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Unless you find you and your phone often drenched in water, consider skipping over the Kyocera Hydro Edge.
True, as the successor to the Hydro, the Edge can still survive a good dunking. But while this new iteration includes some welcomed improvements like a bigger 4-inch screen and a 5-megapixel camera (the original featured only a 3.2-megapixel shooter), the device still runs on 3G and has a a rather slow 1GHz processor.
If having an affordable smartphone that is able to survive multiple spills and dips is important (either from the water you encounter at the beach or simply the kitchen sink), the Edge is a good handset to consider. It's available on Sprint for $19.99 after users sign a two-year agreement, or off-contract under the carrier's prepaid arm, Boost Mobile, for $149.99.
But if that factor isn't a deal breaker for you and you can spare the extra cash, look into your carrier's other devices that sport better specs.
The Kyocera Hydro Edge has a simple, matte-gray plastic construction that feels sturdy, but doesn't look at all chic. Like the XTRM, neither of the device's ports are covered. In fact, the only way one could even assume the handset is waterproof is by the toggle lock located in the rear, which keeps the battery door secured.
The phone measures 4.9 inches tall, 2.5 inches wide, and 0.39 inch thick. It weighs 4.5 ounces, and while the top half of the Edge is a bit heftier than its bottom half, it's still comfortable to hold in the hand.
On the left is a volume rocker, and up top are a 3.5mm headphone jack and sleep/power button. The right edge houses a shortcut key for the camera, and the Micro-USB port is located on the bottom.
The device has a 4-inch IPS touch-screen display, with a 800x480-pixel resolution and 233ppi. Though HD movies won't appear as crisp as you might expect on it, text and icons still displayed clearly and smoothly for me. Furthermore, the screen has a rather narrow viewing angle outdoors. However, when you crank maximum brightness all the way up and you hold up the handset directly at eye level, you can make out the display very well.
Beneath the display are three hot keys that light up white when in use for back, home, and menu. Long-press the home key to access recent apps. You'll notice that above the screen, there is no in-ear speaker. Like a handful of other Kyocera smartphones, the Edge features Smart Sonic Receiver technology, which uses an embedded ceramic transducer to transmit audio via the hard tissue inside your ear.
The back features a dimpled rubber texture, and the top half of the handset's body is contoured to be thicker than the rest of its body. I felt that both these characteristics helped with my grip as I held it.
On the back you'll find the camera, with its LED flash right below it. To the left is a small slit for the audio speaker. To remove the battery door, you'll need to switch the toggle lock at the bottom and pry the plate off. There you can access the 1,600mAh battery and the microSD card slot (which can accommodate cards with capacities of up to 32GB) underneath it.
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Software features
The device ships with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and comes with a number of Google's services, like Chrome, Gmail, Plus, Local, Maps with Navigation, Messenger, Search, Talk, and YouTube. The Google Play stores for Books, Magazines, and Music are included as well.
Under the Settings menu, there's also a software feature called MaxiMZR. This lets you limit the data connection of apps running in the background to conserve battery life. There is also a MagniFont Mode option for those who want to improve text readability by increasing the font size one level larger than the "Extra Large" or "Huge" setting that is common on Android handsets.
Sprint loaded some of its own apps, one of which is Sprint Zone, where you can check your account information and balance. There's also a ringtone portal called Sprint Music Plus, as well as Sprint TV and Movies, and Sprint ID.
ID enables you to customize your phone with preselected apps, widgets, and other items depending on which ID profile you choose. For example, if you select the E! package, you'll get apps and widgets pertaining to the celebrity news channel. Note that deleting an ID package won't uninstall the apps that you downloaded -- you'll have to remove those apps manually. So far, there are 40 packs available, and once you start up the handset, the Sprint Default ID pack annoyingly starts downloading automatically.
Other goodies include the Reddit browser, BaconReader; ICE, which stores emergency contact info; Eco Mode, a battery- and energy-conserving app; a panorama app that works with the camera, a video editor; Lookout Security, which backs up and secures your data; Qualcomm Enhanced Location app that zeroes in on your location and saves battery power; and the navigational app, Scout.
Of course, there are basic apps too, such as native browser and e-mail clients, a calculator, a calendar, a clock with alarm functions, an address book, a weather app, a voice dialer, and a audio recorder.
For the most part, the Boost Mobile model has all the same apps, give or take a few exceptions. However, instead of having apps like Sprint ID and Sprint Zone, the names have been modified to Mobile ID and Boost Zone. And as previously mentioned, the Boost model does not support hot-spot capabilities.
Camera and video
The 5-megapixel camera has six photo sizes (ranging from 640x480 to 2,560x1,920 pixels), digital zoom, a flash, six picture modes including HDR and continuous shooting, 14 photo effects, three focuses, six scene modes, geotagging, three image qualities, blink detection, three auto-exposures, five ISO levels, five white balances, and grid lines.
Video settings include five video sizes (ranging from a 30-second MMS to 720p), digital zoom, continuous flash, time lapse, two file format options, and the same white balance, image effects, geotagging, grid lines, and auto-exposure options.
Photo quality was adequate, though it wasn't very impressive. For the most part, main objects came out clear and were easy to make out, but colors looked muted, and images weren't as sharp as I would have liked them to be, especially along the outer edges. In addition, the camera is quite slow. It takes a few seconds for it to focus, and you'll need to wait a few more seconds after pressing the shutter for the camera to ready itself for another photo.


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CES Pioneer this morning presented what it claimed is the first ever "hybrid" navigation system, a GPS box designed to work with almost any mobile media source, including iPods and Bluetooth-equipped mobile phones.
Through a combination of USB and Bluetooth for connectivity, SD memory cards and any audio input, the AVIC-F500BT can operate as both an entertainment centre and as a sat nav device. When a device is connected physically or wirelessly, the gadget recognises it as a source and controls it via the touchscreen and/or voice.
Pioneer's AVIC-F500BT: simple UI
According to Pioneer, this is the first product of its kind to include the VoiceBox Conversational Voice Search Platform, which interprets what you tell the device.
The 5.8in WVGA display shows maps and POIs with two view modes: overhead and 3D. When a destination is entered using the touch screen, a step-by-step route guide is displayed, followed by audio prompts through the the in-car speakers. Standard, by-the-numbers sat nav, in other words.
The unit will be available in the US this coming Spring 2008, though Pioneer didn't say how much it will cost.

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Close your eyes and imagine for a moment that on Saturday morning, when you awake to the soft light of a Hawaii sunrise coloring the sky and the expanse of the Pacific ocean visible from the open-air lanai of your Mauna Lani home, your plans for the start of your weekend look something like this:
Early in the day, breakfast includes a perfectly ripened locally grown papaya with a slice of lime and a cup of hot Kona coffee before a round of golf at the Francis H. I'i Brown North or South Course. Or, if you aren't a golfer, a walk through Mauna Lani's ancient fishponds on your way to snorkeling at Makaiwa Bay near the Mauna Lani Beach Club may be to your liking instead.
In the afternoon, you've confirmed an appointment for an indulgent seaside Ali'i Experience lomilomi massage at the Fairmont Orchid Hotel's famed Spa Without Walls. Or, maybe a stop at The Shops at Mauna Lani to buy aloha-wear at Tommy Bahamas and to browse through the refreshingly air-conditioned art galleries and boutiques.
As evening nears, you make your way to Mauna Lani's Canoe House or the Fairmont's Brown's Beach House at Pauoa Bay for a leisurely island-inspired dinner. But, you can't linger too long, because friends are saving a place for you at tonight's Full Moon Talk Story (Twilight at Kalahuipua'a) at Eva Parker Woods Cottage, and you know that Mauna Lani's Cultural Historian Danny Akaka has planned a wonderful line-up of music, storytelling and hula to entertain and inform the audience gathered for a Hawaiian-style kanikapila and sunset by the shore.
If imagining a Saturday like this speaks to something in your soul, the Mauna Lani Resort may be calling you home to the Kohala Coast.
In keeping with it's rich history as a destination for Hawaii's royalty and the wishes of founders Francis Hyde I'i Brown and Noboru Gotoh, Mauna Lani is recognized as the world's top eco-friendly beach destination by Condé Nast Traveler and is a leader in environmental stewardship, producing 1,150,250 kWh of solar-generated power annually.
Real estate offerings include luxurious ocean front homes, luxury condominiums and well-situated homesites that invite your dreams to unfold on the shores of Kalahuipua'a.
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Ikkath Weaves Blue Silk Floral Printed Ikkat Handloom Saree
Ikkath Weaves Blue Silk Floral Printed Ikkat Handloom Saree
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- This hand woven Ikkat Silk Blue saree with Green borders and the body has floral motifs running the entire length of the saree
- Vegetable dyes alone is used to render various colors to the Ikkat sarees; giving a natural luster to the garment
- The Golden and Greeen colored zari silk borders with Floral motifs on the body that match the saree perfectly
- Green colored silk Pallu has classic Gold and Green colored zari running along its entire length. Radiant Green pallu perfectly contrast with the Blue saree body
- Ikkat silk sarees are completely hand woven. They have a smooth texture and cool feel
- Being hand woven and dyed with natural vegetable colours, its best to dry clean this saree initially. Thereafter use a mild detergent. The saree should never be dried under direct sunlight
- Wear ethnic minimal jewellery to match perfectly with this traditional saree
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It takes a week to a fortnight to hand weave a Ikkat saree. The natural hand spur silk fabric and pure vegetable colours add a unique luster to this traditional saree. This Blue colored saree with perfectly blending Green Zari border and pallu and light weight and easy to wear.
Ikkat sarees were the favourites of the royalties of the times and the traditional weaving method is still followed for creating this exquisite piece.
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Bystander intervention to be discussed at Behrend's next Psychology Colloquium
Bystander intervention to be discussed at Behrend's next Psychology Colloquium
Approximately one-third of all college students are affected by interpersonal violence in one way or another.
Melanie Hetzel-Riggin, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will discuss theories of bystander intervention as well as a multi-method bystander intervention program used to reduce interpersonal violence at the next Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior at the college.
Her discussion, titled "I Can Make A Difference: The Bystander's Role in Ending Relationship Violence," begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in Room 180 of the of Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center, 5101 Jordan Road. Admission is free and open to the public.
Hetzel-Riggin holds an advanced certificate in traumatic stress studies from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has done extensive research on the identification, prediction, classification and prevention of the effects of traumatic experiences on mental health, relationships and coping, especially in survivors of interpersonal violence.
"I Can Make A Difference: The Bystander's Role in Ending Relationship Violence" is hosted by Penn State Behrend's bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in psychology degree programs and by the student Psychology Coalition with support from the Susan Hirt Hagen CORE (Community Outreach, Research and Evaluation), the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Student Activity Fee. For additional information, contact Carol Wilson, assistant professor of psychology, at 814-898-6082 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Chamillionaire is back, and with new music for his fans.
The Houston rapper took to his home page and announced his next project, the ELEVATE EP.
Below is a statement he provided about his project, which will tide fans over until he releases his long-awaited Poison album.
el·e·vate /?el??v?t/
Verb Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position. Raise to a more important or impressive level:
I will be releasing a new EP called ELEVATE on FEB 12th on www.chamillionaire.com. The first 500 copies will be autographed and each autographed copy will be numbered. That means if you receive the 7th cd it will say 7/500 on it. There will ONLY be 500 autographed copies. I will only press up 1000 CDs total (Maybe I will make more later but if so I probably won't make them available until later after the next one comes out). This way would make the amount of volume I have to ship easier for me to control. The CDs will ship on Monday February 11th and will release on Feb 12th. Elevate will have real songs on it and will probably have about 7 songs.
Everyone who pre – orders a physical copy will be emailed a download link at 2pm (Central Time) on Feb 12th. This means you will be able to listen to it at the exact moment it releases, before you receive your package in the mail, before All Star Weekend, and before someone else gets it and leaks it. That's the best way I can ensure that the people who support get to hear it first.
The autographed copies will probably be sold out quick so I suggest you get one now if you prefer it be autographed. Sorry I will only be able to sign 500 a release. (Please don't have a family member email me asking me to do anything different. It happens every time but this is already a lot of cds for me to autograph.)
This will be one of multiple EP's that I will do leading up to the release of my POISON album. Each EP will be different from the last one and none of them will be a part of any continuing series. The packaging of each of these EP's will be different than the packaging I normally do with my mix tapes. I explained that depth in this mornings chamillionaire.com newsletter, so if you haven't read that email yet then you probably should go read it. If you aren't a part of my chamillionaire.com email list then you should enter your email address in the newsletter box on the right column on the home page —–>
The Eps will be in packaging that looks kinda like this….
Its easier for me to autograph these type of cases and better for the artwork in my opinion. So I figured I would switch it up and start releasing EP's like this.
I will update the store page with the track listing a little bit closer to the release……
If you ordered a shirt on the last pre-order you will receive your package soon. All of those will be out the way before this one even comes out.
YOU CAN ORDER THE ELEVATE EP HERE: http://bit.ly/13IG9ag
Thank you for your support.
More emails to come this week…….Im focused.
Below is the artwork for the project (spotted at HHNM):
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Com. ex rel. Brown v. Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Ass'n, Inc., — S.W.3d —, 2010 WL 997104 (Ky. March 18, 2010)
Back in 2008 the Commonwealth of Kentucky took an extraordinary step in its battle against online gambling. It filed an action in state court seeking to take over 141 domain names that the Commonwealth believed were used for illegal gambling sites. The trial court ordered forfeiture of the domain names.
Lawyers arguing against the forfeiture of the domain names sought a "writ of prohibition" from the appellate court, asking that court to prevent the forfeiture of the domain names. The lawyers appearing before the appellate court fell into two categories: those purporting to actually represent certain domain names (not the domain names' owners) and those representing gambling trade associations whose members purportedly included some of the registrants of the affected domain names.
The appellate court granted the writ of prohibition. The Commonwealth sought review with the state supreme court. The supreme court dismissed the writ because those arguing against it lacked standing.
Who's interest was at stake?
The court noted that only a party with a "judicially recognized interest" could challenge the forfeiture of the domain names. The court rejected the notion that the domain names could represent themselves:
An internet domain name does not have an interest in itself any more than a piece of land is interested in its own use. Just as with real property, a domain name cannot own itself; it must be owned by a person or legally recognized entity.
As for the gambling associations, the court held that there could be no "associational standing" because none of the associations would identify any of their members. Associational standing is when an organization (say, for example, the NAACP or a labor union) files suit on behalf of its members. One of the fundamental requirements of associational standing a showing that members of the association would have the right to sue in their individual capacities. Since there was no evidence as to whose interests the associations represented, there was no basis to conclude that the associations' members would have standing to sue in their own right.
So the court sent the matter back down to the appellate court with orders to vacate the writ of prohibition. But the supreme court also hinted that those affected by the forfeiture could get another bite at the apple: "If a party that can properly establish standing comes forward, the writ petition giving rise to these proceedings could be re-filed with the Court of Appeals." One would think that at least one brave soul will step forward. Some in the industry seem to hope so.
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I'm Paul Bissex. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. Started my career doing graphic design for newspapers and magazines in the '90s. Then wrote tech commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and others you never heard of. Then I built operations software at a photography school. Then I helped big media serve 40 million pages a day. Then I worked on a translation services API doing millions of dollars of business. Now I'm building the core platform of a global startup accelerator. Feel free to email me.
I co-wrote "Python Web Development with Django". It was the first book to cover the long-awaited Django 1.0. Published by Addison-Wesley and still in print!
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It will surprise few that I have not yet given Apple $10 for the privilege of upgrading my iPod touch ("iPt") firmware from 1.1.5 to 2.x.
At first, I resisted out of attachment to the open source software I had installed via Cydia -- with no supported "upgrade" process per se, I would have had to reinstall all my packages manually. Then I saw that my core uses of the iPt (email, web browsing, audio, calendar, contacts) all used the Apple software, so I leaned toward the upgrade.
I tried to find out what I would actually be getting, besides the obvious access to the App Store. (I ruled out the App Store as a factor because I still wanted to go open source for third-party additions when the time came.) So I asked many people, online and in person, what benefits the upgrade offered besides the App Store. This was less than satisfying.
On average the answers boiled down to 1) "The App Store is awesome!", 2) "More stable!", and 3) "Fewer dropped calls!" Given that I wasn't asking about the App Store, have had no stability problems, and don't have an iPhone, this left me uninspired, and I decided to wait.
What am I waiting for? Not sure. Maybe a future 2.x version that delivers something that I want. Or Apple support for Cydia or similar. While I'm dreaming, I suppose I could wish for it to be free too.
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Just days after Maria Sharapova announced that she tested positive during the Australia Open in January for meldonium, a recent addition to the International Tennis Federation's banned substance list, she's thanking fans for their unwavering support.
In a Facebook post Wednesday, the 28-year-old tennis pro penned, "I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion...In this moment, I am so proud to call you my fans. Within hours of my announcement, you showed me support and loyalty, which I could only expect to hear when someone would be at the top of their profession."
She added, "I wanted to let you know that your wonderful words put a smile on my face. I'd like to play again and hope to have the chance to do so. Your messages give me great encouragement. This message isn't anything else but to say thank you. Thank you very much."
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Sharapova, 28, said she had been taking meldonium, a blood flow-promoting drug, for 10 years for numerous health issues. Meldonium was banned because it aids oxygen uptake and endurance.
According to The International Tennis Federation, Sharapova will be provisionally suspended pending determination of the case.
Three of the Russian tennis star's major sponsors cut ties with her after she acknowledged failing the doping test at the Australian Open. Nike, watch brand Tag Heuer and luxury car company Porsche moved quickly to distance themselves from the five-time Grand Slam winner after she announced the positive test.
Shortly after her announcement Monday, fellow tennis star Serena Williams weighed in on the matter during a press conference for the BNP Paribas Showdown match in New York City.
"I think most people were happy she was upfront and very honest and showed a lot of courage to admit to what she had done and what she had neglected to look at in terms of the list at the end of the year," Williams explained.
"It's just taking responsibility, which she admitted that she was willing to do and ready to do. Just hope for the best for everybody in that situation."


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Engines of Growth and Recovery
Three Presidential Science and Technology Advisors opened the NNI Innovation Summit in National Harbor, Maryland, today. The Summit was a kind of 10th birthday party for the National Nanotechnology Initiative. I was surprised at how much of this opening discussion focused on education.
John Holdren, Director of President Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy, opened the Summit with a talk about the high priority that nanotechnology research has within the Obama adminstration. They see nano research as playing a vital role in technology development and future jobs creation. He said that while the government will continue to support a wide range of research areas, three areas of focus have been identified as NNI signature initiatives: nanoelectronics, sustaintable nanomanufacturing, and nano for solar energy collection and conversion. Holdren also said that the adminstration is emphasizing responsible development. John Marburger, who had Holdren's jobs during the Bush adminstration, added that attention needs to be given to future workforce needs. Neil Lane, who had the same positions in the Clinton adminstration, noted the need for "civic scientists." What he means by "civic scientist' is someone who has made his mark in science and technology and then goes on to put time and energy into communicating with the public and government and civic leaders. They need to help excite young people – overall we don't interest enough young people into SMET careers, said Lane. We need to help parents become aware of SMET careers for their children. We need to communicate the story told in the NRC report "Rising above the Gathering Storm." (The full report and a free executive summary are available at www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11463.) And when the time is right scientists should think of public service. We need to make sure that as many people as possible get why SMET are crucial, said Neil. Thomas Kalil, also from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, pointed out that scientists and engineers need to be trained to overcome the "curse of expertise," in order to be able to communicate with the public. I was struck that much of what these Presidential advisors talked about related directly to the work of the NISE Net. When asked about funding and the federal budget, Holdren said that science, technology, and innovation are the engines of economic growth and recovery and President Obama gets that.


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Decide's 'Got Your Back' ensures you best prices on gadgets, or your money back
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Hot Deals, Internet
Decide is one of the sites we recommend people visit when they're unsure about a gadget purchase (and they also gave one of you an iPhone 4S at launch.) They've helped many people determine whether they should pick up a certain digital camera or smartphone, or if they should wait a few weeks due to an impending new model set to hit the scene (or a price drop that's right around the corner.) Today, the company launches a new product that aims to give you a bit of confidence in that you are getting the best price out there, period.
Decide's Got Your Back is a program that lets you know that the price you're about to pay is one that Decide feels will be the lowest for the next two weeks. Make the purchase from whatever vendor is offering the lowest price, send your receipt over to Decide, and they'll start monitoring. If the price drops at any vendor (not just from the vendor you bought it from, but any vendor) over the next two weeks, Decide will pay you the difference, up to $200.
Who doesn't like a good deal? Those are pretty easy to find. What Decide is doing is offering to find you the best deal today, while ensuring that you get an even better deal if the price drops anytime in the next two weeks - and there is no cost to you for the service. This one's a no-brainer. Check it out now.
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I Just Wanna - Rob & Nino
MoreFrames Animation of Eerie, PA shows us that it's not the frames per second that's important, but the content of the cells. Here's their latest project, a Space Opera set to the tunes of Rob & Nino. [Cartoon Brew]
Frank Sinatra and Willie Nelson Would Like You to Know Just How Great NASA Is
Back in ther '80s, when manned space flight was still in vogue, NASA produced a PSA campaign wherein pairs of A-list celebrities extol the technological benefits that everybody enjoys thanks to space exploration. In this ad, Willie Nelson and Frank Sinatra remind us that without a space program we wsouldn't have MRIs. You can find the rest of the PSA campaing at Wired. [It's Okay to Be Smart]
Watch Every Film from 2012 in Six Minutes
YouTuber sleepyskunk produced theis masterful movie mashup featuring bits from every film that will premiere this year, including those coming out later this month. See if you can name every film and check your answers against the list on his Tumblr page.
Wheezy Waiter Wrestles with Crafty Teleporting Camera
It's just not fair. I've spilled coffee in my lap countless times and all I've ever gotten is a groin-full of searing pain.
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Aim High
Making a profit requires a plan. Earning a profit, of course, is the result of many things: good customers, good people, hard work and, yes, luck. But good customers, good people and hard work are all part of a smart plan. Every smart plan must answer three basic questions. First, how much profit must we make? Second, what customers do we want? Third, what people do we need? An annual plan has three tangible elements: (1) a financial plan, (2) a sales plan and (3) a people plan.
The budget is the first step in the planning process. It answers the question, "How much profit must we make?" The best budgeting process is "bottom-up — zero-based." A bottom-up budget forecasts profit first, then works up to the sales/revenue budget last. Zero-based means every expense is budgeted from a clean slate, instead of as an increase/decrease over the prior year. There are 10 steps in the process.
- Step 1: Project net profit
There is a profit requirement for every business. It is based on two factors: the asset investment and the growth rate. To run a healthy business, you need to earn at least a 20-percent return on total asset investment. Calculate the profit requirement by multiplying the total asset value (from the balance sheet) by 20 percent. In rapid-growth scenarios (more than 15 percent per year), a higher return rate is needed to avoid running out of cash. For faster growth rates, use Table 1 on page 22 as a guide to determine your return rate.
- Step 2: Project overhead (G&A) expenses
You must know and control your costs. In this step, zero-base-budget all overhead office costs (see Figure 1, left, for a list of these costs). Project spending for each expense item and document the reason for each.
- Step 3: Project overhead (indirect) expenses
Just as you did with the office (G&A) expenses, zero-base-budget (indirect) yard and equipment costs — including equipment depreciation (see Figure 2, left, for a list of these costs). Again, make a projection for each expense item and document the reason for each.
- Step 4: Calculate gross profit dollars
Total the dollar value of Steps 1 through 3. This equals the gross profit dollars required to pay for overhead expenses and the required profit. This is the key number in the plan. High-profit companies, while they are concerned about making the "sales number," manage to gross profit dollars.
- Step 5: Project gross margin
The gross margin is the percentage gross profit dollars are of sales dollars. Gross profit is what's left after paying job costs. Job cost, also called direct cost, includes labor, materials, subcontractors and equipment rentals. This percentage is easily attainable from past years by looking at your actual accounting reports. Projecting this percentage is something of an art and includes forecasting pricing changes, material costs and labor cost changes, as well as factoring in labor efficiency. Note that there are financial benchmarks on the Web site www.kehoe.biz to help you.
- Step 6: Calculate sales/revenue
Divide the gross profit dollars by the gross margin to determine the sales/revenue budget. This is a target and it assumes that all jobs will produce the desired gross margin. While this may not be true of every job, on average, it is the most likely scenario.
- Steps 7-9: Calculate direct expenses
Using historical cost-of-sales percentages from the past two years for materials, rentals and subcontractors, multiply this percentage by the sales/revenue budget from the prior step. This creates a budget for every item except direct production labor.
- Steps 9-10: Calculate direct-labor expenses/production hours
The final budget number is direct-labor costs: foreman and crew. This is a "plug" number that completes the budget. The formula is total direct costs less the materials, rentals and subcontractors cost from the prior step. The last step is determining allowable labor hours. Divide the labor cost by an average wage rate to determine production hours. The production hour budget helps establish crew sizes and staffing requirements.
The sales plan is the second step in the smart planning process. It answers the question, "What customers do we want?" There are three elements to the sales plan: (1) the 80/20/30 analysis, (2) the price matrix and (3) the "high value" prospect list. We will discuss two of these elements: the 80/20/30 analysis, and "high value" prospect list. The discussion of the pricing matrix is complex enough that it requires a separate article. For more information, visit www.kehoe.biz.
You choose the kinds of customers with whom you want to do business. The best customers are those who yield you a fair profit. Therefore, unprofitable relationships must be made to be profitable or be severed. Start with your current customer list and rank it in terms of annual sales dollars, largest to smallest (see Table 2, left). Segment the list into three sections. The top 20 percent usually are your biggest and best customers. These are keepers. They, in fact, probably account for 80 percent of your profits. Your plan must be to renew and secure this group for the budget year.
The next 50 percent of that list is probably a "mixed bag" of profitable/unprofitable mid-size customers. Your strategy must be to renew and secure the profitable segment of this group for the budget year. The last 30 percent of the list are the smallest customers, who typically account for less than 5 percent of your overall profits. Your plan for this group is to raise prices 10 to 30 percent. If the customers push back, then it is probably best not to renew this group of low-profit customers and, instead, replace them with "high-value" prospects.
The second part of the sales plan focuses on the list of customers you want, but do not yet have. These customers are desirable because they satisfy several key criteria. First, they are geographically close to you. Second, they are located on existing service routes and can "fill in" to create account density. Third, they are larger and more established, forming a geographic anchor account, around which you can build additional business using truck signage as an inexpensive marketing tool. Fourth, they are likely to purchase more "extras" and provide a greater volume of referrals.
This high-value prospect list should have at least 50 "targets." The goal is to close five to eight of these "targets" every year. Using a short and focused list increases the odds of this kind of success. Since the financial value of your business is largely based on the quality of your customer list, by building or revising the list every year, you are increasing the worth of the most valuable asset you own.
The people plan is the third step of a smart planning process. It answers the last question, "What people do we need?" Too many people balloon overhead and destroy profit, and too few people cause overload and produce inefficiencies that destroy profit. There are two components of the people plan: (1) the staffing calculator, and (2) the organization chart.
The basic structure for a grounds maintenance business is shown in the Diagram on page 24. Although the organization chart gets revised with every new financial and sales plan, nothing really changes in the basic structure. Only the talent requirements change. It is very likely that positions need to be added and veterans either promoted, left in place or removed if they no longer fit (they can't, or haven't been doing the work). The structure doesn't change, the people do. Your plan must match the right talent to the business need. Not the other way around, where a job is made to utilize a particular talent for a person. Every box on the organization chart has a specific job description. We do not have the space in this article to discuss specific job descriptions, but further information is available on the Web site www.kehoe.biz. The staffing calculator determines the number of people you need.
The common denominator used to determine staff-ing levels is the sales budget. The larger the company, the greater the staffing needs. Start with the sales budget and divide it by the staffing benchmark to determine approximate staffing needs for each position (See Table 3 on page 22). For example, a $2 million sales budget (for a maintenance business) requires two account managers. There are additional staffing benchmarks on the Web site www.kehoe.biz to help you. Once staffing levels are determined, go back and review the zero-based budget assumptions to assure that everyone in the structure is accounted for in the plan.
These steps of the planning process can get you headed in the right direction. The process is essential if you want grow and increase profits. The plan provides a "vision" and a "blueprint" for you to follow during the year. It also helps you make the right decisions and the tough decisions early before they can cost you lots of money. When you start a journey, you always end up going a lot farther, with a great deal more accuracy, when there is a map in the car.
Kevin Kehoe is the owner of Kehoe & Co. (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
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- Other/bonuses
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- Take the KEY from under the doormat.
- Go through the alley to the...
- Take the HORSEHOES (on the ground).
- Open the chest with the key and take the COFFEE and the PADLOCK.
- Go all the way left to the...
- Talk to the guy, give him the form, talk to him again.
- Take SPEAR and the LEATHER ARMOR on the left.
- Use the spear on the dummy and then take the WOODEN ARM and WOODEN SWORD.
- Use the spear to take the APPLE from the tree. Click the apple and you have a WORM.
- Go all the way right and open the right door. And that also gives you a STRING.
- Take the HAMMER, TONGS and LIME.
- Use the spear on the chandelier and take the WHEEL, CHAIN, CANDLES and HOOK.
- Put the wooden sword on the sand to make a MOLD in the sand.
- Put the horseshoes on the smoldering coal and then use the bellows to make the fire.
- Use the tongs to get the HOT SWORD from the sand.
- Put the sword on the anvil and use the hammer on it. Take it back with the tongs and make it hot again (use bellows) and then cool it (use tongs) in the bucket with water and take it back and now you have a real SWORD.
- And now you can take the BUCKET too.
- Go outside and through the alley back to...
- Use the sword on the rope of the boat to cut it.
- Combine string with spear and then with hook and then with worm and now you have a FISHING ROD.
- Go to the water on the left and use the fishing rod in the water at the bottom of the screen and now you have a BUCKET with HERRING.
- Use the coffee on the parrot, talk to it and then take the PARROT. Also take the EYE-PATCH from the captain.
- Go right 'on the docks' and lift the anchor and raise the sail of the boat so it will go left.
- Lower the anchor and lift it again and take the TROLL HEAD.
- Go through the alley to the...
- Use the wooden arm in the stove on the right.
- Go away and come back and now the water on the stove is boiling.
- Put the leather armor in it and go in the door.
- Put the bucket with herrings inside the chimney and go out.
- Take the ARMOR back, it now has the right size.
- In the door again
- Take the bucket back from the chimney and now you have SMOKED HERRING
- Go out and a bit to the left.
- Talk to the men next to the mule and give him the smoked herring and talk again. And now the mule is yours.
- Use the lime on the mule and now you have (not in the inventory though) a WHITE HORSE.
- Go all the way left.
- Combine troll-head with eye-patch and give it to the guy. Talk to him and now you a KNIGHT PERMIT
- Go right, throught the alley, all the way left and then up to...
- Go inside the...
- Talk to the witch and then take the FLOWERS from the table, the BOOK and FUNNEL from the bookcase.
- Go out and right to the...
- Click the graves to see who's burried there. Take the OLD SIGN and the OLD SIGN POST from above the right grave.
- Go to and in the...
WINDMILL (inside)
- Combine the chain and padlock and now it's a CHAIN LASSO. Use it to go up by attaching it to the hook.
- When up on the attic take the EGG from the birds nest and click the plank so it goes down (you can't take it).
- Go down, out and in again and the cat has got the bird. Go up take the CAT and the BLUE FEATHERS.
- Go back to the...
- Talk to the witch again.
- Go back to the...
- Use the book on the left grave, keep clicking and take the DIAMOND
- Go back to the...
- Give the witch the old sign post, the egg, the diamond and the blue feathers. Talk to her and then you have the POTION
- Go out and up to...
- Use the parrot on the gramophone and now it's a SINGING PARROT. Combine parrot with the funnel and now it's an AMPLIFIED SINGING PARROT. Use it on the gramophone to take the GRAMOPHONE.
- Talk to the guard to see your knight permit is not good enough.
- Go back to the...
- Use the gramophone on the right grave and talk to the dead guy.
- Combine the wooden sword with the old sign and put it on the grave. Put the candles and the flowers on the grave and talk again (use gramophone first) and he tells you the stamp is in the outhouse.
- Go right and open the outhouse with the tongs and take the ROYAL STAMP.
- Go back to the..
- Use the royal stamp on the permit and show it to the guard and you can go in.
- Take the ROADKILL from the road.
- Use the tongs to take a BOTTLE from the vending machine. Also click the vending machine to see the number 43.
- Give (and talk) the bottle to the vendor in the shop next to the vending machine and you get the CLOTHES.
- Go in the...
- Click the bull to see the number 32
- Take the BUTTER from the table, the GUM from the bench.
- Go right, talk to the guy and get the YEAST.
- Go right and take the HAIR from the sink.
- Go out and right.
- Talk to the warden in front of the jail and now you're...
- Talk to the warden till he says he will get you food.
- Talk to the other guy and then go through the poster and then back again.
- The bread is now there, so take the BREAD and the BOWL. Also take the CLOTH STRIP from the pallet.
- Put the bowl and then the bread in front of the mouse hole. Go through the poster and back again and you caught the MOUSE. Take it.
- Combine mouse and cloth strip and use it to take the MOUSE TRAP next to the warden.
- Combine mouse trap and cloth strip and use it on the drain to get a CHISEL.
- Talk to the warden again and put the bowl back.
- Go through the poster.
- Use the chisel on the gate and go back
- Talk to the warden again and again through the poster and now left and up.
- Go back to the jail.
- Take the BAG and now your inventory is full again.
- Take the KEY from the drawer and open the cell.
- Talk to the lord again and give him potion. Talk again and now he's shaved. Combine gum and hair and put it on him, then put the roadkill on him and then the clothes. Talk again and go out and go right.
- Look at the flag and see dragon head, horse head, swords.
- Go in the...
- On the fireplace, click dragon head, horse head and sword and go in the secret door.
- Click the painting and see it's the vending machine, so set the dials on 4 and 3, click the red button and go in.
- Click the painting and see it's the gramophone, look at the gramophone (little about item magnifier) and see the number 24, so set the dials on 2 and 4 and click the red button and go in.
- Click the painting and see it's the bull, so set the dials on 3 and 2 and click the red button and go in.
- Take the BRINGA FRAME from the desk. Read the blueprint and the drawnings and go all the way out and all the way back to...
- The witch is gone now and you can take the RED CURTAINS and the BROOM.
- Go out and all the way back to...
- Use the red curtains on the bull and wait a while. Then take the SADDLE, the HORNS and the RED CURTAINS.
- Go out and all the way back to...
- Go inside and take the BIG SACK and put it on the millstones.
- Go out and put the bringa frame on the millstone outside. Then put the wheel on, then the horns and then the saddle. Now sit on it and use it.
- Go inside and use the sack to take the FLOUR.
- Go out and all the way back to...
- Go to the kitchen and put the flour and then yeast in the bowl with water.
- Go outside and in again and take the DOUGH.
- Put the dough inside the oven/fire.
- Go outside and in again and take the BREAD (use the tongs).
- Go out and in...
- Go all the way to the top room and there go to the balcony.
- Use the sword on the bread, then the butter on the slices and then the slices on the cat and you a CAT with BUTTER
- Put the red curtains on the glider, then the broom and then the cat with butter and step on the glider.
- Put the fishing rod on the heart shaped rock to make a spot on the ground.
- Use the sword to take WOOD from the bridge.
- Use the hammer to take FLINTSTONE (on the black rock all the way left).
- Put the wood on the spot, then the paper and then the flintstone and secret door appears.
- Use the masterkey to go in.
- Take the PLANKS
- Put the top switch/lever on the tracks to the right.
- Go left and take the OIL.
- Go left out.
- Go all the way left and click the switch/lever in front of the cart and the cart goes.
- Go in again.
- The cart crashed there and now you can take COAL from the second from the top tunnel on the right.
- Put the top switch/lever on the tracks back to left again.
- Go left out.
- Take the DIRTY RAG (on top of the screen).
- There on top of the screen go left and use the tongs to get a piece of BENT RAIL (from the end of the track).
- Go to the furnace and put the coal in and then the oil and then use the flintstone on it.
- The pipe is leaking steam so first go...
- Click the valve on the pipe on the wall.
- Go out
- Fix the leaking pipe with the rag and then the tongs on it to make it tight.
- Go inside.
- Turn the valve again. AND ALSO put the cable of the crank on the bottom track
- Make sure the bottom switch goes right.
- Put the switch outside to the right.
- Go to the cart and because the furnace is working now, you can fill the cart with rocks with the lever above it.
- Now click the lever in front of the cart and now it goes with rocks.
- The cart broke the cable so now you can take the CRANK and a piece of CABLE.
- Put the bottom switch to the left.
- Make sure the bottom switch there is to the right.
- And the little top switch is left.
- Let the cart (without rocks) go again and now it will break the brick wall and you can go in.
- Take the SPEARHEAD (under the skeleton).
- Put the planks on the wood, put the bent rail on it, put the cable on it and then put the crank on it.
- Combine the spearhead with the fishing rod/spear and now you have a BIG SPEAR. Put it on the crossbow you just build and kill the dragon.
- Talk to the man inside the dragon, use the masterkey on the door behind him and you're out.


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diameter_dict - Dictionary inteface of the diameter application.
A diameter service as configured with diameter:start_service/2 specifies one or more supported Diameter applications. Each Diameter application specifies a dictionary module that knows how to encode and decode its messages and AVP's. The dictionary module is in turn generated from a file that defines these messages and AVP's. The format of such a file is defined in FILE FORMAT below. Users add support for their specific applications by creating dictionary files, compiling them to Erlang modules using diameterc and configuring the resulting dictionaries modules on a service. The codec generation also results in a hrl file that defines records for the messages and grouped AVP's defined for the application, these records being what a user of the diameter application sends and receives. (Modulo other available formats as discussed in diameter_app(3erl).) These records and the underlying Erlang data types corresponding to Diameter data formats are discussed in MESSAGE RECORDS and DATA TYPES respectively. The generated hrl also contains defines for the possible values of AVPs of type Enumerated. The diameter application includes three dictionary modules corresponding to applications defined in section 2.4 of RFC 3588: diameter_gen_base_rfc3588 for the Diameter Common Messages application with application identifier 0, diameter_gen_accounting for the Diameter Base Accounting application with application identifier 3 and diameter_gen_relaythe Relay application with application identifier 0xFFFFFFFF. The Common Message and Relay applications are the only applications that diameter itself has any specific knowledge of. The Common Message application is used for messages that diameter itself handles: CER/CEA, DWR/DWA and DPR/DPA. The Relay application is given special treatment with regard to encode/decode since the messages and AVP's it handles are not specifically defined.
A dictionary file consists of distinct sections. Each section starts with a line consisting of a tag followed by zero or more arguments. Each section ends at the the start of the next section or end of file. Tags consist of an ampersand character followed by a keyword and are separated from their arguments by whitespace. Whitespace within a section separates individual tokens but its quantity is insignificant. The tags, their arguments and the contents of each corresponding section are as follows. Each section can occur at most once unless otherwise specified. The order in which sections are specified is unimportant. @id Number: Defines the integer Number as the Diameter Application Id of the application in question. Required if the dictionary defines @messages. The section has empty content. The Application Id is set in the Diameter Header of outgoing messages of the application, and the value in the header of an incoming message is used to identify the relevant dictionary module. Example: @id 16777231 @name Mod: Defines the name of the generated dictionary module. The section has empty content. Mod must match the regular expression '^[a-zA-Z0-9][-_a-zA-Z0-9]*$'; that is, contains only alphanumerics, hyphens and underscores begin with an alphanumeric. A name is optional and defaults to the name of the dictionary file minus any extension. Note that a generated module must have a unique name an not colide with another module in the system. Example: @name etsi_e2 @prefix Name: Defines Name as the prefix to be added to record and constant names in the generated dictionary module and hrl. The section has empty content. Name must be of the same form as a @name. A prefix is optional but can be used to disambiguate record and constant names resulting from similarly named messages and AVP's in different Diameter applications. Example: @prefix etsi_e2_ @vendor Number Name: Defines the integer Number as the the default Vendor-ID of AVP's for which the V flag is set. Name documents the owner of the application but is otherwise unused. The section has empty content. Example: @vendor 13019 ETSI @avp_vendor_id Number: Defines the integer Number as the Vendor-ID of the AVP's listed in the section content, overriding the @vendor default. The section content consists of AVP names. Can occur zero or more times (with different values of Number). Example: @avp_vendor_id 2937 WWW-Auth Domain-Index Region-Set @inherits Mod: Defines the name of a generated dictionary module containing AVP definitions referenced by the dictionary but not defined by it. The section content is empty. Can occur 0 or more times (with different values of Mod) but all dictionaries should typically inherit RFC3588 AVPs from diameter_gen_base_rfc3588. Example: @inherits diameter_gen_base_rfc3588 @avp_types: Defines the name, code, type and flags of individual AVPs. The section consists of definitions of the form Name Code Type Flags where Code is the integer AVP code, Flags is a string of V, M and P characters indicating the flags to be set on an outgoing AVP or a single - (minus) character if none are to be set. Type identifies either an AVP Data Format as defined in DATA TYPES below or a type as defined by a @custom_types tag. Example: @avp_types Location-Information 350 Grouped VM Requested-Information 353 Enumerated V Note that the P flag has been deprecated by the Diameter Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF: diameter will set the P flag to 0 as mandated by the current draft standard. @custom_types Mod: Defines AVPs for which module Mod provides encode/decode. The section contents consists of type names. For each AVP Name defined with custom type Type, Mod should export the function Name/3 with arguments encode|decode, Type and Data, the latter being the term to be encoded/decoded. The function returns the encoded/decoded value. Can occur 0 or more times (with different values of Mod). Example: @custom_types rfc4005_types Framed-IP-Address @messages: Defines the messages of the application. The section content consists of definitions of the form specified in section 3.2 of RFC 3588, "Command Code ABNF specification". @messages RTR ::= < Diameter Header: 287, REQ, PXY > < Session-Id > { Auth-Application-Id } { Auth-Session-State } { Origin-Host } { Origin-Realm } { Destination-Host } { SIP-Deregistration-Reason } [ Destination-Realm ] [ User-Name ] * [ SIP-AOR ] * [ Proxy-Info ] * [ Route-Record ] * [ AVP ] RTA ::= < Diameter Header: 287, PXY > < Session-Id > { Auth-Application-Id } { Result-Code } { Auth-Session-State } { Origin-Host } { Origin-Realm } [ Authorization-Lifetime ] [ Auth-Grace-Period ] [ Redirect-Host ] [ Redirect-Host-Usage ] [ Redirect-Max-Cache-Time ] * [ Proxy-Info ] * [ Route-Record ] * [ AVP ] @grouped: Defines the contents of the AVPs of the application having type Grouped. The section content consists of definitions of the form specified in section 4.4 of RFC 3588, "Grouped AVP Values". Example: @grouped SIP-Deregistration-Reason ::= < AVP Header: 383 > { SIP-Reason-Code } [ SIP-Reason-Info ] * [ AVP ] @enum Name: Defines values of AVP Name having type Enumerated. Section content consists of names and corresponding integer values. Integer values can be prefixed with 0x to be interpreted as hexidecimal. Can occur 0 or more times (with different values of Name). The AVP in question can be defined in an inherited dictionary in order to introduce additional values. An AVP so extended must be referenced by in a @messages or @grouped section. Example: @enum SIP-Reason-Code PERMANENT_TERMINATION 0 NEW_SIP_SERVER_ASSIGNED 1 SIP_SERVER_CHANGE 2 REMOVE_SIP_SERVER 3 Comments can be included in a dictionary file using semicolon: text from a semicolon to end of line is ignored.
The hrl generated from a dictionary specification defines records for the messages and grouped AVPs defined in @messages and @grouped sections. For each message or grouped AVP definition, a record is defined whose name is the message or AVP name prefixed with any dictionary prefix defined with @prefix and whose fields are the names of the AVPs contained in the message or grouped AVP in the order specified in the definition in question. For example, the grouped AVP SIP-Deregistration-Reason ::= < AVP Header: 383 > { SIP-Reason-Code } [ SIP-Reason-Info ] * [ AVP ] will result in the following record definition given an empty prefix. -record('SIP-Deregistration-Reason' {'SIP-Reason-Code', 'SIP-Reason-Info', 'AVP'}). The values encoded in the fields of generated records depends on the type and number of times the AVP can occur. In particular, an AVP which is specified as occurring exactly once is encoded as a value of the AVP's type while an AVP with any other specification is encoded as a list of values of the AVP's type. The AVP's type is as specified in the AVP definition, the RFC 3588 types being described below.
The data formats defined in sections 4.2 ("Basic AVP Data Formats") and 4.3 ("Derived AVP Data Formats") of RFC 3588 are encoded as values of the types defined here. Values are passed to diameter:call/4 in a request record when sending a request, returned in a resulting answer record and passed to a handle_request callback upon reception of an incoming request. Basic AVP Data Formats OctetString() = [0..255] Integer32() = -2147483647..2147483647 Integer64() = -9223372036854775807..9223372036854775807 Unsigned32() = 0..4294967295 Unsigned64() = 0..18446744073709551615 Float32() = '-infinity' | float() | infinity Float64() = '-infinity' | float() | infinity Grouped() = record() On encode, an OctetString() can be specified as an iolist(), excessively large floats (in absolute value) are equivalent to infinity or '-infinity' and excessively large integers result in encode failure. The records for grouped AVPs are as discussed in the previous section. Derived AVP Data Formats Address() = OctetString() | tuple() On encode, an OctetString() IPv4 address is parsed in the usual x.x.x.x format while an IPv6 address is parsed in any of the formats specified by section 2.2 of RFC 2373, "Text Representation of Addresses". An IPv4 tuple() has length 4 and contains values of type 0..255. An IPv6 tuple() has length 8 and contains values of type 0..65535. The tuple representation is used on decode. Time() = {date(), time()} where date() = {Year, Month, Day} time() = {Hour, Minute, Second} Year = integer() Month = 1..12 Day = 1..31 Hour = 0..23 Minute = 0..59 Second = 0..59 Additionally, values that can be encoded are limited by way of their encoding as four octets as required by RFC 3588 with the required extension from RFC 2030. In particular, only values between {{1968,1,20},{3,14,8}} and {{2104,2,26},{9,42,23}} (both inclusive) can be encoded. UTF8String() = [integer()] List elements are the UTF-8 encodings of the individual characters in the string. Invalid codepoints will result in encode/decode failure. DiameterIdentity() = OctetString() A value must have length at least 1. DiameterURI() = OctetString() | #diameter_URI{type = Type, fqdn = FQDN, port = Port, transport = Transport, protocol = Protocol} where Type = aaa | aaas FQDN = OctetString() Port = integer() Transport = sctp | tcp Protocol = diameter | radius | 'tacacs+' On encode, fields port, transport and protocol default to 3868, sctp and diameter respectively. The grammar of an OctetString-valued DiameterURI() is as specified in section 4.3 of RFC 3588. The record representation is used on decode. Enumerated() = Integer32() On encode, values can be specified using the macros defined in a dictionary's hrl file. IPFilterRule() = OctetString() QoSFilterRule() = OctetString() Values of these types are not currently parsed by diameter.
diameterc(1), diameter(3erl), diameter_app(3erl)


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School and Public Library Staff who serve teens are welcome to join any of our ROYAL groups. Can't attend any of our existing groups? Contact us for more information on forming your own ROYAL group.
Who Should Attend:
Competencies Covered:
OLC provides CEUs for CLEAR/ROAYL meetings.
How it works:
Publishers send copies of their new titles to SWON, which are the distributed to our ROYAL groups. These books are aimed at the target audience of YA readers, grades 7-12. At each meeting reviews of the last meeting's books are shared orally. Members then get to choose books to read and review for the next meeting.
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Every human has the same resources: one brain and 24 hours each day.
How frequently are you truly inspired? What if you could produce an atmosphere conducive to generating strong light bulb moments on a regular basis? Here are some ideas for achieving optimal performance so that you'll have the capacity to create the ideas that are worth the most.
Start by assessing where you are today in terms of how much care you give to your brain. Many people take better care of their cars and yards than their brains.
We all have the power to create negative emotions, and we often blame it on factors outside of ourselves. This happens if we have not mastered our minds, and instead we have taken the subservient role as a slave to our brains. Become a master over your mind if you don't want to burn out.
Find the kind of work that you are deeply passionate about, as this is the only true path to happiness and abundance. Expect that you may not enjoy all aspects of your work all the time.
After our brains, our second most valuable asset is time—namely the 24 hours that we are all given each day.
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New Canadian research suggests being obese doesn't necessarily doom people to an early grave.
Two research teams using a new tool called the Edmonton Obesity Staging System, which ranks overweight and obese people on a five-point scale according to their underlying health, have found that not only can the scale predict who is at greater risk of dying, but that otherwise healthy obese people live as long as those of "normal" weight, and are less likely to die of cardiovascular causes.
The back-to-back studies come as more evidence emerges that a significant proportion of overweight people are metabolically healthy and that the risks associated with obesity do not make for a one-size-fits-all formula.
The Edmonton staging system grades obesity on a scale of zero to four. It uses physical measures such as body mass index, as well as waist-to-hip ratios. But it goes farther by taking into account the presence — or absence — of a spectrum of disease.
Under Stage 0, the person is obese, but has no apparent obesity-related health risks, meaning their blood pressure, blood fats and other risks are all within the normal range. Stage 1 obesity describes people with "sub-clinical" signs of trouble, such as borderline high blood pressure, elevated liver enzymes and occasional aches and pains. Stage 4 is the most severe. At Stage 4, patients have serious, "potentially end-stage" disabilities and illnesses from obesity-related diseases.
In one study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, University of Alberta researchers tested the system using data from a survey of 8,143 people in two U.S. national health and nutrition surveys.
They found that although 77 per cent of overweight or obese people in one survey, and 90 per cent of those in another, were classified as Stage 1 or Stage 2, their risk of dying over 20 years of followup was substantially lower than people classified as Stage 3 obesity.
After adjusting for age, history of smoking and metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes —about two per cent of people with scores of 0 or 1 died during followup, compared to about 40 per cent of Stage 3 patients.
"That's a huge difference," said Dr. Arya Sharma, who first proposed the Edmonton classification system.
"What this actually means is if I examine people today and I see that they're Stage 0 or Stage 1, I can tell them to eat as healthy and be as physically active as possible rather than running out and trying to lose weight," said Sharma, chair of obesity research and management at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
In a second study, using a modified version of the Edmonton scale, researchers led by York University's Dr. Jennifer Kuk categorized 6,000 obese Americans according to the Edmonton obesity staging system and compared their risk of dying to 23,000 lean individuals over a 16-year span.
They found that obese people with no or only mild health problems had a similar risk of dying over the followup period as normal-weight people. In fact, patients in Stage 0 or 1 were at lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease than normal-weight individuals.
By contrast, people in stages 2 and 3 were 50 per cent more likely to die from any cause than normal-weight people or even the Stage 0's and 1's.
People with higher scores were slightly older, had modestly higher BMIs, were more likely to be former smokers, lost more weight over their lifetime and lost more weight frequently. People with lower scores tended to be more physically fit. They ate more fruits and vegetables. And they were less likely to want to lose weight, Kuk said.
"They were happier with their higher body weight, and they had been obese for a longer period of time as compared to those who were Stage 2 or 3." They had been heavier from a younger age.
The findings not only challenge the notion that everyone who is obese needs to lose weight. "Just because you're normal weight doesn't necessarily mean that you're healthy," Kuk said. "You can still have high blood pressure, you can still have diabetes, you can have a poor lifestyle — and all of these contribute to obviously negative health and early mortality risk."
"You really need to take the emphasis off trying to attain this normal body weight, because lifestyle practices are equally, if not more important."
The study was published online in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism.
Body mass index "only measures how big the patient is, not how sick the patient is," says Sharma, founder of the Canadian Obesity Network who co-authored both papers.
When a person's body mass index is above 30, "you're clinically considered to have obesity," says Sharma.
"But when you look at people who meet those BMI criteria, not all of them actually have any health problems."
Sharma says weight-management interventions, including publicly funded bariatric or weight-loss surgery, where waiting lists can stretch years, should be targeted at the people who have the most to gain.
"Obesity treatment is always expensive and its not always easy to do," Sharma said.
Currently, patients with a BMI over 40 are eligible for surgery, "but there are people with BMIs over 40 who are actually pretty healthy," he said. "The question becomes, what's the health benefit of doing that?"
The system is modelled after other staging systems used to determine how sick people are from diseases such as cancer or kidney failure.
"If someone comes to my office and their BMI is 35, they have obesity, there's no question," Sharma said.
"But if I do the tests and I find that they have no other risk factors, then I can confidently tell them that they are at extremely low risk of dying. There shouldn't be an urgent need to lose weight just because their BMI is high. The focus really should be on trying to maintain that weight and not get heavier."
The opposite could hold for people with lower BMI's who don't meet criteria for surgery but who are at high risk and should be treated. "And we're missing those patients," Sharma said.
Sharma said people who have a history of weight cycling — losing large amounts of weight only to put the weight back on, or more — appear to be at higher risk of obesity-related complications.
"If you're constantly dieting and trying to lose weight, and you put it back and you diet again, you might actually be causing problems."
The researchers looked only at the risk of death. Sharma said quality of life, "employability and the discrimination they face from society are also be important in making decisions about obesity treatments."


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At least four were killed and over 300 injured in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Wedndeday, in clashes over President Morsi's controversial draft constitution, Egypt's Health Ministry said.
According to reports, Wednesday's violence began when rocks and petrol bombs were thrown at an opposition sit-in outside the presidential palace. Both sides blamed the other for inciting the violence.
Riot police were sent in to break up the conflict and 32 arrests were made, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry. But the clashes continued into early Thursday morning,
Protests spread to other cities, and offices of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailia and Suez were torched.
Wednesday's conflict follows two weeks of escalating political unrest in Egypt that began with the Egyptian President's controversial decree in late November, granting himself extensive new powers.
Morsi promised to relinquish these powers when a new constitution was in place. But critics say his draft constitution doesn't do enough to protect political and religious freedoms or the rights of women.
On Wednesday, anti-Morsi demonstrators demanded that Morsi give up his sweeping new powers and shelve the draft constitution they claim was rushed through parliament without proper consultation.
Vice President, Mahmoud Mekki, confirmed on Wedneday that a referendum on the constitution will go ahead in mid December, but said the "door for dialogue" remains open.
Wednesday's clashes coincided with the resignations of three of Morsi's aides in protest of his handling of the crisis, AP reported.
Having already lost two aides, now five of his panel of 17 advisors have quit their jobs since the problems began.
Morsi did not make any public appearances on Wednesday but a statement from Egyptian Prime Minister, Hisham Qandil, asked for "the opportunity for the efforts being made now to begin a national dialogue".
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Three European Parliament members are under investigation on corruption allegations. The Sunday Times says journalists posing as lobbyists offered 60 MEPs bribes to propose law amendments.
The British paper said Austrian Ernst Strasser, of the European People's Party, Slovenian Zoran Thaler and Romanian Adrian Severin — both in the parliament's Socialists & Democrats group, took the bait, all three of them former government ministers.
The first two have quit their MEP seats. The third has not.
Former Romanian deputy prime minister Adrian Severin in Bucharest denied the allegations. So did the others, saying they had stepped down to give probes into the matter free rein.
Severin said: "I have informed my colleagues about the whole situation and about my hope that an inquiry in the European Parliament will be started as soon as possible, so that everything will be clarified."
An alliance of transparency campaigners has urged a thorough overhaul of ethics rules for MEPs.
Olivier Hoedeman, with ALTER-EU, said: "I am afraid it is not an isolated case. The fact that these three MEPs were so eagerly accepting the deal that was made I think is a very bad sign. It shows that there are MEPs who are corruptible, and I will be surprised that this is only those three."
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Blues and green: Pinch a drink for St. Pat
Deep Fried
Starr Hill Music Hall
March 17
It was St. Patrick's day and I didn't even know it. Whatever happened to people wearing green and pinching each other in the rear? Alas, there was no green, there was no pinching, and there were no jolly Irish tunes playing on the Mall and through shopping market speakers.
What clued me in? Drunks. That's right. Syrupy, sloppy, slushed-out, boozed-up drunk people.
I leaned over close to friend after I'd been at Starr Hill for about 20 minutes, "Hey man, why is everyone so wasted this evening?"
"It's St. Patty's Day, you dumb ass," he replied affectionately.
"Oh yeah... yeah, I knew that," I lied. "It just struck me as odd because, like, it's Wednesday. Doesn't anyone have to work tomorrow?"
Well, if people did have to report to their paycheck-providers the next day, they sure as hell weren't acting like it. Spirits were high and mighty as people grooved out heavily to the "Crosby, Stills, and Nash" of the current jam-band circuit. If incorporating three-part harmonies into your set every 10 minutes makes a group resemble Crosby, Stills, and Nash, then they were all that. I would prefer to describe them as four very talented veteran musicians of whom one could sing well and two could hold a note decently.
There's no doubt about the fact that these boys could play. Their sound, steeped heavily in blues and blues-rock, was seldom cheapened by off timing, blatant wrong notes, or bad chemistry. It was easy to discern that very little was going to shake them out of their zone.
The pulse was controlled by the center front-man/bassist. His bass tone was damn near perfect- sitting there evenly in the mix with enough low end to make the change in your pocket vibrate. To his right, a keyboard player who kinda looked and acted liked Animal from the Muppet Show laid into some heavy key work. The guitarist and drummer were equally adept and talented .
Deep Fried sounded great as long as they stuck to their musical roots. As soon as they ventured outside the blues/rock (add a little Soul too) realm, things got a bit choppy. They sounded quite uncomfortable when they slipped into reggae.
The same applied to their jamming. They lacked the patience to build things up and bring them down. The guitarist was too rushed to start playing finger tricks, and Animal-dude on keys was prone to begin audio experiments without a hypothesis. (Everyone knows that's a no-no.)
About mid-way through the show, the crowd began thinning out. People had come out to get trashed early. That way they could have plenty of time to sleep it off before work the next day. A dwindling crowd doesn't really do much for the energy of a performance. When things started to crawl, I headed too.
On my way down the stairs, a girl pinched me. "Where's your green?" she said.
I responded politely, "Thanks for reminding me, hon... I left it rolled up in the car."
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While the western media and the western governments keep shouting about vulnerability of Pakistans nuclear arsenal and keep expressing the fears that these are likely to fall in the hands of extremists like Taliban, they have kept their eyes wide shut regarding the state of affairs of the nuclear weapons and nuclear capable missiles of neighbouring India where the situation is highly alarming, reveal the findings of The Daily Mails investigations into the matter.
According to The Daily Mails investigations, the Indian government, in bid to keep it maximum possible away from the striking capabilities of Pakistan that lies across Indias northern borders, decades back decided to install all its nuclear and missile facilities in the Eastern zone of the country. However, with the passage of time, the eastern region of India emerged as the most disturbed, fragile and ungovernable region of the country with a variety of insurgency movements including that of Naxal rebels, emerging in that very part of the country.
According to a map, graphed by Indias own security agencies, the eastern region and some other parts of the country have been declared as The Red Corridor of India due to being unstable,ungovernable and being highly fragile, security wise. According this Red Corridor map, there are some 51 districts that are very badly hit by the rebels while the total number of rebel struck districts remains around 164, ranging from Dehradhun to Kerala.
The Daily Mails investigations indicate that most of Indias top nuclear and missile facilities are located in the extremely Nexal terrorists struck districts of India, located deep down in the Red Corridor. According to The Daily Mails investigations, in the direction of Indian nuclear facilities, Uranium processing plant by the name of Uranium Corporation Of India Limited (UCIL) is located in adversely insurgency and terror struck region of Jharkhand where Nexal guerrillas are dominating and are on the rampage, Talcher Heavy Water Plant again in the same area, Institute of Physics(IOP) again in the same area while Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research(AMD), Ceramatic Fuel Fabrication Facility(CFFF), Electronics Corporation of India Limited(ECIL), Mishra Dhalu Nigam Limited(MIDHANI), National Centre for Compositional Characterization of Materials(NCCCM), New Zirconium Sponge Plant(New ZSP), Nuclear Fuel Complex(NFC), Special Materials Plant, Uranium Fuel Assembly Plant and Zirconium Fabrication Plant, Seha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre(VECC) are located in the most Nexal warriors hit areas of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. Similarly, Fast Breeder Test Reactor(FBTR), Fast Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (FRFRP) General Services Organization(GSO), Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research(IGCAR), Kalpakkam Atomic Reprocessing Plant(KARP), Kamini Research Reactor, Madres Atomic Power Station (MAPS), Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor(PFBR), Manuguru Heavy Water Plant, Institute of Mathematical Sciences(MSc), Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Limited(SPIC), Tuticorin Heavy Water Plant, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited(BHEL), HMT Machine Tools Limited(HMT-MTL), Indian Institutes of Sciences(IISc) and Super Computer Education and Research Centre(SERC) are located in the areas, Indian government has included in the most disturbed Red Corridor while Apsra Research Reactor, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC), Boron Enrichment Plant(BEP), Central Workshops, Plutonium Reprocessing Plant, Purnima 1,II & III Research Reactors, Uranium Conversion Plant, Uranium Enrichment Plant, CIRUS Research Reactor, Dhruva Research Reactor, Hazira heavy Water Plant, Larson and Toubro, Hazira Water Works, Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility(AFFF), Tarapur Atomic Power Station(TAPS), Power Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant(PREFRE), Beryllium Matching Facility(BMF), Construction Service and Estate Management Group(CSEMG), Directorate of Purchase and Stores(DPS), Heavy Water Board, Tata Institute of Fundamental search(TIFR), Rshtrya Chemicals & Fertilizers (RCF), Thal-Vaishet Heavy Water Plant, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC), Kiroskar Brothers Limited and Walchandnagar Industries Limited(WIL) are located in State of Maharashtra, which, though, is not included in the Red Corridor map of India, yet the whole world knows that Maharashtra is the hub of Extremist Hindu Militant Groups where Hindutva Brotherhood, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini and Sangh Parivar like terrorist organizations are on the rampage for past many years, without any check from authorities and all these Hindu militant organizations are very well known for their extreme anti-Pakistan policies and are full capable of getting hold of any of the Indian nuclear facility that exists in their respective state and region.
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Apple has moved its online support discussion forum into Web 2.0–land by inaugurating a new social-networking service called Apple Support Communities (ASC).
The ASC service has been a long time in gestation: it was first announced in mid-August of last year – so long ago that one of the topics discussed in the original announcement was labled "From Airport to Xserve". Apple killed the Xserve last November.
Join the happy fanbois in the Apple Support Communities
Apple has had an active support forum for many years, but the ASC is its new attempt at providing it with a social-network by dividing topics into "communities" in an attempt to make it easier for Apple-product users to post problems, discuss solutions, and identify experts and their successful suggestions.
After you sign into ASC with your Apple ID, you can create an ASC profile that allows you to follow specific discussions, personalize your own photo and avatar (although we couldn't successfully upload a user-generated avatar), and receive email and RSS notifications when topics you're following have been updated.
Views of discussions are now customizeable – flat or threaded – as is the editing and viewing look-and-feel. Navigation options now make it easier to find successful suggestions rather than having to dig through an entire thread, and tags and bookmarks aid finding and returning to posts that relate to your topics of interest.
Interestingly – and perhaps a preview of Mac OS X Lion elements – some of the ASC's user interface borrows from iOS, such as the popover menus like this History listing that was generated after our search for iPad 2 owners who have been bedeviled by backlight leakage.
An iOS-style popover menu reveals that we've been searching for iPad 2 backlight problems
Apple being Apple, there are subjects that are verboten. In addition to the obvious and welcome prohibitions against slander, spam, commercial offers, flames, and the like, the ASC "Community Etiquette" guidelines include an admonition to "Avoid speculation and rumors." The Terms and Conditions to which you must agree before becoming an ASC member, however, are more direct:
- Speculations or rumors about unannounced products.
- Discussions of Apple policies or procedures or speculation on Apple decisions.
Users are encouraged to let "other community members know they've helped you," and notes that doing so "gives them reputation points and increases their status in the community." In addition, the terms and conditions note that "Apple may offer you benefits and award privileges for your participation in the Site."
And although an ASC "Reputation, status levels and privileges" page details point levels, at this time there's no explanation about exactly what benefits and privileges that a high point score might provide. ®


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I and Alberto Ferrari will moderate the following Birds of a Feather session at TechEd North America 2013:
CODE: BOF-ITP21 TITLE: How Far Can You Push Tabular? SPEAKER: A. Ferrari; M. Russo TIMESLOT: June 5, 2013 at 1:30 pm ROOM: 263
Abstract: Tabular is the new engine in SQL Server Analysis Services. It is an in-memory columnar database capable of unprecedented performance but… how far can we go with an in-memory database? Will you be able to load your data warehouse in-memory to obtain the best performance? What should you care about when building the DWH? What does "fast" mean? What about real-time data? Can you query many billions rows really fast? In this BOF we will show some theory and share some of our experience, but we will welcome your questions and experience, to build a round-table of experts in order to speak about this fascinating topic.
I really look forward to this event – I and Alberto have some experience using Tabular in many different scenarios, but every time we meet new people at conferences we discover that there are new challenges ahead. This session will be the place to discuss together where are the limits today. Much far than many people realize, in my opinion!
I'll try to be there as well. Sounds interesting :)
Nice Kasper! We just need someone that says "guys, be careful, your pushing it too much.. :)"
Unfortunately, it seems this session was not recorded... Have you discovered, how far you can push it?
It was an open discussion - there are several systems in the order of 30-40 GB in production. Compression rate may vary, ranging from hundred millions to billions of rows in the fact tables. Latency is another challenge. Within 1 hour we have many option, but near to 1 minute is a real challenge - at the moment it's just theory on the whiteboard, still no systems in production with this requirement.
I hope it helps!
Thanks Marco.


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