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Welcome to the Lync Voice UC Resource Center
Many enterprises today stand at the crossroad of Unified Communications (UC) where communications and collaboration technologies are brought together under a single architecture – and where it is critical that the transition from the old to the new works with the right network infrastructure. Microsoft Lync is an enterprise-ready Unified Communications platform that connects people everywhere, on desktop and mobile devices, as part of their everyday productivity experience, and Lync continues to be one of the fastest growing UC solutions on the market. However, with the pervasiveness of anywhere, anytime collaboration, companies must ensure that corporate data is protected as it travels from location to location and that sophisticated voice, data and video services are delivered securely to enterprise users. Have you started your own UC journey? Odds are that you have – or at least thought about it. Wherever you are, we invite you to be an active part of the Lync Voice UC Community, powered by insight from industry experts and equipped with resources and tools to make your journey a little easier – and more collaborative.
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Lync Servers More Secure than Ever with LyncShield
AGAT Software recently launched LyncShield, a new security suite for Microsoft Lync offering organizations a sorely needed solution for connecting to Microsoft Lync servers from smartphones and other external devices without risking compromising sensitive data. The solution includes a long list of features to help organizations manage connections with workers' devices while safeguarding the network against attacks, both internal and external.
Masergy UCaaS SIP Trunking Services Certified with Microsoft Lync
Managed networking and cloud services specialist Masergy Communications has been officially certified with the Microsoft Lync 2013 platform. The company's UCaaS Intelligent SIP Trunking services are compatible with Lync, Microsoft's UC offering that includes presence, instant messaging and advanced communication and collaboration capabilities.
NextPlane Launches UC Voice and Video Collaboration Tool
NextPlane, a company specializing in B2B communications solutions, recently launched its UC (Unified Communications) Exchange Voice and Video Collaboration Service. Designed for enterprise customers seeking an ideal voice and video collaboration tool, the new service enables voice and video calls to be carried out regardless of the UC platform being used and without the need to switch to a third-party service.
Lync Voice UC Featured News
- Audible Magic Introduces Upgraded DMCA Tool for Colleges and Universities
- USA Digital Doubles Nationwide Network Footprint
- C Spire extends industry-first rolling data to its most popular mobile share plans
- C Spire to Extend Its Industry-First Rolling Data to Popular Shared Plans This Month
- Etron Technology Takes the Lead in Launching Three New USB IC Products: EJ898 (USB PD 2.0), EJ179V (USB Type-C Switch with Integrated Logic Control), and EJ988 (the World's First IC that Integrates the USB Type-C Switch and PD 2.0 Function)
Featured Whitepapers
3 STEPS to Maximizining ROI for Microsoft Lync Enterprise Voice
Many Enterprises stand at a cross roads - continue to use the communications network in which they have heavily invested, or add UC ...Read More ›
Creating the It Just Works Video Network
From the boardroom to the browser, video has become a valuable business tool. When video communications systems...Read More ›
Software-Based Session Border Controllers are Critical to the Evolution of Communications
The role of the CIO has changed more in the past five years than any other position in business. Historically, the CIO and IT leaders were responsible for managing the technology infrastructure...Read More ›
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Featured Solutions Corner
Lync Enterprise Voice for Dummies
Lync Enterprise Voice for Dummies shows you can replace your current voice system with one that also enables video and collaboration. You can increase your productivity, while reducing...Read More ›


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President Trump has backtracked on plans for an 'impenetrable' joint cybersecurity unit with Russia after harsh criticism from the fellow Republicans, who said Vladimir Putin couldn't be trusted.
Trump discussed the idea with Putin in their first face to face meetings at the G20 summit in Homburg, Germany. He suggested it could be used to prevent the hacking of elections, keeping them 'guarded and safe'.
But two days later he tweeted: 'the fact that president Putin and I discussed a cybersecurity unit doesn't mean I think it can happen. It can't.
The proposal had been widely ridiculed by US politicians, who asked why they should cooperate with Russia after allegedly interfered in last year's US election.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said: 'it's not the dumbest idea I have ever heard but it's pretty close'.

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Nonprofit CEO salaries climb
Despite the recession, median compensation for nonprofit chief executives rose 7 percent to $361,538 during 2008, says a report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, CNN Money reported Sept. 29 (see nonprofit salaries story). The nation's highest-paid chief executive is J. Mongan, head of Partners HealthCare Systems, who made $2.7 million in 2008.
California funder invests $35 million in education
The Marin Community Foundation will invest $35 million in four California school districts with the goal of boosting the performance of underprivileged students, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Sept. 29 (see Marin Community Foundation story). The investment amounts to about $19,000 for each of about 1,800 students over five years.
Dedication to place linked to emotional connection, survey says
The top reasons people like where they live are there are fun places to gather, green spaces for recreation and a welcoming atmosphere, says a new survey from Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 29 (see Knight survey story). A person's emotional connection to a place is more important than a region's economic growth, the survey says.
Brooklyn foundation changes status, name, focus
Brooklyn's Independence Community Foundation, a longstanding private charity with a $50 million endowment, its changing its tax status so it can raise money, The New York Times reported Sept. 28 (see Brooklyn Community Foundation story). Renamed the Brooklyn Community Foundation, the organization will focus virtually all its fundraising and grantmaking in Brooklyn.
Concert raises $8 million for Agassi's school
A benefit concert featuring a comedian and several musicians raised almost $8 million for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, The Associated Press reported Sept. 29 (see Agassi school story). The tennis star's K-12 school has about 600 students.
New fundraising site aims to raise money for Jewish projects
The new Jgooders.com website allows Jewish or Israeli charities to raise money using technology and social-media promotion, The Jerusalem Post reported Sept. 28 (see Jewish philanthropy story). The site, less than a year old, lists more than 110 Jewish charities and about 230 individual projects to which people can donate.


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Henderson Park and Hines form European student accommodation JV
Henderson Park, a European real estate investment platform founded by Nick Weber, and international real estate firm Hines, have formed a joint venture to pursue value-added investments in the European student accommodation sector.
This is the second joint venture that Henderson Park and Hines have formed, following shortly after their acquisition of the Ledra Marriott hotel in central Athens in June.
The Joint Venture is embarking on its first project to develop a 630-bed student accommodation development in Lancaster in the UK. The new facility is currently under construction with completion in time for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Once complete, the scheme will incorporate a range of shared facilities including a roof level lounge, study library, gym and cinema space, creating an attractive and secure off-hub campus for students.
Lancaster University is one of the UK's top ten universities and was recently named University of the Year in The Times Good University Guide 2018. With over 13,000 students at the university, including just over 3,000 from overseas, coupled with a very limited amount of professionally managed student accommodation away from the university campus, the city offers strong demand and supply fundamentals for student accommodation.
Earlier this year Hines launched a new in-house operating platform - aparto - to enhance the experience for its student residents. The combined Hines portfolio now comprises 13 student accommodation developments in the UK and Ireland, with a combined GDV of over £500m.
Nick Weber, Founding Partner of Henderson Park, says: "This landmark development in Lancaster represents Henderson's Park's first entry into the student living market and the first for this new joint venture with Hines. Lancaster is one of the UK's top universities and has a large and growing population of domestic and international students but an acute under supply of modern purpose built student accommodation, which this investment will help address. We now look forward to working with Hines to source further interesting opportunities for future investment in this sector across a range of different European cities, where we believe there are also compelling underlying fundamentals."
Lars Huber, CEO of Hines Europe, says: "We are very committed to the student housing sector, and look forward to expanding our growing portfolio in other markets across Europe through this joint venture with Henderson Park. We will be identifying locations with a vibrant and dynamic student populations, working closely with Universities to help meet the increasing demand for high quality, well-managed accommodation."


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VMblog spoke with CloudJumper while at the IGEL Technology DISRUPTEUC 2019 event taking place in Silicon Valley. Watch and listen as the company talks about their product solutions as well as how they are working with IGEL as a partner. Read More
CloudJumper is a software and services company in the Cloud Workspace and RDS enablement markets. CloudJumper Partners can select either CloudJumper's full-service Cloud Workspace platform, or roll their own platform using CloudJumper's award winning Cloud Workspace Management Suite (CWMS) software. CWMS automates delivery of hosted Windows desktops, application services, and Microsoft workloads. It allows IT service managers to deliver app streaming, VDI, DaaS and WaaS with minimal labor, lower costs, and faster delivery times.


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Now in its 15th season, Center Stage Opera has been lauded both for its exceptional main-stage productions and its extensive community service and education programs. Reviewer Jonathan Weichsel gushed, "Center Stage Opera is truly one of the gems of the Valley".
Every year, Center Stage Opera brings hundreds of economically disadvantaged students and senior citizens to its main-stage productions at no cost through The Opera Tree, the company's community service and education arm.
We invite you to help us continue this tradition of artistic excellence and community service by becoming a Sponsor for one of our season main-stage productions. As a Sponsor, you help ensure that Center Stage Opera can continue to bring quality productions to the Valley. Your support means the joy and beauty of great music will be shared with our young people and seniors in financial need.
All sponsors will be acknowledged in the performance program, will be highlighted in at least two e-mail blasts, on Facebook, and will be honored at our annual donor recognition recital and reception.
For questions about sponsorship levels, benefits or events, please call (818) 539-8817
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Center Stage Opera is a nonprofit 501c3 organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.


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Depending upon your relationship with your boss, there is nothing wrong with having an informal discussion with him and telling him how you feel. You can either say that you would appreciate some appreciation when merited, or you can take a broader approach and tell him you would like more feedback on your work. Tell him that you respect his judgment and would like to know when he feels you are performing well, and where you need to improve.
An indirect approach that can also help is to ask your boss, "If you wanted more thanks from your boss, what would you say?" Hopefully, he will pick up the cue. Or, he may answer the question and give you some specific wording. If so, you should use it on the spot.
You should also thank him when he does something you appreciate. He might just learn something from you, and then you both would be thankful.
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Good enough, making do, and getting by
Financial Times arts critic Edwin Heathcote and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wouldn't seem to have all that much in common — but appearances can be deceiving.
In an August 13, 2006 New York Times story by David Colman, Wales discussed his Wikipedia ideal of information that is "good enough."
The very next day, August 14, Heathcote's interview with British sculptor Richard Wentworth noted the title of Wentworth's recent series of photographs, "Making Do and Getting By."
Wrote Heathcote, "Since the 1970s Wentworth has been documenting... ingenious and creative use, reuse, misuse, and abuse of everyday things."
Here's that article.
An alchemist of everyday trifles
As I strolled up to the Kings Cross café where I was to meet the British sculptor Richard Wentworth I noticed that the rubber doormat was being used to hold open the front door on a day which was already sweltering first thing in the morning. That, I thought, is exactly the kind of thing Wentworth would like. Sure enough, he rolls up a few minutes later, greets me and excuses himself while he takes a quick photo of the surrogate door wedge.
Since the 1970s Wentworth has been documenting precisely this kind of ingenious and creative use, re-use, misuse, and abuse of everyday things. His photographic series entitled "Making Do and Getting By" is an open-ended poem to improvisation — a coat hanger propping open a broken sash-window, brooms used as barriers to close off a doorway, a cigarette stubbed out in a bottle-top and, he is keen to show me the latest one on his camera, a paintbrush wedged between a pair of cupboard handles as a makeshift lock.
But the series is also a heartfelt poem for the Kings Cross he lives in (an exhibition at an old builders' supplies store was entitled "An area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty"), a world in which things take on an almost human pathos and charisma — a glove impaled on iron railings, creative littering in the form of styrofoam cups wedged behind drain pipes or railings, broken office chairs and TVs piled on the pavement.
It is a world where discarding becomes a creative act, where things are placed deliberately and produce new meanings and possibilities. Once you look at the work it is hard not to see the world in those terms, to see objects as things with parallel lives of their own.
In his sculpture too, Wentworth creates curious and beautiful paradoxes, everyday things somehow made strange: ladders, buckets, junk-books, lightbulbs, punctured and penetrated by other things, leaning and balancing, given character through juxtaposition, by being displayed on shelves, suspended on wires, by being massed together. These things bring with them the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy and Jacques Tati as much as that of Marcel Duchamp.
"I've got some kind of filter," he tells me, "so I always see that [he points to an odd, undersized manhole cover next to our table] before I see the pavement, the crack before the glass. I see figure before ground. To me that's a kind of syntax of assemblage, which is actually what culture is."
Wentworth's world really is a world of things. By the end of our conversation virtually every object on our table has been used to demonstrate a point. Even the table itself, which wobbles (he gently admonishes the designer). "I've never been able to let go," he says, picking up a knife. "I know this is a one-piece knife and how odd it is that the blade and handle are made in one and that once the handle would have been made of something else. These things are all forged and formed and they all have meaning."
Then he gets out his new digital camera and points out a scratch. "This must have happened in my pocket, keys or something — at what point does use become misuse or abuse?" He points to the battered surface of the table — "look at this, this is good isn't it? So why am I upset about my camera? These things we have now, they all look like they were made in heaven, look at that bottle of water, where did that come from? These things are like us, they have skin, they can be damaged and wounded. Like this."
He points to a small circular scar on his palm.
"I drilled into this accidentally. It's very useful when you need to buy a new drill bit" – he holds out his stigmata — "this size please."
So does he think this world he's been so assiduously documenting is disappearing under all these shiny, brand new goods?
"No, it's not disappearing. Look, I don't seek this stuff out but it just seems to find me" – and at that he scrolls through some pictures on the camera alighting on one of a "closed" sign crowned with a handwritten "We are now."
"What other kind of closed is there?" he asks me, then ("look at this") he shows me the paintbrush/cabinet lock ("and this"); he scrolls on. "This 1930s building in Baker Street is being rebuilt and there's a hoarding wrapped around the site. At the top is a flagpole, the whole building seems to be building up to this flagpole, which is all about empire and saying 'we are here.' Someone has gone to the trouble of getting some stickers and made a flag of St. George on the rendering."
And there it is, a stiff sticker flag on this virtual future. Funny, poignant, and ingenious, it's all about the lengths people will go to, to do eccentric, often extremely funny, occasionally touching little gestures.
Although Wentworth's work is so tied up in the ingenious strangeness of the London streetscape, there seems to be something vaguely Parisian about it. In fact his photos appeared together with those of Eugène Atget, the French photographer who died in 1927, in an exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery five years ago. Atget's images of a disappearing old Paris inspired the Surrealists and the surreal is ever-present in Wentworth's images. But also present is that very French idea of the flâneur looking at what happens on the city's streets, and the Situationist idea of the dèrive, the urban walk that exposes the hidden patterns of the streets and the life that seeps up from the beach below the paving stones.
But one figure in particular comes to mind: Duchamp. In fact one of Wentworth's sculptures was based around a very familiar looking bottle rack.
"I bought that rack in France, as an antique. Incredibly the French name for it is an 'if,' which I just love. I'm a kind of inserter. I don't mean to do it, things just stack. I'm sure there's some kind of psycho-sexual thing there. It was like waving at Duchamp — and I think I got away with it.
"I once spoke to someone who photographed Duchamp and he told me how vain he was. There are artists who willfully self-mythologize."
Born in 1947, Wentworth studied first at Hornsey College of Art and then the Royal College. While still a student he worked for Henry Moore, and then became a key member of the highly influential New British Sculpture generation of the late 1970s, which included Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Richard Deacon, and Anish Kapoor. Since 2004 he has been Master of the prestigious Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. So he is profoundly qualified to talk about what he describes as "a small tribe producing luxury goods." Overall, in fact, Wentworth is alternately politely withering and gently forgiving about the art world. For him it is "a bit of an ingrowing toenail — you have to decide if you can live with that discomfort." Later he says, "we can't really tell what's good art. There's a longer story there and some of this stuff will become part of our culture. The good stuff sticks and the other stuff floats off, like not very good transfers."
As we start to wrap up, he looks at all the bits and pieces that have accumulated around our table.
"It's all about stuff," he says, "all these things, here at our service. Everything is always performing. Your bag is sitting there open, waiting for you to put stuff back into it, my glass is waiting for me to finish off the water. These guys' laptops [he gestures towards our neighbors] are acting as fortifications, their screens as modesty boards in the same way we might use these books as barriers.
"We're negotiators, not controllers. All this stuff surrounds us and hits us and, in order not to go mad we have to throw some of it out but it's the pieces we keep inside us which make us us, which make you Eddie and me Richard. In the end it's all stuff in the plughole."
As we leave, the doormat has been moved slightly, to a different, more deliberate angle. He gets his camera out and takes another snap.
Here's Colman's piece on Jimmy Wales.
Possessed: Industrial Art Illuminates Life
Jimmy Wales does not come across as the great philosopher king of the technical age. He does not utter sweeping statements about the disconnect of modern society and the salvation that the Internet offers. He does not have a catchy book on the best-seller list; he does not lay down heady projections of where society will be in 20 years.
If anything, Mr. Wales, the founder of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, who has become an unlikely lightning rod for the quality-versus-quantity debate over information on the Internet, is a figure out of a 1930's Frank Capra film, a likable guy with a Southern twang whose simple social experiment has run away with him.
So Mr. Wales works at keeping it simple and staying dedicated to the Wikipedia ideal of information that is helpful, more or less accurate and ''good enough,'' to borrow a term from Barry Schwartz, the author of ''The Paradox of Choice.''
This applies not just to Wikipedia's content but also to Mr. Wales's own style. His home is not an Italianate villa on a grape-ridden hillside in Napa but a four-bedroom ranch house in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he moved for the simple reason that it was sunny and cheaper than San Diego, his former home.
At home, Mr. Wales has honed the good-enough style so well — or rather, not honed it — that the place will not even remotely be featured in House & Garden. He dresses casually, Florida-style, goes by the nickname Jimbo, and although he does drive a foreign car, it's a Hyundai Accent.
''It's sort of like an appliance as a car,'' he said. He bought his DVD player at Walmart, and his television set has something inside it called a cathode ray tube. Heard of it, kids?
About the only thing he has that aspires to a higher ideal is, of all things, a flashlight. The SureFire M6 blasts the competition, which averages 60 lumens, with a 250-lumen light beam. The company bills it as a ''searchlight disguised as a flashlight'' and boasts that ''SWAT teams use the lights to temporarily blind suspects at night.''
''Who needs a baseball bat?'' said Mr. Wales, who keeps his M6 on his bedside table not as a weapon but in case he, you know, needs a flashlight. ''You have to love the kitsch of that, that there's an assault flashlight now.''
The $400 M6, which is eight inches long, holds six lithium batteries and is housed in aerospace-grade aluminum, is the product of a design school that might be called Modern Militant, the most familiar example of which is the Hummer. ''It's really, really, really, really bright,'' Mr. Wales said. ''Anyone who tries to one-up me with their fancy car or whatever, I've got 'em. I say, 'Well, I have a brighter flashlight.' ''
Not that the flashlight was bought with one-upmanship in mind. As Mr. Wales explained: ''We were living in California, there had been earthquakes and terrorist attacks, and we had these crappy $2 flashlights. I started reading flashlight-geek websites and just went crazy and got very into this. The M6 was like 10 times brighter than any normal flashlight.''
Still, the flashlight sees very little active duty. He likes that it is there next to his bed, just in case. Even at rest, it functions as a little totem of safety and quality. ''It's almost like an object of art for me,'' he said.
It may not be the best piece of art in the world, but hey, it's good enough.
"Use, reuse, abuse, and misuse" was how Edwin Heathcote described Richard Wentworth's philosophy.
That sums it up pretty well.
"What does it sum up, joe?"
Hey, come on — you might recall Picasso's observation, to wit: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
I take a backseat to no computer.
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Experts' Experts: Top 15 mystery novels of all time
Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (1887-1927)
Dashiell Hammett: "The Maltese Falcon" (1930)
Edgar Allan Poe: "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1852)
Josephine Tey: "The Daughter of Time" (1951)
Scott Turow: "Presumed Innocent" (1987)
John le Carré: "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" (1963)
Wilkie Collins: "The Moonstone" (1868)
Raymond Chandler: "The Big Sleep" (1939)
Daphne du Maurier: "Rebecca" (1938)
Agatha Christie: "And Then There Were None" (1939)
Robert Traver: "Anatomy of a Murder" (1958)
Agatha Christie: "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926)
Raymond Chandler: "The Long Goodbye" (1953)
James M. Cain: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934)
Mario Puzo: "The Godfather" (1969)
The Mystery Guild of America in 2006 created a list of the top 15 mystery novels ever written; it appears above.
The list does not appear to be in any particular order.
How many have you read?
I've read six: "Presumed Innocent"; "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold"; "Rebecca"; "Anatomy of a Murder"; "The Postman Always Rings Twice;" and "The Godfather."
Pictured at the top of this post is the cover of the 1926 first edition of Agatha Christie's novel.
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When Citroen turned the Eiffel Tower into a giant ad — for nine years
From Arnold Clark:
How Citroën turned the Eiffel Tower into a huge advert in 1925 — for 9 years
André Citroën, the founder of Citroen, has always been considered a marketing genius. Citroën was one of the first car companies to sponsor car races and rallies, and he promoted his car plant to tourists as the most beautiful in Europe.
In 1925, Citroën actually rented the Eiffel Tower and had the Citroën brand name embellished across it using 250,000 lights.
A total of 250,000 light bulbs and 373 miles of electric cable were used to make the 98-foot-high letters.
It was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest advertisement. The illuminations were so bright that Charles Lindbergh used the tower as a beacon when coming into land after his solo flight across the Atlantic.
The sign remained in place until the company went bankrupt in 1934. The company was saved a month later by Michelin at the request of the French government — Michelin was Citroën's biggest creditor. Pierre Michelin replaced André Citroën as chairman.
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Apple News+ is cheap at twice the price
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Besides which, magazines on an iPad are way better than the increasingly thin paper versions: color is more vibrant, images sharper, it's much easier to "page" through them, you can send pictures and clips and articles to people as you're reading or save them for later for yourself.
Lagniappe: unlike with a New Yorker subscription cancellation, which may or not result in a refund of the unpaid portion after a long time on hold and then a semi-combative phone call with the service department, you can quickly cancel your Apple News+ subscription here and now online, since it's on a monthly basis.
Also, you never have to worry about not receiving an issue or getting several at a time weeks late, or magazines arriving looking like they took part in a Times Square New Year's Eve celebration.
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Paper Straw Cigarette
"Lit cigarette image printed on paper straw."
Another eruption from the turbulent mind of Scott Amron.
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I am based at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), working in the High Energy Astrophysics Group. I was a postdoctoral researcher working in the X-ray Group at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK.
My work is mainly on the topic of clusters of galaxies. Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe which are held together by gravity. They consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies (each of which contains many billions of stars), moving through a very hot diffuse gas or plasma. This gas is known as the intracluster medium (ICM) and has a temperature of 10s of millions of degrees C. The hot gas emits X-rays which we can observe from observatories orbiting the Earth such as Chandra and XMM-Newton.
Some of the interesting scientific questions I am trying to address involve the interaction of the central supermassive black holes which lie in cluster cores with the surrounding intracluster medium. The intracluster medium in the cores of galaxy clusters should be cooling soon as it is emitting a lot of energy from X-rays. The problems I am working on include, How much gas is cooling in clusters?, Do the black holes stop the cooling of the ICM?, If they do, how do they stop cooling? To answer these questions I look at the nearest, brightest galaxy clusters in detail. Here is some information on recent research.
The Perseus cluster (pictured) is the brightest cluster of galaxies in the sky when viewed in X-rays. This makes it an ideal target to study the interaction of supermassive black holes with galaxy clusters, as you get a lot of X-ray light from a cluster to analyse.
(Left) False colour picture of the Perseus cluster, Abell 426. The colours mainly show temperature variation. The green structure around the centre of the image is actually a shadow of a galaxy which lies between us and Perseus. (Right) A filtered image of Perseus, removing the smooth variation, showing the small scale fluctuations. The image shows a number of ripple-like structures around the core of the cluster.
The bright dot at the centre of the images is the central supermassive black hole. Above and below that you can see round darker regions in the left image which are bubbles of energetic particles emitted by the black hole. These radio bubbles (you can see the bubbles in radio emission) push away the X-ray emitting gas, leaving you with holes in the image. The two similar features further from the centre are so-called fossil bubbles, which are believe to be old radio bubbles which have detached themselves from the black hole and floated outwards in the cluster. There are similar features seen in long observations.
The right image shows the small-scale variations seen in the cluster. These ripple like features correspond to density variations in the hot gas. We therefore think the are very low frequency sound waves generated by the black hole as it blows the radio bubbles. These may be some of the lowest notes in the Universe! For more details see this press release.
Links to some work I have been involved with that has appeared on Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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Texas Rangers to investigate House Speaker's meeting with activist
This summer, Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen was supposed to be taking a victory lap of sorts.
Under his leadership, the House passed school finance and property tax reforms that had proven elusive for years — even decades. But instead of living in the glow of those victories, the Brazoria County Republican now finds himself at the center of a Texas Rangers investigation into claims of corruption.
On Monday the 5-member House General Investigating Committee called on the Rangers to investigate the June 12 meeting in which conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan of the Empower Texans group has accused Bonnen and State Rep. Dustin Burrows of offering him a deal.
Sullivan said Bonnen offered his group media credentials and encouraged Empower Texans — which has given millions in campaign contributions to conservative candidates — to oppose 10 Republicans, most of whom are moderates. The media credentials would allow staff members of an Empower Texans affiliate to be on the House floor during the legislative session, affording them better access to lawmakers.
Bonnen denied offering such a deal, but has also apologized to members of the House for "terrible things" that he said during the meeting, which Sullivan secretly recorded.
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State Rep. Morgan Meyers, a Dallas Republican who chairs the General Investigating Committee, said on Monday that the Rangers need to look into the matter "without regard to political considerations."
In a statement to Hearst Newspapers on Monday, the Texas Rangers said they are preparing to make "an initial inquiry into this matter and will consult with the appropriate prosecutor."
It's a dramatic escalation of a controversy that has risen from an insider political squabble into a scandal that has some House Republicans calling for Bonnen's resignation.
Bonnen did not comment directly on Monday.
"Speaker Bonnen fully supports the committee's decision and has complete faith in the House Rules and committee process working as they are intended," said Cait Meisenheimer, communications director for Bonnen.
For subscribers: Democrats sue over GOP lawmakers' meeting with Empower Texans
Sullivan took to social media to offer his support for the House committee's actions on Monday.
"While I am disappointed Speaker Dennis Bonnen and State Rep. Dustin Burrows chose the course they did to deceive the public about our June 12 meeting, I'm glad the Texas House General Investigating Committee appears to be searching for the truth," Sullivan wrote on Twitter.
While the Texas Rangers have been around since the 1820s, their role investigating public corruption is relatively new. The Legislature in 2015 took the responsibility for public corruption cases away from the Travis County District Attorney's Public Integrity Unit and gave it to the Rangers. At the time, some Republicans complained that prosecutions in a Democratic-leaning county would not be impartial, though the Travis County unit had mostly prosecuted Democrats.
Longtime ethics attorney Buck Wood, who helped write the state's legislative bribery law, said there are "numerous statutes" that may have been violated in the June 12 meeting that the public integrity unit of the Texas Rangers could weigh depending on what exactly was said.
"Press credentials are a thing of value, and if you promise someone a thing of value to do something like this, it raises serious questions about the legality," Wood said.
Democrats sued over the meeting last week, alleging that Bonnen also broke Texas election law by trying to direct the activities of a political action committee, and by discussing potential campaign contributions in the Texas Capitol during the fund-raising blackout for the legislative session. The blackout ended June 17, five days after the meeting.
Sullivan has refused to publicly release the recording of the meeting with Bonnen and Burrows. He has repeatedly said on social media that he didn't record the event for public consumption, but to "protect myself from Speaker Bonnen's proven practice of using lies to attack his adversaries."
Sullivan has let some Republicans in the Texas House listen to the recordings.
"It's pretty shocking. I'll be honest with you. It is," Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, said after hearing the recording. "It's beneath the office, for sure."
Bonnen acknowledges he made a mistake by meeting with Sullivan in the first place. He said his mission going into that meeting was to work on protecting the narrowing Republican majority in the House. In the past, Empower Texans has contributed heavily to tea party-aligned candidates who have opposed more moderate Republicans in primary elections.
"I was stupid to take a meeting with an individual who has worked hard to divide our House," Bonnen said in an email to House members. "I said terrible things that are embarrassing to the members, to the House, and to me personally."
One of the 10 members Bonnen is accused of asking Sullivan to target was State Rep. Tan Parker, a North Texas Republican.
"I listened to the recording and it was very apparent that our Speaker and Caucus Chairman did engage in targeting specific members of the Republican Caucus," Parker said in a statement released to the media. "I find this reckless ambition to be absolutely disgusting. Their actions directly contradict the bylaws and culture of our Caucus. The disparaging commentary that was also heard was the epitome of disrespect and a clear attack on the values of the Republican Party and the integrity we have established in the Texas House."
Staff writer Taylor Goldenstein contributed to this report.


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Cameron Jerome struck for the fifth time in four games to secure a slender lead for the Rams to take to west London for the second leg.
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He told RamsTV: "We stressed to the players that at the end of the night, we would only be halfway through the tie.
"Unless you are three or four ahead, then you know that the game is always going to be finely poised and you can see how much of a good side Fulham are.
"It's half-time. It means nothing, the lead can be cancelled out in a minute and we have to play with the same control and discipline that we did tonight.
"We have to show more quality on the ball and that will be important. You know that, against Fulham, you won't have as much as the ball as you want, so when you do, you have to make sure that you use it.
"Early on, we looked nervy and edgy and we have to use the ball a bit better."
The stats will show that the away side dominated the ball but Derby kept their visitors at bay for the majority of the tie, and the boss was pleased with the discipline that his team showed, especially when dealing with Fulham's key man.
"They make it very difficult to press high, everybody wants that for the whole game but it's very difficult to do that," he explained.
"Tonight, the discipline we showed and the way that, tactically, we controlled them was excellent, I don't think they had many chances.
"Curtis [Davies] did a fantastic job on [Aleksandar] Mitrovic, there was one chance where they hit the bar, but there weren't many other chances and it shows great discipline to do that."
Jerome last scored in four successive games when he went on a five-match sequence with Cardiff City back in September 2005, and he is now one game away from equalling that record after another expertly taken goal.
Rowett was thrilled with the quality of the strike as well as the creation, but he admitted that he was disappointed that his side couldn't find a second goal ahead of the away leg.
He said: "We made five or six passes and took the sting out of Fulham. Fozzy [Craig Forsyth] stepped in and it's a lovely flighted, in-swinging ball and Cameron does what he has done so often.
"He bullies the centre-back and it's a fantastic header.
"It's difficult at 1-0 because you don't want to open up too much and you don't want to allow them chances, but it's a shame that we couldn't pick them off on the counter.
"I felt that we looked a real threat for the last 15 minutes and we really should have picked them off for the second goal."


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T. Boone Pickens gets the Daniel Plainview treatment on the cover of this week's Business Week, in a story detailing the Dallas billionaire's quest to bring water from the Panhandle to Dallas at the cost of $100 million, give or take. Pickens, whose Mesa Power is already investing a couple billion in wind farms up in the Panhandle, figures water's the new oil -- which, notes the magazine, would make Pickens "a modern-day John D. Rockefeller," though I always thought being the current-day T. Boone Pickens was plenty enough for one man. So, here's the plan:
Pickens owns more water than any other individual in the U.S. and is looking to control even more. He hopes to sell the water he already has, some 65 billion gallons a year, to Dallas, transporting it over 250 miles, 11 counties, and about 650 tracts of private property... So far he has spent $100 million and eight years on his project and still has not found any city in Texas willing to buy his water.
He could always donate it. Then again, guess we ain't no O.S.U. --Robert Wilonsky
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Home >> Daily News >> Thailand News >> Investment >> Dawei financing moves forward
Dawei financing moves forward
Thailand's biggest construction company is also inviting both local and foreign investors to acquire up to 49 percent of the project developer Dawei Development Co (DDC), which is now wholly owned by ITD.
So far, more than 10 investors have expressed interest to become strategic partners, ITD president Premchai Karnasuta said yesterday.
They include PTT International, Electricity Generating Co (Egco) and Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Plc, which are interested in industrial projects to be developed in Dawei.
"The project is so huge and it must have one company to take the lead for its development. That's why ITD want to maintain no less than 51 percent in DDC," Mr Premchai said.
The company will hold a roadshow in Japan next week to brief investors about Dawei, followed by events in Korea, China and India later, he said.
"We are inviting strategic partners to join us from now on," he said. "We are going to arrange charter flights for investors who want to visit the site."
Siam Commercial Bank, the financial adviser to the project, has been working on details of project financing to finalise the plan within two months.
Several international financial institutions have expressed readiness to support the project, seeing it as a key link in an economic corridor linking Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, he said.
The development area has a total population of 10,000, and Burmese officials have pledged that a relocation plan will follow World Bank guidelines.
The company initially expects to spend US$4 billion on infrastructures such as road and rail links and a port, and another $4 billion for infrastructure inside the industrial estate. Covering 250 square kilometres, the Dawei special economic zone (SEZ) is 10 times bigger than Map Ta Phut in eastern Thailand, Mr Premchai added.
International consultants have been hired to conduct detailed design studies for each investment project, including refineries and power plants. The studies will be finished this year.
"We will complete financial arrangements this year for construction which will start next year and finish by the end of 2015,"said Mr. Premchai.
ITD is preparing to invest 2 billion baht in Dawei this year after spending 500 million on feasibility studies and road accesses to the site on the west coast of Burma.
The company has been granted a 75-year concession for the SEZ.
Dawei, 350 kilometres from Bangkok, is designed to be a western hub for Thai products to be shipped to Europe, the Middle East, China and South Asia.
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1st December 2013 6% Rise in Violent Assaults on Nursing Staff
Assaults on NHS continue to rise. Data from NHS Protect shows there were 63,199 assaults reported in 2012 – 2013 in England alone. This figure is up from 59,744 in 2011 – 2012. At the same time the number of sanctions taken against people who assault staff has risen from 1,257 to 1,458 (a 16% increase). The Health Minister, Dan Poulter stated that "Any physical or verbal abuse against NHS staff is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated". He went on to say "It is outrageous that there have been so many physical assaults against NHS staff, but better awareness among health professionals will help them feel able to speak out and stop it happening". Unfortunately similar words from his predecessors and others in a position of power, although no doubt well intentioned, do little to reduce the year on year rise in assaults, not least because they continue to miss the point. Those staff who are assaulted do not generally dictate the behaviour of the aggressor. The aggressor is the one who writes the script. Unfortunately this basic lack of understanding has continued to foster a very whooly and academic approach to the problem and an inadequate and disjointed approach to training. Whilst reasonable people can undoubtedly be reasoned with, these are not generally the people staff need to worry about. People who assault other people are by definition mentally impaired, either as a result of drink, illicit drugs, medication, mental illness or rage. The only way to reduce the threat posed by these people is through better design of the environment, improved processes and credible training which provides staff with the skills to deal with the problem effectively. Whilst we may never completely avoid the risk of violence there is plenty of evidence to show that with the right approach assault figures can be significantly reduced. However, this requires more than simply warm words. As one nurse recently commented "I work alone in the community at night, often making calls to people who have varying levels of drink related or mental health problems. We cannot always get a signal on the mobile and I often feel vulnerable. We have never had any training in how to deal with people who are violent or aggressive despite personally having to deal with such incidents. Myself and my team expressed our concerns to both our manager and the health and safety advisor. We didn't get the training but we did get a yellow reflective jacket!"


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By Nick Psyhogeos
In any negotiation, your ability to get the best deal possible depends on: (a) your preparation in uncovering the optimal "gets" for your side, and (b) your success at selling the value of the deal to the other side. There are many things you don't control at the negotiating table—your opponent's motivations and biases, their behaviors (win at all costs, hide the ball tactics, etc.), or developments outside the conference room that impact or impair the relationship between your company and theirs. What do you control? Your behaviors.
Here is a list of the top 4 things you should do to best position yourself for blowout results in your next deal:
- Learn their wants and needs. You very well may go into a negotiation with a decent idea of what the other side might be looking for in a deal. But that's an awfully low standard for preparation. Don't leave money on the table by working with an incomplete, unappealing, or ineffective vision for your deal. Your first step in up-leveling your preparation is to assemble key stakeholders from across your company, or friends or colleagues from within the industry who know about the other side, to help fill in the blanks. A negotiating "consulting team" within your company can consist of a sales group that sells to the company, a product team that is seeking a partner like them for a pilot program, or your business development group that may see strategic value in deeper collaboration with them. Where these resources exist, don't go it alone. Tap their knowledge and develop a more complete view of desirable benefits. Informing yourself of the broadest possible scope of gives and gets will dramatically enhance your deal's value potential.
- Find their Achilles heel. The flip side of learning their wants is to uncover their weaknesses, including an Achilles heel. You may be working on a deal with a new supplier. You want to establish a fixed price over a five-year term with no minimum volume commitments. The supplier is looking for minimum commitments with penalties in the form of higher prices in the event of volume shortfalls. You reach impasse.
Your preparation, however, reveals that the supplier is experiencing extreme cash flow pressure. While their cash situation is likely to stabilize by the end of year 1 of the deal, an unanticipated shortfall from a cancelled order puts the supplier's business in distress. So much so that they might consider paying a premium (i.e., willing to consider otherwise non-negotiable concessions) in exchange for more cash up front. Knowing this gives you the opportunity to structure a deal to your liking by front-loading the year 1 payment, with savings on the back end and no volume commits.
- Paint a picture of success, for the other side. You will often find yourself in the situation where you need to illustrate and sell positive outcomes for the other party. This is particularly true when youare pushing the idea. Doing this effectively can be the difference between successfully persuading your opponent and inviting indifference or inaction. Knowing their motivations and weaknesses is the first step in getting you there. In crafting your message, be specific on the advantages they will gain in doing a deal. Importantly, package it in a way your counterpart can use it to build internal consensus for the deal with key execs within their own organization.
- Make concessions conditional. Extending value—even significant value—to the other side does not equate to weakness, or losing. A colleague of mine once commented that:
"Good deal people get good deals done. And you aren't close to getting it done until both sides get a little uncomfortable."
Deals, like the world, are not always tidy. By definition, they are decidedly imperfect, explained by their consummation by "agreement" of the parties. Harnessing and delivering relevant value to your opposite will be necessary in most negotiations. The trick is you should refrain from giving something of value to the other side without gaining something of value for your company in return. In other words, the give should be "conditional."
Follow these tips and you will increase your confidence and outcomes in negotiations.
Nick Psyhogeos is the Founder and CEO of Global Negotiations, LLC, www.global-negotiations.com, a consultancy dedicated to improving results for corporations and employees in their negotiations. Nick has 25 years of negotiating experience across three continents as a trial lawyer, business leader and most recently as the head of Microsoft's patent licensing practice where Nick and his team closed more than 200 patent licensing deals with some of the most prominent companies in the IT industry. He's a regular contributor to Money Inc. and also the author of the recently released book, Confessions of a Global Negotiator: A Quick Guide to the 5 Rules Business Development Professionals Need to Close Great Deals @NPsyhogeos


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Tuesday, September 9, 2014
The event will be held by the Association "Georgia - Italy", training and event management consultancy Center `VIPR", the fashion home, "Tina Magalashvili" support and organization. The author is Nika Esakia, a representative of the association "Georgia Italy".
Goal of the project "The Carnival of Venice" is to improve cultural relations between Georgia and Italy, introducing Italian culture and the arts to Georgian people, to bring in innovation and novelty to Georgian reality.
In the carnival it is planed to exhibit the products of Italian brands, works of young painters accompanying with a symphony orchestra. In the carnival will take part in Georgian pantomime theater and pop singers.
The event will held yearly. It has a charitable nature, and the whole income will be transferred to the children, who are suffering with cancer (Bank details: TBC bank; Account number: GE73TB7171536080100002; Banking code: TBCBGE22; Monk Andrew Fund; Contact tel: 571 81 48 14; 595 39 93 90; 570 50 70 53; 032 2 74 76 06)