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The cloud essentially "consumerizes" all of IT, not just relatively unimportant bits like procuring personal hard- and software. This requires a whole rethinking of corporate IT, as the idea of any master design becomes unattainable. How can IT as a species survive this trend as it may render the education of a whole generation of IT-ers irrelevant? On the brighter side - it really caters for the talents of today's teenagers: consumption as a lifestyle.
The idea of consumerization - users being allowed to freely procure their own personal hard- and software - has been around for a while. But few CIOs and even less heads of IT Operations have embraced it. Other than some token adoption, where users could choose between an iPhone or a Blackberry or where users got a personal budget to order from the company supplied catalog of pre-approved hardware, we see little adoption of the concept. The idea is that users can go to any consumer store or webshop and order any gadget they like, be it an iPad, laptops, printer or smart phone and configure these basically while still in the store to access their corporate mail, intranet and company applications. The idea originated when people wanted to use their 24 inch HD pc with 4 processors and mega memory - all essential to enjoy modern home entertainment and video and far superior to company standard issue equipment- to also do some work.
Cloud computing now makes such a consumer approach also possible at the departmental level. Department selecting and using non corporate approved or endorsed SaaS based CRM applications are the most commonly used example. But more interesting are the cases where departments - tired of waiting for their turn in the never reducing application backlog of corporate IT - turned to a system integrator to build a custom cloud application to meet their immediate needs. Several system integrators indicate that they have more and more projects where no longer IT, but the business department, is their prime customer. Contracts, SLA's and even integrations are negotiated directly between the SI and the business department, in some cases IT is not even involved or aware.
So back to consumerisation. Although the trend has been far from whole heartily embraced by most corporate IT, it is continuing. In my direct environment I see several people who, instead of plugging their laptop into the corporate network at the office, take a 3G network stick to work. For around 20 Euros a month this gives them better performance accessing the applications they care about, not to mention it gives them access to applications most corporate IT department do not care for, like facebook, twitter, etc. Question is off course, can they do their work like that? Don't they need all day, full time access to the aforementioned fully vertically integrated ERP system? The answer is No. First of all, the vertically integrated type of enterprise that ERP was intended for, no longer exist. Most corporations have taken to outsourcing distribution to DHL or TNT, employee travel to the likes of American Express, HR payroll and expenses to XYZ, etc. etc. The list goes on and on.
All these external service providers support these services with web based systems that can be accessed from anywhere, inside and outside the company firewall. At the same time, the remaining processes that occur in the corporate ERP system are so integrated that they hardly require any manual intervention from employees. Consequently employees don't need to spend their time doing data entry or even data updates or analysis on that system. Any remaining required interaction is facilitated by directly interfacing with the customer via the web shop or via other web based systems. One could say that the world moved from vertically integrated manufacturing corporations to supply chain connected extended enterprises.
The question I will address in my next post is how does the cloud enabling consumerisation for enterprise applications play a role in this and what this means for IT moving forward.
On the supply side of IT, it means applications are best delivered as easily consumerable services to employees and others (partners, customers, suppliers). One large European multinational is already delivering all their new applications as internet (so not intranet) applications. Meaning any application can be accessed from anywhere by simply entering a URL and doing proper authentication. Choosing which applications to provide internally is based on whether there are outside parties willing and capable to provide these services or whether the company can gain a distinct advantage by providing the service themselves.
When speaking about consuming services, one should try and think broader than just IT services. The head of distribution may be looking for a parcel tracking system, but when asking the CEO or the COO they are more likely to think of a service in terms of something a DHL or TNT delivers. Services such as warehousing, distribution, but also complaint tracking, returns and repairs, or even accounting, marketing and reselling, all including the associate IT parts of those services. It is the idea of everything as a services, but on steroids (XaaSoS). Please note that even when an organization decides to provide one of these services internally, they can still source the underlying infrastructure and even applications "as a service" externally (this last scenario strangely enough is what many an IT person seems to think of exclusively when discussing cloud computing).
On the demand side of IT the issue is an altogether other one. How do we warrant continuity, efficiency and compliance, in such a consumption oriented IT World. If it is every man (or department) for themself, how do we prevent suboptimisation, In fact , how do we even know what is going on in the first place. How do we know what services are being consumed. This is the new challenge, and it is very similar to what companies faced when they decided to not manufacture everything themselves anymore, abandoning vertical integration where it made sense and taking a "supply chain" approach. Cloud computing is in many aspects a similar movement, and also here a supply chain approach looks like the way to go.
Such a supply chain approach means thoroughly understanding both demand and supply, matching the two and making sure that the goods - or in this case services - reach the right audience at the right time (on demand). IT has invested a fair amount of time and effort in better ways and methodologies to understand demand. On the supply side, IT till now assumed they were the supplier. In that role they used industry analysts to classify the components required, such as hardware and software. In this new world they need to start thoroughly understanding the full services that are available on the market. An interesting effort worth mentioning here is the SMI (Service Measurement Index) an approach to classify cloud services co-initiated by my employer, CA technologies and lead by Carnegie Mellon University.
After having gained an understanding of both demand and supply, the remaining task is "connecting the dots". This sounds trivial but is an activity that analysts estimate becoming a multi-billion industry within just a few years. It includes non-trivial tasks like identifying which users are allowed to do which tasks in this now open environment and optimizing the processes by picking resources that have the lowest utilization and thus cost. Because going forward scarcity will determine price especially in the new cloud world (which resembles Adam Smith's idea of a perfect open market a lot closer than any internal IT department ever did or will do).
Now off course all of the above won't happen overnight. Many a reader (and with a little luck the author) will have retired by the time today's vertically integrated systems - many of which are several decades old and based on solid, reliable mainframes - will have become services that are brokered in an open cloud market. A couple of high profile outages may even prolong this a generation or two more. But long term I see no other way. Other markets (electricity, electronics, publishing and even healthcare) have taken or are taking the same path. It is the era of consumption.
PS Short term, however, the thing we (IT) probably need most is a new diagraming technique. Why? From the above it will be clear that - in such a consumerised world - architecture diagrams are a thing of the past. And an IT person without a diagram is like a fish without water . We need something that allows us to evolve our IT fins into feet and our IT chews into lungs, so we can transition from water to land and not become extinct in the process. One essential aspect will be that unlike pictures of clouds and very much like real clouds, the diagrams will need to be able to change dynamically, much like pictures in a Harry Potter movie (it's magic). Who has a suggestion for such a technique ?
[Editorial note: This blog originally was published at ITSMportal.com on May 31st , 2010]
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Federal regulations at 42 CFR Part 438, subpart E (External Quality Review) set forth the parameters that states must follow when conducting an external quality review (EQR) of its contracted managed care organizations (MCOs) and prepaid inpatient health plans (PIHPs). An EQR is the analysis and evaluation by an external quality review organization (EQRO) of aggregated information on quality, timeliness, and access to the health care services that an MCO or PIHP, or their contractors, furnish to Medicaid recipients.
Important EQR-Related Definitions
- EQRO is an organization that meets the competence and independence requirements set forth in 42 CFR 438.354, and performs external quality review, other EQR-related activities as set forth in 42 CFR 438.358, or both.
- Validation means the review of information, data, and procedures to determine the extent to which they are accurate, reliable, free from bias, and in accord with standards for data collection and analysis.
- Quality as it pertains to external quality review, means the degree to which an MCO or PIHP increases the likelihood of desired health outcomes of its enrollees through its structural and operational characteristics and through the provision of health services that are consistent with current professional knowledge.
EQR-Related Activities and Protocols
The EQR process consists of three (3) mandatory and five (5) optional EQR-related activities. Each of these EQR-related activities has a corresponding EQR Protocol which provides detailed instructions on how to complete the activity.
CMS revised the EQR protocols in 2012 to address significant changes in national health care policy that offered new opportunities in measuring and improving the quality of health care (including changes effected by CHIPRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the Affordable Care Act).
Mandatory EQR-Related Activity Protocols
|Supporting Protocols
|Review, within the previous three-year period, to determine MCO/PIHP compliance with state standards for access to care, structure and operations, and quality measurement and improvement
Protocol 1
Describes the process that states or their designees may use to determine an MCO's or PIHP's compliance with federal Medicaid managed care regulations and, upon the state's discretion, applicable elements of the contract between the MCO/PIHP and the state.
EQR Protocol 1: Assessment of Compliance with Medicaid Managed Care Regulations
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Protocol 2
Describes the validation process that states or their designees may use to determine the accuracy of the performance measures reported by the MCO or PIHP during the preceding 12 months.
EQR Protocol 2: Validation of Performance Measures Reported by the MCO
|Validation of performance improvement projects (PIPs)
Protocol 3
Describes the process that states or their designees may use to validate PIPs required by the state that were underway during the preceding 12 months.
EQR Protocol 3: Validating Performance Improvement Projects (PIPS)
Optional EQR-Related Activity Protocols
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|Validation of encounter data reported by an MCO or PIHP
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EQR Protocol 4: Validation of Encounter Data Submitted by the MCO
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Describes the process for the administration or validation of consumer or provider surveys of care.
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Protocol 6
Describes the process for the calculation of performance measures in addition to those reported by an MCO and PIHP and validated by an EQRO.
|Conduct of PIPs in addition to those conducted by an MCO or PIHP and validated by an EQRO
Protocol 7
Describes the process for the conduct of PIPs in addition to those conducted by an MCO or PIHP and validated by an EQRO.
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Protocol 8
Describes the process for the conduct of focused, one-time studies on a particular aspect of clinical and/or non-clinical services at a point in time.
The EQR Protocols contain five appendices available that provide worksheets, additional information on sampling, an acronym listing/glossary, and the MCO/PIHP Information System Capabilities Assessment.
- Appendix I: Methodology and Origin of External Quality Review (EWR) Protocol Development
- Appendix II: Sampling Approaches
- Appendix III: EQR Glossary of Terms
- Appendix IV: EQR Acronyms
- Appendix V: Information System Capabilities Assessment - Activity Required for Multiple Protocols
The state, its agent that is not an MCO or PIHP, or an EQRO may perform the mandatory and optional EQR-related activities.
EQR Technical Reports
In accordance with 42 CFR 438.364, the state is responsible for ensuring that each year an EQRO produces a detailed technical report for the state that contains at least the following information:
- A description of the manner in which the data from all EQR-related activities conducted were aggregated and analyzed and the way in which conclusions were drawn as to the timeliness, quality, and access to the care furnished by the MCO or PIHP;
- For each EQR-related activity conducted, the objectives, technical methods of data collection and analysis, description of data obtained, and conclusions drawn from the data;
- An assessment of each MCO's or PIHP's strengths and weaknesses with respect to quality, timeliness, and access to health care services furnished to Medicaid beneficiaries;
- Recommendations for improving the quality of health care services furnished by each MCO or PIHP;
- Methodologically appropriate, comparative information about all MCOs and PIHPs; and
- An assessment of the degree to which each MCO or PIHP has addressed effectively the quality improvement recommendations made by the EQRO during the prior year's review.
States must provide copies of this information upon request, through print or electronic media, to interested parties.
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CMS requests that all states have final EQR Technical Reports available to CMS and the public, by April 30th of each year to align with the collection and annual reporting on managed care data for the annual Secretary's reports on the quality of care in Medicaid and CHIP. To view information abstracted from EQR Technical Reports submitted during the 2013-2014 reporting cycle, see Findings from EQR Technical Reports (children) and Findings from EQR Technical Reports (adults).
Technical Assistance Documents
External Quality Review Protocols (2012 Update)
External Quality Review Toolkit (2012 Update)
External Quality Reviews in Medicaid Managed Care: Building Partnerships for Meaningful Quality Improvement (June 2008)
EQR and Managed Long Term Services and Support (MLTSS) Issue Brief
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Johns Hopkins Commencement Set For
Keynote speaker will be YouTube CEO
May 14, 2014
CONTACT: Jill Rosen
Office: 443-997-9906
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About 1,500 students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 22, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University's divisions and campuses.
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, will be the featured speaker. Named one of Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business," one of Forbes' "100 Most Powerful Women," and one of Vanity Fair's 50 "leading innovators [that] shake the foundations of their industries," Wojcicki became head of the video-sharing powerhouse earlier this year.
Commencement will take place, rain or shine, from 8:40 a.m. to approximately noon on Homewood Field, the stadium on the northern end of the university's Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. There will be a press section on the playing surface of Homewood Field. Identification is required; prior notification of intention to cover the ceremony is preferred, particularly for broadcast news organizations. See above for contact information.
The ceremony will feature remarks from President Ronald J. Daniels, the conferring of all degrees and the bestowing of honorary degrees. In addition, all undergraduate students as well as doctoral students in attendance will have their names announced as they file on stage to have their degrees recognized. The majority of students will receive diplomas following the event; others will receive them at separate diploma ceremonies at their respective schools.
Prior to the ceremony, the undergraduates from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Nursing and the Peabody Institute will gather on the Keyser Quadrangle and walk through campus, passing through the Freshman Quad, where their academic journey started. All other graduates will enter from the Athletic Center. Following the ceremony, the newly minted alumni and their families will be invited to a reception on the Keyser Quadrangle.
This year's honorary degree recipients are:
Edith Windsor, whose lawsuit against the U.S. government led the Supreme Court to declare that 1996 Defense of Marriage Act violated the Constitution. President Obama called the ruling a "victory for American democracy," and Windsor was hailed, at the age of 84, as a hero of the gay-rights movement.
Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who took on Edith Windsor's case in 2009 pro bono and won.
Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian whose trilogy, America in the King Years, helped to foster a national dialogue on civil rights.
Susan Wojcicki, Google's 16th employee and now the CEO of YouTube. She had a profound impact on Google's transition from a startup housed in her garage to a $50.6 billion business responsible for more than 40 percent of digital ad revenue in the United States.
Norman R. Augustine, former CEO and chairman of Lockheed Martin and a trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins who served for 16 years on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Pamela Flaherty, former chair of the Johns Hopkins board of trustees, current president and CEO of Citi Foundation, and director of Corporate Citizenship at Citi.
Fred Lazarus, president of the Maryland College Institute of Art. Lazarus has led MICA for 35 years and in that time has transformed it into one of America's leading art colleges.
About the Graduating Class (as of May 2)
The total number of earned degrees, certificates and diplomas awarded for the 2013-2014 academic year is expected to be about 7,084. That includes 1,704 undergraduate degrees (1,251 from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering) and 5,380 graduate degrees from across the university: 1,145 from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; 1,276 from the Whiting School of Engineering; 644 from the Carey Business School; 490 from the School of Education; 150 from the Peabody Institute; 101 from the School of Nursing; 427 from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); 279 from the School of Medicine; and 868 from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
About the ceremonies
The university as a whole and the nine academic divisions will hold the following commencement events:
School of Public Health
Tuesday, May 20, 2:30 p.m., Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Speaker: Carol S. Larson, President and CEO, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
School of Nursing
Wednesday, May 21, 4 p.m., Turner Auditorium
Speaker: Patricia Davidson, Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Carey Business School
Wednesday, May 21, 4 p.m., Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Speaker: Charles W. Scharf, CEO, Visa, Inc.
School of Education
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Whiting School of Engineering – Graduate
Wednesday, May 21, 7 p.m., Homewood Field
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Thursday, May 22, 8:40 a.m., Homewood Field
Speaker: Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube
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Thursday, May 22, 2:30 p.m., Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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School of Advanced International Studies
Thursday, May 22, 3 p.m., DAR Constitution Hall
Speaker: David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee
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Speaker: Kim Kashkashian, Violist, 2014 Recipient of the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences – Graduate Ceremony
Friday, May 23, 10 a.m., Homewood Field
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Hamilton is a big part of the Golden Horseshoe and has a population of nearly 750 thousand. This is a large market for tankless water heaters and there is significant potential for energy savings. It really doesn't make sense to heat your water 365 days a year. Think of it with this analogy.
…..Its a cold winters day in Hamilton, you wouldn't leave your car running all night so that it would be warm for you in the morning would you? Then why do you leave your hot water tank running?…
A tankless water heater only heats water when you need it, saving energy and reducing emissions. Hamilton has had a bad reputation for its pollution emission levels but it's made leaps and bounds forward curbing this problem. Help Hamilton to become even cleaner with a new tankless system.
Now is still a great time to buy a tankless as Hamilton residents are still able to apply for grants and rebates from the Provincial Government. These grants help home owners reduce their eco footprint and encourage the installation of renewable products. Basically its free money for you.
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Bosch vs Rinnai Tankless
When it comes to home improvement there are so many options available. Most homeowners make a mental to do list of the projects that are weekend projects and ones best left to the pros. To do lists are usually placed in order of cost and capability to complete the task. A tankless water heater is a project that is well worth putting at the top of your to do list. We can have REP come out and go over where a unit can be installed and what an install entails. Then you can spend the rest of your Saturday planning on how to use the extra space your old hot water tank took up.
With conventional tank type water heaters there is a strangely long list of things that are not exactly great selling points. Things like, pilot lights that miraculously go out at the most inconvenient times, limited storage capabilities, short life spans, and a loss of energy efficiency due to sludge build up at the bottom of the tank.
The tankless water heater solves a lot of the standard water heater problems. Current water heaters use energy by constantly working to maintain heated water temperatures of 40 to 50 gallons that is not even being used. A tankless system costs 60 percent less to operate than the standard tank because it only heats the water when it is requested by the home owner. Another selling point is the life expectancy of these units, double sometimes even triple to that of the traditional unit.
If you are trying to 'Go Green' most tankless water heaters are Energy Star approved. This means that you are not only reducing your carbon footprint by 63 percent compared to the standard unit, you will also be saving energy, and that means real money back in your pocket.
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It seems that every user has had a unique experience with their Bosch Tankless heater. Some people are extremely happy and wouldn't switch to anything else. On the other hand there are far more that are extremely disappointed in its functionality and its heating capabilities . Below is a synopsis of the majority of complaints. Of the 38 reviews that were submitted 1 being the worst and 5 the best the results are as follows.
Reputation – of the 38 reviews submitted there was 21 were rated the lowest possible
Reliability – Of the 21 reviews that were negative 18 people had pieces that broke or had to be replaced
Design – Several of the 21 negatives all had complaints about the system taking too long to produce the hot water
Additionally users were able to enter pros and cons that they had experienced with the Bosch Tankless.
27 of the 38 respondents said that "when it was working it worked great". Several also mentioned space saving, energy efficient and endless hot water.
20 out of 38 mentioned temperature fluctuations as a source of negativity. Also mentioned was non responsive technical support, high installation costs, leaky and expensive venting and reliability.


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What are some (stupid) stereotypes about your country? I'm from France, and people tend to believe that we like to walk down the streets holding a baguette under our arms, wearing a bérét and black pants, that we always drink wine and eat frog legs and/or snails, that we all smoke, that we (women) stink because we don't shave, don't shower and don't use deodorant; that all men are gay and cowards and that we're all extremely rude. So proud to be French right now haha. What about you? =D
No stupid stereotypes. We are Indinesia have a traditional dress of each custom.
I'd like to mention that there are probably regional stereotypes within almost every country. (Stereotypes about Parisians?) Some people are uncomfortable with what they're not used to. Everyone wants to belong somewhere, but doing so by drawing unfounded contrasts isn't cool.
I'm curious to know how people deal with positive yet unrealistic stereotypes? All Frenchies are fashionable? Non!
I honestly don't care what people think about the French. I actually think it's funny because I don't see myself as an uptight, arrogant woman who thinks everyone else is inferior because I'm Parisian so it doesn't really bother me especially because once people get to know me they always say the same thing: "you're so different from the French people I know!". Ok.. and how many French people do you know? One day some Brazilian guy sent me a message asking me why French people were so rude and that it was a stupid behavior and that we should stop acting that way and "no wonder no one likes the French". Well thank you, nice to meet you too! That's why I wrote this post, I just think it's funny (mostly stupid but funny too) because I know that a lot of people are totally different from what they are said to be. I'm not saying everyone is nice but they're not all bad either.
And I know a lot about American stereotypes as well and I still believe that you can't put a label on someone because of some dumb stereotypes about their country. And we're definitely not all fashionable even in the so-called fashion capital. :)
Dear God dear Lord lol well at least that's a cool stereotype, I would love to ride a kangaroo to school. Someone asked me if I knew what a playstation was once.. mmh.. we do live on a different continent but I'm pretty sure we are living in the same century lol
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You have probably heard a lot of things about Russia.
People tend to believe that russians are drink a lot, or even that everyone in Russia drinks vodka. Well it's not 100% true, but yes, alcoholism is a serious trouble for our country and for a lot of families in Russia (mine isn't an exception).
That it's always cold in Russia. Of course it's not. And Russia is a largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth. The climate is various. But in most big cities we have cold winter and hot summer with a mild spring and autumn. It's funny that Russia will host 2014 WINTER Olympic Games in the southern Russian resort of Sochi on the Black Sea. Ok, no judging, let's wait and see!
People think that there are a lot of corruption in Russia. Well, this one is totally true.
That russian girls are one of the most beautiful in the world. Tastes differ.
Russians are rude. We have different mentality different culture. If somebody doesn't smile you back, it doesn't mean he/she doesn't like you. That person must be closed or cold person. Of course he or she could be rude and unpleasant, I meet guys like this everyday. What I'm trying to say is you can't treat all russians alike.
People think that that all english like tea and drink it i hate tea they also think we all love the queen that is not true -.- and our sterotype of australia is that you are all surfes but I know that is not true some people say all french people like to eat frogs but I bet you that there are people who don't like frogs owell every country has sterotypes but what is funny is there not true most of the time so just ignore them and tell them its not ture and move on its what I have to do :D
In Turkey we are riding camels :D There is no camel in Turkey of course and there is no desert to ride them.
People think all people from Turkey is Turkish but people from Turkey who lives in foreign countires mostly are not Turkish unless they are students. People usually say you dont look like Turkish to me cause they think Turks have to be dark because they are muslims :D There is no race called muslim it is a religion, hello :D The funniest one is Turks are Arabs :D How?:) But who thinks that also thinks Chinese, Japanese and Korean people are all the same so its just funny
Mannn! My country has so many stereotypes associated with it! My favorite one is that we are ALL fat. Don't get me wrong...we do have a good percentage of lazy buttheads who don't get up to change the channel on the television; however, I have been around so many skinny to average-sized people. Another one is that we are all stupid or dumb or whatever other words are used to describe our intelligence. This one makes me sad. I am aware that not everyone is that bright, but I'm going to college and striving to achieve my dreams :((. It is true about Americans not knowing so much about the rest of the world though. Our media does not show us so much only when its something so catastrophic that affects us. Teach me what goes on so I may not be so ignorant to the rest of the world! :'( I'm not too fond of my media. Unfortunately, there are other stereotypes for the other cultures found in the US. I ignore stereotypes because everyone is different no matter what part of the globe you are from. Every one has their own beliefs and opinions about certain situations. I know there are more for the US but I am little scared to find out...Lol
What do guys think of shows/cartoons/videogames that use stereotypes to represent a person from a certain country? I saw an anime called Hetalia: World Axis Powers. I cracked up when I saw the way some people in Japan saw Americans. I loved the character they used. Maybe I should start a discussion about this? Hmm? What do you think??
I knew these stereotypes about Russia but I've heard the opposite about Russian women. Women from Sweden are said to be beautiful though.
I love tea.. Twinings lol but I do realize not everyone in England drinks tea at 5pm or drinks tea at all, whatever works even though I think that's a cool concept :p.
Camels.. In Turkey? Well, I've never heard of that one, that's for sure lol I have relatives from Algeria and people think that it's just a big desert.
Haha yeah, I've heard about all these stereotypes about Americans.. I made a presentation about it to demonstrate that they are not totally true (because let's face it, you'll always find someone who is exactly like the stereotypes describe them), it was quite entertaining. I have a hard time believeing that all of you are stupid though because all the Americans I know (and I do mean ALL of them) are disturbingly smart.. I feel stupid sometimes lol but oh well. And about the anime, video game thing, I say go for it. One time I was trying to watch South Park online and for some reason it didn't work.. When I saw the little man wearing a béret, a striped shirt and a red scarf holding a baguette in front of the Eiffel Tower under the "sorry you can't watch that video" message I realized that it was because I'm in France and the video is not available outside the US. So they are annoying, but they help lol
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Re: Join option in multiplayer locked...DAMN WHY?DADDYD402 Nov 8, 2013 2:39 PM (in response to andrewcr88)
Same fn problem .. I bought 2 copies of this game to play with my kids who live in a different town and I can't even play with them because it's locked .. they send me invites and it won't let me join and vise versa and both out NAT are set to open .. talk about a joke and waste of money
Re: Join option in multiplayer locked...DAMN WHY?RU38486 Nov 8, 2013 2:57 PM (in response to DADDYD402)
It doesn't make it a waste of money, just because you fail to join a game - the waste of money is in the amount of campers and snipers that have no real skill in running around the maps with an assault rifle or LMG, and so they find a dark corner and make some smores. I've had it since the Midnight Launch, and yes, the join option has been locked for me several times too. Same as not being able to send more than one in-game invite per minute or so. Have either you or your kids tried to host a Private Match, while the second player tries joining? I have only come across this problem once; last night I was playing with 2 mates from a different state, both in the same house, same IP, etc. One could join but the second had to wait for us to join a match before joining us. Although, a quick game mode switch to Extinction solved the problem and then everyone was allowed to join - have you tried this? Keep in mind that it is a new release so some hiccups are to be expected.
Re: Join option in multiplayer locked...DAMN WHY?SavageHam Nov 16, 2013 10:28 PM (in response to andrewcr88)
Hey there andrewcr88,
Are you still having problems joining a friend's game? Are your friends' lobbies full at the moment you are trying to join? Are you able to party up before joining lobbies? Keep us updated!


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Every day, the jogger would hit the corner of 10th and Broadway at three in the morning, shoes hitting the pavement in a staccato beat, pumping the blood straight to his heart. He could feel it beating like he imagined tribal drums would - wild, story-telling, jumpy. Sometimes, he would stop and watch the blood thrum through the veins on his wrists to the beat of African folklore in the Serengeti, of a Mayan tale from beyond the stars. For at least three miles he would run, every morning. He was fairly sure he never traversed the same path twice. He liked to think that if he followed a new path every day, it would take him down a new road he hadn't expected, and it would change his life. It hadn't happened yet, but he hoped it would. He had patience. He would wait.
He'd jog past stray dogs and cats, past the homeless, past fire hydrants and stop signs; past skyscrapers and houses and apartment complexes and dumpsters. This man of a boy - this boy of a man - this guy - was on a mission. A mission for what, he didn't know, but it kept him healthy, this mission. His heart would say "Hey, man, thank you." His lungs would say "I appreciate how much you let me take in now." His brain would say "Left, right, left, right, left, right,', though that wasn't as much in the way of gratitude as it was just common sense.
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He was skinny; he was skinny and frail; he was all dark hair and big, glowing eyes. He was glasses that he only wore to read the books he shouldn't be reading and to write things he shouldn't know how to write. He was a universe and he was a single atom. He was human, above it all, which, somehow, seemed a bit of a fallacy. He was born of disorder and precision alike.
Precision so sharp that as soon as he hit 30,000 steps, he invariably broke down in tears and couldn't take another step for at least an hour. One time, a man got out of his car and dragged him to the sidewalk from where he had dissolved in the street. But today it was all him, gripping a chain link fence like it was Alka-Seltzer and he was the nausea; like it was God and he was the sinner. Not that he was religious or anything. Some days he thought he was and wandered around trying to find salvation; some times he cursed God and littered and kicked rocks into the street. Though the latter seemed like 'most days', and it seemed like God hadn't touched the place in years.
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU).
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Much of Craig Chester's good-hearted love story "Adam & Steve" is silly and contrived, but the film boasts four engaging actors, including Chester. In 1987, a shy goth kid, Adam (Chester), and a go-go dancer, Steve (Malcolm Gets), meet at a Manhattan disco and experience a disastrously aborted one-night stand. Years later they cross paths and, not recognizing each other, fall in love. Crucial to their story are their best friends, Adam's pal Rhonda (Parker Posey), a comedian who has lost her inspiration, and Steve's cynical straight roommate Michael (Chris Kattan). Chester's humor is decidedly hit-and-miss, but he's a shameless heart-tugger.
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There must be coming something about our own standing concerning the metallurgy. Maybe the management will tell us soon?
For this purpose and to compare, I have posted her for you the statement of Byron concerning metallurgy for Avalon:
The Update: The August 7 update advised that a new Senior VP, Metallurgy had been hired, that the flotation plant costs had likely been reduced and its operation improved, but that metallurgy remains problematic.
The metallurgy issue appears serious to us. By using a sulfuric acid bake on physically beneficiated ore, the ore is broken down into a concentrate and a refractory residue. The concentrate contains essentially all the LREO and more than 50% of the HREO. One presumes this is slightly more than 50%, or else the August 7 update would have been informed us that this concentrate contained "more than 60%" or "more than 70%" of the HREO.
The residue contains the balance of the HREOs. However, it is a refractory material and requires more aggressive processing, potentially including alkali or caustic cracking, or perhaps an HCl leach. It is possible that this material will be sold as a zirconium-rich feed to another interested party. However, it is a refractory material and may be difficult and/or expensive to process for any contained metal, and it is possible that there will be no interested buyers for the material, as well. The update noted that there have been expressions of interest in the purchase of the material, but we conjecture that there have not yet been sufficient quantities of the residue made to set final selling prices and determine the actual interest level.
If we assume that the cost of the metallurgical plant being built at Pine Point could be cut in half by requiring less equipment, this may save $150 million in capital expenditures. However, we assume that this saving will come at the expense of selling half the level of HREOs compared to the previous levels contemplated by the PFS and our own financial models.
Conclusion: While we do believe that the ex-China market for rare earths will require four to five producers of HREO, we also feel that there is no shortage of HREO projects requiring much lower capital expenditures than required by Nechalacho. Return on capital does matter.
We also note that should the metallurgy of the Nechalacho deposit economically necessitate recovery of only half the HREO content of the ore, then there may be very little separating Nechalacho from the bulk of LREO deposits that we anticipate coming to production. The Western world does need its own HREO deposits, but it appears increasingly unlikely to us that Avalon will play a role in satisfying that need. We maintain our SELL rating.


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A Jazz life is KMHD's story-telling project. We've asked artists, celebrities, historians and enthusiasts to share a tale that shaped their appreciation for Jazz. If you have a story, we'd like to hear it too!
A Jazz 'Family,' Formed Late At Night
Bought together by a vocalist and natural ringleader, an up-and-coming scene assembles after hours.
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New Orleans Musician Allen Toussaint Dies At 77
Legendary New Orleans musician and composer Allen Toussaint, who penned such classics as "Working in a Coal Mine" and "Lady Marmalade," has died after suffering a heart attack following a concert he performed in Spain. He was 77.
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