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Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe
3 chicken breasts
¼ cup celery, chopped
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon onion powder
⅛ teaspoon salt*
3 Tablespoons low fat mayonnaise
*Reduce sodium by removing the ⅛ teaspoon of added salt. New sodium content for each serving is 127 mg.
1. Cook chicken on low heat in a medium pan, covered, until done.
2. When done cooking, shred chicken. For easy shredding, place in stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and turn on low until shredded. Refrigerate shredded chicken.
3. In a small bowl, combine rest of ingredients, add to chilled chicken and mix well. Serve on low fat croissants with a side of fresh red grapes.
Yield: 5 servings
Serving size: ¾ cup
Each serving provides:
Calories: 183
Total fat: 7 g
Saturated fat: 2 g
Cholesterol: 78 mg
Sodium: 201 mg
Total fiber: 0 g
Protein: 27 g
Carbohydrates: 1 g
Potassium: 240 mg
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Kaung Su
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September 13 - October 10, 2012
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Cultural Envoy for the US Department Of State in Myanmar
Kaung Su was born in 1972 in Yangon, Burma. Between 1991-94, he studied painting with the local artist Pyi Soe Myint, and briefly attended Yangon's State School Of Fine Arts. He has been a regular participant in exhibitions since 1995 as well as performance art. In 2001, he had his very first one-man exhibition at Lawkanat Gallery in Yangon. In addition to his performance art, Kaung Su is also a video art/short film maker and author of several articles on Arts & Astronomy. In September 2011 he received a Special Mention for the New Vision Award of the Wathan Film Festival, Burma. He has organized three international exchange programs -- Ongoing Echoes Art Project -- since 2009, and participated in several other foreign art projects. He is a founder/director of Art Rise art-space (Burma) and on the Board of Directors for New Zero Art Space.
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ENTERPRISE ENTERS MOTORCYCLE RENTAL BIZ IN VEGAS: LAS VEGAS (AP) — Enterprise Rent-A-Car is taking a leap into the motorcycle business with a new, Las Vegas-based fleet of Harley-Davidsons.
The company better known for four-wheeled vehicles launched its two-wheeled line on Wednesday, marking the first time a major car rental company is offering motorcycles in the U.S.
Enterprise Vice President Steve Short says the company started the pilot program in Sin City because it sees opportunity among tourists who want to venture out to attractions like Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon.
Customers can now rent five different Harley models from a new Enterprise branch on Flamingo Road. Two more models should be available by the end of November.
Las Vegas visitors have long been able to rent motorcycles around the Strip, but this is the first time a major car rental company is offering them.
GM TO SELL IMPALA POWERED BY NATURAL GAS, GASOLINE: DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will start selling a Chevrolet Impala sedan next summer that runs on both natural gas and gasoline.
The company says both fuels are needed because there are few natural gas filling stations in the U.S.
GM says the Impala will be the only factory-produced full-size car that runs on both fuels.
Natural gas is plentiful in the U.S. and is cheaper than gasoline. AAA says gas costs about $3.35 per gallon. Natural gas fueling station company Clean Energy says compressed natural gas costs $2.94 for the amount equal to a gallon of diesel fuel.
GM didn't reveal the new Impala's price. A gas-powered Impala starts around $28,000. CEO Dan Akerson announced the car at a Washington event marking the 40th anniversary of the OPEC oil embargo.


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Even in such dark times in America's history, Stephen Colbert has found cause to celebrate. President Donald Trump, who has expressed admiration for North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is not too happy with the "Late Show" host, and Colbert couldn't be happier about it.
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On his show last night, Colbert responded to a recent Time interview in which Trump called Colbert a "no-talent guy" who says "nothing funny." Colbert looked into the camera, and gleefully clapped his hands together like a little kid. It's the kind of gesture that says: "Now, this is going to be fun."
"Mr. Trump, there is a lot you don't understand," said Colbert. "But I never thought one of those things would be show business. Don't you know, I've been trying for a year to get you to say my name?" He jumped around the stage giddily, adding: "Oh, please don't make me trend on Twitter again. Don't throw me in that hashtag briar patch."
READ MORE: Donald Trump Calls Stephen Colbert a 'No-Talent Guy' Who Says 'Nothing Funny'
Trump also took a hit at Colbert's popularity, falsely claiming that Colbert's highest ratings came when Trump did the show. "You know who's got really bad ratings these days? You do," said Colbert. "Terrible approval numbers. I hear they're thinking about switching your time slot with Mike Pence." Not to worry, our fearless jester has a simple solution to the president's dilemma: "Since all of my success is based on talking about you, if you really wanna take me down, there's an obvious way: Resign."
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Man Charged With Raping Girl Who Was Gifted To Him
A Lower Southampton, Pennsylvania, man faces charges of sexual assault against an underage girl who was allegedly gifted to him by her parents.
The former Amish couple were experiencing a financial hardship and went to 52-year-old Lee Kaplan for help, police said, the Bucks County Courier Times reports. They then gave him their 14-year-old daughter.
The girl, now 18, told police that Kaplan is the father of her two children, ages 6 months and 3 years.
When police were called to Kaplan's home because of a complaint made by neighbor Jen Bets about the health and welfare of the children living there, they found 12 girls inside, ranging in age from 6 months to 18 years old.
The two children Kaplan fathered with the girl were present at the property.
"It's never the wrong time to do the right thing," Bets told WCAU. "There were signs."
"(She was) too young to be the wife, too old to be holding his hand," Bets said of seeing Kaplan walking down the street with the girls.
All of the underage children have been placed in protective custody.
"The conditions in the house were fine," Lower Southampton Detective Sgt. Shane Hearn said, according to the Courier Times. "They were not undernourished. Kaplan has a farm there and chickens running all over the place. I guess they were living off the land."
Bets believes the police took too long to respond to her requests to visit Kaplan's home.
"It took too long," she said, WCAU reports. "I just want them to get help and get back and be happy. They're so sad and fearful every time I see them. That's what made me call."
Kaplan is charged with statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault on a person younger than 16, corruption of minors, and contact with a minor involving sexual offenses, according to the Bucks County Courier Times. He is being held at Bucks County prison in lieu of 10 percent of $1 million bail.
"I wanted (Kaplan) off the street despite the fact he told me he loved the children," Lower Southampton district judge John Waltman said.
The girl's parents, who claim all of the children living in Kaplan's home are theirs, were arrested on child endangerment charges. Their bail is set at $1 million.
Police have not found any identifying documents for any of the girls, WCAU reports.
"We are still investigating that. Bucks County is investigating that along with other agencies to help identify their genealogy and who their parents actually are," Lower Southampton Lt. John Krimmel said.
It is unknown how long the children were living with Kaplan.
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Over the last 4 years the Community Action Partnership of Northeast Missouri (CAPNEMO) has provided over 1500 pounds of fresh garden produce to area residents through the Christian Community Food Depot, Salvation Army, NEMO Senior Center, and Head Start programs. To better fulfill our goal of providing "a hand up, not a handout" this program is being replaced with the Jamison Street Community Garden.
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Inspiration filled the room last week at the Chicago Intercontinental's Avenue Ballroom during the first annual AHEAD in Motion event. Hosted by AHEAD's employee resource groups, Moving Women AHEAD and Race Inclusion for Success and Equity at AHEAD (RISE AHEAD), the event was designed as a platform for building meaningful relationships with the tech community as well as AHEAD's clients and partners. The event also served as a forum for discussing and celebrating diversity and inclusion in tech, featuring three speakers who shared inspiring stories.
Broadway, television, and recording icon Vanessa Williams provided the keynote, and some musical notes of her own during an off-the-cuff performance of Hallelujah, Baby's "Being Good Isn't Good Enough."
The theme of her keynote was "Being a woman and having a meaningful life." She discussed her childhood growing up in Westchester County New York with parents who constantly encouraged her to achieve and believe in herself. Her advice to the audience was to not be afraid to take a chance.
"Have the courage to dare," said Williams. "You might not think you're ready, but it's ok to leap."
"You might not think you're ready, but it's ok to leap."Vanessa Williams
ServiceNow's Director of Inclusion Recruiting, Kathy Goss, also encouraged the audience to be brave in finding their path to belonging.
"Belonging is the secret sauce," said Goss. She went on to say that it's completely counterintuitive, but the more we try to fit into the molds of how we think we should be, the less we feel like we fit in.
"You're more interesting as your messy, weird self," said Goss, "than any kind of fake persona that you put out there."
Asha George leads gender empowerment, initiatives, and employee resource groups for Dell Technologies as Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion.
She encouraged the audience to own their innate leadership and to claim it, value it, and use it.
"Amplify each other's voices, demand seats for women and people of color and all marginalized people at every table where decisions are made," said George. "Celebrate each other's successes, empower the next generation, express gratitude for those who contribute to your success and when one person falls, you support her rise.
The evening ended with a tech exhibit featuring Code Nation, The Difference Engine, We All Code, Chicago Tech Academy, BWise, and i.c.stars.
The event was sponsored by ServiceNow, VMWare, Dell EMC, Cisco, Zerto and AppDynamics.
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We investigate the potential of four-wave mixing in dielectric hollow waveguides for vacuum ultraviolet pulse generation with unprecedented short durations. Taking into account higher-order transverse modes and plasma effects we predict the generation of a pulse at using an intense , pulse and its weaker third harmonic at , both coupled to the fundamental transverse mode. Excitation of higher transverse modes allows an increase of the signal energy (up to by a factor of 20), but with a pulse duration of (compressible to ).
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Jan 14, 2013
Back for another Monday, and we're back with Greg Dworkin as well. We're still on the debt ceiling, Chuck Hagel, and guns. But we also threw in the "good old days" of compromise and the flu, just for good measure. The ongoing reality story of guns took no break over the weekend, so it was time to catch up with more of the most regularly predictably "unexpected" stories of flukes, mishaps, and unimaginable coincidences that ended in accidental shootings over the past few weeks. That led us to break our all-time record for mentions of the word "penis," but you knew that was going to happen eventually. You just didn't think it'd happen during a gun rant. (Or maybe you did.) Two other gun-related stories allowed us to parse some of the really tricky political science questions wrapped up in the gun debate. First, the lack of solid data about gun usage outcomes in this country, and the political machinations intended to make sure we lacked them. And second, why it's so difficult to have even an "educational" discussion with a gun ultra, and what it says about their views of society. Or "society," as the case may be. Then finally, speaking of delusional fantasies, a look at Glenn Beck's plan to build a kind of amusement park/social experiment to do... something. Something involving you giving him your money, apparently. For freedom!


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Samsung Galaxy U Samsung recently announced and launched their new Galaxy phone, they made this announcement in Korea. Phone is speculated to have been priced at $680 dollars and is set to be released in Korea only, it might be launched in USA at some further date. Samsung Galaxy U is pretty much similar to Galaxy S, but with a smaller display screen.The 7-inch handheld tablet was officially debuted earlier this month with the announcement that it would be headed to Vodafone in the United Kingdom, but nothing more about carriers elsewhere.
The Galaxy Tab definitely looks like a cool device, and arguably could be an iPad killer, if you don't want to tap into the 250k+ apps available on the App Store. I'm holding out to see what the price will be, if you'll be locked into a contract, and also what it will drop to around holiday time. For now, though, you can enjoy the video of the Tab in action below, and fantasize about how it's going to change your life.
But according to the leaked screenshot above first posted by Engadget, it looks like the Galaxy Tab will be introduced on Verizon in the United States. This could potentially set up a battle royale between Samsung's tablet entry and the iPad over on AT&T, depending on pricing and availability - neither of which won't be announced for awhile. (Unless the Galaxy Tab really does go to more than one carrier, similar to the Galaxy S smartphone series.)
Telstra responded to queries today via its Exchange blog, announcing that customers could expect to see the much vaunted Samsung Galaxy S land on Telstra's network by 21 September.The telco also said that HTC Desire customers can expect to be updated to Froyo software over the air or via USB connection within the next month, thanking customers for their patience while it tested the Android update.
The latest speculation from The Wall Street Journal puts the Tab at Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and AT&T, and Engadget seems to have unearthed proof that it will definitely launch on Verizon, speculation is no longer needed. As of this writing I've only been able to confirm that "testing" is occurring at Sprint and that it seems to run most Android apps without issue.


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The Upper Sphere Of Nature
Question: What is the Creator according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the upper force ?
Answer: The Creator is the highest nature. Nature has many levels, and the uppermost level includes everything that we are able to discover with the help of all the sciences and the science of Kabbalah, which reveals the mechanism of force of bestowal. All this together is called the Creator.
Indeed, all this is under the control of the properties of Bina, the force of general bestowal, which is called Elokim, the Creator. What else exists besides this is not known to us. The wisdom of Kabbalah gives a clear answer to this, as in any science: we do not know what is above the force of bestowal and are not able to reveal this.
Maybe it is only a temporary restriction. Generations are advancing one after the other, revealing and correcting nature. Perhaps, after we correct the entire reality and reach the end of correction of all generations, new opportunities will be open to us.
But for the time being, we do not have the slightest contact with what is above the quality of bestowal. Perhaps, nature exists there in different ways that we, due to our structure, are not able to understand and feel. When we reach the end of correction, then we can talk about what is next. Kabbalists hint at this slightly in their books, but we still cannot understand them.
From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam
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Henry has lunch with Gerrard & Co ... and will 'settle' for winning title within three seasons.
The new Liverpool owner John W Henry took a solitary 8.30am walk on the Anfield pitch yesterday and, after a players' lunch sitting beside Steven Gerrard, last night revealed he has already reassured Roy Hodgson about his future.
good to see that he actually supports his workers which last owners did not do
Good to see that he thinks longer than a few matches. In 3 seasons things will be in control again.


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Date: November 7-9, 2014
Location: Phoenix East/Mesa Hilton Hotel in Mesa, Arizona
Agenda: 2014 Field of Dreams Agenda
The National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Mathematical Field of Dreams Conference, held again this year at the Phoenix East/Mesa Hilton Hotel in Mesa, Arizona. The Conference brings together faculty in the mathematical sciences and students who are from backgrounds which are underrepresented in those fields.
Predoctoral Scholars: You will have the opportunity to learn about the ins and outs of applying for – and thriving in – a graduate program in the math sciences. Our Alliance Doctoral Student panel will discuss their graduate experience. They will talk about strategies for success, and how to pick a graduate program which will welcome, support and mentor you throughout your graduate studies. Our Alliance Mentors will share with you what they look for when admitting a graduate student, what undergraduate courses are essential to your success in grad school and what their expectations are upon entering their program. Our Alliance Doctoral Alumni Panel will share their wisdom with you and tell you about their different career paths and the positives and negatives of each. We will report on the success of the 2013 Uniform Applications Process and share information about the 2014/2015 Facilitated Graduate Applications Process.
You will also have the opportunity to meet with faculty and students from individual Alliance Graduate Program Groups (GPGs) during our Graduate Fair. We have expanded the 2014 Graduate Fair to both Friday and Saturday to ensure ample time to network with over 40 institutions and programs.
Doctoral Scholars: This is a great opportunity to meet other Alliance Grad students and to share your work and your goals. You will also have the opportunity to meet Alliance Graduate Faculty and to learn about our Postdoc program. Doctoral Scholars also have the opportunity to present their research in the Poster Presentation session Friday evening. You will also be able to share your experiences and knowledge by serving on program panels targeted at our Predoctoral Scholars.
Faculty and Corporate Partners: Our Conference is an opportunity for faculty to discuss common research interests and to form research partnerships. It gives Alliance Graduate Mentors an opportunity to get to know some of the most promising undergraduate students in the math sciences today. It is also an opportunity for faculty who would like to know more about the Alliance to learn, first hand, about our goals and activities. There will also be opportunities to meet as regional groups or one on one if needed. Finally, the Alliance welcomes representatives of government agencies and industry who are interested in meeting our community of students and faculty. If you would like to join us please fill out the Field of Dreams 2014 registration form here. Faculty can reserve their room by visiting the Phoenix East/Mesa Hilton Hotel Field of Dreams Conference site here.
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In case you are wondering if learning a new language could be a new investment or it would be a complete waste of your time and energy, let us give you a few motivating numbers.
By Sujain Thomas
Website design is the best form of online advertisement you can choose for your business. It is as important as creating the right print ad in your local newspaper for attracting the attention of the local customer base or placing an ad in the national TV to garner the attention of a nationwide audience. You can always use websites just like your brand and gain the attention of the target audience, whether you are targeting a particular town, city or state.
The challenge with most entrepreneurs is the development process associated with the e-commerce site. Most business owners, who do not deal with website design, development and maintenance on a professional level, find it difficult to keep up with the process. Since they are not trained in coding or programming languages, it is quite an understandable issue. Even with the WYSIWYG website builders and the ready to use CMS engines, it is always better to know a few codes to customize the site and include new functions.
What are the popular ways entrepreneurs develop their sites?
There are three prominent options for website developers for creating a brand-new functioning website.
- Using a CMS engine like WordPress to create the site. Use plug-ins to optimize the seller performances. WooCommerce is the leading ready to use WordPress plug-in for all e-commerce needs in 2018.
- Use an advanced CMS engine like Joomla or Drupal that need programming/coding skills. Add modules through codes for enhanced website performance.
- Use simple languages (take lessons) to develop a complete functioning application. This is a more rewarding process, and it also enables the development of a more customized and personalized website for business owners.
Leading ecommerce web development companies and consultancies always recommend the third step for future entrepreneurs and aspiring website owners.
Why should you invest in learning a new language?
In case you are wondering if learning a new language could be a new investment or it would be a complete waste of your time and energy, let us give you a few motivating numbers.
Make some decent money on the side
Programmers who are well-versed in C make about $108,000 per year from creating websites, maintenance, and servicing of existing websites. It looks like PHP programmers are in demand, but since the language is quite easy to master, there is a lot of prevalent competition, and programmers make about $87,000 per annum. Java, JavaScript and C++ programmers often make something around $95,000, $90,000 and $93,000 respectively.
Be a part of the growth
At the moment, there are over 18.2 million programmers, coders and software developers across the globe. By the end of 2019, the numbers can reach a whopping 27 million. You can become a part of the website development boom, by learning the basics of some of the most popular coding languages and testing the waters with your website design.
Perfect your website design
Development of a business website needs to be near perfect. The process is demanding. It always pays off for the entrepreneur to know a little bit about the backend programming language and the front-end design codes. You can coordinate with your design team and explain your website function necessities to your developer team better when you can understand the technicalities of website development. Therefore, learning a coding language or a scripting language is in no way a waste of time for anyone. Even entrepreneurs can benefit from brushing up a programming language or two.
Which programming language should you focus on at the moment?
Almost all websites of today need PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to run smoothly. In case you are planning on learning a programming language to help with your website development experience, you should focus on the following. These five languages are simple enough for any novice to master in a couple of weeks and yet they are influential enough to power several well-known heavy traffic websites of today.
- PHP contributes to the responsiveness and dynamicity of websites. Even Tumblr, Wikipedia and Facebook use this scripting language to power their backend tech.
- Java allows the coders to create web-based applications and mobile applications. It is still the most popular server-side scripting language. It is a truly dynamic language that allows the applications to run almost anywhere. Zappos and Netflix rely on Java heavily to function.
- C++ is the one leading system programming-oriented language that boosts performance and flexibility. It helps e-commerce sites to fulfill the design requirements along with enhanced speed. Official websites of Sony, JPMorgan Chase, and DIRECTV use C++ to power their sites.
- Python is a popular programming language that enables quick setup and integration of your systems. It is a very efficient language that powers the USA Today, YouTube and Google sites.
- Ruby is a simple open source language that developers use for its high productivity and performance. Its syntax is particularly elegant. Ruby is both easy to learn and write. Even now, GitHub, Ask.fm and Twitter use Ruby.
Over 17.7% of the programmers and developers use C, and about 3% of the programmers use PHP on a regular basis. To develop applications for business purposes, you can rely on Ruby on Rails. This is a Ruby framework that implements the web applications and makes Ruby a flexible yet reliable backend powerhouse for website development. Laravel is to PHP, as Ruby on Rails is to Ruby. It is a popular, open source and standard Ruby Framework. Thus, you do not have to sweat a lot to create a brand-new application with a full set of functionalities.
Learning more about programming and learning new scripting languages will broaden your horizons. Entrepreneurs can always do with a few added skills. To run a modern retail business online, you need to have a thorough understanding of a website's working and its database maintenance. You can build cool apps for yourself in the future, maintain your website and create new features every day according to the user demands. Always remember to include the latest version of CSS and HTML to learn the most basic website fundamentals.
Sujain Thomas is a freelance writer and blogger.
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The Social Economy in Quebec. Lessons and Challenges for Internationalizing Co-operation.
Marguerite Mendell, 2008
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The Social Economy in Quebec presents lessons and challenges for internationalizing co-operation. This paper provides an overview of the contemporary social economy in Quebec, its many achievements and results in terms of job creation and the promotion of collective enterprise. The focus, however, is on the
evolution of the social economy in Quebec as a process. The analysis highlights the many elements that have allowed the social economy to assume the place it occupies in Quebec society today and the challenges that it confronts. The process of its evolution has been and will continue to be vital to the progress of the social
economy in Quebec, and it is this process that provides important lessons for other regions.


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The two main Linux programs I use in Ubuntu to rip CDs are Sound Juicer and XCFA.
Sound Juicer is the easiest to use and setup. However there are limitations. If a CD is not in the MusicBrainz database, the program will error out. Also, the type of encoders you choose cannot be fine tuned (AAC, mp3, FLAC). You can't choose the level of compression. There's also no apparent way to add album art.
XCFA has much more fine tuning, however, this increases the complexity. You can chose the level of compression. There are many more encoders like APE, WavP, Ogg, Mpc, etc. Another caveat is that it is more confusing and difficult to setup in Ubuntu. I had to do some workarounds to get it going.
The best way to figure out your CD ripping process is likely to try them both. I tend to use Sound Juicer for the mainstream artists and XCFA for CDs I'm having trouble with (like no entry in the MusicBrainz database).
The easiest way to install Sound Juicer in Ubuntu is to open the Ubuntu Software store, type "sound juicer" in the search and select install. If you want to install it in the terminal, here's how:
sudo apt-get install sound-juicer
Once you install, you will simply need to update the settings from the "preferences" pull-down.
Installing XCFA is a bit more complicated. First you need to install the program, then the "goodies", then any missing programs (like the ripper).
sudo apt-get install xfce4
sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies
Once these two programs are installed, you will need to launch the program and install the missing programs. These include: a52dec, mp3check, faac, and so on. You can see which programs are present and missing under the "Applications externes" tab. I couldn't figure out how to install some of these programs, including 'aacplusenc' and 'monkeys-audio' but for now I'm not interested in that functionality. Once you update your system with the missing external programs, restart XCFA and fill out your settings with the "preferences' tab.
Once you have completed your burning task, you will probably want to verify and update some metadata/tags. A great program for this is 'Kid3-qt'. To install, do a search for "kid3" in the Ubuntu Software store or:
sudo apt-get install kid3-qt
There are other programs too; if you find a good one, let me know!
Good luck and happy burning.


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Short takes on items of local interest selling on eBay lately.
An envelope bearing 1911 postmarks from the long-closed Lardeau Valley post offices in Poplar Creek and Howser fetched $34 Cdn. It was mailed from the Royal Bank in Nelson to Henry Hinks of Howser.
The old Howser townsite was flooded out in the 1960s by construction of the Duncan dam. The community still exists, but the post office is long gone.
Poplar Creek's hey day as a mining town was brief, but it managed to keep its post office from 1903-54.
Another envelope sent by registered mail from Howser to England in 1935 sold last month for just $3 Cdn, while a 1939 Poplar postmark netted $14.50 Cdn.
• A postcard from France bearing a 1913 postmark from the Kootenay Lake settlement of Willow Point sold for $34 Cdn.
It was addressed to a Mrs. West — Willow Point was formerly known as West's Landing after Charles W. West, who moved there in 1901 and was postmaster from 1905-14. A.L.R. Cross succeeded him, but the office closed the following year.
Two other examples of this scarce cancel have sold before: the first, postmarked 1907, went for $20.50 US in 2004. The other, mailed in 1913, sold for $62 in 2006.
• A tinted postcard of Smelter Bay on Kootenay Lake, showing one of the old smoke stacks from the Pilot Bay smelter of the 1890s, sold for $26 US.
The reverse is stamped "Original hydrochrome by Dick Spurway."
In addition to producing postcards, Spurway bequeathed $42,000 to St. Saviour's Anglican Church upon his death in 1983 and $94,000 to the City of Nelson for the purchase and upkeep of festive decorations.
• A promotional 1938 postcard for the Yankee Girl gold mine of Ymir sold for $27 Cdn. It featured a picture of the mill, a description of the property and boasted of a new strike "presenting attractive speculative-investment possibilities."
The Yankee girl proved to be the largest producer in the area, operating from 1935 to 1942. Its tailings pond, adjacent to Wildhorse Creek and the Salmo River, has seen remediation work in recent years.
• A gorgeous ca. 1920s postcard of the Nakusp waterfront, showing the shipyard and long-vanished Grand Hotel sold for $84 US.
It was the town's first hotel, originally known as the Nakusp House and then the Madden Hotel. Nothing else was built on its site after it burned in 1925.
This story will appear in the West Kootenay Advertiser on December 13.


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For a business, whether it is small or large, making an online presence is as important as being physically present in the market. E-commerce has become a massively fruitful channel for retailers. However, to own a website, you need to have a server which will host the site.
Web Hosting Service is an internet hosting service which allows organizations and individuals to make their websites accessible via the World Wide Web.
Web Hosting companies provide space on a server which is either owned or leased by the user. The growth of your business can depend on the Web Hosting company you choose to a great extent. Poor website design and inefficient hosting service can cost you a loss of your customers.
To give you a general idea of your requirements of web hosting services, we are giving you a brief description of types of web hosting. It will help you decide, what kind of web hosting service you want for your business.
Types of Web Hosting:
Shared Hosting Service:
In this kind of Web hosting the server is shared with other websites and web hosting accounts. The sites on a shared server can be slow sometimes. However, if your website uses a low bandwidth, this is the optimal web hosting service for you.
Dedicated Hosting Service:
As the name suggests, a dedicated hosting service provides you with your dedicated web server. Also, because only your website is using the server, fast performance is undeniable.
Virtual Private Hosting Service:
A Virtual Private Server (VPS), also known as a Cloud Server provide you resources as per your requirements. Unlike the physical servers, there are no restrictions by the limitations. They draw from a pool of processing power, memory and storage depending on your requirements.
Co-located Hosting Service:
In co-located web hosting, you can purchase your own web server. Although the server will be kept in hosting company's data center, you will have complete control over it. According to your requirements, you can install anything onto it.
Now that you know a thing or two about the types of Web Hosting Services, you can decide which one you would like to have for your website.
Top 5 Web Hosting Packages at 1 Cent Only:
Earlier, the Web Hosting Services were expensive and were restricted to use only for research and education in the sciences and engineering. However, nowadays, these services have become economical.
We are providing you a list of five Web Hosting companies that offer their hosting services at a price of as low as $0.01. With these affordable hosting services you can increase your online market reach. It will help your business grow up to a great extent.
1. Hostgator:
Hostgator is one of the largest Web Hosting Companies. It has more than 8 Million hosted domains. It is a good option for those who want affordable hosting services without compromising with the quality.
It offers unmetered hosting, a perfect choice for smaller websites. It provides a wide variety of hosting options ranging from user-friendly shared and cloud hosting to Virtual Private Server plans for more advanced users.
It offers 3 shared hosting plans for it is users.
- Hatchling Plan: This plan starts at $3.95 per month. It supports one domain name, unlimited disk storage and space, and unlimited subdomains.
- Baby Plan: This plan starts at $5.95 per month. It supports unlimited bandwidth, storage and domain names.
- Business Plan: This plan also starts at $5.95 per month. It includes all the features of Baby plan and also comes with a free dedicated IP, SSL and toll-free number.
Hostgator provides you 24/7/365 support, instant setup, a guaranteed uptime of 99.9%, immediate backup and a Google Adwords and Bing credit of $100 each. Apart from this, it also offers a 45 days money back guarantee.
You can get any of the Hostgator Shared Hosting packages, i.e. Hatchling, Baby, and Business plans at 1 cent for the 1st month. To grab this deal, apply the coupon code – 1CENTSTRIKE.
2. Glowhost:
Glowhost is a US-based company which provides plenty of high-quality web hosting products for businesses. They offer excellent performance, and the sites load pretty fast through their servers. Glowhost also gives a guaranteed 99.9% of Uptime. The contact support is also excellent. They have US-based telephone support which is active 24/7. It also has a ticket based support system. The contact time is 20 minutes or less, which is pretty good.
Glowhost has four shared hosting plans:
Unlimited Single Domain: This plan is priced at $4.95/month and offers Unlimited space and bandwidth. However, this only provides one domain.
Unlimited Multi-Domain: This plan starts at $8.95/month and offers Unlimited Space and bandwidth with multiple domains.
Personal Hosting: This plan offers 10 GB of space and 100 GB of bandwidth and comes with a price of $7.95/month.
Professional Hosting: This plan starts at $17.95/month and offers 25 GB space and 250 GB bandwidth.
Glowhost has 91 days money back guarantee. It offers free utilities like CloudFlare with Railgun, Free SEO tools, SohoLaunch, Web Apps, Free SSL, etc. with all its shared hosting plans. It also gives you $75 worth of Google Adwords credits with each plan.
Also, as a promotional offer, you can buy any of its shared hosting plans at $0.01 for the first month.
To visit Glowhost click here
3. HostAsset:
HostAsset is again, one of the biggest players in the Web hosting market. They offer great deals with some of the most affordable Web Hosting Plans in the market. They guarantee a 99.9% of Uptime. They provide a 24/7/365 professional support to assist you if you face any kind of trouble with their service. They also offer Free assistance for data migration from elsewhere.
HostAsset provides three shared hosting plans that are:
Home: Home plan starts at $1.93/month and provides you with a single domain, Unlimited Disk Space, and Bandwidth.
Business: This plan offers Unlimited Domains, Disk Space and Bandwidth. It also provides a free domain for 1, 2 or 3 years.
Asset: This plan is their premium plan. It offers Unlimited domains, Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwidth. It provides a free domain name for 1, 2 or 3 years and free Private SSL and Static IP.
However, HostAsset is now offering you a tremendous deal – Web Hosting for the unbelievable $0.01 only if you sign up for 3 months for any of their Web Hosting Plans.
To visit HostAsset, click here
4. Hosting24:
Hosting 24 is an International Web Hosting company which offers shared and VPS hosting services. All of the Hosting24's plans are based on Linux. Hosting24 provides two hosting plans:
Silver: This plan offers a single domain with Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwidth. It starts at $3.99/month.
Gold: Gold plan includes all the features of the Silver plan with add-on domains, anonymous FTP, custom nameservers and a dedicated IP address.
Hosting24 guarantees a 99.9% uptime and 24/7 customer support via Live chat facility, ticket system, email, and fax. It also offers a 30-day money back guarantee. The customers can cancel the subscription within the first 30 days and can get a full refund (except the domain name registration fees).
Users can buy any of the Shared Hosting plans for $0.01 by applying the coupon code '1CENT'.
To visit Hosting24, click here
5. Interserver:
Interserver was founded in 1999 and has made an excellent reputation for itself in the market since then. Interserver provides a 'Price Lock Guarantee' which means that the hosting rate you book now will never increase in the future.
You know what's better than VPS, VPS at an affordable price. Interserver is providing you a Virtual Private Hosting Service at a price as low as $0.01 for the first month. After that, the primary plan costs you $6/month.
The VPS Hosting Service offers you Custom Power Selection, Custom Storage size selection, Free Migration service and Server monitoring. With the new virtualization platform called Virtuozzo 7, there has been a performance boost of upto 60% on their virtual machines.
To visit Interserver, click here
So, this was our list of best Web Hosting Companies who are providing their Web Hosting Services at a price of 1 cent or less. Stay tuned for more such articles.


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Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is a natural product formed from your own blood. A small vial of blood is withdrawn from you and placed in a sterile tube that is then spun down in a centrifuge to separate the different components of your blood. Red and white blood cells are divided from the platelets and the clear fluid, or plasma. This plasma now contains a much higher concentration of platelets, and is therefore referred to as platelet rich plasma, or PRP.
The platelets are the cells in the body which help tissue to heal and grow new cells. The PRP, injected into problem areas of the skin, acts as a matrix to promote new collagen growth and regeneration of tissue, resulting in naturally smoother and tighter skin. This produces softening of wrinkles and improved skin tone and texture. Results begin to appear within 3-4 weeks of treatment and continue to improve with time. Multiple treatments may be needed to achieve optimal results.
Frequently targeted areas for PRP include:
PRP may be performed by itself, where it can be non-invasively applied topically to the skin, or for greater enhancement, injected into the skin. It is frequently combined with other procedures to enhance its effects, such as microneedling, microdermabrasion, or laser resurfacing. Combining these procedures allows for a better and deeper penetration of the PRP through the skin.
Side effects tend to be mild, such as bruising or swelling. You may wish to discuss any concerns you have for potential side effects with your doctor prior to receiving treatment.


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Cheetlange Full Tang Blocker Handle Kukri
This cheetlange kukri is comes from Cheetlang village where skillful craftsmen make this special kind of Khukuri/Kukri. Therefore it is called Cheetlange Special. It is similar to Sirupate Khukuri but the handle and the blade of this khukuri is little bit different than Sirupate kukri. This kukri is very famous in cheetlange village ther people used this blade chop to meat, wood and they keep at home like pride wealth. All Khukuris have two pockets on the back of the scabbard which hold a blunt steel called "chakmak" for sharpening the blade or for striking spark from flint and a little knife known as "karda" used for skinning small animals . The notch (kaura or kaudi) in the blade near the hilt of most khukuris serves as conduit for the blood on the blade to drip out, thus preventing it from soiling the hilt, as well as a device for catching and neutralizing and enemy blade.
* Specification of 13.5 Inch Cheetalange Kukri : This is handcrafted kukri therefore please note that each one might have slight variations in measurement.
|Material Used
|Highly Graded Carbon Steel (Car & jeep leaf spring, 5160), Refine Water Buffalo Leather for Scabbard(outside) and Rosewood for the Handle, Pinewood for the Scabbard (inside), Whitemetal and "Laha" ( Nepali Traditional Glue).
|Blade Size and Type
|13.5 inch (34.29cm) Handmade and Unpolished blade.
|Handle Circumference
|4.6 Inch.
|Handle Size and Type
|5 inch (12.70cm) Rosewood full Tang handle.
|Hardness of steel
|spine= 22-25 RC, belly= 45-46 RC, edge= 58-60 RC.
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New case study explores how Web-based system built by WSO2 partner OPITZ CONSULTING Polska enables timely communications with transportation services employees serving 1 million-plus passengers
Mountain View, CA – February 29, 2016 – WSO2 today announced that Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacyjne S.A. Kraków (MPK Kraków), Kraków's municipal transport service provider, has modernized its communications with a real-time information delivery system built on WSO2 middleware. The Information System for Vehicle Drivers (System Informacji dla Prowadzących or SIDP) was implemented by WSO2 partner OPITZ CONSULTING Polska as the first step in introducing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) across MPK Kraków. The implementation is outlined in a new case study from WSO2, which can be downloaded at https://wso2.com/casestudies/opitz-uses-wso2-to-enhance-mpk-krakow-s-web-based-information-system-for-efficient-service-delivery.
Integrating Systems via a Service-Oriented Architecture
Each day, more than 2,200 MPK Kraków employees serve 1 million-plus passengers by operating 145 bus lines and 27 tram lines across the city. To equip the drivers with up-to-the-minute, accurate and easily accessible communications, MPK Kraków turned to OPITZ, a leading project specialist for custom-built applications.
The case study examines how OPITZ implemented a common communication platform across MPK Kraków, using WSO2's integration platform as the central component of the system architecture. Key topics it explores are:
"As our mode of communication improved, so did the flow of operations," stated Mariusz Wawak, IT director at MPK Kraków. "We were able to improve both speed and control over the flow of information, and thanks to robust automation, better manage our core services. The SIDP system has made our company more lean, employee-focused and overall, more efficient."
"As one of Poland's key public service providers, MPK Kraków relies on efficient and effective communications across Kraków's public transportation infrastructure to optimize operations and better serve passengers," said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder, CEO and chief architect. "We are thrilled by the success of OPITZ CONSULTING Polska in using WSO2 enterprise middleware to integrate MPK Kraków's legacy software and create a real-time information system. It highlights the value of an open source, open standards approach to creating a modern connected enterprise system."
About OPITZ CONSULTING
OPITZ CONSULTING is a leading project specialist for custom-build applications and individual business intelligence solutions in the German market. It analyzes the individual competitive edge of customers, optimizing business processes for automation, designs system architectures, develops and implements solutions with guaranteed 24/7 support and application maintenance. With a portfolio of over 600 customers since beginning operations in 1990, OPITZ CONSULTING has offices in Bad Homburg, Berlin, Essen, Gummersbach, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg and in Kraków (Poland). For more information, please visit https://www.opitz-consulting.com/en/home.php.
About WSO2
WSO2 empowers enterprises to build connected businesses and accelerate their pace of innovation with the industry's only lean, fully integrated, and 100% open source enterprise middleware platform. Using WSO2's platform, enterprises have all the functionality to build, integrate, manage, secure and analyze their APIs, applications, Web services, and microservices—on-premises, in the cloud, on mobile devices, and across the Internet of Things. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2's platform and its robust performance and governance for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit https://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Recently we reviewed the Classic2Magic. It received a generally good review from us. If you'd like to read that article, click here. If you already have one and are just now discovering that there are no instructions in the box, don't worry. You've definitely come to the right place!
Files You Need:
- So, first of all, you'll plug your SNES Classic/Super Famicom Classic or NES Classic/Famicom Classic as depicted in the Connection Layout picture down below. You will not plug it in the power supply until after step 5 though.
- Format a USB storage device of your choice to Fat32. There is no minimum capacity, but I would recommend nothing less than 1GB.
- Now extract the contents of the two zip files into the root (base) of the USB device.
- Once the contents are on the USB, I recommend safely ejecting the USB instead of just plucking it out of your computer.
- Now plug it into the USB slot on the front of the C2M. Make certain that it is firmly seated.
- Now you can plug in the power supply.
- The green LED light will begin slowly blinking.
- This is where things get a little tricky, but it's easy if you just read this step closely. While the green light is blinking, hold the reset switch, now while still holding reset turn on the power switch, then 5 seconds later you can let go of the reset switch.
- If your TV is on, you'll see a blank screen. This just means that the files are working away for the next five minutes or so. As long as your green LED light is blinking, you'll know it's still making progress. For instance, the first level of installation is indicated by one flash. The second level will be two flashes, the third level will be three flashes, and the fourth level will be four flashes.
- After that, you will indeed start to see some on-screen text. Eventually, you'll be brought to your new NES/SNES Classic menu screen.
- And that's it! To add a cart, just power off the device and pop in a game. Then when you power it on, your game will be ready to play!
If you would like further details, an entire manual is available here.
If you haven't purchased one yet and would like to, click here, here, here, here, here, here, or here!
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And as always, stay tuned here on Hackinformer.com for so much more and follow us on Twitter @Hackinformer


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Archive of posts: 'remote office monitoring' tag
The pandemic has turned popular opinion of the office-centric corporate model on its head. But have recent global events actually doomed the enterprise office forever? According to a string of recent studies, the answer is mixed. For starters, despite many companies scrambling to build a WFH infrastructure on the fly back in the spring, the success of these accelerated transformations...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, wfh success, wfh monitoring, wfh, remote workforce, work from home, remote workers, remote office monitoring, headquarters, remote offices, remote office, hub, hub city
Streaming on the job: Netflix Hangouts attempts, but fails, to mask video streams
Jealous that you're missing out on the watercooler chatter surrounding Season 3 of Stranger Things? A new Chrome extension aims to have you covered. Netflix Hangouts is the latest in a long line of programs designed to help workers leverage their office networks for less-than-business-critical activities. The program creates what looks like a standard four-person video conference -- a communication...
Tags: enterprise network monitoring, Netflix, Netflix hangouts, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, network speed, office culture, remote office monitoring, streaming video
Days 2 and 3 at Cisco Live 2019 in San Diego were jam-packed with activity for the AppNeta team. Look no further than Senior Sales Director Mike Mattei's viral picture from the show floor for proof: Check out Mike Mattei breaking a sweat at #CLUS 2019 in San Diego! Come visit Mike and the rest of the AppNeta team at...
Tags: #CLUS, Cisco, Cisco Live 2019, CiscoLive, cloud migration, network performance monitoring, remote office monitoring, SaaS, San Diego, SDWAN
The opening keynote from Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins started by pointing out that this was the company's 30th year hosting a version Cisco Live, emphasizing just how much has changed in the tech world since the conference was born in 1989 as "Networkers." (Shoutout to our intern @JarrettLee828 for leveraging that bit of knowledge for a prize during the show)...
Tags: #CLUS, Cisco Live, cloud migration, industry events, network performance monitoring, remote location monitoring, remote office monitoring, SaaS, SaaS applications, SDWAN
Home Healthcare Provider Brings Distributed Locations Into Focus With AppNeta
Christine Cignoli
IT ROLE: Network engineer for branch and wireless services NEEDS: Monitoring 500 remote locations with a small, centralized IT team RESULTS: Finding provider issues; creating network performance baselines We talked recently with a customer who runs AppNeta at a large and growing healthcare provider. This network engineer has just one other colleague helping to manage and monitor 500 locations around...
Tags: network performance monitoring, remote location monitoring, remote office monitoring
Which Software-Defined Networking Trends Will Your IT Team Adopt?
Christine Cignoli
You know what happens this time of year, as Halloween is approaching: It's time for next year's technology predictions to arrive. Here, there's a look at some potential 2018 networking trends around SD-WAN in particular. One that caught our attention was the addition of security features like firewall functionality, and the expectation that antivirus and flexible security feature deployment will...
Tags: remote office monitoring, SD WAN, SDN
Users Need Better Network Performance, Whatever Their Location
Christine Cignoli
Which approach is your company taking with MPLS? This breakdown covers the various use cases that might drive the SD-WAN vs. MPLS decision. Remote locations with a lot of streaming business-critical applications (VoIP call centers, maybe) will still likely need MPLS to keep performance strong. But for cloud-driven companies, SD-WAN products that are cloud-enabled can be a win. As the...
Tags: MPLS, remote office monitoring, retail monitoring, SD WAN
The Road to Better Performance Is Paved With Networking Technology
Christine Cignoli
We always like to hear the stories of those IT early adopters for a new technology. In this story, it's several heads of IT who've adopted SD-WAN. For both, their companies needed a better way to provision and manage branch office infrastructure. For one, the Bay Club Company, using SD-WAN is actually helping IT drive revenue. Provisioning new locations is...
Tags: MPLS, remote office monitoring, SD WAN, WAN
SD-WAN is gaining traction quickly with a lot of businesses. If SD-WAN technology is on your radar, you likely want to improve the performance of networks and applications at remote offices. You may have jumped off the SD-WAN adoption cliff already, or are at least researching and considering it. With SD-WAN's popularity, it has gained a silver bullet quality. It does...
Tags: network performance monitoring, remote office monitoring, SD WAN
How to Prevent Remote User Issues
Christine Cignoli
Why does it matter so much that enterprise users have a good experience with the technology they use every day? Well, their productivity has a big impact on the business's bottom line. Fewer complaints from users means fewer calls and help desk tickets for IT to manage. And today's cloud and SaaS-based technology can be really efficient and useful when...
Tags: end user experience, remote locations, remote office monitoring
5 Tips for Better Collaboration Tool Security and Performance
Sharon Ward
The need for collaboration tools like chat and video apps is greater than ever, for a few big reasons: Businesses are increasing their numbers of remote locations quickly Companies have recognized that it's important to hire the best talent regardless of location. Employees often travel on business or choose to work remotely. Customers and suppliers are actively involved in the design of...
Tags: collaboration tools, remote locations, remote office monitoring, SaaS applications
IT Charts a New Remote Office Course With SD-WAN
Christine Cignoli
More healthcare organizations are discovering SD-WAN technology for help managing their many remote locations. It makes a lot of sense—in many ways, healthcare businesses like hospitals and home healthcare facilities are the poster children of the challenges of modern networking. Each remote office or location needs high-performing networks and applications, and most don't have IT teams on site. We've heard...
IoT and Globalization Put Networking in Spotlight
Christine Cignoli
Networking association MEF started the push toward SD-WAN standards recently. It's a sign of the maturity of the technology, which is becoming a part of more organizations' network infrastructures. MEF is developing a lifecycle service orchestration framework and open APIs, with the goal of consistency around communicating among SD-WAN components. Several leading SD-WAN vendors are on board. The Open Networking...
Tags: edge computing, IoT, remote office monitoring, SD WAN
Holding Out Hope for SDN? How to Enforce QoS in the Meantime
Joe Michalowski
For every new technology, there's that initial excitement that makes you think "this is the innovation that will break the Gartner Hype Cycle." But time and time again, there's a gap between innovation hype and practical implementation. There's no better example of this gap than the case of software-defined networking (SDN). The concept has been around since the mid-1990s, but...
Tags: QoS, remote locations, remote office monitoring, SDN
The Digital Network Revolution Is Here
Christine Cignoli
Check out this research showing how digital transformation is affecting companies with remote and branch offices. The EMA Research study found that 83% of enterprises are increasing their number of WAN-connected sites, and in 84% of enterprises, the number of network-connected devices is also increasing at remote sites. A majority of businesses surveyed—74%—are also making changes around using the internet...
Tags: remote locations, remote office monitoring, SD WAN, SDN
Ghostbusting in Real Time for Remote Offices
Damian Roskill
You've just gotten to work when a new support ticket comes in from your company's San Francisco remote office (you're at headquarters in Boston). Office 365 was running very slowly yesterday. It's their third help desk ticket this week, and the others are still unresolved in ServiceNow. Your first move is to call the user, only to hear that everything...
Tags: IT troubleshooting, remote location monitoring, remote office monitoring
Remote monitoring is an old problem. In fact, it was a challenge 150 years ago with the emergence of the so-called Victorian Internet, the global communication network based on electric telegraphy. That "internet" depended on human monitoring and the most basic kinds of performance measures. Today, no one charged with monitoring distant IT functions at remote locations has the luxury...
Tags: end user experience, remote location monitoring, remote office monitoring
Is SD-WAN Really the Remote Location Saving Grace?
Joe Michalowski
How are you holding up against digital transformation? It's the question looming large over even the most prominent business leaders. But don't worry—everyone is in the same boat as legacy IT infrastructures get pushed to their limits. However, if you have a large network of remote workers and offices, you might be facing greater challenges than less-distributed companies. The problem...
The Simple Checklist for Solving Ghost Issues at Remote Offices
Joe Michalowski
IT leaders have always had their hands full with ghost issues on-premises. But for businesses that rely on remote and branch offices, monitoring a sprawling network of on-premises equipment introduces even more challenges. That's why we move to the cloud, right? To help us eliminate truck rolls, improve cost efficiency and centralize management of applications across all locations. When you've...
ROBO Problems: Avoid Truck Rolls to Your Remote Offices
Joe Michalowski
Whether you're part of a large enterprise expanding your footprint, a retailer with multiple brick-and-mortar stores, or a bank with many locations, you likely know all about remote office/branch office (ROBO) problems. Much of the pressure of managing remote offices falls on IT if there are outages, slowdowns or too many end-user complaints. For years, IT departments have dealt with...
Tags: end user experience monitoring, remote locations, remote office monitoring
Stop Fighting Shadow IT
Joe Michalowski
In just the past ten or so years, consumer devices have swamped enterprises. Along with those devices have come apps and services and the expectation of ease and convenience from technology. The consumerization of IT is more than just the need to support and monitor personal devices on the enterprise network. It's a mindset shift among your employees that's silently...
Tags: end user experience, remote office monitoring, shadow IT
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Projects have a way of getting out of hand, taking on lives of their own and finally, eventually, turning out way different from what was originally intended.
Take the Pick of the Day, for instance. This 1954 Dodge C-Series pickup "started as a renovation project among friends," according to the private seller advertising the truck on ClassicCars.com. "The project was intended to take one year."
But more than four years later, what rolled out was a completely different critter, a lavishly customized pickup with both tilt bed and tilt front end, affixed to a modern frame and powered by a Hemi V8. Beautiful and functional, and worthy of any hot rod show.
"This truck has a 5.7 Hemi with a completely rebuilt drivetrain and frame from a 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 truck," the Claremont, New Hampshire, seller says in the ad description. "The engine is fuel injected with rebuilt heads. The suspension has been customized for coil overs in the front and a parallel four link suspension with coil overs in the back. The rear end has been rebuilt, all the brake calipers, rotors, pads and wheel bearings are new as well as all the brake lines and fuel lines. Every inch of the chassis has been gone over and sandblasted and painted.
"The bed has been customized with a steel frame with a hydraulic cylinder to make it a dump bed. The front body (hoods, fenders and nose) has been customized to make it a tip-forward front body feature to fully exposed the engine compartment and the original gullwing hood panels are also functional."
The seller goes on about the LED turn signals and taillights, as well as the dual exhaust poking out of the customized rear end. Yet also how the effort was made to keep the vintage Dodge looking correct and not too in-your-face.
"The customization of the outside body panels are subtle to keep the basic look of the original 1954 pilot-house-style truck, but with the stance and closeup viewing to make it obvious this truck is all custom, and all Dodge," the seller notes.
The interior has been tricked out with modern features to make the truck a comfortable driver. The photos with the ad show an attractively well-finished pickup that looks like the show winner that it is.
"The truck has taken first place at a local car show in the truck division (among 26 trucks), and with the modern chassis and drivetrain is intended to be a daily driver if desired," the ad says.
For such an apparently nicely done custom truck, the asking price seems reasonable at $32,800. And it's not so extreme that you'd mind driving it just for fun.
To view this listing on ClassicCars.com, see Pick of the Day


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Selexis and OSE Immunotherapeutics have signed two commercial license agreements (CLAs) to advance the clinical development of two new cancer immunotherapy programs, OSE-172 and OSE-703.
The agreement supports the development of OSE's new generation immune myeloid checkpoint inhibitor (OSE-172) and cytotoxic monoclonal antibody targeting the IL-7 receptor (OSE-703).
OSE-172 is a monoclonal antibody that blocks the generation of pro-tumor suppressor cells and restores their anti-tumoral function. OSE-172 blocks SIRP-alpha (Signal Regulatory Protein Alpha), a receptor strongly expressed by myeloid and macrophage suppressor cells in the tumor microenvironment.
The product helps modifying tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) associated with a poor prognosis by blocking and transforming them into cells with a good prognosis.
OSE-172 also may be combined with other immunotherapies, in particular with checkpoint inhibitors acting on T-lymphocytes, such as products triggering a stimulation of the immune system. This new product is anticipated to enter Phase 1/2 clinical trials in 2018.
OSE-703 is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the IL-7 receptor (IL-7R), killing cells positive for the receptor.
Under collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the immuno-oncology therapeutic candidate is in preclinical studies for solid tumors with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as the primary cancer model.
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in February 2013, titled "Clinical Impact of Immune Microenvironment in Stage I Lung Adenocarcinoma: Tumor Interleukin-12 Receptor β2 (IL-12Rβ2), IL-7R, and Stromal FoxP3/CD3 Ratio Are Independent Predictors of Recurrence," researchers showed that IL-7R was overexpressed in NSCLC and associated with poor prognosis.
"This is our third signed CLA with OSE this year, and we believe the rapid expansion of our relationship is a direct result of the utility and flexibility of our cell-line expression technology across protein therapeutics and development stages," Marco Bocci, PhD, vice president of licensing and business development at Selexis, said in a press release. "Selexis' technology can scale with OSE's developmental needs, and provide the company with a fast, stable and reliable method of protein expression. This is critical for the development of recombinant, protein-based medicines like OSE-172 and OSE-703."
The agreements provide OSE with access to Selexis' high-performance research cell banks (RCBs) developed using their SUREtechnology Platform, which facilitates the stable and cost-effective production of recombinant proteins and provides integration of the biologics development continuum from discovery to commercialization.


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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the brand, Orangina is out with a nice Facebook app that helps you remembering who your first Original Facebook friends have been. I know it sounds weird, sometimes you feel Facebook has been around forever, so it's kind of fun to remember when and how everything started. Read more…
Les 84 and Chewing Com have done a good job with the new website for Orangina. It's a Flash experience around the weird/sexy campaign "Naturellement Pulpeuse" recently created by Fred Farid Lambert (FFL) to reposition and refresh the soft drink brand.
Le Journal du Net (in French) investigates the importance of the Web for soft drinks brands. In France, but not only there, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Orangina-Schweppes and Unilever are fighting to get people's attention online. They are moving more and more money to the Internet and even changing their own corporate structure to adapt to the new challenges: Orangina, for example, since 2001 has its own internal web agency. Since the main target audience for soft drinks (12 to 30 years old) is heavily using the Web, the communication strategy needs focus on the Internet, where advertising budgets are also easier to manage if compared to Tv. Micro-sites, online competitions with a touch of mobile content tend to be entertaining and funny and to take advantage of the new options offered by digital music.
Patrick has a post about the Orangina Fire & Ice online marketing campaign in France. He reports the Voila.fr homepage has been branded with the Orangina colors (I can't see it, maybe it's due to my IP or the initiative was online only yesterday), furthermore he points us to the micro-site created for the campaign. Despite the kind of product (a soft drink) don't expect anything special: a bunch of radio spots to listen, three wallpapers to download and a silly competition.
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TORONTO—Tired of hauling your cookies to Walmart and then being ridiculed on the bus ride home because of your billowing bags? Now you can pick up diapers for the baby when you pick up your smokes. Walmart is testing Grab and Go locker service at select 7-11 stores in the GTA.
Walmart Marketing Manager Susan Aston said inspiration came to her late one night. "I'd stopped by 7-11 for milk after attending the opera. While I was waiting in line, I noticed that the clientele were similar to the people I observe on security cameras at Walmart. I had that eureka moment!"
No more irritating trips to Toys"R"Us before your nephew's birthday party. Just stop by 7-11 and tuck that Play-Doh under one arm and a bag of chips under the other. Or surprise your lady by pulling a piece of jewelry out of a locker and getting down on one knee by the Cheetos.
But if you think you can outsmart the system and get your new patio furniture sent to the convenience store around the corner, think again. Size and weight restrictions attached to your order will thwart such abuse.
Will these 7-11 lockers be used for drug deals? Almost certainly. But it may also mean you save money. And live better.


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Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Idioms.
1. a length by which a commodity is sold, esp cloth, wallpaper, etc.
2. a literary, musical, or artistic composition
3. a coin having a value as specified
4. a small object, often individually shaped and designed, used in playing certain games, esp board games
5. any chessman other than a pawn
6. Austral and NZ fragments of fleece wool
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
An artillery weapon, a machine gun, a rifle, or any firearm.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – JUNE 2016 – RPM Italian, the modern Italian restaurant from Lettuce Entertain You restaurateurs R.J., Jerrod and Molly Melman, chef/partner Doug Psaltis, and celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic, will open Wednesday, June 29th at 601 Massachusetts Avenue NW. The menu will feature signature RPM dishes and handmade pastas from the Chicago flagship, alongside seasonal specials unique to the D.C. location, like Veal Tartare with black truffle and Pecorino Sardo and a Live Sea Scallop Crudo with fennel and agrumi picante.
"RPM Italian really focuses on seasonal ingredients, fresh pastas our team makes in-house every day, pristine seafood, prime steaks and, of course, the Italian classics," says managing partner, R.J. Melman. "We're excited to bring all that and more to the nation's capital."
The menu is a collaboration between chef/partner Doug Psaltis and executive chef Gabe Thompson – formerly of NYC-based restaurants L'Artusi, dell'anima and Anfora. Thompson, who recently relocated to Washington, D.C. with his wife and children, has been cooking modern Italian food for the majority of his culinary career.
"I've been a fan of Gabe since I first ate his food in New York City. I couldn't be more happy and excited to work with him, and allow his experiences and style to shape what RPM Italian DC will be," says chef/partner Doug Psaltis.
Award-winning mixologist Julian Cox will oversee the RPM cocktail program. Previously named one of the 10 most influential bartenders in the past 10 years by Food & Wine magazine, his cocktail program will reflect his philosophy of blending classic old-style bartending with modern techniques. The wine program, curated by RPM wine director Richard Hanauer, will feature more than 100 American and Italian vintners. By-the-glass offerings include vintages currently at their peak, which gives diners the rare opportunity to sample exclusive wines without the commitment of the full bottle.
The 11,000 square foot restaurant will seat nearly 350 guests throughout the main dining room, bar area, private dining spaces and two outdoor patios. RPM Italian will open with dinner service seven days per week, with weekday lunch service to later follow. For more information, please visit rpmrestaurants.com and follow on Twitter and Instagram at @RPMItalianDC.


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Inflatable auto-assembling lighting System
Modulair is a collection of objects created from the combination of 4 different inflatable modules (triangle, square pentagon and hexagon), developed so that they acquire three-dimensional shapes thanks to the union and combination of these modules, and including light on any of its sides converts them into a wonderful lighting piece. The final result are a great range of polyhedrons and many other regular forms.
Personalize, assemble it yourself, arm-disarm and create again a different final piece, along with the own lightness perceived in each armed object, is the concept of Modulair.
Plastic material: 280 microns flexible PVC.


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Our president lies to protect himself from past mistakes and misdeeds. Some argue that he lies merely about personal matters. Therefore, his lies are of little or no importance. Nothing could be further from the truth. For example, Mr. Clinton likes to brag about how he has restored democracy to Haiti. By clinging to that lie, he not only is presiding over the dawn of a new dictatorship in Haiti, he has opened up a new avenue for drug trafficking into the United States and has given communism an opportunity to gain another foothold just miles from our shore.
Since we invaded this tiny country in 1994, in order to force Jean Bertrand Aristide back on his people, conditions there have gone from bad to worse. This was predictable. Although this former Catholic priest was elected democratically in 1990, he did not rule that way. In the Fall of 1991, the military moved in and demanded Aristide stand trial on numerous violations of Haitian law. When Aristide fled to our shores, President Bush decided to send a message to the militaries of our Caribbean and Latin American neighbors that coups do not pay, so he set up a blockade which destroyed Haiti's economic base. Also, he gave Aristide access to Haiti's money that was in our banks for the foreign service. Later, Mr. Clinton compounded the problem by giving Aristide access to all of Haiti's money that was held here in this country.
In 1992, in his first news conference as president-elect, Mr. Clinton announced that our policy toward Haiti would change, but he didn't say what that policy would be. Shortly after his inauguration in January of 1993, Haitians began hopping on anything that would float and heading for our shores. Clinton was faced with a major refugee problem.
Aristide seized the moment and began using Haiti's money to hire Clinton's political allies to lobby for his reinstatement. Michael Barnes, who ran Clinton's Maryland campaign, was hired as his Washington lawyer. Barnes' firm, Hogan and Hartson, at one time was billing Aristide $55,000 a month. One of the firm's former partners, Sandy Berger, served as Clinton's Haitian policy adviser. Aristide also hired McKlinney & McDowell, the pricey PR firm used by the African National Congress, the NAACP and the National Organization for Women to shape the news.
Before Aristide was ousted he encouraged his mobs to brutally murder his enemies by a process known as necklacing, where a tire filled with gasoline is put over the victim's head and then set afire. Many Haitians believe that death by fire is the worst kind of death because it kills not only the body, but the soul. The night the miliary took charge, one of his mobs necklaced Sylvio Claude, a Baptist minister who was head of the Haitian Christian Democratic Party.
Four years after Aristide's return, not much has changed. The Haiti Observateur reported in its November 18-25 edition that Joseph Lambert, the spokesman for President Renee Preval, the puppet Aristide picked as his successor, said that, in the new year, his boss intends to dismiss Parliament. The Observateur also reported that Preval then will try to put together an electoral council with pro-Aristide delegates chosen in the 1997 fraudulent elections. This would pave the way for Aristide's formal return to power. Today, Aristide's enemies are sometimes shot, but often stoned or hacked to death, and their bodies unceremoniously burned, because even old tires are becoming scarce.
The poorest country in our Hemisphere has slipped another 14 rungs down the poverty ladder and the plight of the Haitian people was worsened by flooding from Hurricane George. Haiti has been without a functioning government for some 18 months. The United Nations has cut off all funds. Unemployment is around 90%. The jobs that remain come primarily from these three sources:
- What is left of the government
- From Aristide who is holding up in an elaborate pink palace compound he built for himself and his private defense force
- From a small group of hotels, restaurants and pubs which cater to UN personnel who wait and watch their backs
On November 25, the United Nations extended the mandate of 144 civilian advisers, supported by 140 armed Argentine police who protect them until Nov. 30, 1999.
Some lies are more costly than others. However, it should be clear that these lies come at a price that Haiti simply cannot afford.


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Behind the scenes with Aoibhín Garrihy
Take a look at the making of our stunning November issue cover at Dromoland Castle
Aoibhín Garrihy is a joy to work with. Not only is she a natural beauty, she is warm and welcoming to everyone around her, laughing and joking with the team throughout the day. She takes multiple outfit changes and shooting in windy weather in her stride, even with her growing baby bump. We were so thrilled to have her as our cover star, as she has so much to celebrate personally and professionally.
Here's a look behind the scenes of this very special cover shoot:
Video by Claire Nash and edited by Ferdia Mooney, photographer Eilish McCormick and stylist Courtney Smith, hair and makeup by Ailbhe Lynch.
Read the interview with Aoibhín in our November issue, in shops today!


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Dear Senator Cruz,
In my first letter, I offered the paradigm "love of neighbor" as an appropriate and helpful framework for creating laws and policies for our American society. Since I am a Christian pastor and since you are my Senator and have acknowledged your Christianity publicly, I am writing these letters to reflect pastorally on the values of Jesus Christ and how those values might inform your work in Congress.
I received the most recent letter that you sent to your constituents and I must respond to say that your efforts to re-establish the Defense of Marriage Act is wrong on so many levels. I say this as a straight, middle-class woman; as a voter in your state; and as a Christian.
From my progressive Christian perspective, the call to "love our neighbors as ourselves" takes priority over any traditional approach or biblical example. When you use the term "traditional marriage" to justify discrimination, you align yourself with those who argued for the tradition of slavery; you align yourself with those who argued to continue the traditions of women's subjugation and segregation. Now the question: Is the tradition of excluding loving, committed couples from the institution of marriage a tradition worth continuing? Many of us Christians say "No!"
Sometimes the traditions of a society are self-centered and self-serving. Perpetuating unjust and inequitable traditions and inscribing them into law are mistakes this nation has made again and again. We can rectify that history now by allowing our LGBT sisters and brothers to take their own marriage vows. This change does not harm the institution of marriage; in fact, the tradition of marriage can only be strengthened when more and more people are willing to make such deep commitments to one another. As a pastor, much of my work seeks to continue the reconciling work of Christ by helping people heal divides and come together in unity and harmony; marriage embodies such unity. My parishioners and your constituents deserve to be included in this important tradition of marriage.
I do appreciate that you are not basing your arguments for marriage inequality on the Bible. Thank you for that. There are too many outspoken government officials and judges who are foolishly justifying their broad based policy positions with a few controversial Bible verses. This small-minded, wrong-headed approach is an irresponsible way to engage in public conversation in a multivalent society such as ours. Of course, as a minister, I know all those Bible verses too, but it is only some Christians who interpret and apply these words from the Bible in the condemnatory, excluding way that we so often hear in the media. Many, many other traditional Christians place those biblical texts where they belong: within their own time and culture. Many of us Christians believe the inclusive gospel of God's welcoming grace trumps any code of exclusion. Lawmakers and judges and other self-promoting public figures who improperly apply ancient texts to modern situations damage the fabric of our society.
The Christian principles I am advocating are not practices specific to any particular religion, but rather flow from ethics that have benefited people and societies around the globe and across the ages: Love of Neighbor; Do unto Others; Care for the Least of These; Respect for the Stranger; Justice; Compassion; Equity… These are not only private and personal principles for living; these are foundational values that must undergird all responsible, ethical governing.
Many people consider marriage equality to be an "issue" and of course that is true in one sense. But I urge you to remember these are people, not issues. The couple whom I recently married (just over the state line in Oklahoma) were in tears as they made their promises to each other; even after years of faithful love and relationship, they never imagined they would be able to legally marry in their home state. Many, many of us rejoice with them and anxiously await the day when Texas and the rest of the nation ensures everyone's right to marry. Too many of our churches and too many of our state governments are on the wrong side of history in this. Marriage equality is right, it is just, and it is time.
As a United States Senator, you are called to "promote the general welfare" – the welfare of all, not just some. As a Christian, you are called to "love your neighbor as yourself" and to work for compassion and justice. As a human being, you are called to affirm the full humanity of every other human being and to cultivate a society that nurtures equity. Senator Cruz, I urge you to search your soul, open your heart, and change your mind on this matter of marriage equality.
As before, I invite your response. By the way, I am sharing this letter on the Internet and I'm thinking there are several thousand of us who are hoping to hear back from you.
Grace and Peace,
Rev. Charlotte Vaughan Coyle
P.S. Congratulations on your appointment as Chair of the sub-committee that oversees NASA. I think next month we might reflect on what it means to respect and care for God's creation.
Charlotte Vaughan Coyle is an ordained minister within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry at Brite Divinity School (TCU) in Ft. Worth TX. She is a volunteer at Coffee Party USA and contributes articles regularly to the Coffee Party Facebook page.