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Every sport has them. Talented guys. Likable guys. The guys your dad roots for. But in the end, the guys who just couldn't pass over that hump. They are the bridesmaids of their professions.
Here are the five biggest bridesmaids in the UFC today.
You may wish to quibble with the specific definition of "bridesmaid," but the main parameters for inclusion are someone who has never put the UFC gold around the waist and someone who has repeatedly received and fallen short in either title fights, eliminator bouts (official or unofficial) or both.
Here's what it does not mean: a guy who lost a title fight once. We're looking for patterns here. Savvy?
That's great. So onward, then, to the list, which will surely not foment any dissent from anyone. Giddyup!


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Get Fit In 2012: A Complete Indoor Fitness Plan
As winter sets in, and the year end festivities begin, there will be some who will wish if only they could maintain or improve their fitness while remaining indoors. Of course, if you have a well equipped gym at home then it won't be a problem to do so, but if you lack any equipment then you maybe wondering how far it will be a possibility. The fact is that no matter wherever you are, you always have one very useful piece of equipment that you can train with, and that is your own bodyweight! If nothing else then simply do bodyweight training and you can get some pretty good results without having to spend a single rupee. Needless to say some added equipments like free weights, jumping rope, punching bag, etc can be purchased for a relatively lower cost when compared to high end treadmills, cross trainers, etc and can be easily fitted into your home.
Lower body: Bodyweight squats, Goblet squats, Lunges (with or without dumbbells), Romanian deadlifts, Glute bridges, wall sit and split squats.
Upper Body: Push ups, military press, handstand, dumbbell/barbell rows, arm curls and extensions with dumbbell/barbell.
For the abdomen: Crunches, reverse crunches, Turkish get ups, Dumbbell windmill, plank holds, side bends with dumbbell and v-sit ups.
Stretch: Flexibility is fully one third of a balanced physical fitness program (you already know the other two - cardio and strength training). Stretching not only feels wonderful, but also helps in reducing stress and muscle tension along with increasing blood circulation by making your muscles longer and leaner. For a detailed low-down on a basic stretching routine, you can click here.
Cardio- skipping rope: It should be avoided if you have bad knees or feet problems. Go for circuit training, kickboxing and high repetition bodyweight training.
Sample Weekly Exercise Routine at Home
Here is a basic weekly routine that you can do at home to get a well rounded fitness workout:
Workout A
- Military press- 3 sets of 6-8 reps
- Barbell row- 3 sets of 6-8 reps
- Turkish get ups- 2 sets of 5 reps each side
- Circuit: 3-5 rounds
- Push ups: 30 seconds
- Bodyweight squats: 30 seconds
- Reverse crunches: 30 seconds
- Try to get as many reps as you can in the time mentioned and rest 1- 1 ½ minute before repeating the circuit.
- Rope jumping for 10 minutes or shadow kickboxing.
Workout B
- Goblet squats- 3x12 reps
- 1 leg Romanian deadlift – 3x10 reps each leg or barbell good mornings- 3x10 reps
- Circuit: 3-5 rounds
- T-push ups: 30 seconds
- Lunges: 20 seconds each leg
- Plank: 30 seconds
- Try to get as many reps as you can in the time mentioned and rest 1- 1 ½ minute before repeating the circuit.
- Rope jumping for 10 minutes or shadow kickboxing.
Do the 2 following workouts alternately on any 3 non consecutive days a week.
So, we hope after reading this post you have a good enough excuse to exercise this winter!
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text: On October 25, 2012, an OHA Hearing Officer issued a decision in which he concluded the DOE should not grant an individual an access authorization. A Local Security Office (LSO) raised certain concerns regarding (1) diagnoses by a DOE consultant psychologist (DOE Psychologist) that the individual suffered from Alcohol Dependence and Personality Disorder NOS; (2) the individual's history of problematic alcohol use; (3) prior criminal conduct of the individual; (4) evidence of the individual's financial irresponsibility; and (5) inconsistent information provided to DOE during the security clearance process. After conducting a hearing and evaluating the documentary and testimonial evidence, the Hearing Officer found that the individual had not presented sufficient evidence to mitigate these security concerns. Specifically, the individual had not abstained from the use of alcohol long enough, nor received treatment for her diagnosed disorders, such that the DOE Psychologist could offer a positive prognosis, and the Hearing Officer found that there remained too great a risk that the individual would use alcohol to excess in the future and/or otherwise experience lapses in judgment and reliability. In addition, the individual did not resolve concerns raised by her most recent criminal conduct, as the criminal charges at issue were alcohol-related and the concerns related to the individual's alcohol use had not been resolved. Regarding the individual's financial issues, the individual had not demonstrated sufficient progress toward resolving her outstanding delinquent debts, nor shown a sustained period of financial stability. Finally, the individual did not present testimony or other evidence that would explain or otherwise mitigate the inconsistent accounts she provided regarding her termination from a prior job.


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Monday: It is still dark outside and I am hopping on a train to get from east to west in time for Annabelle's 8:30 presentation. The 2nd grade class is practicing their public speaking and performance skills with a book reading. Ms. Annabelle was the lead playing "Verdi" the snake. She did a great job and celebrated in style at the wrap party with a plate full of food.
Tuesday: Jim & Grace have a glam event at St. James Palace tonight; suited and booted they headed out while we stayed to hang with the kids. Claude practiced his face licking and barking skills and Annabelle showed me her egg scrambling skills (by making and eating 5 eggs, hours after eating pizza for dinner). Tomorrow the fam is off to California for xmas so later we said our farewells and grabbed the last train back home
Wednesday: At the end of today Chris made me guess how far we had walked...I guessed 4 miles, Google maps says it was 8.3. Well that explains why I wanted to lie down on the street and just cry towards the end of the day. Needless to say, we covered a lot of ground passing many London highlights - Marble Arch, quick walk through Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, checked out the birds around the pond, Serpentine Gallery (Jake & Dino's Chapman Exhibit and another one). Next the Science Museum (saw a brain in a jar, electrocuted ourselves, and saw a cool exhibit on 3D printing - I did not realize how much stuff is already made this way) After sunset we went to Harrods and saw the xmas windows and wandered the floors imagining all the things we would buy if we were not jobless and homeless. Back out on the streets and heading east we saw: Battersea Power station, Chelsea Bridge, Westminster Cathedral/Abbey, Parliament and St. Paul's. (Towards the second half of the night we integrated a pub crawl into our excessive walking trail)
Thursday: Chris' Aunt Pauline had us over to see their new place and later grabbed dinner at the local Indian restaurant with Uncle Barry and cousin Joanne.
Friday: Tonight we have priority tickets to something called "Text Santa." This is a fairly new charity event hosted by Ant & Dec which I am pretty excited about (better than any presenters back home in my opinion)
Saturday: Hit the gym for the 4th time this week and then headed east for a night at Romford Dogs to see those greyhounds on the track. Chris' best friend Greg is in town for xmas - perhaps a lucky charm for all those bets we'll make tonight? Had a good time with the Sach clan but no winning bets for us.
Sunday: Spent the day strolling Greenwich with Marc & Louise. Watched some football at the Mitre, then drinks at the Union, at our 3rd stop Louise may or may not have lifted a pint glass for Marc at Richard I pub. Later we ended the night with Alan at the Great Eastern.


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Dordt College News
Day One Complete At National Meet
May 24, 2012
(Thursday, May 24; Sioux Center, Iowa) The Dordt College Defender track and field team sent several athletes to the NAIA National Track and Field Championships in Marion, Indiana, May 24-27.
Day One Recap
Highlights of day one at the NAIA National Championship meet included Crystal Vander Zee claiming All-American honors in the long jump with a leap of 19-6.75 for fourth place.
Briana Vander Woude is currently in second place in the heptathlon with the long jump, javelin and 800 meter run taking place on Friday.
Thursday, May 24
Heptathlon (Briana Vander Woude)competed in four events and totaled 3156 points which places her in second with Friday competiton still coming. She ran the 100 hurdles in :14.83 (2nd); the 200 meters in :25.58 (2nd); jumped 5-8 in the high jump (1st) and had a 34-8.5 performance in the shot put (8th). The leader in the event is Breanna Leslie from Azusa Pacific with 3238 points.
Video of Vander Woude high jumping courtesy Rick Schmuecker, Doane College Sports Information Director.
Men's 4 x 100 Trials (Trevor Wolterstorff, Joe Lammers, Aaron Floen, Alex Henderson) :41.56, tenth fastest in trials and qualifies for semifinals.
Women's 400 Trials (Katie Bonnema)qualifies for semifinals--not enough runners entered to run trials so all runners advance to semis.
Men's 400 Trials (Nic Pfeifle) :48.12 in trials and qualifies for semifinals.
Men's 800 Trials (Ryan Tholen)1:53.76 in trials and qualifies for semifinals with third fastest time on the first day of the event.
Women's 100 Trials (Crystal Vander Zee) did not qualify for semifinals.
Women's Long Jump (Briana Vander Woude, Crystal Vander Zee) Vander Zee jumps 19-6.75 and finishes fourth to attain NAIA All-American status. Vander Woude jumps 18-2.5 for 19th.
Women's 4 x 800 Semifinals (Lillie Koerner, Merissa Harkema, Renee Buikema, Whitney Wilgenburg, Nichole Duncan) ran a 9:27.53 and did not qualify for finals.
Men's 4 x 800 Semifinals (Mark Van Maanen, Tim Bierma, Stephan McNamara, Jake Byma, Trent Kischer) ran a 7:50.98 and did not qualify for finals
Friday, May 25
10:30 am-Heptathlon (Briana Vander Woude)
3:00 pm-Women's 400 Semifinals (Katie Bonnema)*
3:10 pm-Men's 400 Semifinals (Nic Pfeifle)*
3:35 pm-Men's 800 Semifinals (Ryan Tholen)*
4:05 pm-Men's 4 x 100 Semifinals (Trevor Wolterstorff, Joe Lammers, Aaron Floen, Alex Henderson)*
5:30 pm-Women's Triple Jump (Crystal Vander Zee, Christy Sikkema)
8:15 pm-Women's 4 x 400 Semifinals (Kari Van Beek, Crystal Vander Zee, Kaitlin Troost, Katie Bonnema)
8:35 pm-Men's 4 x 400 Semifinals (Alex Henderson, Joe Lammers, Trevor Wolterstorff, Aaron Floen, Nic Pfeifle)
Saturday, May 26
2:00 pm-Women's High Jump (Briana Vander Woude)
2:50 pm-Men's 4 x 100 Final (Trevor Wolterstorff, Joe Lammers, Aaron Floen, Alex Henderson)*
4:10 pm-Women's 400 Finals (Katie Bonnema)*
4:20 pm-Men's 400 Finals (Nic Pfeifle)*
4:40 pm-Mens' 800 Finals (Ryan Tholen)*
5:55 pm-Women's 4 x 400 Final (Kari Van Beek, Crystal Vander Zee, Kaitlin Troost, Katie Bonnema)*
6:05 pm-Men's 4 x 400 Final (Alex Henderson, Joe Lammers, Trevor Wolterstorff, Aaron Floen, Nic Pfeifle)*
*-indicates there is a qualifying race for this event earlier in the meet.
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Metro's elevators and escalators provide access to the transit system's many underground stations and to station platforms. Metro has the most elevators (278 in stations and parking garages) and escalators (618) of any transit system in North America.
Learn safety tips to prevent injury in an elevator or on a Metro escalator and what to do in the event of an emergency.
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The Wisconsin Lottery has set a new all-time sales record for the second year in row, according to a release.
The lottery reported $565.6 million in sales for the 2013 fiscal year that ended June 30, according to the release. The reported sales will generate an estimated $160 million in property tax relief.
Lottery officials said the sales in 2013 were $18 million more than the previous record set one year earlier in fiscal year 2012.
Sales were up in both the instant and lotto game categories, according to the release. Instant scratch sales were led by $10 and $20 tickets.
Lottery sales were driven by the $2 Powerball jackpot that got up to $590 million in May and three other jackpots of more than $300 million during the fiscal year, officials said. Lottery retailers across the state made nearly $35 million from ticket sales.
Over the past fiscal year, more than $329 million in prizes were paid, with 13 players winning $1 million or more, according to the release.


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Tiny marine organisms reflect ocean warming
Sediment cores collected from the seafloor off Southern California reveal that plankton populations in the Northeastern Pacific changed significantly in response to a general warming trend that started in the early 1900s. As ocean temperatures increased, subtropical and tropical species of small marine organisms called foraminifera ("forams") became more abundant. Forams that live in cooler waters decreased, especially after the mid-1970s. These changes are unlike anything seen during the previous 1,400 years. Oceanographer David Field discovered these dramatic changes during his Ph.D. work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Field and his co-authors describe their findings in the current issue of Science magazine.
Foraminifera are small, amoeba-like organisms that live inside shells ("tests") such as those shown at left. These forams were collected from the waters overlying the Santa Barbara Basin.
Image: (c) 2002 David Field
Foraminifera are small, amoeba-like organisms that live inside tiny shells ("tests") several of which might fit on the head of pin. Most forams live near the surface of the world's oceans. Different species of forams live in ocean waters of different temperatures. When forams die, they sink to the seafloor, where their shells are often preserved as fossils in seafloor sediments.
Field studied fossilized forams in one- to three-meter-long sediment cores collected at the bottom of the Santa Barbara Basin, off Southern California. In this area, dead plankton and sediments settle onto the seafloor to form distinct annual layers similar to growth rings in a tree. At 600 meters beneath the ocean surface, seawater in the Santa Barbara Basin contains very little oxygen, so few bottom-dwelling animals disturb the sediments and the annual layers remain relatively intact.
Researchers collect a box core of sediment from the Santa Barbara Basin. To collect a box core, a metal box, about a meter and a half long and 20 centimeters wide, is lowered down to the sea bottom, where it sinks into the soft sediment. After the box core is brought back to the surface, undisturbed layers of sediment can be collected from the inner portion of the core.
Image: (c) 1997 Vicente Ferreira-Bartrina
In conducting this study, Field worked with Timothy Baumgartner and Vicente Ferreira-Bartrina of Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Mexico and with Christopher Charles and Mark Ohman of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Field and his coauthors examined yearly sediment layers that were formed up to 1,400 years ago. Counting the different species of foraminifera in each layer, they discovered that many species of tropical and subtropical forams became more abundant after about 1925. Although previous studies have shown an ocean warming trend beginning at about this time, scientists have debated how much of this warming trend was due to natural variability. In order to address this issue, scientists needed more long-term data. Field's data set extends far enough back in time to demonstrate that the 20th century warming trend surpassed the range of natural variability.
This section of a sediment core from the Santa Barbara Channel shows the annual layers of sediments laid down each year. The scale to the right of the core is marked in centimeters.
Image: (c) 2005 David Field
Many previous studies have shown that a rapid warming and a dramatic change in eastern North Pacific ecosystems occurred in the mid-1970s. At this time, species of plankton, kelp, fish, and seabirds that prefer warmer waters increased and species favoring colder conditions decreased. Most scientists agree that part of the warming of the global oceans and atmosphere since the mid-1970s has been caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases. However, it has been unclear whether the ecosystem changes at this time were associated with anthropogenic warming. Field's sediment cores show that tropical and subtropical species of forams became even more abundant during this period while forams that prefer cooler waters decreased. The resulting foram community was unlike anything seen during the last 1,400 years. These long-term data indicate that the ecosystem changes since the mid-1970s are best explained by anthropogenic warming.
According to Field, "These data show that ocean warming has been affecting foram populations prior to the late twentieth century. However, changes since the 1970s have been particularly unusual, and show that ocean ecosystems in the northeastern Pacific have passed some threshold of natural variability." He also points out that most scientific data about the ocean have been collected during recent decades, after ocean temperatures and marine ecosystems had already begun to change. As Field notes, "It's a classic case of 'shifting baselines'—conditions that scientists think of as normal today might actually be very atypical when you look back a few hundred years."
This study provides a long-term context for many other studies of oceanographic and ecological conditions off the California coast. It was conducted as part of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program. The LTER program supports ecological research over long time periods in a variety of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The research was supported by the Achievement Rewards for College Students—Los Angeles division, the University of California ship funds and Coastal Initiatives, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, S. and B. Kimmich, the National Science Foundation, and the California Current Ecosystem LTER.
Research article citation:
D. B. Field, T. R. Baumgartner, C. D. Charles, V. Ferreira-Bartrina, M. D. Ohman, Planktonic foraminifera of the California Current reflect twentieth century warming. 2006. Science. Vol. 311 #5758 (Jan 6, 2005).
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Author's note: We've certainly covered a lot of material so far. Before wrapping up, it's important to keep in mind that a shareware company is just a small, self-contained software company. Shareware authors, just like the big guns of software, face a lot of the same issues we've discussed. Issues like sales strategy, writing the software, testing, shipping, ReadMe files, marketing, and distribution. The model for shareware is the same as it is for larger companies, just miniaturized.
Today we conclude the series with a discussion about press releases, payment processing, user support, a launch checklist, localization, and working from the road.
There are so many facets of press releases that we don't have the time to do anything but provide a quick overview. If you're looking for a detailed description of press releases, be sure to read Hacking the Press, by Adam Engst of TidBits. Adam's article covers the topic of press releases better than just about anybody.
As explained in our previous discussion in this series about the shareware life cycle, press releases should be distributed with each new release of your software. Press releases should be sent not only to the public press venues, but also to all users who have registered your software, as well as to all users who have asked to be informed about any changes to your products.
Don't send press releases for Mac OS software to your Windows users.
Do create a Web form where users can request information when it becomes available.
Do send new product announcements to all of your users. (This shouldn't happen with any great frequency.)
Don't over do it.
Below are the sections you should consider including in your press release:
By the time you have a few hundred users, you may find that sending out the release and update emails is too unwieldy with a simple email client. If you don't have access to a Unix server and enterprise level mailing list software, you may think you're out of luck. No worries! There's a wonderful piece of software called eMerge. eMerge, by Galleon Software, can import tab delimited text files with user information (like their registration numbers) and send form-merged emails. Even better, eMerge makes a direct connection from your computer to the recipient's POP server, so no intermediate SMTP server is necessary! eMerge also stores addresses that no longer work, enabling you to remove them easily from future mailings. It's a wonderful package. Unfortunately it's only available for Mac OS 9, although it runs great in the Classic Environment of Mac OS X.
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The Do's and Don'ts of Shareware, Part 1
No matter how hard you try to write perfect software, a release will invariably have a bug. Depending on the severity of the problem (crashing the user's machine comes to mind) you may want to release an immediate update. On the other hand, if the problem isn't too severe, you may not want to send out any emails at all and just silently post your update. It's reasonable to send some updates to the public press venues only and not your users, or vice-versa. (I've always wanted to use the term "vice-versa" in an article. :-)
If you have a staff of 200 people, a clean room full of computers, and your own T3 link out onto the Internet, you'll probably create your own payment processing solution. As with so many other facets of the software industry described by this series, most shareware authors have no such luxury. To the rescue are third party companies who have created entire businesses around processing payments for shareware authors. We'll call these companies Payment Processing Providers.
Payment Processing Providers basically take care of the headache of charging a user's credit card in a secure fashion, processing the sale, sending the goods to the user, and sending the payment to the author. This basic functionality is common to all Payment Processing Providers. How each provider allows authors to configure this functionality, and how functionality is provided to the customer are completely different. In addition, each of the three Payment Processing Providers described below is a "Work in Progress". Their systems are constantly evolving to keep up with industry trends and the demands of authors and users alike.
Below is a discussion that compares and contrasts three different Payment Processing Providers. All three providers are run by very honest people. All three providers are intent on providing excellent service to their authors and their authors' customers. Intertwined with the descriptions are my own experiences with each of these three Payment Processing Providers because there's nothing like the personal touch!
Kagi Software. To understand Kagi Software it's important to understand how they got their start. Way back before the Internet became popular, shareware companies distributed their software through America Online's software forums, Info-Mac FTP archives, Dial-up boards, or on shareware distribution disks. To facilitate the collection of funds from users, Kagi provided a special piece of software called "Register". Authors configured "Register" (using a rather obtuse mechanism by today's standards) with their product information and price. Authors would send a "test" payment to Kagi either by fax, email, or postal mail, and Kagi would plop all of the product information into its database. The user uses the same "Register" application to pay for the software. (The "Register" application does not make any kind of connection to the Internet. It's only used for creating paper or email payment messages that are encrypted weakly. "Register" is also not available for Mac OS X natively.)
When the Internet became popular, Kagi basically output its database to a series of Web pages to collect sales from users. Today, the required use of the "Register" application is only optional, but it's still the primary way to add a product to Kagi's system. (As per the first paragraph of Kagi's own FAQ to do just this: "Kagi processes payments for products based upon the product name. The best way for us to add your product name into the database is for you to send us the first test payment so that we can see exactly how the program name is spelled when output from the register program.") In the end, this translates to a complicated mechanism that's wired together in a rather unintuitive fashion and is poorly documented. Kagi has improved its system over the years, however. These days authors can generate sales reports via Kagi's online server, and customize their Web pages. It's Kagi's mix of old and new technologies that leaves many authors very frustrated with Kagi's system. But many authors also swear by Kagi's system, never giving a competitor a second look.
Some cases in point: Most of Kagi's support mechanisms are provided through special email addresses that are handled manually by different Kagi employees. One such email address allows authors to set up Kagi to generate customized registration codes. An email I sent to this Kagi address wasn't answered for 7 months. (Yes, 7 months.) Kagi has also been known to accidentally email viruses to all of its authors. Although no provider is immune from such problems, no other provider in my experience has ever had this problem. A recent email to email@example.com wasn't responded to for 24 hours, and only then the response was an automated message directing me to a different email address! The redirection was fine, but 24 hours? That's a long time for an author who's running an entire shareware company as a part time job! Also, an inordinate number of my users have complained that fax orders can sometimes take over a week for Kagi to process. An email to Kagi about this was answered within five days, and the faxes were processed soon thereafter. Turnaround time on mail orders is even worse, usually resulting in unanswered emails from the Kagi support staff and very frustrated paying customers.
Do remember that it's a really bad idea to frustrate paying customers. Especially before they get their registration numbers!
There are a number of things Kagi does right, however. Without a doubt, Kagi is the King of international sales. At the very core of their service is unending respect for the fact that most of the world does not speak English. And interestingly enough, most of the world does not use credit cards. Kagi handles this quite gracefully by providing all authors with a default sales experience in many different languages and accepts payment from European banks and debit cards not found in the United States. As a shareware author, you should not underestimate the International Marketplace. But don't overestimate it either. (Confusing, isn't it? How you handle this really just depends on your particular product.)
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Kagi offers many services. Unfortunately its services are strewn about on their Web site detailed in endless FAQ pages. Just combing through those pages alone can take a half of a life time, and their support staff is slow to respond. But if you look hard enough, the features you may want are probably available, sometimes at a price, in some form or another. And the features will be located for you upon request by Kagi's support staff, hopefully before you die.
DigiBuy. Close your eyes and envision the perfect Web-based sales solution and you're probably seeing DigiBuy. DigiBuy is the shareware subsidiary of the major e-commerce player Digital River. DigiBuy is a ground-up rewrite of a payment processing provider dedicated to shareware. Authors open a DigiBuy account with their own private username and password. Once DigiBuy's setup is complete (setup takes about five minutes and is available 24 hours a day) authors can add products through DigiBuy's Web interface (this takes another five minutes per product). Once finished, you're presented with a URL that you link from your Web site, and you're done. If you don't like DigiBuy's default ordering Web pages (they're about a 6 out of 10 on the universal hideousness scale) you can completely customize the entire ordering experience with DigiBuy's advanced template mechanism. If you can handle writing HTML, you can handle writing Web pages with DigiBuy's template mechanism. There are also loads of features that allow you to have DigiBuy generate registration codes for your products on the fly, and insert them directly into customer receipts. And authors can configure all of this with no human intervention on the part of DigiBuy. For the author, DigiBuy is the most intuitive and automated engine available. Everything is right where you'd expect to find it, and its interwoven documentation helps you every step of the way. DigiBuy's knowledgeable support staff will answer your emails expeditiously too, usually before the end of the current business day.
From the customer's point of view, DigiBuy has a load of features. Using DigiBuy, customers can place their orders via your customized Web pages instantly. Or for added security, DigiBuy can accept orders by fax, phone, mail, and even Purchase Orders. (To handle purchase orders yourself, here's what you'd have to do: customer postal-mails the author a purchase order, author sends customer the product, customer sends author the money, author sends the customer a receipt (optional). It's a four-way handshake.) Unique to DigiBuy, phone orders are handled 24 hours per day by their specialized automated touch-tone system.
Cases in point: DigiBuy's customer support is fast and courteous. DigiBuy's uptime is excellent. Features are added to their Web site on a regular basis, and their programmers respond to bugs very quickly. When I signed up with DigiBuy I asked their programmers to add Macintosh line delimiters (carriage returns) to their machine-readable reporting options. This feature was made available to all of its authors within 18 hours. Now if that's not service, I don't know what is.
But there's a catch. DigiBuy, for all it does right, is very expensive. DigiBuy also lacks fundamental features like the ability to split sales between authors and DigiBuy lacks an International sales experience, so your users will be stuck ordering in English. DigiBuy also has no software-integrated solution.
In the end, DigiBuy takes a hefty percentage of the cost of inexpensive products, and for shareware authors, that's a really big problem: most shareware products are inexpensive. Too bad too, because DigiBuy's Web-based ordering system is superb.
eSellerate. eSellerate is a relative newcomer to the payment processing game, opening its doors about two years ago. eSellerate, although lacking in a few basic features, has some serious power behind it. It also has one of the best deals in the industry for low cost products. Knowing this, let's begin.
eSellerate offers authors three separate options for accepting payments from users. (1) The first option accepts payments via a traditional Web interface. Although not totally configurable, the eSellerate Web interface offers Web based shopping cart technology. Authors can place "buy buttons" on their product pages or use a single page for all "buy buttons" (the default). (2) eSellerate's second option to accept payments is completely unique: an integrated eSeller. An integrated eSeller can actually accept a user's payment right from within your software. That's right, no Web browser necessary. As the shareware author, you'll make a function call to an eSellerate library. This magical library will present windows and fields to collect the user's credit card information and verify the credit card on-the-fly. Here's the best part: if the user's credit card information is valid, the eSellerate servers will return a new registration code right to your software. This is great because this avoids the extra step of instructing the user to enter the registration code which is a relatively large source of customer support emails. (3) For the third option, because eSellerate is made by the same folks that make Installer Vise, it's easy to embed payment technology right into your installers.
eSellerate's back-end is very powerful. Its databases are relational. This allows authors to define a product once, and then reference those products from multiple price points (SKUs). In turn, these SKUs can be referenced from multiple eSeller configurations: either integrated, installer, or Web site. It's a little unwieldy at first, but well worth the configuration effort. What a great idea: only enter your product's information once! This saves a lot of typing and time in the end. And if you get stuck, eSellerate's courteous support staff has the patience of Job. They'll usually respond to emails within hours, and if you get really stuck, they'll talk you through problems on the phone. Expect more support calls with eSellerate than DigiBuy because eSellerate's system simply does more. (eSellerate's integrated technology is Windows and Mac OS compatible (CFM+InterfaceLib, CFM+CarbonLib, or Mach-O compatible). See, I told you you'd need a little support!)
Cases in point: eSellerate's support staff will answer all of your questions expeditiously and thoughtfully. A while back when eSellerate's integrated solution was still in the 1.x stage, there was a slight incompatibility with my software. Their developers were quick to respond and steadfastly worked through the problem until it was solved. Writing a Web interface for sales is hard to get right. But writing an integrated solution that's compatible with so many operating systems and versions is nearly impossible. And eSellerate's actually pulled it off with flying colors.
Although eSellerate doesn't offer simple splits of sales between authors, and lacks total configurability of the Web-based sales experience (its template choices are a five out of ten on the universal hideousness scale, especially with multiple products), they do many things right. Its author back-end for running reports of sales is the most configurable in the business. And the best part: its rates are the lowest in the industry, even for inexpensive products. Percentages of gross product price do add up and you should take percentages seriously. eSellerate's 10 percent fee for low cost products is much lower than their competitors. Be sure to keep in mind that eSellerate's rates will jump up to 15 percent if you make more than $15,000 in any 12 month period.
Below is a comparison table of the three Payment Processing Providers described previously. As stated above, these providers are always evolving their services, so it's important to check with them when you're ready to sign up.
(1) Refunds are initiated between the user, the payment processing provider and the author. Charge-backs are initiated by customers via their credit card company and result in much higher fees.
(2) eSellerate's fee is dependent upon volume. Lowest fee shown.
(3) Business hours, provider's local time only.
(4) Encrypted weakly.
(5) Cart not available with "old" store, only "new" store.
(6) Contract must be signed and faxed.
(7) Some international banks cost extra to transfer funds to. eSellerate doesn't penalize users whose banks support lower cost transfers.
(8) eSellerate keeps payment fee only if customer disputes charge directly with eSellerate. Author-initiated refunds are free.
(9) Non-objective comparison.
Although this article only discusses three Payment Processing Providers in detail, there are many others. Authors should look for themselves and compare services and percentages to find the best match for their products. A few other providers that come to mind are RegNow (20 percent commissions) and new player Plimus (10 percent commissions, see its "BuyNow" solution). PayPal's merchant solution is also an option, although your customers may not want to become PayPal members. PayPal's support is also difficult to get ahold of and its system can arbitrarily lock out accounts with no recourse. In any event, it wouldn't hurt to send an email to the tech support folks at all of these companies to see how quickly they'll respond to your questions. Such response time is usually indicative of how seriously they take their responsibility.
There is one other option we haven't discussed: setting the whole thing up yourself. There are a number of articles and books detailing e-commerce implementations. Below is just an overview of what you'll need to process sales from your very own server:
Now all of that sounds like a lot to keep wired together. But there is a simpler solution: Amerimerchant.com is both a payment gateway and merchant account with fees as low as 2.4 percent + $0.31/transaction. All that's needed is the server, scripts and secure certificate. Amerimerchant can also wire your payments directly to your bank account every day. In the spirit of Tim O'Reilly's penchant for Open Source, there's a real opportunity here to create a shareware payment processing system for use by the entire shareware community.
Do consider all options before signing up for a provider.
Do remember that approximately 40 percent of your sales could come from integrated eSellers.
Don't tolerate bad service. There are too many companies who want your business.
Do be sure to give these companies feedback! The good ones will be glad to get it, and hopefully add features to their package.
Do remember that 15 percent of $30,000 in annual sales is $4,500, and that's a lot of money!
Do make a spreadsheet and calculate your payments for a month. Looking at fees one sale at a time can be very deceiving.
We've all been there as users... working under a deadline... stuck on a problem... the software isn't quite working right... and you need help. Enter the world of technical support.
The first rule of providing support is to always be nice to your customers. No matter what profanity they send you. No matter how rude they are. No matter how demanding they are. Rise above it, and be nice. The one problem with email is it's very difficult for both the writer to relay tone and the reader to interpret tone. And words translated from other languages to English don't always express feelings and characterizations fairly. So have patience, and err on the proper side of being courteous.
If you don't stay on top of it, support can really get overwhelming at times. Don't Panic! There are lots of things you can do to seriously reduce your support load. My own general rule is that if I receive the same question more than twice, I add the answer to my shareware Web site in one form or another. This serves one great purpose: to lower my support load. And it works. Users, for the most part, are ready and willing to read your Web site to find answers to their questions. The challenge is making it easy for them to find the answers. Here's where FAQs are so important. (Oh, don't call them FAQs. Very few users know what that those three letters mean! Spell it out: "Frequently Asked and Answered Questions".) You may want to keep your FAQs in a database so they can be exported to static web pages. A little scripting will save a lot of time here.
In addition to FAQs, an "Important Notices" section on your support pages can call attention to pressing issues. Important notices are a great way to handle problems with your software that will impact all of its users. If you release a corrupted archive accidentally (and you will, at least once) you'll definitely hear about it. So an important notice is warranted to reduce that support load. Position the "Important Notices" section on the page so the users see it before they get to your support email address. If you have too many Important Notices, they will probably be ignored. Use them sparingly.
One more thing: there's a fairly common rule of thumb that says that only 1 out of 10 users actually complain about a problem. So if you're getting 10 emails on a problem, 90 others have had the same problem and didn't bother telling you about it. Keep this in mind when supporting any and all problems with your web site and software. All support issues should be taken very seriously.
There are two kinds of support: Technical Support and Sales Support. Technical Support involves questions about the installation and use of your product. Sales Support involves any questions about registration and payment. It's good to keep them separate, as users will want to help direct their questions to the correct "department". It's also easier for you, the author, to filter the questions into the appropriate box.
The #1 sales support question, without a doubt, is "I lost my registration code, can you send it to me please?" This is the most difficult kind of question to answer automatically because if the user lost his or her code, they also lost his or her order number. And chances are the user has either moved or changed email addresses since purchasing the software. So there's no easy solution. One thing that can help is a database that allows free text searches through any field. Searching for users' names along with their cities is a good way to narrow the search. Executing such a search right from your email client is a great idea that can save you serious amounts of time (see next paragraph).
My own registration code lookup works like this: (1) I select hopefully unique and descriptive text in the user's email. (2) I click a button that executes an AppleScript. My AppleScript opens my FileMaker registrations database, searches for the text in every field, and presents me with a list of possible matches. (3) I click a checkbox next to each match for all orders the user has ever made (there may be more than one!). (4) I then execute another script that creates the registration message. This script also pastes the text back into a reply to the user. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. If you have about 10,000 customers, you can expect 1-6 of these requests per day. Not too bad. But these requests will usually spike when you release an update. This is why many shareware authors will send users their registration codes at the end of their press releases. (See eMerge above.)
The above example describes why keeping a copy of your sales database on your local machine is so important. Be sure to get details on how to mirror a sales database on your machine when you sign up with a payment processing provider. (As for the Payment Processing Providers described above, eSellerate handles mirroring to your local machine by emailing authors a tab delimited text file with the previous day's sales. Kagi, DigiBuy, and eSellerate send authors an easily parseable email with every purchase.)
Do have patience for all of your users!
Do create FAQs for frequently asked (and answered) questions.
Don't assume your users know what "FAQ" means!
Do remember that it's really hard to relay tone via email. Try to avoid misunderstandings!
Do create an "Important Notices" section for items that affect all users of a product.
Do leverage your Web content against support emails.
Do create a database of sales so you can send your users any lost registration codes.
Localization is the process of translating your software to another language. Case in point: 15 percent of my sales come from a Japan. So Localization is something that should be taken very seriously.
Software named PowerGlot will make it easy for your translators to translate your software to their native language. PowerGlot is able to parse and change resources of all types (including PowerPlant), and apply translations from previous versions of the software to the latest release. It's an excellent time saver.
So you've done all of this work and you're ready for the release. Below is a checklist that you can use before you upload your updated Web site to make sure many of the necessary pieces are in place. (Included are all of the items I personally have forgotten over the years at one time or another.)
One quick note: never make a release the day before you go on vacation. If you do, it is inevitable that your release will contain a bug that will take two days to fix!
Now you're ready to upload your Web site, send out your press releases, and go to bed! If all went well, you'll wake up the next day to a few dozen sales and a bunch of happy customers. :-)
Do verify every item on the checklist before you release your software!
Do be sure your product's Web page has a version number on it so it will be found by version-tracking web crawlers. (Like VersionTracker.com)
Let's face it. We don't all sit in the house all day and wait for support emails to arrive. We take vacations or go on business trips. Working from the road is easy. Just dial up once per day and answer your emails. Users who expect support will be very patient with you if you're on vacation. Users understand that even shareware developers need some time off too. :-)
Find yourself an ISP that has dialup numbers around the World. America Online comes to mind. Here's where a portable computer really comes in handy too.
If you don't want to lug around a laptop, be sure your ISP supports a Web-Mail interface so you can check your mail and respond to questions from CyberCafes. In Europe, CyberCafes appear around every corner.
I think we've covered just about everything... from conception, creation, testing, sales, Web sites, ISPs, downloads, mirrors, sales, support, you name it. There's nothing I've described that's revolutionary. I just tried to bring all of these little facts together into one place.
Keep your goals realistic, listen to your users, and shareware can be a really fun hobby for any programmer. And that's really the bottom line... having fun with what you do.
Do have fun writing and selling shareware!!
Although it's nice to close my eyes and dream that I'm the shareware king of the world, when my eyes reopen I am always reassured that it really was only a dream. Nobody works in a vacuum. There are references throughout this series to articles, utilities, and other works that take different tacks on the shareware industry. A few references I couldn't squeeze into the content of this series are below.
Rick Holzgrafe wrote an article entitled Successful Shareware. This article was reprinted by the good folks at TidBits back in 1997. Rick's shareware was so good that I snapped up a copy for myself.
Although a few years old, Colin Messitt wrote an article that details cost figures for his software as well as insights into why people register. The article is reprinted here.
MacTech ran an article a while back by Tonya Engst on How to Write a ReadMe.
Chris Smolinski over at Black Cat Systems is maintaining a list of Payment Processing Providers. It's a hard list to keep up to date, so be sure to verify all values with the Payment Processing Providers themselves.
Let's not forget all of the shareware developers who blazed the trail in an industry trend that grew incredibly fast. Just about all shareware developers will give you hints and tips. All you have to do is ask. We're all part of a community here, and working for yourself is no easy task.
And a special thanks to the O'Reilly editors!
Sanford Selznick is the owner of Selznick Scientific Software, LLC, a programming, consulting, and shareware company based in Tucson, Arizona.
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Sorry I am a little late in getting my posts out today, but have been struggling today with chronic illness. ( This overnight winter weather isn't helping much- we're having 40 mph winds here and it's in the 30's.) However, I was able to make it today to Holy Mass and Eucharistic Adoration - the priorities in my life. Please know to those whom I have promised to pray that I have not forgotten you, but am lifting you up in prayer.
I have some good news to share - my friend Paula had her eye cancer surgery today and it went very well. Her test results finally came back, showing that the cancer has not spread. Praise the Lord! Let's keep her in our prayers now for a speedy recovery.
I am also happy to report that Bill had a safe trip which was successful. Thanks for joining me in prayer for this intention.
God bless you all and to those of you who struggle with chronic pain like I do, let's keep offering it up for the rights of the unborn. Lord, we pray for an end to abortion.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Whoopee!! Yay!! (turns handsprings)
That's great news!
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Through the end of June, Neiman Marcus' Worth Avenue store is offering expedited made-to-order service for Manolo Blahnik BBs.
The single-sole, pointed-toe pump is named for the '60s French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot and is offered in five heel heights: 50, 70, 90, 105 and 115 millimeters.
If you've ever special ordered a pair of Blahniks, you know that it often takes up to six months for your made-to-measure Manolos to arrive, so the prospect of receiving your bespoke BBs within 60 days is almost like instant gratification in the context of custom-crafted shoe making.
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Pre-Raphaelite Welsh landscape acquired by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has bought a significant Pre-Raphaelite painting of a North Wales landscape, thanks to support from the Art Fund and private donors. 'Sandbanks on the Mawddach, Barmouth' by John Ingle Lee (1863-4) is an impressive example of a Welsh landscape during the Victorian period.
£275k funding boost for Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
From Chinese art and dinosaur babies to peregrines and accessible online collections, visitors to Amgueddfa Cymru's seven national museums are set to benefit next year from generous funding by players of the People's Postcode Lottery.
Get ready for a dinosaur road trip: Dippy the Diplodocus is on the move and is stopping off at the Senedd
Never before on public display outside of London, Dippy will travel the length and breadth of the country from early 2018 to late 2020. The British icon is on a mission to inspire five million natural history adventures, encouraging families to explore nature on their doorstep.
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales awarded the Richard Hamilton Acquisiton Prize in New York
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales was yesterday (Thursday, 3 November 2016) presented the Richard Hamilton Acquisiton Prize at The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair in New York, providing $ 10,000 for the Museum's acquisition of one or more prints from any period.
Community opera seeks participants on Anglesey
Work to reconstruct one of the medieval courts of the Princes of Gwynedd, Llys Rhosyr on Anglesey, is well underway at St Fagans National History Museum, near Cardiff. Next year the people of Anglesey will be invited to participate in a brand new opera inspired by the medieval prince Llywelyn the Great. To hear more about the project, a series of workshops has been organised for locals this November at venues across the island from Tuesday 8 – Friday 12 November. (To book a place, please contact Ceri Williams at Oriel Ynys Mon on 01248 752189.)
Big Beachcomb uncovers Swansea's past
Swansea youngsters find their heritage on the Bay
Don't let anything go to waste
A major exhibition showing some of the amazing things that can be made from discarded waste is to go on show at Swansea's National Waterfront Museum from October 22.
Statement by Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales regarding the Welsh Government Draft Budget Announcement
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A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
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An abstract shape or symbol is used to convey the values of your business.
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Today, I was lobstering. While I was getting bands, my co-worker decided it would be funny to make a lobster pinch my ear. it was a 4 pound lobster, and my ear was swollen for 5 hours. FML
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Today, I took my cat to the vet. He said he felt a strange lump that could be serious. I got really upset and picked her up, crying. The vet then told me I had to put her down. Absolutely devastated by having to euthanize my cat, I passed out. He meant I had to put her back on the table. FML
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Today, after almost nine months of doing anything and everything to show my love for my girlfriend and make her happy, she told me she would give "anything" to relive the one week of her and her ex's relationship where she was the happiest in her life. FML
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Today, I was putting groceries into my car, and I put the eggs on the driver's seat while I arranged my other bags. I was frustrated because the dome light was acting up, which drives me crazy. Once I got everything in, I crankily plopped into the car. I had never moved the eggs off my seat. FML
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Today, while getting gas, a hottie pulled-up to the pump next to me. I finished filling my tank and started to drive away. As I was checking her out and paying no attention to my driving, I ended up taking the front bumper off her car with my truck. FML
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Today, I went to go meet my new upstairs neighbor, only to find out nobody actually moved in. The noises that have been coming from up there were made by rats. Lots of them. FML
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Today, I found out where my $300 worth of American Eagle and Hollister clothes had disappeared to. My 16 year old sister shredded them with scissors, took pictures of it for her Myspace and said that I deserved it for being a "conformist." All her "internet friends" said it was awesome. FML
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Today, I asked my girlfriend what she thought of us getting married some day. She said she wasn't sure about me yet and that we may want to go in different directions soon. We've been dating for three years and I had the ring in my pocket at the moment. FML
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Today, I realized that the most romantic thing that my boyfriend and I have done in the last month is comb lice out of each other's hair. FML
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JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, AJAX
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Attitude to take responsibility for own tasks
Good Team Worker
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Database experience, ideally in Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server
Working knowledge of design patterns
Familiarity with modern software development processes including test driven development and continuous integration.
Experience working in an iterative agile development environment.
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Position: Quality Assurance Analyst Performance Engineer Division: AExeo IT Reports to: Associate Director Location: JRC or Cork Job Status: Full-time
The Quality Assurance Performance Engineer will support testing activities for projects covering application changes across a number of products and platforms. Responsibilities will include assisting with test design, and performing test execution for designated projects, together with support for our continuous process improvement activities and liaising with business colleagues, technical architects, analysts, vendors, and development teams in a fast moving, global working environment. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
This position reports to the Global QA Associate Director and is a key position within the Quality Assurance Management Team.
Ability and expertise to identify performance issues within J2EE architecture Load Balancers, Weblogic, Database (Oracle), Operating System (Windows, UNIX), Network, Software (JAVA) and Hardware.
Hands-on experience in building enterprise level performance test suites.
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Strong knowledge of Web Service, XML technologies (SOAP, WSDL, XML).
Experience with Oracle SQL.
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This position requires excellent technical and interpersonal skills.
4 year degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or relational functional field and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
6+ years of performance engineering experience; developing software benchmarks, benchmark testing, performance analysis and tuning, performance testing and programming experience ( Java EE, Web Services Technologies, SOAP and/or REST)
Strong experience with application servers (WebSphere, WebLogic) and database technologies (Oracle and SQL Server)
Strong experience in UI/Web 2.0 Development (JavaScript, Ajax, Adobe Flash/Flex, Dojo)
Strong knowledge of UNIX and Windows operating systems
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Position: Quality Assurance Analyst Performance Engineer Division: AExeo IT Reports to: Associate Director Location: JRC or Cork Job Status: Full-time
Strong experience in capacity planning, systems performance analysis and optimization in a distributed client/server environment
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We offer a challenging job in a growing international company, an opportunity to expand your business knowledge by working with multiple software applications and complex financial and technological instruments, in a friendly and fast-paced environment. Additionally, my client is proud to offer our employees competitive compensation, vacation and health insurance benefits.
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Microsoft Expands IP Indemnification to Partners
by Alex Woodie
Microsoft last week upped its battle against open source software by increasing the amount of money it's committed to pay should its software be found to violate third-party patents or be subject to other intellectual property (IP) disputes. As part of the announcement, the software giant has lifted the caps on spending for its ISV and OEM partners, and expanded the plan in other areas.
In the last six months, Microsoft has highlighted its IP indemnification protections as a way to distance itself from Linux distributors and raise questions in the minds of people buying open source software, including whether they will be held fiscally liable in IP disputes. With last week's announcements, Microsoft has improved an already impressive IP indemnification portfolio, including increasing the scope of protection it provides to several categories of partners, including OEM partners, OEM system builders, OEM distributors, and ISV royalty partners.
Microsoft is now providing all categories of partners protection against trade secret claims; previously it didn't offer protection against trade secret claims. It is also now providing OEM system builders with protection for the four major forms of disputes commonly associated with software, which are patent, copyright, trade secret, and trademark. Previously, it offered only limited protection to OEM system builders, if any at all. ISV royalty partners also gain protection against claims related to patents, trade secrets, and trademarks; this category of partner previously only received coverage against copyright claims.
Microsoft has also removed some caps on the amount of money it will pay defending its partners from IP disputes. Previously, only Microsoft ISV royalty partners were eligible to receive unlimited legal defense fees in the event of an IP dispute. Lastly, Microsoft is now offering to help pay damages and settlement fees for OEMs, OEM system builders, and OEM distributors. Microsoft is limiting how much it will pay in such circumstances, however.
Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel, Brad Smith, says the company's partners appreciate Microsoft's IP indemnification, too. "Our partners are telling us that IP issues are becoming increasingly complex," Smith says. "We're proud of our strong IP indemnification."
The Yankee Group has also given Microsoft kudos for its strong IP indemnification, saying it holds an advantage over Linux in this area. Earlier this year, Yankee analyst Laura DiDio praised Microsoft for its comprehensive IP protections. (See "Microsoft's Strong IP Protections Give Windows an Advantage" in the January 19 issue of this newsletter for more coverage of Yankee's independent review of IP indemnification options.)
OEM system builder Equus Computer Systems applauded the expansion of Microsoft's IP indemnification. "For some time, IP indemnification has been an important assurance Microsoft provides to its OEM partners," said Andy Juang, CEO of Equus Computer Systems. "Today's announcement improves this existing coverage by removing financial caps."
"Managing intellectual property is of prime concern to enterprises large and small," said Nabeel Youakim, area vice president of Microsoft Global Relationship at Citrix Systems. "This extended indemnification program . . . enables us to offer our products to the broadest market with the lowest risk."
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No one wants to be Irish on Economy Day or Finding A Job Day. Not even the Irish, which is why mass emigration has been our default crisis response since boats were invented. But come Drinking Day suddenly everyone's begorring their leprechauns and generally proving they're as Irish as a really good point guard. So here's your guide to being a terrible fake-Irish person on St. Patrick's Day.
Due to a growth hormone deficiency leprechaun-droppings are small and shiny.
8Wear A "Kiss Me I'm Irish" T-Shirt
Feel free to punch anyone wearing one of these. I can guarantee they've already done something to deserve it. This T-shirt is the humor equivalent of an ankle tracking bracelet -- the wearer might not have done anything to you yet, but you probably shouldn't give them the chance. It's less a joke than an announcement of "If you initiate what's coming next it won't count as sexual assault."
My culture's special skill is subdividing pathetically tiny areas into even tinier ones and then getting stupid and violent about it. As a result, our island has more accents per square mile than the United Nations building. We have more blatantly ridiculous dialects than most science-fiction universes. Actual Irish people don't need to advertise their Irishness for the same reason Pavarotti didn't need to wear a name tag -- as soon as we open our mouths people can't understand a damn thing we're saying but love the sound anyway. Actual Irish people don't need to advertise being Irish. And if you meet one who does, well, now you know why that asshole had to leave to find someone who liked him. Because when someone decides the most interesting part of their existence is where their parents decided to have sex, that is one horrible mess of a person.
7Call It "St. Patty's Day"
Every time someone calls it "Patty's" they prove they can't get through 24 hours without thinking of hamburgers. Paddy is short for Padraig (even though the d is silent in some dialects). Pat is short for Patrick, which is an English name. You might be aware of a slight history between the two countries. It still sort of works, but it would be like calling Independence Day "Super Happy Funtime Discount Fireworking Celebration!" You get the idea, but you're still naming one nation's celebration based on the language practices of a different nation with a history of causing your compatriots to be blown up by small, badly made explosives.


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Whilst Churchill found himself accountable to the House of Commons for the progress of the war, Hitler was accountable to no-one but himself. Each January he made a speech at the Berlin Sports Arena to huge crowds. He was no less popular with the party faithful on this occasion, even if those who gave rational thought to the war situation could see that Germany was now in a terrible position.
The Wehrmacht had manifestly failed to break down the Soviet defences and achieve a quick victory in Operation Barbarossa. Now they faced a long and difficult war with Russia increasingly bolstered by supplies from the west. As more and more casualties came back from the Eastern front more and more Germans learned of the horrors that were unfolding there.
With the United States in the war there was now a huge imbalance in the resources available to Allies compared with the Axis powers. It was inevitable that sooner or later a 'second front' would open up in Europe.
Hitler's response was a typically rambling review of the war blaming everyone but himself. He saw the German situation in apocalyptic terms. There had been a hardening of attitudes towards the Jews ever since the United States had openly lined up with Britain. The recent Wannsee Conference had merely confirmed the arrangements that were in place for organised mass murder. Now he made clear to the world that his promise, made before the war, to 'annihilate European Jews' had not been an idle threat:
It is clear to us that the war can only end with the destruction of the Germanic peoples or the disappearance of Jewry from Europe. On September 3, I already announced in the German Reichstag (and I am careful not to make rash prophecies) that this war would not develop as the Jews imagine, namely that the European-Aryan peoples will be destroyed. Instead, the result of this war will be the destruction of Jewry. For the first time others will not bleed alone.
For the first time the genuine old Jewish law will be applied: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!" And the more this war spreads, the more anti-Semitism will spread. This may be said to world Jewry. Anti-Semitism will be nourished in every prison camp, in every family which must be informed why they must sacrifice to the bitter end. And the hour will come when the most evil world enemy of all times will have played out its role for perhaps a thousand years at least.
This was not an isolated case of Hitler repeating his threat, as his Armaments Minister, Albert Speer made clear after the war:
I was present at the session of the Reichstag of 30th January 1939, when Hitler assured us that in case of a war, not the Germans, but the Jews would be annihilated. This dictum was pronounced with such certainty that I would not have felt permitted to question his intention to carry it through.
He repeated this announcement of his intentions on 30th January 1942, in a speech I also know of: The war would not end, as the Jews imagined, by the extinction of European-Aryan peoples, but it would result in the annihilation of the Jews. This repetition of his words of 30th January 1939 was not unique. He would often remind his entourage of the importance of this dictum.


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FAIR LAWN - Authorities say more and more deer carcasses are being found decapitated, and want residents to know the practice is illegal.
DOT workers who collect animals who have been struck by cars say they are often found headless. They say wildlife enthusiasts are removing the heads as souvenirs.
George Dante owns Wildlife Preservations, a taxidermy shop in Woodland Park. He says many sportsmen are fascinated with the animal's antlers. "When they see an animal by the side of the road with this magnificent head-gear on it, you can't help but stop and take it home," Dante says.
Police say it is against the law to cut the head off of a dead deer and take it home.
Dante says he would like to see that law changed. "We would love to be able to pick up a roadkill and recycle it and turn it into a beautiful mount, give it to an environmental center," he says. "Unfortunately, we're not allowed to recycle our wildlife."
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June 14-21 & June 28-July 5, 2014
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In this retreat we will create the space for you to become more skillful in your yoga, but also in other areas of your life, incl. your breathing, your meditations, your relationships. The Hang instrument will guide you into a beautiful rhythmic trance as you breathe and move. Nothing is as powerful as sharing a week with likeminded people, where we can reflect each other and leave with new inspiration & new skills, feeling empowered and nourished, relaxed and happy.
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Dagmar is a 500hr E-RYT and has trained for over 13 years with renowned teachers like Elena Brower, John Friend, Rod Stryker and Paula Tursi. In addition to her yoga certification she also received training as a Holistic Heath Coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York.
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NAACP plans to call for justice
MARTINSBURG – The Berkeley and Jefferson county branches of the NAACP will hold a joint press conference today in Martinsburg concerning what leaders say is the unjustified killing of a Virginia man who was shot more than 20 times by city police officers last year.
The press conference will be held at noon at the square in Martinsburg, across from the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library near where the police-involved shooting of 50-year-old Wayne Arnold Jones, of Stephens City, took place.
Jones was shot by five officers with the Martinsburg Police Department on March 13, 2013, following an incident that began in the vicinity of the 100 block of South Queen Street. Jones was shot with a Taser twice after allegedly refusing police orders and later was fatally shot when police say he stabbed an officer with a knife during a scuffle with an officer on the ground.
An autopsy report released for the first time last month revealed that Jones suffered 23 gunshot wounds, including eight wounds to the back. Sherman Lambert, a local attorney representing the man's family in a $200 million federal lawsuit filed against the city, has accused of officers of using unreasonable and excessive force, alleging Jones was shot by police as he was on the ground.
"We need an investigation. Right now, we think nothing else is going to happen unless the federal government steps in," said George Rutherford, president of the Jefferson County branch of the NAACP.
Leaders are expected to call on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the police-involved shooting and have encouraged members of both local NAACP branches to attend the press conference to give support. In October 2013, a Berkeley County grand jury declined to return an indictment against the five officers involved in the shooting.
Rutherford; the Rev. Vernon Cartwright, president of the Berkeley County chapter of the NAACP; James Tolbert, state secretary of the West Virginia NAACP; and Lambert will be present.
During a keynote speech last August at the 69th Annual Convention of the West Virginia State Conference of NAACP Branches in Martinsburg, Lambert likened the shooting of Jones to that of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Rutherford said Thursday that he feels the police-involved shooting in Martinsburg is worse than the Martin case.
"We are concerned about the results of the autopsy report and the fact that nothing is taking place. We want to get things moving again," said Rutherford. "It's worse than the Trayvon Martin case. The Trayvon Martin case was just one man shooting. This right here was five people shooting 23 times and eight times in the back and the man is down on the ground trying to get up."
Jones died as the result of multiple gunshot wounds with perforations of multiple organs, including the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach and bowel, according to a summary of an autopsy report signed by Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Jimmie Smith.
The federal lawsuit was filed last June against the city by Lambert on behalf of two of Jones' brothers, the administrators of his estate. The five officers involved in the shooting have also been named in the suit and are identified as Patrolman First Class Erik Herb, Patrolman First Class Daniel North, Patrolman William Staubs, Patrolman Paul Lehman and Patrolman First Class Eric Neely.
Jones, who was living at a residence on Kentucky Avenue at the time of the shooting, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but his family has said he was taking medication for the mental health condition.
– Staff writer Edward Marshall can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 182.


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