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In fact, Intrepid Travel is proving that travelling with kids can be even more rewarding than travelling solo. Intrepidãs co-founder Darrell Wade says that travelling with his family has opened up a whole new way of discovering the world; however, initially he was worried that his backpacking days were over…
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life on cambodia's great lake
Travelling through Cambodia, you are greeted with the fantastic opportunity to take a glimpse into everyday river life on Tonle Sap Lake. But did you also know that this unique lake is one of earth's most interesting and natural phenomena? Nicola Gibson explains…
"Every year, during monsoon season, high water levels in the Mekong River hinder outflow from the great lake, causing the Tonle Sap river to back up, reverse its flow and fill the lake rather than draining it. Through the seasons the lake will shrink and expand dramatically and resulting flooding of the river banks leaves the surrounding land very fertile and excellent for farming. The Tonle Sap is also the most important wetland in South East Asia for globally significant endangered species.
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We are frequently humbled by the wonderful ideas that Intrepid travellers come up with to help others, even when they are in the midst of planning their own wedding! A few years ago, a young English lady, Eibhlin, travelled with Intrepid. More recently, in preparing to marry her fiancee Sam, she thought that as their honeymoon was a holiday in Tanzania, perhaps they could share their good fortune with some less advantaged Tanzanians.
Eibhlin writes: "After planning the date, the venue, the dress, the flowers, the cake, the best man, the bridesmaids, the ushers, the food, the invitations, the rings, the wine, the ceremony, the band, the music, the buffet, the speeches, the seating plan and the honeymoon, we just had one thing left to plan: the dreaded wedding list."
taking a dip in the top end
Aussies are great swimmers and they're so obsessed with water sports that they even invented Speedo swimwear and their own overarm stroke, now known famously as the Australian Crawl! But for visitors like Caroline Kehoe, taking the plunge Down Under can be a challenge…
"Now, being Irish and born on an island, you might expect that I would at some stage master the art of swimming. Well, not me. I was still terrified of it at this stage! Thing is… fear can hold you back from amazing experiences… which is why I opted for the canoeing trip along the Katherine River!
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A charming old city on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast, Dubrovnik is a treasure trove of hidden gems. The tranquil and cultural World Heritage Site of Dubrovnik's old town is a joy to explore and there are always unexpected finds, such as discovering Europe's first pharmacy, that dates back to 1317, or a little further out of town you will find the oldest arboretum in the world. Intrepid's Carla Wilson always loves letting her groups in on a special Dubrovnik secret that is worth the effort…
"Intrepid leaders love to show travellers around their favourite cities and Dubrovnik is at the top of my list. After arriving and checking into our private rooms just outside the city walls, I always take my group for a walk to point out the main sights. We pass the Dominican Monastery, the Franciscan Church and other important monuments. We fill up our water bottles at the Onofrio Fountain, which has been springing water to Dubrovnik residents since the 15th century. Then we climb the stairs and walk around the entire city walls.
annapurna elevation and elation
For most of us there comes a time on a trek when you decide enough is enough. But then you think about how far you've come and what a let down it would be not to go the distance now. The Nepal challenge proved almost too much for Intrepid Express reader Kirsty Christmas, but suddenly it was all worth it when the summit was in sight…
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Infor Advocates Open Approach to SOA
Published: March 22, 2007
by Alex Woodie
Infor last week revealed its "Open SOA" approach to enabling customers to implement a service oriented architecture (SOA). The i5/OS ERP software giant says Open SOA will give customers flexibility and choice while avoiding the complexity and lock-in that comes with its competitor's SOA strategies. While Infor didn't provide specifics on when it will service-enable its myriad ERP products, it says Open SOA will be built into future product upgrades, and be free to customers. The vendor also announced new supply chain and business intelligence applications.
SOA is nothing new to Infor, nor to the companies it has bought. Since it acquired the many and various legacy i5/OS-, Unix-, and Windows-based enterprise software product lines that it now owns--SSA's BPCS, MAPICS XE, Baan, Geac's System 21, Infinium, Daly.commerce, Marcam's PRISM and PROTEAN, Lilly's VISUAL ERP, PRMS, BRAIN, Trans4M, Essential, NXtrend, SyteLine, PivotPoint, FrontStep, just to name a few--and started selling add-on products--such as software that manages finances, product lifecycles, enterprise assets, employees, suppliers, customers, and partners--that integrate and provide value to those legacy products on top of a Java and WebSphere middleware base, it has been executing an SOA strategy.
As a privately held company, Infor doesn't have to say much, and it usually doesn't. Aside from espousing SSA's position that it will never kill a product (except for those on dead platforms like the HP3000), it has successfully kept the details of its product roadmaps and development strategies, more or less, out of the limelight. Indeed, even keeping the names of the dozens of Infor products straight can be difficult; the company's Web categorizes software by industry and type, not by name. That is not necessarily a bad way to look at things, especially with dozens of products that are sure to confuse, but it doesn't necessarily offer the sort of transparency that public companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Lawson, and SAP must provide to shareholders, Wall Street, and the press, and the level of criticism and questioning that results from that openness.
So when Infor says it's making a big announcement, that in itself is news. That was the case last week when Infor gave its application integration strategy, which it had previously referred to as its "application assembler" strategy, codenamed "Corestone," a new mission and a new name: Open SOA.
According to Infor, Open SOA will provide Infor's customers with a way to implement new applications in a modular fashion, using standard XML-based integration technologies based on the Open Applications Group Interoperability Standard (OAGIS). Infor says Open SOA will make it easy for customers to install and configure service-enabled applications, whether they come from Infor, from Infor's partners, or even from Infor's competitors.
A key element of the Open SOA will be Infor's Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a previously unannounced product that will provide the critical Web services orchestration layer. Not much is known about Infor ESB, except that the company plans to provide it to customers free of charge. For the second important SOA element, the business process management (BPM) layer, Infor customers will have a choice of two BPMs: one developed by Infor, and another developed by an unnamed partner, according to the company.
Before Infor's 70,000-plus customers can start benefiting from Open SOA, Infor needs to make some alterations to the core ERP products to expose their business processes through standards-based technologies, also called "service enabling." These changes, as well as the enabling technology such as the Infor ESB and BPM layers, will be delivered as standard product updates that are free to customers on maintenance, according to Infor.
Open SOA will be "built into Infor solutions at no charge to customers and will be delivered as regular product upgrades on an ongoing basis," said Jim Schaper, Infor's chairman and CEO, in a press teleconference Wednesday. "It will be built into solutions and we're not going to charge customer for it."
However, exactly when MAPICS, BPCS, or Baan customers can start taking advantage of Open SOA is unknown, because Infor isn't saying just yet. "Customers need and should hear our plans directly from us first about when specific solutions will be SOA-enabled," Schaper said. "That will happen between now and the user conference in September. At that time, we will publish a roadmap."
Infor reserves the right to service-enable its ERP products on a timeline decided by itself and by its customers. Suffice it to say, that roadmap won't include any product convergence, according to Schaper. "We will not leave our customers behind and we will not put them on a forced march to a converged platform. As we stated over the last four years, it's not our business model, not in interest of customers, and it's not going to change," he said.
Event Driven SOA
Open SOA will allow customers to implement traditional SOA, as well as "event-driven" SOA, which simplifies an integration environment and provides greater agility to its users, Infor says.
While specific product details aren't available, the key elements enabling event-driven SOA for Infor appear to be the Infor ESB, the reliance on OAGIS integration standards as an open interface, and a series of "business service interfaces" that work with the applications themselves. This will help Infor keep the number of "business event interfaces" to a minimum.
Open SOA's event-driven architecture will offer a maximum of 500 business event interfaces. This is significantly less than the 5,000 business event interfaces that SAP and Oracle plans to expose as part of their SOA strategies, says Infor chief technology officer Bruce Gordon. That is too much power and responsibility in the hands of customers, he says.
"Our major competitors are saying 5,000 business services are what they're going to expose. If 1 percent of these services interact with other services, it would be 50 times 5,000, which would be a quarter of million ways you could wire up your application," he says. "We believe that this is too hard for customers then to come along and change the orchestration without having side effects. We don't know how we can support customers and stop customers from causing a lot of downtime in their environment."
Infor considered what its competitors were doing and decided to come up with a better way, Gordon says. "We looked at this and said the goals that technical or traditional SOA had, are correct. But we looked at it differently, and what we said is we need to provide these business services and encapsulate some processes so that they are independent services that can operate in a standalone environment, that orchestration is involved between these services via the publishing of business documents and the receiving documents.
Other Announcements
In other news, Infor last week unveiled a new warehouse management system, called Infor SCM WM 9.0. Infor says it has completely reworked the WMS to make it easier to implement and customize and to provide greater visibility of inventory across all warehouses involved in a supply chain. It's available now in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Yesterday, Infor unveiled changes to its business intelligence offerings, which it now calls Infor Performance Management (PM). With Infor PM, the company is dividing its business intelligence offerings into two main categories, including Business Process Applications and Business Specific Analytics.
Business Process Applications will provide strategic and operational planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and data consolidation capabilities for the finance department and other users, via an Excel-like interface. Business Specific Analytics, meanwhile, will provide pre-defined metrics and reports for specific roles and ERP modules, including accounts payable, receivables, sales, inventory, and general ledger.
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We wanted to split our time on the Beara Peninsula into two days, so today we headed for Healy Pass. The pass bisects the peninsula from south to north, with the counties of Cork and Kerry meeting at the summit. Since we hadn't driven the pass the last time we were here due to bad weather, we decided we would do it twice on this trip. Today we started from the north and went south.
The pass on the Kerry side was beautiful--lush green valleys and lakes, and lots of sheep
John asked if I wanted to drive, and because there were no other cars in sight, I agreed to do it. I drove much more slowly than John does now, and I did have to pull over for an oncoming car (apparently a little too close to a big rock for John's comfort), but I made it down the pass and into the little town at the bottom. That was enough stress for both of us!
We drove into Glengarriff again and went into a few shops before stopping for tea in a pub. Then we took a ferry out to Ilnacullin or Garinish Island. We passed the seal rocks in the bay, and saw several seals resting out there. As if on cue, some of them turned to look at us as we drew near.
The island we visited is a heritage site, and the entire island is a series of gardens. There are sub-tropical plants and trees that thrive in the climate of Bantry Bay. The island had been privately owned until the early 1950's when it was deeded to the people of Ireland
We again stopped at the seal rocks, which were beginning to disappear with the incoming tide, then returned to the mainland.
We then drove to the Glengarriff National Park and Oak Forest. They have a waterfall walk, so we took it. The waterfall wasn't huge, but it was a nice walk through the forest before we headed for Kenmare.
On the way to Kenmare we passed the Lorge Chocolatier, out in virtually the middle of nowhere. We stopped in and John bought a somewhat pricey bar of milk chocolate. I tasted their dark chocolate, and it was very good, but I have my own stash with me.
We went into town and walked to the tourist information office
We stopped in at Caf� Mocha, another stop from five years ago, and had lattes, then went back to the b&b to relax a bit.
Before dinner, we drove to a stone circle that was near the town center. We walked to it, and found two people sitting in chairs with their backs to two stones, holding umbrellas and reading. They didn't acknowledge us in the least, so we decided to leave them to the circle and we left for dinner.
We were offered our choice of tables, and we took a table for two in a corner by the fireplace. As we were seated, our server informed us that spot was romantic and jokingly asked if we were up for it. I told her that we had met 45 years ago today, and I thought that qualified.
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Accelerated Recruiting Creates Culture of Fear
by Justin Feil | LaxMagazine.com
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On Thursday, US Lacrosse issued a statement expressing concern over the the complex nature of collegiate recruiting process for high school student-athletes. With this in mind, here is an article on the topic from the May issue of Lacrosse Magazine. Don't get the mag? Join US Lacrosse and its 400,000-plus members today to start your subscription.
It happens all the time in horror films. A nervous pedestrian finds herself in a dark alley only to be ambushed. NCAA Division I women's lacrosse advocates feel that way now. Accelerated recruiting has sent their sport into a spiral.
"There's a really big culture of fear right now," said Quinnipiac head coach Danie Caro.
It's a rat race for the high school athletes competing for scholarships (a maximum of 12 for fully-funded programs), for coaches competing in an arena that has grown to over 100 teams, for parents trying to pay for college and for club teams looking to turn a profit by claiming their players are the most committed.
"I had a sophomore tell me they step out at lunch time to call coaches," said Notre Dame head coach Christine Halfpenny. "They sit in the car and make calls to college coaches. I thought that was wildly outrageous to me. They should be eating lunch and getting ready for algebra."
Some coaches want to ban all contact with sophomores, even on unofficial visits. But the NCAA won't change anything without making sweeping changes across all sports. In fact, new legislation could lead to even less policing of the process.
"Everything in the last year has been geared toward deregulation," said Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel. "It's floored us."
Caro was president of the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) in 2008 when they sent a proposal to the recruiting subcommittee of the academics/eligibility/compliance cabinet of the NCAA with recommended legislation.
"We saw it coming," she said. "We've always known we didn't want to go down the path of basketball, soccer and men's lacrosse."
Even Caro, whose program is not a top-20 team, had finished recruiting her high school class of 2013 by last spring. Last year's college seniors were the first class to commit mostly as juniors, Sailer and Kimel said. Official visits were a formality.
"It will change when you reach a critical mass of coaches who have made bad decisions and players who have made bad decisions," Sailer said. "Then you might get a little bit of a pushback on it."
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Kelci Smesko, an All-American senior midfielder out of Ridgewood (N.J.) High, had those concerns when she started to explore schools.
"It was kind of scary to be 16 and have to think about what I was going to major in," she said. "I wanted my heart to be fully in the school I chose. It didn't come easy."
Smesko verbally committed to Duke in December of her junior year, but only after taking unofficial visits to four other schools. She's one of the lucky ones. Schools will wait for a blue chip. She also has parents who steered her through the process.
"Parents are a big part of the process," Halfpenny said. "That's a good thing. They need as much mentoring and guidance as possible. It's not a four-year choice — it's a 40-year choice."
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Ex-Ashmore finance chief switches to private equity
The former finance director of specialist emerging market funds manager Ashmore Group has resurfaced at London-based private equity giant BC Partners.
Graeme Dell, who left Ashmore in November after six years, became a director at the buyout firm on June 2, according to the Financial Services Register.
A spokeswoman for BC Partners confirmed that Dell will replace Mike Twinning, the current finance director, who is stepping down later this year for retirement.
The spokeswoman said the two would work together in a period of "transition" in the run-up to Twinning's retirement, ahead of Dell being named finance director outright.
Dell said he intended to "pursue other opportunities" on his departure from Ashmore at the end of last year. His exit came six months after the departure of Jerome Booth, the former head of research and co-founder of Ashmore.
Dell was replaced by Tom Shippey, who had been Ashmore's head of corporate development.
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Fellow Mortals is a professional wildlife hospital that cares for injured and orphaned wild animals brought to the hospital by compassionate members of the community. Treated animals include songbirds, waterfowl, hawks, eagles, owls, rabbits, red and grey squirrels, opossum, woodchucks, beaver, and many other species. More than 40,000 wild animals of more than 100 species have received care since 1985, with the majority successfully returned to the wild
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
Wisconsin is home to an amazing wealth and variety of natural creatures, from the majestic great horned owl to the petite cottontail. Each year, many of these wild animals will confront misfortune, injured by a vehicle or perhaps orphaned by someone's pet. Some of these injured and orphaned creatures will be lucky enough to be found by compassionate people and brought to Fellow Mortals Wildlife Hospital, where they will be cared for with the hope of their eventual release back into the wild.
How will this project solve this problem?
Fellow Mortals provides care for all species of wild birds and most species of wild mammals. Open 365 days a year, we accept injured and orphaned wildlife into care at no charge to the public. Staffed by four licensed and experienced wildlife rehabilitators and assisted by veterinarians and student interns, the hospital provides professional, compassionate medical care for over 2,000 animals a year. Fellow Mortals is one of the largest and busiest wildlife hospitals in the nation
Potential Long Term Impact
Fellow Mortals is more than a place; it is a living philosophy based on the belief that encouraging compassion in humans toward all life brings out the finest aspects of our humanity. Fellow Mortals provides an irreplaceable service to wildlife, as well as the opportunity to educate and inspire people in our communities how to live harmoniously with wildlife in their backyards. Fellow Mortals strives to continue to reduce the numbers of animals admitted through community outreach and education.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: £30,744
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £25,189
Total Funding Goal: £55,933
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).


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I am a senior consultant in the area of user experience. I look to uncover what works and what doesn't work in the digital realm - and why some products and Websites are more usable than others.
Interests: Art, design, literature, culture, media, food, nature, dogs
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New York City Economic Development Corporation has announced the launch of New York City's Waterfront Navigator website. Funded by the Empire State Development Corp. and city, the purpose of the site is to act as a one-stop shop for users to figure out which permits they need from which agencies, and how to get them. Historically, it was difficult for applicants to obtain information on the process, which resulted in delays and other issues. Enervision Media acted as the M/WBE sub-contractor to SOS Brooklyn, who was commissioned to design and develop the custom site. Working closely in concert with team... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2016 at User Experience Monitor
Enervision Media, Inc. is pleased to announce that a new, responsive redesign of the GTM.com website has successfully rolled out. Our client, GTM Payroll Services, in Clifton Park, New York is a premier provider of payroll services for household employers nationwide, as well as to businesses of all sizes. The Enervision team began working on the GTM website redesign year. Chris Chariton, GTM's Senior Director of Marketing & Business Development had approached us in the Fall of 2015 about upgrading their large (WordPress) website, which she felt has several issues. These included issues with navigation, an outdated look and feel,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2016 at User Experience Monitor
In investigating approaches to responsive design, I came across some excellent ideas by bloggers on the topic. Two bloggers in particular stand out. They both analyze, albeit in different ways, the different ways in which you can approach design for multiple devices. Not all multi-platform approaches can really be called as "responsive design, incidentally.) The various approaches run the gamut from "barely responsive" to highly dynamic. The first is Brad Frost, who writes on Responsive Navigation Patterns. I like Brad's thinking because he starts with the far end of the scale – the "Do Nothing Approach (where, surprisingly, the designer... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2015 at User Experience Monitor
Clients often ask for mega menus (those extra-large menus that offer a large number of links to site pages) as a way of providing quick access to deeply buried pages or data on their site. Mega menus have been a trend for years. But they're not for every site, and can be misused. So, when should you use mega menus and when should you not? Let's look at a few examples. A Mega Menu that Works Nordstrom's website (shown above) is a good example of how mega menus can help the user navigate a site. The mega menus allow quick... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2015 at User Experience Monitor
SEO is a constantly evolving field. Every year brings with it an updated set of recommendations as to what you should do to improve your search engine ranking. So what are the experts recommending now? Back to Basics SEO - Guidelines from Google At the top of the list (always, anytime) is Google's own search engine recommendations, summarized in their Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Although labeled a starter guide, this handbook for webmasters includes a host of recommendations that will keep any organization afloat in the sea of links known as search results. For basic SEO, Google recommends: Making... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
The accepted wisdom in the usability industry is that card sorting is an underutilized tool for Web and software design. But what are the advantages and disadvantages of doing it online? Do you learn as much? I recently gave Optimal Workshop's "OptimalSort" online research tool a spin for a client project to see how it would fare in collecting ideas to a new site design that was in-progress. OptimalSort, part of OptimalWorkshop's suite of online products (available annually, by the month, or by the survey), promises the ability to get the insight of an in-person card sort study without the... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
As the word "Experience" becomes increasingly incorporated into job titles and departments, the debate seems to be growing about just what it means. I have written formerly about the line between customer experience and user experience. But there are other forms of "experience" that are neither one or the other. It all comes down to who your audience is that you're trying to attract (and design for). The exact nature of the experience of products or services will likely differ, depending on whether that person is an: Employee Student Teacher / Faculty member Researcher Parent Client Customer Prospect Visitor Guest... Continue reading
Posted Sep 9, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
Times are changing, and rapidly. The need for user feedback - early and often - on projects is causing UX managers to increasingly look towards online tools and remote practices. If you're in the market for moderated research, but want to keep your costs down, consider remote moderated user research. If you can schedule an interview with a user, you can schedule a Web session with a user, and many organizations and researchers are doing just that, providing a Web conference line for users to dial into. During the session, any number of things can happen, including: - Reviewing mockups... Continue reading
Posted Jul 21, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
I have recently experienced firsthand the pain and aggravation the redesign of a business-critical application can cause users. Intuit recently rolled out its update to Quickbooks Online, a Web application used by many small businesses. It was a rough week. The user interface for the new application was so radically different from the previous version of Quickbooks, it took many users (including myself) by surprise. Intuit made a large number of changes to move away from some of the klugey interface features that inevitably happen when an application has outlived its original design. It was, it seemed, time. The users... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
You've just rolled out a new Website, but the results aren't what you expected. You suspect you need to tweak and fine-tune the redesign. But how do you know when your Website redesign needs further fixes or refinements? And if it does need refinement, how much do you need to do? Indicators More Work is Needed First of all, there are some common indicators that tell you something is wrong with your current Website - whenever you rolled it out (last week or last year). When any of the following are true, you definitely need to take action: Your incoming... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
This is a cautionary tale. I like using Google products, and integrating them into our business operations. It seems like such a good deal. But the downside of working with products from the search engine behemoth is that occasionally they boot you out of them as they expire products that just "aren't working" for the company (for whatever reason). When this happens to you on a personal level (like the phasing out of iGoogle), it is inconvenient or frustrating. When it impacts your business, however, it is chilling. I have previously extolled the virtues of incorporating Google custom search into... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
Pew Research has recently completed a research report and analysis of how people and organizations interact on twitter. In a nutshell, have identified six types of conversations on Twitter, which include: Tight crowds centering on shared interests (such as hobby groups), and users have strong connections Brand clusters, where popular products or celebrities are but there is little connectivity Support networks, where organizations respond to users in an outward spoke relationship Each type of interaction has a unique shape, depending on the interaction, as seen in this infographic. You might have an "aha" moment reading this, as I did -... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
I had a writing teacher who used to make us write an entire short scene using only one-syllable words. It was a painful, but eye-opening, process. Gone was the opportunity to obfuscate with complex, mellifluous language. No opportunities to expound in excruciating detail about narrative omniscience and… well, you get the idea. Big words hide important concepts, belabor the point, show your lack of confidence, and alienate or annoy your audience. When you aren't allowed to hide behind big vocabulary words and clever metaphorical turns of phrase, your writing becomes less about showing what you know and more about sharing... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
Surely the worst user experience on the Web is a security violation. Having your user ID or password stolen (not to mention the events that follow). Or is it having to remember ALL your passwords for ALL the Websites you frequent and then going around and changing them all? The Heartbleed bug has forced many Websites and Web services to send out requests for users to change their passwords. A list of likely sites affected was issued by Mashable recently. They include many major Websites, from social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube), to email providers (Google, Yahoo), and other vital... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
Not every site has a search feature, and not every site needs one. But once your site starts amassing any amount of content at all (whether through an integrated blog, a large number of pages, or different downloadable resources), search is a high value feature to add to your site. One of the best tools for running search on your site is the Google Custom Search Engine. This feature allows you to add a search feature to your Website that runs a search using all of the power of Google Search. Results are simple, but that's all many sites need.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
The major eLearning companies are using social media for promotion. It's no surprise that a consumer-focused company like Rosetta Stone is heavily involved on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube. They have big budget marketing campaigns and the social web is naturally part of their marketing mix. They have 2.1 million followers on Facebook, and have an extensive library of YouTube videos that promote their products and provide complementary information on travel for their users that are learning a language for a vacation abroad. But other eLearning companies like Blackboard, Skillsoft and CompassLearning are not only using some of these same... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
Digital tools and social media technologies have changed every company's communication strategy. Databases enable writers and editors to maintain single-source blurbs of boilerplate and standards of particular definitions or titles. Content management systems (CMS) enable writers and editors to update content and make it live on the fly. Social media outlets make customers and users part of the conversation instantaneously. Reusable content, speed-of-light publishing, and an unmanaged multitude of voices don't always make for successful online narratives, however. The tools alone don't make the process work, after all – that requires teamwork, measurement, and management. Successful content creators maintain quality... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
The jury is still out on the results, but the government is using social media to try and drive enrollment on the healthcare exchanges. The focus is on getting younger people to sign up – a necessary ingredient for the success of the exchanges. The insurers are counting on younger, healthier people enrolling to reduce the risk pool. Healthcare.gov is using all of the most popular social sites to get out the message. The content is similar across their selected social sites: Facebook (310,000 Likes), Twitter (158,000 followers), YouTube (5,400 subscribers) and Google+ (126,000 followers). They seem to trying to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
I have been looking for this speech for weeks. Google, Bing, and Wikipedia were of no help. Although finally, based on a tip from a recent University of Michigan emailer, I was finally able to locate it amongst my folders and sub-folders. It is a speech given by a man named Louis Lipson (1921-1996) in 1979 a the Yale Law School graduation ceremony. It is remarkable for consisting entirely of one-syllable words. Sound impossible? Read the Louis-Lipson-Speech. Yale apparently enjoyed it, because they had him repeat it again in 1992. The speech lacks nothing, and is as inspiring as any... Continue reading
Posted Mar 10, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
There have been a lot of cautionary tales about how what you post onf Facebook can affect your chance of getting a job or even getting into college, but it turns out that high school students are turning the tables and checking out the Facebook pages of colleges as part of their decision-making process. Although Websites and brochures can tell part of the story, Facebook can provide a deeper insight into what campus life is really like. A study from Uversity found that about two-thirds of graduating seniors from the class of 2012 used social media to research colleges. Facebook... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
Can you be buttoned-up and business-like on your Web site and then accessible and casual on your social media networks and still maintain a cohesive corporate voice and tone? Yes, most definitely. With a little strategy and planning, all of your content channels can be representative of your brand and ethos. Think of it as a variation on a theme. But, before you put fingertip to keyboard, you should define the separate purposes of your Web site and your social media outlets. Then, think about how you want them to work together. For example, your Website is your core corporate... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
What is the difference between "user experience" and "customer experience?" Are they the same thing, to be spoken of interchangeably, or is there a difference? Broadly speaking, customer experience refers to the entire interaction a customer has with your company and brand, including interactions: In-person (such as with your sales representatives) In-store point-of sale devices (such as ATMs and kiosks) Via Phone (automated IVR systems as well as Call Center conversations) On your Website (for information or transactions) Via Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) Via Mobile apps Via email (email newsletters, special offers, and correspondence) Via regular mail (paper correspondence)... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
So true!
I've written a lot about how to write a blog - the structure, the length, how to engage your readers - but always avoided the toughest topic: how to consistently come up with new ideas. Writing, after all, is a creative process and - like it or not - inspiration is not something that you can al...
I had a boss many years ago who wouldn't review anything until it was in near publishable form - with design and graphics almost complete. This often meant that by the time he did a first edit on the content of a report or a white paper or a presentation, the entire production team had already put in hours and hours of design and build time, hoping that he wouldn't make a lot of changes. But he always did make changes. In one case, the team wasted so much time pushing a report through production with initial copy that the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2014 at User Experience Monitor
I hear from a lot of Website and product managers who express an interest in "improving" the look and feel, navigation or customer engagement of their Websites, without a clear concept of what their current metrics are. My question always is, how can you know what you're improving unless you know where you are now? The short answer is, you can't. Survey Monkey did a thoughtful article recently on benchmarking (and benchmarking surveys). They define benchmarking as setting the standard for a business, so you know when you make improvements (or go downhill). It can also be the standard for... Continue reading
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Fresh dog slobber freshens 'em right up.
Fresh dog slobber freshens 'em right up.
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I had to google fomites. They were everywhere.
Every couple of years I take all bumpers and stack them loosley in milk crates and run them thru the sanitize cycle of the commercial dishwasher at the local steak house in the afternoon while the kitchen staff is on break.
Note; does not work well with frozen birds. JD
PS The patrons of said steak house seem mostly unaffected....
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Ok, my dogs have their nose up other dogs butts, fetch two day old birds at hunt tests after baking in the sun and soking in a pond, and drink swamp water like its fine wine .... My bumpers have never been washed and unless they some how end up bouncing in toxic waste may never get washed.
Muck Madness Retrievers
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Emerald City Reba, SH
Emerald City Rosie SH
Muck Madness Hurricane MH ... "Cane"
Muck Madness Bailey's Irish Cream SH ... Bailey
"How you do anything is how you will do everything".
Hmm salmanila (sp?) from eating rotten fish. I had a dog get very very sick from this when I lived in the northwest.
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Go Nutts with dog training
HRCH Patton's Parker Co. Shadow "Shadow"
HRCH Clineline Hijacker "Jack"
HRCH Marks a Lot Midnight Hudson, SH "Hudson" RIP (5/26/01-6/18/15)
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I do clean mine occasionally but only to make them brighter and get the dirt off, figure any animal that can lick his own nuts is
safe from most BBP (BUMPER BORN PATHAGENS).
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It was reassuring to read in Kuensel this morning that the Police have opened an investigation into the incidents involving the ruthless and horrendous beating of a student in a locked basement room.
This may probably be the first time, since the Police Act was passed in 2009, that such an internal investigation is being launched by the police into one of their own. According to that Act, the police must be polite and tolerant in dealing with members of the public and their colleagues, and uphold the human rights of all persons while performing their duty; and the government has the power and the authority to investigate misconduct by the police force.(Kuensel)
It is also with great reassurance that we have heard from the Prime Minister of Bhutan who has said on this issue (also according to a tweet from MP Sangay Khandu)
Sangay Khandu
'If investigation's found not satisfactory then it'll be handled at other levels outside of the Police force' - Bhutan PM on recent incident
This is fair enough especially because we recently heard from other officials who came out in defense of the accused Police Officer even before an investigation could be launched and the facts of the case/incident, determined.
It is normal procedure in many cases that the Police Department be allowed to conduct its own investigation before an independent committee outside the police force be setup for one. The only thing is that can we trust the police to conduct this investigation with great jurisprudence?
Since the incident, the conduct of the accused officer as well as the Police Chief has, apparently, been rather questionable, so one really wonders how well and thorough this investigation will be. Which police officer, I would like to know, is going to ask the tough Questions to the Chief when they couldn't even stop the SP from beating the boy.
Will any policeman be truthful enough to report the actual facts of the incident when even at the time the events occurred they didn't? Will the accused officer and the others admit that the boy was allegedly asked/forced to give a written confession admitting to wrongdoing? Will the Police Chief own up to the allegations that he even offered money to the boy's family, about Nu.10,000 (twice) as "compensation?" Does he know that this can be, otherwise, called hush money? Will both officials accept that they even apologized to the boy and the students - inadvertently admitting that they were in the wrong?
Apparently there were many witnesses, from amongst the students and the police. The students are fortunate that they can speak up because they have the full support of their Principal and the faculty who have apparently been very supportive of the victim as well as their students. This is something to be applauded and held up as an example. At a time when there are no influential parents, or relatives, to descend upon the police station to demand answers, the faculty of the school have proven that education is not simply about teaching a lesson in the classroom but also outside it - to question a system and authorities when they are in the wrong; to stand up for the young and weak; to seek answers and justice.
When I spoke to the victim, he told me that they were doing this not because he wanted justice for himself, but because like the others around him, he wants to see that this never happens to any other child or person.
The only thing standing against the boy is that when he was released from the police station and went straight to the emergency ward in the evening, he did not admit to the Doctor that he had been beaten. He told me he was scared, frightened, was shaking from fear, anger and humiliation and was ashamed to tell the Doctor of the incident. Instead, he told the Doctor that he had fallen; refused to get the stitches that would've required time, but instead took the painkillers and medication and went straight home and snuck into bed. His parents were away in the village and his brother who was working returned home late after he had gone to bed. In essence, he did not report it to anyone. It was only because the other students who saw him being dragged away reported that he had been missing to the teachers who questioned him about the events.
While this is totally understandable - his need to shrug off/forget as much of the horrible occurring's of the day; by being let down by people you trusted would protect you, not beat and violate you - it may be hard to prove his injuries. One can only hope that the Doctor on duty will testify to what he saw that day and that the police officers who helped wipe the blood off the boys head with a hanky, offered him water and helped warm his hands to write the confession statement; will speak the truth.
The Police should also not look upon this incident as something that is destroying their reputation and neither should the government. There are always bad apples in every department and the government is not responsible for what every person or official says or does. What will really ruin the police and governments reputation is if they do not make people accountable for their actions; their words; and their conduct.
And with this case comes every opportunity for the police department and the government to salvage their good image as upholders of the values and ideals of a GNH society by meting justice to the wronged. Behaving in an archaic way - to hide the truth and the facts - can only be counter-productive.


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By default, the contrast and brightness are set at 70% and 100%, respectively. I achieved a 100nit white by selecting 42% brightness and 45% contrast. The brightness is regulated by means of backlight modulation at a frequency of 217Hz. Color gradients are reproduced normally, yet you can see slight banding in them on closer inspection.
The monitor's got a standard color gamut which is somewhat larger than the standard sRGB color space in greens.
The gamma value is too low at the default settings, producing a faded and low-contrast image. You could correct this problem in the Samsung 245T by choosing a different gamma in the monitor's menu, but the VP2330wb just doesn't offer such a setting. So, you have to correct the gamma in your graphics card driver or using a hardware calibrator.
The problem deteriorates at the reduced brightness and contrast. The curves rise up and the image gets paler.
The monitor offers half a dozen preset color temperature modes plus a user-defined mode. The setup accuracy is somewhat worse than average. The difference between the temperatures of the levels of gray is over 1000K, and not only dark-gray but also pure white deflects much from the name of the mode.
The response time average is 13.1 milliseconds GtG with the rise on dark tones to tens of milliseconds we are familiar with by MVA matrixes of recent past. As a result, the VP2330wb proves to have a rather mediocre speed. It is two times slower than the above-discussed 244T and 245T from Samsung and by a third slower than the Dell 2407WFP.
The contrast ratio isn't record-breaking, yet good anyway. It is over 300:1 in two of the test modes. The maximum brightness is even above the specified value.
So, the VP2330wb looks like an average product with few drawbacks and without any exceptional traits. To name its drawbacks, the USB hub is placed rather inconveniently at the back, the labels on the control buttons are almost unreadable, the gamma compensation is set up sloppily, and the matrix is rather slow. Although I can't say it's a bad monitor, I also cannot give you a list of its advantages because it is not superior to its opponents in any of its parameters.


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Most Influential Albums
Due the unfortunate fact that we don't even really begin to get a glimpse of what our actual lives are outside of the limited scope of this board, its hard to really gauge what albums specifically influence how we think and interact and just live out of our lives away from the few minutes (okay, hours ) we spend of our free time posting on here. I'm sure we all have dreams and ambitions and goals for ourselves, and maybe for the more cerebral folks here who like to mull over philosophy and other "pretentious" things () I am sure that there are certain albums by bands that there is a special kind of connection to. At least for me this is true, therefore I've put together a list of albums that have really impacted my life deeply (with varying degrees depending on the album of course), or at least in some direct way have influenced me beyond just a base aural enjoyment of the music. Whether it be in my system of values, my ideas about life, my character, whatever it may be, these are some albums that I can say have significantly helped shape the person I am today. Like any good book, or any important person in my life, these are like companion pieces for my life. Hopefully you guys have some kind of attachment in this way because it is a really special thing to connect with another's art. These are their goals and ambitions and dreams that they achieved as musicians, and for me thats cool to think that how they were influenced by other people to reach their dreams of being musicians and now they are influences to me as well. Anyways, here's my list, post your too Some discussion on this would be really great too. Notice they don't have to be by your favorite band, or even be your favorite album, as I don't even have a single Maiden album on my list. They were kind of the main general influence and really are the backdrop to what my life is now so its pointless really to put them on here because they influence is really all-encompassing. These albums just really stick out in my mind as being albums that impacted me a lot at whatever point in my life that was, so that's why its not so difficult to discern.
Rush- 2112
Rush- Grace Under Pressure
Rush- Vapor Trails
Tool- Lateralus
Tool- Aenima
Tool- 10,000 Days
Death- Symbolic
Death- The Sound Of Perseverance
Isis- Panopticon
Isis- In The Absence Of Truth
Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd- Meddle
BLAZE- Tenth Dimension
BLAZE- Silicon Messiah
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
Megadeth- Rust In Peace
Anthrax- Among The Living
Slayer- Show No Mercy
Dio- Holy Diver
Kyuss- Welcome To Sky Valley
Amon Amarth- With Oden On Our Side
I- Between Two Worlds
Immortal- Sons Of Northern Darkness
King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
Moonsorrow- Verisakeet
Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime
Motorhead- Rock & Roll
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Judas Priest- Painkiller
Rainbow- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Black Sabbath- Heaven & Hell
Children Of Bodom- Hatebreeder
As you can see there's a range of different styles and bands here, some albums I've had for years, some I've had for mere months, but they are all linked in that they have meant so much to me and are albums I could never part with.
Even though its not the easier thing to narrow down sometimes try and post your guys' list of highly important and influential albums
Last edited by ADD; 01-29-2007 at 06:56 PM.
these are pretty recent..I dont know how influential they can be, at this point in time.
Though they all kick ass
Add, this is a really cool idea, for a thread and in life in general. There are many people, and even some on this board, that won't "get" this thread/idea. I think that is a shame. For those who truly love music, this should be fairly thought-provoking because there will be some albums that come to mind immediately and other albums that will take more reflection. For us old folks, it might be a very long list.
The world weighs on my shoulders but what am I to do?
Last edited by ADD; 01-29-2007 at 06:57 PM.
umm...heres mine...(of the CDs I own)
Manowar-Kings of Metal
Rainbow-Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow
DIO-Holy Diver
Live-Throwing Copper *
Helloween-Walls of Jericho *
At the Gates-Slaughter of the Soul
Rammstein-Reise Reise
Kreator-Pleasure to Kill
Queensryche-Mindcrime *
Megadeth-Rust In Peace
Iron Savior-Dark Assault (my first power/speed metal album )
Grave Digger-Tunes of War *
Grim Reaper-Fear No Evil *
Grim Reaper-See You In Hell *
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Fear Factory-Demanufacture
Black Sabbath-Paranoid *
Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast *
Dio-Very Beast of *
While all of these have shaped my musical tastes today, the ones with (*)s are some of the first albums I ever bought that really got me into rock and then metal.
Oooh, this'll be fun. I won't list a ton, because I want to be able to explain how each of them has changed my outlook on music They're more or less in chronological order.
Goo Goo Dolls- A Boy Named Goo
The first album I ever bought, when I was in 4th grade or so. They were my favorite band from then all the way until high school, when I discovered Maiden.
Green Day- Insomniac
Introduced me to punk. I literally wore out my cassette, I listened to it so much. It's still one of my favorite albums.
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
This one pretty much got me interested in metal, but there's a few other albums I listened to that also did that, like Megadeth's Cryptic Writings, but this one is the best
Dead Kennedys- Give Me Convienience Or Give Me Death
Introduced me to "real" punk. I'd never heard anything like them before, with Jello Biafra's demented and bizarre vocals and the creepy surf-guitar tone that they used. In a way, DK also influenced my fucked-up sense of humor, because I found songs like "Funland At the Beach" hilarious, with the chorus of "Crushed little kids, crushed little kids, crushed little kids adorn the boardwalk!!" and shit like that.
Minor Threat- The Complete Discography
Along with DK, they also introduced me to hardcore punk. They're more abrasive and aggressive than DK, which really appealed to me for whatever reason. It was angry, fast, and violent, and for a angsty high school kid, it was perfect.
Iron Maiden- Powerslave
This was my first Maiden album, and by getting into Maiden, that opened the floodgates to countless other bands and kinds of music. My friend gave me a copied cassette of it, and at first I only liked "Aces High," and only then because of the lyrics (I'm a military buff). After a while, though, I really started to appreciate it, and he started giving me copies of NOTB, Piece of Mind, Seventh Son, etc, and I was totally hooked. The rest, as they say, is history.
Opeth- Blackwater Park
My high school science teacher (who at one point let me borrow a shoebox full of punk CDs, including the aforementioned DK and Minor Threat albums, and also was the one who got me into Maiden) mailed a burned copy of this to me one day, saying that I should check it out. I'd never heard vocals more extreme than, say, Slipknot to this point, so it really threw me for a loop. However, I didn't dismiss it or even dislike it. I enjoyed the musicianship, and eventually got used to the vocals. I credit this album with introducing me to extreme/death vocals and basically all of extreme metal.
The Clash- London Calling
London Calling is now my favorite album of all time. I bought it on a sheer whim; the only Clash songs I'd ever heard were Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay or Should I Go, neither of which are on this album. But I was blown away by the diversity of styles: Reggae, rock, punk, jazz, pretty much anything you can think of. No two songs sound alike.
Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
And now we come to the most recent of my "life changing" albums. Two summers ago, I read a Rolling Stone review of this album (it had just come out). I'd heard one of their songs on an anti-Bush compliation I had, and I liked it, but I didn't really give it a second thought. After reading the review, I decided to download The Woods and check it out. I wasn't prepared for the avalanche of howling feedback, thundering drums, or Corin Tucker's earth-shattering wail. It was one of the only albums I've ever heard that made me just sit back and go "Whoa. What the fuck was that??" Needless to say, they instantly became one of the my favorite bands ever.
So there you have it, my musical history
Hmmm, uh....
Slayer - Reign in Blood
A mix CD of (real) black metal that was given to me in 10th grade
Everything by Priest and Maiden, and early Sabbath
That's my list, until I'm sober, haha.
Oh, and as for my punk side, which I was into before metal, let's see...
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc.
Operation Ivy - Operation Ivy (still love about half of this album, I can't stand stand the ska stuff)
Bad Religion - No Control
Those are the big ones.
When I first considered the thread, I imagined it wouldn't be much different from a "favorite albums" list. But when I started thinking it through, I came up with some surprisingly different things. In approximate chronological order of intersection with my life:
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Soundtrack for the film Terminal City Ricochet on Alternative Tentacles
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
The Grunge Years (an anthology from SubPop records)
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
The Chess Box - 4-disc box set of blues musicians on Chess records
Uncle Tupelo - March 20-24, 1992
Ani Difranco - mix tape my friend Margaret made for me, which drew heavily from Not a Pretty Girl and Out of Range
The Story of Great Music from Time Life Records, 5 box sets from a series of ?, each box containing four vinyl records and a book outlining background/program notes.
Braid - Movie Music, Vol. 1
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, 4-disc box set
Dismemberment Plan - Change
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah-Um
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Opeth - Lamentations DVD
The Coup - Steal This Album
So well informed I don't know where the truth begins.
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