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Housing association set to unveil 'solution' to UK housing crisis
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Housing association set to unveil 'solution' to UK housing crisis
A housing association is to unveil what it thinks might be the solution to the UK housing crisis later this month.
Twin Valley Homes has teamed up with Easybase Home Limited for a pilot scheme that will see four new 'instant' homes built in Blackburn.
The housing association's Monmouth Road site is being prepared in anticipation of the arrival of the houses and will be almost complete with fencing, driveways and lawned gardens when the houses are delivered mid-April.
The houses, made from galvanised steel and insulated both internally and externally, have a lifetime guarantee and comply with the Lifetime Homes and Secured by Design criteria.
Construction of the homes takes just a matter of weeks before they are transported from the factory in two sections. The downstairs and upstairs units - including the roof - are delivered directly to site and come complete with a fully fitted kitchens, bathrooms, double glazing, decorated throughout, energy ecient boilers and fully insulated.
The houses will be greeted at Monmouth Road by the onsite crane which will locate the lower unit into position so our team can secure into the foundations. The upstairs unit will then be placed onto the lower unit and secured into position using a brick stitching detail. Connection to the utilities follows and the houses are ready for their very first tenants.
Ian Clark, Twin Valley Homes' Managing Director, said: "We are extremely excited to be bringing these revolutionary properties to Blackburn.
"The shortage of quality, affordable housing has been much publicised, so innovative construction methods such as these can help many more people gain access to their ideal properties.
"Despite the remarkable turnaround time for these houses, they are of extremely high quality – offering style, comfort and low utility bills. We're expecting lots of interest from other housing associations and local authorities around the country, keen to see this unique project for themselves."
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The Economic Lessons of Star Trek's Money-Free Society - "[Manu Saadia] points to technologies like GPS and the internet as models for how we can set ourselves on the path to a Star Trek future. 'If we decide as a society to make more of these crucial things available to all as public goods, we're probably going to be well on our way to improving the condition of everybody on Earth', he says. But he also warns that technology alone won't create a post-scarcity future... 'This is something that has to be dealt with on a political level, and we have to face that.' " (via) [more inside]
Sapiens 2.0: Homo Deus?
In his follow-up to Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari envisions what a 'useless class' of humans might look like as AI advances and spreads - "I'm aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200 years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never came true so far. It's basically the boy who cried wolf, but in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf actually comes, and I think that is true this time." [more inside]
The free development of each is the condition of the war against all
Some Paths to the True Knowledge[*] - "Attention conservation notice: A 5000+ word attempt to provide real ancestors and support for an imaginary ideology I don't actually accept, drawing on fields in which I am in no way an expert. Contains long quotations from even-longer-dead writers, reckless extrapolation from arcane scientific theories, and an unwarranted tone of patiently explaining harsh, basic truths. Altogether, academic in one of the worst senses. Also, spoilers for several of MacLeod's novels, notably but not just The Cassini Division. Written for, and cross-posted to, Crooked Timber's seminar on MacLeod, where I will not be reading the comments."
use value vs. exchange value
the dawn of a Star Trek generation
In Praise of Leisure - "Imagine a world in which most people worked only 15 hours a week. They would be paid as much as, or even more than, they now are, because the fruits of their labor would be distributed more evenly across society. Leisure would occupy far more of their waking hours than work. It was exactly this prospect that John Maynard Keynes conjured up in a little essay published in 1930 called 'Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.' Its thesis was simple. As technological progress made possible an increase in the output of goods per hour worked, people would have to work less and less to satisfy their needs, until in the end they would have to work hardly at all... He thought this condition might be reached in about 100 years — that is, by 2030." (via) [more inside]
Extraordinarily good at copying and following
Infinite Stupidity Now, it sounds incredible. It sounds insane. It sounds mad. Because we think of ourselves as so intelligent. But when we really ask ourselves about the nature of any evolutionary process, we have to ask ourselves whether [our mechanism for generating ideas] could be any better than random, because in fact, random might be the best strategy. Mark Pagel previously, edge.org previously
Survivial of the fittest school of economics?
The Creature Connection: Our love for animals can be traced to our capacity to infer the mental states of others, which archaeological evidence suggests emerged more than 50,000 ago. This article is part of a NYTimes series on the relationship between humans and the animals we raise. [more inside]
God, Memes and Steel
Jared Diamond on the Evolution of Religions. (SLYT)
A New State of Mind. "New research is linking dopamine to complex social phenomena and changing neuroscience in the process."
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Once the Hope of Secular Turks, Ex-Leader Is Now Widely Reviled
By STEPHEN KINZER
Published: April 6, 1997
ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 5— When Tansu Ciller became Prime Minister of Turkey in 1993, millions of Turks joined Western leaders in rejoicing. She seemed the ideal figure to lead her country toward the next century: an English-speaking economist, a woman in a Muslim country, and a dedicated secularist in a region where fundamentalism was making steady gains.
Much has changed in four years. Today Mrs. Ciller is Foreign Minister and a leading member of a coalition Government headed by a Muslim-based party. Many Turkish political leaders accuse her of forging the alliance to shield herself from a series of inquiries into her personal finances.
''They haven't formed a government partnership but a partnership in crime,'' asserted Mesut Yilmaz, the main opposition leader. Mr. Yilmaz was Prime Minister in a short-lived coalition with Mrs. Ciller that fell apart last spring after he indicated that the would support an investigation of the charges against her.
Parliamentary investigators, leading political figures and Turkish newspapers have been examining how Mrs. Ciller and her husband, Ozer Ciller, became multi-millionaires. They have raised questions about her statement that she inherited more than $1 million in cash and gold from her mother, a woman whose former neighbors have described as a penniless pensioner.
Mrs. Ciller's critics have also examined the purchase in 1992 of $1.5 million worth of properties in New Hampshire by an American company headed by her husband. They say Mr. and Mrs. Ciller enriched themselves through illicit use of Government funds in her years as Prime Minister from 1993 to 1996. Some opposition figures have even suggested that Mrs. Ciller once held American citizenship, which if true could complicate her political position here. They have sued in Federal court in New York to obtain her passport records.
While the United States has declined to confirm or deny the existence of such documents, it is fighting the legal action. The State Department has said that disclosing any foreign official's passport records could cause ''great disadvantage, and perhaps personal and familial danger, abroad.''
Mrs. Ciller has denied any wrongdoing. Tim Platt, her New Hampshire lawyer, said she has never held an American passport or been an American citizen. Mr. Platt also said her investments in the United States comply fully with American law.
Some aspects of Mrs. Ciller's rise to the status of a multi-millionaire, however, remain unclear. She has said, for example, that some of her wealth stems from wise investment of the $1.1 million inheritance from her mother, who died in 1995.
But neighbors of Muazzez Ciller said this week that she had lived near poverty in a shabby Istanbul apartment, and doubted that she could have left such a substantial sum.
''This poor woman was sick and barely had enough to eat,'' said one resident of the building where the elder Mrs. Ciller lived. ''We used to do her shopping, wash her dishes and help her cook because she couldn't afford a maid. She got in trouble with the landlord because she was always late with the rent. If she had any money, I'm sure she would have used it to make her life a little easier.''
Mr. Platt said that the elder Mrs. Ciller had made ''personal and life style choices'' not to spend her savings. ''The fact that she held cash at home or in a safe deposit box is not inconsistent with the practice of people in her society at the time.''
Questions about Mrs. Ciller's finances were of little interest outside Turkey until June, when she astonished many world leaders by agreeing to join in a coalition government with the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party. Until then she had bitterly attacked Welfare, calling it a fundamentalist threat and vowing never to cooperate with it.
Under the coalition agreement, the Welfare Party leader, Necmettin Erbakan, became Prime Minister and Mrs. Ciller became Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
After the alliance was sealed, Mr. Erbakan's supporters in Parliament helped Mrs. Ciller defeat a series of proposals -- some of which they themselves had filed while in opposition -- that would have referred questions about her wealth to the Supreme Court.
The move in Parliament has led critics to charge that a deal has been struck under which Mrs. Ciller keeps the Welfare party in power and, in exchange, it protects her against judicial investigation.
Charges of corruption and abuse of power began to swirl around Mrs. Ciller as she ended her term as Prime Minister. In recent months the charges have become a major topic of public discussion. This year Mrs. Ciller has faced a series of parliamentary votes on charges that she illicitly diverted funds from several Government-owned companies, including an electric utility, an auto manufacturer and a hotel chain. The closest vote, however, came not on motions based directly on those charges but on one that asked the Supreme Court to investigate the source of her wealth.
Mrs. Ciller agreed to an interview in February to discuss the charges against her, but canceled it moments after Parliament voted 270-263 not to send charges against her to the Supreme Court. The vote was along party lines. Afterward her office provided a statement that said:


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Yoan Pablo Hernandez vs. Alekseev Clash in The Fall
By Per Ake Persson
IBF cruiserweight champ Yoan Pablo Hernandez, 27-1, can finally resume training in full come August 15, writes boxen-heute.de and now awaits the mandatory defence against Hamburg-based Russian Aleksander Alekseev - a showdown that can happen in October.
Hernandez, a southpaw, was last seen in September 2012 when he outscored Troy Ross. A defence against Eric Fields was in the works for February 2013 but was called off when Hernandez broke his left hand. A quick return was expected but the injury was more serious than first claimed and the healing has taken a long time.
Meanwhile, Alekseev, 24-2, beat Garrett Wilson in an IBF eliminator in February and was then expected to fight a final eliminator against Pawel Kolodziej but for some reasons this never materialized and Alekseev was named official challenger and his promoter, EC Box Promotion, have also moved in to fight for the interim title in case Hernandez was still injured.
Hernandez vs Alekseev is an intruiging all-southpaw clash where Hernandez has the punch while Alekseev is the better boxer.
Wow this is a fantastic first fight back for Yoan. The CW division is awesome, I always say this, such a shame that there isn't more interest/TV coverage from the USA networks. There is little to no ducking, the top…Comment by nycsmooth on 08-09-2013
I'm glad he's back 2, the guys a competitor w/no quit, he'll fight any1....Comment by Hougigo on 08-09-2013
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End of A Political Era
For years, Kaoru Yosano made raising Japan's consumption tax the chief mission of his long political career, which has transcended four decades and multiple governments run by two different political parties.
Having accomplished his goal, the 74-year-old lawmaker is now retiring from politics.
Mr. Yosano has held numerous ministerial posts, including finance minister. He cited in his decision this week the side effects from multiple cancer surgeries, namely the near-loss of his voice, which has turned famously raspy. But even after the operations, he hasn't kicked the nicotine habit, chain-smoking his way through an interview last year.
Mr. Yosano's career will end when the current parliament is dissolved, likely before the end of the year, as he won't run in the subsequent election, when the ruling Democratic Party of Japan he works with is virtually certain to suffer a crushing defeat.
Mr. Yosano is known as a policy expert advocating measures to shore up Japan's crumbling public finances. A long-time member of the long-time ruling Liberal Democratic Party, he left the LDP in April 2010, shortly after the party lost power to the DPJ, to join a small opposition party. He then joined the cabinet of DPJ Prime Minister Naoto Kan in January 2011 as economy minister and a political independent. He has been working since as a behind-the-scenes mastermind pushing the tax hike under Mr. Kan's successor, Yoshihiko Noda.
Mr. Yosano worked as a salaryman in the nuclear power industry before going to work as a secretary to Yasuhiro Nakasone (who went on to become prime minister). Mr. Yosano was elected for the first time in 1976, and then re-elected nine more times. Mr. Yosano is a grandson of two famous poets, Tekkan and Akiko Yosano. Mr. Yosano's grandmother was also a pioneer Meiji Era feminist.
Mr. Yosano's secretary told JRT that, other than his weak voice, the lawmaker is generally healthy and comes to his office in Tokyo every day.


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Bollywood Families Who Should Try Comedy Nights With Kapil Sharma
There have been many celebrities on Kapil Sharma's popular comedy show Comedy Nights With Kapil entertaining as well as getting entertained. What would take the fun quotient up a notch is to have famous Bollywood families together on the show. For all we know they could give the Comedy Nights' family a tough competition.
Recently, world famous cricket Kapil Dev was on the comedy show. Though he was alone on the stage, his wife and daughter were among the audiences. The family shared some of their secrets and fun times on the show, which made Comedy Nights With Kapil episode extra special.
If this can be repeated with the Bollywood families, the number of secrets and embarrassing situations that can get revealed can most entertaining. Though it is not the first show to have these families, it will most definitely be the first comedy show to have them.
Popular Bollywood families like, the Khans, the Kapoors and the others including, Shahruh Khan's, Salman Khan's, Saif Ali Khan's, Aamir Khan's, Hrithik Roshan's, the entire Kapoor family, Madhuri Dixit's, Deepika Padukone's, Katrina Kaif's and not to forget the Bollywood's royal family, the Bachchans can give the Comedy Nights With Kapil family which includes, Bittu, Mrs Bittu, Bua, Dadi, Raju and Palak, a tough competition by revealing some embarrassing facts which any family would have.


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Ericsson has signed a supply and delivery contract for PDH microwave radio, MINI-LINK, with Ranks Telecom (RanksTel), a PSTN operator in Bangladesh. The equipment will be used in the expansion of the operator's transmission network across the country, with particular focus on the areas around Comilla, Khulna, Bogra and Rajshahi.
This agreement is the third for these microwave radios between the two companies and reaffirms Ericsson as sole supplier of transmission equipment to Ranks Telecom. The solution will enable RanksTel to increase its subscriber base and network coverage across the country substantially.
Zakaria Swapan, CEO of RanksTel, said, "This is a great opportunity for RanksTel to bring telecommunication facilities to the remotest parts of the country. We are excited by the possibility of rolling out communication infrastructure to new areas, making it accessible to more people in the country. Ericsson has been a dependable business partner over the past three years. This strong experience, especially with regards to MINI-LINK products, gives us the confidence to further extend this partnership."
In reply, Arun Bansal, managing director, Ericsson Bangladesh, commented, "We are proud to have been selected by RanksTel once again. We have enjoyed a fruitful partnership in the past and are confident that through our strong local presence and expertise, we can help RanksTel to meet its future expansion and performance requirements."
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Octane Coffee and Cocktails A better ride non pament for hours and tips and services rendered newnan, Georgia
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In the beginning when i first met Marlene Welch she seemed to be a good person with a great restaurant i had walked in to inquire about employment. she told me she was short staffed that evening and would need help that evening and tocome in on a trial basis to see my par levels by five oclok that evening. I had no proper intrview or filled out anytype of application or given any resume or refrences. I returned there that evening and worked the evening she told me i was great and could go far in her business. I continued to work for her being paid on a daily basis under the table no paycheck no taxes taken out. After my trial period was over payments went from every day to once a week and then once a month during this time i was cross trained to prepare food and cook the entrees "tapas" for the restaurant. [continued below]....
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I noticed no specific retraction of this statement. If this is how they really do business, then all of the rest of us tax payers are being ripped off and we thank you for pointing it out.
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I need to find a way to get both kids (and myself) dressed, fed, and out the door. DS is starting to be more independent, but not completely, and he needs to be watched non-stop around DD. DD's schedule is not predictable, so I can't plan around her wake up time or need to nurse.
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- Preparing for a standalone Melodyne workflow
- Setting up a session
- Using a live editing approach for vocal correction
- Batch correcting vocals
- Correcting the pitch and rhythm of vocals
- Creating new background parts
- Adding special effects
- Revising an edit in Melodyne Studio
- Changing the tempo of your audio
Skill Level Intermediate
In this video let's look at using the pitch modulation tool to create an effect in Melodyne. So for example, we can get that familiar auto-tune effect, and we can also use the Formant tool as we looked at earlier to create another effect. So let's look at how we can apply these to the song. I am going to open my Editor window, Shift+Command+E, Shift+Ctrl+E, and I am going to view the full song, Zoom to > Full Song, and let's start with our Lead 1a_COMP track. Now I am going to keep it set to Play visible so that I am not hearing all the tracks at once, and we are going to have to apply this to multiple tracks to actually hear it in context.
So let's listen through and find some places where we might want to add this. I am just going to take a quick listen starting at the beginning of this verse. (music playing) So already, I am getting an idea of what I might want to do with this song as far as effects. And because it's gotten A and a B part in the verses, a good approach might be to use that effect on one or the other.
So in this case, my thought is to make the B line use the effect and let the A line be more natural. The A line is what we are hearing in the Lead 1 part, and the B line is what we would hear in the Lead 2 part. So let's have a look at this Lead 2 part here. (music playing) So a cool use of an effect might be to make those B lines have that auto-tuned effect, especially in a pop song like this. So let's take a look at doing that. Quick and easy way to do it is just to select everything that you want to effect, switch to your pitch modulation tool, and double-click the notes, and you can see that the line for the pitch modulation becomes perfectly flat, which is essentially centering that pitch on the pitch center for the duration of each note.
So let's have a listen to that effect. (music playing) So it has that robotic auto-tune effect. So if we decide we want to apply that to this part of the song, we will need to apply it to each of the other Lead 2 tracks. Lead 2 B, C, and D before we will actually be able to hear it in context. But before we do that, let's move on and look at other places in the other B lines that we might want to use that effect, and then we can do all of them at the same time. (music playing) So we might want to use this B line as well--except I like the vibrato.
So I would leave the vibrato where it is and tighten up everything else. Now here in this example, you can see that the pitch did not snap straight to the center, and that's probably because I have already edited the pitch modulation. So the way we can work around this is to reselect this whole section--basically, the whole phrase-- and use our reset pitch option, except this time we want to reset all pitch related changes to original. So now that we have done that, we can retune our stuff. Let's make sure that the S hasn't been tuned, and then we can select the sections that we want to affect, switch to our pitch modulation tool, and try again, and now you can see we are getting what we are looking for.
So let's have a listen to that. (music playing) And I actually like the closeness of having the auto-tune right before the vibrato. So that might be a good way to go. Let's look at the rest of the song and see where else we might want to use this. (music playing) So probably do the same thing here. Let's see if this will work or if we are going to have to reset it as well. Yeah, so let's reset it. So I am going to select the whole phrase. I haven't set a key command for Reset All Pitch Related Changes to Original, but if I was going to be doing this a lot, I definitely would.
So I am going to retune and again exclude any parts that I don't want to be tuned, recreate my selection and try it again. (music playing) Now we have got to fix a few things that didn't get fixed. In fact, I want to make the vibrato start later. So I am going to separate that here and fix this note. Actually, it's this note. (music playing) Cool! So I am actually happy with that idea, and I think the rest of this may or may not needed, but let's listen. (music playing) So we could actually use the effect on here as well.
Looks like we didn't do anything to that before, so we are safe. (music playing) We'll check the next section. (music playing) Cool! So I am going to go ahead and add the effect here as well. (music playing) And we can either copy and paste these, or we can just quickly apply the effect again to the repeated section of the chorus, and you will notice there that double-clicking essentially does the same thing as resetting a pitch modulation, and then double-clicking again like I just did flattened it all the way down to as close to the center as possible.
(music playing) So we have basically kind of set our template for what we are going to do with the rest of the lead vocal 2 tracks, since they're all singing the same part. So in going back here, I am looking at the beginning here at bar 12. (music playing) Actually thinking that might be a good place to try our tuning effect as well. And since we didn't do that the first time, let's try it now. So first, I am going to center everything. Then I am going to tune everything, but we are going to reset that. So we can try resetting it by double-clicking. That's not working, so we will have to do a reset.
In fact, we probably should select the whole phrase just to make sure, and we'll choose Edit, reset all pitch related changes to original, and we will basically re-create those steps, and there we go. (music playing) So I actually kind of like adding that affect there too. So we will go back and do the same thing on the first track. Lead vocal 2a. (music playing) And back to B and moving on to the rest of these parts. (music playing) So we will get the same auto-tune effect on here.
It looks like it might be time for me to assign a shortcut for this. (music playing) I am actually not so worried right now about moving the esses, but if you want to you can select them and exclude them from the pitch changes. (music playing) So before we move on, I am just going to set that our shortcut since I keep using this. So I will go back into my Preferences, Switch to my shortcuts, and it will be under Edit commands, and under Edit Pitch we can choose some sort of shortcut key for reset all pitch related changes to original.
So maybe we will try Shift+Ctrl+P, or F80, as the computer seems to be calling it. So let's try that and retune the part and deselect the vibrato, since we don't want to affect that. (music playing) And that's right. We have pulled this note up here before. (music playing) So let's try it again. (music playing) Cool! And just grab these last ones as well.
It looks like we can probably just get ahold of them in one pass now. (music playing) So now you can hear a little bit of the phasing between Lead vocal 2a and Lead vocal 2b once they're so perfectly tuned to that center pitch. And that's actually kind of part of that effect that we are going for. It just helps strengthen it. So we can move on and do the same thing with C and D now that we know exactly what we're doing. We can just select the entire chorus all in one go.
So it's not selecting. So I am going to have to switch tools here. I am using the Edit Pitch tool and then I can switch tools back to remove any note modulation and then to reenable it. But in this case it looks like I may have edited the modulation on this track. So I am going to have to reset it, and now that I have reset it, and now that I have reset it, there's a couple of notes that looks like I had changed. I need to correct those again, and then we can try this one more time. Let's have a listen. (music playing) Cool! I actually want to leave the vibrato on too.
So I am not going to mess with that. I am going to grab the first part here as well. (music playing) So first I will reset the whole phrase... (music playing) ...and grab the next one as well, and I am just trying it first just in case for some reason I hadn't made those changes, because if I hadn't, I wouldn't have to do the full reset every time. But since I did, we have to do the full reset. (music playing) [00:08:57:56] I am hearing a little snippet of something.
I am not sure if that's the S or-- (music playing) There we go, it's this. (music playing) There we go. Just the beginning of love. I thought I was editing 2c, but it looks like I jumped over to 2b when I was looking for that little part that was jumping out at me. So now I am going switch back to 2c and just make sure everything is right here. (music playing) Then we'll move onto 2d. (music playing) And essentially, we would do the same thing here. (music playing) Okay, so now I am noticing... (music playing) ...it's actually not too bad, but it may just be a little bit too much of that auto-tune effect.
So what maybe we would do instead is tighten up this section rather than making all four perfectly auto-tuned. So another alternate would be to undo what we'd just done, get back to where we just started, and instead of completely tuning these to that auto-tune effect, we can just tighten these up so that they're closer to the pitch center than natural. (music playing) And to me, that actually enhances the effect, because it makes it not overdone, and it kind of brings out a little bit of the vocal itself in a different way than just making it sound completely robotic.
(music playing) So let's test this theory by going back here and undoing the auto-tune effect and splitting the difference, essentially. (music playing) Now to me, that's better. Obviously, this may be a different choice for you. So feel free to go ahead and fully center the pitch modulation if you want to. (music playing) Now what I am going to do is actually apply that same technique to the rest of the song here, so I am going to just select basically the rest of the song, the end of this chorus.
I am just going to tighten this down, instead of actually making it perfect. I am going to make it really close to perfect but not perfect and then do the same thing on my lead vocal to 2b track. So I could then get that piece selected. No, I did have it selected. And let's do the same thing here. (music playing) It still sounds auto-tuned, but it has little bit more life to it. So again, just a personal choice. So now let's move on, select our background 1a track, and take a listen to the first section here.
Now since this is a harmony to something that we have already altered-- (music playing) Actually, we didn't alter that one, but that one sounds pretty good as it is. (music playing) Here we go. These are the parts that we altered. (music playing) We'd probably want to do the same thing here to keep the effect consistent against all the different vocal parts. (music playing) Again, letting that vibrato happen naturally. (music playing) So one other thing we can do here is on top of actually making this auto-tune effect, we can actually choose to alter the melody in such a way that we are creating another layer of the effect.
So for example, here.... (music playing) ...we could make that actually a climbing line. (music playing) See if this works, we are kind of climbing up and then climbing back down just staying within the scale. So you would probably want to change that to actually make it work. (music playing) Something like this, maybe. (music playing) I am not sure if I like that or not, but we can play around with the idea.
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This time we get 4 guilds each in 4 catagories- The traditional warrior, educated civilian, nobility, and notorious enemy.
Since I am from Kaliphlin I will start from the right and go to the left.
1st we have the Kaliphlin warrior in traditional garb.
2nd is Kaliphlin's educated civilian.
3rd is a representation of Kaliphlin's nobility.
4th is a Titan, arguably Kaliphlin's most notorious sentient enemy.
Now lets cross Kaliphlin's northern border into Avalonia.
5th is a knight, the representation of Avalonia's traditional warrior.
6th is an Avalonian educated civilian. Who better to represent this catagory than an Avalonian monk?
7th is a member of Avalonian nobility. (Disclaimer: this is not an actual member of nobility. Because of the difficulty we encountered trying to schedule a portrait session with an actual member of Avalonian nobility, we had to settle for hiring an actor to dress in the clothes of Avalonian nobilty which was much easier to obtain.
8th but not least, is the notorious Avalonian brigand, expert at all types of weaponry.
For Nocturnus we start with the series 9th character, the traditional Nocturnus warrior, a scarred human that is no stranger to war. In fact that may be all he knows.
10th is a Nocturnus educated civilian. Thats right! Nocturnus does have educated individuals. However they may not be educated in the way you would expect an educated being to be.
11th is a member of the nobility in Nocturnus. Blue eyed drow? They must have been the first to invent colored contact lenses....
12th and you knew this one was going to be on the list. Another drow. Nocturnus' most notorious enemy as well as being a member of Nocturnus nobility. However this time our subject does not hide his glowing red eyes- here he is, the drow assassin. And because we were lucky to have escaped with our lives after the encounter, we are only able to provide you with a small portrait of him.
Now we come to Mitgardia, a land of strong, hearty, and often times large folk.
13th of the series is the traditional warrior of Mitgardia. What more needs to be said?
14th is an educated Mitgardian civilian. Book learning probably won't get you very far in Mitgardia and those looked upon as being the most educated some times cannot spell their own names. However they can survive for months in the icy cold mountains and wildernesses of Mitgardia with nothing more than the clothes on their back.
15th is a noble of Mitgardia. Women in LEGO world usually tend to be taller than the men and this particular subject towers above the other women... I guess the Mitgardians like the tall ladies.
16th is the last of the bunch and not a particularly friendly fellow. As the species of the far north have not been well documented, I chose a member of one of roaming orc tribes as Mitgardia's notorious enemy. These are not your ordinary orcs. Bigger, stronger, and much furryer, you don't want to meet one and much less encounter a group of these fearsome beasts. May I call them "beast"?
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8. Super Game Boy
In the end, Super Game Boy didn't do much. In fact, I barely even used it. What's the appeal of playing handheld games on your console? Doesn't that defeat the purpose anyway? Years later, Nintendo would release the Game Boy Player for the GameCube, which was essentially the same idea. I suppose the next logical step would be adding Game Boy to the Virtual Console. Hmm...
The Mario Kart wheel. Boxing gloves. Link's Crossbow Training. Shotguns. Pistols. Tennis Rackets. Golf clubs. Baseball bats. Enough already.
Every single attachment for the Wii Remote that I've seen is totally and utterly useless. In no way do they enhance game play or realism, and in fact are more of a hindrance than anything. The only examples of these that hold any sort of potential are the gun-shaped ones, and unfortunately none of them thus far have been anything particularly arousing.
Unfortunately, these are the sort of thing that somehow rakes in the big bucks, particularly from the "casual crowd". Isn't it just so fun to watch Grandma swat at the television with a gigantic pink racket that her rickety old bones can barely hold? And certainly little Kimmy gets a kick out of strapping big boxing gloves to her hands while she beats up her cigar smoking father.
I take it back. Wii Remote attachments clearly represent the American dream.
By the mid 1990's, the Game Boy was wearing a bit thin on gamers. It was undoubtedly a smash hit, but after nearly ten years in the spotlight, the monochrome games were getting to look primitive in comparison to the advancing of home consoles. By 1998, we already had the original PlayStation, the N64, and the 128-bit Dreamcast was on the horizon. The Game Boy Advance was still a few years off, so in the meantime, Nintendo looked to revitalize the Game Boy by releasing the Game Boy Pocket and the Game Boy Color. On top of those hit releases came the Game Boy Camera.
Essentially it used the Game Boy's extremely limited power to take highly pixelated photos on your screen, and give you the option to doodle all over them. Think of it as an early version of the Wii's Picture Channel. It also came with a few simple mini-games that utilized the camera aspect. To make things even better, you could get the Game Boy Printer, which would print out the crappy images you took on the camera onto carbon paper, allowing you to frame them and keep them forever.
According to Wikipedia, Neil Young used the Game Boy Camera for the cover of his Silver & Gold album. That's really the only reason this peripheral isn't higher on this list.
It's incredibly remarkable that the original Nintendo Zapper was such a monster success, to the point of many older gamers still owning theirs (mine is under my bed), yet the Super Scope was a complete failure. So much so that it wasn't even released in Japan. Granted, there were no killer games for the Super Scope as there were for the Zapper (Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley), but you'd think a sweet freaking bazooka would sell incredibly well in a country so deeply seeded in violence, particularly right after Desert Storm.
I suppose the reason could be the lack of games, or the fact that the thing ate AA batteries like a fat man eats bacon at a breakfast buffet. The only real notable use it ever held was as a prop in the Super Mario Bros. movie, where it was slightly modified and used as a weapon. Other than that, I'd say being able to use it with the SNES version of Terminator 2: The Arcade Game is a pretty hefty accomplishment, but this was at a time when arcades weren't oases in the middle of a vast console desert.
4. Nintendo eReader
As I am typing this, I'm slowly realizing that about seven out of the ten entries on this list are Nintendo products. I'm not suggesting that means anything, just a thought. To be fair, the eReader was a full-on success in Japan, but that doesn't make it any less dumb. It's also not "technically" a peripheral, more of an add-on, but who's counting? Essentially, the eReader was a device that plugged into the cartridge slot of the Game Boy Advance which had the ability to read specially made eReader Cards that were swiped in them. Card Packs were sold in stores, and contained things like original NES games, additional items, levels, or enemies for certain games, and the like.
In essence, the eReader concept is like a hardcopy of downloadable content for handheld systems. The most useful - and potentially "cool" - aspect of this idea is the acquisition of the much loved NES games of old, including ExciteBike, Mario Bros., Donkey Kong and plenty more, except that each game required ten card swipes, and had to be re-swiped every time you wanted to play. I have a short attention span. By the time I was done swiping, I didn't feel like playing anymore.
3. Power Glove
Aside from its appearance in the awesomely corporate The Wizard, the Power Glove has given us nothing. I suppose one could argue it was a "precursor" to the Wii Remote, given that it could triangulate the wearer's hand motions (poorly) and allow movement of an avatar on screen by doing so. I guess you could think of it in a similar vein to the old Battlestar Galactica of the 1970's being a precursor to the amazing television experience that the recent series is. Essentially, a general idea was set forth, failing miserably in every way, and then someone came along and took that shell of an idea and made it completely awesome.
It's a lot like that. The triangulation technology didn't really work, and the "Power Glove Game Series" never came to fruition due to lack of sales and interest. Mounted on the glove is basically a regular NES controller, which just made it harder to use. Besides looking totally "bad", the Power Glove was the ultimate in trying to to make gaming look way more cool than it actually is.
2. Sega Activator
Much like the Power Glove could be viewed as the precursor to the Wii Remote, perhaps the Sega Activator will be seen as the beginning stages of Microsoft's Project Natal. Or maybe not.
The Activator was an octagon-shaped pad that you laid on the ground, which would then "read" your actions to control a game, particularly of the fighting genre, using infrared lasers to register your movements. As you can imagine, it didn't exactly work that well. It had an overly complicated control scheme, causing you to flail around, seizure-like, if you want to make your character do the simplest of actions.
Needless to say, in a time where video games where still more "mindless violence" than "get up off your ass and do this Wii Fit thing", it didn't quite catch on.
Man, oh man. Time and time again, I would attempt to play Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! with this piece of trash, and time after time, I would fail. The U-Force was a device that opened like a laptop and was advertised to read your hand motions and translate them to screen. For example, striking out with your right hand would cause Little Mac to throw his right hook. Obviously, like so many other items on this list, it didn't work out so well. To make matters worse, the player is restricted to a very tiny space of movement. At least with the Activator, you were free to flail about as you wish. The U-Force also included some weird controller attachment, which I never fully understood. It plugged into the base of the controller, and had to prongs with handles and firing buttons on it. If anyone reading this has any clue at all what the hell these things were for, please e-mail me. It's been hurting my brain for 20 years.
Perhaps the best speaking points of the U-Force come from the advertisement itself, part of which reads: "It's the most amazing accessory in video game history - and it will change the way you play video games forever." Now, not only is that the boldest statement perhaps ever, it may also be the truest. God knows, with one U-Force experience you swore to never play that way ever again.


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I received the tapes and thought that was it. However upon checking my Master Card billing today, I found another charge from GGW Video in the amount of $24.98 on 22Nov02. As I had not authorized additional orders or charges, I called their Customer Service to complain and to have the latest charge removed. They told me I had authorized the payment. When asked where this authorization was posted on the web site and asked to read it to me verbatim, he said he did not have access to the Internet and couldn't do this, but assured me the notice was there.
I then told the individual to cancel any further orders and to notify me by Email to this effect. He couldn't do this either, so I have to hope this was done. As it stands, I'm going to have to eat the $24.98 charge to my M/C for the unordered tapes.
I went back to the GGW Video web site and took a picture of the only page that could even remotely be deemed to be an authorization for further orders. I have attached this file to a seperate Email.
I realize there is nothing you can do, but I would like to have this posted to forewarn anyone thinking of making an initial order with this rip-off company. Thanks for letting me vent.
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George is getting the hang of some, if not most of his letters. But, learning letters seems to come and go with him.
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Seven Seminoles made the first team in voting results released Monday by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. They were: Winston, running back Devonta Freeman, receiver Rashad Greene, offensive tackle Cameron Erving, offensive guard Tre� Jackson, center Bryan Stork and cornerback Lamarcus Joyner.
FSU (12-0) will play in this week�s ACC championship game against No. 20 Duke, which was second with 11 all-conference picks. No. 13 Clemson had 10 selections, including last year�s ACC player of the year Tajh Boyd being selected as second-team quarterback.
Boston College�s Andre Williams, the nation�s leading rusher with an ACC single-season record 2,102 yards, was the only unanimous selection on all 65 ballots.
Florida State, which has the inside track to the BCS championship game, had six second-team picks and four third-team selections.
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Canelo Will Only Fight Pacquiao at 154, No Catch-Weight
By Luis Sandoval
Last week BoxingScene reported that Manny Pacquiao's adviser Michael Koncz said Pacquiao is looking at Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez as a possible opponent next year provided they can come to an agreement on an acceptable catch-weight.
Pacquiao currently resides in the Welterweight division while Canelo campaigns 7 pounds north at Junior Middleweight.
Pacquiao has made a venture into the Junior Middleweight division once before when he fought Antonio Margarito but the fight was contracted at a catch weight of 150 lbs. Manny also used a catch-weight against Miguel Cotto back in 2009 and they plan to strike a similar deal with Alvarez in order to make the fight happen.
BoxingScene spoke to Alvarez exclusively during a private visit to his training camp in San Diego and asked him if he'd be willing to fight at a catch weight in order to make a fight possible with Pacquiao.
"Those days are over. I don't fight outside my weight class. That's the first thing I learned in my fight with Floyd [Mayweather]. I don't fight outside my weight. If they want to fight at 154 then we can move forward and if not, I'll continue with my career," Alvarez would tell BoxingScene.
Alvarez agreed to fight Mayweather at a catch-weight of 152 lbs for their mega fight last year in September and while Canelo made the weight without any trouble, he's not going to agree to fight below 154 ever again; even if it means a fight with Pacquiao is out the window.
While Canelo won't agree to come down in weight, he does like the idea of fighting Pacquiao. He feels the fight could happen down the line but he only has thing on his mind at the moment.
"I think it's a fight that could probably happen. They are fighters that are in their moment and if that fight happens, we're ready. At this point though, it's just rumors and we're ready for this fight [with Lara]," said Canelo.
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Nelo might be too big for Pac....but I remember years ago I sounded real crazy by boldly saying that I would pick Pac to beat Paul Williams at 147....even Pac fans wasn't buying that.....but I stand by that till this…Comment by DominiBox on 06-05-2014
[QUOTE=Bronx2245;14623820]I think Canelo's last 2 fights were Mayweather and Angulo, just so that you're comparing apples to apples. Do that math, and see what comes out.[/QUOTE] If we're comparing apples to apples, then we must compare A-sides. Canelo wasn't the…Comment by john_uphold on 06-05-2014
[QUOTE=MaskedMurderer;14626538]This fight wont happen. He really undefeated, who has beat him at 154? No one. He the future, young talented only way the so called TBE could even manage the courage to fight him was to drain him into a…Comment by MaskedMurderer on 06-05-2014
This fight wont happen. He really undefeated, who has beat him at 154? No one. He the future, young talented only way the so called TBE could even manage the courage to fight him was to drain him into a…Comment by PRchamp on 06-05-2014
So he can make 154lbs for Pacquiao but not for Lara? WTF is wrong in this sport, every little boxing diva are getting too much leverage.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (172)


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All United Van Lines, Inc. R! Moving and storage Stole my furniture 6 weeks ago in a moving Van, lied,did not deliver, won't tell me where my things are. 5460 White Oak Ave,Encino, CA, California
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I called them to deliver my things to a storage facility, in Washington, Pa, on June 10,2011. I spoke with a fellow named Kevin.
He said they would deliver on the 14,15,16, or 17 of July,and that they would have the driver call me.
No phone call. I had to call them only to be put on hold for 10 min. and then to be disconnected. I called back 20 times that same day and no answer. I finally reached Kevin. He told me I would owe for storing the furniture and he would auction my things if I did not pay the extra money. I argued with him and insisted this was highway robbery. I asked him where my things are and he said he could not tell me.
I told him I would pay for the storage, just tell me where my stuff is. He said he needed my credit card to transfer over the storage and I refused until he told me where it was. After an hour of arguing, nothing was accomplished. My sons have called several times, only to get lied to and have blanket promises.
Every day since I have been calling at least 10 times before someone answers or hangs up on me, Kevin keeps lying and making up stories, and still I have no things. Don't know where my things are and they won't tell me. Please help me find these scammers. There DOT is 931399 MC402190
They use fake names and have a fake website, only to rip everyones things off and sell them. I literally paid someone to steal my things.
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Skip to comments.How Tsunami Waves Did Not Touch Santhome Cathedral
Posted on 01/10/2005 12:36:47 PM PST by It's me
CHENNAI (ICNS) The tsunami waves have subsided, but a miracle is being talked about across Chennai. It is the story of how St Thomas miraculous post kept the invading waves away, sparing the newly renovated Santhome Cathedral.
The Cathedral, the worlds second basilica built on an apostles tomb, has been giving shelter to hundreds of tsunami victims ever since the waves ravaged many buildings across the coast.
But even though the killer tsunami waves devastated the Chennai coast, Father Lawrence Raj, the parish priest of the Santhome Cathedral Basilica, says the sea did not touch our church.
The reason? We believe the miraculous post of St Thomas prevented the sea waters from entering the church, says Father Raj.
The church that sits at the site where St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ, was buried after his death in the year 72 is located a few metres from the sea. While all the buildings on either side of the church were hit by the tsunami waves, the Santhome Cathedral remained unaffected.
Local people now say it is the St Thomas miraculous post that has kept the sea away on December 26.
According to Father Raj, the legend is that when St Thomas planted the post at the top of the steps leading to the Cathedral, he said the sea would not pass that point.
The priest saw from the terrace of church the angry sea in action, as it surged across the road and flooded the huts in front of St Thomas post, which is an innocuous looking log of wood, mounted on a cement pedestal.
The belief goes that a village in the Mylapore area was flooded when a huge tree trunk fell across the river. The local king brought a royal pachyderm to lug it away, but the task seemed impossible.
Then, according to legend, St Thomas came along, removed the girdle from his waist and handed it to a bystander and asked him to yank the log with it. He did so and the log was moved easily.
A mural in the Cathedral museum illustrates this incident. Father Raj says the current post is believed to be from that same log of wood.
Hundreds of homeless survivors who have been staying in the church ever since the tragedy hit them have prayed to St Thomas for saving them.
It is St Thomas who has saved me. This church was untouched by the waters because of the miraculous power of the St Thomas post, said K Sebastiraj, a fisherman who sought shelter in the Santhome Cathedral.
Wow, it would have been nice if the miracle had been extended to the 150,000 dead.
December 26, 2004: Tsunami wipes out 150,000 in muslim Indonesia and assorted other muslim countries but a Catholic basillica is not damaged.
Who says God is not on our side?
Yeah, but that's not what happened, is it?
This cathedral and the nearly 2,000 people in it, and it's surrounding complex, were saved from death and injury.
I will praise God for His mercy.
We never should have doubted.
There is another photo of the Cathedral from the other side and it shows just how close it really is to the ocean.
Wha'? How'd they do that?
Sorry, sorry, sorry!!
The Velankanni Church church dedicated to Our Lady of Health, the Madonna of Velankanni is the one in which 2,000 pilgrims were saved. The water apparently went up to the first few steps and then receded. the buildings around and behind it were destroyed.
"The Crusaders proved once and for all the fallacy of the Catholic Religion."
The Crusades only proved the fallacy of mankind, which we already about.
So Jesus, The Second person of the Holy Trinity, created a Church and yet made no provision for it to last longer than the life of his apostles? What about all the deacons and bishops appointed by the apostles which are recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's letters? What about Jesus telling Peter that upon Peter he was building his Church, "and the gates of hell would not prevail against it?"
Thanks. There's even another one taken from the sea.
Someone sent it to me but I can't figure out how to post it. :o(
Read again. I didn't say that. You have me confused with ImphClinton
And it's their", not "there".
Brilliant engineers built the church on carefully selected high ground.
I wasn't even aware that there was a Santhome Cathedral built on the grave of St Thomas, one of only two Cathedrals in existence built on a grave of an original apostle, with the other being St Peter's Basilica! Praise God!
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It is amazing.
Also amazing is that every Southern Baptist missionary (and there are many) in each of the affected countries was alive and well and accounted for within 24 hours of the disaster.
Anyone still looking for God in this mess is looking in the wrong places.
Ok, I will.
Looking outside the authority of scripture bump!
So the Church that Christ founded died? Then Christ was lying when He said that His Church would last until the end of time?
See post #30.
It doesn't look like higher ground to me.
Lovely picture!
But that's wonderful, isn't it?
Anyone saved from this natural disaster is fortunate, aren't they?
It's just a quibble, but St. Peter's in Rome is not a Cathedral. Also, the article at the top of this thread is in error, as St. Paul's in Rome is also the tomb of an apostle.
So, the church was completely safe? Not even the 1st floor flooded?
Bump for a later read. Thanks.
That wasn't MY point at all. Misbehavior by individuals only proves that individuals, even when acting on behalf of a higher calling, are still fallible: it doesn't discredit or repudiate the higher calling.
Disgusting comment.
You think your god is killing infidels with these natural disasters? When your god throws hurricanes at Florida and sends twisters through Oklahoma, is he punishing the U.S.? Tell us, because apparently you know the mind of God.
"Not even the 1st floor flooded?"
Apparently not.
We believe the miraculous post of St Thomas prevented the sea waters from entering the church, says Father Raj."
Do you kiss your mamma with that mouth?
Your (short) posting history reflects quite a bit of name calling and arrogance. Are you a DUer or just a lone-wolf troll?
Very interesting. I had no idea any of he Apostles traveled as far as India.
Amazing story. I found the story about the orphanage director loading the boat with children to be equally amazing.
A lot of Christians died in that tsunami.
Amazing picture. Life is full of beautiful mysteries
"It's just a quibble, but St. Peter's in Rome is not a Cathedral. Also, the article at the top of this thread is in error, as St. Paul's in Rome is also the tomb of an apostle."
Thank you for setting me straight on all this. I can honestly say I learned something worthwhile on FR today!
Do what Henry?
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The Communist Party's top members gather next week for what analysts say is a critical meeting to forge a more effective leadership as it focuses on leading 1.3 billion people towards the goal of a 'moderately well off society'.
Other areas of concern at the fourth plenum of the party's Central Committee will be national reunification and gaining what it considers to be China's deserved respect as a major global power.
For years, the leadership has been loath to admit the existence of a legitimacy crisis.
But the issue has received increasing attention as the party completes its transformation from revolutionary group to ruling political party, playing down ideology to the extent of opening its door to entrepreneurs.
The party leadership has given ample clues as to what the plenum, which runs from next Thursday to Sunday, will discuss. A group study session of the Politburo on June 29 focused on building effective party leadership. The theme was repeated in a speech by President Hu Jintao at the centenary of Deng Xiaoping's birth on August 22.
'Democratic centralism' and internal discipline will be at the core of the moves to strengthen leadership but political reforms will not be addressed, analysts say.
The plenum will, however, provide examples of widening democratic channels within the party, such as experiments with checks and balances and the filling of local posts through multi-candidate elections. Promulgating regulations on internal supervision will also be cited as evidence of the party's resolve to strengthen itself.
In the run-up to the plenum, signs of factional struggles at the top have fuelled speculation that former president Jiang Zemin , who retains the powerful position of chairman of the Central Military Commission, will step down following the example of Deng, who relinquished his military post at the fifth plenum of the 13th party congress in November 1989.
Mr Hu recently praised Deng's move to stop cadres serving for life and the fact that he served as a personal example.
There has been friction over the macro-economic policies used to cool down the economy, with Mr Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao pursuing a tightening of credit that has hurt business interests associated with Mr Jiang's camp. Media reports say Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu has also had harsh words to say about the measures. But analysts said that the pressure on Mr Jiang to step down was not yet strong enough and he was likely to serve out his five-year term until the 17th party congress in 2007.
The emphasis on party self-strengthening in the plenum essentially papers over differences between Mr Hu and Mr Jiang.
Building effective party leadership, in fact, has been a recurring call since the early days of the reform and opening 25 years ago. The party also learned a few salient lessons from the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe and Russia in the early 1990s. Strengthening the party's ability for governance was formally written into the charter at the 16th party congress in November 2002.
Some sources said a proposal to uphold 'rule of law' within the party had died in wrangling among the highest echelons, so any self-policing system would be diluted. 'The leadership likes to talk about the party cleansing itself, but there is no consensus on how to implement it,' one analyst said.
Yu Yunyao , vice-chancellor of the Central Party School, noted that, as in other developing market economies, China would find itself at a critical period of development when per-capita gross domestic product grew from US$1,000 to US$3,000. The period of social unrest, as a result of rising expectations, would pose a test of the ruling party's ability to maintain stability. It was a pressing task to strengthen the party, he said.
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According to Pichai, Jive's software addresses concerns businesses would have about their employees interacting on social media, such as security and privacy. "They've crossed that bridge very well, and made the tools simple and fun to use," he said.
Jive CEO Tony Zingale said that the new board members lend Jive further legitimacy when it competes for business with more established vendors like Salesforce.com, Microsoft and IBM. Zingale is himself a business software industry veteran, having engineered the sale of network management software vendor Mercury Interactive to H-P for $4.5 billion in 2006.
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