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By Connie Moore
I've been working in the Business Process Management field for long time. How long? How's this—I remember when there wasn't any BPM—it was all just workflow. Plus, I remember when there wasn't any continuous improvement or Agile vs. Waterfall, it was just big bang Business Process Reengineering.
I've also been working in the content management and collaboration space for a long time. How long? I remember when people who tracked document imaging (me included) didn't know what document management was. And I remember when Lotus Notes and Groupwise defined the collaboration space, and nobody thought for two seconds about Microsoft.
Why do I ramble on through technology's memory lane? It's because I want to set the stage for what I'm about to write.
Posted by Tom Pohlmann on June 26, 2009
by Tom Pohlmann
At this year's Forrester IT Forum, time constraints and the sheer number of attendees' questions for our keynote speakers resulted in many questions going unanswered. We've reached out to our analysts to answer some of these questions. Here they are:
Should architects be embedded in business, for IT projects? Why? And for what benefit? Where do you put project management in the business? For IT projects.
Posted by Marc Cecere on June 24, 2009
by Marc Cecere
Process based IT organizations have become the rage. These are IT shops that group people around the processes they support, such as software distribution or requirements definition, or by business processes such as claims management. In contrast, traditional shops group people by technologies (e.g. mainframe, desktop), internal customers (e.g. wealth management, retail banking), or geographies (e.g. France, Asia).
There are two types of process based organizations – IT and business. IT process organizations typically follow ITIL for infrastructure and a software lifecycle for applications. Using ITIL, they form groups around process associated with problem management, storage, or configuration management. For applications groups, they may have people dedicated to requirements development, coding or testing. Business process based IT shops are less prevalent but may include IT associated with claims processing in an insurance company or collections in a credit card company.
Posted by Bruce Temkin on June 22, 2009
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Today was a great day in New York; the first day of our Customer Experience Forum. The Grand Hyatt was rocking as we had about 700 people on site. I had a fun time with my opening keynote speech -- combining customer experience and the Wizard Of Oz. Hopefully people enjoyed it. I'll be posting more about my speech on my personal blog.
At the end of the day, I announced the winners of Forrester's first ever Voice Of The Customer (VoC) Award. So, let me say congratulations to our three winners: Experian, Progressive, Vanguard. They all actively collected feedback and put that information to use, showing significant benefits. Here are the nomination forms from the winners. They're worth downloading!
Posted by Ted Schadler on June 21, 2009
by Ted Schadler
Since colleague Chris Voce and I published a pair of reports on corporate email in the cloud (one on the infrastructure and operations and one on the cost of running email on-premises or in the cloud), we have had dozens of discussions with our clients accompanied by detailed cost analyses of the true cost of running email on-premises versus running it in the cloud.
While the cloud-based cost of email is pretty transparent (many providers, including Microsoft and Google, publish their per-user per-month costs), the cost of running email on-premises is often a big mystery to everyone, including most CIOs. The big challenge is that the costs are spread throughout the budget: some in the hardware budget, some in the software budget, some in the storage budget, some in the cost of capital budget, some in the staffing budgets, and so on.
After dozens of these discussions and after a survey of 53 information & knowledge management professionals to ask about the cost of email, it is abundantly clear that few firms know their true cost of running email on-premises. And this matters if you're considering a move to cloud-based email.
In early June, Sun Microsystems announced the Sun Learning Exchange. This is a commercial offering that borrows directly from Sun's own experiments, experience, and expositions on learning. We've written about this in a Forrester report: Tap The Potential Of "YouTube For The Enterprise," and now it's available to others.
Sun's CTO of Learning, Charles Beckham, has tapped his experience as a Java entrepreneur (he was part of the team that built one of the first J2EE application servers, NetDynamics) and bent it to the challenges of on-the-job learning. In an interview with Charles last fall, we came away convinced that his just-enough, wisdom of the crowds, power of video approach to learning was important.
Three things anchor the Sun Learning Exchange:
Posted by Sharyn Leaver on June 19, 2009
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Posted by Tom Pohlmann on June 5, 2009
Forrester recently hosted our two flagship IT events—IT Forum 2009 in Las Vegas and Berlin. For those of you who couldn't attend, I wanted to share one of our keynote presentations by Forrester's Chairman & CEO George Colony. George discussed the challenges that will face CEOs coming out of the recession and how IT leaders can step up to the plate and support, and in some cases lead, these efforts.
George outlined the six imperatives that will hit CEOs as follows:
1. Digital will be mandatory: Move IT to BT.
2. Brand loyalty will decline: Enable BT to feed social
3. Customers will look very unfamiliar: Press ahead into new tech – swim in the Y Generation waters
4. The war for people will be intense: Build attractive internal systems
5. You will sell differently: Help marketing
6. The way you innovated will die: Internal tech should enable, not hinder partnerships.
See the full recording of this keynote below:
For more on the subject, please read George's guest post on The Huffington Post. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you are engaging with your CEO on these types of initiatives.
Posted by Tim Sheedy on June 2, 2009
I read on a twitter post recently that according to some recent research by Gartner, server sales are down 24%. And today I saw an article based on some IDC research that in Australia they are down by 39%. In my humble opinion, this is good news for IT leaders in Asia Pacific.
So why is it good news that server sales are down? The way I see it, IT departments are still serving their clients, web sites are not crashing, applications are stable, and generally IT systems in the region are running pretty well. So it seems that IT departments are doing well without all the extra hardware expenses.
The economic downturn has been a good thing for IT leaders. They have been forced to look for new ways of doing things - they have challenged the accepted wisdom. And they have continued to deliver what the business requires and have not had to buy a new piece of equipment every time they want to implement a new capability within the business. IT departments are now being given the license they have been asking for to consolidate systems across business units, departments and/or applications. Virtualisation, SaaS, cloud computing, SOA and many other technologies or technology-assisted services have come to the fore to allow IT departments to continue to deliver on the their requirements.
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I recently noticed some critter has been eating my tomatoes. Never had that happen before. They eat about 1/3 or 1/4 of the tomato. Do birds or chipmunks or squirels eat tomatoes? What animal does? Thanks, JK
We had this happen in my first big garden, about 35 years ago, in the wilds of western Mass. We were practically living on the land, and started everything from seed that spring - there were probably 20 tomato plants.
We watched the first tomato slowly ripen, and when we thought it might be ripe enough, went to pick it. Half of it was gone. This continued all the way through summer, and we lost about 6 or 8 tomatoes every day; never spotted the critter who was doing the deed, though. When frost threatened, we picked all the green tomatoes and carefully wrapped them in newspaper; for the next 2 months we'd take a few out and set them on a windowsill to ripen. Lo and behold, just as they'd turn red, there would be big bites taken out of them.
That was how we learned that dogs love tomatoes.
We have squirrels living in our maple trees and I see them taking half-ripened tomatoes from the neighbor's veggie patch and munch on them on our yard. They never seem to finish the whole thing b/c I always find half-eaten tomatoes thrown out on our yard.
There are also insects that can do that. Tomato & tobacco hornworms have prodigious appetites once they're in their last larval stage and approaching maturity. They're caterpillars of "hawkmoths", moths that fly at night and are as good at flying as hummingbirds. They're pretty in their way, but the caterpillars do nasty damage to tomatoes sometimes!
The good thing about chipmunks is that they will eat an entire tomatoe before they start to much on another. The year it was happening to me, nothing seemed to stop them, so I started buying tomatoes from the grocery store and placing one at a time at the base of my plants. They ate that one and stayed away from mine. I got the tasty homegrown ones and they seemed happy with the store-bought ones. I took some flack on this board for doing it, but I was happy with the result so that was all I cared about.
Hi diggin, yes, someone insisted it was against their principals to "feed" the critters, but I was happy to do it. I hate it when critters take a bite out of everything and are just destructive. If they are actually eating stuff then I have no problem giving something back. BTW that year the cause was, I think, drought. I read somewhere that they were actually more interested in the moisture in the tomato than the fruit itself.
Not sure about it being because of drought--because I definitely have had a wet spring and summer. Chipmunks are chipmunks. Lotta energy. I notice they will sometimes climb up my garden plants and jump down. They even climb up my roses, thorns not a problem.
My neighbor thought it was local deer that attacked her potted tomato plants...but a few days later, she saw a squirrel having a feast, eating a few bites then going to the next one. Ironically, 2 days after that she saw a deer helping herself to what remained. Sigh..... so it was back to the local farm market store for their tomatoes. I felt so bad for her. It was the first year she planted in pots and was so proud that they were growing so well.
I'd go with the chipmunks getting the tomatoes, especially after today. Sun finally came out this afternoon and decided to go pic those wonderful sweet 100's for a salad with dinner. Just as I got out there, 4 chipmunks where running off from under one of the vines, nice full fat little mouths they had, stuffed full of the tomatoes for dinner.
Last year I could look out a window and see those critters sitting on top of a tomato munching away. They aren't too bright either, cause they where sitting on top of the tomato, eating it from the top and all of a sudden down they go, tomato and all.
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Despite months of planning, it never ceases to amaze me how fast another Mobile World Congress came and went. Despite the long flight, crowded metro, and inflated prices, the event remains one of the most important in our industry.
It seems like it is one the of few remaining gatherings where it is possible to meet either by chance or by pre-arrangements with peers, colleagues, influencers, customers and suppliers. Yet the event has grown so large that even scheduling meeting themselves proved to be a logistical challenge. Given the passenger list for my flight alone, United Airlines in fact could have offered a concierge service to arrange in-flight meetings. Note: it is interesting to see the boarding process break down virtually the entire passenger manifest is Zone 1 or Zone 2.
Because it came and went so quickly, I'm feeling a sense of urgency to post the obligatory post-event blog before the memory of #MWC15 fades. Here are some of the notable highlights you may have missed, if like me, you struggled to make it past Hall 5.
Even though we're still in the process of implementing 4G, the industry talk is now all about 5G. The rate of change in the industry is relentless so it's not surprising we're now pushing new boundaries with solutions such as small cells, 5G, Internet of Things, etc..
Speaking of which…at #MWC15, NFV continued its forward progress and included live demonstrations of NFV-based networks. Operators are committing to NFV solutions such as the virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) and virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) in the pursuit of more cost-effective and more agile networks. The supplier community is wholly onboard as well. VMware announced VMware vCloud for NFV with Integrated OpenStack. Some claims: "VMware vCloud for NFV Helps CSPs Achieve Sustainable Cost Reductions, Improve Time To Market", "VMware Offers CSPs a Fast, Simple Path to OpenStack Adoption", and "Multi-Vendor vCloud NFV Platform Supports 40+ Virtual Network Functions from 30+ Vendors".
The progress is undeniable. What still seems to be missing in these discussions, in my opinion, is a frank recognition of how all this becomes truly operational. Demonstrations, lab trials, proof-of-concepts, and small-scale field trials are all encouraging. But implementing, maintaining, and supporting revenue generating services using these new technologies will create new a whole new set of operational requirements, complexities, and challenges.
In a recently published article we wrote: in order to achieve the commercial promises of SDN and NFV, the industry will have to understand and address the operational considerations of rolling out these technologies in scale, while at the same time dealing with the realities of continuing to run and expand traditional network architectures. Assuring network performance, integrity and security in this dynamic, complex environment is vital, yet it has been overlooked, for the most part, in all discussions to date.
These are the topics we covered at #MWC15 in our in-booth seminars and briefings .
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Don't Swallow Your Gum!
Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health
By Aaron Carroll, MD; Rachel Vreeman, MD
(St. Martin's Griffin, Paperback, 9780312533878, 240pp.)
Publication Date: May 26, 2009
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People have more access to medical information than ever before, and yet we still believe "facts" about our bodies and health that are just plain wrong. DON'T SWALLOW YOUR GUM! takes on these myths and misconceptions, and exposes the truth behind some of those weird and worrisome things we think about our bodies. Entries dispel the following myths and more:
- You need to drink 8 glasses of water a day
- Chewing gum stays in your stomach for seven years
- You can catch poison ivy from someone who has it
- If you drop food on the floor and pick it up within five seconds, it's safe to eat
- Strangers have poisoned kids' Halloween candy
With the perfect blend of authoritative research and a breezy, accessible tone, DON'T SWALLOW YOUR GUM is full of enlightening, practical, and quirky facts that will debunk some of the most perennial misconceptions we believe about our health and well-being.
Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is an associate professor of Pediatrics and the director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
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This weekly program presents concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading orchestras in the United States, and its acclaimed Music Director Riccardo Muti. Hosted by Lisa Simeone, the series features live concert performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, recorded at Symphony Center, alongside selections from the orchestra's expansive catalog of commercial recordings. Every program is designed to illustrate fascinating stories found inside the music, as well as present insights from the performers themselves.
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor and harpsichord
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma and Giovanni Sollima, cellos
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
Giovanni Sollima: Antidotum Tarantulae XXI Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic"
Franz Schubert: Entr'acte No. 3 from Rosamunde
Giuseppe Verdi: Ballet Music from Macbeth
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Eugene Izotov, oboe
Susanna Phillips, soprano
Richard Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Major
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
David Robertson, conductor
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 "Drumroll"
Bernard Rands: Cello Concerto
Bela Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1
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Robert Chen, violin
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Fritz Reiner, conductor
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
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Igor Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird
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What Really Scares Microsoft
By Virginia Postrel
Published: November 8, 1999
LOS ANGELES— A federal judge has made it official: Microsoft is a monopoly, a two-ton bully that squashes competitors and cheats consumers. Still, no matter how much the government lawyers crow or Bill Gates complains, the fact is that the real future of the software industry is already being decided entirely outside the court system -- in a technological marketplace too fast-moving and too accepting of good new ideas to be artificially held in check.
In his findings of fact issued on Friday, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson concluded that Microsoft had hindered technological creativity, that its attempts to protect the profits from its core products would prevent innovations that would benefit consumers. This was in keeping with the rhetoric of ''innovation'' deployed by both sides in the case. The Justice Department argues that protecting innovation means blocking Microsoft's ability to use the power of its Windows licenses to crush upstart competitors or competing ideas. Microsoft, for its part, does not want to ask regulatory permission to add features to its operating system, and it clearly doesn't want to become a lawyer-bound bureaucracy like the I.B.M. of Microsoft's formative years.
Ultimately, of course, the government's antitrust case against Microsoft will be decided on the law, not on Judge Jackson's findings of fact -- and on appeal, not in his court.
But even that is beside the point for many of the people whose original thinking and sophisticated work will shape the real future of computer technology. For them, the suit is just one front in a broader culture war -- and not necessarily the most important one.
At technology conferences, Microsoft is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
''The quality of their software is terrible in itself, and it's contagiously terrible,'' says a former Microsoft programmer, now with a Bay Area Internet startup. ''It becomes the tar baby of bad code. It's really demoralizing to work with it.''
Programmers do not, of course, necessarily value the same things consumers do. ''It drives the Valley nuts that the market may want something -- a standard platform for applications, backward compatibility, low cost, ease of installation, bundled products -- that conflicts with their notion of what is technologically superior,'' says another programmer who frequently gets into arguments with colleagues by defending Microsoft's success.
This broader view of quality notes, for instance, that Microsoft got its operating system dominance largely because Windows came with relatively inexpensive computers. Apple, by contrast, mostly sold the Macintosh operating system only on Apple hardware and priced this unified system to maintain 50 percent gross profit margins.
What really scared the people involved in technology was the threat that Microsoft might conquer the Internet. Two or three years ago, there was widespread fear that the Redmond giant would suck all the fun and adventure out of the high-technology game and that the chance to build cool, exciting new products and companies would disappear. Microsoft, people feared, would squelch the Net's wonderful creativity, diversity, and openness and would force closed standards and endlessly mediocre products on the world.
The government's antitrust case embraced these fears. The final statement in the plaintiffs' proposed findings of fact is an apocalyptic warning from the economist Franklin Fisher, a crucial government witness and a man known to colleagues and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for stating things in the boldest possible terms. Mr. Fisher declared: ''Microsoft has shown that it will decide the ways in which innovation takes place in this industry, and that any innovation which threatens Microsoft's platform monopoly will be squashed. We will live, as it were, in a Microsoft world in which choices are the choices that Microsoft makes.''
You can practically hear the scary organ music.
But we are not living in a Microsoft world. Web sites have not adopted Microsoft standards to the exclusion of others, and even Judge Jackson does not expect that to happen. The Web's combination of highly individualized personal sites and mass market commercial sites puts a premium on ease of use by everyone. It just doesn't make sense to create a site that can only be used by people with one particular browser, even if it offers some special features. Microsoft hasn't been able to lure Web site developers into exclusive relationships.
The acquisition of Netscape by America Online, the largest Internet service provider, makes it even less likely that Microsoft can dominate Web standards.
The Internet has also become an important mechanism for delivering new software, further eroding Microsoft's influence. Instead of making programs that come in a box and run on Windows-based machines, new companies are selling software as Web-based services: computer backup systems for businesses, for instance, or on-line legal documents, like wills, for consumers. Delivered this way, software doesn't care what kind of operating system you're using. Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominates in personal computers and exercises influence on PC vendors, but for consumers, the effects of that control are muted.


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Richland 2 Board: Superintendent gets qualified thumbs up
Richland 2 school board members gave Richland 2 superintendent Katie Brochu a guarded thumbs-up Tuesday night, saying "we believe we are on the right track" while requiring her to improve her community relationships, moderate her top-down management style and deal urgently with low-performing schools.
The board asked Brochu to provide by Dec. 3 a detailed response to the performance review, including an itemized accounting of the costs of the professional development program she has advocated since her arrival in July 2010.
"I look forward to specificity," said board member James Manning. "I think we need to be clear that what we are doing in the classroom is working."
Brochu's allegiance to the concepts of the nonprofit Schlechty Center and educational development consultant Phillip Schlechty has created some controversy in the district, but Tuesday night some teachers stepped forward to praise Brochu and detail how the training had made them more energetic teachers and their students more engaged.
"We are on the right path. Stay the course," said Jessica Fox, a seventh grade science teacher at Muller Road Middle School. Fox said she was sent by the district to San Diego to attend High Tech High and came back with innovative ideas to share with students and fellow faculty. Fox was echoed by other teachers and a principal who praised Brochu for her leadership.
"My staff and administrators are proud and blessed to work under the leadership of Dr. Brochu," said Andrew Barbone, principal of Summit Parkway Middle School.
For Brochu, the accolades came as an antidote to Monday's night's sometimes tense public question-and- answer session with board members who suggested her administration had sown discord in the teaching ranks of the once-unified district.
At least two board candidates, Stevie Johnson and Jennifer Richter, have entered the race for the Richland 2 school board because of fears the district is splintering and losing academic ground. Seven candidates, including incumbents Calvin "Chip" Jackson and Susan Brill, are vying for three seats.
The 26,000-student district has seen explosive growth over the past decade, with many families drawn to its magnet programs and distinctive school culture. But the district is also wrestling with educating more students who are in poverty and more transient students.
Jackson, the board chairman, said the district would soon make public the results of a confidential survey of 1,900 district employees who answered questions about the climate of the district, which could provide key observations about the Brochu administration. The survey is being conducted by an outside firm based in Herndon, Va.
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FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 142-Reflections on the Goodyear FCPA Enforcement Action
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FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 140-Leona Lewis
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 139-Amy Lilly, President of GHBER
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 138, Tribute to Mr. Spock and Strict Liability for Internal Controls Under the FCPA
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 135, Kevin Brady on the process of sales for the compliance practitioner
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 134, Judge Rakoff, Judge Leon and their comments on DPAs, with the FCPA Professor
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 131, The FCPA Professor Takes a Look Back at 2014
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 130, The Oscars and Compliance, Part IV with Jay Rosen
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report Episode 129-Judge Rakoff, Judge Leon and Individual Prosecutions Under the FCPA
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 125, The Oscars and Compliance, Part II with Jay Rosen
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras
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Uncovering the "Why" in FCPA Compliance Issues
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With as much FCPA activity as we saw in December, I thought our January news digest might take on a different flavor. I was wrong – January brought a slew of new FCPA-related stories.
The key to being a successful (FCPA) prognosticator is never to keep score. If you do, you are likely to be disappointed.
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Welcome to the December 2014 edition of Red Notice, a publication of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
This month on the anticorruption front, a major cosmetics retailer as well as its subsidiary pleads guilty to...more
We recently hosted a webinar featuring noted FCPA expert Tom Fox. Tom explained exactly what the DOJ and SEC look for when enforcing the FCPA and how organizations can stay within the FCPA regulations. Jimmy Lin, our VP of...more
On this day, 62 years ago, "The Mousetrap", a murder-mystery written by Agatha Christie, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The crowd-pleasing whodunit has become the longest continuously running play in history,...more
With over $1.5 billion in fines assessed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) since 2010, corruption concerns are playing a larger role in corporate...more
The number of FCPA enforcement actions brought in recent years has declined. The SEC, for example, reports that in fiscal 2013 it brought 8 cases, compared to 10 in 2012 and 15 in 2011. Nevertheless, those who might be...more
The controversy around punishment and deterrence of corporate misconduct continues to swirl. As fines increase against companies, it is important to ask the question whether the current enforcement scheme adequately punishes...more
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Except for Newt Gingrich's two mischaracterizations, credit unions haven't come up as an issue in this election campaign so far.
If money really does talk, then CUNA and NAFCU have been doing the financial equivalent of vocal exercises. The political action committees of both groups each ended last year with six-figure amounts in their coffers, as they gear up for an election year that features a large number of competitive races...
Saying that credit unions and small banks "had very little, really nothing to do with causing the financial crisis," Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray renewed his commitment to ensure that they don't face unnecessary additional regulatory burdens.
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Carla Decker can thank James Madison. When she raises her right hand this week before her confirmation hearing at the Senate Banking Committee, she will continue a tradition that dates back to the 18th century.
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If you live in the United States then you might be pleased to know that Six Flags will begin running Monster Hunter themed rides. The new ride is themed on Six Flags Goliath rollercoaster ride which is located on Six Flags Magic Mountain. The ride has been revamped to be based on Gore Magala which is the monster on the cover of the well-received Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. You can visit the ride now and it will be up and running until August 10th. If you pop along you can also play a demo of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, if you so wish.
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Toys R Us Has Buy One Get 40% Off On Amiibo
If you are looking to grab a deal at the end of the weekend then look no further than Toys R Us. The US retailer is currently running a special buy one get 40% off promotion on amiibo. There's also a similar promotion running for Skylanders, if that's your thing. Be sure to head on over to Toys R Us and check out the deals.
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Some new details have emerged about Ubisoft's cancelled ZombiU 2 for the Wii U. The canned game was in development for a short period in 2013 but it never left pre-production. It's probable that poor sales of ZombiU and the small Wii U user base at the time contributed to its cancellation. Here's some of the details.
- ZombiU 2 was in development for a short period back in early 2013
- Roughly 5-10 staffers worked on the project
- The game never left pre-production
- It didn't take long for the game to be cancelled
- Explore a "run-down, zombie apocalypse setting"
- Would have featured co-op
- One player would control the GamePad, while the other would use the Pro Controller
- Players would get split up via multiple routes at points during the campaign
- This co-op would be local only
- More melee weapons were another desire of the team
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Prima is bringing out an official Splatoon strategy guide for Nintendo's colourful third person shooter. What we all want to know is what it contains. Thankfully a recent Amazon listing has revealed its contents and what it can help you with. The official strategy guide is currently available to pre-order on Amazon and is dated to be released on May 31st.
Save The Electric Catfish— fully detailed single player walkthrough will help you solve each puzzle, splatter every octopi, and beat each boss.
Claim Your Turf— multiplayer strategies from Splatoon experts will give you the edge in online battles by showing you the best ways to cover arenas with ink.
Style and Firepower— complete details on how to unlock all special perks for weapons, headgear, clothes, and shoes.
Prepare to Ink— learn the best strategies for weapons such as the ink roller, ink bombs, Splattershot, and more.
Free Mobile-Friendly eGuide— Includes a code to access the mobile-friendly eGuide, a digital version of the full strategy guide optimized for a second screen experience.
The European Commission Wants To Remove Regional Locking On Digital Goods
In a more than welcome move the European Commission has said that it wants to remove regional limits on digital goods. The new strategy is titled the Digital Single Market and in essence it would allow you to watch US Netflix from the United Kingdom. It would also hopefully eventually remove region locking from consoles which has been a sore point for many gamers who want to play games from other regions, but are unable too.
Think regional locks on movie streaming and other digital goods are silly? So does the European Commission. It's outlining a new strategy (the Digital Single Market) that would prevent companies from geo-blocking online services when it's not truly necessary. This kind of arbitrary limit "cannot exist" in a single European Union-wide digital marketplace, officials argue.
It's not clear what rules will be involved (you'll likely hear more about that when the full strategy is due in May), but the implication is that you wouldn't be forced to download or stream from a country-specific service. If you wanted to watch French Netflix from Germany, for example, you could.
Germany: 9% Of Console And 58% Of PC Games Were Sold Digitally In 2014
Some interesting video game statistics have come out of Germany in 2014. 9% of console games were sold digitally while a whopping 58% of PC games were sold digitally last year. That's €2668M in revenue for what appears to be a healthy market. Germany is the second biggest video game market after the United Kingdom in Europe. If you're interested you can view some graphs, right here.
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Simple inexpensive Pik'N Board adds percussion to your music
By Paul Ridden
May 3, 2011
For many of us, washing clothes by hand is no longer a necessity. Yet the simple ridged device used before the advent of washing machines is still in production today and continues to be used all over the world. Leaving soapy water well behind, the washboard found a new life in the hands of musicians playing everything from skiffle to dixieland, and jazz to blues. Solo guitar players can now provide their own inexpensive snare-like percussive accompaniment, by attaching a Pik'N Board to their instrument. The mini-washboard is positioned below the picking area of an acoustic guitar, with players extending the pick stroke to tap out a latin beat or scrape in some cajun spice.
Looking for a lightweight solution to providing his own back beat, multi-instrumentalist Steve Baker came up with a mini-washboard device that attaches to the face of the guitar and is played with the pick hand in the same stroke used to strum the strings. The Pik'N Board is said to allow learners and advanced players alike to add their own "Latin Maracas or Cha-Cha Cabasa, or Guru beats, as well as country off beats, and solid bluegrass, and rock and roll chunking."
Available now for US$29.95, the Pik'N Board offers players the chance to roll up the spirits of Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam into one instrument, adding an interesting new sonic layer to the solo performance while providing a talking point for those watching.
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I hate to be negative, honestly, and I'm not the best guitarist in the world, but after seeing and hearing the demo I am completely underwhelmed....sorry.Terotech
3rd May, 2011 @ 04:25 pm PDT
I agree with Terotech. This might be useful as a VERY SPARSELY used percussive effect. However, as demonstrated... just plain annoying.kalqlate
3rd May, 2011 @ 07:52 pm PDT
if didn't sound so plasticy and cheezy, it would be OK...it needs to be able to pick up the resonance of the guitar in order to make it a more full sound. As it is now, it has the same tonal quality of somebody cracking their knuckles.Ed
12th May, 2011 @ 04:46 pm PDT
agreed. bloody annoying.phill
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Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - Andrew Bogut scored 12 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, giving the Milwaukee Bucks a 79-74 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats at Time Warner Cable Arena.
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But Charlotte got another chance with 21.9 seconds left to tie the game, as Lue stepped out of bounds on the baseline to turn it over. The Bobcats attempted a quick layup, but the shot was off the mark, and Milwaukee made their free throws in the waning moments to seal the game.
After playing to a 22-21 first quarter, the Bucks jumped out to a 7-0 run in the second quarter to take a 29-23 advantage with 7:31 left in the first half.
But the Bobcats roared back, answering with a 9-2 offensive burst that gave Charlotte a slim 32-31 edge. The Bobcats maintained their one-point edge in the defensive-minded second quarter, as Charlotte won the frame, 15-13, to take a 36-35 lead into the break.
Milwaukee began the third quarter on a 10-0 run, as Villanueva and Jefferson each had four points to give the Bucks a 45-36 lead. The Bobcats couldn't answer back, and Milwaukee went into the fourth ahead 62-52.
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I am primarily buying it for gaming and want to run such games as BF3 and star wars: the old republic. My buget is quite low and found this one:
What sort of setting will i excpect if it can run both BF3 and SW:TOR? By settings i mean, FPS and high graphics or low?
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You are being let down by the graphics card,though you will be able to play BF3 it will not,I don't think, be at high settings,you really need the 560 Ti. Personally I also think you should not have less than a 500W power supply.
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