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Product & Pricing Management
Nowadays, successful product and pricing management requires more than just neatly calculated products. Offers must be competitive, innovative and individualized. We combine actuarial expertise with market know-how, best practices and progressive tools in order to optimize your product and service offering.
Our Team
Our team consists of consultants with extensive experience within the insurance sector, former product managers, and certified actuaries (SAV/DAV). Together we cover the following areas:
Our Competences
The CC P&PM team consists of several consultants with an actuarial education (actuary SAV / DAV). We are trained for pricing calculations and are able to create new product models. Of course, we know all relevant product coverages in the DACH region in the branches non-life, life and health.
Product Design
- Actuarial Know-how
- Pricing KVG/VVG (CH)
- Medical UW
Not only are we conceptually strong, we also know the underlying systems by heart and we assist implementing and updating those systems. In combination with our actuarial competence we can execute statistical-mathematical analyses and models to answer business related questions in the context of product and pricing.
- Methods
- Predictive Modelling (High Costs, Churn, Next Buy)
- Syrius
- Earnix
- Mondobrain
- Training Solutions
While the actuarial competence covers the inside-view the market competence covers the outside-view of the product/pricing development. We're focused on P&PM for more than 10 years and know relevant competitors and their products.
Some of our consultants formerly worked in a product management position. We combined this know-how and created a best-practice reference model for product development and pricing. This allows us to efficiently analyze and optimize processes. Additionally, we have concepts for innovative processes like behavioral pricing
Core Processes
Competitive Pricing
Methodical determination of market prices and building of a tool in order to compare these market data with internal tariffs and, based on this, carry out systematic price adjustments
Aggregator Strategy
Linking of a tariff calculator with an aggregator and adjustment of the product and pricing structure to the requirements of the aggregator.
Product Portfolio Management
Development of a profitability-based customer value model and derivation of measures to positively impact the portfolio.
Pricing Strategy
Development of a new pricing strategy through the creation of target segments and the definition of a price/performance target for each target segment in consideration of company-wide framework conditions.
Product Development
Development of a new product landscape (cover, pricing, bundles, discounts, etc.) in a greenfield approach.
Churn Management
Creation of a churn model (likelihood of cancellation with indicators) and development of measures in a loyalty program.
Mystery Shopping
For competitive pricing, it is essential to have access to competitor data/premiums, which can be used to analyze the price position in various target segments. Often, this data is not easy to come by and has to be generated through mystery shopping or web crawling for offers.
Initial Situation
If you are aiming to achieve coordinated and targeted pricing, it is not enough to simply focus on your own claims data (inside view). While it will guarantee actuarial coverage, it by no means ensures that a rate will also be marketable. That is why it is important to include market data in analysis and development of new rates. We see two ways of gathering this market data, which are often used in parallel.
Mystery Shopping
We understand mystery shopping to be a process in which real potential customers obtain insurance quotes through agency channels/brokers. This method is time-consuming and somewhat costly. However, simultaneous to purely obtaining a quote, it also makes it possible to harvest additional information on competitors, such as the quality of advice, service and response times, or discounting behavior. Synpulse has experience in accompanying mystery shopping (provider selection, drawing up specifications, quality control, analysis of results) and can therefore actively help to shorten acquisition time while delivering high quality and timely attainment of objectives.
Web Crawling
Web crawling specifically targets the online channel. Using the latest tools and technologies, it is possible to retrieve data from online rate calculators in any quantity, form and frequency. The high level of automation and fast repeatability of this process multiply its benefits and help to ensure that the initial script development investment is amortized quickly. Synpulse has an established team of developers for web crawling development and can also offer long-term maintenance services.
If you need competitor data for your next pricing round, take advantage of the experience Synpulse has to offer. We will be pleased to assist you in setting up mystery shopping or developing web crawling. Throughout the implementation we will accompany you with help and advice in order to safeguard quality and prevent delays from an early stage.
There is an increasing demand for actuarial pricing to include a market-based perspective. Market-based pricing presents organizations with new challenges, especially where structured data collection and the subsequent analysis and simulation are concerned. In MARKETMAP®, Synpulse has developed its own implementation concept for competitive pricing.
Pricing Component: Market Markups/Markdowns
In insurance pricing, the initial pure premium rating is increasingly often followed by a further step. This step involves taking the market dynamic into account by systematically comparing your own price position with that of the competition. Competitive pricing can be broken down into a process of four fundamental steps:
Step 1: Building Data Resources
In the first step, an analysis of the existing pricing strategy and preparations for market-based pricing are made: a status analysis is used to create customer profiles, to which market data is added (mystery shopping/web crawling) and which are examined in detail in competitive pricing.
Step 2: Identifying Attractive Segments
Attractive target customers are identified from a detailed portfolio analysis. It is also possible here to identify segments in which further growth is not wanted. Based on this segmentation, targets relating to the required price position are formulated for the purposes of a pricing strategy.
Step 3: Segment-Specific Price Positioning
In this step, the target price position is embedded in strategy. Analysis of the collected market data compared with your own rates and simulation of rate adjustments are tool-based and performed in MARKETMAP®. A tool is required here because complex insurance products contain many parameters that have to be optimized in multiple iterations based on large quantities of data.
Step 4: Institutionalization
The market-based pricing approach optimizes steering of your portfolio. Roles and functions are clearly assigned to safeguard reliable processes. A sophisticated communication concept means that sales departments have a guide to identify which are attractive customers and how the organization's own price position compares with the competition.
The following are the main benefits generated by using MARKETMAP®:
- Growth and profitability segments can be identified more easily and target achievement measured more efficiently.
- Effectiveness in rate making can be supported by facts and geared toward the pricing strategy.
- The time required for rate adjustments is shortened or optimized.
Telematics & Connectivity in the Insurance Industry
Technological advances like smart watches and medical devices, networked cars and the trend of the «quantified self» are creating new areas of application for the insurance industry in telematics (telecommunication and informatics) and new opportunities to redefine the value chain.
The insurance industry has been familiar with products based on telematics for close on a decade. Applications have often been associated primarily with pricing in auto insurance. In recent years, mature technologies have also arrived on the market, which offer reliable applications in property and personal insurance. As a result, objectives such as risk selection, positioning at the customer interface, and cost optimization can be refined and novel offerings placed on the market. The potential areas of application are diverse:
- Pricing
- Underwriting
- Customer interaction
- New value proposition and offerings
- Fraud detection
- Emergencies
- Prevention
- Cutting the cost of insurance claim
Our experience shows that simplifying processes, added benefits, an element of fun, and a high level of convenience are key to the value proposition to the end user, whether in the context of smart homes, vehicle telematics or personal insurance telematics.
We have been supporting our clients for several years in strategy definition, development of application concepts and selection of technological solutions, and we see the implementation process through to their successful introduction.
The market knowledge we have gained in past projects is the basis on which we can help you to find the right focus in developing a telematics strategy and decide which parts of this new value creation you yourself should undertake. Our product management expertise and many years of experience in telematics enable us to develop innovative solutions to market maturity in little time.
External Tariff Factors
New External Tariff Factors
In the hotly-contested commodity market, where active risk selection plays an increasingly important role, the digitalization megatrend presents many opportunities to redefine pricing and underwriting without having to collect large amounts of data manually. New and innovative external tariff factors are a way of further enhancing risk selection, reducing the effort and expense of data acquisition, and preventing comparability.
A useful tool for differentiating your products on price and for strong underwriting are the new, digitally available external tariff factors, which offer good, direct inroads into the relevant processes, online or offline. For instance, geocodes can be used in all sectors to define risk accumulations and risk groups, while geodata help to improve prevention or pricing in property insurance. Whether behavioral data comes from your own contact with customers or from social media, it is an important component of customer interaction, which is being redefined by digitalization. We offer various concepts relating to diverse new external tariff factors and possibilities for their integration:
- Geo data (natural risks, theft and crime mapping, etc.)
- Geocodes
- Credit-ratings
- Social media data
- Behavioral data
- Microzoning
- Customer value (marketing-oriented databases)
- Fraud detection databases
The new external tariff factors are additionally an absolute bonus for portfolios which permit no further spread in pricing or differentiation.
As far as implementation is concerned, a distinction must be made between internal (customer and behavioral data, types of operation, geocoding) and external tariff factors. Integrating external tariff factors in pricing, underwriting and sales processes is a challenging issue.
The Product and Pricing team has many years of experience in the identification of new factors and their data sources, in integration and processes.
If you are looking to prevent anti-selection and implement risk-adjusted premiums and innovative pricing, making use of new external tariff factors in the product portfolio offers a sustainable solution.
Behavioral Pricing
Behavioral pricing utilizes scientific, psychological information to develop an offer of products and services that elicits as positive a (buying) response in the recipient as possible. The factors influencing whether a recipient responds positively are consciousness, perception (subconscious) and their resulting judgment. Synpulse can show you targeted solutions to positively address these factors.
In relation to offer information, we see five determinants that influence buying decisions.
It is important to take on board the customer's previous history (current information, emotional factors,…). By asking specific questions, it is possible to define the starting point and the offer process from the beginning. The simplest questions, for example whether customers know what their current premium is, help to tailor the remaining offer process to the customer.
When potential customers ask for a quote, they often already have a picture of the provider and its products in their mind. The provider's image is important in determining whether an offer is perceived as good or bad, expensive or cheap. This customer perception can be influenced by specifically promoting certain products (known as key value items).
Stimulus Thresholds
Insurers have calculated premiums which do not take stimulus thresholds into account. A stimulus threshold may be a rounded figure, for example. Simple optimization can ensure that premiums do not fall just above these thresholds, which improves the customer perception.
Points of Reference
All consumers have their own reference prices. A reference price is an idea of what a product or service should cost. This is very subjective and does not necessarily have to reflect reality. An offer must bear some relation to this reference if it is to be perceived as positive. We show you how to locate this point of reference and optimize your offer in line with the customer's expectations.
Price Sensitivity
Price sensitivity indicates where the range around the point of reference lies. It is a direct measure of the willingness to pay and must be incorporated in the offering and selling process. It is very useful to be able to identify this price sensitivity and respond adequately to it.
Our approaches to behavioral pricing help you to make your offering more customer-centric – without changing your products and services – and in the process raise customer satisfaction and your likelihood of winning their custom.
Pricing Process
Product and Pricing Management Along the Value Chain
Processes which have evolved over time and role allocation in product management are often weak spots that limit insurance providers' scope. The interplay between sales, actuaries, product management and IT must function seamlessly in order to meet modern demands on agility.
Synpulse assists its clients with sound market experience, insurance expertise, and a systematic approach. Product development and pricing processes must guarantee the following:
Clear Knowledge of the Market
- Recognition of trends and identification of relevant competitors and their products
- Knowledge of needs, affinities and behavior of customers
Optimized Product Development
- Institutionalization of a process to develop new products and maintain existing ones that is coordinated between all the disciplines involved
- Bespoke offerings and product bundles for target groups, with the corresponding differentiation according to target positionin
- Agility and governance
Ideal Prices
- A sound basis for determining the pure premium with iterative optimization from an inside and outside perspective
- Finding the perfect balance between profitability and marketability
Support with Value Enforcement
- Raising efficiency and effectiveness through simplicity and accessibility in all channels
- Clear communication of central content and arguments
Secure Process Interfaces
- Seamless integration of products in existing customer and sales processes
- Optimized discount and plausible incentive systems
In-Force Management
- Establishing continuous portfolio monitoring for its active management and for deriving mutation measures
- Systematic coordination of product portfolio management with actuarial pricing and iterative pricing for adequate evaluation of the existing insurance portfolio
Synpulse prepares a detailed situation analysis as a basis for identifying problems and compares the client's present situation with best practice solutions. Gaps identified in this process can be addressed specifically with operative implementation measures. The insights gained here permit the client to build knowledge and skills and are operationalized in practical, systematic application.
- The benefits of establishing systematic product and pricing management are as follows:
- Agile development of successful products supported by a broad base of knowledge
- Inclusion of all important groups, which leads to greater acceptance and thereby market success
- Reliable process, fewer errors, and lower costs
- Dr. Christoph Nützenadel
- Simon Gerber
Churn Management
All insurance companies lose customers. In exceptional cases, this loss is unavoidable. As a rule, though, losing customers is painful. Employing predictive modeling for early identification of customers who are at risk of leaving, and taking steps that are tailored to the individual case can help to restore a customer relationship. Churn management offers solutions in this area.
Our experience shows that ideally there are three steps to implementing effective churn management:
Step 1: Create a Churn Model
The basis of effective churn management is a mature prediction of customer-initiated termination. It should identify as fully as possible customers who are at risk of leaving (max true positive, min false negative), but at the same time it should not include too many customers who are not (min false positive, max true negative). A clear indication must also be made of which factors determine the likelihood to churn.
Step 2: Compare with Customer Value Model
Because measures relating to customer churn should be targeted and not implemented according to the scattershot principle in order to achieve an optimal cost-benefit ratio, the customer value model (which usually exists already, otherwise it needs to be developed or optimized as well) is compared with the churn model. From the ensuing point cloud, specific clusters can now be formed for further action.
Step 3: Derive a Plan of Action
This step ultimately determines the success or failure of churn management. It is here that actions are derived from the clusters formed under step 2. These actions are designed specifically for the factors identified under step 1 and are therefore effective and to the point.
Synpulse has the mathematical and statistical know-how in modeling churn prediction and customer values, as well as broad market experience of marketing measures. This combination makes us the ideal partner when it comes to implementing effective churn management.
Effective churn management raises customer loyalty and customer satisfaction and helps to meet growth and profitability targets by ensuring that marketing measures are implemented efficiently and effectively.
Training Solutions
Banks and insurance companies are subject to constant organizational and technological change. Precisely where major restructuring or launch projects are concerned, professional training is key to success. In «Training Solutions», Synpulse has developed a methodology for mastering these challenges with modern and effective training solutions.
If you are facing the challenge of implementing a major change project in your organization, Synpulse is the ideal partner for your internal communication and training. «Training Solutions» is the methodology we have developed to prepare your organization well in advance for change.
Our first step is to explore with you your communication and training needs. Then we jointly decide on the most suitable training resources. Whenever possible, we use modern tools such as e-learning, webinars and e-classrooms. This gives you maximum effectiveness at minimal cost.
Precisely where international projects are concerned, it is essential that training can take place independent of time and place and that assessment is automated. Traditional training methods often break the agreed budget with the cost of travel alone, which frequentlyoften makes this option unviable.
We employ «Training Solutions» continually and successfully in projects and optimize it on an ongoing basis. Its pragmatic approach and the mix of training resources in particular mean that our clients can tailor the training process to their needs. It also means that we can make adjustments as and when they are required. Our customers additionally benefit from experienced Synpulse project team members, whose expert knowledge and skills from an insurance and banking background make them highly effective in putting together training packages.
«Training Solutions» is an ideal way of meeting a large-scale need for training. Our clients benefit from our many years of expertise. We help you to achieve maximum effectiveness from your training at minimal cost and working with modern tools and resources.


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Havana Climate & Weather
The Cuban climate is tropical and temperate with cool trade winds to provide relief from the heat and humidity. Havana's weather is typical for Cuba; it is generally sunny and hot year round apart from when it is stormy, which is why it is considered a year-round tourist destination. There is not much variation between day and night temperatures along the coast, and average sea temperatures are 77°F (25°C). The rainy season, from May to October, is also the hurricane season, but most hurricanes strike between August and October, while the wettest months in Havana are May and June. Hurricanes are usually more of a problem on the south coast of Cuba and Havana is typically safe from the worst of the tropical storms. Summer temperatures average around 81°F (27°C) with humidity at about 80 percent. Temperatures of about 68°F (20°C) are normal in winter. The temperature very seldom drops below 50°F (10°C) in Havana. The most popular time to visit Havana is in the winter months of December and January but, although avoiding the hurricane season is probably wise, Havana's weather is pleasant for travellers all year.
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It's always annoyed me that while the sockets for network, serial, parallel and display cables all have securing mechanisms (ie a screw-in bolt, or a clasp) to stop them from being pulled out by jostling, there's nothing similar on power sockets (ie IEC 60320 C13 and C14 connectors). It seems to me that while accidentally knocking out a server's network cable is bad, it's nothing like as bad as accidentally knocking out its power.
Using power distribution units/UPS systems actually increases the risk of this happening because you then have two poorly secured sockets per machine, rather than one.
Is there any reliable, standards-compliant and relatively cheap way of securing C13/C14 connectors? I'm thinking about the sort of thing I can epoxy on the back of the servers that will hold the power cable securely. Are there any manufacturers who build something like this into their chassis?


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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Few words strike as much fear into a mother's heart as the word cancer. So when I came across that word on Manic Mother, a fellow bloggers website, you can imagine how sad I felt. Ezra, her two year old son has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Just the other week, I posted one of her book giveaways on my blog's "Full to the Brim" list. No cancer stories then. The diagnosis came suddenly, out of the blue, after she took her little guy to the doctor for what she thought were symptoms related to a spider's bite. Why do things like this happen? I really don't know. But, I do know we can all do something to help. The family could use some support. Please visit her blog and let her know you care. You can also find her on twitter @manicmother.
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How awful! I couldn't imagine going to a regular doctor's visit with my child and then getting that news. My heart and prayers goes out to that mother and her child.
- May 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM
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I just CANNOT imagine.....
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Imagine sinking your teeth into a sweet, sticky, spiral-shaped bun studded with pecans. Now imagine that the treat you're chewing is guilt-free. QUIT IMAGINING THINGS! That bun is REAL, and the recipe is right here... Ingredients: Filling 1/4 cup brown sugar (not packed) 1 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown) 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/8 tsp. salt Buns 1 package refrigerated Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Seamless Dough Sheet (or HG Alternative!) Topping 3 tbsp. fat-free or light caramel dip (like the kinds by Marzetti) 2 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown) 2 tbsp. sugar-free pancake syrup 1 tbsp. brown sugar (not packed) 3 tbsp. chopped pecans Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 8 cups of a 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick spray and set aside. To make filling, combine brown sugar with butter in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 10 seconds, or until butter has mostly melted. Mix in cinnamon and salt. Set aside. Lay dough on a dry surface with the short sides on the left and right and the long sides on the top and bottom. Roll or stretch out dough into a large rectangle of even thickness. Evenly spread filling onto dough, leaving a 1-inch border around all edges. Tightly roll up dough from the bottom, forming a log. Pinch the long seam to seal. Gently turn so the seam side is down. Cut log widthwise into 8 equally sized buns. Place a bun in each of the 8 sprayed muffin cups, spiral side up. Set aside. In a medium microwave-safe bowl, combine all topping ingredients except pecans. Microwave for 30 - 45 seconds, until butter has mostly melted. Add pecans and mix well. Evenly distribute topping among buns, about 1 tbsp. each. Bake in the oven until golden brown, 12 - 15 minutes. Let cool slightly. Gently remove buns from pan while still warm. Enjoy! MAKES 8 SERVINGS HG Alternative! If you can't find the Recipe Creations dough, go for Pillsbury Reduced Fat Crescent roll dough. (The products are nearly identical.) Then just pinch/seal up the perforations for a seamless sheet.
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First European commander of the International Space Station – media opportunity
ESA PR 24-2009. ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will become the first European commander of the International Space Station this weekend, after the current commander Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has left the ISS.
Padalka's Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to undock this Sunday night from the orbital outpost. De Winne is the first non-American and non-Russian to take on this role. A symbolic change-of-command ceremony will be held in advance onboard the ISS this Friday.
On 13 October, the European Space Agency will be organising an inflight call opportunity for the media to talk to the newly-appointed European ISS Commander at the Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany.
Media registration starts at 14:30. The programme will feature presentations by ESA Director of Human Spaceflight Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Operations & Infrastructure Gaele Winters and the Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Johann-Dietrich Wörner.
14.30 Registration
15.00 Presentations by representatives of ESA and DLR
16.00 Inflight call
16.20 Question & answer session
17.00 End
Media who wish to participate to the inflight call opportunity at the ESA Columbus Control Centre at DLR/GSOC Oberpfaffenhofen are kindly requested to send the reply form linked on the right to:
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How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in
Decline can be avoided.
Decline can be detected.
Decline can be reversed.
Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?
In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project--more than four years in duration--uncovered five step-wise stages of decline:
Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success
Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More
Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril
Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation
Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death
By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom.
Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover.
Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover--in some cases, coming back even stronger--even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4.
Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
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Jim Collins is author or coauthor of six books that have sold in total more than ten million copies worldwide, including the bestsellers Good to Great, Built to Last, and How the Mighty Fall. Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. He now operates a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he conducts research, teaches, and consults with executives from the corporate and social sectors.


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Serious questions are being raised about the effectiveness of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and whether the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) spends enough time overseeing this self-regulatory agency.
In a report issued late Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said FINRA "may be missing an opportunity to systematically assess whether its rules are achieving their intended purpose and take appropriate action, such as maintaining rules that are effective and modifying or repealing rules that are ineffective or burdensome."
Moreover, the report said, by not reviewing what steps FINRA takes in reassessing its existing rules, the SEC may not capture sufficient information to form an opinion about FINRA's efforts to review its rules.
The report also says that the GAO found that the SEC has conducted limited or no oversight of other aspects of FINRA's operations, such as governance and executive compensation.
The SEC defended itself by saying that the operations of concern to the GAO "were not historically considered due to competing priorities and resource constraints."
SEC officials explained that agency officials are focusing its resources on FINRA's regulatory departments, "which were perceived as the programs that have the greatest impact on investors."
But the GAO said that SEC officials "generally agreed with the GAO's recommendations" which are that the SEC should encourage FINRA to conduct retrospective reviews of its rules and that the SEC should establish a process for examining FINRA's reviews.
Moreover, the GAO recommended that the SEC should follow all elements of a risk-management framework in developing its future oversight plans.
The issue is important because the House Financial Services Committee is considering legislation that would shift direct oversight of investment advisors to a self-regulatory organization (SRO), presumably FINRA.
The Financial Services (FSC) Committee has scheduled a hearing on the legislation, H.R. 4624, and its chairman, Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., plans to markup the legislation June 28, according to a number of industry lobbyists.
Bachus, chairman of the FSC, and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., are original sponsors of the legislation.
The bill has divided the investment advisor community, with strong support from some groups, including the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the Financial Services Institute.
But critics include the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), an independent government watchdog.
POGO officials said FINRA's regulatory effectiveness is undermined "by its inherent conflicts of interest, its lack of transparency and accountability, its lobbying expenditures, and its executive compensation packages, among other issues."


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The goal of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry is to understand life processes in terms of organic and physical chemistry. This necessitates a wide spectrum of research and teaching that encompasses the full range of molecular biophysics (including structural studies, energetics, molecular design/engineering, computational chemistry and genomics) as well as prominent areas in the molecular biology and genetics of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses.
This spectrum interfaces both with the physical sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the preclinical and clinical departments in the School of Medicine. Indeed, the Department views itself as a bridge between these geographic/administrative and intellectual extremes of the biological sciences. The Department's size and distribution of interests is designed to be broad enough to make this a substantial bridge, but small enough to be a truly cohesive functional academic unit.


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If there were barriers to women entering the U.S. technology industry, you wouldn't have guessed it at a recent Social Media Week event in Los Angeles.
Dedicated to women in technology, the event was packed with young female entrepreneurs eager to pitch an impressive array of startups, from mobile apps and digital rewards programs to online dating sites. Anecdotally at least, the wind of change seems to be blowing in favor of female tech entrepreneurs.
"Every day there are more and more people encouraging women to get out there and achieve their goals," says Rebecca Ordoñez, CEO of a startup called PlanHop, a mobile app that lets users build and share multi-stop social plans with other people in their city. "The playing field is still a little uneven, especially if you want to have a child, but it's getting better."
Women in technology today can get support from a growing network of advisors and mentors through organizations such as Girls in Tech, Ladies Who Launch, PyLadies, Women 2.0 and 85 Broads, to name a few. And some of those at the Los Angeles event said the number of venture capitalists focused on investing in women is on the rise.
"It's awesome that there's so much interest and support," says Sarah McKinney, founder and CEO of a startup called AMP, a collaborative bookmarking site and file exchange for sustainability champions.
A Male-Dominated Industry
For all that, men overwhelmingly still rule the tech world. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, women held only one quarter of computing jobs in the 2011 U.S. workforce and just one-fifth of CIO positions at Fortune 250 companies in 2012. Women's representation in the U.S. computing and IT workforce, as well as in undergraduate computer science education, has been on the decline since it peaked in the mid-1980s.
"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize there are a lot more guys than girls in technology," says Anna Sergeeva, CEO and co-founder of Planana, a startup that enables event organizers to reward attendees for spreading word of an event.
In the startup arena, there's mixed news for women. First, the bad news: According to a recent analysis by Dow Jones VentureSource of more than 20,000 venture-backed companies in the U.S. between 1997 and 2011, less than 7 percent of executives holding top positions were women. That's less than half the number of women who are board members and corporate officers of Fortune 500 companies.
On the plus side, the study found successful startups have more women in senior positions than unsuccessful ones, with more than twice as many women in top jobs like C-level managers, vice presidents and board members.
Swimming Upstream
Other studies suggest a range of factors may play into this gender inequality, from different basic attitudes toward computers among the sexes, to different interest levels in computer science among high schoolers, to a degree of gender stereotyping among educators and others—some of which persists today.
Tech entrepreneur Phoenix Gonzalez says she has a triple-whammy of bias to overcome—being not just a woman, but also an African American "who is older than (Facebook co-founder and CEO) Mark Zuckerberg."
"I definitely feel those things when I walk into a meeting," says Gonzalez, co-founder and head of business development for Dotstudioz, a startup that creates tools and workflows to deploy and monetize video content across multiple distribution platforms.
And for many women, the childbearing issue is a persistent reality.
"I've had a lot of investors ask me, 'Are you married?'" says Patricia Dao, managing director of the Los Angeles chapter of Girls in Tech and an entrepreneur whose social rewards platform startup, VoxBloc, was acquired by Dominion Enterprises. "They would make comments about having kids soon."
A Shifting Landscape
So what's a girl to do?
They might take heart from the fact that not all investors fit into the ol' boys' club mold. According to Stephen Block, an angel investor and venture partner in K5 Launch, there's a growing population of investors that are more open to women.
"A lot of younger men are just more comfortable around women," Block says. "They've worked with women in the workplace, they've reported to women in corporations. They don't resent it, they're not intimidated, and the women don't get intimidated by them."
Furthermore, Block says, women entrepreneurs often bring something to the table that men don't. They're better listeners, they're eager learners, they're often smarter and they're more driven to succeed, he says.
"There's not as much ego," Block says. "They've generally felt they had to work harder to get where they are, and therefore they're more focused. I prefer working with women for a lot of reasons."
And the childbearing question?
Block says it's one of numerous other unpredictables and therefore does not really matter. "A man could get sick, a man could lose interest, a man could have a breakdown," he says. "There are so many variables that asking if you're married and if you're going to have a baby is, in my opinion, stupid!"
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In the words of Hughes and Mitra2: "ophthalmic drug delivery is one of the most interesting and challenging endeavours facing the pharmaceutical scientist...The anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the eye render this organ exquisitely impervious to foreign substances...The challenge to the formulator is to circumvent the protective barriers of the eye without causing permanent tissue damage...The primitive ophthalmic solutions, suspensions and ointment dosage forms are clearly no longer sufficient to combat some present virulent diseases..."
Eye is a unique and very valuable organ. This is considered a window hinge. We can enjoy it and look at the world body. There are many eye diseases that can affect the body and loss of vision as well. Therefore, many eyes in drug delivery systems are available. They are classified as traditional and new drug development system. Topical application of drugs to the eye is the most popular and well-accepted route of administration for the treatment of various eye disorders. The bioavailability of ophthalmic drugs is, however, very poor due to efficient protective mechanisms of the eye. Blinking, baseline and reflex lachrymation, and drainage remove rapidly foreign substances, including drugs, from the surface of the eye [1].
There are many eye ailments which affected to eye and one can loss the eye sight also. Therefore many ophthalmic drug delivery systems are available. These are classified as conventional and non-conventional (newer) drug delivery systems. Most commonly available ophthalmic preparations are eye drops and ointments about 70% of the eye dosage formulations in market. But these preparations when instilled into the culde-sac are rapidly drained away from the ocular cavity due to tear flow and lachrymal nasal drainage. Only a small amount is available for its therapeutic effect resulting in frequent dosing. So overcome to these problems newer pharmaceutical ophthalmic formulation such as in-situ gel, nanoparticle, liposome, nanosuspension, microemulsion, intophoresis and ocular inserts have been developed in last three decades increase the bioavailability of the drug as a sustained and controlled manner [2-9].
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Advantages of ocular drug delivery systems
1. Increased accurate dosing. To overcome the side effects of pulsed dosing produced by conventional systems.
2. To provide sustained and controlled drug delivery.
3. To increase the ocular bioavailability of drug by increasing the corneal contact time. This can be achieved by effective adherence to corneal surface.
4. To provide targeting within the ocular globe so as to prevent the loss to other ocular tissues.
5. To circumvent the protective barriers like drainage, lacrimation and conjunctival absorption.
6. To provide comfort, better compliance to the patient and to improve therapeutic performance of drug.
7. To provide better housing of delivery system.
Limitations of ophthalmic drug delivery:
1. Dosage form cannot be terminated during emergency.
2. Interference with vision.
3. Difficulty in placement and removal.
4. Occasional loss during sleep or while rubbing eyes.
Despite these limitations, significant improvements in ocular drug delivery have been made. The improvements have been with objective of maintaining the drug in the bio-phase for an extended period. The anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the eye render this organ impervious to foreign substances [10].
Anatomy and function of the eye
The eye is a spherical structure with a wall consisting of three layers; the outer sclera, the middle choroid layer, Ciliary body and iris and the inner nervous tissue layer retina. The sclera is tough fibrous coating that protects the inner layers. It is white except for the transparent area at the front, the cornea which allow light to enter the eye. The choroid layer, situated inside the sclera, contains many blood vessels and is modified at the front of the eye as pigmented iris. The iris is the coloured part of the eye (in shades of blue, green, brown, hazel, or grey) [11].
The structure of the cornea
The cornea is a strong clear transparent bulge located at the front of the eye that conveys images to the back of the eyes. The front surface of the adult cornea has a radius of approximately 8mm that covers about one-sixth of the total surface of the eye ball. It is a vascular tissue to which nutrient and oxygen are supplied via bathing with lachrymal fluid and aqueous humour as well as from blood vessels that lines the junction between the cornea and sclera (in fig.1) [12].
The cornea is the main pathway permeation of drug into the eye. It is composed of five layers: epithelium, Bowman's layer, stroma, Descemet's membrane and endothelium [13, 14]. The epithelium consists of 5 to 6 layers of cells. The corneal thickness is 0.5–0.7 mm and it is thicker in the central region. The corneal epithelium is the main barrier of drug absorption into the eye in Comparison to many other epithelial tissues (intestinal, nasal, bronchial, and tracheal) corneal epithelium is relatively impermeable [15]. The epithelium is squamous stratified, consisting of 5-6 layer of cells with a total thickness around 50-100 μm and turnover of about one cell layer per day. The basal cells are packed closely together with a tight junction, to forming not only an effective barrier to most microorganisms, but also for drug absorption. Drugs penetrate across the corneal epithelium via the transcellular or paracellular pathway. Lipophilic drugs prefer the transcellular route and hydrophilic drugs penetrate primarily through the paracellular pathway which involves passive or altered diffusion through intercellular spaces. For most topically applied drugs, passive diffusion along their concentration gradient, either transcellularly or paracellularly, is the main permeation mechanism across the cornea.
Figure1: Structure of the eye
The Bowman's membrane is an acellular homogeneous sheet, about 8-14μm thick situated between the basement membrane of the epithelium and the stroma. The stroma, or substania propria, accounts for around 90% of the corneal thickness and contains approximately 85% water and about 200-250 collagenous lamellae. The lamellae provide physical strength while permitting optical transparency. The stroma has a relatively open structure and will normally allow the diffusion of hydrophilic solutes. The descemet's membrane is secreted by the endothelium. It lies between the stroma and the endothelium [11, 12].
The conjunctiva is involved in the formation and maintenance of the precorneal tear film and in the protection of the eye. The conjunctiva is a thin transparent membrane, which lines the inner surface of the eyelids and is reflected onto the globe. The membrane is vascular and moistened by the tear film. The conjunctiva is composed of an epithelium, a highly vascularised substantia propria, and a submucosa or episclera. The bulbar epithelium consists of 5 to 7 cell layers. The structure resembles a palisade and not a pavement when compared to the corneal epithelium. At the surface, epithelial cells are connected by tight junctions, which render the conjunctiva relatively impermeable. The conjunctival tissue is permeable to molecules up to 20,000 Da, whereas the cornea is impermeable to molecules larger than 5000 Da. The human conjunctiva is between 2 and 30 times more permeable to drugs than the cornea and it has been proposed that loss by this route is a major path for drug clearance. There are 1.5 million globlet cell present in the conjunctiva with the highest density is in the Inferonasal quadrant (10 goblet cells/mm2). The highest density found in the children and adults varying with age depended among the intersujects variability. A significant increase in the number of goblet cells was reported in the case of vernal conjunctivitis and atopic kerato conjunctivitis but a great variation in goblet cell density results only in a small difference in tear mucin concentration [14, 15].
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The aim is to stimulate ethical reflection at all levels at NTNU: by the individual employee/PhD candidate/student, by the various units, and by management at different levels in the organization.
The points below present specific cases based on episodes and constellations of cases from NTNU. The presentation of these cases has been recast to some extent where this was necessary to protect anonymity. What the cases have in common is that they represent dilemmas and issues that are not easy to resolve by referring to ethical guidelines and regulations. You are welcome to use these cases as a starting point for discussion.
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Less than five weeks before what could have been the biggest fight of his career, UFC middleweight contender Chris Weidman (9-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) is out of a UFC 155 bout against Tim Boetsch (16-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC).
Stepping in for him will be teammate Constantinos Philippou (10-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC), who this past Saturday had a planned bout scrapped the day of the fight. MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) on Wednesday confirmed the news with sources close to the promotion. Newsday first reported the development, and UFC officials followed up with their own confirmation.
UFC 155 takes place Dec. 29 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and features a heavyweight title rematch between Junior Dos Santos and Cain Velasquez.
The Weidman-Boetsch fight was set for the main card on pay-per-view. The new bout between Philippou and Boetsch also is expected to take a position on the main card along with the main event, a co-feature between Forrest Griffin, a lightweight fight between Jim Miller and Joe Lauzon and a middleweight bout between Yushin Okami and Alan Belcher.
Weidman will be sidelined with what he told MMAjunkie.com is a torn labrum and possible shoulder separation. He said the injury may require surgery. But the unbeaten middleweight has been through plenty more, as well, in recent weeks thanks to the effects of Superstorm Sandy.
Weidman is coming off a devastating "Knockout of the Night" performance against Mark Munoz in July that had many talking about him bolting to the front of the line for a potential title shot with champion Anderson Silva. A win over Boetsch would have further propelled that talk, even as Silva campaigns for a superfight against welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in 2013.
Philippou was slated to fight Nick Ring this past Saturday at UFC 154 on the main card in Montreal. But on the morning of the fight, Ring fell ill and was ruled out of the bout, leaving Philippou out in the cold. Now he'll at least get an upcoming fight, and one on the main card, as well. He's won four straight since losing his UFC debut, including a unanimous decision win over Riki Fukuda at UFC 148 in July.
Boetsch has a four-fight win streak, as well, all since dropping from light heavyweight to middleweight. In February, he came from behind to stun Yushin Okami in the third round at UFC 144, and in July at UFC 149, he upset former Bellator champ Hector Lombard by split decision.
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I have a blog that I use mostly to record solutions to problems I have had, that I had some trouble finding an answer to. Mostly problems where the online doc I googled provided too much info, and I found the answer to my question on the fifth page of my third google hit.
(Or if I asked the question here, I either didn't get an answer or I got slammed for asking a question that "the answer could be easily googled.")
I frequently look up stuff on this blog to remind myself of how I solved a problem, and it gets a decent amount of hits from others as well.
Anyway, I was wondering if mentioning this blog on my resume would help or hurt me in a job search? The topics are all over the map.
What I would hope it shows is that
- I am a person who finds solutions to problems
- I have used many different technologies in my work
- I am not afraid to tackle a challenge
What I am concerned it shows is that
- This person had trouble with something that simple?
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When first published, this volume on Revelation by Robert H. Mounce was widely praised as a standard commentary on the Apocalypse. In this new edition, now based on the text of the NIV and Nestle-Aland, Mounce has revised and expanded his work to reflect more than twenty additional years of mature thought on Revelation and to bring his work up to date with the latest scholarship. As in the original edition, Mounce here engages seriously with the various approaches to interpretation and with the conventions common to apocalyptic literature. In affirming more directly his own reading of the Apocalypse, Mounce steers a middle course between an extreme literalism and a highly imaginative subjectivism, believing this to be the way the ancient text spoke to the first-century churches to whom it was addressed - and the way it still speaks to us today.
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ICNA Launches Social Media Presence
JAMAICA, New York (March 3, 2010) – In a press release issued today, the Islamic Circle of North America, one of the largest American Muslim organizations, announced the official launch of its social media efforts.
Social networking sites open up numerous opportunities for both individuals and organizations—multiplying the amount of people one can reach on a more consistent basis. Statistics show that MySpace, YouTube and Facebook collectively generate 250 million unique visitors on a monthly basis. As media continues to evolve around us at such a rapid rate, it becomes our responsibility to take advantage of these technological developments.
Dr. Zahid Bukhari, President of the Islamic Circle of North America, discussed the , "We are very grateful to our IT Department and social media team… who've enabled ICNA to launch this [social media] presence."
"We are hoping that [through social media] we will be conveying this message to millions of people [and also] presenting the true picture of Islam. We can face prejudice and bigotry and hate [only by] presenting the message of Islam with our words and deeds. We pray that the image of Islam will be more clarified using the technology of social media."
Waqas Syed, Director, ICNA IT Department, is enthusiastic about ICNA's presence on social networking sites, stating, "Insha'Allah I have no doubt that with the talent we have among the youth, our presence in social media will become a valuable tool for American Muslims to promote peace and understanding in our society and fight bias and hatred."
By carving out a presence in the social media realm, ICNA is optimizing its ability to bring Islam to the masses. As the Prophet (S) stood at the highest peak to proclaim his message, ICNA continues to use the best possible means to present society with a more comprehensive and honest understanding of Islam. This newly created niche in social media networks will, by Allah's grace, provide us with better opportunities to promote Islam in America.
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With the round belt drive head, the drive section is separated from the conveying section, so that materials cannot be shifted due to batching belts. Since the drive head has a higher friction because of grooves in the metal tube, the result is a higher conveyance of the round belts. If the round belts should slip because of the application, then the wear of the belts on a round belt drive head is higher.
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The nine grooves of the drive head allow the use of 2-rib, 3-rib or 4-rib PolyVee belts. Compared with a round belt, the use of a 2-rib belt allows transferring approximately twice the torque.


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When I Hear My Father Pray
When I hear my father pray
In fam'ly prayer at the end of the day,
I hear him say a prayer for me
That God will love and care for me.
While he speaks to God above,
I feel his kindness and his love.
For when I hear his prayers for me,
I know my father cares for me.
Text: Lloyd Hanson
Music: Laurence Lyon
Artist: Hanson/Lyon
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Ensign
Composition Date: 1983-03-01
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I need to install Windows 8 on my MacBook. So I am hoping to install VMware and then install Windows 8 on top of it.
I need to know if I need to install VMware Player or VMware Fusion? I am using this for non-commercial use so I require a free version.
Note: VMware Fusion is a licensed version, and I don't want to use it.


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I still like 'Garhimi' better - but maybe the Earls of the Ulenborg will use a slightly different dialectAK_Brickster wrote:- Residents are called: Garhim (plural: Garhims).
AK_Brickster wrote:Name of Capital City (location already shown)
Name/Location of 3 additional major cities (encampments/hideouts for Outlaws)
Name/Location of 5-8 major landmarks/geographical features.
gurusql wrote:Kroth Stonegrinder is an experienced warrior and currently the Captain of the Guard for the town of Havenhill. He does not carry the title of Sir since at present he does not own any land. The town of Havenhill is situated along a river that is near the center of Garheim.
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Saudi Arabia reports 2 more deaths from MERS
11 cases of MERS virus reported in Jeddah
Saudi health authorities said Wednesday that 11 people in the western city of Jeddah have contracted the Middle East respiratory syndrome, resulting in two recent deaths and prompting officials to temporarily shutter the emergency unit at one of the city's biggest hospitals.
Among those who tested positive for MERS was an employee at Jeddah's King Fahd hospital. The potentially fatal disease is related to SARS and was first identified in 2012 in the Middle East, where most cases since have been diagnosed.
Officials at King Fahd hospital began referring incoming patients to other medical facilities on Tuesday so the emergency ward could be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected, according to the kingdom's health ministry. Authorities said they expected to reopen the emergency ward at the hospital within 24 hours.
A nurse at another hospital in the city had also earlier contracted the virus.
The official Saudi Press agency reported on Wednesday that three people who tested positive for the disease remain hospitalized, and that two others had contracted it had died in Jeddah province.
The deaths bring to at least 66 the number of people who died in the kingdom, which is at the centre of the MERS outbreak.
Other Mideast countries that have reported cases of infection include Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. A small number of cases have been diagnosed in Europe and North Africa.
Health authorities in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi reported a new case diagnosed there as well this week. The 59-year-old patient has a history of diabetes and had been on dialysis.
MERS belongs to a family of viruses known as coronaviruses that include both the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It can cause symptoms such as fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
MERS so far does not seem to spread as quickly between people as SARS did, but it does appear to be more deadly. Recent studies suggest that camels are the main source of the disease, according to the World Health Organization.


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Santa Clara University: Pacesetters
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,000 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's, Ph.D., and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the fourth-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. The mission of the Computer Engineering Department is to graduate students of competence, conscience, and compassion, who are prepared to excel in the field of computing, whether their objective is to enter the workforce or to continue for advanced studies. Their programs combine the theoretical foundations of computing with the practical engineering knowledge vital to industry, to provide a broad and integrated curriculum.


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In the words of Joel Watts:
I have had nearly a thousand hits today from searches like 'Mermaid found in Bulgaria'. Undoubtedly, people have found my blog posts on the 'vampire' in Bulgaria and my ousting of the Mermaid docufiction on Animal Planet. But I was curious; what news was prompting hundreds of people to search out 'Mermaid found in Bulgaria'. It's bizarre. And here is what I found:
From this link (Google Translate page of a Bulgarian news site)
Now for those of us who are not gullible, we can tell this is clearly photoshopped. First, the 'professor' here is standing on the ground, but the image of the mermaid skeleton is taken from above, looking directly down at the ground. Like this:
Worse yet, the mermaid image is one found on Worth1000 (in other words, it is a fake, like the giant skeleton image). Here is the original:
Notice something? Right, no professor. It's a fake, and a poorly done fake at that. Let it go people. Mermaids are mythological creatures.
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On the job everywhere: Our wheels
The characteristics of our wheel families are as diverse as their uses. Being precisely adapted to the required parameters, they provide optimal mobility with perfectly matched components, even under the most extreme conditions.
On numerous wheels, the type of bore centres can be individually customised, ranging from plain to precision ball bearings. When combined with an appropriate housing and
mounting parts, most wheels are also available as complete castors.
Our wheels are the reliable centrepiece of all TENTE mobility solutions as a key functional element in contact with the ground, regardless of whether they are used alone or as a complete castor.


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Business owner fed up with KC violence
Barber says business has plunged since man killed in nearby store
The violent start to the year in Kansas City marks the roughest January in nearly 20 years.
Police said the city has recorded 15 homicides so far in 2013, including seven over a 48-hour period this week. The killings happened in areas ranging from the city's northeast corner to the south side.
People with businesses in low-income neighborhoods said the violence isn't just taking a human toll, it's also threatening their livelihoods.
Phil Diamond runs a barbershop near 34th Street and Troost Avenue.
"I take great pride in my shop, you know? This is my first shop," he said.
He said his business should be busy at 6 p.m. on a Thursday evening.
"(A) packed house. People playing pool, talking loud, (playing) music loud," Diamond said.
Diamond's customers didn't have to wait this week. He said everyone has been talking about the fatal shooting of another barber just a few blocks to the north. Darrell Williams was found slain in his shop on Tuesday.
"This whole city is viewed as a stigma. Not just this block. This whole city is viewed as a stigma now," he said. "To me, we're no longer a community. We're just individuals in a community."
Diamond said it's time for change. He said that he grew up in a neighborhood of condemned buildings and decided to keep his business in the urban core for a reason.
He said it's time to stop dreaming of better days and time to work to make them happen.
"We can think all day of things to change, but until somebody starts stepping up and doing something, everything's going to stay the same," he said.
Diamond said that when the weather warms up in March, he hopes to bring as many neighbors as possible together to talk about ways to curb the violence.


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Yelp Jumps 12%: Q1 Rev Beats, Q2, Year View Beat
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Shares of social networking and recommendations site Yelp (YELP) are up $1.70, or almost 7%, at $27, in late trading after the company this afternoon reportedQ1 revenue that topped analysts' estimates but missed on the bottom line with a deeper-than-expected net loss, and forecast this quarter's and the full year's revenue ahead of Street consensus.
Revenue in the three months ended in March rose 68%, year over year, to $46.1 million, yielding a net loss of 8 cents a share.
Analysts had been modeling $44.5 million and a 6-cent loss per share.
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman remarked that ""We saw record quarterly increases in absolute numbers in both the number of businesses that claimed their Yelp page and the increase in the number of paying local advertisers."
"This demonstrates the strength in the Yelp playbook and gives us confidence in our strategy going forward as we continue to invest."
For the current quarter, the company projects revenue in a range of $52.5 million and $53.5 million, and Ebitda of $4.5 million, on an adjusted basis. The Street has been modeling $50 million in revenue and Ebitda of $4.7 million.
For the full year, the company sees revenue in a range of $216 million to $218 million, and Ebitda in a range of $21 million to $23 million. That is above the consensus estimate for $211.8 million in revenue and $21.2 million in Ebitda.
Yelp management will host a conference call with analysts at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
Update: As the conference call rolls along, the shares have picked up steam and are now up $3, or 12%, at $28.30.


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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- French oil company Total SA said Monday it had sold its stake in an offshore oil field near Nigeria for $2.5 billion to the Chinese state-run firm Sinopec Corp., a sign of China's growing stakes in the West African nation's oil production.
The field includes Total's deep-water Usan production operation, which opened earlier this year and has a production capacity of 180,000 barrels a day. Production had been ramping up and is currently at around 130,000 barrels a day, Total spokesman Charles-Etienne Lebatard said.
The Usan facility has a storage capacity of 2 million barrels, the company has said. The field is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) from the West African nation's southeastern coast.
Total said the sale matched its plans to raise cash for new ventures. In September, the company issued a statement saying it planned to sell $15 billion to $20 billion worth of its assets from now through 2014.
"This sale of an asset operated from a minority position will allow us to focus our resources on the material growth opportunities in Total's portfolio," Yves-Louis Darricarrère, president of upstream operations at Total, said in a statement.
Total said the deal, done for cash, must be approved by Nigerian authorities. Officials with Sinopec could not be immediately reached for comment.
The state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. is the concession holder on the field. Other partners include Chevron Corp, Esso E&P Nigeria Ltd. and Nexen Petroleum Nigeria Ltd. Nigeria's state-run firm also would have final say on the sale. Fidel Pepple, a spokesman for the corporation, said the firm "was working on" a response to the announcement, but declined to immediately comment Monday.
Total is one of several foreign oil companies that operate in Nigeria, a nation that produces more than 2 million barrels of oil a day and remains key to U.S. gasoline supplies. Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of Sinopec, already pumps crude oil from Nigeria, although it is a relatively small amount compared to other Western companies operating there.
The move by the Chinese comes after the country has increasingly offered loans and assistance to Nigeria. China is increasingly looking across Africa for raw minerals and supplies to fuel a massive economy that has slowed in recent years during the economic downturn. China also has been mentioned as a possible bidder for oil blocks in the country, though experts believe past Nigerian governments only have used the Chinese interest to force Western firms to increase their own bids.
Jon Gambrell reported from Johannesburg and can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP .


text: We saw two of our "original" Heroes protags die in last night's finale. Niki was trapped in a burning building when it exploded, and Nathan got gunned down. But sources say at least one of those deaths may not be final. Did Peter fly Nathan away to get medical help? Or did Niki climb out of the burning wreck in time?


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- Yield
- About 6 cups, serving 4 to 6
- 2 pounds fingerling potatoes or other small waxy potatoes
- 1/2 cup or so extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup 1/4-inch slices of scallion, green and white parts
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 3 cloves garlic, mashed and coarsely chopped (1 1/2 tsp)
- 1/3 cup white wine
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon-style mustard
- 2 to 3 tablespoons chopped chives
- 2 tablespoons or more coarsely chopped fresh green or purple basil, fresh tarragon, or parsley
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more if needed
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper (coarse), plus more if needed
- For serving and garnishing
- Large radicchio leaves, about 6, from the outside of the head
- 1 or 2 hard-boiled eggs, coarsely chopped
- Chopped fresh parsley
- Scrub the potatoes and put them, whole, in a saucepan with water to cover by 1/2 inch. Bring the water to a boil, reduce the heat, and cook the potatoes gently until they are just tender and can be pierced with a sharp knife. Drain immediately and let cool slightly. (Scrape the skin from the cooked potatoes, if you want, as soon as they can be handled. For a decorative look with fingerlings, scrape off only a band of skin, about 1/2 inch thick, all around the long sides of the potato.)
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a small saute pan. When hot, add the scallions and the onion, toss to coat well, and cook for about a minute over medium-high heat. Add the garlic, toss to mix, and cook for just a few moments, then remove the pan from the heat.
- Slice the potatoes while still warm, cutting them crosswise into 1/2-inch sections. Put the pieces in a large mixing bowl, pour the wine and 3 or 4 tablespoons of olive oil over them, and toss gently to distribute. Add the warm vegetables from the pan, mustard, chives, chopped herbs, salt, and pepper, and gently fold all together, mixing well but not crushing the potatoes. Taste the salad and add more seasonings as you like.
- Serve the potatoes warm (no colder than room temperature). Arrange the large radicchio leaves, if you have them, in a close circle on the serving platter, with their curved insides up, to form a rough bowl. Spoon the potato salad inside the leaves, sprinkle chopped egg around the edges, and parsley over the top.
Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. Copyright © 1999 by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during WWII; afterwards she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bartholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963 Boston's WGBH launched "The French Chef" television series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966; subsequent public television shows were "Julia Child & Company" (1978), "Julia Child & More Company" (1980)—both of which were accompanied by cookbooks—and "Dinner at Julia's" (1983), followed by "Cooking with Master Chefs" (1993), "In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs" (1995), and her collaboration with Jacques Pépin, "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home" (1999). The 40th anniversary edition of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 was published in 2001.
Jacques Pépin, celebrated host of award-winning cooking shows on National Public Television, master chef, food columnist, cooking teacher, and author of nineteen cookbooks, was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, near Lyon. His first exposure to cooking was as a child in his parents' restaurant, Le Pelican. At thirteen years of age, he began his formal apprenticeship at the distinguished Grand Hotel de L'Europe in his hometown. He subsequently worked in Paris, training under Lucien Diat at the famed Plaza Athenee. From 1956 to 1958, Mr. Pépinwas the personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle. A former columnist for the New York Times, Mr. Pépin writes a quarterly column for Food & Wine. He also participates regularly in the magazine's prestigious Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and at other culinary festivals and fund-raising events worldwide. In addition, he is a popular guest on such commercial TV programs as The Late Show with David Letterman, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. Mr. Pépin is the recipient of two of the French government's highest honors: he is the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1997) and a Chevalier de L'Ordre du Merite Agricole (1992). He is also the Dean of Special Programs at The French Culinary Institute of Wine and Food, a member of the IACP, and is on the board of trustees of The James Beard Foundation. He and his wife, Gloria, live in Madison, Connecticut.


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About my question how to install it:
After that, just a new git checkout <branch>, or should I instead clean remove everything and fresh install?
After that, just a new git checkout <branch>, or should I instead clean remove everything and fresh install?
Yes, but I have a life outside of helping on here. Whilst I do (generally) check these fora several times a day I may end up spending what time I have trying to help other people.dsyleixa123 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:15 pmno one here to explain how the correct and clean way for a downgrade is from screenshot to windowsave?
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libshapes.c: In function 'WindowSaveAsPng':
libshapes.c:1317:8: warning: variable 'width' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Wclobbered]
VGint width = *w;
libshapes.c:1318:8: warning: variable 'height' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Wclobbered]
VGint height = *h;
libshapes.c:1337:68: warning: argument 'w' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Wclobbered]
bool WindowSaveAsPng(const char *filename, VGint x, VGint y, VGint w, VGint h, int zlib_level) {
libshapes.c:1337:77: warning: argument 'h' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Wclobbered]
dowSaveAsPng(const char *filename, VGint x, VGint y, VGint w, VGint h, int zlib_level) {
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install -m 755 -p font2openvg /usr/bin/
install: das Entfernen von '/usr/bin/font2openvg' ist nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
Makefile:55: die Regel für Ziel "install" scheiterte
make: *** [install] Fehler 1
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dot.c: In function 'drawScene':
dot.c:27:28: warning: implicit declaration of function 'rand' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
float xp = (float)(rand() & 0x3ff);
dot.c: In function 'main':
dot.c:49:17: warning: implicit declaration of function 'atoi' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
count = atoi(argv[1]);
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int _fontsize_ = 10;
inline void lcdprintxy(VGfloat x, VGfloat y, char * buf) {
Text( (x+_fontsize_), (y+_fontsize_*1.2), buf, MonoTypeface , _fontsize_);
void display() {
Fill(255, 255, 255, 1);
// StrokeWidth(1.0); // doesn't make a difference with or without
Dot(50,10,false); Dot(52,10,false); Dot(54,10,false); Dot(56,10,false); Dot(58,10,false);
Dot(50,20,false); Dot(52,20,false); Dot(54,20,false); Dot(56,20,false); Dot(58,20,false);
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Dot(x, y, false);
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vguEllipse(dot_rough_path, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
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vguRect(dot_smooth_path, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
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git pull --rebase
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git clone http://github.com/paeryn/openvg.git
git checkout windowsave
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Oops, yes I updated the one in client because I needed to run the demos, but the demos don't link dynamically against the library, they link statically with its object files.dsyleixa123 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:54 pmJust FYI,
the make in openvg still had the wrong paths instead of -lbrcmGLESv2 -lbrcmEGL,
but in openvg\client\ this already was correct surprisingly!
Thank you very much for your efforts!


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The Target data breach in 2013 spurred Kentucky lawmakers to put notification policies in place so that citizens receive timely notice when credit card and other sensitive data is stolen.
Data breaches in Kentucky are now governed by two laws that outline how affected parties will be notified if their information has been compromised.
House Bill 5 and House Bill 232 were signed by Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear in a ceremony last month, strengthening data breach reporting requirements for the public and private sectors, respectively. The measures were officially state law since April 10.
In an interview with Government Technology in late June, Rep. Denver "Denny" Butler, D-Louisville, the sponsor of HB 5, admitted he didn't know why the state didn't already have legislative policy in place to address notification standards for data breaches. But he's pleased his measure established guidelines for agencies to use in the event a compromise occurs.
"Unfortunately, we live in a time in which cyber criminals continually bombard companies and public entities in hopes of gaining access to personal information on thousands of people," Beshear said in a statement. "That's why it is important for government and private businesses to … let people know when their personal data may have been fraudulently obtained. We all must be vigilant in protecting sensitive information."
HB 5 and HB 232 require agencies that have experienced a data breach to alert the Kentucky State Police, auditor of public accounts, attorney general, Kentucky Department of Education or the Council on Postsecondary Education, depending on the public entity involved. A time period to alert those individuals impacted by the breach isn't mandated by the bills, however.
The open-endedness was by design, so that an investigation wouldn't be compromised, according to Butler. He explained that if an agency got hacked and credit card numbers were stolen, there would be a difference between when individuals would be notified based on law enforcement trying to nail one person using one number, or if the incident is a part of a larger credit card fraudulence ring, where police may have the ability to shut it all down.
"What we didn't want to do is say we're going to give up this information as soon as we find out about the compromise and notify the public within 12 hours," Butler said. "Because if you're onto a ring, and it may take two days … it would be worth that wait to nail those people."
Butler added that the spirit of the legislation is if investigators have no idea who conducted the breach, they're going to notify citizens. But if they have a good lead, they wanted some legislative leeway to give law enforcement the time they need to bring a hacker to justice.
Government Technology reached out to Rep. Steve Riggs, D-Louisville, HB 232's sponsor for comment on his measure, but a message wasn't returned by press time.
Both HB 232 and HB 5 proceeded fairly quickly through the Kentucky Legislature, with the latter having more than 80 co-sponsors, according to Butler. He felt the Target data breach last year drove the immense participation and interest the bills generated.
The only significant amendment to HB 5 was to remove language that would have impeded those agencies already saddled with security and reporting requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Representatives of hospitals and health associations were concerned that they might be double-regulated and worked with Butler and other legislators to adjust the measures.
"When we looked at it, we had enough language to cover everything and we were able to take out almost a full page of duplicate regulation on those interest groups," Butler said.
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