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|By Larry Carvalho
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|February 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST
I have attended IBM's Lotusphere conference many times, but this year was a different experience. The long-familiar yellow Lotus branded signs were missing as the conference was renamed "IBM Connect." The move away from Lotus branding was expected after IBM's recent repositioning of Lotus products, along with some new acquisitions under the umbrella of IBM Collaboration Solutions.
The change also reflects IBM's overall direction away from selling products to customers to focusing on business outcomes. The three main themes of the Connect 2013 conference were Social Business, Smarter Commerce and Smarter Workforce. These new focus areas are designed to enable IBM to expand into new markets while enrolling new clients.
Social interactions and mobile access bring along a large amount of data snippets, so analytics is an essential piece required to harvest maximum value. Therefore, the Day 2 keynote was appropriately delivered by IBM's Information Management organization that focuses on analytics. Without analytics, developing deep insights from social interactions accelerated by mobile access is simply not possible. Rapid reaction to market sentiments will differentiate social companies from other companies. Social interactions will bring about a big value to IBM and its customers if properly leveraged with the value proposition differentiators listed for the following themes:
Smarter Commerce:
- Managing empowered customers with personalization
- Viewing customers from a 360 degree view leading to increased customer satisfaction and better retention
- Improving customer loyalty through offers based on insights from location and context
- Engaging customers with additional interactions from mobile devices
Smarter Workforce:
- Building better teams with shared values to deliver better solutions to customers
- Acquiring talent to leverage social networks
- Improving innovation by encouraging social interaction
- Reducing turnover by leveraging social media to improve trust between the employer and employee
There are big challenges for enterprises to transform into a social business, especially since enterprise leadership very often sees more risks than gains when considering social strategies. An age barrier exists in many established enterprises with leadership that is unaware of how the younger workforce operates. (Blake Landau, founder of Artemis and a Huffington Post blogger, articulated the challenge of diversity and age for IBM in a well-written HuffPo post where she estimated that 90% of attendees at IBM Connect were middle-aged men.)
Becoming a social business depends on participation from people across the business environment, including employees, partners and customers. The value of social innovation is built on platforms of teams rather than individuals. Recent restructuring of workforces in many organizations has left very little time or motivation for employees to participate in social networking or to contribute disruptive ideas. Much has been said about the Return on Investment in social initiatives, but only broader adoption can enable organizations to accurately measure anecdotal and quantifiable results.
Facebook's rapid growth does not mean enterprises can easily replicate similar success. Instead, they need to drive social media adoption in the same manner as they promote wellness programs to drive down healthcare costs. Just as healthier employees contribute to the bottom line with reduced sick days and improved productivity, social-enabled employees can contribute more fully to better job and business innovation.
Driving social adoption among employees can increase partner and customer participation, too. Initiatives like viral adoption have been tried, but success is spotty. Direct benefits to employees are needed to achieve the goal of improved engagement. Just as employees get reduced insurance premiums from getting annual healthcare exams, they could similarly be rewarded for writing blog posts, gaining more internal and external followers, etc. Analytical tools, like those IBM offers for monitoring social interactions, can and should play a big role in developing quantifiable measurements to award appropriate incentives.
Although IBM Connect 2013 was a useful conference to impart knowledge on becoming a social business and enabling technologies, enterprises need to suggest a strategy that includes motivating adoption. Once such incentives are put into place as part of a broader social media strategy, employees will naturally gravitate to becoming more social, therefore positively contributing to enterprise business benefits. Once a core mass of participation has been achieved, other non-monetary motivation factors, like sense of corporate purpose, will rally corporate social maturity.
This post was first published on Robustcloud.com. Republished with permission.
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust I...
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After making a doctor's appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor's location and contact information. As you enter the doctor's exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.
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While not quite mainstream yet, WebRTC is starting to gain ground with Carriers, Enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) alike. WebRTC makes it easy for developers to add audio and video communications into their applications by using Web browsers as their platform. But like any market, every customer engagement has unique requirements, as well as constraints. And of course, one size does not fit all. In her session at WebRTC Summit, Dr. Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President, Head of Cloud and Mobile Strategy at GENBAND, will explore what is needed to take a real time communications ...
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The world's leading Cloud event, Cloud Expo has launched Microservices Journal on the SYS-CON.com portal, featuring over 19,000 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. Microservices Journal offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. Follow new article posts on Twitter at @MicroservicesE
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- 4 ounces parmigiano-reggiano cheese
- 1⁄2 cup walnuts, finely chopped
- 1⁄4 cup honey
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
- Grate cheese on the small hole side of a 4-sided box grater into a small bowl.
- Mix walnuts and cheese together
- Spread in a thin layer on a nonstick silicone pad or greased parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
- Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 5 to 6 minutes or until golden.
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The romantic in us says there was this once-upon-a-time precious to our life. A Christmas morning ...a summer picnic...a concert...a girl...a guy...a sky.
The pragmatic in us probably says: Not really, because there-are-always-more-and-better-like-these waiting for us.
The romantic insists their once-upon-a-times sit atop little pedestals in their heart. The pragmatic insists they can always build new and better pedestals. The pragmatists are usually the restless innovators among us passionately discontent with what was and is, aspiring to create what is new and better.
The Bible catches the cadence of this reality. "Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men will see visions." [Acts 2:17]
This reality is one of the dynamic tensions that threads itself throughout each new generation. The dreamers are usually too many to be remembered; the visionaries, far more rare, are among those everyone remembers. If we put this into other terms, we might say this dynamic is like playing Defense and Offense in football. One holding on, the other pressing on.
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The Reform movement has appointed its first full-time rabbinic spokesman to act as its voice on religious issues.
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, 47, who has served with one of the biggest Reform communities, the North-Western Reform Synagogue (Alyth Gardens) in London for eight years, will move to the new role of movement rabbi in January.
The Reform movement has launched what is thought to be the first major new collection of synagogue music published in the UK for nearly a century.
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Jenny Pizer, the current vice-chair, will take over from Stephen Moss at the end of the year.
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Orthodox Jews from Liverpool who feel alienated by their community following intermarriage attended a support seminar run by the Movement for Reform Judaism's youth wing, Jeneration.
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Sceptics continue to agitate for more investigation into the events of September 11, 2001 [Al Jazeera]
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Many members of the group seem wary of the press. As we approached the group with a camera and microphone, a tall man shouted furiously into a bullhorn. "No interviews!" he yells. "I used to work for a TV station, and I know how you will twist everything we say," the man shouts angrily. He tries to bully other members of the group into staying silent, but a few agree to talk about why they came out.
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Engineering student Sean Cordone says, "History has shown it's not crazy to question your government. It's crazy not to question your government."
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In a small, cluttered office in a San Francisco suburb, architect Richard Gage has marshaled evidence he believes shows the World Trade Centre towers were deliberately blown up by unknown conspirators. He will not say who he believes is behind the plot, although he mentions former Vice-President Dick Cheney, insurance companies, and World Trade Centre real estate developer Larry Silverstein.
"There are so many problems with this official fairy tale we are being fed," Gage said in an interview. He points to World Trade Building number 7 - a 47-storey tower that was not hit by an airplane, yet collapsed in 40 seconds. The official version blamed fire.
"Building Seven tells us that there's a cover up," Gage says. "Building Seven is the smoking gun of 9/11 that is obvious to everybody with a small amount of open mindedness."
Detailed descriptions of Building 7's collapse, as well as other information that sceptics say bolsters their case against the official version of events, can be found on Gage's website, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth: www.ae911truth.org.
In addition to websites, videos and books, 9/11 sceptics now have a comic book, due to hit the shelves in early September. Called "The Big Lie", it is the tale of a time travelling scientist who goes back to 9/11 to try and stop the disaster, and learns the official story is false.
Thomas Yeates was part of the team that produced the comic. "Comics have always addressed serious issues," he says.
Yeates contends that the public is now more open to the idea that there might be something wrong with the official story. "People were for a long time not willing to look at it," he says. "The implications of not believing the official story was just too horrible for people; their brains just shut down."
As new buildings rise on the site of the World Trade Centre, 9/11 sceptics continue to agitate for more investigations and dig out evidence they believe supports their ideas.
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It's not unusual for seedlings to show minor damage like that, especially on the first few sets of leaves. Looks like your potting mix is pretty wet, which could draw fungus gnats. What is the light colored thing on top of the soil? If it's an egg shell, the problem may be that you've put garbage into an environment that should be close to sterile.
I am willing to help here but I do not know much about diseases as a new container gardener. Only suggestion here is If the picture is a bit clearer with the soil will be helpful to the others to study the problems, I guess.
Eggshells do release calcium into the soil - in the right environment and over a considerable amount of time. Sitting in your pot they are not releasing calcium. They are just sitting there while the soft bits rot and provide food for whatever (not plants).
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Daily Star UK learns that the big stars are starting to get a bit sick that Ed is spilling secrets about them during his interviews. It seems he cannot regulate what he is saying during interviews and keeps name-dropping.
"It's getting hugely embarrassing," says the insider, adding, "These are all big stars who are used to being surrounded by publicists and lawyers to make sure nothing leaks out without prior approval."
"But Ed keeps going rogue and spilling all kinds of secrets. He's not said anything malicious or done any real harm, but they worry he's a loose cannon and he'll put his foot in it," the insider added.
The normally level-headed Taylor Swift is even right in front of this line of annoyed celebrities too.
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Courtney gave him an earful too, albeit privately, at least.
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Cranesbills that form nice/tidy clumps?
Hi, I'm trying to generate a short list of cranesbills that form a nice clump. By "nice" I mean does not sprawl. I'm open to different sizes and colors but just want something that won't trail into everything else or get so "scraggly" :)
In looking around I see these listed, but I don't know if they are accurate (I've grown Johnson's blue, for example and I wouldn't call that a 'tidy clump'). I'd appreciate some experienced advice..
Sanguinem striata (spreading clump, 6â high)
Ballerina (neat mound, 4â high)
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I hear you. I'm not usually one for having to have everything neat and tidy, but the scraggly look of some Geraniums has become a bit irksome to me. I've grown a number of them over the years and only a few have made it to my top favorites- mainly because they ARE nice looking after bloom.
G. cinereum 'Ballerina' (and other cultivars) are pretty nice mounding guys.
I'm a huge fan of G. renardii. Very small, compact plant. Gorgeous large, papery white flowers with purplish veins.
Not on your list but...
G. cantabrigiense cultivars get a thumbs up from me. Nice low, groundcover type geraniums that look great all the time. Particularly nice fall foliage.
G. macrorrhizum is great for difficult shady areas. Dry shade and tree-rooty (yep, that is a word, LOL) spaces. Mat forming.
'Purple Pillow' is a sibling to 'Ballerina' with the same impeccable manners but darker flowers.
Here they both are mingling together.
PS - CMK thanks for the tips on G. macrorrhizum. I have a good patch of those and am needing some replacement plants for tree-rooty areas so I will do a little dividing and transplanting.
For foliage, I LOVE biokovo. The foliage stays compact and mounded, and turns a beautiful color in fall. I don't have a lot of experience with geraniums, but everything else I've grown (Johnson's Blue, Claridge Druce, and a few others I can't think of at the moment) all had that sprawling habit which I don't care for as much.
Karin, the Ballerina and Purple Pillow are gorgeous! I wil have to try those. The biokovo has the wonderful foliage but the flowers are not as dramatic as your photo. What is the growing situation for those? Shade? Part shade? Dry? etc....
These are in full sun in a rock garden. The soil is good, but not especially moist because it drains fast. I also have them in a garden that gets afternoon shade and I think they are a bit happier there. But they have done surprisingly well in the rock garden setting.
These days I am all about neat, well-behaved plants, so these guys are stars for me.
One of my worst offenders in my war on messiness is geranium sanguinium which self-seeds like crazy and is very hard to pull out, even when it's tiny. So I don't advise that plant to anyone!
Wow, full sun in a rock garden! I would not have suspected that! But good to hear. I am definitely going to have to look for these. The color combination is just lovely!
Thanks for sharing your photo!
-Karin, sure thing ;-) I have a large stand of the macrorrhizum under a red twig dogwood shrub and it does outstanding. I've had luck with very few perennials under there aside from the Geranium, Epimedium, and Ajuga.
Beautiful Purple Pillow pic btw...
Geranium samobar is another that is more of a tidy clumper than a sprawler, although it does like to self-seed. Fortunately, it doesn't go crazy with the self-seeding, and this just means I have several in my garden. It is more of a foliage plant, with small magenta blooms, and it will grow in complete shade to part shade, in my garden.
Otoh, I have Geranium nimbus and Brookside, and they both sprawl quite a bit. It can be charming, when they wind their way through other flowers to reach the sun, but they aren't exactly neat and tidy! I think one of them is more sprawly than the other, but I get them mixed up.
go to the website "Geranaciaceae" and you will see just about every perennial geranium you can buy. The owner will answer your questions.
Most of the plants cost 7-8 dollars. They are not huge, but are very healthy and have very good root systems. She's in CA so shipping is not cheap, but when I figured out the per plant cost (inc. shipping) it came to about 9.25, which is certainly in line with many nurseries. And her plants are much better grown. They arrived in perfect condition.
I think starting with a smaller plant in your situation there'd be less transplant shock.
I found at Santa Rosa nursery last year a clumping blue called "Havana Blues." There are a couple of other blue/purples that are supposed to be like "Jolly Bee.", clumping. One is Azure something.
I think Tiny Monster is a good clumper
Johnson's Blue flops.
Geranium Magnificum also sprawls in too rich soil in my garden. Gets at least a foot across.
Samobar has variagated foliage. Unfortunately, the colors are unstable in the seedlings. I found the flowers get lighter and muddier and the dark coloration in the leaves can be diminished. The owner of the geranium nursery confirmed that is true. So I just rogue out the bad ones.
Please don't leave out the charming and beautiful soft yellow flowers of Erodium golden storksbill. Very diminutive clump. Great for rock gardens, but does well for me in full afternoon sun (at foot of spruce tree)here in the Rockies. Prolific bloomer of a different color. Also a good echo for climbing rose Golden Showers.
Geranium x cantabrigiense Biokovo -
Agree with prior comments. Very tidy and a nice edger. I have mine in full sun next to a water fountain.
I have sanguineum in a small planting strip wedged between my house and driveway and I have to say they look pretty stunning this year. But in a larger planting bed, not so sure I'd like it.
Do keep in mind that Biocovo does creep around, ever expanding into open spaces, slowly, but surely.
The foliage is lovely, evergreen year round, and the flowers nice enough, but it is often used as a ground cover and does a good job of it.
1 pink and 1 white G.Bicovo here
dominoswrath, my soil has a high clay content. I lightened it up somewhat when planting new ground, but it is still on the clay side. This ground was tilled and first planted 12 years ago. The geraniums were planted 4 years ago and have each spread out a good 3 to 4 feet in all directions.


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Depending on the length of the trust, the value of the property during the retained interest period is calculated based on Applicable Federal Rates provided by the IRS. Because a fraction of the value is retained by the owner, the gift value of the property is lower than its fair market value, thus lowering its incurred gift tax. This tax can also be lowered with a unified credit.
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Saint Ferdinand III, T.O.S.F., (5 August 1199 – 30 May 1252) was the King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berenguela of Castile. Through his second marriage he was also Count of Aumale. Ferdinand III was one of the most successful kings of Castile, securing not only the permanent union of the crowns of Castile and León, but also masterminding the most expansive campaign of Reconquista yet. By military and diplomatic effort, Ferdinand III greatly expanded the dominions of Castile into southern Spain, annexing many of the great old cities of al-Andalus, including the old Andalusian capitals of Córdoba and Seville, and establishing the boundaries of the Castilian state for the next two centuries. He was canonized in 1671 by Pope Clement X and, in Spanish, he is known as Fernando el Santo, San Fernando or San Fernando Rey. Ferdinand was born at the monastery of Valparaíso (Peleas de Arriba, in what is now the Province of Zamora) in 1198-99. His parents' marriage was annulled by order of Pope Innocent III in 1204, due to consanguinity.
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Research Article
Task-dependent activations of human auditory cortex to prototypical and nonprototypical vowels
Article first published online: 30 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21506
Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Human Brain Mapping
Volume 34, Issue 6, pages 1272–1281, June 2013
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Harinen, K., Aaltonen, O., Salo, E., Salonen, O. and Rinne, T. (2013), Task-dependent activations of human auditory cortex to prototypical and nonprototypical vowels. Hum. Brain Mapp., 34: 1272–1281. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21506
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- Issue published online: 15 APR 2013
- Article first published online: 30 JAN 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 10 OCT 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 6 OCT 2011
- Manuscript Received: 19 JUL 2011
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Research in auditory neuroscience has largely neglected the possible effects of different listening tasks on activations of auditory cortex (AC). In the present study, we used high-resolution fMRI to compare human AC activations with sounds presented during three auditory and one visual task. In all tasks, subjects were presented with pairs of Finnish vowels, noise bursts with pitch and Gabor patches. In the vowel pairs, one vowel was always either a prototypical /i/ or /ae/ (separately defined for each subject) or a nonprototype. In different task blocks, subjects were either required to discriminate (same/different) vowel pairs, to rate vowel "goodness" (first/second sound was a better exemplar of the vowel class), to discriminate pitch changes in the noise bursts, or to discriminate Gabor orientation changes. We obtained distinctly different AC activation patterns to identical sounds presented during the four task conditions. In particular, direct comparisons between the vowel tasks revealed stronger activations during vowel discrimination in the anterior and posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG), while the vowel rating task was associated with increased activations in the inferior parietal lobule (IPL). We also found that AC areas in or near Heschl's gyrus (HG) were sensitive to the speech-specific difference between a vowel prototype and nonprototype during active listening tasks. These results show that AC activations to speech sounds are strongly dependent on the listening tasks. Hum Brain Mapp, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


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