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If ever there was one imagine to encapsulate the entirety of the Windows 8 shitshow, this is that image.
Windows 8 is being rejected at such a scale that one of Microsoft's largest partners is being forced to advertise the "return" of an older OS.
[via @rsobers]
And it's a long wait for Windows 9 sometime in 2015. Windows 8 is turning out to be Vista, all over again. As I recently wrote at GigaOM Research in What we can learn from what didn't happen at CES:
Two comments: 1/ [Windows 9 release in 2015 will be] Way too late to stem the defections of Windows users to iOS and Android tablet, and 2/ this is a canonical example of a dominant company being disrupted because it cannot stop trying to support the past successful model. If Microsoft is going to hold onto *any* territory in office applications — Word, Excel, Powerpoint — they need to get them on other platforms ASAP, and not pretend that companies and individuals will wait until April 2015 for Microsoft to really fix Windows 8.
This could be the end of Office, and that completely undercuts Microsoft's potential role as a leader in the work management marketplace.
Six million copies of Lion downloaded so far — 80 percent more than Snow Leopard - The Next Web (via thenextweb)
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Learning From The Google+ Experiment: Operating System, Platform, Apps
As part of the chorus singing about Google+ (see Armano's insightful The Social Layer: Six Thoughts On Where Google Plus Is Going as just the most recent example), let me make a few observations:
It's very hard to separate foundational concepts of Google+ from what might considered features or apps. Foundational elements would include identity, following, streams, and sparks. But Circles, Hangouts, and Huddle are best considered apps, in the broadest sense. So apps are a foundational element of the Google+ architecture, and they can closely integrate into the user experience of Google+, like Circles does.
But we are moving toward a world where most of the foundational elements of Google+ will be part of a next generation version of Android, and the things that feel like apps on Google+ will be, in fact, apps running on that future social OS.
This means that I could drop Circles, and use some other app as a mechanism for organizing my sociality. Imagine an imaginary app, called Groupings, that works very differently than Circles, but does build on the foundational elements of identity, following, streams and sparks.
But I would want to follow people not just on the Google+ enhanced version of Android, but the Twitter-enhanced, social versions of iOS and OS X, as well. So long as these two operating systems provide similar social foundations, Groupings could run on my OS X laptop and on my pal's Android smartphone.
In this model, the operating systems become the platform, and apps like Circles or Groupings could run on either, or on a future, social Windows 9 (once Facebook acquires the phone parts of Microsoft).
I could opt to follow someone, with a globally unique identity provided by the operating system of choice: in my case, let's say by OS X, and the person I want to follow, David Armano, by Android. We would also be able to use those identities on any device.
Once I opt to follow, the basics are provided: I will get what he drops in his public stream, and it will appear in my 'upstream' — the unfiltered collation of all those I follow. What I post or repost falls into my 'downstream' which would be directed to everyone who is following me.
Obviously, the various operating systems have to support the fundamental protocols for this social messaging to work, and we will see this in due course, although it's likely that we will see several contending models that don't interoperate, and closed worlds built by the various operating systems providers.
We need the social operating system equivalent of http and email protocols to arise, so that an open social web can emerge.
We need the social operating system equivalent of http and email protocols to arise, so that an open social web can emerge.
So one thing we can learn from the Google+ experiment is this: I shouldn't have to login to Google+, and use Circles, to follow David Armano's writing over there. The works of those I follow should find me no matter what applications or operating systems I use. I don't have to have Outlook running to read Armano's email, and I don't have to browse his website with Chrome, just because those are the tools he uses.
And the developers of these applications, platforms, and operating systems need to be pushing aggressively in that direction, because in the meantime we are dividing the space for social discourse online into a maze of contending, non-interoperable models that don't harmonize yet.
Twitter: The Social Kernel For iOS 5
[Update: I pulled a section of this out, as I was corrected about iMessage being the next version of Messages:
Project via comments
Actually, iMessage and the SMS app in iOS5 are one and the same thing. If the person you are sending a message to doesn't have an iOS device, it sends it as an SMS. If the person does, it recognises it in the To field and sends it as an iMessage. In effect, Apple are embracing and extending the SMS protocol with this service. It is a huge move.
I stand corrected.]
Yesterday's announcements from Apple included the new iMessage: an iOS-only messaging system, which is apparently intended to remove the last rationale that BlackBerry users might have to not adopt iPhones:
Darrell Etherington, iMessage: Biting RIM's style and sticking it to network operators
BBM is one of the few remaining advantages RIM's aging platform has over its younger competition in the smartphone market. (Check out this tweet representative of reaction toiMessage's announcement if you don't believe me.) People appreciated the way it integrates tightly to your device, and its delivery and read receipts let you know your messages aren't getting lost in the ether. It's been a life raft for RIM in the violent sea of the ongoing mobile battle BlackBerry faces with iOS and Android.
However, iMessage brings a lot of what's good about BBM not only to the iPhone, which just passed RIM in terms of U.S. smartphone ownership trentds, but also to all iOS devices. With iPad and iPod touch users factored in, the potential audience for iMessage is huge, and it should cause at least some BBM-faithful to flee RIM's platform for greener pastures.
Apple's move also pushes the mobile carriers down in the stack, allowing iOS users to bypass SMS or proprietary messaging solutions. This is a painful but inevitable evolution.
iMessage is just a tactical play targeting BBM: a old-school pre-social, buddylist-style proprietary messaging system. It's not strategic, really.
In the long run, it looks like Apple is planning to use Twitter as the platform for social communication, building Twitter into iOS instead of building protocols on which Twitter and other networks could run.
As reported by Marshall Kirkpatrick, Twitter on iOS 5 will be a platform for social apps:
My summary, in a sentence: iOS apps will look like, feel like, read from and publish to Twitter like never before. And they'll do that in many cases instead of using Facebook.
[Jason] Costa [the newly hired Twitter Developer Relations leader] summarizes thusly."There is single sign-on, which allows you to retrieve a user's identity, avatar, and other profile data." That sounds like Facebook Connect, but I'm going to guess that Twitter will not prohibit developers from caching that data for time-shifted, aggregate, offline or other interesting types of analysis. Letting users skip having to create an account with every new app they download and instead click to log-in with their Twitter accounts is going to make many users very happy and encourage every iOS owner to get a Twitter account if they don't have one already. App developers will get more and better populated user accounts, faster.
"There's also a frictionless core signing service, allowing you to make and sign any call to the Twitter API." To be honest, I'm not really sure what this means. Perhaps it means that parts of the Twitter API that require user authentication will be accessible via the same single sign-on feature discussed above.
"There is follow graph synchronization, which enables you to bootstrap a user's social graph for your app." In other words, apps will be able to offer users to find their Twitter friends who are also using a new app they've installed, and connect with them there too. That's the kind of solution to the user-level "cold start problem" that Facebook Connect has been so helpful with for web apps.
"Furthermore, there is the tweet sheet feature, giving your app distribution and reach across Twitter." Again, like Facebook Connect, this is a feature that appears to make it easy for apps to publish user activity and promotional messages out into the Twitter streams of a user's friends. Facebook has a complicated algorithm that determines how often an app is allowed to publish messages out into the Newsfeed of a user's friends, based on how much interactions messages from that app have received in the past. That's a spam control mechanism that I'm going to guess Twitter will not replicate, at least at first.
It looks like Apple is going to give Twitter this deep and central role in its social OS plans, and allow the smaller more agile company to manage the building of an ecology of social apps on top of the paired architecture.
If even remotely successful, Apple will want to acquire Twitter, and Twitter will want to be acquired. These two will become as inseparable as NeXT was to Apple, when they regrooved Mac OS to be built upon the Mach Unix kernel. Here though, Apple will be making Twitter — and the open follower model Twitter resides on — the social kernel for iOS going forward.
This is a grand land grab by Apple and Twitter, an effort to block a Google/Facebook coalition on Android, or a Microsoft/Facebook partnership on Windows 8.
What about the competition? I predict Facebook will be too reluctant to partner with anyone, and may be at work on plans to launch its own hardware. Google is too slow on the social network side (the most expensive error of all time?), so they are stuck in the water. Microsoft is making credible efforts with Windows 7 and 8, but have no social network story. Microsoft is far enough behind the curve to possibly cede the social sphere to Facebook, too. RIM is falling like a stone, and would probably like to be bought, and either Google or Microsoft might bite, but that's just tactics. None of these players has a strategic answer to the Apple move with Twitter.
What I don't understand, though, is why iMessage isn't written as a social app on top of Twitter. That would be the right path, and would simplify the Venn diagram tremendously. But Apple is opting to run both worlds — the pre-social and the social — in parallel, at least for a time, instead of doubling down on its social push with Twitter.
- 10 Apps Apple Just Killed By iOS 5 (AAPL) (businessinsider.com)
- Apple Just Integrated Twitter Into Your iPhone, And This Is What It Looks Like (businessinsider.com)
- Watch Out Facebook Connect, Apple Pushes Twitter Sign-Ins In iOS 5 (techcrunch.com)
- Apple Makes Twitter The Social Network On iOS Devices (paedra.wordpress.com)
- Apple Blesses Twitter, Makes It the Social Network On iOS Devices (mashable.com)
Why Didn't Nokia Sell Out To Microsoft?
Considering that Nokia has basically handed over its future to Microsoft, why didn't they actually sell themselves? Instead, they have become a "puppet state" as MG Siegler calls it.
The rumors of Microsoft wanting to acquire Nokia has been going on for a long while, and the recent crash of the stock in the market suggests that analysts and investors see this capitulation as a negative for Nokia. Would the stock have fallen in a buyout? I don't think so. So, at least in the short term, Elop's plan is a disaster for Nokia shareholders, and a free gift to Microsoft.
Smartphones, Smartphones
The company [Microsoft] could spend a half-billion dollars or more in marketing costs and payments to developers and handset manufacturers to subsidize the expense of building phones and apps, so that the Windows Phone 7 ecosystem is well-seeded at launch.
Jonathan Goldberg, a telecommunications analyst at Deutsche Bank, estimates that Microsoft will spend $400 million on marketing alone for the Windows Phone 7 launch. That doesn't include the millions it has already committed to pay for "non-recurring engineering" costs that help offset development costs for handset manufacturers.
"This is make-or-break for them. They need to do whatever it takes to stay in the game," says Goldberg. "It's still wide open. They don't have to take share from Android or Apple, so long as they can attract enough consumers switching from feature phones."
On a visit earlier this month to the company's headquarters in Redmond, Goldberg says company executives told him that Microsoft, along with its carrier and manufacturing partners, would likely spend "billions" of dollars in the first year for marketing and development. Another source familiar with Microsoft's manufacturer and carrier agreements says the company will spend $1 billion on the launch, half on marketing and half on other development costs.
Microsoft To Pay More Than Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7 - Kim-Mai Cutler
And if the Windows 7 launch does not lead to a significant wedge into the market, will Microsoft drop phones? Will the board finally ax Ballmer?
Steve Ballmer, discussing Microsoft's next tablet, and showing why Microsoft is in Apple's dust. Windows 7 doesn't go far enough at all, and Windows apps aren't touch friendly, to say the least.
Social Innovation In User Experience: Tiles, Channels, Streams
Microsoft has gotten a lot of people excited with the radical break that Windows Phone 7 represents. Behind the user experience shift is the simple realization that phones aren't really small computers. Especially computers from the '90s, with folders, files, and a desktop. See my recent post, Why Closed Works: Moving Past Steampunk Thinking About The Future Of Computing, which suggests why iPad and other new OS approaches are potentially liberating for us, despite the yowling from techies.
Windows Phone 7 represents a similar departure — a break with the notions of what users should have in their heads when fooling with a phone.
- Peter Sayer, Microsoft CEO unveils Windows Phone 7
"Phones looked like PCs, but a phone is not a PC, it's smaller, more personal," said Joe Belfiore, vice president for Windows Phone.
To make the interface more personal, Microsoft is counting on a checkerboard of customizable "live tiles" that can update automatically with information from the phone or the Internet.
Some of the tiles will update automatically to show frequent contacts or local information, while others can be customized manually. The tiles will be grouped into themed "hubs," for example a page of contacts called "people" or a page of photos called "pictures".
It seems that we are starting to see some commonalities in these new operating environments, like iPad, Windows Phone 7, and Litl, to name three interesting examples.
iPad will be based on the iPhone operating environment, which is extremely minimal: it offers up single applications, and not much else. These apps are generally fairly minimal: it seems that at least in the first release iPhone apps will generally be running in a 'double pixels' mode, although Apple has said it will provide tools to allow iPhone apps to be rejiggered to run natively.
The point is that users will not need a Mac OS X kind of experience to read a book, listen to music, or watch a movie. The user's experience will be shaped by the sorts of media being accessed, rather than a general purpose programming world.
This is also what seems to be at work with Windows Phone 7: they have thrown away the general purpose file/folder/desktop environment so familiar to programmers, and moved ahead to an environment designed around information streaming to the device or to the user.
Here we see the adoption of 'tiles' — rectangular information objects that access streams or stores of information when touched. These 'tiles' will replace the notion of running apps, or opening files, or initiating a connection to the web through a browser, although it seems like we are going to be stuck with the browser metaphor for some time.
The deepest shift at work in these new environments is a transition to information flows away from information stores.
We will come to perceive what is going on as we touch these Windows 7 tiles, or open Litl channels, is that we are connecting to a stream of information, more like a TV channel than opening a file or browsing to a website.
And I believe that the streaming metaphor when coupled with the social dimension of tools like Facebook and Twitter, or new social elements of these new platforms themselves, will change how we think about them and how we use them.
My sense is that more designers — like the folks at Litl, the innovative 'internet computer for the home' — are looking to television and streaming media services as a starting point for redesign of user experience.
I recently got a loaner from Litl, and while I was impressed with much of the philosophy of the user experience, I was dissatisfied with the experience overall.
In particular, I had hoped that there would be a social experience tightly integrated into the radically different OS they had devised, something as innovative as the 'ring' controller they developed as part of the scrolling controls on the hardware. But that side of the equation was stuck back at email. If I see something cool in one of the channels on my Litl I would like to be able to simply pass it along to those following me in a hypothetical Litl network. Or else they could have tightly integrated to something like Twitter.
Yes, I can use Litl to look up a recipe, and position the device on the kitchen counter in it's easel mode to make it a handy appliance. But it's just a browser window to Epicurious, and not connecting me to a network of other cooks.
This is perhaps an example of a general rule: as innovators attempt to break out of the user experience ruts of today's operating systems, they will get hung up on those irreducible elements of the existing world order that have to be connected. Like browsers, and email. These will hold us back, even in circumstances where radical changes are being attempted.
I beleive that Litl is a bellwether of things to come, as is Windows 7 Phone OS, and the iPad.
In all cases, the designers have drastically minimized what users are able to do for the sake of a simpler and more usable model of use.
But I think it is a mistake to not make these devices more obviously social, where streaming of information to and from other people becomes the primary mode of operation, and not something demoted to something in email, or in other applications. I expect to see someone release a social OS in the near term, where our connections to others are directly supported in the operating environment, not just within social applications.
Update on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 1:55PM by Stowe Boyd
From the Microsoft Windows 7 Phone press release:
Windows Phone 7 Series creates an unrivaled set of integrated experiences on a phone through Windows Phone hubs. Hubs bring together related content from the Web, applications and services into a single view to simplify common tasks. Windows Phone 7 Series includes six hubs built on specific themes reflecting activities that matter most to people:People. This hub delivers an engaging social experience by bringing together relevant content based on the person, including his or her live feeds from social networks and photos. It also provides a central place from which to post updates to Facebook and Windows Live in one step.
Sounds like the 'people hub' is a step in the direction I was alluding to.


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Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, was responsible for introducing a number of in terms of transportation and public space innovations. In this short video he talks here about buses versus cars (really people v. cars) and the experience of Bogotá in giving clear preference to buses with their now world-famous Transmilenio (BRT) mass transit system. As mayor he also introduced a number of innovations including land-use, parks and public space projects as well as Bogotá's Bike Paths Network. If you listen to his talk you will see the very large number of issues and themes which relates to the situation in Penang today. Let's see what we can learn from Bogotá.
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A New Moblity Agenda for the Vision Impaired in Penang
In the context of the Sustainable Penang/New Mobility 2014 program, the key to the success of the project lies in the identification and eventual preparation and implementation of specific, practical, relatively low cost concepts and measures which give more importance to non-motorized transport and public transportation than to the traditional uses of the private car. One of the ideas that came up early in the Focus Group brainstorming sessions was that of providing voice announcements for the blind and others with visual impairments on the new Rapid Penang bus services being developed across the state. In the following excellent article prepared by the local NGO Saint Nicolas Home we see how thoroughly they are looking at the problems of mobility and access for the visually impaired. Thus it is not surprising that Saint Nicolas Home is emerging as one of the most engaged champions of this collaborative project for 2014. (We shall be seeing more about that project shortly here.)
World Carshare 2013 – Notes for Short Reports
Carsharing is most unevenly distributed over the world map. There are great extremes, running from countries like Switzerland in which it is universally known and widely practiced, to the situation of most countries on the planet where even the word is not much known. For this reason our 2013 country profiles have to be ingenious and flexible, one size will not fit all, if we are to give our readers a feel for the full range of practices and issues. Let's have a look, starting with some "carshare basics".
Faces of Transportation Equity: Cynthia Jarrold reports
WhipCar closes down P2P carsharing operation in Britain. What does it mean?
On 10 Nov. 2010, World Streets ran an article under the title "The P2P carsharing saga continues: The WhipCar story" by the young entrepreneurs introducing their new WhipCar P2P carsharing start-up, which story you can find here – http://wp.me/psKUY-13b. After more than two years of hard work in developing an entirely new, uncharted market for Britain, they have just decided, in their words that: "we have discovered there are still barriers to widespread adoption of peer-to-peer car rental in the UK. As a small team with limited resources, we have taken a good long look at these scaling challenges. And, after much thought, we have made the extremely difficult decision to close WhipCar."
Let's have a look at what they have to say in terms of lessons learned, and at the end of this short piece share with you a couple of thoughts on the meaning of this in the broader context of carsharing and P2P.
Letter from Bangalore: The Derelict Mile
Sujaya Rathi reports from Bangalore:
Private vehicles in India have seen an unprecedented growth in past two decades and there is no sign of slowing down. Many initiatives to curb the trend have not been successful. This article highlights an important aspect that attribute to the above unsustainable phenomenon, which has been ignored: "The Derelict Mile".
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Why cycle rickshaws should be driven from the street. (And what it means for mobility, environment, equity and the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of hard working people and their families)
Let me not poach the information and arguments presented in this fine analysis of the informal transport economy of Ashima Sood's recently published paper in the Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), other than to cite her opening summary: "A February 2010 judgment of the Delhi High Court called into question several assumptions underlying policy thinking on the cycle rickshaw sector. Examining these assumptions in the light of new research and advocacy efforts, this article considers the prospect of policy and regulatory reform. With the cycle rickshaw sector as a case study, it argues that the punitive regulatory framework governing the sector embodies the dualist or even parasitic models that inform policy on informal services more broadly. Assessing the larger viability and contribution of informal sector activities requires more attention to local and sector-specific micro-processes." Continue reading

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We ( or should I say HE) just installed 12 X 12 polished marble in the tub/shower area. I know we need to seal the grout (my job) but should we also seal the marble? Any recomendations for sealers would be appreciated.
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I bought this to go over my garden tub in the master bathroom. It fits the space perfectly. Such a lovely addition. It looks so much better than the pictures that were there previously. Even came with screws to match for hanging. Touch of Class is a class act.
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Absolutely gorgeous!!! The Adelaissa Scroll Wall Grille was placed over the wall of my daughter and it brings a "showroom" finish to the area. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!


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MORGANTOWN (AP) — In just one week, participants in Morgantown's urban deer hunt are feeding a lot of hungry people.
On Wednesday evening, they donated 543 pounds of venison to local shelters and food pantries
The 2nd Annual Urban Deer Archery Hunt runs from Sept. 8 through Dec. 31 for 77 bow hunters.
Each archer can take seven deer — both bucks and does — within designated hunting areas.
They then have the option of donating their kill to Backwoods Taxidermy, which processes the deer and distributes the meat.
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Premiums and deductibles in Medicare Part B will remain the same next year, saving seniors more than $125 compared with projections, federal health officials said Thursday. The CMS touted the news as a boon to seniors and evidence that the ACA is successfully slowing the growth of healthcare costs. Beneficiaries enrolled in the benefit will pay $104.90 and $147 for premiums and deductibles, respectively, the same amount as this year.
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What's new about Medicare this year? What is the prescription drug donut hole, and do you need to worry about it? We asked Mary Dale Walters, who oversees a nationwide Medicare plan selection service, to tell us what she's hearing from Medicare beneficiaries.
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There will be somewhat fewer plans to pick from this year, but in general people will have plenty of options, experts say. And although premiums aren't expected to rise markedly overall in 2015 - and in some cases may actually decline - some individual plans have signaled significantly higher rates. Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released some specifics about 2015 premiums and plans, many details about provider networks, drug formularies and the like won't be available until later this fall. Here's what we know so far about Part D and Medicare Advantage.
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Due to the combined efforts of MA plan sponsors working with AHIP, CMS has revisited the telephonic guidance that was issued on August 14, 2014 which prohibited agents from calling existing enrollees to discuss other plan options (Section 70.6). CMS announced last night that they have decided to rescind this guidance. AHIP was able to convince CMS of the many benefits that our agents are able to bring to Medicare beneficiaries by discussing the new, potentially cost saving plan options available to them.
CMS has made the decision to revert to their previous guidance which states Plans/Part D Sponsors may do the following:"Call members to promote other Medicare plan types, (e.g., sponsors may contact their PDP members to promote their MA-PD offerings; sponsors that are also Medigap issuers may marketing their MA, PDP, or cost plan products to their Medigap customers), and discuss plan benefits."
This change is effective immediately and the Medicare Marketing Guidelines will be updated to reflect this change when the next version of the guidelines is published.
This means beginning October 1 you may call your current members and talk about other plan options for 2015! You can also set appointments now to meet with your members after Oct 1, without discussing any 2015 rates or benefits.
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There's a lot of confusion among many Baby Boomers (and the occasional insurance industry professional ...) about Medicare and how/if/when it integrates with the ACA's Health Insurance Marketplace (Exchanges). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just issued new guidance that is as beneficial for agents and marketers as it is for consumers:
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In a positive piece of news for the life insurance industry, it has been reported that final expense insurance sales reached nearly $400 million in 2013. The Life Insurance Council and CSG Actuarial conducted a survey of 25 insurers, finding that final expense insurance new premium totaled nearly $400 million in 2013, representing 613,000 policies.
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Medicare has many enrollment periods for the various parts of Medicare. These enrollment periods provide beneficiaries with the chance to get Medicare coverage, but the different periods and their acronyms can be confusing for agents, marketers and beneficiaries alike.
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Medicare Advantage (formerly known as Medicare+Choice) permits contracts between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and a variety of different private managed care and fee-for-service entities. Most Medicare beneficiaries may choose to receive benefits either through the original Medicare fee-for-service program (Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance)). Main types of Medicare Advantage plans include:
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Most financial professionals are really good talkers. We like people and we tend to be out-going and friendly.
I conduct role-playing sessions with several agencies. I am appalled that someone who professes to be a financial professional would get on the phone without knowing what they are going to say. And the newer you are, the less you can fake your way through a call.
I hear producers say many, many good things over the phone, but when they aren't linked together properly (i.e. having a beginning, middle and end that matches my ABCDEFG format) the impact of the words gets lost.
You have to clearly identify yourself based on your relationship to the prospect; then:
You can be sure that if your managers and peers think you sound like you are ad-libbing, then the prospect hears it too. Ad-libbing does not come across as friendly; it sounds like you are grasping for words and that reduces the professionalism of your call.
Write a good script, practice it so you can "talk" it, then make your calls!
Keep smilin' and dialin'
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Let's say an attacker wants to steal your mail to hotmail.com.
You're running the current version of BIND. You have the following
information in your cache from recent lookups of MX hotmail.com and
* law5.hotmail.com:
hotmail.com MX 10 mail.hotmail.com
hotmail.com MX 10 mc2.law5.hotmail.com
hotmail.com MX 10 mc4.law5.hotmail.com
hotmail.com MX 10 mc5.law5.hotmail.com
hotmail.com NS ns1.hotmail.com
hotmail.com NS ns3.hotmail.com
mail.hotmail.com A 18.104.22.168 (from additional records)
mc2.law5.hotmail.com A 188.8.131.52 (from additional records)
mc4.law5.hotmail.com A 188.8.131.52 (from additional records)
mc5.law5.hotmail.com A 220.127.116.11 (from additional records)
law5.hotmail.com NS ns1.jsnet.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns2.jsnet.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns1.hotmail.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns3.hotmail.com
ns1.jsnet.com A 188.8.131.52 (from additional records)
ns2.jsnet.com A 18.104.22.168 (from additional records)
ns1.hotmail.com A 22.214.171.124 (from additional records)
ns3.hotmail.com A 184.108.40.206 (from additional records)
The attacker begins by sending you a few hundred queries for each A
record. One of BIND's bogus ``credibility'' rules is that each query
drops the record's TTL by 5%, so the A records soon disappear. (I don't
blame BIND for the attack as a whole; there are other ways to knock
records out of a cache, though BIND makes it absurdly easy.)
The attacker then registers a new domain with NSI, using ns1.jsnet.com
as the domain's server name, but his own IP address for ns1.jsnet.com:
zerosecurity.com NS ns1.jsnet.com
ns1.jsnet.com A 126.96.36.199
The attacker then convinces you to look up zerosecurity.com. Your cache
accepts the ns1.jsnet.com address from the .com servers:
zerosecurity.com NS ns1.jsnet.com
ns1.jsnet.com A 220.127.116.11 (from additional records)
hotmail.com MX 10 mail.hotmail.com
hotmail.com MX 10 mc2.law5.hotmail.com
hotmail.com MX 10 mc4.law5.hotmail.com
hotmail.com MX 10 mc5.law5.hotmail.com
hotmail.com NS ns1.hotmail.com
hotmail.com NS ns3.hotmail.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns1.jsnet.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns2.jsnet.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns1.hotmail.com
law5.hotmail.com NS ns3.hotmail.com
Next the attacker convinces you to look up mc2.law5.hotmail.com. Your
cache contacts the attacker's ns1.jsnet.com server, and receives a
mc2.law5.hotmail.com A 184.108.40.206
Similarly, the attacker feeds you fake addresses for mc4 and mc5. He now
has a 75% chance of receiving your mail to hotmail.com. He can increase
the chance to 100% with a bit more effort.
I should mention several things that _don't_ stop this attack:
* Query source restrictions. Perhaps your cache doesn't accept
recursive queries from 126.96.36.199---but the attacker can tunnel
queries through your MTA.
* Poison protection. Information about ns1.jsnet.com from the .com
servers is, by definition, not poison.
* BIND's bogus ``credibility'' rules. I made my example a bit more
complicated than necessary to avoid moving information across
``credibility'' boundaries.
One of the authors of RFC 2181, which has ``credibility'' rules
even more extreme than the rules in BIND, claims that the rules
stop high-level servers from accidentally spreading bad
information. As my example shows, that claim is false. The
high-level servers need to provide correct information.
* NSI's bogus one-name-one-address policy. The host ns1.jsnet.com
doesn't seem to be registered with NSI, and the attacker's IP
address certainly isn't.
I suppose this message will lead to a flood of new host
registrations. But NSI doesn't have the resources to keep track of
every server on the Internet; and the host registration process is
itself a source of security problems.
I should also mention that attackers can forge DNS responses without the
help of the official servers. However, except for the relatively small
set of attackers who can sniff your network, forgery requires billions
of packets on average, and is much more difficult to carry out on a
large scale than the attack described here.
Solution: I suggest that NSI---and all other high-level registries---
immediately change the zone-file building process so that all NS names
for a domain are within that domain. Out-of-domain server information
such as
zerosecurity.com -> ns1.jsnet.com -> 18.104.22.168
zerosecurity.com -> ns2.jsnet.com -> 184.108.40.206
will be translated automatically into
zerosecurity.com NS a.ns.zerosecurity.com
zerosecurity.com NS b.ns.zerosecurity.com
a.ns.zerosecurity.com A 22.214.171.124
b.ns.zerosecurity.com A 184.108.40.206
(with appropriate dots, of course) for the .com zone file. Beware that
child servers will have to make the same change; otherwise they're
vulnerable to the BIND denial-of-service attack that I explained in
http://cr.yp.to/dnscache/bugtraq/20000112082807-15140-qmail () cr-yp-to
Furthermore, any domain that (1) uses out-of-domain NS names and (2) is
already using *.ns for other purposes will have to change a few host
names to resolve the conflict.
On the bright side, in-domain NS names have efficiency benefits and
reliability benefits, as explained in
Caches won't have to contact parent servers as often as they do now.
This could noticeably reduce the .com server load, and it will reduce
the frequency of long DNS lookup delays for users.
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Alcohol dependence is a disorder of young adults and more so young men. Women seldom face this problem of alcohol dependence.
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The exact cause of alcohol dependence is not clear. It may be due to genetic factors since children of alcohol dependent parents are more prone to alcohol dependence. Environmental factors like being in constant company of alcoholics or commencement of drinking at an early age may also play a role.
Alcohol dependence may have serious social and interpersonal consequences. Household responsibilities and relationships may take a back seat. It also leads to poor performance and frequent avoidance of work. Gradually as the disorder progresses, intellectual impairment and judgemental failure ensue. Alcohol dependence may also lead to serious health problems of which alcoholic liver disease is the commonest. The risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke increases manifold. Alcohol deteriorates both physical and mental health, leading to a marked reduction in life expectancy.
Alcohol dependence is treatable mostly in persons who really want to achieve normal well being. The treatment has various modalities, of which detoxification is the primary one. In detoxification, patient needs to be hospitalised where the body gets rid of the offending agent. This detoxification process is usually carried out during the period of remission. This treatment is then followed with anti-alcohol medications like disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate. Alcohol consumption is strictly prohibited with these drugs. The treatment is incomplete without psycho-social counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy. Family support is of vital significance in the management of alcohol dependence.


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Comment programming, also known as comment-driven development (CDD) is a software development technique that is based on the regular use of comment tags.[1] In comment programming the comment tags are not used to describe what a certain piece of code is doing, but rather to stop some parts of the code from being executed. The aim is to have the commented code at the developer's disposal at any time he might need it. This is especially useful when the requirements change rapidly. In this case they happen to revert to older versions of themselves, thus making the programmer either write the code again, or revert parts of the code from the versioning repository, which would be more time-consuming. With comment programming, when such a request for reverting to an old implementation arises, the developer just comments the current implementation and uncomments the previous. It is advisable to add short descriptive comments to blocks of commented code.
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This programming process can be used for prototyping a new design pattern. This is done by creating a new structure of classes without any implementation, and then you can add the implementation later.
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function onClick() { // This is where we handle mouse click. // The result of this function is that a button will be highlighted. }
As you can see in the example, there is a structure around a click event handler. However, comment programming is used instead of a real implementation. The idea is that many functions can be written like this, and then the design can be reworked and revisited without having to refactor a lot of source code.
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The battery is probably spot-welded onto a board.If it is a commercial battery, the number should be visible.If you are comfortable working with circuit boards it is no big deal.I replaced a phone cr2025 by simply cutting off the welded tabs.A quick touch of solder and wire to make a replacement lead works fine.A repair shop would likely replace the whole board $$$.
I checked it via the link. It is a regular button battery with tabs welded. Im going to crack it open this weekend.


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Much ado about nothing.
Yup, but I bet Stevie could write a hell of a book! : )
Poor caddying! This goofball thinks he actually hits the shots. He carries the bag, hands the player clubs, and keeps his balls clean. That's it. This interview shed great light on why Tiger let him go. Scott should let him go too.
The problem with Stevie Sensitive writing the book is that he has already sold his soul and pulled the Sgt. Schultz "I know nothing" with his own wife and Tiger's wife and the media . In the post round, he sounded sooo much like "one of the girls" dish'n the dirt on the man that set her up for retirement.
The Kiwi Golddigger got dumped, Ha, Ha. He was lapping up the love from the spectators that he's treated like poop for 15 years.
I think as a professional (golfer or caddy) you end things like this and move on. They worked with each other for 12 years and Tiger owes Steve nothing and vice versa. Tiger's announcement was professional. Steve's was incredibly unprofessional and uncalled for.
OHHH, BOO HOO…Boo Hoo…sniff, sniff.
The way golf works is you win one week, you're 37th the next week. Or, you're 37th one week, you win the next week. Nick Faldo said a quality caddie is probably worth one stroke per round to a pro golfer. How many tournaments did Tiger win by more than 4 strokes with Williams on his bag?
What a worthless article.
Show up, shut up, keep up. I couldn't care less about either one (TW or SW) of these narcissistic a-holes. How about some congrats to Adam Scott who actually played every shot in Steve's "biggest win"???
What's next, batboys writing books?
Jeeves meets Oddjob.
Let's see if Scott or any other pro golfer continues to use a guy who has now publicly trashed the former employer who made him rich.
Bet they do – showing they know who has class and who doesn't.
At least the article was better than the inane comments.
Of course Tiger made Steve a wealthy man. Of course he had the absolute right to fire Steve any time he wanted. But leaving Steve hanging around with nothing to do for most of two years while Tiger got over his 'problems' and rehabbed his knee, then firing him just before he came back, was another sign of Tiger's totally narcissistic personality. I saw Steve's behavior as that of a man who knows he sold his soul to the Devil, but then the Devil fired him as 'unworthy" . Steve just got his soul back.
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And my heart is broken yet again.
Lizzie is grieving. I can't imagine how she is feeling right now.
Shes grieving over Lydia and Wickham.
Over not being able to help her sister and being out of touch for so long.
Over leaving everyone at Pemberly (Gigi, Fitz)
Over losing a chance with Darcy (I hope to think)
And now she knows she never will have a chance working there, so she unfollowed. Shes letting Pemberly go.
She must have come to the conclusion that Lydia's reputation, along with her families, are lost forever—so there is no chance for her getting a job there, if any job at all.
She wants to work in media, and well, Lydia's video is permanently stamped to Lizzie's name.
Experiencing these small details one by one is so much more meaningful than reading a paragraph where I would see Lizzie saying "Theres not hope for us".
Wow. Its just so sad…
And I felt all of these feels just because of an "unfollow" on twitter.
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"The amendment has been requested to allow for construction of a 4-storey apartment dwelling. The owner has provided preliminary plans for a 33-unit, modularly constructed dwelling," said Eger. "The units would be developed primarily as bachelor suites, with floor areas of either 320 sq ft or 512 sq ft. The owner intends to have the modular units constructed in a factory based in Boise, Idaho before shipping to Yorkton for on-site assembly."
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I moved my son from Bowling Green School in Franklinton to St. Paul school. Best decision ever!! St. Paul School, is hands down the best high school in Louisiana! They excel in academics, athletics, and discipline. They strive for excellence in every part of the learning experience. My son has received letters from colleges all over the United States as a result of attending St. Paul school. Definately worth EVERY DIME I've spent to send him there! Anyone looking for a wonderful school with a stellar reputation should consider St. Paul.
It's just okay. I have two sons that started here and one left to go to Mandeville HIgh School so I can speak for both schools. St. Pauls lacks greatly in the area of academics compared to other schools.It places athletics first and even though this is the case it has lost the chance to place first in state championships in several sports. Although it prepared my son for college,it did not prepare for the reality of the real world.Most students at SPS are guarded by hovering parents. My recommendation is save the money and put them in a real high school!
Our oldest graduated from St. Paul's in 2002 and our youngest just finished 8th grade this year. I cannot say enough wonderful things about this school. It is and will continue to be the best education a parent can offer their son. Excellent teachers who truly do care about their students, but more importantly, a spiritual environment that one can actually feel the moment they step onto campus. Academically challenging and always striving to be a leader in the educational arena. A safe haven for any young man, with plenty of options to pursue any career path. We are so lucky to have this institution in our community!
I would expect the academics to be much better for a private school. There are public high schools in the parish that offer a more challenging curriculum and more rounded education. If you live in Covington, it might be better to continue sending your child here, but I would recommend that those residing in the eastern part of Mandeville to reconsider (I can't really vouch for those living in western Mandeville). For the record I had a son go here at first and then to a public high school located in eastern Mandeville and have a friend who did the same (and has the same opinion as me).
St. Paul's is a wonderful school. It's so comforting, as a parent, to know that your child appreciates and loves his school. He knows that his teachers care about him and will help him in any way. Both the administration and faculty are available to both the students and parents. They do go the extra mile. Not only are the academics exceptional, but the spirituality is visible through the actions and behavior of the student body. We are looking forward to 3 more productive years before our son goes off to college. We truly believe that he will be prepared for his college experience from all that he will have learned at St. Paul's. As you know, no school is perfect, but St. Paul's has more positive attributes than negative in my book.
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Nuclear Power & Offshore Drilling May Keep Oil Prices Artificially High
With gasoline prices at record highs in 2008, 2009 and 2010, 2011 has looked like a microcosm of the longer oil-market trend: consistent increases in pricing, fuel costs hurting small business and the middle class, slowing the pace of economic growth in the US, and—maybe most strangely of all—no national policy to motivate a rapid, comprehensive transition away from fossil fuels and the volatility and cost inefficiency of their products to the wider marketplace. Instead, we have seen a recommitment to ramping up production, expanding drilling and exploration, and prioritizing local importation (from Canada and Mexico), instead of real coordinated policy planning to end dependency on foreign-sourced fuels.
With the oil strain on an already precarious American economy at an historic extreme, Pres. Bush in 2008 pushed Congress to hold an "up-or-down vote" on renewed exploration of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) before its August recess. Opponents protested vocally that none of any oil found there would be available for production for 10 to 15 years, the total amount would do little to ease the overall dependency on foreign-sourced fuels, and that the OCS plan was little more than an aggressive attempt to deliver to hugely profitable oil firms an unjustifiable gift, taking advantage of the pressurized situation of exorbitant prices.
The Energy Information Agency (EIA), evaluating the OCS strategy, found that opening offshore sites in the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico would still not produce enough oil and natural gas to have a significant effect on domestic reserves, even as far out as the year 2030. In July 2008, as the debate raged over drilling, CNN reported that Democratic members of Congress were saying a preliminary investigation was attributing more than 50% of the soaring oil prices to speculation, while traders were saying OPEC had deliberately held production low in order to drive prices up. Dependency on speculation-susceptible foreign-sourced fuels was building unaffordability into the US economy.
So, after three years of prolonged economic malaise, with the energy and fuel sectors continuing to extract massive amounts of wealth from our local and regional economies, transferring economic leverage away from the middle class and spontaneous job creation, we must face the underlying truth: that fossil fuels work on the marketplace in ways that are corrosive to the long-term health and stability of democratic societies conducive to a vibrant middle class. And given the massive negative externalities, which all of us are funding all of the time, and the unaffordability of so much of the stagnant, status-quo industrial economy, we must also face the increasingly clear economic reality that carbon emissions are not just destructive to the health of our natural environment, but that they have real economic costs not directly related to ecosystem resilience, such as human health, and the cost of industrial activity related to clean-up and to the obsolescence of devices running on combustible fuels.
Devoting increasing amounts of our energy economy to combustible fuels at a time when prices are soaring—a periodic reverse trend of a few months of gradually easing prices is not a reversal of the long-term trend—has a multiple-negative economic effect. The key to understanding what is happening, and which looks likely to make recourse to nuclear and carbon-based fuels counterproductive, is to understand that we are no longer living in a traditional industrial energy economy. We are now dealing with the consequences of that economy's exploration and combustion burden. The "carbon footprint" is not merely an environmental ethics concern, but a serious economic factor potentially mitigating future productivity, or added long-term costs on a scale never before seen.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the 2008 Republican nominee for president, proposed building 45 new nuclear plants across the country in order to bring down energy prices overall. The idea was borrowed, to a large extent, from then Vice President Dick Cheney, who had long been close to the nuclear lobby and who included nuclear energy as part of his initial proposals for a new national energy policy. Yet the economic reasoning behind such proposals is dubious: no plants have been built in the US in three decades, and environmental and cost concerns, including pending court rulings, make the strategy unlikely to be implemented.
The state of California—the world's 5th largest economy—has only two nuclear plants, so the amount of energy sought in producing 45 plants is more than ambitious, especially when compared to the promise of new alternative fuel and energy-production options. That each plant could ulimately cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars in construction, maintenance, security, decomissioning, insurance, health and environmental costs, makes the proposition seem like an ill-informed proposed detour into fiscal collapse.
The entire nation has only 104 nuclear reactors, so the commitment to 45 new nuclear power plants—under McCain's 2008 plan—would be serious, even as new options become available. What's more, the history of accidents and near accidents is widely unknown among the public. We know the word "Chernobyl", but most people don't know that the V.I. Lenin Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station had four reactors, only one of which exploded in the cataclismic disaster of 1986. The other three reactors were finally shut down only years afterward, in 1991, 1996 and 2000, respectively. And, the Ukraine's largest nuclear plant, also Europe's largest, at Zaporizhzhia, has six pressurized light-water reactors.
We saw this spring what kind of unrelenting social, economic and biological catastrophe can result from the failure of multiple reactor cores, containment strategies and engineering and regulatory mechanisms, when Japan's Fukushima Daiichi complex went into meltdown, after being struck by a tsunami. That crisis has yet to be fully contained, and no government agency in Japan or elsewhere, seems willing to publish definitive statistics detailing the full scale of the radiation released into the air and water. We know that contaminated rain has fallen on the other side of the Pacific Ocean—which covers half the globe—and so the US is living with fallout from the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
We have heard of the serious nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, in March 1979, in which partial core meltdown in one reactor led to the release of 43,000 curies of radioactive krypton (1.59 PBq), and 20 curies (740 GBq), considered a relatively small amount of the especially dangerous iodine-131 isotope, into the surrounding environment. But few people are aware of the major explosion, following core meltdown, in January 1961, at the National Reactor Testing Station in the Idaho desert. All three people working the plant during the explosion were killed and the radioactivity levels were so intense, they were required to be buried in lead coffins.
A massive 890 square-mile complex, now known as the Idaho National Laboratory, was the site of the first success in producing electricity from nuclear reactions, and is in part a national historic landmark. But among its 52 reactors, only three are currently operational, and there are reported to be plans to use at least one to produce plutonium-238 for classified national security purposes.
Now, given the intense security concerns related to nuclear power, rapid construction is literally impossible. Federal public health and environmental laws also require fastidious attention to detail, which has intensified since the last plant was constructed 3 decades ago. Failure to meet with absolute precision all the security requirements can result in catastrophic accidents and/or major cost-overruns in relation to federal regulatory fines and/or takeovers. This means that entirely new systems for construction need to be designed and tested before even the first construction of any new plant can begin.
There is, simply put, no way that new nuclear plants can affect current gas prices.The timeline here has also been pushed back as far as 2030 for any significant shift on percentage of national energy production derived from nuclear power, if the massive new construction project were undertaken.
With both offshore drilling and new nuclear construction likely to delay the infusion of new supply into the domestic energy economy, the real economic result of committing to these strategies for expanding domestic energy production may actually be the increase in prices for oil and automotive gasoline, as it becomes clear that overall supply depends heavily on these resources for the foreseeable future. Over the last few years, as carbon pricing legislation has stalled, discussion about future economic development has shifted to the need for funding the broad expansion of national infrastructure for renewable resources, like wind and solar power.
It is fair to say that given the revolutionary advances in cost-effective construction and comparable end-user cost for renewable resources—we now know existing wind and solar technologies can power the entire US economy—, there has not been enough attention given to the potential for rapid infrastructure development that could bring new sources of energy production online within 2 to 3 years.
We face a stark choice, at this moment of economic division, confusion and peril: we can continue to heavily invest in the old, dirty, costly energy paradigm, or we can deploy smart policies to price carbon accurately, in a way that is designed to return economic influence to the middle class, to innovators and communities, and build a local, user-centered smart energy economy.
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Interview with Ashley Rickards (who played dead cheerleader) revealed in this interview a little snippet about Season 2
Insider.com: Speaking of, what are the chances we'll see you back on American Horror Story in season two?
Ashley: Um … well, before I say anything, I should tell you that I know what's going to happen next season. I know the twist. Somebody told me in a meeting trying to impress me and looking at what's going to happen, it's a freaking brilliant twist that I don't think anyone on the planet could understand. I could talk to you about exactly why and how my character could come back in detail and you'd still have no idea what the twist is. So there's a way that my character could come back for sure – I mean, they don't need me, but I think they need me. I think a dead cheerleader walking around is crucial to any film-making process. But at this moment, there is no concrete plan.
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