A few weeks back I announced the retirement of Lync 2013 exams. See the post here. I want to let you know that we are moving the retirement date of Lync exams (335, 336, 337, and 338) to November 30, 2015. We're updating the retirement dates on our web pages to reflect this.
Remember, the new Skype for Business exams will count toward MCSE: Communication certification like Lync exams 336 and 337 currently do.
Stay tuned for more information on the new Skype for Business exams!
Q: Should I hold off on taking exams until the Skype for Business exams are available?
A: Not at all. Skype for Business builds on Lync's features and functionality. The Lync exams provide you with a solid foundation for your Skype for Business implementation. See what's new in Skype for Business.
Q: Will there be an upgrade exam for those who have completed both Lync exams and want to move to Skype for Business?
A: No. Once you've earned your MCSE: Communication certification you cannot re-earn it. You can, however, keep it current through recertification. If you're not ready to recertify but want to gain some Skype for Business skills, check out this training video.
A: Holders of the MCSE: Communication credential must recertify every three years. Recertification is a great way to ensure that you stay current in the latest technology, such as Skype for Business. We'll be providing more information about recertification options for MCSE: Communication this summer.
Q: I'm a partner with the Microsoft Partner Network. I have the Communications Competency and just took the Lync exams to qualify. Do I still qualify?
A: Retirement of an exam from Microsoft learning does not retire it as a qualifying exam for a Competency. Lync Exams for the Communications Competency will still qualify for a period of time. Always check the Microsoft Partner Network competency requirements. You can view the current Communications Competency requirements here.
Microsoft a publié hier l'outil SEFAUtil pour Skype for Business 2015.
Skype for Business Server 2015, SEFAUtil (Secondary Extension Feature Activation Utility) is a command-line tool that enables Skype for Business Server 2015 administrators and helpdesk agents to configure delegate-ringing, call-forwarding, simultaneous ringing, team-call settings, and group call pickup on behalf of a Skype for Business user. This tool also allows administrators to query the call-routing settings that are published for a particular user.
This evolution combines the ease and familiarity of Skype with the communication and collaboration features of Lync and enables you to conduct your business through an enterprise-grade secure platform using the devices you already have.
What's new in Skype for Business for Windows Phone?
Skype for Business for Windows Phone includes a new look and feel, new emoticons, and other improvements. And, if your organization uses Skype for Business Server 2015, the ability to communicate with your Skype contacts using IM, audio call, and video call. We've spelled out all the details in Lync for Windows Phone is now Skype for Business—see what's new. See that article for the full story.
Does Skype for Business run on all versions of Windows Phone?
Skype for Business runs on Windows Phone 8.1 and later. If you're using Lync on an earlier version of Windows Phone, continue to use it and we won't send you the update.
You'll receive the update to Skype for Business if your Windows Phone is version 8.1 or later. The update will be automatic unless you've disabled automatic updates in your Settings menu. Once updated, your Skype for Business contacts and meetings will still be there and will work just like they did in Lync. If you're using an earlier version of Windows Phone, you'll continue to use Lync 2013.
You will not receive the update to Skype for Business.
I've never used Lync or Skype for Business on my Windows Phone. Where do I get it?
To use Skype for Business for Windows Phone you need a Skype for Business or Lync account—typically the same user name and password you use when signing in at work or school. If you're already using the desktop version of Skype for Business, then you have a Skype for Business account. You can download the app from the Windows Phone store. See Download, install, and sign in to Skype for Business for Windows Phone 8.1 for more information.
I don't have a Windows Phone. Is Skype for Business available for Android or iOS?
Not yet, but check back often. Skype for Business for Android and iOS is coming soon. In the meantime, if you have Skype for Business on your desktop, you can continue to use the Lync 2013 app on your iOS or Android phone until the new Skype for Business app is available.
Voici la première cumulative update pour Skype for Business!
The cumulative update resolves an issue in which a call is disconnected when a user un-parks the call.
The cumulative update resolves an issue in which Skype for Business Web App crashes.
Microsoft vient de publier une mise à jour de l'indispensable Network Planning, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting with Lync Server guide.
Updated June 2015 to replace Call Quality Methodology and Key Health Indicators information with links to the new published content. Lync Server is a real-time unified communications application that relies on an optimized network infrastructure to deliver high-quality media sessions. This guide provides a model for managing the network infrastructure for Lync Server 2010 and Lync Server 2013.
Can't verify the certificate from the server. Please contact your support team.
2014-04-23 15:18:31.230 Lync[247:3b2ae18c] INFO APPLICATION CTransportRequestRetrialQueue.cpp/822:Req. completed, Stopping timer.
2014-04-23 15:18:31.351 Lync[247:3b2ae18c] INFO UI CMUIUtil.mm/1722:Mapped error message is 'We can't verify the certificate from the server. Please contact your support team.
To resolve this issue, install your Enterprise Root CA Certificate on the iOS Device. You can do this manually or by using the Apple Configurator.
his article describes how to remove the LastActive attribute from the aggregation state category in Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015, and Skype for Business Online.
Note The Lync Server presence schema includes a method for calculating and displaying how long a user is away or offline. This is known as "Last Active." The LastActive attribute returns presence inquiries only from users who have the "Colleagues," "Workgroup," and "Friends and Family" privacy relationships. For more information about presence information in Lync Server, see the "References" section.
Last Active presence information may be incorrectly interpreted as reflecting the actual user's status at work. Therefore, users may rely on it to remotely monitor an employee's activity. However, this behavior is not enabled in some countries.
Last Active presence information that's provided to users should not disclose how long a user is away or offline for business reasons.
Note The aggregate presence data that's calculated by Lync Server contains the status history of each user's endpoints if a user is signed to multiple endpoints. The status of each endpoint changes automatically in response to system events (such as logon, logoff, workstation lock and unlock, and network connectivity events), configured timeouts, scheduled meetings, and user activity. The status of each endpoint can also be changed manually by the user. In this situation, Last Active presence information should not be considered an accurate measure of the user's presence. Last Active presence information is intended only to provide additional information about the user's availability and willingness to communicate.
Copy this file to the path that's specified in step 2 on every front-end computer in the pool in which you want to remove the LastActive attribute.
Restart the Front-End Server service (RtcSrv or RtcHost) to apply these changes.
Note This resolution affects only new data that's published after the update is applied. It does not fix old data. Users must change their presence manually or by signing in for the LastActive attribute to be removed.
Configure your computer for Skype for Business Online management. To do this, see Using Windows PowerShell to manage Skype for Business Online.
Start a Skype for Business Online Windows PowerShell session.
Note you may see a warning about unified contact store. You can safely ignore this warning.
The LastActive attribute will be disabled after some hours.
Users must restart (change presence manually or sign out and then sign back in again) before the LastActive attribute is removed from their presence.
After the publisher has republished, subscribers must sign out and then sign back in again before the LastActive attribute no longer appears.
There is also a known issue in Skype for Business Online (see the "Known issues" section) in which outdated or inaccurate LastActive information is occasionally displayed.
Ayant eu quelques questions sur le sujet récemment, qu'en est-il de cette fonctionnalité si attendu (Shared Line Apparence)?
Basé sur du MSPL, cette application devrait être disponible pour cet automne.
Actuellement supporté seulement par certains modèles de la série VVX de Polycom.
On trouve quelques éléments de réponses dans la présentation durant le dernier Ignite de Jamie.
The Decrease List Level and Increase List Level functions are unavailable in PowerPoint Web App in the Chrome web browser.
The name's a bit of a mouthful, but "Convert-SonusSbcConfigToWord.ps1" takes the backup file from your Sonus SBC/UX 1000 or 2000 gateway and creates a new Word document, with all of the important(?) configuration information captured in tables.
The script automatically pulls the QoEMetrics instance name from the topology and query the database for all reported calls within the last week.
The purpose of this tool is to give you an easy front end GUI to review your user's call forwarding settings. Information such as who's a delegate of who, who's got simultaneous ring set, who's forwarding where, etc. can be difficult to retrieve without a utility such as sefautil, which itself can be difficult. This tool allows you to review this information for all users in a pool in a GUI format that's easily searchable, sortable, and filterable (Out-Gridview). It also allows you to save the information to a CSV file. The information is gaterhed by parsing data pulled using Export-CSUserData. No SQL calls are made and no data is written back into Lync.
Because this tool uses Export-CSUserData, please be patient during the loading process. If you have difficulty using this utility, first ensure you can run Export-CSUserData successfully. If there is any corrupted user information in a pool, this can cause issues and that corruption will need to be resolved first.
If you would like to see the information in a different format, say an PowerShell command such as Get-CSUserForwardingInfo that can run for a single user or pool for speed, let me know as well. If there's interest I can write it. Though it runs fine on Skype for Business, a separate Skype for Business utility will be released as well with additional information related to Call Via Work.
Finally, the question that I imagine will be asked is: If you can pull this data as read-only, why not give the ability to modify and write it back and avoid sefautil all together? The quick answer is, I have another utility for this that I have not yet released, and reading the data is much simpler than writing it. I am still putting it through it's paces for quality and will decide if it should be released later.
Microsoft vient d'annoncer aujourd'hui plus d'informations concernant le surface hub.
Microsoft announced this morning that its Windows 10-based Surface Hub will be available for order starting on July 1, with the devices shipping to customers in September. As you might expect, Surface Hub comes with a heady price tag: about $20,000 for the 84-inch 4K version, and $7000 for the 55-inch 1080p unit. But Microsoft can accurately claim this is aggressive pricing for the market Surface Hub targets.
L'infrastructure serveur Skype for Business est disponible au téléchargement depuis le 1er mai 2015.
Nous sommes heureux d'avoir la chance d'acceuillir pour cette session le MVP Lync/Skype for Business Jeff Schertz de Polycom.
Les sessions seront animées par les deux Microsoft MVP Lync/Skype for Business pour le Québec, Jean-Philippe Breton, Président de Akilon, et Christophe Boucetta, Directeur technique UC de Solulan.
La session est gratuite et accompagnée de boisson, nourriture offerte par le groupe des usages UC de Montréal.
Microsoft vient de publier une mise à jour pour Lync 2013/Skype for business.
Microsoft vient de publier le Skype for Business Server 2015 Management Pack.
End-to-End scenario availability from various locations.
Call reliability and quality perceived by real users.
Geographically distributable end-to-end scenario validation for Skype for Business Server 2015 deployments. This includes coverage for internal, remote and branch office users.
Increased scenario coverage in areas like AV Edge Connectivity and Exchange Unified Message Connectivity.
Enhanced troubleshooting logs to streamline root cause analysis of failures.
Increased reliability monitoring of real end user calls and conferences.
Integrated media quality alerts driven from Quality of Experience (QoE) data reported by client applications.
Full event and performance monitoring for all Skype for Business Server 2015 roles.
Microsoft vient de publier le Video Interop Server Synthetic Transaction Support Package.
This download includes support files needed to run Skype for Business Server 2015, VIS Synthetic Transactions. The package contains configuration files and media to support Video Interop Server Synthetic Transactions. These are needed in addition to the Synthetic Transactions that get installed through OCSCore.msi.
Toronto, June 2, 2015 – Microsoft today announced plans to deliver commercial cloud services from Canada. Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online will be delivered from Toronto and Quebec City in 2016, further strengthening Microsoft's footprint in Canada's competitive cloud landscape.
"Soon, the Microsoft Cloud will be truly Canadian," said Kevin Turner, Worldwide Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft, who travelled to Toronto to make the announcement. "This substantial investment in a Canadian cloud demonstrates how committed we are to bringing even more opportunity to Canadian businesses and government organizations, helping them fully realize the cost savings and flexibility of the cloud," said Turner. According to IDC, total public cloud spend in Canada is projected to grow to $2.5B by next year. The fastest growth will be from Public cloud infrastructure with a strong 45 per cent increase by 2016.
These new locally deployed services will address data residency considerations for Microsoft customers and partners of all shapes and sizes who are embracing cloud computing to transform their businesses, better manage variable workloads and deliver new digital services and experiences to customers and employees. General availability of Azure is anticipated in early 2016, followed by Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online later in 2016.
Canadian customers of all sizes are already in the Microsoft Cloud. Even today, Microsoft delivers cloud-based email, Office 365, and CRM Online to more than 80,000 Canadian businesses. Companies like Air Canada, Quebecor and Hatch are saving money while empowering their employees to collaborate, be more productive and mobile with Office 365, Yammer, and Skype for Business. "Information systems and technology continue to be a differentiator for Hatch as it helps us to gain advantages in the marketplace – our use of Microsoft cloud is an integral part of this success. We are now able to focus on our business while benefiting from all the innovation Microsoft offers with a Service Level Agreement we can count on." Christopher Taylor, Global Director, Hatch.
Ontario's Deputy Premier and President of Treasury Board, Deb Matthews, applauded Microsoft's commitment to enabling Ontario businesses to compete globally.
John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, praised the announcement as a significant boost to Toronto's digital infrastructure.
Tory noted that it's estimated that more than 14,000 jobs in Toronto are connected to cloud computing.
"We decided to move to the cloud with the Office 365 suite because of the globalization of CDPQ's investment activities and our need for simplified collaboration among our teams around the world", said Pierre Miron, CDPQ's Executive Vice-President, Operations and Information Technologies. "CDPQ also welcomes Microsoft's decision to establish two data centers in Canada, one in Quebec City and the other in Toronto," added Miron.
ILS supporte la fonctionnalité globale de réplication de plan de numérotation et ne fonctionne que sur le gestionnaire de noeud de publication de communications unifiées.
L'exemple ci-dessous montre la configuration entre deux clusters dun partage des informations de l'annuaire URI.
Configuration du cluster en 2 en mode hub.
Dans cette exemple, j'utilise un mot de passe.
Étant le premier hub, laisser le champ vide.
Configurer le cluster 1 en mode spoke.
Dans la fenetre "ILS Cluster Registration", préciser l'IP du Hub.


© 2017, © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. One of the main limitations to understanding the evolutionary history of hydrothermal vent and cold seep communities is the identification of tube fossils from ancient deposits. Tube-dwelling annelids are some of the most conspicuous inhabitants of modern vent and seep ecosystems, and ancient vent and seep tubular fossils are usually considered to have been made by annelids. However, the taxonomic affinities of many tube fossils from vents and seeps are contentious, or have remained largely undetermined due to difficulties in identification. In this study, we make a detailed chemical (Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and pyrolysis gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry) and morphological assessment of modern annelid tubes from six families, and fossil tubes (seven tube types from the Cenozoic, 12 Mesozoic and four Palaeozoic) from hydrothermal vent and cold seep environments. Characters identified from these investigations were used to explore for the first time the systematics of ancient vent and seep tubes within a cladistic framework. Results reveal details of the compositions and ultrastructures of modern tubes, and also suggest that two types of tubes from ancient vent localities were made by the annelid family Siboglinidae, which often dominates modern vents and seeps. Our results also highlight that several vent and seep tube fossils formerly thought to have been made by annelids cannot be assigned an annelid affiliation with any certainty. The findings overall improve the level of quality control with regard to interpretations of fossil tubes, and, most importantly, suggest that siboglinids likely occupied Mesozoic vents and seeps, greatly increasing the minimum age of the clade relative to earlier molecular estimates.
Pyrolysis Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (pyrolysis FTIR) is a potential sample selection method for Mars Sample Return missions. FTIR spectroscopy can be performed on solid and liquid samples but also on gases following preliminary thermal extraction, pyrolysis or gasification steps. The detection of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases can reveal information on sample mineralogy and past habitability of the environment in which the sample was created. The absorption of IR radiation at specific wavenumbers by organic functional groups can indicate the presence and type of any organic matter present. Here we assess the utility of pyrolysis-FTIR to release water, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and organic matter from Mars relevant materials to enable a rapid habitability assessment of target rocks for sample return. For our assessment a range of minerals were analysed by attenuated total reflectance FTIR. Subsequently, the mineral samples were subjected to single step pyrolysis and multi step pyrolysis and the products characterised by gas phase FTIR.Data from both single step and multi step pyrolysis-FTIR provide the ability to identify minerals that reflect habitable environments through their water and carbon dioxide responses. Multi step pyrolysis-FTIR can be used to gain more detailed information on the sources of the liberated water and carbon dioxide owing to the characteristic decomposition temperatures of different mineral phases. Habitation can be suggested when pyrolysis-FTIR indicates the presence of organic matter within the sample. Pyrolysis-FTIR, therefore, represents an effective method to assess whether Mars Sample Return target rocks represent habitable conditions and potential records of habitation and can play an important role in sample triage operations.


Anyone can stick a light fixture in the ground, however, it takes someone with an artistic vision to Paint with Light.
It takes not only somone who has a creative vision,but someone who has knowledge of the best outdoor lighting products along with proper installation techniques and installation skills to deliver truly stunning results.
Joe, Lite Visions owner is a dedicated professional Outdoor Lighting Designer/Installer who stays up to date thru continuing education and training which in turn helps him to create amazing results along with providing the best outdoor lighting products the professional outdoor lighting industry currently has to offer.
From designing and installing outdoor lighting for a Funeral home in North Raleigh ,to designing and installing outdoor lights to illuminate a deck,subdivision entrance or the front of a home and walkway for safety and security. Lite Visions is passionate about helping clients achieve their outdoor lighting goals with Energy efficient LED outdoor lighting solutions in the Raleigh NC area.
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Q: When changeRootViewController, unknow error appears:EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x20) I try to change rootViewController using swift code to log out and it seems a memory error appears:

The code of log out is as below:
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    guard let section = SettingsSection(rawValue: indexPath.section) else {return}

    switch section {
    case .Profile:
        print(ProfileOptions(rawValue: indexPath.row)?.description)
        if ProfileOptions(rawValue: indexPath.row)?.description == "Log Out"{
            //logoutTapped()
            //return
            userDefaults.set("", forKey: Keys.username)
            userDefaults.set("", forKey: Keys.useremail)

            let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
            let loginNavController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(identifier: "LoginNavController")
            (UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes.first?.delegate as? SceneDelegate)?.changeRootViewController(loginNavController)
        }
        break

    case .Application:
        print(ApplicationOptions(rawValue: indexPath.row)?.description)
    }
}

changeRootViewController Code in SceneDelegate:
func changeRootViewController(_ vc: UIViewController, animated: Bool = true) {
    guard let window = self.window else {
        return
    }
    window.rootViewController = vc
    // add animations
    UIView.transition(with: window,
                      duration: 0.5,
                      options: [.transitionCurlDown],
                      animations: nil,
                      completion: nil)
}

I followed this tutorial: https://fluffy.es/how-to-transition-from-login-screen-to-tab-bar-controller/
Any idea is welcome!

A: For doing it you have to store your current RootView in coreData. You have to preload Base RootView for the first time opening your app by using CoreData.
I have been also making an app with possibility for such changing, and the hardest thing was to find info about pre loading data for the first run of your app
So here is the code I used:
You will have to preload data in AppDelegate
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

//Do not forget to set the function
preloadDataFromStructArray()
            return true
    }

    func preloadDataFromStructArray() {

        let preloadedDataKey = "didPreloadData"
        let userDefaults = UserDefaults.standard

        if userDefaults.bool(forKey: preloadedDataKey) == false {

            let someViewController1 = isCurrent(index: 0, status: false)
            let someViewController2 = isCurrent(index: 1, status: false)

            let backgroundContext = CoreDataStack.persistentContainer.newBackgroundContext()
            CoreDataStack.persistentContainer.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true

            backgroundContext.perform {

                    let arrayViewControllersStatuses = [someViewController1, someViewController2]

                    do{

                    for status in arrayViewControllersStatuses {

                        let viewControllerStatus = CurrentTrainingPlan(context: backgroundContext)
                        viewControllerStatus = status.status!
                        viewControllerStatus = status.index!

                    }

                        try backgroundContext.save()
                        userDefaults.setValue(true, forKey: preloadedDataKey)

                    } catch {
                        print(error.localizedDescription)
                    }

            }

        }

    }


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Sorry, Guys: Women Make Better Investors Than Men
Peter Swan
Professor of Finance UNSW Business School
Women have had a pretty bad reputation in global financial markets. As investors, the perception is that they joined the game too late, they saved too little and they invested too conservatively.
But a growing number of surveys and research papers suggest this is a stereotype that is out of date. The reality is that women actually spend more time researching their options than men, are better at matching their investments to their life goals, tend to trade less and when they do, remain calmer during the storms that unnerve male investors on the financial high seas.
So, recent publicity around an NAB (National Australia Bank) report suggesting that women are losing large sums of money because they are too conservative in their investment choices, has raised hackles. Not least because it claims there are anatomical differences in the brains of men and women that influence investment decisions.
Counter-arguments have flooded into the authors of this controversial claim, saying quite the opposite: that biology has nothing to do with it and that behaviour and environmental factors are much more relevant.
Trish Power, a writer of several books on superannuation and investing, believes that women's conservatism can be partly explained by the fact that, historically, women haven't been the ones investing.
"Men earned and invested the money, so it's a fairly recent trend that women are investing. Not only that, but evidence is emerging to show that women investors are actually making more money each year than men," says Power.
Women tend to be more dispassionate than men when investing and trade less, reducing the risk of losses. Studies also show that while men tend to invest with the goal of achieving capital growth, women generally focus more on the income an asset will produce.
Outpacing men
One of the most in-depth pieces of research to support the view that women make better investors has come from UNSW Business School where professor Peter Swan has co-authored a paper, The gender face-off: Do female traders come out on top in terms of trading performance?(link is external), with PhD research student Wei Lu, and Joakim Westerholm from the University of Sydney Business School.
The road the academics travelled was a long one, encompassing a 17-year period, and focused on Finland due to the transparency of its financial marketplace. There, every trader is required to have an identity and stock holdings and trade records are public information, resulting in what may be the best data-trading set in the world.
The study matched daily trade by male and female individual investors in Nokia and 27 other major Finnish stocks and found that there was a gain to female investors of €194.17 million ($276.60 million) over the time period, representing a continuous compounded rate of return of 21.44% per annum, rising to 43.16% per annum just for the main stock, Nokia.
Women individual investors also outperformed domestic and international institutional investors with an even more substantial gain of €1,654.24 million.
"We concluded that female investors prefer to buy underpriced stocks and sell overpriced stocks – compared with moving average prices," says Swan.
Past price movements informed the women's decision-making and they tended to anticipate mis-pricing opportunities such as during the GFC when they perceived (more acutely than men) that too much trading activity was risky and therefore to be avoided – to sit tight and wait.
The research backs up a 2001 study from the University of California called Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment, which showed that women investors outperformed male investors by around one percentage point a year, but this underperformance was due entirely to too much trading by males when trading costs were high and not due to better investment choices by females.
In times of both stock market buoyancy and decline, women have outpaced men. During the boom of 2014, an analysis of 60,000 users of US online investment-sharing platform Openfolio, showed that women investors outperformed men by an average of 0.4%. While in 2015, women avoided the worst effects of a falling market, losing an average of 2.5% compared with a loss of 3.8% among men.
Among professional female traders, the pattern is repeated. In the US, hedge funds managed by women returned 59% since 2007, against average returns of 37%, according to research by HFR, a specialist hedge fund analyst.
Picking up clues
So why do females behave the way they do in trading? Swan says that there is a clue that has arisen from the work of neuro-economists who have scanned the brains of people while they are playing electronic trading games.
In the experiment, volunteers were given the task of making money playing against an adversary. Some were trading against an adversary with no information while other adversaries had inside information. The researchers found that some participants were able to recognise they were playing against an informed trading opponent and used a particular area of the brain to outmanoeuvre them.
It is in this area of the brain that women are particularly adept says Swan, enabling them to empathise and pick up cues from people.
"Our findings, in general, are consistent with females making choices quite differently from males and utilising different areas of the brain based on 'theory of the mind' and pattern recognition that enables females to enjoy greater trading intuition.
"There's some evidence that women have an unusual kind of sensitivity and are extremely sceptical of 'pumped' investments when prices are rising rapidly," he adds.
"Women are far more likely to buy when prices have fallen, indicating greater scepticism and contrarian behaviour than males. Hence, men should make a special point of having their spouse review any choices the husbands make," says Swan.
A more conducive environment
But the fact remains that most women just aren't fired up by the stock market. In the UK, for example, while 51% of women have savings accounts compared with 50% of men, the ratio of male to female customers among the top 10 DIY investment platforms is 68 to 32.
But if evidence about the superior performance of women investors is more widely publicised, Swan hopes it might encourage more women into the stock market and open up more opportunities for those who are trained in finance, to be employed in fund management and to get jobs as traders.
Some researchers believe that the notoriously aggressive world of the financial markets is off-putting for a lot of women.
"As a fund manager, your daily performance is compared to everyone else. That kind of contest might not be very conducive to attracting females, especially as it takes a while for the contrarian choices made by females to outperform. Our study might show that these funds need to set up their trading rooms less like the Wolf of Wall Street model and more conducive to women traders," suggests Swan.
And as for encouraging more women to dabble in the stock market, Australia's most prominent female investment analyst, Giselle Roux at Escala Partners, says the focus should be on creating an environment for women in which they can talk about investment markets in a collegiate manner, "where they don't feel there's some man who's going to look at them and say, 'oh what a stupid question'."
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Australian Foreign Affairs
December 2012 – January 2013
John McTernan, Parliament House, Canberra, 20 April 2012. © Penny Bradfield/Fairfax Syndication
Julia Gillard's hard-nosed director of communications
For the warring tribes of the Australian Labor Party, the events of an opening-night party at the Adelaide Fringe Festival almost two years ago remain a matter of angry contention. The venue was the Stag Hotel on Rundle Street, its crowded balconies offering a view of the carnival parade below. Prominent guests included then premier Mike Rann, Labor MP Kate Ellis and Kevin Rudd, who was in Adelaide on government business. On a sultry night, with the beer flowing freely, the foreign affairs minister was in a playful mood, according to some who were there. At one stage, they claim, Rudd pretended to be Mike Rann's personal bodyguard, demonstrating that he was not only fluent in Mandarin but also a dab hand at karate.
Kate Ellis would later tell of how Rudd was "talking down the prime minister", saying he was going to "get his revenge". But apparently he said more than that. A year after the event, on the eve of last February's leadership spill, Samantha Maiden reported in the Sunday Telegraph that he had described Julia Gillard as "a childless, atheist ex-communist". Rudd rubbished the claims, as did Mike Rann, but it didn't look good. Interestingly, one now salient detail did not make it into Maiden's story as it appeared in the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun – though it was included in The Sunday Mail in South Australia – was the presence that warm night of a little-known Scottish political operative who was in Adelaide as a South Australian government "thinker in residence". John McTernan formerly worked in Downing Street as Tony Blair's political secretary. By the time of the leadership spill, he was employed as Julia Gillard's communications director. Rudd supporters are in little doubt that McTernan helped to foment the Stag Hotel story.
A veteran of the decade-long war of attrition between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, McTernan arrived well equipped for the internecine conflict between Gillard and Rudd. In the week leading up to the February party room vote, he became a central figure in the six-strong campaign team that conducted conference calls every morning and evening, as if in full federal election mode: Gillard's chief of staff, Ben Hubbard; her senior press secretary, Sean Kelly; the treasurer Wayne Swan; his fixer, Jim Chalmers; and the prime minister herself. Immediately after Rudd's resignation as foreign minister, they spoke of "carpet-bombing" him so heavily ahead of the leadership ballot that he would not only lose the vote but be obliterated.
At Westminster, the Blair camp famously labelled Gordon Brown "psychologically flawed", a phrase that amplified long-standing suspicions about the chancellor's vindictiveness. In Canberra, the Gillard team adopted a similar line of attack, complaining that the ousted prime minister was by temperament incapable of doing the job. Swan himself fired the first salvo, issuing a written statement that blasted Rudd's "dysfunctional decision-making and his deeply demeaning attitude towards other people including our caucus colleagues". Then came Nicola Roxon, who complained of his "ludicrous" management style, Tony Burke, who bemoaned the "chaos" under his leadership, Stephen Conroy, who spoke of Rudd's "contempt" for colleagues and, finally, Kate Ellis.
Senator Doug Cameron, a Rudd ally, had been warned by left-wing union friends in Scotland to be wary of McTernan, a staunch 'Blairite' on the right of the British Labour party. He was shocked that the attacks were so personal. "I don't think there's been anything like this in the history of the Labor party," says Cameron. "It was stupid and undeserved. Politics is a tough game and you need tough people. But you also need smart people." Others in the Rudd camp argue it was suicidal to trash a Labor politician who might one day return as leader – what they have called the "destroy the village to save the village" strategy. Still, it worked, at least in the short term.
In Britain, where a cult of the political staffer has seen backroom figures like Alastair Campbell achieve celebrity, John McTernan remains relatively obscure. In Blair's autobiography, McTernan merits just one mention. Nor was he the inspiration for the potty-mouthed Malcolm Tucker, the spin-doctoring star of the BBC hit series The Thick of It, as was suggested on his arrival in Canberra. With an English degree from Edinburgh University and a Master's in librarianship, the soft-spoken Scot, now 53, might have seemed destined for a genteel career. But when in the late 1980s he became the Labour Party's chief librarian, he turned his book-lined haven into a kind of political war room. During his years as a librarian he also served as a Labour councillor in the south London borough of Southwark, one of Britain's tougher political nurseries. "Politics is a rough old sport," McTernan once told the BBC. "[It] is a sport for grown-ups."
During his three and a half years in Downing Street, he was one of the few Blairites to earn the respect of Brownites. He was also renowned for his ruthlessness, and for being a hater. He is a colossal name-dropper, who has traded on his friendship with Blair. Australian colleagues depict him as undermining rather than confrontational, and say he tends to needle people in meetings rather than shout them down. "He likes mind games," says one. "He's not an eyeballer," claims another, "but uses his intellect in a destructive way." In conversation, he likes to portray himself as bookish, even cerebral. He gives the impression of enjoying a measure of attention, and notoriety, that he never attained at Westminster.
His critics freely admit his talent for the twin essentials of modern-day spin doctoring: messaging and framing. Ever so slightly dishevelled, he looks the part. His pasty complexion suggests too much time spent in political back rooms, even though he apparently comes up with many of his best lines while swimming laps in an open-air pool in the Canberra suburb of Dickson. He talks at times in a sly half-whisper, and with great exactness, as if calibrating the potential political impact of every word.
A frequent visitor to Australia over the past decade, he built up a formidable network of ALP contacts. So when Ben Hubbard sent out an email to Canberra staffers asking for possible candidates to perform Gillard's communications role, an aide to Bill Shorten immediately thought of him. Shorten rang McTernan in Britain to tell him he should sit down with the prime minister. They were brought together in Canberra for a one-on-one meeting, and that evening he was offered the job.
As head of communications, a taxpayer-funded post, McTernan sees his primary role not in dealing day to day with the press gallery, but rather sketching the grand arc of the government's narrative to influential commentators. The umpires, he calls them. The Australian's Paul Kelly, the dean of the commentariat, is a high priority. So, too, is Laurie Oakes, because of his influential Saturday column in News Limited tabloids.
In a move straight out of the playbook of Tony Blair, who flew halfway around the planet to address Rupert Murdoch and his squadron of executives on Hayman Island, McTernan has courted antagonistic opinion leaders. For Miranda Devine, it was end-of-week drinks at Bambini Trust, a fashionable bar in Sydney's CBD. For Andrew Bolt, it was lunch at Caffe e Cucina, a Melbourne institution. For Piers Akerman, it was an agreeable meal at Lucio's in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
"He was a charm bomb," recalls Devine, a columnist with the Daily Telegraph. "He's super-smart and energetic." Over several bottles of red, they talked about his Scottish childhood and books. "He's certainly got the gift of the gab." Bolt was equally effusive, telling Samantha Maiden, a McTernan favourite, that he was "tremendously intelligent" and "culturally literate". Akerman was not so impressed. In reference to senior Labor figures' personal attacks on Rudd and also Tony Abbott, Akerman labels McTernan a "one-trick pony" – a common complaint.
Chris Uhlmann, the political editor of ABC's 7.30 program, takes an even dimmer view: "I think he's completely gutless." Uhlmann received the silent treatment from McTernan following a testy post-budget interview with the prime minister in May. McTernan had complained afterwards to 7.30 host Leigh Sales, and warned that his boss need not venture onto the program. But Uhlmann's attempts to contact McTernan, with texts and phone messages, failed to elicit a response. "If he's got a problem with me, he should say so," says Uhlmann. "He should have the spine to talk to me face to face." Only in recent weeks has McTernan finally been in touch.
Editors at the Australian Women's Weekly, the country's most widely read magazine, have also been unimpressed. For its Mother's Day edition, Women's Weekly requested a photo shoot with Julia Gillard's mother, Moira, a soft feature magazine staff presumed would be given an immediate green light. But they never heard back from McTernan's office. When they learnt that the prime minister, an avid knitter, was working on baby clothes for Penny Wong's daughter, they asked for the knitting pattern. Again, silence. To critics, the episodes show that the Briton has not yet mastered Australia's media terrain: no women's magazine in Britain has the clout of Women's Weekly. To his fans in the capital, it proves his mind is on the bigger picture.
On becoming communications director in November last year, McTernan identified three candid priorities. First, the government had to staunch the flow of blood from its self-inflicted wounds. Second, it needed to end the self-harm. Third, it had to build a record of accomplishment. At the start of this year, on a whiteboard in his Canberra office, he listed the economy, skills and schools, the carbon tax, the Gonski review and the national disability insurance scheme as key policy areas. Scrawled in marker pen was also a list of problems to "box off": boats, pokies and, again, carbon. Then came his own bold equivalent of the famous dictum from Bill Clinton's war room, "It's the economy, stupid." It came in the form of a question, an audacious one at that, given Gillard's reversal on the carbon tax: "Who do you trust?"
McTernan had been impressed by Gillard when they first met, in 2005, at a shadow cabinet dinner. His trip had been arranged by the ALP's then national secretary, Tim Gartrell, and, watching Gillard perform in question time, he'd been struck by her command of the House. As prime minister, however, it was clear she had failed to find a voice that was both authoritative and authentic. In McTernan's view, which holds that ministerial statements should be decipherable by his elderly Scottish mother, Gillard used too much jargon when talking policy. She also needed to humanise herself by making known her passions for education and immigrant success, including her own, which McTernan reckons is one of the great 'only in Australia' stories.
Alas, Gillard's first set-piece speech under his tutelage, at the ALP national conference last December, was disastrous. In her homage to former Labor leaders, she gracelessly snubbed her predecessor, and its most memorable line, "We are us," which McTernan approved but did not write, was pilloried in the press.
Damage limitation was further required following the Australia Day "riot", when Tony Hodges, a Gillard press secretary, had to step down after it emerged he had tipped off Aboriginal protesters at the Tent Embassy in Canberra about Tony Abbott's presence in a nearby restaurant. A month later Gillard agreed to appear on 'The Comeback Kid?', an ABC Four Corners documentary focusing on the 2010 removal of Rudd as prime minister. Under fierce cross-examination from the reporter, Andrew Fowler, Gillard appeared flustered when probed about her use of ALP internal polling against her predecessor. Ahead of the program, the prime minister's office had asked the ABC team whether it had a "gotcha moment", and afterwards complained of an ambush. They also expected Rudd to be interviewed, but he had declined. Regardless, the line of questioning should not have surprised Gillard's press team.
Nine days after the broadcast, in a dramatic middle-of-the-night announcement from Washington, Rudd resigned as foreign affairs minister to contest the leadership. McTernan believes his boss's turnaround commenced later that week. In front of reporters in Adelaide, she ended what allies have called the "guilty silence" surrounding Rudd's 2010 removal. She tore into Rudd, describing the "chaos" within his government and also his attempts to "sabotage" the 2010 election campaign. The real Julia, the warrior Gillard, was back.
After Rudd's evisceration by the government's inner circle, new enemies soon came under fire: the right-wing billionaire activists, Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer, who McTernan thought had stepped straight from central casting. Again, the treasurer led the attack, taking to the pages of this magazine to warn that "the rising power of vested interests is undermining our equality and threatening our democracy". McTernan had been told that what might be construed as class warfare would not work in Australia – Blair avoided it in Britain, as well – but it helped to switch the conversation from carbon and boats. Better still, the battle was waged on Labor ground, focusing on Labor values. McTernan makes no secret of his admiration for 'Swanny', who has played such a central role in Gillard's rehabilitation.
Labor insiders have been taken aback, however, at the extent to which a political operative brought in from overseas has become embroiled in factional fights. "He can't resist the palace politics," says a former colleague. In welcoming McTernan as his state's "thinker in residence" at the start of 2011, Mike Rann described him as "one of the world's foremost public policy experts." (Returning the hyperbole, his guest noted that South Australia was "poised for greatness".) But Rann soon became uneasy at seeing his friend forge close ties with the rivals who later ousted him as premier.
South Australian Liberals also bristled at McTernan's short stay in the state, not least because he has so far failed to produce a final written report, which was the purpose of his handsomely remunerated post. The subject, notes shadow finance minister Rob Lucas with irony, was public sector efficiency. "We're waiting with bated breath," says Lucas. Liberals have also gone after him for being questioned under caution during the 'Cash for Peerages' scandal in 2007, though he was later exonerated. When David Pisoni, a Liberal MP, goaded McTernan about the affair on Twitter, he seemed to scratch at a raw wound. "How about being a man," @johnmcternan shot back. "Got something to say? Say it. Out loud. No sneering. No innuendo." Pisoni was flabbergasted: "I went fishing with a 10 lb line, and got a 100 lb fish." The episode affirms McTernan's political style, where all-out attack is seen as the best form of defence.
In terms of on-message discipline and delivering pithy sound-bites, McTernan is said to rank Tony Abbott among the two best opposition leaders he has come up against. (Alex Salmond, the wily Scottish Nationalist leader, is the other.) But immediately after Gillard became prime minister, in an opinion piece for the Guardian, McTernan identified a weakness: "Abbott's appeal to the Liberal base is more than balanced by his difficulty with women voters."
During the 2010 election campaign, Labor strategists had compiled a list of the Liberal leader's more unreconstructed remarks and were poised to use it. They had tested the sexist quotes on sample groups, and the polled reaction was fierce. But the prime minister overruled their use, because she feared the Liberals would counterattack with allegations about her past dealings with corrupt AWU officials during her time at a Melbourne law firm.
Up until recently, her most piercing attacks on Abbott targeted his policy obstructionism: the 'Dr No' strategy. By October, however, the prime minister's office had decided to change tack. The AWU controversy was thought to have been neutralised, in part by initiating a news conference where Gillard answered reporters' questions on the subject until there were no more. Second, allegations in David Marr's Quarterly Essay, that the young Abbott had intimidated a female student by punching a wall next to her head, had received a lot of attention. For McTernan, timing is everything: character attacks are most effective when they augment existing doubts. And with the opposition looking to exploit the Peter Slipper scandal, with its bizarre anatomical texts, the time was right for a counterattack.
As Gillard entered the chamber on 9 October, the now famous 'misogyny speech' was little more than a few of sheets of paper listing three or four bullet points and a litany of Abbott's sexist howlers. Abbott himself supplied another, indeed the coup de grace, when, in referring to the government "dying of shame", he echoed shock jock Alan Jones's despicable words about Gillard's late father.
Gillard seized the moment, and the global effect was astonishing. At a bar in Canberra the following evening, a 19-year-old barmaid told McTernan how impressed she'd been by the speech. Had she watched question time? asked McTernan, according to the account that appeared in Laurie Oakes's Saturday column. "I've been reading jezebel.com," she said, referring to the American feminist website, which was full of praise for Australia's "badass" prime minister.
Afterwards, when McTernan drew fire from the Australian's Chris Kenny for introducing character assassination in an approach "vaguely foreign to the accepted norms of Australian politics", McTernan again took to Twitter. "Mate, just a heads-up," he tweeted to Kenny in reference to the Macquarie Dictionary's post-speech revision of its definition of misogyny. "I did that dictionary thing in England, too."
The polls suggest that McTernan's hard-hitting tactics are working. But Labor critics complain he has not come up with a positive message for the government, and that the internal attacks on Rudd will yet backfire. "We've moved from unqualified disaster to just disaster," says one. Regardless, McTernan will endure. If Gillard somehow wins the next federal election, he will be hailed as a genius. If she loses, as he has told journalists, his professional reputation will survive intact because her position is seen as irretrievable. In that case he will likely return to Britain and campaign for a 'No' vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. McTernan has that freedom: on the battlefields of modern politics, he's a strategist, not a warrior, so the wounds are not his to lick.
Nick Bryant is the BBC's New York and United Nations correspondent. He is also the author of The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way.
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In order to determine the role of contaminants in declining populations of seaducks, it is proposed that: (1) archived samples of Oldsquaw collected from their Canadian arctic breeding grounds be analyzed for Hg, Se and Cu (in liver), Cd (in kidney), Pb (in wing bone), and selected samples be screened for a wider range of metals (in liver), and (2) archived samples of Oldsquaw wing bone be analyzed for stable isotopes (13C/12C; 15N/14N, and 34S/32S) and strontium (Sr) to discriminate whether birds from certain geographical areas of the Arctic are overwintering in freshwater (i.e. Great Lakes) or marine environments.
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Q: AvAudioRecorder record to AsyncSocket NSData Hey everyone I am having quite a time trying to figure out what (should be) pretty straight forward. I have an open socket and I just want to pipe AAC audio data captured from the mic to it. It seems using AV recorder that you have to specify a file so I have a memory file specified. How to I capture and just pipe to the socket?
I was thinking maybe I need to set a timer and pull out the contents of the file on an interval but that seems like the wrong approach.
I am relatively new with iOS so any pointers would be helpful.
Once again the ultimate goal is to take this recorded data and push it to the socket in (pseudo) real-time.
Code to record the audio currently working just fine.
NSString *tempDir = NSTemporaryDirectory();
NSString *soundFilePath = [tempDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"sound.m4a"];
NSURL *soundFileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:soundFilePath];
//NSString *path = [soundFileURL absoluteString];
//NSLog(path);

NSDictionary *recordSettings = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                [NSNumber numberWithInt: kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC], AVFormatIDKey,
                                [NSNumber numberWithFloat:16000.0], AVSampleRateKey,
                                [NSNumber numberWithInt: 1], AVNumberOfChannelsKey,
                                nil];
NSError *error = nil;
recorder = [[AVAudioRecorder alloc] initWithURL:soundFileURL settings:recordSettings error:&error];
if (!recorder) {
    NSLog(@"audioRecorder: %@ %d %@", [error domain], [error code], [[error userInfo] description]);
    return;
}

[recorder prepareToRecord];
session = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
[session setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord error:nil];
[session setActive:YES error:nil];
[recorder record];

Code to send a standard string to socket with AsyncSocket:
NSString *string = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Lame thing passed%@"
                    "\r\n", standard_string];

string = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:string];

NSData *data = [string dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[string release];

NSLog(@"Sending HTTP Request.");
[socket writeData:data withTimeout:-1 tag:5];


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MOSCOW (AP) Nike and other sponsors swiftly distanced themselves from Maria Sharapova on Tuesday after the world's highest-earning female athlete outed herself as a longtime user of a recently banned drug.
Swiss watch brand Tag Heuer and German luxury car company Porsche quickly followed the sportswear giant, suspending their support of the five-time Grand Slam winner after she announced on Monday that she failed a drug test for meldonium at the Australian Open in January, days after the substance was banned.
Many other athletes have attacked the messenger, challenged the results or blamed others after being confronted privately by positive tests for banned drugs. Sharapova went public instead, taking full responsibility and effectively throwing herself at the mercy of the International Tennis Federation.
''I know that with this, I face consequences,'' Sharapova said, waving away a question that invited her to blame her doctor or someone else on her team.
The former world No. 1 could face a lengthy ban, possibly ending her season and preventing her from competing for Russia at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Much more costly would be losing the advertising revenue that has made her the top earning female athlete for 11 straight years, according to Forbes.
Industry veterans were surprised by how quickly these companies backed away from such a bankable performer. Sharapova earned an estimated $29.5 million last year alone, the vast majority off the court.
''She's a one-woman marketing machine,'' said Nigel Currie, a British-based sponsorship consultant.
But marketers have become more sensitive to doping scandals after the public denials of athletes such as Lance Armstrong or Barry Bonds, especially in the age of social media.
Still, none of Sharapova's sponsors have cut ties altogether, and other athletes have rebounded from scandals: Nike stuck with Tiger Woods after he apologized for cheating on his wife, and welcomed back Michael Vick after he served time for an illegal dog fighting ring.
Though Sharapova did a ''textbook'' job of owning up to her mistake, questions linger, including whether she listed the drug among her medications when she was tested in Australia, said Paul Swangard, who lectures at the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon.
Sharapova has dropped to No. 7 in the WTA rankings, and due to injuries, she has played just three tournaments and the Fed Cup final in the last eight months since Wimbledon.
This raises the possibility that sponsors may have acted quickly in part because her brand isn't as strong now, said Manish Tripathi, assistant professor of marketing at Emory University's Goizueta Business School.
''If she was playing the way Serena Williams is playing right now, Nike wouldn't have acted this quickly,'' Tripathi said.
''The fact that she got out in front of it and continues to be apologetic and up front and proactive about drug testing will make it easier for her. But the big thing she has to do to get over this is win something,'' he said.
The World Anti-Doping Agency banned meldonium starting this year because it aids oxygen uptake and endurance. Sharapova, who said she has taken meldonium for 10 years for health issues, said she neglected to click on a link in a late December email to check the new list of banned substances.
Born in Siberia, Sharapova was just 5 when she was discovered by Martina Navratilova. She and her father had just $700 on hand when they moved to Florida to train her for tennis stardom. The lanky blonde won Wimbledon, her first Grand Slam title, at 17, and the endorsements came rolling in.
Sharapova now has 35 career singles titles and more than $36 million in career prize winnings. But her endorsement deals and extensive business ventures, including a high-profile candy line, Sugarpova, dwarf what she earns on the court.
Pylas contributed from London. AP Business Writer Mae Anderson in New York, and AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham in Los Angeles also contributed.


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Those bags under your eyes could signal a need for more rest or, you may just be making one of the most common bathroom design mistakes ever.
No judgement here -- we just learned about this ourselves, thanks to Houzz contributor Tiffany Carboni, who points out that task lighting mounted above a mirror -- including recessed lighting -- can cast unflattering shadows and darkness below the eyes.
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