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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don't have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. Linux has made huge usability strides in the past few years, as has open source software in general, so I think the future is still bright. { MORE
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NetCentric Advocacy: Frappr! Group Location Awareness
Network-Centric Advocacy
Group Location Awareness New free tools for small and large groups mapping people on a listserve, yahoo group, etc. Group Location Awareness : Comments Frappr! Group Location Awareness New free tools for small and large groups mapping people on a listserve, yahoo group, etc. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity. MORE
Group Awareness Typepad Advocacy 40
#GivingShoesDay Creates a Shoe-Gooder Movement on Giving Tuesday
Through affiliate activation and strategic partnerships with brands and retailers, the #GivingShoesDay campaign is setting an example of how organizations can harness the power of the open source movement to drive support and awareness for their mission. MORE
Giving Create Campaign California 268
CEO's Update: Fall 2014
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. We're thrilled that today's rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. MORE
Open Source Africa Zimbabwe Zambia 202
How to deal with technology change
Although I often get snarky about this, I am aware that I am guilty of this, too. 3) Platform choice: Look at a number of things – if it's open source – how many developers are there? I saw a call for a ColdFusion developer on an email list I'm on, and I couldn't help but think about technology choice and change, particularly in the website world, and how nonprofits deal with technology change (or, don't deal with it.) MORE
Technology Change Platform Widget 164
SocialCoding4Good Going International with Random Hacks of Kindness
Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact. It's a terrific experience to spend a weekend hacking for social good. Knowing that you're working with literally thousands of others worldwide makes it simply awe-inspiring. MORE
International San Francisco Open Source Global 172
Top Tools for Mobile Marketing
SocialFish
Ever since the American Red Cross and Humane Society adopted a texting campaign to raise awareness and collect donations for the Haiti Earthquake in 2010, other nonprofits have followed suit and to great success. MORE
Tools Marketing Mobile Movie 65
When Perfect Is the Enemy of Excellent
Idealware
But if you're on a budget, it can be costly to implement a design that isn't "CMS aware". All of this is possible in most widely-used open source content management systems, including Drupal. MORE
Drupal Design Open Source Awareness 79
Great reads from around the web on October 11th
Thankfully, we have some incredible nonprofits on the ground who continue to tackle these issues everyday, raise awareness and mobilize people into action. – "Well how about that – after Epic Change's use of JustCoz, and Al Gore's campaign with Climate Reality Project in September to get folks to donate their status updates, someone has gone and open sourced the concept. MORE
Web Open Source Africa Broadcast 107
Mozilla Community Changing more than just your Web Browser
When most people hear the word Mozilla, they think of the popular open source browser, Firefox and the plug-ins that help many of us to do our daily work on the web. Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. MORE
Change Community Web Pledge 173
Think associations are not using Twitter?
link] [link] (online and offline organizing; advocacy; healthcare4every1.org) [link] (immigrant & refugee rights, GLBT rights, open-source CMS, CiviCRM, grants) [link] [link] [link] [link] (online organizing, grassroots, web 2.0 for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.) Check out this list, courtesy TwitterPacks. Are you using Twitter on behalf of your association but not on the list? Go add yourself. Easy-peasy- lemon-squeezy. MORE
Vermont Twitter Associations Open Source 50
Why Use Widgets Anyhow?
Well, widgets are basically movable, sharable mini-applications that can be used to raise donations, take action on a cause or spread information and awareness about your mission. I am aware that at least Click and Pledge and Convio do. Awareness Raising & Mission Based Information This is a pretty broad category and its impossible to cover all the possible ways a widget can be used to get your message out or to distribute meaningful data to your supporters. MORE
Widget Kickapps Badge Flash 53
Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)
The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. Exciting new tools, including a free, open source Android ebook reader and a free web-based ebook reader along with an accessible bookshelf in "the cloud." This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons. MORE
Impact Technology eBook Student 126
Salesforce and your nonprofit
ASU Lodestar Center
Many of our readers may not be aware of the fact that Salesforce has created something called the Power of Us program. It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper. posted by. MORE
Phoenix Database Consultant Product 93
Drupal 101
I've been doing a lot of work with the open source content management system Drupal lately, and thought I'd share some thoughts on how to get a new site up and running. Drupal, you might recall, got high ratings in Idealware's March '09 report comparing open source content management systems. Fantastico offers automated installs for many popular open source CMSes, blogs and utilities. MORE
Drupal Taxonomy Ubuntu Module 56
Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest
Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change panel Sunday, March 14 at 03:30 PM – "Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Author: Jordan Viator. MORE
Conference Remix Jordan Hints 235
Open Source Your Love: Geek Candy Hearts Messages
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
And to remind you that there is still time to make a donation to A Day for Hearts Congential Hearts Defects Awareness Day or another charity of your choice. But I just couldn't resist " Open Source Your Love." I had it all planned. MORE
Open Source Charity Flickr Open 65
Lessons Learned from the HealthCare.gov Rollout
So, in the spirit of learning from the past, and fully aware that is this Monday-morning quarterbacking, here are a few politically neutral "lessons learned" from the launch that will hopefully help with your next nonprofit technology project. MORE
Lesson Learning Test Project 231
Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits
NTEN
Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." MORE
Open Source Open Oracle Software 51
NetCentric Advocacy: When Campaign 2.0 Met Citizen 2.0: A Confusing Love Story | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
Our campaigns must be aware that people can and do self-organize outside walled gardens our campaigns try to build from Obama and Harry Potter Alliance on myspace, to alumni associations on linked-in, to Hillarys Campaign headquarters in Secondlife. Social networks are not armies, they are open communities. Social networks are not armies, they are open communities. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity. MORE
Secondlife Campaign Typepad Myspace 40
IntraHealth International Launches OPEN Initiative to Improve Public Health in Africa
Tech Soup Blog
The InterHealth OPEN Initiative has brought together a cadre of famous artists including Youssou N'Dour, Nas, Peter Buck from R.E.M. (a a fav of mine), Duncan Sheik, and others to help raise awareness and support of putting open-source software technologies directly in the hands of health care and aid workers around the globe. Open source technologies let us address health challenges collaboratively with African developers in the lead," said N'Dour. MORE
Artist Africa Open Source Music 46
Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction
″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn't exist yet. I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan , the driving force behind OpenAction.org , which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have. MORE
Interview San Diego Mashup New York City 115
When Flexibility Becomes an Operating Principle: Lessons from a Nonprofit
Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes. MORE
Lesson Open Source eBook Software 146
12 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Mobile Technology
Nonprofit Tech for Good
Now into the second quarter of 2017, three themes are taking shape that the nonprofit sector should be aware of. Source: 2016 Charitable Giving Report. Source: Dunham+Company. Source: 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. Source: 2016 Donor Loyalty Study. MORE
Stats Social Media NGO Mobile 92
Favorite Free Software
Robert Weiner
Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link]. Faxes arrive as email attachments: [link] (Be aware that they do things like periodically changing your fax number to induce you to pay. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. MORE
Software Free North Carolina Skype 100
Nerd Alert: All For Good vs. Social Actions
FI Space
Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or another. On one hand, competition is good, and forces each of them to innovate and give their data sources a reason to stay involved. MORE
Action Aggregator API NGO 67
University of Michigan – Setting a Higher Standard for Giving Days
Staying true to the open source movement that is Giving Tuesday, The Office of University Development focused on overall awareness for Giving Blueday but gave the participating schools, colleges, units, and organizations the freedom to add messaging for "why them." MORE
Michigan University Giving Student 208
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article
I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Picture of the open source foundations summit. MORE
Open Source Europe License Foundation 130
Hail to the Chairman, Joel Burton responds… and so do I | Non-Profit Tech Blog
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
and+so+do+I 2006-04-02+19%3A21%3A22 Allan+Benamer Those of you on the NOSI e-mail list are probably aware of the comments I've made concerning OSS CMSes. Optaros, for instance, recently released a intelligent, interesting white paper that compared the relative strengths and featuresets of open source CMSs; that's likely to help you understand which one is right for *you*, not which one is "best&# –a purely silly notion, that one is right for everybody. MORE
Drupal Amazon Metrics Alexa 40
Great reads from around the web on April 14th
Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists." "At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)." MORE
Moldova San Francisco Hype Map 103
An interesting call from danah boyd
Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. I agree with her that open journals are the future. Open-access is right. I recently because aware of this academic lockdown. MORE
Journal Open Source Game Alternative 100
Purchasing Nonprofit Software: A Fundraiser's Guide
NonProfit Hub
BidPal's software offers an easy-to-use event website that will help with your brand awareness, event promotion, and social media integration. Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of. MORE
Guide Software Fundraising Donor 75
Do-It-Yourself Online Safety Guide for Women (and Everyone Else)
The purpose of the guide is to help people, especially women, be more aware of the safety risks we take online. Aware of our limitations in grasping the complex details of this issue, Chayn decided to crowdsource the guide with female survivors. MORE
License History Guide Law 64
I know it was sort of in process when I was fading out, but I wasn't much aware of it. Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. MORE
Software Open Source Attitude Profit 100
Technology providers and Linux
I think this is something that many nonprofits, especially those without in-house technology expertise aren't that aware of. I'm really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. MORE
Technology Ubuntu Course Support 100
The Wealth of Networks, Part II
He lays out some interesting concepts, things I'd been aware of, but not really studied enough to articulate. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Part II October 29, 2006 Chapter 2: Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation This is a really interesting chapter, where he lays out the basic economic theory behind information production. MORE
Network Chapter Law Copyright 100
Useful Hacks, Tricks & Tips for WordPress Users: Part 1
Byte Technology
Lots of WordPress users aren't aware that, by default, the program shows your latest posts and added content on the homepage of your site. Your window will split and you'll see all your source codes, and any changes you may make will instantly render on the page above. MORE
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The search for good web conferencing
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It is a free service right now, which is good, and the software behind it is open source, which is even better. MORE
Search Web Audio Open Source 100
What I'm up to these days
I am pretty instantly aware of when the person I'm talking with knows what they are doing. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I'm up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It's because, basically, I am about as busy as I've been in a very long time. It feels quite good, actually. MORE
Open Source Education Proposal RSS 100
Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! As a web dev, and one into usability, accessibility and web standards, I did alot of research into which CMS were the best for my needs and my clients, and now favour Modx, sNews (and Xoops) as platforms that often get rarely mentioned, but do feel they do need raising awareness of. MORE
Open Source Open Tools Free 100
Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants
Generative Transformation talks about what leadership is , and means – particularly that it means self-awareness. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don't usually get to read, since I'm so often focused in the tech field. MORE
Consultant Widget Screencast Open Source 100
How do you keep up?
But it is useful to be aware of what's happening on the bleeding edge, because at some point (probably soon) that stuff is going to be pretty standard. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do you keep up? August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to "keep up&# with the technology field, particularly 'net technology. MORE
RSS Open Source Journal Phase 116
NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days
Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? The latter may help boost awareness of the topic or cause and in some cases get picked up by news and other sites that collectively increases traffic. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits. MORE
Open Source Summary Tag Nptech 65
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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! As a web dev, and one into usability, accessibility and web standards, I did alot of research into which CMS were the best for my needs and my clients, and now favour Modx, sNews (and Xoops) as platforms that often get rarely mentioned, but do feel they do need raising awareness of.
Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time."
Open Source 51
More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. We're thrilled that today's rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face.
And to remind you that there is still time to make a donation to A Day for Hearts Congential Hearts Defects Awareness Day or another charity of your choice. But I just couldn't resist " Open Source Your Love." I had it all planned.
Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.
Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? The latter may help boost awareness of the topic or cause and in some cases get picked up by news and other sites that collectively increases traffic. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It is a free service right now, which is good, and the software behind it is open source, which is even better.
Group Location Awareness New free tools for small and large groups mapping people on a listserve, yahoo group, etc. Group Location Awareness : Comments Frappr! Group Location Awareness New free tools for small and large groups mapping people on a listserve, yahoo group, etc. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity.
Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact. It's a terrific experience to spend a weekend hacking for social good. Knowing that you're working with literally thousands of others worldwide makes it simply awe-inspiring.
I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Picture of the open source foundations summit.
Our campaigns must be aware that people can and do self-organize outside walled gardens our campaigns try to build from Obama and Harry Potter Alliance on myspace, to alumni associations on linked-in, to Hillarys Campaign headquarters in Secondlife. Social networks are not armies, they are open communities. Social networks are not armies, they are open communities. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity.
Secondlife 40
Lots of WordPress users aren't aware that, by default, the program shows your latest posts and added content on the homepage of your site. Your window will split and you'll see all your source codes, and any changes you may make will instantly render on the page above.
WordPress 130
Now into the second quarter of 2017, three themes are taking shape that the nonprofit sector should be aware of. Source: 2016 Charitable Giving Report. Source: Dunham+Company. Source: 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. Source: 2016 Donor Loyalty Study.
Stats 92
Through affiliate activation and strategic partnerships with brands and retailers, the #GivingShoesDay campaign is setting an example of how organizations can harness the power of the open source movement to drive support and awareness for their mission.
Giving 268
Staying true to the open source movement that is Giving Tuesday, The Office of University Development focused on overall awareness for Giving Blueday but gave the participating schools, colleges, units, and organizations the freedom to add messaging for "why them."
and+so+do+I 2006-04-02+19%3A21%3A22 Allan+Benamer Those of you on the NOSI e-mail list are probably aware of the comments I've made concerning OSS CMSes. Optaros, for instance, recently released a intelligent, interesting white paper that compared the relative strengths and featuresets of open source CMSs; that's likely to help you understand which one is right for *you*, not which one is "best&# –a purely silly notion, that one is right for everybody.
Drupal 40
Ever since the American Red Cross and Humane Society adopted a texting campaign to raise awareness and collect donations for the Haiti Earthquake in 2010, other nonprofits have followed suit and to great success.
Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists." "At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)."
Moldova 103
But if you're on a budget, it can be costly to implement a design that isn't "CMS aware". All of this is possible in most widely-used open source content management systems, including Drupal.
Although I often get snarky about this, I am aware that I am guilty of this, too. 3) Platform choice: Look at a number of things – if it's open source – how many developers are there? I saw a call for a ColdFusion developer on an email list I'm on, and I couldn't help but think about technology choice and change, particularly in the website world, and how nonprofits deal with technology change (or, don't deal with it.)
The InterHealth OPEN Initiative has brought together a cadre of famous artists including Youssou N'Dour, Nas, Peter Buck from R.E.M. (a a fav of mine), Duncan Sheik, and others to help raise awareness and support of putting open-source software technologies directly in the hands of health care and aid workers around the globe. Open source technologies let us address health challenges collaboratively with African developers in the lead," said N'Dour.
But it is useful to be aware of what's happening on the bleeding edge, because at some point (probably soon) that stuff is going to be pretty standard. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do you keep up? August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to "keep up&# with the technology field, particularly 'net technology.
RSS 116
Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. I agree with her that open journals are the future. Open-access is right. I recently because aware of this academic lockdown.
I am pretty instantly aware of when the person I'm talking with knows what they are doing. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I'm up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It's because, basically, I am about as busy as I've been in a very long time. It feels quite good, actually.
The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. Exciting new tools, including a free, open source Android ebook reader and a free web-based ebook reader along with an accessible bookshelf in "the cloud." This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons.
link] [link] (online and offline organizing; advocacy; healthcare4every1.org) [link] (immigrant & refugee rights, GLBT rights, open-source CMS, CiviCRM, grants) [link] [link] [link] [link] (online organizing, grassroots, web 2.0 for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.) Check out this list, courtesy TwitterPacks. Are you using Twitter on behalf of your association but not on the list? Go add yourself. Easy-peasy- lemon-squeezy.
Generative Transformation talks about what leadership is , and means – particularly that it means self-awareness. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don't usually get to read, since I'm so often focused in the tech field.
Consultant 100
When most people hear the word Mozilla, they think of the popular open source browser, Firefox and the plug-ins that help many of us to do our daily work on the web. Author: Corey Pudhorodsky.
Change 173
On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don't have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. Linux has made huge usability strides in the past few years, as has open source software in general, so I think the future is still bright. {
Ubuntu 100
So, in the spirit of learning from the past, and fully aware that is this Monday-morning quarterbacking, here are a few politically neutral "lessons learned" from the launch that will hopefully help with your next nonprofit technology project.
BidPal's software offers an easy-to-use event website that will help with your brand awareness, event promotion, and social media integration. Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of.
Guide 75
Many of our readers may not be aware of the fact that Salesforce has created something called the Power of Us program. It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper. posted by.
Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link]. Faxes arrive as email attachments: [link] (Be aware that they do things like periodically changing your fax number to induce you to pay. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs.
The purpose of the guide is to help people, especially women, be more aware of the safety risks we take online. Aware of our limitations in grasping the complex details of this issue, Chayn decided to crowdsource the guide with female survivors.
Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change panel Sunday, March 14 at 03:30 PM – "Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Author: Jordan Viator.
Thankfully, we have some incredible nonprofits on the ground who continue to tackle these issues everyday, raise awareness and mobilize people into action. – "Well how about that – after Epic Change's use of JustCoz, and Al Gore's campaign with Climate Reality Project in September to get folks to donate their status updates, someone has gone and open sourced the concept.
I've been doing a lot of work with the open source content management system Drupal lately, and thought I'd share some thoughts on how to get a new site up and running. Drupal, you might recall, got high ratings in Idealware's March '09 report comparing open source content management systems. Fantastico offers automated installs for many popular open source CMSes, blogs and utilities.
I know it was sort of in process when I was fading out, but I wasn't much aware of it. Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools.
″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn't exist yet. I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan , the driving force behind OpenAction.org , which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have.
I think this is something that many nonprofits, especially those without in-house technology expertise aren't that aware of. I'm really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases.
Well, widgets are basically movable, sharable mini-applications that can be used to raise donations, take action on a cause or spread information and awareness about your mission. I am aware that at least Click and Pledge and Convio do. Awareness Raising & Mission Based Information This is a pretty broad category and its impossible to cover all the possible ways a widget can be used to get your message out or to distribute meaningful data to your supporters.
Widget 53
He lays out some interesting concepts, things I'd been aware of, but not really studied enough to articulate. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Part II October 29, 2006 Chapter 2: Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation This is a really interesting chapter, where he lays out the basic economic theory behind information production.
Network 100
Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or another. On one hand, competition is good, and forces each of them to innovate and give their data sources a reason to stay involved.


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Q: Remove "sub total" from magento shopping cart I'm running Magento 1.7.0.0 and somehow have 2 instances of "sub total" in the cart before checkout. How do I remove one of them or which file should I edit??????
 Thanx!!

A: Most likely this is due to an extension.  Start disabling extensions in /app/etc/modules/ (that don't begin with Mage for example) until you find the culprit.

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hello ...i am from Macedonia and my girlfriend have a resident permit in germany !
she have AUFENTHALTSKARTE (familienanehoriger EU) for 5 years.!
We are planning to marry and i want to know if i will have also a residents permit to stay in germany after we get married !
Welcome to the Wefugees community and thank you for reaching out to the community!
Generally, if you get married with a German citizen or with someone holding a residence title in Germany, you can apply for family union in order to live with your spouse. You would then also be granted a residence permit. I'm unsure if there are any exceptions for people holding said "Aufenthaltskarte" (as it's already granted to her because of a family member), but technically, she has a residence title.
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Classic Tales, Modern Tellers: 5 Retellings to Check Out
By Alison Bunis
Everybody's got their favorite classic novel. And these days, everybody's got their favorite retelling of a classic novel, too. Personally, if we're talking movies, I stand by Clueless until the end of time. If we're talking books, though, there are so many incredible options that it's pretty much impossible to choose just one. To help you out, here are five of my favorites! I tried to pick a wide range, but I'm not gonna lie, you guys, I like what I like. So let's kick things off with my current favorite…
Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton
Gather ye round, my fellow Shakespeare nerds: Tessa Gratton has given us an incredible gift. She's already reimagined King Lear as an entrancing fantasy novel with The Queens of Innis Lear.
Now she's turned Henry IV Part I into a heart-stopping novel of betrayal, battlefields, and destiny, Lady Hotspur. Here's a glimpse at the characters to give you a quick taste of what it's about:
Hal Bolinbroke: A lady knight known for playing tricks and causing scandals, Hal is suddenly made heir to the kingdom when the mother she has not seen since childhood wins the crown. She loathes being a Prince but yearns to live up to the wishes of everyone she loves best—even if that means sacrificing her own heart.
Banna Mora: Heir to the overthrown king, Banna Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love and allow a king-killer to be rewarded—or retake the throne and take up arms against Prince Hal, her childhood best friend.
Lady Hotspur: The fiery and bold knight who stands between these two fierce Princes, and whose support may turn the tides of the coming war and decide everyone's fates.
Tessa Gratton's lush, lyrical fantasy world is the perfect setting for this gender-swapped retelling. Mark your calendars, Shakespeare-loving friends: Lady Hotspur hits shelves in January!
Black Leviathan by Bernd Perplies
Buckle up, everybody, because Black Leviathan is the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick—but with dragons. You heard me. Moby Dick. Except instead of whales, it's dragons, instead of "Call me Ishmael," dragons, and instead of chapters on whaling technique, more dragons. And don't worry, the revenge stuff is still in there. Seriously, what more do you need?
In the coastal city Skargakar, dragon-hunting powers the economy. Dragons are used in everything from clothing to food, while airborne ships hunt them in the white expanse of a cloud sea, the Cloudmere. Lian does his part carving the kyrillian crystals that power the ships through the Cloudmere, but when he makes an enemy of a dangerous man, Lian ships out on the next vessel available. But he chooses the wrong ship. The fanatic captain, Adaron, hunts the Firstborn Gargantuan—and he is prepared to sacrifice everything for revenge.
You know what they say… revenge is a dish best served with dragons. (This particular dish comes out February 25th, 2020.)
Nottingham by Nathan Makaryk
Most authors retelling a classic start with their favorite book, story, legend, myth…Not Nathan Makaryk. He saw all the things he hated about the Robin Hood legend, and he just had to rewrite the whole thing into an epic novel that examines who's really the hero or villain of a story. Think less Men-In-Tights and more historically-accurate Game of Thrones.
The setup is a political nightmare: King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back home, his country languishes, bankrupt and on the verge of anarchy. People with power are running unchecked. People without are growing angry. And in Nottingham, one of the largest shires in England, the sheriff seems intent on doing nothing about it. But don't worry, Robin Hood and his Merry Men are here to save the day! Steal from the greedy rich and give to the poor! …Not really. Nothing is that simple in this world. Instead, the lives of six people—Arable, a servant girl with a secret, Robin and William, soldiers running from their pasts, Marion, a noblewoman working for change, Guy of Gisbourne, Nottingham's beleaguered guard captain, and Elena Gamwell, a brash, ambitious thief—become intertwined. And a strange story begins to spread…
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
No list about retellings is complete without including a fairy tale reimagining. It's kind of a rule. And Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, a historically sensitive retelling of Sleeping Beauty set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II, is a terrifically moving, graceful entry into the fairy tale retelling genre.
It starts off with a tale being passed down through the generations: Since childhood, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories of Briar Rose, a young girl who arrived at a castle controlled by an evil army in the Polish forest during the summer of 1942. As Gemma tells it, Briar Rose was corrupted by dark deeds and choked by poisonous mist, and plunged into a deep sleep in the castle that soon came to be known as Chełmno extermination camp. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spell-maker. Her vow sends Becca on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: She is Briar Rose.
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey
Another Shakespeare retelling? Yes. Let's go there with Jacqueline Carey's gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what about Miranda? Or Caliban, the so-called savage? In Miranda and Caliban, Jacqueline Carey gives us their side of the story: the dutiful and tenderhearted Miranda, who loves her father but is terribly lonely. And Caliban, the strange and feral boy Prospero has bewitched to serve him. The two find solace and companionship in each other as Prospero weaves his magic and dreams of revenge. Always under Prospero's jealous eye, Miranda and Caliban battle the dark, unknowable forces that bind them to the island even as the pangs of adolescence create a new awareness of each other and their doomed relationship.
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'Huge financial loss' after burglary at village shop
'Huge financial loss' after burglary at Bishampton Shop
By Jessica Charles @JessCharlesWN Reporter
A BUSINESS has suffered a 'huge financial loss' after a burglary.
A burglary at The Village Shop, Bishampton, caused serious damage and had an emotional impact on staff.
The shop's staff posted a notice in the shop window that read: "We are working as hard as we can to get the shop back to 'normal' following the break in on Monday morning.
"There was significant damage to the shop as well as a huge financial loss to the business.
"Unfortunately we are unable to offer any post office services at this time, until the post office deem this site safe and secure enough to operate. We are truly sorry and are aware that this will inconvenience a lot of you, but this is out of our control.
"Please appreciate that this is a difficult and emotional time for the staff, and we may feel uncomfortable talking about it.
"Thank you for your understanding and all your concern. We really appreciate all the support from the village and beyond. See you soon, Zoe and Anna."
During the burglary that occurred around 12.30am on Monday, June 24,
A large side window of the shop was broken to gain access during the robbery at around 12.30am. There was a lot of shattered glass around and the post office counter was damaged.
Police were called and a forensics team was sent to the shop.
Officers say a 4x4, possibly a Discovery, was used in the burglary. It is understood that the vehicle left in the direction of Broad Lane towards Evesham. However, it may have entered the village from another direction.
The shop closed temporarily but is now open at reduced hours, opening from 9am until 12pm on weekends and 9am until 2pm on week days.
Officers urge anyone who has CCTV in and around the village to check it for 4x4 type vehicles around the time of the burglary and email bishamptonnw@gmail.com or contact police on 101.
Many residents have posted messages of support for the shop staff on Bishampton Village Facebook group.
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The Rogers store in the City Centre Mall shut down Oct. 31 after operator Sherrie Kreuger decided to stop running it for personal reasons.
Rogers cell phone customers in Thompson will have to rely on phone or online customer service to change their service or upgrade their devices since the store in the City Centre Mall closed Oct. 31.
Sherrie Kreuger, who ran the store since it opened in 2011, said the decision was made for personal, non-business-related reasons.
"It was a very hard decision for me," she said Nov. 5.
The store had five employees – two full-time and three part-time – and Kreuger said that the three part-time employees had been at the store since 2011 and that they had full-time jobs elsewhere.
Existing customers and people who would like to be can sign up for service, buy phones, request assistance and manage their accounts via the company's website.


Crickets live all over Australia and you have probably heard them - but maybe not seen one.
The most common is the Black Field Cricket. Only the male of this species 'chirp' by rubbing their wings together. They do it to attract females, to woo them, and to warn off other male competitors.
Black Field Crickets are widespread in eastern and southern Australia. It's not hard to spot one jumping around as they grow to about 2.5 cm long. Their body and wings are brown, and their heads, long antennas and hind legs are all black. Adult crickets live for about three months.
It's quite tricky to sneak up on a cricket. Their chirps often sound like they are coming from somewhere else. But they will jump if surprised, so you may see where it lands if you disturb one.
How do you tell a female cricket from a male, if neither is chirping? The female has a long cylindrical tube at the rear of her body. This is her 'ovipositor' which she uses for laying 2 mm wide eggs about 1 cm into the soil where they will be safe.
Black Field Crickets lay their eggs around April. A female can lay up to 1,500 to 2,000 eggs and she lays them from late summer to late autumn. These eggs remain dormant over the winter and hatch in spring.
Young crickets, known as nymphs, grow slowly through 9 to 10 nymph stages as they gradually develop into adults. Juvenile Black Field Crickets are similar in appearance to adults but lack wings and have a distinctive white band around their middle. It is only in the later nymph stages that they develop wings and females also develop an ovipositor.
Black Field Crickets have only one generation a year, with some overlap with the early and late stage nymphs and the adult crickets. It is usually only the adults which are heard and seen, as the youngsters blend in extremely well with tufts of grass.
These crickets love heavy clay-like soils which crack when they dry out. Cracks provide safe places for the crickets to hide during the day, especially when it is hot or there are predators such as birds around. At night, Black Field Crickets emerge to feed on plants.
Normally, Black Field Crickets are mostly a ground living insect, but will take to the air when numbers are too great and food becomes scarce.
Crickets usually live outside but may come inside to get away from waterlogged ground after rains, or when the weather turns very cold.
Popular hang outs are corners, window sills, cabinets and couches. In the garden they eat insects, but once inside, the menu offers furniture fabrics, clothes, paper and kitchen scraps. Of particular attraction to crickets are wallpaper and its glue.
Normally, crickets feed on decaying plant material and insect remains, and are prey to birds, mice, frogs, possums and many other creatures. They are an important animal in the food chain.
Black Field Crickets are good buddies to have in your garden as they will help aerate your soil, which helps water penetrate into it.
Crickets have 'ears' in their legs just below their knees. The ear drums, one on each foreleg, are sensitive membranes which act as receivers of differences in pressure and can help crickets find a mate, be forewarned about predators or locate prey.
The most common crickets in backyards are the House Cricket, Mole Cricket and Black Field Cricket. The King cricket is large and flightless and can devour funnel web spiders with its enormous, terrifying-looking mouth parts. It's usually only found in rainforests. You can recognise crickets and grasshoppers by their 'song' which they make by rubbing parts of each wing together. They have a hardened area on one wing which is scraped against ridges on the other, like a file.


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Football Clubs That Sold Their Best Players – Top 10
Which teams shot themselves in the foot? Top 10 Teams that sold their best players? Football Clubs That Sold Their Best Players? Which football teams have sold their most important stars? Sometimes at a club, you can come across a special player that is worth a huge transfer fee. Top 10 Teams that sold their biggest success?
If you're a big enough club, you might be lucky enough to keep hold of your top player or players, but most of the time, a bigger club will come along and snatch them off you.
Here are the Top 10 football clubs that sold their best players
10. Sevilla
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One that may not seem so obvious, but think about the amount of quality players Sevilla have sold over the years. They may be kings of the Europa League, but could've been much more if players like Dani Alves, Seydou Keita, Negredo and Jesus Navas had not been sold.
9. Valencia
A club that has been the sufferer of a bad owner. They should be Spanish football royalty. In 2000 and 2001, they lost 2 consecutive Champions League finals, with a top team with Gaizka Mendiata at the heart of it. However, after that golden period where they won La Liga in 2002 and 2004, Rafa Benitez left for Liverpool, which started a period of instability. They've had 17 managers in 12 years, and talent like David Silva, David Villa, Paco Alcacer, Jordi Alba and Juan Mata head for the exit door.
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The French club won 7 consecutive Ligue 1 titles from 2002-2008, and had some fantastic players in their squad along the way, such as Karim Benzema, Florent Malouda, Miralem Pjanic, Corentin Tolisso and Hugo Lloris, however, their consistent selling of players and changing of managers was their downfall, and they haven't won the league since '08.
7. West Ham United
When Harry Redknapp joined West Ham in 1994, he nurtured some future top class players who made the future look bright for the Hammers. Not only did he bring in Paolo Di Canio and Paulo Futre, he gave debuts to Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Michael Carrick, Jermain Defoe and Joe Cole. Despite all this players coming through, West Ham won nothing at all, and all the players were eventually sold.
6. Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham could've been consistent title challengers if they'd managed to keep hold of some of the big players they've sold in the recent years, especially that man in the photo above (Gareth Bale). Spurs fans will be hoping they don't sell their current star Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen as well.
5. Lille
In the early 2010's, when the French league was still tight at the top, Lille had one of the most exciting young sides in Europe, with Eden Hazard and Gervinho causing teams real problems. Yohan Cabaye pulled the strings in midfield, while Adil Rami and Mathieu Debuchy made up their defence. In 2011, they won their first league title for 57 years… but 2 years later, all the big stars had been sold. In 2018/19, they finisehd second, but later that summer, they sold their best performing players in Nicolas Pepe and Rafael Leao.
4. Borussia Dortmund
It's easy to forget that in 2012, Borussia Dortmund won the Bundesliga for the second consecutive season, and in 2013 reached the Champions League final. Because since then, they have sold a lot of players, they've had a tough patch in terms of their prized assets moving away. Robert Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundogan and of course Jurgen Klopp have all moved on, which must've been difficult for fans to go through.
3. Porto
Jose Mourinho had a great team in 2004, winning both the Portuguese league and the Champions League. However, even though they sold a lot of their players, Mourinho's departure was the most damaging, and the team never hit the same heights again. Their most expensive departures include Eder Miltao, Mangala, James Rodriguez, Falcao, Hulk, Andre Silva, Jackson Martinez…
2. Atletico Madrid
It's always busy during transfer windows at the Wanda Metropolitano. Despite performing excellent the past years, they have suffered so many bitter and painful departures. Imagine a team having with Griezmann, Aguero, Falcao, Mandzukic, Vieri up front, and David de Gea in front of on the goal-line.
1. Chelsea
Chelsea Football Club is our number one on our Top 10 Teams that sold their biggest success list. The Blues sold off players who had graduated from their academy and most of them today are extremely successful players. Chelsea gave away players like Mohamed Salah, who is now one of the best strikers in the world and plays for leading team Liverpool FC. Along with Salah, other notable players who were given away are Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne, who are also performing very well right now. Fresh out of the Chelsea academy, these players hardly ever got a chance to demonstrate their skills on the field. When Frank Lampard took over as head coach, he made sure to give all Chelsea academy youngsters a chance – like Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Billy Gilmour among others.
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Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 103 former executives of Kaynak Holding, which was seized by the government in November 2015 due to its links to the faith-based Gülen movement, with 38 of the executives detained thus far.
On Wednesday morning, police teams from the İstanbul Organized Crime and Financial Crimes Investigation Bureau carried out simultaneous operations at 19 companies and two foundations across seven provinces that are tied to Kaynak Holding.
Thirty-eight of the 103 former executives of the holding were detained on charges of membership in an armed terrorist organization and providing financial support to a terror organization.
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Home Audiobook Series Game of Thrones Audiobook A Storm of Swords Audiobook – ASoIaF 3
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It's the War of the Five Kings, and one king has already been murdered. By the end of this audiobook, so will three more.
A Storm of Swords audiobook is the third installment of George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire audiobook. As the midway point in a seven-book series, you might expect the pace to lag or the storylines to falter, but Martin defies all expectations by spinning a tale that's just as fresh and exciting as the first page of the first volume.
New friends are made; old secrets are out. Fresh faces meet old favorites as edge-of-your-seat action propels the plot into wilder waters than ever before. If you think you know where the story is going, just remember: You have no idea at all.
A storm of swords is a continuation of rage and battle in George tales on the fight for dynasties. Kings of the seven kingdoms are relentless in their bid for power. No one is compromising on their demands.
The author picks it up in the same ancient setting as Game of thrones and the clash of clans. Logic no longer applies in the war fronts, it is about power and numbers. Clans have to prove their might and bravery through direct combats. While the basis of the war is leadership and fight for control of the Westeros land, common people have joined the fight in support of their respective kings.
Hold onto your seats, kids, because there's no way you're prepared for what will happen next in A Song of Ice and Fire Audiobooks.
Hunger for power is the main theme demonstrated by the author. The seven kingdoms have been dwelling together in harmony until a certain generation erupts with pride and ideas on gaining more resources for their people. Although the kings claim the fight is about the people, it is power-driven. Most of the seven kings are new in power as depicted by the author. The taste of wealth and power in controlling the environment breeds greed that leads to fighting over the Westeros.
The setting in two locations, the seven kingdoms, and the Westeros. While they are all in the East, there is a significant difference in culture and methods of leadership. The locals in respective locations have different expectations of their kings. However, there is one similarity, politics. The craze and spirit that follows people in Westeros in support of the royal families is the same drive in the seven kingdoms with regard to solidarity.
The storm of clouds story is a continuation of A Clash of Kings Audiobook. The five kings continue to fight over land and resources in Westeros and the seven kingdoms. Despite years of rage and clashing with no significant achievement, the vicious war increases by the day. The audiobook begins with one king dead and one almost giving in to the fight thus active five participants remaining. There is no clear end or solution to the war because it is all based on individual needs and greed for power.
At some point, there seems to be a sense of agreement among courtesy of mythical beliefs on the distribution of power by the gods. But civilization washes the hope away when it almost comes to civilization. A barbaric army with modern weapons arrives to distort the agreements and compromises in the traditional setup. It is a titanic showdown once more.
This book depicts a world full of treachery, powerful magic, and harsh beauty. People are consumed with brutality, ambition, and greed. While there is a significant difference in lifestyles and access to resources, common men and nobles are all on a daily struggle to find their destinies. The enslaved, freeborn, heroes and villains characterize the community in the audiobook.
Author George R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin is renowned for his prowess and manipulation of readers in his books. He started his writing career early in his 20s with short stories. He successfully published books in various fields before narrowing down to science fiction. Specializing in this genre was the best thing that ever happened to him because it was a definition of his career. He only came to the limelight after publishing his first science fiction in the 1960s.
Of course, the greatest hit in the market and a turn of his career was in 1970 after the launch of A Game of Thrones. While the subsequent publications received more attention than this book, their popularity is attributed to A Game of Thrones Audiobook.
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Roy Dotrice is back again, the faithful narrator who brought both A Game of Thrones audiobook and A Clash of Kings audiobook so vividly to life. He continues his magic with A Storm of Swords audiobook mp3 download, weaving between worlds with ease and giving every character a unique, distinctive voice befitting both their rank and location. Arya Stark does not sound like Dany Targaryen. The royals of King's Landing don't speak with the same inflection as the wine sellers on the outskirts of Pentos.
Roy also brings to the table his endurance, something that's critical for such a massive and well-long series. Despite the sheer length of A Storm of Swords Audiobook, Roy never loses steam, reading each page with passion and enthusiasm.
Roy Dotrice's skill in narration is incomparable. He has featured as the main character in the book, which best places him as a narrator. He has won numerous awards for featuring in Martin's stories including Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings that are among the best science fiction stories in the market. The narrator attributes to the top position of this audiobook.
Roy makes it seem easy to narrate science fiction, which is not. Several publications and recordings of science fiction stories are still struggling after several years of narration. The struggle for growth and penetration of the market is not about the type of story and the characters; while these contribute to the popularity of an audiobook, a narrator is the ultimate.
A huge percentage of the audiobook's rating goes to Roy for his narration skill. He is in synchrony with the author in bringing out key themes of war, power, and greed in society. The blending of his voice to different environments and settings makes it amazing.
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Science fiction is about connecting with the author's idea. To enjoy and understand the concept in this story is dependent on your concentration and understanding of George's reasoning.
Roy, the narrator, makes it easy to get into the narrator's mind. The rising intonations with soundtracks demonstrate reality of the clashes among seven kingdoms and Westeros.
If you are a science fiction enthusiast then you know what a blend in a narrator and author means.
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James February 3, 2019 At 7:14 am
The Strom of swords playlist skips chapter 20 to chapter 77 of a feast for crows.
Stephen Dale February 4, 2019 At 1:22 am
Hi, just fixed it. You can listen full now. Have fun
Alex February 3, 2019 At 1:47 am
looks like it is missing 21-76 i trued reloading the page many times
Alex February 2, 2019 At 8:10 pm
storm of swords playlist was shortened somehow and only has some chapters?
Hi, i fixed it. Have fun!


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About flowers, insects and networks
Nature establishes relationships between species and organisms, forming a very complex network where often great-interconnected nodes appear. They are called 'hubs'. But humans also create this kind of networks, such as airports as nodes and flights as connections.
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It's already winter and life slows down. The plants stop growing and flowering until spring. But reality tries to avoid clichés. I remember when in my son's nursery they decorated the classroom with autumnal motifs, then they used to ask children for garnishing materials. They expected deciduous leaves of brown or reddish colors, red fruits and pine cones picked from the ground. I prepared a bunch with rosemary and winter heather flowers. We lived in Barcelona and at that time I regularly sampled in the nearby massif of Garraf, covered by garrigue and Mediterranean pine forests. There you can find flowers in all seasons of the year. I had to insist and explain my caprice to the teachers. They put a face of artificial acquiescence. It was a school in which parents involvement was highly valued and finally my flowers participated in the exhibition. It is amazing how ideas roots in society and the cost of opening people´s eyes and minds, even to the most evident physical reality that surrounds us. However, a few years later the rosemary flowers were incorporated into the school's autumnal landscape.
Mediterranean heath (Erica multiflora) blooms from late summer to winter. Credit: Francisco Lloret
If there are flowers in winter, it is for some reason. In the Mediterranean regions, the autumn and winter temperatures are not very rigorously cold. There are insects that are able to maintain their activity in that period. Some pollinate the flowers of the few species that have chosen to continue investing in reproducing. These flowers compete to attract pollinators. Taking advantage of moments with few insects can be an advantage. In one of the studies that we were doing in Garraf, Marc Santandreu had observed that as winter progressed and the number of heather flowers decreased, the seeds set in each flower increased, even though the visits of the pollinators had decreased. So, these visits had become genetically more efficient. The genetic unit of reproduction in plants is found in the floral organs. That is, the genetic inheritance of the female and male organs varies between the different flowers of the same plant and it is at this level that the gene exchange takes place.
We can not understand flowers beauty and fragrance –and the aesthetic enjoyment that they produce on us– without the existence of pollinating insects. Angiosperm lineages found a way to increase their genetic diversity by crossing the gametes through those insect couriers. They only had to transform the leaves –petals, sepals, stamens, carpels– that surround ovules and pollen grains to make them more recognizable to insects, while rewarding them with food –nectar–. In turn, insects specialized in different floral morphologies. They took advantage of their biological cycle, compartmentalized in several stages. Adults tend to be distinctly different from larvae both in their morphology –larvae often have a wormlike form– and in their lifestyle and feeding. In the same species of butterfly, while the adult visits and pollinates the flowers, the larvae browse the leaves of other plant species. In fact, we could consider adult butterflies, with their short life, as simple providers of genetic diversity to larvae lineages that barely exceed the age of childhood, although they are majority in their number and ability to mobilize energy in the food web.
A bumblebee is stealing nectar from a flower. Credit: Jose Luís Ordóñez
Interestingly, in the plant world, the providers of genetic diversity are the myriad of flowers that grow on a limited number of plants, which in turn captures most of the solar energy for terrestrial ecosystems. The result is that the interaction between flowers and pollinating insects –although other animals are also able to pollinate, as Anna Travesset showed with Balearic lizards– has been one of the great mechanism for genetic exchange in these ecosystems. We must recognize its success: it has been the cause of a very important part of terrestrial biodiversity. We can not understand the explosion of flowers of meadows and wetlands, bushes and forests, nor that of butterflies, bees and bumblebees and many other insects without that interaction.
But the relationships between flowers and their pollinators are really complex, much more than the simple example of heather. Not only have they promoted biodiversity, but they have also attracted the interest of biologists seeking rules in the network of the interactions between living beings. How many species of insects pollinate a specific plant species? How many different types of flowers does a certain insect species use? We can build representations of that network, and there are mathematical formulations that study them with the so-called "graph theory".
An illustrative temperate grassland network combinig diurnal and nocturnal pollination. Drawings are used under license from ClipArt ETC. Imagen published in: Macgregor C.J., Pocock M.J.O., Fox R., Evans D.M. (2014). Pollination by nocturnal Lepidoptera, and the effects of light pollution: a review. Ecological Entomology 40 (3). DOI: 10.1111/een.12174
Apart from the visual effect of its representation, probably one of the most surprising things of networks are certain regularities regardless of the geographical context or the type of interrelated objects – even when they are not properly biological entities–. As a starting point, we could think of networks in which their elements -nodes- connect randomly. It would be a poorly organized system, scarcely predictable, and that does not suit our daily experience. Humans do not build our social network based on continuous fortuitous encounters. Actually, we tend to relate to a limited number of people, those that are closest to us. It would be a network structure in which we need many intermediate steps to access someone who is geographically or socially distant. The truth is that occasionally we establish direct relationship with someone distant. Years ago, we used post or occasional trips. The incorporation of a few connections to distant elements, even if random, greatly reduces the steps necessary to access any node in the network, giving rise to what is called the "small world" network. One of those surprising rules of the networks indicates that six is the approximate magical number of steps that allows reaching any point in large networks such as those generated by human societies.
If the fact of establishing connections implies some benefit, it will tend to favor connections with those nodes that serve as a link between distant parts of the network. That avoids the necessity of each node to invest in many long-distance connections. As a result, we will have the network structured on the basis of very connected nodes, such as airports "hubs". Therefore, we will have a few nodes with many links and numerous nodes with a reduced number of connections. Interestingly, it is the same pattern that we find in biological diversity, with few species with many individuals and numerous species with few individuals.
Returning to pollinators networks, we can recognize the existence of generalist species (with many connections, that is, they visits to many different flowers) and specialists (with few connections, that is, they prefer a very few types of flowers). In general, it is observed that specialist pollinator insects visit plant species that are also visited by generalist insects. That is, specialized insects tend to establish a relationship with generalist flowers. Conversely, specialized plants tend to be visited by generalist insects. This phenomenon is called "nestedness". It seems that it helps to make the network more robust, since specialized insects, which would be more vulnerable, depend on reliable plant species, since they in turn are less dependent on the visits of a few pollinators. The relationship between specialist pollinators and specialist plants tends to disappear because when one of them fails, the other can not persist.
The interest in understanding the functioning of these networks transcends the world of natural history, since we see that their laws are the same as those governing social networks of communication or economic exchanges. The advent of computers and remote access with few restrictions on other computers has therefore revalued the study of networks and their properties, which had already been addressed by mathematicians. One of the peculiarities of the web is that long distance connections have almost zero cost. What at first sight may seem an advantage, also represents a loss of structure, and therefore of efficiency, independently of the advantages of more equal peer access. So we need for intermediaries –the "hubs"– that structure and, thus, hierarchize the connections of the network.
Interaction matrice where a filled square indicates an observed interaction between plant species and animal species, and the line represents the isocline of perfect nestedness. Figure appears in: Bascompte J., Jordano P. (2007). Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks: The Architecture of Biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38: 567-93. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095818
Not by chance, the system itself has been structured based on search engines that drive a large part of these connections. Its success is based on the brute force of algorithms that analyze the frequency of connections, feeding back future links. In essence it is the mechanism that favours the appearance of "hubs", as seen before. Even so, the criteria to establish preferred connections are many and the linear list of results generated by a search engine often is not very useful. We end up using thematic filters, or the search engine itself decides for us and puts us in the forefront of the list those issues that are most frequently searched, which use to involve commercial transactions –hotels, trips-. They in turn constitute the basis of the business . Thus, in reality, the network is also thematically structured, compartmentalizing it.
Modularity is another property of networks as we also find it in ecological ones. We say that a module or compartment is constituted by a set of nodes -species- that are more related to each other than with the rest of the nodes of the network. In a network of pollinators and plants this modularity could be determined, for example, by the existence of certain floral morphologies that restrict the number of possible pollinating species.
Although the study of networks seems to focus on the interactions, it is important to keep in mind that these interactions would not exist without the nodes, and that these are defined as discrete units. This is very important. Interactions networks are constructed in contrast to other ecological models that are based on the continuous nature of matter and energy flows, without identifying discrete units. For example, in order to establish the water in a watershed, we need to know the sources or inputs, mainly by precipitation, and the losses, by evapotranspiration, infiltration in the subsoil and river transport, but we do not need to establish discrete study units that are interconnected. We can not ignore that life is organized in discrete units, organisms, and this concerns the deep nature of life. The biological structures self-organize and remain in time, eluding the maximum entropic disorder that determines the laws of thermodynamics, thanks to its ability to dissipate energy. The construction of membranes and filters that delimit the biochemical environment is the first step of this self-organization. Without that energy component, the discrete nature of life would not be explained. In fact, in ecology there is a long tradition of synthesis between an approach based on the flow of energy and matter and another that analyzes the selective response of organisms and species. This synthesis materializes in trophic networks, with their different levels of producer and consumer species –also called predators–.
Air transport connections network, with 60,000 routes and 3,200 airports. Biggest points correspond to hubs.This "map" is the result of the application of a force-directed layout algorithm on a graph of 3.275 airports based on OpenFlights.org data. Network geography is not completely disrupted: the continents are mostly visible and regions are generally in their original position. But when it evolves we can see an oversized Europe (great volume of transport and hubs occurs in Europe) and a understimated Africa (due to a low relevance in global air transport). Credit: Martin Grandjean (CC-BY-SA)
Networks of interactions based on the mathematical properties of nodes and connections, such as those that describe pollination mutualisms have not yet sufficiently incorporated the energetic nature of the interactions. The study of networks follow a holistic approach, by providing descriptors of the whole network, regardless the detail of each component. But the study of networks is also subject to considerations of scale and there is a growing interest in capturing the variability within the nodes, which in our example has hitherto corresponded to plant species and pollinators. By incorporating this within node variability, the energetic implications and the physical constrictions of the interactions between nodes will likely be incorporated into the analysis.
We finish with an example. We can build a network of interactions between the world's airports by using the flights that connect them. Extremely connected nodes that structure the network appear. But ultimately, the reason that limits the ad-infinitum growth of hubs connectivity is the size of the aircraft and the space needed to move them without collisions and for passengers to travel to the aircraft. This translates into the connection time between flights. If this period is very long, it will end up promoting connections in another alternative airport. It is not enough to draw a map of connections if we do not also introduce the energy cost-benefit and the physical dimensions of real objects. Again, we need to leave the computer screens with their infographics and the pre-established mental models to walk through the physical world and contemplate the autumn flowers in their eagerness to hear the whisper of bumblebees.
Francisco Lloret
Professor d'Ecologia de la UAB. Investigador del CREAF en temes d'ecologia de la vegetació i canvi global. President de l'Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre.
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The 27th Hawaii State Legislature ended Thursday with members from the House and the Senate joining in the singing of Hawaii Aloha.
Before gaveling the session closed, House Speaker Joseph M. Souki acknowledged the work of everyone involved in the legislative process and summarized the session's accomplishments.
He said the approach this session was to focus on the state's long term needs such as reducing long term fiscal liabilities, replenishing reserve funds, promoting economic development, education, sustainability and improving the quality of life for all residents.


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For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again an homage to mothers
Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:43	Richard Amery
If you recognize actor Marek Czuma as the lead bad guy in local action film Hoodoo Voodoo, playing at the University of Lethbridge this week, you might be surprised to see his more tender side in New West Theatre's new two person production of Michel Tremblay's comedy "For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again" which runs at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, Sept. 30-Oct. 9.
"I get to play a good guy in this one," said Czuma who is no stranger to New West Theatre as he was in last year's production of "Sitting On Paradise."
"It (For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again) is about an artist, an autobiography of author Michel Tremblay who wanted to bring his mother back from the grave because she was his biggest inspiration and supporter when he was trying to become a playwrite," described, who earned his MFA from the University of British Columbia and has been acting for the past 20 years in a variety of projects on the West Coast.
"She was a wonderful person and a great storyteller. It's a very heartwarming photo album of events in his life," he continued adding he is glad to be back with New West Theatre.
"I love the folks here. I like working with New West. They are very warm and kind people. And there's no pressure," he continued.
Director Grahame Renyk, who is usually the witty and affable MC of New West's summer music/ comedy revues, took the Fall off from his day job, as a drama professor at Queen's University in Kingston to direct "For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again."
"It's been a delightful experience because these are two really great parts for actors," Renyk said.
"It's been lovely to shift genres and work on a different kind of theatre," Renyk enthused adding he has enjoyed working with experienced actors Marek Czuma and "Nana" Karen Johnson-Diamond.
"This is an excellent role. It's the role of a lifetime for a woman," Johnson-Diamond said, who makes her stage debut with New West theatre, though she has worked with New West Theatre general manager Jeremy Mason many times in Calgary and has acted with most of the theatre companies in Calgary and some in Edmonton, since being in the first graduating class at Red Deer College's Theatre Arts diploma program, 20-odd years ago.
"Nana is very, very strong minded woman. She's the opinionated every-woman. She reminds me of my mother and her mother and her mother. And my son will tell you she is very much like me," Johnson-Diamond continued adding Nana uses her words "most effectively."
"Every person will see their own mother in Nana. He wrote this play as an homage to his own mother," she continued adding working with New West" has been "fantastic."
"Today there were flowers and treats in my dressing room. That has never happened in my 20 years of acting.
"Jeremy and Nicolas (Hanson, artistic director) brag about the audiences here. They love them and talk about them all the time. So I'm looking forward to performing for the people Jeremy and Nicholas are so excited about," she continued.
The play runs at 8 p.m. Sept. 30-Oct 2 at 8 p.m. each night including a matinee at 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. It also runs Oct 6-9 at 8 p.m. each night including a 1 p.m. matinee on Oct. 9.
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Jovis on a Journey…
I Almost Took Too Long To Say This
I think it's who I am
We are still Charlie…
A question of pride…
John Proctor…
On 9 Nov 2015 By jovisgoesIn Poetry
He was not a small man by any means
John Proctor, obdurate and uninhibited was tall
Some might say burly, he was surely handsome.
Following their illicitness Abigail was mightily jealous
She wanted that man for herself
And yet, Elizabeth he loved – not her.
He was a good man, but one who had strayed.
It was to be his downfall.
That and Abigail's wanton lust for him.
Accused of being a terrible witch,
But not wanting to ever reveal
His lust with Abigail Williams
That he'd always tried to conceal.
'Abigail is a whore and I so do confess,'
He shouts to the court of his final redress.
For I am now that which I despise most
A hypocrite Lord, take me to the post.
Abigail, O Abigail, is this your desire
You call me a witch – I'm condemned to the fire.
©Joe Wilson – John Proctor…2015
Inspired by real events of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, and of course by the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In reality John Proctor probably didn't even know Abigail Williams before she accused him of witchcraft. At the time of the trial she was about 12 to his 60 years, they were not 17 and 42 years as the play portrays. He was hanged as a witch at the age of 60 and his wife Elizabeth thrown in jail with him also as a witch. She was eventually freed though, as she was pregnant during the course of the trials and after, as the unborn child was seen as being without sin. Eventually all of the accused were set free, Elizabeth though, having been convicted was cast out for many years before she eventually remarried.
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Esther Dischereit's poetry, essays, operas, and radio plays incorporate her experiences as "other," growing up Jewish in post-war Germany. Dischereit got a degree in education, but found herself barred from teaching due to her activism in the late 1960s. Instead she became a typesetter and printer, and joined a trade union. She published a children's book in 1985, followed in 1988 by Joëmis Tisch and in 1992 by Merryn, two books which investigated her (deceased) mother's life through fragmented, experimental prose. She went on to write several collections of essays and poetry, libretti for operas, radio plays, and an avant-garde collaborative project, "WordMusicSpace/Sound-Concepts." In 2009 she was awarded the Erich Fried Prize. From 1994–2006, Dischereit served in the German Trade Union Federation, organizing special projects focusing on human rights and intercultural dialogue. In 2010 she taught at Oberlin College as writer in residence, but as of 2015 continues to live and write in Berlin.
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Not very long ago I returned from having spent a year in Aberdeen in Scotland while following a university course there. Just before going, I obtained my radio amateur license as I was getting more and more interested in how radios work and excited about the idea of making radio-related equipment. I knew in advance that the local hackerspace over there was toying with amateur radio as well, so this seemed like the perfect time to get into it. During that year I've been involved in numerous radio-related activities and projects, some of which I intend to describe on this blog.
Right, on to the matter at hand. Living in accommodation provided for by the university introduced a significant challenge for me if I wanted to operate on HF. I did not have any real way to put an antenna outside nor did I have an option to route a cable from outside to inside, so I was restricted to indoor antennas only. That didn't stop me from eventually buying a second-hand mobile HF radio (an Alinco DX-70, should you want to know), and I was keen to make the best out of the situation and at least try something out. From one of the kind space members I borrowed a QRP antenna tuner. I've experimented with many lengths of wire in different orientations, but whatever I did the reception would be poor and transmissions would cause significant interference (my computer keyboard came to life for example).
I looked for alternative antenna designs online and discussed my challenging situation with other local hams, which led me to look into the magnetic loop antenna. This type of antenna is a lot smaller than its more popular alternatives and is also a lot less efficient. However, it is much less prone to noise from local electrical equipment, and should outperform other compromise antennas due to its high Q factor. Being surrounded by other students with laptops, gaming consoles, TVs, phones and tablets, reducing the noise level appealed to me.
The magnetic loop is fairly simple in its design and there are various ways to feed it. I will not go into detail about its design as plenty of others have explained this much better than I could already. At the end of the article I will list some resources that have given me the information I needed to make this antenna.
In my situation, I used aluminium tubing of 6 mm (and 8 mm for bridging two tubes) for the radiating loop, and I chose to feed it by using a smaller coupling loop made of solid core electrical wiring. While aluminium was perhaps not the most ideal choice, the tubes were locally available, they were cheaper than copper, and they were light and thus made for a more portable antenna. The air capacitor was gifted to me.
Determining the loop size was simple, I chose a diameter just under the height and width of my one bedroom window so that I could put the loop behind it. Various formulas and calculators for magnetic loops are available online and with my chosen diameter it seemed I should be able to cover the 20 metre band and perhaps a few lower bands, depending on the used air capacitor and tolerable efficiency.
Last but not least, something had to keep the loop in place and house the air capacitor. The local hardware store did not offer a huge choice in project boxes, but I did however find cheap but sturdy pattress boxes and matching blank covers. These turned out to be ideal for this antenna.
I was positively surprised by the performance of the antenna. It turned out that I was able to tune all the amateur radio bands from 15 metres down to 60 metres with the air capacitor I used. On the lower bands however, the decreasing efficiency became noticeable and I generally stayed within 15 to 30 metres.
My radio is capable of outputting 10W or 100W, or if an internal switch is flipped, 5W or 50W. I could hear sparks flying between the plates of the air capacitor at 50W, but 10W did not cause any issues. At this power, I've made over a hundred QSOs on this antenna. My furthest QSO with this setup was with N2LD in New Jersey in the US. Not bad for such a small antenna on my desk in front of the window if you ask me.
In the end I have to conclude that if you are operating in very limiting circumstances like I was, the magnetic loop may be the antenna that will get you on the air. Not just that, with some persistence you'll even work some DX. If you do have an option to put something outside, even if it is just a long wire out the window to a nearby tree, then that will likely be a better bet. However, each situation is unique, so experiment!