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Jun 08
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Endurance Arabians says:
Im on DIY and i pay
£400 pcm for stable and grazing all year round
£140 pcm for haylage in winter and £40 pcm for hay in summer
£120 pcm for shavings all year round
£80 pcm for electric and water all year round.
Then its around £20 a year to depose of the dung heap
£20 a year for spring fertiliser chain harrow and roll of field.
I have 4 horses its a 6 box yard with 4.5 acres i rent this yard myself and its only me here im Wilts/somerset borders.
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Apr 11
Posts: 556
Rosebudd says:
wow, got some good deals going in different places !
Very interesting how it differs from one place to another!
Mar 11
Posts: 127
Alphabay says:
I pay £120 per month DIY livery. That includes my own stable and the use of a shared paddock for whenever I want my horse put out (everyday). Farmer supplies our hay though this is extra on top. Have own storage for tack then also in barn for hay, chippings e.t.c. Full use of yards private sand school and hacking fields with access to hours more hacking through woodland.
ohh and i'm in kent :)
Apr 10
Posts: 304
AMLS says:
My livery bill last month was £425 yikes !!! That's full ivery though ...
Feb 10
Posts: 451
SarahR123 says:
For DIY with hay included (supposedly 6 months a year but normally about 4 or 5) it costs me £43 a week per horse. We have a floodlit (at one end) 60x25 school, grazing and a stable for that. Nice yard, nice stables, owner on site.
Nov 08
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*chip* says:
oof, well, the 1st place i payed for was £35 a week, all year turnout but only a small paddok for riding (wasnt a biggy as he was only 2 so we took him on walks instead) before this i got livery as part of my wage
where i am now is £20 a week has an ok arena but the surface is awful and we have to rake it after use (also new rule if we lunge HAVE to have sidereins or passoa on....sorry but im not putting my youngster in such contraptions when he cant even go round on a circle properly yet =/) n we have to buy everything else, im also renting a field atm for £10 a week as winter turnout is awful n wanted him roughing it so he could grow up a bit more.
however im thinking of moving when a friends yard is set up which is next to the field i rent, its £40 a week which includes box, haylage or hay and a bale of shavings, and soooooo much grazing its untrue, you can have 24/7 turnout al year round if you wanted, which will be fantastic, it has a huge outdoor and a small indoor lunge pen, will be ok for riding small horses in, im so excited, also has x-country jumps in the field XD n fantastic hacking
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Nov 10
Posts: 977
cookiecrazy says:
I pay or rather dad pays £12 a week for... field, hay given to them by stable lad, optional stabling, tack room, feed bin, acess to miles of hacking along the forest and a school across the road! Im in east sussex
Aug 10
Posts: 87
ambertea123 says:
I pay £130 a month for DIY so get a stable and field. We have privet woods for hacking, XC field, out door school with show jumps but you have to pay extra if you want lights on. It's nice up there, but I'm also on schooling livery with another yard at the moment too for £100 a week, so I use all the same facillities any way plus a lunge pen! Oh and I'm on the kent/surrey border :)
Apr 12
Posts: 1
rachelb2982 says:
i pay £75 pcm stable grazing straw and as much haylage as you want only snag is horses have to be kept in at night time all yr round, but after 8 yrs of being there its reasuring that i know where my horse is everynight , theres a paddock to ride in n i have my own feed/ tack room but there is no school, theres only 3 of us on there and we all help each other when 1 of us is in work so no turning out charges or bringing in charges, loads of lovely hacking and a trainer across the road who lets us use his school if we want to wirral area
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Joe Paternos tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the universitys top officials.
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Thanks for the attack.
I'm not sure of your intentions but I understood your questions to be accusatory without adding any proof. Much like Politico.
If you are here seeking information about the incident just google Paterno / Penn State and read what Joe had to say.
Is it disgustingly biased to defend an honorable and distinguished man who has positively impacted thousands of men and women?
The Penn State pedophile ran a program for troubled young men - he had access to Penn State athletic facilities - and he brought the young men to Penn State from his troubled youth program.
So that is what a young boy was doing in a college shower.
What an adult was doing in the shower with him, and why just his presence there was not grounds from removing him permanently from Penn State is something I cannot answer.
I believe that is correct. I believe Paterno ran to the admin within 24 hours of being told (I think he was told on Saturday and reported on Sunday), and then the entire thing was buried. Their is a great deal of coverup resulting in criminal actvity here and heads need to roll at PSU.
What did Courtney know and when did he know it and what did he advise who to do?
Well, first of all I'd put a beat down on Sandusky, and I'm not Mike McQueary. Then, I'd call the cops.
What on earth would lead someone to turn the other way and let that rape continue? That was a TEN YEAR OLD KID BEING ANALLY RAPED!!! It seems that it'd be hard wired into any normal person to intervene.
What does that say about the culture of Penn State? These coaches walk around like Gods and no one questions their actions.
This whole story is disgusting.
"It's pretty clear that by 1998 everyone, including Paterno, knew that Sandusky was a pedophile, and it lead to Sanduskys retirement in 1999."
Ok, so then was Sandusky not seen ANYWHERE NEAR the Penn State program after 1999?
If so, then I'd say Paterno and crew are relatively in the clear, depending on how long BEFORE 1999 they knew about this?
I'd call the cops. Actually, I'd like to think I would have punched the fellow out and dragged the poor kid out of there.
OTOH, if someone simply told me about it without going into specifics, and I wasn't really sure I believed it, I'd probably would just pass it down the line, if that.
I just read the Grand Jury indictment via a link in a previous thread. It sounds like the Penn State administrators were only worried about protecting the school's reputation, with little concern about learning the truth.
But the testimony about the 2002 shower incident is particularly strange. If the timeline is correct, several people didn't see any need to immediately report a serious crime to the police:
The 28-yr old graduate assistant reportedly saw Sandusky sodomizing a 10-yr old boy in the locker room shower; then the assistant left the area, went to his office, and telephoned his father. His father told him to leave the building and come home.
The next morning, the graduate assistant notified Paterno, and the day after that Paterno notified Athletic Director Curley. Then 1.5 weeks later, Curley met with the graduate assistant.
From the moment the 28-yr old assistant witnessed the sodomy being performed on the juvenile victim, none of these Penn State air-heads thought to immediately help the 10-yr old boy. Morally, ethically, and perhaps legally, they were wrong.
If the graduate assistant is telling the truth (the Grand Jury said he is credible), Paterno and Curley should be ashamed of themselves.
That's a good point. Penn State really ought to return that money - it's tainted now.
They can't continue to look the other way and pretend this didn't happen.
There we agree. Then, I'd call the cops.
Me too, but I don't work for the university. If I did, I'd report it to my boss, which he did.
What does that say about the culture of Penn State? These coaches walk around like Gods and no one questions their actions.
The guy wasn't a coach when this went down. I'd like to kick his arse right now.
Penn State should have no football for 5 years. Joe Pa wasn't the only enabler of gay pedophilic sex within the athletic department and football bureaucracy...you can believe that.
Penn State should have no football for 5 years. Joe Pa wasn't the only enabler of gay pedophilic sex within the athletic department and football bureaucracy...you can believe that.
The witnesses to the 2002 shower incident claim they were new employees and apparently worried about their jobs. So too bad for the kid, I guess. /sarc
Even though Sandusky "retired" in 1999, he held "emeritus" status and continued to have an office and full use of the PSU football facilities.
"OTOH, if someone simply told me about it without going into specifics, and I wasn't really sure I believed it, I'd probably would just pass it down the line, if that."
Even if you were the boss?
If you were in charge, or had any responsibility, official or otherwise, don't you feel it would be vitally important to force the revelation of "specifics"?
An excellent point. Perhaps they've so saturated the culture with the idea that it isn't homosexual activity when it's a man raping a boy.
More disgusting is the 1998 "caught in the showers with a minor" report that led to him no longer being a direct part of the Penn State program - but still given access to the facilities; thus leading up to the 2002 report - that was also ignored.
Or not just the specifics of the 2002 'caught in the shower with a minor male' incident - but ALSO the 1998 'caught in the shower with a minor male' incident.
But no, two credible reports of the guy in the shower with the troubled young men he is supposed to be helping - and almost ten years after TWO credible reports - nothing.
"My real question is, why is the press so up in arms. "
One of the NWO goals of the press is to knock down anything or anyone that appears good or excellent or noble, in order to demonstrate that Communist slime bags are just as good as us.
That's Leftist thinking.
One of his coaches comes to him and tells him he caught Sandusky in the shower with underage boys having sex, and all he does is tell his boss, and wash his hands, but he has NOTHING to do with it? JOPA is in this cover up as deep as anyone!
He basically covered his ass legally and then went on to allow this predator to molest children for another 9 years!
He needs GONE, and frankly should be facing jail time for not reporting it to police.
Penn State will be financially bankrupt if Jo Pa isn't gone and gone quickly, no alumni or endowment is going to send cash their way as long as he is still there. He put not risking destroying a friend over doing what was right.
Combining these two statements:
1) Its pretty clear that by 1998 everyone, including Paterno, knew that Sandusky was a pedophile, and it lead to Sanduskys retirement in 1999.
2)Even though Sandusky retired in 1999, he held emeritus status and continued to have an office and full use of the PSU football facilities.
Clearly indicates to me that Paterno et al are fully culpable for whatever occured after 1999.
Of course, maybe I'm missing some....ahem....nuances.
Leaving the scandal aside for the moment -- something that's impossible to do -- there are officials who were trying to get Joe Paterno to retire when his last contract expired. I think Joe beares an enourmous responsibility for what happened, but I can see the university leveraging these events to force Joe out.
Is that information in the grand jury report?
If not could you provide a link to it?
I've got to leave this thread now. I'm sickened by this whole incident.
But, I'm not ready nor am I willing to throw Joe under the bus until all the facts are out.
It just makes sense to completely clean house after this.....even possibly shutting down the football program for a year, if need be. That's how ugly this is.
When this is all over, a lot more folks than just JoePa are going to be gone, if not in jail.
I disagree. Raping a child is a law enforcement issue, not an administrative one.
The guy wasn't a coach when this went down.
Yet he still had that cache that stopped McQuaery from intervening. That's what's most shocking about this whole thing.
This might be a little bit outside the NCAA's normal jurisdiction. Just sayin'.
...someone should ask him where HIS genitals were while he stood there and watched a 10 year old boy getting raped by the sick old perv?
Instead his reaction was to run to an office(?) and call his daddy(?)
I know TV/movies, etc. have gone out of their way to deliberately emasculate males in the last 40 years with their agenda/propaganda "programming",...but, WTF?
After reading this, you will have a very hard time defending any of the gay pedophilic sex enablers at Penn State.
If I was the person responsible for initiating the investigation, I would have to investigate.
If I was the person, not responsible for initiating the investigation, then I would inform the one who is supposed to.
How about you?
If I was the "boss" btw -- and Paterno was not in this case -- this would very likely mean not investigating it myself but directing the matter to HR or security, who presumably would have the training to determine whether state law enforcement should be involved.
I'm reading the Grand Jury report now. It appears Paterno did follow up with a conversation with the head of the University Police (Schultz), and it was Schultz and Curley who blew the whole thing off.
If one is a witness, obviously, one then should call the police first, which in this case very well might have meant that campus police would have been first on the scene.
Time for the seven figure salaried Spanier to fall.
IMO, his wife knew or suspected. According to GJ testimony, at her husband's request, she called Victim # 7 on the phone several times before Sandusky was arrested, trying to get the boy not to testify or something or other. ... What a distasteful spectacle.
Picture this: this year, an all-state high school offensive tackle gets recruited by OSU, Michigan and Penn State. Where's he gonna go? Where might his dad suggest?
What was the NCAA violation?
Don't punish a team of young men who had NOTHING to do with this.
FIRE and PROSECUTE the criminals involved in covering up the rape of children.
In the showers, not much...
"If I was the "boss" btw — and Paterno was not in this case."
Why the quotation marks? The terminology is wholly apropos.
So, Paterno is not at all responsible for what happens under the auspices of the Penn State football program?
REGARDLESS, of the inactions of others on the Penn State Campus, a responsible man would have demanded details concerning this incident, and certainly not allowed this criminal pervert back in the locker room.
Two months ago, state police at Rockview in Centre County began calling witnesses to a May 1998 report by Penn State University police detailing an earlier allegation of inappropriate contact against Sandusky by another boy.
According to several sources, that boy, who was 12 at the time, alleged he and Sandusky were showering in the football building on Penn States campus when the incident took place. The boys mother told The Patriot-News she was specifically instructed by state police at Rockview not to speak with a reporter. Her name is being withheld by The Patriot-News to protect the identity of her son.
No charges were ever filed against Sandusky.
According to sources close to the investigation, the boy told police in 1998 that Sandusky had showered with him in a locker room of the Lasch Building home to the football program during a tour. The boy claimed Sandusky washed his body during the shower, sources said.
As part of the May 1998 investigation, police had the boys mother call Sandusky to her State College home and confront him while they hid in another room, according to sources. Another boy, now an adult in the armed forces, was named as a witness in the 1998 Penn State police report and has been contacted by state police, his wife confirmed.
When reached by phone, his mother said she took her son to Penn State police for questioning in 1998 but didnt listen to the interview. She said she never asked her son what happened.
Retired Penn State Police Officer Ron Schreffler handled the 1998 case. When approached recently, Schreffler said he couldnt comment and asked a reporter, How did you see that report?
"Guess that old fart never really understood what the meant in all of his 46 years as coach."
I see an argument for TERM LIMITS in this sad tale. Like Congressmen and Senators "for life", it shows what happens when someone occupies a seat of power too long.
Joe Paterno thought by his mere presence and good intentions that nothing bad could happen at PSU. Who doubts that when Paterno told Sandusky that he would NEVER be the Head Coach at PSU, he KNEW that Sandusky was a child molester. I think it was Joe's way of administering punishment.
What happens when Sandusky takes the stand at trial. He will drag as many folks down with him as possible. We will find out who knew "what" and "when". The magnitude of this scandal will be scar PSU forever.
Sandusky was not part of the football program when this happened and it appears he had a right to access the training facilities as part of his retirement. This would not have been negotiated by Paterno.
REGARDLESS, of the inactions of others on the Penn State Campus, a responsible man would have demanded details concerning this incident,
Schultz and Curley told the Grand Jury that it was all just horseplay, which is why they are facing charges. Why do you think they would have told Paterno any different?
The link was already on this thread.
The timeline is pretty damning for Paterno.
In 1998 while the guy was directly under Paterno he was caught in the showers with a minor male from the troubled youth program the PennStatePedofile ran.
This incident was apparently enough to remove him from his job, but not enough to remove him from campus.
This led to the 2002 incident of anal sex with a 10 year old in the Penn State shower.
After two credible reports of this guy in the shower with minor males - NOTHING until almost 10 years later.
Seems the facts are pretty damning and Joe Paterno was driving the bus all that time. Time for him to be thrown under it by any group of decent people. We will see if Penn State is a group of decent people or the kind who would continue to turn a blind eye to pedophilia.
I hadn't heard about the 1998 incident. Where did that come out?
Why Shultz and Curley were charged was because they reported this incident of child rape as "horseplay", after being told by the graduate student that it was obviously anal sex.
Sandusky WAS a part of the PennStatePedo program during the 1998 incident. This led, no doubt, to his "retirement" - where he was still running a program for troubled young men and still had access to PennStatePedo facilities. This led to the 2002 incident that was written off as "horseplay" by the two.
But there was no need for either man to tell Paterno anything - as he had already received a first hand account from the graduate student - Paterno was the first official employed by PennStatePedo that was told of the SECOND incident.
Who knows how many knew about the FIRST incident of this guy being caught in the shower with a male child.
I couldn't find that in the Grand Jury Report.
Victim 6 told his mom that he had showered with Sandusky which started a police investigation but he was not "caught in the showers".
I used to have the utmost admiration for Paterno.
But he should have retired years ago.
When it became obvious he was clinging on to get the 'most wins' title my admiration took a hit.
If he was sure of this event he should have taken whatever required to get legal action .
On top of that the university allows Sandusky access to their facilities??
1) If Sandusky was not part of the football program, why did the Grad Student feel the need to report the incident to Paterno?
2) I don't think Paterno needed to be "told" anything.
It is clear he had a very good idea that this was much more than "horseplay", and of a serial nature.
"Who knows how many knew about the FIRST incident of this guy being caught in the shower with a male child."
Reported to the cops in '98 and covered up. Read the grand jury report (it's not that long) linked above. Joe Pa knew waaaaaaay back then. Joe Pa knew EVERYTHING that went on that had to do with his football team.
The first incident he was "caught" in that the child reported it to his mother.
When I was a child sneaking out after bedtime with a friend - and later he told his mother - and his mother told my dad - I considered myself "caught" sneaking out after bedtime.
But that is just semantics.
PennStatePedo football had a record of TWO incidents of this guy in showers with male children. One in 1998 before his removal, and another one in 2002. By the time 2011 rolled around the guy shouldn't have still been hanging around PennState. If there were decent people associated with PennStatePedo football the guy would have been in jail for most of the last decade.
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Standard E-Commerce is a scalable shopping cart for Ecommerce sites developed primarily for the SOHO (small office, home office) store owner who wants to add transactional capabilities to an existing website. You can organize, manage and ship your products, and you have the the flexibility you need to run a successful online business. It includes shipping, payment, marketing, security, design, and admin features, as well as customer and product management tools.
Highlighted Features
- Easy Populate - Easily edit and update your database using Excel, then upload any number of products throughout your store.
- Multi-Language Capabilities - Present your store in English, French Spanish, and German.
- Runtime Code Inclusion - RCI allows custom modifications and additions to be used with the base program code so customisation overwrites are easier to avoid.
FedX 1.11 MS2
|Extra shipping module to use FedEx for shipping
Free Shipping logic enhancements
|Allows skipping the shipping page if it's not needed and consolidates the controls.
Shipping Modules
|More Australian, Canadian and British shippers added
Shipwire order fulfillment integration
|Shipwire warehouses, packs, ships, and gets volume shipping discounts for you
UPS Choice 1.8
|Allows customers to specify UPS shipping methods
USPS Methods 2.5
|Allows customers to specify USPS shipping methods
Catalog URL return after log-in
|Customers can link directly to their account information as bookmarks or favorites in their browser
Events Manager
|Keep track of all events going on in your store
Explain Queries
|Development and debugging tool used to evaluate SQL queries. For technicians only
Header Tags Controller
|Page Control, Text Control, and Fill Tags can now be entered as text without any programming, throughout the site, as easily as they were set in products pages in earlier versions
|Not Included in Standard Package
Information Pages and Categories
|Easily categorize and add information pages in their own InfoBox
|Set up a "Links" page from other sites automatically without having to email and manually add each one
Mysql Backup
|Backs up even the largest database with ease
OSC-Affiliate 1.09
|A powerful affiliate program to let others sell your product for you, you pay commissions
|Not Included in Standard Package
Page Cache Settings
|Enable the page cache features to reduce server load and render pages more quickly
|Not Included in Standard Package
Runtime Code Inclusion Expansion
|RCI allows custom modifications and additions to be used with the base program code, with less likelihood of customizations being overwritten
SMTP mail server abstraction
|Email can now be sent using an SMTP connection instead of the sendmail command
Admin Language Editor clean-up
|The language editor is easier to use. Catalog and Admin files have been separated into discrete groups to simplify locating files.
Admin Session Length control
|Set the length of your Admin sessions and eliminate lost work due to timeouts.
|Admin Home Page content modules
|These are now controlled from within the Admin. They can be turned on and off, and they use RCI for installation of additonal blocks.
Admin SSL Enabled
|Secure administration automatically installed (must have secure server)
Admin Template section and header clean-up
|Admin enhanced and easier to read.
Admin URL return after log-in
|Click on an order link in an email to go directly to that order in your Admin.
Admin With Access Levels 2.2
|Assign different access and passwords to different administrators, allows you to log in, reset password, send forgotten passwords
|Not Included in Standard Package
Checkout Configuration
|Customize customer checking out screens
Create New Account or New Order
|Accept customer orders via phone, enter them into your store yourself
Define Mainpage
|Write or edit your home page welcome text
Infobox Admin v1.1MS2
|Easily add pages to your Information InfoBox
Tiny MCE (WYSIWYG) Editor in Admin
|No need to understand HTML to enter text using the Admin; as easy as typing an email
EFS.net Payment Module
|Extra payment module to use EFS.net for credit card processing
GeoTrust / SkipJack Payment Module
|Extra payment module to use GeoTrust or SkipJack for credit card processing
Monthly Sales & Tax 1.55
|A sales tax report that extracts the information your accountant needs to do your tax reports
|Not Included in Standard Package
PayBox Payment Module
|Extra payment module to use PayBox for payments
Paypal Shopping Cart IPN 2.8
|Notifies your database that a payment has been completed; now automatically installed when you specify PayPal (must also set up on PayPal site)
Price Formatter update
|This update improves the way product prices are calculated by enhancing the handling of additional costs from attributes and other factors.
Credit Card Blacklist
|Refuse to accept credit card numbers that you specify
|Not Included in Standard Package
Credit Card Encryption Manager
|Specify how to encrypt credit cards for security; view or hide credit card numbers of customers
|Not Included in Standard Package
Credit Card in a Box
|InfoBox tells customers what credit cards you accept
Customer Edit Page
|Includes all information fields
Customer Statistics Report
|See how many new customers, how many purchased, number of orders, total sales, shipping, average sale
Customers Not Validated Report
|If requiring validation before opening an account, see list of customers who have registered for an account but never sent validating email
Edit Orders 1.56 MS2
|Enter orders and customers for orders received from phone or other non-web source
FAQ Manager
|Create and manage FAQ's better. Have FAQ categories, multilingual support
|Not Included in Standard Package
Multi-language capabilities
|Present your store in English, Spanish, French, and German
Purchase Without Account
|Customers do not need to set up an account in order to make a purchase
Shop by Price Infobox
|Allow customers to view all products over or under a certain price
Who's Online InfoBox
|Let customers view how many other customers are in your store
|Not Included in Standard Package
All products and manufacturers
|Lists all products sorted by manufacturer
All Products v3.0
|Lists all products sorted by category
All-Products v2.4
|Lists all products on one page; customer and search engine friendly
Attribute Sorter Copier
|Makes setting product attributes easy
Daily Products Report
|See how many products purchased, name, model, price, and totals
Download Controller
|Complete control over download purchases. Set how many downloads are allowed and when they expire
Easy Populate 2.75MS2
|Easily edit and update your database using Excel, then upload any number of products
Featured Products
|Select which products you want customers to see listed as Featured Products on home page
Image Upload into folders
|When adding or editing categories and products, you now can use a drop-down menu to select the destination folder for your images.
Meta Tag Controller/ Generator
|Assigns meta tags to each product on Products and Categories pages
Product Extra Fields
|Easily create additional special fields that allow customers to specify details such as Shipping Type, Initials or Customization desired, etc.
Product Notifications Report
|Tells how many customers have requested to be notified of updates to each product
Product Sort enhancement
|List your products and sub-products by name, model number, price, manufacturer, quantity available, weight, or most-recently added.
Products Expected
|Spotlight recently added products
Wishlist Report
|Allow customers to keep and send to friends a list of products they want to buy or receive; see what products customers have put in their wishlists
|Not Included in Standard Package
X-Sell MS2
|Make more money per customer by suggesting related products
|Not Included in Standard Package
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Meet the N1 Systems Manager
By user12601629 on Dec 05, 2006
Last week I introduced you to some of the features of SunMC. This time I'd like to introduce you all to the N1 System Manager (aka N1SM). We all know the N1 brand has been subject of a lot of hyperbole over the past several years. However, when you set that aside, this is one really slick piece of software. I got my first live demo of it from the engineering team today and I was really impressed.
Many of the N1 products (and a lot of the team) came from acquisitions (e.g. CenterRun, Terraspring). I was surprised to learn today that some of the cool technology in N1SM actually comes from the Cobalt management product (remember the Qube?). It's good to see something great actually came out of that after all. So that you can all see what we're talking about, here's a screen shot of the UI for the product.
The UI is all browser-based. However, it has a slick interaction model that includes a lot of rich-client-like behavior. For example, the interactive shell allows administrators to work on systems with a rapid-fire set of command line operations where appropriate. Also, operating systems can be provisioned by dragging and icon that represents an image template to a machine. It's very slick.
The product is designed and tested to allow a single admin to manage hundreds of systems from a single location. The product interfaces deeply with service processors for a range of hardware allowing for real remote management. The product even includes push-button firmware provisioning and patching.
As we combine these features with our connected management capabilities (like those that come from Update Connection) the product will only get stronger.


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Eugen Saenger conceived of a winged spaceplane while a doctoral candidate at the Vienna Polytechnic Institute. His 1933 Silverbird concept was for a Mach 10 glider that would cruise at 160 km altitude. The aircraft was to have a spindle-shaped fuselage and low aspect ratio wedge wings. Saenger published Techniques of Rocket Flight' privately in late 1933. By 1934 he had refined the design to a hypersonic boost-glide vehicle. It would have a hypersonic L/D ratio of 5.1, reach a top speed of Mach 13 at burnout of its rocket motor, and then enter a 5,000 km long glide, reaching a stable Mach 3.3 cruise at 50 km altitude. By the end of the 1930's Saenger had refined the Silverbird aerodynamics to a flat-bottomed, half-cone slender body, with a hypersonic L/D of 6.4 and a subsonic L/D of 7.5. The final refinement to the design was his 1944 report Concerning Rocket Propulsion for Long-Range Bombers, which featured a spaceplane 28 m long with a 15 m wingspan and 100 tone take-off mass. The glider would reach a top speed of 21,800 kph and have a range of 23,400 km.
in: 1985 dollars. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 16.000 million. Standard warhead: 5,000 kg (11,000 lb). Maximum range: 25,000 km (15,000 mi).
Stage Data - Saenger
Status: Study 1943.
Gross mass: 133,773 kg (294,918 lb).
Payload: 5,000 kg (11,000 lb).
Height: 34.00 m (111.00 ft).
Diameter: 2.32 m (7.61 ft).
Thrust: 6,000.00 kN (1,348,800 lbf).


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We are design and development specialists. We design and develop websites and provide cost-effective solutions for people who require a stylish and accessible presence on the Internet. Although we come from a background in sports information presentation, Occipital work with clients across a broad range of different projects.
If you'd like to view our previous work you can take a look through the case studies we've picked out from our portfolio, or just browse the slideshow for a quick overview. If you'd like to learn a bit more about us and the way we work you can read about our principles. Or, if you just want to ask us a question, feel free to get in touch.
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Our latest site to launch is The National Fitness Test. Aiming to provide a new standard for measuring the nation's health, The National Fitness Test provides the user with simple home-based tests with video instructions and a straightforward scoring system to record and track the results. So we built them a website that could do all that and much more.
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North St. Louis County, MO - As Ferguson and the surrounding communities begin to take the first steps toward healing as a community after the shocking death of 18-year-old Mike Brown, an unarmed black teen, earlier this month, residents, watchers and the media alike are letting their opinions be known.
"Neighbors were horrified by the gruesome scene: Mr. Brown, 18, face down in the middle of the street, blood streaming from his head," reports the New York Times of that awful day. "They ushered their children into rooms that faced away from Canfield Drive. They called friends and local news stations to tell them what had happened. They posted on Twitter and Facebook and recorded shaky cellphone videos that would soon make their way to the national news."
For most people in the world, this scene in Ferguson is far away from home, just a concept rather than a hometown. But for some, it's a place where they shop and live and work.
While it's fair to say that the racial issues aren't unique to Ferguson, it's Ferguson and St. Louis that are in the spotlight right now. And while everybody and their brother seems to have something to say about this issue, what are the residents of St. Louis County really thinking? What are they really saying?
Ferguson and North St. Louis County are under an international microscope today as everyone watches to see what will happen next. Between the local, national and international coverage, along with all of the independent coverage, many people have taken a side.
Even the L.A. Times has published some rather one-sided statistics about Ferguson.
"Ferguson's police chief and mayor are white. Of the six City Council members, one is black. The local school board has six white members and one Latino. Of the 53 commissioned officers on the police force, three are black, said Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson.
Blacks in Ferguson are twice as likely to be stopped by police as whites, according to an annual report on racial profiling by the Missouri attorney general. Last year, 93% of arrests following car stops in Ferguson were of blacks. Ninety-two percent of searches and 80% of car stops involved blacks, the report said."
Where St. Louis County stands on Ferguson, Brown
Three Mindsets to Consider
Among the locals, there seem to be three primary mindsets about the situation. While there are those who are likely just enjoying the chaos or publicity, most residents have a genuine interest in the case, and on the most basic levels, their opinions look like this.
Unarmed black youth killed by white cop. Justice must be served. Period.
Some residents of both black and white heritage are of the opinion that no matter what happened before the shooting, the shooting was not justified because Michael Brown was not armed.
Lucas Jackson, a St. Louis County resident who happens to be white, is one of them.
"The issue should be why did a cop have to shoot an unarmed suspect 6 times? Do police normally shoot to kill?" Jackson said. "I mean, you can't really come back from a shot to the head. Didn't he have a taser or mace?"
"It seems there is a training issue here," Jackson continued. "Not just in Ferguson but throughout the country. I don't want to turn the officer or Michael Brown into a villain. I'm sure that officer will replay this situation for the rest of his life and think about what he could have done different. I can't imagine it's easy to take a life even when you think it's justified."
South County resident Karen Hampton called the Ferguson situation "one of the biggest tragedies to strike this region in years."
"I and others hope we as a city can move forward and decrease bitching and fearing," Hampton said. "But since it happened, at least the awareness of the nation was changed."
300-pound, 6-foot tall teenager bum-rushes police officer after forcibly robbing store and trying to take away the officer's gun.
While many people were initially on the side of those mentioned above, some jumped ship when additional details came out about Darren Wilson, the officer who shot the boy, and his side of the story. It started with the fact that Brown allegedly committed a "strong arm robbery" just before his death.
"They released a video of victim strong arm robbing a store and the family called it 'character assassination,'" said Ferguson resident Joe Morris.
Many county residents, like Christy Stahlman, say they want to reserve judgment, but the case seems to speak for itself.
"I'm trying to stay open-minded but the more I watch and listen, the more I keep hearing against Mr. Brown," Stahlman said. "Even Mr Brown's friend said that they robbed the store, and now I've seen a video that he agrees 'Big Mike' was beating up the cop."
She added: "I've also read a letter from another young man supposedly from his 'hood' talking about how aggressive and abusive he is. If even HALF of that is true I can understand why the cop would perceive a threat early into this (past run ins -- I've head he also had a history). More than anything else though for my own peace of mind I have to believe the police would not be so callous and ambivalent with the loss of a life, no matter what color."
Jim Schramm, who lives in Ferguson, agreed, noting that "in training the words 'wound"'and 'kill' don't even come up."
"In a split second situation, most people who carry a weapon will do the same thing," Schramm said. "Aim for center of mass and keep shooting until you are no longer in danger. When it comes down to it, any altercation involving a weapon is a 'my life or theirs' choice."
"God forbid that anyone innocent ever find themselves in that situation, but if they do I hope they do exactly what they are taught to do, and then go home alive to their families and deal with the aftermath," he continued. " And before 'unarmed' comes up again, 6'4" and almost 300 lbs is definitely enough to put you in serious danger of being injured or killed."
We won't know what the truth is until the investigation is complete.
Many people, including West St. Louis County resident and journalist Drew Selman, say they're reserving judgment until the case is closed.
"I don't have an opinion just yet. Lots of nuance and assumption still in this story," Selman said. " I was trained in school and on the beat to look for the more plausible story. Said a million different ways, when you hear hoof-beats, think horses, not zebras."
Hazelwood resident Emily Endres agreed, saying she believes that the case remains up in the air for now.
"I think we don't have the facts so let the grand jury do their job," she said. "Then ask after the facts are in."
"There is evidence out there, I just don't think its nearly as clean cut a circumstance as protesters would have you think," Selman added. "Ask which is more plausible - a 6-year decorated cop without a blemish or hint of racism on the job killed a kid just because he was in the middle of the street or a 6-year decorated cop was attacked by a big kid and was being rushed by the same kid who would likely kill him if he got close."
St. Charles County resident Bridget Blair agreed, saying she was "undecided at this point," and noting that there have been "so many mainstream media lies" in this case.
Blair continued to say that there were "so many view points (in the situation). I'll say my stand has yet to be determined."
She added: "All the racism, militarization, looting, rioting and blood shed is heart breaking and disturbing on so many levels."
Uncensored Voices on the Ferguson Struggle: Is it about race?
While many inside and outside of the community are saying that race is clearly the problem, others say race isn't the issue at all.
"I find it very disappointing that so many are crying racism while spewing nothing but racism," said Stephanie Dierberg, who lives outside of South County. "I'm also disappointed that Mr. Brown was portrayed as such an upstanding young man and as the facts to the contrary started coming out, those professing his sainthood refused to admit and acknowledge that there's a good possibility that Mr. Brown may have been in the wrong on many levels."
Others, like Kirkwood resident Linda Austin, say that the danger is in jumping to conclusions, pointing to the fact that we don't know the full story yet.
"I don't know how anyone can even have an opinion yet without hearing all the details," Austin said. "Scary how people so easily jump to conclusions and then have tunnel vision. Only thing more scary is the police response in the earlier days and how much control media has over sheep-like masses."
Tabitha Hampton, a young professional woman who graduated both high school and college in St. Louis County's University City, is among those who don't see racism as the issue here.
"I know that many people are using recent events to demonstrate how racism is still a major issue in this country, and I won't dispute that, but there socio-economic disparity is also a very prevalent issue for all races," Hampton posted on her Facebook page. "I hate that this is turning into a black vs. white issue. What if the officer had been black? Would the reaction have been the same? What if the turn of events had nothing to do with race, and everything to do with the fact that the officer was just a trigger-happy asshole who woke up on the wrong side of the bed?"
Hampton went on to add that not every "white" person is a racist, "just like there are lots of 'black' people who are."
"Let's keep the focus on justice for THIS boy and the unjust loss of a HUMAN life, and use this as an opportunity to learn and grow together as a society," she continued. "You can't vilify an entire group of people by their profession, race, class or lack of understanding for your experiences."
In regard to Ferguson specifically, Hampton said, "That community and this country needs healing, not vigilante 'justice' acts of violence and crime. And law enforcement needs to respect the rights of citizens and journalists to assemble and document what's going on. They should not be taking a militant stance against those who are peacefully protesting for justice. There is a lot of hate at ground zero and both vigilantes and over-reactive law enforcement are two sides of the same coin."
Read More About What the Ferguson and St. Louis County communities say: What About the Robbery That Brown Was Allegedly Involved In Just Prior to His Death?
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About this time last year, Lenovo made a bid for the title of creator of the world's smallest desktop PC, with the launch of the IdeaCentre Q180. Now, an equally diminutive replacement is making a grab for the very same title. The IdeaCentre Q190 is reported to offer up to 80 percent faster processing performance over last year's model, is available with double the system memory, and up to 1 TB of HDD storage.Read More
Lenovo has unleashed a new device which falls into the HTPC or nettop PC category - the Windows 7-based IdeaCentre Q180. The book-sized computer will fit easily alongside any television set, where it can serve as an entertainment hub, given that it handles 1080p videos and optionally supports Blu-ray videos in 3D.Read More
The IdeaCentre A600 is Lenovo's first all-in-one desktop and has the same levels of style and presence as Apple's iMac. The A600 is very slim, features a 21.5-inch frameless screen, an integrated speaker system including a bass sub-woofer and Dolby Home Theatre audio certification, an optional Blu-ray player, a digital TV tuner and an optional 4-in-1 remote controller with air mouse functionality (presumably accelerometer-based ), enabling users to control on-screen objects according to the movement of the remote. It can also be used as a cordless VOIP handset, a media center/TV remote, and Microsoft Vista Media Center users can use it to operate DVDs, movies and TV. There's also VeriFace facial recognition technology which allows users to use their face as their log-on password.The IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop will be available in April from US$1000.Read More
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"Dear Georgie, I've heard that MCTs (medium chain triglycerides) help improve brain function in older people? It really dramatically improved my grandmother's mental function when her diet was switched…..do you know how this works?"
I'll admit it. I had to look this one up! As far as fats and brain health go, much of what I've read has focused on the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) in particular has been implicated in have beneficial impacts on the the development and progression Alzheimer's disease (1) but MCTs and Alzheimers? New to me!
What I found in reference to your query was really quite fascinating, and there is some research to support the usage of MCTs to assist brain function, particularly in age-related cognitive decline.
Brain cells run chiefly on glucose, but that's not the whole story. They can and do use other fuels when needed, which is good news for you if you end up skipping lunch on hellish work days. Neurons can use lactate, glutamine, and ketone bodies from fat metabolism in addition to glucose. So when glucose isn't readily available, alternative fuels take over.
There's evidence that impaired glucose metabolism plays a role in Alzheimer's disease. In fact, reduced glucose oxidation is the primary metabolic alteration seen in brains affected by mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease (2). A decrease of 20-40% in glucose utilization has been reported, with glucose usage rates falling as cognitive decline progresses. Infusing glucose into the bloodstream directly has even been shown to enhance performance on several tests including orientation, word recognition and recall, narrative prose, and face recognition in subjects with Alzheimer's disease (3). However, this isn't desirable as a long term strategy, since the deleterious effects of high blood glucose cause other issues. But it looks like decreased fuel availability or usage might be part of the problem with the aging brain. Even with enough glucose on hand, something's not quite right with it being taken up and used to fuel brain activity.
So providing one of those alternative fuels may help. That's where MCTs can come in. Now, the triglycerides themselves don't actually get used by the brain – but they are metabolized to beta-hydroxybutyrate, a ketone body which is readily used by neurons and may make up (partially or completely) for decreased utilization of glucose (4).
The Bottom Line: If you know someone affected by cognitive decline, including some coconut oil (a rich source of MCTs) might bring about some substantial improvements in their mental function and memory. And if you swap it in for longer-chain saturated fats like butter or cream, it shouldn't cause any negative effects of blood lipids or increase cardiovascular risk.
Bonus Factoid 1: It's not just for Alzheimer's. Apparently the same ketones help provide some neuroprotection against Parkinsons' disease (5).
Bonus Factoid 2: It's not just for Grandma. MCTs will help keep your dog's brain running better as well. (6)


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Nov. 8, 2010
LAKE KARAPIRO, New Zealand - The USA women's 8+ simply had no peer.
This was evident after their dominant performance at the 2010 World Rowing Championships on Sunday, where the Americans made a statement in capturing the Gold Medal in the Grand Final. In an open-water win over the second place Canadians and the third place Romanians, the Americans finished in a remarkable time of 6:12.42. More impressively, it was the fifth straight Gold Medal captured by the USA women's 8+ at international regattas.
For the Huskies, it meant another trophy case item for coxswain Mary Whipple, who is furthering her reputation as one of the best internationally at her position.
"We knew that the Canadians would have a very fast start, and that the Dutch and the Romanians would have a very good charge at the end, so we just wanted to get into our rhythm and inch by inch get closer to the finish line," said Whipple to Row2K. "We knew it would take the whole 2000 meters, so we just stuck to the plan. I don't know how we did it, but I know we did it together."
The next step for USRowing is preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the Americans know the wide gap will be narrowing at that time.
Another Husky women's rower who had success in New Zealand was Adrienne Martelli, who captured a Bronze Medal with the open 4. It was near instant gratification for the recent Washington graduate, who is building her international resume in a short span of time.
Other women's Husky rowers in action at the conclusion of the World Championships were Megan Kalmoe, who finished fifth in the main final of the double sculls, 12 seconds behind the victorious Britons.


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Visalia is only a short drive from Fresno. However it provides you with the opportunity to enjoy some amazing hiking trails.
One amazing hiking trail is the Alta Peak hiking trail. This is a technical and very physically demanding hiking trail. The hiking trail features huge and steep ascents that reward the hikers with amazing views of the Sierra Nevada. The hiking trail is located in the Sequoia National Park so there is an entrance fee. Additionally if you plan to spend the night since it is in a national park a permit is required and there may be a fee to get the permit.
The hiking trail is a total of 26 miles. Additionally as you are hiking you will go up about 3,800 feet. The hiking trail is very out back style so you will need to watch your steps to help avoid injury. This is not the type of hiking trail where anyone can go in any shape or anyone can go running on the hiking trail. The views are amazing especially from June to October. The hiking trail also can be tough for some because at its peak the elevation is about 11,000 feet which can be a bit thin for some people.
If you want a map you can contact the Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park Service. It is typically shown on the John Muir Wilderness area maps in additional to the Alta Peak Topographic Maps and the USGS Lodgepole maps.
Some things to remember when you are hiking is to bring sunscreen, water, food, and make sure to let people know where you are going and your timeline. This hiking trail is in the wilderness and does not seem to be well traveled. If you get lost, which hopefully would not happen, it is best if people know when you went, when you wanted to come back, and where you went so they can send help to search for you.
Prior to going on this hiking trail make sure that you are in good condition. The hiking trail takes you through tough terrain where in many areas you can not turn around. Additionally there are areas where you have no shade so you need to be able to handle the elements.


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Thanks to a combination of the Supreme Court's overreach in the Citizen's United case, which opened the floodgates to corporate campaign cash, and the GOP's successful blockage of the DISCLOSE Act, this election features an unprecedented tide of secret money attempting to sway voters. This unholy combination is blow to the democratic process, allowing wealthy individuals and corporations with their own agendas to influence the political process, with no transparency or accountability. We've already seen how the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch have surreptitiously funded the Tea Party, and how the same Koch family is attempting to derail environmental regulation in California. We only know because enterprising journalists have doggedly followed the money trail, not because those running for election have willingly revealed their sponsors. How many more ad campaigns are secretly underwritten by folks with narrow business or personal economic interests in the outcome? We don't know, and we won't if Republicans are successful tomorrow in blocking the next vote to require politicians to disclose the sources of their funding.
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The Supreme Court's decision and the Republican Block of Any reform has led to the current flood of commercials that we are Constantly seeing now. I counted 15 commercials for Republicans and 1 for Democrats in One hour yesterday.
ALL of the commercials that I keep seeing are FULL of LIES about what the Other person would do if elected and Outrageous claims about what their policies would do for the economy. I guess that the Republicans think that if they tell the people Lies often enough about what their tax cuts for the wealthy and elimination of Healthcare Reforms would do to magically fix the economy that the people would actually start to believe it. It seems to be working.
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Q3 2012 Earnings Call
November 30, 2011 5:00 pm ET
Thomas E. Gay - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Secretary
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Thinh Q. Tran - Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
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Edward McGregor
Thank you, Keith. Welcome to Sigma Designs' conference call to discuss financial results for our third fiscal quarter of 2012. I'm Ed McGregor, Sigma's Director of Investor Relations, and with me today are Thinh Tran, Sigma's Chairman and CEO; Tom Gay, our CFO; and Ken Lowe, our Vice President of Strategic Marketing. The press release containing the quarter results including selected income statement and balance sheet information was released after the market closed today. If you did not receive the results, the release is available in the Investors section of our website.
Today's agenda will begin with my brief introduction, a review of selected financials by Tom, an executive overview by Thinh, a market update by Ken and comments on guidance by Thinh. We will then open the call to questions from analysts and institutional investors, and we expect to conclude the call within one hour.
Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that today's call contains forward-looking information, including guidance we provide about our future revenue, gross margins and other financial measures and anticipated trends in our target market. We caution you that the forward-looking information that we present today is based on our current beliefs, assumptions and expectations, speak only as of today's date and involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations.
Other risk factors that may affect our business and future results are detailed from time to time in Sigma's SEC reports, including Sigma's quarterly report on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC on September 8, 2011. A partial list of these important risk factors is set forth at the end of today's earnings press release. Sigma undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement except as required by law. In addition, during today's call, we will be reporting certain financial information on a non-GAAP basis, such as non-GAAP net income, which excludes certain costs and expenses. These excluded items are described in more detail in today's earnings press release along with a detailed reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP results.
And now I'd like to turn the call over to Tom.
Thomas E. Gay
Thank you, Ed. For the third quarter of fiscal 2012, revenue was $39.7 million, a decrease of $7 million or 15% compared to $46.7 million in the previous quarter. Compared to the year-ago quarter, our revenue decreased $38.1 million or 49% from $77.8 million. Our revenue breakouts for the quarter are as follows: by target market and percentage of total revenues for the quarter, IPTV Media Processors represented $10.8 million or 27% of the total; Connected Home Technologies, $16.8 million or 42%; Connected Media Players, $9.1 million or 23%; Prosumer, $2.8 million or 7%.
During the third quarter, we had 3 customers that each exceeded 10% of our net revenue. Alpha Networks represented $5.5 million or 14% of the total; Gemtek, $5.4 million or 14%; and Motorola, $5.1 million or 13% of the total. GAAP gross margins were 45.3% for the third quarter compared to 27.8% in the preceding quarter and 49.6% in the same period last year. Non-GAAP gross margins were 52.4% for the third quarter compared to 34% in the preceding quarter and 53.2% in the same period last year. A major factor causing last quarter's gross margin being lower was a write-down of excess inventory valued at $7.8 million, which equals a gross margin decrease of 16.7%.
GAAP net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 was $121.6 million or $3.78 per diluted share. This compares to a net loss of $22 million or $0.69 per share in the previous quarter, and GAAP net income of $5.1 million or $0.16 per diluted share in the year ago quarter. Included in this quarter's loss was a $111 million write-down of goodwill and a portion of our intangible assets based primarily on reductions of our market capitalization. These intangible assets were created in association with our various acquisitions and are a noncash expense in this quarter.
On a non-GAAP basis, net loss for the third quarter was $2.7 million, or $0.08 per diluted share. Compared to the previous quarter, this is an improvement from $11.3 million of non-GAAP net loss of $14 million or $0.44 per diluted share. Compared to the year ago quarter, non-GAAP net income decreased $15.7 million from income of $13 million or $0.41 per diluted share that we reported.
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Remotak offers a modern alternative to the old-fashioned paper TV Guide, providing detailed and interactive schedules for today's channels on both a web and Android app.
Turning the traditional handbook into a social experience, the service allows smartphone users to check which television shows their friends are watching, interact with them through the platform, watch some channels live on their device, and send reminders of when their favorite TV shows will be on.
"There was an opportunity to improve this experience especially with statistics showing that 50% of television viewers use their smartphones while watching TV. So we decided to reinvent the television experience by setting up the Remotak platform," says Ahmed Fathalla, CEO of startup GyroLabs which developed the service.
Scanning channels might soon be a thing of the past, as Remotak lets users search for their favorite shows and even check out their friends' recommendations. The platform also calculates each show's popularity and notifies users about friends watching the same program. Users can then comment on a specific TV show and share their comments through social media. Particularly useful for local consumers, Remotak offers listings in colloquial Egyptian Arabic.
"As a startup, we focus on employing fresh graduates who make up for their lack of experience with hard work and enthusiasm. We have made a big effort to create a work environment that promotes creativity, says Ahmed.
The GyroLabs team, one of the first graduates from Egyptian incubator Flat6Labs, currently has 6 members: Ahmed, two Android OS app developers, a developer/programmer, a social media specialist, a web designer, and a project manager.
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While the platform is still in beta, Remotak currently supports more than 100 open and encrypted NileSat and ArabSat channels.
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Their business model is based on advertisements; content providers (television channels and show producers) can use Remotak's platform to communicate with the public, see how users are sharing their shows, and offer promotional offers that match the viewers' interests.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book… (original 2012; edition 2012)
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This book saddened me. I wanted to like the author and be inspired by her story, and sadly, neither happened. I wish Cheryl Strayed had found a qualified therapist at some point – any point – in her life who could have helped her with her self-destructive behavior. I found her to be an unhappy person who chose to be unfaithful in her marriage, to use drugs and abuse alcohol. I was dismayed at the various stories she chose to include in this memoir. I know more about her sex life than anyone needs to know. The graphic details of other aspects of her life – the horse's death and her bizarre dreams of killing her mother, for instance – easily could have been omitted or toned down. When she finally does recall her time on the Pacific Crest Trail, I thought we would see a transformation, from lost woman to one who found a purpose in life. But nothing she wrote about indicates that she had any kind of epiphany. Instead, we are told about all the problems she had in carrying a too heavy backpack. We heard about how dirty she got, how smelly she became, and how worried she was about her skin that was rubbed by her backpack becoming like "tree bark and plucked dead chicken flesh." We learned that one of the items she thought essential when she started her hike was a strip of condoms. Maybe, for her, they were. She did have sex pushed up against a rock with a man she just met. Undoubtedly, her mother's death devastated her, and affected her in ways we do not know. From the publisher's summary, we are led to believe that this hike was the catharsis that healed her. But from her entries about the trail, it seems like she didn't experience any kind of breakthrough. She trudged on day after day, pitching her tent when she got too tired and sore to walk, and then recounting the score of her toenails.
Wow. I love stories of people in the wilderness and this was a good one.
I read this as the upcoming movie looked quite interesting. I was disappointed at the lightness and self indulgence. I have read several "trekking" stories and this would be one of the weakest I have read
I thought that this was a very inspiring book. A young woman who really has nothing but hurt and has been going down a destructive path decides to change her world by challenging everything about her by walking the PCT. And came out better on the other side. It was funny and encouraging.
Cheryl Stayed writes about her three-month solo hike from California to Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail.
She says she was depressed from her mother's death and felt like her life is ruined. She divorces her husband , who is too caring towards her (as she writes) and was living a life with lots of drugs and men. So to transform herself and think about her life's mess, she goes on hike, alone. Where as she never hiked before.
The reasons for messing up her life looked not only stupid enough to make me believe, she hiked 2,663-mile wilderness route stretching from the Mexican border to the Canadian, traversing nine mountain ranges and three states without a single bad experience or attack was ridiculous.
This book stinks of the craving for fame, media attention and money. I stopped after few chapters.
It's not very manly, the topic of weeping while reading. Yet for a book critic tears are an occupational hazard. Luckily, perhaps, books don't make me cry very often — I'm a thrice-a-year man, at best. Turning pages, I'm practically Steve McQueen.
Cheryl Strayed's new memoir, "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail," however, pretty much obliterated me. I was reduced, during her book's final third, to puddle-eyed cretinism. I like to read in coffee shops, and I began to receive concerned glances from matronly women, the kind of looks that said, "Oh, honey." It was a humiliation.
To mention all this does Ms. Strayed a bit of a disservice, because there's nothing cloying about "Wild." It's uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift makes you feel that you're committing mental suicide. This book is as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It's got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound.
A candid, inspiring narrative of the author's brutal physical and psychological journey through a wilderness of despair to a renewed sense of self.
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IMF Executive Board Approves US$195.5 Million Disbursement to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Under the Exogenous Shocks FacilityPress Release No. 09/74
March 12, 2009
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a disbursement in an amount equivalent to SDR 133.25 million (about US$195.5 million) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the Rapid-Access Component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (RAC-ESF).
In September 2008, the Executive Board approved modifications to the ESF, which make it faster to access, easier and more flexible to use, and capable of providing more financing. Those modifications came into effect in November 2008. The disbursement to the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the RAC-ESF helps mitigate the impact of the adverse effects of the global financial crisis, which has translated into a severe drop in the country's terms of trade and in foreign direct investment, particularly in the mining sector.
Following the Executive Board's discussion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on March 11, 2009, Mr. John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chair, stated:
"In late 2008, the global financial crisis and the economic slowdown induced sharp declines in the world prices of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's key exports. These declines, combined with an escalation of the conflict in the eastern provinces, have reduced gross official reserves to a very low level, placed pressure on the exchange rate, and weakened economic growth prospects.
"The Congolese authorities have adopted appropriate policies to respond to the shock. These include a fiscal stance that avoids recourse to central bank financing, and tight monetary policy in the context of a flexible exchange rate regime. Nevertheless, in the absence of sufficient donor assistance over the short-term, the resulting balance of payments and fiscal financing gaps would necessitate substantial import compression and government spending cuts.
"The IMF's financial support under the Rapid-Access Component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility, together with stepped-up assistance from the Democratic Republic of Congo's other development partners, will help to cushion the impact of the exogenous shocks on the economy and facilitate the economy's adjustment to the shocks. Although there are substantial risks associated with the persistence and the depth of the global economic slowdown, the authorities are prepared to take additional fiscal measures to safeguard macroeconomic stability should domestic revenues or external donor support fall short of expectations."
The Acting Chair also issued the following statement at the conclusion of the Board's discussion:
"The Democratic Republic of Congo's failure to provide accurate data on the observance of two performance criteria gave rise to non-complying disbursements under the 2002 Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement, and to disbursements of additional interim assistance under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. As the deviations were minor and the Congolese authorities have implemented corrective measures to address the weaknesses in public and central bank financial management that resulted in the non-complying disbursements and interim debt relief, the Executive Board granted waivers for the non-observance of the two performance criteria."
Recent Economic Developments
Since 2001, the return of peace in most of the country, improvements in economic management, and transition to a representative government helped economic recovery. Economic growth in 2002–07 averaged over 6 percent while inflation was contained at relatively moderate levels. Gross official reserves were rebuilt albeit from very low levels and hovered around 2–3 weeks of import cover.
However, falling export prices on the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008 contributed—together with a surge in public spending to tackle the escalating conflict in the eastern provinces—weakened macroeconomic performance. The higher spending (largely for security) and the slowdown in export revenue resulted in large government borrowing from the central bank. This induced draw down of gross official reserves, which by end-2008 reached a five–year low of US$75 million (less than a week of import cover) and a 10 percent depreciation of the franc against the U.S. dollar. In response, the BCC raised its policy rate in three steps from 28 percent to 65 percent in late December 2008 and early January 2009 and the reserve requirement ratio from 5 percent to 7 percent. Economic growth in 2008 is estimated at about 8 percent, relative to a projected 10 percent. Inflation, which eased during the later part of 2008 owing to falling world food and fuel prices, rose markedly in December—fueled by the depreciation of the franc—and ended the year at 28 percent.
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The IMF's support under the rapid-access component of the ESF will help facilitate adjustment to the sizeable terms-of-trade shock, contribute to the rebuilding of gross official reserves, and catalyze financing from the Democratic Republic of Congo's other development partners. To mitigate the impact of the exogenous shock on the economy, the authorities are: (i) targeting zero government borrowing from the BCC to avoid exchange-rate depreciation and inflation spiral; (ii) Redirecting spending to activities that would prop up domestic demand; and (iii) Keeping monetary policy tight while maintaining the flexible exchange regime. These policies and increased external balance of payment support should allow the DRC rebuild its gross official reserves to the equivalent of about 2.6 weeks of imports by end-2009.