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They've gone well above three dollars a gallon in much of eastern Kentucky and of course we're talking about gas prices.
They spiked again this week and chances are you're paying more.
"WYMT found gas prices still as low as 2.84 in one spot in eastern Kentucky and that was at the Spur Oil Station… you may know it as the big chicken in Barbourville.
We also found prices as high as 3.19 here at the Middlesboro Kroger.
Experts say it pays to shop around, but no matter where you go you're going to pay about 3 dollars a gallon.
So if you're stuck paying it they say you might as well get the most out of that tank of gas.
"A man has to go without something to eat to fill his car up to back and forth to work," Edward Daniels said.
Gas is getting more expensive so experts say every little bit you can conserve helps.
They say you can start by watching the way you drive.
"If you accelerate quickly and decelerate quickly you're just wasting fuel," Jan-Michael Lambdin said.
AAA officials suggest if you stick to speed limits you'll get the most out of your gas.
They also say plan your trips and try to consolidate your errands into one trip and even try to carpool if you can.
But while you still have the car there are things you can do to it to conserve gas.
Mechanics say number one keep tires inflated because low tires make your car work harder and consume more gas.
They also say with every oil change to get your air filter checked.
"If you're getting less air to the engine same fuel, but less power so you're wasting fuel there too," Jan-Michael Lambdin said.
It might sound like common sense, but Triple A urges motorists to shop around.
One thing they told WYMT was that many people like to stick with a certain brand.
They say don't worry about that because your buying pretty much the same fuel everywhere you go so simply shop around and try to get the lowest price you can find.


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LeAnn Rimes is the Bully That She Doesn't Want You to Be
8/12/2013 6:30 AM PDT, by Sarah Taylor
So, it's another day, which means that another LeAnn Rimes social faux pas is unearthed where she ends up looking hypocritical and immature while continuing her quest to stick it to Brandi Glanville. What a gem. ... A gem filled with bitterness and nonsense, to be quite accurate.
This time, however, LeAnn didn't just passive-aggressively slam Brandi on Twitter for, I don't know, not matching little ones' socks the correct way ("I would TOTALLY NEVER FOLD MY BOYS' SOCKS THAT WAY"), she showed her support for two fans wearing shirts that said "F--- Brandi." While that wouldn't normally be a thing to care about, because everybody knows how LeAnn feels about Brandi and vice versa, the problem is that the dudes in the photo had worn the shirts to LeAnn's recent concert stop, where Brandi's sons were rumored to be in attendance.
Nobody knows if LeAnn met the men in question at the concert, or if they merely posted the photo on Twitter and LeAnn happened to skulk around the interwebs, trying to find anything to support her anti-Brandi cause, but the fact remains -- LeAnn Rimes tries to portray herself as such an "advocate" of the anti-bullying movement, and then goes and deflates most of her credibility by being unable to contain her own hate (in a public forum, too) toward the mother of her beloved stepsons.
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Computer Crime and Digital Evidence: What Every Police Chief Should Know
By Mark Bowser, Computer Crime Specialist, National White Collar Crime Center, Fairmont, West Virginia; Ben Lewis, Computer Crime Specialist, National White Collar Crime Center, Fairmont, West Virginia; Jan Fuller, Computer Forensic Investigator, Redmond Police Department, Washington; and James Emerson, Chair, IACP Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee, and Senior Vice President, ICG Incorporated, Princeton, New Jersey
ame one major crime that has nothing to do with digital evidence. This is a difficult task since digital media has entered every aspect of modern life, as it has also entered the lives of criminals.
Even the most mundane activities are touched by digital media. Some of them are obvious, such as visiting an ATM or using a global positioning system (GPS) device to get directions to a destination. Others are more subtle, such as walking the aisle of a local grocery store while being filmed on digital cameras and mundane activities such as paying for gas through a credit card transaction. These are just a few examples of how people are exposed to, use, and are tracked with digital media.
How much does digital media affect people? Consider a typical day:
When people get up in the morning, they typically turn on their cell phones, alerting the cellular network that they are now capable of sending or receiving phone calls. They log in to their office computers, make purchases online, or use search engines to find answers to questions.
At lunch, they program their smartphones' GPS applications to locate new restaurants. On their way back to the office, they use their phones again to look up afternoon appointments. They check their emails, and some update their statuses on social networking sites to let others know that they are looking forward to the end of the workday.
On the way home from work, they call home to ask what items are needed for dinner; all the while, their travels are being recorded from one cell phone tower to the next. At home, they settle in for their nightly rests, but only after they answer a few personal emails or watch movies downloaded from some known or unknown vendor on the Internet.
Modern society has become reliant on digital media, and police agencies are no exception. Much of law enforcement has transitioned to paperless reports. Dispatch conversations are digitally recorded, and patrol cars have laptop computers installed in them to provide officers a broader communication network.
Criminals are no different. They also are dependent on digital media, and they use the same smartphones and computers in their everyday lives as law-abiding citizens and law enforcement. Consider the following scenario:
A local law enforcement agency's gang investigation leads investigators to obtain and execute search warrants at multiple locations for drugs and weapons. Investigators notice gaming consoles are present at both locations. The consoles are powered on, and a chat window is open showing what appear to be messages regarding the gang's criminal activities. A gang member subsequently admits that members use the online gaming network to communicate with gang members because they feel it provides less risk of monitoring by local and state law enforcement.
Investigators from a small, local agency are immediately confronted with the following questions:
This scenario could easily involve smartphones, GPS devices, electronic book readers, tablet computers, or countless other computing appliances in addition to the industry-standard laptop or desktop computers, which may require unique forensic skills and tools to legally and effectively preserve and examine evidence critical for a criminal prosecution or exigent circumstances to protect life.
Many law enforcement executives may not be surprised by this scenario, as they and their agencies are immersed in the use of technology daily. In an era where resources available to public safety are diminishing, however, increasing amounts of technology and associated digital evidence must be addressed by officers at all levels. It is essential that each agency clearly understand existing capabilities and skills needed to provide police services for their jurisdictions in the information age.
People have established their social reliance on digital devices and media, and this creates challenges for law enforcement in responding to and investigating crime. How should law enforcement respond? First and foremost, it is imperative to recognize what items can—and often do—contain digital evidence.
Once officers are able to correctly recognize digital media or devices, they should then develop an understanding as to what evidence of criminal activity could be contained on the media or devices, how to protect evidence from contamination, and how to properly package and transport those items. Frontline officers should have the skills and tools necessary to conduct a preview of data on a computer system, allowing a cursory look at a victim's or a suspect's computer without adding or changing any data on it.
Law enforcement detectives often hear from digital evidence forensic examiners that the turnaround time for processing digital evidence could be a month, if not years, and staffing issues for these specialized units are difficult and expensive to maintain. What can be done?
The most efficient way to improve performance is by providing the first tier of training to frontline patrol officers (see figure 1). This training should specifically aid officers with identifying what digital media is and what could contain something of evidentiary value in a criminal or civil proceeding. It should also teach how to properly seize those items without destroying the evidence, as well as what procedures should be used to process this evidence to garner investigative information, including how to triage or preview digital media or devices.
By educating frontline officers on how to conduct an onsite preview of digital media, law enforcement executives can empower officers to determine what steps need to be taken next. Make an arrest? Obtain a search warrant and seize the digital media for further forensic examination? Clear the case because of no evidence of criminal activity? Any of these are possibilities.
The second tier to consider is a less broad group consisting of investigators or crime scene processors who already have experience or training on identifying, seizing, triaging, and previewing digital media without losing its evidentiary value.
This tier is learning more intermediate skills such as how to create a forensic image (that is, an exact duplicate of original media containing all data including deleted and unallocated files) and how to conduct a live image capture. Live imaging is becoming increasingly relevant with the increased use of encryption by the public. If digital media is encrypted and the device or media holding it is powered off, there is a strong likelihood that no usable data can be obtained for analysis or investigative leads.
Once a forensic image is created, the image can then be used by a third tier of personnel to conduct a complete exam and an analysis of a digital device or media for use in a court proceeding.
The third tier is the most defined group of personnel, identified by their aptitude, extensive knowledge, and desire to process digital media.
Staff members involved in this third tier need advanced training to include conducting advanced examinations and analysis of all types of digital devices and media (for example, cell phones, GPS devices, home computers, computer servers, and web-based storage and other storage devices, including game consoles). This group will be the most expensive to train, and the equipment and software needed could be cost prohibitive for an agency. There are, however, outside resources at agencies' disposal, such as federal grants, educational institutions, and private partners.
Personnel trained in the tier one and tier two areas should reduce the case workload of the tier three examiners, which in theory will reduce the turnaround time of processing digital forensic cases.
No matter how an agency chooses to tackle digital forensics, a variety of resources are available, depending on the agency's location. These include fusion centers, regional computer forensics laboratories, task forces, and jurisdictions with their own examiners.
The key to law enforcement's response to digital evidence is training. There are plenty of free or low-cost training programs that offer many of the tier one, tier two, and tier three courses, including SEARCH Group, Incorporated; the International Association for Computer Information Systems; the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; the High Technology Crime Investigation Association; and the NW3C. With the emphasis on digital evidence–related investigations, it is important that agencies develop complementary relationships with members of the prosecution staff by encouraging their participation in the development and learning experience of their personnel. When prosecutors take even a basic digital evidence class, they come away with a greater understanding of how much information must be processed for just one case.
Digital devices and media are a part of everyone's social, professional, and personal lives. Digital evidence is just another form of evidence that can be found at the scene of any crime and can be the basis of an investigation. With the rising cost of managing a police department and the drastic reduction of primary budget sources that many agencies are experiencing, it is time to reassess local capabilities and look at a more comprehensive training model that will aid and streamline the investigation and conviction of wrongdoers without breaking a department's budget. ■
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Mark Bowser et al., "Computer Crime and Digital Evidence: What Every Police Chief Should Know," Technology Talk, The Police Chief 78 (June 2011): 84–85.
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXVIII, no. 6, June 2011. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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"The God I Love is the book that captures my heart and thoughts in the events, dialogues, memories, images, and scenes of my life—my walk with God."—Joni Eareckson Tada Joni's name is synonymous around the world with the words "loving God." She has lived out these words since the diving accident thirty-six years ago that left her paralyzed from the shoulders down. Now in The God I Love she looks back on the whole of her life through eyes that can see how that accident actually moved her in a new direction, saving her from another tragedy of her own making. This story-driven narrative captures the events and images of Joni's remarkable life as she describes her life in six themes. She begins with her life as an ordinary girl who is blessed by an extraordinary God—but not without tragic turns. Then she ponders the question, would she have been an artist if she had not broken her neck? She recognizes that through prayer she enters into God's holy presence and finds that he answers her prayers in full measure. She acknowledges that it is only through the kindness of friends that she has bathed or eaten or done the countless simple tasks that make up everyday life. Because of her unusual situation, her wheelchair has rolled onto platforms around the world where millions of people have heard her speak about her Savior. Through tragedy Joni has come to know God, the living, surprising, wonderful Lord of all. A note from Joni— The God I Love is a memory still unfolding of the journey that keeps taking me deeper into the heart of my Savior. It's my prayer that this story, which spans over fifty years, will resonate with each person who takes time to pick up the book...it's my prayer that The God I Love will serve as a roadmap, a guide, a signpost to light the journey of each reader, helping them to see their sweet, soft desperation of Jesus, too.
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More than twice as many Hurricanes compared with Spitfires were on squadron service when the War began. The Hurricane was the product of Hawker's head designer, Sydney Camm. He had designed a whole series of bi-plane fighters for the RAF. The Hurricane was the direct descendent of the last of these. It was to replace the Hawker Fury bi-plane which had been standard on many RAF squadrons, and entered squadron service in January 1938.
The Hurricane's construction followed the same pattern as its antecedents. The body and the wing of the Hurricane were covered in fabric. The aeroplane was slightly larger than the Spitfire and in comparison it was slightly slower, having a top speed of 328mph, but it was a thoroughly reliable gun platform. Moreover, pilots who flew it swore by its performance. The aircraft was considered highly manoeuvrable: it could turn more tightly that both the Me109 and Spitfire. The aircraft had the advantage of being relatively simple to service. It also had the major advantage of being able to take a great deal of punishment from enemy fire. It was more simple and straightforward to manufacture than the Spitfire.


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MOSCOW (AP) -- Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie.
Cristiano Ronaldo missed United's third penalty kick and, with a chance to win Chelsea's first Champions League's title, John Terry hit a post.
On Chelsea's seventh kick, Manchester keeper Edwin van der Sar dived to bat away Nicolas Anelka's drive and give United its third European championship following titles in 1968 and 1999.
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Classic of the week: Kick Off 2
February 15, 2011
If you are a gamer since the good old Amiga-times and if you're also a soccer-fan you will know Kick Off 2 for sure.
Kick Off was designed by Dino Dini and released by Anco for Amiga in 1989.
Unlike many other soccer games the ball did not stick to the player's feet but instead was realistically kicked ahead from the players, thus making a tackle a matter of skill rather than of choice.
It required some practice to get used to this behavior, but the controls were brilliant and allowed for a lot of different things like dribbling, shooting, passing.
If you've kicked the ball you can add after touch. By using aftertouch you can chip & bend the ball.
Kick Off 2 is most fun when played against other human players.
Each year there is a world-championship where a lot of players meet to compete against each other.
Gianluca Troiano created Throw In, a modern remake with the classic gameplay. The game is free and you should definitely check it out – it's a lot of fun.


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DAYTON, Ohio — The campaign for president pivoted sharply to character and temperament Thursday as Democrat Barack Obama accused his Republican counterpart of "erratic behavior" and John McCain offered his most public — if still elliptical — criticism of Obama's acquaintance with a onetime domestic bomber.
With the free-falling stock market as a backdrop, Obama sought to use McCain's newest economic proposal — a mortgage bailout plan he announced in Tuesday's presidential debate — to suggest in his sharpest language yet that McCain is unfit to be president.
He criticized a change the senator made to the mortgage plan that would give a break to lenders that made bad loans.
"So banks wouldn't take a loss, but taxpayers would take a loss," Obama explained, characterizing the switch as "just the latest in a series of shifting positions ... this is the kind of erratic behavior we've been seeing out of Senator McCain."
Each candidate has tried to characterize the other as the riskier choice for voters, and McCain's effort Thursday to portray Obama as iffy presidential timber took a page from the 1960s. Campaigning with running mate Sarah Palin at a town hall event in Waukesha, Wis., McCain was asked by an attendee about Obama and "the people that he has hung with."
Without mentioning the name of former Weather Underground member William Ayers, McCain alluded to him as "an old washed-up terrorist" and said that "we need to know the full extent of the relationship because of whether Senator Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not."
McCain also launched an Internet ad linking Obama and Ayers. The two live near each other in Chicago, and in the mid-1990s Ayers, now an education professor, introduced Obama at a political event at his home. The Illinois senator was 8 years old when Ayers and his colleagues planted bombs to protest the Vietnam War, and it is not clear when Obama learned of Ayers' past behavior. The two are not close, and Obama has criticized the bombings as "detestable."
The moves by Obama and McCain in Middle America suggested the outlines of the campaign with 26 days to go before Election Day: Obama, riding a surge in national and bellwether-state polls, was campaigning in southwestern Ohio. He was using the economy as a cudgel against McCain.
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i dont think mw can do sweeps before 40 weeks. if i wanted one it would of had to have been approved by a con.
as you are so close now go with the sweeps (prob better u go into labour that way that via induction) by the time u get a cons app and they book u in it will be prob be way past your due date now anuway.
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L.A. Filmmaker "Rebrands" Abercrombie & Fitch Using The Homeless [VIDEO]
A week or so ago I put out an article about the Abercrombie & Fitch CEO's controversial remarks about the brands target demographic. A&F CEO Mike Jeffries' comments went viral and caused a lot of backlash. In regards to the A&F drama, a L.A. filmmaker has decided to express his disappointment by using homeless people to help "rebrand" A&F's desired image.


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New York senators are advancing legislation to establish penalties for spending welfare funds on liquor, lottery tickets, cigarettes or strip clubs, saying there's $125 million in federal funds at stake.
States that fail to take steps to curb using debit cards to get cash from ATMs at casinos and liquor stores by Feb. 22 face possible loss of federal aid.
Sen. Thomas Libous, a Binghamton Republican, says the Senate will again pass his bill, which died previously in the Assembly.
An Assembly spokesman says the change can be done administratively, and the Senate's bill goes far beyond what federal law requires.
Troy restaurateur Sarah Fish, a former welfare recipient who stood with Libous Tuesday, says there's little accountability in public assistance.
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Bill "Robby" Robinson always believed that the word "retirement" sounded "too terminal."
So, the late Marietta Times sports mainstay never really did "hang up the pen per se," and continued to cover games and write articles for many years after he cut back on his newspaper duties in the early 1990s. He was 58 then.
Robinson's first love was always writing, and what he loved to write about the most was Marietta College sports, especially the baseball team.
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A memorial plaque for the late and former Marietta Times sports editor/writer Bill Robinson has been added at Don Schaly Stadium.
During the last years of his life, he was pretty much on the Pioneer beat.
Recently, a memorial plaque for Robinson was added at Don Schaly Stadium. His plaque joins Big John Wharff and Paul Erb as people who were special to MC Baseball and are permanently memorialized at Schaly Stadium.
Robinson would've been honored and tickled pink as he spent many an afternoon there over the years, reporting on games from the press box.
He incidentally had a hand in helping the NCAA Division III World Series come to Marietta in 1976, and also served on the WS committee for several years.
Actually, Robinson has been recognized by MC before. In 1989, he received the Marietta College M-Team Distinguished Service Award for "many years of outstanding services and contributions to Marietta College athletics."
On press row in the Pioneer press box, he usually donned a St. Louis Cardinals ballcap, and loved to engage in conversation with anyone and everyone in the vicinity. The Cards of course were his favorite MLB team, and he was a big fan of Stan "The Man" Musial.
Yes, Robinson was truly in his element at Pioneer Park, as it was known for many years.
If a person hadn't known Robinson, he or she might have thought that he was a Marietta College alumnus. But, no, he wasn't even from the Buckeye State.
Born in Milan, Tennessee, Robinson played both prep football and baseball. In his youth, he also enjoyed drawing skyscrapers, and entertained thoughts of becoming an architect someday.
Imagine that.
Fortunately, he didn't like mathematics.
Anyways, when he graduated from Milan, he received the U.S. Rubber Co. Award as the outstanding senior in his class.
Later, he attended Memphis State, and got his bachelor of science degree in journalism. Then, he earned a master's degree at the University of Missouri.
How a native of the Volunteer State ended up in Marietta is an interesting story in itself.
In a nutshell, Robinson was recruited by William E. McKinney, also a Missouri grad and former publisher, general manager and part owner of The Marietta Times. When he first arrived in Washington County, he said he got homesick, and nearly did an about face.
McKinney, though, was patient, persuasive, and talked his protege out of it "over a bowl of ice cream."
That was in the late 1950s, and the rest as they might say was Bill Robinson history. And, that history has included numerous journalism honors and awards.
Robinson penned his last Marietta Times sports story in mid-June of 2011. It was about Jim Schaly umpiring in the NCAA Division I World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
Schaly is the son of Robinson's good friend and late, legendary MC baseball coach Don Schaly.
On Nov. 9, 2012, Robinson passed away at Heartland in Marietta. A week later, he was back home and buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Milan.
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A topic I rarely see broached - what db remixes, if any, match or transcend their studio counterparts?One remix that really took me aback was the Rubber Mix of Hearts Filthy Lesson. Stripping away the claustrophobic wall of noise that defined the original, this version has a moody, introspective vibe that I didn't know the original was capable of. Plus, it's great to hear all of Mike Garson's piano parts clearly.On that note, I should also point out that the version of Bring Me The Disco King from the Underworld soundtrack may be the single best thing to come out of Reality. All that remains from the original is Bowie's voice, and it turns out that that's all it needs - though I'm definitely fond of the original, there's a defiance and grandeur here that manages to outdo the original's cool melancholy.The third example that springs to mind is the Nine Inch Nails V1 version of I'm Afraid Of Americans, though some of the more radical reinventions on that same EP are pretty cool too.So yeah. Your thoughts?
Almost all of the remixes of songs from Tonight and NLMD are better than their studio counterparts.
what was the telling lies mix that initially went to radio airplay? far superior to the album version, imo. (too bad he's had so many horrendous ones - need i say, fame 90?)edit: it seems like the mix i have in mind is mark plati's "feelgood mix," so it's kind of the single version.
actually, adam f's remix is quite good too (a bit too dancey for my liking)
yeah Adam Fs one should have been the definitive version.BMTDK (loner mix) is up there.As is Shake It remix Loving the Alien (dub mix)NLMD (single mix)Blue Jean (extended mix)Hearts Filthy Lesson (Rubber band mix)IAOA (NIN mix)I'd rather be an arrogant, reckless Richard than a feline thats covered in faeces.
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Belk officials announced Monday its store will close in February 2015. The closure will affect 58 employees, who can apply for positions at other stores or become eligible for severance pay, company officials said.
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|Sean Avery is optimistic his experience will benefit the Dallas Stars, especially during the playoffs.
It was during that time when Avery began thinking, "What if?"
"I think if you threw me into the Dallas lineup in that series against Detroit, it definitely would have made a difference." he said.
Stars fans are hoping the gritty Avery can do just that, after all Dallas has not beaten Detroit in four previous playoff series. Despite the fact the Wings have firmly entrenched themselves as the class of the NHL and the odds-on-favorite to become the first repeat champions since, well, Detroit in 1997 and '98, the Stars feel they now have a blend of youth, experience and talent to challenge for the top spot as well.
Avery, 28, became a part of that mix when he agreed to a four-year contract with Dallas, his fourth team in six seasons, on July 2.
"I think you always work to help your team reach the top, and that includes getting guys to play their best and remain healthy," Stars Co-General Manager Les Jackson said. "It's a matter of taking the group of players we have and putting them in a situation where they can be complementary and produce. Our young guys came in and developed well last year. No disrespect to the other teams in our conference, but I feel we can compete with all of them."
Avery is looking forward to joining forces with Brenden Morrow, Steve Ott, Brad Richards, Mike Modano, Mike Ribeiro and Marty Turco.
"I know I've had my battles with (Brenden) in the past, but the good thing about hockey players is the fact once you become teammates, that stuff is all forgotten," Avery said. "It'll be exciting to play on the same team, maybe even on the same line. You almost have more respect for the guys you've battled in the past, even a guy like Steve Ott, who I know I'll enjoy playing with. It'll probably bring my (penalty minutes) down a bit because it seems I always ended up fighting or scrapping with one of those guys. It'll be tough for other teams to play against me, Brenden, Modano, Ribeiro and Richards and Ott. It's going to be a lot of fun."
Avery is optimistic his playoff experience will benefit the organization.
"I've proven myself in the playoffs and that's the part of the season that I consider the most exciting time," he said. "I feel I can bring a physical presence. Whether that's a kick start or bringing something else to the table, I feel it'll certainly help our chances against a team like Detroit or San Jose or Anaheim, or whoever we face in the playoffs."
Avery admitted his relationship with Stars co-GM Brett Hull played a big part in his decision to sign with the club.
"This is a better team than the one I formerly played on so that's a big attraction and very important to me because being able to win provides more opportunities," Avery said. "The relationship I had with Brett and, now with his moving on to management and the faith he has in me that I can come in and help the team win, also played a big role."
Avery and Hull have known each other since their days as teammates in Detroit from 2001-03. At the time, Avery was breaking into the league and Hull had just experienced a Stanley Cup championship with Dallas in 1999. Avery lived with Hull during his tenure in "Hockeytown."
"(Brett) was my favorite player growing up and, then, 10 years later, I end up living with him," Avery recalled. "I probably took on his persona a little bit and I don't think I was really ready to do that. But as far as watching a guy play and being able to read the game, he was certainly beneficial."
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How the cheapest X86 with 6 ports became the smartest switch on MWC15!
Two weeks before mobile world congress the Canonical offices received from Amazon one of the cheapest Intel servers with 6 Ethernet ports. It contains no hardware acceleration. Two weeks later employees from Ericsson, Cisco, Huawei, ZTE, HP Networking had to admit that they could not take us to see a smarter switch in the whole of MWC. This blog post is about what made this switch the smartest switch. The next blog post explains how this smart switch can solve the four biggest problems in the telecom industry (I.e. new revenue, churn reduction, cost reduction and OTT revenues).
So what made this switch so smart. First of all when we got it, it was an Intel server with an i5 processor and we had to go and buy 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD and put Ubuntu Core on it. The next thing our brilliant engineer Loic created was a Snapp App or Snap that made port 1 into WAN and the others into LAN. Now we actually had a switch. He and our equally brilliant head of R&D, Alex, also worked with F5 on a Snap that can boot up a KVM in which you run another operating system. This allowed us to put F5 Linerate in the switch. The end result is that we have the only Switch that very easily can support any exotic operating system to run on top. Via our Docker framework we could also run Docker based networking logic. However if you run the networking logic inside a Snap then this would give bare-metal performance with the flexibility of completely reconfiguring the switch by just deploying a different snap or adding multiple. If the engineers of the companies, that had to admit we had the smartest switch, want to win tomorrow then they just need to take a box with accelerated networking hardware and put a Snappy Framework that mediates between different Snaps that use network hardware acceleration. It would be the most flexible software defined networking appliance or SDNA out there. We also worked with the super engineers from Balabit that delivered a Firewall Snap in three days. So now we can assign Linerate to port 2 till 4 and Zorp to port 5 and 6. Making it a very flexible SDNA and Ubuntu Core the perfect NFV or SDNA operating system.
Zabbix already made one of our best written Juju Charms and they made a Snap of the Zabbix agent for ARM and Intel in no time. This means that our SDNA was now being monitored.
When telling the public that we called Microsoft to ask if they could write some software for our SNDA and open source it, everybody was surprised they said yes. The truth is that Microsoft is one of our best partners for quite some time now. Two days later we had a Snap that worked both on Intel and ARM and put a nice graph of the real-time load of our SDNA onto Azure. They even documented everything hence any programmer can connect Ubuntu Core to Azure super easy. Impressive work and thank you Microsoft because it made for a very surprising element in our story.
Even more surprising was the fact that we had ARM software running on Intel. Thanks to Forgerock and ARM we had an ARM mbed coap snap and mbed device server running in the cloud. Forgerock and ARM helped to put our SDNA inside a complete device management solution with identity and access management being seamlessly resolved.
However none of these solutions made us have the smartest switch of MWC. That was reserved to our amazing IoT partners Dataart and Cybervision. A simple €5 bluetooth low energy dongle integrated our switch with light and temperature sensors. Devicehive made our switch magically into a light controller. What was event more amazing was that via a Snap our switch became AllJoyn compliant and was the first switch to be able to talk to a television, dishwasher or fridge. The open source Devicehive will shortly be extended with Snaps for all possible IoT standards solving one of the biggest IoT problems for IoT developers instantly: interoperability. This will be the easiest way for any industrial gateway to become compliant with all types of standards. Also the cool open source IoT platform Kaa made our switch magical. Imagine how a shop can easily buy a Snap from a Snap Store that would be able to project Tweets onto a large LED display in the shop's window. If only one Tweet every ten seconds would be randomly selected, it could start a new trend of Tweesplaying. The store that started it could potentially have millions of Tweets competing to be on the display and become an instant social network celebrity.
The last part was my most personal contribution. If you work with the most brilliant engineers you have to be able to ask intelligent questions. Nothing better than actually trying out the technology they just created. Thanks to a discount in Maplin, we were able to buy a robot arm for £35. Three hours later it was build. However there were no Linux drivers. I have been looking for an excuse to learn Golang and build something with Ajax. The end result is on github and you can now control the Maplin robot and make it do amazing demos via a Json script or some buttons.
All this would not have been possible without the contributions of all these amazing partners and colleagues, so thank you very much. So without any delay here is the smartest switch and the first software define network appliance, or SDNA. We hope somebody soon makes a smarter one because the hardware specs was embarrassingly low-end compared to what was available on the show.
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5 Strategies for Making Money with the Cloud
Everybody is hearing Cloud Computing on the television now. Operators will store your contacts in the Cloud. Hosting companies will host your website in the Cloud. Others will store your photos in the Cloud.
However how do you make money with the Cloud?
The first thing is to forget about infrastructure and virtualization. If you are thinking that in 2013, the world needs more IaaS providers then you haven't seen what is currently on offer (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Rackspace, Joyent, Verizon/Terramark, IBM, HP, etc.).
So what are alternative strategies:
1) Rocket Internet SaaS Cloning
Your best hope is SaaS and PaaS. The best markets are non-English speaking markets. We have seen an explosion of SaaS in the USA but most have not made it to the rest of the world yet. Only some bigger SaaS solutions (Webex, GoToMeeting, Office 365, etc.) and PaaS platforms (Salesforce, Workday, etc.) are available outside of the US and the UK. However most SaaS and PaaS solutions are currently still English-only. So the quickest solution to make some money is to just copy, translate and paste some successful English-only SaaS product. If you do not know how to copy dotcoms, take a look at how the Rocket Internet team is doing it. Of course you should always be open for those annoying problems everybody has that could use a new innovative solution and as such create your own SaaS.
2) SaaSification
During the gold rush, be the restaurant, hotel or tool shop. While everybody is looking for the SaaS gold, offer solutions that will save gold diggers time and money. SaaSification allows others to focus on building their SaaS business, not on reinventing for the millionth time a web page, web store, email server, search, CRM, monthly subscription billing, reporting, BI, etc. Instead of a "Use Shopify to create your online store", it should be "Use <YOUR PRODUCT> to create a SaaS Business".
3) Mobile & Cloud
Everybody is having, or at least thinking about buying, a Smartphone. However there are very few really good mobile services that fully exploit the Cloud. Yet I can get a shopping list app but most are just glorified to-do lists. None is recommending me where to go and buy based on current promotions and comparison with other buyers. None is helping me find products inside a large supermarket. None is learning from my shopping habits and suggesting items on the list. None is allowing me to take a number at the seafood queue. These are just examples for one mobile + cloud app. Think about any other field and you are sure to find great ideas.
4) Specialized IaaS
I mentioned it before, IaaS is already overcrowded but there is one exception: specialized IaaS. You can focus on specialized hardware, e.g. virtualized GPU, DSP, mobile ARM processors. On network virtualization like SDN and Openflow. Mobile and tablet virtualization. Embedded device virtualization. Machine Learning IaaS. Car Software virtualization.
5) Disruptive Innovations + Cloud
Selling disruptive innovations and offering them as Cloud services. Examples could be 3D printing services, wireless sensor networks / M2M, Big Data, Wearable Tech, Open Source Hardware, etc. The Cloud will lower your costs and give you a global elastically scalable solution.
Big Data 2013 Predictions
If you just invested a lot of money in a Big Data solution from any of the traditional BI vendors (Teradata, IBM, Oracle, SAS, EMC, HP, etc.) then you are likely to see a sub-optimal ROI in 2013.
Several innovations will come in 2013 that will change the value of Big Data exponentially. Other technology innovations are just waiting for smart start-ups to put them into good use.
Real-Time Hadoop
The first major innovation will be Google's Dremel-like solutions coming of age like Impala, Drill, etc. They will allow real-time queries on Big Data and be open source. So you will get a superior offering compared to what is currently available for free.
Cloud-Based Big Data Solutions
The absolute market leader is Amazon with EMR. Elastic Map Reduce is not so much about being able to run a Map Reduce operation in the Cloud but about paying for what you use and not more. The traditional BI vendors are still getting their head around a usage-based licensing for the Cloud. Except a lot of smart startups to come up with really innovative Big Data and Cloud solutions.
Big Data Appliances
You can buy some really expensive Big Data Appliances but also here disruptive players are likely to change the market. GPUs are relatively cheap. Stack them into servers and use something like Virtual OpenCL to make your own GPU virtualization cluster solution. These type of home-made GPU clusters are already being used for security Big Data related work.
Also expect more hardware vendors to pack mobile ARM processors into server boxes. Dell, HP, etc. are already doing it. Imagine the potential for Distributed Map Reduce.
Finally Parallella will put a 16-core supercomputer into everybody's hands for $99. Their 2013 supercomputer challenge is definitely something to keep your eyes on. Their roadmap talks about 64 and 1000 core versions. If Adapteva can keep their promises and flood the market with Parallella's then expect Parallella Clusters to be 2013 Big Data Appliance.
Distributed Machine Learning
Mahout is a cool project but Map Reduce might not be the best possible architecture to run iterative distributed backpropagation or any other machine learning algorithms. Jubatus looks promising. Also algorithm innovations like HogWild could really change the dynamics for efficient distributed machine learning. This space is definitely ready for more ground-breaking innovations in 2013.
Easier Big Data Tools
This is still a big white spot in the Open Source field. Having Open Source and easy to use drag-and-drop tools for Big Data Analytics would really excel the adoption. We already have some good commercial examples (Radoop = RapidMiner + Mahout, Tableau, Datameer, etc.) but we are missing good Open Source tools.
I am currently looking for new challenges so if you are active in the Big Data space and are looking for a knowledgable senior executive be sure to contact me at maarten at telruptive dot com.
Going from IaaS to SaaS is the wrong direction…
Several operators are planning on launching Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) soon. Afterwards they want to launch SaaS and Telco SaaS (SaaS + Telecom assets) that run on top of their IaaS. Unfortunately this is doing things the wrong way around.
Since an operator spends millions on IaaS, CxOs want to see results. As such telecom managers are looking for applications and SaaS that can utilize this new IaaS. The problem is that operators are likely to spend again 4-6 months to launch a limited number of SaaS that are fully integrated into their complete backoffice system. This means that operators will be able to launch a limited set of SaaS by mid 2012 at very high APEX. Due to the limited number of services, operators are picking the "usual" suspects to launch, e.g. Microsoft 365.
What will happen in mid-2012?
Several European operators will launch their highly priced IaaS together with a limited number of similar SaaS services. The end result will be an oversupply of Microsoft and virtual servers with an immediate price pressure as a result. Enterprise customers will find local operators offering similar services as global IT players, e.g. IBM, HP, Fujitsu, etc. All will have good SLA promises to compete with the likes of Amazon and Rackspace, so at the end the lowest price will be the only selection criteria.
Another approach?
Operators should focus on launching SaaS and Telco SaaS first via open marketplaces. Operators should focus on building up a unique SaaS catalog that sets them apart from competition and builds an eco-system of customers and partners. The next step should be to open telecom assets and allow SaaS solutions to be extended into Telco SaaS. Only when operators see a clear winner in a niche or global marketplace, then they should talk to the supplier about becoming a strategic partner and to use the operator's infrastructure to guarantee SLAs, etc.
The SaaS market is not mature yet. It is hard to pick winners because end-customers are only beginning to migrate towards SaaS. Most operators think that big names like Google and Microsoft are the only way of helping their end-customers move towards SaaS. However applying "Crossing the Chasm", tells us that it would be better to be a big fish in a small pont first. Pick niche markets and specialized solutions that solve problems that currently are not addressed or generate new revenues that currently are not available. These niche products are easier to sell since they often involve a clear customer segment that will see a real problem solved. It will take time for end-customers to switch off their data centers and move everything to the cloud. These end-customers have established policies, IT-staff, etc. that will work against moving towards the cloud. By offering a solution that is substantially better then the current and offering a complete eco-system around a limited set of solutions, operators will be able to easily pursuade a well-defined group of companies to move parts of their operations towards the cloud. A final advantage is also that suppliers of niche products win most with the push of a large incumbant that has established relationships with all potential customers within a niche market. End-customers will not trust SmallABC.com but will trust LargeIncumbant offering the SmallABC solution. A Microsoft-like SaaS has its own name so LargeIncumbant's 365 offering is not bringing end-customers any value.
Operators should focus on automating the onboarding of SaaS and offering quick and easy ways to over-the-top players to integrate telecom assets and become Telco SaaS providers and sell them via the operator's open marketplaces. The only thing missing is to add Support 2.0 to the mix to have a telecom platform-as-a-service or Telco PaaS…


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"The ordinary paper that consumers use throughout their everyday life such as newspapers, books, cereal boxes, etc., is primarily made of wood pulp; however, United States currency paper is composed of 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen," the Bureau of Engraving and Printing says. "This is what gives United States currency its distinct look and feel."
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"As polymer becomes more common and more accepted within the industry, you can expect all central banks to at least consider it," Tim Cobbold, chief executive of banknote printer De La Rue, told CNNMoney.
From experience, I can say that polymer feels a little slicker, but it's not sticky like plastic wrap or stiff like a credit card. You might not even notice the difference.
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West Nile Virus
What is the West Nile virus?
The West Nile virus is spread by insects, most often mosquitoes. The West Nile virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses, and some other mammals.
West Nile virus occurs in late summer and early fall in mild zones. It can also occur year-round in southern climates. Most often, the West Nile virus causes mild, flu-like symptoms. But, the virus can cause life-threatening illnesses, such as:
- Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
- Meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord)
- Meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and its surrounding membrane)
What causes West Nile virus?
West Nile virus is spread to humans through the bite of an infected female mosquito. The mosquitoes get the virus when they bite an infected bird. Crows and jays are the most common birds linked to the virus. But at least 110 other bird species also have the virus.
West Nile virus isn't spread between humans. However, in a few cases it has spread through organ transplant. Health officials think the organ donor acquired the virus through a blood transfusion. As a result, researchers are working to develop a blood-screening test for West Nile virus. However, the risk for getting Nile from blood is much lower than the risk of not having any procedure that would call for a blood transfusion.
What are the symptoms of West Nile virus?
West Nile virus infection in humans is rare. Most people infected with West Nile virus have only mild, flu-like symptoms that last a few days. Symptoms usually appear within 3 to 14 days of infection.
About 20% of the people who become infected will develop West Nile fever. These are the most common symptoms of West Nile fever:
- Fever
- Headache
- Body aches
- Skin rash on trunk of body
- Swollen lymph glands
The more severe form of the West Nile virus affects mostly older adults. It occurs when the virus crosses the blood-brain barrier and can cause:
- Headache
- High fever
- Neck stiffness
- Stupor (a state of impaired consciousness, extreme lethargy, and reduced reactivity to outside stimuli)
- Disorientation
- Coma
- Tremors
- Convulsions
- Muscle weakness
- Paralysis
The symptoms of West Nile virus may look like other conditions or health problems. Always consult your health care provider for a diagnosis.
What are the risk factors for West Nile virus?
Certain things can increase the risk for getting West Nile virus. You are more likely to get the virus if you are exposed to mosquito bites during the summer months in certain places in the U.S., specifically Midwestern and Southern states.
Most people who are infected have a minor illness and recover fully. But, older people and those with weak immune systems are more likely to get a serious illness from the infection.
How is West Nile virus diagnosed?Your doctor will request a blood test to check for antibodies to the West Nile virus. He or she may also do a lumbar puncture to test cerebrospinal fluid for signs of infection.
How is West Nile virus treated?
Your health care provider will figure out the best treatment based on:
- How old you are
- Your overall health and medical history
- How sick you are
- How well you can handle specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- How long the condition is expected to last
- Your opinion or preference
There's no specific treatment for West Nile virus-related diseases. If a person gets the more severe form of the disease, West Nile encephalitis or meningitis, treatment may include intensive supportive therapy, such as:
- Hospitalization
- Intravenous (IV) fluids
- Breathing support (ventilator)
- Prevention of other infections (such as pneumonia or urinary tract infections)
- Nursing care
What are the complications of West Nile virus?
Usually, the West Nile virus causes mild, flu-like symptoms. However, the virus can cause life-threatening illnesses, such as
- Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
- Meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord)
- Meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and its surrounding membrane)
Can West Nile virus be prevented?
At this time, there's no vaccine available to prevent West Nile virus. The CDC recommends taking these steps to avoid mosquito bites and West Nile virus:
- Apply insect repellent containing DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) when you're outdoors. (If you spray your clothing, there's no need to spray repellent containing DEET on the skin under your clothing.)
- When possible, wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants treated with repellents containing permethrin or DEET since mosquitoes may bite through thin clothing. (Don't directly apply repellents containing permethrin to exposed skin.)
- Consider staying indoors at dawn, dusk, and in the early evening. These are peak hours for mosquito bites, especially those mosquitoes that carry the West Nile virus.
- Limit the number of places for mosquitoes to lay their eggs by getting rid of standing water sources from around your home.
Mosquitoes are drawn to people's skin odors and the carbon dioxide from a person's breath. Many repellents contain a chemical, N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), which repels the mosquito. Repellents are effective only at short distances from the treated surface, so mosquitoes may still be flying nearby. Always follow the directions on the insect repellent to determine how often you need to reapply repellent. To boost your protection from insect repellent, remember:
- Sweating, or water may call for reapplication of the product.
- If you aren't being bitten, it isn't needed to reapply repellent.
- Use enough repellent to cover exposed skin or clothing. Don't apply repellent to skin that's under clothing. Heavy application isn't needed for protection.
- Don't apply repellent to cuts, wounds, or irritated skin.
- After returning indoors, wash treated skin with soap and water.
- Don't spray aerosol or pump products in enclosed areas.
- Don't apply aerosol or pump products directly to your face. Spray your hands and then rub them carefully over the face, avoiding your eyes and mouth.
Repellents containing a higher concentration of active ingredient (such as DEET) provide longer-lasting protection. Read the directions to find out how long your product will last.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advises using care when putting insect repellent on children:
- Use products with a low concentration of DEET, 30% or less, on children between ages 2 and 12. (Some experts suggest that it's acceptable to apply repellent with low concentrations of DEET to infants older than age 2 months. For children younger than age 2, only one application per day of repellent containing DEET is recommended.)
- When using repellent on a child, apply it to your own hands and then rub them on your child.
- Avoid children's eyes and mouth and use the repellent sparingly around their ears.
- Don't apply repellent to children's hands because children tend to put their hands in their mouths.
- Don't allow a young child to apply his or her own insect repellent.
- Keep repellents out of reach of children.
- Don't apply repellent to skin under clothing. If repellent is applied to clothing, wash treated clothing before wearing again.
Always consult your health care provider for more information.
When should I call my health care provider?
Most people infected with the West Nile virus will have only mild symptoms. However, if any of the following serious symptoms develop, seek medical attention right away:
- High fever
- Severe headache
- Stiff neck
- Confusion
- Muscle weakness
- Vision loss
- Numbness
- Paralysis
- Tremors
- Seizures
- Coma
Key points
- Humans get West Nile from the bite of an infected mosquito.
- Usually, the West Nile virus causes mild, flu-like symptoms.
- The virus can cause life-threatening illnesses, such as encephalitis, meningitis, or meningoencephalitis.
Next steps
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your health care provider:
- Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
- Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your provider tells you.
- At the visit, write down the names of new medicines, treatments, or tests, and any new instructions your provider gives you.
- If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
- Know how you can contact your provider if you have questions.


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The Simpson Bump: Everybody's Doin' It!
The lemmings have emerged from their burrows.
Sullivan & Cromwell, Paul Weiss, Cleary Gottlieb and Cadwalader all announced today that they have matched Simpson Thacher's breathtaking salary bump, announced yesterday. At the high end, it seems that Sullivan pays its senior associates slightly more than its peers, paying its Class of 1998 associates $310,000, versus $290,000 for Simpsonites at the same level. Above the Law has all the news.


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It might look pretty, but ice strikes a chill in the hearts of area power companies.
"When we hear ice storm, snow storm, any kind of storm but espeically ice storms we get very concerned," explains Manager of Finance and Member Services Dave Clinton.
Clinton with BARC electric says extra powers crews were brought in to deal with the storm.
28-men and their equipment helped to double BARC's work force on the ground.
At its height, 900-customers were in the dark.
"The ice can cause a lot of problems with tree. Ice forms on trees. Trees branches break off. Trees can come over, they can come into the power lines," says Clinton.
And, ice on the line can also damage the lines themselves.
The weight of it can actually snap them.
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Y'all, this is Courtney Love -- Courtney Love who is 50 years old and looking better than she has ever looked before.
Whatever Courtney's been doing lately -- whether it's yoga or insightful interviews or playing nice with her 22-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, it's certainly working for her. This is the best Courtney's looked in ... well ... ever, probably, and if this is an indication of what's to come, Courtney's second round of 50 years on this planet might be her finest set yet.
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Jim Draper will be working for the next couple of weeks capturing the rolling oaks of Southwood on four sheets of canvas. It's all a part of Southwood's first artist in residence program through May 17th. Draper says he hopes to catch the way light hits the trademark oaks of our area.
"I think about the oaks. It's the old plantation oaks, which is what Tallahassee is known for is the ancient oak trees with the moss and that's what this place is about and that's what these paintings are about." Draper said.
Draper's work in progress will be called Plantation Oaks. His other acclaimed pieces have graced the walls of hundreds of corporations and private collections.


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A Nigerian national and a Mumbai-based Indian trader have been arrested in the Indian city of Mumbai for allegedly running an international racket of cloning credit cards and using it for shopping on the internet, the city's Crime Branch officials said yesterday.
Kolawole Michelle from Nigeria and Surjeet Singh from Mumbai were arrested on Saturday with 185 blank credit cards, credit card printer and reader, laptop computer and other equipment used for cloning credit cards, they said.
During interrogation, the accused persons said they had got the cloned credit cards from a gang run by a Nigerian based in Mumbai, which were sent through a local angadia (a form of courier service), police said.
Following a tip-off that two persons, including a Nigerian, were hiding near Sarangpur area, police raided the place and arrested the duo. They have been booked under section 465, 467, 468 (forgery) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 66 and 65 of the Information Technology Act.
Last week, Mumbai's city crime branch arrested four persons with 53 cloned credit cards of various banks.


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Motorcyclists in Saskatchewan say they're shocked at a Saskatchewan Government Insurance submission that could see their insurance costs go up by an average of 73 per cent.
While other vehicles have caps on how much insurance rates can increase for them in a given year, SGI is calling for the removal of a similar cap on motorbikes.
Don Fuller is a bike enthusiast who has been riding since 1968 and owns five bikes.
He says under the proposed changes, he could end up paying $5,300 a year in insurance for his Ducati streetbike, up from the current rate of $1,300 a year.
Guy Lumsden of a Saskatoon Harley-Davidson dealership says people would go crazy if the government hikes their power bill or gas bill by 73 per cent.
SGI is justifying the proposed rate hike for motorcycles by saying there is a wide gap between what they take in from motorcyclists in fees versus what they pay out for their at-fault collisions.
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Yesterday, I listened in on a webinar put together by Melcrum and Newsweaver titled, "Measuring and benchmarking internal communications." For the price (it was free), I'm glad I signed up.
Melcrum I'm very familiar with and was a former member in a past life, but Newsweaver was new to me. They are an email marketing company but also have an internal communications spin so it interested me.
The webinar promised I would learn:
Measurement is one area where a lot of internal communicators struggle so any advice or tips on the topic are certainly welcomed by the industry. I did take some screen shots throughout the webinar and found some of the data quite interesting.
I'm assuming some of this data came direct from Melcrum (thanks to the handy little logo on the left). It's no surprise that of the tools currently used Email ranks as numero uno. The almighty intranet came in second and leadership communication (face to face communication) rounded out the top 3.
Of the tools communicators were planning to use, social networking and blogs were at the top. Again, no surprise, but it was disappointing to see video still so far down the list. I'm not quite sure why video isn't being used (now or in future plans) when it's so easy to do.
The saddest part of all in this chart? That so many were stopping the use of newsletters. In my opinion, it's not because newsletters have become irrelevant. Oh no. It's because people have grown tired of doing them.
Now with this slide, I'm not questioning the data at all. I'm questioning the data source. I have yet to talk to an honest communicator would would claim that their intranet is the most effective part of their internal communication strategy.
I was with a Symon prospect in Baltimore just this week where the talk was around the ineffectiveness of their intranet and email communication. Funny enough, those rank #1 and #2 on this chart. This company is looking at touch screen digital signage to provide an interactive communication platform for all workers, those with and without computers.
If this chart reflected time spent on communication vehicles, I bet it would look pretty similar. Time spent does not equal effectiveness.
Now I thought this was a pretty cool idea. Aon Hewitt has an icon-based system for signaling to employees not just the urgency of the content but who the audience is for that content. The example shown looks to be on an intranet page.
But this same set of ideas could be applied to a printed newsletter (gasp!) or even a digital signage screen, touch or non-touch. It's a subtle way ot teeing up the content for the audience. You know if you see a red dot, it's important. Or if it's a green dot, no rush. I'd love to hear direct from an Aon Hewitt employee on how this works for them.
If employees trust the level of prioritization, it could work across multiple platforms.
The rest of the webinar went on to talk about the benefits of engaging design (big thumbs up), the value of surveys and polls, as well as storytelling (one of my personal favorites). All great topics.
But "benchmarking" is another interesting area to discuss. Denise Cox, a lead consultant for Newsweaver, led the webinar and shared that internal emails have a 52% open rate. That's Newsweaver's "benchmark." In this case, that was the average across all of their clients as I understand it.
Benchmarking is something that organizations have done for a long time for a lot of good reasons. But there are also some inherent dangers of benchmarking. By just trying to be as good as everybody else, are you really challenging how great your organization can be.
If you get a 52% open rate on your internal emails, is that good? If you compare it to the benchmark, it is. If you think that half of your company isn't reading the communication you're sending, that isn't good. So while benchmarking can be a part of measurement and comparison, don't let it hold your communications creativity at bay.
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EAST PRAIRIE - A Charleston man was killed in a two-vehicle accident at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.
According to reports, Melvin D. Burney, 40, of East Prairie was traveling west on Missouri Highway 80, three miles east of East Prairie, when his vehicle ran into the rear of a pickup truck driven by Larry Johnson, 54, of Anniston, who was also westbound. Johnson's truck went off the right side of the roadway and overturned.
Edward L. Golightly, 53, of Charleston, who was a passenger in Johnson's vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Mississippi County coroner.
Burney sustained minor injuries and Johnson was moderately injured in the accident. Both refused treatment at the scene.