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How to block a number on an iPhone in iOS 8 and iOS 7: how to stop someone calling you on your iPhone - block your ex on your iPhone
- Nexus 7: why the Nexus 7 is still the best tablet you can buy in 2014
- iPad Air 2: Five years old and the iPad is thinner, faster, better than ever - new iPad is a reference point for tablets
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4: The best iPad mini and Nexus 7 rival tablet around
- Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact: A decent iPad mini and Galaxy Tab S rival
- iPad mini 2: iPad mini with Retina display is a superb tablet in almost every way
- iPad Air - latest iPad is great, but is the iPad still the best tablet?
- Google Nexus 9: HTC's tablet is great but as expensive as an iPad Air
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5: Android tablet takes on iPad Air and Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet
- Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet: slim, light, powerful Android tablet is best iPad Air alternative
- Tesco Hudl 2: One of the best budget tablets you can buy
- Google Nexus 10: The best 10in Android tablet
- LG G Pad 8.3: A great Android tablet at a great price
- Amazon Fire HD 6: the 6in tablet that costs less than £80
- iPad mini 3: New iPad gets Touch ID but not much more
- Sony Xperia Tablet Z: super slim Android tablet
- iPad mini: the best 8 inch tablet around?
- Advent Vega Tegra Note 7: a powerful budget Android tablet
- Lenovo Yoga Tablet 10: a versatile 10-inch Android tablet at a reasonable price
- Amazon Fire HD 7: the 2014 tablet is overpriced compared to rivals
- Tesco Hudl: excellent Android tablet with good specs and better price tag
- Apple iPad 4: is this the best tablet money can buy?
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014): the 10-inch high-end Samsung tablet gets a little makeover
- Surface Pro 3: the most portable laptop, an acceptable tablet. Surface Pro 3 offers incredible engineering that people are growing to love
- Asus Memo Pad 7 (ME176CX): A competitive new entry into the budget tablet market
- Barnes & Noble Nook HD
- Kobo Arc 10HD: a handsome 10-inch Android tablet that could be just what you're looking for
- Kindle Fire HD (2013): The Kindle Fire HD is Amazon's 7-inch budget Android tablet
- Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700
- Nokia Lumia 2520 - the best Windows RT tablet yet... fancy a tablet that's different?
- Microsoft Surface Pro 2: now cheaper but outshone by the new Surface Pro
- Samsung Galaxy NotePro 12.2: a 12-inch powerhouse of a tablet that's too big for its own good
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0: a good 8-inch tablet but it's expensive
- Asus Memo Pad 8: Asus's 8in tablet is a bargain at £120 with few downfalls
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
- Archos 80 Titanium tablet
- Acer Iconia A1: budget Android tablet with a microSD card slot
- Asus Padfone 2: A smartphone and tablet hybrid with a difference
- Asus Fonepad 7 LTE: Reasonable 7in Android tablet that doubles as a giant smartphone
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0: barely an upgrade from the Tab 3 and overpriced to boot


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EMPORIA -- Stockton High School senior Koby Beougher has enjoyed a terrific golf career for the Tigers. On Monday, he capped it with his first individual state championship when he collected the Class 1A title in a playoff against Tribune-Greeley County's A.J. Govert at Emporia Municipal Golf Course. As well, WaKeeney-Trego Community won the state title with a 330, 23 strokes ahead of runner-up Olpe.
Beougher shot a 75 and was tied after the first 18 holes. Beougher went 38-37 to win the title.
Then the pair tied after the first playoff hole. Beougher delivered a par on the second playoff hole to win. Beougher finished first in the Washington County/Linn regional last week with a 76, his third straight regional championship.
Beougher went to state all four years and helped Stockton reach state as a team for three years. A Barton Community College signee, Beougher was runner-up last year, 15th as a sophomore in 1A and 21st as a freshman in 2A. Beougher won six tournaments and had two runner-up finishes, including the MCL championship.
For WaKeeney, Dion Reetz shot 77 for fifth place, while Cameron Staples shot an 80, Blake Huxman had an 85 and Luke Reeder had an 88 for the top four scores. John Griffith also shot 104 and Tanner Townley collected a 111.
At the sand greens state tourney in Tipton, La Crosse finished fifth and Bird City-Cheylin was sixth in the six-team field. Mankato-Rock Hills went 1-2-3 and shot a 293.
La Crosse shot a 342 and Cheylin shot 346. The top area finisher was Sylvan-Lucas' Collin Herold, who shot a 77 for fifth place.


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5 Superb Game At Bargain Price. Buy It Now!santashelper | 04/04/2008 | See all santashelper's reviews (7)GT5 prologue is a superb game and at £17.99 this is great value for money.The graphics are ace and there are about 70 cars to work through and buy/earn. If you like driving games then don't hesitate and buy it now.The game is also compatible with the Dualshock 3 controller and rumble - if you are lucky enough to have one.The online mode isn't bad too.Although there is no voice chat at the moment, the producer of the Gran Turismo series has stated in a interview that download patches are forthcoming for both car damage & voice chat.Additional cars are also expected to be added.Ignore the few bad reviews as these are more than likely written by jealous X-box360 owers.BUY THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 Graphics Aren't Everything!PlatinumNexus | 29/03/2008 | See all PlatinumNexus's reviews (15)Lets start with the graphics... Replays and the entrance video both have the best graphics ive ever seen on a racing game, however when I got into a race I found the graphics to be, next gen but not revolutionary. Granted the gameplay graphics are great but they arent as good as everyone is saying, the gameplay graphics in PGR4 are far superior, especially when the weather effects are running but as the review title suggests graphics aren't everything. Now onto gameplay, although realistic they may be realistic is nothing without feedback, even a tap in Forza 2 can send a car spinning however in Gran Turismo Prologue it seems almost impossible to spin your car, even if its rear wheel drive. In both forza 2 and PGR4 there are other modes and activities you can do other than racing, and although great some racing games can be they can all become boring at times just racing, and therefore the extra modes and activities keep the game fresh for me and I never get bored. Below are the other activities open to youForza 2 - Drifting, Creating artistic designs on your carsPGR4 - Cat & Mouse, Bulldog, New Tourist ModeAt the moment there are no racing games for PS3 with any real difference than just racing which it desperately needs. Hopefully when GT5 is released players will find other things to do on the game online. The closest any game has come to a 'difference' is motorstorm which I must say is an all round fun game. There are 2 bits of praise that sets it apart from the rest, although I dont think it will be a selling point and thats that the cockpit view is the best Ive seen in a game to date, in the fact that its the clearest view ive had from any racing cockpit view on any game, this does not mean Im saying its graphically the best because its not its just the most 'usable' cockpit view to date. The second point of praise is the ability to drive a formula 1 car, which may actually be a good enough selling point for prologue, so that players get to see if they have got the physics right for it. I for one cant wait to find out but at 2,000,000 credits your gonna have to race for a while to get it.My review as a summary...Pros:Great FMV graphicsGood Gameplay GraphicsMost usable cockpit view of any racing game to dateF1 Ferrari available to raceCons:No damage (is that really realistic?)You just bounce off walls (Is this also realistic?)Prologue doesn't allow car upgradingWithout upgrades, this game has no varietyJust buy car race, buy new car race, etc. gameplayNothing to do but raceFor £20 this is not worth it atallFinal Summary:Even though this is just to show what GT5 is going to be able to do, I would have thought they would have included car upgrading of some kind. Instead there are just a few pre-tuned cars and thats it. This is probably the biggest dissapointment. The gameplay graphics for GT5 Prologue are great but not as great as they are in replays or FMV's. All in all this game only allows you to buy cars and race with the added bonus of 16 player online.If you have an xbox 360, get forza 2 or pgr4 or both and wait for GT5. If you only have a PS3, still wait for GT5 as this game is not worth £20 (if you can call it a game). Motorstorm is highly recommended for PS3 owners and in hindsight I would not have wasted £20 on Prologue and waited until 2009 when the full game is released. Please try to ignore the no. of people who find this review helpful as they all probably say they didnt. I dont understand how even GT fanboy's could say this game is worth £20.Thanks for reading! :)
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5 Calling This Game A Demo Is Ridiculous............Marty8370 | 06/04/2008 | See all Marty8370's reviews (1)1) The game is NOT full price. Full price is £49, the Prologue costs only £17.99. That is under half, full price games.2) The game is only £17.99. A bargain.3) 70 Cars, 6 Tracks, 16 Player Online Racing is NOT a demo. A demo would be one track, a car or two, and no online component.4) You are not being forced to buy this game. If you can't wait for GT5 (much like myself), it's a very sizeable offering to hold you over.5) If you disagree with point 1-4, simply Don't Buy It!!!. It's your lost.
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Internet Explorer "Bug" puts One-Fourth of Web Users at Risk
Microsoft made a stunning announcement over the weekend: That they are working to fix a bug – a bug that is present in Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6 through 11, and one that hackers are currently exploiting.
Versions 6 through 11 presently make up approximately 55% of the browser market, but the exploitation (at least for now) appears to be concentrating on versions 9 through 11 – about 26.25% of the market, according to FireEye, a cyber security software company that "caught" the bug, according to The Daily Mail. (One has to wonder – did they "catch" it through survey, test, and identification – or did they "catch" it [like catching a cold] in terms of being hacked and exploited! – the report we saw was ambiguous).
For now, the hackers appear to be targeting U.S. defense and financial sector service firms – but don't let that ameliorate any concerns: You could be next – and it could be in the next moment.
For any readers still using XP (and an estimated 15 to 25% of the world's PCs are still running XP), recognize that you will receive no update(s) for this bug, being that Microsoft has stopped supporting XP with upgrades and fixes.
According to FireEye spokesman Vitor De Souza, "It's unclear what the motives of this attack group are, at this point. It appears to be broad-spectrum intel gathering."
In an advisory, Microsoft said that the vulnerability engendered by this bug could allow hackers to take complete control of a system. Recognize that in these instances, data theft, data destruction, accounts creation, installation of further malicious programs, and likely anything else you can imagine are possible.
Chief Technology Officer of the cyber security firm Seculert, Aviv Raff, has said that other hacking groups are racing to learn more about the bug so that they can launch their own attacks: "This will snowball," Raff says.
Keep your eye on this, and as always, apply security patches and upgrades as soon as possible. (Although our counsel regarding aesthetic and minor operational fixes still holds: Let those changes "cook" in the market a bit, to make sure they don't break more things than they fix/enhance).
As for those XP users? Microsoft released a statement to Reuters, advising XP users to upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8.
"ObamaCare", Project Management, and Empiricism
Much has been written about the Affordable Care Act's rollout and status – the program colloquially known as "ObamaCare."
Politics aside (let me emphasize that), for both IT and business professionals who are empirically grounded, I think it's fairly evident that something is not only horribly awry at present, but also; cascading issues will yield an exponential number of problems as the current system is exercised in full – if ever, that is.
It's not a matter of fixing discreet troubles – a couple isolated in this module here, a few in that procedure over there. There is an undetermined, interwoven, set of malfunctioning elements. Having professionally managed many projects directly, and having directed project teams in both Fortune500 and Federal environments, it is easy to see the "back side of the screen" trainwreck of this endeavor, from the evidence readily available on the "front side of the screen." And, recognize that this system tethers to quite a few others – Healthcare.gov is not only an imbroglio to itself: It has the power to corrupt several other critical sites, both in the private-sector and public (government) realms.
A Couple Erroneous Terms:
Website: First, let's understand this – ObamaCare is not a "website," as it is referred to in many quarters. It is a highly complex computer program application (really a set of programs), represented by millions upon millions of lines of code – and that is supposed to be available through a simple portal: The associated website. In total, it is not an efficient coding endeavor, and to boot, the overage of code does not match real-world 'business' requirements: that is, the business of registering people and allowing them to shop for affordable healthcare. Characterizing this as a "website" helps to mask the gross inefficiencies and problems we're all facing…
Glitches: The system is not suffering "glitches." It has deep, entrenched, and very fundamental technical and program flaws. Bringing in the "best and the brightest" for fixes to so-called "glitches" may actually compound the problem. To use a hackneyed, but very useful, phrase: 9 women cannot make a baby in 1 month. Innumerable "best and brightest" types, with their fingers simultaneously in the pie, may actually make things worse. One has to ask: Where were a measured number of "best and brightest" these past 3 years of effort (toward the Go-Live of this thing)?
Speaking of Go-Live – I never missed that date with any of my myriad projects these past decades. Milestones were reality-based, paired with interim reality-based testing, which in-turn delivered results that yielded efficient fixes during the project's course, and Go-Lives yielded actual business programs that could be used to good purpose on Day 1. That is, fully functioning programs, software, and applications that allowed 100% support to the business at-hand. Any "glitches" were truly minor in scope – easily fixed, and generally same-day – and we were always able to offer users work-arounds in getting business done in the meantime. Day 1. Period.
Consider something I spoke of in my book, I.T. Wars – IDRU: Inadequacy, Disaster, Runaway, and Unrecoverability. Read that chapter, and you'll see why I believe this system will be scrapped, and started anew – much as the FBI's VCF (Virtual Case File) System was. In that circumstance, a post-9/11 effort to transition paper records to an electronic system of terror-tracking and management was necessary so that allied agencies could more effectively share and collaborate through utilization of necessary data: The FBI, NSA, CIA, etc. However, in that case, there was comparatively little political consequence in starting over.
IDRU applies here because:
Inadequate attention was given to the project's scope, its requirements, its timeline, true expectations for delivery, its true course and progress, and the inadequate awareness for the folly of going live with something that was wholly dysfunctional. (By the way: The first day's screen splash of "The System is Down" was erroneous. A system had to have been Up to be Down. The actual status was: "The System is Not Yet Ready").
Disaster: Certainly any system that delivers a 100% failure on a promised (and ballyhooed) Go-Live date is a disaster – in an IT-context certainly. However, even the Act's supporters are beginning to call this rollout "the greatest IT disaster in history."
Runaway: We may well be in a zone whereby more and more resources are poured into this thing, with ever diminishing results. As the size of the team increases, errors and challenges in simple communication become ever-larger, more and more reports are required – with associated efforts and oversights. Ever more programmers are stepping on other programmers' changes, and as related, ever more meetings are required for preclusions, negotiations, and fixes to "fixes."
Unrecoverability: This specific project (not the Act) may indeed be unrecoverable – it may yet be trashed, and started anew. However, it will not be positioned that way for public consumption. The Affordable Care Act, and the related website/system, will be reported as undergoing major revisions, with the requirement for registration likely seeing a major delay… to sometime in 2014, for example. A great analogy serves here: If you have a pyramid of cheerleaders, and several on the bottom are in the wrong uniform, you must have everyone clamber down and stand around as a measure of cheerleaders don the correct uniform. You cannot "fix" the existing pyramid. You have to disassemble, and start over: Once everyone is in the correct uniform, you can re-mount the pyramid. In the case of the Affordable Care Act, "pulling" and fixing modules, lines of code, tables, tethers (to outside systems), databases, etc., is going to create an ever-widening circle of problems. As problems accrue, overlap, and self-reinforce, their growing aggregate will become like a snowball rolling downhill; accruing mass, accelerating the system toward doom – a condition of true runaway, leading to unrecoverability.
Any person in the business-IT realm worth their salt knows this: In IT, an ounce of prevention is worth 10,000 pounds of cure.
With ObamaCare, political considerations preclude the admission that the system is dysfunctional, and not likely to get better any time soon – and that it must be remounted from a fresh start. Either way, an enormous effort is necessary: I believe it may take a year to get a fully-functional system (regardless of anyone's opinion as to what a functioning system may be enabling and delivering in terms of real-world, affordable, readily-available, healthcare policies).
The Affordable Care Act and its associated online enablements have a number of rollout issues, and whatever the present citizen/user experience is at the moment, there is very obvious evidence of what is wrong with the system that speaks in a special way to this readership:
This readership is comprised of people who operate on empiricals: Actual measures of things in match to real-world requirements. We are comprised of programmers, system architects, engineers, Agile-adherents, project managers, IT managers/directors, CIOs, CTOs… that list can go on. Readership also includes a sizeable number of non-IT, tech-savvy, personnel who inhabit "business-stakeholder" expertise and standing in the enterprise-business-IT realm. CFOs, CEOs, COOs, business owners, business directors, finance and accounting staff, and all manner of managers and allied staff.
Most of us here in this readership would call the ObamaCare rollout, and its associated web-enablement HealthCare.gov, a disaster. It's almost a reflection for the death of empiricism.
After all, how many of us here have delivered a business system on the Go-Live date that didn't work?… that didn't work at all?
The Government, Metadata, and You
A recent article, FBI Pressures Internet Providers to Install Surveillance Software, had me revisiting my thoughts regarding recent government assurances.
Various politicians, pundits, and agencies have made assurances that the government is only collecting metadata – for phone calls, internet activity, and other personal pursuits. Let's take phone calls as an example for an important point I'll be making here.
Supposedly, the government only records (in a database) the following regarding your phone calls and mine: Time of initiation for the call; duration; who initiated it; who was called – and maybe a few other collateral things. In other words, the government isn't listening in, or recording, or transcribing what you're saying… discussing, etc., because they are only collecting metadata.
Ah – the golden word here: Metadata. What is metadata? I like this definition: Metadata is data about other data. Hence those surrounding details of the calls…
Hmmm. But I sense a real problem. Metadata can include ANYTHING you deem to be… metadata.
How about high value concepts? Those are in the body of calls and records – but you darn sure can collect high value concepts and stuff those under the umbrella of metadata – and plenty of people and organizations do. And… "high value concepts" is a fungible term. A couple words, or a phrase, not enough to satisfy the government's concept – or need – for certain high value concepts? No problem – just expand to a couple lines… grab the whole paragraph that certain terms appear in. Next thing you know, the whole body of the record is "high value," and a part of the "metadata."
And… then… any politician can stand in front of a microphone, and state with all seeming sincerity, "Americans have no reason to fear the FBI's (NSA's, etc.) collection of data… we're merely collecting metadata…".
Pay attention. :^ ) This will get hot.
NP: Bad Company; Extended Versions. Ok, I bit – thinking this was expanded versions of studio stuff. It's live from 2010, UK. Took me 2 months to finally give this a listen. It's fine. Boz is missing (having died), but we've got an ex-Heart guitarist, and one from Paul's solo band on stage, and the other three originals (Paul, Mick and Simon). Surprisingly fine, now that I'm listening. However, beware some of the other entries in the Extended Versions series (I'm told).
Personnel and Diminishing Returns: Watch for this condition
Word comes to me of an organization that has completely overtopped on the growth of its IT department – both in terms of numbers and expertise.
The org has no outside solutions partners to speak of. Oh, they have service providers – you can't get away with no broadband provider, for example. But instead of engaging a reasonable cadre of vendors/contractors/solutions partners, they've hired inside expertise, adding to the permanent staff, until now they have an unwieldy department that is difficult to tune and manage.
The IT budget is in a deplorable state due to the salaries of all these people. It's difficult to pry dollars for training from governance. So, former "experts" fall out of their expertise over time.
Think of it this way: You wouldn't hire a specialist, say a plumber, to become a permanent full-time member of your home's monthly budget, would you? No – you engage a plumber when you need him or her – project by project, or problem by problem, if you prefer. The plumber provides a service – a solution –solving whatever problem you have, and then goes on to service other clients.
Solutions partners in the business-IT world are engaged on much the same basis. It's a much more efficient use of resources ($$$) to bring someone in on the occasioned basis, rather than riding some measure of expertise on the team as a permanent "resource."
In tandem with the abeyance for burdens of keeping in-house personnel trained, there is an advantage in employing qualified solutions partners in that they have no challenges in staying current (quality vendors, that is). It is a part of their business to stay current, and forward edge besides, so that they remain competitive and successful, in serving you. Your success is their success, and that is strong motivation.
Look around at your IT shop – large enterprises are especially vulnerable to the creep of accruing people, and keeping them, past the point of good budget and service sense. But… I'm not trying to sweep people out of their jobs. Rather, this warning is especially crucial to small-to-medium business(SMB). SMBs are dynamic, frequently growing (in some cases rapidly), and you've got to establish the balance between permanent in-house cadre and the prudent use of outside solutions partners: Do that efficiently, and you'll find it economical.
Manage this carefully – the two most important qualifiers for doing this are awareness… and vigilance.
NP: The Lovin' Spoonful, Daydream, original LP that I just picked up at a yardsale, near-mint.
Lessons of the 8-Track Cartridge – Inefficiency: Can you recognize it?
In past days, we've talked about multi-tasking and its potential to drive efficiency down; as opposed to manifesting a goal of getting more done in a fixed period of time. Diminished attention to any particular thing while trying to serve too many things can lead to errors, requiring timely do-overs. It can also cause wasted time due to the re-acquire of attention engendered by interruptions.
So… something that looks good on the surface may actually be detrimental. There's a great example from the past: The 8-track tape.
Today, 8-track tape cartridges are held in pretty low esteem. Older readers will recognize the format, developed in the early '60s – anyone else who is unfamiliar can Google and read up on them. But 8-tracks essentially had, literally, eight discrete tracks (streams) of information on them. The tracks were paired into Left and Right stereo channels, comprising four "programs" of music; Program 1, Program 2, etc. Two stereo channels x four programs of music = eight tracks.
The tape inside the cartridge was an endless loop, pulling from the center of a single spool, passing over the playback head, and winding back on to the outside of the spool. A sensing foil was at the splice – when it passed over a pair of contacts just downstream of the playback head, a circuit was completed momentarily that caused the playback head to shift down, to play Program 2 – this subsequently happened again, and again until Program 4 played. Most players had circuitry to understand that Program 4 was invoked, and shut the player off after Program 4 so as to leave the cartridge at the ready for the next play, from the beginning (although you could bypass this with a button, for endless play on most players). And "beginning" could be the beginning of any of the four Programs, by virtue of a button for manual advance.
The 8-track had the appearance of several advantages and efficiencies, a few of which are actual:
– Unlike cassettes, there was no need to flip the tape over (this advantage was negated later by auto-reverse cassette decks – but in the early and mid-60s, this was big).
– During its reign, it was also considered superior to the cassette format: 8-tracks were mastered at 3 3/4 speed, vs. the cassette's 1 7/8 speed (a better content to tape-fidelity ratio). Again, this advantage was temporary upon the cassette's graduation to a high-fidelity medium toward the late '60s, into the '70s and beyond…
– There was a measure of "random access" – with open-reels and cassettes, you had to do a bit of rewinding and/or forwarding to get to music in the middle of the tape. With 8-tracks, you could get close enough by advancing the Programs manually with a button push.
– The single spool theoretically halved the mechanical contribution to wow and flutter (the other contributors in any tape format being the motor, capstan, pinch roller…).
– Speaking of pinch rollers – the 8-track format had them inside each individual cartridge. Therefore, no single-point-of-failure in that regard, or wear-point, by virtue of a single roller in the tape deck. Each cartridge's pinch roller engaged the capstan in the 8-track deck.
However, whatever "advantages" there may have seemed on the surface, the 8-track was grossly inefficient in the most important, and extreme, ways. Consider:
– To play an entire album, the tape passed over the head four times. Program 1 passed over the head (again) as Program 2 played; indeed Programs 3 and 4 did too. Therefore, the tapes/cartridges had a wearout factor that was at least 2x that of cassettes and open reels (those tapes passed the head twice as each side was played).
– Maintaining proper playback head alignment was difficult, being that the head was not "fixed" – it moved to orient and play the different streams of programs on the tape.
– Early cartridges had foam pressure pads that eventually broke down and crumbled.
– Early cartridges also had pinch rollers that degenerated into sticky goo.
– With the tape pulling from the center of the spool, there was enormous wear – a special lubricant was required for the tape's surface, which eventually wore off. Tape wear reduced fidelity, but too, once the lube wore off, it caused jams as players "ate" the tape.
Not a great format. Not efficient. And in terms of investment for progressing, the format came and went fairly quickly, unlike records which enjoyed a long run with associated amazing improvements (and which remain in the market today), or cassettes, which began as a lo-fi medium primarily for dictation and voice capture, and which matured and rivaled the best open-real hi-fi realities.
So – what in your organization looks good on the surface – possibly for purpose of convenience (like the 8-track at one time), but is actually inefficient, and in danger of having a very limited shelf life? "Solutions" that are not positioned to be supported by the future marketplace are very poor supports indeed, and you must begin to survey your environment by looking at things in a very fresh way.
Just as you can break open an 8-track cartridge, to examine how inefficient it is, you must "break open" your present organization's environment, and start to examine the liabilities.
NP: The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl, on 8-track.
Thoughts on the Human "Machine," Multi-tasking, and Resources
In the discussion of multi-tasking, there was a natural discussion of resources: Time being a very important resource; People being another.
However, someone made some potent observations, essentially saying that there is no such thing as 'multi-tasking,' being that people are at best capable of "serial fast-switching." I like that.
But that makes humans seem like a machine, in that person's mind, and the thought was that we must stop equating humans to machines; we even have to stop treating people as "resources." The stated reasons include:
- Resources are something we use.
- Resources can be interchangeable with like-resources.
- Resources are generally available on-demand.
- Resources are often consumed by the process.
The question was posed: "Are you a human resource?" My answer is, "Yes."
- We use people. If you prefer, we utilize people and their associated knowledge, skills, and time (availability).
- We generally like people in IT to be, if not perfectly interchangeable, able to provide backup services if a primary person is unavailable. Coverage and continuity is everything in IT/business.
- People are certainly available on-demand; HelpDesk, anyone? How about a phone call from the boss: "Sally, can you come in here for a moment? Thanks…". We're polite and respectful for people's prior obligations, and schedules, but we're essentially available on-demand.
- People aren't "consumed" literally (well…). But our time is consumed, and any person's fulfillment as a resource is based on time/availability: That is a consumption.
So, people are a resource: People, and their associated knowledge, manpower (person-power?), and contributions, are most definitely a collective resource. After all, if you don't have enough of them, in the right proportions, with the right skills and knowledge, you're in for a hurtin'.
And, technically speaking, they make a pretty good appearance as a "machine" to the other parts of the overall IT/business machine.
Multi-Tasking: Possible? Part II
When 'multi-tasking,' we're essentially giving the appearance of handling several things in any given allotment of time. You can only really do this three ways:
– Do things sequentially (say, in the course of the hour, day, week, project, etc.)
– Do things by jumping back-and-forth (often necessary when waiting on subordinate or tangential deliveries that feed into any specific item, or answers, etc., on any given thing).
– Delegate and collect (the finished task, or its state of progress for your next level of involvement).
So – learn how to delegate and prioritize tasks, and give them the respect of focus, to avoid wasting time.
Become adept at prioritizing "on the fly" (and re-prioritizing) with accuracy – as stuff streams toward you, particularly unanticipated things; resolve or assign them quickly and accurately. Also, is any particular thing merely "routine," "emergent," or an "emergency?" That will factor into priorities, task focus, and assignations.
When interrupted with things, become adept at plugging back in to what you were doing before the interruption. Some folks take awhile to regain their center, to find the place where they left off, etc. Others can execute about-faces with military precision and focus, almost like a drill. Get tips and tricks from these folks. My tip: A pot of coffee. Seriously – if I'm in the middle of something, making good progress, and I have a creative flow in hammering out some really good service/solution, and someone knocks on my doorframe – I state bluntly, "Can this wait?"
Usually, the answer is "Yes" – or there's some grace of space in which to address it; in which case I say "Come back in an hour" (in the afternoon; tomorrow, etc). Of course, with all due civility and respect. :^ )
Multi-tasking? It's all how you define it
NP: Stanley Turrentine; Stan "The Man" Original 1960 LP.
Multi-Tasking: Possible? Part I
A conversation recently had people asking:
– Is it really possible to 'multi-task'? (Is there truly such a thing?)
– If possible, what does one do to most effectively 'multi-task'?
If one is to be technically correct here, there is no such thing as multi-tasking. (There. I said it). I'm writing this article, and I'm not doing anything else. I can suspend my writing and take a phone call; maybe I can even nod my head, say "yes" and "no" and continue to type, but my focus is compromised and my efficiency declines on one or both endeavors. I might even have to go back and re-do something due to this compromise. In this case, my split-attention doesn't yield the machination of two tasks at once ('multi-tasking'): It really yields a hybrid, composite, task; one that may deliver quality to two component parts – or – as I said, one that may yield poor results, and a do-over.
'Multi-tasking' in my mind really means handling several things on a schedule – whether formal or informal. Hence, you can be prioritizing something first thing in the morning – perhaps you're focusing on a specific project's milestones (and again, you have to look at them in-turn, or as a composite), when something hits your desk, or you get a "hot" phone call regarding something needing attention. What do you do?
You either suspend a lower-priority item (in relation to the "hot" thing), or you can delegate the work. Delegation is always going on in the management realm, and even if you're someone who can't delegate (perhaps a HelpDesk person, with a priority task you're working on), you can still negotiate with a co-worker to help you. Therefore, you are in essence "juggling" multiple tasks.
The trick is to delegate and negotiate help without incurring a "back-and-forth" focus that bleeds quality attention to anything you're working on. Learn how to offload and to then relax a bit – trust your personnel, and trust that the delegated work will get handled. (If you don't believe you can do that, there are liabilities on the team, obviously).
The alternative is to think you're doing two things at once while you compromise your attention to details (ever had to ask someone to repeat something three times on the phone, because you're administering e-mail at the same time [reading, answering, deleting, etc.?].
Remember that the goal of so-called 'multi-tasking' is to gain time, by stuffing more tasks into an allotment of time. But frequently, a blur of focus causes errors, "re-do's," and the loss of time.
So – how do we give the appearance of multi-tasking; that is, of being efficient while handling lots of items? We'll look at that next…
NP: Heavy Cream (a best-of compilation; Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton): 8-track on a nice high-end Pioneer deck.
SMB: Going Mobile?
More and more workplace environments are either "going mobile" (planning, developing, implementing, and making effective use of mobile apps and associated devices), or contemplating such a move.
It's certainly becoming necessary, given the competitive nature of business, and the explosion of "business-ready" personal devices. Necessary is:
- The procurement of mobile devices by the organization, and the assignment of these assets to users.
- Or – the authorization and use of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) personal assets.
- Also, many orgs do a mix of their own capital assets, and allow users' BYOD assets where there is a fit. BYOD saves on capital expenditure.
For organizations still contemplating mobile, or already mobile but grappling with issues, recognize that you must consider some very important fundamentals:
1. Is your user body prepared? That is, are workers up-to-date in a general sense regarding modern security measures for any online work-related efforts? Do you have a plan for maintaining security awareness? Regularized training is essential.
2. Prior to integrating mobile apps and making them central to your mission, ensure your user-body is confident. Naturally, users must be trained in apps' use, but they must also gain troubleshooting skills and be ready to perform some measure of those tasks, being that mobile means they'll frequently be conducting work out-of-house, and away from the convenience of a HelpDesk..
3. It's also important that users connect safely and securely, whether through WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, etc., networks.
4. Ensure a robust Mobile Workforce Policy. Ideally, you should have a general Security Policy that overarches everything "business" and "IT," with relevant sections. For example, there should be an Acceptable Use Policy within Security, which details how work equipment is to be utilized, along with communications policies. Organization-owned devices, to include mobile, should be listed with appropriate guidance. Too, there should be a section regarding personally-owned mobile devices, and their integration and use within the org: This is the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) element of the policy, and it's imperative to detail guides, limits, and allowances.
Ensure that a robust technical support condition exists for mobile enablement: Spec up that department. Be certain to match hours, knowledge, and support to mobile expectations and requirements. Define support with appropriate definitions, policies, and support personnel. Do this by surveying business stakeholders, governance, business-mission requirements, and identify all areas that mobile is expected to fill in your organization.
Then, set up your mobile project: Identify, spec, and procure your devices. Develop or procure your apps. Adjust your backend (accommodate new storage, bandwidth, and processing requirements). Train staff and internal support personnel.
Do this within the formal scope of a project, with a Project Manager. He or she will negotiate and manage budget, timeline, milestones, resources, personnel, vendor(s), and contingency accommodations for the truly "unforeseeables" that inevitably pop up.
NP: Neil Young, Time Fades Away, vinyl.
NSA, Surrveillance, and New Parameters for Business Liability Coverage
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a new data storage facility. It's 1.5 million square feet of super computers that harbor massive amounts of information. Much of it is thought to be our phones calls and texts… at least the relevant metadata surrounding these communications, but there's been considerable speculation about that here in these forums as well as elsewhere.
Business security folks are already asking critical questions: Do they store your stuff forever? Or, what stuff exactly, forever?
In match: How long do you (or a vendor, on your behalf) presently store? Many businesses have a destruct trigger for data based on taxonomies and dates. Many organizations at present also have loose, or evolving, or even no standards for what employees can do with company resources. Even large enterprises with sophisticated Acceptable Use policies don't adequately enforce them… so –
What if Feds come at you in future, with charges? They could be charges based on what your sanctioned corporate data allegedly points to, or they could be charges based on what some long-departed employee did under the aegis of the organization's banner (remember What is being done in the name of your domain? from I.T. Wars?). Can you, and your legal representatives, assess the charges on a "bit-for-bit" basis, so-to-speak? Will you have the relevant data from that period? Or will you be content to take the Feds word for the alleged transgressions of the past, that must now be answered for in the present? Oh oh…
Update all:
- Security Policies
- Acceptable Use Policies
- Security Training
- All Data Retention and Destruct Policies
- Monitor what people are doing with work resources – the org owns the resources, and all associated content – to include anything so-called 'personal' that people are crafting with the org's resources – make clear the org is monitoring everything, and why (again, get training up-to-speed).
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All children are required to bring a copy of their birth certificate to the sign-ups.For more information, contact Laura at (207) 457-1230 or Chris at (207) 457-1406.Sign-ups for the Lebanon Babe Ruth League, for children ages 13 through 15, will be held at the same times. The registration fee is $75 per player. For more information, call Mike Burke at (207) 457-1406. LIBRARY WINTER CARNIVALThe Martha Sawyer Community Library, located at 53 Upper Guinea Road, will host a Winter Carnival on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children will be able to make crafts at noon. A story time will take place before the festivities at 10:30 a.m.Also, on Saturday, Feb. 23, the story time at 10:30 a.m. will have a gingerbread theme. Children will be able to decorate gingerbread men and listen to stories about them.GO, RED!Each year, the Lebanon Schools staff wear red in observation of the "Go Red for Women Day" for the American Heart Associatio.The number-one killer of women in the United States is heart disease. The Lebanon teachers wanted to show their support for finding a cure for this deadly disease by wearing red.
57 CALLS IN JANUARYThe Lebanon Rescue Department responded to 57 calls for service in January.Along with responding to those calls, six members of the Lebanon Rescue Department also started a new EMT class, and one member attended an EMT refresher class. Additionally, members attended their mandatory annual training, as well as other sessions at local hospitals.Volunteers logged almost 800 hours between calls, training, and work sessions."This month, we saw several bad accidents and several traumatic calls," said Assistant Rescue Chief Jason Cole. Following is a breakdown of the calls: 14 traffic accidents; 7 general illnesses; 4 suicidal patients; 4 provisions of mutual aid to neighboring towns; 3 cardiac emergencies; 3 standbys at fire scenes; 3 cardiac arrests; two gunshot or stabbing victims; 2 respiratory emergencies; 2 unconscious patients; 2 falls resulting in injuries; 2 public assists; one search-and-rescue; one burn patient; one assault; one case of abdominal pain; one diabetic emergency; one hypothermic patient; one seizure; one traumatic injury; and one stroke victim.
A total of 59 patients were treated in January; of them, 29 were transported to the hospital. Fifteen patients were transported to Frisbie Memorial Hospital; 10, to Goodall Hospital; 3, to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital; and one, to Maine Medical Center.


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GMC Acadia Prices Paid and Buying Experience
tucker262 Posts: 2I have received the following offers from a dealer. Please advise whether you think they are good or whether I can do better. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, as I may make a deal today or tomorrow. Thanks.
2011 GMC Acadia SLE AWD - $34,642 invoice cost
$1232 sunroof
$2,028 entertainment system with rear DVD
$348 red jewel paint
$775 destination charge
$404 "dealer IMR contributions" (dealer says this is advertising fees, one from his dealership and one from the dealership where the car is located)
$39,517 total invoice cost + fees - OFFER FROM DEALER IS $39,717
2011 GMC Acadia SLT-1 AWD - $38,175 invoice cost
$1232 sunroof
$1,272 rear DVD
$775 destination charge
$215 "dealer IMR contribution" (supposedly the advertising fee)
$430 "LMA Group Contribution" (not sure what this is)
$42,187 total invoice cost + fees - OFFER FROM DEALER IS $42,387 -
jhs70 Posts: 213I don't know where you live but you need to consider Fitzmall in MD. As for your second car request, their website has a 2011 GMC Acadia; Internet Price: $38,650.00 MSRP: $44,330.00
Style: AWD 4dr SLT1
Obviously their deal is way better than whatever you're getting where you are. Understood that this course of action isn't for everyone but I would do it if i could save over $4K on a must have car. -
tucker262 Posts: 2Thanks for the suggestion, but I was already at Fitz and that price is not really cheaper than what I have from the other deal. The Fitz dealer explained to me that the sales price for that vehicle includes a $1,000 GM loyalty discount (which is available at any dealer, but which I am not eligible for) and a $2,000 cash back rebate (which is also available at any dealer, including the one I am working with, but which I will probably decline in favor of 0% financing. The Fitz price also doesn't include the fees I identified in my post, and there would be similar fees at Fitz.
So the Fitz price is not really lower than what I currently have offered from the other dealer, and is probably a little higher. From everything I can tell, the current offer I have is just $200 over invoice for this vehicle - the only issue is the reasonableness of the LMR and advertising fees being charged, though my research indicates that it is very difficult to negotiate much on these.
Thanks again. -
macca2008 Posts: 6Here's what I got from the dealer:
2011 GMC Acadia SL (they would put in leather seats with heated fronts)
actual $32,289.65 GM supplier discount (not much - didn't sound right)
w/ leather $34,177.15
downpmt $3K
TTL $3,187.40 (est.)
0% 60-month finance (not leasing, i want to buy)
Total monthly = $569.57
This is their first offer which I never take. I left and I discussed wiggle room, etc. I think they would come back with $560/month, included leather seats, but then put in gap insurance (which for this car seems to have value in buying) which potentially puts me back at $570/month
Deal or no deal? That GM supplier discount sounds low to me but I checked it out and sure enough it was accurate. -
hobokeneddie Posts: 1Hi everyone,
Just visited my local GMC dealership and test drove an SLT1. Very nice car.
Here is what they quoted me:
40,995 MSRP - dropped to 39,388 and then another 1,700 off if I lease it.
39 month lease, 12k miles, 3,139 down = 439/month or just first month and DMV down for $509 month.
Good deal? I've never leased before, so just trying to figure this all out.
Thanks in advance.
Ed -
hscottm Posts: 1Bought 2011 SLE over the weekend in Pittsburgh. Went into the search wanting FWD and only heated seats. FWD fairly hard to find, though, so options were limited and we ended up with a model with splash guards, trailering package, and dealer-installed DVD.
MSRP $36k + $2k for DVD = $38k base.
Had GM supplier discount (although we had asked for non-supplier discount offer and it was within $500 I think) to get to $34.5k, then $3000 in current rebates (including $1k GM retention rebate).
With $4000 trade, Agreed on $30,500 plus TTL. -
ladyleah Posts: 52011 Acadia SLT-1 AWD
Sticker; 45,005.00 with options of navi, sunroof, carbon black color, and trailering package (which added 4,010 to the base)
Offer of 42K before incentive
Final car price: 40K
19K for trade (which was fair)
1,610 in sales tax (NJ is 7%)
199.95 doc fee
7.50 tire tax
$102 to trasfer plate
So, I guess the OTD price was techinically 41,817.45?
I thought that was a good deal.
Thoughts? -
blue3715 Posts: 13
@kegels said: Where can I post Acadia lease questions? I posted this earlier but no response, perhaps posted on the wrong forum. Can I post it here?
I got the following lease quote for an Acadia SLT w/ Nav, DVD Pkg, 19" wheel, HUD and trailer pkg; Term: 36 months, 15K mi/yr Price: $40,844($500 over invoice) Residual: $23,201 GMAC Rate: 8.05% Drive-off Due: $1,454 Monthly Lease Payment: 785(including insurance) Is this a good deal? Pls advise. Thank You
You are going to pay $785/mo to lease a 40k car? Are you crazy?
Maybe I didnt get the best deal (although I got a good value for the trade in of my car)
Acadia SLT1, AWD, with NAV.
$44k MSRP
Paying $1800 out door, plus $450/mo 39mos, 12k mi/yr


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As seen in the August issue of InStyle and September issue of Family Circle, Kimery is an eye-catching, pointed toe pump resting on a 3" heel. But we'll let one of our customers say it best for us, "This pump is unique looking as well as being comfortable right out of the box! It is a nice change from the usual boring black leather pump. I bought the black leather in my usual size 6.5; and the pair fit perfectly. I love the 3 inch heel. It isn't too high or too low. It is just right." Is it any wonder Kimery gets a five-star rating? Padded footbed for all-day comfort. Leather upper. Man-made lining and sole. Imported. 3" mid heels. Pointed toe, mid heel pumps.
Style Code: NWKIMERY


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Gorgieous and Comfortable
Overall Product Rating (5 out of 5)
By Ruthann
I bought the blue Sasun, couldn't resist. They look better than pictured! Size is just right, comfortable, great stability and a color that matches blues to teals. I am very happy with the purchase and service. Thanks Hush Puppies!
You are welcome! Also, thank you for rocking these fabulous heels. These are perfect to wear to the office and for a night out on the town!
How do you most use this product?: I am an entertainer and work in office during the day'


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