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2EJ Package, Bluetooth Hands-Free, Cruise Control, Heated Seats, Keyless Entry, Navigation, Parktronic, Portable Audio Connection, Satellite Radio, Security System, Side Curtain Airbags and Steering Wheel Controls are just a few of the luxurious features this 1 Owner, CarFax Certified, Autocheck Certified FIAT Hatchback is equipped with.
eCarOne.com is proud to offer this 2014 FIAT 500e Battery Electric in great mechanical condition and is covered by the bumper to bumper FIAT factory warranty. As new this FIAT had an original sticker price of more than $32,600 MSRP.
This 500e is powered by a responsive 1.0 liter 111 HP, Electric Motor Engine mated to a smooth 1-Speed Automatic FWD transmission. The exterior is a stunning nero puro (straight black) finish complemented by black interior. Both the exterior and interior are in great condition.
For your peace of mind, we remind you that this vehicle is under the remainder of the 48 months / 50,000 miles bumper to bumper FIAT manufacturer's warranty. The warranty start date according to Carfax was 5/13/2014. This is also pre-qualified for 100,000 miles extended warranty, LoJack theft deterrent system, and an extended term, low finance rate offer for well qualified buyers*.
We have included over 90 photos and video so you can judge for yourself the condition this FIAT is in. This 2014 FIAT 500e Hatchback is generously equipped with upgraded options standard features. A comprehensive list of options features are listed below and can be viewed at eCarOne.com
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FIAT 500e | NAV | CRUISE | BTOOTH | SAT | PARK ASST | HTD STS | $32K MSRP Standard Equipment
- 276w Regular Amplifier
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, In-Dash Mounted Single CD, MP3 Player, Clock, Aux Audio Input Jack, Steering Wheel Controls, Voice Activation, Radio Data System and External Memory Control
- 2 LCD Monitors In The Front
- Radio: AM/FM
- Integrated Roof Antenna
- 6 Alpine Speakers
- Blue&me Wireless Phone Connectivity
- 1-Year SIRIUSXM Radio Service
- Lip Spoiler
- Clearcoat Paint
- Chrome Door Handles
- Black Side Windows Trim
- Auto Off Projector Beam Halogen Daytime Running Headlamps w/Delay-Off
- Grille w/Chrome Bar
- Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
- Body-Colored Front Bumper
- Wheels w/Silver Accents
- Liftgate Rear Cargo Access
- Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Tailgate/Rear Door Lock Included w/Power Door Locks
- Tires: P185/55R15
- Rocker Panel Extensions
- Fixed Rear Window w/Fixed Interval Wiper and Defroster
- Body-Colored Rear Bumper
- Wheels: 15" x 5.5" Fr & 15" x 6.5" Rr Aluminum
- Body-Colored Power Heated Side Mirrors w/Convex Spotter and Manual Folding
- Front Fog Lamps
- Variable Intermittent Wipers
- LED Brakelights
- Light Tinted Glass
- Cargo Features -inc: Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Leather Steering Wheel
- 4-Way Passenger Seat -inc: Manual Recline, Fore/Aft Movement and Manual Rear Seat Easy Entry
- Manual Tilt Steering Column
- Carpet Floor Trim and Carpet Trunk Lid/Rear Cargo Door Trim
- Rear Cupholder
- Cruise Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
- Day-Night Auto-Dimming Rearview Mirror
- Rigid Cargo Cover
- Leatherette Heated Bucket Seats -inc: driver and passenger seat memory
- Engine Immobilizer
- Power Fuel Flap Locking Type
- 1 12V DC Power Outlet
- Trip Computer
- Leatherette Door Trim Insert
- Partial Floor Console w/Storage and 1 12V DC Power Outlet
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors
- Driver Foot Rest
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Driver And Front Passenger Armrests
- Fade-To-Off Interior Lighting
- Cargo Space Lights
- FOB Controls -inc: Trunk/Hatch/Tailgate
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Front Cupholder
- TomTom Integrated Navigation System
- 50-50 Folding Bench Front Facing Fold Forward Seatback Leatherette Rear Seat
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- 6-Way Driver Seat -inc: Manual Recline, Height Adjustment, Fore/Aft Movement and Manual Rear Seat Easy Entry
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- Engine: 83kw Electric Motor
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Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda (竹田宮恒徳王 Takeda-no-miya Tsuneyoshi-ō, March 4, 1909 – May 11, 1992) was the second and last heir of the Takeda-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family.
Early life
Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi was the only son of Prince Takeda Tsunehisa and Princess Tsune-no-miya Masako (1888-1940), the sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji. He was, therefore, a first cousin of Emperor Shōwa.
Prince Tsuneyoshi became the second head of the Takeda-no-miya house on April 23, 1919. After being educated at the Gakushuin Peers' School, and serving for a session in the House of Peers, he graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in July 1930, and received a commission as a sub-lieutenant in the cavalry.
Marriage & family
On May 12, 1934, Prince Takeda married Sanjo Mitsuko (b. 1915), the youngest daughter of Prince Sanjo Kimiteru, with whom he had five children (3 sons and 2 daughters):
- Prince Takeda Tsunetada (竹田恒正王), (b. 1940)
- Princess Takeda Motoko (素子女王), (b. 1942)
- Princess Takeda Noriko (紀子女王), (b. 1943)
- Prince Tsuneharu Takeda ( 竹田恒治王) (b. 1944) Japanese ambassador to Bulgaria [1]
- Takeda Tsunekazu (竹田恒和王), (b. 1947)
Military career
The Prince served a brief tour with a cavalry regiment in Manchuria, and rose to the rank of lieutenant in August 1930 and captain in August 1936. He then graduated from the 50th class of the Army War College in 1938 as the build-up to World War II was beginning. He was promoted to the rank of major in August 1940, and attached to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff in Tokyo, where he headed the Personnel Department. He became lieutenant colonel in August 1943.
Prince Takeda held executive responsibilities over Unit 731 in his role as chief financial officer of the Kwantung Army. Unit 731 conducted biological weapons research on human subjects with a variety of bacterial cultures and viruses during World War II. According to Daniel Barenblatt, Takeda received, with Prince Mikasa, a special screening by Shiro Ishii of a film showing imperial planes loading germ bombs for bubonic plague dissemination over the Chinese city of Ningbo in 1940. [2]
Moreover, historian Hal Gold has alleged in his work "Unit 731 Testimony" that Prince Takeda had a more active role as "Lieutenant Colonel Miyata" – an officer in the Strategic Section of the Operations Division. Gold reports the testimony of a veteran of the Youth Corps of this unit, who testified in July 1994 in Morioka during a traveling exhibition on Shiro Ishii's experiments, that Takeda watched while outside poison gas tests where made on thirty prisoners near Anda. After the war, a staff photographer also recalled the day the Prince visited Unit 731's facility at Pingfang, Manchukuo and had his picture taken at the gates. [3]
Prince Takeda briefly served as the emperor's personal liaison to the Saigon headquarters of Field Marshal Terauchi Hisaichi, commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group. During that assignment, he observed first-hand the desperate conditions of the Japanese forces at Rabaul, Guadalcanal, and in Luzon. After his return, he was then assigned to the Kwangtung Army headquarters. After Emperor Shōwa's radio address announcing the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945, he went to Shinkyo in Manchukuo to ensure the Kwantung Army's compliance with the surrender orders.
With the abolition of the collateral branches of the imperial family by the American occupation authorities on October 14, 1947, Prince Tsuneyoshi and his family became commoners. Initially, he retired to his estate in Chiba Prefecture to raise racehorses, thus escaping the financial hardship many of his cousins experienced during the American occupation of Japan. In 1947, he attempted to enter the business world by establishing a company to make knitting machines, but the company soon went bankrupt.
Takeda then turned his attention to promoting and developing amateur and professional sports. As a participant in equestrian events as part of Japan's delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he already had a reputation as the "sports prince". He became president of the Japan Skating Association in 1948 and a member of the north Tokyo Rotary Club. He became president of the Japanese Olympic Committee in 1962 and was an important figure in organizing the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1967 to 1981, during which he was director of its executive board for five years.
In 1987, the former Prince published a volume of autobiographical essays entitled "Kumo no use shita: Omoide-banashi" (Above and Below the Clouds: Remembrances).
The former prince died of heart failure on May 12, 1992, at the age of 83. The current heir to the Takeda-no-miya family is Prince Tsuneyoshi's eldest son, Tsunetada Takeda (b. 1940), a graduate of the Gakushuin and Keio University, with a degree in economics, and formerly employed by Mitsubishi Shoji. He married Kyoko Nezu, the third daughter of Kaichiro Nezu, former chairman of Tobu Railways, and has a son, Tsunetaka Takeda (b. 1967), and daughter, Hiroko Takeda (b. 1971).
The former Takeda palace and a portion of its gardens in Tokyo survives as a part of the Takanawa Prince Hotel, and is open to the public.
- Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. W. W. Norton & Company (2000). ISBN 0-393-32027-8
- Gold, Hal, Unit 731 Testimony, Tuttle, 2003. ISBN 0-8048-3565-9
- Harries, Meirion. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. Random House; Reprint edition (1994). ISBN 0-679-75303-6
- Williams, Peter and Wallace, David. Unit 731. The Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets. New York: Free Press, 1991. ISBN 0-340-39463-3
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The roots over the past 18 months have damaged parts of my driveway and they appear now to be approaching a drain situated 1.6 metres away from the main trunk of the Robinia. One of the tree branches had in the past broken off and caused damage to some roof tiles of the garage.
My present neighbours and I both are keen to remove the tree rather than prune the branches. We have learnt that such trees should never be planted near a house or a water drain and that the seeds which are plentiful are toxic if ingested by animals or small children.
What is your experience with Robinia "Frisia" and how do you feel we should proceed?
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At the very least the tree should be the same distance away from the house as the ultimate height of the tree. So all in all, the future does not look bright for the robinia, especially in view of its track record to date.
Your main problem will be eradicating suckers which arise from various points along roots. Treat the stump at the time of cutting with a stump killer such glyphosate-based product RoundUp Tree Stump and Root Killer. With the tree shocked at being cut down, these suckers may continue to appear for a couple of years, so you may need to persist with applying glyphosate to the suckers.
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01:00:08:06 MANOJ: There are seven billion of us in the world today. And we're facing some huge problems, but talk doesn't help someone out of poverty. Awareness doesn't reduce pollution or grow food. Or heal the sick. That takes doing. The solutions are here. Great inventions that generate clean energy. That make fresh water. That improve our health. This is the story of what we've been doing... Hi, my name is Manoj Bhargava, the founder of Five Hour Energy drink.
01:00:53:14 JERRY SEINFIELD: Have you seen this little bottle by the cash register? That's a weird amount of time. But I can't drink anymore then this. I don't have the energy.
01:01:07:18 DAVID LETTERMAN: Top ten Rick Perry excuses.
01:01:10:11 RICK PERRY: I had a Five-Hour Energy Drink six hours before the debate.
01:01:14:06 DAVID LETTERMAN: Oh no.
01:01:17:08 MANOJ: I have this idea for this drink. Within two months we had it on the shelf. It was growing bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden it became one of the largest consumer products in the world.
01:01:27:21 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (NEWSCASTER?): Five-Hour energy.
01:01:29:01 MALE ON TODAY NEWS SHOW: Sales got up twelve percent.
01:01:30:08 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They sold over a billion and a half bottles.
01:01:32:07 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ninety percent of the market share.
01:01:33:19 MALE NEWSCASTER: He's cracked the Forbes Billionaire list.
01:01:42:05 MANOJ: But I realized oh my God, we're making a lot of money here, what do we do with this? [laughs]... I'll tell you how we work in our company, somebody comes to me with a project or something needs to be done and I, first question I ask is, is it useful? How is it useful? Okay. And if it's not useful it better be entertaining. And if it's not useful or entertaining, there's really only one basket left. And that's useless... Five Hour's a lot of things for me, because it's also the enabler that gives us an opportunity to do things that other people can't do... This was our first building which is really more five-hour energy. And then uh we bought this whole thing. Now we have ten buildings and twenty-five acres... One of the buildings out of the ten buildings is an invention shop, which is called stage two. My approach to things is, let's do stuff, invent stuff. Make a difference in other people's lives.
01:03:04:14 RAVI: Stage Two works in the area of water, power, health. Our goal is very simple. To deliver innovations that can directly impact humanity. And the only way to do that is to actually go fund it.
01:03:20:09 MANOJ: Our view is if you can invent stuff that can be used long-term it's probably the most fundamental change you can make. We've put an infrastructure together so that great inventions that help the poorer half of the world make their lives better. That's we define as a great invention. That's a software change... Incredibly it doesn't take an enormous amount of money. What it takes is just doing the right things. And inventing the right things.
01:03:52:16 BILLY: My name's Billy Tally and I run the engineering and operations at Stage 2 Operations. Manoj truly believes in giving back. One of his ways that he believes in giving back is coming up with innovations to help people.
01:04:06:15 MANOJ: Stage Two is filled with tinkerers, guys that in their garage, they don't have cars. They have stuff they're building.
01:04:16:14 KEVIN: You should see how I got hired. I had actually built a Nail Gun Powered Pogo Stick. And they thought I fit the job well.
01:04:22:09 MANOJ: These guys are in heaven. I mean I think they'd work there if I didn't pay 'em.
01:04:27:19 BILLY: Alright cool.
01:04:29:08 MANOJ: When Billy first came to us I said Billy, whatever you want to buy go buy it. I think he was in shock, because you never tell a guy who likes tools he can buy whatever tools he wants.
01:04:04:14 BILLY: We have a very, very uh well equipped shop here. There's not much we can't build ourselves.
01:04:17:13 DR. JACK JUNI: Manoj has expressed many times, if it doesn't make a big difference, find something else to do. Life is to short to-to spend it doing things that don't have a real impact. We're here to make a difference.
01:05:03:20 MANOJ: If you want to do something for the poorer half of the world be here. If it doesn't make us money but it's really going to change the lives of people we're still going to do it. We have the wherewithal, to make it a usable product so that people throughout the world can use it.
01:05:20:10 KIT SMOKER: We strive to be fast to failure. We're going to take something and we're going to run as fast as we can to do what we need to do so we can determine whether we're going to go forward or we're not.
01:05:29:08 BILLY: These are items that we want to bring out on a large scale that he truly believes in.
01:05:33:09 MANOJ: In order to make this, if we didn't have this shop it'd be weeks out. Now these guys can program it and make it probably in a day. That part is really, really important... We just concentrate on those things that are going to be incredibly useful. And if you come up with something cool that's not, we don't do it. I have no interest. I don't want to be cool. I actually am never going to be cool. [laughs] So that, that, that, that's long gone... My job I think is to make complex simple, where as it seems a con-con- consultant's job is to make simple complicated. Uh, we [laughs] we use some experts and consultants sometime and usually when a science guy says it can't be done, to me that's validation that-that it can. So it-it-it's a different but 'cause [stutters] we, I mean we define stuff. Like expert, what's an expert? Expert is something, someone who knows everything what was. He's really good at what was. And if you ask him about what will be he says no, no that can't be done because I'm an expert on what was. What- what, why do I need you? Because if I wanted to do what was I don't have a business. And so we-we, we look at, we do talk to experts just to make sure that maybe they've thought of something or the history of the, that area is something that we haven't though of. But we really don't rely on them for the future because that's just silly... To me the largest area of work for the future: energy and water are the real solutions to health, livelihood. All of the stuff that goes above it. Most people don't realize in-in rich countries, but half the world either has no electricity or electricity 2, 3 hours a day. Everything requires energy. So you try to look for that which is the one thing that will lead to benefits that are across hundreds of things.
01:07:38:15 MANOJ: So, human mechanical energy is so amazing, why can't we use that to create energy. So we've invented a hybrid bicycle that you pedal for an hour and you have electricity for 24 hours. We call it free electric. The free electric I think is the coolest of all our inventions. Not just because it just looks really great but it's so simple, it's sort of what we try to do is make things simpler, and simpler. And yet it's going to effect, maybe have the largest effect of anything in the last 100 years. The reason for the poorer half of the world, they'll have-have electricity 24/7. Electricity is the greatest enabler there is. And we've kept half the world out of it. This enables all these people who have not been part of the industrial revolution. They're still living as if it's two thousand years ago. All of these people now can become part of a productive society and this is what will enable them. This solves the problem no matter what happens, the sun shines or cloudy, or night or whatever it is. Anything happens you have electricity. You're never out of electricity. Also if you look at worldwide, the other side is really interesting.
01:09:06:01 David Markus: Hurricane Katrina was a category 5 monster that became the costliest disaster ever in the U.S.
01:09:13:11 MANOJ: If a disaster happens, if Katrina hits, or some big storm hits and we've all been through where you've had no electricity. The one thing you don't want, you want your cellphone to be always available. You don't want to be out of touch. And you don't want to be in the dark. The worst is, being without a cellphone and being in the dark [laughs]. So you're alone in the dark. With this it can never happen. What people normally do is they'll get a generator, diesel generator. But the problem with the diesel generator is when disaster hits there's no more diesel available. You have this you will never run out of electricity. And you never generate any pollution. So half the world is not going to generate pollution in their homes. So if you pump for an hour, you're keeping maybe a pound of C02 in the air. Right now we're pumping about twenty five billion pounds of matter up in the air, every year. And you figure sometime that's gonna make a difference. Every year? So what this does is you have electricity for all these people and it's mechanical you work for an hour you have electricity for 24 hours. The only side effect is you get stronger and healthier. There is no other side effect to that. That's the ideal invention. That's why simple stuff is the greatest. Because it impacts everything and it doesn't have unattended consequences.
01:10:48:09 BILLY: There really is only a-a few components. You have the basic frame. You have the bicycle gearing, you have the flywheel, you have the battery and the generator. So it's-it's very very simple. You know there's not a whole lot to it and it's just like riding a bicycle, you know it-
01:11:04:04 MANOJ: Right.
01:11:04:14 BILLY: After you get going-
01:11:05:12 MANOJ: Let's see if I can do it.
01:11:06:16 BILLY: -it's pretty simple.
01:11:09:05 MANOJ: So this-this is the right gear for starting?
01:11:10:21 BILLY: Yeah. Well that, that, you're in second gear actually so you're a little bit tall. So it's like driving your car in a way in second gear.
01:11:22:05 MANOJ: Well actually I can see there, that's uh better, you lean back.
01:11:24:22 BILLY: Yes, that's the whole part about the reclining side.
01:11:27:14 MANOJ: Well that's pretty cool.
01:11:28:09 BILLY: With human energy and working out a lot of efficiencies we're able to go and power a thousand fifty equivalent watts of lighting and energy power. That's like being able to-to power ten hundred watt light bulbs. I mean that's a lot of light.
01:11:42:22 MANOJ: Wow... So when, when does this start to get to a point where it's, lights up everything?
01:11:52:08 BILLY: Well actually right about now... It'll be any time now. There you-
01:11:58:16 MANOJ: There we go, alright. Is that from me?
01:12:02:18 BILLY: Yeah.
01:12:03:05 MANOJ: Just doing it here?
01:12:04:09 BILLY: Yep.
01:12:05:14 MANOJ: Actually this isn't bad this is-
01:12:07:03 BILLY: No it's not bad at all.
01:12:08:07 MANOJ: This is like where you would set a bike if you were going to exercise.
01:12:12:09 BILLY: Yep. And with that you're still able to charge your cellphone, you're able to uh charge your tablet um run a small fan. You know, it really kind of puts some of these things into perspective. Pedal for an hour and you can have lights, charge your phone, and everything else throughout the night.
01:12:30:03 MANOJ: This is the cheapest, most practical way of getting electricity throughout the world. No matter where remote location you are. So now all of a sudden, all this whole economy of all of these poor that were not contributing anything to their outside world, now they're all bringing it up. All of sudden they're on the internet. You know. They're getting information on, on- All of a sudden they're getting educated. So the-the real thing is to get the poor out of their poverty and one of the basics is energy. I mean think about it, the poor have stayed the poorer half because they have no power. They have no energy. That's one of the most fundamental things. That and water. Those are the two biggest things that poor person really needs... Somebody asked me you know on the interview they said wh-wh-what, what does a entrepreneur really need. So I-I said they only need two things. Common sense and a sense of urgency. That's it. And they asked me who the, who should we learn this stuff from and my answer was, from your mom. Because she's probably done more management then your MBA professor. You know. Because, she's got a budget, she's got all of these kids running around, hard to manage, all of this has to be done every day, seven days a week. Now that's work. That's hard work. That's learning on the job.
01:14:10:15 MANOJ: No matter where somebody stands on global warming or that whole issue, pollution is a problem, I don't care who you are or what your scientific uh belief system is, we know that that's bad we need to get rid of it. Is there a way to get totally clean energy that's sort of the bull's-eye of all answers. With no pollution and unlimited energy... So our first question was, where is the energy and there's only one answer. And that's right here. A few miles underneath us is unlimited power, unlimited energy. A few miles down, deeper you go the hotter it gets. You take that energy and you bring it up. Unlimited, pollution free. Is there a way to bring up just the energy? Just the heat.
01:15:04:21 RAVI: You can't use copper wire because it'll melt. So we found this material called graphene.
01:15:10:20 MANOJ: Graphene is a substance that is really made out of graphite, which is like pencil lead, right? And what they discovered was that if they take one molecule layer at a time off this graphite that's called graphene. Okay. And it has incredible properties.
01:15:29:01 RAVI: It's hundred times better conductor then copper, it's lighter then air, stronger then steel.
01:15:35:05 MANOJ: It transfers heat, really efficiently.
01:15:38:03 RAVI: If you put hundred degrees here you get a hundred on the other side instantly, and the middle is completely cool.
01:15:45:00 MANOJ: So the heat that you put in, gets all the way there. Whether you go ten feet or you go miles you could bring up unlimited energy from deep underground to the surface pollution free. And so I approached the graphene guys and I said, could you make me a string. And they looked at me like,why would we make a string. You know, I said look a string is the most rudimentary technology right. If you have a string of something you can make cloth, you can make walls, you can make rope, you can make a cable. So if you I'll put those strings together and make a cable. Then I'll put the cable underneath the ground and that cable will bring up the heat. And so at first they were a little weary because it seemed too simple.
01:16:43:20 RAVI: They have already made the first set of ropes for us the short ones. They have tested it and found it to work perfectly fine, they're using that and working at stage 2 in Michigan. Stage 2 has a platform we are building where we'll test everything out and then that product and then that product will be commercially manufactured and propagated from Singapore.
01:17:05:12 MANOJ: This would be the greatest invention maybe ever, because if you can get unlimited energy from underneath the earth, pollution-free that's everything, that's everything. You have no pollution, you have no fossil fuel issues. You have no, um, you know, C02 coming out, uh greenhouse gasses, you know none of that, all of that is answer. You had no money, no research, no resources are being put to this. So this is a sort of a teaser to say look guys, in your country, you want energy security, do this. You have unlimited energy without having to import anything. Now some countries are not going to like this very much because those who export fossil fuels are going to be pretty upset with me. Um, but I've kind of transferred all this technology, all of our thoughts to Singapore so that there's a, there's a, a place that's, that's neutral. That is then going to give it to the rest of the world. And so this is to encourage people to say look if you want energy security put resources in this.
01:18:32:05 MANOJ: Energy is the great equalizer. If energy was plentiful the poor wouldn't be poor. Our concern here isn't to make people rich. Our concern is can we get them to make a livelihood, can we get them to be healthy, can we get them clean water. If you can get it to that level for the people that don't have it, that's an enormous benefit... Wall Street fellas are so enamored of companies that spend 5 percent of their sales on research verses 3 percent. What, is this brains by the pound? You know it's not about the doesn't come from money and history tells us that and we still chase it. Mobs of PHD's do not come up with great inventions. It's a couple of guys in a garage that have proven that that's not true. And as soon as you get a couple of people- throughout history it's only been a couple of people have come out with the greatest of stuff. And yet we insist that if we have a thousand PHD's instead of 500 we're going to do it better. It makes no sense.
01:19:45:17 FEMALE NEWS REPORTER: The drought has left it's mark here.
01:19:48:18 MALE NEWS REPORTER: Some communities could soon run out of water entirely.
01:19:52:18 ANOTHER MALE NEWS REPORTER: This is what the Sierra looked like a year ago. But this winter what a difference. The state now in extreme drought.
01:19:59:14 MANOJ: Nature's always smarter then we are. Lets say that you come up with an invention that makes clean water out of all this huge amounts of salt water that the world has, water everywhere not a drop to drink. We've got all this water but we can't use lot of places around the world, whether it's India, Africa, China, everywhere there's a shortage of water and one of the reasons we went after water is because it is totally fundamental to human life.
01:20:36:13 BILLY: Alright, gray bars are holding, starting to make distillate.
01:20:43:03 MANOJ: Where we are right now is the rain project. This equipment what it does, it turns seawater or any dirty water into fresh water.
01:20:54:06 RAVI: One of the reasons why we got involved in the rain project is we saw a lot of lacking technologies in the market that generate what we call high quality water. Which can be used for agricultural, drinking and industrial applications. But more importantly it does not require any operation support.
01:21:13:12 BILLY: Alright, start spinning other parts.
01:21:17:18 MANOJ: The reason we called it the rain project, basically mimics nature. It heats water, you have water vapor and then you take that moisture into a different compartment and then you distill it. The steam or vapor turns into water. So it takes energy to heat the water, and then the energy is released when you turn it back to water. So we take that energy and recycle it back to heating the water again. This little-bitty machine here can do a thousand gallons an hour. Some of the great things about it compared to what the technology is today is one it has no parts that go, that are consumables. No screens or no membranes that go bad and it can be made to make distilled water or any level of clean water. Whereas current technology will only take seawater and turn it into drinking water, but it will not turn it into water that can be used for agriculture. It still has too much salt.
01:22:21:10 BILLY: This was our-our-our prototype version from six months ago. We learned off this version, we added some new ideas and concepts and we built to what we believe is our next version to go into the field for commercial use.
01:22:38:10 MANOJ: Billy came out of automotive so everything is made with that discipline in mind. That you're gonna build a plant and then you're gonna have, pop hundreds of these out a day.
01:22:48:22 BILLY: As we can call it we can cookie-cutter it. So we can stamp out thousands upon thousands of them.
01:22:55:16 MANOJ: The world's requirements are staggering. So you need to be able to build thousands of these, you know. Instead of one plant that takes fifteen years to build. We don't have the time for that.
01:23:09:08 BILLY: We're able to take, you know, sea water, undrinkable, unusable for anything and turn it into, into complete drinking water literally in a-in a matter of minutes. And the beauty is it's a very self-contained system. You don't need a lot of infrastructure to do it. If you move something in, in a modular basis, you need the hoses to hook up for the water, a couple of tanks to collect the water and electricity to run it. So it's a very easy um and-and a modular system to be able to put in. Anywhere in the world. And when you're done you have lovely, fresh, clean, water. It's warm enough to make tea right now. But, good fresh ready to go.
01:23:52:15 LOTFY NATHAN: Great. How is it?
01:23:55:04 BILLY: It's good, it's good distilled water. You know it's, it's uh, this, this water right here is probably at a level um almost to pharmaceutical grade water.
01:24:04:09 LOTFY NATHAN: Wow.
01:24:05:04 BILLY: And uh that's one of the other beauties. We can raise or lower what how what the level we want to. But this is very, very, very pure water right now.
01:24:13:22 MANOJ: For fresh, clean water comes food, comes livelihood for farmers, comes health.
01:24:22:04 MALE NEWS REPORTER: This is the first time exceptional drought has ever been declared in California. These before and after pictures show where water levels should be and where they are today.
01:24:34:11 MANOJ: Whether you're rich or poor it doesn't matter. If you don't have water, you have to move or die. That's gonna happen across the world, we have to work on water. There's no choice. So in California, I mean right now they're not looking at it nobody wants to say it, but if you don't get water, if you don't solve this problem California becomes a desert. Now we're looking at it and saying... Instead of one big desalination piece of equipment you have a farm of these. It can either be put on the shore next to the ocean. Or you create this barge which has a lot of units on it. So a barge can maybe produce somewhere between 15 and 20 million gallons a day. Right. And why, the question would be, why, why on a barge? Well the simple answer is that's where the water is. You know, so lets say you put them a couple miles offshore you have this barge which has a-a short height because the equipment is underneath. And the reason it's underneath uh is because the water will just flow into it. And so you don't have to pump water in. So it flows in, doesn't kill the wildlife. You can then pipe the freshwater either on floating pipes uh to the land. Or you can put it on tankers and-and bring it to land. so we're thinking of things like if you, if you had a hundred or two hundred barges lets say uh off southern California's coast you could, all the short fall of southern California would be covered and the advantage of that is if people at that point say, well you know, we don't like you being there. Okay, see ya, we'll go to next place. So there's some- The answers have to be uh, lower in energy then it needs to be made in massive scale. And then it also has to be, go past political issues. All of those are real problems and so this project what it does is say, okay, we this, if you have thousands of barges throughout the world we can address the-the needs of you know, of ridiculous amounts of people.
01:26:51:11 MANOJ: And in the end we're gonna have to do that in order to-to-to take care of the seven, eight, nine billion people that are gonna end up on earth. So-So that's, that's a project that's for us is a big deal... We have uh what's called a prime directive, which is if any of you have ever seen Star Trek there's a prime directive. And the prime directive in our company is no aggravation. Okay, nobody gets to give us aggravation. Whether it's customers, vendors, employees. If you aggravate, you got to go. It's that simple. Because, and it's really business, because usually it's the one percent, you know some customer that's got one percent of your business, and he's driving you nuts. And he's taking up eighty percent of your head. How is that business? So aggravation is the largest cost in business.
01:27:48:04 MANOJ: My work is my hobby. I don't really do work because I have to. I actually like it. It's my basketball and football. So much fun. I just tried four different new flavors of Five-Hour.
01:28:01:02 EMPLOYEE: That's why your smiling.
01:28:01:14 MANOJ: Hey, yeah [laughs]. I can go from one, you know all of a sudden doing charity to-to doing technical, to doing five hour flavor. To switch from company to company within minutes. You know [laughs].
01:28:12:24 DR. JUNI: I don't think he would be Manoj if he wasn't doing a lot of thing at-at uh, one time. It's how he thrives.
01:28:19:15 MANOJ: I want a Jetson suitcase. Oh [laughs] wow. Good luck with that... Which way? I always get lost here. Too many companies. Found my keys. So annoying... Look at that, more fancy. Oh wow.
01:28:49:03 RAVI: We have to do a joke about (UNINTELLIGEBLE) this is especially for you.
01:28:42:16 MANOJ: Oh God. This is just to annoy me. This is to give me aggravation [laughs].
01:29:00:01 RAVI: Well let me give you a quick 50 cent tour.
01:29:02:08 MANOJ: Ok yeah.
01:29:04:20 WORKER: So this uh about three times the size we had.
01:29:07:14 MANOJ: Okay. It's the cutting edge of medical science today. Is changed. From what they've been doing for the last fifty years. For the last fifty years what they've been doing is saying okay, here's the disease let's kill it. You know, lets kill something. And now what they're looking at is well, no, no, no that's really not the answer. The answer is what is known as immunotherapy. In other words the, in cancer right now the biggest thing that everybody is working on is immunotherapy. What the ultimate goal is, is to make somebody stronger internally so that disease doesn't happen. Or that the disease becomes so small because it's getting attacked by the immune system. What we found for that is one of the great products that's been invented... You know decades ago. So when it was invented it wasn't the right time for it. Now when people are looking at immunotherapy is the big thing this is probably the biggest weapon in it's arsenal. Yeah it is same memory foam.
01:30:21:04 WORKER: Only the color is uh different. Is uh-
01:30:23:19 MANOJ: Slightly yeah.
01:30:24:20 WORKER: And everything else is the same.
01:30:27:01 DR. JUNI: Right here we're working on the ECP project called renew. And the ECP project stands for External Counter Pulsation. The idea is the ECP squeezes blood from the legs back into the core body and assists the heart when the heart's resting. While the heart is resting, this is pumping. While the heart is pumping, this is resting. They go back and forth so it acts almost like an auxiliary heart. The arteries become wider which lets blood pass more easily. The effects happen through the entire body. The evidence is overwhelming that it makes people healthier.
01:31:06:16 MANOJ: Right. Tighten that then tighten it. Right there you go. Was that easier?
01:31:11:02 WOMAN: Yes, yeah.
01:31:12:07 MANOJ: Yeah... When I first looked at I said, are you guys kidding? I mean is this Monty Python? You know, this one and this one. There's an old movie called uh Life of Brian, people volunteering for crucifixion. If somebody asks me okay you've got heart problems, which would you like surgery or not surgery? Well first, I'd like to try the non-surgery, guys. I mean I don't have to be a genius to figure that part out. Even if it doesn't work as well. You know, you'd still say I want to go with the non-surgical approach. We looked at that, we thought okay this is pretty obvious. And then we realized that there was so many things it was doing. And amazingly the science guys, over the years there were three hundred published peer reviewed studies, on the benefits of this. And yet, it never made it into the mainstream. Well, when first somebody came to me with I said, look, I you know, there's so much logic here, I'm just going to buy one. So there were a couple of guys that were making it, uh, now because nobody really bought many of these it was a big clunker. It took up half the room and it was 220, created heat and it was terrible. Right. But I said that doesn't matter I'm going to buy it.
01:32:34:087 BILLY: So we have one here, all folded up.
01:32:37:00 MANOJ: Can you put it together?
01:32:38:19 BILLY: So we will go and-
01:32:41:04 MANOJ: That's a good idea. Just... Oh. I should time this.
01:32:46:17 BILLY: [laughs]
01:32:48:00 MANOJ: Now we changed the whole thing and made it really simple, small. Made a bunch of modifications to it. We've talked to some of the top guys in the world in terms of both cardiologists as well as medical research guys and they're all, of course this is great. However we asked some people that are not at the top of the field and they said, no, no, no, no. This is for old people that can't have surgery this is way better. And it's not because they're being dishonest. It's because how everybody's been trained. It's legacy. It's how I was taught.
01:33:20:18 BILLY: Put the hoses on and it's ready to run.
01:33:22:10 MANOJ: Okay, well that was about a, less then a minute.
01:33:25:03 BILLY: [laughs]
01:33:25:21 MANOJ: Okay. So actually this can now be put in a corner somewhere. Or taken in a truck or a van or something.
01:33:30:11 BILLY: [OVERLAPS] You can put it in a closet, put it in a corner, you could store it away. Or-
01:33:33:21 MANOJ: Very cool.
01:33:34:20 BILLY: You know, it can go room to room for people. You know it-
01:33:37:04 MANOJ: Right. Right. In a doctors office or something.
01:33:40:15 BILLY: And it plugs into a normal 110 volt plug.
MANOJ: What it does is it enhances circulation. Nature has already made this pump called the heart. And it's pumping to keep everything going. You know. Getting Oxygen and nutrients, hauling of the waste. Then what happens over time is the pump gets old. The pump gets old, it doesn't quite do the job. All of a sudden you've got all kinds of things happening from, you know from your toes to your hair. You know. Skin's wrinkling. Arthritis. All of these things happen. Where do they come from? Really where they came from, is that you got weaker. Your system got weaker. That's when you let all of this junk in. Think about it. If you leave waste, if you leave trash all over the body, if you leave trash in your head, and then you get a disease in your head and you're thinking well, how, how did I get a disease. Well you left trash in your head. Right. It's, when trash happens in rots, it turns to poison. All of a sudden you have diseases. If you haul away the trash, the chances of being better, being healthier, and not having those diseases come in are much higher...
01:35:00:01 MANOJ: So what this does is enhances circulation. And again, back to what we do here at Stage 2. It's just nature with a twist. We go for simple which is, if you're healthier, if you're better, if you're stronger then there's less disease. I got this from Sir David Lane. And I was thinking all about nutrients and Oxygen. And he pointed out, no, no, Manoj, it hauls away the waste. And he put it so well, which was, the idea is not to treat an illness, it's to treat wellness. It's to make wellness better. That's how you treat illness. Right. That was, that was so smart.
01:35:46:03 RAVI: David Lane is uh regarded as one of the foremost scientists and experts in the area of cancer and oncology. He's actually been knighted by the queen, he's a brilliant person, uh, when you get to talk to him, you'll realize, how fast he can understand things we are doing. And he sees tremendous benefits for ECP and healthcare. So his point is if you can delay ailments, that's healthcare.
01:36:10:10 DAVID: We tend to think of ourselves as being well or being ill. But the reality is, it's a continuum. And what we, what we should be aiming for is great wellness and no illness. I think what we tend to do is think we're well until we're ill. And-And that's the wrong way around. We need to be thinking about maintaining health as a much more proactive process. Everybody wants a shortcut so maybe I take this vitamin and I'll be better or maybe I'll do this I'll be better. But what we need to do is think about fundamentals. So what is the fundamental? A fundamental is the blood, the circulation that's what your hearts doing that's what's taking nutrients around your body, that's' what's critical for eliminating waste products. So clearly poor circulation is the basis of a- of a lot of illness. So it's clear to me, you know, that anything that can help people to uh, to improve their health is very, very important. So ECP's an example of ays, well you know how can something so simple work. How can just pumping your circulation a bit help. But the question is ask the question. Does it work? If it does work then it's very valuable. And I think this is where, you know, you have to go outside the system. I mean the current system, educates people to behave in a certain way. You know, you, you, you get ill, you go to the doctor. The doctors a Godlike figure, the doctors going to save you. You know, that's how it works. And, and instead of thinking, oh I'm part of this process, you know, I can't be passive, I should be active. And I think it's that shift in thinking, to think about new ways of doing things.
01:37:39:03 MANOJ: Of course it doesn't solve every disease there is. But it is one of the greatest things that we've found. This is the answer for the poor. Of course, you know, whether you're poor or-or rich, you're still only a human being. Health is something that's across the board, whether you're rich or poor. When we looked at that for, for, for the poor and said okay well this, this is across all human, uh needs. And if you can do this, how many things does it effect... Is it wide enough?
01:38:10:13 BILLY: Oh yes.
01:38:11:09 MANOJ: 'Cause I know you made it for, whatever so-
01:38:14:12 BILLY: We still did it for 99 percentile.
01:38:16:08 MANOJ: Yeah. It's still-
01:38:17:19 BILLY: Yeah.
01:38:19:09 MANOJ: So if I gain another twenty pounds, I'm still okay. Interesting part is that once you try it a couple times, like okay, okay. I need that. You just feel better, you are better and you feel better. Um, I mean I've been on it for a couple three years now. And my son says you know in thirty years, I'll be fifty and you'll be forty [laughs] so, so, the, the effects have been remarkable. And so I said okay if I'm going to use it then I need to get that benefit out to everybody. And, uh, we're gonna impact health in a way that no medicine can do it.
01:39:02:10 MANOJ: We have our own jargon to some extent. Like for example somebody comes to me with a project or a product that we're gonna go sell, or, or some, some project. I ask him, is it slam dunk? You know and, and, "no it's really good." I said, no, no. Is it slam dunk? He says, " but, but really it's a good product." And what it does is uh totally clarifies their mind, that, oh no it's not slam dunk. And then I say, well, why are we gonna do it?
01:39:41:04 MANOJ: When we first went out to do philanthropy in a, in a big scale, so we started giving money all over the place and helping other people to do their work. As time goes on you learn stuff and then you realized if you help a little bit it's a good thing, but at my scale you're just throwing sand in the ocean. You know it just disappears, every time you do something... In India for example we're building two hospitals in places where they just don't have any medical facilities. So we started this foundation called The Hans Foundation. We invent stuff here and then the Hans foundation is going to be the one to distribute all of these things which they're not existent there. So as it grows your responsibility grows but also the what you effect grows. There's an old story from Indian scriptures about a blind man heading towards a well. There's a guy who's watching. If the blind man falls into the well. Who gets the blame? Is it the blind man? Or is it the guy who's watching? Our approach to philanthropy. There has to be meaning. I mean the question for us was this. How can we make a sizable difference to alleviate human suffering. Who's got the technology for this who can make this happen?
01:41:24:21 RAVI: Manoj is driven by the fact that work is never done. What it shows is that a single person with a small team can actually affect those five million people. 'Cause it doesn't take much to then go and say, how do I help the remaining five hundred million?
01:41:43:11 MANOJ: If you're doing really great things that have purpose. You feel great. And so we found a whole bunch of things that we can do ourselves that will make uh, a difference for, you know, for a hundred years. The more wealth you get, the bigger your duty becomes. Which is to help those who have less. Who are suffering. The more you're given the more you're asked. You should be more responsible for the more you're given. It's not a curse, but it's like a weight that if you're given more, more is expected from you. And it should be. It's that simple. That's it.


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Guwahati, Nov 15 (UNI) Assam was in process for getting 'power linkages' for its ambitious plan of total rural electrification programme by 2012, state Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi informed the state Assembly today.
Replying to an oral question by Opposition AGP MLA Dr Alaka Sarma, Mr Bordoloi said rural electrification work has effectively commenced in the three districts of Tinsukia, Goalpara and Cachar under the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Rural Electrification.
He said six districts are yet to get Centre's approval for implementation of the Scheme and central electricity authority has completed survey work in all the 25,000 census villages of the state to calculate the total demand by 2012.
The current electricity demand is 850 MW in the state, which would go up to 1600 MW by 2012, he added.
Mr Bordoloi informed that the state government had set 2009 as the deadline for providing electricity in all villages and by 2012, in all households.
He also informed that several power generation projects were in the pipeline and the government was in talks for power linkages from outside the state to meet the demand.
Elaborating on the point of power linkages, Mr Bordoloi said the government would buy power from other projects in the neighbouring states, including the ONGC project in Tripura, Lower Subansiri project, Kameng and Kahalgaon projects.
To another question submitted in the House today, the Power minister informed that the state had power generating capacity from hydel projects up to 541 MW. Of these, 102 MW was being generated through two projects, the 100 MW Karbi Langpi project and 2 MW Bordikharu project, which was not working due to technical problems.
He further informed that 1515 villages had been completed electrified in the state, 12941 villages partially and 4061 villages had been the electricity supply cut off due to disruption of cables following natural calamities. A total of 6603 villages were yet to get electricity.


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Computer applications include a vast number of features, many of which are not intuitive. A user is therefore often unaware of or does not know how to implement many of the features. The user therefore often performs incorrect or inefficient steps, and thereby either fails to altogether accomplish or inefficiently accomplishes a goal the user intended to accomplish. Additionally, performance of incorrect steps often causes an error.
It is conventional for a computer system to provide user help information tips, such as a tip of the day, informing users about various features of the computer system. It is conventional for the system to record whether a particular tip has already been displayed, and to display only those tips that are not recorded as having been previously displayed. For example, until all system tips are displayed, the system displays a tip only if it has not been previously displayed. Once all system tips are displayed, the system repeats the tip display cycle.
However, often, many of the tips provided by the system relate to features that are not useful for a user in the user's daily tasks. For example, a tip may pertain to an aspect of the system seldom or never used by the user.
Thus, there is a need in the art for a system and method that selectively provides user-specific user help information tips in a manner tailored to a user's use of a computer system.
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a computer system and method that provide user-specific help information tips, where the provision of the tips is made in accordance with an estimated relevance of the tips to a user's interests. Embodiments of the present invention relate to a computer system and method that may selectively provide user help information tips based on a user's history of interaction with the computer system. The user history may indicate particular computer applications and/or application features most often used by a corresponding user, and/or particular tasks and/or subtasks most often performed by the user. A task may be associated with a plurality of applications. For example, to generate and transmit an e-mail regarding salary to a plurality of employees of a company, a combination of word processing, spreadsheet, and database management programs may be used. A task may represent a workflow, which may require implementing a plurality of different programs and/or program features for producing a desired outcome. A tip may be provided because of its direct or indirect association with an application, application feature, task, and/or subtask used or performed by the user.
The system may store a list 108 of program instruction sets that may be executed by the processor 100. For one or more program instruction sets that may be executed by the processor 100, the list 108 may further include entries listing various aspects of the program instruction sets. Such program aspects may include program features, system tasks, problems, actions, and/or errors that may occur during execution of the program instruction sets. A problem may represent a failure by a user to act in a particular manner at a particular point during program execution, where it is determined that it is highly probable that acting in the particular manner was intended. An action may represent a performance by a user in a manner that does not produce an error, but does not allow for completion of a task. For example, for completion of a task, it may be required that the user enter a number amount in a particular field. While it may be that no error occurs when the user enters data other than a number amount, if the user later attempts to perform the task for which the number amount was required, the previous action may be deemed an error. An error may represent a faulty user operation.
For each entry or some entries in the list 108 there may be stored a corresponding solution or instruction set in a set of user help information 110. For example, the list 108 may include for each entry in the list 108 a pointer to or other identification of a corresponding solution or instruction set in the set of user help information 110. While
One or more entries in the list 108 may be uniquely identified. For example, the identification may be by an assigned identification number, a memory address at which it is listed, or any other conventional way in which to uniquely identify a particular stored data element. For a user, a corresponding user history 112 may be stored that identifies particular programs, program features, tasks, and/or subtasks of the list 108 used or performed by the user, or attempted to be used or performed by the user, e.g., with a memory address pointer or with a unique identification number. When the user attempts to or does use a program or program feature, or attempts to or does perform a task or subtask listed in the list 108, the system may update the user history 112 to include an identification of the event. Specifically, the system may update the user history 112 to indicate whether the task was successfully completed, failed, or was abandoned. A non-exhaustive list of additional information that may be stored in the user history 112 is a number of times a particular event has occurred, a date and/or time of the occurrence of the event, identifications of tips previously provided to the user, identification of particular ones of alternative methods used by the user for performing a task or subtask, and/or information regarding the user's role, e.g., manager, clerk, etc.
A plurality of user histories 112 may be stored, each for a different user. For example, users may log into a system that provides for access by the user to use programs. Each user may be assigned a different log-in ID. The log-in ID may be a username entered by the user during log-in. Alternatively, a plurality of terminals, which may each be uniquely identified, e.g., via a network address, may be provided with access to the system. For each username, or terminal, a corresponding user history 112 may be stored.
In an example embodiment of the present invention, for a user, the system may assign programs, program features, tasks, and/or subtasks (any one of which is referred to herein generally as a system element) to tip priority categories. The assignment may be based on data of the user history 112 corresponding to the user. The system may determine from the user history 112 which programs (or program features) and tasks (or subtasks) are most often used and performed by the user. Those that are most often used and performed, may be assigned a highest priority since they are deemed most relevant to the user. For example, the system may compare the use and performance numbers assigned to each of the system elements, and may sort them.
In one example embodiment, the system and method may sort a combination of the listed programs and tasks, and their sub-listings. In an alternative embodiment, programs and their sub-listings may be sorted separately from tasks and their sub-listings.
Example priority categories may be high, medium, and low. For example, each category may be fixedly assigned a predetermined interval of use and/or performance numbers. For example, if it is determined that a user used or attempted to use a program or performed or attempted to use a task a number of times that falls in an interval of 150 to 200, the program or task may be assigned a high priority; if it is determined that the user used or attempted to use a program or performed or attempted to use a task a number of times that falls in an interval of 100 to 149, the program or task may be assigned a medium priority; and if it is determined that the user used or attempted to use a program or performed or attempted to use a task a number of times that is less than 100, the program or task may be assigned a low priority.
In an alternative embodiment, the system may dynamically determine the tip priority categories based on the user's use and performance numbers. According to one exemplary calculation, the system may determine the range of the user's use and performance numbers, and may allocate predetermined percentages of the range to the different tip priority categories. Accordingly, if of a total of 100 listed programs and/or tasks, it is determined that a user used or performed one or more of them 0 times, one or more of them 199 times, and none more than 199 times, the system may determine the range to be 0-199. Consider this embodiment as applied to an instance where the predetermined percentages allocated to each of three categories is 25% to a high priority category, 25% to a low priority category, and 50% to a medium category. In this instance, the system may assign to the high priority category any listing for which the implementation number falls in an interval of 150 to 199; to the medium priority category any listing for which the implementation number falls in an interval of 50 to 149; and to the low priority category any listing for which the implementation number falls in an interval of 0 to 49. (An implementation number, as referred to herein, is either a use or performance number.)
Other variations for determining priority categories may be permissible. For example, a rule set according to which the priority categories may be determined may provide that at least a predetermined number of listings are to be assigned to a particular one of the categories. Further, it will be appreciated that the categories discussed above are provided as examples, and that the listings may be assigned instead to other categories. For example, they may be assigned to more than or less than the three categories discussed above.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the system may output tips of different categories at different frequencies. A particular frequency may be assigned to a particular category. Alternatively, the tips may be output according to a ratio of the categories to each other. For example, for every 3 output tips of high priority, 2 tips of medium priority and 1 tip of low priority may be output.
Instead of priority categories to which an interval of implementation numbers are assigned, tip priorities may be assigned directly to each listing according to a sort, so that for every implementation number, a different priority is assigned.
In an example embodiment of the present invention, one or more of the entries of the list 108 may be associated with one or more other entries of the list 108. For a particular entry having assigned a particular priority category, there may be a corresponding plurality of tips of the user help information 110. The tips may include one or more entries in the user help information 110 to which the particular entry of the list 108 directly corresponds and may also include entries in the user help information 110 to which directly corresponds those entries of the listing 108 with which the particular entry is associated. It may therefore occur that a tip that directly corresponds to an entry of the list 108 that is assigned to a low priority category based on its implementation number is output as a high priority tip.
For example,
According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a number of steps removed from a source entry assigned to a high or higher priority category may be considered when determining a priority category of an entry of the list 108. It is noted that the steps removed does not refer to a sequence of the listing, but rather to the entries' logical associations. A source entry may be an entry for which a priority category is determined without consideration of a number of steps that the entry is removed from another entry. In one example embodiment, an entry may be assigned two categories. A first category may be that which is determined without consideration of steps of removal from another entry and a second category may be that which is determined with consideration of steps of removal. The first category of a particular entry may be used for determining a priority category of an entry one step removed from the particular entry, while the second category may be used for determining how the tips associated with the particular entry are to be output. For example, if entries (3) and (4) of the list 108 have implementation numbers that are the same or that fall in the same interval, and that correspond to a low priority category, entry (3) of the list 108 may nevertheless be assigned to higher priority category with respect to output of tip entries than that of entry (4) of the list 108, since entry (3) is only 2 steps removed from entry (1), while entry (4) is 3 steps removed from entry (1). An entry of the list 108 that is not itself directly associated with any user help information 110 may cause a raising of priority of another entry of the list 108 that is directly associated with user help information 110. For example, if entry (3 a) is a program feature used very often by a user, then the priority of entry (2 c), or, more specifically, the priority of user help information (2), may be raised based on its association with entry (3 a). It will be appreciated that other variations of the extent to which steps of removal are considered are possible. In particular, an entry may be associated with a plurality of other entries and may therefore stem from a plurality of source entries of higher priority categories. A rule set may provide for consideration of a highest category source entry, a closest source entry, or some combination thereof.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the entries 108 are not assigned priorities, but, instead, may be assigned degrees of relevance. The user help information 110 may be assigned priorities based on the degrees of relevance of the entries 108 with which the user help information 110 is associated. As used herein, the terms "priority" and "priorities" with respect to the entries 108 refer to actual priorities or to degrees of relevance.
In one example embodiment, a particular entry of the list 108 may affect the determination of a priority category of a neighboring entry, in additional ways. Further, the way a first entry affects its neighboring entries may be different than the way a second entry affects its neighboring entries. The system may refer to a stored rule set to determine how each entry is affected by or affects its neighboring entries. For example, for a particular entry, a large disparity between its implementation number and that of its neighbor may raise the priority category of the neighboring entry. Different disparity numbers may be used for different entries, and not used at all for others. Further, a particular disparity number used may depend on the number of an entry's neighboring entries. For example, a greater disparity number may be used for determining an effect of entry (3) of the list 108 on its neighboring entries, than a disparity number used for determining an effect of entry (1) of the list 108 on its neighboring entry. Further, implementation numbers of other neighboring entries of a particular entry's neighboring entry may be considered.
For example, entry (1) of the list 108 may represent a task. Entries (2) of the list 108 may represent particular subtasks used for accomplishing the task represented by (1). If it is determined that a subtask corresponding to entry (2 a) is implemented, e.g., for 90% of the implementations of the task corresponding to entry (1), then one or more of entries (2 b-2 d) may be assigned to a higher priority category than they otherwise would. In another instance, the rule set may indicate that entry (2 b) is to be assigned to a higher priority category if it is determined that its corresponding subtask is implemented, e.g., for less than 2% of the implementations of the task corresponding to entry (1). These are but a couple of a plethora of calculations that may be made depending on a rule set.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the system may take additional factors into consideration when determining a tip's priority. For example, a high implementation number may render an entry of the list 108 a high priority entry (high degree of relevance), but the high implementation number, or even any implementation number above zero, may render an entry of the user help information 110 that directly corresponds to the high priority entry of the list 108 a low priority entry of the user help information 110, since its implementation may indicate the user's proficiency with respect to the entry, i.e., its implementation may indicate that the user is already aware of the contents of the tip. In particular, whether the implementation was completed or otherwise abandoned or failed may be taken into consideration.
In one example embodiment, different users may be assigned different roles. The user history 112 may identify a user's role. The particular tips provided, the determination as to a tip's priority, and/or the determination as to a priority of a system element of the list 108 may vary depending on the user's identified role. For example, the user history 112 and the method of providing user help tips based on the user history 112 may be provided for a company portal. Company employees may log into the portal. A user history 112 may be maintained for each company employee, and may identify the employee's role in the company. A rule set may provide that one or more tips are to be output for employees of a first role but not for employees of a second role. Further, by default, certain programs, program features, tasks, and/or subtasks may be assigned particular priority categories depending on the employee's role. For example, it may be determined that an employee of a first role usually uses a particular program, while an employee of a second role usually does not. Accordingly, tips pertaining to the particular program would be particularly relevant to the employee of the first role, but not to the employee of the second role. For example, a supervisor may often use a program for managing a queue of requests generated by a number lower level employees. The lower level employees may use the program less often, and may even be denied access to the program. In one embodiment, the user may customize priorities of different programs and/or program aspects, or may customize them partially by indicating a user priority preference to be assigned a coefficient in calculating an overall priority. For example, the system may multiply each of a plurality of priority determining factors, e.g., including a user-indicated priority, by corresponding coefficients when determining an overall priority category.
In an example embodiment of the present invention, which program and/or program aspect, if any, set by a user as the user's homepage may be a factor in determining the program's or program aspect's tip priority. For example, even if the user has not used a particular program a significant number of times, the program's relevance to the user may be determined by the system to be high since the user set the program as the user's homepage. In one variant of this embodiment, if the user changes the homepage to another program, the program previously set as the homepage may be assigned a lower priority than the newly set program, but may be assigned a higher priority than other programs because of its having been previously set as the homepage.
In an example embodiment of the present invention, a timestamp of an implementation of a particular system element may be taken into consideration for determining the priority of the system element. For example, if a recorded implementation number of a first program is greater than that of a second program, but all, most, or a last of the implementations of the first program occurred at a much earlier time than all, most, or a last of the implementations of the second program, the second program may be assigned to a higher priority category. In one exemplary application of this embodiment, a formula may be applied where an implementation number is multiplied by another number that is decremented by a predetermined amount for each passing day since a last implementation. In one embodiment, a most recently used program or program aspect may be assigned a highest priority.
In one example embodiment, programs and/or program aspects with respect to which a user encountered an error, erroneous action, or problem may be assigned to a higher priority than other programs or program aspects that are used without the user encountering any problem. Alternatively, encountering an error or problem may be one of the considered factors for the assignment of priorities.
Consider the foregoing embodiments as applied to an exemplary installation in which the system provides for the management of Purchase Orders (P.O.). The system may provide for generating a P.O. Within an electronic P.O. form, a number of fields may be provided, of which one may be a drop-down box including a list of possible suppliers. The system may provide a way for the user to set a default supplier to be automatically selected. With reference to the user history 112, the system may determine that the user has set up a default supplier. The system may therefore refrain from providing a tip that informs the user of a method of setting up a default supplier.
If the system determines based on the user history 112 that the user has not set up a default supplier, the system may provide the tip to the user. However, the system may refrain from doing so, or may assign the tip a low priority, if the system determines that the tip is not relevant. For example, in one embodiment, the system may assign a high priority to a tip for informing a user of a shortcut method only if the system determines that the user has instead performed a longer method numerous times. For example, if the system determines from the user history that the user has not used the part of the system that facilitates generation of a P.O., or if the system determines that the user has used that portion of the system, but has not selected a same supplier from the drop-down box significantly more times than the user has selected one or more other suppliers, then the system may determine that the user has not used a long method a significant number of times, and may therefore assign the tip a low priority. However, if the system determines that the user has selected a same supplier a number of times more than any of the other suppliers, e.g., where the number of times exceeds a predetermined threshold value, or where the ratio of the supplier's selection to the other suppliers' sections exceeds a threshold value, then the system may assign the tip a high priority.
In one embodiment, the tip may be shown daily or after predetermined time intervals. In one embodiment, the system may display the tip when the user performs a task or uses a program to which the tip relates. For example, for each new task the user performs or for each program the user uses, the system may select based on the user history 112 a particular tip that relates to the task and/or program and display it at that time. In one embodiment, the system may choose for display only one tip a day or per log-in but may refrain from displaying it until the user performs a particular task or uses a particular program to which the tip relates. If the tip relates to the overall system, the tip may be displayed immediately at log-in, but if the tip relates to setting up a default supplier, the system may wait until the user opens the P.O. generation part of the system before displaying the tip.
In one example embodiment, the tips may be cycled. Once used, a tip is moved to the end of the cycle. In one example embodiment, the cycle may include all tips of all categories, so that once a high priority tip is used, it may be moved to a position in the cycle behind a lower priority tip. Alternatively, separate cycles may be maintained for the different priority categories.
Those skilled in the art can appreciate from the foregoing description that the present invention can be implemented in a variety of forms. Therefore, while the embodiments of this invention have been described in connection with particular examples thereof, the true scope of the embodiments of the invention should not be so limited since other modifications will become apparent to the skilled practitioner upon a study of the drawings, specification, and following claims.
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Cricket South Africa should be applauded for suspending its bilateral agreement with Zimbabwe Cricket, a move that should finally force cricket's administrators to abandon their association with the country.
CSA's decision has at last kicked other equally influential bodies into action too. In response the British Government has stated that the Zimbabwe cricket side, which is scheduled to tour England next year and compete here in the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup, would not be welcome. The refreshing and belated stance has also created waves within cricket's governing body, the International Cricket Council, and the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The ICC will discuss what to do with Zimbabwe Cricket, a board whose finances are considered to contain "serious financial irregularities", and whose cricket side have been suspended from Test cricket, on grounds of ability, for three years, at next week's executive board meeting in Dubai. On a day of unprecedented reaction the ECB has responded too, calling an emergency board meeting tomorrow to decide whether it wishes to take any action.
It is about time a group of administrators took action in response to what has and continues to take place in Zimbabwe; it is only a shame that it was left to CSA, Zimbabwe's closest allies, to make the decision and not the British Government, ICC or ECB. Zimbabwe has been a maggot-infested open wound sitting on the face of cricket for quite some time, causing huge embarrassment to anyone who places the moral integrity of the game ahead of money, the commodity cricket cannot get enough of these days. One of the only non-Zimbabweans to have taken a moral stand in recent times is Nasser Hussain, the former England captain. Hussain refused to take his side to Zimbabwe at the 2003 World Cup, a brave and admirable move that ultimately ended England's chances of winning the tournament.
Hussain's decision was undoubtedly influenced by the actions of the Zimbabwean cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga, who wore black armbands in the team's opening game of the World Cup to signify the death of democracy in the country. Like almost all of Zimbabwe's best cricketers, Flower and Olonga have since left the country. Both live in England, and Flower has since become the assistant coach of the England team. Flower is delighted that CSA has taken such a stance and hopes the rest of cricket follows suit.
"I support a suspension," he said. "We should not have normal relations with a country in such an abnormal state. I don't think they should play in England next year on either the tour or in the ICC World Twenty20. It's all good, especially on South Africa's part. It's about time they did something strong. Leaving aside the cricket, I think South Africa has been pathetically weak about the whole subject. I like the fact that they are moving onto stronger language and being more decisive.
"Things are spiralling out of control so quickly in Zimbabwe now. I hope someone does something to arrest that. If suspending Zimbabwe from the ICC is the first step, then that's good.
"I'm no politician when it comes to the ICC, but I do know that Peter Chingoka [Zimbabwe Cricket's chief executive] is part of Robert Mugabe's despicable clan and the fact that he's allowed to prance around with the ICC colours on and sit on ICC committees is embarrassing, and embarrassing for the ICC – he's just not a good enough person to be making decisions about anything, especially not the finances of the ICC for instance. There will have to be a government change for cricket to move forward there. Because the people in charge of cricket there at the moment are part of Mugabe's supporters – they are all in bed with him.
"We were never strong but it's in such a poor state now. It's very sad. So many people gave up so much time and energy to get us into international cricket in the first place – people who weren't paid. They did it for the love of the game and the love of their country. It is now pretty much ruined and to change it round is going to take a massive effort, but there are still probably enough good people left to do it. But it would need a change of government."
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I might crash the convertible n spend that money all on some gothic/black clothing
DarkMagic120 Sep 27, 2016
Bree Brew You already know what I'm doin' w/ it Books,food,clothes,games,movies,music,twin Id crash your car though Or take H.H. and twin for a joy ride😛 Lol