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Open Source Reporting Comparison BIRT, Jasper, Pentaho - Third Edition
Innovent Solutions has performed periodic comparisons of the reporting portion of Eclipse BIRT, Jaspersoft and Pentaho starting in 2010 with an update in 2012. In 2015, we have decided to revisit the reporting products to evaluate what has changed and to update our comparison.
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BIRT Sorting
BIRT provides sorting capabilities on many report items, including Tables, Lists, Cross Tabs, Charts and Groups. Sorting is configured using a sort key expression. The expression is usually tied to data that is returned in a BIRT data set. In addition to supporting sort direction, BIRT also supports locale specific sorting and sort strength.
The expression is entered at various locations in the designer and depends on what report item is being sorted. For Cross Tabs, Lists and Tables the sorting expression can be entered in the property view, under the sorting tab.
The sorting expression for Charts is defined in the Select Data tab of the chart wizard, next to the expression for the category or optional grouping expression.
Group sorting is defined in the Group Editor.
If your BIRT report uses a grouped table, by default the group will be sorted by your key expression. In some cases this may not be desirable. Specifically when the data is pre-sorted in the order you want it to appear. BIRT provides an advanced property to turn this behavior off. You can access this property ("Sort by groups") in the advanced table of the property editor after selecting the table.
When sorting groups, Tables, Lists and Crosstabs, BIRT supports multiple expressions and the data will be sorted using the first expression, followed by subsequent expressions. While most sort expressions are quite simple, it is possible to create a custom sort order using a more complicated expression. Expressions can multi-lined, use report parameters and even call out to external classes. The following multi-line sort expression returns the third order line number first in the custom sort.
var ol = row["ORDERLINENUMBER"];
if( ol == 3 ){
}else if( ol == 1 ){
}else if( ol == 2 ){
}else if( ol == 4 ){
Sort expressions can also be created and applied in a BIRT JavaScript event handler. For example the following beforeFactory script adds a sort expression to a table group.
//Name Your Table
tbl = reportContext.getDesignHandle().findElement("mytable");
var lc = new ULocale(reportContext.getLocale());
sc = StructureFactory.createSortKey();
var tblGroup = tbl.getGroups().get(0);
//to put the sort on the table use the table handle
//instead of the group handle
ph = tblGroup.getPropertyHandle(TableHandle.SORT_PROP);
The examples shown in this post are available at BIRT-Exchange.
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**REMS Drug**
Trade Name(s)
- Pomalyst
Ther. Class.
Pharm. Class.
immunomodulatory agents
Treatment of multiple myeloma in patients who have received at least 2 prior therapies including lenalidomide and a proteasome inhibitor and have progressed on or within 60 days of completion of previous treatment (with prednisone).
Inhibits proliferation and induced apoptosis of hematopoietic tumor cells. Proliferation of resistant multiple myeloma cell lines and may act synergistically with dexamethasone. Enhances T cell- and natural killer (NK) cell-mediated immunity and inhibits production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Therapeutic Effect(s):
Decreased progression of multiple myeloma.
Absorption: Well absorbed following oral administration.
Distribution: Enters semen.
Metabolism and Excretion: Primarily metabolized in the liver by CYP1A2 and CYP3A4 with some metabolism by CYP2C19 and CYP2D6. Metabolites excreted in urine and feces. Minimal amounts excreted unchanged in urine.
Half-life: Normal subjects– 9.5 hr; myeloma patients– 7.5 hr.
Contraindicated in:
- Hypersensitivity, cross-sensitivity with thalidomide may occur
- Blood should not be donated
- Serum creatinine >3.0 mg/dL
- Serum bilirubin >2.0 mg/dL and AST/ALT >3.0 × ULN
- OB: May cause fetal harm/death
- Lactation: Avoid breastfeeding.
Use Cautiously in:
- Rep: Women of reproductive potential and men with female partners of reproductive potential
- Pedi: Safety and effectiveness not established.
Adverse Reactions/Side Effects
CNS: confusion, dizziness, insomnia, fatigue, weakness
Resp: dyspnea
CV: DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS/PULMONARY EMBOLISM, MI, STROKE, peripheral edema
GI: HEPATOTOXICITY, ↓ appetite, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting
GU: renal failure
Derm: dry skin, hyperhidrosis, night sweats, pruritus, rash, skin exfoliation
Endo: hyperglycemia
F and E: hypercalcemia, hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia
Hemat: ANEMIA, NEUTROPENIA, THROMBOCYTOPENIA, leukopenia, lymphopenia
MS: arthralgia, back pain, bone pain, muscle spasms, muscle weakness, musculoskeletal pain, pain in extremity
Neuro: neuropathy, tremor
Misc: hypersensitivity reactions including ANGIOEDEMA, SKIN EXFOLIATION, and BULLAE, INFECTION, MALIGNANCY, fever, hypersensitivity reactions, chills
* CAPITALS indicate life-threatening.
Underline indicate most frequent.
- Blood levels and toxicity may be ↑ drugs that inhibit CYP3A, CYP1A2 or P-gp inhibitors including ketoconazole ; avoid concurrent use.
- Blood levels and effectiveness may be ↓ by drugs that are strong inducers of CYP1A2, CYP3A or P-gp, including rifampin ; avoid concurrent use.
- Cigarette smoking may ↓ blood levels and effectiveness.
PO (Adults): 4 mg once daily on days 1–21 of 28-day cycle, repeated until disease progression; modifications recommended for neutropenia and/or thrombocytopenia; Concurrent use of strong CYP1A2 inhibitor– ↓ dose of pomalidomide by 50%.
Renal Impairment
PO (Adults): Hemodialysis– ↓ dose to 3 mg once daily; give dose after dialysis on hemodialysis days.
Hepatic Impairment
PO (Adults): Moderate hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Classes A or B)– ↓ dose to 3 mg once daily; Severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class C)– ↓ dose to 2 mg once daily.
Capsules: 1 mg, 2 mg, 3 mg, 4 mg
- Assess for signs of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary edema (dyspnea, chest pain, arm or leg swelling) periodically during therapy). Prophylactic anticoagulation is recommended.
- Monitor for hypersensitivity reactions (angioedema, skin exfoliation, bullae, severe dermatologic reactions) If symptoms occur discontinue therapy and do not resume.
Lab Test Considerations:
Assess pregnancy status prior to therapy. Pregnancy tests must be done within 10–14 days and within 24 hrs of starting therapy. Once treatment has started pregnancy tests should occur weekly during first 4 wks of use, then every 4 wks in females with a regular menstrual cycle and every 2 wks in females with an irregular cycle. Pomalidomide must be discontinued if pregnancy is suspected or confirmed.
- Monitor CBC with differential, platelet count, hemoglobin and hematocrit weekly for first 8 wks of therapy and at least monthly thereafter. May require dose reduction.
- May cause neutropenia. If absolute neutrophil count (ANC) <500/mcL or febrile neutropenia (fever ≥38.5° and ANC <1000/mcL), interrupt pomalidomide therapy and follow CBC weekly. If ANC returns to ≥500/mcL resume pomalidomide at 3 mg/day. For each subsequent drop <500/mcL, interrupt therapy and resume at 1 mg/day less than the previous dose when ANC returns to ≥500/mcL.
- May cause thrombocytopenia. If platelets fall to <25,000/mcL interrupt pomalidomide therapy and follow CBC weekly. When platelets return to >50,000/mcL, resume at 3 mg/day. For each subsequent drop <25,000/mcL, interrupt therapy and resume at 1 mg/day less than the previous dose when platelet count returns to ≥50,000/mcL.
- Monitor liver function tests (AST, ALT, serum bilirubin) monthly during therapy. Interrupt therapy if liver enzymes ↑ and evaluate. May restart therapy at a lower dose when levels return to normal.
- May cause anemia, leukopenia, lymphopenia.
- May cause hyperglycemia, hyponatremia, hypokalemia, hypocalcamia, and hypercalcemia.
Potential Diagnoses
- Deficient knowledge, related to medication regimen (Patient/Family/Teaching)
- Pomalidomide is only available through POMALYST REMS program. Prescribers and pharmacies must be certified. Patients must sign a Patient-Prescriber form and comply with REMS requirements. Female patients who are not pregnant must comply with pregnancy testing and contraception requirements and males must comply with contraception requirements.
- PO Administer with water on an empty stomach, without regard to food. Swallow capsule whole; do not open, break, or chew.
Patient/Family Teaching
- Instruct patient to take pomalidomide as directed daily at the same time each day. Missed doses may be taken up to 12 hrs after the time it would be normally be taken. If more than 12 hrs, skip dose and take regularly scheduled dose the next day; do not double doses.
- Caution patient not to share pomalidomide with anyone, even someone who has similar symptoms.
- Advise patient to notify health care professional if shortness of breath, chest pain, or arm or leg swelling occur.
- May cause dizziness and confusion. Caution patient to avoid driving and other activities requiring alertness until response to medication is known.
- Advise patient to notify health care professional of all Rx or OTC medications, vitamins, or herbal products being taken and to consult with health care professional before taking other medications.
- Advise patient that they cannot donate blood and male patients cannot donate sperm while taking pomalidomide and for 1 mo following therapy.
- Rep: Inform female patients that they must use one highly effective method (IUD, hormonal contraceptive, tubal ligation, partner's vasectomy) and one additional method (latex or synthetic condom, diaphragm, cervical cap) for at least 4 wks before, during therapy and interruptions of therapy, and for 4 wks following discontinuation of therapy.
- Rep: Male patients receiving pomalidomide must always use a latex or synthetic condom during any contact with females with child-bearing potential, even if they have undergone a successful vasectomy.
Evaluation/Desired Outcomes
Reduction in clinical and laboratory symptoms of multiple myeloma.
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1) Use The 20 Second Rule
Make things you shouldn't do take 20 seconds longer to accomplish (moving the ever-buzzing phone across the room) and the things you should do 20 seconds easier.
Via The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work:
I like to refer to this as the 20-Second Rule, because lowering the barrier to change by just 20 seconds was all it took to help me form a new life habit. In truth, it often takes more than 20 seconds to make a difference—and sometimes it can take much less—but the strategy itself is universally applicable: Lower the activation energy for habits you want to adopt, and raise it for habits you want to avoid. The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.
2) Have A Solid Daily Ritual
Via 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done:
STEP 1 (5 Minutes): Your Morning Minutes. This is your opportunity to plan ahead. Before turning on your computer, sit down with the to-do list you created in chapter 22, "Bird by Bird," and decide what will make this day highly successful…
STEP 2 (1 Minute Every Hour): Refocus. …Set your watch, phone, or computer to ring every hour and start the work that's listed on your calendar. When you hear the beep, take a deep breath and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively. Then look at your calendar and deliberately recommit to how you are going to use the next hour. Manage your day hour by hour. Don't let the hours manage you.
STEP 3 (5 Minutes): Your Evening Minutes. At the end of your day, shut off your computer and review how the day went, asking yourself the three sets of questions listed in chapter 27, "It's Amazing What You Find When You Look." Questions like: How did the day go? What did I learn about myself? Is there anyone I need to update? Shoot off a couple of emails or calls to make sure you've communicated with the people you need to contact.
3) Don't Be Fast, Be Smooth
A Formula One pit crew — a group that depends on fast, efficient teamwork — found that they weren't at top speed when they concentrated on speed. It was when they emphasized functioning smoothly as a group that they made their best times.
Via Oliver Burkeman's wonderful The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking:
Bosses are more frequently persuaded, though, by Shapiro's other argument: that getting rid of goals, or focusing on them less fixedly, is often also the best way to extract results from employees. He seduces them with anecdotes about the effectiveness of operating goalessly, such as the tale of the Formula One pit crew with whom he worked, whose members were told that they would no longer be assessed on the basis of speed targets; they would be rated on style instead. Instructed to focus on acting "smoothly", rather than on beating their current record time, they wound up performing faster.
4) Know The Best Times To Do Things
Know the optimal time to do things so you don't waste time. Some notable highlights:
Full list is here.
5) Hold Meetings Standing Up
Sick of time-wasting meetings? Bob Sutton's great book Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst points to a great trick. Hold your meetings standing up:
Sit-down meetings were 34% longer than stand-up meetings, but they produced no better decisions than stand-up meetings. Significant differences were also obtained for satisfaction with the meeting and task information use during the meeting but not for synergy or commitment to the group's decision.
6) Get More Sleep
Cheating yourself on sleep reduces willpower and it's this same store of self-control that helps us resist all those bad behaviors like aimless web-surfing:
Researchers have previously argued that sleep is a means of recharging our regulatory resources, and these studies confirm that less sleep does indeed make us prey to counterproductive activities like cyberloafing.
7) Stop Sorting Email
Sorting your email into folders? Don't bother: "…researchers discovered that those who did no email organizing at all found them faster than those who filed them in folders."
If you're the type to meticulously file your emails in various folders in your client, stop, says a new study from IBM Research. By analyzing 345 users' 85,000 episodes of digging through old emails in search of the one they needed, researchers discovered that those who did no email organizing at all found them faster than those who filed them in folders.
By using search, the non-organizers were able to find the email they needed just as easily as filers. They also didn't have to spend any time filing email in folders, putting them ahead overall.
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United Nations (CNN) -- Delegates from the United States and other nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a fiery speech that criticized Washington, capitalism and the world body itself.
Though incendiary statements from Ahmadinejad are nothing new, tension in the hall grew as the Iranian leader recounted various conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
"Some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack," Ahmadinejad told the General Assembly. He followed with the claim that the attacks were aimed at reversing "the declining American economy and its scripts on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime. The majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world, agree with this view."
That appeared to be the last straw for many of the diplomats. Representatives from the United States, Britain, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walked out while Ahmadinejad asserted that U.S. government was involved in the attacks or allowed them to happen as an excuse to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
President Barack Obama already had delivered his address to the General Assembly and had left the grounds before Ahmadinejad spoke. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president "found the comments to be outrageous and offensive, given how close we are to ground zero," the New York site of the attacks.
And Mark Kornblau, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the U.N., said in a statement, "Rather than representing the aspirations and goodwill of the Iranian people, Mr. Ahmadinejad has yet again chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs that are as abhorrent and delusional as they are predictable."
A European Union diplomat said that all 27 member nations had agreed to walk out if Ahmadinejad made inflammatory statements during his address.
The exits did not deter the Iranian leader from his line of attack, however. Ahmadinejad went on to compare the death toll in the September 11 attacks to the casualty count in the wars in Afghanistan in Iraq.
"It was said that some 3,000 people were killed on September 11th, for which we are all very saddened," he said. "Yet, up until now in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions wounded and displaced, and the conflict is still going on and expanding."
Ahmadinejad also continued the attack on capitalism that he began during a Monday address at the Millennium Global Development Summit. He linked the U.S.-led conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan with wars for colonial expansion in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
The Iranian president also touched on the recent controversy over a Florida pastor's plans to burn copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, by waving copies of a Bible and a Quran as he declared his respect and reverence for both. And he concluded his address with a defense of Iran's nuclear ambitions, discussing a recently submitted statement to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
CNN's Richard Roth and Joe Vaccarello contributed to this report.


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Same-sex marriages can begin Oct. 21 in N.J., judge orders
A judge refused Thursday to delay the start of same-sex marriage in New Jersey until a legal appeal can be settled, denying efforts by Gov. Chris Christie's administration to put off gay weddings.
But late this afternoon, The Courier Post reports that the The Christie administration appealed today's ruling to an appellate court by asking for an emergency challenge to that order. Christie wants same-sex marriages put on hold at least until all appeals can be resolved.
As it stands, the state must grant marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting Oct. 21.
"Granting a stay would simply allow the state to continue to violate the equal protection rights of New Jersey same-sex couples, which can hardly be considered a public interest," Judge Mary Jacobson wrote.
Christie's administration has already asked the state Supreme Court to weigh in on an earlier ruling by Jacobson, who ruled then that the state had to allow gay marriage.
Jacobson also ruled Thursday that the start of nuptials did not have to be delayed, finding the state was not likely to win its appeal and that it would not hurt the state if same-sex marriage licenses are issued.
Gay couples who want to wed "would suffer many hardships of constitutional magnitude if the stay were to be issued, but the state has not demonstrated how it would suffer in any meaningful way if the order is enforced," she wrote.
Thirteen states, including most in the Northeast, already allow gay couples to marry. New Jersey offers gay couples civil unions but not marriage.
The matter has been fought out in New Jersey's courts and Legislature for a decade.
"The court's decision once again confirms that the hardships of not being able to marry are real and immediate. Every day does count," said Hayley Gorenberg of Lambda Legal, which had filed a brief in support of same-sex couples seeking the right to marry.
Jacobson's earlier ruling found that it's unconstitutional for New Jersey to block gay marriage now that the federal government is giving married gay couples legal benefits.
New Jersey's attorney general said a state law cannot be found unconstitutional because of a change in federal policy.
Gay rights groups are also pushing lawmakers to override Christie's veto last year of a law that would have allowed gay marriage.
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Summer Greetings all, just popping in to share a card for a favorite friend. This card is a happy mixture of KI Memories Vintage Charm paper collection and Hampton Art/Authentique Grateful Heart Clear Stamps.
Butterfly card by Patty Folchert
To create the background I utilized the fabulous KI Memories Vintage Charm/musical Hearts diecut sheet and popped it up with foam dots. Then I built in some layers with the ruler paper and the ruffle sticker. Finally the stamped images were stamped onto the notebook paper in Ocean Blue and then fussy cut and arranged around the butterfly ruffle sticker. The sentiment was stamped on blue pattern paper in coffee brown ink and fussy cut as well. Leaves were handcut with edges inked and added around the flowers. Then you just add a little bling to the flower centers and it is complete. So take the time to create a handmade card for a special friend, let them know how grateful you are to have them in your life!Dreaming of Vintage Goodness,
Hampton Art/Authentique- Grateful Heart
Ranger-Archival Ink/Coffee
Martha Stewart/Ocean Blue
Color Box/Fluid Chalk Ink-Chestnut Roan
KI Memories/Vintage Charm- Roses, Rulers & Blue Ledger; KI Memories/Vintage Charm- Musical Hearts diecut sheet
KI Memories/Vintage Charm-Ruffle Stickers "Remember This Day"
Mini Glue Dots, Tombow Mono Adhesive Tape Runner, Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares, Prima e. Pearls & Crystals #300562
Three popular trends came together for this quick all occasion card. The trendy navy, mint and coral color palette, arrows and the ever popular anchor theme; the result is a playful yet versatile card.
Anchor card by Patty Folchert
A quick cut on my Cricut using the Stand & Salute cartridge created the anchor cutout frame in Navy Salt paper. The background insert was stamped in mint pigment ink onto navy cardstock with the frame added on top with foam dots. The card base is a coral dot pattern and the sentiment was mint stamped onto white cardstock and fussy cut out. A double bow of navy and white bakers twine was added and one small pearl bling for a finishing touch.That was it, a quick card for almost any occasion- it guarantees a smile. I promise.
Supply List:Stamps
Hampton Art/Echo Park- Oh Snap!
Martha Stewart/Sea Lavendar- Pigment Ink
Jillibean Soup/Soup Staples II- Navy Salt; Watermelon Gazpacho/Yellow Bell Peppers
Navy Cardstock
Cricut Electronic Cutting System, Cricut Stand & Salute cartridge, Jillibean Soup/Baker's Twine-Navy/Red; Mini Glue Dots, Tombow Mono Adhesive Tape Runner, Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares, Queen & Co. white pearl bling
You're Awesome Card by Kim Frantz
The pie chart embellishment symbolizes the many things that come together to make the recipient who they are...And that you think they are awesome!
Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup, Fresh Vegetable Soup/Chicken Base/Crushed Ginger. Country Pumpkin Chowder/Bite Size Bits. Soup Staples II/Red Salt. Grandma's Lima Bean Soup/Dry Lima Beans. Irish Farmhouse/Stewed Beef.
Bella Blvd, Love and Marriage/Cute Cuts.
Stamps: Bella Blvd/Sand & Surf.
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The Xbox 360's Kinect sensor can already track the movement of your head, your hands, your knees — officially — but leaving it to the amateurs to hack it so that it can track breasts.
The enterprising Dan Wilcox hacked his Kinect to see if it could spot his chest. "The computer searches for my manboobs and draws a bra or pasties on top," he writes in a description for a video of his experiment on his blog. "Music is played when titties are detected."
Note that Kinect isn't really tracking Dan's man-boobs the way it tracks, say, a person's hands. While the Kinect appears to locate a person's hands in space and then tracks their movement, Dan's description suggests that he's got the Kinect merely guessing at where his "breasts" are — "I look for a person-sized blob and use it's centroid to approximate a search box wherein to detect 2 boobs" — so it's not clear if Kinect can or would be able to track any jiggle.
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Ajman Bank
Ajman Bank
Ajman Bank is a young, agile Islamic commercial bank that provides a wide range of value-driven banking services in the UAE for individual, business and government clients, all in compliance with Shariah principles. Ajman Bank seeks out the market's best products, people and technology in order to deliver what customers want, how they want it, delivering real value and recreating that human touch lost in modern banking.
Headquartered in Ajman and strongly supported by its government, Ajman Bank is the keystone of the emirate's economic development strategy and is in a position to benefit from its growth and potential like no other. Ajman Bank is committed to becoming a sustainable organisation in its truest sense, balancing care for the community and employees with the business of delivering value to its shareholders and customers.
Contact Information
P.O Box 7770
Ajman Free Zone,
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text: BEAUTY VIBE: The plugged-in generation got a beauty conference all its own Saturday and Sunday with Generation Beauty, which was put on in the downtown Los Angeles venue L.A. Live by beauty sampling service Ipsy and aimed at existing and aspiring creators of online beauty content. Roughly 1,200 people attended Generation Beauty and around 20 brands participated, including Benefit, Sexy Hair Concepts, Pacifica, NYX, Pixi, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Proactiv, Smashbox and Bare Minerals. Attendees were able to learn about producing quality, lucrative online videos during presentations by the likes of YouTube Next Lab's Rachel Lightfoot and Rob Polonsky, Big Frame's Rachel Talbott and Lisa Filipelli, and FAWN's Ronit Cohn and Leslie Morgan. They were also able to meet their favorite YouTube personalities, and Andrea Brooks, Bethany Mota and Promise Tamang Phan, who use the YouTube handles AndreasChoice, MacBarbie07 and dope2111, respectively, as well as Kandee Johnson and Michelle Phan were among the YouTube personalities on hand. Generation Beauty was the brainchild of Michelle Phan, founder of FAWN and co-founder of Ipsy. "It's kind of crazy to think that six years ago this online community didn't exist. Girls posted makeup tutorials here and there, but there wasn't a concrete community until YouTube happened. Once that was established, likeminded girls were networking with each other, creating beauty tutorials. As years went by, the community grew bigger and bigger, and I stepped back andrealized there was no event to celebrate this amazing group of girls who are paving the way for the beauty industry," said Phan. "I told my team, 'We need to create the first digital beauty conference.' I've seen makeup conferences [for] makeup artists. I've even seen conferences for brands, but I've never seen one for beauty vloggers and bloggers."


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Super, Super, Super, Super, Super, Super, Super Bowl.
Super Bowl VII for Denver.
Super Bowl III for Peyton Manning, John Fox and Wes Welker. Super Bowl VI for Pat Bowlen and John Elway. Super Bowl I for Champ Bailey.
As Winston Churchill would have declared, the Broncos "had their finest hour" Sunday.
Get ready, New York and New Jersey. Here come the Broncos. It's high time to ride again.
Two down, one to go. Two world championships, a chance at a third.
New England bowed deeply to the flawless Broncos on a magnificent Sunday afternoon with a landscape of orange, a sky of blue and a backdrop of snow-capped mountains in a scene that could have been painted by Monet … or maybe the master artist Manning.
Afterward, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said the Broncos possess "probably the best offense in NFL history." In restricting the Patriots to 16 points and two measly touchdowns, the Broncos unleashed a defense to match.
The Broncos' mantra this season is "Finish." To do so, they must defeat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
But first, "we will savor this moment," Manning said.
He shared his triumph with brothers Eli and Cooper, and dad Archie. It was one of the few times the First Family of Quarterbacks has gathered for a reunion at a locker after a game. As Peyton dressed, the three brothers traded barbs.
Oldest brother Cooper, whose career ended prematurely because of spinal stenosis before he began his freshman season at Ole Miss, walked over and said to me: "It's like we're being kids again. I gave Peyton only one piece of advice. Play like you're 10 years old, and we're playing in the front yard."
Cooper said Peyton disregarded his counsel.
"But he has ignored me on a consistent basis, and he's turned out OK." (And yet Cooper was the one person Peyton turned to when he was choosing to play in Denver.)
Eli has won two Super Bowls as the quarterback with the Giants against, of all people, Tom Brady and the Patriots. Peyton has played in two, won one.
"It's funny that the last time Eli won, it was at my home stadium (in Indianapolis), and now I'm going to play at his stadium (in East Rutherford, N.J.)," Peyton Manning said. "It's great that the family was here for me today. It was so hectic in Indianapolis after the Super Bowl, we weren't together."
The Broncos will be returning for the first outdoor Super Bowl in a northeastern metropolis. Early forecasts are for temperatures considerably colder than the 63 degrees at kickoff Sunday. Let it snow.
The Pressure on Peyton to win had been the primary topic before the latest "Fight of The Century" vs. Brady. Manning wasn't pressured, and barely touched, by the Patriots.
Manning threw for 400 yards and two touchdowns. He was in control. He has won his past two AFC championship games against the Double B's — Brady and Belichick. Coach Bill called Manning "a good quarterback."
You think?
Stay classy, Bill.
Manning completely baffled the Patriots' defense, and the Broncos' defense bewildered Brady. So much for the presumptuous belief in New England that the Patriots would overrun the Broncos and overpower Manning. The Patriots rushed for 64 yards. Manning connected with eight receivers, and the Broncos gained 507 yards.
Adam Gase, soon to be an NFL head coach, called a brilliant game, while his Patriots counterpart, former head coach Josh somebody, was bewildered.
Overall, the Broncos were super, and the Patriots were in a stupor. So the Broncos tied the Patriots for Super Bowl appearances (seven) and can tie the Patriots with a third victory.
It's Super (times seven) to be Manning and the Broncos.


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I'm using Fred's script dominantcolor to find the dominantcolor in an image. http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/ ... /index.php
The script works fine on many images, but on some images it sends back the error
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convert: memory allocation failed SparseColorOption @ error/mogrify.c/SparseColorOption/552.
As far as I can tell, these images have nothing particular: they are, just like the others, 4000x2664 jpg files of about 2MB.
I don't think I have memory limits on my system, everything is commented in policy.xml and convert -list resource gives
Here is an example of a file that is causing problems (here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RiXQLk ... sp=sharing for uncompressed version):
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Width: 107.374MP
Height: 107.374MP
List length: -1
Area: 10.3409GP
Memory: 4.81535GiB
Map: 9.63071GiB
Disk: unlimited
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TORONTO – A majority of respondents to a new poll about retirement savings feel they haven't invested enough but say they just don't have the extra money to put away.
The annual survey by Scotiabank found that 64 per cent of those polled cited affordability as an obstacle for them to invest in their RRSPs by the March 1 contribution deadline.
That figure is up this year from 59 per cent in 2011 and 53 per cent in 2010.
The poll also found that 81 per cent say they haven't invested enough, compared with 76 per cent in 2011 and 71 per cent a year earlier.
Only 17 per cent of those polled say they don't have any investments at all, compared to 21 per cent last year.
Mike Henry, Scotiabank's senior vice-president and head of retail payments, deposits and lending, urges people who are serious about investing to come up with a financial plan.
"Within the framework of a good financial plan, even small contributions can have a big impact over time and get people to the place they want to be financially," he said in a release.
The survey also found that 39 per cent say they wish they had invested at an earlier age, with 23 per cent agreeing that in retrospect, they would've spent less and contributed more to their investments.
Of those who do have retirement investments, 51 per cent started setting aside money before they turned 30 years old.
The poll also found that savings accounts or mutual funds (64 per cent) were still the most popular vehicle for putting away money, followed by RRSPs (56 per cent) and tax-free savings accounts (44 per cent).
The poll was conducted online using a Harris/Decima propriety panel that surveyed 1,003 people from a random sample of adults aged 18 and over from across Canada.
The survey was conducted from Nov. 28 to Dec. 13, 2012.


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"Stirring...compelling, earnest....Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic."―Entertainment Weekly
"Eating Animals isn't just an anti-meat screed, or an impassioned case for vegetarianism. Instead, Foer tells a story that is part memoir and part investigative report....It's a book that takes America's meat-dominated diet to task."―NPR, All Things Considered
"Eating Animals carefully, deliberately, takes you through every relevant dimension of factory farming....One sees it from the inside, the outside, the moral high ground, the dithering consumer level, through Foer's family stories, from slaughterhouse workers, animal behaviorists, even from defenders of the system....Foer's aim is not to make your choice, but to inform it. He has done us all a great service, and we, and the animals, owe him our thanks."―Andrew Weil, MD
"Foer's case for ethical vegetarianism is wholly compelling....A blend of solid--and discomforting--reportage with fierce advocacy that will make committed carnivores squeal."―Kirkus Reviews
"A work of moral philosophy....The fact that Foer makes me wonder whether I'm being, at best, a hypocrite every time I eat a piece of beef suggests he's completely successful in at least one ambition." ―Geoff Nicholson, San Francisco Chronicle
"Extraordinarily thoughtful and intelligent." ―Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Foer's book raises critical ethical questions we all need to face....We shouldn't be polluting the planet to satisfy our appetites."―Huffington Post
"Eating Animals stands as a pop-cultural landmark, destined to be the starting point for a lot of overdue conversations." ―Philadelphia Daily News
"For a hot young writer to train his sights on a subject as unpalatable as meat production and consumption takes raw nerve. What makes Eating Animals so unusual is vegetarian Foer's empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food reform activists speak for themselves, and his talent for using humor to sweeten a sour argument."―O, The Oprah Magazine
"A postmodern version of Peter Singer's 1975 manifesto Animal Liberation.... Foer is the latest in a long line of distinguished literary vegetarians."―Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times Book Review


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Google launches Inactive Account Manager so users can plan their 'digital afterlife'
Google today is launching a new feature for Google account holders that will allow them decide how they want Google to handle their data when they die. The feature, dubbed "Inactive Account Manager", will allow you to specify when you want your data to be deleted or select a trusted friend to handle the data for you:
For example, you can choose to have your data deleted — after three, six, nine or 12 months of inactivity. Or you can select trusted contacts to receive data from some or all of the following services: +1s; Blogger; Contacts and Circles; Drive; Gmail; Google+ Profiles, Pages and Streams; Picasa Web Albums; Google Voice and YouTube. Before our systems take any action, we'll first warn you by sending a text message to your cellphone and email to the secondary address you've provided.
You can access the Inactive Account Manager now to select how to want messages for Gmail and data for a number of other Google applications to be stored when you pass or your accounts become inactive.


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When most of us think of newsprint, cheaply printed weekly papers or tabloids come to mind. We wouldn't usually push it into the realm of high-end promotional pieces. That view is starting to shift, though as creatives want a more tactile way to share their work. While glossy, magazine-style paper looks great, some folks want something with a little more edge and grit. In a way, it's exciting taking an old-school, tried-and-true medium and turning it on its head.
Until recently, I knew nothing about the world of newsprint. I'd designed magazines and stacks of promo pieces but never anything that made its way to newsprint. But then Luke Copping, who always seems to be ahead of the curve when it comes to these sorts of things, came to me with the idea of doing a 32 page piece. It was time to scour the internet for suitable printers! Here's what I learned along the way…
Recommended Printers
We quickly narrowed down our prospects to two printers and a combination of their samples are featured in this post.
The first is Linco Printing, which is based in New York. Linco is great if you're located in the U.S. and want to work with an established printer with a great reputation — they also did the Design Sponge paper, which turned out beautifully. The downside is that traditional printers are used to doing huge runs (think weekly papers) so for it to be cost effective, you're going to have to commit to a lot of papers, probably a thousand at the very least.
After getting an exorbitant quote back because our run was just too tiny, we did some more digging and landed on Newspaper Club. Now, this site has major style and is easy to use. Not only that, but they're able to produce small runs in multiple formats. Score!
Because this was a higher end promotional piece featuring Luke's photography, we went with the traditionally printed tabloid in the improved format. The improved format is on brighter, whiter stock and really pops. The weight of normal newsprint is about 30 gsm and this is 52 so it definitely has a more premium feel.
For you U.S. folks, Newspaper Club is based in the U.K. so when dealing with their guidelines, be warned that they are in millimeters. Their templates are super easy to use and as long as you follow their export instructions, you'll end up with great results.
The one tricky part is that Newspaper Club doesn't offer traditional proofs so triple-check what you're uploading! Their customer service also checks your files and gives you the thumbs-up before it hits the press.
Printing Tips
• Always start with a template provided by the printer if possible. A lot of them have specific margins set up and if your design moves into them, it won't be able to be printed.
• There's no need to have your images placed at any higher resolution than 300 dpi. Newsprint isn't meant to be the highest quality so you won't see improved results with higher resolution.
• Most newspapers are printed in multiples of 4 pages. Design accordingly!
• What you see on your brightly lit computer screen won't always translate as well to newsprint. Newsprint tends to be thin and absorb a lot of ink so coverage can vary.
• It's a good idea to stick with images that have a lot of contrast. If they're too dark, they can look muddy on newsprint.
• If you use any black and white photos in your pieces, they have to be set to grayscale.
Newsprint Samples
If you want to compare samples like I did above, you're in luck! Request some from Newspaper Club here and from Linco Printing here.
If you do print anything, let me know. I'd love to see it! And I'll be sharing the outcome of Luke's piece on the Branch blog soon!


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monday may 28 2007
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Say hi to my favorite new blog, which is also my new favorite blog.
~+ Very Every
My most favorited flickrer has a photoblog
~+ The oldest living things in the world
Rachel's fascinating photography project is taking her all over the globe
Plastics, Sun:Photographic survey:
Two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes:
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+ The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration (nytimes) "This year, Americans will drink more than 30 billion single-serving bottles of water."
+ Should restaurants ban bottled water? (nytimes) "Serving our local water in reusable carafes makes more sense for the environment than manufacturing thousands of single-use glass bottles for someone to use once and throw away,"
+ Study Cites Risk of Compound in Plastic Bottles (mindfully.org)
"You can't open a scientific journal related to sex hormones and not read an article that would just floor you about this chemical... The chemical industry's position that this is a weak chemical has been proven totally false. This is a phenomenally potent chemical as a sex hormone."
+ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals By Michael Pollan
"The bottled water we're drinking is bathed in petroleum. That food we're eating is too...
We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world."


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Travel & Landscape Photography from 100 countries around the world
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
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Hedge Riding: The Art of the Hedge Witch
Bringing the Hedge back into Hedge Witchcraft, working with liminal spaces and the Otherworld
The Wild Gods
The Wild Gods I love the word wilderness. It conjures up images of windswept moors and heathland, dark tangling forests and craggy mountaintops. That spirit of the untamed, the uncivilised, that spark that humanity cannot touch, much in the same way as deity is traditionally viewed. For many Druids, that wilderness is deity – it has the power to give or sustain life or the power to kill. It has not and, in many places, cannot be touched by human hands, existing without any human interference. I like to think that same dark spark exists within our own human souls as well, offering us the sanctity of the wilderness within.
The concept of the "untouched" wilderness is an interesting one. I rather wonder if it has anything to do with secular religious views that have crept into our culture predominantly for the last thousand years or so. The concept of the virgin forest, the virgin wilderness – I have to say, I really dislike the term. It is nice to think that there are places in the world where humans have never been – but still, it's the terminology that is rather uncomfortable. I have been to places where humans have lived with the landscape, and who live there no more – the wilderness has returned. Where stone buildings once stood, nature has reclaimed it, slowly destroying it until nothing remains but the songs on the wind. Virginity cannot ever be reclaimed – and in this regard, I find the term does not work within the context of the natural world. As it works in cycles, what happened once can be undone.
As wilderness flows with the cycles, it shows that it cares little about anything else. It exists to exist – there is no other. It follows its own song, and will continue to do so. Humans may interfere with the existing wilderness, "taming" it if you will, but it will continue to carry on attempting to restore itself to its original state. It is that spirit, that sense of soul song reclaiming itself again and again that I find so fascinating. The weeds will continue to sprout in the garden, whether we are farming organically or not (I really hope that all reading this do!). The wind will continue to blow regardless of skyscrapers, bridges, mountaintops or 500 year old yew trees.
This could be seen a thoughtless – and, when examining it closer, it is. Nature does not think – it simply does. The rose blooms because that is what it does, the fox destroys the hen house because that it what it does. When we humans enter (albeit very briefly) a state of grace where thoughts are pushed aside and we simply do (giving birth, for example) we experience this whole other realm of existence. I believe that when we enter this state, we very much come close to our gods.
For, in my personal views, the gods don't care. They exist to exist – nothing else matters. Prayers to them are for establishing a relationship, not to make them care more about our personal lives. And so the gods of the wilderness are truly wild.
How we treat the wilderness both within and without should be made with respect to the gods of the wild places. If wilderness is viewed as deity, then our whole perception of it is changed. We may leave it alone – as deity can kill. We may work to protect it, fighting fiercely for it like one of our own. However, any way we look at it, we look at it with new respect. We honour its song.
My personal treatment of these wild places is to leave no trace of my human passing, should I venture into an area of wilderness. Taking a pedantic view, no area will ever be the same – our footprints tread on beetle under leaves, our passage destroying the spider's web spanning from branch to branch. However, nothing is every the same – life is continually happening, being born, being created, living and dying all around us. My aim in life is to honour this cycle, most apparent in the wilderness of the landscapes around me, as well as the wilderness in my own soul. You don't mess with the gods. You don't sublimate to them either, but still you don't mess with them. We may seek to understand, to establish communication, a relationship with them, but we should not interfere in their song in these places where it is so strong, so precious. For it is in these places where we see clearly the divinity within nature, and so seeing the nature of the divine.
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Please read this letter from the Superintendent which informs you of some important changes in our district's schools this year.
Staff Resources and Links
The following links will take you to resources for staff and faculty of Belchertown Public Schools:
Aesop is the district's online absence management system. Here you can request a personal day, log a sick day, or record any other absence from work. You can also view your remaining absence balances to see how many personal days or sick hours you have earned.
PowerTeacher is the teacher portal for the district's Student Information System, where you can view your students and take attendance.
TeachPoint manages data related to the educator evaluations, including goals, classroom walkthroughs, and assessments.


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This course will give you insight into Outdoor Education in relation to different school subjects, subject areas and themes. You will also learn how to use outdoor skills as a tool for teaching. There will be lectures, seminars and excursions both out of doors and at the university.
The application for spring semester 2017 will open in September with application deadline October 15. If you are selected by your home university please ask them to nominate you to firstname.lastname@example.com. All nominated students will receive an email as soon as the application form opens.
Application Procedure
When you have been selected by your home university, the application procedure will be as follows:
1. Search for courses in the course list above. Please see under "Course information and timetable" in the left hand menu before you choose your courses. Note that full-time courses at Faculty of Arts and Sciences run during four (4) periods per semester. You can choose only one full-time course for each period.
2, Check the specific requirements for each course that you want to study and make sure that you are eligible for all courses that you select.
3, Fill out the application form on-line which will open in September. The application form includes personal data, academic background, choice of courses and the period of study for your stay at Linköping University.
4, Upload the required documents:
- Transcript of records of all university education
- Proof of English*
- List of ongoing courses
- Degree certificate if applicable
All documents need to be scanned into one pdf file.
5. If you want to apply for accommodation through Linköping University make sure to cross that box on the application form. Please note that you also need to apply and sign up with other landlords and check the notice boards. Linköping University cannot guarantee accommodation.
6. Submit the form. A print-out version of your application will open for your reference.
7. Deadline for Spring semester 17 is 15 October 2016, 23.59 o´clock (UTC+2h).
8. Information and admission documents will be send during November 2016.
Linköping University is a state university in Linköping, Sweden. Linköping University was granted full university status in 1975 and is now one of Sweden's larger academic institutions.More information


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Women overdo it on whole grains because they're good for them
Skipping meals can sap energy, mess with mood and burn muscle for fuel
Keep a log of what you eat, how much, and your feelings before and after
"I eat mostly veggies and I still haven't lost any weight!" the woman wailed.
A mom of three, she was in my office on her first ever visit to a dietitian, 20 pounds overweight – and unknowingly derailing herself with her limited diet. Time and again, I see both classic and modern-day eating mistakes that have a huge impact on weight, health, and quality of life.
These are the top blunders and the simple solutions I tell clients that will help you, too.
Assuming 'good' calories don't count
I constantly see women overdoing it on whole grains because they're good for them. They are so important for your health, but large portions cause weight gain, period.
The other day at a Mexican restaurant, I noticed women ordering gigantic bowls of brown rice with beans and chicken and cheese and guacamole, and it took every inch of willpower not to tell them, "Those foods are all good for you, but together they're way more calories than your body needs at one meal!"
The truth is, unless you burn off as many calories as you take in, you'll put on pounds. Even fruit and veggies (gasp!) get converted to fat.
Health.com: 25 ways to cut 500 calories a day
RD Rx: Know what your daily portions should be. Here's a plan for a 5-foot-4, 150-pound woman who walks 30 minutes two to three days a week:
– 4 servings of veggies (1 serving = 1 cup)
– 4 servings of whole grains (1 serving = a slice of whole-grain bread or a half cup of brown rice)
– 4 servings of lean protein (1 serving = 3 ounces of meat or a half cup of beans)
– 4 servings of healthy fat (1 serving = 1 tablespoon of oil or a quarter of an avocado)
Ditching a food group (or three)
I'm seeing more women on vegan and gluten-free diets, not for ethical or health reasons but to shed pounds. Thing is, if you don't replace those lost carbs, protein, and fat – a.k.a. macronutrients – it can lead to weight gain, fatigue, irritability, and digestive issues. You need the Goldilocks approach to macronutrients: not too little, not too much.
RD Rx: Complement a veggie-centric meal with a half-cup of beans, or a couple tablespoons of nuts; get in healthy carbs with gluten-free quinoa or brown rice. You'll see a difference!
One vegan client used to eat just raw veggies, oil, and vinegar for dinner. Once she switched to a few cups of roasted veggies with wild rice, herbed lentils, and a few tablespoons of walnuts – adding carbs and protein – she broke her weight-loss plateau (thanks, newly revved metabolism) and vanquished her chronic bloating and fatigue.
Health.com: Best superfoods for weight loss
Not eating often enough
It may be tempting to "save up" calories for dinner out or the weekend, but that can sap energy, mess with your mood, and force your body to burn muscle for fuel, which slows your metabolism. One study found that when people ate just one large meal late in the day, they upped their risk of prediabetes.
I once had a client who stopped losing weight because she moved her afternoon snack to the evening, which meant a 7-hour stretch of no food between lunch and dinner and two rounds of eating at night, when her activity was low.
RD Rx: It's simple – eat every three to five hours. Once my client moved her snack back to 4 p.m., the scale dial budged again.
Health.com: The best new ways to boost your metabolism
Eating your feelings
One woman I work with regularly overate. She had a high-pressure job and a demanding family, and she was a perfectionist with a spotless home. I'll never forget the stunned look on her face when I asked how she felt while overeating.
"It feels like reckless abandon, like a moment of freedom," she said. Ta-da!
RD Rx: Keep a log of what you eat, how much, and your feelings before and after. It's an eye-opener; one client saw that she craved crunchy or chewy foods when she was mad at her boss or husband. The trick is to replace eating with other coping mechanisms. The perfectionist started going salsa dancing; the thrill of polishing off a pizza dwindled, and she shrank two sizes in three months.
Health.com: Diet crutches: what works, what doesn't
Doing a quick fix
Every woman I've counseled has tried a fad diet. A drastic low-cal plan sends your body into conservation mode, so you burn calories slower. It can also cause headaches, moodiness, fatigue, cravings, and, of course, only temporary weight loss.
RD Rx: Jot this on a sticky note for your fridge: NO fad diet is good for my health or happiness. Then avoid them like the plague.
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MphasiS, the Indian services subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (HP), said on Wednesday that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire AIG Systems Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (AIGSS), the IT services arm in India of insurer American International Group (AIG).
The move by MphasiS will strengthen its presence and expertise in the insurance and financial services markets, said Ganesh Ayyar, CEO of MphasiS, in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
With operations in Chennai and Kolkata in India, AIGSS has more than 800 employees, and offers services to AIG companies worldwide.
About 40 percent of MphasiS' revenues currently come from the financial services and insurance industries.
The company does work for a number of insurance companies including AIG, and the company plans to use the operation to address new customers, said Gopinathan Padmanabhan, president of the Applications Services Business Unit at MphasiS.
"When the recovery happens, a lot of pent up demand from all the insurance companies will come up, and we will be well positioned to get the business," Padmanabhan added. Even during the crisis, MphasiS' business from the financial services and insurance sectors has been growing, Ayyar said.
AIG's Indian operation will add expertise in areas of insurance such as personal auto insurance, and retirement products in which MphasiS did not have the expertise, Padmanabhan said.
It will also strengthen existing expertise in areas such as life insurance, he added. MphasiS did not disclose the price at which it is acquiring AIGSS, nor whether the deal involved a commitment of business from AIG. After the acquisition and integration of the AIG operation, MphasiS will continue to deliver services to AIG, Ayyar said.
The transaction is subject to legal and statutory requirements.
MphasiS, a company listed on Indian stock exchanges, was a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) from June 2006, after EDS acquired a majority stake in the Indian outsourcer. The company is now a subsidiary of HP, after parent company EDS became a wholly-owned subsidiary of HP in August last year.
Multinational companies have set up or acquired services subsidiaries in India to take advantage of the country's abundant and relatively low cost staff.
Some of them are, however, selling off these subsidiaries to raise cash and transfer the risk of running these operations to service providers, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at outsourcing consultancy firm, Technology Partners International Inc (TPI).
Valuations for these subsidiaries are low, as service providers are factoring only the continued business from the seller, Pai said. In the past, service providers paid a high amount for these subsidiaries hoping to use their expertise to address other customers in the same industry segment, he added.
Even as some companies are hiving off their Indian services subsidiaries, others are still setting up new services subsidiaries, Pai said. The decision to outsource or do the work in-house at a subsidiary varies from company to company, and the kind of work they want to send to India, he added.


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... to hope that John Roberts's epilepsy gets worse? Not enough to really hurt him, mind you, and nothing at all like Pat Robertson's praying for the death of Supreme Court Justices. Just, perhaps, inconvenience him enough to make him want to take an early retirement. Preferably in February of 2009.
And Since We're Talking Politics...
...I highly recommend this article by Gary Kamiya in Salon. This paragraph, in particular, is
Most Americans now believe that Bush's decision to invade Iraq was a terrible mistake. They see that it has turned out badly, and think that it has made us less safe. But there is another, less discussed reason why the war was an act of madness: War always has unforeseen consequences. Making war is like playing dice with God -- using His dice. This is why war should always be a last resort. What's stunning about the Iraq war is that its architects not only ignored this obvious truth, but also ignored the consequences that could have been, and were, foreseeable. To start an unprovoked war on false pretenses and pie-in-the-sky promises of a vast regional transformation, besides being unethical, is an act of almost cosmic folly. To put it in Christian terms, it is the cardinal sin -- the sin of pride.


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Family Medicine and Community Health
is an open access journal focusing on the topics of family medicine, general practice and community health.
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FMCH strives to be a leading international journal that promotes 'Health Care for All' through disseminating novel knowledge and best practices in primary care, family medicine, and community health. FMCH publishes original research, review, methodology, commentary, reflection, and case-study from the lens of population health. FMCH's Asian Focus section features reports of family medicine development in the Asia-pacific region.
FMCH aims to serve a diverse audience including researchers, educators, policymakers and leaders of family medicine and community health. We also aim to provide content relevant for researchers working on population health, epidemiology, public policy, disease control and management, preventative medicine and disease burden. FMCH does not impose any article processing charges (APC) or submission charges.
FMCH was founded by the Chinese General Practice Press (CGPP) and Beijing Huawei General Practice Research Institute (BHGPRI) as an internationally focused open access journal devoted to subjects that are common and relevant to family medicine, general practice and community health. FMCH is owned by BHGPRI
JOURNAL NEWS: Family Medicine and Community Health is now indexed in PubMed Central and Medline.
Access further content on the journal blog. Follow the journal on Twitter and Facebook. FMCH has a CiteScore of 3.7 (2021) and a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 1.81 (2021).


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Inoreader offers a well-designed readable interface, good search and discovery options, and a nice set of features that are both beginner-friendly and offer plenty of options for advanced users.
If you're feeling media burnout from overfed social feeds, Inoreader is a news tool that still sparks joy. It's a research tool, intelligence briefing portal and social media filtration system.
Signed up for @Inoreader. I can't do this algorithmic timeline garbage anymore. Give me information goddammit
Big shoutout to @Inoreader - my search for the perfect news reader has finally come to a stop! Highly recommended for any power reader.
I don't know how I managed to live without an RSS Reader until this week. Inoreader helped me stay up to date with all the news and articles I needed without having to open the browser and dealing with the design choices of every website that I visit.
single most important tool in my toolbox is @Inoreader ... best premium feature for me is rules that automatically apply tags to incoming blog posts from students; it helps me display different streams of student work, as here in Canvas: YAY INOREADER! :-)
Just recently discovered my RSS reader (Inoreader) can receive email newsletters and mix them in with the rest of my feeds. So useful. It's time to go on an unsubscribe spree; the inbox was never where I wanted these things.
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My current events blog died out years ago, but I still have a few meaningful (or at least I think them meaningful) things to say on matters happening around us today. Below is an article originally written as an Op-Ed but rejected by the local papers because I am not an "expert" in the field of politics. I've decided to publish it here.
The Death of Nuance–
All government happens in the center. Political discourse at the periphery (far left and far right) is useful primarily as a way to recalibrate the system and make sure the needs of everyone get met. When I still lived in Vermont, I voted for Bernie Sanders for that reason. I knew that he would fight passionately for his beliefs on the far left of the political spectrum and keep the professional politicians in Washington D.C. honest. Those professional politicians, however, were necessary to insure that the entire federal apparatus didn't come crashing down or grind to a screeching halt.
Whatever your thoughts on President Trump, it is clear that he came to power through an uneasy coalition of political movements including many organizations on the far right. Some of these represent the worst tendencies in American culture and see the slogan "Make America Great Again" as an opportunity to roll back the Civil Rights gains of non-white and non-Christian inhabitants of the United States. Mainstream Republicans have chosen to look the other way so that they can enjoy a majority in all three branches of the Federal government. I also believe that they are afraid of Donald Trump and the Troll Army he has at his disposal via Twitter.
The fruits of this coalition so far have been chaos and a rapid decline in status for the United States as a world power. One example is the poorly executed and poorly conceived Executive Order banning entry to citizens of seven nations deemed a threat to the United States. Normal governance would have started with the President consulting with Republican leadership in the Senate and the House and giving them a framework to craft legislation amending existing immigration law. He then would have held a press conference to explain that framework and could have announced an executive order at that conference slowing down entry of persons from a list of nations that pose a clear threat to the United States. Responsible vetting rather than extreme vetting.
Trump, of course, chose not to do this. Instead he crafted his order and sent it out as swiftly as possible, giving little guidance to those charged with enforcing it. What happened next was inevitable. A blunt order led to a blunt response. Now all immigration reform is racist and xenophobic and all attempts to protest it are unpatriotic. How, I ask, is this useful to the United States? Not only does it not make the nation safer but it increases the partisan divide present throughout the 2016 election and ensures that true governance is impossible. It also confuses and terrifies our allies who are fast backing away from the United States and ensuring that in the not too distant future we will be a pariah nation.
Domestic and Foreign Policy is not and cannot be treated like Reality Television. It is desperately boring for a reason. Nuance is boring. Such nuance is nonetheless necessary to ensure the proper functioning of government at the local, state, and federal level. Without it, you have chaos, fear, anger, and social collapse. Let's keep the drama out of the White House and leave it with Gordon Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen. Then the government can get down to the task of crafting policies that will help all of the people in the United States.
John Casey, Chicago, IL


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Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden at the Commencement Ceremony of the United States Military Academy
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) It's a great honor to be here.
Distinguished guests; soldiers and officers, friends and family of those graduating today, academy faculty and staff and, most of all, cadets on the cusp of being commissioned in the United States Army, it is an honor -- it is an honor -- to be here on this magnificent campus whose graduates for more than two centuries have played a leading role in nearly every chapter of our nation's history.
Before there was a military academy here on the Hudson, before even the United States was the United States of America, at the height of the Revolutionary War, General George Washington considered West Point so strategically vital he called it the "key to the continent."
Ladies and gentlemen, I would respectfully stipulate that West Point is even more important to our nation today. The 1,032 cadets gathered here are the key -- the key -- to whatever challenges the world has in store.
The Class of 2012, four years ago you were among the most promising high school graduates on the planet; your future limited only by the reach of your imaginations, but at an age when no one would have blamed you for having no idea what you wanted to do with your lives, and in an era when the sacrifice required of our military had never been greater, you chose –- you chose -- to turn your considerable talents, your strength of purpose, but even more importantly, the strength of your intellects to serving your country and enrolling at the Academy, that, for all its merits, is no one's idea of an easy ride.
That choice is your class motto: "For more than ourselves." For more than ourselves. Just imagine what this world would be if it adopted that same notion. You have.
And because of you, because you do dedicate yourself, while thousands of colleges and universities across America are proudly celebrating graduations today and throughout the year and any time this year, only at West Point, and the other outstanding service academies, does the entire United States of America swell with pride at the accomplishment you're celebrating today. (Applause.) All of America.
No one is prouder, of course, than your families, and deservedly so. Military service is by its very nature, as anyone who has ever worn the uniform knows, by its very nature a family endeavor.
Among you are 426 cadets with a military parent, including 80 of you with a mother or father who has graduated from this very academy.
Then there is Cadet Adam Scott, of Lorton, Virginia, who graduates today. (Applause.) He was preceded at West Point by two grandfathers; his father, Bruce; his sisters Katherine and Kerney and his brother Andrew. (Applause.) Adam, I guess Annapolis was never much of a choice for you. (Laughter.)
Same goes for Cadets Brian and Larry LoRusso. (Applause.) Two lacrosse stars from Rocky Point, New York. Celebrating with us today is his brother Kevin, who graduated from West Point in '09, another brother Nick, who graduated five years ago and is watching as I speak all the way from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. (Applause.)
Cadets, let's give a shout-out for Nick and all the other warriors in Afghanistan! They're incredible. (Applause.)
You're about to join the finest warriors in history, and they're out there now. May God go with them.
Today, as each of you awaits the officer's oath that will take you across one great threshold in American life, on behalf of President Obama, your Commander-in-Chief, your entire government, and I believe the entire nation, it is my honor to simply say congratulations. Congratulations. (Applause.)
Savor the moment. You've earned this. Savor this day. You'll remember it the rest of your lives.
Every cadet passing through these halls; every hapless plebe rubbing General Sedgwick's spurs for good luck; every firstie forged through this crucible called West Point; everyone who ever touched the George C. Marshall plaque in the stadium and thought, when the time comes, I'll be ready for that mission, whatever it might be; every single generation that has preceded you at West Point has faced daunting challenges upon receiving its commissions, especially in times of war. But your generation, the 9/11 Generation, is more than worthy of the proud legacy that you will inherit today.
Most of you were in elementary school on September 11, 2001, when your nation was attacked; old enough to remember, perhaps, but young enough that that tragic day need not have shaped your lives. But for so many of you, it did just that.
As you and your immediate predecessors came of age, 2,800,000 of you were moved to join our military, knowing full well that you were likely to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. As General Odierno and I have talked often on my multiple trips to Afghanistan[sic] with him, hundreds of thousands of you have laced up those combat boots and walked across those barren deserts and snow-capped mountains where 24 members of this graduating class have already served. (Applause.)
Cadet Ben Ordiway served in Iraq during some of the darkest days of that war. (Applause.) When his first sergeant recommended that he apply for West Point, he spent two weeks studying for the SAT at FOB Caldwell; hopped on a roundtrip flight to Baghdad to take the exam. I'd call that an unusual testing environment. (Laughter.) Very few applicants have to solve math problems and write essays while taking incoming mortar fire. (Laughter.)
Indeed, the challenges these wars present to young warriors are perhaps the most daunting in our nation's history because in addition to fighting for your country, your predecessors and you will be asked to do so much more.
You are asked to take on tasks once reserved only for those with years of seniority and take on responsibilities far beyond the base or the battlefield.
Young men and women steeped in military doctrine have had to master the intricacies of tribal politics, deal with issues ranging from electricity to unemployment, currency exchange to taxation. You are a remarkable, remarkable, remarkable group.
It has been one of the singular honors of my life to be assigned by President Obama to oversee our policy in Iraq, to see firsthand the accomplishments of our warriors during my multiple trips in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq as both a U.S. senator, and as Vice President.
President Obama and I came to office determined to end the war in Iraq responsibly, and today our troops are home. (Applause.)
Last December, after nine long years, I had the great privilege –- the great privilege of standing before our commanders and troops in Baghdad on the eve of their departure. And as I told them that day: "In the finest American tradition, having carried out your mission, you're leaving. Taking nothing with you but your experiences, your achievements, and the pride associated with a hard job well done."
That's what America does. (Applause.)
In Afghanistan, President Obama laid out a clear strategy. Our commanders refocused and redoubled their efforts on disrupting, dismantling and ultimately destroying -- defeating al Qaeda, reversing the Taliban's momentum and training the Afghan Security Forces to prevent extremists from gaining ground. Since then, we've taken out -- you have taken out more than half of al Qaeda's senior leadership.
And in a mission that will go down in the annals of intelligence and special operations, some of America's most gifted security professionals tracked down Osama bin Laden -- after the trail had gone cold. And in one of the most incredibly daring raids, they delivered justice to the architect of a harmful ideology -- a hateful ideology with no place in the modern world and the man responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 innocents on our soil. They got him. (Applause.
And in the process, those warriors sent a message to the world that if you harm America, we will follow you to the end of the Earth. (Applause.)
And now, as you saw at NATO -- the NATO Conference in Chicago earlier this week, the President has formed a consensus among the 50 nations at our side on how best to responsibly end this war and bring our young men and women home.
The entire surge announced by President Obama in his speech right here on this campus in Eisenhower Hall will return this summer. And our drawdown will continue thereafter, even as we continue to build up Afghanistani forces so they can assume full responsibility for their country.
The cost of these wars, the longest in our nation's history, have been extraordinary -- 4,422 service members, 4,422 Fallen Angels, have paid the ultimate price in Afghanistan [sic]; 1,868 in Afghanistan; and more than 30,000 have been injured, some of whom will require medical care for the rest of their lives.
And here at this citadel of American virtue, 87 Fallen Angels in the West Point family, including Second Lieutenant David Rylander, whom some of you knew, and who was killed earlier this month in an IED attack in Afghanistan.
Our hearts go out to his family. The President and I, indeed all Americans, stand in awe of -- in awe of his and all that went before him's commitment and to their sacrifice.
Our country owes these heroes and their families a debt of gratitude we will never be able to fully repay, but one that we will never forget because institutions like this continue to stand -- one that we honor today. And here at this academy and every other academy and every place where military personnel gather, we'll never forget. We remember every day.
Winding down these long wars is enabling us to replace and rebalance our foreign policy, to take on the full range of challenges that will shape the 21st century, challenges different than those of the 20th century.
When President Obama and I came to office, we were convinced that our nation had reached a strategic turning point, requiring us to rebalance our foreign policy. While we will maintain a substantial, vigilant presence in the Middle East -- and partners with the Afghanis -- that will outlast our combat mission, we are now able to begin to focus our attention and resources on other regions and other challenges that will be incredibly critical to our nation's future in the 21st century.
We are revitalizing America's alliances, and particularly NATO, the greatest military alliance the world has ever known because -- because, as the President has rightly said, Europe is the cornerstone of our engagement with the world.
We learned during the Libya campaign, which saved thousands of innocents and helped topple a murderous dictator, that there is almost nothing -- nothing we cannot accomplish when NATO and our partners act decisively, and when we actually share the burden of the responsibility.
And at this week's Summit in NATO -- excuse me, in Chicago, NATO strengthened its defense capabilities for the years ahead, including adding equipment it had not had, only we had, by acquiring a fleet of unmanned aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Rebalancing our foreign policy also means refocusing on the most dynamic region of the world's economy, the global economy, Asia. The United States has long been and will remain a Pacific power and a critical provider of peace, prosperity and security of this vital region.
The most critical relationship to get right is that between the United States and China. Every day, the affairs of our nations and the livelihoods of our citizens grow more connected.
How we manage this relationship between the world's two largest economy, although we're still almost three times as large as theirs, how we do this will help shape the 21st century.
This obviously doesn't mean we'll always see eye-to-eye, including on issues like human rights. Nor does it mean we will not compete with each other economically. As I said when I was in China, we Americans welcome this competition, which drives us to do better, and to be better because there's no doubt that America can compete, and America will win whenever, and wherever, the playing field is level. (Applause.)
Ultimately, that is what America is focused on in the Asia Pacific, empowering cooperative relationships, clear rules of the road so that that region can continue its peaceful development, and that our people can prosper.
We've also forged stronger relationships with emerging powers like India, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa; and all of these efforts are helping advance American interests at home and around the world.
Add to that, that we dealt with potentially the gravest threat to mankind. We've reduced our reliance on nuclear weapons and the size of our arsenal, and in the New START Treaty we got the Russians to reduce theirs as well.
We brought the world together to secure nuclear materials and prevent those materials from getting into the hands of terrorists, and we isolated countries like Iran and North Korea whose nuclear programs threaten not only us, but world peace and stability.
At the same time we demonstrated that we don't have to choose between protecting our country and living the values we preach. We shut down secret prisons overseas and we banned torture. It was the right thing to do. It enhanced our power of our persuasion around the world, and the security of our soldiers around the world.
President Obama also knew we needed to ensure our military was postured to meet these new objectives and new challenges. And just as General George C. Marshall wanted a West Point graduate for that pivotal mission, when World War II hung in the balance, President Obama determined that we needed a new defense strategy to meet the needs of this country, and he turned, as Marshall called for -- turned to graduates of this great institution and other service academies.
He turned to men like Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, West Point Class of '76; and General Ray Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army, Class of '74. The defense strategy they crafted provided a more agile, flexible force prepared for future challenges, better able to confront aggressors and project power, with strong partnerships to share the burden and smart investments in cutting-edge capabilities.
And we proposed a budget to fund that strategy, a budget that not only funds the strategy but first and foremost keeps faith with our wounded warriors, our veterans and their families because in America we all know our government has only one truly sacred obligation: Prepare those we send to war and care for their families and them when they come home. (Applause.)
No one knows better than this audience that America's unique role in the world requires that we maintain the world's finest fighting force. That's a non-negotiable issue. And that's exactly what this strategy does.
West Point has prepared you to lead us to face these new challenges, some of which we have yet to even contemplate, let alone encounter. Because as I said at the start, you are not only strong and committed, you are also some of our nation's sharpest minds, with the training to take today's missions -- counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, training foreign armies -- and the minds to adapt to tomorrow's horizons, from cyberspace to outer space.
There is such a proud history here. Such a proud tradition. And I have no doubt that many of you in this class are not only going to make extraordinary contributions to the military but also to civilian life because West Point is in the business of producing -- not only great officers –- it produces great leaders and great Americans.
As President Theodore Roosevelt said, upon West Point's Centennial, 110 years ago next month, he said: "Your duty here at West Point has been to fit men to do well in war. But it is a noteworthy fact that you also have fitted them to do singularly well in peace. The highest positions in the land have been held, not exceptionally, but again and again by West Pointers." West Pointers who have risen to the first rank in all occupations of civilian life.
Were he here today he'd only alter that quote slightly – young men and women are prepared to do that. (Applause.)
The Class of 2012, this is your destiny, to lead your country; for you are the leaders of your generation, that 9/11 Generation, which I predict will go down in history as the finest generation this nation has produced. (Applause.)
I've had many honors as Vice President of the United States, but none greater than being able to salute you today. May God Bless you and protect you and may God protect and bless all those who wear the uniform of the United States of America.
Congratulations. (Applause.)


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Hi there, I just installed Bible works 8 as an Apple app on my mac mini using winebottler. I thought people might want to know that it does work. However I am a beginner user so time will tell whether it all runs smoothly.
I am just wondering if anyone else has done this and if there are any problems? I do have one issue in that the US english keyboard says it has not installed! Will have solve that although I can still type in english.
Some staff at my church have turned to mac but want to keep their windows software. I do have parallels 5 but couldn't copy and paste into the mac environment which was annoying as I have done all my Bible college (the Shepherds Bible College NZ) essays on the mac.
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"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat." Louis L' Amour
Cosmic Weather:
It's sort of like we're driving a car with the brakes on today. It may be hard to get very far! Yes, the cruel Universe has us dealing with the ravages of "Sun square Saturn" (9:01 am EST). With the old fart (Saturn) trying to slow us down, beat us up, and pummel us at every turn. 🙂
Of course, there are some positives here: We're building character. Learning to be wise and patient, in the face of inordinate odds and restrictions. We're also learning how to postpone our gratification. Etc., etc.
Success is not totally out of the picture. But, we may have to work much harder for it. Such is the seemingly wicked nature of taskmaster Saturn. Too, sometimes with Sun-Saturn, some of our enterprises go belly-up for good. No real point in reviving them, either. It may be best to just cut our losses, and move on. On to bigger and better.
Fortunately for us, too, love maven Venus exits "always panting" Scorpio for "Please, just let me be free and unshackled again. That's all I ask," Sagittarius (7:31 am EST). Friends and acquaintances provide us with some measure of pleasure now. Impromptu and cheery Venus in Sadge does loves to have fun. Too, with Sun square Saturn lurking around today, at least we'll be able to duly commiserate with each other in a refreshing way. Maybe even be able to see the humor in all the Saturnian gloom and doom.
Later, the bewitching Moon, up in the mysterious night sky, departs "strange bird" Aquarius for, "Let's all just hug each other and drink till we drop," Pisces (9:57 pm EST). "How does that sound? Like a pretty good plan?" Something we may all have to do, too, after a dire day with, "You can't always get what you want," Saturn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've heard all that before. We also know what's coming next: "But, if you try sometimes, oh you just may find, you get what you need… Baby!" Yeah, yeah. Can't you (Saturn) just go away? Always hovering around us with your diabolical rings. Don't you have another place that you can go to for a while? Won't anyone else take you in? Have you tried your mother?
"God delays but doesn't forget." Spanish proverb.
Patrice Thompson
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