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package org.societies.android.api.cis.management;

import org.societies.api.schema.cis.community.JoinResponse;
import android.os.Parcel;
import android.os.Parcelable;

/**
 * Describe your class here...
 *
 * @author aleckey
 *
 */
public class AJoinResponse extends JoinResponse implements Parcelable {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -4526637641953885012L;

	public AParticipant getParticipant() {
		return (AParticipant)super.getParticipant();
	}

	public void setParticipant(AParticipant aparticipant) {
		super.setParticipant(aparticipant);
	}

	public ACommunity getCommunity() {
		return (ACommunity)super.getCommunity();
	}

	public void setCommunity(ACommunity acommunity) {
		super.setCommunity(acommunity);
	}

	public AJoinResponse() {
		super();
	}

	/* @see android.os.Parcelable#describeContents()*/
	public int describeContents() {
		return 0;
	}

	/* @see android.os.Parcelable#writeToParcel(android.os.Parcel, int)*/
	public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
		dest.writeParcelable(this.getCommunity(), flags);
		dest.writeParcelable(this.getParticipant(), flags);
		dest.writeString(this.isResult().toString());
	}

	private AJoinResponse(Parcel in) {
		super();
		this.setCommunity((ACommunity) in.readParcelable(this.getClass().getClassLoader()) );
		this.setParticipant((AParticipant) in.readParcelable(this.getClass().getClassLoader()) );
		this.setResult(Boolean.valueOf(in.readString()));
	}

	public static final Parcelable.Creator<AJoinResponse> CREATOR = new Parcelable.Creator<AJoinResponse>() {
		public AJoinResponse createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
			return new AJoinResponse(in);
		}

		public AJoinResponse[] newArray(int size) {
			return new AJoinResponse[size];
		}
	};

	public static AJoinResponse convertJoinResponse(JoinResponse joinResp) {
		AJoinResponse ajoinResp = new AJoinResponse();
		ajoinResp.setCommunity(ACommunity.convertCommunity(joinResp.getCommunity()));
		ajoinResp.setParticipant(AParticipant.convertParticipant(joinResp.getParticipant()));
		ajoinResp.setResult(joinResp.isResult());

		return ajoinResp;
	}
}

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Apax Partners in the hunt for moneysupermarket
Moneysupermarket has been targeted by private equity group, Apax Partners, as it seeks to combine the price comparison site with its US business, Bankrate.
BY Amanda Andrews and Ben Harrington 31 October 2010 • 07:00 am
Apax is understood to have first expressed an interest in the business last year, when talks were held. Two meetings were held but it is not clear why formal talks failed to develop. Sources said Apax is not currently in talks with the group, but that it is still believed to be interested in acquiring the company.
Simon Nixon, Moneysupermarket's multi-millionaire co-founder and executive chairman, has a 52.5pc stake in the business, so an interested buyer would need to seek his approval early on.
Apax acquired Bankrate, the personal finance website operator, in July 2009 for $571m (£356m). Moneysupermarket's current market capitalisation is £426m.
Moneysupermarket was recently identified by David McCann, an analyst at Numis Securities, as the most likely target for private equity as Mr Nixon is free to sell his stake.
Industry sources said that the group could also prove interesting to other private equity groups and trade players such as Google and Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp.
Sources said that other private equity groups have been running the slide rule over it.
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	d = 0
	lastword = ""
	pig = ""
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			if d == 0:
				# True?  We are done
					pig = word + "yay"
			else:
					pig = word[d:] + lastword + "ay"
			break
		else:
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	return pig

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	pigified = pigified + piggy(word) + " "

# Write the new string to piggy.txt.
outfile.write(pigified)

# close the files.
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The portrait of Elihu Root in the Harvard Law School Library depicts him as he looked in 1903, when he was 58 and secretary of war under President Theodore Roosevelt. Root wears a thick tie and full vest and morning coat. He is standing, with rimless glasses in his right hand and his left hand in a pants pocket. With graying brown hair parted in the middle, somber brown eyes, and a thick moustache, he is the embodiment of the lawyer-statesman—the idealized lawyer who is a skilled legal technician but, more to the point, a person of practical wisdom and exemplary character. The portrait hangs at the library's south end, outside a room named for him.
Even a frequent visitor to the Root Room should be forgiven for thinking he was another distinguished graduate of the law school recognized for his accomplishments. The library assumes his eminence, without explaining who he was. He was from an old American family. "My maternal grandfather, with whom I passed much time as a child," Root wrote in a letter to a historian, "was the son of the man who commanded the Americans in the fight at Concord bridge on the nineteenth of April in 1775." He was certainly accomplished.
In 1913, when he was a United States senator from New York, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for advocating that major conflicts between countries be settled by arbitration instead of war. After his chapter at the War Department and before being elected to the Senate, he was Roosevelt's secretary of state. In that job, he negotiated bilateral treaties with 24 countries, which each committed to using arbitration to resolve disputes. That led to the creation of a world court, officially the Permanent Court of International Justice, which existed until 1946. Root was a kind of godfather to the group of men responsible for the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), which failed to end all wars, as it was supposed to, but, by changing the rules of war, all but ended wars of conquest—the lion's share of wars until then.
Credit: Bob O'Connor A gift in honor of Elihu Root was used to establish an elegant reading room in his name. Books in its collection told vivid stories about lawyers and the law.
Stimson, like Root, was prominent in government as well as law practice. He was secretary of state for President Herbert Hoover and secretary of war for President William H. Taft and then, a generation later, for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The year he turned 50, he enlisted during the First World War. He served as an artillery officer in France and left the Army as a colonel in the 31st Field Artillery. Stimson had intended that the gift help endow a professorship in his mentor's name, but, a dozen years later, after Harvard was unable to raise sufficient additional money, he said he "must leave the use of the fund to the authorities of the university." Harvard used it for the "equipment and decoration" of an informal reading room in Langdell.
The Root Room was meant to have the feel of a living room—but a stately one, decorated in a neoclassical style. Large and open, with a high ceiling, it was painted an airy blue and white, with ornamental columns emphasizing its height. Paintings and sculptures of distinguished figures from American and British law defined the walls and corners. On the wall opposite the entrance, there was a fireplace with a reproduction of the mantel that, until 1857, stood behind the speaker's desk in the House of Representatives, in Washington, D.C. Looking back from the fireplace, you could see a gilded clock above the entrance with Roman numerals marking the hours.
While the room offered newspapers and magazines, primarily it provided students with books—some novels but mostly nonfiction—about the intersection of law and life rather than the law. The furniture included easy chairs where students sprawled, slept, and otherwise made themselves at home, sometimes getting lost in their reading, which transported them across time and space.
"The Trial of Dr. Adams," Sybille Bedford's true-crime account, had that power. It's about an epic 1957 murder trial at London's Old Bailey of a 58-year-old English country doctor named John Bodkin Adams. Astonishingly, he was acquitted of poisoning an elderly female patient with large quantities of heroin and morphine, though he had irrefutably prescribed them. He was later stripped of his medical license, but he lived into his mid-80s and died a wealthy man, having been the beneficiary of the wills of 132 patients, out of 163 who died in suspicious circumstances.
It did not come out loudly but it was heard, and it came out with a certain firmness and a certain dignity, and also possibly with a certain stubbornness, and it was said in a private, faintly non-conformist voice. It was also said in the greatest number of words anyone could manage to put into a plea of Not Guilty.
Much of the Root collection was biography, with many books about icons of American law, like John Marshall, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln, and others about obscure figures, like Charles Henry Fernald, a county judge in Santa Barbara, California, and George Shiras, a Supreme Court justice from 1892 to 1903. Some of it was macabre (e.g., "The Reluctant Hangman: The Story of James Berry, Executioner – 1884-1892" by Justin Atholl and "Wills of the U.S. Presidents" by Herbert R. Collins and David B. Weaver). Some of it was esoteric ("Forbrydertyper hos Shakespeare" by August Goll—"Criminal types in Shakespeare," an authorized translation from Danish). HLS librarians regarded the books as entertainment and, compared with legal textbooks, they were. But many in the collection seriously addressed subjects that the law school's curriculum barely considered. The books were Harvard Law School's version of what Harvard Business School gathered in its Power and Morality Collection. The law school's goal was to teach students to think like lawyers, not how to practice law or even what lawyers did in practice. The Root Room provided books about both for a form of independent study in a counter-curriculum.
Credit: Getty Images John W. Davis argued Brown v. Board of Education against Thurgood Marshall.
Brown v. Board of Education is often called the most important Supreme Court ruling in the 20th century. It was not yet two decades old when I arrived as a 1L in 1973 and became a Root Room regular. Many people know that Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer who argued in favor of what the Court unanimously decided in 1954—that segregated public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because of what Marshall stood for as a champion of equal rights, President Lyndon B. Johnson picked him to be solicitor general—the first African-American to serve in that role—and, then, to sit for 24 years on the Supreme Court.
How could the lawyer who led the country's most important legal campaign for racial justice venerate his adversary bent on thwarting it?
In 1973, the Root Room acquired a book that answered the question. "Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis" by William H. Harbaugh, who was a professor of history at the University of Virginia, was, in the words of The New York Times Book Review, "a monument of scholarship and readability." It was my introduction to the counter-curriculum. Davis argued more cases (140) before the Supreme Court in the 20th century than any other lawyer, until he was surpassed by a deputy solicitor general who worked for almost 35 years in the SG's office. In the 1930s, Marshall said, he often skipped classes at Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C., to hear Davis argue before the Court.
Credit: Associated Press Henry L. Stimson, then secretary of war, with Gen. George C. Marshall in 1942.
Henry Stimson's gift established the Root Room, where students could explore broadly.
That helped make Davis "the greatest Solicitor General in history," Harbaugh wrote, when he held the job for five years under President Woodrow Wilson, though other contenders for the title came after him. He was a successful American ambassador to Great Britain after he resigned as solicitor general and ran for president as a conservative Democrat, losing to the Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924, but it was as a lawyer that he defined himself for history. Among elite lawyers, he was one of the most admired in the profession, with his name put at the front of the name of the Manhattan law firm he joined in 1921, when he was 48. Two generations after his death, the firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell remains among the most respected corporate law firms in the world.
Was it fair of Kluger to condemn Davis as a racist, and not let his appraisal of the man rest on the quality of his advocacy? As Harbaugh explained, and Kluger quoted, Davis adhered "absolutely to the principle that the lawyer's duty was to represent his client's interest to the limit of the law, not to moralize on the social and economic implications of the client's lawful actions." In admiring Davis, Thurgood Marshall accepted that tenet, which the legal scholar Murray Schwartz called the "principle of non-accountability" at the heart of the American adversary system.
The system depends on lawyers vigorously representing each of the opposing parties in a dispute. They can do that, the theory goes, only if they are not held responsible for what society in general, and a judge and jury in particular, find repugnant in the actions of clients the lawyers are representing. That is among the most difficult ideas in American justice. It was debated in the 1970s when the American Civil Liberties Union, then headed by Harvard Law School graduate Norman Dorsen, defended the right of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America to march in uniforms with swastikas on armbands through Skokie, Illinois, then a village of 70,000 people with 5,000 Holocaust survivors.
A frolic and detour in the Root Room led to that fundamental issue. Similar excursions led to others as important.
In 1990, after a half century, the library moved most of the books out of the Root Room and remade it into a center of scholarship where researchers can work with materials brought in from the school's Historical & Special Collections—as the library describes, "nearly three thousand linear feet of manuscripts, over three hundred thousand rare books, and more than seventy thousand visual images." The décor is the same, but the furniture has been thinned out. The room feels even airier and looks beautiful. It's still the Root Room, but it's really RR 2.0. "The Library remains the largest academic law library in the world, and continues to reinvent itself to meet the needs of the law school," the school's website says.
The library had contemplated the change for several years, but, as a librarian told me, it was "the asbestos contamination in the Treasure Room, in the spring of 1990, that ultimately accelerated the relocation plan." The Caspersen Room, as it's now called, is at the north end of the library and serves as a space for exhibitions, such as the 2005 "Retrospective Honoring Charles Hamilton Houston on the Grand Opening of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice" at the law school. An HLS graduate, Houston was dean of Howard Law School and litigation director of the NAACP, the great lawyer who was the main architect of the strategy that Thurgood Marshall and others carried out.
What the law school of earlier decades left to the old Root Room to teach about the life of the law is now part of the school's curriculum.
Around the time of the change, the legal profession emerged as a subject of first-rate scholarship among law professors including HLS's David Wilkins '80, who is now director of the school's Center on the Legal Profession and vice dean for global initiatives on the legal profession. What the law school of earlier decades left to the old Root Room to teach about the life of the law is now part of the school's curriculum. That's so in courses like Challenges of a General Counsel, which Wilkins co-teaches with Ben Heineman, the former senior vice president and general counsel of GE, and Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process, which Mitchell Presser, the head of the U.S. M&A practice of the global law firm of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, teaches, and in the many legal clinics, student practice organizations, and externships that have transformed what students learn and how.
Credit: Brooks Kraft In 1990, the Root Room was remade into a hub for scholarship, where researchers can consult materials from the school's archives.
Law professors got interested in the legal profession because, as major law firms began to morph into economic powerhouses, many leading American lawyers were concerned that the elite segment of the profession was abandoning "principle for profit, professionalism for commercialism," as a report of the American Bar Association put it. Davis, Root and Stimson had all been accused of doing the same thing. As Louis D. Brandeis LL.B. 1887 described the problem around the time Root was in the Roosevelt administration, elite lawyers had let themselves "become adjuncts of great corporations" and had "neglected the obligation to use their powers for the protection of the people." A generation ago, Wilkins and others began a challenging quest that continues today: to persuade elite lawyers to give the ethical dimensions of lawyering much more attention.
I graduated from HLS without really understanding what the word "professional" meant in defining the legal profession and how that affected the behavior of lawyers in the most influential corporate law firms. For that matter, I didn't know what the solicitor general actually did in the U.S. Justice Department or understand many other aspects of law and the legal culture that struck me as significant because of what I read in the Root Room.
"Simple Justice" was one of the last books I read in the room before graduating in 1976—especially memorable, it later dawned on me, because the book's revelations about what happened at a profound intersection of life and law in the United States fortified my interest in a career as a journalist and an author of books about legal affairs. In "Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire," "The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law," and other books, I have written about answers I have found and stories that helped explain the answers.
At a celebration of Skadden's 40th anniversary in 1988, when it was making more money than any law firm ever had and was the colossus of the legal profession, Flom issued a warning. He instructed: "We must remember that the history of major institutions is that they are not permanent. The only permanence comes from what you make of it, or what the institution makes of itself. If it becomes a dinosaur, it will disappear." It was his version of the lesson that the law school demonstrated it understood when it overhauled its curriculum, and that the library showed it grasped when it remade the Root Room.
Lincoln Caplan '76 is a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School. A former staff writer at The New Yorker and editorial writer about the Supreme Court for The New York Times, he is the author of six books about legal affairs. His journalism is linked to at lincolncaplan.com.


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Laptops, tablet computers and smart phones are only a few of the tech gadgets high on students' wish lists. Increasingly, these electronic tools are playing an important role in higher education. Learn ten ways students can equip themselves with the tech gear they need without breaking the bank.
1. Prioritize wants and needs.
Electronics today have amazing capabilities that make them very appealing. Deciding which devices you really require for school - versus those for entertainment - is an important step toward not overspending on tech products. Before buying anything, assess what capabilities you need.
2. Identify the right tech tools.
When you know what you need, do your research to find the product that will provide the best return on your investment. For starters, buy one device that will perform all of the functions you need, rather than multiple gadgets geared for different uses. Consult consumer websites to identify quality products that provide lasting value.
3. Find the best price.
Prices for technology devices like computers and cell phones can vary considerably between vendors. Check a variety of sources to find the best deal on products. Visit online retailers, traditional sales outlets, discount websites and other sources known for selling products at discounted prices.
4. Account for hidden costs.
Tech gadgets often come with expenses beyond the cost of purchase. Remember to consider additional potential costs, including product accessories, software, equipment upgrades, subscription services, warranty plans and other add-ons that can significantly increase the total cost of ownership.
5. Consider used or refurbished products.
Traditional and online retailers both feature deals on 'open box' or refurbished computers, phones and other technology devices. Buying used products can allow you to save considerably, though it's important to deal only with reputable vendors who will back up the quality of products. Check user ratings to identify reputable online sales outlets, or look for refurbished sale sections on manufacturers' own websites.
6. Take advantage of student status.
Students are eligible for bargains in all kinds of retail environments. Computer manufacturers, for example, often feature special deals for people in college. Student discounts can also be found at stores, particularly those on or near campus. Discounted computers and software are common tech perks students enjoy.
7. Make use of free trials.
Much of the software required to complete college coursework - particularly in specialized fields - is expensive, even with student discounts. Utilizing free trials can allow you to use software free of charge for short periods. You may ultimately need to buy a product, but you'll at least know you really need it.
8. Find the right service plans.
Gadgets often come with monthly bills for usage. Staying on a family cell phone plan is a way to save some money on smart phone usage. Shopping around for the least expensive Internet provider is also a good idea. Be wary of over-buying when choosing service plans, instead selecting plans that best fit your usage.
9. Avoid putting gadgets on a credit card.
It's much better to save up for electronics than it is to put devices on a credit card. Interest paid over time can make electronic tools much more expensive than they would otherwise be. This interest can effectively negate a great deal you might have found on a gadget.
10. Use the Internet for entertainment.
There's no need to pay expensive cable or satellite TV fees each month. Many websites feature free, legal access to television shows. DVDs and CDs are also unnecessary expenses given that free and low-cost streaming alternatives are available online.
Learn about ten expenses students can eliminate to save money.


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Un deula (ou deul) désigne un temple dans l'état de l'Orissa en Inde .

Le mot vient de la langue locale, l'Oriya.

C'est aussi un type de bâtiment dans l'architecture de style Kalinga des temples hindouistes de cette région.

Il y a trois types de Deulas  :

Rekha Deula

Rekha signifie ligne en sanskrit. C'est un bâtiment élevé en forme de pain de sucre, semblable aux shikharas. Il recouvre et protège le cœur du sanctuaire (garbha griha).
Exemples :
 Le Shikhara du Temple de Lingaraja à Bhubaneswar.
 Le Shikhara du temple de Jagannath à Puri.
 Le petit temple de Jagannath à Nayagarh, Orissa.
 Le petit temple de Shiva Uttareshvara à Bhubaneswar.
 Le Shikhara du temple de Yameshwar à Bhubaneswar.

Pidha Deula

C'est un bâtiment de plan carré avec une toiture en forme de pyramide, comme les vimanas. Pour des halls ou des salles de service du temple.
Exemples :
 Le jaga mohan (salle d'assemblée) du Temple de Sûrya (Konârak).
 Le jaga mohan du Temple de Yameshwar à Bhubaneswar.
 Le temple jain de Digambara à Bhubaneswar.

Khakhara Deula

C'est un bâtiment de plan rectangulaire avec une toiture en forme de pyramide tronquée, comme les gopuras. Le nom vient de Khakharu (=gourde) du fait de la forme du haut du toit. Les temples de divinités féminines telles que Shakti sont généralement de ce type.
Exemples :
 Le temple de Vaital Deula (ou Baitala Deula) à Bhubaneswar dédié à la déesse Chamunda.
 Le temple de Varahi Deula à Chaurasi près de Puri, dédié à la déesse Varahi.
 Le temple de Brahmi à Chaurasi près de Puri.
 Le temple de Gouri à Bhubaneswar.
 Le temple de Narayani, près de Khalikote, Orissa dédié à Durga.
 Le temple de Durga près de Banki, Orissa.

Notes

Liens externes
 http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/nov2005/engpdf/Orissan_Temple_Architecture.pdf
 http://www.indoarch.org/arch_glossary.php

Élément d'architecture en Inde
Édifice-type
Lexique de l'Inde
Architecture de l'hindouisme

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On January 15th at around 8:40, police were dispatched to a residence in the 500 block of E. Monroe Street for a report of a fight that had taken place in the front yard. While en-route, police received information that the suspect had left in a Jeep Wrangler after crashing into two vehicles. The suspect was identified as 35-year-old Eugene Clifford of Rapid City, and law enforcement learned that he was on an electronic ankle monitoring system. Law enforcement began tracking the ankle monitor's GPS signal. Thanks to this information. police located the Wrangler parked outside of 169 Crescent Drive, and Clifford was located inside the residence. Clifford was placed under arrest for two counts of Felony Vandalism, Driving Under Suspension, and a Probation Violation. As police worked to identify the owner of the Wrangler, they determined it had been taken earlier in the day from a Rapid City car dealership. Clifford was additionally placed under arrest for Grand Theft. He was transported to the Pennington County Jail.


What's in it? Soy-based soup with corn, asparagus, mixed greens, kaiware, mushroom, deep-fried tofu, sesame seeds, shredded red pepper and spinach noodles topped with black garlic oil.
Why we love it? With the amount of awesome ramen spots that San Diego has to offer, it can be hard to distinguish which one is the best and most authentic. For vegan ramen, we love Tajima because it delivers a packed bowl of flavor that can stand alone as a great dish, sans meat, for cheap. The fried tofu and the generous serving of fresh vegetables and noodles make a complete meal that is both filling and tasty. This dish doesn't skimp on that rich, salty flavor that you look forward to in a bowl of ramen, thanks to the homemade, soy-based broth. If you are vegetarian and not vegan, you can even ask to add a ramen egg to your meal for added protein and texture.


Let's play a word game: What comes to mind when I say, "The future of visual communications is…"?
If you said videowalls, you're correct; you get 10 points. Forward-looking companies are starting to graduate from standalone screens and modest clusters of screens to large interactive banks of wall-mounted screens that generate off-the-charts customer engagement numbers because of the immersive experience. Every large wall space becomes a potential visual communications experience, and we all know there are an awful lot of walls in the world.
I heard someone say smartphones. Also correct! You get 20 points. Visual communications is beginning to make the leap from fixed screens in kiosks and on walls to the personal screen that all of us carry. The ubiquity of iPhones, Droids and other mobile devices is opening up enormous opportunities for reaching employees, customers, patients and other audiences. Every smartphone in the world is a potential vehicle for visual communications, and I don't have to tell you how many phones there are around the globe.
Let's play again: What else fills in that blank? Did I hear someone say "tables?" "The exterior of your office building?" "The light fixtures at the mall?" "That pair of sneakers the brooding teenager is wearing?" "The floor under your feet?" "The baseball cap on that pitcher?" If you answered any of those things, you get 1000 points because those are all correct. And so is any other item you can think of, because the future of visual communications is everywhere, thanks to emerging technology that makes it possible for nearly every mundane object in the world to become a screen.
Think about the carpet in your office: It's just carpet, you may say. But when I look at that same carpet, I see a wayfinding solution that greets visitors, directs them to their meeting, provides the names of everyone they will talk to, and directs them to the restroom when it's time for a bio break. That's not science fiction: Four Winds has the country's first digital carpet installed in our headquarters. It's not only incredibly cool, it's also incredibly helpful for making visitors feel at home, and ensuring that meetings start on time.
The floor underneath your feet has the potential to be a giant screen providing critical information. So can every wall around you, but not with the digital screens we use today. The wall itself has the potential to be a screen with digital technology embedded in the paint or wallpaper.
But it doesn't stop there. Look around you right now, regardless of whether you are in your office, at home or in a public environment. Observe the number of surfaces that are not being used. Surfaces on objects, such as benches and chairs and light fixtures and backpacks and doorways and windows. All of those are potential screens that can be employed to communicate with people in really creative ways.
It's possible with emerging technology based on the Internet of Things (IoT) that, among other things, enables very small electronics to be integrated in any surface and controlled remotely. IoT technology has dramatic applications in nearly every industry, including wireless sensors for industrial equipment, closer coordination of medical devices in healthcare and environmental monitoring in remote locations. However, I believe that one of its most dramatic and visible impacts will be in the field of visual communications because, when any surface can become a screen, the potential for our industry is limited only by our imagination. The applications for large videowalls and smartphones are dwarfed by what is possible with IoT-enabled smart surfaces that can become screens that communicate with people.
With any technological breakthrough, there are questions about how to use it in the right way. That will be no different with every surface having the potential to be a screen. I mentioned "mundane objects" for a reason: No one would want to see the exterior of the White House turned into a screen. And no one would want the face of El Capitan in Yosemite to be turned into a screen. They won't. I also don't think public spaces will become a cacophony of visual stimuli from the overuse of these screens. Our industry has learned through experience and data analysis that the old saying, "Less is more," is a nugget of wisdom for a good reason. Our industry's use of screens is moving toward greater nuance in a way that I am very proud of, and I believe that will remain true with these new kinds of screens on unconventional surfaces.
Our industry is not a new one by any measure, but the truth is that we are just scratching the surface of what visual communications can do. The ubiquity of screens in all of their forms, traditional, mobile and unconventional, is opening up a new era for us. As some wise men once sang, "B-b-b-baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet," and boy were they correct.


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Brian Schatz on Budget & Economy
Established the Hawaii Fair Share Initiative
Brian has a record of successfully promoting economic growth and job creation, not only as a legislator, but also as a businessman. Brian served as the Chair of the Economic Development Committee in the Hawaii State Legislature. As its CEO, he helped guide the 35 year-old non-profit Helping Hands Hawaii back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Brian understands Hawaii's place in today's global economy. As the Administration's point person for the 2011 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Brian facilitated Hawaii's hosting of a trade and economic forum that brought the leaders of 21 countries and 10,000 visitors to Hawaii.
Brian also established the Hawaii Fair Share Initiative, a program to ensure that Hawaii received the millions of dollars in outside funding needed for economic recovery and state growth. Source: 2013 Campaign website, brianschatz.com, "Issues" , Apr 15, 2013
Congress spends like drunken sailors, on the wrong things
Brian Schatz has been swimming in the state legislature for the last 8 years. Now he says he's ready for the ocean in Washington DC. "That is a room full of barracudas, and you wanna send another barracuda to fight on behalf of Hawaii," said Schatz, one of the many Democratic candidates running for the 2nd district seat in U.S. Congress.
Schatz says he'll bring youth and energy to the capital, and is thinking about Hawaii's best interests. "This U.S. Congress is spending like drunken sailors, and they're spending on all the wrong things," he said. Even though Hawaii is in the middle of the ocean, Schatz says he wants to make sure it doesn't feel that way. Source: KHNL profile , Sep 13, 2006
We need fiscal responsibility and social responsibility
For decades, we've been fed a slogan about the role of government in our lives that many of us have come to believe--"government is the problem." Charmed by this simplistic notion, we have stood by as social programs for America's most needy get dismantled and downsized.
Meanwhile, the national debt is at an all-time high due to tax cuts aimed at the Republican base and unprecedented business subsidies. Ironically, Congress recently made it more difficult for everyday people to declare bankruptcy while it runs government like a college student with his first credit card.
This is what happens when we govern one election cycle at a time. History will forget the legions of politicians who based their success on the number of people they could please. Rather, we politicians should be judged on how we helped make society better for all.
To accomplish anything of substance, we need fiscal responsibility, we need social responsibility and we need to get off the path of least resistance. Source: Honolulu Advertiser column by Rep. Brian Schatz , Jan 6, 2006
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Fazoli's Is Presenting Sponsor For LBJ
Published: June 16, 2014 3:52 pm ET
Fazoli's, America's largest quick-service Italian restaurant chain, will be the presenting sponsor for the 69th edition of the $600,000 'Little Brown Jug, brought to you by Fazoli's' scheduled for Thursday, September 18 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio.
The Little Brown Jug, North America's most prestigious harness race for three-year-old pacers, will air live on CBS Sports Network, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports, from 5 - 6:30 p.m. (EDT).
The Little Brown Jug telecast is made possible by Fazoli's, the Ohio Harness Horsemen's Association, the U.S. Trotting Association and the generous support of numerous owners, trainers, drivers, farms and other industry supporters.
"The Little Brown Jug is pleased to partner with Fazoli's in bringing the Jug to a national audience," noted Phil Terry, marketing manager of the Little Brown Jug. "I was pleased with the cooperation among the many groups to get the Little Brown Jug on television. This is a great opportunity to expose the Jug and harness racing to the entire country."
A harness racing owner himself, Fazoli's chief executive understands the great traditions of the Little Brown Jug and harness racing.
"Harness racing is one of America's oldest and most exciting sports," said Carl Howard, Fazoli's president and CEO. "People today are increasingly enjoying sports in new ways, and we are excited about partnering with the Little Brown Jug and the U.S. Trotting Association to introduce harness racing to a new generation of fans."
Fazoli's will also be participating in race presentations, and its logo will appear at the track and on race and wagering promotional material.
(With files from the Little Brown Jug)
Carl Howard
Delaware County Fairgrounds


When I add a URL or twitter or anything for that matter, please save it to the device so I can reuse it. Each time I want to programme the ring I have to re-enter all the information again before I can program.
This actually exists in the Android app, we really need to pull the Windows Phone app up to speed, could do with some extra help if anyone has time to jump in and help out!


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Architecture | 6 May 2014 | By Catarina de Almeida Brito
A tour of the University of Cambridge Sports Centre by Arup Associates, which hosted our July issue fashion story
The University of Cambridge Sports Centre by Arup Associates sits at the edge of the town's green belt and was designed as a response to its rural environment and to an extremely versatile program
Located in the expanding western part of the city, the new University of Cambridge Sports Centre is the handiwork of Arup Associates. Now open for students, academic staff, and the public, the building sits at the edge of the town's green belt and efficiently responds both to its rural environment and to an extremely versatile program. It is the first part of a three-phase scheme within the West Cambridge Masterplan.
To achieve an open-plan space that would be flexible enough to adapt to different sporting activities, the centre's dome-like roof spans over 36 metres and opens up to let natural light and ventilation in. Made of glulam beams, it is one of the building's most important features, as it is a result of the close collaboration between Arup Associate's architects and engineers. Photovoltaic cells, solar hot-water collectors, and external electro-mechanical actuators that control the façade louvers' opening and closing, contribute to the building's energy efficient strategy. Another feature that sets the building apart from typical sports venues is a colonnade of timber fins, which clads the entrance façade (north), making for a striking approach to the building.
Inside, the Sports Centre's rooms are brightly lit, well ventilated, and acoustically sound. Featured in our July issue's Game On fashion story, the complex accommodates an eight-court sports hall with tiered seating for 400 people, facilities for weight training, squash, rugby, Eton fives, and badminton, as well as multi-purpose spaces.
The newest addition to the University of Cambridge sporting facilities is already seen as a great success. It is 'a major contribution to the sport and exercise opportunities available to the students at the University', says Director of Physical Education at the University Tony Lemons. A well-balanced collaboration between the ARUP Associate's different disciplines, this building fulfils its purpose, while being energy-efficient and kind to its environment.
The building is the first of a three-phase scheme within the West Cambridge Masterplan
Inside, the Sports Centre's rooms are brightly lit, well ventilated, and acoustically sound
The complex accommodates an eight-court sports hall with tiered seating for 400 people, facilities for weight training, squash, rugby, Eton fives, and badminton, as well as multi-purpose spaces
To achieve an open-plan space that would be flexible enough to adapt to different sporting activities, the centre's dome-like roof spans over 36 metres and opens up to let natural light and ventilation in
Made of glulam beams, it is one of the building's most important features, as it is a result of the close collaboration between ARUP Associate's architects and engineers
One more feature that sets the building apart from typical sports venues is a colonnade of timber fins, which clads the entrance façade, making for a striking approach to the building
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If that were true...?
I do not agree with the math. If you substitute another symbol (say a ✵) for the numeric "2's", then you have ✵✵ and ✵✵. Count the ✵'s and you have 1,2,3,4. Simple, right? Yet, someone put that lie on the roof of a building; I wonder... why? I can't read minds, so I don't know; but I can guess, because I have seen
liars operate before... here is one example...
WEB: Matthew Chapter 4
[1] Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. [2] When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. [3] The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
[4] But he answered, ""It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'""
[5] Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, [6] and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you.' and,
'On their hands they will bear you up,
so that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"
[7] Jesus said to him, ""Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'""
[8] Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. [9] He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."
[10] Then Jesus said to him, ""Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'""
Satan knew Jesus was hungry and with that comes a natural desire for self-preservation. And as every civilized person knows, you need money to survive in this world. Satan also knew who Jesus was and IF he could put a wedge between Jesus and his heavenly father by planting doubt in any of these three areas; then he would succeed just as he had with Adam and Eve. But Jesus knew both his Father and the scriptures and defeated Satan at every turn. He understood the purpose of a lie; to entice disbelief, to twist reality into something it isn't. This applies not only to math on the roof of a barn, but in understanding the Scriptures as well. If you know math, then you won't be fooled and if you know the Scriptures and the one who gave them... you just ignore the "if's". That the stuff faithfulness is made of!!!
OT Bible Reading 1/24/12
Gen 24:1 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
Gen 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
Gen 24:3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Gen 24:4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Gen 24:5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
Gen 24:6 Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
Gen 24:7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Gen 24:8 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
Gen 24:9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Gen 24:10 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Gen 24:11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Gen 24:12 He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Gen 24:13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Gen 24:14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."
Gen 24:15 It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Gen 24:16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Gen 24:17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
Gen 24:18 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
Gen 24:19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."
Gen 24:20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Gen 24:21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
Gen 24:22 It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Gen 24:23 and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
Gen 24:24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
Gen 24:25 She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
Gen 24:26 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.
Gen 24:27 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
Gen 24:28 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.
Gen 24:29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Gen 24:30 It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Gen 24:31 He said, "Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."
Gen 24:32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Gen 24:33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
Gen 24:34 He said, "I am Abraham's servant.
Gen 24:35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Gen 24:36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
Gen 24:37 My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
Gen 24:38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
Gen 24:39 I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'
Gen 24:40 He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
Gen 24:41 Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
Gen 24:42 I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go--
Gen 24:43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
Gen 24:44 and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,"--let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'
Gen 24:45 Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
Gen 24:46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
Gen 24:47 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Gen 24:48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
Gen 24:49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
Gen 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.
Gen 24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."
Gen 24:52 It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
Gen 24:53 The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Gen 24:54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
Gen 24:55 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
Gen 24:56 He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
Gen 24:57 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."
Gen 24:58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."
Gen 24:59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.
Gen 24:60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
Gen 24:61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Gen 24:62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
Gen 24:63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
Gen 24:64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
Gen 24:65 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.
Gen 24:66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
Gen 24:67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
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or... what does it take to keep you faithful... Gary


The lack of affordable housing in Newmarket and elsewhere in York Region is a big issue that is not going to disappear any time soon.
Newmarket's planners say the 35% affordable target set by the Region for the Yonge/Davis corridors cannot be specified or mandated for individual developments but should apply across the whole urban centre area. This means that developers such as Redwood Properties (who want to build on the old Slessor Square site but with no affordable housing component) place huge pressure on later developments to increase the amount of affordable housing they offer.
"A minimum of 35% of the units developed in the Green Lane and 2nd Concession Major Local Centre will meet the definition of affordable. The 35% affordability criteria shall be applied on a per property basis, except where multiple properties are being considered for development concurrently." (My underlining).
The Major Local Centre referred to above is the area around the East Gwillimbury GO Rail Station.
I am not entirely sure what is meant by the reference to "multiple properties" and "concurrent development". I rely on ordinary English usage but developers and their planning consultants have their own lexicon so it may mean the opposite of what I think it means.
Anyway… East Gwillimbury's draft Secondary Plan for Green Lane was up for discussion last Wednesday (21 February 2018) and I wander along to hear what they have to say. For people like me who live in the north of Newmarket what happens in Green Lane arguably matters as much if not more than what happens with the Mulock Drive Secondary Plan in the Town's south.
Lois Brown is back but what does she think?
The Council Chamber is packed. In front of me sit Newmarket councillors, Jane Twinney and Tom Vegh. Former PC MP Lois Brown sashays into the meeting as it is about to begin, smiling broadly. She wants her old job back.
Maybe she will say something? I've seen her at various events but she always seems strangely quiet, rarely offering a view but contenting herself with platitudes.
I am now reflecting on this and conclude it is indeed a mighty achievement.
Anyway… East Gwillimbury's Planning consultants kick off with a presentation on the thinking behind the Secondary Plan and how it has evolved. Tom Vegh stands up and takes photos of various slides.
In the Q&A session the developers and a lawyer elbow their way to the front of the (admittedly modest) queue to make their partisan points while stressing they will be working closely with the Town to get the kind of plan everyone is happy with. Although the Mayor handles things confidently and repeatedly invites the public to come to the microphone, there seems to be reluctance. Only a handful take up the offer. Maybe people were involved in the earlier workshops and are broadly satisfied. Even so, what about the loose ends?
Perhaps a professional facilitator could have made a difference in encouraging people to step forward. The presentation could have focussed on aspects of the draft plan that gave the planners most difficulty. What about the affordability issue? What about the possibility of Green Lane grade separation? Roads affect land use patterns. How realistic are the population projections for the Secondary Plan area in 2031 given the problems in getting the North York Sewage Solutions plant and infrastructure up and running?
Is the Town's population really expected to quadruple by 2031?


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Our insurance team consists of partners and associates with extensive practical experience, and has been devoted to providing insurance legal services for many years. These associates have all graduated from well known domestic and overseas law schools, and many have worked for leading insurance companies and other insurance-related financial institutions. Those who deal with the settlement of insurance claims as well as defense, recovery and other litigation practices especially, have more hands-on experience accumulated over many years. Our team members are not only experts in law, but also have a profound understanding of the insurance industry.
Assisted in the exercise of subrogation rights for insurance companies.
As one of the oldest law firms engaged in insurance practice, JunHe has represented many classic cases including the'Acquisition of Equity Interest of New China Life Insurance by International Finance Corporation, Zurich Insurance Company, Meiji Life Insurance Company and Netherlands Development Finance Company'inthe early stages. For years JunHe's insurance team has closely followed the development of the insurance industry, and maintained a good working relationship and communication with the regulatory institutions in the industry including the insurance industry participants, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission and other insurance industry associations, and has thus gained incomparable insight into the industry.
Insurance law services almost always involve different categories of commercial laws and regulations, from market access and the establishment of a company, to business operations, funds utilization and the settlement of insurance claims.with eachstage featuring high specialization and a large volume of business. Under JunHe's 'corporatization' management system, our insurance team shares experience and resources with all other practice groups, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate and Construction, Infrastructure and Project Financing, Banking and Finance, Securities and Capital Markets, Litigation, Intellectual Property and Labor and Employment, so that our clients receive service from top-tier experts in the relevant fields within the shortest period of time. This saves valuable time and expense.
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Represented an insurance company to file a lawsuit before the Chinese court with respect to a dispute with a reinsurance underwriter over the establishment of a reinsurance contract and the assumption of reinsurance liability in the litigation case of Hynix fire accident reinsurance, and won the lawsuit. The court supported the litigation request of our client in 2016 and adjudicated that the reinsurance underwriter fully pay its share of compensation under the reinsurance contract in the amount of USD 8,000,000 to our client.


Apple Inc and German software maker SAP SE will release a tool aimed at helping developers build iPhone apps for big businesses, the two companies said on Monday.
The software tool, to be released on March 30, is designed to let developers easily feed data between SAP's business-oriented software systems and Apple's consumer-oriented iOS mobile platform.
Currently, most of SAP's systems are used on personal computers rather than on mobile devices. SAP plans to change that by working directly with Apple on software tools that will make it easier to access data on SAP systems from apps on an iPhone or iPad, an effort that began last spring.
The tool could, for example, let employees log into business apps with fingerprint readers common on iPhones rather than a password, or replace bulky inventory scanning guns used in warehouses with iPhones.
"The collaboration between our two firms is unparalleled from an engineering standpoint," said Rick Knowles, a senior vice president at SAP. "Every five to six weeks, we've put our developers in the room with Apple's lead engineers to do a code-level review."
With growth in iPhone sales losing steam, Apple has increased its efforts to sell to large businesses. In 2014, Apple launched a partnership with IBM Corp to help build custom iOS applications for businesses. In 2016, Apple made a deal with Cisco to make iPhones work better on Cisco's networking gear, and it also partnered with Deloitte & Touche LLP to encourage more businesses to build iOS applications.
But according to App Annie, an analytics firm that tracks App Store metrics, iOS downloads were up only 12% in 2016 to 30 billion apps, and 80% of download growth for iOS apps came from China. Moreover, 75% of revenue generated in the App Store came from games, App Annie reported.
Business apps would represent new territory for many of these developers. And being able to run workplace software could also help Apple compete against Microsoft Corp , whose Windows software still dominates in the corporate world.


This may be the most beautiful thing I ever read, Meg. I had to stop reading a couple of times because your words left me crying, shattered in the best possible way. Nike had a wonderful, exciting life with you and as he got older and less able, you continued to honor him for the dog he once was. You kept repaying him even for the things he could no longer offer. And because you loved and understood him so well, Nike will never have another hard day. You got him through it all, from beginning to end. That's everything that a person/dog could ever hope for.
Thanks, Nicci ❤ Hardest and easiest words I've written. They don't do his life justice, but I needed to try and share a bit of him.
My tears are for the experience you've been through. But, being so much older than you are, I have been through this so many times now. Last October I said goodbye to my beloved terrier, Simon. Reading your essay brought me right back to the moment that the most compassion vet said there were a few more things we could try and I said "no, now is the time". I have great respect for your ability to do that with this, your first dog. It has taken me many years and many times down this path to gain the skill and courage to make a well timed, loving choice.
I truly believe that God sends us the dog we need at the time we need it. The timing of dogs in our lives is divine. You clearly already know this and it will give you strength and wisdom throughout your life with dogs.
Meg, I am so truly sorry for your loss of your beautiful sweet fur baby.
I am typing this through tears on what you wrote. I do believe you will meet up again I heaven someday. Sending loving thoughts and prayers.
Thank me so much, Dee ❤ He was a great boy & do hope we meet again.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful tribute to your beloved Nike. I too, lost my boy recently – Jazz, my 13-1/2 year old Tri. The house is much too quiet now. Our family is devestated but like your situation, there was no choice to make when it became clear that he was in pain.
So sorry to hear of your loss, Nancy ❤ They are never with us long enough, but we are lucky to have had them for as long as we did.


So I admit that I've probably been less horrified by Trump's antics than most of the folks in my orbit. I mean, yeah, he consistently shows himself to be a ridiculous buffoon who's in no way up to the task of running the country -- but he's also often hilarious. I often talk about how I read Trump's Twitter feed because I want to see his comments unfiltered, from the source; I also read it because it frequently sends me into peals of laughter. Not a lot of things have that effect on me.
But his current freakout about whether he said "I" or "I'd" isn't even funny -- it's just sad and stupid, and I can't even bring myself to giggle about it.
But I don't blame China.
After all, who could blame one party for knowingly and eagerly taking advantage of another party in agreements that were supposed to work to the mutual benefit of both parties? Any lopsidedness in these agreements was clearly the fault of the United States -- and its stupid leaders, and its stupid people for electing those leaders -- for being so incredibly stupid and inferior. China was both right and in fact morally obligated to exploit that stupidity for the benefit of its citizens.
This is the kind of "leadership" we get from a "businessman" president. Silver lining: Trump can't actually file for moral bankruptcy.
Over the last couple of days, I've been thinking a lot about the Right's aversion to gun control efforts and the insistence that it's "too soon" to discuss those efforts in the wake of tragedies. Intuitively, that latter response seems especially baffling to me. In the days following a hideous car accident -- one that likely resulted from some problem with an automobile's construction or design -- we wouldn't insist that it was too soon for the manufacturer to begin looking into the problem and consider issuing a recall. So why, when guns are involved in tragedies that take the lives of too many Americans, are we so hesitant to discuss policies that might prevent those tragedies from happening in the future? Why is it too soon to talk about saving lives?
In any case, whether one supports the death penalty or not, I hope that most of us could agree that there should be some discussion whenever we seek to apply it -- that we should consider what we hope to achieve by it and whether it upholds or runs counter to our values and aims in particular instances. Might it actually be a deterrent in this case? Will it instead make a martyr of a perpetrator and inspire others of his ilk? Could it deprive us of the opportunity to learn more about the perpetrator? Insofar as we could convince him of the error of his ways, could it deprive us of a potential ally? And so on. In short, whatever one's feelings about the death penalty, it should not be taken lightly.
It should definitely not be the kind of thing a US president demands, in all caps, without qualification or apparent thought.
I actually thought it was okay -- certainly among the least egotistical examples of public speaking ever offered up by the Donald. I bristled a few times (referencing "all talk, no action" politicians seemed ill advised considering he just applied those words to a man who nearly died fighting for civil rights), and I laughed when he promised to "never, ever let [us] down" (dude lets me down every time he spews inanity via Twitter). But my expectations were very low and he did exceed them -- and I was able to sit through the entire speech while sober -- so I give him props for that.


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I see a real resurgence in the country today for products made in America. Our focus is to design and create products that speak to the time-honored traditions that have made this country great such as handmade craftsmanship, authentic rich leathers and quality workmanship.
There's a nostalgic feel about the products we make . . . most of them could have been made 100 years ago and many are made using turn-of-the-20th-century methodology and machinery. Our products are true Americana; forged as our forefathers intended by people who care and take pride in making a beautiful product.
Recently an interviewer for an on-line magazine asked me about our seeming focus on customer service and high quality products and asked if I felt that focus was largely missing in today's hectic society. You know, I guess I just didn't realize there was another way to do business . . . I didn't realize that good customer service and quality products are optional. In my way of thinking if you don't provide excellent service and high quality products for your customers, there is no good reason to be in business.
There are only two things that determine what things are worth – the time it takes to build them and the materials from which they're made. So, if you want to make it cheaper, all you have to do is put less time and cheaper materials into it and quality suffers. We don't cut corners to make it for less . . . that's not what our customers expect from us. They are looking for something of value that is genuine and long-lasting. Many years down the road when someone comes across a product that says "Col. Littleton – Made in Lynnville, Tennessee USA" my goal is that it retain the character and beauty it had the day it was made, and my hope is that people will know that a lot of heart and soul went into it.
It's not really all that complicated. You just have to make and deliver an excellent product and take care of your customers. It seems that everyone today is talking about thinking "outside the box." At Col. Littleton we feel there's a lot of good stuff "inside the box," and that the old, established rules are still viable in the world we live in today.
If we're talking about your favorite pair of jeans… maybe three or four years, depending on how many barbed-wire fences you cross. A good pickup truck… perhaps seven or eight years, unless the driver is under age twenty five. Then you can probably subtract a couple of years. Cheap boots… maybe not even until the cows come home.When I was a boy, I thought an all-day sucker should last all day. Mine never did. Sunday sermons and English peas, on the other hand, seemed to last an eternity.
At fifteen, I thought the blonde in my history class would be mine forever. However, after a couple of weeks I was history in her book.
I guess I've always been partial to things with staying power. A good hat, for instance, seems to hold its own. A well-made leather saddle will outlast both your horse and your ability to get on it.
Good upbringing seems to stick with you, and true friendships last a lifetime.
When I went into business, I wanted to make things that would last and become more meaningful as time goes by… things that would be around long enough to be handed down to your children and grandchildren and be cherished as family heirlooms. That's important to me.
So, how long will something last? If we're talking about a streak of good luck, sunny weather or a bull market on Wall Street… don't bet the family farm on what the experts say.
But, I reckon if we're talking about a good friendship or a Colonel Littleton product, you can pretty well expect them to last for a long, long time.


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Over years of war in Donbas more than 2.7 thousand civilians were killed – UN
Among the dead were 140 children
KYIV (QHA) -
Since the beginning of hostilities in the east of Ukraine, 2 thousand 725 civilians have been killed, the Head of the UN Monitoring Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine Fiona Fraser reported.
She noted that among the dead were about 140 children.
"For the entire period of the conflict, from April 14, 2014 to May 15, 2018, at least 2,725 civilians were killed: 1,568 men, 961 women, 93 boys, 47 girls and 56 adults of unestablished sex," Fraser specified.
The Head of the UN Monitoring Mission on Human Rights went on saying that if you count the downed Malaysian Boeing MH17, which crash resulted in the deaths of 298 people, including 80 children, the death toll in the Donbas comprises 3 thousand 23 people.
Moreover, about 7-9 thousand civilians were injured in the east of Ukraine.
QHA reported that during the year as a result of shelling in the Donbas, 32 civilians were killed. Because of the shelling, 211 houses, 36 infrastructure facilities and 12 vehicles were damaged and destroyed.
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Hundreds of hardware units spotted in occupied Luhansk region – SMM
War in Donbas continues to kill and maim children - OSCE SMM
Militants' shell killed a girl in Donbas
UN called the number of deaths during four years of war in Donbas


Sleeping and getting dressed: these are two things that an average person does to prepare for a long day. Living sustainably is often associated with shopping with less plastic or composting in your garden, but going green can begin in your own home, from the moment you wake up.
A typical American generates about 4.3 pounds of waste daily. If you look at the numbers, this is 1.6 pounds more than what was produced back in 1960, according to the Center for Sustainability & Commerce. Although popular lifestyles like Green Living and Zero Waste actively promote sustainable means of living, some things in your home are just too difficult to dispose.
Mattresses are considered a bulky waste by many trash collectors in different countries. Given that their materials consist of sponges, foams, latex, and steel springs, they can be difficult to segregate and recycle. There are many charity shops do not accept mattresses due to sanitary concerns and junk shops think they are too large of a waste to be able to resell.
Fortunately, more and more cities in America are starting to find better ways to combat this issue.
In Sacramento County, the Mattress Recycling Program allows people to drop off their old mattresses for no fee at the North Area Recovery Station and Kiefer Landfill. The mattresses are loaded onto trailers and are picked up by mattress recyclers. These recyclers have years of training and experience in trained in separating each component of a mattress into individual recyclable materials, from the tiniest particle up to the thickest fabrics.
The County's Department of Waste Management and Recycling has proudly recorded about 24,000 recycled mattresses in the last two years since the beginning of the program. The mattress materials have been used to make new appliances, industrial materials, and even textiles.
"Bye Bye Mattress," a mattress recycling program implemented in 2013, asks for a recycling fee collected for each mattress and box spring sold. Rhode Island, California, and Connecticut were the first states to sign in on the program and recently, the City of Lompoc has joined the list.
Connecticut alone has diverted more than 150,000 mattresses from the landfill in a single year, which includes 2,800 tons of steel, foam, and other mattress materials. There are 101 sites in Connecticut that offer the recycling services for free.
Recycling fees and loading old mattresses to a collection site is a small price to pay for the amount of waste homeowners are reducing from landfills which will eventually benefit the environment.
Aside from beds and mattresses, one way you can live sustainably every day is through your clothing.
People have developed a weird fixation over cash register beeps, the weight of shopping bags on their arms, and the smell of newly unboxed shoes. We've all heard of retail therapy, but what else do you know about the massive supply of clothing? The fast fashion industry of America is notorious for manufacturing more clothing than the world consumes. What these brands aim to do is to bring the runway to the malls, making them cheap enough for middle-class consumers to buy on impulse.
Sadly, not everyone is aware of the detrimental effect of retail therapy on the planet. We don't see the consequences of our garbage until we're at the receiving end of its effects. Independent clothing brands all over the world produce sustainable, ethical clothin gas a social responsibility.
Big brands don't tell you this but you really don't have to support fast fashion to look stylish. Heck, you don't even have to go to a mall to own the runway. Sustainability begins with a choice. Maybe now's the time you should make a change, too.
Unwanted clothes don't always go to thrift shops. Based on a study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 84% of discarded clothes goes to a landfill. From this global obsession over disposable clothing, there are around 12.7 million tonnes of textile waste thrown away each year. Some may think that's harmless, but since most disposable clothing consist of semi-synthetic fibres, they emit potent greenhouse gas methane as they decompose.
The Zero Waste lifestyle promotes a reduction of waste. One way to stay fashionable while minimizing the amount of trash that ends up in landfills is buying secondhand clothing. While fashion brands are cheap, thrifted clothing is cheaper. Variety is a thrift store's asset – the possibilities are endless.
Consumers know the big brands, the models, the size charts. What they might not know is the people behind them.Most, if not all famous fast fashion brands outsource their manpower. This means that the owners put up sweatshops in third world countries like Cambodia, China and India to get labour for cheap.This means big brands get to sell their clothes while their factory workers suffer from toxic chemical exposure, poor working conditions and an insufficient pay.
The simplest way to help alleviate this problem is to only support brands that have ethical ways of producing their clothes. A lot of independent brands have economic and social development standards that they abide to.
For both beds and clothes, shopping sustainable isn't easy. With enough research and love for the planet, however, anyone can be comfortable at home and fashionable while loving the planet.


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The Cabot is a modern adaptation of the Craftsman style. Steep gables, horizontal and vertical siding textures and multiple dormers are all traits of the style. Simple window casing and divided window panes with painted sashes also exemplify Craftsman style homes. The Cabot is very modern on the interior with one large dining space facing the rear, an open kitchen with a huge island and a vaulted family room. The master suite is fully appointed with a luxurious bath and a convenient entrance into the laundry room. The garage entry point is through a mudroom, perfect for coats, boots and pet accessories along with a walk-in-pantry. A large deck and screen porch provide for outdoor living which expands the space to entertain and relax with family and friends. Upon arriving on the upper floor the stairway leads to a loft for reading, homework or just "hanging out" as the kids say. There are two large bedrooms each with walk-in-closets and attached baths. The bonus room could be an additional bedroom or storage.


He settled with little trouble. He slept through his first night soundly and happily. Even if we didn't.
It was mid winter, the weather remained very cold and snow lingered throughout the early months of that year. The freezing temperatures kept us holed up in our home.
Our new son's excitement was palpable in those first few days. The joy of receiving attention. The fascination of a new environment. The fulfilment of a much longed for Forever Family.
Most of all our little boy had what he had dreamt of. A bedroom of his own.
It therefore seemed unsurprising to us that our son showed a preference in those early days to play in his new bedroom. After all, it was the centre of his new world. Where the few toys he had brought with him were located. Where the new toys we had purchased for him had been stored.
Encouraged out for meals, walks, to eat, our son would retire again to his bedroom to play again, asking one of us to go with him.
After that first weekend and as our first full week with our little boy progressed his determination to stay rooted to his bedroom seemed to intensify.
Not only did he want to stay within his bedroom. He wanted to stay in a room permanently darkened by curtains that were at most only slightly drawn.
Inducements to move from the room were met with fearful rejection. The bedroom was L shaped and the space our son occupied seemed even to shrink within it. Increasingly preferring to play in the area around his bed, out of sight of the bedroom door.
Realising that this was not just an issue of confidence, but one also of trust, we set about trying to help our son understand his new environment and, more importantly, to trust us enough to tell us about the anxiety causing him to reject it.
Our games became more inventive. Encouraging him to run around the first floor of the house as part of them. Our play routine altered, to include moments of quietness and reflection. Time spent snuggling under a blanket, something he loved, but also something only available to him on the sofa in our sitting room.
In that first week I began to tell him the stories I've documented in detail elsewhere. Essentially they were designed to help him understand his environment. To provide comfort. To provide security.
in them he was special, a chosen child. A child for whom we had fought. All, in at least one sense, true. He now lived in a house surrounded by a magic hedge. A tall, thick, magic hedge impenetrable to those he feared most. His birth parents, especially his birth mother. And his first Foster carer.
The countryside beyond the hedge, surrounding our house was, in the stories, inhabited by animals who were also charged with looking after him. The rabbits, the foxes, the horses. And most of all the owls who, at night, called out to one another to make sure he was safe.
It took what seemed like an age but was, in fact, just three or four weeks for our son to relax entirely.
During that time his world gradually, steadily, expanded. The first floor of the house to begin with. Then the sitting room. The kitchen. The whole ground floor of our home. The garden.
So, by the time the first welcome signs of Spring arrived he played confidently in the garden.
Visitors would still send him scurrying to his bedroom. Particularly the Social Workers who would visit on occasion through that time. The inducement of play or of being part of our conversations would encourage him back to the kitchen soon enough though.
Our son was, and remains, incredibly nosey!


At the Higher Degrees Meeting on Wednesday 5th December 2018, Ill∴Bro. Anthony Kenny of William Horrocks Chapter No. 603 in Blackburn, received his long-awaited promotion to the 30°, having served 2 consecutive years as Sovereign of the Chapter.
Tony had originally been invited to attend the Higher Degrees Meeting in September, along with four other candidates from the North East Lancashire District, but was prevented from attending due to other longstanding commitments.
As usual, the ceremony at 10 Duke Street, St. James's was followed by a drinks reception and an excellent festive board at the Royal Overseas League.
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Brings back very special fond memories!