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Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:48:55AM CEST: > On 2006-05-10, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote: > > * Olly Betts wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:08PM CEST: > > > I know Libtool-1.5.24 is important to get out, due to the regressions I > > put in 1.5.22. And it will be my primary focus once Autoconf-2.60 is > > done. However, there are some other systems that need fixes, HP-UX > > being one of them; > > HP-UX is looking good for me with this patch: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/7076/focus=7083 Yes, but a couple of issues on HP-UX are still pending; and some for w32. I'll probably attack them in two batches. (I'm not firm enough with either of them without some reading and digging; and I may be waiting for Charles and Bruno to hash out things in their current discussion on bug-gnu-gettext aka bug-gnu-utils; thanks to Eric for the pointer!) > Though perhaps there are also problems with features I don't make use > of. Not very many, luckily. > > The good thing being that I expect Autoconf-2.60 to be done this month. > > Are the autoconf and libtool trees in a sufficiently stable state that > it would be useful for me to try building with them to shake out > problems and help make the upcoming releases better? If so, what's > best to use for autoconf - CVS HEAD or the autoconf 2.69c tarball? Just try CVS HEAD Autoconf; but they are not very far apart. Be sure to read NEWS (or the 2.59c announcement), though. > I have a fairly broad collection of automated test builds, and I've just > made a release so it wouldn't be disruptive to switch the autobuilding > to use non-release versions of autoconf and libtool: Feel free, any kind of feedback is helpful. Esp. we're looking for packages that are broken by the new Autoconf, so that unintended incompatibilities can be fixed before the release. Cheers, Ralf
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Do not buy from the eBay seller "greatlength". If you get something defective from them or not match the description, this seller will go to "great length" to not refund you and go to "great length" to be a pain in the butt to you.
As mentioned and shown in the video, it is not my fault this item is low quality and defective. The seller even said it was probably a bad batch. You'd expect the seller to either offer a full refund or at least send a replacement, but no. This seller decided to try something new: Offer a partial refund with the excuse, because they had to pay for the postage. REALLY? That is your excuse? If you don't want to loose out on money, don't sell crappy products like this. Now they want me to return the items, which cost less than $2 total, from the US back to China. I don't get the logic. They have to pay for the shipping obviously, and it will be at least 5x the cost of of the product itself. Not only are they wasting my time, they are wasting their money.
I had to rant, I feel it is a disservice not to share this with the rest of the eBay community about this scam seller. Don't get ripped off, stay away from "greatlength".
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Rating: 5 stars
I bought this because I heard that it was viscerally angry in its refutation of the myth of Jack the Ripper. I think there needs to be more anger in history, especially anger directed against the disgusting and inhuman, and against corruption in high places. I'm an angry person. I always have been. The red mist frequently descends. Usually in the face of injustice and exploitation, sometimes in response to idiocy, occasionally just because I need to shout.
As I read Bruce Robinson's Author's Note at the start of They All Love Jack, with its scathing repudiation of the Victorian governing class, I had goosebumps. He describes the people with power in Victorian England in the same terms as the neo-liberals deserve today. Wealth as deity, the notion of right to rule, institutionalised hypocrisy and the celebration of the monstrous as heroic when the monstrous is directed against the poor. I'm a historian. I've been saying since Cameron took the Tories into coalition with the LibDems that they want to take us back to Victorian times. People smile at me from their bubbles of comfort and plenitude. They laugh, thinking I'm being melodramatic. How on earth can I think such a thing?
How on earth, indeed? Look at how the world has changed in the last 6 months. Wealth is more openly worshipped as a deity, privileged white men more openly think they have a right to rule, and a monster has been elected President of the USA. Institutionalised hypocrisy never went away.
The day before I finished the book, as well, Julie Hambleton appeared on breakfast telly. Julie's sister Maxine was killed in the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. Six people were wrongly convicted of those attacks. It took 17 years for their convictions to be quashed. In the years following their release, nobody else has been charged with the bombings and the families of those who were killed have been fighting for new inquests to be held. This week the government decided that those families weren't eligible for legal aid because of a technicality around where their lawyers are based. Julie Hambleton used her tv appearance to ask the sort of questions Bruce Robinson asks in this book – what does the government, the establishment, that is supposedly serving the people who elect it, have to hide? Julie Hambleton was as magnificently angry as this book is.
Back to the book, though. It was with a thrill of anticipation that I started reading it, bolstered by Robinson's claim that he'd put the hours in with his research and, even as a cynical man who expects the worst, didn't expect to find what he did.
This is a book written with a righteous rage. It isn't self-indulgent rage, but born of reading contemporary accounts and evidence that demonstrates so clearly that the Great in Great Britain was at the expense of the poor and the other. Robinson's scorn for those in charge of the Ripper investigation is palpable. One by one he tears down the blinds erected to distract from the truth and feed the contemporary need for an enemy. As with today, the enemy needed to be someone outside indigenous society. In Victorian Britain, that meant somebody Jewish.
Robinson describes a couple of the prime Jewish suspects of the time and delivers an irrefutable logic, one which I had been thinking as he went over the characteristics of one of the men in question. This was a man with physical deformities and facial spasms. As Robinson so succinctly puts it:
Now, I don't know about you, but if I was a hardened, streetwise East End whore, half-sloshed and desperate for fourpence or not, I would definitely avoid going up an alley with this man. Forget the canine teeth, it's the spasmodic contractions of one side of the face that would do it for me.
He also explores the culture of the time, the Victorian version of the Christian white supremacy that we see playing out in the USA, and the neo-fascism that exists in the UK, France and elsewhere in Europe. Some of the language is ugly. His use of racial slurs and pejoratives makes for uncomfortable reading. But I understood what he was doing. Sometimes, to really get to grips with the ugliness of a culture, you have to use its ugliest language. It is the one issue I have with the book. I don't for one minute believe that Robinson shares the views of those who regularly use the terms he employs in describing people of colour, people of different religions or women, but it doesn't mean I like him using those terms.
His disdain for the Victorian Establishment is, nonetheless, glorious. He rips into the royal family with a delicious fervour, striking a contrast between attitudes to the poor who were viewed as irresponsible in their inability to stop having children and attitudes to the similarly fecund royals. He strips bare the hypocrisy of warmongering by an allegedly Christian nation and shares some shocking stories that, because I have only studied a small window of British history, I had no idea about.
This is one of many quotes I could have chosen to illustrate what I mean. Robinson is talking about the lies and selective certainties the higher classes told themselves to feel better about the squalor in society:
The Victorians' hypocrisy was like a self-induced blackmail of their own intelligence, and that was how the proles were conditioned into deference: work your arse off, wave a flag, and go to Heaven.
This is the sort of history that matters. I realise, as I say that, that the trouble with history is it serves the purpose of the person who writes it. Analysis of evidence of past events, which is all that history is, is never objective. So of course, because I share the view of Britain's not so glorious past that Robinson holds, I think this book is important. But I also think it's important because it isn't sanitised. It isn't written for an academic audience. It doesn't utilise the standard language of inoffensiveness that historians are trained to use. That's not to say it's dumbed down or populist. It isn't. Robinson is an intelligent man, he knows what he has discovered, and he interprets it well. But he chooses to write conversationally, peppering his prose with expletives and colloquialisms. It's like being down the pub with him. Sometimes it's funny. Mostly it's searing in its honesty. He is enraged by the cover-ups. He is infuriated by the manner in which people not of the ruling classes are treated. And he is not limited by self interest. He's not just angry about the stratum of society he feels most kinship with. He's angry about all of it.
For what it's worth, I've been a professional writer for the best part of forty years. I've researched widely, from the Manhattan Project to the Khmer Rouge, but until confronted with Ripperology I had never laboured through such an expulsion of syncopated crap masquerading as history in all my life.
I didn't know that I was all that interested in Jack the Ripper until I started reading this book. Because of what it involves, the reason behind Robinson researching the story isn't revealed until a fifth of the way into the book. His reason is interesting but not vital to the passion he has for getting to the truth behind the mystery being infectious. His historian as raconteur style helped, but this is a pacey, gripping read regardless of Robinson's voice roaring out in incredulity at you. There were times when what Robinson was describing was so farcical that I could imagine it being made into a very entertaining satirical film.
A couple of things struck me as I read. As a particular flavour of historian (archivist and custodian, interpreter for a specific audience, rather than academic analyst and theory promulgator), I'm aware that much of what I personally know and believe about history gets filtered out because I have to tell a story that meets the aim of my employer. It was refreshing to read history in such unfiltered language.
The other thing was Robinson's incredulity at the gullibility of Ripperologists. Of course, it's easier to grasp that people believe whatever the hell it suits them to believe when you've witnessed a racist campaign to bring the UK out of the EU succeed, and a neo-nazi campaign to become President of the USA succeed. Robinson wrote this book before either of those events happened. My bet is that, if writing the book now, he would have been less surprised by their acceptance of the lies told by the police at the time the Ripper was playing his vicious game. He would have acknowledged that people are almost rabid in their willingness to believe the establishment lies that suit them.
Tying into the whole Brexit, Trump, post-fact, fake news sites, disinformation thing is Robinson's frequent reporting of Ripperologists' penchant for recasting contemporary evidence in order to suit their own purposes. They have a narrative that they want to get out there, and it's one that isn't comfortable with facts or evidence, as with much of the EU Referendum Leave campaign and Trump's campaign to become President. Minor inconsistencies in contemporary narratives are elevated to glaring errors. Rather than attacking evidence, the people who read the evidence and interpret it differently are attacked for being partisan. Opinion in favour of their screwy argument is recast as source.
Lots of other little things struck me the further into the book I got, right up to the point where Robinson reveals his candidate for Jack the Ripper. I'm only going to mention one more, and that's the parallels between how the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Charles Warren tried to victim blame the women killed by the Ripper and how high profile rape cases involving celebrities who don't understand what consent is currently tend to descend into victim blaming.
Caught in the headlights, Warren sought an exit by blaming everyone but himself … he wrote, '…the carrying out of your proposals cannot possibly do more than guard or take precautions against repetition of such atrocities so long as the victims actually, but unwittingly, connive at their own destruction.'
In other words, Catherine Eddowes was complicit in the loss of her ear, kidney and womb. She shouldn't have been walking around flaunting such stuff at a murderer.
Warren is portrayed by Robinson as marginalising the Ripper and focusing on the victims as the problem:
'I have to request and call upon your Board,' he lathers, 'to do all in your power to dissuade the unfortunate women about Whitechapel from going into lonely places in the dark with any persons. The unfortunate victims appear to take the murderer to some retired spot and place themselves in such a position that they can be slaughtered without a sound being heard; …'
Yes, ladies, whatever it is we're doing, anything bad that happens as a result of our behaviour is not the responsibility of the person who violates us. It was ever thus. Sadly, it still is.
I found that I had a lot to think about as I read. Robinson is not stingy in the evidence he presents for his theory of who the Ripper was. It's like listening to a barrister make his case in court at times. Going over the same ground from different angles, referring back to previous arguments to strengthen his current one, building up a body of reasoning such that, a third of the way into the book, when Robinson reveals who his candidate is, it makes perfect sense. His exploration of how criminal psychologists have developed theories about psychopathic killers, his ability to look past the form of some of the contemporary evidence (the letters sent to the police by the Ripper) and see how the killer's mind was working, his investigation into the kind of life the killer might possibly have led makes for compelling stuff. As an archivist, I found Robinson's approach to interpreting the documentary record very engaging. It's one of the things I try to encourage researchers to do – to not just look at the content of the documents and the facts (or otherwise, as it might turn out) they preserve as tombstones, but to think about the context, think about what else is going on, consider the layers of what message the writer might be wanting to imbue the record with. Robinson gets it.
Once Robinson reveals his candidate, the book settles down into more of a crime drama and provides more of a narrative profile of the people involved in the story and the times they lived in. It's still a good read, but I found myself pausing to reflect on what I'd read less frequently.
I don't want to give too much away, although if you've read the review that appeared in the Guardian when the book was first published, you'll know the crux of Robinson's theory. I was puzzled by one thing in Robinson's research. The organisation he believes his candidate to be a member of was compelled by law between 1799 and 1967 to register the names of its members annually with the Clerk of the Peace and the local Quarter Sessions, and those lists are now housed in local record offices across England. I know this because I used to work in local authority record offices. I've catalogued these types of record. I found it strange that the book is so well referenced with source citations, but Robinson explains this bit of the story as being sourced by "a clog of documents" most of them banished by him as sources. I realise that part of the story Robinson wanted to tell, one of a struggle to prove one person's membership because the organisation had obliterated his record, tied in with his investigation of why that record was removed from the organisation's own records, but I wondered whether the organisation's reach extended to being able to remove him from the Quarter Sessions lists. Maybe the lists for London are incomplete.
At the end of the book are two appendices, side stories that give context to the cover up surrounding the Ripper's activities. The first is an examination of the British establishment's attempts to discredit and imprison the then Irish leader Charles Parnell, and interested me the most. It focuses on Sir Robert Anderson's involvement in the scandal. The original God's Cop, Anderson was a career liar who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to pervert the course of justice in the interests of protecting the establishment. I had the gist of the Parnell affair already. What I learned from Robinson's retelling of it was how similar Anderson was to Donald Trump, in terms of lies told in order to discredit a political opponent, and how corrupt the West's political system remains to this day.
The day a state becomes sick is the day it considers the protection of itself more important than the protection of its people. It conflates the protection of the people with a camouflaged reality of the protection of itself. It usually tells the people to be afraid of something or other, in direct proportion to its own interest.
And thus we have the post-September 11 Project Fear, training the people to fear Islam, to fear immigrants, to fear experts, to fear rational argument, to become the dumb majority who will vote in the interests of neo-liberalism under the guise of expressing their free will. It increasingly seems to me that most people have no understanding of democracy being a contract, and they are happily willing to be manipulated by politicians because it means they don't actually have to think for themselves or consider consequences. That makes me sad.
This is one of the best books I have ever read. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me boil with rage, but most of all it consolidated things I have long held to be true into a coherent appraisal of the fucked up capitalist, neo-liberal society we live in. Now I just need to work out what I can do to counter its fucked up ness.


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One of the biggest complaints that I have heard about the DJI Phantom series of quadcopters has been random flyaways that some users experienced. I have covered these issues ad-nauseam here on Photography Bay and there is a nightmarish forum thread here with dozens of first-hand reports. It is a real problem and something that can quite simply kill a passion of flying drones for many users after they helplessly watch a $1,000+ kit flyaway.
When I talked to 3D Robotics about the flyaway concern at NAB 2015, I learned that the company essentially offers a flyaway guarantee for the new Solo.
With Colin Guinn and several other key employees coming from DJI to 3D Robotics, the company was well-aware of the flyaway concerns of many quadcopter pilots. Of course, 3D Robotics knows that flyaways can and still will happen but has a plan to deliver on customer support in a way that DJI so often falls short.
The 3DR Solo was designed to constantly communicate flight data to the remote transmitter in the pilot's hands, whereas the DJI Phantom stores flight log data on-board the quadcopter. Accordingly, when DJI asks for the flight log data to process warranty requests from customers who experienced flyaways, there is no way for the customer to deliver the flight data . . . because it literally flew away.
In the event that a 3DR Solo owner encounters a flyaway under normal and proper operation circumstances (i.e., you followed the directions), the flight data can be transmitted through the 3DR app immediate to 3DR for warranty support. If the flight data backs up the user's claim and the user encountered a flyaway through no fault of their own, 3DR will replace the Solo free of charge.
Not only will 3DR replace the Solo quadcopter but it will also replace the camera gimbal and a GoPro camera, if attached. The flight data will actually include the GoPro camera information if you had one connected to the Solo. There is no need to otherwise prove that the camera was attached since it is already built into the flight log data.
On top of what I'm calling the flyaway guarantee, 3DR also offers a 30-day satisfaction money-back guarantee for new Solo purchasers.
Here's how 3DR officially phrases the customer support guarantee:
With a newly expanded support team of over 60 in-house technicians and a powerful new tech support solution built right into the app, 3DR is redefining what it means to offer world-class customer support. Solo keeps its own flight journal, continually logging information along over 500 parameters as it flies. You can analyze these files on your own, or instantly share them with our support team to aid in troubleshooting. Since Solo is continuously monitoring flight parameters in real time, if it suspects there's been a problem, the mobile app will automatically offer the option of immediately submitting a service ticket via your mobile device. If the flight logs show Solo was lost or damaged due to a system error, 3DR will immediately repair or replace not only the drone, but the gimbal and the GoPro as well. In fact, we are so confident in the user experience that Solo offers, there's even a limited 30-day satisfaction money-back guarantee. (emphasis added)
Building on the experience that several 3DR employees bring from their time at DJI, the company clearly recognizes a major pain point of consumers and is hoping to turn some of those disgruntled DJI customers into Solo pilots with a peace of mind that no other drone manufacture has had the cojones to offer to date.
The 3DR Solo retails for $999.95 for the quadcopter alone. You can also purchase the Solo with a GoPro camera gimbal for $1399.95. The 3DR Solo is available for pre-order with expected May 2015 availability here at B&H Photo.


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Dose Reconstruction
Dose reconstruction is the determination of potential doses from historical chemical exposures, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or entry through the skin. Doses depend on the current concentration levels in air, water, soil, food, or products contacted, and duration and frequency of exposure. If concentration data are available for the time period and location at which exposure is being claimed (or to the product at issue), estimating exposure and dose for each chemical is straightforward. However, for exposures that occurred historically, often this information is not available or is unreliable as it is outdated and not specific.
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Using these methods, Exponent has calculated the historical chemical dose to which persons that worked certain jobs or tasks or used specific products were exposed.
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Exponent has published and presented dose reconstruction assessments for automobile and truck mechanics, workers using solvents, persons using various commercial and consumer products and persons at contaminated sites.
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A descriptive study examining 4-H programs in Africa, Asia, and Europe was conducted for the National 4-H Council. Program size, scope, structure, organization, and funding varied greatly by country and few of the programs were connected to a university, but many partnered with other 4-H organizations around the world. Program participants were found to be primarily male with few programs specifically for women. A list of content areas provided by the 4-H programs was also obtained and compared to top agricultural commodities in their country. Very few content areas offered by the country aligned with their major agricultural commodities even though programs were available in the United States. The Global 4-H Network has the potential to fill in these holes and provide additional opportunities to global programs.
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As we all probably know by know, Franklin Morales intentionally beaned Luke Scott in last night's 7-4 win over the Red Sox at Fenway. Whether it was retaliation for Scott's comments about Fenway or the Red Sox Nation, or other players getting beaned previously last year. What ever the reason might be, it happened.
Scott held off by Saltalamacchia
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My first instinct is to call for retaliation and bean Big Papi or Pedroia. That is my first instinct. However I think it's better we just live with the psychological games Maddon has probably initiated. Not only will that scare them out of their game but it will also save our players.
Face it, we can't avoid to lose a player from any position to suspension and/or the DL. We already have 10 there and we're on the verge of getting a few back. We're having a hard enough time winning right now without losing one of our pitchers.
The ultimate revenge for the Rays this season, I think, when we ensure the Red Sox don't make the postseason again. That is the revenge I think is best. Get revenge in the game, don't get it in a slug out.
Another thing we must face is that they are having one of their most frustrating seasons ever. While we enjoy every second of it, remember we'd be just as frustrated if we were in the same position. Heck, we've been there before. Y'all remember the Devil Rays years right? I'm not saying this justifies what they did, but it does partially explains it.
In short, let it go and let the psychological games do their job and beat them on the field in the game of baseball, not "basebrawl". That is the ultimate form of revenge.


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President Obama to Honor Fallen Troops on Memorial Day
President Barack Obama is paying tribute to fallen warriors on Memorial Day, attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and honoring those who died in the Vietnam War.
The president will participate today in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, and then mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Obama has touted his record to veterans during his re-election campaign, vowing to ensure that veterans, including those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, have access to health care, educational opportunities and jobs.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama are starting the day with a breakfast at the White House for families who have lost loved ones in combat.
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The Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank that promotes intelligent design creationism, is infamous for its authorship of a secret document called the "Wedge Strategy", which lays out their plan to overthrow the theory of evolution and "replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and hurnan beings are created by God". The leak of this document proved to be a considerable embarrassment for the Discovery Institute, especially when Judge John E. Jones cited it as key evidence of the ID movement's religious intent in the 2005 Dover ruling.
The Wedge Strategy was defined in three phases: "Scientific Research, Writing & Publicity" (in practice, heavy on the publicity, not so much on the scientific research), "Publicity & Opinion-making", and "Cultural Confrontation & Renewal". The document envisions "intelligent design theory as the dominant perspective in science" within twenty years, an outcome which, needless to say, does not look likely. It's especially amusing to note that the entire document was written before embarking on this grand strategy, which implies that the advocates of ID knew what the outcome of their scientific research would be before they started it.
With intelligent design dealt a decisive court blow and the forces of religious fundamentalism in disarray, the Wedge Strategy appears to be headed for its demise. But as intelligent design founders, there's a new wedge on the rise in America.
A recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal, "The New New Atheism", contains much of the usual ill-informed blather, but does have one paragraph worthy of note:
But one stunning new development under the sun is that promulgating atheism has become a lucrative business. According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, in less than 12 months atheism's newest champions have sold close to a million books. Some 500,000 hardcover copies are in print of Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion" (2006); 296,000 copies of Christopher Hitchens's "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" (2007); 185,000 copies of Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation" (2006); 64,100 copies of Daniel C. Dennett's "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon"; and 60,000 copies of Victor J. Stenger's "God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does not Exist" (2007).
It's impossible to overlook the irony: this is the very kind of success the advocates of ID were hoping for. But while they have stumbled, atheism and freethought are on the rise, with a flourishing crew of forceful, passionate writers making the case for a life free of religion. We, not they, are the ones wedging our way into the mainstream. But while the DI's wedge sought to split the wall of church-state separation and shoehorn their religious views into public school in the guise of science, the nascent atheist movement has taken aim at a far more deserving target: the faith wall running through the heart of our society, the one which proclaims that religious dogma is infallible and should never be questioned. This wall, unlike the other, needs to be brought down, and we're just the ones to do it.
Some people, including some atheists, have taken the position that belief in the unproven is an ineradicable part of human nature. I do not think so, however. That wall of dogma may seem tall and imposing, but its strength has never truly been tested; it has never in our lifetimes faced a sustained assault like the broadside we're now giving it. Look closer, and you'll see that its surface is cracked and worn. It may tower high above our heads, but vines are curling between its stones, and tree roots are pushing up beneath its foundation, slowly splitting it apart with gentle, patient strength. Who knows? That wall may be more fragile than it seems – even to the point where a good strong push in the right place could bring the whole thing crashing down.
At the very least, even if religious dogma remains with us, there is plenty of room for atheism to grow. I have no doubt whatsoever that there are a huge number of people who remain religious only because it is the default position, and whom we could readily persuade if given the chance to present our message. Our movement has not yet shown any sign of hitting a ceiling. Progress may be slow, but we are making a difference, and we are winning converts by showing that there is another way, better than the gloomy creeds of organized religion. The more we get our message out there, the more people will respond to it. Year by year, our wedge is splitting those stones a bit more. And we are doing it through speech and the power of ideas, not bullying, faux science and legal trickery such as the creationists have attempted. We may not have as many well-funded think tanks and media groups, but unlike them, we have the facts on our side.


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Affordable Housing Plan Causing Some Controversy in Mississauga
Published August 6, 2018 at 4:33 am
Affordable housing has been a hot topic, as home prices have risen expoentually and wages have not been able to keep up. Right now, home ownership seems out of reach for many Mississauga residents and that is a major current and long-term concern for both the City of Mississauga and Region of Peel.
One thing that might help is known as inclusionary zoning (also called IZ)–a project initiated by the province of Ontario to mitigate rising housing costs for the long-term.
As the City of Mississauga continues to grow, the lack of affordable housing has become a primary concern for residents. Some of the things that made Mississauga a great city are now at risk. Some issues include the rising prices of homes, low vacancy rates, low supply of land and cost of infrastructure development.
The City of Mississauga has tried to pursue a variety of different programs to ease the pressures off Mississauga residents, such as the "Making Room for the Middle" housing strategy. Middle income earners are households that earn between $55,000 and $100,000 per year and housing is considered affordable when it costs less than 30 per cent of annual gross household income for housing.
The province has tried to pursue a housing strategy for the long-term and since 2016 has been working on changing the Planning Act, as amended by the Promoting Affordable Housing Act, to include IZ into legislation. The primary purpose of IZ was to increase affordable housing for middle income earners and would require developers to designate between five per cent and 10 per cent of their units as affordable.
On April 12 of this year, the IZ was approved and is included in todays legislation. On July 12, an update was provided to the Region of Peel.
Here are only a few of the number of the rules where IZ would apply:
- Only for developments with not less than 10 residential units
- Locations where IZ by-law would apply
- Identifying a rage of household incomes where affordable housing could be provided
- Identifying a range housing types, sizes and units
Since the legislation has passed, here are some of the exemptions to where IZ would apply:
- Development containing less than 10 residential units
- Developments proposed by non-profit housing providers
- Any developments, permits, community planning permits that have already been passed before the IZ legislation came into effect.
For those who don't know, IZ was introduced in 2016, and since then has gone through a process of review and feedback from a variety of different stakeholders. Back in February of this year, the report went to the Region of Peel for comment and in March went to the City of Mississauga Council for review.
Some of the comments at Council in March included concerns from Councillors that the IZ policies would not include non-profit organizations from taking part in the program.
"[The ownership only requirement] doesn't seem to match with the growth plan and the province's claim that they want to increase affordable rental housing. I have a real concern that the province to date has only made this for ownership, and I really question the rational behind that," says Councillor Pat Saito.
Councillor Nando Iannicca felt similarly about the mandate of IZ.
"How incredibly stupid is that?" he said. "These are people that can't afford a down payment on a condo. So what if I knock the price down 10 per cent. It's just absurd on its face."
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In collaboration with the National Council for Women, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the United Nations Population Fund in Egypt, Cairo Runners organised on Friday the first all-women's race to campaign for ending violence against females.
The 8-km race took place in the Heliopolis district of the Egyptian capital and featured hundreds of runners, Reuters reported.
The event also aimed to encourage women and girls to feel free and comfortable running in public spaces.
Nada Gamaleldin won the race in 38 minutes and 40 seconds, followed by Noran Gamil and Amany Khalil.
"I came to this race today so that all women can run in the street without any fears or worries," Amany Khalil told Reuters.
Earlier last week, a new campaign for the first time in Egypt was launched to raise awareness to combat sexual harassment in Egypt.
The campaign was produced by the multi-award-winning social start-up Bassita and mostly funded by leading Egyptian real estate developer SODIC.
It is composed of offline and online elements, with an awareness video featuring Egyptian actor and musician Hany Adel as well as actress Menna Shalabi, which encourages the community to support the victim and to take immediate action against the harasser.


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Two goals in the last 20 minutes saw Uxbridge crash out of the FA Cup last night (Tuesday) as they lost their first qualifying round replay 3-1 to Heybridge Swifts at Honeycroft.
The first 45 minutes was a tight affair with nothing between the sides but Heybridge took the lead on 55 minutes through Craig Hudgel.
However, within two minutes Uxbridge were back on level terms when Kevin Warner netted.
Then in the last 20 minutes Swifts took control and booked their place in the next round and a tie with Wroxham.
First a Mark Reddway shot was deflected home and then on 73 minutes Hudgel made the game safe with his second goal of the night.
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In anticipation of seeing Mary Poppins Returns, I re-listened to the entire soundtrack from 1964's Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Like many people, I absolutely loved that musical and have no idea how many times I saw it growing up — but it was a lot. And let me tell you, its songs hold up. I'm not just talking about the more well-known ones like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and "A Spoonful of Sugar." I actually still remembered all of the words to 11 out of its 17 songs.
So even though Mary Poppins Returns is a continuation of the same story and not a remake, I had high hopes for its music. Unfortunately, the new songs don't hold a candle (an umbrella?) to the original's, with the exception of "Trip a Little Light Fantastic," sung by Lin-Manuel Miranda's lamplighter Jack about halfway through the movie.
And I guess my take on the Returns soundtrack extends to how I felt about the whole film. I knew I was watching something that was certainly great family-friendly entertainment, but it just couldn't capture the same magic as the original. So if you have never seen the 1964 film, that might be a good thing — I have a feeling that had I been able to just erase the Julie Andrews version from my mind (impossible), I would've enjoyed myself more. Because the fact is that Emily Blunt is excellent as Mary, and since I am a lunatic-level Hamilton fan, I of course thought Miranda was pretty great, too.
The premise of Mary Poppins Returns is that the Banks children from the first film are now all grown up. Michael (Ben Whishaw) had three kids of his own now, but is pretty much a disorganized mess after the death of his wife a year ago. His sister Jane (Emily Mortimer) is trying to help him locate old stock certificates their father purchased, in the hopes of saving their childhood home from being repossessed by the bank. The very same bank where their father once worked and where Michael is now employed. Remember that bank? Fidelity Fiduciary Bank?There was a song about it in the original. (Sigh.)
Anyway, the bank's president (played by a wonderfully smarmy Colin Firth) gives Michael a strict deadline by which he must pay up. This deadline kinda sorta drives a lot of the action in the film, with Poppins returning to the Banks household because the family is clearly in disarray. I think an entire subplot about a vase is related to the family's financial situation, but if so, that point was fairly lost among the singing and dancing numbers.
During the first of those big numbers, "Can You Imagine That?", in which Mary is just getting to know the children and trying to convince them to bathe by submerging them into a fantastical underwater world, I found myself thinking two things: 1) "the CGI could've been a lot better," and 2) "I'm not sure my kids (3 and 6) would be engaged by this."
Thankfully, I felt the paced picked up significantly after Miranda's big number I mentioned earlier, and the second half is also when some of the "vase storyline" becomes more clearly connected to what's happening at the bank. There is also a delightful cameo near the end that gives the film a boost of energy — but also made me once again wistful for the original.
Another highlight was a musical number involving Meryl Streep as Mary's Eastern European cousin. (Huh?) It seemed kind of unnecessary, but was still fun, and you could tell the cast had a blast filming it. Another partially animated sequence where Mary got to literally let her hair down really stood out to me as well.
So I feel like your judgment of Mary Poppins Returns might be affected by whether or not you've seen or feel strongly about the original, as well as whether or not you have the ability to view a film like this on its own merits without constantly comparing, as I did. What's certain is that the cast is excellent, there are countless nods to the 1964 film that will please anyone who's looking for them, and since this is a Disney film, the story is a feel-good one that makes for a solid excuse for a family movie night. Not everything can be practically perfect in every way like Mary Poppins!


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One of the starkest and most symptomatic divides in our culture between rationalist skeptics and what I guess you could call spiritual hopefuls, or optimistic agnostics -- optimystics! -- is their take on coincidence. In the new-age worldview (I use small letters to distinguish it from the self-identified New Age movement, far beyond which it's spread), significant coincidences are taken to be signatures of a loving and meaningful intelligence permeating the universe. They succor the unchurched with some of the solace and guidance more traditional folks get from organized religion. (UPDATE: And they succor the churched, too: note this moving recent post at Kobayashi Maru, and these marvelous, marveling, afterthoughts on it.) They're messages that someone/something knows and cares we're here; that we're on the right track; that we were destined to meet the significant people in our lives. Deepak Chopra had a bestseller devoted to the subject, The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence. Some of the farther reaches of this worldview (which I'd quarantine under capital N capital A New Age) are at this website.
On the other side, here's a typical debunking article from Bruce Martin at CSICOP, the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Skeptics like Martin say that what appear to us to be highly unlikely and personally mind-blowing coincidences -- God's mouth to our ear -- are actually confections of probability and psychology. They show that a) occurrences we think are rare, such as two people discovering they have the same birthday, actually have a high probability, and b) that, in Martin's words, "we tend to overlook the powerful reinforcement of coincidences, both waking and in dreams, in our memories. Non-coincidental events do not register in our memories with nearly the same intensity."
Martin does a probabilistic analysis of the likelihood that two or more people in a group will have the same birthday.
In a random selection of twenty-three persons there is a 50 percent chance that at least two of them celebrate the same birthdate. . . .[On a] plot of the probability of at least one common birthdate, P, versus the number of people, n . . . [t]he curve shows that the probability of at least two people sharing a common birthdate rises slowly, at first passing just less than 12% probability with ten people, rising through 50% probability at . . . twenty-three people, then flattening out and reaching 90% probability in a group of forty-one people. This means that on the average, out of ten random groups of forty-one persons, in nine of them at least two persons will celebrate identical birthdates. No mysterious forces are needed to explain this coincidence. . . . The same principle may be used to calculate the probability that at least two people in a random group possess birthdates within one day (same and two adjacent days). This condition is less restrictive than the former, and 50% probability is passed with just fourteen people.
Martin does admit that if the birthday in question is specified -- the usual case naturally being, "What is the chance that someone in this group of people shares my birthday?" -- the probably is far less, if still a lot higher than the "one in a million" it feels like:
If we specify a particular birthdate, such as today, a crowd of 253 people is required to have an even chance for even one person with that birthdate. For at least two persons to possess a specified birthdate, the 50% probability is not reached until there is a mob of 613 people. This huge difference of twenty-three versus 613 for 50% probability of at least two persons with a common birthdate is due to the fact that the date is unspecified for the group and specified for the mob. That some improbable event will occur is likely; that a particular one will occur is unlikely.
He concludes:
If coincident birthdates are so much more common than we would have guessed, isn't it likely that many of those other striking coincidences in our lives are the outcome of probability as well? We should not multiply hypotheses: the principle of Occam's Razor states that the simplest explanation is to be preferred.
As is my rather tiresome wont, I come down somewhere in the middle. Seeing meanings and messages EVERYWHERE is not only exhausting and ultimately meaningless, it's a symptom of paranoid psychosis, or short of that, of severe New Age poisoning. (Or just of being Thomas Pynchon.) On the other hand, I enjoy the mysterious and penetrating thrill of a good coincidence as much as anyone -- the way it makes you feel like God just nailed you with a glance and a chuckle; the way it momentarily renders the universe radiant and transparent, revealing what appear to be its connecting nerves and veins. Is this merely self-comforting delusion, a kind of intellectual thumb-sucking that deforms your mind's bite? I don't know.
What's missing from the analysis of birthday coincidences above is an explanation of why the people you meet who do have the same birthday as you are so often connected to you in other momentous ways as well. Martin would say that you've also met a number of people with your birthday whom you promptly forgot because they bored you silly, and bore no messages. I'm sure that's true. But how do you explain these four of my birthday coincidences? I was born on April 12. (I originally had the year here, because it is significant in one of these stories, but I was kindly advised by blogfriend Kobayashi Maru that this is an invitation to identity theft.)
-- When I was 11 or 12, Marta Dagestad, a Norwegian nanny who had cared for my father when he was a child and also helped with the next generation, set out to find me a pen pal in her home town, Voss, who was involved with the Norwegian equivalent of the Girl Scouts. Gurid Haaland and I began writing to each other, and discovered almost immediately that we were both born on April 12; she was one year older than me. We remained close friends for the rest of her life, finally meeting in our 20s when she became a flight attendant for SAS. (She died suddenly at age 54 of a ruptured brain aneurysm.)
-- When Jacques' former wife, who'd remained his friend, remarried in (I think) the late '70s, we found out that her new husband was also born on April 12. What's more, like me, he was one of six kids. He was the youngest; I was the oldest. The oldest in his family was named Ann.
-- In the mid-'70s, while writing capsule book reviews for a pre-publication service, I happened on an essay called "Peaks and Vales" by a psychologist I'd never heard of before, named James Hillman, in a book called On the Way to Self Knowledge, edited by Jacob Needleman and Dennis Lewis. The essay absolutely ran me through; it was like nothing I'd ever read before, and it talked to me, baby. I loved it so much that, paradoxical as it may seem, I didn't pick up another book by Hillman for over a decade. Then, in the mid-'80s, I burned through most of them -- at just the right time to save my life, by getting me to recognize what could have been a very destructive literal adventure as a soul adventure that did not need acting out. I was enough of a fan to attend an "Archetypal Psychology" conference in Hillman's honor held at Purdue University in, I don't know, the mid-'90s. One of the workshops was on "the horoscope of James Hillman." I walked into the classroom and Hillman's birth date was chalked on the blackboard: April 12, exactly twenty years before me.
-- This one may be the strangest of all. In 1962 a boy named Carl Nagin who loved flamenco ran away from prep school and came to Greenwich Village, where a flamenco coffeeshop owner named Jacques took him under his capacious wing. In 1965, Carl was in the college theatre world at Boston University when I was in the college theatre world at Harvard, and I went to a party at his apartment, where I met a guy I liked. (Trial run.) In 1972 in New York, my college theatre friend Francine Stone, who had been introduced to Jacques by Carl, introduced me to Jacques. The rest is history.
Jacques had a connection to a bargain student travel organization, and in maybe 1973 or '74, Carl asked us to get him a student travel card. He had to send us his date of birth. It came, and I opened the envelope. Carl was born on the same April 12, the exact same day as me. (On that date, Jacques was a prisoner in Russia.)
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Verkada Salesman: IPVM "Stuck In A The Stone Age"By John Honovich, Published Apr 25, 2019, 11:58am EDT
Verkada is 'tackling dinosaurs' and battling those, like IPVM, who are 'stuck in a the stone age'.
Verkada's recent sales recruiting promotion centered around the dinosaurs of the security industry:
And when IPVM dared to buy a Verkada system and spent a week plus testing it, we too were tagged.
An IPVM member was solicited by one of Verkada's massively growing sales team to which the integrator cited our Verkada test report:
While that is not the best way to respond to a sales objection, I laughed. For years, IPVM's critics have been incumbents in the industry unhappy with our critiques of their offerings. Now, evidently, we are the ones stopping Silicon Valley 'innovation'.
Verkada's management responded saying:
This comment certainly does not align with how we view IPVM. We have enjoyed all of our discussions with the IPVM team to date and look forward to working with you in the future.
Problem - Clear - Totally Closed System
The problem is simple and serious. Verkada is a closed system:
- Unless you continue paying them money every year, the cameras you bought from them turn into paperweights.
- The cameras Verkada sells are completely closed - no RTSP, no ONVIF, no video API, nothing. It only works when you pay them their subscription.
- Verkada's cloud system only works with their own cameras - no 3rd party camera support whatsoever (no Axis, no Hikvision, no anything else).
While our test found a variety of other technical problems that are unsurprising for such an early stage product, being locked into a completely closed system is very risky and completely atypical.
Come Get Locked In
In true Verkada fashion, the company brags about that as well:
Maybe we are in the stone ages. Maybe open systems are dead and the future is being locked into Silicon Valley startups. Probably not but...
3 reports cite this report:
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Would definitely prefer to hear technical rebuttals or responses to the shortcomings listed. That IPVM Verkada review seemed very thorough and specific to me.
Not interested in squabbles between IPVM and manufactures. This article bring nothing to the table. Next please.
When you have no soul and all you are trying to do is sell, sell, sell then you don't care if you lock an organization into a product.
Truth be told this sounds a lot like the dealer programs of the late 90's early 2000's. A dishonest dealer would give away the system to a customer then to come back 3 years later after the contract expired and sell them a new 3 year monitoring contract with different dealer program. I knew many companies that had this practice.
How did we get to the point where a company records video within the privacy of our property then sells it back to us?
Ryan Young and Austin Trimble (from Eagle Eye) really need to get together. The result would be some truly epic social media posts and boasts.
Clever marketing by Verkada to stay relevant.
Negative press is still good marketing orr so they say.......
IPVM: (Listing of every shortcoming Verkada has)
Verkada response: Oh yeah? Well our marketing director's dad can beat up your Sales VP's Mom.
'stuck in a the stone age'
Little Lord Marketing Boy needs to get back to English class.
I enjoy the inside look at Verkada culture. If you guy's didn't put out a lot of content, I could understand where some other commenters are coming from.
But since ya'll put out so much good content, I can appreciate fun pieces like this to keep it entertaining. Keep it up!
This post along with the previous post start to paint a pretty clear picture on Verkada. The mismatched responses between the director of sales and other Verkada staff shows there is a completely uncoordinated group behind the scenes. The fake it until you make it sales strategy that is prevalent in Silicon Valley is really out of control.
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Verkada does have a unique and fast growing camera protocol that is so secure that it is even able to secure the future jobs of their young workforce. The protocol I found is called OTP and I tried hacking my demo camera all day and nothing. Its some really elite super secure crypto-lock fuzzy algorithm stuff that's for sure.
You can read more about the OTP protocol for yourself on wikipedia or just google for One Trick Pony(OTP).
Psst....HIKvision, I know you are here. Why don't you re-roll your camera line with the same concept at half the price? You already have all those LTS stores losing money! Just make a one time license for life subscription as long as you replace the camera every 3 years. HiiiiiYahhh! Weeeyahhh!!! oooooooo!
Just what the industry needs another closed security system with proprietary hardware and software forcing customers into a solution that if they are not satisfied with, then they are out of luck & stuck with. Locking unwilling customers into inferior equipment and software that they have to pay on-going fees is unethical. No good Integrator or Salesperson who looking out for the end user/customers best interest should recommend a completely closed & proprietary system. Lastly, all serious Security Consultants should not recommend a system that is completely proprietary and doesn't comply with any Industry Standards.
Getting Americans to pay monthly for a product is what makes billionaires nowadays. They're trying to be the commercial version of Ring or Nest.
Funny...we got a cold-call from this company, well actually a colleague elsewhere in our company gave them my contact info (j@ck@ss!).
When asked about ONVIF or 3rd party, they said they won't for cyber security reasons...and referenced an IPVM article. So essentially they're a Nest camera and trying to sell to enterprises...and lock us in. VERY risky, rather go VaaS with open hardware.
Asked who OEM's their hardware, rep said they do (@John H - Can you confirm? Country of origin?).
When questioning their cloud service, say they have their own AWS instance but now I'd question Privacy, GDPR etc.
Ok, so out of curiosity I Googled Verkada, first link was to Amazon. $2,000 for their D30 indoor 1080p camera with 120 days cloud storage, and a 1 year license. WTF? So after the first year, you pay another $2k? Wow, who's falling for this crap? Oh and you have to install it...
With Verkada is the license locked to the camera? What happens when the current cameras are obsolete in 5 years and you want higher resolution (that is if Verkada can keep of the with the dinosaurs higher resolution cameras). Do you have to buy a another licnese?
Verkada: Intro to Hybrid Cloud Video Security [webinar]
My two primary concerns pertain to the Gartner and Forrester references regarding the introduction of the highest risk devices (NVR / DVR, etc.) into a client's environment. The issues surround Dahua, for example, are well known and I couldn't agree more. That said, overgeneralizing knows issues of specific OEMs, vendors, and platforms and suggesting this is the case across all platforms is simply a gross misrepresentation of the facts. Likewise, I'm curious about the assertion that Axis and Avigilon delivery at a 10% success rate on their promises whereas Verkada makes conservative promises and over delivers. I'm not about to debate success and / or failure rates. Firstly, because the specific technology was not explicitly stated so I'm not even clear on the topic in that part of the discussion. If the comments were made regarding analytics (presumably that was the case?) I am well aware of our customer successes. Regardless, I am curious about what studies were referenced. Was this posted, for example by IPVM or respected security trade rags? I'd like to review the sources for my own edification.
Thank you for the initial reply. Much appreciated.
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A similar industry, the building automation industry suffered the same issues years ago. I am a controls engineer and dealt with this problem constantly. My clients would go against my advice and select proprietary solutions because they were the least expensive and on more than a few occasions, would come back to me later telling me their inexpensive BAS solution while having a low CAPEX ended up costing them a lot more due to the high OPEX.
In those days ('80's, '90's and early 2000's) it was a fairly common marketing practice to see manufacturers with deep pockets drop the margins to very low levels (in some cases I think they dropped to below cost) and make up the difference on service contracts for their proprietary products. ASHRAE addressed this issue through the development of the BACnet standard (the BAS equivalent to ONVIF) and consulting engineers begin to enforce BACnet compatibility through their specifications. In the intervening years, I think the commercial controls industry has become more competitive and innovative as a result. I definitely recommend against other consulting engineer and integrators providing proprietary products because ultimately end users and clients will pay more.
Good luck!
This whole company seems like Silicon Valley Start-Up Incubator Accelerator Buzzword Hype HashTag Bro Formulaic S-Corp Feedback Loop and it rubs me the wrong way.
How do they source the actual product? The actual stuff that matters? Is this another "Millions on Marketing and $Tens on product from Shenzhen" ?
I wonder if anyone from Verkada has been to their product's factory? How are the makers being paid and in what condition is their work environment? Has the company ever mentioned these things?
All in all, whether we want to admit it or not, the edge recording angle and "NO DVR/NVR" is turning heads and getting some business.
If I were a prospective buyer, I'd be much more concerned about this Silicon Valley startup being around to honor the 10 Year Warranty on my proprietary cameras! If they even last half that long!
Ask yourself: "What piece of storage technology do I own & use regularly that is 10, 7 or even 5 years old?" Your PC? Your tablet? Your USB HDD? Flash drive? Your home cable/SAT DVR? Definitely not your phone.....
Pretty sure there was a meeting in a conference room at Verkada prior to funding:
Product manager: "there's no way those HDD's in the camera will last 10 years!"
VP: "who cares, we won't be around to deal with it......worry about the valuation!"
they are running aggressive sales strategy. I believe that like many startups in silicon valley, their goal is to get as many subscribers as possible to "make an exit" selling the company or IPO.
Product quality and long term relationships are not important for them.
hiring sales people not from the industry shows how they think..... sell, sell, sell, today. no one cares for tomorrow.
they are trying also to jump on the RMR wagon with installers, I am not sure if they will not go directly to the installer's customer, with such hard sale strategy.
reminds me "Chinese marketing tactics"
I see the closed model as a horrible idea. I won't even buy a doorbell camera that won't let me have full access to the video. Even if I was doing installs, I wouldn't use systems that limit customers ability to freely use the video of their premises without an ongoing fee. The possible reality of funding cutbacks on the customer side, or the failure of Verkada as a company, resulting in a bunch of useless bricks hanging around should mean that this closed model is appealing to pretty much no one.
Given that most of the well established players offer open standards and open access, it appears that Verkada's customers must be the ones stuck in the Stone Age.
that was one hell of a fight between these two !! LOL Jonathan and John !!!! ::))
This industry is clearly still in its infancy stages 10 years from now like 2030 everything will be much standardized and compartmentalized, the thing is, as everything in life our final resolve or goal is making that profit, That cheddar, That nugget, That blink blink .. No Matter what !!
Maybe we are in the stone ages.
Related: The New IPVM Logo Revealed
Update: Sullivan has now left Verkada:
Evidently, John L Sullivan, former Verkada sales rep, is no longer a fan of his previous employer, trolling Verkada on Instagram last month:
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When evaluating a potential hire it's tempting to bring on board someone with the technical skills to immediately get down to work. But a smarter strategy is to vet candidates carefully for their softer qualities. That's according to Donna Wells, CEO of online training platform Mindflash, who says any skill can be trained, but things like personality and temperament have a huge effect on how someone will meld into your team and perform for your customers. Here's why she says you need to hire for attitude, not skill.
1. Most people don't possess all the skills listed in a job description.
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