Text 4 Help program and is rapidly expanding the program to high schools in the district.
What is Text 4 Help?: Text 4 Help allows teens to reach a licensed clinician via text message. The clinician will respond within three minutes, 24 hours a day.
Is it anonymous?: All text messages are sent through a cloaking service to ensure the anonymity of the student.
How is the program funded?: The program is being paid for by a grant from the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority.
What can the service be used for?: According to Fulton County Vice Chairman Bob Ellis, the Text 4 Help service can help students in a wide range of crisis situations.
“Kids may be in crises ranging from academic issues to substance abuse to depression, and Text 4 Help could be the lifeline they need,” Ellis said.

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What is Media? (2016) –– the sixth annual “What is . . . ?” conference-experience –– features a unique coalescing of media scholars, government and community officials, industry professionals, alumni, and students, as well as artists, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, and the public. With media representing a wider and wider range of concepts, products, services, and institutions, the definition of media continues to be in a state of flux. What is media today? How is media studies defined? How have media technologies transformed media theory and practice? What are the futures of media and how are they evolving? What is Media? coincides with the UO School of Journalism and Communication’s 2016 centennial celebration!
The CONFERENCE commenced Thursday, April 14th with the Freedom of Information Act Roundtable, followed by the Johnston Lecture featuring John Markoff (The New York Times), followed by the grand opening of the HABITATS EXHIBITION.
The event continued on Friday, April 15th with Stanford Communication Professor Fred Turner along with Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, Univ. of London) and Sybille Krämer (Freie Univ. Berlin). The day continued with Vincent Mosco (Queen’s Univ), Lance Strate (Fordham Univ.), and Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths). A roundtable honoring the 90th Anniversary of correspondences between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey featured Michael Schudson (Columbia Univ.), Carl Bybee (UO), Nathan Crick (Texas A&M Univ.), Colin Koopman (UO), Noortje Marres (Univ. Warwick), and Chris Russill (Carleton Univ.). The day ended with Sandra Braman (Texas A&M Univ.), Graham Murdock (Loughborough Univ.), and D. Fox Harrell (MIT). The evening commenced with a reception and EXPERIENCE at the NW Film Center in the Portland Art Museum featuring filmmaker and artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson, along with a concluding performance by Harmonic Laboratory.
Saturday, April 16th began with a UO Presidential Welcome by Michael Schill followed by Luciano Floridi (Oxford Univ.) and Agatha Haines (Plymouth Univ.). The day continued with François Cooren (Univ. de Montréal), Stanley Deetz (Univ. of Colorado Boulder), and Noortje Marres (Warwick). Following plenaries by Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, Univ. of London) and Steven Jackson (Cornell Univ.), the evening concluded with a new composition, Toward Harmony by Robert Kyr (UO) composed specifically for What is Media?
© 2019 What is Media?


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County Helpline 211. They will take down your complaint in writing and forward it to ALL applicable County agencies.
Department of Regional Planning - Zoning Enforcement Section. Staff will take down zoning violation complaints at (213) 974-6453, (213) 974-6483 or (213) 974-6455.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public works expanded their ‘The Works’ mobile application to include reporting possible property violations. You can now report excessive vegetation, junk or trash; illegal parking; inoperable vehicle; occupied RVs; and improper signs or banners. Users can submit a detailed description of an issue and attach a related site photo. For more information and to download the app, visit: http://dpw.lacounty.gov/theworks/. Click here for the press release.
Give your name, address, and telephone number; or remain annonymous. This information is just for us and is kept confidential.
Give the exact location of the problem.
If no address, location of property, i.e. northwest corner of First and Main streets.
Provide additional information that will aid in the investigation.
Selling clothes, bags, furniture, paintings, flowers, etc.

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1. Do you feel like you are part of a knitting circle here with Sharon and other She-Knits listeners?
I am going to change my schedule for now to podcasting the 2nd and 4th of the month instead of every week. So next cast will be Jan. 9 or 10th. I hope I am not letting anyone down. I want to continue to record regularly however the every week gig wasn't feeling pleasureful it was feeling pressure filled. I hope you all understand and stick around. I know you all want me to have fun with it...right?
I still plan to check our and write in the She-Knits Podcast group daily. Feel free to start your own topics in there and please post your FO's and thoughts!
Check Friday nights or Saturday morning for the Whatchaknitting Saturday thread. That is a great fun part of our Knitting Circle.
Annie Modesitt's blog post about designing hand knits and contracts.
Hurry up last chance to enter these two contests.
APPETIZERS CONTEST-ENDS DEC 31st with a randomly drawn winner of a to be announced prize. I will tell you that it is something you read. Let us all see the recipe for your favorite easy to follow recipe. If you are on Ravelry post it there in the She-Knits Podcast group, and if you are not a member please post your recipe in the comments here. I will announce the winner in January.
You can still enter the current CONTEST (below), it ends Dec 31st.
1. Please tell me about the first project you ever did and if you think it is a good project for me to teach my beginning knitters.
2. Please leave me that great tip you have been taught whether; a teacher told it to you, a knitter-friend, or you read it in a book or on-line.
I'll miss your weekly chatter, but understand COMPLETELY. I can't imagine, really, how you've managed to be weekly for this long. I'm thrilled that you'll still be around and I'll pop in and continue to be a part of our knitting group from time to time.
Thanks for that idea of starting clean in 2008 by ripping those ufo's. I think I might just do that too!
I was looking on Itunes to see if there were any business podcast at the same time I was searching knit patterns on the web to decide a new project.
I accidently typed knitting into my podcast search and found your show.
That was Friday. Since than I have taken the weekend after listening to episode #33 to catch up on all the other old episodes.
I just wanted you to know how much I love these.
# 32 Finishing feels REALLY GOOD!!

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At times you may experience an error message when performing a task in FCS. The error message may be caused by many factors such as the device you are using, poor web reception, user error, FCS bug etc. Regardless of how the error message is caused, if it is caused while you are using FCS you will contact the FCS Support Team to resolve the issue.
Our support teams goal is to help resolve the error message as quickly as possible. There are steps you can take to ensure our team can resolve the error message as efficiently as possible.
Step 1: Capture the message.
The first step is always to capture the error message. This may be the most important step. A great way of doing this is to take a screenshot of your device while the message is up. Once you have a screenshot you can text or email the image to your FCS administrator.
Step 2: Google the error message.
It's always a good idea to google the error message. If you can type the message into the google URL or you may be able to copy the error message and paste into the google URL and look up what the error message is. This may provide information about the message. In fact the information may explain this particular error is or is not caused by the FCS program.
Note: Sometimes the explanation Google provides is too technical for most of us to understand, and that is ok... We are not all tech savvy. Many times Google can shed some light on what the problem is. This information can steer you in the right direction.
For example: Let's say I received this error message while generating an invoice within FCS.
This message can be typed or copied & pasted into Google for more information.
Step 3: Start over and try again.
Once you have the error message captured, we recommend you log out of FCS, log back in and perform the same function. If you get the same results continue with step 4.
As mentioned, many times you may not be able to understand the information from Google unless you are a developer. When this happens simply send us the error message and our team will look it up. We will let you know what type of error occurred and potentially how and why the error occurred. Of course if the error is due to FCS our team will continue to investigate, resolve and notify you. By providing our team the exact error message we can begin investigating right away.


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UArctic’s Thematic Network on Communicating Arctic Research carried out a project "Beyond", which aims to demonstrate the full spatial extent of the human impact on the environment by pictures.
The evolutionary development of the social system has triggered vast changes in the natural system. The theory of society-nature coevolution captures those long-term aspects of the interaction between social and natural systems. Beyond is making use of the term society-nature coevolution to depict the interdependent development of humankind and the environment, which is happening parallel in the exact same spot – but on different scales. The aim of this work was to challenge the viewer to experience the full spatial extent of the human impact on the environment. By visualizing different scales, Beyond offers a possibility for a visual journey.
In Beyond the scale tunnels are presented in the form of a circular installation which consists of 11 photographs. The photographs are arranged by the level of closeness to the location; ranging from a very distant image (satellite imagery) to extremely close (microscopic imagery). The locations were chosen to depict environmental issues in the vicinity of the Oulanka national park, Finland. Mining, tourism, logging and forestry, excessive reindeer herding, invasive species, air pollution and light or sound pollution were among the themes discussed.
The spatial interpretation process raises the question on how the viewpoint affects the environmental impact assessment. At some levels the human influence is clearly visible — and sometimes concealed. The mission of Beyond is the viewer’s understanding of the depth and extent of the environmental change.
The final installation was hanged in the Oulanka research station. Concurrent with the still photographs, the team worked on a video titled Above & Beneath.

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Ozzie Guillen, GM, "Almost Come To Blows"
The White Sox front office has been upgraded to DEFCON 2, after Guillen and Ken Williams nearly threw down during the MLB draft. The catalyst? The Sox waiting until the 22nd round to take Guillen's son.
It's not news that Ozzie and Ken don't get along. Ozzie and Ken hate each other. Have for some time now (WIlliams has been instructed not to travel with the team, to halve the number of possible run-ins with Guillen.) What's news is that Jerry Reinsdorf thinks this is a normal, healthy way of running a team, and that it'll all blow over once the Sox start winning.
It won't. Remember in Spring Training, when Oney Guillen was forced to resign from his job in the video department because he had been Tweeting trash about the team? Someone didn't learn not to mess with the Guillen brood.
According to the source, that comment led to Williams questioning Guillen to his face, and the situation got heated.
I'm not going to pretend I understand what Ozzie's comment even meant, just like I'm not going to pretend I understand Ozzie. But yelling and punching are part of a universal language, and so is the completely unworkable situation on the South Side.

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I don't belong to a union, but this Labor Day will have special meaning for me. That's the day I plan to join hundreds of others at Seattle's Town Hall to talk about how we can change Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer, and change America for the better.
Wal-Mart has become a symbol of the wrong direction in our economy -- big, profitable employers paying low wages, shifting employee health care costs to taxpayers, harming small businesses and communities.
My husband and I own a small business. We knew of Wal-Mart but we learned much more after the company proposed a store near our home in Mill Creek. Mill Creek has grown fast in recent years, which has caused traffic congestion and other problems.
I learned that the company's proposed store would cause not just negative environmental impacts from traffic and storm water runoff but also a number of negative social impacts: crime, unfair labor practices, a pattern of gender discrimination and harm to nearby small businesses that are undercut by the company's ultra-low prices. Many of my neighbors in Mill Creek came to the same conclusion. I decided to get involved and ask the tough questions in determining whether Wal-Mart was right for our community.
While the average shopper at Wal-Mart can expect to save $500 per year, those savings are illusionary because of the way Wal-Mart shifts costs to taxpayers.
Lee Scott, Wal-Mart's president, detailed the company's exploitive practices when he revealed the strategy of clustering stores to drive out competition, then to systematically thin out their stores. There are currently more than 400 empty stores across this country. As Wal-Mart moves into a new city, it looks for tax abatements and perks from that city's council. Back-room favors, relaxed environmental regulations and tax cuts are not offered to any other company in exchange for promises of jobs. If a city doesn't want to play ball, the store simply builds just outside the city limits.
The average Wal-Mart employee makes $2,000 below the national poverty level. Each Wal-Mart store on average costs the community up to $420,000 per year. Those costs come from many public assistance programs such as $108,000 per year for children's health care costs and $42,000 per year for low-income housing assistance, per store. Currently, Wal-Mart's unaffordable health care leaves more than half its employees without company heath care at a $1.39 billion yearly cost to taxpayers. These jobs also come at the expense of competing stores, with better pay and benefits, which eventually are forced out of business as they cannot compete with the taxpayer-subsidized Wal-Mart.
That has dramatically pulled the rug out from under middle-class America. If workers make less, their discretionary spending is drastically reduced. Businesses providing goods and services cannot survive without a healthy and prosperous middle class.
I believe in capitalism and the unique opportunity we have in this country to take the risk of starting a new venture. I also believe that we as consumers and citizens must demand that powerful businesses play fair.
A Change Wal-Mart America bus tour, which has crossed the country to educate citizens of the company's unfair labor practices and true costs to our communities, arrives in Seattle for a Labor Day Rally, featuring Sen. Patty Murray, at 6 p.m. Monday at Town Hall.


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15 Feb Why is moving house so stressful?
It doesn’t take more than a quick Google search to discover that moving house is considered the third most stressful life event after the death of a loved one and divorce.
In other words, we feel stressed when we feel that “things are out of control“.
As a Home Move Planner, whilst the symptoms of stress appear to be the actual buying/selling/moving, the real causes are the myriad factors behind the move. There are very few people who move house just because they feel like it and with all the time in the world to make it happen. Balancing moving house with an already busy life, and the additional emotional stress and guilt attached with a lot of the factors below, it’s no wonder that moving ranks so highly in the stress leagues.
Family necessity – Getting married, starting a family or expanding your family – needing more space and searching for that elusive affordable house in a good school catchment area.
Divorce/Separation – If a relationship or marriage breaks down and one of you needs to set up home on your own again.
Bereavement – The death of a loved one meaning the family home of 50 years is now too big to be managed on your own and the house needs “sorting” and selling.
Sickness – When full-time nursing in a home becomes the only option.
Professional factors – New job requiring moving location to an area you know little about and balancing settling your family and making sure they are happy with your new job with all the stresses that brings.
If moving is considered the third most stressful life event – death, divorce, work and illness are the others that make up the top 5.
So how do you conquer the stress of moving house? TAKE BACK CONTROL – ask for help. Generally people are terrible at asking for help – we think we should be able to do it all ourselves – this might be true but why put yourself under unnecessary pressure when there are people out there who can make your life easier. It could be a friend, a colleague, a family member or a professional.
This is where engaging with a Home Move Planner can really help. If you are stressed about moving house – let us take the strain. Read our blog to find out exactly how we can help.
If you would like a chat about how the HomeMover Specialist could help you, contact us on 01344 723292 or by email. For more top tips and latest news from this new budding sector make sure you follow our Facebook and Twitter pages.


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Hirsch's performances do not strike me as performative—exaggerated, in order to make clear the nature of the stereotypes or power relations that they depict. Rather, Hirsch uses performance as a research tool for investigating states of desire, loneliness, excitement, and obsessionin which television and the internet let us spend so much of our time.
Suddenly, I realize that I have been clicking through Hirsch videos for over two hours. I wonder: is the maze into which I just stumbled the most effective kind of public art for an era after publics—when the idea of not only the public sphere but of any public sphere sounds quaint? While multiplying the kinds of encounters and exchanges that strangers can have, the internet has also freed imagined communities from the geographic bases to which print or broadcast media bound them. The web that weaves outward from therealannhirsch.com feels like an installation in a virtual town square.
At the same time, of course, the very notion of a "counterpublic" (such as the community I imagine converging around Hirsch's website) relies on an idea of the private that the internet has transformed. Hirsch's work specifically highlights how the collapse of the distinction between public and private—historically gendered as male and female—affects women. Perhaps it is because the idea of the public no longer holds much sway that confessional, even self-consciously trivial, modes of self-expression have proven so successful online. Phenomena like Caroline/Scandalishious seem to prove that we are good at the internet. And yet no woman writer—no woman anything—needs to be reminded that the half-light of micro-fame is perilous.
By the time I head to the New Museum to attend a rehearsal of the new work that the institution has commissioned from Hirsch, a few days after receiving that first email, I am regretting having agreed to write this piece. Playground has been billed as a "cybersex adventure" based on a relationship that Hirsch developed with an older man whom she met in a chatroom when she was twelve. But the prudish quiver of nerves that I feel has less to do with my Catholic upbringing than with my training as an academic. What do I know about performance art?
To my relief, the rehearsal that I see is different from what I expected. It turns out to be a play, and not an extraordinarily explicit one, either. The setup is simple. It consists of two desks angled together, at which the two actors sit at keyboards: "Anni," a girl who appears to be in her mid-teens, and "Jobe," a man who looks around thirty. Behind them, there is a screen onto which a computer desktop is projected. It shows an old-fashioned AOL chat window in which we read what the two characters are typing to each other. In a departure from her prior work, the real Ann Hirsch does not appear.
Anni and Jobe begin with abbreviated banalities, then move into more intimate confessions and questions. As the actors begin to speak out loud and even follow and touch each other, the mood the piece puts me in is curiously mixed. An undertow of illicit possibility pulls me through long spells of aimlessness. Jokes and moments of tenderness regularly break up stretches of what verges on boredom.
Hirsch's present boyfriend, who is also in the audience at the rehearsal, tells me that she has been re-watching Yvonne Rainer's <em">Film About a Woman Who (1974) while writing Playground. In that film, Rainer projects lines of texts over, and inserts them between, the images of her main characters, ironically highlighting the gaps between what they think and what they say. Formally, it is easy to recognize what Hirsch has learned. But the scrolling text in Playground serves less to emphasize the split between self and surroundings than to create an intensely shared hallucination—the ground that holds the girl and man and both of them and their audience together.
The projection reminds us that the love story that we are watching is, ultimately, a ghost story. Each character here is only a fantasy of the other, as Hirsch has conjured them from memory, for us. Is desire always like this? Is creativity? The piece gives a 1990s spin to a theme that is at least as old as the myths of Narcissus and Pygmalion: that love, like art, involves projection, that images we invent of others are both something human beings need and a risk we run.
In Playground, personal nostalgia for girlhood desire dovetails with nostalgia for a medium, which also inspired dreams of sharing consciousness: the internet in its early years. As the characters become closer, they start to talk about "cybering," that is, having “cybersex.” The term, like "cyberspace," fell out of use as the parallel universe that it evoked became integrated into everyday life—put in service of government, business, and surveillance. Like all sites of sentimental and sexual education, cyberspace held out promises of both discovery and danger.
I am too young to remember much. And I am not interested, or not now, in talking about the corporate colonization of that utopian nowhere that turned it into the contemporary internet threading through my iPad and iPhone. But suffice to say that in Playground, the era when one could disappear into the virtuality of chatrooms stands, in relation to the present, roughly as childhood stands to adulthood in the sentimental novel. That is, it evokes a cherished time before imperatives to grow up and become practical and profitable took hold.
In their book on Remediation, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin famously argued that digital media incorporate and refashion forms that preceded them. But it has also proven true that, as new media eat old media, their more reflective practitioners have gone to even older institutions and used those as a means to reframe things and reflect. As a student of cinema, I think of how, in the 1990s, as celluloid film lost out to digital and even diehard cinéphiles started watching "films" online, moving images migrated en masse into galleries and museums. Playground uses perhaps the oldest medium, theater, to ask us what the old new media meant. Perhaps it is the sense of inventing an origin myth that gives this cybersex adventure its startling sweetness.
Ann Hirsch's installation The Scandalishious Project: Caca Phony is on view at Abrons Art Center as part of the exhibition Hymns for Mr. Suzuki curated by Karen Archey.

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But really, I don’t have to justify anything; I like the outdoors and the gear that goes with it, so that’s where I’ve chosen to spend some of my money.
However, you can get completely kitted out for camping for less than what some people spend on a single sleeping bag. If you’re new to camping (or hiking or mountaineering or paddle travel and so forth) and not sure it will grab a hold of you — or if you’re already an outdoor enthusiast but need of new kit — it’s OK to supply yourself on the cheap. You can always upgrade items as the need arises.
I’ve put together a $200 list of camping gear that’s surprisingly well made given the price point and I have tested products from every one of these brands myself. What you won’t find on this list is apparel and hygiene products or items that need to be resupplied before each excursion, like food, stove fuel, and beer. What you will find is everything you need for a weekend campout or an overnight trek.
If you’re going car camping, you can save your $21 and spend it on stove fuel or whiskey. If you have a bit of trekking to do (not long-distance and not mountaineering, mind you) then this $21 pack from Venture Pal will serve you well. It’s comfortable enough for a few hours of use when moderately loaded and it packs down small enough to fit in a drawer when the outing is over. Also, it comes in lots of color, if that’s a factor for you.
Your tent is arguably your most important piece of gear. It’s your shelter from the rain and wind (though not from the cold — see the next item for that) and it’s where you’ll store your stuff, change clothes, swap stories (or smooches), and get some rest. Amazingly, it’s not the most expensive item on the list. The Coleman Two-Person Sundome tent retails for $70, but you can easily find deals on Amazon. It’s about a two-and-a-half season tent, perfect for later spring, summer, and early fall. It has sufficient though not copious room for two and is spacious for one. If the rain is coming down in sheets and blowing in sideways, you may get wet. Light drizzle? No problem.
If your tent is the most important part of your kit, your sleeping bag couldn’t be much closer in second place. Your bag is what keeps you warm and safe. This bag from Outdoor Vitals features StormLight insulation that is highly water resistant, so even if your tent lets in some rain, you will stay dry in your OV-Light 35. And of course, that number refers to the low temperature at which this bag is rated for use.
If you’re headed out for a three-week trek through the Grand Canyon or you’re pushing for the summit of Denali, spend the extra cash and invest in Klymit Inertia O Zone pad — it weighs about three-quarters of a pound and packs down to measure three by six inches. If you’re doing a bit of car camping or a friendly two-day hike, save your cash and get this perfectly decent sleeping pad from My Outdoors and enjoy padding, support, and a built-in inflatable pillow.
Again, you’ll need to provide fuel, and as that’s a recurring cost, not part of your base kit, I’ve left it off the list. But considering this amazingly compact, reliable, and user-friendly stove costs just fourteen bucks, you’ll be able to afford the added cost of a fuel canister. The Etekcity Ultralight Portable Backpacking Stove weighs four ounces, and when folded down, it’s about the size of a pack of playing cards. Yet it produces more than 6,650 BTUs and can bring water to a boil in minutes. And its Piezo ignition system lets you light it up without matches or a lighter.
Assuming your campground allows for fires, there’s nothing like a campfire crackling away to make your site feel like home. In an emergency situation, a fire might be the difference between life and death. So go ahead and spend the $5 and get this little bar of magnesium with handy spark striker included. It will help you start hundreds of fires, but do practice using it a few times before you head out.
This 150-piece first aid kit has everything you need for treating cuts or scrapes, bee stings, burns, and other minor injuries. It also has a tourniquet, gauze, tape, and gloves in case you face a more serious injury. The emergency blanket is handy in case of shock or if you end up lost in the woods away from the comforts of your tent and sleeping bag.


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It was just a simple daily create. Well today’s could be simple (take a photo of a cloud) but the prompt was to play with the idea of the Judy Collins song Both Sides Now.
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way. I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it's cloud illusions I recall. I really don't know clouds at all.
Clouds as beauty to gawk at clouds as things which block the light and make you cold. What is the illusion, Judy?
I got only a late in the day show of some variable textured clouds on a blue sky, billowing beyond a twin pair of apartments that are near my apartment I am staying in this month in Puerto Rico.
My cloud photo felt so ordinary. So I tossed it into Intensify Pro, and added some more vivid settings. By I don’t have the both sides. So now my idea is to put the before and after photos in the Knight Lab Juxtapose tool (worthwhile since it is one of the Web Tricks I am demo-ing tomorrow for a faculty workshop.
So my both cloud sides are the real and the super real- HDR is really just representing the image data in a different set of intensities and values than the eye might see by itself.
To use Juxtapose your images have to be somewhere on the net at a public URL- that could be a static URL from flickr, or tossed on your web server, Google Drive. or as I did mine, in my Public Dropbox folder. They do not host the thing for you, you get cut and paste iframe code that produces what (I hope) you see above.
And I had to put it somewhere (here) to embed.
It’s supposed to be responsive and work on mobiles. Both sides.
This was the idea of my first SPLOT built last year, the Comparator, the one that is least developed and more wobbly. However, it does host the whole thing via a URL and offer embeds.
Both sides of clouds and juxtaposing?
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Participate in the QGIS project does not necessarily require a financial investment; a human investment can bring as much to QGIS as to yourself!
Camptocamp attended the 2nd QGIS users meeting and the 15th QGIS hackfest.
Here we will only discuss the QGIS extensions system. It is a powerful system available for several QGIS releases and extends the basic QGIS features or add business features.
The development team has just released a new version of MapServer. This article aims to present the new additions made in the new version.
Camptocamp will be present at the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2013, from May 22 to 24 in Minneapolis (USA).
Please find the digest on day two of the mobile code sprint. Thank you Tim!
Thanks to Tim Schaub for writing a digest on the first day of the Mobile Code Sprint! Stay tuned to the OpenLayers blog for daily updates throughout the week!


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After participating in a scheme that involved “retirement investment seminars,” Oliver pled guilty to wire fraud, 18 U.S.C. 1343, for defrauding investors. Because Oliver used their money for personal expenses or invested it in high-risk schemes, investors lost a total of $983,654. The district court sentenced Oliver to 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the sentence, rejecting arguments that the district court erred by failing to consider unwarranted sentencing disparities, relying on inaccurate information, not calculating the Guidelines range for supervision, and imposing a two‐level leadership enhancement. The sentence fell within the recommended Guidelines range and Oliver failed to object at the time of sentencing.
In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 16 3611 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff Appellee, v. TRAVIS OLIVER, Defendant Appellant. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division. No. 3:14 cr 50009 1 — Philip G. Reinhard, Judge. ____________________ ARGUED SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 — DECIDED OCTOBER 17, 2017 ____________________ Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and KANNE, Circuit Judges. FLAUM, Circuit Judge. Travis Oliver pled guilty to wire fraud for defrauding investors. The district court sentenced Oliver to fifty one months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Oliver challenges that sentence on ap peal. He argues that the district court erred by failing to con sider unwarranted sentencing disparities, relying on inaccu 2 No. 16 3611 rate information, not calculating the Guidelines range for su pervision, and imposing a two level leadership enhancement. For the reasons stated below, we affirm. I. Background Between 2009 and 2012, Travis Oliver and his co defend ant Todd Smith1 defrauded investors in Electus Asset Hold ings, LLC (“Electus”). Oliver, the sole managing member of Electus, recruited Smith to help solicit investors in the Rock ford, Illinois area. At Oliver’s direction, Smith mailed flyers to potential investors inviting them to attend retirement plan ning seminars. At these seminars, Smith told investors that their funds would be invested in Electus, that they could withdraw their funds at any time, that their initial invest ments would be returned within a year, and that their invest ments would yield a guaranteed monthly return. In reality, the investors’ money was not invested in Elec tus. Instead, Oliver used the money to pay personal expenses, including commissions for himself and Smith, and to make interest and principal payments to other Electus investors. He placed the remaining funds in risky, non guaranteed invest ments, including Cash Flow Financial (“CFF”), a large Ponzi scheme operated by Alan Watson. To conceal the fraud, Oliver mailed monthly statements and Internal Revenue Service 1099 INT forms to Electus in vestors, which falsely claimed that the investments had earned interest. When investors asked to have their invest ments returned, Oliver and Smith told them that their checks 1 The federal indictment against Smith, who was charged with murder by state authorities, is still pending. No. 16 3611 3 would be issued soon, that their checks had been lost in the mail, or that their money had been invested in a company whose assets were frozen pursuant to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. As a result of this scheme, Elec tus’s investors lost a total of $983,654. On February 11, 2014, a grand jury indicted Oliver on fif teen counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 and eight counts of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341. On May 31, 2016, Oliver pled guilty to one count of wire fraud. The judge accepted the guilty plea and ordered the probation office to prepare a presentence investigation report (“PSR”). In the PSR, the probation office determined that Oliver’s total offense level was twenty four. Starting with a base of fense level of seven, U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1, the probation office im posed the following enhancements: a fourteen level enhance ment because the total loss was greater than $550,000, id. § 2B1.1(b)(1)(H); a two level enhancement because the offense involved ten or more victims, id. § 2B1.1(b)(2)(A)(i); a two level enhancement because Oliver abused his position of trust as Electus’s sole managing member to commit the offense, id. § 3B1.3; and a two level enhancement because Oliver acted in a leadership capacity in carrying out the fraudulent scheme, id. § 3B1.1(c). The probation office also gave Oliver a three level reduction for his timely acceptance of responsibility. Id. § 3E1.1(a)–(b). With a total offense level of twenty four and a criminal history category of I, the Sentencing Guidelines sug gested a prison term of fifty one to sixty three months and a 4 No. 16 3611 supervised release term of one to three years. In his sentenc ing memorandum, Oliver stated that he did not object to the factual determinations or Guidelines calculations in the PSR.2 On September 19, 2016, the district court held a sentencing hearing. At the beginning of the hearing, Oliver reiterated to the court that he did not object to the PSR’s factual findings or Guidelines calculations. Accordingly, the court adopted the PSR in those respects. The district court proceeded to hear from several of Oli ver’s victims. Two victims testified that Oliver caused them severe financial and personal hardship. In addition, the PSR included a statement from a third victim who stated that she had “problems with [her] nerves” and “cried for days.” She added: “My husband had heart trouble and this didn’t help. He has passed since then.” Next, the court asked the government whether other crim inal prosecutions arose from the related Ponzi schemes into which Oliver had invested money. The government informed the court that Watson had been convicted of wire fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia, sentenced to twelve years in prison, and ordered to pay $37 million in restitution. After hearing from both parties, the district judge told Ol iver: I just want you to know at the outset that the only redemption—and you’re never going to pay these people back, whether you’re working 2 Oliver did, however, object to certain conditions of supervised re lease. Those conditions are not at issue in this appeal. No. 16 3611 5 or whether I sentence you to the Bureau of Pris ons and you come out. These persons, many of them are going to be dead, and you’ve taken some years off their lives just by what your con duct has done and the tragedy and emotional effect it’s had on these victims. The court then considered Oliver’s mitigation arguments and addressed each of the statutory sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). The district court ultimately imposed a prison term of fifty one months followed by three years of su pervised release, both of which fell within the recommended Guidelines range. With respect to supervised release, the dis trict judge noted that he was “impos[ing] the maximum of three years because of all the reasons [he] just stated” and to “try to get restitution over that period of time.” The court or dered Oliver to pay $983,654 in restitution to his victims and declined to order restitution jointly and severally “because there’s been no other person found to be responsible.” After announcing Oliver’s sentence and the conditions of supervised release, the district judge asked defense counsel whether there was “any argument of yours as to the sentence that I haven’t addressed.” Defense counsel responded, “Not at this time, Judge. The special conditions I think the court has covered, and in terms of covering the terms of the court’s sen tence, I think the court has covered that appropriately.” The district court issued its written judgment on Septem ber 20, 2016. This appeal followed. II. Discussion On appeal, Oliver argues that the district court procedur ally erred by failing to address an unwarranted sentencing 6 No. 16 3611 disparity, making unsupported factual determinations, and failing to calculate the Guidelines range for his term of super vised release. He also contends that the district court plainly erred by imposing a two level leadership enhancement. A. Standard of Review Generally, we review the district court’s sentencing proce dures de novo and its factual findings for clear error. See United States v. Pulley, 601 F.3d 660, 664 (7th Cir. 2010). How ever, “[m]ore deference is due … where an appellant failed to properly raise a claim below either by waiver or forfeiture.” United States v. Seals, 813 F.3d 1038, 1044 (7th Cir. 2016). If a defendant “intentionally relinquishes or abandons a known right,” the issue is waived and cannot be reviewed on appeal. Id. at 1044–45 (quoting United States v. Walton, 255 F.3d 437, 441 (7th Cir. 2001)). In contrast, if a defendant merely “fails to raise an argument due to accident or neglect,” the argument is forfeited and is reviewed for plain error. Seals, 813 F.3d at 1045. “Under plain error review, the defendant must show that (1) there was error, (2) it was plain rather than subject to reasonable dispute, (3) it affected his substantial rights, and (4) the court should exercise its discretion to correct the error because it seriously affected the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the judicial proceedings.” Id. B. Procedural Errors As a threshold matter, the government argues that Oliver waived or, alternatively, forfeited his right to challenge any procedural errors at his sentencing hearing. To support its waiver argument, the government points to the exchange that occurred between the district court and Ol iver’s defense counsel at the end of the sentencing hearing. No. 16 3611 7 Specifically, after imposing sentence, the district court asked Oliver’s defense counsel if there was “any argument of yours as to the sentence that I haven’t addressed.” Oliver’s defense counsel responded that there was not. This argument is not persuasive. “Waiver principles must be construed liberally in favor of the defendant.” United States v. Anderson, 604 F.3d 997, 1002 (7th Cir. 2010). And “[w]here the government cannot proffer any strategic justification for a decision, we can assume forfeiture.” Id. at 1001–02. Here, the government has not offered any strategic justification as to why Oliver would intentionally abandon his right to chal lenge procedural errors at his sentencing. Nor can this Court “conceive of any strategic reason” for this decision. United States v. Jaimes Jaimes, 406 F.3d 845, 847–49 (7th Cir. 2005); see also United States v. Jenkins, 772 F.3d 1092, 1096 (7th Cir. 2014) (holding that waiver did not occur because we could “con ceive of no reason why [the defendant] would have intention ally relinquished an objection certain to result in a lower crim inal history score and sentencing range, nor ha[d] the govern ment offered one”). Moreover, Oliver “never actively dis claimed the positions he now raises.” Seals, 813 F.3d at 1045. Therefore, Oliver did not waive his right to challenge proce dural errors in his sentencing proceeding. However, Oliver did forfeit these arguments by failing to object at the time of sentencing. As a result, the Court reviews for plain error. See United States v. Chatman, 805 F.3d 840, 843 (7th Cir. 2015). We now turn to the merits of Oliver’s three claims of procedural error. 8 No. 16 3611 1. Unwarranted Sentencing Disparities Oliver first argues that the district court procedurally erred by not considering the disparity between his sentence and the sentence of Alan Watson, who operated the CFF Ponzi scheme into which Oliver contributed some of the Elec tus investors’ funds. At Oliver’s sentencing hearing, the gov ernment informed the district court that Watson was similarly convicted of wire fraud for making false promises to investors and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Oliver points out that while Watson caused approximately thirty seven times more in dollar losses to investors, Oliver’s sentence is just three times shorter. He argues that the district judge erred by failing to consider this purportedly unwarranted sentencing dispar ity.3 When imposing a sentence, district judges must consider “the need to avoid unwarranted sentence disparities among defendants with similar records who have been found guilty of similar conduct.” 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6). However, “the Sen tencing Guidelines are themselves an anti disparity formula” because the Sentencing Commission considers the need to avoid unwarranted disparities when setting the Guidelines ranges. United States v. Blagojevich, 854 F.3d 918, 921 (7th Cir. 2017). Therefore, if “the District Judge correctly calculated and carefully reviewed the Guidelines range, he necessarily 3 The government responds that the district court judge did, in fact, consider Watson’s sentence by specifically asking the government for in formation regarding any criminal prosecutions in the related Ponzi schemes and noting that “the court always likes to know what happened in related matters.” The Court need not address this argument because Oliver’s within Guidelines sentence necessarily accounted for unwar ranted sentencing disparities, as explained infra. No. 16 3611 9 gave significant weight and consideration to the need to avoid unwarranted disparities.” Id. (quoting Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 54 (2007)). In other words, “[a] sentence within a Guideline range ‘necessarily’ complies with § 3553(a)(6).” United States v. Bartlett, 567 F.3d 901, 908 (7th Cir. 2009). That is precisely what occurred here. The district court correctly calculated and sentenced Oliver within the Guide lines range.4 Indeed, the district court’s fifty one month sen tence was at the very bottom of Oliver’s Guidelines calcula tion. “Thus, the district court judge did not need to say a word about § 3553(a)(6)’s application … to satisfy the procedural re quirement that he give that factor ‘meaningful considera tion.’” United States v. Reyes Medina, 683 F.3d 837, 841 (7th Cir. 2012). Oliver’s argument accordingly fails. 2. Factual Determinations Next, Oliver argues that the district court procedurally erred by selecting a sentence that was based on clearly erro neous facts. “[C]onvicted defendants have a due process right to be sentenced on the basis of accurate and reliable information.” United States v. Corona Gonzalez, 628 F.3d 336, 343 (7th Cir. 2010) (quoting United States v. Kovic, 830 F.2d 680, 684 (7th Cir. 1987)). Thus, a sentencing court commits “a significant proce dural error” if it “‘select[s] a sentence based on clearly erro neous facts.’” Corona Gonzalez, 628 F.3d at 340 (alteration in original) (emphasis omitted) (quoting Gall, 552 U.S. at 51). To 4 Oliver argues that the district court should not have applied a two level leadership enhancement, but that argument fails for the reasons out lined infra in Part II.C. 10 No. 16 3611 successfully challenge a sentence on this ground, the defend ant “must show both that information before the sentencing court was inaccurate and that the sentencing court relied on the inaccurate information in the sentencing.” Lechner v. Frank, 341 F.3d 635, 639 (7th Cir. 2003). If the defendant makes such a showing, the defendant has the right to a new sentenc ing hearing. See United States v. Jones, 454 F.3d 642, 652 (7th Cir. 2006). Oliver argues that his sentence was based on two pieces of inaccurate information. First, Oliver challenges the judge’s statement that Oliver’s crimes had “taken some years off [peo ple’s] lives.” Oliver contends that this statement was false be cause “no one ever presented evidence showing Mr. Oliver’s actions shortened anyone’s life.” Even if the judge’s statement was not literally true, Oliver has not shown that the district court relied on it when fash ioning its sentence. There is no reason to think that the com ment was intended as a literal statement of fact to support the sentence imposed. Rather, the phrase was nothing more than a figure of speech to underscore the emotional impact of Oli ver’s conduct on his victims. Immediately before making the challenged statement, the district judge expressed concern that Oliver would not find “redemption” because he was “never going to pay these people back, whether you’re work ing or I sentence you to the Bureau of Prisons and you come out.” This suggests that the judge was simply trying to convey that no prison sentence could undo the harm that Oliver caused. Thus, Oliver has not shown that the district court re lied on the notion that Oliver actually reduced the lifespan of his victims to determine his sentence. No. 16 3611 11 Second, Oliver argues that the district judge determined that Oliver was solely responsible for the $983,654 in restitu tion based on his erroneous belief that “there’s been no other person found to be responsible.” Oliver claims that this belief was inaccurate because Watson shared responsibility for los ing the portion of the $983,654 that was invested in CFF. Oli ver further argues that there is a risk of double recovery for victims because at least some of the $983,654 loss is part of the $37 million in restitution that Watson was ordered to pay. This argument goes too far. The government notes, and Oliver does not dispute, that the restitution order in Watson’s case did not list Oliver, Electus, or any of Oliver’s victims. The parties acknowledge, however, that the restitution order in Watson’s case included $466,050.60 to be paid to “Bruce H,” and that Oliver’s investments in Watson’s Ponzi scheme were made through Bruce Hongsermeier. Thus, there may be some risk that part of Oliver’s $983,654 loss overlaps with the $37 million that Watson was ordered to pay.5 But that risk is easily addressed. The government suggests, with Oliver’s acquies cence, that we modify the restitution order to limit any vic tim’s recovery to the amount of her loss. We agree that this is the appropriate step. See United States v. Trigg, 119 F.3d 493, 501 (7th Cir. 1997) (noting that “victims may not recover [through restitution] an amount in excess of their loss”). In sum, Oliver was sentenced based on accurate infor mation, so the district court did not procedurally err in this respect. 5 The district court could not have held Oliver’s co defendant, Smith, jointly and severally liable for the restitution because Smith had not yet been convicted. 12 No. 16 3611 3. Supervised Release Guidelines Calculation Next, Oliver argues that the district court procedurally erred by imposing a three year term of supervised release without first calculating the Guidelines range for supervision and considering whether a three year term was appropriate based on the statutory sentencing factors. As a preliminary matter, the government argues that Oli ver waived his right to challenge the issue because he did not object to the Guidelines calculations in the PSR. This argu ment misses the point. Oliver is not challenging the Guide lines calculation for his supervised release term on substan tive grounds; rather, he is arguing that the district court failed to follow proper procedure by not repeating that calculation on the record. A defendant does not waive the procedural re quirements of a sentencing hearing simply by failing to object to a PSR. Indeed, when Oliver stated that he had no objections to the PSR at the beginning of the sentencing hearing, he could not have known whether the district court would comply with procedural requirements during the rest of the proceed ing. Therefore, Oliver did not waive this claim, and we review for plain error. Turning to the merits, Oliver relies on this Court’s decision in United States v. Downs, 784 F.3d 1180 (7th Cir. 2015). In Downs, the district court sentenced the defendant to ten years of supervised release even though the Guidelines recom mended a supervised release term of only three years. Id. at 1181. We held that the district court judge “was required, be fore deciding on the length of the defendant’s term of super vised release, to calculate the guidelines range and assess its appropriateness as a guide to sentencing the defendant, in No. 16 3611 13 light of the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).” Id. Be cause there was no indication that the district court even con sidered the Guidelines range, we reversed and remanded for resentencing. Id. at 1181–82. Downs is distinguishable from this case. Unlike the district court in Downs, the district court here expressly referenced the PSR, adopted the PSR’s Guideline calculations, imposed a term of supervised release that was within the Guidelines range, and explained its rationale for doing so in light of the § 3553(a) factors. Immediately after going through each of the § 3553(a) factors to reach Oliver’s prison sentence, the district judge explained that he was imposing a three year supervised release term “because of all the reasons [he] just stated” and to ensure that restitution could be recovered during that time. Oliver seems to argue that, even if a district court ex pressly adopts the Guideline calculations in the PSR, the fail ure to separately calculate the Guidelines range for super vised release constitutes reversible error. Neither Downs nor other precedent from this Court supports such a rule. Alt hough prison and supervised release are two different forms of punishment, they are both part of a single sentence. See id. at 1182; United States v. Kappes, 782 F.3d 828, 837 (7th Cir. 2015) (“Any term of supervised release is considered part of the overall sentence.”). Accordingly, we have held that “an ex plicit announcement of the guidelines recommendation” for supervised release, although helpful for purposes of appellate review, is not required. Anderson, 604 F.3d at 1003–04 (holding that the district court did not procedurally err even though the judge “never recited [the] guideline range for supervised release during the [sentencing] hearing”). Rather, the critical 14 No. 16 3611 inquiry is whether the district court was aware of and under stood the Guidelines recommendation for supervised release. See id. Where, as here, the district court “impose[s] a within guidelines term of supervised release” and “express[ly] men tions … the PSR in the earlier part of the hearing,” this Court can rest assured that the district court was aware of the Guide lines range. Id. at 1004. For the same reasons, the district court was not required to engage in “a separate comprehensive analysis” of the § 3553(a) factors as they applied to Oliver’s term of supervised release after extensively discussing those same factors with respect to Oliver’s prison sentence. See id. at 1003 (“We have never required such repetition from the district court.”); see also United States v. Bloch, 825 F.3d 862, 869 (7th Cir. 2016), reh’g denied (July 13, 2016) (“[T]he district court was not required to provide two separate explanations, one for the term of impris onment and one for the term of supervised release.”). Instead, “a district court need only provide one overarching explana tion and justification—tethered, of course, to the § 3553(a) fac tors—for why it thinks a criminal sentence comprised of both terms of imprisonment and supervised release is appropri ate.” Bloch, 825 F.3d at 870. The district court did that here. Therefore, the district court did not err in imposing a three year term of supervised release. C. Leadership Enhancement Finally, Oliver argues that the district court plainly erred by imposing a two level enhancement based on Oliver’s lead ership role in the criminal activity. No. 16 3611 15 The government responds that Oliver waived his right to appeal the application of the two level leadership enhance ment because he stated, both in his sentencing memorandum and at the sentencing hearing, that he had no objections to the PSR Guidelines calculations. Under our precedent, “this case is a close one.” See Ander son, 604 F.3d at 1002. This Court has previously held that a defendant waived his right to challenge a Guidelines calcula tion where defense counsel “had access to the PSR, knew of his right to object, considered objecting to portions of the PSR other than the one he now challenges, and stated on the rec ord that he did not have further objections when asked by the district court.” United States v. Garcia, 580 F.3d 528, 542 (7th Cir. 2009); see also, e.g., United States v. Ranjel, No. 15 3778, 2017 WL 4324980, at *4–*5 (7th Cir. Sept. 29, 2017) (holding that the defendant waived his right to appeal the term of supervised release because he failed to object to the PSR despite “multiple opportunities” to do so). However, under the same circumstances we have deter mined that a defendant did not waive, but rather merely for feited his challenge. See, e.g., Jaimes Jaimes, 406 F.3d at 847–49 (holding that the defendant did not waive his right to appeal an eight level enhancement even though defense counsel failed to object to the Guidelines calculation in the PSR); Jen kins, 772 F.3d at 1096 (holding that the defendant did not waive his right to appeal the inclusion of a conviction in his criminal history calculation even though he failed to object to that portion of the PSR). Ultimately, we need not answer this question to resolve this case. Even if we assume that Oliver only forfeited (rather 16 No. 16 3611 than waived) his challenge to the leadership enhancement, the district court did not commit plain error by applying it. Under § 3B1.1(c) of the Sentencing Guidelines, the defend ant’s offense level must be increased by two “[i]f the defend ant was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor in any criminal activity.” U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(c). “The Guidelines do not define ‘organizer,’ ‘leader,’ ‘manager,’ or ‘supervisor,’” but they do list factors a district court should consider. See United States v. Weaver, 716 F.3d 439, 442 (7th Cir. 2013). Those factors are: “the exercise of decision making authority, the nature of participation in the commission of the offense, the recruit ment of accomplices, the claimed right to a larger share of the fruits of the crime, the degree of participation in planning or organizing the offense, the nature and scope of the illegal ac tivity, and the degree of control and authority exercised over others.” U.S.S.G. 3B1.1, cmt. n.4. In the past, this Court has consulted those factors to determine whether the leadership enhancement applies in a given case. See, e.g., Weaver, 716 F.3d at 442–43; United States v. Vaughn, 722 F.3d 918, 935 (7th Cir. 2013). And we have broadly defined a supervisor or manager as someone who “tells people what to do and determines whether they’ve done it.” United States v. Figueroa, 682 F.3d 694, 697 (7th Cir. 2012). Here, the district court did not plainly err in determining that the leadership enhancement applied. First, Oliver created the fraudulent investment scheme. It is undisputed that Oli ver was the sole managing member of Electus. Moreover, as explained in the PSR, all funds were channeled through Oli ver, who decided how they would be “invested.” Second, the PSR concluded that “Oliver recruited Smith” to join the operation and solicit investors. See United States v. No. 16 3611 17 Henry, 813 F.3d 681, 683 (7th Cir. 2016) (“Recruitment [is] a factor supporting an inference of management.”). Oliver ar gues that he did not recruit Smith because Smith learned about Electus from another individual, Bruce Hongsermeier. However, learning about an organization and being asked to join in the operation of an organization are distinct. It makes sense that Smith learned about Electus through a third party, but was later recruited to join the operation by Oliver. Finally, Oliver exercised control over Smith by directing him to make false representations to investors. See Figueroa, 682 F.3d at 697 (defining a “supervisor” or “manager” as someone who “tells people what to do”). Oliver contends that Smith solicited investors on his own. However, both the PSR and plea agreement state that Oliver “directed” Smith to do so. Additionally, Smith sent investors’ payment checks— made out to Electus—to Oliver. And when an investor mis takenly made out a check to Smith, he wired the funds to Ol iver. This suggests that Smith fell below Oliver in the fraud’s hierarchical scheme. See Weaver, 716 F.3d at 444 (“[S]ome hier archy among those involved in the criminal activity must ex ist to qualify a defendant for an enhancement under § 3B1.1.”). Moreover, Oliver and Smith spoke weekly, which in dicates “ongoing supervision.” Id. Lastly, Oliver’s control is demonstrated by the fact that Smith received a referral fee.6 6 Oliver argues that Smith did not receive a commission. The PSR is somewhat inconsistent on this point. According to the PSR, during his in itial meeting with investigators, Smith said that he never received a com mission. However, Smith had a second meeting with the investigators just two days later at which he said that he had received a referral fee. Moreo ver, the plea agreement states that some of the investors’ funds were used to pay “undisclosed commissions to … Smith.” 18 No. 16 3611 See id. (“Th[e] exercise of control and authority will usually allow the defendant to impose some … reward … for the un derling’s execution of the directed task.”). Therefore, the district court did not plainly err in deter mining that the leadership enhancement applied. III. Conclusion The district court’s restitution order shall be modified to clearly forbid any recovery in excess of a victim’s loss. In all other respects, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
Seventh Circuit upholds 51-month sentence for a defendant who defrauded investors out of $983,654.

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Dr. Margaret Cary helps a distressed stranger and recalls one of the main reasons she went into medicine.
I was at a Falls Church superstore checkout counter when I heard her cry. My first reaction to nonthreatening inappropriate sounds is to ignore them and leave the area as soon as possible.
I turned to look and saw three store employees around a sobbing middle-aged woman. I returned to the checkout.
I was tempted to just leave the store with my purchases and go on to the next errand. I walked toward the woman instead.
By now, there were four people around her, all looking uncomfortable. Store security had arrived. I said, “I’m a doctor.” They looked at me with the tiniest hint of relief.
It had been so long since I was in the doctor role that I took a few minutes to think this through. I am in administrative medicine, so I do not carry malpractice coverage nor am I licensed in Virginia. Fortunately, the old training seems to be hard-wired and returned immediately.
Rising above all other thoughts in my mind was that this was a person in trouble. And the folks who would like to help her were at a loss. Mental health issues are still not understood. People with them are not given the same sympathy and patience given to heart attack victims or amputees.
I took stock of her: White female, between 50 and 60 years old, she looked well kept, was wearing clean clothes, gold jewelry—just enough, not flashy, had a nice haircut, and was sitting on the bench at the store’s entrance, wailing. Stroke? Maybe, but not anything that affected her physical mobility. Yes, she was using a walker, but did not seem to favor one side. Her facial muscles were intact. She was perseverating, repeating the same phrase over and over. Maybe a mental challenge? Could be. You know how you know when pets are lost and not strays? They have the look that someone cares for and about them. She had that.
I wanted to touch her, to make that human connection. Touching, now there is something that has changed in the last couple of decades. The only safe place to touch someone is on the shoulder and elbow and the upper arm. I took a chance and touched her forearm, then held her hand.
She started to make a call on her cell phone and then handed it to me, seeming confused. No numbers saved. When I handed it back, she called a number and howled into the telephone. She handed the telephone to me again. I introduced myself and then asked with whom I was speaking. He told me he was her husband and that she had lost her prescription, but her brother, a doctor, would call in a new one. He could not come to get her because he had bad knees.
At the end of the call, she jumped up and started across the store, tears dried, and retraced the steps several store employees had already made, looking for her lost prescription. I walked alongside and called her husband. I asked him to explain to her that she would get a new prescription, which he did and she stopped.
I retrieved my cart and started to leave. “Thank you for your help,” a store employee said. “You were really good with her.” I sensed that the employee wished she could have done more for the woman.
“Anyone could do it,” I said. It’s about talking with someone at his or her level. It’s also about the physical contact. I remember a teacher once telling me to touch patients or they might believe you thought they were untouchable. Of course, you have to be careful.
I thought to myself, we lose something by being afraid of each other.
I was relieved that store personnel had not called the police, which people sometimes do when others are acting oddly, seemingly without reason and creating a scene. That is often the quickest, easiest way to eliminate someone acting out of the ordinary. We are unused to helping someone who might benefit from our taking the time to listen. We don’t know what to do and so, calling the police or an ambulance often seems the most expedient solution. We still have a long way to go with mental health patients.
I reflected on my initial reluctance to get involved—too busy, I might be sued, what can I offer anyway.
Fortunately, my core, unprocessed feelings came to the surface, overriding the cool, “sane” approach. I helped someone in trouble, one of the main reasons I went into medicine. That compassion and desire to be of service were still with me.
Jim–Thank you for your comments. You are spot on and I agree with you. Healing is about time and caring.
Fear and ignorance seem to run our culture. We are afraid to touch others because of sexual harrassment or litagation. We are afraid to get involved because it will disrupt our comfortable lives. As a yoga teacher I have found touch and personal involvement to be quite healing on both sides. In fact I would consider these two activities to be the basis of healing. Thank Buddha for alternative forms of health care.


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The bedroom of your house is a location where you relax after a very long day on the job. Children’s roomit’s a distinctive location, as it is made for a youngster’s life, and maybe more than 1 child. There are several ways to decorate a kid’s room, which is the reason why it is necessary to think about all the choices and make the decision which you feel best to simplify the endeavor.
Asian inspired Zen bedroom decor is remarkably popular at this time and you’re able to create it with minimal effort. Some tips for decorating dining rooms are given here. It’s simple to decorate a guest bedroom if you are purchasing a new apartment.
If you wish to present your bedrooms a tranquil appearance, there is not any other alternate. Whatever bedroom style you pick, it can be enhanced by using wall decorations. The very first thing you ought to do while considering wall decorations for bedrooms, is the theme that you would like.
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industry_corpus2: Programming


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Blackspike worked with the brilliant digital studio ustwo to help Credit Suisse build a comprehensive and award-winning Silverlight dashboard to control, analyse and trade from both browser and desktop.
This was a huge task and took many months to complete. We helped convert many brilliant PSD designs into clean and efficient XAML resources.


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The objective of any business is to sell, that is never in question. But how best to go about doing it in a way that not just maximises first basket revenue, but also repeat sales?
By focusing on acquiring customers, not sales.
This is more than a subtle shift in tactics, it is a fundamentally different strategy that will impact every part of a business.
Alignment of your marketing promise to the reality – Does your product live up to the promises you made in your marketing to convert them?
Customer comms – Do you provide guidance on how to get started and use your product successfully?
Control panel – Is it an easy and enjoyable experience to use?
Support database – Are the most common FAQs documented and easy to find?
Customer support – How quick, accurate and responsive are your support team?
Feedback – Do you have a feedback loop in place to action customers’ ideas?
No one knows your business like your customers. They use and interact with your products in ways you coud never plan for, so it is vital you have a process for capturing and acting on feedback.
This goes for both negative (making changes) and positive (saying “thank you”) feedback.
From my own experiences working in a company that was uncommunicative with their customers, I know how frustrating it can be for proactive customers to feel like their feedback is not being listened to.
In this case, all their feedback was actually being read and a lot were being acted on!
The problem was we weren’t telling them, which meant they thought it was a waste of time and stopped.
Imagine how many brand fans the company could have cultivated if they had sent a personal thanks and a link to the change in action on the website.
Segmenting your customers along their purchase behaviour will instantly reveal your power users and customers at risk of churning.
Using this data you can identify their propensity to buy more, as well as tailor your communications with them e.g. Send churn risks support style comms rather than transactional emails.
It is very easy to create a batch of fire and forget emails that every customers gets, no matter what.
The more you personalise the timing and content, more results you will see.
A couple of software options to set all this up include MailChimp and Intercom.
Again, using the segments you create based on purchase behaviour, you can start to reward your most valuable customers with exclusive content (resources, discounts, offers, competitions…).
It rewards your VIPs, giving them an incentive to continue the behaviour that got them in to that group.
Customers outside of the group aspire to join them.
Have a read of my post 40 ways you can reward your brand fans right now.
There are some industries where meeting customers face to face is an intrinsic part of the job.
However, for anyone working primarily online, it is very rare you get to meet your customers, if at all.
Training sessions at your offices.
Day conference style events, with seminars designed to help your customers become more successful (not just sell your products).
Sponsor and attend local events and meet-ups your customers attend (you can find them at www.meetup.com).
Your reporting and analysis should be based around customer behaviour and attitude metrics, and not exclusively units sold or revenue.
Acquiring customers and not just sales demands a high level of quality throughout the business, not just in the conversion funnel.
This is why I believe businesses that focuses on simply acquiring a sale will rarely be as successful as a business that focuses on acquiring a customer.


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TTM Technologies, Inc. To Conduct First Quarter 2019 Conference Call May 1, 2019 | TTM Technologies, Inc.
COSTA MESA, Calif., April 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TTM Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTMI) will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 1, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time/1:30 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss its first quarter 2019 performance.
Telephone access is available by dialing 800-667-5617 or international 334-323-0509 (ID 2910354). The conference call will also be simulcast on the company’s website, www.ttm.com, and will remain accessible for one week following the live event.
TTM Technologies will release its first quarter 2019 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.


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Breuss massage is a sensitive spinal massage that safely dissolve psychological, energetic and physical blockades. Developed by Rudolf Breuss (1899-1990). It is a massage that is especially designed for the intervertebral discs – they can be revitalized with a gentle, slow and repetitive massage to the spine and the use of St. John’s Wort Oil.
Indian head massage is based on the ayurvedic system of healing which has been practiced in India for over a thousand years. The massage is especially good for relieving stress, tension, fatigue, insomnia, headaches, migraine, sinusitis and buzzing in ears. The experience is deeply calming and relaxing. It incorporates massage of the shoulders, upper arms, neck, scalp and face. Massage is carried out seated without the use of oils. The client remains clothed throughout the massage (lightweight clothes, preferably without a collar).


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industry_corpus2: Transportation


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Manufactured from a combination of tropical hardwood & veneers with a beautiful wenge, finish the elegant Minuet bedroom collection is a delight to behold.
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industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Ann Intern Med. 1993 Nov 15;119(10):1029-35.
Contributions of obesity and weight loss to gallstone disease.
To examine the relation of obesity and weight loss to the formation of gallstones according to pertinent clinical and research issues.
Original reports obtained through a MEDLINE search from 1966 to 1992 on gallstones plus obesity or reducing diets, supplemented by a manual search of bibliographies, a Current Contents title search from 1991 to 1992 on gallstones and gallbladder, and expert opinion. Only studies of humans were cited.
For women, but less so for men, obesity is a strong risk factor for gallstones, and this risk is increased during weight loss. Between 10% and 25% of obese men and women may develop gallstones within a few months of beginning a very low calorie diet, and perhaps one third of these will develop symptoms of gallstones. Persons with the highest body mass index before weight loss and those who lose weight most rapidly appear to be at the greatest risk for gallstones. Treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (ursodiol) during weight loss dieting is the only proven prevention for the formation of gallstones. Issues to be resolved include how different diets affect the risk for developing gallstones, the identification of other risk factors for gallstone formation during weight loss, the effect of weight loss among people with preexisting gallstones, and the optimum means of preventing gallstones during weight loss.
During weight loss, particularly among the obese, an increased risk exists for symptomatic gallstone formation. This acute risk offers the opportunity to investigate the cause of gallstones and possibly to prevent them.


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I graduated from the University of Surrey in 2004 with a degree in Hotel and Catering Management. After working in the Finance department of a chain of luxury hotels, I decided to progress my career in finance and am currently studying for my Level 2 ACCA award. My role is to ensure clients are kept happy and that our work is carried to the highest standards. Outside of work, my time is taken up by my two children and when I can, I enjoy relaxing with a nice glass of wine.
I am qualified to level 4 in Accounts and have worked in a diverse number of commercial sectors to build my practical experience. I started my career in accounts before obtaining a degree in teaching.
Towards the end of my 10 year period in teaching I setup and taught a business and accounting course in my school. This rekindled my passion for accounts and I decided to leave teaching to become a self-employed bookkeeper with SLH & Co .
I fit my busy professional role around caring for my 3 young children, volunteering for two treasurer roles and jointly running a local mother and toddler group to support new mums.
After a long career working as a civil servant with the Ministry of Defence, Government cuts lead to an early retirement. Working for SLH & Co. was the perfect opportunity to show off my knowledge of numbers and spreadsheets. I am responsible managing the clients in the Kent region and am currently studying for a professional qualification in Bookkeeping. I am a keen golfer and have almost achieved my goal of playing off single figures!


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VMware virtualises computing, from the data centre to the cloud to mobile devices, to help organisations be more agile, responsive, and profitable.
It is radically transforming IT with disruptive technologies. A pioneer in virtualisation, the software-defined data centre, cloud computing, policy-driven automation, end user computing and mobile solutions, VMware simplifies IT complexity across your entire environment.
Phoenix Software continues to be one of VMware’s leading partners in the UK, retaining its VMware Premier Partner Status – VMware’s highest level of partner accreditation. We are also an Elite Business Mobility Partner (previously known as Elite End User Computing) and an End User Computing Strategic Partner.
Additionally, we hold the VMware Academic Specialisation and a wide range of technical competencies across the full VMware portfolio, reflecting our continued investment and focus on the areas covered by VMware’s technology.
Over the last few years we have been awarded UK, EMEA and Global awards by VMware for the solutions we design, develop, and deploy for our customers with awards for End User Computing, Enterprise Management amongst some of our accolades. We are very proud to be the current VMware Public Sector Partner of the Year for 2016 for the transformational solutions we are delivering into this sector. With a large number of VMware certified technical consultants and software licensing advisors within the business, we are able to deliver and implement efficiently licensed solutions for all VMware technology and can offer software compliance advice on VMware software and third party software running in a virtual environment.
Our depth of knowledge and experience around the whole VMware technology stack means that we are perfectly placed to provide you with the best advice on which VMware products to choose and also the licensing implications of any solution that they are interested in.
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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications