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Prior to diving right into VoIP head first, it is very important that services understand just what they are “chatting” regarding when they start considering VoIP modern technology for their phone call facility operations. Recognizing these subtleties will certainly ensure appropriate planning and suitable decisions. The very first trick is to understand that “VoIP” is the basic term where cost alone seems to be the driving motivation. However IP Telephone systems is so much more. Unlike VoIP lite, IP telephony is not just regarding cost financial savings. The benefits of IP Telephone systems to call facility procedures consist of abundant applications, making it possible for flexibility, boosted performance, and boosted business connection.
VoIP is the fundamental transport of voice in a packet kind on an IP-based information network. It is the transmission of telephony over a data network and supplies little in the means of functions and functionality. IP Telephony uses VoIP but is a software program application collection offering abundant function applications. These often-modular applications provide themselves to cost-efficient integration with other applications that share the IP network. Voice as well as Data Merging may be defined as the combination of voice and also information applications in an usual setting. Of specific relevance is the assimilation of interactions applications with vital service applications. The last are typically connected to organisation processes, which are main to a company’s procedures.
IP telephone systems provides itself to get in touch with centres for the ease of combination with advanced multimedia applications along with computer system telephone systems combination, intelligent call transmitting and also dispersed or digital call centre applications. The merging of voice as well as data applications, such as Unified Messaging, is perhaps indicative of where IP telephony as a voice-based application ends as well as merging begins.
Voice and also data convergence might be construed as the integrating of voice as well as data in a typical environment. This simplistic meaning hides the relevance of merging. The fact is that assembling voice as well as information enables the integration of voice interactions applications (such as teleconferencing as well as speech accessibility) with vital organisation applications (such as sales pressure automation as well as supply chain administration). These service applications are predicated on company procedures that are the lifeblood of many organizations. By marrying these applications on any kind of network as well as on any type of tool, the door is opened up to acquiring brand-new levels of service value.
In recent years the number of firms wanting to up quality their phone call center framework through implementation of VoIP innovation has actually expanded significantly. Merging voice as well as information on a solitary network as well as releasing an IP-based get in touch with center platform allows firms to path phones call to residence and also satellite offices much more efficiently. This method is delivering on the pledge of helping business expand their business, use performance improving applications, as well as broaden call facility procedures easily as well as cost properly. Scaling for growth to new remote solution facilities is a smooth shift as each is dealt with as an add-on node to the existing IP network.
Companies can include remote personnel to call center lines up when required and can keep crucial staff members by allowing them work from residence. The whole procedure can use one application to manage all media for routing and reporting throughout representative locations. An additional benefit is the capacity to supply service applications over this new network when essential.
Potential difficulties to executing pure VoIP include preparing the network with button as well as router upgrades, replacing all the desktop phones, and also updating adjunct systems such as voice mail. These are not impossible issues as well as can either be achieved all at oce (shotgun) or in a phased in approach. However it is accomplished the business benefits far outweigh any preliminary difficulties.
It’s safe to say that the great migration to the IP contact center is well underway. While there are lots of strategies, suppliers as well as individuals agree that the choice is not driven by the technology, yet rather by business applications that the technology allows. While business may show up to take extremely different courses to VoIP, each has the ability to make the ideal decision for their current and future business needs from a myriad of service choices.
Where this transition seems to have located it’s lead is amongst smaller organisation entities. Many IP get in touch with center installments have actually taken place in little to midsize businesses (SMB). Much of these SMBs utilize home agents and also remote offices. SMBs have a tendency to be a lot more willing than larger business to take risks, lots of are growing, and also they are profiting of flexibility and dexterity. Seeing this untapped possible bigger companies are starting to follow collection albeit at a rather slower pace … up until now.
Already there are less big setups in position, and also they are usually multisite, commonly with abroad settings (including outsourcers). The major system suppliers such as immersion cooled data center Avaya, Cisco, and also Nortel all state they have pure IP installations of 2,000 seats or even more. That’s impressive … and it works. It won’t be long before the rate and numbers of setups among larger business expands substantially. They won’t long be able to deny the advantages offered and also the prospective favorable influence on procedure and price effectiveness.


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Can I sell a broken HTC One A9S 16GB?
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Pac-West Telecom Inc. (Booth 808) is using the COMPTEL show this week to provide a progress report on its national expansion and its alliance with VeriSign.
The 25-year-old company traditionally has focused on offering service in California, but last year it announced a plan to provide VoIP and Internet access services across the entire continental United States, with a goal to cover 55 to 60 percent of the U.S. population, in about 400 rate centers, by the third quarter of this year, explained Reid Cox, corporate development vice president. As of late August, Pac-West was 56 percent to that goal, but most of the work needed to be done upfront due to licensing requirements, etc., he added.
In announcing the planned expansion last year, the company said it was intended to provide a nationwide, single-source solution targeted at VoIP providers, wireless broadband providers, ISPs, carriers and others to provide IP-based services. Pac-Wests service offering will include the services and network supplier diversity required by ISPs to provide dialup Internet access, as well as a comprehensive suite of services enabling VoIP providers to offer carrier-class voice services. These services include local telephone numbers; connectivity to the PSTN; as well as access to industry telephone databases to provide services such as E911, 411 and local number portability.
Many of those services tie into the relationship Pac-West has with VeriSign. That deal was announced in January, but the joint offerings for which Pac-West will bundle VeriSigns signaling and database services with its network wont be generally available until the fourth quarter of this year. VeriSign will supply Pac-West with back-office and database services including Calling Party Name (CNAM), LNP, SS7 and provisioning services. Pac-West will contribute voice and data network services such as trunking, switching and IP transport. The result will be a VoIP service bureau that features LNP, E911, directory listings, customer ordering and service interfaces with nearreal-time notifications combined with IP and PSTN bearer and signaling networks for near-real-time service activation.
Tech Data will provide DataXoom's value-added mobile data services to its network of solution providers in the U.S. through the company's Client and Mobile Solutions division.
According to the IDG Research survey, an overwhelming number of database administrators (91 percent) and application development managers (90 percent) cited database updates as the cause for application release delays.
The winning partners were recognized in four different categories.


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English: Love Live! School Idol Project: Sunshine!!
Chika Takami, a self-proclaimed normal girl, has never been involved in any clubs and lacked any notable talents. However, after a visit to Tokyo, she discovers a stage where even an ordinary girl like her could shine—the world of school idols. Inspired by the former superstar school idol group μ's, Chika is determined to start her own school idol club in her seaside hometown at Uranohoshi Girl's High School. But even before gathering any students to join the group, the aspiring school idol finds her greatest obstacle to be student council president Dia Kurosawa who stands firmly against the creation of the club.
Just when it seems there is no hope, Chika meets Riko Sakurauchi, a transfer student from Otonokizaka High School, home of μ's. Somewhat shy but a talented piano player, Chika believes her to be a promising recruit, though convincing her to join is easier said than done. In spite of that, Chika chooses to charge forward and overcome the obstacles keeping her from forming a school idol group that shines as bright as the nine that came before her.

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Pretzel Logic's Market Charts and Analysis: SPX and RUT: Are Fourth Waves Annoying, or Just Plain Awful?
SPX and RUT: Are Fourth Waves Annoying, or Just Plain Awful?
We have a saying in Elliott Wave, when we Elliotticians gather in whatever places Elliotticians are found. What we say, when we're gathered amongst ourselves, far away from the autograph seekers and the paparazzi, is: "Everybody loves 'em a good fourth wave." Then we mimic a perfect Fibonacci spiral with our thumb and forefinger, and we add: "Not!"
Then we laugh hysterically, because we're easily amused, us Elliotticians.
It appears that SPX has decided to continue its triangle, which was something I noted could happen in the last update, because I've been around this block a few times and I've seen what these sneaky bastage fourth waves can do -- because they hate us, these fourth waves.
Dow Shakes off 9/100ths of a Point Morning Retreat to Put 20,000 Back on the Table, Huzzah!
Beyond that, I'd like to wish all my readers a happy and safe holiday season. As is now tradition, I'll link to a non-market-related article that I first published in 2013: A Christmas Story -- Reflections on What Matters.
I truly hope everyone enjoys this time with their loved ones. Trade safe.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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As far as I understand and it was answered in this thread, that administrators still need an ACL to administer files even though they have the highest authority. On my system Administrators group is defined at the drive level with Full Control and Apply to all sub folders and files option. Now, I have an application folder that contains sensitive data. I don't want the Administrators to have access to that folder because of privacy concerns. Is it a common practice to exclude Administrators from such a folder? If yes, how will it affect the administrators daily tasks? I have an answer about managing permissions in the above link, but what about other tasks like backup/restore for example? Thanks.
If the administrators don't have an ACL giving them permission, they won't be able to access the file. But the administrators can take ownership of files, thus being able to set its permissions.
If you really want to prevent unauthorized access, you should use encryption. Note Windows EFS with keys issued by an internal Microsoft CA can also possibly be accessed by the CA administrators etc., so you might be looking for Truecrypt or Bitlocker (not sure how that one works in a "corporate environment") or GPG.
Usually you should trust your sysadmins and anyone in the server's local Administrators group as well. I've never done it in my environments (15 clustered services, ~80TB disk space, ~4000 shares), but that doesn't mean you can't do it. If there are only certain people that you're concerned about having access, you could create a (local or domain) group that contains those people and add an entry to the ACL for that folder that DENIES their access explicitly.
As for backups and such, so long as the account you're using for backups is in the Backup Operators group, you should be fine. It's granted special permissions to be able to do certain things (backup, restore and shutdown the system) regardless of it's individual permissions on a given folder.
It all depends on where the folder is located. Is it a local folder?
Regarding backup, I think it depends on the technology being used.
And remember, if they are Administratros, they may be able to revert the security settings. Don't you worry about the people who have access to the backup too?
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How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows?
To use linux as AD Server do I have to change unix permissions (chmod)?


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The former fire chief of Babbitt, Minn., was sentenced Thursday to 60 months in federal prison for setting fires in the Superior National Forest and elsewhere, and attempting arson. He's also been ordered to pay $27,140 in restitution to cover the cost of fighting the fires.
Ryan G. Scharber pled guilty in November to one count of setting fire to U.S. forest land in Superior National Forest and one count of attempted arson of a building on Mattila's Birch Lake Resort in Babbitt.
U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim sentenced Scharber to 12 months for setting fire to the forest and 60 months for attempted arson, although he'll serve the sentences at the same time.
Investigators used pole cameras, GPS tracking devices and cell phone records in their search for a suspect as they investigated suspicious fires set between August 2011 and September 2012, according to court documents.
In December 2012, investigators interviewed more than two dozen law enforcement employees and executed two search warrants at Scharber's residence and fire department headquarters.
Scharber initially took no responsibility and attempted to steer investigators toward other possible suspects, including former and current firefighters, then later admitted to investigators he set nine fires and one attempted arson at Mattila's resort, court documents stated.
Two days after his interview with investigators, Scharber resigned his position as chief and delivered a handwritten apology to members of the Babbitt Volunteer Fire Department.
Scharber explained that he set fires as "an excuse to get out of his house for a few hours to get relief from his newborn child's acid reflux issues," according to a prosecutor's memo.
A psychiatrist diagnosed Scharber with pyromania, according to the memo.
MPR News reporter Jon Collins contributed to this report.

industry_corpus2: Safety Management


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Portable restrooms are the perfect solution for residential or commercial construction job sites. These single user units are generally a one-toilet facility and can be used alone or in multiple units depending on the need. Some extras that can be included with your single user portable restroom are options such as hand sanitizers or hand wash stations. AW Waste Management of Maybell, CO can also provide services such washing the unit, keeping supplies stocked and removing the waste from the tank.
At AW Waste Management of Maybell, we can provide you with any type of portable temporary restroom from a single user unit for construction sites or weddings, to our high end multiple user units for corporate events, school functions or festivals.
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text: Mediation is a non-adversarial process that brings disputing parties together with a neutral, unbiased third party (mediator) who assists the parties in reaching a mutually agreeable settlement of the dispute. The mediator does not render decisions or impose sanctions. Settlement terms reached and agreed to by the parties during the mediation become binding when parties sign a written settlement agreement.

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This was easily the most fulfilling personal interaction of the entire trip.
I was headed to the bus station to check the schedule and buy a bus ticket when I was approached by a homeless kid who wanted to demonstrate his beat-boxing skills in turn for a tip. Now he was a kid just a few years younger than me and had a pretty upbeat but determined vibe about him; nonetheless, I was still weary as we engaged in some friendly conversation. I complimented his beat-boxing which was in fact quite good, although I admit my knowledge of the discipline is limited. Once it became clear that I wasn't going to provide a tip, he politely conceded and wished me a good day before moving on to the next pedestrian. I never give money because I feel that there’s always the possibility that I'd be contributing to a problem. Money never solves problems. Plus I needed what I had to purchase my bus ticket. Continuing on to the station, an idea occurred to me.
It just so happened that I had my guitar on my back because I was planning to find a nice place to sit and play, such as the alluring botanical garden a few blocks away. This plan had just changed. I bought my bus ticket and returned the way I came at a slightly accelerated pace. I was on the lookout for the kid. As I got to his corner of street, my eyes didn't spot him, and I slowed and gandered.. Then I saw him, shooting his spiel to an older woman as she sauntered on through the heavy sun haze. I stood, and smiled to myself, and was patient. After he subsided, and allowed her to continue her encumbered gait unaccompanied, I approached.
I got his attention and told him my idea. He grinned, interested and pleased. I proposed that we play music together for tips. I'd supply the melody; he'd supply the beat. He agreed, and our collaboration began.
Can't say we sounded super rad. He could've used a mic to give us some more percussive power, and I could've used a better guitar and more Brazilian songs. But we were having fun. And we were working. We were thrown a bone or two from passers-by. We also had a couple supportive, temporary audiences: a drunk guy, some other urchin kids, an older gentleman.. As we rocked, our souls illuminated, and people paid attention.
I was just about out of songs. It'd probably been a couple hours. My accomplice was sweating. We'd made a good, small haul. So we decided it was time to call it. My buddy wanted to go see if he could get a bath and a bed for the night. He suggested splitting up the earnings. I told him it was all his. He was speechless and profoundly grateful. He conveyed to me that he would have never expected such generosity from a foreigner and repeatedly thanked me. I told him that it was my pleasure, and he earned it. He has talent, and he has heart. We soaked in the moment, our souls throbbing to the echo of our music. It was now dusk and he had to run to see if he could get that bed. We hugged and parted ways with a warm sense about ourselves and faith in humanity and each other.
If you ever see a curly-headed, bright-eyed kid beat-boxing on the streets of Curitiba, hear him out and perhaps buy him lunch. You'll be glad you did.


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So, why are Manitoba's skinks in trouble?
Manitoba's prairie skinks are considered to be endangered because, so far, they have only been found in one small region of the province. They are isolated from the rest of the North American prairie skink population and their known habitat is shrinking. In short, they are in a leaky boat in the middle of a big lake.
Skinks have only been found in the Assiniboine Delta region east of Brandon and in one tiny location in the Lauder Sandhills south of Brandon (see Biogeography). The total area of known skink habitat in Manitoba is less than 1800 square kilometres. The habitat that skinks require is the native mixed-grass prairie that is found in these areas of sandy soils. It is the continuing loss of these native prairies that threatens the prairie skink, as well as many other unique prairie flora and fauna. Humans and their activities are the ultimate culprits in the loss of skink habitat, but these losses are happening in some unexpected ways.
Some threats to skink habitat are obvious. When native prairie is converted to crop lands or to housing developments, factories or roadways, skinks can no longer live there. No surprise there, we modern humans have long been creating our own habitat at the expense of the natural world. But it’s not just plowing up native prairies that affects skink habitat. The prairies can be degraded and lost as skink habitat, too. Livestock grazing can help to maintain native grasslands, but overgrazing (too many cattle for too long) can shift the array of plant species in a pasture, making it unsuitable for skinks. The spread of leafy spurge and other exotic weeds in native prairies can also change the make up of these lands and reduce their value as skink habitat.
And last, but certainly not least, is the loss of native prairies to other native vegetation: trees! Trembling Aspen, or Poplar, is a native tree species that spreads aggressively into prairies, ultimately turning them into forests. Skinks can’t live in forests. While the process of forests taking over prairies may seem like a natural one, it is, in fact, more the result of humans upsetting the balance of nature again. Before European settlement a relative balance existed between forests and prairie in this part of Manitoba. Grazing by bison and other herbivores combined with regular wildfires, some started by lightning and others by early aboriginal peoples, kept the forests at bay. Fire suppression, and a complete lack of any grazing in some cases, have allowed aspens to proliferate and take over the prairies.
the: COSEWIC Status Report on the Northern Prairie Skink (1.3 MB PDF).
What about the rest of North America?
You can review the North American status of prairie skinks at: NatureServe.org/Explorer = Prairie Skink. Check the box to "expand all reports sections". Wisconsin and Iowa list the skink as "vulnerable". North Dakota and Arkansas rank it as "imperiled", while Louisiana ranks it as "critically imperiled". The latter three states are on the fringes of the species range.
It’s quite likely that, overall, skinks in the United States are facing the same conservation issues they face here in Manitoba. The main difference for the skinks in the United States is that they are found over a much broader geographical area. So far, skink populations in the heart of their US range are thought to be doing well. Let’s hope things stay that way for our skinks' southern cousins.
Why bother with skinks anyway?
Are prairie skinks important? What's so special about a tiny lizard that most of us have never even seen in the wild? Do they have some real economic value? Perhaps as a tourist attraction? Could they possess some gene or produce some compound that could be a boon to medicine? Do they play some intricate role in the ecosystem, so that other species would suffer if skinks disappeared? Maybe. But, really, it’s not very likely on any of these counts.
The truth is that if skinks disappeared from Manitoba, most Manitobans wouldn’t even notice. So, should we spend the time, effort and money to try and ensure skinks have a future in Manitoba? That's something we all to need to ask ourselves, because it is individual Manitobans, like you and me, that will determine the future of prairie skinks. Sure, we all act collectively to conserve our natural resources through our government agencies. We set aside some lands as parks and protected natural areas. We enact legislation, like the Endangered Species Act, to help protect threatened plants and animals, and through our taxes we fund research to learn more about the biology of threatened species. So why not just let the government take care of the skinks?
Well, governments at all levels are facing increasing demands from all sectors of society. Are skinks going to get time and money when health care and community infrastructures are in dire straits? Increasingly, it's going to be up to individual Manitobans to take responsibility for taking care of our collective natural heritage. For the roughly half of the skink's habitat in Manitoba that is on private lands this will be especially important. Individually or working in groups we can make a difference. That's what the SOS project is all about.

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The hotel offers large (24-27 m2) single, double and triple rooms, as well as studio rooms. All rooms are equipped with twin beds, refrigerator, telephone, colour TV and private bathrooms with shower. The studio rooms are additionally furnished with a kitchenette, which includes a small cooking stove and a microwave oven. One or two extra beds can be added in each room. The breakfast room, lounge and bar are all located on the ground floor.
All rooms have wireless internet connections. Two computers with internet connection are available for the use of hotel guests in the bar area - free of charge.
Kringlan, the shopping centre is located within walking distance of the Arctic Comfort Hotel, as well as the city's main outdoor area, Laugardalur, with its Sports and Exhibition Centre, large swimming pool with hot pots, the Botanical Garden of Reykjavík, the Family Park, the Domestic Animal Zoo and the indoor ice skating rink.
Various shops and restaurants are also to be found nearby and the city centre is ca. 2.5 Km away (25-35 minutes on foot or 5 minutes by bus/car).
Arctic Comfort Hotel is the ideal choice for travellers and business people, who are looking for a restful and cozy place to come back to, whilst visiting Europe's northernmost capital.

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If you have been using Back to My Mac (BTMM), you should have received a notification from Apple this week that you won’t be able to do so when you upgrade to macOS Mojave. Although it’s a little cute that Apple has gone to the trouble of informing you personally, there’s a bit more to it than that.
A few sites have claimed that Apple announced this when it released the first developer beta of Mojave. I have checked in its release notes, and in those for every beta up to and including beta 8, and there is no mention in any of them that BTMM is not supported by Mojave. Nor was it announced at WWDC, which was extensively reported.
The first trace that I can find was in Apple’s Support Note published, it claims, on 9 August 2018 – a full two months after WWDC, and over ten days before Apple pushed out those notifications. Neither is it mentioned on Apple’s Get ready for macOS Mojave page, which seems rather remiss. Similarly, look at Apple’s article detailing how to set up BTMM, which hasn’t been updated since March 2016, and you’ll find no mention of its imminent death.
Like its changed procedures for resetting the SMC in T2-equipped Macs, Apple presumes that by publishing a Support Note, it has somehow informed all Mac users. Funnily enough, those changes were published on 10 August 2018, but slipped everyone’s attention for ten days until we stumbled across the change by accident.
I suspect that Apple is probably one of the largest employers of professionals with a good grounding in information and communication theory, which is largely built on Shannon and Weaver’s model of sender and receiver. Any one of those professionals would recognise that simply publishing support articles is insufficient if the receiver is oblivious to that communication. It is more silent than the sound of one hand clapping, less noticeable than the felling of a tree in the middle of a vast forest hundreds of miles from the nearest observer.
Years ago, Apple used to maintain a list of recently published and updated support notes, but discontinued it for no apparent reason. I have been unable to find any method of discovering new and updated support notes, other than hoping that someone will bump into them and tweet about the change, or by typing in almost random numbers and hoping to get lucky. Apple doesn’t even number its notes consecutively, and leaves pseudo-random gaps in their numbering. It’s as if it doesn’t want you to find them.
There is an excellent utility which can watch websites for changes: Dejal Simon. I was prepared to buy a licence and run it here, but it doesn’t seem intended for quite this purpose, and I haven’t been able to get it to watch for Apple’s changed postings.
Even more shocking is that Apple’s own support staff are often as ignorant of changes to macOS and iOS, and its corporate inability to communicate is costing it money.
This week, I received a reader question about a malfunctioning Smart Keyboard from an iPad Pro user. They had already complained about these problems to Apple, whose response was to replace the keyboard. When that misbehaved identically, the user gave up with Apple Support and turned to MacLife, where I became involved.
Searching Apple’s Support Communities, I was quickly able to confirm my suspicion that these problems were not a hardware matter at all, but the result of a poorly-designed ‘feature’ in iOS and a long-standing bug. Had Apple’s support staff ready access to that information from Apple’s own website, they would have been able to solve the problems without the expense of a replacement Smart Keyboard.
In but a few days, Apple Support and others who support Apple products will face the onslaught of major new releases of macOS, iOS, etc. Dozens of new support articles and thousands of other tidbits of information will start appearing.
What chance do any of us have of finding accurate answers?
From the comments below, Apple informed some developers that BTMM was removed from Mojave as long ago as 26 June. That is almost two months before Apple went to the trouble of informing those already using BTMM, on 21 August.
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Some Mojave devs asking about why BTMM was missing in iCloud settings were told 6 weeks or so ago by beta feedback that BTMM had been deprecated in Mojave. I don’t think it was widely known due to NDA restrictions.
If they were told that BTMM had been “deprecated”, then that information was incorrect. In deprecation, Apple retains the service on a maintenance basis only, as they are doing with OpenGL and OpenCL (and 32-bit support, and a lot of other existing macOS features).
What Apple has now announced is that the service is being removed, thus won’t exist at all in Mojave, which is very different.
Maybe Apple didn’t know what it was doing?!
Deprecated is probably my interpretation of the actual message; I think it said, no longer supported in Mojave. I may even have a screenshot, but at the time it was under NDA. I’ll see if I can find it.
“Après étude de votre rapport, l’équipe d’ingénierie a décidé que le comportement signalé ne sera plus pris en charge et a été supprimé. Merci pour votre évaluation !
Astonishing! Another closely-guarded secret, then.
I noticed BTMM missing when “Shared” did not appear in the Finder sidebar. It was weeks before any official word from Apple.
In the past decade, I have often recommended Apple notebooks and basestations to people with little or no technical expertise. I could do this because of the remote support capability provided by Apple as an integral component of OS X and macOS. This may be the tipping point to ceasing helping family and friends because literally hundreds of miles of travel may be required to provide the same level of support.
Years ago I trusted Apple to help me organize and keep my data and to assist my efforts to help others. The first offense was the discarding (without warning) of carefully curated document metadata with the introduction of iBooks. The demise of the Airport basestation and the discontinuance of Back To My Mac are just the latest events in this progression. I will continue to use iCloud for Calendar, Contacts, Mail, and Notes for as long as possible.
My current lack of trust in Apple means that I can not recommend iCloud for keychain or file storage, among other things. I will not put all eggs in one basket that appears ready to disintegrate. Dropbox and 1Password are two independent tools well integrated into the Apple ecosystem that help insulate from apparently capricious changes by Apple. Since Timbuktu Pro’s demise, I can only wish for a similarly simple solution for remote access that does not rely on “the cloud”. I know of bits and pieces of the solution, as many have discussed, but none are as user-cooperative as BTMM.
I have found Screens 4 and Screens Connect.
The documentation currently available is about as helpful as UNIX man files. I am beginning to understand the configuration requirements, including the magic sequences to enable SSH encrypted connections and the IPv4 router port forwarding and DHCP reservation techniques to enable easy setup and use of Screens 4 where IPv6 is not available. My testing recently was from 485 miles from my office to my main desktop machine at home. Editing spreadsheets and copying several multi-GB files by drag and drop between desktops worked perfectly but, of course, copying is limited in speed by the sending systems uplink.
My goal is to emulate Joe Kissell and write useable guide to Screen Sharing for macOS Mojave and beyond.


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With almost 60% of Australia’s adult population suffering from some type of weight problem, weight loss surgery may serve as their only hope of maintaining and controlling their weight over long periods of time. Obesity related diseases cause the death of thousands of Australians every year while hundreds of thousands more are left suffering serious medical, physical and social disabilities. As such, bariatric surgery performed by our expert weight loss surgeon here in Sydney can be especially useful for those particular individuals.
Obese patients are also at a higher risk of developing colonic, uterine and breast cancers.
Is weight loss surgery the right solution?
Is unable to achieve a healthy body weight for a sustained period of time, even through medically supervised dieting.
Lifestyle modifications that include regular exercising and drastic change of eating habits are the first steps to weight loss and health improvement. Unfortunately, the more obese a person is and the more likely he/she will regain weight in a relatively short timeframe. This weight cycling or so-called “yo-yo” phenomenon may on some occasions lead to depression and low self-esteem.
The development of minimally invasive (keyhole surgery) approach to bariatric surgery has revolutionised the management of obesity worldwide, as it is the only recognised modality of treatment that can offer sustained long-term weight loss.
The most efficient, but also most challenging procedure is the Gastric Bypass that circumvents part of the stomach and small bowel thus creating intestinal malabsorption. Its main disadvantages are higher operative risks (as compared to sleeve gastrectomy or gastric banding), the necessity to take ongoing nutritional supplements and vitamins post surgery, and sometimes experiencing daily foul-smelling flatulence and/or loose bowel movements.
Over the last 5 years, Sleeve Gastrectomy has rapidly gained in popularity worldwide mainly due its relative safety and the fact that it is technically simpler than Gastric Bypass. This restrictive procedure consists of creating a narrow gastric “tube” after removing around 80% of the stomach. Patients will experience rapid weight loss within the first 2-years. Unfortunately, not enough long-term data are currently available to confirm long-term efficacy and it seems that after 5-years follow up a certain percentage of patients will regain weight due to gastric tube dilatation.
LAGB is by far the least traumatic and safest option of all. It is also adjustable and totally reversible. This purely restrictive procedure consists of placing an inflatable low-pressure soft band around the upper most part of the stomach, creating a very small pouch and a narrow passage that limits the amount of food intake. Inflating or deflating the gastric band with sterile saline solution will control the level of restriction (overeating prevention), but also allow the patient to feel full with smaller meals (early satiation). Compared to Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy, weight loss occurs at a lower pace following LAGB and is not as radical. But it is probably more physiological and less stressful on the body.
This procedure has a long and proven track record for safety in Australia and overseas. It is the safest surgical option available for those eligible for bariatric surgery. A real advantage of LAGB is that no part of the stomach is either, stapled, cut or removed, and as a result food absorption remains exactly the same as it was before surgery. Furthermore, the gastric band can be easily and safely removed if needed, thus allowing the stomach to go back to its normal shape and physiological function.
Prof. Berney, Safe Surgery’s weight loss surgeon believes that it should remain the first line of treatment and gastric bypass being reserved for those suffering from extreme obesity (BMI>50), or as a revisional surgery after failed LAGB. Before deciding on LAGB surgery it is very important to fully understand the life-long commitment and responsibility to lifestyle modifications, as inability to do so is more likely to lead to long-term failure of LAGB surgery and weight regain.
Prior to surgery a strict low-calorie diet is introduced for a total of two weeks.
The procedure is performed under general anaesthesia and the patient stays in hospital overnight.
The treatment of choice is laparoscopic (keyhole) as it offers the best post-operative outcome with minimal discomfort and excellent cosmetic result.
Preference is to perform the procedure via 4 small skin cuts.
The aim of this procedure is to safely place the gastric band (Midband) around the upper most part of the stomach and to fix the adjustable titanium reservoir (port) into a small pocket created under the skin, through one of the previously made incision.
This adjustable port is attached to the gastric band via a narrow silicone tube.
At the end of the procedure no drain is necessary and the patient can start limited clear fluids after 6 hours post-operative.
Once discharged home, the small waterproof dressings covering the wounds can be safely removed 5 days later and there is no need to remove the stiches as they spontaneously dissolve within few weeks.
The patient generally remains on a clear fluids diet until first follow-up appointment 2 weeks after surgery.

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» I tried kinesiology: Can it help relieve anxiety?
I tried kinesiology: Can it help relieve anxiety?
Desperate for some relief for her mounting anxiety, Tara Ali decided to seek alternative treatment in the form of kinesiology. Did this natural therapy actually help?
Kinesiology is first suggested to me when I mention to a friend that my anxiety has become a little out of control ever since I re-entered the workforce part-time after having a baby.
Panicky feelings rise up my throat as I rush to the library at 9am where I work as a freelancer, and they’re still there when I collapse into bed at 11pm after working in the evenings to meet my deadlines.
It’s making me irritable, argumentative, and not the best person to live with. She starts raving about how it saved her sanity during an emotionally difficult time in her life. I need a fix, quick.
Kinesiology is an alternative therapy that’s touted as a powerful, but gentle, way to help with physical conditions: anything from back pain, respiratory problems or sports injuries, and also mental and emotional issues. It uses muscle testing, which doesn’t test how strong your muscles are but rather, how the nervous system controls its muscle functions.
There are several different kinds of kinesiology but generally in a session your practitioner will use a combination of muscle testing and attention to acu, reflex and trigger points to investigate where imbalances in the body are, then gentle corrections and alignment of the nervous system to put things back in balance.
Session one: Am I healing?
During my first session Jane, asks me to draw what I mean when I say I have ‘one foot in motherhood, the other foot in deadlines – and the two aren’t gelling’. She practices holistic kinesiology and believes muscle testing allows us to tap into our body's inherent wisdom and intelligence. My sketch is illuminating: one side is soft and sweet, my little boy and I cuddling, surrounded by teddies and story books. The other is adult, corporate: my computer, a pile of dollar bills, a clock. It gets me talking about the conflict I’m feeling inside trying to excel in both of these worlds of mine, and feeling such an enormous pressure about it all.
Next I move to the bed while Jane asks me questions out loud (‘What would happen if you stopped earning money?’; ‘What would happen if your son encroached into your work hours?’) and then holds my arm up and asks me to push back at different points against her pressure as I respond. The sceptic in me is a little amused, but apparently the body is a truth detector, and she gets messages about my inbuilt belief systems from the way my body does or doesn’t push back. Then we come up with an alternative belief that's more helpful than the ones I’ve been telling myself and Jane gets me to repeat it until my body responds affirmatively. It feels something like therapy, combined with a bit of physio, massage and some kind of healing.
I can’t say I notice an immediate improvement in my anxiety. The day after my session I feel like I’m going to spontaneously combust as I frantically finish a story at baby nap time while also trying to batch cook and vacuum the Weetbix-stained carpet because we have friends coming for dinner. But then I remember a visual Jane gave me, to imagine soft velvet curtains in the centre of my chest, slowly closing and sweeping a sense of calm through me. It really works.
Three weeks later I’m back again and telling Jane that the kinesiology has a strong effect on me and I’ve been very emotional. I spend most of the time in tears, themes come up of missing my family in the UK, ungrateful that I feel sad when I know I have so much, a niggling pain in my neck and shoulders, feeling overwhelmed by a normal thing like Christmas – whoah. It’s like kinesiology flicked an emotional switch in me last time and I haven’t been able to turn it back off. This session focusses on balancing things back the other way. Jane reads me some text from a vibrational healing book that hits the nail on the head. She massages my neck and has some more conversations with my limbs and we’re done until next time.
A month on and there has most definitely been a shift. I still have anxious tendencies when work starts piling up and I’ve only had six hours broken sleep and my toddler doesn’t care. But there’s a difference now… I slow down and do what I can and there’s no longer the pressure of feeling that if I drop a ball the world may end. I drop several each day, but I know now can just clean up quickly and keep going.
Tara Ali had kinesiology sessions at thepreciousmettle.com.au (sessions were paid for).
Cost per session: Around $90 for an hour. Many health insurers offer rebates, depending on your level of cover.
If you or someone you know is suffering from anxiety, please seek professional medical advice or contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.


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Home » Events & media » China v US: Who needs allies?
When North Korea tested a ballistic missile back in February, the Trump administration threatened military action. They did the same thing when Pyongyang tested again on 4 July.
People often argue that America’s alliances in Asia are a decisive advantage in its contest with China for regional strategic primacy. China’s only ally, they say, is North Korea, while America has an entire alliance system encompassing many key regional states, as well as a wider circle of close friends. Without allies and friends like that, the argument goes, China can never replace America as the region’s leading power.
But that’s probably wrong. Alliances are not always strategic assets, and sometimes they are clear liabilities. It all depends on the circumstances, and in the circumstances of Asia today, China doesn’t need alliances to achieve its strategic goals. And whether America does depends on how you define its goals.
Let’s start with China. The argument that China needs allies to fulfil its ambitions to lead Asia is based on the assumption that Chinese regional leadership would have to work just the way America’s has done. But their situations are very different. America is not an Asian power, so its position in Asia has always depended on projecting power into the region from the Western Hemisphere.
Allies in the Western Pacific have been essential for that, because of the bases they provide. Those bases have made it possible for the US to sustain a preponderant military presence in Asia. Without them, America would not be Asia’s primary power.
But China is a local power in Asia. It has no need to project power across the world to lead in Asia, because it can sustain a strong military presence throughout the region from bases at home. So it does not need allies to support it.
America enjoys the same local advantage in its own back yard. America’s feeble alliance system in the Western Hemisphere [the Rio Pact – ever heard of it?] has no significant role in supporting America’s strategic position there, because America doesn’t need allies to exercise primacy so close to home.
Of course one might argue that US allies do more than provide bases. They provide both military and political support to America which strengthens its strategic position and underwrites its primacy. China can’t compete with that.
But how real is that support, and how much does it strengthen America in the contest with China? We have seen the answer quite clearly in the South China Sea. Asian allies were willing to endorse US statements of concern, but no more. They are not willing to risk being drawn into a military clash with China to help bolster US regional leadership. Indeed they are not willing to risk damaging their relations with China at all on America’s behalf. They will only support America against China where their own immediate interests are directly at stake.
And that means they will not do America much good in today’s zero-sum contest with China. Beijing has made clear that US allies in Asia will pay dearly for any substantial support they provide to America against China, and that seems to be working. When Australian political leaders say ‘We do not have to choose between America and China’, as they so often do, they are saying that we will not do anything to support America that will damage our relations with China. And that makes it easy for China to ensure that we provide no support to America that makes any difference in America’s contest with China.
This suggests that, bases apart, America’s alliances are not much of an asset at all in managing relations with China. Indeed they are in many ways a net liability, because the benefits they offer are offset by the costs they impose. They compel Washington to confront Beijing on its allies’ behalf over issues which are of no intrinsic importance to the US, in order to preserve the credibility of its alliance commitments. Above all, they compel America to accept the risk of nuclear attack on its own territory to defend its allies against nuclear threats.
This naturally leads one to ask why exactly America sticks to its alliances in Asia (or Europe, for that matter). Their value in providing bases shows they are essential to supporting US leadership in the region. But when one asks why America needs to sustain that leadership, a big part of the answer is the need to support its allies. It is a circular argument, which is a sure sign of muddle.
The confusion arises because America has relied on alliances for so long, and so successfully, that they have come to seem like ends in themselves, not just means to achieve more fundamental national objectives. But this is all that alliances can ever be; they are policy tools, not policy goals.
And as tools, they must be judged on their cost-effectiveness. Alliances that have any content at all always impose costs. They are worth having when those costs are outweighed by clear benefits in serving more fundamental national policy objectives. We cannot judge that unless those wider objectives are clearly defined and agreed, and America’s objectives in Asia today are not. Until they are, it would be unwise to assume that US alliances are an asset, and that China’s lack of allies is a liability.
This article by Hugh White, first appeared in the The Interpreter, on the Lowy Institute of Public Policy website.

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Council members pressed Lopez, in particular, for more data to show that Durham’s force is understaffed compared with similar U.S. cities. They also wanted a clear plan for how more officers would be used.
City Manager Tom Bonfield is due to proposed his budget May 18. State law requires cities to adopt balanced budgets before the new fiscal year begins, but uncertainty over decisions by the state legislature leaves municipal budget-makers with clouded prospects for next year’s revenue.
Last year’s elimination of the “privilege license,” or business tax, left Durham with a $2.9 million gap in its 2015-16 projections. The council’s guidelines allow for transferring $2.9 million out of a debt-service fund to cover the gap if the legislature fails to make up the cities’ lost revenue.
Such a shift would reduce the city’s ability to borrow money for new capital projects, such as the sidewalks to which council members have given a high priority.
The General Assembly is also considering changing the formula for sales-tax distribution, sending more to rural areas and less to urbanized areas such as Durham. Bonfield told the council that Durham County, which shares sales-tax income with the city, could lose as much as $7 million.
Bonfield said he did not know where money might be available to transfer if the city has to make up for loss of both the privilege license and sales-tax income.
Despite the uncertainties, the guidelines retain the current allocations for garbage pickup (5.89 cents of the 59.12 tax rate), low-income housing (one cent), parks maintenance (one-half cent) and transit operations (3.87 cents).
Water and sewer fees, which are programmed to gradually rise each year through fiscal 2018-19, are capped at an average 3 percent increase. Annual increases are intended to pay for catching up neglected maintenance and meeting enhanced standards for treated wastewater flowing into Falls and Jordan lakes.
Stormwater fees are not scheduled to change.


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Diminutive Danny Herrera became the shortest pitcher in Mets history when he climbed up to the rubber in Washington, D.C. (without the help of a step ladder) on September 2nd. Amidst the catcalls of “hey, somebody left a hat on the mound” and “where’s the rest of the pitcher?”, little Danny began his Mets career auspiciously, retiring 17 of the first 18 batters he faced.
Eventually, though, Herrera did allow baserunners – too many, in fact, as 8 of the last 15 batters he faced reached base. Herrera displayed a plethora of pitches, including the rare and ancient pitch known as the screwball, all delivered at random speeds. He changed speeds well, and when he was able to keep pitches down he was effective. However, he ran into trouble when his offerings floated higher in the strike zone and caught too much of the middle of the plate. Without much velocity and lacking a vicious breaking pitch, Herrera is more reliant on pristine command than most other MLB pitchers, which can be a volatile factor for the small sample sizes that a LOOGY faces. That’s really the difficulty in shoehorning him into such a role; as a specialist, his job is to get one batter, usually in a tight situation, and if he’s not “on”, the results could be disastrous.
Statistically speaking, the 2011 sample size was too small to create any kind of fair evaluation. As for what my eyes saw, it’s equally difficult because, similarly, I didn’t see enough of him to get a gauge on his strengths and weaknesses.
Danny Herrera should get an opportunity to win a bullpen spot next spring. Personally, I don’t know that the LOOGY role is best suited unless he can either find consistent command or take one of his breaking pitches to a new level. I’d rather see him in a middle or long-relief role, where he can start innings with the bases empty, and have room for error. As recently as 2009, he appeared in 70 games for the Reds and posted a 3.06 ERA and 1.41 WHIP in 61 IP, facing 266 batters — which is a pretty decent sample size for a reliever. Although I don’t know enough about the situations he entered in ’09, it does suggest that Herrera might be a valuable asset in a MLB bullpen. Though, he could also have benefited from being unknown at the time (it was his rookie year); I believe the mystery factor is significant and underrated in regard to relievers. At this point, I don’t know if he can be mysterious again — or if he can adjust to batters who adjust to him. There’s only one way to find out, and at this moment the Mets don’t have many LOOGY options beyond Herrera and Tim Byrdak.
As recently as 1961 Luis Arroyo saved 29 games and made Whitey Ford a 20 game winner. He’d certainly be a mystery if the hapless Met front office would only give him a chance to be a loogy! Seriously, isn’t it sad that virtually every review has to tell us about this guy or that was good sometime in the past. In the coming weeks we will hear all about the injured and broken down free agents that Alderson will try to bring in because they are job and maybe he’ll get lucky once or twice a year. All the while they will also tell us they can’t keep Reyes because he got hurt and was still able to win the batting title. That doesn’t hack it with these new Mets. There is no future because Alderson’s job is to make the Mets the small market team in America’s biggest city. Dodger fans are lucky. They are getting a new owner. We, because Wilpon and Selig are in love, are stuck with these losers, whose only success was in illegal ponzi schemes.


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Basic networking features & constraints including VPN, Direct Connect, Subnetting, security, Routing, etc.


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Serbia entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. Previously Serbia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest as part of Yugoslavia as well as Serbia and Montenegro. The country won with its debut entry in 2007 and hosted the competition in the capital Belgrade the following year.
Serbia previously participated in the Eurovision Song Contest as part of Yugoslavia from 1961-1992 and then entered the contest as Serbia and Montenegro between 2004 and 2006. When Serbia won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest it became only the second country to win the competition with a debut entry since Switzerland's victory at the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.
Serbia has enjoyed success in the contest over the past ten years although it has only failed to qualify three times, missing out on a spot in the Grand Final by a small margin on each occasion. With Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, FYR Macedonia and Montenegro yet to score a Eurovision victory, Serbia remains the most successful country from the former Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest.


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The Imaginarium uses electricity as its only energy source. We measure the net-zero energy performance by comparing all the electricity CONSUMED to all the electricity PRODUCED. On an annual basis, we expect to PRODUCE slightly more electricity than we CONSUME, so our NET ENERGY consumption will be ZERO.
Our energy performance is displayed on the 1st floor 3×3 Video Wall. Our Video Wall is where we show what is happening RIGHT NOW (which updates every 3 minutes), what HAS happened in the last 24 hours, the last month, the last 12 months, and cumulatively since we began monitoring the performance on Nov. 14, 2017. We compare our energy production vs. consumption in kilowatt-hours, which measures our electricity over time.
The Imaginarium is “grid-tied” which means we are connected to the RG&E utility grid through our “NET METER”; when the building demand for electricity is greater than our production at any particular moment, we draw electricity from RG&E to run our building. When our production is greater than our building need, we return electricity to the grid.
Visitors can see the NET METER and our POWER METERS through the mechanical room window. The power meters are connected to all of our electric devices in the building, and they are the source of data for our energy performance.
Our sources of electricity production are our (2) small wind turbines, the (92) rooftop solar panels, and the (21) pieces of electricity-producing exercise equipment in the ECO gym.
The ECO elevator, which is gravity-powered.

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We chose fonts that we believe accurately reflect the spirit of Adaptiva. The fonts are clean, strong, and well, we just like them. They’re cool fonts.
Warning: If you use the wrong fonts in branded materials, I will hunt you down and lecture you while I check your system to make sure you’ve installed our typefaces.
Museo Sans is our primary font, which we use for pretty much everything. It’s refined, scalable and legible, and ugh, the kerning is beautiful. We use font weights 300, 500, and 700, and letter-spacing/tracking is always 0.
Futura PT Heavy is our alternative font. It’s bold, honest, and demands attention. We don’t use it often — mostly for illustrations, video/animation, and the occasional one-off print project, but never on the web. Futura PT Heavy is always used in all caps, with the tracking set to 100-200. We use the font weight “Heavy” most of the time, but “Book” is also a viable option.
This isn’t really our brand font, but it’s what we use in Microsoft Office documents that aren’t exported to PDF, such as Word templates, product documentation, PowerPoint presentations, etc. It’s a system font that the vast majority of our customer base already has, and it’s not too far off from Museo Sans. Thanks, Microsoft!
Note: The above download link is restricted to Adaptiva staff and requires authentication. We have licensed Museo Sans and Futura PT for our use only, so do not distribute brand fonts outside the company. Since Segoe UI is a system font, we don’t have a license for it, so it’s not distributable anyway.
Our type scale is based on the golden ratio (~1.618) and a starting point of 10px for print, and 16px for web.
Font sizes can extend beyond “Giant” for large print files or special cases in illustrations, but do your best to stick to size values that adhere to the 1.618 scale.


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In 2017 I reviewed 78 books and novellas. I read a couple of more novellas which I didn’t review and a bunch of short stories, too.
Genre-wise, I reviewed 2 steampunk books (which are listed as both sf and fantasy on Goodreads), 5 mysteries and thrillers, 1 non-fiction book, 34 science fiction books, and 37 fantasy books.
in SF 15 males, 15 females, 2 authored by both a male and a female, 2 short story collections with both male and female authors. Includes 6 Star Trek: TNG and three Babylon 5 books.
This outcome isn’t a surprise considering that I ended up listening almost all of Mercedes Lackey’s Five Hundred Kingdoms series, a bunch of SF books/novellas from Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and three books/novellas from Seanan McGuire.
I think this trend will continue because I’ve only read the first book in Marie Brennan’s Memoires of Lady Trent series (and I need some more dragons in my reading!) and I’m going to continue with Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War series.
I took part in four challenges and completed them all.
Graphic novel challenge: originally, I aimed for the Modern age with 12. Ended up with 30 reviews.
Action heroine: originally aimed for 10. Ended up reviewing 31 books and comics.
Pick&mix: reviewed all 40 books.
Author, author: I chose four books from Brackett and four from Bear, and I reviewed them.
I also took part in Sci-fi experience, Vintage SF, and R.I.P. and reviewed at least 3 books for each.
On GoodReads my average score was 3,3 from 122 books, novellas, short stories, and comics that I graded in 2017. I gave only one book 5 stars (City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett). On the other hand, I gave 53 books and comics 4 stars, so I was very happy with most of my reading. 🙂 Only two comics received one star.
Overall, a good reading year!
The 10th annual graphic novel and manga reading challenge has started and I’m joining it.
What counts: graphic novels, collected trade editions, manga, comic strip collections, comic books or combinations of text and bubbles all in the same book. In print or digital. Anything else you feel is suitable. My personal criteria is if it has either frames OR speech bubbles it counts. I’m not going to be the comic police but if you are unsure, ask me in the comments any given month.
I’m joining at the Modern age level. Last year I managed to reach Bronze Age and I’m hoping to do the same this year. I’m going to start with Xena, Star Trek, and Star Wars collections.
This challenge is for those wishing to delve further into a favorite author, or pursue a new discovery, by reading several books by a single author during 2017.
The “Experienced” reading level represents a commitment to read four books one author. As you move up the reading levels, each level should consist of another four books by that same author or four by another author. You can choose to read four, eight, twelve, or sixteen books by one author, or read four (or a multiple of four) by more than one author. For example, if you choose the “Virtuoso” reading level, you could choose sixteen books by C. J. Cherryh, or eight by Cherryh and eight by Frank Herbert, or four each by Cherryh, Herbert, Le Guin, and Gibson. Rereads of old favorites are also fair game for this challenge.
Reading multiple books by the same author within a fairly short timeframe can give you insights into that author’s themes, style, or obsessions not apparent from an individual book. Consider sharing your insights on the forum thread dedicated to this challenge!
I have lots of authors I want to read more but I’m joining at first for Afficionado level with eight books, with four books from Elizabeth Bear and four from Leigh Brackett. Later, I could well end up adding more authors.
I’m going to join the Pick & Mix reading challenge for this year, too, with the goal of 20.
For a while now I’ve wanted to read (or reread) Star Trek: TNG books. This year I’m going to go through some of my collection. I’m starting with the six part series Double Helix in which the crew of the Enterprise-D battles a disease which returns every year. Each book is set during a different TNG season. And that’s all I remember of the whole series.
In the spirit of Pick&Mix I’m also going to include other books which don’t fit into the other challenges I’m joining.
Andrea is hosting Vintage Science Fiction Month in January. I’m joining the fun with a batch of Leigh Brackett books.
The Ginger Star (1975), The Hounds of Skaith (1976), The Sword of Rhiannon (1953), The Reavers of Skaith (1976), and Planet Stories 1 (1975) where Brackett is the editor.

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Moscow, March 30, 2018 – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation bestowed a state award on EuroChem CEO Dmitry Strezhnev on Friday for his dedication and commitment to the conservation of the environment. Mr Strehznev received the Honorary Nature Conservationist award from Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi at a ceremony in Moscow. He was among several high-profile recipients at the event.
The award recognizes significant investment in conservationism, encouraging biodiversity, environmental compliance and education in associated fields.
Positioned by EuroChem’s main beneficiary Andrey Melnichenko as a core element of EuroChem’s operations around the world, sustainability initiatives are visible across several fronts.
In one example, the Swiss-based company runs a Clean Water Program that has cut the consumption of fresh water used in production by more than 11 million cubic meters per annum. It was recognized by the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry in Russia as the best application of green technology in the country.
In another, the company’s product ENTEC® 26 was developed with the capacity to dramatically slash harmful emissions, becoming the only fertilizer in Switzerland to be recognized by the country’s Klimaschutz und CO2-Kompensation Stiftung (KliK), a foundation for climate protection and CO2 compensation. The foundation allocates funds to effective climate protection projects that fully comply with the provisions of the CO2 Act in Switzerland.
More on EuroChem’s sustainability endeavors can be found in the 2017 Sustainability Report, which was published earlier this month and is available on the company website.
EuroChem is a leading global fertilizer company producing primarily nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers, as well as certain organic synthesis products and iron ore. The Group is vertically integrated with activities spanning from mining to fertilizer production, logistics, and distribution. EuroChem is currently developing two sizeable potash deposits in Russia with its VolgaKaliy and Usolskiy Potash greenfield projects. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, the Group operates production facilities in Belgium, China, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, and Russia, supporting distribution assets in Europe, the CIS, Asia, and North and South America. EuroChem employs more than 25,000 people globally.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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Forensic Animation demonstrates the mechanics, motion, dimension, timing and sequences of events necessary to help in the understanding of any event. Animation simplifies complex and technical issues so they are easily understood by jurors. More cost effective than ever, these exhibits are a must in any case. They help jurors, mediators and the judge understand the details of any issue.
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industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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1. Accepted; agreed. : So, he said, like, “okay,” and, like, I go “okay.” So we both go “Okay.” Okay?
1. Acceptable. : This cake is okay, but not what I would call first rate.
2. Acceptably. : She ran okay—nothing spectacular.
1. (Someone’s) acceptance. : I won’t give the final okay until I see the plans.
1. To approve something. : She refused to okay our plans.


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Use Facebook comments system in your website without slowing down your website. This plugin add an extra feature to lazy load Facebook comments after clicking a button or scrolling down.
Simple plugin to add Facebook Comments to your website easily. It works perfectly with latest version of WordPress.
Add most popular Facebook commenting system in your website.
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Adjust number of comments, color scheme, language, width, sorting order etc..
Facebook comments increases your audience.
You need to create an APP in your Facebook developer console, and get the APP ID from here.
Lazy Load Button - (If you set scroll method, no button will be added).
Facebook Comments - Sample of comments box.
Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of lazy-facebook-comments.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
Go to Lazy FB Comments sub settings page under WordPress Settings page.
Give your facebook app ID.
OR, See detailed doc, how to install a WordPress plugin.
Normal Facebook comments plugins will drag your website speed down. This plugin won’t.
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Please explain, how this plugin lazy loads?
Comments and scripts will be loaded only after user clicking on a “Load Comments” (of course you can customize this button text too) button, or after scrolling down. You select any of these lazy load methods.
How can I add custom post type support?
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Where can I moderate the comments?
Once you configure the plugin with APP ID, you will find the moderation page link on the plugin settings page.
After installing this plugin all my WP stopped showing up.
Hi! Thanks for the great plugin, works perfect but it replaces the native wp comments, is there a chance you can give me that piece of code to sort this out and have fb comments and native wp comments in the same time? Thank you for your help and for the plugin and the fact that you keep it up to date!
I don't know how many Facebook Comment importers I have struggled with. And then I came across Lazy. It was install, plug and go! Yes, you need to have a FB developer app, but that's pretty easy. I'm donating this this developer! This plugin is invaluable. Thank you!!
I tried some other plugins but this one actually works like I wanted!
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Can I get comments on the homepage?
Thank you for this plugin, it works great! The only issue I found is that the comments appear only when I am on an article page. Would it be possible to have the comments also when I am on the homepage?
“Lazy FB Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Translate “Lazy FB Comments” into your language.
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On Scroll lazy load method.
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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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You guys know I don't typically write about fashion but the idea of doing a little series of different style pieces got me really excited, and I thought it would be a great way to bring some more variety to the blog. Now I've never been big on wearing stripes but it has somehow eased its way into my wardrobe, and something about Spring has got me crazy about this staple piece.
Stripes are always on trend which is why it makes for a great addition to your wardrobe and it's also incredibly versatile. For a casual coffee on the weekend, a shopping spree in the city, to a day at the office, stripes are quite stylish and can be paired with items you already have hanging in your closet like jeans and skirts.
Lately one of my go-to ensembles has been this basic striped high neck top (a bargain from H&M!) paired with black distressed jeans, embellished boots and a blue denim jacket. I love playing with different textures and prints, so the stripes against the two colours of denim as well as the embellished suede boots just looked cool and casual with a bit of an edge.
I have been day dreaming about a few specific outfits with one including a basic striped tee, black culottes and a pair of athletic shoes with a leather jacket. And the second being more put together with a striped blouse, chunky necklace, camel coat and black skinny jeans. Another outfit that I can see myself wearing on a day out this season is a loose fitted black and white striped tee, knee length skirt and flats for a cute and relaxed look. Even throw on a blazer to dress it up if need be.
The possibilities are endless when styling stripes no matter what the occasion or mood you're in, and they are a definite must-have for your capsule wardrobe collection! Whether you prefer simple yet chic, sailor-esque or french style, stripes will always have a place in the wide world of fashion.


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The FIFA phone number is +41 (0) 43 222 7777 and will take you through to their headquarters in Switzerland.
FIFA is an acronym of the Federation Internationale de Football Association. It is the governing body of world football with responsibilities including organising major international football tournaments including the World Cup which, this year, will be held in Russia.
Remember to add the international dialling code +41 for Switzerland when using the FIFA contact phone number. Your call will take you through to their head office in Zurich. Football fans planning a pilgrimage to the home of world football should be aware that the headquarters are just offices and not a museum. You likely won’t get past the lobby unless you are a member or certified official. A much better place to visit would be the FIFA World Football Museum, which is located nearby.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Join The Chicago School of Professional Psychology as it celebrates 35 years of excellence and leadership with a year-long series of events and symposiums.
We’ve compiled a visual history of photos from our archives on Facebook. Do you have a photo memory of TCSPP that you’d like to share? Email us at [email protected] or tag us on Facebook or Twitter with #TCSPP35.
On April 30th, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology’s hosted “What Does the End of Veterans’ Homelessness Look Like? Innovative Solutions for Veterans” — a thought leadership event in Los Angeles featuring a keynote address by Steve Peck, M.S.W., followed by a panel of distinguished speakers who provided innovative solutions for the unique mental, physical and spiritual health needs of our military personnel and their families.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health | Washington, D.C.
On March 18, 2015, major neuropsychology experts came together to discuss the development and dissemination of best practices for work in the clinical space in “No Health Without Mental Health,” a symposium featuring key notes by Dr. Mohammad Akhter, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Georges Benjamin and other leaders.
On November 20, 2014, The Chicago School convened a panel of leading psychologists, journalists, scholars, veterans, and advocates to discuss the current state of mental health in the U.S. and how the conversation surrounding mental healthcare can be re-framed.
Core issues discussed included care for veterans, expanding mental healthcare access to underserved communities, and reducing the stigma that surrounds mental health issues. During the event it was announced by Michele Nealon, Psy.D., National President of The Chicago School, that the institution is preparing a “No Health Without Mental Health” report, which is set to be released in 2015.


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Thank you for your visit to Atlantic Source web site.
We are specialized in every kind of satellite communications, and specially satellite geolocation services with global coverage.
Besides we count with a long experience in the AIS field (automatic identification system) and our equipment is currently on board of many ships all around the world.
Visit our special satellite products section or AIS to know more and get in touch with us if you have any doubts about our products and services.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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Isaac is a committed explorer of the regions where public concerns and private interest meet. He served as Economic-and Commercial Counsellor Head of the Embassy of Spain in Turkey (also responsible for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iraq), as well as in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia (also responsible for Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Yemen). His exposure to a wide variety of sectors and hands-on worldwide experience in projects and negotiations involving businesspeople, officials and political leaders, has turned him into a strong believer in pursuing synergies based on mutually beneficial and sustainable solutions leading to virtuous circles of trust and raised awareness among stake-holders. He has worked comprehensively in Industrialisation and Business Climate initiatives and played a pivotal role in designing and implementing Spain’s overall Internationalisation Strategy as well as the National Innovation and Internationalisation Strategies for the Transport and Infrastructure Industry.
He has led successfully ambitious restructuring and reorientation corporate transformative endeavours in challenging circumstances and has repeatedly been requested to share his experience in revamping public policy support schemes for the private sector and promoting Public-Private Partnerships.
Visiting professor on International Business at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Instituto de Empresa-Business School Madrid he has conducted lectures and seminars at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, Mohammed V’s Law faculty in Rabat, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology among many other institutions. He has partnered actively with multilateral institutions and think tanks such as The World Bank, Oxford Analytica or Real Instituto Elcano.
State Chartered Economist and Trade Expert “Técnico Comercial y Economista del Estado” holds a Masters in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
He has been conferred with the Official Cross of the Order of Civic Merit (Spain), the Official Cross of Isabel la Católica (Spain) and a Medal of Honour from Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Languages: fluent English, French and German.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: Make your next party or event special with a custom display from Dream Scenes! We offer life-size standups, enlarged custom checks, photo/poster enlargement services, custom sign-in books, and much more. Check out our website today and let us make your dream come true.


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Netready is your one-stop-shop for all of your IT support needs. Properly-functioning information technology is essential to the success of every business. When that IT isn’t working as it should, it can create a number of issues for your employees, and ultimately your business’ ability to complete projects, create revenue, and sustain efficient operations.
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We are seeking a technical professional with a desire to make a meaningful contribution within the context of a small team—while learning best practices in software development from a company whose mission is to make software that aids in the software development process.
In this position, you will help design, develop, implement, and maintain software that allows software teams to test and manage the development of their own software projects.
· Applying the best development practices: coding standards, unit testing, code reviews, etc.
Parasoft Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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Find your dream rental home in Charlottetown. Whether it is a 3 bedroom 2 bath single family house for rent or a one bedroom apartment, find the perfect rental in Charlottetown that fits your lifestyle. To find the perfect rental home in Charlottetown it is important to first define your criteria of what is important to you. Refine your search to include your ideal price range, size, or use the keyword search to narrow down your dream home. Find your perfect rental home in Charlottetown and inquire today.


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Brigham Young University Presents Ballroom Dance Company in Concert – GO!
Internationally renowned BYU Ballroom Dance Company presents Swing ‘n’ Sway, an infectiously energetic show that engages audiences of all ages. The company’s beautiful ballroom and rhythmical Latin dances are enhanced with artistic theatrical lighting and design.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education