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Tech: How do Americans type a pound sign?
JohnInKansas 03 May 07 - 01:23 PM
Bill D 03 May 07 - 10:23 AM
kendall 03 May 07 - 08:20 AM
fumblefingers 02 May 07 - 10:46 PM
Sorcha 02 May 07 - 10:31 PM
open mike 02 May 07 - 08:56 PM
Rowan 02 May 07 - 07:06 PM
GUEST,JimP 02 May 07 - 07:06 PM
GUEST 02 May 07 - 06:29 PM
GUEST,Toby 02 May 07 - 06:27 PM
GUEST,Dave 18 Nov 04 - 07:43 PM
JohnInKansas 18 Nov 04 - 07:28 PM
Tannywheeler 18 Nov 04 - 06:32 PM
GUEST,Arkie 18 Nov 04 - 01:30 PM
Ellenpoly 18 Nov 04 - 11:22 AM
Bob Bolton 17 Nov 04 - 08:21 PM
McGrath of Harlow 17 Nov 04 - 07:20 PM
Jim McLean 17 Nov 04 - 06:34 PM
GUEST 17 Nov 04 - 10:26 AM
Jim McLean 17 Nov 04 - 06:10 AM
JohnInKansas 17 Nov 04 - 12:37 AM
GUEST,Paranoid Android 16 Nov 04 - 09:59 PM
Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull 16 Nov 04 - 08:25 PM
GUEST,Terry K 16 Nov 04 - 07:00 PM
artbrooks 16 Nov 04 - 06:27 PM
Amos 16 Nov 04 - 06:04 PM
open mike 16 Nov 04 - 06:04 PM
treewind 16 Nov 04 - 05:49 PM
Q (Frank Staplin) 16 Nov 04 - 05:38 PM
s&r 16 Nov 04 - 04:42 PM
GUEST 16 Nov 04 - 04:38 PM
Subject: RE: Tech: How do Americans type a pound sign?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:23 PM
A program?
That's a built-in feature in Microsoft Office, and works in most Office programs (but not in IE).
If you hold down Ctl while you hit the first character, the second character overprints to make a "composite." It's not a general "overstrike" thing, since lots of Ctl-x key combinations are shortcuts that will "do something" instead of setting up the combination character. Ctl-c, as an example would "copy" something, but Ctl-/ c gets ¢.
In Word, the sequence Ctl-F9 eq \o(a,b,c) F9 Ctl-Shift-F9 will print a, b, and c all in the same character space, and is a general "any overstrike" capability. Ctl-F9 inserts a "Field," the eq specifies an "equation field," \o makes it an overstrike, any number of characters, separated by commas, can be entered in the parenthesese, F9 "evaluates" the field and Ctl-Shift-F9 unlinks it to make it a "printed" object. (Note that if more than a couple of characters are overprinted, usually one of them is about all that will show legibly.)
In recent Word versions, you can also type a Unicode HEX character number and then hit Alt-X and it will be converted to the character. This is less useful than it might be though, since the character has to be present as a glyph in the font you have set when you do it. The "characters" you get this way usually are like what you get with Office's "Insert Symbol" and if you change the font after the character is inserted it often changes to garbage (and can't be changed back). Windows default installations only include a couple of fonts with reasonably complete "European language" extended Unicode character glyphs (and I don't recall which ones they are at the moment). Several fonts have a few "random extra characters" that may work, but there's little consistency between common fonts.
From: Bill D
Date: 03 May 07 - 10:23 AM
A program for Windows which allows you to type weird characters with easy to remember keyboard combinations
AllChars
for example, for ¢, I just hit the ctrl. key to tell the program I want the next 2 characters to be combined, then c & / = ¢
From: kendall
Sorcha's suggestion works for me. I can now order my new Jaguar in English. Let's see, they run about, 60,000£. Or is it, £60,000?
From: fumblefingers
[ALT]0163 = £
[ALT]0128 = €
From: Sorcha
Guest, I don't recall anybody asking you. Log in or log off.
My default font is (usually) Times New Roman, which uses a sloping line all the way through the "c". Some others use a complete vertical line (e.g. Tahoma), and some fonts use the broken line like you describe. For some (mostly old) faces, the line only extends above or below the outline of the c. It just depends on what mood the typographer was in when the typeface was named.
Unless there's a style sheet or coding that specifically calls for a particular typeface (font), in html you'll see most stuff in whatever default face you've told the browser to use.
For WinXP and Office programs of comparable era, it's possible to set up to have the fonts available in Office programs display "in font" so you can see at least the name of the one you select typed in the selection box roughly as it should appear in print.
You can also use the CharMap (see up above) to view how the characters will look in a different face.
From: open mike
¢ the one i see here has the line extending above and below the "c" but not all the way thru it...it does not look like yours ¢ but that works! thanks...
On my US WinXP setup, the character map (for Times New Roman) shows the "cent" sign as having ANSI numeric value 162, so you should be able to use Alt with the NumPad: Alt+0162 (¢) should "type" it in most Windows programs as I just did inside the "()."
You should also be able to type it into a "Reply to Thread" box as ¢ and get ¢.
Note that the cent (0162) is right next to the pound (0163) = ¢ and £.
Either of those two should work on any "Western European" regionalized computer.
What you see on your browser depends on your machine setup and your browser, so when you use funny characters that work just dandy on your machine you have no guarantee that everyone who reads your post will see the same thing you do.
now i wonder how to type "cents" sign..the c with the | thru it?
besides typing $ .02
From: Rowan
And, without wishing to belittle the super advice above, I always used "lb" to signify pounds before we went metric. I've forgotten how I did the monetary thing on CP/M and have used a Mac ever since. One day I'll learn Windoze though.
Cheers, Rowan
From: GUEST,JimP
For a comprehensive list of "funny" characters available:
http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm
Hahahaha,
better late than never, just noticed the dates on this thing...
Tum di dum
Well, for weights or numbers I use #. For Pound Sterling, it's Alt+156 on the number pad. Like this. £
From: GUEST,Toby
Good grief how complicate it all has been made...
For fun symboles like the € press ctrl+alt+4, this probably only works if: A) the font you are using supports it, and B) your software at the time supports it.
For changing your keyboard settings, as previously mentioned
Start>>Control Panel>>Regional and Language Settings, then find the keyboard tab and set it to english-uk, alternativly, if you are using windows XP you may see a little "en" icon on the far left bottom of your screen, to the left of the date and other icons, left click that and it should provide options for changing your language settings.
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 07:43 PM
French accents...go to http://french.about.com/library/bl-accents.htm....All there!(don't forger to ust the numeric keypad, Number lock on)
A bientôt Dave
Tannywheeler -
If you're on a "US" machine, the easiest "euro" is to hold down the Alt key while you enter 0128 on the Number Pad. To post here, you should be able to enter € to get €.
From: Tannywheeler
ú £££ ¬ Ç ¬
Well, I can get the pound (never did that!!!), but not the euro. This is fun, guys. Tw
There is another option if you use Microsoft Word, and allow it to "autocorrect" as you type. If you open "Tools – Autocorrect Options" and click the "Autocorrect" Tab, you should see a couple of boxes where you can enter a "misspelling" on the left, and the "correct spelling" on the right. If you put some unlikely "code" in the left, and paste the character you want on the right, whenever you type the "code" Word will replace it with the "character." Put something like E# on the left and ₤ on the right and whenever you type E# it will be "corrected" to ₤ - in Word.
The description here is from my Word 2002, but this method works at least since Word95, although the "clicks" may vary a bit.
"Legal typists" should always enter "trail" on the left and "trial" on the right. Then if you have "spell check as you type" turned on, when it corrects your typo to "trail" autocorrect will change it back to "trial" and people won't call your boss a "cowboy lawyer" (always going to trail). Odd capitalizations can also be handled here. In the default setup, it's almost impossible to type "BAe" without it being "corrected" to Bae, so you put the unwanted correction, "Bae" in the left box and what you want, "BAe" in the right. You type BAe, but spell/grammar check changes it to Bae, and autoreplace puts it back to BAe.
Many people turn off the "correct as you type" function, but it's probably helpful once you're aware of how it works. If it makes an unwanted substitution, hitting Ctl-Z immediately will cancel the change and put it back like what you typed. In recent versions of Word, if you cancel something the first time it tries to change it, it may "learn" that you don't want that replacement, and won't do it again for the remainder of that document. Older versions are "less smart."
From: GUEST,Arkie
This has been most enlightening. Thanks!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 11:22 AM
£ The only way I could figure out how to do it was by copying and pasting.
I'm still trying to hold onto the bugger now that it's on my clipboard!
I KNEW I shouldn't have read this thread!!!
..xx..££££..e
One resource probably not well known is at:
Microsoft Global Develepment
where you'll find links to things like:
Welsh Language Support and Extending the United Kingdom Keyboard Layout
New international features released with Windows XP Service Pack 2:.
Scroll down to August 9, 2004 for the last one.
From: Bob Bolton
G'day McGrath,
On my Alt 0 xxx table:
alt 0 231 = ç
alt 0 232 = è
alt 0 233 = é
Other tricky shortcuts are available for the commonly needed extra characters ... but the Alt 0 xxx codes give me 123 characters in the "second ASCII set" ... and that is fine for most things short of typesetting in Vietnamese - where the Vietnamese second set (only working with specific 'Vietmanese' fonts) has 126 extra (multiple accent!) vowels ... and a single consonant (Ð ... in upper and lower case).
(I'm not putting up my hand next time the International division walks past with a Vietnamese / English presntation and a blank expression ... !)
Bob Bolton
In Word, and some other "compliant" programs, Ctl+', Ctl+:, Ctl+!, Ctl+^, etc will "append" various diacriticals to the next letter typed. (Don't type the "+".) There's no true "oganek" but quite a lot of "marked" characters should work - again depending on your "regionalization." It's an "autoreplace" function, so you actually get the "real" variant character inserted.
If you look in Word Help, and search on Keyboard shortcuts, you should find a link to tabulated "quick keys" that list the Ctl, Alt, Ctl+Shft, etc default combinations - in Word2000 & later. Similar tables are in Help for earlier versions, but harder to find - and I don't remember how I used to get there. Many of these will work in programs where you wouldn't expect them to, and won't work where you'd think they should; but in Word they're useful.
The Alt - NumPad method works for the characters in the "low ASCII/ANSI ranges, and for html you can use the &nnnn; thing. And of course the Character Map also works to paste individual characters, if you choose a font that includes the characters you want.
A couple of fonts, called "International Fonts" I believe, are available but not always loaded by default. They're a lot larger than the old "short table" fonts, but if you use alliteratives a lot you might want to see if you have them, or get them from Mickey's library.
From: McGrath of Harlow
€ - yes, the Alt Gr + 4 worked. Quicker than the Alt + 0128.
Anyone know the trick for a grave accent and a cedilla, so in French I can write "mere" and "pere" and "ca va", and have them look right?
From: Jim McLean
John, I did say I was in the uk.
Terry -
Actually, Microsoft makes it easy to do most things. They just don't make it easy to find the easy ways to do them. The easy ways are "obvious" to the wonks who set them up, but the rest of us have to search them out - because the documentation all has to get through Marketing and Sales before it escapes to the using community.
A sort of case in point is Jim McLeans "works on all fairly modern keyboards." It doesn't work on my very modern keyboard. It only works on fairly modern keyboards regionalized for the European market. With "simple" keyboards, most of the "regionalizing" is done in Windows software, but with "fancy" ones like my "Microsoft Business Keyboard" some of it is hard wired. There is no place where you can easily look up what "regionalization" means. And no place at all where you can find out if a given system is subject to such "features" before you buy it.
If you buy it in a "regionalized" market, it's tailored to the market to "make it easier for the user." It's easier to use if you "fit" the market region setup, but very difficult to get (or even identify) an "out of market" version if you don't.
Terry, it's the euro sign, not the dollar sign, and it works on all fairly modern keyboards.
It's taken me an age but I now have a pound sign by hitting Alt before the pound sign instead of Shift. I also have a pound sign on my Word toolbar which I can click on.
Jim, I would guess that the AltGr dollar sign has been assigned to euro on your keypad either by you or someone else?
This has all been very helpful but I continue to be amazed at how difficult Microsoft make everything.
cheers, Terry
On the right of my space bar there is a key Alt Gr and if I hold it down and press 4 (not on the number pad) I get a euro sign. I'm in the UK
Some of the html (and html practice) threads have discussed the "coding by character number" business in lengthy detail. Some caution is advised with some of them, particularly with older ones, but the full "ANSI character set" defines "a whole bunch" of characters - far more than can be coded (easily) with Alt-0xxx. That system, in "off the shelf" systems can only handle the 128 ASCII characters, or - if you load ANSI.sys - the 256 characters of the "extended ASCII set(s). The difficulty there is that there are several "extended ASCII sets. IBM tried to enforce one that still survives in a few places, and a more "universal" extended set is probably pretty much a Microsoft product.
People do frequently refer to "extended ASCII" as "ANSI" but it's really just a (broken) fragment of ANSI.
All of this has been somewhat superceded by availability of font sets, and tools to use them, for the full range of ANSI characters. With enough add-ons, one can theoretically enter all(*?) the Chinese and other "oriental" languages, Hebrew and others, with top-to-bottom and/or right-to-left line parsing, etc. An Alt-Uxxxxx coding exists, but is unlikely to work with installed programs and on the machines that many of us have.
* Some languages include large numbers of "composite characters" that require superimposing several "primitive glyph forms" to form the actual character(s) of the language, but in principle this can be handled by the new systems.
The characters themselves can be viewed at the ANSI web sites. An early "definitive volume" on the whole subject of using them (and other aspects of talking between languages and cultures) was Developing International Software: For Windows 95 and Windows NT, Nadine Kano, ©1995 by Microsoft Press, but with an earlier ©1968 in the authors name. Unfortunately, neither Win95 nor WinNT was really adapted to using the full ANSI character set, among other things because the "native word length" didn't have enough bits to represent a character in "one binary word."
With these "primitive" systems, software was "localized" to provide the ability to use the local language, but no tools were generally available to make an English (US or WestEu) talk to a Chinese one.
WinXP and probably Win2K(?) are the first Microsoft OSs with theoretical full ANSI capability, but even there it's extremely rare to find a machine set up to use "exotic mixes" of languages. The unconfirmed impression is that software intended for Chinese use has some limited "English" capability, but equipping an English system to speak Chinese appears to be available only to users of the "WinXP Server" versions. I've been unable to find whether "Win2K Server" versions can be suitably equipped.
The update to the above book, Developing International Software 2, by "Dr. Software," ©2003, Microsoft Press, gives some good info, but is still rather vague about what really is needed to write "all the languages." It's even more vague about what's available. At the time of it's release, Microsoft's print shops and other production people did not have the capability of handling "full set ANSI" characters, so all of the "foreign" characters were converted to "images" that were pasted into the text as separate objects, i.e. as "pictures" - not as "text characters."
There are setup and printing programs with full ANSI capability. TEX is one, if you get all the right plugins and fonts, but the few programs that can be upgraded now are pretty "learning intensive," so common workarounds are probably more suitable for most users. You find, or buy, a font that has the characters you want, and you cut and paste (Insert symbol or use CharMap) to get individual characters.
As long as you stick to "Western European" languages, and possibly Kanji written left to right, recent Windows versions can probably provide a font that will work for places where a few characters suffice. WinXP, probably Win2K, and possibly WinME can be equipped to read "right to left" if absolutely necessary, to handle Hebrew - sort of. Other similar languages tend to have large numbers of "composite characters" that are an additional challenge. "Pictograph" languages like Chinese are another step beyond. But we're promised "it will all be easy - - - someday."
The bottom line now is that if the "character" you want is on your machine, you can probably insert it wherever you want to, using one of the methods already given. If you're communicating digitally, and the person receiving your stuff has the character in a standard font set, you can "code" the ASCII/ANSI value of the character, and the recipient will see the character when they get the message. If neither of you has the character - then who cares?
G'day all,
The Alt (0)XXX codes are by far the fastest way to get a whole range of odd characters ... as long as you know the codes and the (fairly minor) rules.
I have a 'Reference Card' for a basic font (Times New Roman) - showung all 128 characters in the AASCI 'second set' - hanging by both my work and my home computer. This was printed out from a small font viewing app called FontSee (normally used to scroll through fonts, printed out in their characters, looking for the one you want to use ... getting old-fashioned, now that good publishing programs show the font names in their appropriate characters).
Lots of useful codes in there.
From: GUEST,Paranoid Android
I use an Epiphone guitar and my "fans" think the Epiphone logo is a Euro sign. So, if you want a Euro sign and none of the above works for you just go to the Epiphone web site and drag their logo onto your document. (Now there's another urban tale).
I don't quite c...
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
€ - by George, you've got it.
Terry K -
Sure, your laptop has a NumPad. It's just "overlaid" on the other keys, and you have to "turn on" a NumPad switch everytime you use it, and turn it off when you want to type normally. p.i.a. but it's there.
If you found the Windows Character Map (Usually Start-Programs-Accessories-SystemTools) it should have all the characters you have installed, including the ones on the keyboard. The standard icon for this utility looks like a single keyboard key (they say). The "pound" symbol may not be in all the fonts, so look in the one you want to use. If this works, I'd suggest putting a short cut on desktop. You do have to click on the character, then click "select," then click "copy," then go to your other program and "paste." What pastes will probably be some strange size, so you may need to format the character size, italics, bolding, etc. Nuisance, but workable, and it should work in nearly any program.
In Word, if you use the Insert-Symbol, after you pick the character, before you hit Insert, you can click on the "Shortcut" button and put a keystroke combination in that will let you "type" the character whenever you need it at least in Word. It's recommended that you use an Alt-something, Ctl-something, etc to keep the shortcuts out of the way of your regular typing. It should warn you if you pick something that's already in use.
The shortcut key combinations that you create in the Insert Symbol panel are stored as "document properties," so you may have to reset them in each new document. If you can get them set in a template (.dot) then they should work in any document you open using that template. Word may ask if you want to save changes to the template when you exit, and it may save the shortcuts to the .dot you use if you say yes - but no guarantees with this. (I rather dislike "Insert-Symbol" for other reasons, so don't use it much.)
McGraw - et. al.
Using the Alt-NumPad method, here's also the "hitch" that "NumLock" must be turned on. If it's not, you may get "something" but it's unpredictable. If you put a "0" (zero) at the beginning as in Alt-0163 you get the character that maps to "163" on the "default keyboard mapping" for your Windows installation. If you omit the zero, Alt-163, you get the character from the "in use keyboard mapping." (usually - or maybe it's the other way around). For most users, the "in use" is the "default" so it doesn't make much difference, but your setup may give different characters with and without the leading zero.
Worrying about "keyboard maps" isn't usually fruitful for normal users, so try both ways, and "If it works, use it. If it doesn't, do something else."
The "leading &" is an html thing, and won't help you much for "on the machine" work. The "leading &" tells the html rendering program that what follows is a character, and the ";" tells it it's come to the end of the character. For on-machine stuff, holding the Alt key down tells the OS that "anything that comes from the NumPad is an ASCII number" until you release the Alt key.
The "real" ANSI character number for the "euro" is outside the range that the Alt-NumPad method can send simply, so on US systems, Microsoft arbitrarily mapped it to ASCII number 128 - which just happened to be an "empty/unused" number in old ASCII systems. I can't say whether Alt-0128 would work on "European" keyboards, but they use a different "keyboard map" that actually places the symbol on the keyboard.
From: GUEST,Terry K
Looks like this may be harder than we thought.
HTML is not much use as I need the symbol for letters written in MS Word - simple word processing. The alt0128 may work except that its a laptop so doesn't have a number pad.
I did try the regional and language options - first- but it would not let me load the English-British language option.
I found a symbol set in Word, but because I have the English-British option in everything except the keypad, it doesn't include the pound sign (because the symbol is supposed to be available direct from the keypad!).
Looks like I'm going to have to copy and paste (roll of drums).....£
From: artbrooks
Oops...I goofed...try ALT 0128
Must be because I'm using a US-coded keyboard. I got that code from Microsoft Word/symbols/ASCII decimal. Maybe a UK-coded word processor will elicit the correct code set?
My keyboard has dollars as well as pounds, but not euros. Read what you will into that. A Blairist keyboard, I ask you...
Simplest thing to do, Terry, though it's not elegant is just put GBP after the number.
"€ is ALT 128 (number pad)" Not on my keyboard it ain't. My Alt128 comes up with Ç not € (I got that by pasting it in from a post). Any suggestions for a code that might do the trick? I'd rather like to be able to do Euros.
From: Amos
&__euro___; &___pound___; with the underscores removed will produce € £
£--did this by holding down "alt" key and typing 0163 then let up key...
£ --- you can cut and paste from here too.
sort of looks liike an upside down 3 with a line thru it..
but hope you find something that works.
Did you go to control panel, region and language options?
or windows, fonts may have other choices.
Or you could go to:
Start, All programs, Accessories, system tools, Character map
in Typographic Symbols, WST English you can find this one:
but when i copy and paste a symbol which on my screen looks like
a pound sterling symbol, i get this tic-tac-toe # pound sign...
€ is ALT 128 (number pad)
From: treewind
In HTML you can do it as € which comes out as €
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Someone gave me the wrong number for Euro, not on my old table of codes. Sorry.
Just use html codes: £
& plus# plus163 plus;
There is more than one thread giving all of these, inc. © ® ¥ (yen) µ (micron) etc. etc. All employ &# plus a number plus semicolon, no spaces. And Euro, ത, has number 8364
From: s&r
Control panel - regional and language options.
well, they all give me lots of things to try - thanks all!
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Apologies for the poor picture and lack of digging it up (in my defense it was freezing up there!) but another interesting story behind this little reddish gem poking out of the grass.
You really should dig this one up to enjoy its underground treasure as at first glance you might think it's just a club fungus.
This species grows parasitically on buried insects, this one in particular on butterfly and moth pupae and larva. It's a great aid for identification when you dig to find what its growing on or in this case out of!
Splendid fat Cordyceps ---- the pupa (or whatever it was on) must have been a good size to feed this fungus. Fungi that attack insects /other fungi are an interesting lot.
I dug up one attached to a pupa a couple of years ago. I put it somewhere safe so that I could show people who come on the guided walks but, erm, I can't remember where. Nice find that - they seem to appear rather randomly.


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Ackenbauer was inspired to take on the challenge by his own battle with cancer, and as an enthusiastic seasonal parks employee, he felt prepared for it. He used the publicity from the stunt to help fund Camp Mak-A-Dream in Montana, which offers free programs for cancer patients and their families.
According to reports, the effort consumed his summers, though it certainly doesn't sound like the worst way to spend July and August. And while it may not appear as adventurous as something like climbing Mount Everest for charity, it's no small feat. Getting to and from Medicine Owl Lake was a three-day backcountry hike. In fact, many of the lakes are incredibly remote, and the park offers no trails to their shorelines
"I've seen Glacier Park in lights and angles that most people will never have the opportunity to," Ackenbauer said.
He finished his lake-jumping adventure on Sunday, Sept. 8, though he did come a little short of his $10,000 goal, so it's not likely that he's dismissing donations, even after the end date.
To donate or to find out more about his adventure, you can visit his site at glacierexplorer.com.
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I am turning to the brain trust here for some assistance.
At the company I work for, we deal with a number of vendors who like sending us large files. These are typically files that are over the sane limits of email, and due to the various regulatory entities that govern our business, we can't allow our users access to sites like dropbox, Google Docs, etc. We've looked at setting up an FTP/SFTP/SCP server for our vendors to upload files to, but so far none of them have really worked out.
The employee working with the rep creates a login for the vendor to use on the site.
Vendor goes to the site, logs in with their account, and uploads the file(s).
The site gives the vendor and/or the employee a link with the file's location for sharing.
The file would stay on the site for a certain period of time, and automatically be removed or archived.
We would also need the ability to audit the application's usage, and obviously security is paramount.
Any ideas that the group here can provide would be appreciated.
Bristol Uni has an in house version of exactly what you want called FLUFF.
Might be worth asking if you could set up your own version of it.
J., is your main concern with Dropbox that your data is stored by a third party?
> Why did the FTP/FTPS/SCP thing not work out?
I would guess that the people on the other end couldn't find their arse with both hands, never mind use a secure transfer method that involved any sort of setup.
"We've looked at setting up an FTP/SFTP/SCP server for our vendors to upload files to, but so far none of them have really worked out."
I'm also wondering about this. An area where clients can upload via scp is not hard to set up and there's lots of "sftp"UIs that even non-techy people can manage to use; meanwhile the simplest of cron jobs can clear out old files and an admin can remove the user's login entry if they need to be locked out.
Given the listed requirements, basically everything you need appears to be bundled with a standard Linux server.
Sounds like you're wanting to enable people to send you files, rather than sharing them per se.
ZendTo handles this brilliantly (IMHO). Created by Julian Field (of MailScanner fame).
A few UK universities use a variation on the original Perl UD Dropbox software to allow people to drop off and pick up large files.
i.e Julian Fields, creator of MailScanner, has released "zendto" which sounds like a better fit for your needs. It's open source, so if it's not quite right you can hack away to make it work.
Not quite private cloud but there is a product similar to Dropbox, but more peace of mind with guaranteed UK location at known sites etc. The person uploading can set time limits on access for those invited to share or predefined project groups gain automatic access to project areas.
www.univault.ac.uk. It's in the very final stages of testing but you might be able to join the test or have a look pre-release - their contact details are on the site.
http://www.axway.co.uk/products-solutions/mft/gateways/securetransport is the kind of thing you want to look into.
Respect the amount of raw computing power you have on your desk, (or hand held), computer and personally take responsibility for the information stored there on? (because those who say they will do it for you, don't necessarily have "your" best interests at heart).
Does everything that you list and a huge amount more.
Floppy disks sent by royal mail? Flexible, Secure and probably meeting all required regulations?
You could use sharepoint (or other collaborative products), create an extranet web site for your suppliers to upload documentation... This is what is usually in place to manage exchange of data with candidates during procurement exercises and to manage exchange of data with suppliers.
But the ease of use of the open internet never marries well with tight security policies.... and no matter what product/solution you use the real question will be one of rights/access management.
This does like Dropbox only doesn't store stuff on a 3rd party server. Add bonus is there are no space limitations since all the storage is your own.
As an added bonus, your clients could generate the secret and tell you rather than have to manage protection of the secret yourself. Also has 24 hour share options and no third party holding the data.
Another +1 for bittorrent sync. It works very well indeed and seems to be secure.
but MOVEit DMZ will do this.
Sparkleshare. Does what dropbox does, but on your own server with encrypted transport.
Put together a spec of what you really need* and send some RFQ's around for a simple custom application. Rolling secure FTP into a simple application isn't crazy complicated and shouldn't cost much or be much of a maintenance burden. Providing it to the people you're doing business with is also a great value-add (I actually hate that term, the fact I typed it means I've been listening to too many proposals lately). You're making it easy to do business with you!
Alternatively you could just do SharePoint. We use SharePoint here, and it works just fine, but it's expensive and apparently difficult to deal with because every time I ask for something our little IT group gets grumpy, and it's not just the standard IT people grumpiness, it's actually a pain.
*I would not go shopping the job out and tell them you wanted to emulate DropBox and add regulatory compliance. They will send you a proposal with many, many zeros in it and your boss will forever think you've got your head in the clouds (ha!).
Provides sufficient enterprise grade security, auditing and cost(!) for most businesses.
Have a look at www.box.com.
I believe you'd need to use their enterprise edition to get the features you require in relation to auditing, data trails, and enforced file-deletion policies. Enterprise admin users have a lot of control over how they lock down accounts.
What I noticed about box, was that they have the best attention to detail of any of these companies I've looked at. A few prominent competitors' "prevent user from downloading" functions were trivially bypassed.
The other company to look at, who appear equally robust, and I believe specialise in larger companies, is egnyte.com.
They also have the benefit of being UK based, which could help you for regulatory purposes.
> "The employee working with the rep creates a login for the vendor to use on the site."
with box enterprise, you can create different levels of admin users, so I believe you would be able to do this.
> "Vendor goes to the site, logs in with their account, and uploads the file(s)."
yes. indeed, you can create folders with upload only permissions for certain users.
>"The site gives the vendor and/or the employee a link with the file's location for sharing."
yes, box handles this quite well.
>"The file would stay on the site for a certain period of time, and automatically be removed or archived."
Yes. It's possible to disable both the link to the file, or delete the file itself, after a given period of time. From what I know, enterprise admins can set a company-wide policy in this respect.
>"We would also need the ability to audit the application's usage, and obviously security is paramount."
Box's auditing tools appear to be very hefty. Even at my team's low level usage, I can see exactly who's accessing my files, when, and from where.
Box is US. If he cares about confidentiality, it's one to avoid.
The choice between the two comes down to whether you want to manage it from AD - or not - and whether you can live without local mapped drives on the vendor/partner side.
+1 for LiquidFiles, decent product and should meet all the requirements that you listed.
You should be able to run-up a demo version for free as well to see if it meets the requirements in your scenario.
*Disclaimer - we're a (small) customer of LiquidFiles.
Wetransfer doesn't quite fit everything you ask, but it is simple. Takes up to 2GB transfers and keeps them for seven days. You upload your big zip file and it gives you a URL in return. You can even just plug in your email addresses and it will notify you and the client when the file is available, as well as telling you when it has been downloaded.
There is a pro version as well - but I've just been using the free version for shifting videos and similar to friends.
Best bit of it is the simplicity.
You create a private site in the Cloudy-Alfresco for your vendor.
Your vendor puts the document in the site.
The doc gets synched to your on-premise Alfresco instance.
Workflow, remote removal of cloud content, no outsiders inside your firewall etc. etc.
Yes, I work for them.
As a sole trader, consultant, working globally with clients who want to see videos and documents that can add up to large file groups, I use three solutions.
Dropbox is useful but have had some issues with links not working. American unfortunately.
Basecamp is a collaboration system that I find works very well and I use some of its features (not all) when I need long term access from a new client or during an extended sales discussion. Some can take years! Again American unfortunately.
wetransfer.com, For short term availability with no (apparent) American connections as it is Dutch company, I recommend wetransfer.com as it just 'does what it says on the tin'. Only one supplier firewall/spam filter had an issue with initial notification email, I dont know why, but other than that all customers are happy to get their information this way.
The simple business model of One.com allows you to create a virtually unlimited number of CloudDrives with single or double encryption at the drop of a hat for an extremely low flat fee.
The only negative comment I can make about One.com is that the Earth spins clockwise in their promo-video.
Similar features to all the others, but also data is encrypted before it leaves your computer.
I can also recommend tresorit.com.
Sharefile.com have collaborative workspaces with secure access, not sure how good the logging is, never used it.
I've been using filesender https://www.assembla.com/spaces/file_sender/wiki for a while works well for me my users find it easy enough to use. Has some limitations at the moment, like only being able to send a single file at a time so folders have to be zipped before sending.
The FileSender project is working to overcome these limitations. We have code we plan to release in Q1 2014 as a usable 2.0-alpha version featuring multi-file support and fine-grained control over email receipts. The code will be undergoing a code security review about a week from now, our planning assumes no major dramas in that review.
The 2.0 version also includes the high-speed upload module, although that might be less interesting for organisations outside Research & Educational networking. Although the primary target for FileSender is the research and higher education community we welcome any feedback from (and obviously use by) other sectors. The major advantage we see with FileSender is the complete control you can have by running your own instance. We strive to make it easy to use and easy to setup/operate. Any reasonably capable Linux sysadmin should be able to have it up and running in about an hour.
If you want to give the multi-file version a try proceed to terasender.uninett.no and pick the one that has multi-file in its name. Get yourself a self-registered account and off you go. It's a test box so no guarantees. Feedback is appreciated.
I like OwnCloud - you can host it yourself and that takes away all the hassles of where the data is stored. Assuming you are happy enough with the current web services you have.
If you want a bespoke solution that does not compromise any of your stated requirements then look me up. I'm in London.
Web based interface for clients that links to your FTP server, aka your own dropbox !
Send and receive links to folders and files, hosted on your infrastructure, authenticated by email.
I've not tried this but it looks promising.
Alternatively roll your own with a chunking uploader such as plupload.
Take a look at Filr. You have total control of your files as they stay on your site (keeping your data in the local jurisdiction).
It is designed to work with Microsoft AD or NetIQ's eDir, and it keeps the file access rights properly. Supports iDevices, Android, Blackberry, Macs and PCs. What's not to like?
It allows you to share (if you want), without duplicating data all the time.
Sounds like our system (http://confdex.co.uk) is exactly what you need. We specialise in health and social care but also have a music business customer who moves big stem files between producers and musicians using it. This system is in use across the whole of Public Health England.
The Q1 goal's slipped a bit, it's now more likely Q2 2014 for GA I'm afraid. Still though, the whole goal is to provide a cloud which can stand up to a vendor audit and provides clarity as to which legal jurisdiction it's subject to.
We plan to offer SaaS product on top of this, including a couple which may be relevant to your use case. We're considering an OwnCloud product for SMEs, and we'll probably have a BizCloud (www.bizcloud.com) product as well. We also have a product in the works called Loomion (www.loomion.com), although that's more targeted at the C-suite.
Huddle are purpose built to do secure sharing of documents with audit trails, and we have local government in both UK and US using us for that very reason.
We don't automatically remove files, but you can remove access to keep it as an archive if you require.
It's certainly worth a look, http://www.huddle.com, and we keep files in the EU which may matter to some of your clients.
But he didn't say he was in the U.S.
Seafile. Better than OwnCloud in that the synchronisation works and doesn't delete your documents.
Don't understand why the user won't use OwnCloud?
It is relatively easy to set up and use on a Debian platform, a little harder to set up on IIS, but doable.
Security is in the eye of the beholder, both platforms can be locked down to nearly anyone's requirements.
Reading the request, seems to me that you have similar requirements to those running transaction data rooms. The need to have a hosted solution to which people can load or access files of all sizes, have fully configurable user access under client control, with proper security and audit trail.
Have search on the terms data room provider or electronic data room. I've used Merrill Corporation services as a data room manager, and found the system was excellent, and not expensive for the service on offer (though you'll be paying a lot more than Dropbox for the capabilities you want). There's plenty of competition in the sector, so just make sure you're not paying over the odds just because many other customers come fromn the "money no object" banking sector.
Keeps all your data in your environment. You send emails with the relevant links automatically generated, so no technical expertise needed at the far end. You make files available at certain times or make them time out if you wish. AD integrated, virtual machine.
So no keeping your data on 3rd party servers inside or outside your country. It's worth a look.
Synology NAS boxes offer some nice applications, and might be a "friendly" way for uploading.
A lot of the recommendations depend on exactly what your vendors are struggling with - why can't they use existing solutions, what is the sticking point?
We had a client looking to share large files, CAD architectural drawings, but without having them hosted outside of the UK so we developed a solution.
The service allows for easy uploading of documents, easy adding new subscribers, document control [locking, deleting etc] and much more.
Drop me a line, andy.poulton@bristolitcompany.com if it sounds as if it might fit your needs.
You've talked about your hesitancy on using a service like Dropbox, and 49% of organizations block access to consumer file-sharing solutions like Dropbox and Box. Yet their employees are using these services to share sensitive information.
Enterprise organizations need a solution that offers file-level security - security that will travel with the file wherever it goes, giving lifetime control of documents. A solution with the ability to "unshare" a document if needed, while also enabling workplace collaboration already exists today - check out Intralinks VIA.
I can wholeheartedly recommend egress.com.
Highly effective and secure service (with all the relevant certifications) run by a great bunch of guys who started it on their own and are growing like wildfire.
The file sharing functionality is most of the way to what you're after.
After reading your query, I thought you might be interested in exploring Brainloop (www.brainloop.com) to securely transfer large files both internally and externally. As the US Marketing Manager with Brainloop I can say that the service is easily configured to make sure only people authorized to see information can see it. With Brainloop you can set and monitor audit trails for every activity including logins, file accesses, opens, or edits – meeting compliance regulations set forth by various industries.
Behind all the interfaces is the Brainloop platform where you can easily set up a folder or portal for ad hoc projects. Once the folder is established, you can invite people and define who can have permissions and how they are able to access the information. For example, some participants can only "view" documents, as opposed to edit them. Extra security levels are available, and easily applicable.
Brainloop lets you share information while managing collaboration. Essentially, it's a one-stop solution for securing cloud shares, email servers, PGP keys, Groupware, virtual datarooms, mobile security, and ERP integration. If you'd like a free trial, please visit www.brainloop.com.
Secure file sharing with data soverenty, government grade security, more control, reporting, audit trail and dead easy to use. Desktop client that works just like Dropbox is coming in Jan. It can also integrate to SharePoint and Trim.
You might want to try www.lock-box.com if you want a simple and private client portal on your website.
It's very easy (compared to FTP). Simply add one line of HTML (iframe) to your website to setup the Lockbox client portal. Then your vendors interact directly with your website (without you opening up your firewall!). Privacy is ensured via client-side encryption and client-side keys. Has auditing and allows you to choose where your encrypted documents reside (e.g. your closest S3 server).
Try "HYPERDRIVE" from the company RES Software in the UK. It's easy, quick, secure and everybody should be using it ! Watch it in action here ..... http://www.ressoftware.com/product/res-hyperdrive.
Getting back to J.Cook's original requirements it would seem the problem is the reception of large files via email from third-parties, with whom he has little control of.
Now in the past I've had problems with the sending of large files and jumped on Ipswitch's MOVEit Ad-hoc Transfer, because this has plug-in's that integrate with MS Outlook and web browser. Once configured the user see's little change and still goes about using these tools in the normal way. However, under the hood the MFT is working, so that when files over a specified size are attached the MFT moves the file to a server, and attaches a URL to the email instead. The recipient merely needs to click on the attachment to initiate download of the attachment.
This is great for sending files out, but not for reception as you have no control over third-parties and what they are running on their systems. Short of demanding that they subscribe to a third-party exchange service there is little that can be done to prevent them using email.
Obviously as some have pointed out, you could still cater for those suppliers who are able to use a website etc. through locally hosted solutions such as that provided by Sharepoint etc.
If the issue is regulatory, try nCrypted Cloud (www.ncryptedcloud.com) on top of Dropbox. GoogleDrive and Skydrive versions of nCrypted Cloud will be out in Q1 AND Q2 OF 2014.
Filr is definitely worth a look. An appliance that runs in your own network that really brings file sharing up to date. www.novell.com/filr for more info..
The company I'm researching this for is, in fact, based in the US. (sort of; it's owned by a native american tribe, so technically, it's owned by a sovereign nation) It's an entertainment company, and we have vendors send us large images and other media files for our marketing people to use. These vendor usually use dropbox or some other file sharing service, which causes problems for the marketing people. We have dropbox and other file sharing sites blocked for security reasons, hence the desire to see what others are using in regards for self-hosted solutions.
The suggestions for using a Qnap appliance were... appreciated, albeit amusing; our company is a mid-size organization with a couple thousand employees and a fairly beefy infrastructure. (multiple Netapp FAS filers backing multiple VMware clusters and a a couple hundred virtual servers.) We self-host our web sites, although a third party does the care and feeding on it.
The whole project got thrown on the back burner (and hence, my apparent disconnect over the past months) due to staff turnover. (And the less said regarding that, the better.) However, the issue has been raised again which prompted me to look and see what everyone's suggestions were.
Again, thank you to everyone for the suggestions, the discussion, and amusement.


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PROSPER – The upcoming May 9 General Election will give citizens of Prosper the opportunity to determine who will occupy two seats on the Town Council, says Town Secretary Robyn Battle.
"Two Council seats are up for election, Place 2 and Place 6," she said. "All seats on the Council are at-large, meaning that anyone who meets the qualifying criteria is eligible to place their name for consideration, regardless of
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Currently, the places are occupied by Kenneth Dugger and Jason Dixon, respectively. Candidate packets and filing materials will be available at the Town Secretary's office starting on Monday, Jan. 12. The first day candidates can file paperwork is Wednesday, Jan. 28 and the deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27. Applications may be submitted in person to the Town Secretary or a designated representative of the Town Secretary, or submitted by mail.
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As a project-based company, we aim to facilitate more opportunities for Guest Artists and Company Members to pursue all of their creative interests while still being an active part of our community. Our artist-community's pursuit of creative, commercial and other interests are acknowledged and valued.
Guest Artists are dancers who perform with the company for a particular event or project and are paid under contract for that event or project.
The Guest Artist position (pool) operates as LACDC's database for dancers interested in being in a pool of collaborators hired on a project by project basis. Guest Artists can also be invited to join the cast of a project when not all of the company members are available for that particular project or when a production calls for a larger cast than the current company. They are dancers we have come to know through auditions and through the greater dance community.
The Guest Artist position (full season) operates as a trial period for dancers interested in working with LACDC for an extended period of time. After an audition process, a dancer may be invited to join the company as a Guest Artist for a full season, which is a year-long commitment. After that time, depending on the company's needs, a Guest Artist may be put into the pool of collaborators to be called upon for future projects or they may be offered a Company Member position.
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What a great use of Twine, and what great animations and pictures! I took your quiz, and got Jordan Baker!
I really enjoyed your application of this software to your students, and I agree with you - they would love to complete this survey, especially the girls, in my opinion.
Thank you, Susan! I appreciate this so much. Not my expertise--but I really had fun with it!!
This was a terrific use of Twine. I never expected to be connected with Jay Gatsby, so that was a nice surprise.
Did you present this quiz to your students? What were their reactions?


This year's summertheater in Kiel ends with standing ovations and spectacular fireworks. The theatre's director Daniel Karasek and Kerstin Daiber (dramaturge) made Shakespear's comedy "Twelfth night" together with Martin Tingvall (composer) and Regy Clasen (text) into a new musical.
The musical is performed open-air directly waterfront in Kiel on a former area of the navy. Martin Tingvall has composed rhythmical songs between pop, reggae, rock and fusion-jazz which transform the famous play into a modern musical. In the end of the night the audience was celebrating the ensemble and the team under a full moon with long lasting standing ovations.


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Emily Anderson February 15, 2018
When University of Utah President Ruth Watkins accepted her position, it didn't cross her mind she had become the first woman president of the 168-year-old institution.
Jerilyn McIntyre, now a professor emeritus of communication, served temporarily as interim president of the U once in 1991 and again in 1997, but never has a woman been selected to permanently stand at the helm of the university.
"I am mindful of what a privilege this is," Watkins said. "Perhaps I hadn't thought through … how important it may be for people to see the opportunity for a woman to lead this great institution."
A number of people have expressed admiration for her accomplishments, and Watkins is grateful for all of the people who have rallied around her as she steps into the role.
"I've had mothers and daughters want to have a picture taken with me and that sort of thing at a basketball game, and it's touching to me and very valued that people care and want to join in both celebrating and supporting my success," Watkins said.
Watkins, who will assume the entirety of the responsibilities of president starting April 2, has spent a lot of time in leadership positions at other institutions before coming to the U. Growing up, she didn't plan to go into academia.
"As an undergraduate, I had a story much like many of our undergrads, where I had a little trouble deciding on a major," Watkins said. "I started out [in] college as an undeclared student, transferred and it really was not until I actually dropped out of school for a year and had a couple of jobs that really kind of put me on this path. One of them turned out to be with a speech pathologist who worked with kids with disabilities."
She earned a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) in 1985. During her studies, a faculty member at UNI suggested Watkins look into graduate school.
"I credit a very engaged faculty member for encouraging me to think about a career in research and academia, who helped open doors for me to think that I was capable of that," Watkins said.
Watkins went on to earn both her master's and doctorate degrees in child language pathology from the University of Kansas and was named a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2003.
She began her career when she was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. There, she acted as the director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders. In 1993, she accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she eventually rose up the ranks to become the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Watkins came to the U in 2013 and has acted as the provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs as well as a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Sciences and Disorders for the past five years.
"Her reputation as a scholar and teacher is matched only by her reputation as a leader who is compassionate and warm," said Daniel Campbell, chairman of the Board of Regents, at a meeting announcing her selection. "We are so grateful that she has accepted this new responsibility and look forward to President Watkins's leadership at the University of Utah."
The new president's leadership style is marked by innovation, interdisciplinary cooperation and listening.
"You need to take the time to get to know people and build relationships, to care about what they care about or to at least understand what they care about," Watkins said. "You want to involve many people in ideas and decision making. You want to do that because you will come up with a better outcome when you do that and when you hear lots of voices."
She has written op-eds in The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News about the value of cross-disciplinary work in research and the U's efforts to increase its online course offerings. As president, Watkins wants to continue her work and expand on initiatives the administration was already pursuing.
"We've made very significant strides in the success of our students — retention of students, completion of the degree and rates of completion have been on a wonderful positive trajectory," Watkins said. "That has been enabled by a variety of creative strategies that help students succeed and I want to keep that going."
Watkins also pointed to interdisciplinary research successes the U has had toward solving Utah-specific problems, like air quality.
Although the administration has made progress in some fields, Watkins replaces current President David Pershing following his decision to take an early retirement after a controversy regarding the dismissal of Mary Beckerle as the CEO of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Beckerle was later reinstated.
The move was met with backlash by faculty, employees and the late Jon Huntsman Sr. — the founder and primary benefactor of the institute. Watkins said one of the principles she values most in leadership — listening — should also be applied to the way the U deals with donors.
"We're collectively guided by the best interest of the institution — donors want that just as much as I want that," Watkins said. "Having the opportunity to have the conversation is the important part and making sure that your priorities align and that everybody has been clear."
The U is in the process of selecting a replacement for Vivan Lee, former U Health CEO and director — a task Pershing said would wait until the new president was chosen. Watkins said the U will appoint the new CEO sometime this spring, along with the new provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs.
Moving forward, Watkins hopes to continue to improve on the U's strengths and create a greater sense of community.
"I would want students to know how invested I am in their success and that my own life, both as a student and as a faculty member, helped me to understand how influential and important it is for students to feel a connection to their university and as if they belong here," Watkins said. "My personal dream would be that every single student, undergraduate and graduate, that comes to the University of Utah finds that kind of meaningful connection here."
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Serbian helmer-actor Emir Kusturica will serve as prexy of Un Certain Regard jury at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
Kusturica has been a Cannes favorite since winning a Palme d'Or and a Fipresci Prize for "When Father Was Away on Business" in 1985.
Part of the Official Selection, Un Certain Regard showcases 20 films that stand out for the originality of their narrative and visual treatment. The filmmaker won Cannes' director nod in 1989 for "Time of the Gypsies" and a second Palme d'Or in 1995 for "Underground." More recently, Kusturica's "Life Is a Miracle" and "Promise Me This" played in competition at Cannes.
Kusturica recently wrapped the shoot of "The Source," a Morocco-set dramedy starring Leila Bekhti. Pic will open in France on Nov. 2.
Kusturica and his jury will award the Un Certain Regard prize during the fest's closing weekend.
Headed by French helmer Claire Denis, last year's Un Certain Regard jury honored Hong Sang-soo's comedy "Ha Ha Ha" with the top prize, and Daniel and Diego Vega's "October" with a Jury nod.
The Cannes fest (May 11-22) will unveil its selections April 14 in Paris.
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For example, a 12 pack of natural peacock feathers retail for $5 to $13, while a 100-pack of peacock eye feathers, measuring more than 35 inches, can retail for $75 to $90. According to Featherstore.com , the price for peacock feathers can range anywhere from $5 to $65.... It takes quite a few peacock feathers to make a decent pelt or to supplement an exotic flower bouquet. Go to your source of feathers and sort them according to color, size and quality. Go to your source of feathers and sort them according to color, size and quality.
15/02/2014 · There are no artificial feathers in existence that look like real feathers; even the 'faux feather hair extensions' look far more like artificial hair than they look like feathers! There are no man-made feathers that look, feel, and move like a real feather. If it looks and feels like a feather-- it is one, and it came from a real bird.... 12/07/2011 · A peacock centerpiece can be very fun and simple to make. Also a peacock centerpiece, made using the beautiful multi colored peacock tail feathers, is very attractive and eye catching. To create your own peacock center piece all you need are three things.
Instead, decorate your home with some artificial peacock feathers planted into a recycled wine bottle. Peacock Feather Centerpieces You can also make the bottle centerpiece more attractive by placing some fresh blooms from your garden. how to respond on tinder 14/04/2018 · The sword feathers should be slightly shorter than the peacock eye feathers, but only by 1 or 2 inches (2.5 or 5 cm). Turn the sword feathers so that they are angled in toward the center. "Sword" feathers refer to peacock feathers that have the traditional coloring of a peacock tail but not the trademark "eye" pattern at the upper end.
15/02/2014 · There are no artificial feathers in existence that look like real feathers; even the 'faux feather hair extensions' look far more like artificial hair than they look like feathers! There are no man-made feathers that look, feel, and move like a real feather. If it looks and feels like a feather-- it is one, and it came from a real bird. how to make artificial snow for crafts 1890: A peacock feather in the house makes old maids. 1899: It is lucky to have a live peacock on the farm, but very unlucky to have peacock feathers in the house. Here is a visitor who would agree….
19/02/2011 · Best Answer: If they are at a dollar store they are most likley fake. Its easy to see if they are fake or not, if you feel them and they feel more similar to plastic than say hair then they are fake, If you have ever collected seagull feathers at the beach try to remember what they felt like.
Instead, decorate your home with some artificial peacock feathers planted into a recycled wine bottle. Peacock Feather Centerpieces You can also make the bottle centerpiece more attractive by placing some fresh blooms from your garden.


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Points to remember: It is essential that your cellphone needs to be on in case anyone phone. Make sure that you have a professonal message on your phone in case you miss a call. If you only have a home phone number then everyone living with you need to be aware of the fact that you are waiting for a call. Place a pen and paper next to the phone in casy there is a message. Do not give your spouse's cellphone number unless you will be able to speak to the caller immediately. Is your email up and running? Does the P O Box belong to you or someone else? If it belongs to (e.g.) your parents they need to be aware that you might get important information. It is not necessary to disclose your age, gender, height, weight, marital status or religion. If you do not have an email address then set one up through Hotmail or Yahoo. And as tempting as what it might do not have your macho_man@hotmail.com address on your CV. Try and register one with your name and surname only.
Start with the most recent achievement / qualification and work your way back. List the degree, diploma, matriculation or standard achieved as well as the year and institution. Then move on the one just before that (e.g. first your degree and then matric). There is no need to list all the subjects you took (unless it is relevant). However, it is crucial to list all your qualifications - whether they were from academic institutions or not.
It is important to list all of your achievements while studying, e.g. competitions won, awards received, provincial colours achieved, orders of merit.
List all the leadership positions you served in, e.g. class prefect, captain of a team, chairperson of a committee.
End this section of with your extracurricular activities that you participated in, e.g. sport, hobbies.
Points to remember: The older you are the less important your school information will become. For instance: You might only want to mention that you matriculated, where and when and one or two major achievements. It is also not necessary to show your grades or marks achieed. It is also best to leave out any information on political activities or other controversial topics. However, if you know that the recruiter is looking for someone who participated in certain political groups then you might want to mention it.
Start with the most recent position and work your way back. List the title of the position, the name of the company and your length of service. Below this you can give a description of your duties (in bullet-point format). It is also important to list any projects that you worked on. Be specific and use numbers where possible, e.g. Managed 32 staff members and a R1 million budget.
It is again important to list all of your achievements while working, e.g. competitions won, awards received.
List all the leadership positions you served in, e.g. managerial or supervisory roles, chairperson of a committee.
End this section of with any additional things that you use to do for the company, e.g. editor of the company newsletter, organiser of the year end function.
Points to remember: Always look at the information and ask whether it is relevant. There is no need to supply the contact details of previous employers nor the reason why you left their employment.
The ability to work on a computer has developed into a key skill. List all the programs that you are able to work with as well as your proficiency level.
List all the courses, workshops, seminars, etc that you attended only if it is relevant to the position you are applying for and if you haven't mentioned it before. It is always a good idea to list the topic, institution, facilitator / guest speaker and date.
Remember that most people enjoy listening to music, going to the movies, socialising with friends, reading, etc. Unless you do someting special, or relevant to the position, rather leave this section out.
Mention that "References are available on request". It is important that your references are aware of the fact that they might be contacted.


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Is rural Ireland really being left behind? Well, that's up to us
February 8th, 2020 10:00 AM
The survival of rural Ireland will require more than a rural regeneration fund.
Has rural Ireland been forgotten by those 'above in the Dáil'? Mark Costigan, who left the buzz of Dublin-based politics for a more relaxed life in West Cork, says the capital is like a black hole sucking the youth and energy into the East.
First of all, I'm not an expert. I'm a journalist. I'm curious. I like asking questions.
But in 2005 I was asked to become the deputy government press secretary, answerable to PD leader Mary Harney. I stayed in communications for over 10 years, working for three different governments – FF/PD, FF/Green/PD and I got rehired as a departmental spokesperson in the Fine Gael/Labour government. The job of a spokesperson – the maxim goes – is to try to defend the indefensible and explain the inexplicable. I know that feeling well.
This is true. When I got the job initially in 2005 I asked could I have the newspapers delivered to my home. The very first set of papers included a property section with holiday homes in Glengarriff and we decided to buy one. The economic crash was just around the corner.
We're still in negative equity on that house. But never once did we regret the purchase. For a decade we would come to Cork when we could to get a break from Dublin. Then four-and-a-half years ago we decided to sell up completely in Dublin and come and live here full-time. For me there is no comparison. It's like going from two dimensions to three, from black and white to colour. Instead of a blur of people in a concrete frame, we are humbled to live in a magnificent landscape that will remain beautiful long after we are gone and forgotten. And, even better – we actually know our neighbours.
So is rural Ireland forgotten in Dublin? What does the government do? What does the government concentrate on? Well let me tell you, one of my strongest recollections is the amount of energy the government expended on just cleaning up spilt milk. Nearly every day the greatest panic was to get material to best explain in the Dáil some government action already taken.
The greatest desire of a government is simply to remain in power. But of course decisions are taken too.
The outgoing government will tell you of the additional €1bn available for rural regeneration over the next seven years.
But the survival of rural Ireland will require more than a rural regeneration fund.
Dublin is currently a bit like a black hole sucking youth and energy to the east coast.
The popular wisdom is that young people should get a degree, often seen as the passport to bright lights.
Many young people feel they have to leave home. Like most, I'd prefer to have a decent trade and stay in my rural community.
Yes, rural survival will require an influx of cash, but also a strategic fight by us, the people who live here.
A guy from IDA Ireland told me once that 'people like doing things for people who do things for themselves'.
Our politicians must bang the drum in Dublin, but perhaps more importantly they must bang the drum here at home, getting people together to figure out what we really need and how to get it.
• Mark Costigan is a journalist and former deputy government press secretary


Ministers of the Interior or Defense have already illegally authorized the AIVD and MIVD several times on requests for special powers based on the WIV. That is the conclusion of the Review Committee Commitment Powers.
The Review Commitment Commitment sees, after consultation, some improvements in the way in which the intelligence services draw up their requests, but continues to focus attention. This is stated in a progress letter to the House of Representatives, in which the TIB reports on the findings and activities.
The arrival of the TIB was one of the safeguards at the entry into force of the Intelligence and Security Services Act, in July . The commission must monitor the legitimacy of the deployment of untargeted taps of the cable, telephony tapes and hacks of the intelligence services.
Opposite the NIS, TIB chairman Mariëtte Moussault reports that one in twenty requests for the use of special powers was unlawful: "Sometimes the intelligence services, for example, do not explain why a tap should be placed that also hits a non-target. In other cases we simply find that a hack or tap goes too far. " The committee did not judge part of the requests because of a lack of information.
Before 1 May 2019, the Review Committee for Commitments will issue an annual report.


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Britons' support for welfare benefits at highest level for 20 years – study
Annual survey finds 'dramatic softening in attitudes' even before Covid pandemic
The research suggests there was an appetite for a more generous benefit system even before the pandemic. Photograph: Tek Image/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF
Patrick Butler
Wed 28 Oct 2020 20.01 EDT
Last modified on Thu 29 Oct 2020 00.37 EDT
Public support for more generous welfare benefits is at its highest level for more than two decades, amid new evidence that societal views on social security and immigration are becoming significantly more liberal, according to the latest annual barometer of British social attitudes.
The findings, which come as pressure rises on the government to retain the £20-a-week Covid-19 top-up of universal credit, indicate that seemingly entrenched popular views on benefits – that they create welfare dependency and encourage "shirking and skiving" – are melting away.
More members of the public now agree with the statement: "benefits are too low and cause hardship" than those who believe benefit levels are too high and discourage work, according to the British Social Attitudes Survey, reversing a hardening of views on social security that dates back to the late 1990s.
"The dramatic softening in attitudes towards welfare in recent years strongly suggests the public may prove sympathetic towards more generous welfare benefits for people who lose their jobs because of the pandemic – especially if there is a substantial increase in the level of unemployment," said Gillian Prior, the director of surveys at the National Centre for Social Research, which carried out the study.
The research, which involved face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of 3,224 British adults between July and October last year, suggests there was an appetite for a more generous benefit system even before the pandemic. Since March, the number of people on universal credit, the main welfare benefit, has doubled to 6 million, with more expected as furlough support ends and unemployment rises.
The survey also reveals a softening of views on immigration, despite the centrality of the issue to the Brexit vote four years ago, and increasingly hostile rhetoric from the government around cracking down on the numbers of migrants and taking tighter control of the UK's borders.
The proportion of British people saying immigration "enriches cultural life" has increased from 26% in 2011 to 46% in 2019, the survey found. Over the same period, the proportion who believe immigration is "bad for the economy" has fallen from 43% to 15%.
The survey revealed widely held concerns over inequality. Almost three-quarters of people in Scotland and 65% of people in England agreed income distribution was "unfair". Though a majority in each country felt it was the state's role to address this, just 6% in England and 3% in Scotland were satisfied with the government's attempts to close the income gap.
The authors of the Social Attitudes report suggest public attitudes on welfare hardened rapidly from the late 1990s under New Labour as employment levels rose and the government sought to cut spending on long-term jobless benefits, a policy continued by the coalition and the Conservatives after 2010.
The narrative of shirkers and skivers reached its apogee in the early years of austerity. The former prime minister David Cameron referred in speeches to "benefit scroungers", while the former chancellor George Osborne pitted the hard-working shift worker against their lazy neighbours who were "sleeping off a life on benefits". That now seems to be fading rapidly.
The survey shows that since 2015 – the year Osborne drew up £16bn in social security cuts and announced a four-year freeze in benefits – attitudes to those on benefits have mellowed. Five years ago, about 28% of the public agreed with the statement that people on benefits "don't really deserve any help"; that view is now at an all-time low of 15%, while the proportion disagreeing rose over the same period from 33% to 47%.
"It looks as though the pandemic has occurred at a time when there was already more empathy with the circumstances of the low-paid and unemployed of working age – and that voters may therefore be looking to the government to make adequate provision for those whose livelihoods are threatened by the pandemic," it says.
Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, said: "These responses prove that the social security system is not working for British people. Even before this crisis, a decade of Tory government had left us with a safety net with too many holes in it and the evidence of that is clear to see. Labour would replace it with a system which provides a decent standard of living for all."
Alison Garnham, the chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: "For years successive governments undermined the idea that our social security system is for everyone, instead promoting a narrative of skivers and strivers. This narrative will be shot to pieces now that Covid-19 has left so many people facing unemployment and financial hardship."
The Department for Work and Pensions was approached for a response but said it did not want to comment.


It is quite apparent, unless you've been living under a rock, that there exists a conformity of sorts in the mainstream rap game. This semblance of sound—referred to by many as SoundCloud Rap—has birthed an abundance of talent, each new personality evolving the standard. As this wave has existed for quite some time now, and the aggregate of artists seems to be exponentially increasing, it's easy to trivialize the origin of our beloved subgenre.
There are a handful of founding fathers who materialized a counterculture of rap music—pioneers who broadened the boundaries of style and sound. The Swedish rapper, Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, known as Yung Lean, is arguably one of the most influential innovators; Lean brought a peculiar energy of abstract emotion and borderline nonsensical lyricism, and this multi-genre fusion set the standard for a new era of expression.
Håstad's work was an unprecedented deviation from the norm, and its effect on the industry was polarizing. To many critics, his music was illegitimate—devoid of substance, lyrically awkward, an asinine attempt at being unique. Though he was seen by many as a meme, he attracted a cult following, and fans watched the new wave unfold.
Since Lean's inception in 2013, he has grown considerably as an artist, distancing himself from the "sadboys" trademark of Arizona iced tea and stuffed double cups. If you remember from Kyoto, Greygoose, and other early glimpses of his signature vaporwave sound, Lean's lyrics were a compilation of basic terminology and concepts—a sloppy narrative formulated by foreign observation of American media. Today, though, Lean has upgraded his lyricism and has proven to the masses that he is one to be taken seriously.
It is difficult to pinpoint the turning point for Lean, as success is greatly subjective, but his life hasn't always been whimsical and aesthetically pleasing. In 2015, Håstad was admitted to a mental hospital in Miami after suffering a breakdown that was triggered by significant drug addiction. After this episode, Lean began to adopt a new identity, one that soon became prominent in his music. All of a sudden, the emotion Lean expressed was deeply rooted in something real, and he developed a level of seriousness that many thought wasn't possible.
In the past few months, Yung Lean has released a couple singles and a full EP that transcends his familiar genre. Creep Creeps, a single released early this year, features wavy lyrics that synchronize perfectly with the heavy hitting WORKING ON DYING beat. Red Velvet, a single released a couple weeks ago, features the consistent and atypical vocals of Bladee. The Swedish duo takes turns hypnotizing with bewildering vocals, and we get some unusually shifty flow from Lean. This single was released alongside an eerie music video, visuals that encapsulate the mysterious essence of the track.
The most noteworthy of Lean's recent releases is Nectar, an EP released under the pseudonym jonatan leandoer127. Ostensibly, this lo-fi indie project is something we've never heard from the devoted vaporwave rapper, but many similarities to his rap music are prominent. The signature paradox of sound and substance still exists; monotonous vocals portray dark and heavy subject matter. There is great diversity on this offering, and the span of his style ranges from offbeat poetic prose to substantial alternative melody.
Even if you were a strong supporter of sadboys music after hearing Ginseng Strip 2002 in middle school, it's likely that you've forgotten about Yung Lean and are unaware that he's still even making music. But if you've watched Lean grow from meme to mogul, you'll understand that to the industry, Lean is a father to many modern artists; he has demonstrated that artistic deviation can lead to profound change.
In his six year career, Lean has formed relations with an armada of talent, most of whom belong to the Swedish record label YEAR0001. These artist—Bladee, Whitearmor, and Thaiboy Digital, to name a few—create and innovate within the realm of sadboys music. Their innovation is most exciting, though, and they frequently collaborate with artists from a myriad of genres. Sadboys music, believe it or not, is quite versatile; and you might be surprised to learn that Yung Lean has worked with your favorite rapper. The list of artists—Gucci Mane, Frank Ocean, Riff Raff, Kreayshawn, etc.—who Jonatan Håstad has worked with demonstrates the potential of his diversity.
Lean also contributed to the fashion industry, as many artists tend to do these days, although the trends he set were more prominent early on in his career. Lean built a vivid and galvanizing image; teenage fans snatched up the Unknown Death 2002 T-shirts, and sadboys became a movement. His fashion influence evolved just as his music did; in 2016, he collaborated with Eytys and released the Sad Boys Spider, a trendy and familiarly bulky unisex shoe. In 2017, Lean was dripping in Fendi at Milan Men's Fashion Week, and HIGHSNOBIETY went crazy.
So the once solitary subgenre has evolved into a network of remarkable influence. But this story is not unfamiliar; of course, there are other distinguished artists—SpaceGhostPurrp, Lil B, Lil Ugly Mane, among others—who created turbulence in the early modern rap game, and helped shape the standard. Yung Lean is a character that was truly unprecedented, and he is special, to say the least.
With nearly 15 studio albums, EPs, and LPs (a handful of which were released under various aliases), it's been a long ride for our sadboy hero. You may have never fancied Yung Lean; your interest in his music may have dwindled before you even heard Ghosttown featuring Travis Scott; but I hope you won't forget about him.


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'Agitation working against Madhesis'
By Himalayan News Service
Published: 01:22 am Nov 17, 2015
CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal addressing a tea reception organised by the CPN-UML Kaski Constituency No-4 on the occasion of the promulgation of new constitution in Pokhara on Thursday, September 24, 2015. Photo: Rishi Ram Baral
Surkhet, November 16
Former Prime Minister and senior CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal today accused Madhes-centric parties of staging a protracted agitation in the region to fulfil their vested interests.
"This protest is against the sentiments of Madhesi people," Nepal claimed.
While addressing party cadres at a function in Birendranagar of Surkhet today, Nepal said leaders and activists of United Democratic Madhesi Front were disseminating the illusion of citizenship certificates instead of acknowledging the spirit of the new constitution in the Tarai area.
He claimed, "The new constitution promulgated by the second CA of the country is a model among several countries across the world. Hence, there is no point in misinterpreting it."
Nepal claimed that the new constitution had incorporated the voices and concerns of people with diverse ethnicity, languages, religions, cultures among others. "I found the ongoing Tarai unrest not of the real people living in the region, but of Madhes-centric parties only during my recent interaction with Tarai people.
The leaders of the front have spread illusions about the constitution in the name of the agitation," he claimed.
He also clarified that the ruling coalition was positive towards addressing the genuine demands put forth by the agitating forces. He also advised the forces to sit for dialogue and forge consensus instead of giving trouble to people in this hour of crisis.
He was of the opinion that a person who has received naturalised citizenship should be eligible to hold the topmost post of the state.
"We don't want fragmentation in the name of ethnicity, nor do we want any discrimination based on topography. This is a critical issue. Hence, all of us need to pay serious attention to it," he said.
Expressing dissatisfaction with the joint statement issued by the United Kingdom and the southern neighbour, he said invading the country's internal affair was against diplomatic code of conduct. "We are capable of sorting out our internal problems," he claimed.
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Dr Andy Xie: The Trojan horse threat behind China's tutoring and tech crackdown amid US rivalry
Posted on September 3, 2021 September 4, 2021 by Editor
In a recent opinion piece for SCMP, Dr Andy Xie discussed the continuing China-US rivalry, how both industries are becoming more powerful and more.
Here are some highlights:
Beijing is cracking down on tutoring businesses in its latest move to reshape China's economy. Internet companies have also been under scrutiny for some time. Many actions fall under the murky policy goal of reducing neijuan, which translates as involution or "wasteful churning".
China's intensifying rivalry with the United States appears to be the catalyst for reducing neijuan and increasing efficiency. But the story is much more complicated. Keeping the ruling party at the centre of everything is behind almost every decision in China.
The Communist Party feels that China's rivalry with the US is an existential threat. If it fails, it won't have a second chance. The US, however, can collapse and rise again. It has the institutional resilience that China doesn't. This is why China is detoxing when the US is still focused on giving people a good time with borrowed money.
Over the past two decades, China and the US have embarked on an era of asset inflation, underpinned by what was effectively a dollar-yuan peg, and supported by the productivity of hundreds of millions of underpaid Chinese workers. It has been about who could leverage up.
In China, the state-owned financial system favours those with connections. The US is not so dissimilar. It gives the masses capitalism, that is, Americans compete against the Chinese to keep inflation low, while the Federal Reserve offers quantitative easing "socialism" in the asset markets.
As US speculators become super-rich and powerful, they increasingly influence the government to keep the game going. The political backlash led to Donald Trump's election as US president. Now, Joe Biden is borrowing trillions of dollars to give the masses "socialism". But, when its available to everyone, rampant inflation isn't far away.
Dr Andy Xie 謝國忠, is an independent economist, director of Rosetta Stone Advisors and is one of the few economists who has accurately predicted economic bubbles including the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the more recent subprime meltdown in the United States.
He was a part of Morgan Stanley in 1997 and the Managing Director and Head of the firm's Asia/Pacific economics team until 2006. He also spent two years with Macquarie Bank in Singapore, an associate director in corporate finance and five years as an economist with the World Bank.
Dr. Xie earned a PhD in economics in 1990 and an MS in civil engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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