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The scope of this SOC report includes SAP Financial Services Network is hosted in SAP SE's data centers St. Leon–Rot, Germany as well as in co-location data center in Ashburn (Virginia USA).
SAP Financial Services Network is an innovative on-demand solution that connects banks and other financial institutes with their corporate customers on a secure network owned and managed by SAP. The network offers multiple services over one single channel while supporting the deployment of new ones. As key benefits, the solution automates financial transactions, reduces payment rejection rates, eases reconciliation and provides enhanced visibility to corporate treasury. It combines SAP expertise in applications, analytics, and in-memory computing to provide a standard, innovative technology for financial institutions and their corporate customers on a platform that accommodates future integration needs.
SAP Financial Services Network is capable of performing a failover in case of a disaster (disaster recovery). This capability is currently only offered to non-European customers. SAP Financial Services Network is entirely operated by SAP.
SAP Financial Services Network is a product implemented by SAP, and as such it uses the "Idea-toMarket" (I2M) process framework for system and software development. The I2M process framework is ISO-9001 certified.
SOC1 reports specifically address service organizations internal control over financial reporting and controls specified by the service provider. The SOC1 reports are intended solely for the information and use of existing user entities (for ex. Existing customers of the service organization), their financial statement auditors and management of the service organization. SOC 1 reports are prepared in accordance with Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No.18, a new guidance that the auditors use to conduct a SOC1 engagement. SOC1 Type 1 covers management's description of a service organization's system and the suitability of the design of controls at a specific point in time, whereas a SOC1 Type 2 also includes the operating effectiveness of controls for a dedicated period of time.
SAP Financial Services Network has prepared SOC1 Type 1 audit report by an independent 3rd party accountant. This version of the report covers the audit period from 1. November 2017 to 30. April 2018, the location St. Leon–Rot, Germany as well as in co-location data center in Ashburn (Virginia USA).
The use of these reports is restricted. A copy of this report is available for all SAP Financial Services Network customers who had productive and had financially-relevant systems during the audit period covered by the report.


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What's new in Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Media Encoder (v7.01) July 2013
Here's a run down of the new July 2013 updates for Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Media Encoder (AME) . This updates their versions to 7.01. As you'll see , our engineering has been very busy taking feedback from our field teams and more importantly direct customer feedback. If you want to be proactive in feedback requests, you can use the Product Improvement Program feature built in all our applications under the Help menu. We read all of these comments daily.
We do value your input. As many people have seen over the past few years, we respond via email to many of these feature request with straight forward answers and we really do value your opinion – it does matter.
In my 18 years here at Adobe, I've never seen this many updates in .01 release – it's truly impressive and I'd like to take the the time to thank the Premiere Pro engineering team and Premiere Pro product management . This clearly shows what we can now do via this new software delivery model. Simply put, when engineering feels that the new feature or update is ready, it gets delivered ASAP . For those that are not familiar with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , just google it and it should help to explain why we can do this now in the current subscription model. In our previous licensing model, many of these features would have been delayed until a future version.
BTW – I've already seen whats coming in the next set of updates for all of our Pro Video & Imaging tools and I can tell you first hand – hold on tight, it's going to be a great ride……
Here's a quick look at the New Feature notes for Premiere Pro CC v7.01
Create a unique title by duplicating a sequence title
You can now use a keyboard shortcut to quickly create a new sequence title based on the current sequence title in the Timeline.
In the Timeline, press Alt (Win) or Option (Mac OS) and drag a current title. A new unique title is created. Using the keyboard shortcut in the Timeline creates the same result as using the New Title Based on Current Title option in the Titler.
The newly created title is not a duplicate of the original title and does not reference the original master clip. Any revisions made to this new title are not reflected in the original title or its instances.
Some important points:
- The Copy/Paste feature continues to use the workflow where duplicate instances are created and linked back to the original master title clip.
- Besides the methods already mentioned, there are other methods to create a duplicate title. For example, you can use the Match Frame feature in the track item to load the master clip title in the Source monitor. You can then edit the title back into the sequence, or find the original master clip title manually and edit that into the sequence.
Enhancements to "Lift or Extract" feature
The Lift or Extract feature in Premiere Pro lets you easily move portions of selected clips from one sequence to another.
In previous versions, Premiere Pro required you to set both an In and Out point to define the range to be "Lifted" or "Extracted".
The Lift or Extract feature is now enhanced to work when either an In point or an Out point is set. When only an In point is set, Lift or Extract works on the segment starting from the In point and ending at the sequence end. When only an Out point is set, Lift or Extract works on the segment from the beginning of the sequence to the Out point.
Copy, Cut, Clear works on In/Out points
The Cut, Copy, Clear functions in Premiere Pro work on targeted tracks that have In or Out points set in that range. You can use these functions without selecting specific clips in the sequence.
If you set only an In point, then an In/Out range is not required. The Cut, Copy, Clear functions work on the targeted tracks from the In point to the end of the sequence. Similarly, when you set only an Out point, the Cut, Copy, Clear functions work on the targeted tracks from the beginning of the sequence to the Out point.
Enable/disable clips using Enable Clip command
You can now quickly toggle between the states of enabled clips. While previewing edits, this feature helps you switch back and forth between two different playback results.
When you select multiple clips with mixed settings, you can use the Enable Clip command as a toggle to enable/disable the clip. For example, if Clip A is enabled and Clip B is disabled, selecting both clips together and using Enable Clip results in disabling Clip A and enabling Clip B.
To use the Enable Clip command, right-click (Win) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) a clip in the Timeline, and select Enable from the context menu.
Frame matching using clip selection
In previous versions of Premiere Pro, the Match Frame command used Track Targeting to identify the clip in the Timeline to match. Now, clip selection supersedes track targeting. When you select a clip, Match Frame ignores track targeting, and matches to the frame under the playhead in the selected clip.
Some important points:
- When you select a clip, ensure that you place the playhead on a frame within the selected clip. If the playhead is placed on a frame outside the selected clip, Track Targeting is used, and the frame on the topmost targeted track is matched.
- When you select multiple clips, the playhead is placed over more than one clip. The Match Frame command then matches the topmost clip.
Relinking offline sequences
The Link Media command is now available for offline sequences. This command lets you relink all the media used in a specific sequence without having to relink all the media in the project.
Using the Link Media command
- Right-click (Win) or Ctrl-click (Mac) an offline sequence and select Link Media from the context menu. All the clips used in that sequence appear in the Locate Media dialog.
- Relink the offline sequences just as you would relink any selection of offline clips.
Alternatively, in the Timeline panel, right-click (Win) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) a sequence tab, and selectLink Media from the context menu.
Enhanced EDL Export dialog
In previous versions of Premiere Pro, you manually deleted key tracks and transitions to create simple EDL (Edit Decision List) files. You can now exclude key tracks and transitions directly from the EDL Export dialog.
The EDL export dialog includes two new options that let you include or exclude key tracks and transitions.
- Include Key Track
- Include Transitions
By default, the Include Key Track option is deselected and the Include Transitions option is selected.
To export an EDL without transitions or key clips, deselect Include Transitions or Include Key Track. The transitions and V2 clips are retained in the sequence.
Reveal in Project from Source Monitor
A clip displayed in the Source Monitor can be easily located in the Project panel.
Load a clip in the Source monitor and right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) a clip in a sequence, and choose Reveal In Project. Premiere Pro then locates the source clip in the Project panel and selects it.
Linked Selection toggle button available from Timeline
Premiere Pro provides a Linked Selection command that can be applied to all open sequences in the Timeline panels. You can use the Linked Selection command as a toggle that you can turn on and off. Linked Selection is turned on by default.
The Linked Selection command is available as a button from the Timeline, and from the Sequence menu. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to this feature.
When Linked Selection is turned on, clicking a linked clip in the Timeline automatically selects all the associated tracks. For example, if you click the video part of a linked A/V clip, the audio is automatically selected.
When Linked Selection is turned off, only the single track item that you click is selected, and not all the associated tracks.
You can temporarily override a toggle state by pressing Alt (Win) or Opt (Mac) while selecting the track. For example, if Linked Selection is turned on, and you press Alt (Win) or Opt (Mac) while selecting a linked clip, only the single track that you click is selected.
Reveal in Finder from Timeline
This feature lets you select a sequence clip and locate its linked media file on disk.
The Reveal in Explorer (Win) or Reveal In Finder (Mac OS) command is available in the clip context menu. When you choose this command for a selected clip, the Finder or Explorer folder containing the clip's linked media file is opened and the selected file is brought to the front.
Default start timecode preference
Premiere Pro lets you change the start time of sequences from 00:00:00:00 to a start time of your choice. You can set the specified start time as the default start time.
In the Timeline panel menu, select Start Time. In the Start Time dialog, enter the start time, and select Set As Default For Future Sequences. The start time that you enter will be the default start time for all new sequences.
Drag and preview files in Source Monitor
You can now preview files more easily by just dragging the files from a Finder (Mac OS) or Explorer (Win) window directly into the Source monitor. The preview is similar to previewing clips from the Media Browser before importing them into the project.
A new project is created for the clips that you drag into the Source monitor; the clips are not automatically imported into the current open project.
Match Frame enhancements
The Match Frame feature now lets you match frames from the Source monitor to the source files of a sequence. With this enhancement, you don't have to first open the sequence in the Timeline and match frames from there.
For a Multicamera sequence, Match Frame first opens the selected camera source clip in the Source monitor. If either regular sequences or multicamera sequences are nested, additional Match Source Frame commands open all source sequences until the correct source file is opened.
For example, the Match Frame command first opens the multicamera source sequence in the Source monitor. The next use of the Match Frame command opens the original source camera clip for the selected angle in the Source monitor.
When the Program monitor is in Multicamera mode, the lowest targeted track is displayed in the monitor. In this mode, the rule to "Match Frame From" is reversed, and the lowest track is used. To override this behavior, select a clip on the desired track to match frame from.
Easily identify offline clips from Timeline
In previous versions of Premiere Pro, an offline clip appeared in red in the Timeline only on expanding the track. Now, all offline clips appear in red, even without expanding the track. This enhancement lets you easily locate offline clips from the Timeline.
New Tone Settings dialog
Premiere Pro provides a new Tone Settings dialog that lets you create Bars and Tones clips at -20dB amplitude.
Using the Tone Settings dialog
- Double-click a Bars and Tones clip to open the Tone Settings dialog.
- In the Tone Settings dialog, specify the audio settings.
- Select Steady Tones to create a Bars and Tones clip at any desired frequency.
- Select Identify Channels to create a Bars and Tones clip that adheres to EBU audio standards.
Open Closed Caption clips from Captions panel
You can now double-click a captions clip in the Captions panel, and view the contents of the clip. If the Captions panel is already open, Premiere Pro brings the Captions panel into focus.
Source Settings dialog accessible from Timeline
For clips that offer source settings, such as RED and Arri Raw, you can access the Source Settings dialog directly from the Timeline.
In the Timeline, right-click (Win) or Ctrl-click (Mac) a clip in the sequence, and select Source Settingsfrom the context menu.
Source Settings adjustments are applied to master clips. When you adjust the source settings of a clip in a sequence, the settings are applied to its master clip and any other instances used in that sequence.
Auto-save improvements
In previous versions of Premiere Pro, even if you specified Auto-Save to execute at regular intervals, if an activity occurred at the specified interval, Auto-Save was blocked. Now, if Auto-Save is blocked by activity, it is put on hold, and retriggered during the next period of inactivity.
In earlier versions, Premiere Pro executed an auto-save when there were unsaved changes in the currently opened project. The potential consequence of that was leaving a project open with unsaved changes for a long enough period led to all the auto-save versions becoming identical, wiping out potentially useful versions to roll back to.
Now, if the system goes idle for a period beyond the interval setting, no further Auto Save files are generated until Premiere Pro detects changes to the project file. This change conserves the maximum number of auto-saves per project, and saves only the useful archived versions.
Improved timelapse support when adding clips to a sequence
When you add clips created from still images to a sequence, you can specify the duration of clips (in frames).
To do so, in the Automate To Sequence dialog, under Still Clip Duration, select Frames Per Still and enter the number of frames.
New preferences
Turn-off automatic restarting of playback
By default, Premiere Pro plays a clip or sequence until the end and stops on the last frame. When you press the spacebar (initiating Play again), the playhead automatically jumps to the beginning and restarts playback from there.
You now have a preference that lets you turn off the feature of automatically restarting playback from the beginning. To do so, go to the Preferences dial box, under the General category, deselectAt Playback End, Return To Begin When Restarting Playback.
This preference applies to both clip and sequence playback. The preference controls playback in all the panels where playback can be initiated, like Timeline, Source and Program monitors, Audio Track Mixer, and Effect Controls.
Set focus to Timeline after inserting, overwriting edits
Premiere Pro provides a preference to control focus on the Timeline after performing Insert/Overwrite edits. Selecting this preference automatically sets focus to the Timeline after each edit. You can quickly preview your edits without manually setting focus to the Timeline.
The Set Focus To Timeline After Performing Insert/Overwrite Edits preference is available under the General category in the Preferences dialog box. The preference is deselected by default.
New and changed keyboard shortcuts
Navigate edit points in Source monitor
You can use Up and Down arrow keys to navigate to Begin/End and In/Out points in clips loaded into the Source monitor.
This navigation feature works on both individual clips or sequences loaded in the Source monitor.
For clips, the navigation steps through Clip Start, In point, Out point, and Clip End. For sequences, the navigation steps through Sequence Start, all individual edit points within the sequence (on all tracks), and Sequence End. The In/Out points for sequences are ignored.
Some important points:
- You can continue to use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the next and previous clips in the Timeline.
- In previous versions of Premiere Pro, the Up and Down arrow keys navigated to next/previous clip markers in the Source monitor. With this update, to navigate to the next clip marker, use Shift+M. To navigate to the previous marker, use Ctrl+M (Win) or Shift+Cmd (Mac).
Clear In and Out points in Project panel
You can now use keyboard shortcuts to clear the In, Out, or In and Out markers from multiple selected clips in the project, instead of doing it one clip at a time.
You use the same Marker menu keyboard shortcuts that you use in the Timeline, Monitor, and other panels.
|Clear In
|Clear Out
|Clear In and Out
Toggle focus between Source and Program monitors
You can set a keyboard shortcut to toggle focus between Source and Program monitors. You can use this shortcut to set focus on individual panel focus shortcuts without using a Mouse.
Adobe Media Encoder (AME) Bug Fixes in v7.01
** Note ** I've given you a list from our engineering and support notes on the bug fixes for AME. Primary areas of focus were Closed Captions, H264 encoding, MPEG2/m2v encoding, issues reported on encoding lengths, and artifacting in Quicktime Animation export when using Smart Rendering.
bugs fixed in closed captions:
- Timecode started from zero in closed caption sidecar files in some cases in which they should have had non-zero start times.
- QuickTime movies with embedded closed captions had the wrong frame size in some cases.
- STL or XML sidecar files for closed captions were not being written when closed captions were embedded in the source files.
- Exporting and re-importing closed caption sidecar files deleted some characters.
- Closed captions settings were not retained in Adobe Media Encoder (AME) when the source was a Premiere Pro sequence or a clip with embedded closed captions.
bugs fixed in H.264, MPEG-4, and MPEG-2 exports:
- H.264 exports were of the wrong duration (longer or shorter) under various conditions.
- When transcoding a clip to MPEG-4, the exported video frame rate was less than what was specified; the audio duration was correct. This makes the video portion longer than the original.
- MPEG-2 and MPEG-2 Blu-ray exports failed with some settings.
- Switching to NTSC from PAL didn't show the proper frame rate options for some combinations of Profile and Level settings for MPEG-2.
- When using the Match Source command, the matched Profile/Level values weren't updated according to the current bitrate until reopening the Export Settings dialog box.
- Changing the Key Frame Distance property was not recognized as a setting change if the box was checked/unchecked by clicking the text area rather than the box itself.
- When creating the system encoding preset with Match Source enabled, bitrate sliders were not created with the full range of possible values for the given Profile and Level combination.
other bugs fixed:
- Incorrect flavor of ProRes files were created because of an error in smart rendering.
- Garbage characters appeared in Korean and Simplified Chinese on the OK button in the Preferences dialog box.
- Improvement in inefficient code for RED (.r3d) importer.
- A .m2v Blu-Ray file exported from Adobe Media Encoder didn't work in Encore, failing with the error "reached end of stream before finding start code".
- Encoding from MPEG-2 source files failed the first time.
- P2 AVC-Intra media exported from Premiere Pro with drop-frame timecode was imported into Adobe Media Encoder with non-drop-frame timecode.
- AVC-Intra media exported from Premiere Pro was not being accepted by XTAccess system.
- Incorrect audio was being encoded at the end of a file.
- Smart-rendered QuickTime movies with the Animation codec contained video artifacts.
Manual Downloads
Premiere Pro 7.01 Update Mac: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5601
Premiere Pro 7.01 Update Windows: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5604
AME 7.01 Update Mac: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5606
AME 7.01 Update Win: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5605
All downloads: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates.html
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As companies embrace cloud computing, many are finding it advantageous to use external clouds to host non-critical IT services and data while keeping business-critical applications on internal-cloud infrastructure. However, this hybrid approach can create significant management challenges. The clouds must tightly integrate with each other, and legacy systems and data and workflows must be managed across the clouds and systems.
Since hybrid clouds typically involve a mix of technologies and vendors, and there is the constant need for new capabilities, the level of complexity and amount of attention required to properly manage these platforms is increasing at a rapid rate. That means the management platform for hybrid cloud solutions is a critical, if often overlooked, piece of the proverbial puzzle.
READ: Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid
Managing the hybrid cloud involves much more than tools. After all, vendors for each separate component of cloud infrastructure provide their own "stovepipe" of managerial tools. But since there isn't a true "single-pane-of-glass" tool, you will need a more strategic perspective and framework to succeed with hybrid cloud computing. The following principles and practices can shape this meta-cloud management initiative.
In cloud computing, the vendor pool is growing very rapidly. Today, there may be three to four times as many cloud-services providers as there were just three years ago. And since a hybrid cloud architecture inherently requires multiple vendors, you need to exercise particular care and caution in assembling your portfolio of cloud-computing partners. You'll need to identify and select everything from server-oriented (infrastructure) services to cloud storage to desktop-as-a-service solutions.
Ask some pointed questions. Are the licensing and contract terms suitable for your business? What track record do they bring to the engagement? In particular, what is their performance with respect to security? As you look to leverage the expertise of your vendors, look for opportunities to reduce the number of vendors you use.
Partner accountability
With a traditional IT configuration -- centered around the classic on-premises data center -- the corporation typically establishes and staffs an IT operations and support team over which it can exercise near-total control. It sets the parameters and defines the expectations for all aspects of performance, security, regulatory compliance and more. With a hybrid cloud configuration, you're outsourcing significant portions of that infrastructure to, presumably, capable partners.
What steps can you take to measure and ensure the accountability of your chosen partners? It starts with careful definition of service-level agreements and escalation processes. Does the partner have clear SLAs that are well-suited to your business? What are the reporting processes? How will the partner communicate -- and how frequently?
IT transformation
To minimize risk exposure, many companies find that the best course of action is to start by moving lower-risk applications and data to the external cloud, so that any breach will not involve sensitive processes and information. Once confidence is established, the vendor can assume greater responsibility for other systems and databases.
Naturally, your internal IT staff -- which has typically worked in an on-premises data center -- can view cloud computing as an outsourcing career threat. It's an understandable concern. The managerial challenge here is to transform that mindset and change existing practices to help them recognize the added value they can bring to the organization in these reconfigured roles.
Our job as IT managers is to ensure we provide ample appropriate opportunities for our teams to learn new skills, assume new, higher-value positions and pursue more fulfilling long-term careers. For instance, internal cloud/external cloud integration has much greater significance. Understanding how new technologies can play a role or provide new functions and value is an important opportunity for IT professionals. In short, the job is to emphasize that a hybrid cloud infrastructure is an opportunity to reinvigorate and elevate IT careers.
The rapid pace of innovation in the cloud space is unlikely to slow in the foreseeable future. Infrastructure technologies such as virtualization are continually changing and improving -- and each presents key differences that must be understood. It's essential to be sure that both you and your team are vigilant in understanding the differences and changes to keep your hybrid cloud operating optimally. Life cycles are shorter and technologies are sunsetted faster than ever. When you have a technology decision to make or a business process to build, you want to be sure you can adapt as technology changes.
By embracing the cloud computing model, enterprises are embracing the opportunity to move beyond the four walls. However, they are also rejecting the binary "either/or" choice of all-internal or all-external and seek to get to get "the best of both worlds." Since we certainly cannot expect enterprises to achieve 100% external cloud adoption in the short term, our industry needs effective strategies to control and oversee the heightened management challenges that hybrid cloud implementations can present as the transition unfolds.


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I don't recall that - I seem to remember that the same action would delete the subassembly containing the part, not the part itself, but I was also out of work for 10 weeks and using 2011 in my previous job, so maybe I'm wrong?
I looked for a setting to control this & didn't find one. Am I nuts - did this change?
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Mobile marketing is marketing on or with a mobile device, such as a smart phone.[1] Mobile marketing can provide customers with time and location sensitive, personalized information that promotes goods, services and ideas.[2] In a more theoretical manner, academic Andreas Kaplan defines mobile marketing as "any marketing activity conducted through a ubiquitous network to which consumers are constantly connected using a personal mobile device".[3]
Marketing through cellphones' SMS (Short Message Service) became increasingly popular in the early 2000s in Europe and some parts of Asia when businesses started to collect mobile phone numbers and send off wanted (or unwanted) content. On average, SMS messages are read within four minutes, making them highly convertible.
Over the past few years SMS marketing has become a legitimate advertising channel in some parts of the world. This is because unlike email over the public internet, the carriers who police their own networks have set guidelines and best practices for the mobile media industry (including mobile advertising). The IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), as well, have established guidelines and are evangelizing the use of the mobile channel for marketers. While this has been fruitful in developed regions such as North America, Western Europe and some other countries, mobile SPAM messages (SMS sent to mobile subscribers without a legitimate and explicit opt-in by the subscriber) remain an issue in many other parts or the world, partly due to the carriers selling their member databases to third parties. In India, however, government's efforts of creating National Do Not Call Registry have helped cellphone users to stop SMS advertisements by sending a simple SMS or calling 1909.[4][5]
Mobile marketing via SMS has expanded rapidly in Europe and Asia as a new channel to reach the consumer. SMS initially received negative media coverage in many parts of Europe for being a new form of spam as some advertisers purchased lists and sent unsolicited content to consumer's phones; however, as guidelines are put in place by the mobile operators, SMS has become the most popular branch of the Mobile Marketing industry with several 100 million advertising SMS sent out every month in Europe alone.
In Europe the first cross-carrier SMS shortcode campaign was run by Txtbomb in 2001 for an Island Records release, In North America it was the Labatt Brewing Company in 2002. Over the past few years mobile short codes have been increasingly popular as a new channel to communicate to the mobile consumer. Brands have begun to treat the mobile short code as a mobile domain name allowing the consumer to text message the brand at an event, in store and off any traditional media.
SMS marketing services typically run off a short code, but sending text messages to an email address is another methodology (though this method is not supported by the carriers). Short codes are 5 or 6 digit numbers that have been assigned by all the mobile operators in a given country for the use of brand campaign and other consumer services. Due to the high price of short codes of $500–$1000 a month, many small businesses opt to share a short code in order to reduce monthly costs. The mobile operators vet every short code application before provisioning and monitor the service to make sure it does not diverge from its original service description. Another alternative to sending messages by short code or email is to do so through one's own dedicated phone number.
Besides short codes, inbound SMS can be received on long numbers (international number format, e.g. +44 7624 805000 or US number format,[6] e.g. 757 772 8555), which can be used in place of short codes or premium-rated short messages for SMS reception in several applications, such as product promotions and campaigns. Long numbers are internationally available, as well as enabling businesses to have their own number, rather than short codes which are usually shared across a number of brands. Additionally, long numbers are non-premium inbound numbers.
One key criterion for provisioning is that the consumer opts into the service. The mobile operators demand a double opt in from the consumer and the ability for the consumer to opt out of the service at any time by sending the word STOP via SMS. These guidelines are established in the CTIA Playbook and the MMA Consumer Best Practices Guidelines[7] which are followed by all mobile marketers in the United States. In Canada, opt in will be mandatory once the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act comes in force in mid-2012.
MMS mobile marketing can contain a timed slideshow of images, text, audio and video. This mobile content is delivered via MMS (Multimedia Message Service). Nearly all new phones produced with a color screen are capable of sending and receiving standard MMS message. Brands are able to both send (mobile terminated) and receive (mobile originated) rich content through MMS A2P (application-to-person) mobile networks to mobile subscribers. In some networks, brands are also able to sponsor messages that are sent P2P (person-to-person).
Good examples of mobile-originated MMS marketing campaigns are Motorola's ongoing campaigns at House of Blues venues, where the brand allows the consumer to send their mobile photos to the LED board in real-time as well as blog their images online.
Push notifications were first introduced to smartphones by Apple with the advent of the iPhone in 2007. They were later further popularized with the Android operational system, where the notifications are shown on the top of the screen. It has helped application owners to communicate directly with their end users in a simple and effective way. If not used wisely it can quickly alienate users as it causes interruptions to their current activities on the phone. It can be much cheaper if compared to SMS marketing for the long run, but it can become quite expensive on the short run, because the cost involved in application development. Once the application is download and installed provided the feature is not turned off It is practically free, because it uses internet bandwidth only. SMS and push notifications can be part of a well-developed inbound mobile marketing strategy.
With the increasingly widespread use of smartphones, app usage has also greatly increased. Therefore, mobile marketers have increasingly taken advantage of smartphone apps as a marketing resource. This allows for direct engagement, payment, and targeted advertising.[8]
There is a lot of competition in this field as well. However, just like other services, it is not easy anymore to rule the mobile application market.
There are essentially four major trends in mobile gaming right now: interactive real-time 3D games, massive multi-player games and social networking games. This means a trend towards more complex and more sophisticated, richer game play. On the other side, there are the so-called casual games, i.e. games that are very simple and very easy to play. Most mobile games today are such casual games and this will probably stay so for quite a while to come.
Brands are now delivering promotional messages within mobile games or sponsoring entire games to drive consumer engagement. This is known as mobile advergaming or Ad-funded mobile game.
Advertising on web pages specifically meant for access by mobile devices is also an option. The Mobile Marketing Association provides a set of guidelines and standards that give the recommended format of ads, presentation, and metrics used in reporting. Google, Yahoo, and other major mobile content providers have been selling advertising placement on their properties for years already as of the time of this writing. Advertising networks focused on mobile properties, SMS resellers and advertisers are also available. Additionally, web forms on web pages can be used to integrate with mobile texting sources for reminders about meetings, seminars and other important events that assume users are not always at their computers. In addition Mobile websites are another aspect of mobile web marketing and can be a tool than can used to help make purchasing goods and services easier as well as create better communication opportunities between trade.[9]
QR codes allow a customer to visit a web page address by scanning a 2D image with their phone's camera, instead of manually entering a URL. The resultant URLs typically include tracking features which would be unwieldy if typed by the customer. Originally approved as an ISS standard in 1997, Denso-Wave first developed the standard for tracking automobile parts in Japan.[10]
QR codes have been growing in popularity in Asia and Europe, but have been slow to be adopted in North America.[11][12] Some high-profile QR campaigns in the United States have included billboards by Calvin Klein in Times Square, QR codes for every SKU in Home Depot and Best Buy stores, and a scavenger hunt promoting Starbucks and Lady Gaga.
Apple Passbook (application), implemented as a native app for iOS6, has employed QR codes as one of the ways that the iPhone (or iPod Touch) users can take a real world action. i.e. scan the Barcode on their Passbook Pass. In addition to QR codes, the Passbook (application) also supports PDF417 and Aztec 2D Barcodes
The rise of Bluetooth started around 2003 and a few companies in Europe have started establishing successful businesses. Most of these businesses offer "hotspot" systems which consist of some kind of content-management system with a Bluetooth distribution function. This technology has the advantages that it is permission-based, has higher transfer speeds and is also a radio-based technology and can therefore not be billed (i.e. is free of charge). The likely earliest device built for mobile marketing via Bluetooth was the context tag of the AmbieSense project (2001-2004). More recently Tata Motors conducted one of the biggest Bluetooth marketing campaigns in India for its brand the Sumo Grande and more of such activities have happened for brands like Walt Disney promoting their movie 'High School Musical'
Mobile marketing via proximity systems, or proximity marketing, relies on GSM 03.41 which defines the Short Message Service - Cell Broadcast. SMS-CB allows messages (such as advertising or public information) to be broadcast to all mobile users in a specified geographical area. In the Philippines, GSM-based proximity broadcast systems are used by select Government Agencies for information dissemination on Government-run community-based programs to take advantage of its reach and popularity (Philippines has the world's highest traffic of SMS). It is also used for commercial service known as Proxima SMS. Bluewater, a super-regional shopping centre in the UK, has a GSM based system supplied by NTL to help its GSM coverage for calls, it also allows each customer with a mobile phone to be tracked though the centre which shops they go into and for how long. The system enables special offer texts to be sent to the phone. For example, a retailer could send a mobile text message to those customers in their database who have opted-in, who happen to be walking in a mall. That message could say "Save 50% in the next 5 minutes only when you purchase from our store." Snacks company, Mondelez International, makers of Cadbury and Oreo products has committed to exploring proximity-based messaging citing significant gains in point-of-purchase influence.[13]
Location-based services (LBS) are offered by some cell phone networks as a way to send custom advertising and other information to cell-phone subscribers based on their current location. The cell-phone service provider gets the location from a GPS chip built into the phone, or using radiolocation and trilateration based on the signal-strength of the closest cell-phone towers (for phones without GPS features). In the United Kingdom, which launched location-based services in 2003, networks do not use trilateration; LBS services use a single base station, with a 'radius' of inaccuracy, to determine a phone's location.
Some location-based services work without GPS tracking technique, instead transmitting content between devices peer-to-peer.
Mobile marketing differs from most other forms of marketing communication in that it is often user (consumer) initiated (mobile originated, or MO) message, and requires the express consent of the consumer to receive future communications. A call delivered from a server (business) to a user (consumer) is called a mobile terminated (MT) message. This infrastructure points to a trend set by mobile marketing of consumer controlled marketing communications.[14]
Due to the demands for more user controlled media, mobile messaging infrastructure providers have responded by developing architectures that offer applications to operators with more freedom for the users, as opposed to the network-controlled media. Along with these advances to user-controlled Mobile Messaging 2.0, blog events throughout the world have been implemented in order to launch popularity in the latest advances in mobile technology. In June 2007, Airwide Solutions became the official sponsor for the Mobile Messaging 2.0 blog that provides the opinions of many through the discussion of mobility with freedom.[15]
GPS plays an important role in location-based marketing.
Mobile advertising has become more and more popular. However, some mobile advertising is sent without a required permission from the consumer causing privacy violations. It should be understood that irrespective of how well advertising messages are designed and how many additional possibilities they provide, if consumers do not have confidence that their privacy will be protected, this will hinder their widespread deployment.[16]
The privacy issue became even more salient as it was before with the arrival of mobile data networks. A number of important new concerns emerged mainly stemming from the fact that mobile devices are intimately personal[17] and are always with the user, and four major concerns can be identified: mobile spam, personal identification, location information and wireless security.[18] Aggregate presence of mobile phone users could be tracked in a privacy-preserving fashion. [19]
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How can you benefit from SMAC?
How can pneumatic distributors benefit from adding SMAC Moving Coil Actuators (linear servo motors) to their product line-up?
General trends – why linear motors?
There is a general trend in automation towards servo-controlled linear electric motors and away from fluid power.
A major reason for the shift is the ability to program the devices, as more and more automation systems are designed to be flexible. This flexibility is needed both for the adjustment capability for certain processes, and for the ability to rapidly change configuration in order to produce different items.
A linear servomotor makes adjustment of the working parameters - speed, position, force, etc. - a very simple matter. Pneumatic devices, in general, are manually adjusted. Since there is no real feedback (servo) capability, this adjustment is time-consuming and inaccurate.
Multiple position moves
Linear motors have the ability to move to any number of positions, while pneumatic devices are normally limited to two positions.
Precision speed control
Linear motors can move very quickly and decelerate at the end of the move. High-speed rapid cycle applications are very hard on pneumatic actuators because the primary means of deceleration, shock absorbers or air cushions, cannot be used in these cases.
Energy cost
Finally there is the cost of pneumatics, involving two things. There is the energy wasted each time an air cylinder exhausts pressure to the atmosphere, and there is the cost of setting and maintaining a pneumatic power producing system, such as compressors, air prep equipment, etc. The electric power grid needed for linear motors is already set up and maintained by power companies.
SMAC and Distributors – Why selling Moving Coil Actuators is a Good Idea
SMAC electric actuators are designed to help make the transition from pneumatic to electric an easy one.
The actuators are programmable in the following modes:
- Position: Variable positions can be programmed in. Positioning accuracy can be held to the micron level.
- Speed: SMAC actuators have accelerations up to 50G. They are actually being used to replace CAM driven machines and are matching the output of the CAMs on machines that produce 50,000 parts an hour. They also can move very slowly, move with very constant speed, and can repeat cycles with time variances of much less than a millisecond. (No stiction.)
- Force: This is a unique feature available on every SMAC actuator. Because of the force and precision movement with feedback, SMAC actuators open up new application areas for distributors, such as quality control, replacement of CAMs, replacement of older generation ball screw and belt-drive electric actuators, and even very precise movement applications primarily done up to now by Piezo and fine pitch ball screw actuators.
The CAL and CBL series looks like and mounts like air cylinders. This eases the effort to convince customers to make the switch. Often times, the SMAC actuator fits right in the same space the air cylinder occupies, making an upgrade of an existing machine possible without major changes.
Durability and quality
SMAC actuators are quite different from other linear motors in the marketplace. They are low wattage – the CAL units, for example, have maximum currents in the 1 to 1.5 amp range. If they are kept on maximum current for hours they will get warm but will not burn out.
They have 10x or more the cycle life of pneumatic devices. The only wear part is the linear guide. These all have built in lubrication features that result in cycle life from 100,000,000 to over 1,000,000,000 cycles - field proven!
"Snap-together" design requires no adjustment in the assembly, including the encoder. This means the actuators are manufactured with very tight dimensional tolerances. (Every critical dimension on every part is 100% checked using SMAC's mini-CMM systems.)


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Game of Thrones is going through another recasting.
Hafthor Julius Bjornsson has been cast as Gregor Clegane, better known as the Mountain, the Icelandic actor announced on Twitter.
"For all my fans! I am happy to tell you that I will be the Mountain in Season 4 in Game of Thrones," he wrote on Tuesday.
Bjornsson replaces Ian Whyte, who replace Conan Stevens as the Mountain in Season 2. The Mountain will reportedly have a larger role in the upcoming fourth season.
NCIS, Glee and more of this fall's biggest cast shakeups
That's not the only recasting happening this season. Treme and Nashville star Michiel Huisman will reportedly replace Ed Skrein as Daario Naharis, a Tyroshi warrior who serves as a love interest for Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).
Roger Ashton-Griffiths, who will play Mace Tyrell; Pedro Pascal, who will play the Red Viper; Indira Varma, who will play Ellaria Sand; Joseph Gatt, who is rumored to play Styr, the Magnar of Thenn; and Mark Gatiss, whose role is being kept a secret, will also join the cast.


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If you want to learn the culture of a nation, look at their dances and music. Being kind of a language of communication, it expresses the values of national culture.
In our national university, the students except of study also develop actively their creative life. The group of folk dances "Ala-Too" started in 2014 consists of 8-10 people (girls), which is updated periodically. Dances of different nations are in the repertoire of this group: Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkish, Uighur. The group performs their work during university events.
To join the group before you should have to pass the casting, which held each September.
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...while jeremy's away on his Latin American Tour , i decided for Jeremy fans to find one of my fave drawings of his and show it to you all. Have fun con la familia guey! -BG
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Drawing, Painting
Alice has taught drawing, painting and printmaking at the Creative Workshop since 1984, where she is a former head of the children's art program. She emphasizes a welcoming environment where students feel comfortable and eager to learn.
Alice attended Pratt Institute and earned a BA through Brooklyn College and an MS from SUNY Brockport. She has exhibited at the Gallery's Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition; University of Rochester's Hartnett Gallery; the American Association of University Women, Rochester; Skidmore College; and Rice Gallery, Albany.
Her paintings and prints have been selected for a MAG Patron Print commission, RPO Patron Print commission and WXXI Showcase Award. She has been awarded Best of Show in exhibitions of the Rochester Art Club, as well as fellowships to Skidmore College for painting and printmaking.
Alice has taught at RIT and in the East Rochester and Brighton school districts. She is a past president of the Rochester Art Club and a member of numerous art groups.
Above: Work by Alice Gold in the 2009 Creative Workshop Faculty Show.


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Resource controls and values are viewed in tables in the console. The Resource Control column lists the resource controls that can be set. The Value column displays the properties that are associated with each resource control. In the table, these values are enclosed in parentheses, and they appear as plain text separated by commas. The values in parentheses comprise an "action clause." Each action clause is composed of a threshold, a privilege level, one signal, and one local action that is associated with the particular threshold. Each resource control can have multiple action clauses, which are also separated by commas.
On a running system, values that are altered in the project database through the console only take effect for new tasks that are started in a project.


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Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement with Meyer Werft of Germany to build a new cruise ship for delivery in October 2015.
The deal has an option for a second ship for delivery in spring 2017.
The new ship will have about 4,200 passenger berths and at 163,000 gross tons will be larger than Norwegian's Breakaway class ships currently under construction at the German shipyard.
Dubbed "Breakaway Plus," the new cruise ship, which will be the largest in Norwegian's fleet, will have many of the unique design elements and innovations of the Breakaway class vessels.
The ship's contract price is approximately euro 700 million, which is about $916.5 million at today's rate of exchange.
"Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Getaway have garnered significant attention in the marketplace with their innovative design, rich stateroom mix and world-class amenities," said Kevin Sheehan, Norwegian Cruise Line's chief executive officer. "This new order further solidifies our commitment to continued innovation in terms of the guest experience and will incorporate technical and environmental advances as well."


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As a former Chief Executive of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) I follow on-going debates about certification with a keen interest, not least because my work on the deforestation agenda raises many of the challenges we see with certification and eco-labelling in general. I have often documented my concerns about the market signal sent by certifying species such as Antarctic krill, or even, God help us all, Australian shark fin, which was mooted a few years ago. And given the on-going failure of companies like John West to embrace sustainability, tuna certification has also been one to watch closely.
I've also been keeping an eye on the relationship between WWF (who are in a partnership with John West that has left a sour taste in some conservationists' mouths) and MSC, which according to Saturday's Times newspaper has reached something of a perilous state. A WWF report has been leaked to several individuals, including me. It's something of a bombshell analysis of the MSC by WWF (which actually founded the MSC!)
The report documents the 'troubling, systemic flaws with the MSC scheme'. WWF concludes that the MSC programme has not been what they 'envisioned' it to be, and in particular has not been an 'accurate means for sustainability of the Indian Ocean tuna fisheries'. It's a damning and painstakingly detailed indictment of MSC's attempts to accord certification to tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean, claiming that MSC is willing to compromise its own systems and processes in order to secure the blue tick for applicants with deep pockets.
Additionally, the report reveals that MSC is able to give 'interpretations' of the Harvest Control Rules (HCR), in order to secure the blue tick for fisheries that are categorically unable to meet the minimum levels set out in the MSC Fisheries Standard. According to WWF, MSC's financial interest in the outcome of certifications is now playing too big a part in the
process, because the MSC receives royalty fees on the licensing of the blue tick logo. Ouch.
The Times has reported WWF's rebuttal which claimed that this was an unchecked 'draft of an internal paper'. Having seen the
document, fully designed and laid out, spattered with detailed references, I find that rebuttal slightly hard to believe. The document pdf is even named 'FINAL'! It's for others to decide how draft or not this was. You can read it here: wwf-retrospective-indian-ocean-tuna-hcrs-final-2-1-1
This episode yet again shines the spotlight on certification and the credibility of even the most 'gold standard' schemes. In general I remain a supporter of certification as a tool for better resource management. But I am sometimes reminded of that brilliant quote by Eric Hoffer: 'Every great cause starts as a movement, becomes a business and ends up as a racket'.


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Passed down through generations, this eggnog has been hailed by countless holiday revelers as the best-ever. Be careful though, this cheerful libation packs quite a punch! With its velvety smooth texture and seductive flavor, it goes down easily, so be sure to enjoy it in moderation. The secret of its mild flavor is letting the eggnog "age" or "mellow" for several days after it is made. Remember to include the mellowing time when planning to make this holiday favorite - and - remember to warn your guests that it's very merry!
Place egg whites in the work bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment; whisk until soft peaks form. With mixer on medium-low speed, add remaining 1/4 cup sugar, then increase the speed and continue whisking until stiff, glossy peaks form.
Fold egg whites into the yolk/cream mixture. Ladle eggnog into glass (or ceramic containers). Cover, and store in the refrigerator for 4 days before serving. (Note: During the aging time, the egg whites will float to the surface. Stir the eggnog once each day to reincorporate the whites into the mixture.)
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A Sponsor is an individual volunteer from a 12-step program such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Gambler's Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, and Debtor's Anonymous. While some Sponsors also work as professional treatment providers, they do volunteer work (primarily, helping newcomers to take the 12 Steps) because they believe that they benefit personally from the service they give: their payoff is that they get to maintain their long-term sobriety or abstinence by helping you.
Sober Companions and Sober Coaches are well-qualified treatment professionals whose jobs might include guiding you to just the right people in whatever 12-Step Fellowship is appropriate for you.
A Sober Companion will help you deal with this fact: 12-Step groups have grown explosively; in Southern California, there are over 3,000 meetings per month. Yes, you read that number correctly: over 3,000 meetings per month! How can any newly recovering person, especially clients like ours (busy professionals, artists, adolescents, and recognizable individuals of all varieties) expect to navigate these strange waters without a little help from a Sober Coach or a Sober Companion?
A sponsor might work at a coffee shop, might be a captain of industry, or might be unemployed. Their job is their job. Unlike a Sober Coach or Sober Companion, the sponsor's part-time avocation is helping their sponsees to stay clean, abstinent, or sober by working through the 12 Steps.
The Sober Coach has a full-time job: helping you stay on track with a variety of scheduling options. We can work with you for a pre-determined number of days, we can schedule office visits convenient for your schedule, and a Sober Companion can remain by your side 24 hours a day, if you need us. A Sober Companion can travel with you, we can assist with your transportation needs, and we can provide services and direction that your Sponsor simply can't.
Sponsors have a singleness of purpose-they stick with the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. Often, the focus is on cleaning up the wreckage of the alcoholic's past.
The job of a Sober Coach (or full-time Sober Companion) is to support you in creating and living a vibrant, superior life. A coach isn't limited to using the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. We work with you on your dreams and plans and help you effectively find solutions to problems.
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On May 13, I reported on the discovery of extremism at the Al-Farooq Mosque in Nashville by award-winning counter-terrorism expert Dave Gaubatz, an individual that once held top-secret security clearance as an agent for the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations. The library carried extremist texts and audio tapes by known radicals such as Syed Maududi and Ali Al-Tamimi, who was convicted for his role in terrorism. One calls for the killing of homosexuals, and another describes how Muslims not engaged in taking up an armed jihad must "strengthen the capability of those fighting on the front line." Other texts were found by his female researcher when a member of the mosque brought her to a Somali store in Nashville that was well hidden because of what the mosque attendee described as "government problems."
Most shockingly, one of his researchers recorded a seven-year old girl describing the teachers at the mosque as hitting the children. Although Gaubatz himself did not see such abuse, he described an incident where he heard a teacher scream and an 8-10 year old girl yell. After Gaubatz turned and looked to see what happened, he saw the teacher carrying a stick between 12 and 14 inches long. Although he did not see her get hit, Gaubatz said "from the reactions of the other children, I believe this happened."
Gaubatz forwarded the information to the Nashville Police Department and Child Protective Services, each of which declined to launch an investigation saying not enough information was provided. CPS also told Gaubatz that the Nashville P.D. did not inform them of the tip.
Gaubatz also says that you can hear the girl mentioning her "husband" on the audio, although Detective Brooks Harris from the department rejected that allegation, saying he and his staff repeatedly listened to the audio and that she was saying the word "aunt" in her native tongue. Gaubatz says that members of the mosque did confirm they practiced polygamy.
Al-Farooq Mosque is attended by many Somali immigrants, and Islamic websites say that services are offered in Somali. Nashville alone is home to about 5,000 such immigrants, and their lack of assimilation is becoming a common complaint in Tennessee. The town of Shelbyville is the most dramatic example of this problem.
Brian Moseley of the Shelbyville Times-Gazzette has written an award-winning series about the impact of these refugees on the town of 17,000.
Moseley says that the local authorities described being frequently disrespected by the Somali immigrants, which number between 400 and 1,000, and are noticing that many become involved with gangs.
"Firefighters have told me that the Somalis refused to evacuate their apartment complex during a blaze and when they responded to alarm calls, the firemen are told to leave and that they are not welcome there…I have been told off the record that many officers are hesitant to even patrol after dark the apartment complex where the Somalis live," he told Jerry Gordon of the New English Review.
He also reports that the school system is having some difficulty in working with them, as they "have difficulties" with females with positions of authorities, and are very demanding that the schools conform to their wishes. They often try to haggle with storeowners, and sometimes refuse to speak to female supervisors at stores, schools and hospitals.
The presence of a radical Islamic compound in Dover makes the potential for radicalization among these Somalis much more dangerous. According to unconfirmed reports received by the Christian Action Network, where I serve as a national security researcher, some of these Somalis have moved to this compound, run by a group called Muslims of America, a front for Jamaat ul-Fuqra. The residents here are followers of a radical Muslim cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, who currently lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
Residents near other compounds have reported the sounds of gunfire, and a secret videotape shows Sheikh Gilani engaging in terrorist training and instructing Muslims who wish to receive his training in "advanced Islamic military warfare" to contact his Muslims of America compounds. If these unverified reports are accurate, then Dover may be one of the locations of the Somalis who have gone missing.
These issues, of course, do not mean that all Somali immigrants are problems, but it is clear that the government needs to find better ways to assimilate those who travel to the U.S. in large numbers as refugees. As these communities grow, the U.S. may find itself with unassimilated masses asserting themselves as a state-within-a-state and over the long term, dealing with the "No-Go Zones" and their subsequent instability as seen in France. Should this happen, Americans will look to Tennessee as one of the places where it first started.


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Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past temperatures going back half a millennium before the era of thermometers--thereby showing just how out of whack recent warming has been. The finding: Recent northern hemisphere temperatures had been "warmer than any other year since (at least) AD 1400." The graph depicting this result looked rather like a hockey stick: After a long period of relatively minor temperature variations (the "shaft"), it showed a sharp mercury upswing during the last century or so ("the blade").
The report moved quickly through climate science circles. Mann and a colleague soon lengthened the shaft of the hockey stick back to the year 1000 AD--and then, in 2001, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
And then all hell broke loose.
Mann tells the full story of the hockey stick--and the myriad unsuccessful attacks on it--in his 2012 book TheHockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines; Mann will appear at a Climate Desk Live event on May 15 to discuss this saga. But to summarize a very complex history of scientific and political skirmishes in a few paragraphs:
The hockey stick was repeatedly attacked, and so was Mann himself. Congress got involved, with demands for Mann's data and other information, including a computer code used in his research. Then the National Academy of Sciences weighed in in 2006, vindicating the hockey stick as good science and noting:
"The basic conclusion of Mann et al. (1998, 1999) was that the late 20th century warmth in the Northern Hemisphere was unprecedented during at least the last 1,000 years. This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large-scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on ice caps and the retreat of glaciers around the world."
It didn't change the minds of the deniers, though--and soon Mann and his colleagues were drawn into the 2009 "Climategate" pseudo-scandal, which purported to reveal internal emails that (among other things) seemingly undermined the hockey stick. Only, they didn't.
In the meantime, those wacky scientists kept doing what they do best--finding out what's true. As Mann relates, over the years other researchers were able to test his work using "more extensive datasets, and more sophisticated methods. And the bottom line conclusion doesn't change." Thus the single hockey stick gradually became what Mann calls a "hockey team." "If you look at all the different groups, there are literally about two dozen" hockey sticks now, he says.
Mother Jones' Jaeah Lee traced the strange evolution of the hockey stick story in this video:
Indeed, two just-published studies support the hockey stick more powerfully than ever. One,
So what does it all mean? Well, here's the millennial scale irony: Climate deniers threw everything they had at the hockey stick. They focused immense resources on what they thought was the Achilles Heel of global warming research--and even then, they couldn't hobble it. (Though they certainly sowed plenty of doubt in the mind of the public.)
What's more, even if they'd succeeded, in a scientific sense it wouldn't have even mattered.
"Climate deniers like to make it seem like the entire weight of evidence for climate change rests on the hockey stick," explains Mann. "And that's not the case. We could get rid of all these reconstructions, and we could still know that climate change is a threat, and that we're causing it." The basic case for global warming caused by humans rests on basic physics--and, basic thermometer readings from around the globe. The hockey stick, in contrast, is the result of a field of research called paleoclimatology (the study of past climates) that, while fascinating, only provides one thread of evidence among many for what we're doing to the planet.
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Meanwhile, the hockey stick's blade doesn't just stop rising of its own accord. It's just going to go up, and up, and up, as the image above, combining the Marcott hockey stick with projections of where temperatures are headed by 2100, plainly shows.
When he shows that graph to audiences, says Mann, "I often hear an audible gasp." In this sense, the hockey stick does indeed matter--for it dramatizes just how much human irresponsibility, in a relatively short period of time, can devastate the only home we have.
This story appears at The Atlantic as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The community is coming together this week to help and to remember the victims of crime during Jacksonville's 38th annual Victims' Rights Week.
Mayor Alvin Brown joined Monday with members of law enforcement, victim advocates, crime victims and their families, to launch this week's events designed to raise awareness of services and programs available to help victims.
Organizers say it's also about sticking together.
"If we stand together, nothing can divide us," said Nicoa Garrett, chairwoman of Victims' Rights Week. "If we keep their legacies alive; if we keep praying for their families, for the healing and peace to take place, we can't lose."
Schedule of events for Victims' Rights Week:
- Tuesday, 9-11 a.m. - Main Library Auditorium, 303 N. Laura Street
Free seminar titled "Long-Term Impacts of Mental Health and Life Beyond Trauma on Victims" will be presented by the VAAC. Participants are asked to begin registering on location at 8:30 a.m. in the auditorium of the Downtown Main Library.
- Tuesday, noon-1:30 p.m. - Main Library Multi-Purpose Room, 303 N. Laura Street
Victims' Rights Week Annual Awards Luncheon is open to the public. Tickets are $30 and tables are $300. Please contact Thelma Jackson at 904-630-7103 for information and registration. Awards are presented in five categories: Courageous Victim, Outstanding Victim Advocate, Judicial Victim Advocate, Law Enforcement Victim Advocate and Media.
- Thursday, 5:30 p.m. - Hemming Plaza, 135 Monroe Street West
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Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as an executive producer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.


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Nixon awards KC grant for early childhood education
Money will help renovate 2 KC preschool facilities
Gov. Jay Nixon has announced that nearly $1.5 million is being awarded through a new early childhood grant program to build and renovate two Kansas City preschool facilities.
Nixon made the announcement Friday at Woodland Early Learning Community School, which is receiving $480,000 for renovations. The Kansas City district and the nonprofit Kansas City Freedom Schools Initiative operate the newly reopened school.
A second nonprofit, the Emmanuel Family and Child Development Center, will receive a $1 million grant to build a 28,000-square-foot early childhood education facility.
The money is part of $10 million in community development block grants and tax credits that are being awarded through the new Missouri Smart Start initiative. Nixon said other grant recipients will be announced soon.


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Here's How Long Milo Yiannopoulos was on Patreon Before Getting Banned
Not long after it was reported that he was $2 million in debt, openly gay alt-right provocateur and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos attempted a "marvelous 2019 comeback" by launching an account on the crowdfunding/membership platform Patreon...except that did not exactly pan out the way he hoped.
The Verge is reporting that his time on Patreon lasted just one day.
"Milo Yiannopoulos was removed from Patreon as we don't allow association with or supporting hate groups on Patreon," the company said in a tweet.
Though he's never called himself a white supremacist, leaked emails published last year linked him with white nationalists as did a video that surfaced showing him singing at karaoke with neo-Nazi Richard Spencer while a crowd gives Nazi salutes.
Yiannopoulos, who has been banned from Twitter, later took to Instagram to share an email that was apparently sent by Patreon, Splinter points out. In the letter, the company said he was banned for his "past association with the Proud Boys, though recently disavowed, is a breach of our guidelines."
"I've had a miserable year or two, banned and de-platformed and censored and blacklisted," Yiannopoulos wrote in his now deleted Patreon profile.
He was asking fans to help him start a weekly late-night TV talk show and to help him "pay essential staff and service providers," The Verge reports. In return, patrons would get rewards like "free Milo ringtones," signed posters of himself and an "elite-tier Milo coffee mug." Those who forked over at least $500 a month would have gotten Yiannopoulos to call them on their birthday. Those who paid $750 a month would have Yiannopoulos "fly to you and take you and a friend out for dinner once a year."
Earlier this week The Guardian reported Yiannopoulos is $2 million in debt — documents were made available thanks to a lawsuit in Australia. Nevertheless, he reportedly told the newspaper he's "doing fine and bringing in $40K U.S. a month."


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Last night, Paul Ryan traded the campaign trail for a trick-or-treat route, celebrating Halloween with his three children, wife, sister-in-law, niece and invited members of the press in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. It was a routine affair with just one exception – his daughter's costume. Ten-year-old Liza dressed as Katy Perry, who recently performed at an Obama campaign event.
Along with Beyonce and Jay-Z, Perry is among the few pop stars taking action for Obama's re-election, with additional support from rock icons like Bruce Springsteen. She engaged youth voters with a performance at an Obama rally in Las Vegas on October 24, where she encouraged the barely-legal members of the massive crowd to vote for the first time. On October 7th, Perry performed at an Obama fundraiser in Los Angeles, and this Saturday (Nov. 3), she'll appear with the president at a rally in Milwaukee. "I sang for President @BarackObama last night because I believe in Equal Rights #ForAll #Vote," she tweeted. Additionally, Perry recently broke bread with Michelle Obama.
At her Vegas performance for Obama, Perry donned a ballot dress made out of latex – a skintight ensemble that Ryan's name didn't even appear on, just Mitt Romney's.
Naturally, Ryan's daughter didn't wear anything near as revealing as this or Perry's usual fashion choices, going G-rated with a rainbow outfit and a blue wig slightly reminiscent of Perry's "California Gurls" video.
The Republican VP candidate knows a thing or two about rejection from his favorite musical acts, which he's apparently passing along to his daughter. Earlier this year, after Ryan name-checked Rage Against the Machine as one of his favorite bands, Rage guitarist Tom Morello wrote an op-ed in Rolling Stone noting, "Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against."
Ryan opted for no costume, while his wife Janna dressed as a witch and his sons, Charlie (9) and Sam (7), were the Grim Reaper and the "Unknown Phantom," respectively, according to the Washington Post.
No word on what Obama's daughters, Malia (14) and Sasha (11), dressed as for Halloween, but we're guessing it wasn't Clint Eastwood.
– Jillian Mapes, CBS Local; photo by John Gurzinski, Getty
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We're Feeling The "Electricity" With Dua Lipa On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
We can't stop the feeling, "feeling so strong"
October 11, 2018
Everyday, we fall a little bit harder for Dua Lipa.
We were still recovering from her neon-splashed performance at the 2018 American Music Awards, when the singer decided to kick off her shoes and bring the heat to Jimmy Kimmel Live. Wednesday night, the "New Rules" star brought her shimmering, sultry energy to the stage for a live edition of "Electricity" and now we're offically dead for the week.
The barefoot beauty is everything, and "Electricity" continues to be one of our favorites. It's available everywhere.
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This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
It's two in the morning and a koala is caught in barbed wire on a fence, like a prisoner trying to escape. A phone rings in the home of Megan Aitken in Burpengary, a suburb north of Brisbane. Aitken, 42, runs a volunteer organization devoted to rescuing wild koalas from a surprisingly wide array of hazards. Before the dispatcher has even given her the location, she has thrown her clothes on over her pajamas.
When Aitken arrives on the scene, Jane Davies and Sandra Peachey, two other volunteers, are already there. The koala is clinging to a chain-link fence, its fur snagged in horizontal strands of barbed wire. Towering eucalyptus trees, as pale as ghosts, rise on the far side of the fence.
"He was obviously trying to get to the trees on the other side," Aitken says.
Standing in the bright cones of car headlights, Aitken pulls on heavy leather welding gloves. Despite their huggable, stuffed-animal appearance, koalas can be ferocious when resisting capture. They'll growl, flail, fight, and bite like angry raccoons, and Aitken has the scars to prove it. Next she places a wire cage on the ground near the animal and opens up a thick blanket. Then the three rescuers rapidly get to work.
Davies throws the blanket over the animal, both to calm it and to protect the rescuers from its teeth and claws. Peachey opens the lid of the cage, while Aitken firmly grasps the little black-nosed beast through the blanket, frees it from the fence, and drops it snarling and snapping into the cage.
"Well done, ladies!" Aitken shouts.
Looking down at the round-eyed koala they've just captured, Aitken considers a new problem. If this koala were sick or injured, they'd take it to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, 40 minutes north in Beerwah. But the animal is healthy. By protocol they must release it somewhere nearby, since koalas have a home range and feed in the same trees over and over. Yet this is Deception Bay, a densely populated suburb. The women study a street map with flashlights.
"This is the whole problem," Aitken says, exasperated. "There are so few places left for the koala." In the end they take the animal several blocks to tiny Boama Park, which borders a stretch of open land reaching all the way to the beach. Deep in the night the women carry the cage through the trees, setting it below a gray-skinned eucalyptus. Standing back, they spring the lid of the cage, and the koala dashes up the trunk and disappears.
"Good luck, little one," Aitken says.
It will take a lot more than luck.
The koala, cuddly symbol of a nation and one of the most beloved animals on the planet, is in crisis. Before Europeans settled Australia more than two centuries ago, about ten million koalas lived in a 1,500-mile-long swath of the east coast eucalyptus forests. Hunted for their luxurious fur, koalas were brought to the edge of extinction in the southern half of their range. In the northern half, Queensland, a million were killed in 1919 alone. After the last open season in Queensland was held in 1927, only tens of thousands remained.
Through the next half century their numbers slowly rebounded, in part due to efforts to relocate and recolonize them. Then urbanization began to take its toll. Habitat was lost, and diseases spread. With urbanization came the threat of dogs and highways. Since 1990, when about 430,000 koalas inhabited Australia, their numbers have dropped sharply. Because surveys are difficult, current population estimates vary widely—from a low of 44,000 by advocacy groups to a high of 300,000 by government agencies. More than a decade ago a survey of the Koala Coast, a 93,000-acre region in southeastern Queensland, estimated a koala population of 6,200; today there are believed to be around 2,000.
"Koalas are getting caught in fences and dying, being killed by dogs, struck by vehicles, even dying simply because a homeowner cut down several eucalyptus trees in his backyard," says Deidré de Villiers, one of the chief koala researchers at the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management. For 15 years de Villiers, 38, has been tracking koalas, monitoring populations, studying the reasons for their decline, and creating guidelines to make development more koala-friendly.
De Villiers insists that koalas and humans can coexist in urban environments "if developers get on board with koala-sensitive designs," such as lower speed limits for streets, green corridors for koala movement, and, most especially, preserving every precious eucalyptus tree. Unfortunately, koalas have another problem.
"Disease is the other huge issue," says veterinarian Jon Hanger, 42, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Queensland. Hanger has discovered that as much as half of Queensland's koala population may be affected by the sexually transmitted disease chlamydiosis. In some wild koala populations more than 50 percent of the sexually mature females are infertile. The genesis of the disease is unknown, but it manifests itself as urogenital and ocular disease and is transmitted through mating and birthing, as well as fighting among males. Unlike in humans, chlamydiosis in koalas is often fatal.
"Koala populations that used to be vibrant and sustainable are becoming extinct," says Hanger, who puts the blame squarely on the provincial government. "Queensland has failed miserably to do anything meaningful about the decline. The federal government needs to get involved and do it properly, listing the koala as vulnerable to extinction." Such a designation might save the last remnants of critical koala habitat, he argues. Hanger is also part of a research team developing a chlamydia vaccine.
A recent report presented to the Australian Senate made several recommendations to save the koalas, including listing the animals as threatened and vulnerable, funding a program to monitor koala populations, mapping their habitat, and managing federal and private lands to protect the koalas. Until such measures are taken, the efforts of grassroots koala emergency squads will continue to be essential.
"The more koalas we lose, the more valuable each rescued koala becomes," says Hanger.
Deidré de Villiers takes the koalas' plight personally. Visitors to her home in Loganholme, south of Brisbane, discover that the woman who is a respected koala researcher by day is a doting koala foster parent by night.
"Ruby still sleeps in the basket hugging her teddy bear," she says. The baby koala is cocooned in a cane picnic basket like an infant in a bassinet. "She was rescued from the jaws of a dog. You want to hold her?"
De Villiers picks up Ruby and hands her to me, the koala's needle-sharp claws piercing my neck and face. I wince, and de Villiers, whose arms are crosshatched with scratches, laughs.
"She likes to have both hands and feet gripping something when she's picked up," she says. My lip is bleeding, so I hand the little beast back. De Villiers gently places Ruby onto a tree limb in her playpen in the dining room. Her playmate, Luna, another orphaned koala, is asleep in the crook of the branch. Through the glass doors of the dining room, out on the patio, a larger playpen is visible, and in the backyard stands a chain-link enclosure filled with trees.
De Villiers is caring for five koalas at once: Ruby, Luna, Tia, Mr. T, and Munchie. Ruby is quiet, Luna is ticklish, Tia likes to jump, Mr. T is mischievous, and Munchie is aloof. Every other day de Villiers cuts and collects eucalyptus leaves, the koalas' primary food, from a nearby plantation. During the past 12 years, she's fostered more than 60 animals.
"Ruby has to go to the hospital tomorrow," she says. "She has a respiratory tract infection that's not improving."
The next day she takes Ruby to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility that was built by Steve Irwin, the TV naturalist who died in 2006. Ruby is admitted, sedated, then anesthetized and intubated to feed oxygen and drugs to her lungs. Everything is efficient, orderly, and hyperclean.
"She has a nasty case of pneumonia," says Amber Gillett, 30, a vet who has worked here for six years. "It can be fatal, particularly for young koalas."
While de Villiers strokes the still-unconscious Ruby, Gillett flushes the koala's lungs with a saline solution and takes a sample that is whisked to the lab for culturing. "I'd guess we have about a 70 percent success rate with pneumonia in koala joeys," she says, as Ruby is wheeled off to the x-ray room. "I think this little one will make it."
The following afternoon Ruby's back home, recuperating in a playpen with Luna. One morning not long after, de Villiers sets out into the scrubby forest near Lake Samsonvale, northwest of Brisbane, to catch Tee Vee, a wild koala the researcher has been monitoring for more than a year. The Department of Environment and Resource Management has relocated several koalas into Tee Vee's territory, and de Villiers has been recording the impact on the local koala population. Using a receiver that resembles an old-fashioned rooftop TV antenna, she walks through second-growth bush, listening for a signal from the koala's radio collar.
She eventually picks up a faint signal and follows it over hill and dale as the beeping, like a koala Geiger counter, grows louder and louder.
"I see her!" she says finally. A basketball-size gray lump is clinging to a branch of an ironbark tree 50 feet or so directly above.
Capturing a koala high in the canopy is complicated. First a giant slingshot blasts a ball of string over a tree limb close to the koala. This may require several tries. The string is attached to a climbing rope, which is pulled up over the limb and tied off taut to the ground. A 30-foot ladder is then set against the tree. Someone must scale the ladder and inch up the rope, carrying a "flagging pole" like a trapeze artist.
That someone is de Villiers, of course. Rigged out like a rock climber, she scrambles up the tree, agile as a koala herself. Dangling from a limb, she attempts to "flag" the koala, by flapping a flag of plastic or fabric attached to the end of the pole above its head. This annoys koalas, and Tee Vee starts shimmying backward down the trunk.
But Tee Vee, as de Villiers says, "is an obstreperous handful." Halfway down the tree, the koala runs out on a limb and cleverly jumps into another tree, starting the whole process over again.
The second time Tee Vee backs down, she gets within 20 feet of the ground before freaking out, leaping into midair like a flying squirrel. But koalas are round and don't fly. Tee Vee lands on the ground and is quickly captured with a blanket, screeching and clawing and biting like a little wolverine.
After Tee Vee is sedated, de Villiers gets to work. Using a variety of instruments, she measures everything from the length of the koala's body to the width of her skull, the size and wear of her teeth to the silkiness of her fur. Weight and general health are also noted.
"I think she has a baby," de Villiers says suddenly.
And with that, she slips her finger into the downward-facing pouch, opens it up, and delicately draws out a four-inch-long, blind, furless, alien-looking creature with fully developed razor-sharp claws.
A deep, spontaneous "ahhh" escapes from everyone present, even the rangers who have done this many times before.
De Villiers deftly examines the infant and pouch for any signs of disease or abnormality, then softly pushes the joey back inside the sleeping mother.
"While there are still healthy babies, there's still hope," she whispers.


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Old City Farmers Market
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