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Dear Parents,
A special thank you goes to Ms. Davis and Mrs. Morris for all of their hard work in preparing our students for the African American Heritage Contest/Assembly on February 27th. I would like to thank all parents and other family members who attended these events during Black History Month. Owen Scholastic Academy is an outstanding school because of your involvement and participation. On February 26th, the entire school went to see a dance performance by the Muntu Dancers in Skokie. This was a phenomenal performance. The students and staff learned a lot about instruments and dance, and everyone had a great time.
As a reminder, students in grades 3-8 will be given the PARCC Assessment from March 11th to March 18th. The students will be assessed in reading and in math. We have been working hard all year preparing our students. We are confident they will do well.
I would like to extend a special thank you to Mrs. G. Watson for coordinating the Read to Succeed program sponsored by Six Flags Great America. All students in K-6 grades who completed this reading program will receive a free ticket to Six Flags Great America in June. Thanks to all who participated in this reading incentive program.
Please join us at our next PAC/PTO/LSC Meetings on March 23rd. The PAC Meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m., the PTO Meeting will begin at 6:00pm, and the LSC Meeting will begin at 6:30pm. Happy St. Patrick's Day to all.
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March Greetings to each of you. It is that time of the year for our wonderful students to display their knowledge. The PARCC TESTING will begin Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Ms. M. Watson has sent information regarding this new testing. We also thank Mrs. Carmen Adams, our PAC president, who held an informational meeting in January regarding the PARCC testing. We know each student will do their very best. As we continue our quest for excellence, please remember to encourage your child to study daily, do all homework, and come prepared to excel in class. The after school tutoring programs for grades K-8th will continue until April. Parents will be notified of the exact date. We have 1 and 1/2 quarters left to go before the end of the school year. There are several projects, class assignments, homework, and tests to complete. We want our students to put their best foot forward for the last stretch before spring and summer break. We need the BEST OF THE BEST BEHAVIOR AT ALL TIMES.
We continue to progress monitor and work in small groups to prepare our primary students for the final testing period of the TRC, DIBELS, and m-Class math assessments. As stated before, the DIBELS TEST is a test that serves as a Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. It is a predictive measure of future reading success of students. The students are progressing but we need continued support. As a team, we can make sure our primary students are ready to soar with their Literacy Skills. Please continue to monitor your child's reading, ask questions when they are done, and discuss vocabulary.
I would like to thank all of the participants for the African Heritage Contest on February 27, 2015. You are all winners. It is so wonderful to see and experience students excited about learning important contributions that have been rendered to our country. We will continue to learn about all Americans and celebrate their many contributions. Although we have many past heroes and heroines, we have many, many present day heroes in our midst. We salute Mr. Paul Pollard, Mr. John Guise, and Mrs. Rhonda Cleggett, (our parent present day heroes and heroines, Ms. Shawntrice Smith (our present day community heroine), Mrs. Diane Dilworth and Ms. Shevinna Sims (our staff present day heroines) and last but not least our student present day hero and heroine are (Katlyn Ragsdale and Christopher Vermillion). They are all making a positive impact at OSA and in life. Keep making a difference. We are so grateful to your contributions.
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Two British women, their Afghan aides held in cave by Taliban-linked militants are OK
KABUL, Afghanistan It was a risky but successful operation: British and other NATO forces stormed a cave tucked in the mountains before dawn Saturday and rescued two foreign female aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues being held hostage by Taliban-linked militants.
Helicopters, flying under the cover of darkness, ferried the rescue team to extreme northeastern Afghanistan where they suspected the hostages were being held. After confirming the workers were there, they raided the site, killed several militants and freed the hostages, ending their nearly two-week ordeal.
Helen Johnston, 28, from Britain, and Moragwa Oirere, 26, from Kenya, and their two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped on May 22 while traveling on horseback in Badakhshan province. The four work for Medair, a humanitarian nongovernmental organization based near Lausanne, Switzerland.
"They were kidnapped by an armed terrorist group with ties to the Taliban," said Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition fighting in Afghanistan. "The kidnappers were armed with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s … The hostages were being held in a cave in the mountains."
Past rescue attempts in Afghanistan haven't gone so well.
In 2009, Sultan Munadi, an Afghan translator kidnapped alongside New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, was killed in a hail of bullets during a rescue attempt by British commandos. In 2010, the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team 6 tried to rescue Linda Norgrove, a Scottish aid worker, from her Taliban captors in Afghanistan. She was killed by a grenade thrown in haste by one of the American commandos.
Afghan officials said seven militants were killed during Saturday's rescue operation, which was launched around 1 a.m.
British Prime Minister David Cameron approved the rescue operation on Friday afternoon after becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of the hostages. The mission was carried out by British troops in cooperation with other NATO and Afghan forces, Cameron told reporters outside 10 Downing Street in London.
British Army Lt. Gen. Adrian Bradshaw, the deputy commander of the NATO military coalition in Afghanistan, said, "The hostages are in good health — we've seen all four of them this morning," adding they would be reunited with their families soon.


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WEST TOPSHAM The service of remembrance for Lloyd G. Porky Chase, 84, of Vermont Route 25, was held on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, at 3 p.m. in the American Legion Post 10 in Barre. He died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.
Pastor Candace Ricker, of the New Hope United Methodist Church in Waits River, led the service. She read the poems The Broken Chain, The Final Flight and from his family, He Is Gone. She also read letters from friend Ernie Eggleston on Hunting with Porky and Gambling with Porky written by nephew Steve Pickering and reflections by Lane and Wilma Dexter.
The eulogy was given by daughter Cynthia Perry. Words of reflection and memories were shared by niece Janet Chase, nephew Tim Pickering and friends Rosemary Bradley and Skye Elderkin.
Entombment took place in the Hooker and Whitcomb Vault in Barre to await later interment in the West Topsham Cemetery.
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STEVE FRANKEN, best known as Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on the hit sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," died of cancer on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
The character actor's career lasted more than 50 years.
He was seen on "Bewitched," "Love, American Style," "Mission: Impossible," "Seinfeld" and many other series.
On the big screen, Franken appeared in the films "Angels & Demons," "Curse of the Pink Panther," "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," "Which Way to the Front?" "The Party" Ib Melchior's "The Time Travelers" and "The Americanization of Emily."
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The activity of fishing fleets for hake Merluccius hubbsi south of 41°S Argentine Sea, SW Atlantic, is described. In order to establish the standard group of vessels, density indices derived from research cruises and ice-chilling fleets were related. Group four 1,400-1,800 HP related better to the abundance trend. Also, two series of indices associated to different fractions of the population were estimated: juveniles age 2) and adults age 3-5. Finally, a total catch per unit effort CPUE for the region south of 41°S, which showed a declining trend during the period considered 1991-1997, was calculated......


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The Rev. Michael Smith is pastor of the Church of the Holy Family in Hebron.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman has published a new book titled, "The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath." His words allowed me to pause and think of the need for myself and community members to have rest in our lives.
"What the Sabbath is about is honoring life and improving the life of those around you," he said. "I think it's even more necessary and important now because what technology does is enable us to never stop working."
I often hear the refrain, "I am just so busy; I have no time," and "Isn't time just flying by?" We live in a hyperactive and harried world. We try to cram in as much as possible, and I believe we often miss the opportunity to be still and to appreciate the present. I know I am guilty of filling every moment with activity, and at times, I can be overwhelmed.
Nearly every religion has some focus on making room for rest in our lives. The most practiced world religions recognize a day of rest, and many rituals and celebrations are built around that. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2184 tells us, "Just as God rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done, human life has a rhythm of work and rest. The institution of the Sabbath helps everyone enjoy adequate rest and leisure to cultivate their familiar, cultural, social and religious lives."
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As pastor of the Church of the Holy Family, I encourage our families to rest on Sundays and take the time to honor God with their presence and prayers at our worshipping celebrations. At the same time, I know of the demands placed on families with so many activities and gatherings — the burden of feeling pressured to be in so many places with such little time. Every weekend, I talk to parishioners who struggle to fit in all the activities they want to while still making the commitment to come to church. I feel their tension. I often say, "Professional athletes get a day off, don't our children deserve a day off?"
I recall the Blue Sundays when it was forbidden to work and/or hold practices or games in sports, and I wonder if there may have been some wisdom in that old law that we should draw from today. While it is important to come to church, I also think it is incredibly important to have rest and refreshment. More and more studies show the link of stress and illness. Without the opportunity to experience guilt-free rest, the danger of stress-related illnesses only increases.
What can we do? I don't have all the answers, and being single, I sometimes hear people ask, "What do you know?" But I do see the frenzied pace of life and everyone talking about it but not doing much to change it. I also know that if I am not mindful, I, too, can get caught up in doing too much, filling my time instead of taking time to reflect. The cult of busy-ness is an ever-present element in our lives.
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Perhaps we can ask our public leaders to set Sundays as a day of rest — a Sabbath, so we might have at least one day per week in which activities would not be obligatory. But perhaps it is more important that we trust in God's wisdom of setting a Sabbath, and claim our need for rest, putting the decision to break from the harried pace in our lives into our own hands. Perhaps we may need to stand up to secular demands and designate time with no commitments except to relax with family and friends, to reinstate the Sunday dinner that has been a sacred part of families in previous generations.
My prayer is that all of us in this beautiful community will do ourselves some favors: Get some rest; stop and see the colors of the leaves change while the sun is setting and the moon is rising; sit and talk with your spouse and children about everything and about nothing at all; and take a walk and tell those closest to you that you love them. Let us enjoy the incredible gift we have in each other and in the nature around us. Let us give ourselves the gift of our presence to each other by finding time to be present fully in new ways.
On the seventh day, God rested. Shouldn't we?
The Rev. Michael Smith is pastor of the Church of the Holy Family in Hebron.
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The educational strategy of any government must involve a 10 year planning process to coincide with the school learning journey of a child. Yet the Secretary of state for education has an average tenure of only 18 months.
The educational learning journey of a child, starting primary school at five years, to finishing secondary school at 15 years is designed to prepare the child for adult life. The outcome of their education will steer the individual towards further education, and or meet the needs of industry and commerce, collectively supporting the overall economy. The mission critical nature of the investment through the department of education has struggled over the years but how much of this is due continuous changes at the helm where the secretary of state at the Department of Education on average is replaced every 18 months. A change in government induces further chaotic disruption. A cynical view shows the four year tenancy of a government comprises tactically of two years cancelling previous government policies, followed by a year of strategic policy planning, then two more years introducing tactical vote winning programs in support of the next election.
The educational cycle continuously moves from feast to famine. Decisions needed to fundamentally change the educational schooling programme are crammed into the one year mid cycle. In the meantime the needs of Industry and commerce have moved on. The world has become truly global with regards to employment. A strategic review of educational needs matched to the future needs of UK plc is urgently required. In the meantime we have a bunch of students desperately seeking a university place, yet we are turning them away through inadequate preparation in secondary school and a fee structure that is constantly escalating. A measure of this need can be summarised by our position on the world league table of graduating student numbers as a proportion of total eligible students. The UK used to lie in third position yet have slipped to 15th over the last 13 years. In comparison OECD countries have doubled their achievement between 1995 and 2008, from 20% to 40%.
Figures in (63%) show percentage of graduates
1 – Finland (63%)
2 – Iceland (57%)
2 – Slovakia (57%)
4 – Poland (50%)
5 – New Zealand (48%)
6 – Denmark (47%)
7 – Ireland (46%)
8 – Portugal (45%)
9 – Netherlands (41%)
9 – Norway (41%)
11 – Sweden (40%)
12 – United States (37%)
13 – Czech Republic (36%)
13 – Israel (36%)
15 – United Kingdom (35%)
The current financial problems of the UK are both severe and uncharacteristic. Let us hope the government see the growing strategic importance of the educational programme and invest in its security and needs. Funding must be sacrosanct and exempt from the current euphoria of tactical cuts. Something else has to give,
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Version 2.15 of the translation script is now available.
2.15 is a fix for a change in the code which Google injects into translated pages.
Upgrading to this newest release is highly recommended.
Can I please have a document or maybe some URL which explain features, and working process of this script?
Translation Script Support Forum. :)
The thread says script works automatically.
How are the pages published on the site?
I get the control to publish them on my own wish or everything (finding new page, translation, publishing) is automated?
I get the control to use it for specific categories on the blog or it will translate every new page?
Phew! This translation thing sounds interesting but I need to understand the working more clearly :D :o
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what is the upgrade procedure ?
Replace the needed files OR it's automatic ?
To upgrade, just replace the old files with the new files and make the configuration changes for your site.
thanks alot! i think i have used an older version on my sites and am quite pleased w/ translation function!
I have done everything (apparently not) It appears to be working and redirects from Main Page
but once there I no longer see anything. What did I forget to do? My php info has safe mode off and cUrl mode is enabled. I am running translate ver 2.15
I have also removed php from the list of extensions not translated. everything appears to be working im just not sure why i am only seeing white once i click the spanish flag in the nav bar.
thanks in adavance for your help.
What does the error log for your Apache virtual host show when you click the Spanish flag?


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Aveeno Clear Complexion Foaming Cleanser
461 reviews
55% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.7
Price: $$
Package Quality: 3.7
Price: $$
INGREDIENTSActive Ingredient: Salicylic Acid (0.5%).Inactive Ingredients: Butylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Disodium EDTA, Disodium Lauroamphodiacetate, Fragrance, Glycerin, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein, PEG-16 Soy Sterol, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium C14-C16 Olefin 1 Sorbitol, Water, Xanthan Gum.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Black, Wavy, Other
Eyes: Brown
you only need one pump per use because once on your face there is plenty of product! i like that its a foam, it doesnt feel heavy at all. easily washes off. no fragrance. i have not noticed any breakouts but at the same i have not noticed any clearing. i have moderate acne, & oily/dry combination skin i think this is an pretty good cleanser. i got it for $6 at ulta so the price is definitley pretty good compared to others. im not sure if i would purchase again because im still on the hunt for my HG cleanser thats good at removing makeup and acne. oh and btw this is really good with removing makeup! also, dont complain this dries out your skin. it has acne medicine in it. obviously
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I tried this product when I got my first bottle of Clear Complexion moisturizer, I figured they would go hand in hand. I loved how soft the cleanser made my face feel, and then combined with the moisturizer I thought I was set. The next morning I woke up to huge, cystic acne. I didn't know which product caused it, so I went a few days using just one and then the other and it turns out the cleanser was what broke me out so badly. The moisturizer is my HG, but this cleanser is not worth it at all, I definitely don't recommend it.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
omg i hate this cleanser. arguably the worst one i've ever tried... i was soooo excited to get it because i saw alot of great reviews on youtube and such! so i went out as soon as i could and bought it. the packaging looks really cute lol. i used it the same night in the shower and it felt amazing. after, my skin felt fresh and soft. maybe it was just all the hype that made me not realize that it dried my skin out so badly. i used it about two times more until i began to notice alot of dry patches everywhere that really hurt and were flaky..... so gross. i expected so much more out of this cleanser :(
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I love this cleanser! I've tried various different cleansers and I have been coming back to this one. I use a prescription retinoid every other night to exfoliate my skin and I would classify my skin as fair and sensitive but prone to breakouts. This product is gentle, has a nice soft fragrance, has a low concentration of salycylic acid (to keep those hormonal breakouts at bay) and is just a gentle, effective and pleasant product to use. I highly recommend it if you have combination, sensitive skin.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I've used at least 10 bottles of this over the years. It's a great foaming cleanser that doesn't make my skin tight. It doesn't have a fragrance and is very good at removing my makeup. This is the only facewash I've fallen in love with!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I bought this last summer and I've been using it on and off since then. If you do have acne, please please don't do what I did and switch products all the time. It really unbalances your skin's pH level and that's when you break up out of the blue. This product is so-so. I'd use it if I had nothing else but it definitely isn't a wonder product. The price is alright, but not cheap for the amount you get, since it's a foaming cleanser which takes up a lot of air. The packaging I'd give a 4/5 because the pump gets stiff and is hard to push down. After I wash my skin, I like to have that clean but moisturized feeling. With this product, my skin feels dry and taut and uncomfortable. My skin also gets red after washing with this, so it may be the soy I'm allergic to. Also, it foams a bit too much, which I dislike. The big thing I like about this foaming cleanser is that they don't use SLS. Instead they use a milder surfectant, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, which isn't as harsh. This product isn't the best and I've used better, but it doesn't do anything horrible to my skin either.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Hate, Hate, HATE!! I was breaking out really bad a few months back out of the blue. I had to go back to my Proactiv to rid the problem. I have combo/sensitive skin and the Proactiv Sensitive Formula is really harsh on me but clears my breakouts so I use it only when they're out of control. The reaction from the Proactiv I get started before I switched. Thinking Aveeno (natural formulas) would be a good swap I bought this. WORSE MISTAKE! It dried my skin out 10 times faster than Proactiv did. 20 mins after washing and moisturizing I would see huge dry, flaky patches on my cheeks by the side of my mouth and my nose!! Did research and man I should have did that before buying. Its packed full of agents that'll just ruin your skin. I now found my HG, Ponds Cold Cream (read my review on how to use it and not have a greasy layer left behind). Will never use anything else and I have complicated skin. DO NOT BUY THIS!!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I have struggled with bad skin for YEARS, and I have used every product imaginable. This foaming cleanser is just what I needed, I think it's gentle enough to do the trick. If you've been killing your skin with harsh products like I have, try taking a break from it all and using this. You won't regret it!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Curly, Other
Eyes: Blue
I feel like this cleanser has gotten a bad rap on this forum because people don't understand how an acne cleanser is supposed to work. When you begin using a new acne treatment, even if your skin is relatively good, the salicylic acid will cause more cell-turnover which bring up the clogged pores UNDERNEATH your skin. your skin will purge and will probably breakout immediately after beginning to use the cleanser, and this does not make it a bad product, it makes it EFFECTIVE. if after 3-4 weeks your skin is still purging, yes the cleanser is probably irritating your skin.
That being said, I use a clarisonic which has already purged my skin and cleaned very deeply, so this cleanser was a nice addition to help prevent new blemishes. Also, there is SOY in the product. Many, many people are allergic to soy. I'd recommend testing the product on your inner arm and waiting overnight and if there's no reaction there, you're probably fine.
Overall, I love using this in the morning with my clarisonic mia and it's done a really great job at clearing up the few stray blemishes I get one week per month.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
Love this stuff!!! Not only does it prevent breakouts but it treats them and gets rid of them as well! I've seen a lot of people say that it really dries their skin out but that's the salicylic in it for ya. I dont recommend that people who don't have breakouts use this as it may be too drying. But it is very gentle of sensitive skin like I have. Overall I love this and I've been repurshacing it for 2 years and my skin is amazing! I'm on my 4 bottle!
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Ingogo valued at $100 million after the biggest ever Australian equity crowdfunding raise5:51AM | Thursday, 28 May
Mobile payments and transportation network startup Ingogo has raised $12 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at close to $100 million. Of the $12 million raised, $4.2 million came from equity-crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd, making it the largest Australian equity crowdfunding raise to date. The funds will be used on marketing for the startup's taxi booking app, and to support its expansion into Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Ingogo co-founder Hamish Petrie says the round was based on a $70 million pre-money undiluted valuation. Once share options and the like were taken into account, which Petrie cannot disclose, he says the valuation pushes towards the $100 million mark. "It's a good result. I think if you compare the fundamentals of what the business is doing, the share of the taxi market, and what we think are reasonable expectations we've set, we think it's a reasonable valuation for the business," Petrie says. "There's plenty of upside for investors." In August Ingogo was forecasting $150 million worth of payments for the 2014-15 financial year. It's on track to fall just short of that goal at $140 million, but ahead of its goal set by investors at $130 million. According to the latest Macquarie Bank Taxi Tracker data, Ingogo is now the third largest player in the taxi mobile payment space, growing its marketshare from 8.5% in October 2014, to 11% in February 2015. Last year Ingogo expanded beyond the taxi industry launching Ingogo Now, a portable payment and accounting platform aimed at small and medium businesses in partnership with Xero. It's only early days for that part of the business, which represents just a tiny fraction of the payments it currently processes, with the overwhelming majority coming from its taxi payments. "The majority of our revenue still comes from the taxi business, we've been in a pilot phase with Ingogo Now. We've learnt a bunch of things from that pilot and are in the process of integrating those into the software," Petrie says. While Ingogo waits for the revenue to start to flow in from its new business-focused products, it has started planning to list on the ASX in 2016, rather than this year. "We wanted to maximise value for the current shareholders and we've had a number of initiatives that we've developed in the last six to nine months. For example the Xero partnership, and we recently partnered with Concur, which works with half of the top 500 companies in Australia for expense management. We want to see the results delivered from those partnerships," Petrie says. Do you know more on this story or have a tip of your own? Raising capital or launching a startup? Let us know. Follow StartupSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Marketing startup backed by Shark Tank judge Steve Baxter makes ASX debut4:06PM | Wednesday, 1 April
An Australian automated marketing startup backed by tech investor and Shark Tank judge Steve Baxter has jumped onto the ASX in a bid to raise capital and grow its sales and support personnel locally as well as the US and UK. OtherLevels issued 157.5 million shares during the initial public offering, raising $7.5 million including $1.5 million in over-subscriptions. The IPO saw participation from existing shareholders and directors, as well as new institutional and sophisticated shareholders – along with 700 retail investors. OtherLevels was launched in Brisbane in 2012, and has since opened offices Melbourne, London and San Francisco. Its clients include companies such as Sega, Coles and Intercontinental Hotels Group. Founder Brendan O'Kane told StartupSmart the ASX debut it "very exciting" and makes him grateful for all the input and advice the company has received so far. "We just want to keep growing the company," he says. "We're going to use the extra money to hire extra marketing and sales staff, so it's heads down for the next six months." O'Kane says he thinks more local startups should consider an IPO in order to raise funds. "It's a viable option and one that warrants consideration," he says. "The key is get good advice and experienced directors." O'Kane flagged the startup's plan to list on the ASX in February, saying more Australian startups should consider an IPO when looking to raise capital. OtherLevels joins the likes of Freelancer, Xero, MigMe, Digital CC and other startups now listed on the ASX. Freelancer's chief executive Matt Barrie previously told StartupSmart the Australian Securities Exchange is the future of financing for local startups and there is no reason tech companies can't do what is already being done in industries like mining. "A typical early stage mining company is speculative and risky, with a potentially high return," he says. "In some ways it looks like an early stage tech company. A tech startup is generally better run and secondly the capital requirements are significantly less for industries like software and so on." Follow StartupSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Buy tickets to the 2015 StartupSmart Awards.
Employee share option scheme reform key to luring Aussies back home2:24AM | Wednesday, 18 February
Many tech workers and entrepreneurs leave Australia for Silicon Valley, and while for many it's not the end game, employee share option scheme reform is key to luring them back, according to Xero managing director Chris Ridd. The Australian Consulate-General in San Francisco estimates more than 22,000 Australians are working in the United States and the Valley in particular. Ridd can relate. About 20 years ago when working for a large multinational he had the opportunity to leave Australia and work in Silicon Valley, but would eventually return and is now based in Melbourne. "I think it would be a shame if we had a situation where great talent in Australia and New Zealand felt they had to go to Silicon Valley to pursue career goals and get traction with an idea. But the reality is a lot go over there and come back," Ridd says. "From my perspective and a lot of people I talk to (that move abroad), the US is not the end game but can be part of furthering your career. But Australia is a cool place to live and we've got a lot of innovation here. "So you can pick up some great skills and experiences and bring that back, that would be my hope." That said, there must be incentive for talent to return to Australia and a big part of that relies on employee share option scheme legislation reform. The startup industry has been lobbying for some time for the government to roll back changes made to the legislation in 2009 which made employee share option schemes essentially unworkable for startups. The government has since promised to introduce new legislation, but has been criticised by Freelancer CEO Matt Barrie and Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes as it would only apply to companies with less than $50 million turnover. Ridd says when he moved from Microsoft to take a job at Xero, a big part of the appeal was the New Zealand-based company was able to offer an employee share scheme. "I took a 50% pay cut when I joined Xero. What got me on board was the act that they were able to offer equity. Equity is a huge value proposition when you're in startup mode," he says. "The only option you have at your disposal to attract people from large corporates that have a lot of experience is to offer equity, and to put a tax regime on top of that, that makes it less attractive is insane." Follow StartupSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Taxi and payment platform Ingogo expands nationally ahead of IPO1:00PM | Monday, 26 January
Taxi app and payments platform Ingogo is preparing to roll out its services nationally ahead of an anticipated initial public offering. Founder Hamish Petrie told Private Media the Sydney-based startup is set to expand to Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, having completed an earlier expansion to Melbourne in May of last year. "We started up in Melbourne a year ago, that was a success. Now we're building our network of drivers before launch. In Brisbane we've established an office, and we're building our driver footprint before launching the passenger offering," Petrie says. "We've been working on getting our pay system robust and lots of other things behind the scenes. The mobile apps, systems for hotels and restaurants and various business systems are solid to the point of rolling them out nationally." In August of last year, the company expanded beyond its original taxi booking niche when it launched a portable payment and accounting platform aimed at SMEs in partnership with Xero. Since then, it has been implementing a more professional management structure ahead of an IPO. The restructure has included the appointment of new chief commercial officer Craig Hopper and chief financial officer Trent Jerome. "It's imperative that you have a professional team in place to scale up and you've got to do things in a credible way. Getting the business to that point will be helpful in the corporate market," Petrie says. Petrie says Ingogo is predominantly interested in the IPO to improve its access to capital. "We haven't set an exact date, except that it will happen this year. We've grown our payments business rapidly. We thought we'd do $100 million in payments and we're past that point now," he says. Far from being a hindrance, Petrie says recent controversies at rival Uber has helped Ingogo to grow, and it is unlikely that Apple Pay will be a direct rival to its payment services. "There's been quite a bit of negative sentiment about [Uber]. In contrast, we're safe, we're insured, our drivers are licensed, and our prices are fixed. That's something both our corporate and private passengers say is important to them. "We think [Apple Pay] is fantastic. It brings faster, more convenient digital payments, and we're already set up and ready for digital payments. "The thing is that even if Apple is very successful, 100% of payments will not go through its platform. Our value proposition to a taxi driver is that no matter what method a passenger wants to pay with, we'll be able to do it in a cost effective, efficient fashion." Follow StartupSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Taxi app Ingogo raises $9.1 million, with $1.2 million through crowd equity9:20AM | Tuesday, 30 September
Australian transportation network and mobile payments startup Ingogo has raised $9.1 million, as it increases its focus on mobile payments, ahead of a planned ASX listing next year. The investment round was led by UBS and Canaccord Genuity, and brings on board new investors including MYOB co-founders Craig Winkler and Chris Lee, Pitt Capital, Janchor Partners' John Ho and a number of Australian and Asian Institutional Funds. It takes Ingogo's total funding to $16.2 million and values the startup at over $45 million. Interestingly, of the $9.1 million, $1.2 million was raised via equity-based crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd, the first deal facilitated though the platform. Almost 50 sophisticated investors took part in the raise through VentureCrowd, each investing at least $1000, and at least one individual investing $50,000. Australian legislation does not yet allow retail investors to participate in such raises. In August, Ingogo announced it was expanding beyond the taxi industry and had signed a partnership with Xero to roll out its mobile payments platform to small businesses. Ingogo founder and managing director Hamish Petrie says this pre-IPO funding round will help the startup get some "runs on the board" in the mobile payments space, before listing next year. "We talked about listing late this year, but then we reached the partnership with Xero and it seemed premature until we get runs on the board behind that partnership. " he says. "The strategy is to go and build some momentum behind that opportunity and create more value in the businesses when it lists." Despite this increased focus on the mobile payments portion of its business, Petrie says it's not pivoting away from the taxi and transportation industry. "We're still highly committed to winning the taxi space, and we're putting a lot of resources into improving both the passenger and driver applications, and some of the smarts behind those applications," he says. "We've divided the businesses in two essentially. To ensure we're still firmly focused on the taxi opportunity, we've literally created a second arm of our business to take the advantages we have in mobile payments and start to broaden that into other verticals. "Xero was the way to take that next step. Our job is to make it easy and seamless for a merchant to accept as many forms as payment as they want." As for the transportation network side of Ingogo, some of the funds raised will go towards expanding the platform outside of Sydney and Melbourne, the two cities in which it currently operates. Petrie wouldn't say for sure which city that might be, but says a state capital like Brisbane would be a logical step. Meanwhile, VentureCrowd is hailing Ingogo's raise as one of the first major examples of how equity crowdfunding can work to provide startups with capital. The platform, powered by Artesian Venture Partners, the firm behind the Sydney Angels Sidecar Fund, an early Ingogo investor, gave the startup access to a large amount of individuals who invested smaller amounts than might typically occur during a raise. Chief operating officer of Artesian Venture Partners, Tim Heasley says the fact that applications were oversubscribed, demonstrates VentureCrowd is a "robust, viable investment platform for startups and investors". Follow StartupSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Xero's Rod Drury tells how to negotiate failure into success9:33AM | Monday, 15 September
Failure is not the first word that comes to mind when looking at the career of Rod Drury, co-founder of online accounting software company Xero. But like many entrepreneurs before him, failure led him to his success. Recently he was hosted by Startup Grind Sydney and spoke about how he lost money on his document management startup and gave some tips on how to negotiate successfully. Check out his story in the videos below. On Tuesday, September 16, Startup Grind Melbourne will be hosting Greg Roebuck, the founder and managing director of Australia's number one automotive internet site carsales.com. The event will be held at The Atrium at NAB HQ in Docklands from 6pm to 9pm. For tickets, head over to Startup Grind's eventbrite page. Follow StartupSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Xero hits $92 million in annualised revenue6:37AM | Monday, 16 June
Cloud accounting company Xero has hit monthly recurring subscription revenues of $NZ8.6 million ($A7.93m), passing $NZ100m ($A92m) in annualised revenue for the first time. Full year operating revenue to March 2014 was $NZ70.1m. Xero CEO Rod Drury says passing the $NZ100m annualised revenue mark is a huge milestone for any tech company. "We're so proud to have got there so quickly," he says. Xero has also announced it is expanding its presence in Australia with a new office opening in Canberra and the hiring of additional staff. Staff numbers in Australia now total 144 across five offices. Xero says in a statement that it is committed to creating employment opportunities in Canberra, at a time when many public sector jobs are under threat in the ACT following this year's federal budget. "We see the value in investing in our ACT Partners and customers, and continuing to grow our presence in the region" said Chris Ridd, managing director for Xero in Australia. "We are dedicated to providing localised support across Australian business hubs, such as the ACT, that have shown a real eagerness to adopt cloud-based accounting software." Xero's new Canberra office will open on Monday, June 16 and will be located at 10 Rudd Street, Canberra.
Five small business tax deductions to keep in mind at tax time5:32AM | Friday, 16 May
The end of the financial year is fast approaching and small businesses need to get their tax affairs in order. Chris Ridd of online accounting software provider Xero outlines strategies to help your business minimise its tax bill. Tax time takes it out of the best of us. A small saving grace is the general rule that you can claim deductions for any expense your business incurs while generating its income. Many of these deductions are straightforward – rent, materials, wages, supplies – but here are five you might not have heard of. Interest – don't overlook what you can deduct You can deduct any interest on money your business borrows, including interest paid on business loans, overdrafts and other finance facilities. This might sound obvious, but there are other interest expenses you can deduct that can easily be overlooked. Firstly, any interest that is accrued on a business loan but not paid by June 30 is potentially deductible. Secondly, many small business owners fund their business through personal loans or with their personal credit card. And because the interest costs aren't being incurred by the business itself, but by the business owner, you can claim a deduction on the interest in your own personal income tax. Depreciation – take advantage of the $6500 cap Small businesses shouldn't forget to claim for depreciation – getting a deduction for the loss of value and wear and tear on the business' assets. Assets usually have to be depreciated bit by bit over several years, but special rules for SMEs mean that they can get an immediate tax write off for any asset with a value of up to $6500. For example, if your business bought a $4000 computer in the current tax year, the business could claim an immediate 100% tax deduction when you do your tax return. The federal government has signalled it wants to drop the limit to $1000, backdating the change to 1 January 2014. This denies SMEs to take advantage of this concession before it goes out the window (although it remains to be seen if this change will be passed by the Senate). Nonetheless you can, at the very least, take advantage of the $6,500 cap for assets purchased before 31 December 2013. Motor vehicles – drive a better deal with the tax man There are also generous depreciation concessions for small businesses when they buy motor vehicles. SMEs can depreciate cars, trucks or vans and so on more quickly than other businesses. They receive 100% deduction on the first $5000 cost of the vehicle and can then depreciate the rest at 15% in the year they bought it. So a $14,000 car would attract a tax deduction of $6350 in the year of purchase. (If the vehicle cost less than $6500, the whole amount can be claimed as an immediate deduction under the instant asset write-off provisions outlined above.) But, as with the general depreciation rule, the government wants to remove these concessions; the initial deduction on a $14,000 car would then drop to $4200. But, as with the general depreciation rule, the government wants to remove these concessions and backdate them to 1 January. If this happens the initial deduction on a $14,000 car would drop to $4200. Trading stock – profit from your losses Tax time is a good opportunity to do a stocktake to see if you qualify for any deductions on your trading stock – anything you produce, manufacture, purchase for manufacture or sell for your business. You can write off any lost, damaged or obsolete stock for a tax deduction. If your stock level changes by more than $5000, you must take into account the change in value of your trading stock when you work out your taxable income for the year. If the value of the trading stock is higher at the end of the year than at the beginning, then the rise counts as part of your taxable income. But if your stock is worth less you will qualify for a deduction. There are three different methods of valuing stock: the price you bought it for; its current selling value; and its replacement value. You can choose which you use for which piece of stock, giving you the opportunity to maximise your deductions. Bad debts – there is some good news It's always bad news for a small business when debtors fail to pay for the goods or services you've sold them. But at least there's a small silver lining – you can claim a tax deduction for the bad debt. A bad debt is any debt which has been outstanding for 12 months or more and which you have made a reasonable effort to recover. It pays to go back through your outstanding invoices to find bad debts and write them off before the tax year on June 30. Also, if you calculate your GST on an accrual basis, don't forget to claim a refund for the GST you paid to the Australian Tax Office when you issued the original invoice. So there you have it: five small business tax deductions to start looking at before the end of the financial year. Chris Ridd is managing director of Xero, an online accounting software provider which helps small businesses get their financial affairs in order. This article was updated after changes were announced in the budget.
Incubator partnerships boost quality of Carnegie's Den applicants4:54AM | Wednesday, 30 April
The quality of applicants involved in the first Carnegie's Den event of the year is a significant improvement on those in the past, thanks to partnerships with startup incubators, according to event organisers. Venture capitalist Mark Carnegie says this is because incubators in the Australian startup ecosystem are doing their job. "This round of applications has been of high calibre," Carnegie says. Created by investment firm MH Carnegie & Co, Carnegie's Den provides a platform for leading Australian entrepreneurs to gain media exposure and direct funding from prospective investors. The finalists hoping to woo prospective investors in Carnegie's Den this Friday at The Church in Darlinghurst include: Liquorun; an appropriately named crowdsourced liquor delivery service. CricHQ; a cloud-based cricket administration program. APE mobile; a construction and engineering site information management system. TokenOne; a unique two-factor authentication platform that enables users to securely login to third party systems using a patent protected method. Digivizer; a service which searches, analyses, connects and maps the social web and the comments made on it in order to keep clients informed. Switch Automation; a cloud-based energy management and environmental monitoring system that gives users the ability to manage building energy usage online. Selera Labs; a software developer which has developed data analytics that improve financial governance, ensure transactional compliance and automates internal auditing processes. Qwilr; a web-based productivity tool that allows sales teams to create and send the best quotes and pitches to clients. Carnegie said he had noticed pitches geared toward software-as-a-service, which can be attributed to a number of other startups who had been successful in this area in recent years. One such success story is Xero, the cloud accounting software startup that raised $US150 million ($A162m) in capital from a range of investors last October. "They see the low cost to establish and the big prize at the end of the rainbow,'' he says. For these startups the path to the pot at the end of the rainbow leads through Carnegie's Den. "We shortlisted 35 startups and met with every one of them,'' Carnegie and Co investment consultant Zachary Midalia says. "And I made the point of saying to them, we're not here to humiliate you, we're not here to create drama, we're purely here to help an innovative segment of the community.''
MYOB co-founder Craig Winkler among early investors, as Practice Ignition raises $650,000 seed funding2:08AM | Friday, 21 February
Practice Ignition, an Australian firm that helps accountants to streamline their interaction with clients, has raised $650,000 in seed funding from investors including MYOB co-founder and early Xero investor Craig Winkler. The new funding will go towards expanding the company's development team and business team. "Our aim is that all accountants across Australia can use our platform by the end of fiscal 2014," founder Guy Pearson, told StartupSmart. Other investors include New Zealand-based software developer Trineo, several accountants, and Xero's vice president of payroll, Stuart McLeod. Pearson, a former accountant, is also behind cloud-based services advisor Interactive Accounting. He says the investors who've injected funds into Practice Ignition, which was formed in 2012, were people he'd met through his previous venture. "Pitch to people that know your industry or find someone that likes your solution," he advises fellow entrepreneurs. "That might be 100 cups of coffee later." The seed funding was in exchange for around 22% equity in the firm, valuing it at $2.5 million. More than 400 accounting practices in 20 countries around the world are currently using Practice Ignition's platform to on-board new clients, the company says in a statement. The platform automates the creation and acceptance of legal engagement documents and provides tools to collaborate with clients, as well as giving firms the ability to offer real-time quotes and turn traditional websites into a service-based check-out system. Craig Winkler said in a statement that he invested in Practice Ignition because its cloud platform enables accountancy practices to scale up their businesses by automating workflow, invoice and payment tasks. "Practice Ignition re-invents and streamlines the collaboration between advisor and clients, while dramatically reducing administration costs for accountants," he said.
Employee share scheme warning from start-up mentor, as Ollo Mobile takes out pitching prize8:19PM | Tuesday, 6 August
Ollo Mobile has won a trip to Silicon Valley after beating nine other start-ups in the Small Team, Big Impact competition in Sydney last night. The pitching competition was coordinated by cloud technology computing company RackSpace. Ten start-ups with fewer than 10 team members were selected to compete. Ollo Mobile is a new device and system for panic buttons, which elderly or unwell people can use to alert family members and health authorities when they need help. The other finalists were OpenLearning, Food Orbit, Projectia, Annexium, AuthoPay, Revolutionise, Clipp, Digital Sorbet and Geepers. The start-ups pitched to a judging panel of Mick Liubinskas from incubator Pollenizer, Kim Heras from start-up network PushStart, Ruslan Kogan from Kogan Electronics, Chris Ridd, the country manager from Xero, and Robert Scoble, Rackspace's international start-up liaison. Scoble told StartupSmart he was excited to see an ecosystem beginning in Sydney, but Australia needed to do more to support entrepreneurs. "San Francisco and New York have ecosystems, as do Tel Aviv, Beijing and Seattle. London kind of has one and Los Angeles is being built. It looks like Sydney has a good one underway. These ecosystems need to keep the geeks in town, or they leave and go somewhere else," Scoble says. Despite the growing ecosystem, Scoble cautions Australian struggles with employee share schemes (ESS) are a fundamental issue that needed to be overcome quickly. "The laws here aren't letting start-ups use their stock options and equity to motivate people to shelve their jobs at big companies and come and join start-ups," Scoble says. "Australia needs to deal with this quickly to support your entrepreneurial talent, or they're going to leave and take their value with them." The federal government announced a review of ESS opportunities in June. Scoble adds start-ups need access to money, talent, public relations and business expertise to get their companies to the point they're turning over billions. "When you're in San Francisco there is such a strong future culture, you can see it in the streets with people trying new things," he says. "You need access to the idea that your plans are possible and a city with a great culture that encourages that."
Australian payment system start-up acquires US technology and data assets7:22AM | Wednesday, 17 July
Melbourne-based payment system start-up Pin Payments has acquired the subscription payment management service and customer base of US-based Spreedly. The acquisition opens up a global network of payment gateways and clients for the start-up which only came out of beta in May. Pin Payments is Australia's first all-in-one payment system, while Spreedly is a subscription management system. Business development manager Chris Dahl told StartupSmart the acquisition was easier because the two company visions were aligned. "Spreedly is a US-based company following a similar mantra to Pin, in that they're trying to better enable online credit card transactions for businesses," Dahl says. "Spreedly were working with a couple of global partners, but now they're with us, it means our client base is global overnight." Pin Payments was a customer of Spreedly, which was shifting its focus to other products. Pin Payment customers kept requesting a subscription system, and Dahl says the suggestion to buy Spreedly came up in discussions and made a lot of sense. This is the first acquisition for Pin Payments, which has also partnered with leading online store platform Shopify and is also working with accounting software company Xero. "The acquisition was funded mostly through existing capital, with a trailing revenue share between Pin Payments and Spreedly. We expect revenue generated through the subscription business to pay back the cost of the acquisition within a year," Dahl says. Dahl declined to say how much the acquisition cost. Dahl says the rise of software-as-a-service style businesses has made subscription models increasingly common. While Spreedly managed the subscription model, it still required a payment gateway, so clients required a merchant account. "Our product removed the pain point of having to go and work with the bank and have an approved merchant account. But it didn't make it really, really easy for businesses to build a subscription business model. But this acquisition means that now they can," he says, adding that the acquisition means time to market has been drastically reduced again. Dahl says the strategic investment enables Pin to offer a comprehensive subscription management service on top of their existing system. He says Pin Payments will continue to invest and innovate in the service and will be launching the company in New Zealand in the next few months.
Reckon looking to take on Xero by joining cloud accountancy battle3:55AM | Friday, 15 March
Reckon is aiming to shake up the Australian accounting software market when it launches its first cloud-based product Reckon One in the next quarter.
Gold Coast start-up develops an app for all the stats that matter12:54AM | Monday, 17 December
Dan Norris was inspired to set up Informly whilst working in his previous company, a website design agency.
Peter Thiel-backed fund pours further investment into Xero3:06AM | Monday, 11 March
A venture capital firm backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has teamed up with another investor to pour US$49 million into New Zealand-founded start-up Xero, increasing the total amount raised to date by the cloud-based venture to US$67 million.
PayPal founder launches $40 million fund for NZ start-ups3:52AM | Saturday, 24 March
Peter Thiel has set up a $40 million venture capital fund in partnership with the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, which could be open to Australian start-ups prepared to relocate.
Xero acquires Max Solutions after raising $15m3:54AM | Friday, 15 March
Accountancy software company Xero has raised $15 million to fund global growth and has made its first acquisition for the year, snapping up Max Solutions in a deal worth almost $5 million.
Xero investor funds 10-month old start-up Go Vocab10:29AM | Tuesday, 11 October
Xero investor and serial entrepreneur Rowan Simpson has invested an undisclosed amount in New Zealand start-up Go Vocab, which plans to internationalise its online language platform.
Tech start-up Paycycle swallowed up by Xero for $1.5m7:21PM | Sunday, 24 July
Australian tech start-up Paycycle, which provides online payroll services, has been snapped up by accountancy software firm Xero for $1.5m, just two years after the company was launched.


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In February 2012, in response to an initiative from the administration of U.S. President Obama to harness technology and innovation to encourage development for longtime scientific challenges such as health, food security, and climate change, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launched Patents for Humanity, a program to recognize those who use patented technology to aid the less fortunate.The inaugural winners are in, and prominent among them is Infer.NET, a Microsoft Research Cambridge library for machine learning, which won one of the contest's four categories, information technology.The awards were presented April 11 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Teresa Stanek Rea, acting undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, made the presentations, and U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who introduced last year's Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act, spoke during the event. Fred Humphries, Microsoft vice president for U.S. Government Affairs, accepted the award.John Winn, along with Tom Minka one of the inventors of Infer.NET, didn't exactly see such an honor coming.Winn's reaction upon hearing of the award: "Quite surprised!""Our goal in creating Infer.NET was to democratize machine learning—to make a tool that brings advanced machine-learning techniques to a broader audience," Winn says. "As part of doing this, we wanted to test out Infer.NET in a wide variety of areas."I have been particularly interested in medical and biological applications, but others have used Infer.NET to solve a dizzying range of problems, including modeling climate change."Winn and Minka, both senior researchers in the Machine Learning and Perception group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, devised Infer.NET, which is available for download, as a framework for running Bayesian inference in graphical models to accomplish machine learning in a simplified manner. It uses state-of-the-art algorithms to draw probabilistic inferences from data, and the result is a simplified, flexible tool that can scale for large amounts of data and various types of data sets and problems. It can be used to solve many machine-learning problems, from classification or clustering to customized solutions to domain-specific problems."Infer.NET brings the power of advanced machine-learning methods to many more people," Winn says. "Rather than write machine-learning code, an Infer.NET user writes a description of the process behind their data—a model of the data. Infer.NET then automatically generates a customized machine-learning algorithm for analyzing that data."The Patents for Humanity program, conducted with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is a voluntary competition for patent owners and businesses. It encourages businesses to apply their patented technology to address humanitarian challenges. The effort advances the president's global development agenda by rewarding companies that bring life-saving technologies to underserved people of the world while showing how patents are an integral part of tackling the world's challenges.Entrants compete in four categories: medical technology, food and nutrition, clean technology, and IT.Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs team submitted the Infer.NET entry by focusing on three specific ways in which the tool has helped humanity:
Rea acknowledged in an award-notification email that Infer.NET richly warranted the recognition."Congratulations on your impressive accomplishment!" she wrote. "Your efforts to improve the lives of the less fortunate with game-changing technology are vital to overcoming the global challenges facing humanity."Work on Infer.NET continues, award or no award."Infer.NET aims to encapsulate some of the latest machine-learning techniques," Winn says. "In the course of developing Infer.NET, we've also had to develop new ways to automate parts of the machine-learning process that were previously done by hand. But there are still a lot of unsolved problems in machine learning, and researchers are constantly making progress on these."Our aim is to bring the most valuable new techniques into Infer.NET—along with some of our own—so that it can be used to solve even harder problems."For a moment, though, such challenges take a back seat. Life's sweet moments are meant to be savored."The fact that Infer.NET can be applied to such important problems," Winn smiles, "is a source of great satisfaction and very motivating!"
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Death Knight painting
Stormforged Death Knight!
Perfect! Too bad humans can't have those cool long braided beards dwarfs have
Love this, but I couldn't help it... when I saw the thumbnail I was like "Damn... Thor's pissed!" It dous lookin friggin awesome, but the dweeb in me is strong --'
Silly deathknight... Why are you wearing pally gear?
Titan death knight! Let´s rumble!!!
Too cool
looks like uther if he ever became a Death Knight o.o
Haha! So funny you mention that... that's what I was thinking in the back of my mind.. I was considering doing an Uther Death Knight piece that'll match him even more, maybe after some other projects..
most impressive
thor style
Thanks, Strider!
Awesome details, and great light effects!
Haha! It actually started out as a Thor Tribute piece for an artist friend of mine, but I had a Death Knight in mind while drawing out the value sketch for it.. only finished it in B&W, but I wanted to make it full blown warcraft and painted it out like this and made some changes from the B&W design.
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3) Developed a rapid prototype/rapid deployment (lean) platform embedded within a large medical institution to strategically advance reciprocal innovation in the health IT field.
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http://tainted-sky.net/v4b.php Why is one of my entries out of place..?? That makes noo sense to me..
http://tainted-sky.net/v4b.php Why is one of my entries out of place..?? That makes noo sense to me..
I couldn't tell ya but that's really weird!
FYI, your bg image takes forever to load, it's really annoying. :)
Yeah, it never did that with GM (bg taking a while to load) dont know why it does now..
Your bg image is a whopping 466K in size.
You may not have noticed that loading time if it was cached inside your computer, but as it is, any new visitor will be hitting your bandwidth hard when that gets downloaded.
You could experiment with running that jpg through some sort of optimiser so that you get a better trade-off between picture size and the resolution you want.
A good free one is http://www.irfanview.com
IrfanView is more of an ImageView and a very good one at that. But it optimize images good. For ameteur usage atleast. :)
Thats fine. I know how to optimize images. Thanks. I didn't realize it was so large..but my last image was bigger and with GM it loaded just fine..
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Use your brain! This colorful diagram is a handy reference guide for kids learning basic body systems. If your child is trying to memorize the ins and outs of the human body, have him start by meeting the master of it all: the brain!
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