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Here's How Drunk Driving Has Changed Since the First DWI
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The Incident at Danby: Standoff Between SWAT and David Cady
According to Ithaca Police Department (IPD) SWAT Commander Jake Young, there have been 34 barricaded suspect situations in Tompkins County since 1998—when the IPD tactical team was formed—and none of the others lasted nearly as long as the one at Hornbook Road between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2. Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing, in an interview conducted weeks after the event, expressed surprise that the confrontation with David Cady on Hornbrook Road in Danby went as long as it did.
What actually happened and when on Hornbrook Road? What is known about David Cady?
David and Melissa Cady's home after the barricade. (Image by Tommy Battistelli, from The Ithacan)
The DWI arrest that ultimately led to a standoff on Hornbrook Road occurred in November 2013. While traveling to a friend's house in Danby, Cady was pulled over. He failed a breathalyzer test and admitted to drinking five beers at home before driving.
Cady pleaded to a "Driving While Intoxicated" charge, in this case a Class D Felony, since it was his third DWI. The prosecution requested one to three years in state prison, but instead, in December 2013, Cady was given interim probation pending sentencing. Lansing said that Cady had already spent 20 to 25 days in the Tompkins County Jail for his earlier DWIs; he had served the time on weekends.
The following timeline is constructed from reports made to the Public Safety Committee (PSC) of the Tompkins County Legislature on Jan. 12 by Young, IPD Investigator and CINT member Michael Gray, State Police Lieutenant Todd Keister, and District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson and the interview with Lansing on Jan. 22.
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014
A bench warrant was issued after Cady missed a court appearance. Over the months that followed, according to Lansing, deputies repeatedly attempted without success to serve the arrest warrant. "Since October, we'd been there well over a dozen times," said Lansing.
Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014
7:46 p.m.: Two officers arrived at the 127 Hornbrook Road residence and made contact. Initially, his wife Melissa said that Cady was not home, but the officers insisted that they heard him inside. Eventually, Melissa Cady admitted that her husband was at home. She also told the deputies that her husband was armed.
8:33 p.m.: When the reportedly armed David Cady refused to come out of the house, the decision to request a SWAT deployment was made and SWAT Commander and Ithaca Police Department Sergeant Jake Young was notified of the situation.
8:47 p.m.: Chief John Barber texted an email approval authorizing the activation of SWAT. The SWAT was activated because officers on scene were told that David Cady had a loaded gun.
Shortly after 9 p.m.: Melissa Cady and her sons exited the premises.
Lansing said that Young made the calls for mutual aid on Tuesday evening, in part because of the weather. "Some of my officers were starting to feel that they were feeling hypothermia after half an hour," he said. "That's why he would call, not knowing for the weather." Throughout the course of the standoff, a total of more than 100 officers were on scene (usually 30-40 at a given time), but Lansing said that had there been better weather it is possible that it would not have been necessary to call in so much help.
11:17 p.m.: Cady fired a shot out of an upstairs window. In his report to the Public Safety Committee of the Tompkins County Legislature Young said that at this time Cady insisted that the lights aimed at the house be turned off or "someone was going to get shot." At this time the Elmira SWAT team was on its way and Young requested deployment of armored personnel carriers (APCs or "BearCats") from Syracuse city police and the Onondaga County sheriff's department.
Midnight: By this time negotiators had spoken with Cady 14 times and had attempted to get in contact with him by phone 44 times.
Morning, Wednesday, Dec. 31
2 a.m.: APCs owned by the New York State Police arrive. Over the next several hours the state police Special Operations Response Team (SORT) arrives at Hornbrook Road from around the state.
3:35 to 6 a.m.: At 3:35 a.m., Lansing said that officers prepared gas canisters for deployment.
4:16 a.m.: According to Lansing, the last direct contact with Cady was by phone at this time. Lansing said, "Cady stated that he's armed up and come get him."
5 a.m.: Melissa Cady said she heard a shot at this time. Lansing said that it could have been the police using of flashbangs—a non-lethal explosive device intended to disorient the subject—which began around 4:30 a.m.
5:45 a.m.: District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson arrives at the scene.
6 a.m.: Lansing arrives on the scene.
No one attempted to contact Lansing in earnest, he said in a Jan. 22 interview, "because they didn't know they needed me. These incidents usually end within hours." According to department protocol, the sheriff said, "The SWAT team is initiated by our people on the scene. It's housed in the city, so they contact [IPD Chief] John Barber and the mayor. Jake Young, the SWAT commander, called for mutual aid. They know all about this stuff. I don't."
The sheriff was a mile and half from Hornbrook Road on Dec. 30, but he was in a location that was out of cell phone range. No one tried to reach him via a land line. He was checking his cell phone on his way to work at 6 a.m. on Dec. 31, saw the message and went immediately to the scene where his under sheriff, Brian Robison, was acting as "incident commander."
The first gas deployment occurred at this time. There have been differing accounts of how many canisters of gas were deployed, with the lowest number being around 70. Young reported to the PSC that the gas was ineffective because the canisters were fired into the ceilings per procedure. The house had dropped ceilings, which, Young said, "caught" much of the gas.
7:40 a.m.: A BearCat armored vehicle was used to pry open the back door of the house, and two reconnaissance robots was sent in. They provided views of portions of the first floor, but stopped transmitting data after a short time.
Bill Furniss (by Tim Gera)
8:30 a.m.: After getting a voicemail from Melissa Cady, Bill Furniss—David Cady's long-time attorney—arrived on the scene. He said, "I identified who I was and asked if I could try to speak to him. So the trooper called his sergeant and they said they'd keep it in mind. I gave them my contact information and went home." He lives only three miles from Hornbrook Road. Furniss said that he asked four more times—three times by phone, once in person—to make contact with Cady.
"They turned me down," the attorney said. "They kept saying that they didn't have any way to communicate with him. I said, 'Don't you have a bullhorn, don't you have a speaker system? The guy trusts me and I can help talk him out.' The last time I talked to somebody they said, 'We have made concessions for Dave, and he has not followed through on his part.'" IPD Investigator and negotiator Michael Gray has verified that concessions were made to Cady. Gray did not disclose the nature of the concessions, but said that he departed from training when he made them.
Afternoon, Wednesday, Dec. 31
1:30 p.m.: Lansing said the state police SORT wanted to enter into the house. "I looked at them and said, 'Gentlemen, I'm not comfortable with that,'" Lansing recounted. In the Jan. 22 interview the sheriff said he didn't believe that the SORT team could complete the operation before dark, which he thought made it too dangerous. Wilkinson was consulted in this decision, and she concurred with Lansing.
5:47 p.m.: Although the last direct contact with Cady was early Wednesday morning, Lansing said in the evening of that day officers using binoculars saw him through the windows at this time.
7:43 p.m.: A "throw phone" was launched into the house. It was equipped with a audio monitor, which picked up the sound of Cady's movements. At 9:30 p.m. police hear him coughing. (Throw phones provide a direct connection to the negotiator in the absence of a working cell phone.)
11:11 p.m.: The electricity to the house is cut off. The land line telephone remained functional; the throw phone monitor picked up the sound of its ringing when negotiators attempt to contact Cady.
Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015
7:52 a.m.: Police heard Cady coughing and clearing his throat.
Morning: Pennsylvania State Police arrived with a Rook, an armored vehicle that was used to create large openings in the home's exterior. (The Rook, manufactured by Ring Power, Inc., a north Florida Caterpillar dealer, is an armored BobCat with several attachments, including a hydraulic breaching beam and a grapple claw.)
Afternoon: Police heard the sound of a washer and dryer being moved. It was the last sound picked up by the throw phone monitor in the house. Wilkinson left the Hornbrook Road scene having been there since Wednesday morning.
Ken Lansing (photo by Tim Gera)
Evening: Lansing said officers began using the Rook to remove the carport for better access to the home.
8 p.m.: The removal operation is stopped for the day.
Morning, Friday, Jan. 2, 2015
8 a.m.: Removal of the carport was resumed.
8:27 a.m.: The Rook removed a wall of the house and officers were able to see Cady, who they quickly realized was deceased.
What We Know About David Cady
He will now forever be known for the unfortunate series of events leading up to his death but, before all this, who was David Cady? We don't really know.
According to Furniss, "I knew he was married with two kids, was a hardworking guy." He added, "He worked at the Auto Salvage right next to the house until they closed up. I knew through the grapevine that they loved him." Furniss said he'd known Cady for at least seven or eight years, maybe longer. In fact, they lived near one another, which is why Furniss was so easily able to come to the scene during the standoff.
After Auto Salvage of Ithaca closed, Cady went on to work at Willcox Tire and Auto on Elmira Road in Ithaca. Tom Shea, a mechanic at Willcox, said that he and Cady had worked together for about two years. "He was very outgoing, liked to fool around and have a good time," said Shea. He added, "We miss him a lot. He was great."
Danby Supervisor Ric Dietrich said that he knew David Cady, in part because Cady had been regularly attending town board meetings. Dietrich, who described Cady as "very polite, very respectful" explained, "He was in the process … of starting a business venture in town." Cady, along with his friend and business partner William Kuhns, was planning to open a new automotive shop, Eagle Automotive. "They had already started construction, right across from the old Danby market in the center of town," said Dietrich.
In her statements to the Danby town board on Jan. 14 Melissa Cady said, "My husband needed help. I told the police from the beginning that he was suicidal. He needed someone to help him, and all they did is bring in more and more and more police."
Lansing said, due to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) laws, he was not privy to any information about Cady's mental health, but he would "assume probably" there were mental health issues. (The sheriff noted that he did not consider alcoholism in and of itself a mental health issue.)
The arrest that led to the Danby standoff was not Cady's first brush with the law. He had previously been arrested for DWIs in Chemung County in 2004 and in Tompkins County in 2008. While the first DWI was not a felony, the second was—and he was on probation for the second one when he was arrested in 2013 for the DWI that led to the standoff in December. Since the third DWI was a D felony, the maximum sentence would have been 2 ⅓ to 7 years.
What Is Being Done
Danby Town Supervisor has called for an independent investigation. Tompkins County Legislature Chair Mike Lane (D-14th) said, "As far as launching any kind of an independent investigation there are currently no plans to do that."
Lane said an investigation isn't off the table though. For now, the next step is waiting for the full report from the Sheriff's Department. The sheriff is still waiting for the full autopsy results, although Lane said that information may not necessarily be included in the full report. Although Lane said that some things in it may not be public record, the report will come before the legislature's Public Safety Committee.
For his part, Lansing said that he is not opposed to an independent investigation: "To be honest," he said, "if it would put people's minds to rest that we weren't covering up something … I have no problem with that." •
Note: This article, co-authored by Bill Chaisson and Keri Blakinger, originally appeared in The Ithaca Times.
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Beaulieu es una comuna nueva francesa situada en el departamento de Nièvre, de la región de Borgoña-Franco Condado.

Historia
Fue creada el 1 de enero de 2016, en aplicación de una resolución del prefecto de Nièvre de 1 de octubre de 2015 con la unión de las comunas de Beaulieu, Dompierre-sur-Héry y Michaugues, pasando a estar el ayuntamiento en la antigua comuna de Beaulieu.

Demografía

Los datos entre 1800 y 2014 son el resultado de sumar los parciales de las tres comunas que forman la nueva comuna de Beaulieu, cuyos datos se han cogido de 1800 a 1999 (o a 2006 según corresponda), para las comunas de Beaulieu, Dompierre-sur-Héry y Michaugues de la página francesa EHESS/Cassini. Los demás datos se han cogido de la página del INSEE.

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Enlaces externos

Beaulieu
Localidades de Nièvre

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Recent major terrorist attacks in Southeast Asia, including the Bangkok and Jakarta bombings, indicate a resurgence of terrorism in this region. While terrorism is a big threat to the national and regional security, its harm to the economy cannot be ignored.... South Asia has been confronting the challenge of Islamic extremism for many years. At least four South Asian countries�India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and, most recently, the Maldives (each with large Muslim populations)�are considered hotbeds of Islamic terrorism.
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Григорій Віталійович Цехмістренко (позивний — Грег; 1995, Україна — 14 січня 2023, біля м. Бахмут, Донецька область) — канадський громадський активіст, медик-доброволець українського походження, військовослужбовець Інтернаціонального легіону ТрО Збройних сил України, учасник російсько-української війни. Син Віталія Цехмістренка.

Життєпис
Григорій Цехмістренко народився 1995 року в Україні, проте багато років жив із батьками у м. Кіністіно (провінція Саскатчеван, Канада). Згодом переїхав до с. Порт-Еліс (провінція Британська Колумбія, о. Ванкувер, Канада). Мав канадське громадянство.

Учасник Революції гідності. 18 лютого 2014 року під час «мирного наступу» до Верховної Ради України силовики побили і затримали багатьох активістів. Між постраждалими, у Деснянському районному відділку міліції опинився й Григорій Цехмістренко.

Як медик-доброволець Інтернаціонального легіону ТрО Збройних сил України під час повномасштабного російського вторгнення рятував життя українських бійців та цивільних на півночі Київщини, біля Енергодара, Лисичанська, Херсона, Бахмута. Загинув 14 січня 2023 року біля м. Бахмут на Донеччині.

Похований 20 січня 2023 року в смт Чабани на Київщині.

Син засновника агрохолдингу Райз Віталія Цехмістренка, який входив у перелік 200 найбагатших українців, доларового мільйонера. Його статки оцінювали в 291 мільйон доларів.

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Джерела
 В. Карлащук. У Києві попрощалися з загиблим канадським добровольцем Григорієм Цехмістренком // Суспільне Новини. — 2023. — 20 січня.
 С. Самсон. В Україні загинув канадський медик-доброволець, повідомила родина // CBC. — 2023. — 16 січня.
 Під Бахмутом загинув бойовий медик Григорій Цехмістренко — громадянин Канади з українським серцем // Новинарня. — 2022. — 21 січня.
 Майданівці, яких убила росія // hromadske. — 2023. — 18 лютого.

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According to the National Institutes of Health, fibroids, endometriosis and other common gynecological conditions represent an important health concern due to the large number of women affected.
Yet, the reality is many women are in the dark about GYN conditions and the latest treatment options. These two infographics detail findings from a recent survey of U.S. women.
Download the full hysterectomy infographic.
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There are many other gynecological conditions that require surgical treatment, such as endometriosis, ovarian cysts, and pelvic organ prolapse. There are misconceptions related to these conditions and treatments. A second opinion will help a woman get more information about all of her options.
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In other situations, women undergo robotic surgeries, which take longer to perform and are more expensive take longer to perform and are more expensive than conventional approaches.
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Getting a second opinion leads to better care. In fact, several recent studies have found that as many as 60 percent of patients who sought a second opinion received a major change in their diagnosis or treatment. (7) For this reason, GYN experts encourage women to get a second (or third) opinion from a trained surgical specialist when considering GYN surgery and to select the surgeon with care. Here, it is best to opt for a specialist who received comprehensive training in GYN surgical techniques and performs hundreds of these procedures each year.


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В Большесельском районе есть ещё одна деревня Ваньково, в Большесельском сельском поселении.

Ваньково — деревня в Вареговском сельском поселении Большесельского района Ярославской области.

Население
По данным статистического сборника «Сельские населенные пункты Ярославской области на 1 января 2007 года», в деревне Ваньково проживает 1 человек. По топокарте 1975 года в деревне проживало 3 человека.

География
Деревня находится на восток от районного центра Большое Село, к югу от Варегова болота, вблизи границы Большесельского района с Тутаевским (к востоку) и Ярославским (к югу) районами. Она стоит примерно на удалении 2 км к югу от автомобильной дороги из Ярославля на Большое Село. На расстоянии около 3 км к северо-западу от Ваньково на указанной дороге стоит деревня Глебово. Ваньково стоит на окружённом лесами поле, на котором расположены ещё три деревни к северо-востоку Бурдуково и Рублево, к северо-западу Зманово.

История
Деревня Ванькова указана на плане Генерального межевания Борисоглебского уезда 1792 года. В 1825 году Борисоглебский уезд был объединён с Романовским уездом. По сведениям 1859 года деревня относилась к Романово-Борисоглебскому уезду.

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This relation is a language-specific subtype of <tt>aux</tt>.
There are also 1 other language-specific subtypes of aux: <tt>aux:pass</tt>.

198 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as aux:caus.

198 instances of aux:caus (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
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The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux:caus: <tt>VERB</tt>-<tt>VERB</tt> (194; 98% instances), <tt>NOUN</tt>-<tt>VERB</tt> (2; 1% instances), <tt>ADJ</tt>-<tt>VERB</tt> (1; 1% instances), <tt>PART</tt>-<tt>VERB</tt> (1; 1% instances).

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18	之	之	PART	DEC	Case=Gen	17	case:dec	_	SpaceAfter=No
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By Sima Culjak, Our CanadaUpdated: Nov. 27, 2020
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Sima Culjak survived for seven days in a canyon and had both legs amputated. The War Amps helped her find a second home.
In the winter of 1985, my sister, Drazenka, and I were just teenagers when we were walking from our village in the former Yugoslavia to visit our mom in the nearest town. We were poorly dressed for the harsh weather, wearing only jean jackets with blouses underneath. As it was dark and snowing heavily, we got lost in a canyon. No one knew we were missing as our mom didn't think we'd attempt the trek in a snowstorm and our dad had assumed we arrived. There were no cell phones then, so we couldn't tell anyone that we were lost.
After seven days without food or sleep, we decided to recite our last prayer. At this time, we heard a group of hunters nearby and I called out to them. We were rescued later that day and taken to the hospital. Drazenka and I had frostbite and an infection in our lungs. In order to save our lives, doctors had to amputate both of our legs below the knee.
Our story captured media attention and strangers lined up around the hospital to give us their well wishes. The encouragement and positivity from the community helped both Drazenka and me tremendously in our recovery.
In 1990, my husband and I moved to his native Canada. Not knowing English and being a double-leg amputee, I wondered how I was going to find a job. My husband told me about The War Amps Key Tag Service, a lost-key return service that employs amputees and people with disabilities in Toronto. We knocked on their door and staff member Rob Larman, a leg amputee himself, welcomed us. Rob offered me a job on the spot and when he asked when I wanted to start, I said "tomorrow."
I began working in production, stuffing envelopes for mailing, which is also where I learned to speak English. Today, I'm an assistant supervisor in the remittance/processing department, where I train employees and oversee the donations that come in.
The War Amps Key Tag Service was started in 1946 so that war amputee veterans could work for competitive wages and provide a service to Canadians that would generate funds for the association.
The War Amps is my second home and family. As many of my co-workers are amputees, we share a special bond. There's a lot of mutual support and we show one another that the sky is the limit.
I have always loved the water. It relaxes me and clears my mind, but I didn't think I could swim until another leg amputee at work told me that they were going scuba diving. Today, I swim and take part in all sorts of activities such as sailing, yoga, dancing and bowling.
People are often surprised to learn that I'm missing both of my legs because they don't expect a double-leg amputee to be wearing four-inch heels! A coworker of mine who recently lost her leg was shocked when I revealed to her that I'm an amputee. She said that she had thrown away all her high-heel shoes because she didn't think she could wear them again. After seeing me, she realized that it is possible.
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World premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue arranged for jazz big band and chorus by Michael Fennelly.
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Cantinovum Chamber Choir - Rita Varonen, conductor
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An evening of music, cocktails, and dinner in support of Athena Music Foundation featuring The Athenians.
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Athena Music Foundation presents dynamic performances of the highest artistic quality to diverse audiences around the world. Athena Music Foundation's programs include our global touring troupe, The Athenians, who have appeared internationally in Beijing, Dubai, and Macau. Based in New York City, the Athenians have built a reputation for their high-caliber performers, and uniquely thrilling and engaging style of opera gala concerts. Athena Music Foundation is dedicated to music education, specifically our Young Performers Program which includes opportunities for student instrumentalists and singers from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds to work with our exceptional teaching artists in lessons and performances. Athena Music Foundation honors the capacity of each child to create meaning and engender artistic imagination rooted in culturally responsive and inclusive practices. We also sponsor the Athena Music Foundation Concert Series featuring world-class artists in imaginative programs at historic venues like Carnegie Hall. Athena Music Foundation continues our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization EIN 83-0589917.
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At the historic Lobero Theatre, soprano Megan Weston and pianist Michael Fennelly presented The Paris Salon: Age of the Romantic Virtuoso. The duo performed the exhilarating and elegant music of the nineteenth century and offered illuminating insights on opera, the triumph of the international virtuoso, and importance of the salons of Paris.
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How Zelensky Gave the World a Jewish Hero
As the Ukrainian president captivates the world with his bravery, he offers a reminder of the inroads Eastern and Central European Jews have made in overcoming their status as perpetual outsiders. By Gal Beckerman
For those inclined to see history as depressingly cyclical, the war in Ukraine offers fairly strong evidence. It all feels lifted from a familiar script in which only the actors have been switched—at anti-Russian protests, a popular placard even has the 20th century's most evil mustache Photoshopped onto Putin's face. But there is one protagonist who is an unusual fit for his role: Volodymyr Zelensky.
The 44-year-old former comedian turned president has exhibited great patriotism and bravery, joining his fate with that of his countrymen on the streets of Kyiv, refusing to leave despite Western offers of an airlift. If he is now, as he put it, "the No. 1 target" for the Russians, it is because he is the No. 1 Ukrainian. And what is remarkable, truly mind-blowing in the long sweep of history, is that his Jewishness has not stood in the way of his being embraced as a symbol of the nation.
In the Soviet world that shaped Zelensky and his parents, Jews were perceived as the eternal outsiders, possible fifth columnists, the "rootless cosmopolitans" of Stalin's imagination. This of course came on top of living in a place where a particularly virulent strain of anti-Semitism had always existed, a legacy of pogroms and Nazi collaboration. Just outside embattled Kyiv is Babi Yar, where 33,771 Jews were shot and thrown into a ravine over the course of two days in 1941. If Zelensky has now become synonymous with the blue-and-yellow flag of his country, it might signal an unexpected outcome of this conflict that has found Jews feeling finally, improbably, one with a land that has perpetually tried to spit them out.
Read our ongoing coverage of the Russian invasion in Ukraine
Zelensky grew up in the Russian-speaking city of Kryvyi Rih, in the eastern part of Ukraine. And like most Soviet Jews, his parents were highly educated but also limited as to where their ambitions and learning could take them. His father was a professor of mathematics and his mother had studied engineering. These were standard-issue careers for a certain class of Soviet Jews who knew they couldn't come close to any of the fields that shaped society and culture—one after another turned to the applied sciences as a way to excel.
When asked about what his actual Jewishness has meant to him, Zelensky has been blasé. In an interview in 2020, he said he came from "an ordinary Soviet Jewish family," adding that "most Jewish families in the Soviet Union were not religious." What this hides, though, is the reality that Jewish identity didn't exist in the Soviet Union, because it couldn't. To be a Jew from the time of Stalin onward was to have a stamp in your internal passport that marked you as such (just as a Ukrainian or Latvian national identity was also indicated). There was very little opportunity for Jewish community, religious practice, or even bare-bones cultural expression. Unlike Ukrainians and Latvians who had national homelands within the Soviet empire where some degree of culture and language were permitted as long as it stuck to the Communist party line, Jews had nothing of the sort. Synagogues were mostly shut down or crawling with KGB informants. Until the late 1980s, gathering for something as innocuous as a Passover seder was practically a subversive act, and teaching Hebrew was simply not allowed.
By the time Zelensky came of age, three or four generations of Soviet Jews had experienced their Jewish identity as a hollow thing, nothing but a black mark on a passport and a sense of peoplehood born of exclusion and a second-class status. All the while, no matter how steeped in Pushkin they might be, they were never able to fully claim any other national allegiance. When the Soviet Union began buckling to pressure to let Jews emigrate in the 1970s, many took the opportunity to do so, even those mathematicians and engineers who had achieved the heights allowed to them. By the early 1990s, just after the Soviet collapse, the permitted trickle became a deluge, and about 1.5 million headed to the United States and Israel.
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The 60-second spot emphasizes the fun of playing along with TV. It's the first creative work from Kobs & Draft, Chicago, since the agency took over the estimated $8 million account in March from Goldberg Moser O'Neill, San Francisco, and others.
"What you will see [in the spot] is the transition of TV from being black & white to color and now interactive, and Interactive Network being the revolutionary group to do that," said Teresa Crummett, VP-marketing.
A direct mail piece that dropped earlier this month, also via Kobs, touts IN's ability to make the subscriber "part of the action."
In Chicago and San Francisco, Interactive Network is offering Live Action Games for $9.95 a month plus a $30 set-up fee and a $25 refundable deposit for the control unit, making the total about $175 per year. That's far below what IN used to charge: $199 to purchase hardware plus $15 a month.
The changes follow the arrival of Peter Sealey, former Coca-Cola Co. senior VP-director of global marketing, as Interactive Network president last January.
The new strategy was tested for a few months with TCI Cablevision of Michiana in South Bend, Ind., IN's newest market. In addition to Chicago and San Francisco, IN is also available in Sacramento, Calif.
The national rollout will start in mid-September in several markets, a spokeswoman said, adding that IN will no longer try to sell its units. The hope is that the combination of the lower price point and the emphasis on fun will help boost subscriber levels.
But it's unclear just how well the strategy has worked in South Bend. IN wouldn't divulge numbers, and neither TCI's local marketing manager, Leslie White, nor the regional VP-marketing, Richard Coats, knew how well it was selling.
TCI is a major investor in Interactive Network, along with NBC, Gannett New Media Group and A.C. Nielsen Co.


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William Willimon, probably the most popular United Methodist preacher in the United States today, has said that the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is in the best position of all the mainline denominations to appeal to and benefit from cultural trends because of our "pragmatic ecumenism and intense spirituality." The Disciples have always had Church unity as our "polar star." In today's culture Disciples do not construe unity as lumping all Christians into some megadenomination, but unity is found in doing as much together as we can, learning from each other, and growing toward each other in faith and practice. Our congregation has a long history of supporting interfaith and interdenominational activities, ecumenical campus ministry, and ecumenically-based social services in our community. We have seen the basis of Church unity as relational: based on our spiritual relationship with a living God rather than our agreement about credal statements. This has made the practice of the spiritual disciplines central to our faith and teaching since the faith must have relational as well as theological content.
A Broad Vision of Social Justice
Our congregation has a long history of commitment to missions beyond ourselves that continues today. In the 1870's FCC member Caroline Neville Pearre was instrumental in founding the Woman's Christian Board of Missions which became the International Christian Women's fellowship and the Division of Overseas Ministries through which literally millions of persons have been reached for Christ. In the early 1900's Sara Hart (the namesake of our current women's guild) engaged us in missions by going to Appalachia and the Northwest on our behalf. More recently, members of our congregation have gone on missions to Asia, Africa, and India. We have been involved in the founding and/or support of many local social services, including: Ecumenical Towers Housing Corporation, Senior Dining, the Common Fund, ministries of the Consultation of Religious Communities, Togather Together, the Housing Fellowship, Shelter House, Coralville Ecumenical Food Pantry, Domestic Violence Intervention Project, Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity, and many more. We have demonstrated a continuing passion for a broad vision of social justice, which must continue to be our passion in the years ahead.
Inclusive Community
Our congregation has intentionally blurred the lines between visitor, participant, and member to make it clear that we value every person who is involved with our congregation apart from overt level of commitment or longevity in the faith. We recognize that many visitors to our worship services have little acquaintance with Church customs and vocabulary. It is essential to our congregation's health and mission to continue to make personal calls on first-time visitors, train our worship greeters and ushers, and work at making our worship services accessible to persons whose experience and understanding of the faith is just beginning. At the same time, we have many participants whose long experience and mature faith still need to be consistently challenged. We have a mix of political and religious conservatives, liberals, and many whose characteristics defy classification. We see this diversity as God's gift and as a sign that true spiritual community is present. (1 Cor 12:4-6 NRSV) "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone." Our congregation must continue to encourage and to provide varieties of ways to express the faith, while maintaining the theological integrity of the Christian Gospel.
A primary focus of any congregation must be to invite, recruit, adopt, integrate and mature new disciples. (Eph 4:11-12 NRSV) "The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ..." In the past, our congregation has concentrated on ministry with seniors, ministry with students, and (more recently) ministry with children and youth. We must continue to remind ourselves that our central mission is to make disciples who share God's love and the good news of God's grace with all persons through daily acts of justice, mercy, and love.
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In building your own technology, you've spent decades – and the next step would make or break you.
What's this step and what do you need to do? To explain exactly what distinguishes an also-ran and a successful entrepreneur. It is all about the decisions that the winner makes about to invest their time.
Entrepreneurs do like producing merchandise, things that they feel secure doing. Successful entrepreneurs realize that the item is a small percent of the company. And much more importantly, what would be the most crucial things that you want to comprehend about the way other people (clients, prospects, investors, new team-members) will make decisions about you. Winning entrepreneurs are at fixing: they speech it and spend their own time in learning how to understand buyer-need, excellent they know investor-need and speech it and comprehend a employee selects a business.
Why should anybody care about what exactly your business creates or does?
Where's the market and how are you going to reach them?
How will money be made by the business?
There are loads of posts which will tell the exact same thing to you. What they will not tell you is this secret about conclusion. In answering these questions, you want to tackle the question, although not simply the query.
What are the things that you can do differently which will tackle all one of those "real motives" which will have somebody purchase your product, combine your outfit, or invest in your business?
Pick a phrase that is foundational. Quit on optimizing the merchandise, working on getting this correctly, and spend the hours. When you speak about how you'll spend (not spend) cash to an investor, or speak about remuneration having a worker, or negotiate price with a client – talk in brief, crystal-clear, factual statements. No adjectives. No hype. Show me why I should be excited via narrative – but do not get creative about the cash part.
Understanding how to answer the unspoken query, understanding the unspoken question, and Knowing the five queries decision-makers have will place you ahead.


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Mad About Bugs, from Ladybird, is full of buggy facts! Are you mad about bugs? From spiders and snails to butterflies and bees, this book is packed with fascinating facts and key information for all young creepy-crawly enthusiasts. Also includes a link to fantastic downloadable Mad About posters. Ladybird's Mad About series is all about giving its readers all the facts they could possibly need about their favourite subjects. Get ready to impress all your friends with all your new knowledge! Look out for Mad About Dinosaurs and Mad About Sharks, too!
Brad Buhrow and Anne Garcia are primary teachers in a diverse school in Boulder, Colorado. In Ladybugs, Tornadoes and Swirling Galaxies, you will see how they blend comprehension instruction and ELL best practices to explore inquiry as a literacy pathway for English language learners. As teachers and students engage in learning science and social studies content they also discover multiple ways to make meaning. The book is full of photographs of student artwork—including a color insert—that reveals the children's inquiry process, and demonstrates the important role of art as a sign system in ELL literacy and language acquisition. Brad and Anne provide explicit detail on the process they use as they move step-by-step with students from personal narrative through the independent inquiry process. They also discuss use of the Gradual Release Model, authentic assessment, and bilingual identities. Appendices in Spanish and English help to round out this informative and charming resource.
If you have ever wanted to grow your own fruit and vegetables, have an interest in organic farming and want to take things one step further by producing your own organic fruits and vegetables then a backyard farm could be for you. Depending on the size of your backyard it is possible to grow organic fruit and vegetables to fulfil your needs and maybe even have some to sell at your local market. There is a wealth of fruits and vegetables that you can choose from and the rewards for your work will be truly enjoyable. Backyard farming is becoming increasingly popular and is even considered trendy among many small town habitants who all share the same aim of starting a sustainable organic garden which is respectful of the environment. There is huge demand for local sustainable organic produce and this is another reason why there are increasing numbers of backyard farmer's year on year. Not only is backyard farming a great hobby, it is a way to provide healthy food for your family and save money. This book has been designed to look at the many elements that make up backyard farming and the following topics are covered in depth: - What is mini farming? - Farming plans - General tips to keep in mind - Helpful routine for a good harvest - Maximize your space - Containers and space - Layout and simple maintenance - Basics of the land - Soil types - Building super soil - Organic control and weeds - Weeds in the garden - The importance of pest control - Composting - Composting worms - Healthy organic gardening - Keeping livestock - Livestock options can help plants - Fish farming from your backyard - Backyard bees - Are backyard chickens really for you? - Which is best, chicken or goat manure - Get the best returns for your efforts - Harvesting and food preservation - Vegetables and herbs - Native fruits - Edibles to grow indoors - Plants for your micro garden - The aim of backyard farming - Urban farming laws to change - Backyard farm calendar.
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"Close Your Eyes -- Tales from the Blinkspace" features 55 new stories from the online blog Welcome to the Blinkspace. It's a great new work of fantasy/horror fiction from independent publisher, Hellbender Media. Edward Martin III dips into Lovecraftian Mythos and makes it his own in stories that take you to the treacherous edge of the ocean, across harsh desert sands, and well into the future. From the soft subtlety of "True Love" to the violent end of love in "Scales", this book is thought-provoking, intriguing, often humorous, and just plain fun to read.


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Finishing a Game. Case Study: Guild of Dungeoneering
Guild of Dungeoneering is a game, with board game and RPG roots, that came out recently. It was created by Colm Larkin (initially) and it's worth taking a look at, to learn how to finish a game. The game is a good size for a lone dev to create in a reasonable amount of time with a reasonable expectation of it doing well commercially. It's also rather unique in that the game creators have kindly shared a lot of the process through their blog, forum posts, devs logs and interviews.
Note: For brevity I'll often shorten Guild of Dungeoneering to GoD.
What is Guild of Dungeoneering?
Guild of Dungeoneering is a turned-based game where you play special cards to create a dungeon for an adventurer to explore. You don't have any direct control over the adventurers instead you indirectly influence their actions by the order you play your cards.
Why Look At It?
One guy was able to create an interesting gameplay loop and then build that out into a fully featured commercial indie game. The steps taken to produce this game are achievable for most developers; maybe your game won't have such great commercial success but you can definitely finish a similar game to a similar standard!
It's worth asking questions like "How did this game come about?", "Why did the game creators get the scope correct? How do you estimate a games scope?" and "What general lessons can I take away from this game's development process to apply to my own projects".
It has a 4/5 rating on Metacritic and here's the steam spy page where you can gauge rough sales numbers.
It came out yesterday on Steam and sat in the top 10 all day.
— Colm Larkin
At the time of writing Steam Spy was reporting 18,756 sales and Colm suggests sales might be twice that.
We're more than 2x what SteamSpy is reporting there.
The sale price ranges from ~$10 - $15 so given a few more days, one might hazard a guess of it grossing about 1/2 a million dollars. (Of course the net will be rather less; Steam has a 30% cut, there's a publisher, tax, team member percentages etc. But all that considered it's undeniably a massive success).
Exploring the game's development is going to teach us some tricks that we can apply to our own game projects. By happy chance the game has plenty of traditional role-playing mechanics which is the type of the game this site is all about!
This initial prototype of the game was created in Ireland by Colm Larkin. To make the final game Fred Mangan came to assist with art. Steven Gregan did the music. Owen Canavan came on as the second programmer. Oliver Garland assisted with game design.
The game was ultimately published by Versus Evil.
Colm has a blog and if you go all the way to the first post back in 2008 the goals for his game-making venture are clearly laid out.
We're approaching this as a business venture, not just a hobby!
To get stuff done and completed, you need a certain mindset and viewing your hobby as a business demonstrates a desire to finish and release. The blog shows from the beginning games were going to be a fun hobby but a hobby that produced results.
The blog then documents a few ambitious project ideas; an online multiplayer tactical turned based RPG (A lot of us have had similar ideas to this!). There's a realisation this is a probably a little ambitious to begin with so the first project is single-player tactical turned based RPG. Work happens and in 2010 we see progress, as shown below, but there's obviously a long road to travel.
It's almost a rite of passage to start an ambitious game project only be forced to abandon it when it becomes apparent just how much work is required to finish. It becomes frustrating to work on something that you know is perhaps years away from release. You have to scope down.
How best to scope down? Do game jams. A game jam generally works like this; a weekend or week is chosen ahead of time, developers around the world clear their calendars for those dates, nearer the time a game theme is chosen and developers try to create a full game in the allotted time. There's judging afterwards and sometimes prizes but the real value is that developers have the perfect environment to create something, there's an external deadline, limited time means there's no time to worry about perfectionism or premature optimization.
Colm blogs about participating in some game jams before moving on to try One Game a Month.
Colm's first go for his game a month is Dungeon Delver; the very first prototype of the game that will become Guild of Dungeoneering. So that was a good first start!
What's 1GAM
1GAM is a challenge started by Christer Kaitila for developers to complete a video game every month for an entire year! He based this on a New Years Resolution in an attempt to avoid overly ambitious games that never get finished. The original announcement blog post is here.
One Game a Month is half controlled via twitter using the hash tag #1GAM and the site onegameamonth.com. It's on-going so you can join in and you probably should!
Why make one game a month:
Get into the practice of finishing games
Limited Time is a feature!
Forced to avoid premature optimization (or any optimization)
Avoid Perfectionism (and the Babbage Trap)
Less time is spent on code that gets thrown away
Make stuff. Lots of stuff!
Build up a code base.
You're bad at guessing what needs to be done. That's why you've never finished anything. Making one game month will make you a better developer.
Finishing is the most important skill; it's the only way people get to experience what you've created. If no one ever plays what you make, does it really matter you made anything at all?
Take Away 1: Finish Small Projects
Things changed as I was actually finishing some small games. This gave me the self belief to try again with a 'real' game. When it started getting traction [...] I decided to 'go for it'. My tip for original ideas is to take part in some game jams. The theme usually means you aren't starting with a blank canvas, which actually makes it EASIER to be creative!
Have you ever finished a game on your own? Or do the ghosts of projects past line up behind you, wailing out to be finished? It's ok. It's not unusual. No one knows how to properly estimate the scope of a game but we have a solution Game Jams and 1GAM. Do these and even then scope-down. Going to try and do a game a month? Start with a game you think you could finish in a weekend. It gives you leeway if it turns out you underestimated the project, if not then you have more time for polish and new features!
Remember Guild of Dungeoneering started as a 1GAM game. Do the 1GAM and you never know, it might be something you end up releasing!
What Happened After Dungeon Delver?
The idea of 1GAM is to create a game a month. After Dungeon Delver the next game Colm made was Captains of Industry a physical card game. The idea came from the theme picked for that month; industry. Captains of Industry is a deck game, each person gets a hand of cards, there are turns and people can play cards. The first version of the game seems to have come together pretty quickly.
Captains of Industry was a physical game. Physical prototypes work very well for certain types of games (card games, board games etc). Physical games let you refine rules quickly through play-testing with other people. Physical prototypes naturally focus and simplify a game; it has to simple enough for humans to play, anything superfluous is a distraction. You're not in danger of spending 2 months on a kick-ass particle effect engine with a physical prototype; the game-loop is the only thing that matters.
Another advantage of physical prototyping is people are familiar with the concepts and tools. Cards, dice, game turns are things people already understand, there's an immediate familiarity that digital video games can lack.
Captains of Industry is a complete fun looking game and I'm sure some of the design refinements were lessons that Colm was able to apply to future games, perhaps even GoD.
Take Away 2: If You Can, Use a Physical Prototype
Physical prototypes are excellent for certain types of game, mainly those with physical counterparts; board and card games. Those types of games that can be physically prototyped happen to be the type of game a lone developer can develop in a week or two.
Community and Dungeoneering
Guild of Dungeoneering was shared with the game community extremely early. You can play the first 1GAM prototype on Colm's site here. He attended local dev meet-ups where developers played each games and swapped feedback and tips. He also set up a devblog on TIGSource.
My approach from the beginning was to share EVERYTHING. Not only that but I decided to have a playable version of the game on my site.
Don't have a meet-up in your area? Here's another interesting quote from the Gambrinous site
Not only that – but I've helped set up a meetup group for fellow 1GAM enthusiasts in Dublin, Ireland.
As Hannibal is reputed to have said
"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam." / "I shall either find a way or make one."
If you help set up a community you'll benefit from network effects and people will generally assume you're competent. This helps when you need to find people to help out! (Or people want you to help out with their projects.)
The Fear
There's a fear to sharing your stuff. What if people hate it? What if everyone says you're a talentless hack and your game is an unoriginal clone of already crappy game. This almost certainly won't happen and if it does - who cares? It's just a load of disgruntled youtube commenter types. Anyone with any kind of public profile attracts a few haters.
Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized. — Elbert Hubbard
Jump in. Get your stuff out early, don't hide it away until it's "ready".
Afraid if you share your work, you'll be tied to it and that people will demand you complete it? Can Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin say he's had enough of the series and decide not to write the last book. Yes! He can. Just because there's social pressure doesn't mean you have to cave to it. And remember if you're doing some based on one game a month your scope is already nicely limited. It won't take years to finish your game.
Make it easy for people to give you feedback. You don't have to (and shouldn't) implement every suggestion but if you hear something a lot then it suggests there's friction in your game experience that might be worth another look.
Take Away 3: Share Early.
Share something playable as early as possible. This helps build interest and creates feedback you can use to guide the development of your project. Every piece of feedback you get helps you push your project so it's trending toward fun.
You don't have to share publicly, you can share with friends or other devs at meetups.
Good platforms to share your progress include TIGSource where you can create a devlog, Tumblr (they like pictures and gifs), Twitter and your own site (have a contact form!).
The more people know about your game, the greater the external pressure to finish it :). A following also gives you confidence your game has market appeal and down the line makes it easier to get a publisher, if you so desire.
The Inspiration Behind Dungeoneering
The initial concept for GoD came from the board game Dungeon Quest.
After a bit of brainstorming the game I decided to make was 'Dungeon Delver' – A game where you explore a dungeon by laying out new room tiles one at a time. A bit like a 1 player version of the boardgame DungeonQuest.
— Gambrinous Blog
In DungeonQuest players try to locate a treasure room, grab the treasure and escape the dungeon. Moveable tiles represent pieces of the dungeon and the dungeon is revealed as the game is played. Here's the blurb from box.
In DungeonQuest, players must guide their heroes through the twisting halls of Dragonfire Dungeon in pursuit of unimaginable riches hoarded by the Dragonlord Kalladra. Whoever can amass the most wealth and make it out of the dungeon before the closing of the doors seals their doom will emerge victorious.
While many similar games rely on a player to control the machinations of the dungeon, DungeonQuest is unique in that the dungeon essentially runs itself. No one at the table knows what lies around the corner, creating a new play experience every time. Additionally, DungeonQuest also includes rules for solo play, so you can even challenge Kalladra's keep on your own!
It's a great idea to use a board game or existing game as a starting point when making your own one-game-a-month. That way you can jump right in and start implementing it without spending too much time deciding exactly what you should be doing.
Taking elements of a board game into a video game changes things, the computer can handle a lot more behind the scenes and new ideas will naturally occur. Don't worry too much about being original it will happen anyway.
Take Away 4: Don't Be Original
To grab you attention I phrased this more forcefully than I perhaps intend! For a game with a small scope, it's best to use proven ideas / mechanics and add your own twist. Boardgames are a rich seam to mine for mechanics and ideas. They're easy to physically prototype, they're relatively easy to implement in code and the core game loop already exists for you to build out from.
The Final Push
For GoD, after developing the core game, the hard work began. You can see from the TIGSoure devblog that Colm habitually worked on the game, putting in the effort to bring it to a releasable state. Along the way he brought in outside help to assist in areas where wasn't as proficient; art, sound etc. But it's best to bring in this kind of help after a few iterations of the playable game have been released and a final goal is in sight. Later on, a publisher was engaged which certainly gave a lot external pressure to pull the game over the finish line. Marking a release date with a publisher helps cut off feature creep and focuses work on the most essential items.
Here's hoping you can apply these takeaways to your own projects!
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We often think we must be connected and online all the time to stay relevant and up to date on the latest whatever. Honestly, that can be exhausting. Our brains need time to process – that is why we unplug. Our bodies need time to recuperate – that is why we sleep. Our minds need time to make meaning – that is why we daydream.
Unplugging can seem counterintuitive to supercharging, but human beings are not machines. We need to rest, we need to recuperate, we need time to make meaning of our experiences, and we need time to dream. That is where our genius emanates from. In a recent NY Time article titled Stop Letting Modern Distractions Steal Your Attention, Anna Goldfarb profiles a few people who speak to their efforts to control the pull life has on their attention. One person, Dr. David Rock, author of Your Brain at Work, writes about how making ourselves inaccessible can actually help us boost productivity.
Another person, Linda Stone, a former Apple and Microsoft executive, speaks about "continuous partial attention", or CPA. She says that this is "a state of alertness during which you are motivated by the desire not to miss out on anything." That is not multi-tasking, that's an addiction.
Lastly, Sophie Leroy, a professor at the Bothell School of Business at the University of Washington found in her 2009 study, that as we transition from task to task there is "residue". This residue is the little bits of time required to shift our focus from one task to the next. A buildup of this residue increases fatigue and stress, negatively impacts performance and productivity.
These three things map on to what I mentioned in the beginning: sleep, daydream, making meaning. Human beings need all three in order to be effective and creative in our endeavors and remain mentally healthy. It is inevitable that our work involves devices and people that require our attention. How much of that attention each receives is ultimately up to us.
As Gigsters, we have a lot of control over what we do and when we do it. To be successful, we must align our approach to work with our body's natural tendencies. We must give our body what it needs, so that it is there for us when we need it most. In order to supercharge our career ventures, we must make time to unplug.
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DeviceLock
SC Staff May 5, 2010
DeviceLock provides a platform to manage and secure PC ports and removable storage media devices. This tool allows administrators to set access policy for removable devices, mobile phones and PDAs based on port, device class, device type, device model, and also unique device IDs. DeviceLock can also integrate directly with common encryption programs, such as PGP, TrueCrypt, SafeDisk, SecurStar and Lexar.
Setting up DeviceLock is straightforward. The program basically installs itself from an executable with a short installation wizard. After the install is complete, the service must be deployed to the client machines. This can be done using the built-in service deployment tool or done through an Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO). After the product is installed and the service is deployed, management and policy is done through a snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC). We found that even though MMC is a familiar and comfortable way for administrators to manage and configure setting, it is also quite limiting and basic.
Management and deployment of policy is also done through the console snap-in and we found the product awkward to use at first. We had to click around a bit to get a feel for how to create policy and have the outcome be what we expected. Provided in the documentation was a getting-started guide, which gave a step-by-step setup of a basic USB policy. This helped us become more familiar with how to set policy.
Documentation, other than the getting-started guide, included an installation guide and a separate user manual. The installation guide provided clear initial installation and configuration instructions, whereas the user guide included an in-depth view of advanced product features and configurations, as well as using the management console. Both of these guides included many screen shots and step-by-step instructions.
DeviceLock includes a one-year basic support plan with every new DeviceLock license purchased. This includes telephone support from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PT, and 24/7 web ticket and email support. An online helpdesk service provides web access to product upgrades, an online user forum, product documentation, FAQs, a technical Flash-based webinar, and subscription notifications on product news. DeviceLock's Online Helpdesk is a web-based technical support case management system where customers can create 'Support Request Tickets' in real time, monitor their case status and communicate with the technical support engineer assigned to their case. Users can renew support after the first year for a fee.
At a price starting at $42 per license, we find this product to be an average value for the money. While it does offer some great features, including encryption integration, we found that it can be slightly difficult to use and manage.
Name: DeviceLock v6.4.1 Description: Price: Basic price for a single computer license: $42/license; 1,000-plus computers: $9/license
Solid device and port control with encryption integration.
Difficult to manage.
A good product, but a bit difficult to administer.
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Celebrating her first holiday season in style.
Tip toes by the tree in a metallic jacquard dress by Janie and Jack.
When you have a little girl and love both the holidays and fashion in equal measure, the joy of choosing outfits for special occasions is limitless (see: Sloan as a dinosaur this Halloween). My style advice for holiday dressing has always been about balance, which becomes even more important with babies. The temptation to go overboard during the holidays increases when you're dealing with a mini-person who is easy to turn into a caricature. Though dressing her in tiny faux fur separates is about as cute as it gets, I want to create memories that are timeless (and of course, adorable), but not to the point of being silly.
Enter: balance. When selecting Sloan's holiday wardrobe, I looked for a few pieces that could be mixed and matched (and worn with more casual items in her closet), as well as a few statement items, like a dressy brocade shift dress.
My guiding principle is to stick to one festive or feminine trend/accessory per outfit. For example, if she's in a faux-fur collar cardigan, I'm going to pair it with simple fair isle print leggings, rather than a tulle ballerina skirt. The same goes for bows: if she's wearing a bow headband, I'd veer away from any other items with decorative elements. The exception to the rule is Christmas morning, when I fully intend to step it up one notch with a pink bow sweater that matches her tulle skirt. I'd just make sure to then ease up on glittery shoes and a headband.
There will come a time when Sloan is dressing herself, and, as all style journeys go, probably making some questionable choices. For the time being, I'm having a blast planning her capsule Christmas wardrobe and trying to do right by her, which means embracing the festivity of the season without turning her into a cartoon. Below are three outfits we'll be reaching for throughout December's busy schedule of social events.
Sloan's clearly a fan of her first tulle skirt, paired with a bow top.
Balancing the sweater with a Fair Isle sweater pant.
Big fan of a faux-fur moment in this cardigan.
Brought to you by Janie and Jack. You can check out my gift guide for their winter collection here.


Hi everyone. We are the Electric Circus: an instrumental band from Northern Italy, with Jazz and Psychedelic influences, but also inspired by different genres as Funk, Ethnic music and Blues. We have already released an EP (Evoluzione), produced in 2014 at the MetroRec Studio in Riva del Garda. We began our project as a power trio though, during the years we cooperated with many musicians, some of them have now settled down permanently in our line up.
You can find us on: Bandcamp | Facebook | Youtube | Instagram.
Betweeen the last two years we managed to bring our music, beside "our" Trentino, to different venues and festivals in the north of Italy. In August, 2016, we had the chance to be Jethro Tull's supporting band during the "Sideout Arco Festival" .
Summer 2016, instead has offered to us a road trip in the U.S.A, where we had the chance to play in a bunch of venues from different states (California, Arizona, Colorado), furthermore we've recorded a new track (Mike) at the Dust&Stone Recording Studio in Tucson, Arizona.
Our tracks are going to turn into paintings, pictures, poems and jewels.
The result of this experimentation is going to be included into the album booklet and all those work of art will be available in advance and with exclusive formats for our Crowdfunding campaign supporters.
Music generates plenty of different unique reactions according to our view upon the reality surrounding us. As our music has no words in it, the curiosity of witnessing its translation into others disciplines has played a key-role for the project.
Our Music is speechless and eyeless as well... now it will assume a visage, a silhouette, a voice and finally his own shape.
We've already began to work in the studio and in the following months we will go on, focusing on the subsequent steps.
We decided to try this campaign in order to support financially, at least partially, everything this project needs to be achieved in the best way: musical production, packaging, printing and distribution costs.
Through rewards you can order the album in advance, as soon as the production will be over, and moreover you can obtain all the singular artworks of the artists that will contribute.
The funds that will be raised through this campaign are going to cover these production costs and to support the work of the various artists that have featured this project.
Nowadays all tracks have been recorded, we're now missing the mixing and mastering, and of course the print of physical copies. We sent each single track to the corresponding artist, and we are now waiting for their representation. Work are then progressing but not over yet.
The release is foreseen after the next spring. Rewards are going to be sent in the proximity of the album release.
Here are the artists who will work with us, with their discipline and the track we've chosen for them.
All of these 7 tracks will be included in the new album. All of 7 works by artists will be included in their own way in the booklet.
Cos-er (design/3D print/jewellery) -> Is It Dead?