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Scientific Linux 5.5 - i386 & x86_64
May 19, 2010
Scientific Linux release 5.5 has been released for i386 and x86_64.
We have added gnuplot42 as well as the iwlwifi 6000 ucode (firmware). The Upstream Vendor has also added freeradius2 and postgresql84, as well as updated OpenOffice to 3.1.1.
For the full list of what we have added, or updated, please see the release notes.
We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. We say that every time, but we really mean it. Many of the features in Scientific Linux come from our community. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is.
Scientific Linux release 5.5 is based on the rebuilding of RPMS out of SRPMS's from Enterprise 5 Server and Client, including Update 5. It also has all errata and bugfixes up until the morning of May 18, 2010.
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Janez Maroevic (born 9 December 1972 in Split) of Stari Grad, Hvar Island, Croatia is a General Secretary and organizer of the Faros Maratón and General Secretary of the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation. He is a young, passionate open water swimming event organizer.
Race Organizer and Administrator
By profession a Master of Economics, Maroevic entered in organizational structure of the open water swimming in 1990. As a top marathon runner, he presents a unique background in the world of open water swimming.
Since 1990 to 1996 he was a Secretary of the organization. Since 1997, he has served as the General Secretary, the most important role in the organization of the Faros Maratón, one of the world's most prestigious open water swimming events and an Honour Organisation of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
2001, along Vicko Šoljan, Maroevic was the founder of the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation. He has served as its General Secretary from 2001 to the present. He is also a member of the Assembly and the Executive Board of the Federation. Additionally, he has contributed significantly to the establishment and organization of numerous open water swimming events in the Republic of Croatia, especially the CRO-CUP, and the development and promotion of this sport.
As General Secretary of the Federation, for many years Maroevic was an important part of the Team of Karla Šitić who finished 12th at the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics.
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He is longtime reporter for all Croatian media about the events of the Croatian and world open water swimming.
Maroevic was one of the editors of the gala monograph World Faros Maratón issued in August 2012.
2004 Croatian National Television broadcast the movie Marathoner that was written and directed by Petar Krelja, about the life and career of Maroevic focusing on his passion and enthusiasm that is embodied in the Faros Maratón and founding of the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation.
For his sports achievements and long-time work in the open water swimming community, he received numerous awards from Croatia and the world.
Marathon is his philosophy of life and his life motto is: Life isn't sprint, life is Marathon!
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Maroevic was one of the best marathon runners of all time in Croatia, a six-time Croatian champion, winner of 24 medals at National championships, winner of more than 100 races in Croatia and abroad and more times Croatian national team member.
Faros Maratón Swim
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- Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation
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- Tattoos on Open Water Swimmers
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Nokia Lumia 920 popular in Hong Kong?
There's a been quite a bit of news on the Nokia Lumia 920s popularity. We haven't got numbers from Nokia but it's been plenty of reports on a figure of 2.5 Million for the 920 in the first month alone. Quite alright for a second gen version for the Lumia range.
If true, that's a good start, along with news of it being out of stock in several places (though that might have more to do with low initial stock to begin with than actual sales).
The Nokia Lumia 920 is a genuinely awesome phone through and through. in design, in build, in features, in usability – it's a fantastic all in one package for the majority of consumers and it's no surprise to see how despite the abysmal marketing from Nokia, it seems to be selling quite well on its own. Wireless charging, Optical image stabilisation carl Zeiss PureView camera, Super Sensitive Screen, PureMotion HD+ With Clear Black Display, WP8 Nokia Drive, beautiful design and legendary Nokia build.
I can't quite understand the garbled auto-translation but it appears to have some popularity in Hong Kong.
More exaggerated, Hong Kong Bank Lumia 920 at today is the seller Scoop 5600 yuan high price, sometimes for many consumers surprised.
All this shows that a phenomenon: Nokia Lumia 920 is so popular, Nokia virtue WP8 resurgent? Let the market data speak for themselves.
Tipper Keithium explains:
Lumia 920 has been launched in Hong Kong today for a price of about 4500 Yuan (722 USD) and , got "looted" by buyers and now stands sold out completely. As reported, many buyers returned empty-handed. Though the number of devices in the stock have been quoted to be 7000, still for a small market like Hong Kong and this being the first lot only, is very significant.
State-side, the Nokia Lumia 920 is said to be extremely popular at Walmart. In Sweden, an online retailer says the 920 has created a backlog of demand twice as big as for the very popular SGSIII.
The Phones4U stores at Preston have regularly been out of stock on the Nokia Lumia 920 for a while (hence my wait for replacement) but they only had small initial stock.
Fingers crossed Nokia helps the Nokia Lumia 920 gain some awareness from consumers, so that they'll be informed about how awesome this phone is when considering their new phone options. Hopefully this is the start of the tide turning in Nokia's favour, not just in sales, but over all public image of the once king of phones.
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I am from Hong Kong. I pre-oredered a yellow Lumia 920 on Nov 21 in a Nokia shop. When the phone released on yesterday, the shop called due to high demand, my yellow 920 will only be available by Dec 15. Only black and white available. Too bad!
a quick look at the source seems to claim alot of celebs are using the lumia 920, also some sellers are taking the opportunity to raise price.
The article did conclude with (paraphrased) "does this mean wp8/lumia 920 is very popular in HK? Let the market statistics reveal that later on."
"a quick look at the source seems to claim alot of celebs are using the lumia 920, also some sellers are taking the opportunity to raise price."
In fact, when I was in Hong Kong last month, I went to one of their Broadway branch and saw Nokia phones sold at a higher price compared to those in Malaysia. One example is the 900 which is priced at HK$ 4,788 (RM 1,880) compared to RM 1,650 in Malaysia.
Oddly enough, the iPhone 5 there is sold at the exact same price as the iPhone 4S when it was launched here last December (RM 2,199.xx)…
I guess they have their version of vats, while in Malaysia we are tax free now no? and owh, im not sure if the source is speaking about the dealers or you know, the small stalls that sells phones in and about malaysia. Those guys sometimes raise prices too.
Jay, in the Hong Kong story. It says the first lot was 7000 units. It was sold out, and many consumers wanted it, so the buyers who could get the phone that day with 4500 Yuan(722 USD)
sold their phones to others for 5600 yuan (that is 1100 Yuan profit in a very short time).
People make this kind of business in Asia a lot, if something is popular and limited, for example football tickets and so on.
This is a very good sign that the Lumia 920 is very popular!
Lol. Reminds me of the rice sellers in tvb dramas. Always the assholes that raise the prices in times of need.
It looks like nobody wants black or white. Red and yellow are bestsellers.
black and white is so iphoney and sammy…
Actually want neither, want a grey one. But there seems to be nobody selling them. It would be a bit much to get a black and white one just to make a grey one
Australia is supposedly getting grey ones next month, with how the international schedule had been I would guess HK won't get grey until Jan 2013.
While I'm still waiting for Nokia Malaysia to bring it in, I can't wait to see the sales result.
It's a mess in their facebook page every day we fans throw tantrums in every single post they made because we want our Lumia 920 now.
It's all over again. If there really were extraordinary sales, I don't doubt Nokia would tell us the official number, everyone is doing this "we sold X millions in first two weeks" and they need to generate hype. Even MS told us 60M W8 licenses were sold so far, but is mum on WP8 (or Surface and W8 RT).
The silence on the hard numbers front pretty clearly indicates there is no breakthrough in WP sales.
No, they were not mun about wp sales. Ballmer revealed yesterday that wp8 sales are 4x compared to wp7 sales last year.
Correction: wp7 sales same time last year.
And do we have the official MS number for WP7 sales for the same time last year? Because otherwise it's totally meaningless statement. Again, that they throwing around only relative comparisons but they won't reveal the actual number tells you what they themselves think about how big or amazing it is.
Not actual figure, no. Gardner gave 2,8 million WP +WM altogether. That could mean 10 million or less WPs now. If Nokia has 80%, it means max 8 million. Analysts' consensus is (median figure) 3-6 million.
6 million woul be decent start. I wish that Nokia will have that special something also in terms of tweaked software coming out next Spring, they could be saved.
If we went with just US sales that's 600,000 x 4 = 2.4 million.
What? Ballmer just yesterday told that the WP sales are four times bigger than they were last year at the same time. That translates to ~12M WP handsets for Q4 2012 if the trend holds since 3M WP7 devices were sold in Q4 2011.
Now if we count the following details in the mix:
1) Lumia sales from the WP share is 59% and rising
2) ATIV S is not yet available anywhere
3) HTC 8X is also showing limited worldwide supply
we can make an estimate of ~7.2M Lumias sold in Q4 2012 (12M * 0.60) if Ballmer wasn't full of crap in his statements and if the Lumia WP marketshare of 60% holds. Given the fact that Lumia 920 is incredibly popular compared to the other WP8 models and pretty much every WP7 device sold is from Nokia that number can easily be more.
Well, nice. Except you are getting your numbers straight out of the place where sun isn't shining. Which is precisely why they wont tell us the real data, that way everyone can invent theirs.
The Q4 number is actually just estimate and one from the higher end, the lower end was less than 2M. Given that this is likely far below the margin of error for the estimates, we can safely conclude we have no idea what the WP7 sales were, except that they were abysmal. Four times abysmal is still abysmal, especially when the market is growing in the meantime.
Also, your "if the trend holds" is quite big assumption. For example what the "for this time of year" means? Is it last week? Is it from the start of Q4? Or from the start of WP8 sales, i.e. just November? And how much are these two comparable? In 2011 there was no big new OS launch at the end of October and Lumias were only available from half of November onward. One or two weeks of sales here and there, and the numbers can paint totally different picture.
Is nn abreviation from negative nancy?
That said, the numbers I "pulled out of my ass" come from analyst houses well respected in the mobile industry and their estimates. Given that Ballmer is talking about WP platform as a whole (not just Lumias) during an investor phone conference call it makes sense to consider Q4 sales for this part. Of course we don't know exactly what timeframe Ballmer means in his comments, but I don't think he can be coy here and somehow try to deceive investors. There's legal things to consider here.
This is why I think WP8 sales will hit double digits by the end of the year. Feel free to call me positive pete if it makes you feel better.
No, it's abbreviation from "cold hard facts".
It rather seems you picked just one analyst house, which reported the highest number. I suggest you look at more than one, and also take a notice of the spreads between the respective estimates they report, so you will get the idea how precise they are.
If we rerun your example with 2M for Q4, we get 5M WP8 sales for Nokia. Add one or maybe two millions of WP7 phones and you can see why nobody is in rush to report the real numbers.
I could only found one for my quick search, I thought Gartner would be reliable enough. I wouldn't say 5M WP8 phones would be a bad thing though, if most of that is from the 920. It would be very decent start considering the conditions in Q4.
at the same time Symbian will be getting close to zero.
If the result reaches consensus, I would be surprised, if Elop gets to stay.
When was Galaxy SIII launched? Could there be next one coming out in Spring? Nokia has to sell masses by then.
Btw. Ill check Nokia's own guidance. If they already know that they'll reach ~7 million, they might need to issue positive profit warning.
aparrently 40m and that includes downgraded pcs to w7..
Basically winodws 8 platform is a failure.
Nokia has not sold 2.5m 920s in the first month.. more like 400,000 units of w8 devices which is dire
Link please
He pulled that number out of his ass.
I doubt many have been downgraded. Because W8 is so great? No, because there is hardly any HW out there you can buy with Windows 8. Even if you want a Windows 8 machine you have to look far and wide to get one and most that are available suck because of weak specs or it is made by companies like Acer.
Regarding Nokia, they probably haven't sold 2.5 mil units yet. But it based on what you can read it might actually happen. The L900 had similar buzz but not of this size, logical since the 900 wasn't all that special.
"Even if you want a Windows 8 machine you have to look far and wide to get one and most that are available suck because of weak specs or it is made by companies like Acer."
are you kiding ??? its getting hard to find computers with win7 the win8 crap is all over and people don't care… pc sales are down in the xmas seson..
About Lumia sales I will keep my ball park number of 6-8 Million as the absolute minimum for a 8 phone range on average less than 1 million per device, Its still pathetic to me but probably many will say its fantastic.
Guess it differs from country to country. Don't know anything about the US, but from what I hear around Europe it is hard to actually get anything running W8. RT devices are postponed indefinitly or even scrapped and the PRO version of that are all delayed well into 2013.
But who cares, it isn't about W8 here on MNB. WP8 is what it is about here. 6 to 8 million units is probably the best estimate. Is it good? No, is it dreadfull. A bit, hopefully the numbers will keep going north.
7 000 means 300 0000 in USA.
Sorry, I mean 300 000.
6 zeros.
By the way, does anyone remember Nokia EVER disclosing device or device range sales figures ahead of a quarterly report? Off the top of my hat, I don't remember them ever doing that. Not even during the best of times. I don't expect them to now, whatever the case.
That's why the Q4 report is so significant. It will put this to rest. In the meanwhile, Nokia has given bleak guidance for Q4 (during Q3 report) and has not issued a stock exhange release stating otherwise – we must assume Q4 is constrained as announced, unless we hear otherwise in the form of a note to investors.
I do see genuine demand in many places (and excess of availability), but in all likelyhood overall that demand is good only relative to past Lumia performance, not good relative to iPhone 5 or SGS3. I doubt the demand is bad relative to past Lumia performance, at least.
Lumia 920 will NOT have sold tens of millions once this quarter is over. That's for sure.
If anyone thinks that Lumia 920 sales goes anywhere close to 10M, it's rehab time.
I think that it might sell more than 10M in the coming quarters, but I agree that it is highly unlikely to sell that kind of an amount during the present quarter alone.
Nokia has no reason to issue a "positive warning" to the markets and thus even if they would be selling them in millions upon millions they could still just remain quiet.
I think it is pretty clever at this point for Nokia to remain quiet on the actual sales no matter what the figures show. If Nokia were to publish some initial figures the expectations would either be to abandon its share altogether or to over-value it and be bitterly disappointed when the silly market projections did not hold true.
I would imagine that Nokia is pleased with the sales and they are revealing the news at Q4 report just to have as much time as possible in this relative calm. They don't have to speak from future devices or upcoming sales or supply chain management but can just bask in the sunshine of relatively positive media feedback.
Except that it's mandated by law that if their Q4 situation changes significantly from their previous forecast they have to report it.
some where released on the n8. But basically the n8 was their last big selling phone ..
Did they release N8 numbers outside of a quarterly report? I genuinely don't recall how that went.
They didn't, but I do recall they mentioned something about S3 in general. If that was during a report or just before I can't recall, one thing is for sure. They have never mentioned anything just after a launch. Try to find any sales numbers for the N95, even that is hard to come by.
5 million shipped, with a estimated 4 million the n8 and not the mass market symbian devices.
When we have you here, few pre-refuting notes for the Q4 results ride.
For starter, Q4 will tell us nothing we already didn't know (provided they don't report something like 15M Lumia sales, but even you don't think that is on the table). I think it's very clever from you to trumpet the importance of Q4 results for WP8. There is the transition from WP7 where WP8 sells only for part of the quarter, the availability ramp up is not so impressive to say at least plus the exclusivity deals, we have the reported shortages… Also somehow I have the feeling we will not learn about the actual WP7/8 break down officially from Elop.
It will be great opportunity to bend the numbers as one likes it, invent estimates that suits the right theories and then call for wait for Q1/Q2 numbers to see if the momentums will continue.
BTW, they didn't share it before, but that's no reason they couldn't start doing it now. It's not like they are trying to totally ignore the sales situation, they just don't want to tell any specific number. I'm sure that if they sold 5M in first month, we would know it. In fact it would be quite idiotic to not to report it.
O, ye of little faith.
I have no need or desire to twist any numbers or even to debate this, outside of some perverted personal interest in the matter. I do think, however, Q4 numbers will signal us if Lumia (and Elop) are here to stay or not – and I'll honestly tell then.
It is true the situation is not optimal. Launch went well into November in many places, some places only getting the new Lumia in 2013. Add to this the shortages in supply, which even if we assume is only due to limited supply and not immense demand, will impact the numbers negatively. I would have preferred an earlier launch to really get good numbers.
So, sure, there are excuses and real reasons to be considered when we get there… but I remain hopeful we get some meaningful numbers (and qualitative information), especially if and when we get to compare those to HTC's Windows Phone 8 numbers. I think one signal to consider is the guidance Nokia gives for Q1 on Q4 results, that too will be telling.
So, an interesting Q4 report coming up early January! We'll talk more about this then, I'm sure.
They will just tell that they had some component supply shortages, which limited the launch and Q1 will be the break point. They wont open up the split between WP8 & 9. Elop will reveal the big secret that 920 has outsold N9 todate
Q4 will not tell about success or not. Im waiting for the first patch of Lumia's where it shows – what Elop has promised for years now – the special tweaks to WP that Nokia has made. And the awesome Lumia's the developer relation director promised. After Q1 we'll know, if Elop is going to stay or not.
Q4 will not tell about success or not.
Success in this industry is won or lost every day, every quarter. Nothing will guarantee long-term success.
However, Q4 can tell about long-term failure. And if it does do that in my view, I'll say so. If not, then great.
No, just one quarter can't tell you anything about long-term failure or success. If you want to measure long-term results you have to look at long-term data, but here everything points to Q4 being the same as all previous four quarters and small up/down variation can't change basic facts. That's why Q4 can't tell much to anyone who paid attention to what was happening through the year.
Getting philosophical?
I don't think you will get much beside the Nokia apps and perhaps some improvements in core WP (like imagining stack), which will be shared by everyone. IMO the big concession from MS is that Nokia will be allowed to use and tweak WP for the next disruption or whatever Ahtisaari is working on.
Where have you got the idea that Ahtisaari is working on future disruptions? From the latest Elop interviews Ive come into conclusion that the future disruptions are basicly technological advancements.
It's of course just speculation on my part, desperate attempt to find some meaning in the random irrational cacophony coming out of Elop and Nokia.
The thing Ahtissari spends half of his time isn't just new phone or tablet, IMO it's more radical, maybe flexible device or something. Also Elop said that the disruption will make smartphones obsolete, that signals to me it's more concrete idea and also that it isn't just mere technical evolution.
Although, it would of course be ridiculous to dismiss 920 sales just because they don't reach iPhone or SGS3 numbers. Nokia doesn't need to have the best numbers in order to have good numbers. But yeah, if demand were so great (+5% over estimated), they would have to release a positive profits warning/alert.
Would they need to issue a positive profits warning if demand exceeds their ability to supply? I.e. they would not have more revenue or profits as they have nothing more to sell, and thus would need to report, no?
Everyone above have talked about sales, not demand. To answer your possibly rhetorical question: ofcourse not.
What is good with having shortages in supply? The next generation of products will be arriving soon again and 920 will be forgotten. Also, they need to get products out for Christmas.
I did not say shortage in supply was good.
Second, Bloob talked about demand.
Was rather referring to demand from the retailer, which is basically the number of orders Nokia gets for 920. =)
But yeah, only number of sales (orders) would force them to issue a warning, but as it hasn't happened, I am doubtful the 920 has been selling all that much. Unless Nokia wrote down bigger than estimated restructuring costs.
I know, my whole comments was a bit tongue cheek.
Having said that, I guess even if there were orders but Nokia would not be able to supply against them, there would be no new revenue other than some prepayments perhaps.
As for the warning, one could still come (and hope one does) closer to the quarterly report.
Prepayments are only cash-flow related and sales (=turnover) and related profits are written against shipments. Hence, no profit warning in that case
Problem is that even though Nokia Lumia sales are more than iPhone 5 level and its launched in fewer markets than iphone andS3 also in sweden retailer tell that the backlog is 2X s3… in Hongkong selling 7000 units in a day is mile stone… But friends as Elop nored in Q3 earnings call, the positive sales will be impacted by restructuring cost.. if u look for last 6 Qs loss is because of this massive restructuring
The headline figure for Q4 may still be poor due to more "one off" costs incurred by the closing down of factories etc. The interesting figure will be the sales, and the profit (not including expecptional items etc).
This is the only one I can remember:
What they did in addition at some point in their quarterly reports was to split between N Series, E Series and other smartphone sales. Might have mentioned at least in the earning call some specific device numbers,not sure.
I will be surprised if their whole Windows Phone portfolio sells more than 3 mil. in Q4.. that is including all the Windows CE devices that are on fire sale right now.
That is really pessimistic, last quarter was 3mil. AFAIK, if they sell less than that in the quarter that is known for big spending that would be abysmal. I'm not one to do any crystal ball number predictions but I'd suspect it will be 6mil. maybe 8 at best but that would be stretching it.
I agrea with the 6-8 M ball park number cmon nokia as 8 Lumia devices on sale…
Actually, Why would wp8 sell better than wp7? The devices and ui look the same, the capabilities and performance look roughly the same… Why would consumers suddenly start buying wp?
I'm asking in all honesty. Is there better advertisement this time (but they already said last time more advertisement than ever, operation rolling thunder, blabla)? Is the ui suddenly fashionable…? What has changed?
We could replace wp7.5 and wp8 with symbian s60th and symbian^3 and try to compare the difference.
To me, there might be a few reasons, a better camera, more processing power, more languages available and being sold in more countries.
In my own current surrounding some of my friends have been waiting for WP 8 to launch so that they could try out these new Nokia phones. This is a big change since they have been ridiculing me for the last 3-4 years for having Nokia phones and not an iPhone or an android.
Marketing is better this time around at least here in the US, clearly.
There is more carrier support here in the US – perhaps elsewhere too, not sure.
Windows 8 is out.
Performance of the devices is significantly better, and there are more compelling devices from Nokia and others. Specs on paper are also on par with the competition, at least right now.
The UI does not look the same, until 7.8 is out. There are some important added capabilities too which may have some positive impact on sales.
So, all in all WP8 should sell better and the indications are, it is (Ballmer, while not giving a specific number, also cannot just lie to his investors).
I don't know why, but there are quite a few people that have asked me lately how WP was and if it was worth switching to (from Android in most cases) There are more people noticing WP and looking at it as an alternative, will this translate into sales? Who knows.
One thing is for sure, WP is being talked about more.
yeah I agree with that Microsoft marketing invisible machine is full on.
Will it work???? well they have failed so many times in the past that… PLus I think the usedtobecaled Metro language is failed at its core but we will see..
Your Tipster copied the full paragraph from an article without quoting the link ;). Anyways, Good that this news get more spread being on MNB.
Hi, NPW. Any new rips on the way?
Add my order to it. ATT had cancelled my order because Google maps doesn't show my address and they didn't tell me. We redid my order and the gal says she's getting the cyan 920. Its about Win8 on phone, tablet and computer.
"Its about Win8 on phone, tablet and computer" Is that for real???
What is so unreal about that? The integration accross the three is quite good, in particular if you have Xbox Music.
No, I meant as something people genuinely want, do people want a kinda Microsoft big brother all over their device range???
I Don't want that, but hey I'm not every one.
Yep, people genuinely want devices that work well together and have shared services etc. across them. I even heard some fruit company has kinda demonstrated that point a long time ago.
Hummm that must be the reason most iphone buyers use PC's…
"Yep, people genuinely want devices that work well together" yes and for that to append they need to use OS's from the same brand??? NO!!!! for them to work well enough together they need to be decent product in it self using standard communication methods for each of the things you wan to share.
Unless you have the mental condition known as the appleism you don't want all your devices with the sign of the faith (biten apple, cross, moon cressent, or worse 4 squares) because they don't define you, you are a mix of things, a brand alone is not enough to define you.
Lets do an informal question here…. How many of you are exited about the prospect of using the Microsoft pc, Microsoft phone, Microsoft game centre, Microsoft phone, Microsoft TV, Microsoft cloud,???
To me that is the set up of a religious fanatic (much like some apple fans)
I agree, standards would be best, but they aren't born in an environment that is pretty much ruled by one OS ( just look at the PC-market, where cross-platform is largely community-driven ). 5 active mobile OSs would be great.
Yep, people genuinely want devices that work well together and have shared services etc. across them. Instead of waiting for some standard to possibly, maybe, emerge through an open source utopia..
Btw, perhaps you should define yourself through a few gadgets and the things you do with them either. Or be afraid of them having the same brand. There is more to life and identity than that.
Don't want to get into a personal discussion, I'm sure me and you define yourself in many more way than that. If you meet a UX Psychologist he can probably explain you what I was talking about…But in a nutshell what you buy helps define the way you project yourself.
If you look into the brain MRI's made of iWorshippers you will find that the areas brighten up in their brains are the same as the ones active for religious experiences, resulting in the kinda mindless faith some of them are known to have.
Any way this is a fairly complex subject, I just thought that intuitively all of us knew it.
BTW about the Utopia… Is ssh an utopia??? Are the several protocols you use to sink with the cloud an utopia??? Is html an utopia??? (they seam pretty real to me)
Does using all software from Microsoft warranties you better interoperativity??? If you think so you are wrong…
That triggered a lot of ???, didn't it? Hmm.. wonder what an MRI scan at the moment of your brain would have shown?
Btw, doesn't MS use many of those standards too?
And, just to be clear, I am basically just messing with you. One Finn to another.
Yes, being tied to one may be bad. But it may also be very very convenient and provide a pretty darn smooth experience. Nothing inherently evil about it IMHO, I am sure most people realize they are being tied into a manufacturers "ecosystem" – and don't care and, IMO, that's perfectly fine. It does define who they are, as we both agreed.
in holland introduction postponed to january!
nokia was able to do it again, miss the xmas season.
Didn't they once sell the Lumias with free Xbox? and it sold out. But after all that hype the nos. were still weak.
I still haven't seen any 920 in Hong Kong on streets
Nokia has long been held in high regard by HK citizens, but only recently fallen away due to incompetence of Symbian vs Android / iOS, however HK people (guys and girls) are at the forefront of technology and will easily switch back if the package is right….
I've pre-ordered my Lumia 920 yellow with Smartone should be free on a 2 year unlimited data LTE contract at around $460 HKD a month. I went to Nokia store in Hang Hau and also in Kowloon Bay and they all sold out first batch on 1st day. I called on day 2 and they were taking orders for second batch around 10th Dec.
I asked the guy how many were released to his branch – he said around 10-20 only… however he said the Mong Kok and Shatin branches were selling much larger quantities and sold out also. FYI, Shatin has a massive shopping hub (is out of town), and Mong Kok is THE place for everything relating to tech/gadgets.
It was priced in Nokia Store at $5498 approx, and didn't include free wireless charging, however had a reduction on listed price down to I think $288
Hey Spencer well said. Nokia was indeed big in Hong Kong before iPhone and Android took over.
I am thinking their marketing has also been slacking off also. These days you are guarunteed to see at least 50 apple ads a day, be it on TV, bus banner, etc., which is starting to feel like brain wash… I have yet to see 1 bus stop poster for L920.
Glad to hear I am not the only person in HK getting a L920.
Damn…why nokia malaysia is very slow….nokia indonesia already open pre order 4 their customer….why…..wae?????
I have ordered 2 yellow Lumia920 at Fortress on 23 Nov and still waiting for the phones. Back in June I seldom saw Galaxy S3 in the street and until month after the initial launch there were people carried that phone. Now in every corners in Hong Kong there are people carrying Samsung phones. I would see Nokia another success with this Windows Phone. I like Windows ecosystem and I used to have Lumia800 a year ago. Wish more software developer may switch to WP.


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---- — ELIZABETHTOWN — Essex County lawmakers voted 14 to 3 this week to override the state's 2 percent tax cap for the 2013 county budget.
The Essex County Board of Supervisors set a public hearing on the override local law for 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, in the Old County Courthouse at Elizabethtown.
A final vote on the local law will be held after the hearing.
Voting against the tax-cap override were Supervisors Sharon Boisen (I-Essex), Edward Hatch (D-Willsboro) and Randy Preston (I-Wilmington). Supervisor Joyce Morency (R-St. Armand) was absent.
The three who opposed the override said the county should do more to head off a possible 10 percent tax increase as the new budget is being prepared.
The budget is still being formulated by County Manager Daniel Palmer; Board of Supervisors Chair Randy Douglas (D-Jay); Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava (R-Moriah), the budget liaison officer; and other county officials.
Palmer said state mandates are driving up the bottom line in the budget, and the county could not make enough cuts to meet the tax cap and still maintain services.
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- Expanding Opportunity: Employing the Formerly Incarcerated in the Green Economy - An estimated 87,000 jobs will be created through the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) to help weatherize one million low-income family homes. This new report from the National Employment Law Project, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and PolicyLink discusses tools and strategies to enable equitable hiring in the green economy for those with criminal records.
- Reducing Poverty and Economic Distress after ARRA: Next Steps for Short-Term Recovery and Long-Term Economic Security - This new report by researchers at the Urban Institute and Georgetown University highlights strategies for fighting poverty after Recovery Act funding expires. It recommends targeted investments in job creation, training, income support and children and youth to prevent continued damage from the current recession.
- Opening Doors: How to Make the Workforce Investment Act Work for Women - The Center for American Progress reports that Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs discriminate significantly against women, with disparity in earnings between women and men placed in jobs exceeding the national average. Women are disproportionately tracked into lower-paying and low-skilled jobs, where men are more heavily placed into higher-paying, skilled jobs, such as construction. They recommend instituting gender parity requirements for placing WIA clients in better-paying job tracks.
- Cities Pave the Way: Promising Reentry Policies - This report from the National Employment Law Project describes what cities are doing to lead the way in assisting ex-prisoners with community reintegration and staying out of prison. In addition to enacting legislation prohibiting discrimination against job applicants on the basis of past criminal records – such as the "Ban the Box" bill passed in Connecticut this year – cities are using contract standards and other measures to lower incarceration costs and improve public safety by helping people find gainful employment, one of the leading factors in helping people stay out of prison.
Health Insurance Exchanges Under the Affordable Care Act: Key Policy Issues - The health insurance exchange is the centerpiece of the private insurance reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). as is detailed on the Commonwealth Fund Blog. If the exchanges function as planned, they will expand coverage to more Americans, reduce insurance costs, and improve the quality of coverage and perhaps of health care itself. This article outlines some of the major policy issues and decisions that state policymakers need to consider in establishing state exchanges.
Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2009 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that women's earnings were 80.2% of men's in 2009, slightly down from their peak in 2005-06. In addition, researchers found a more entrenched problem impeding women's economic progress: men are disproportionately represented in higher-paid occupations, while women "are far more concentrated in administrative support jobs." This holds true even for professionals: men are concentrated in high-paying jobs (e.g., engineering), and women are far more concentrated in lower-paying ones (education and health care).
Importance of College Opportunities for Undocumented Immigrants through the DREAM Act:
- DREAM Versus Reality: An Analysis of Potential DREAM Act Beneficiaries - This recent report from Migration Policy Institute details the importance of passing the federal DREAM Act, which would grant conditional legal status (and eventual US citizenship) to undocumented high school graduates with a minimum Associate's Degree and who meet a stringent set of requirements. 800,000 young people could gain legal status with the passage of the DREAM Act - including more than one in ten Latinos in the immigrant new destination states Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and North Carolina. Each immigrant college graduate would generate an annual fiscal benefit of over $9,000 per year, including paying $5,300 more in taxes and cost $3,900 less in government expenses than if they had dropped out of high school.
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March 07, 2011, 12:01 PM — If humans can't beat a computer at "Jeopardy!" why should we trust them to make the right call on fourth down in the Super Bowl?
That was the fundamental question asked by some researchers at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston on Friday and Saturday.
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"Jeopardy!" players Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter "are some very smart people and they can't beat a computer [IBM's Watson] when it comes to one variable," says Tarek Kamil, founder of WhatIfSports.com and an executive at InfoMotion Sports Technologies. "How is a coach supposed to keep up with a computer when you're talking about 10 players on a [basketball] court," and variables including referee tendencies, defensive tempo and players' positions on the court? "There are literally 20,000 variables that come into play" in determining the right strategy, he says.
"Fifty years from now, we're going to laugh about how we used to give coaches this much responsibility," he says.
One might make the opposite argument, that Watson could only beat human players as long as the game was contained to one task -- answering trivia questions. And Watson had to consider millions of pieces of data to answer those questions. But Moore's Law ensures the exponential growth of computers' processing power, and sports experts are taking notice of their analytics capabilities after years of dismissing stat geeks as not living in the real world.
Although Kamil gave an extreme example of computers taking over human functions in sports, he also stressed the need for human guidance. "Am I saying we're going to get rid of coaches? Absolutely not," he says. "Someone has to be in charge of discipline. Someone has to be in charge of teaching players" and acting as mentors.
But human coaches are "not optimized for strategy and in-game decisions," he says.
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Disturbed by the international spotlight focused on pregnancies at Gloucester High School, Mayor Carolyn Kirk said yesterday she is investigating whether staffers at the school-based health clinic violated patient confidentiality laws when they discussed the issue with faculty and members of the press.
Kirk said she has sent a letter to Stephen Laverty, the president of Northeast Health System — the company that runs Addison Gilbert and Beverly hospitals and administers the high school health center — and has asked him to describe what information the company considers confidential, how it deals with requests for information, and what consequences employees face if they reveal protected information.
The letter, received by Northeast on June 27 and made available to the Times by the mayor in response to a public records request, stops short of alleging a violation of federal medical privacy laws, but expresses regret that news of the spike in pregnancies at the high school has exposed students to scrutiny and leaves open the possibility of wrongdoing.
"I hope you and your organization are as distressed as I am over the public discourse which has revealed far too much information about Gloucester students than is necessary or appropriate," the letter says.
Yesterday, Kirk said she was not immediately charging Northeast, school or clinic staff with a violation of privacy laws, but reiterated that the city needs to conduct a "review into whether there are violations and by whom."
"One of the biggest complaints that I am getting, is that the breaches of confidentiality have devastated the families," Kirk said. "The press was able to hunt these girls down and find them. That was what the (privacy laws) were designed to prevent."
Specific requests of Northeast made in the letter include how information inquiries from the press, parents and School Department are handled. The letter also asks whether the company considers confidential the number of pregnancy tests given at the clinic, the number of confirmed pregnancies at the school and behavior of students upon hearing the results of the tests.
Heather Jones, a spokeswoman for Northeast, said yesterday that the company planned to respond formally to the mayor's request "as soon as possible," but would not comment on the matter until that time.
Dr. Brian Orr, the former medical director of the clinic who resigned at the end of the academic year in protest against Northeast's reluctance to recommend offering confidential access to contraceptives at the high school, could not be reached yesterday.
The privacy law in question — the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 — sets rules for how medical information can be released by health care providers and insurance companies.
In response to suggestions made by the mayor earlier in the year about possible confidentiality violations, staff at the clinic said revealing the total number of students involved does not break HIPAA laws because it does not provide information that could be used to identify any individuals.
But Kirk this week said her reading of the confidentiality laws indicated that aggregate medical data could not be released under HIPAA if it referred to a group of patients smaller geographically than a state.
"When you talk about 17 pregnant teens at the high school, that has not been de-identified," Kirk said.
Kirk said the reporting of teen births, conducted annually on the municipal level by the state, does not violate the law because birth is not a medical condition. She said yesterday she had consulted acting city legal counsel Suzanne Egan before issuing the letter to Northeast.
Representatives from state Attorney General Martha Coakley's office and the Massachusetts Division of Insurance would not comment on Kirk's reading of the law.
The Times first reported that school officials were concerned about an increase in teen pregnancies at the high school, at that time 10, after conversations with Principal Joseph Sullivan, district health coordinator Ann-Marie Jordan and clinic nurse practitioner Kim Daly.
In May, a health clinic advisory board that included hospital, clinic and school district representatives completed a policy paper that broke down 15 confirmed pregnancies by grade level. Later that month, Orr said 17 girls had received positive tests, a number accepted by school officials. Orr has since raised the total to 18.
Kirk said on Tuesday that the city's review of the issue would include the actions of school district employees.
"We will get to the bottom of it," Kirk said. "We need to see that the safeguards are in place to make sure that it never happens again."
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An old photograph of shoppers in downtown Somerset revived sweet memories of how things used to be. Best we can tell by car models, the photograph was made about 1962.
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If you've been following the journey of this year's crop of "American Idol" contestants, you're probably familiar with the name Briston Maroney.
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Senior citizens around here don't get as excited about the current cold snap as do youthful meteorologists who give forecasts on television.
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Mike Shanahan took a lot of heat for how he handled the benching of QB Donovan McNabb last week, indicating that backup Rex Grossman would be the best option for the Redskins in the final three games. Onlookers believed that the move was more a statement about McNabb and his standing with the team than it was an endorsement for Grossman, who hadn't started a game since 2008 and is on his third team in three seasons. But Grossman played well in the loss to the Cowboys after a slow start, throwing for 322 yards and four TDs.
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For one Sunday, Grossman looked like a very potent NFL quarterback. Mistake-prone, yes, but potent, too. He engineered a comeback from a 13-0 deficit, having not crossed midfield at that point, and made several big throws to help tie the game at 30-30. Grossman threw a bad interception early, a classic Grossman pick, and ended the game with an INT, although he was making the right read on the throw. In between, there were five sacks taken and a fumble lost. But there also were some excellent reads and throws, good footwork and also good placement of his throws, which allowed his receivers to make plays after the catch.
Those latter two points were things that Shanahan didn't see enough of in McNabb. When the coach said he knew what he had in McNabb and was going in a different direction, these qualities played a big part. Shanahan believed that McNabb didn't make enough consistent and "easy" plays within the offense, and many of those failures were the result of poor mechanics, which might have been the result of so-so conditioning, at least in the coaches' minds (we're including Kyle Shanahan in this, because he never much has cared for McNabb since they joined forces).
But don't think that Grossman is any kind of long-term answer. Another strong performance or two in the final two games could ensure that Grossman returns in 2011, but he in no way will be guaranteed a starting job. If there's any doubt about this, just know that Grossman could even lose his spot this season at the first sign of trouble. That's because Mike Shanahan seems oddly enamored with John Beck, who flamed out in Miami and was traded from the Ravens for little in return. Shanahan has mentioned Beck several times, quite strategically, and the former BYU passer could get some quality reps in the final eight quarters of the season.
It's obvious, though, that the Redskins want to clear the decks to some degree at the position and will look hard at a number of college quarterbacks in April. Underclassmen Ryan Mallett, Cam Newton and Blaine Gabbert would be QBs the Redskins might consider in the No. 10-14 range in Round One, but none of those players have declared yet. Further, it would be a stretch to think that any of the three could be ready to play from Day One as rookies.
If Grossman or Beck starts at any point next season, it will be as a placeholder for the future. Grossman has shown he can have big games before, as well as big flops; he's not any kind of long-term answer. Beck has produced only poor outings since coming to the NFL. The future at QB in D.C. lies elsewhere.


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---- — Q: Having just gotten a new battery, starter and motor job, I assumed everything was OK. The car sat overnight in my driveway, and when I tried to turn it over, it wouldn't start. Prior to this happening, my buddy had me test reverse and halfway ignition, but no oil, warning or check-engine light came on the dash as it normally would. Does this sound like some difficult electronic problem, like a sensor, perhaps? This Plymouth Neon has had almost $2,500 worth of work done, including a new radiator and drum brakes.
A: As there are so many possibilities, you mentioned one key fact. You stated the check-engine light and oil light were not on when you turned on the key. This indicates that you have an opening in the electronics of either your ignition switch or the computer of this Neon. When you turn on the key, the check-engine light should be on for about three seconds. This could even be as simple as a fuse. If you have an online auto repair subscription, pull up a wiring diagram for the computer and for the ignition switch. Find the power wire and the fuse that protects them. Check those fuses. If they are indeed good, check the ground circuits and the ignition switch. It does not sound like such a huge problem.
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A: Assuming you mean there are no headlights, it just verifies that there is a draw on the battery that is sucking it down overnight. I had two Ford trucks that were doing the same thing. My suggestion would be to bring the vehicle to a shop that can check for an electrical draw. If no draw is present, try the following method: When you put the car up for the evening, make sure all HVAC controls are turned to off. It is my feeling that you may have a relay that is staying closed.
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When Mary McCartney and her three siblings were young and vacationing on a family farm in Scotland, their father endeavored to teach them about all the beautiful food that sprang from the earth.
"Dad would pick a turnip and slice it through and say, 'Taste this turnip, it's so sweet,'" she recalled while searing slices of eggplant in a skillet. "And we'd be like, 'Oh, Dad, whatever.' We'd just make fun of him."
Maybe there is comfort in knowing that even the most famous people on the planet – McCartney's proto-locavore father once played the bass in a Liverpool skiffle outfit known as the Beatles – cannot escape the mockery of their offspring. And for parents who worry that teachable moments come and go without anyone paying attention, maybe it's reassuring to learn that Paul McCartney's Scottish turnip tutorial did, in the end, manage to sink in.
In fact, Mary McCartney said, "Now we've come around to that ourselves."
Like her father and her mother, Linda, Mary McCartney is a devoted vegetarian. The same goes for her siblings: Stella, a fashion designer; James, a musician; and Heather, an artist. Her first cookbook, which is rather bluntly and tellingly entitled "Food," has just been released in the U.S.
For the McCartney clan, it seems, there was never any segregated category of "vegetarian food." After Paul and Linda experienced a couple of epiphanies in the 1970s (including one that involved "a big truck with a bunch of caged chickens in it," Mary McCartney said), vegetarian was simply how the family ate.
Although her recipes for dishes like Lip-Smacking Minestrone, Asparagus Summer Tart, Ice-Cream Celebration Cake and Cauliflower Cheese never involve meat, they don't necessarily shy away from eggs, butter, sugar or cheese, and dollops of piety are, mercifully, kept to a minimum.
In the kitchen McCartney, 43, comes across as a charmingly chatty, albeit spontaneously helter-skelter, cook. During a visit to New York, she stood by a stove at a studio on West 31st Street, demonstrating how to make eggplant wraps filled with spinach, pine nuts and sharp cheddar. She needed soy sauce for a marinade that she intended to brush on the slim slices of eggplant (adding an extra wrinkle to her printed recipe), but a bottle couldn't be found. After fishing around, an assistant discovered a stash of the little soy-sauce packets that come with Chinese takeout.
"Oh, perfect," McCartney said. "That will absolutely do."
After a brushing, the eggplant slices went into a pan. "So the idea of this is to brown them on both sides," she said. The pan did not belong to her, though, and she expressed slight concern that chunks of eggplant might adhere to the hot, oiled surface.
"If they start sticking, we'll have an emergency reassessment," she said, laughing. Of course, a touch of scorch couldn't hurt. "It gives it a little flavor; it's nice that way, that's what I always say, although not everyone believes me."
McCartney also prepared a salad with shallots, roasted tomatoes and toasted walnuts, and if the shallots had ventured a tad beyond the threshold of optimal texture, she didn't beat herself up about that. "I might have overcooked them a bit," she mused. "They might be a bit squishy in the salad."
Well, let it be. Even Julia Child splattered potato pancake on the stovetop now and then. Winging it might just be the McCartney way.
Whatever she lacks in precision, she appears to make up for in spirit. As the preparation of lunch went on, she expressed wistful longing for a glass of wine, admitted that her father's song "Live and Let Die" remains her favorite of the James Bond movie anthems ("Obviously, I'm biased," she said), and argued that there was only one correct way to deal with extra pools of olive oil, melted cheese and right-from-the-oven tomatoes.
"You know what would be good is to get a bit of bread and butter and dip it into that," she said. "It might be our duty to do that."
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Hearty Quinoa and White Bean Soup
HEAT oil in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Add onions, carrots and celery, and saute until barely tender, about 5 minutes. Add beans and garlic and stir for 2 minutes.
STIR in tomatoes and their juices, and vegetable stock. Simmer for 20 minutes.
ADD quinoa, parsley, oregano or other herb, and bay leaf. Cover and simmer until quinoa is cooked, 12 to 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove bay leaf and serve. Yield: 6 servings (about 2 1 / 2 quarts)Eggplant Wraps Adapted from "Food," by Mary McCartney 2 tablespoons sunflower oil or light olive oil 1 tablespoon dried mixed salt-free herbs, as desired 2 medium to large eggplants, each trimmed and sliced lengthwise into eighths, for 16 pieces 1 pound spinach 16 sun-dried tomato halves packed in olive oil 3 tablespoons raw pine nuts, toasted in a dry skillet 5 ounces aged cheddar, cut into 16 slices Sea salt and ground black pepper
HEAT oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, combine oil and dried herbs. Lightly brush each eggplant slice on both sides with herbed oil.
PLACE a large skillet over medium-high heat. When pan is hot, arrange as many pieces of eggplant in a single layer as will fit. Fry each side until golden brown and softened, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer cooked eggplant to a plate, and repeat with remaining slices.
RINSE spinach in cold water, and place the wet leaves in a dry medium saucepan. Cover and cook over medium heat until just wilted, about 3 minutes. Drain well.
ASSEMBLE wraps by taking a slice of eggplant and placing a heaping tablespoon of spinach on one side. Top spinach with a sun-dried tomato half, a few toasted pine nuts and a slice of cheddar. Fold the eggplant in half so that filling is completely covered. Place on a large nonstick baking sheet. Repeat to make 16 wraps, placed side by side. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Bake until cheese has melted, about 15 minutes. Serve hot. Yield: 16 wraps


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The discount-designer furniture store that's killing itOctober 14, 2013: 11:23 AM ET
It's called "The Dump." No, really, that's the name.
By Catherine Dunn, reporter
FORTUNE -- Twice a year E.J. Strelitz's company buys up designer showrooms from High Point Market in North Carolina, the furniture industry's monster trade show, and brings them -- along with other furnishings from across the country -- to a place called The Dump.
It's a curious name for a national chain that trades in major life purchases -- that Italian leather sectional, that hand-knotted rug by Calvin Klein. But in a furniture industry clobbered in recent years both by the rise of imports and the Great Recession, The Dump's done well by its strategy: selling discounted-designer furniture in sprawling stores that are open just three days a week.
"Ironically, we really shine in higher-end goods," says CEO Strelitz, who regularly touts half-off prices big-ticket items.
Strelitz's sales have climbed from $20 million in 2002 to a projected $250 million this year. The company's eleventh location in Lombard, Ill., just outside Chicago, celebrated its grand opening this weekend in a 134,000-square foot store housed in a former Sears Great Indoors.
The Dump is a division of Virginia-based Haynes Furniture, a retail outfit that Strelitz's family has owned since 1930 (he's a third-generation executive). In the mid-1980s Haynes was searching for a "growth concept," Strelitz says.
They found one by tapping into an existing vein: the furniture that retailers, like themselves, and manufacturers simply need to get rid of -- whether because a store has to make room for fresh merchandise, or because a furniture maker produced too many pieces, or is closing out a product line, or because a furniture company files for bankruptcy.
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"Historically we've not had a very efficient way to buy this and sell it to consumers," explains industry analyst Jerry Epperson, a managing director at Mann, Armistead & Epperson in Richmond, Va. He says Strelitz was one of the first merchants to recognize and capitalize on that reality, buying close-outs and overstock "opportunistically" and getting customers excited about the prospects of deals.
In branding this concept, the name "The Dump" spoke to Strelitz -- as in, a site where retailers and manufacturers could dump their old goods. "We thought it was kind of cool," he says.
So in 1986 the Dump debuted in Norfolk, Va., essentially a clearance center for Haynes. Located in a former grocery warehouse -- it even contained a set of train tracks -- Strelitz concedes that their first store "wasn't much to look at."
Additional stores have since followed in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and now Illinois. Always, Strelitz opts to launch one "super-regional" location, rather than multiple smaller shops, open Friday through Sunday: prime decision-making time for "lifestyle" purchases.
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The schedule allows plenty of time for replenishing the floor in between high-volume sales days. Sales associates, in turn, are drawn to the compact schedule, and the potential to earn up to $75,000 a year, based on commissions.
Over the years, The Dump's taste in real estate has evolved. "We're no longer interested in shabby real estate in B or C locations," Strelitz says. In 2010, for example, The Dump took up residence in The Home Depot's (HD) legacy locale in Atlanta's affluent Buckhead neighborhood. That same year, The Dump opened in what was once a Costco Home (COST) outpost in Tempe, Ariz.
"We're much more picky than we used to be," Strelitz adds.
Indeed, it took several years for Strelitz to settle on his ideal spot in the Chicago area, one of the top three U.S. markets for furniture sales, alongside New York and Los Angeles. He started scouting properties there in 2009 but decided the economic climate wasn't right yet.
Yet in 2012, Sears Holdings (SHLD) announced the closure of its Great Indoors chain, and the Lombard location piqued Strelitz's interest. Poised just west of the Windy City, at the crossroads of several interstates, the store sits "right in the center, from our perspective, of the Chicagoland suburban market."
Now he has to rally customers anew to come scavenge for high-end bargains. The Dump's Labor Day "sneak preview" opening drew more than 10,000 customers, according to Strelitz.
MORE: Fortune's 50 most powerful women in business.
But his company's continued growth doesn't stop him from worrying about "the dilemma with the name." Will it alienate the higher-income buyers The Dump seeks? To this day, company management, which includes Strelitz's wife Randi, an executive vice president, argues about the right approach to advertising.
This month, for instance, The Dump is rolling out a series of tongue-in-cheek commercials featuring a pair of hippies in one, and nudists in another, contemplating a furniture run.
A third TV spot, which has aired in a handful of markets, stars an elderly woman, coiffed in pearls. As she snips blooms from a rose bush she sniffs, pointedly, "Paying retail is for suckers." It seems Strelitz has already proven his case.


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Ashley Boerrigter of Crestwood received a BS in behavioral neuroscience, graduating Cum Laude, at Centre College's 191st Commencement, held Sunday, May 25 at the college's Norton Center for the Arts. She was one of 325 seniors who were granted degrees, a class that posted an impressive four-year graduation rate topping 84 percent -- the highest graduation rate among all Kentucky colleges and universities. Gov. Steve Beshear was this year's featured Commencement speaker.
Young fairgoers have often asked "Freddy," that giant farm boy sitting on the porch of the Kentucky State Fair, what he does for a regular job. The answer might be "help send young people to college."
With funds raised by being the voice of Freddy Farm Bureau, and volunteering at efforts like the upcoming PGA tournament, the Louisville AG Club provides scholarships to young people attending college in the pursuit of ag careers.
One of the military community's premier benefits has become even more valuable to 600 college and high school students. The annual Scholarships for Military Children Program winners have been announced and the "Honor Roll" is impressive. Approximately 5,000 students applied for the scholarships at commissary locations worldwide. All of the recipients are listed at www.militaryscholar.org, the official website for the program.
Christian Brown of Crestwood graduated from Murray State University on May 10. He received a BS in Biology, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Christian is the son of Pam and Dan Brown. Christian will attend graduate school this fall at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif..
Established in 1922, Murray State University has become known through the years as a student-centered university where the emphasis is on academic excellence. Murray State University has an enrollment of approximately 10,800 students.
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Erin Roxie Overcash, a 2009 graduate of North Oldham High School, graduated from the University of Colorado – Boulder on May 8 with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. On May 9, she received her commission from the United States Navy. She was the Honor Graduate of her ROTC unit and selected by her peers for the Admiral Arleigh Burke Award.
A child's first day of school is a big moment for any parent — but a new program coming to Oldham County Schools will help parents and their children be prepared for kindergarten. The district has received a grant to host a bornlearning Academy, an innovative approach to early childhood parental education.
On Monday, Gov. Steve Beshear announced that La Grange Elementary would be one of the new academy sites supported by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky as the program continues to expand.
On June 25, more than 200 outstanding student musicians will gather at the University of Louisville for five days of rehearsal and performances prior to departing to seven European countries for a 16-day tour. Included in this group is Mackenzie Montross of Crestwood, a student at South Oldham High School. MacKenzie is the daughter of Patrick and Melinda Fogarty and Keith Montross.
Oldham County Schools is so proud to have two graduates who will leave our district with 13 years of perfect attendance. Drew Greenwood (South Oldham High) and Shelbi Schooler (Oldham County High) have both earned this amazing accomplishment.
Drew will be attending Bellarmine University and Shelbi will be attending Marymount Manhattan College in New York.
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Rod Dixon 1983 New York victory
While watching Meb Keflezighi's inspiring victory last weekend at the New York Marathon, I was reminded of this segment we shot with Rod Dixon earlier this year. In it, he recounts his own thrilling New York victory in 1983. Rod came from behind in the last quarter mile to win the closest race in New York history. I've watched this clip many times, and it never gets old. Try watching this and not getting inspired. I dare you!


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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive.
Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told a dispatcher that she was alive and free after being kidnapped 10 years ago and held captive in a house on Seymour Avenue on the city's West Side. DeJesus was with her.
A third woman, Michelle Knight, who has been missing since 2002, was also found at the house. Witnesses said a child, estimated at 8 to 10 years old, also was removed from the house by police.
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Family and friends of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus react outside MetroHealth Medical Center as they gather after hearing that the two and another woman were found alive after missing ten years.
"We've confirmed it's them," a detective said. "They are alive and safe."
Berry, now 27, DeJesus, 23, and Knight, 30, were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center. The FBI and police will interview the women when they are discharged, the detective said. Hospital officials said the three women and the child were in fair condition.
Police arrested the owner of the house, Ariel Castro, 52, who had lived in the house since 1992. Records show he was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but a grand jury declined to indict him.


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- Get to grips with clear definitions of 'Service' and 'Architecture' to understand the full SOA picture
- Read about SOA in simple terms from Oracle ACE Directors for SOA and Middleware in this book and e-book
- A concise, no-nonsense guide to demystifying Service Oriented Architecture
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 292 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2012
Author(s) : Lonneke Dikmans , Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Enterprise Products and Platforms, Enterprise, SOA
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Understanding the Problem
Chapter 2: The Solution
Chapter 3: Service Identification and Design
Chapter 4: Classification of Services
Chapter 5: The SOA Platform
Chapter 6: Solution Architectures
Chapter 7: Creating a Roadmap, How to Spend Your Money and When?
Chapter 8: Life Cycle Management
Chapter 9: Pick your Battles
Chapter 10: Methodologies and SOA
- Chapter 1: Understanding the Problem
- The importance of information
- Example – insurance company
- Mismatch between business and IT
- Duplication of functionality and data
- Example – insurance company
- Process silos
- Example – utility companies
- Example – international software company
- Example – insurance company
- Strategies to stay ahead
- Example – a software company
- Architecture as a tool
- Layering of architecture
- Models
- Requirements
- Architecture ontology
- Enterprise architecture
- Reference architecture
- Solution architecture
- Project architecture
- Software architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Summary
- Chapter 2: The Solution
- What is a service?
- Elements of a service – contract, interface, and implementation
- Example – let's have breakfast
- Example – ordering a passport
- Consumer and provider
- From sunny-side-up eggs to IT
- Example – international software company revisited
- Consumer and provider
- Drivers for services
- Common myths
- Every service has to be automated by software
- Every service is a web service
- Consumers of services are always IT systems
- Putting it together – what is SOA?
- Solutions
- Example – utility company
- International software company – changing existing processes
- Functional duplication – rationalizing application landscapes
- Standardization – enabling change
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Service Identification and Design
- Service identification
- Top-down
- Example of top-down service identification
- Bottom-up
- Meet in the middle
- I have identified my services, now what?
- Service design
- Provide value
- Meaningful
- Implementation hiding
- Trust
- Idempotent
- Isolated
- Interoperable
- Isolation
- Example: print service
- Trust
- Security
- Fault-prevention and handling
- Idempotency
- Idempotency and statefulness
- Granularity
- How big should my lasagna be?
- Classification
- Reusability
- Example – reusability
- Example – good or bad service?
- Service definition revisited
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Classification of Services
- Service classification revisited
- Example – insurance company
- Other classifications
- Actor type
- Channel
- Organizational boundaries
- Security level
- Architectural layer
- Combining classifications
- Why classify your services?
- Composability
- Aggregation versus orchestration
- Example – DocumentService as a composite service
- Elementary services
- Realization
- Composite services
- Where to put the composition logic?
- Implementation
- Example 1 – database link
- Example 2 – service invocation
- Process services
- Implementation
- Isolation and composition – a contradiction?
- Passing information from smaller to larger services
- Summary
- Chapter 5: The SOA Platform
- Overview
- Services
- Implementation
- Using existing software
- Build the implementation
- Interfaces
- Proprietary interfaces
- Web services
- Contracts and Policies
- Events
- Interfaces for events
- Service composition
- Enterprise Service Bus
- Business Process Management
- Case Management
- Business rules
- User interface
- Integrated user interfaces
- Information mismatch
- Security
- Applying security in your SOA
- Service registry and service repository
- Canonical Data Model
- Design tooling
- Development tooling
- Example – Order-to-cash revisited
- Designing the solution
- Developing the solution
- Running the solution
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Solution Architectures
- Comprehensive suite or best of breed
- Comparison
- Oracle
- Services
- Events
- Oracle Event Processing (OEP)
- Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
- Service composition
- Oracle Service Bus
- Oracle SOA Suite
- Oracle BPM Suite
- Business rules
- User interface
- Security
- Registry and repository
- Design tooling
- Design tooling for developers
- Design tooling for business analysts
- Development tooling
- Test tooling
- Testing transformations
- SCA testing framework
- Testing from the console
- Deployment tooling
- Deployment from the IDE
- Deployment from the console
- Deployment using scripting
- Monitoring
- Error handling
- Services
- Events
- WebSphere Operational Decision Management
- IBM Business Monitor
- Service composition
- IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
- IBM Business Process Manager
- Business rules
- User interface
- Security
- Registry and repository
- Design tooling
- Services
- Composite services
- Development tooling
- Test tooling
- Deployment tooling
- Deployment from the IDE
- Deployment from the web interface of the server
- Deployment scripts
- Monitoring
- Error handling
- Microsoft
- Services
- Events
- Message-oriented middleware
- Complex Event Processing (CEP)
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Service composition
- BizTalk Server
- Windows Server AppFabric
- Business rules
- User interface
- Security
- Registry and repository
- Design tooling
- Development tooling
- Test tooling
- Deployment tooling
- BizTalk Server
- Monitoring
- Error handling
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Creating a Roadmap, How to Spend Your Money and When?
- Organize the SOA effort
- Business case – benefits for different stakeholders
- Business case explained
- Company as a whole
- Example 1 – insurance company WATB needs shorter time to market
- Example 2 – insurance company TPIR needs to decrease operational cost
- Example – insurance company TMS needs to consolidate systems
- Departmental benefits
- Example – insurance company X wants to cut cost
- Analysis of the scenarios
- Approaches
- Example – Document Management Service
- Top-down identification
- Bottom-up identification
- Meet in the middle
- Roadmap
- Work packages
- Service by service
- Process by process
- Feature by feature
- System by system
- Comparison
- Maturity and stages
- Stage 0: Starting with SOA
- Stage 1: Newlyweds
- Stage 2: Live
- Stage 3: Growing up
- Stage 4: Experience
- Stage 5: Maintenance
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Life Cycle Management
- Service stages
- Versioning of services
- Type of change – contract, interface, and implementation
- Changing the contract
- Changing the interface
- Changing the implementation
- Versioning schemes
- Versioning and life cycle stages
- Making the version explicit for service consumers
- Communicating change
- Tooling
- Standards
- Information needed
- Find services
- Troubleshooting
- Change process
- Registries and repositories in your IT landscape
- Enterprise architecture tools
- Business Process Management tool
- Configuration Management Database
- Bug and issue tracker system
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Pick your Battles
- Governance
- Architecture process
- Ad hoc business need
- Define the solution
- Deviations
- Integration in the solution architecture
- Planned feature
- Pick your battles
- Development process
- Pick your battles
- Operations
- Pick your battles
- Change management
- Pick your battles
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Methodologies and SOA
- Demand management
- Methodology
- Impact of SOA
- Project management
- Methodology
- Impact of SOA
- Software development
- Methodology
- Impact of SOA
- Application management
- Methodology
- Impact of SOA
- IT service and operations management
- Methodology
- Impact of SOA
- Summary
I enjoyed the pragmatic approach and recommend the book to new SOA practitioners : Eric Roch
I would call this book mission accomplished and recommend you to buy it for your learning and career : Frank Nimphius
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"Three-tiered architectures consisting of web clients, a middleware component
containing most of the business logic, and a datastore that stores the information
has been advertised in the past as a solution to monolithic systems. Although
three-tiered architectures offer decoupling between its horizontal technical layers,
a large system can still be designed and developed as one monolith of different
layers in which the layers themselves become monoliths, that is one very big
lasagna, so to speak. Three-tiered architecture isn't flawed, but it shouldn't be
applied on your IT landscape or large part of it as a whole as depicted in the
following figure:
Instead we want to differentiate vertically, based on functionality, providing a limited
and independent set of capabilities exposed by operations that belong together.
Services and three-tiered architectures can go hand-in-hand by applying three-tiered
architecture to the implementation of services resulting in several smaller lasagnas.
Now each lasagna can be changed without impacting other lasagnas. Using this
approach, changing business logic and data becomes easier since it is separated
(decoupled) from the other business logic and data layers in other services.
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Start logically by understanding the misalignment of IT and Business and the problems it causes
- Gradually learn about the solution to this misalignment with SOA concepts such as service, solution architecture, and more
- Put together clear definitions of 'Service' and 'Architecture' to understand the full SOA picture
- Fully understand how to distinguish between both well and badly designed services and pinpoint the reasons for each
- Get to grips with the different service layers, guidelines and principles of service design
- Learn about the building blocks of SOA, like BPM and Enterprise Service Bus
- Dive into the realization and maintenance of your SOA once the concept is clear
- Think about SOA in historic perspective: the evolution from EAI, CBD, OO and so on
- Understand how to pick your battles once you finally get started with SOA to make it a successful effort in your own organization!
In Detail
SOA is an industry term which is often preached like a religion rather than taught like a technology, and over time, grasping the concept has become unnecessarily difficult. Many companies proclaim that they don't know where to begin with SOA, while others have begun their SOA effort but haven't reaped the benefits they were convinced it would bring. "SOA Made Simple" unveils the true meaning of Service Oriented Architecture and how to make it successful so that you can confidently explain SOA to anyone!
"SOA Made Simple" explains exactly what SOA is in simple terminology and by using real-life examples. Once a simple definition is clear in your mind, you'll be guided through what SOA solves, when and why you should use it, and how to set up, design and categorize your SOA landscape. With this book in hand you'll learn to keep your SOA strategy successful as you expand on it.
"SOA Made Simple" demystifies SOA, simply. It is not difficult to grasp, but for various reasons SOA is often made unnecessarily complex. Service-orientation is already a very natural way of thinking for business stakeholders that want to realize and sell services to potential clients, and this book helps you to realize that concept both in theory and practice.
You'll begin with a clear and simple explanation of what SOA is and why we need it. You'll then be presented with plain facts about the key ingredients of a service, and along the way learn about service design, layering and categorizing, some major SOA platform offerings as well as governance and successful implementation.
After reading "SOA Made Simple" you will have a clear understanding of what SOA is so you can implement and govern SOA in your own organization.
"SOA Made Simple" is a concise and indispensable handbook for finally understanding exactly what Service Oriented Architecture is. Split into three clear sections, in this book you'll learn from both theory as well as step-by-step implementation examples to aid in your understanding of this often poorly- articulated industry term.
Who this book is for
If you are an architect who wants to be completely clear in your understanding of what SOA is, then this book is essential. In fact, anyone (designer, developer, administrator or team lead) who is implementing or about to implement an architecture in an IT environment should not miss out on "SOA Made Simple".
Some previous experience with general software architecture is required, but this guide will tell you everything you need to know about SOA in a clear and easy fashion.