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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
According to the Sales Operations Center of Excellece, 54 percent of sales operations departments are less than 3 years old. Though this department is still in its infancy for many organizations, more mid- to large-sized companies are seeing the need for a focus on making their sales teams and processes more efficient. As this role continues to gain traction, what was once considered a project manager's wheelhouse has turned into the newly defined responsibilities of sales operations managers.
Consequently, new expectations have been set that include helping sales leaders make data-backed business decisions to drive performance and increase efficiencies, aligning selling resources with marketing material to better enable their sales teams, while improving the sales process through better measurement and execution.
The responsibilities for sales operations roles continue to adapt and expand. As such, the sales operations manager must be more technologically savvy in order to continue achieving the requirements of that position.
In order to assist with some of the responsibilities listed above, these managers are turning to software solutions and tools to automate steps of the sales process while tracking performance metrics for sales reps and the documents they send to prospects. In order for sales operations managers to be successful, they must be able to execute on the three business needs below, which can be achieved with use of technology.
1. Visibility: Analytics are Key
A strong grasp of sales data and the analytics of that data is an essential element to improving the sales process. There is software available that can provide analytics about prospect interaction with client-facing sales and marketing material by utilizing web-based content delivery.
Addressing the Black Hole Scenario
Tracking prospect activity is game changing because it alleviates the black hole scenario. The moment when documents are passed along to a prospect it falls into a "black hole" where sales personnel don't have insight into what prospects do once they receive the material. Have they looked at it? If so, when? What did they spend most of their time looking at? By delivering sales presentations, proposals, and contracts with a web-based solution, analytics on this content can better educate both sales and marketing on what content to provide to prospects and when.
Not only does this type of insight provide heightened transparency into prospect activity, it allows sales to offer content proven to work at the right time to the right people, effectively increasing customer acquisition and driving performance.
2. Bridge the Gap: Getting Everyone on the Same Page
Addressing the age-old issue of misaligned expectations between the sales and marketing departments isn't easy. But, the ability to bridge this gap is what makes or breaks a business. While businesses understand the importance of collaboration between the two departments, many times they just don't know how to go about achieving that goal.
Streamline and Collaborate with Technology
The sales operations manager knows that data and analytics are the most powerful decision-making tools. There are easily adoptable technology solutions that track prospect engagement with sales documents and provide insight to the lifecycle of the sale, measuring deal activity from opportunity to close. Streamlining the process by capturing engagement analytics takes a good sales team to great. If the same technology can assist in the internal and external collaboration process by allowing documents to be shared, redlined, and tracked adds another layer of efficiency. Real-time activity notifications, maintaining version history, and quick and easy electronic acceptance options are crucial to proposal and contract management. Stop wasting time tracking things down.
A Web-based proposal and contract management solution not only makes collaboration more efficient, it streamlines the process of creating and delivering client-facing material. It gives control over which documents are shared with prospects and gets everyone on the same page by tracking important sales process metrics.
3. Remove Inefficiencies: Spend More Time Selling
The ability to maintain a database that holds all up-to-date and correctly branded documents is essential. Doing so can make the sales team's job easier by allowing easy access to the right documents, while making marketing happy by increasing document consistency.
Less Time Creating, More Time Selling
A system that's accessible to the entire team eliminates time sales reps spend looking through old emails or documents saved on their computer, in order to find material to send to prospects. A central location will keep templates, selling material and other documents readily available, while also ensuring the material has been approved by sales management and has the brand consistency marketers want. If sales reps are enabled to create the presentations, proposals, and contracts with a couple of clicks and can be confident that client data flows into those documents and tracking data is pushed back to the company's database, they can focus on what they do best: selling. Receiving real-time alerts when prospects are interacting with their documents and summaries of what they looked at and for how long results in easier prioritization of follow up for the rep; it can help the deal move along quicker.
Streamlining the sales process when there are so many moving pieces to consider isn't an easy job, but one that has direct impact on the success of a business. The sales operations manager must enable the sales team with better processes driven by data, while effectively working with the marketing department to implement standards of consistency.
Consider implementing technology that will help any sales organization accomplish these three fundamental business needs. Sales operations can build and continue to improve upon a more streamlined sales process with the automation of tactical and detail-oriented steps sales reps often fall short on, delivering consistent, trackable selling material, and analyzing efficiency analytics throughout the sale. Optimizing the sales process in these ways is proving to close more deals faster.
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Tony Abbott will kick start this election year with a one-week ''mini campaign'' around the country where he will sell his ''positive plans for Australia''.
The Opposition Leader held a phone hook-up with more than 165 MPs and preselected candidates on Thursday, during which he told them he would begin a weeklong national campaign on Sunday, starting in Sydney.
Mr Abbott is famous for his relentless campaigning. During the last federal election he vowed to stay awake for the last 36 hours to eke out every possible advantage.
Before Christmas there were reports that some Coalition MPs said they thought Mr Abbott needed a rest and a break from the media cycle.
Since returning from holidays last week Mr Abbott has visited a Brisbane child care centre and welcomed British Foreign Secretary William Hague to Sydney. On Thursday he was travelling to South Australia for a 127 kilometre charity bike ride.
Mr Abbott will be keen to raise his personal popularity which remains low despite his party holding a clear lead.
In the first Newspoll of the year, the Coalition held a primary vote of 44 per cent compared with Labor's 38 per cent; but Prime Minister Julia Gillard retained her lead as better prime minister, polling 45 per cent to Mr Abbott's 33 per cent.
Thursday's conference call was co-chaired by Mr Abbott, Brian Loughnane, Julie Bishop, Warren Truss and Joe Hockey.
Mr Abbott's ''mini-campaign'' will coincide with the release of a document called "Our Plan: Real Solutions for all Australians", which will ''set out the Coalition's positive plans for a strong and prosperous economy and a safe and secure Australia''.


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HOUSTON - There was a lot of police activity around Lone Star College's North Harris campus on Wednesday.
Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said they were searching for a suspicious man near the Woodcreek subdivision, which is across from the campus on W.W. Thorne near Aldine Westfield, about 10 a.m.
Residents called deputy constables after seeing three men looking into windows at area homes.
When detectives arrived, the group was spotted in the 20600 block of Harvest Hill. Two of the men were taken into custody but the third ran away, investigators said.
A K-9 tracked the third suspect into a wooded area between the neighborhood and Lone Star College. Investigators said the suspect refused to lay down, as a deputy constable ordered him to, and tried to grab the K-9's nose. The dog then bit the suspect and the suspect surrendered, investigators said.
The college was not placed on lockdown during the search.
The Aldine Independent School District said none of its campuses were locked down.
Investigators said the trio won't be charged with burglary because they didn't break into any homes. The man who ran from deputy constables will face a charge of evading arrest.
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After the war, my Dad returned home to Griffin, Ga and married my Mom, his childhood sweetheart, Mildred E. Moore I am an only child and was born in 1951. Dad played guitar until his arthritis bothered him in his hands age about 70 years. We lost my loving mother October 9, 2004, and since then, Dad has been living in Williamson, Ga with me and my husband.
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New Simple Hedonisms Blogger to Attend Spain Cava Media Tour
By Nikki Lincoln
If you follow me or Simple Hedonisms on Twitter or Facebook, you may already know this, but I am honored to announce officially to the Simple Hedonisms readers that I have been selected by Wine Pleasures to be part of their Cava Blogger Team!
As you may have guessed by my post on South Africa, I love traveling as much as I love wine. I am very excited to be combining the two passions on a trip to the sparkling region of Spain. I've already popped a few bottles of Cava in the fridge and I'm looking forward to getting to know them more in the next few months as I prepare for this experience.
About the Trip
The program will be a week long experience visiting over 16 sparkling Cava wineries generic levitra canadian healthcare and immersing myself in the region. Cava is a region I'm not as familiar with and there is no better way to learn about somewhere new than to spend a week exploring it on your own. I'll also have the weekend following the trip to explore a little bit on my own. With great choices such as a day trip to Barcelona, a wine country bike tour, or a day tasting still wines – I don't know how I'm going to decide which activity to do!
What It Means to Me
As someone relatively new to the wine blogging world, I am so honored that the selection panel has invited me to join this tour. Since William asked me to join Simple Hedonisms, I have been working a lot on my wine education and taken every opportunity to continue to expand my palate and experience. I know this trip will allow me to do more of the same.
I am also very excited to spend some time with other wine bloggers. In the past couple of months, I have met a few others briefly so it will be very educational to spend a week engaging with my peers. Wine tasting is always more enjoyable with other and I know this group is bound to have a lot of insights.
I really cannot wait for this trip and I'm looking forward to find fun ways to share it with all of the Simple Hedonisms readers! The official Wine Pleasure announcement can be found here.
If anyone has been to Cava, I would love to hear about your experiences!
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As the number of people living in jurisdictions with marriage equality doubles this weekend, here are some of the things going on around New York to celebrate — and protest that state's new law:
• To avoid delays and confusion, New York City will limit the number of marriages on Sunday to 764. Licenses will be distributed through lotteries for specific slots in each of the five NYC boroughs. The lottery opened on Tuesday and closed today at noon. Winners will be announced Friday. A lottery — what a great way to ensure the sanctity of marriage.
• Sunday will be a record day for marriages in New York City. The previous record was set on Valentine's Day in 2003, when 621 opposite-sex couples wed.
• Rod and Ricky, the same-sex puppets who meet and fall in love in Avenue Q, plan to be among those in line for marriage licenses at City Hall.
• In Albany, Mayor Jerry Jennings will marry up to 10 couples at city hall right after midnight. A state Supreme Court judge will be at the Common Council chambers to waive the 24-hour waiting period.
• Mayor Bloomberg said he doesn't expect people to be camping out in line waiting for marriage licenses. He says it's not like buying an iPad 2. Right. Priorities. After all, which is more important?


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- Has Apple's Android killer missed the mark?
- iPad mini makes it harder for Microsoft
- Apple better under Cook than Jobs
Apple's iPad mini will bring a lot more excitement and a little more confusion to the holiday shopping season.
It only takes a few minutes playing with the iPad mini — which starts at $369 — to realise the scaled-down tablet computer will be a sure-fire hit with longtime Apple disciples and potential converts who've been looking for a more affordable entry into the mobile computing market.
The iPad mini is perfectly sized to be stuffed in Christmas stockings. It's 7.87 inches tall and 5.3 inches wide, compared with the full-size iPad, which is 9.5 inches by 7.31 inches. Recipients who will discover the pleasure and convenience of being able to take pictures, surf the web, watch video, read books and listen to music on an exquisitely designed device that's pancake thin.
As enticing as that all sounds, the iPad mini also causes a dilemma, albeit a pleasant one.
The new option will make it even more difficult for holiday shoppers to figure out which mobile device to buy for their loved ones — or for themselves.
I felt the pangs of indecision within a few minutes of picking up the iPad mini for the first time.
As the company usually does at its product unveilings, Apple only provided reporters with limited, strictly supervised access to the iPad mini. That meant I could only experiment with it for about 15 minutes, but as an experienced user of the iPad 2, I could quickly see that the smaller tablet does just about everything its bigger brethren does.
Even though the mini's 7.9-inch screen (measured on the diagonal) is 1.8 inches smaller than the standard iPad, the movie The Avengers looked lush, even in a side-by-side comparison with the larger tablet. When I pulled up the latest issue of The New Yorker, I didn't have to strain to see the text or pictures on the smaller screen. A quick check of other websites verified that the mini's screen isn't so tiny that it's going to cause a lot of squinting. After I took a very crisp picture of another reporter testing out a mini, I decided to email it to her to test how easy it was to use the keyboard on the smaller screen. No problem there. Best of all, the iPad mini can be held in one hand and is about half the weight of the larger iPad.
The mini worked so much like my standard iPad that it immediately caused me to have second thoughts about a decision I thought I had already made. I like my iPad 2 a lot, but it's just too big to carry with me wherever I am. But there have been times I really wished I had it with me, like when I spot something that would make a great picture or when I've needed to check something on the web. For various reasons, I didn't want a smartphone that would require a data plan, so I had my mind set on buying the latest iPod Touch, which has an iPhone-size screen and superb camera.
Now, the iPad mini has me vacillating. Apple isn't making it easier with its pricing strategy. The latest iPod Touch with 32 gigabytes sells for $329. An iPad mini with 16 gigabytes of storage sells for $369. I'm tempted.
Like others who will no doubt be weighing the same decision, I'll have to make up my mind. Do I want something that can fit in a pants pocket like the Touch? For starters, it comes in more colors than the black-or-white mini and offers more storage capacity for a cheaper price.
Or do I want to pay a little more for another tablet computer that can slip into a coat pocket and offer a richer experience with a screen nearly two times larger than the new Touch?
The iPad mini is so mighty that I can't believe the iPad 2 will be on the market too much longer. As of November 2, Apple will sell two versions of the larger iPad: The iPad 2 starting at $429 and the new fourth-generation iPad, introduced this week, starting at $539. The iPad 2's price now looks too expensive, given that the iPad mini can do just about everything it does on a slightly smaller screen. The iPad 2 still may hold some appeal for people who want a larger tablet, but I can't see too many consumers buying the iPad 2 now that the mini is available.
Consumers who aren't set on buying one of Apple's devices will have even more choices to make. The iPad mini is clearly aimed at siphoning sales away from the Nexus 7 tablet that Google began selling four months ago and the longer-established Kindle Fire from Amazon.com. Figuring out which one is best-suited for you (or that special someone on your shopping list) will likely come down to weighing price against performance.
Amazon sells a Kindle Fire HD with 16 gigabytes of storage and a 7-inch screen for $US199 and a similarly sized Nexus 7 goes for $A249. That means an iPad mini will cost $120 to $170 more, a price that Apple believes is justified because it boasts more features, such as front- and rear-facing cameras. The mini's reliance on aluminum instead of plastic for its exterior also makes it look more stylish and more enjoyable to hold.
If the speculation on technology blogs pans out, Google might make things even more interesting — and dizzying for holiday shoppers — by introducing a cheaper version of the Nexus 7 in the coming weeks.


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Topic: New to the board - Link to Lynch Syndrome
I am a 9 month survivor of Stage T2, NO, MX Intra-hepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC) as they found it just before it spread too far. I have Lynch syndrome (which is hereditary) which I found out before I got my cancer. Bile duct cancer is one of the cancers listed if you have Lynch Syndrome. Some of the more common cancers linked to Lynch is colon and all the female cancers like ovarian, utteran. My family noticed a "family mortality rate" on my mothers side dying of "Lynch syndrome" cancers. I also had a brother who died at 44 of colon cancer. I went to Dana Farber for gene counciling which includes a blood test. It is this test that determined I had Lynch Syndrome. I immediately started getting colonoscopies and had a hysterectomy to be preventative...however a year later I was diagnosed with IHCC. I would recommend an annual Catscan if you have a family history and/or diagnosed with Lynch syndrome. Blood tests do not detect IHCC. It was by accident that they found my cancer, I had no symptoms, I went in for a UTI and my primary doctor ordered a Catscan on my kidneys and of course the scan caught my liver and that is when they saw the tumor. How scarey is that! So, if it will save your life, it is worth getting an annual Catscan especially if you have family history of these types of cancers.
I did not have chemo or radiation therapy after my surgery. I am not sure if that is good or bad at this point. I missed the 6-8 week window of radiation therapy due to a bad case of ascites that developed after my surgery. It is now controlled with Lasix and hopefully I will be off the Lasix soon, but if this is the only problem, I can live with it. I have been back to work for 4 months and I feel pretty good.
I have been reading so many stories on this site, I think it is so helpful. I didn't know about this cancer until 9 months ago. And when they told me I had to look it up and I still didn't understand it. When I returned to work, I changed my charity contributions to go towards this Cholangiocarcinoma foundation. More studies are desparately needed to understand how to fight this cancer better.
I highly recommend Massachusetts General Hospital and the team Dr. Ken Tanabe (Surgeon), Dr. Zhu (Oncologist) and Dr. Hong (Radiation Oncologists). Dr. Tanabe saved my life. I feel so fortunate to be so close to major hospitals that deal with these rare cancers.
Thank you everyone for this site, I think its great. Tina


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As Apple Feels Bite, Hon Hai Looks to Diversify
TAIPEI—Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has made a fortune over the years assembling iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc. But now that competition is biting into Apple's market share, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer is feeling the pain too.
Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, is moving aggressively to add new clients and is looking at ways to diversify beyond contract manufacturing.
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2/12 Guest and Faculty Artist Recital
BeckyWeidman-Winter, flute
PeterGreydanus, cello
MarthaWatson Violett, piano
|On a Clear Morning
|Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941)
|Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
|I. Poco Allegretto
|II. Adagio
|III. Andante-Allegretto scherzando
|Vox Balaenae
|George Crumb (b. 1929)
|Vocalise (... for the beginning of time)
|Variations on Sea-Time
|Sea Theme
|Archeozoic [Var. I]
|Proterozoic [Var. II]
|Paleozoic [Var. III]
|Mesozoic [Var. IV]
|Cenozoic [Var. V]
|Sea-Nocturne (... for the end of time)
Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) was composed in 1971 for the New York Camerata and is scored for flute, cello and piano. This work was inspired by the sounds of the humpback whale. The dark blue stage lighting, as suggested by the composer, is intended to accentuate the underwater theme. During the performance all three instruments are amplified and the performers are instructed to wear black half masks. "The masks, by effacing a sense of human projection, will symbolize the powerful impersonal forces of nature." (George Crumb from the preface to the score.)
This three-part work utilizes extended techniques and special musical effects from all three performers. In the prologue (Vocalise…for the beginning of time) the flutist emulates the sounds of the humpback whale while singing and playing into the flute. This sections ends by recalling the opening measures of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. The second section, a theme and variations named after the geological eras, begins with the pianist strumming the low strings of the instrument and the cellist and pianist depicting the cries of seagulls through harmonics. Throughout the variations the pianist creates special effects using a chisel, paper clip, and glass rod while the flutist whispers across the flute and uses "flutter" tonguing. The epilogue (Sea-Nocturne…for the end of time) ends this work with whistling and bell tones.
Becky Weidman-Winter teaches flute and music theory at Western State College of Colorado and is the Central/Southwest Chair for the Colorado Flute Association. She has won the Flute Society of Kentucky and Mid-South Young Artist Competitions, received honorable mention in the Myrna Brown Young Artist Competition and participated in the Jean-Pierre Rampal Competition in Paris, France.
She is a founding member of the Mountain Music Ensemble and performs with the Crested Butte Music Festival, Crested Butte Mountain Theater, and Lake City Chamber Music Festival. She has performed as a guest artist and clinician across the U.S. and given world premieres of chamber works for the flute including "Contra Songs" by Catherine McMichael and "Landscapes" by Chappell Kingsland. Becky has been a member of the Las Colinas Symphony and band Tin Roof Tango in Dallas, Texas and performed frequently with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. She holds degrees from the University of North Texas (D.M.A), University of Colorado at Boulder (M.M), and Oberlin Conservatory (B.M).
An active orchestral and chamber musician, Peter Greydanus is a member of the cello sections of the Richmond Symphony and of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and is an associate musician with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Formerly assistant principal cellist of the Youngstown Symphony, cellist with the Youngstown Symphony String Quartet and associate principal cellist of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra he has also been a member of the Haddonfield, Albany and Canton Symphonies. In addition he has performed with the Sarasota Opera Orchestra and been a participant in the Spoleto festivals in Spoleto, Italy and Charleston, SC as well as the Europaisches Musikfest Stuttgart and the Crested Butte Music Festival. Mr. Greydanus is a graduate of Temple University where he was a student of Orlando Cole and studied as well with Metta Watts and William Stokking. During the 2009-2010 season Peter and his wife, Jocelyn Smith lived in Crested Butte, CO and organized a strings class at the Crested Butte Community School.
Martha Watson Violett is Emeritus Professor of Music and teaches piano and class piano. Before retiring in 2010 she was Chair of the Music Department at Western State College of Colorado and taught piano, music history, seminar in music research, and music courses in the general education liberal arts program. Martha Violett holds the Permanent Professional Certificate in Piano from the Music Teachers National Association and is a member of the Colorado State Music Teachers Association and the MTNA.
Dr. Violett holds the B.M.E. in Vocal Education from Illinois Wesleyan University with a performance major in piano and minors in voice and harpsichord. She received the M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Piano Performance and the D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa where studies of piano and chamber music were with James Avery and John Simms. She was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for piano study with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg (West) Germany. She also studied musicology and piano at the University of Washington in Seattle. Martha Violett began her college teaching career at Western State College where she has been a member of the Music faculty since 1972. She has been active during that time as a performer of solo and chamber music with Western faculty and guest performers.


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Summer Study Program in Patristics, July 30 - Aug 4, 2017
We are pleased to announce the seventh annual week-long Summer Patristic Studies Program on the campus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA on July 30 - August 5, 2017. This week-long program is a unique opportunity to study and discuss classic texts of the early Church through small group-study and brief lectures from leading patristic scholars. The intended audience for the program includes theology and religious studies students at the masters and undergraduate levels, along with clergy, lay people, and undergraduates with an interest in learning more about the Church Fathers. To register, please fill out the online registration form For more information, or to register, please send an email to the Director of the Pappas Patristic Institute, Dr. Bruce Beck (firstname.lastname@example.com) at your earliest convenience.
Graduate Student Conference, March 2-4, 2017
Each Spring semester the Institute holds a conference for doctoral and masters students in the area of patristics, historical theology, and the history of Christianity in late antiquity. This graduate student conference provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their own work, dialogue, and meet with peers and colleagues in the field. Below is information about our upcoming conference.
Fall Conference: Patristic Preaching and its Reception, October 9-11, 2014
- Conference Schedule 2014
- Abstracts: Parallel and Short Communication Session Papers
- Program Annoucement and Call for papers:
The conference focuses on patristic sermons, including what can be learned about their rhetorical settings and audience reception. A great deal of work has been done in the past several decades on recovering the hermeneutical mind of the ancient church. Fortunately, both the methods of exegesis as well as the hermeneutical presuppositions that undergird these methods have become more frequently represented wherever the topic of biblical interpretation has been discussed. However, the related topic of the act of preaching in antiquity has not yet received the same kind of attention. Building on some of the few, notable monographs that have appeared recently on this topic, this conference will explore both the forms and genres of the patristic sermons, including their relationship to biblical hermeneutics where relevant, and the rhetorical contexts in which these sermons were given (e.g. liturgical, catechetical, festal, etc.). The rhetorical context would include the reception of these sermons by those hearing them. Lastly, the conference wishes to include within its scope the question: what might be gleaned from these ancient models for preaching in the Church today?


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Sobekhotep wrote:formiko wrote:I have a Linux PC and a Mac laptop, so never.
No Windows?
I can't imagine not having a Windows PC.
I can't imagine having a Windows PC! Why drive a Hyundai when a Mercedes is SOO much better?
I have a virtual machine (VMware) which will boot up Windows inside of Linux if I happen to need a Windows program that doesn't run under Linux (like freelang's dictionaries)
And most games run under Linux anyway, so it's a non-issue. Linux is actually more flexible than a Mac. I just love The Mac desktop. I stopped using Windows in 2000. That was also my last crash.


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Chairman Bulova to Deliver State of the County Address
Dec. 16, 2009
News Highlights
In her State of the County address, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova will discuss the board's accomplishments over the past year and focus on the challenges in the future given the current economic climate.
The address will be aired on Fairfax County Government Channel 16 beginning Friday, Dec. 18, on Sundays and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. It also will be available on video on demand.
Topics of the address will include:
- Budget cuts and reductions taken last year.
- New ways to deliver services in a less costly manner.
- Help available to those facing foreclosure.
- An increase in demand for the county's human services.
- Board of Supervisors' Goals and Priorities.
- Transportation update.
- Redevelopment and revitalization projects.
UPDATE: The full text of the address is now available. For more information, contact the Chairman's Office at 703-324-2321, TTY 711.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
To request this information in an alternate format, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711


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This article was published 28/3/2014 (1244 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Some people dream of the good life in California or Arizona, but Jack and Diane's retirement dreams lean more to the supernatural side.
British Columbia, that is.
Their retirement plan has been in the works for some time now. They bought a home on the West Coast -- worth about $315,000 -- a while back and have been renting it out. They also have a small mortgage on their home, valued at about $275,000.
When they retire, they will sell their Winnipeg home and use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage on the home in B.C., while using any remaining money to fund renovations.
Diane, who works in the corporate sector earning about $70,000 a year, says they'd like to retire "like, yesterday." With that in mind, the couple -- in their early 60s -- wants to know if they can afford to retire now.
They know that will involve living on less than what they've been earning while working, especially given Jack, who works in construction on a contract basis, earns a variable, pre-tax income of about $150,000 annually.
Once retired, they don't expect to live much differently than they do now and estimate their costs will be much less without mortgage payments and savings contributions to worry about. "We don't have extravagant plans -- maybe a little bit of travelling," says Diane, who will earn a defined-benefit pension of $1,100 a month.
In contrast, Jack has no work pension, so their investments will play a big role in generating their income once they retire. Their savings are more than $448,000 but they are uncertain whether their money is properly invested, Diane says.
"Is there something smarter that we should be doing?"
The couple suspect they may need more time to grow their portfolio, maximizing their TFSA and RRSP contributions, while paying down mortgage debt.
Even though they have nearly $500,000 saved, what they have heard in the media suggests they haven't saved enough.
"I read you need something like $673,000 just to not be living at the poverty level," Diane says. "For a modest retirement, what do we need?"
Scott Madams, portfolio manager with Madams investment group with CIBC Wood Gundy, says Jack and Diane are like many other pre-retirees -- worried whether they have enough to retire so they can live in much the same way they have been while working.
The first step in answering this question is determining their spending once retired. To evaluate this aspect of their finances, Madams enlisted the help of a certified financial planner at CIBC Wood Gundy, Lucio Riccio.
Without mortgage costs and savings contributions, Riccio estimates the couple will spend about $43,000 annually once retired.
"The second step is to understand what income streams will be available to them once they retire," Riccio says.
To start, they need to look at their guaranteed sources of income: OAS, CPP and Diane's work pension.
Combined, these will provide them with an annual pre-tax income of about $42,000 -- partially indexed to inflation, excluding her pension -- starting at age 65. After splitting her pension and factoring tax benefits such as the pension income and age amount, their tax cost on this income will be very low, so their retirement savings should be more than enough to cover their remaining expenses while providing them with income for emergencies and other needs, such as buying a car or splurging on a big vacation.
Yet if they retire tomorrow, they'd still have about four years before they could begin collecting OAS and CPP, so Jack and Diane's savings would carry much of the load early in retirement.
"The amount of money they would need to have saved would be $384,000 if they were receiving a pre-tax rate of return of five per cent, or $499,334 if they were receiving a pre-tax rate of return of 2.6 per cent," Riccio says.
"The good news for Jack and Diane is they have accumulated approximately $450,000."
This should be enough to fund most of their retirement income needs from now until age 65, and it will continue to supplement their guaranteed sources of income adequately well into their 90s.
But Jack and Diane should proceed with caution regarding these figures, because after matching their current income to their stated expenses, including savings contributions, they have about $50,000 in free cash flow annually unaccounted for in their budget.
"This is a significant amount for any family," Madams says, adding they need to track their spending much more closely to get a firmer account of their actual lifestyle costs.
If they are spending more than they realize, Jack and Diane may be facing a dramatic change in their lifestyle once retired.
Alternatively, they could work longer, saving more while seeking an investment strategy that will provide them with a combination of growth and steady income.
Madams says while their current portfolio appears to be properly diversified to achieve this goal, it could be better.
What they require is a conservative approach, but the problem they face in this regard is bond and GIC returns don't keep pace with inflation, and after taxes, the returns are even lower.
Although their current portfolio of mutual funds in their RRSPs and TFSAs -- a balanced strategy investing in equities and fixed income -- does address this concern, it's also costly, with an average management expense ratio (MER) of more than three per cent.
"Jack is likely paying close to $9,000 per year in management costs, which is too much considering the alternatives are substantially less," Madams says, adding Diane's costs are about $2,100 annually.
Annual management costs are an important consideration because if their portfolio is required to yield five per cent annually to fund retirement, for example, they would need to achieve eight per cent returns every year, with a portfolio-management cost of three per cent.
With a portfolio of almost $450,000, Jack and Diane could do better, hiring personalized-portfolio management for a substantially lower management cost.
"We feel they should be looking at an annual investment cost of about 1.5 per cent," he says. "This would add a great deal to the return over time."
Another benefit of this strategy is they would be unifying their assets under one manager, who could tactically invest their money.
Certainly, working a little longer will improve their retirement income picture quite a bit, especially if they hold off until age 65. By then their mortgage will be paid on their Winnipeg home, and they will owe less on the mortgage on their B.C. home. Furthermore, they will have saved considerably more in their RRSPs and TFSAs.
Yet if retiring sooner is important to them, Jack and Diane must get a firm handle on their spending numbers. If they are spending as little as indicated, they are likely in good shape to retire.
Either way, Madams says Jack and Diane should enlist the help of a professional advisory team that can provide them with a comprehensive retirement plan and investment strategy -- at a reasonable cost -- to help them enjoy the retirement they envision.


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Sean of the Dead wrote:@Sokuban: I wouldn't necessarily say my German has more words for a certain subject than English, but sometimes I feel that I can express myself better in German than an equivalent sentence in English, but I can't think of any examples. :P
I sometimes find myself using "beziehungsweise" in English because the English equivalents ("as the case may be", etc.) are often rather awkward.


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to follow on its the plastic thermosts housing below air filter how does air box come off to get at thermostat housing ?
thanks for the prompt reply , how difficult are these to replace ? thanks again Dave
daveydave posted a topic in Ford KA / StreetKA Clubhi people am having problems with loosing coolant , its leaking from behind the engine , as you look at it from front of car it appears to be at rear of engine on the right and its dripping quite bad I topped up the water tonight to just above the min mark and in 30 mins there was nothing in water tank ! any suggestions would be gratefully received . Dave
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daveydave posted a topic in Ford KA / StreetKA Clubcan anyone tell me how difficult it is to remove the shocker & replace the coil spring please
daveydave replied to BHeart's topic in Ford KA / StreetKA ClubRight ive found a site that has step by step pics of how to remove HCV should be very helpful to you , well i hope so .. FK-OC ford ka owners club type it in n search for heater probs ok as a taster heres one of the pics DAVE
daveydave replied to BHeart's topic in Ford KA / StreetKA Clubhad the same problem with my Ka only the exact opposite mine had stuck in the cold only position cost i believe is abt £20 ish , you will see 2 pipes to the rear of engine just below where windsceen meets engine bay theres also a electrical lead running to pipes to operate the valve which is what sticks in either the hot or cold position mine was on cold permenantly, a haynes manual shoud be able to guide you through replacing it , hope this is of some help .. DAVE
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Hi there paul yeah your about spot on my job varies but i do most stages of conversion ! deep breath lol strip n prep cut out window apertures & coach roof vents fit 40x40 box frame welded n plated to origional floor fit wood floor above new frame system all interior fitures n fittings eg carpet trim grab poles interior lighting ! and the list goes on n on lol , been doing the job 10 yrs i even have some pics of my work on my fb page ! sad eh ps thanks for the welcome paul ! DAVE
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well guy came out and cleared eml and so far its not come back on so fingers crossed eh oh yeah error code was 0030 So all in all i cant praise HIGHWAY MOTORS in claycross derbyshire enough there aftersales service is a bench mark that other second hand car sales would do well to emulate... DAVE Damn lights come back on and according to error code it must be the top lambda thats got a faulty heater circuit so garage is replacing it for me this week foc of course
Been to garage today and they were most apologetic , there guys coming out to the car in the morning and hes going to write me the error code down then clear the light on dash .. he stated if it comes back on after this he will take the car and replace any faulty componants under the warranty ! he even offered to extend the warranty to give me peace of mind untill it gets sorted ,cant say fairer than that can you. he said it might be the PREHEATER ????? causing the fault hmmm no idea personally.. Will post the outcome tomorrow and the error code ..catch you tomorrow evening people .. DAVE
Thanks for a prompt reply will get that done asap then go from there where ever there is eh !
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Sixteen-year-old Takeo's village has been massacred by an evil warlord, and he is about to be slain by the men who murdered his parents and neighbors. At the last moment, his life is saved by a nobleman, who claims the boy as his kin and begins his education.
But nothing is as it seems. Takeo discovers that he has rare powers that are useful to those around him. As he grows into manhood, he must decide where his loyalties lie: with his noble master and adoptive father; with the Hidden, a secret, spiritual sect whose beliefs are forbidden; or with the Tribe, the assassins and spies who consider him one of their own.
A story of treachery, political intrigue, and the intensity of first love, set in a world ruled by formal ritual and codes of honor, Across the Nighingale Floor crosses genres, generations, and genders to captivate fans of all ages.
Don't miss the rest of the Tales of the Otori series.
©2002 Lian Hearn; (P) 2003 HighBridge Company
"The novel fills a unique niche that is at once period piece and fantasy novel." (Amazon.com)
"Wonderful epic story"
I listened to the sample and could think of nothing else until I downloaded it; and, having just finished, I have just purchased the next book; and am listening to the this one again!
This book has just about everything; epic story; love (requited and not), honor, heroes, scoundrels; magic and wars.
The story starts with the narrator's story. He is rescued by a lord when his village is destroyed. The reasons behind all this, are developed in the story. There is also the story of a young woman, held as a hostage to ensure cooperation between "warlords". They meet and the rest well, I won't tell you. The story goes back and forth between these two characters.
The reading is excellent, but the Japanese names are a bit difficult. I do not know if the names would be easier in print. The images, while painted with spare strokes, capture a feeling of a different time and place. I suggest listening to the sample; if you like that, you will like the book.
"Reads like poetry! Don't miss the sequels!"
I?ve always loved Japan, and martial arts have always fascinated on me. So it is with the greatest pleasure I listened to the magic of this book. Magic at several levels indeed, since the leading character, Takeo (Tomasu) is of an ancient tribe and has supernatural powers. Set in medieval and feudal Japan, it starts within the Hidden (the Christians) who are persecuted. That part is historic. Then we learn about the feuds between the clans and the designs of Lord Otori, and how Takeo fits in. I won?t give away more of the story. You?ll have to find out how the clans lead their wars, including assassins and one way to keep them at bay: wooden floors designed to chirp on anyone who walks on them (hence the beautiful title, which is the first thing actually that captured my attention).
Those who have read and liked the White Ninja series by Eric Lustbader will immediately love this book. I thought for a while that the skills (invisibility, power to put anyone to sleep by looking at them) lent to the hero had a natural explanation, such as a natural way to blend into the scenery (camouflage techniques, hypnosis), but it seems they are to be taken quite literally.
But there is so much more magic in this book. The choice of words and sentences reads like poetry. Since the chapters alternate between Kaede (the feminine hero) and Takeo, reading by two narrators of the opposite sex was a great idea. The narration is good and does not get in the way. Some found it monotone (esp. of Ms Nakasone), but I quite disagree; to me, it had a hypnotic quality. Besides, it let the words speak for themselves and did not try to add on to them, which I think was the just touch. On a last note, those like me who speak or have some knowledge of Japanese will also appreciate the accurate and original pronunciation of the Japanese names.
Last note: this is the first of a trilogy. The second (Grass for his Pillow) is even better. Read on!
"Enjoyable narrators"
I was interested in this book but was put off by the reviewers who did not like the narrators. I finally did listen and I have to disagree with the the negative reviews, especially as regards the female narrator. She sounds as if she may actually be a Japanese speaker and her inflections, pacing, and articulation are precise but convey the appropriate emotion, as well. I enjoyed both performances very much.
The book itself was absorbing and enjoyable. I had a slight problem with the ocassional lapses of the author into 20th century colloquialisms which broke the illusion of feudal-era Japan, but I look forward to reading the next books in the series.
I will have to respectfully disagree with the other reviewers who did not like the narrators. This is a Japanese tale, so their voices are calm, gentle- it fits well for this tale. They are also far from "robot-like", there are definite inflections, and separate "voices" for different characters. One quality I look for in a good narrator is the ability to get lost in the telling of the story, without being distracted by inconsistencies in character voice inflection or odd noises made by the narrator. I easily got lost in this tale. So much so that I had a hard time putting down my iPod to pause from the book.
The tale itself is delightful, poetic and vivid. It is technically a fantasy, but I found it also romantic and full of political intrigue. A very well done story. I'm looking forward to listening to the second book.
"Tales of the Otori trilogy - book one"
This is book one of a trilogy. After hearing it, I had a feeling that the story was cut off in mid sentence. I would highly suggest that the reader get all three books before listening. Unfortently, book three, "Brilliance of the Moon" will not be available in print until June 7, 2004 and there is no telling when or if it will be available in audio.
These books are outstanding, and well worth the price and time (at least the first two that I have heard.) The narrative is also outstanding. I highly recommend them.
I love BOOKS and reading, listening is as good when I can't look at the book. I listen every minute driving.
"fun, enjoyable"
I liked this book. It was well read and easy to listen to. It is not a deep book but fun and fanciful. I liked the "magical powers" of the tribe.
I think this is more in the line of a young adults book, except that it had more graphic sex than I want my 11-14 year old sons to read.
I have read and/or listened to all five books in this series and this book{across the nightingale floor} and heavens net is wide (prelude) are the best books and the last (harsh cry of the heron) my least favorite.
"Loved This Book!"
How to describe this book? It's just one of the most beautiful stories I've read/heard in a very long time. This is not an action-adventure story, although there are moments of both, it's a story about family, fathers and sons, lovers, and great evil perpetrated against those who choose peace over war, and then must choose war over peace. Almost from the minute this story began I was enthralled. I listened to it as I walked each day and would often find myself losing track of time. I can't wait to start the next book!
"brilliant reading of a brilliant series of novels"
My wife and have lived in Japan several times over the past 40 years. We both learned Japanese and became interested in Japanese history and traditions as adults. These truly are wonderful novels inspired by much real history of Japan's civil wars. The narrators are outstanding in that they impute a Japanese sounding intonation to the characters. In other words, although they are speaking English, one can almost think they are speaking Japanese. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
"Loved it from the first paragraph...."
This is a wonderful book. My husband and I both enjoyed listening to the narrators tell this story of love, power, mystery and custom. We are looking forward to the second and third books. The characters are well developed and the story is easy to follow.
I'm trying to wean myself and learn to function without earbuds for more than ten minutes at a time. It hasn't been easy. I lose balance...
"whole series"
I'm no discriminatory fan of Japanese legend, or any for that matter, but as far as intriguing storyline and plot-I really enjoyed this whole series. Sure, it parallels a lot of sci/fi historical myths, found/lost heir etcetera... but very nicely done in a refreshing scenario. as I said, not my favorite genre but I loved all three books.
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The article below was posted on @netmag yesterday.
I admit that I have no issues with html5 except the newly introduced structure elements.
What are your thoughts on the points and arguments raised in the article?
This author makes some very interesting and quite valid points. Albeit, in a rather 'brash' style.
I especially like this observation
But these new structural tags have created a strange, quasi-religious experience where you have to consult the high priests (the HTML5 gurus) for their interpretation of vague religious texts (the HTML5 spec) just to mark up a darn web page.
and this comment
...you have my permission to pop a cap in their ass with a Nerf gun.
It seems, amid the flurry of "keeping up with change", it is easy to lose sight of the simpler facts; the real intent and purpose of ANY markup. I have read many zealous debates about some of the most [to me] insignificant features of HTML over its entire lifetime.
Overall, the article is well written. He obviously has experience as a debater.
I think the gist of the article is that HTML5 IS NOT just simply HTML4 with DIVs swapped out for new structural equivalents. We really should have picked up on that a long time ago. There was a time, before my time, when people switching from using tables for layout simply replaced TABLEs, TRs, and TDs with DIVs. It seems we might be going through the same growing pains for this new transition.
Yeah, I agree that there is too much confusion around the structure of HTML5 to make it useful. I'm sure a lot of thought went into this, and probably with good intentions, but it still doesn't convince me. The idea seems to be to improve semantics, but because nothing changes visually on the page anyway, it seems like a lot of fuss for little advantage. And a few new elements like <nav> and <footer> aren't going to make up for the whole long list of meaningful ways you might want to present content. I would much have preferred to keep the current HTML structure and go more down the route of ARIA attributes. That's seems a much more intelligent and flexible way to add meaning to markup, and offers so many more possibilities. Those attributes, in large part, could have taken the place of classes and IDs as styling hooks, too. O well ...
I also agree with his points about styling HTML5. This is an issue that seems to have been buried in all the hype so far, but it's a huge issue, IMHO.
Other elements like <audio> and <video> could be of some use, but whether they are really needed is debateable. It would have been possible, perhaps, to use the existing <object> element perhaps with an attribute to distinguish between audio, video, canvas etc? I dunno, but specifying names on elements seems restrictive to me.
The best feature I so far have used from HTML5 is the advanced video embedding function. So it allows to have video in webpage without ang Flash. But you have to deal with many formats of teh same video that you should upload so that each browser displays its proper format.
I enjoyed the article and agree with a lot of things stated although the author obviously went for effect.
I don't see how we can be expected to use new html5 elements properly when even the html authors have previously created demonstrations that show their usage incorrectly. If it's that hard to understand then there's no chance of it being implemented properly in millions of sites. It needed to be more intuitive and obvious from the start. I think eventually it will all come together but will be a few years yet before I start using it - if I ever do (although some clients are now asking me for html5 sites without a clue why or what they are asking for).
I agree with everything that is being said. That is why I have yet to use HTML5 elements like footer, section, article, etc. Well besides the fact that the spec isn't even standard. I have no problem using more useful things like video but those "extra" little semantic tags not really for me nor do I think they are in the best interest of those for whom I work for.
I take a middle ground on this. I can see why some tags are useful. Specifically : header, footer and nav. I can see how these can benefit search engines, accessibility (for instance being able to tab directly thorough links in <nav> rather than every link on the page, or the opposite such as ignoring <nav> and tabbing through other links).
His main point is valid though: The tags simply aren't specific enough in their purpose which leads to confusion. It's very difficult in a non-trivial document to decide whether a div/section/article should be used.
I am not going to register to comment on that article but I had a quick scan and picked up on some other interesting points raised, which most people should already know.
Obviously the article was written to be slightly controversial and draw attention to the book and was partly a marketing gimmick by the author. It's clear the book isn't meant to be a tutorial but give a fairly honest if not slightly "opinionated critique on HTML5". Though it makes a change for the overinflated "fan boy marketing hype" and idiotic false rumours that circulate the web so it was a refreshing change that it dismissed some myths.
That obviously is a fair statement in that HTML 4.01 is normative and functions quite well currently and is broadly supported by all current mainstream browsers and even most legacy browsers.
Obviously introducing new elements and attributes will undoubtedly cause problems and barriers though clearly improvement on forms were required and the web is always morphing.
> A little taste of painHere are just some of the problems these new structural elements introduce:
Point three is the most interesting though point two obviously is correct in that it does introduce a complicated and unnecessary method of structuring documents. Most authors I have seen try to use it get 'confuddled' and do come unstuck. Going back to point three (currently) that is one that everyone should be aware of that most people try to brush under the carpet. Partly a case of legacy browsers though but an actual "real world" issue.
Quiz question: How were these elements added to the HTML5 spec?[...]
That is more-or-less correct they basically did research and then decided to create some elements from popular class names. Documenting tags that were floating around in the ether that were in common use whether or not they made much semantic sense. The non normative HTML5 basically just took ANY browser proprietary (none official) tag and decided which to implement, and which to not or redefined them. Leading to even more confusion... Plus the draft specification is obviously (descriptive rather than proscriptive) that doesn't help the typical web author.
Clearly, introducing a whole new way of structuring documents, however poorly communicated, is not "paving the cowpaths".
I couldn't agree more. Although Of course I think their original intentions were good but rather rushed.
The only option then is to fall back on class names for headings, but avoiding class names when authoring is the very 'problem' the WHATWG were trying to solve.
I agree it sounds ridiculous and it shows some shortcomings. Also I'd suspect generally people would add classes to such elements anyway as they do nowadays so in effect it just adds bloat.
So we don't need HTML5's new elements for accessibility. In fact, we should avoid them for the harm they cause another subset of users.
At the moment that is quite true and the authors was correct WAI-ARIA is supported by AT and is NOT a HTML5 technology. Some of the HTML5 requires JS to function so that is also another shortfall/issue or warning sign. Though WAI-ARIA is good you also have to remember many people with disabilities like myself don't use AT so you should always author semantic markup regardless.
I think overall the article edited [Chapter 3 of The Truth About HTML5] was fairly straight talking and cut out a lot of the rubbish and "propaganda on parade" market spiel you get plastered; everywhere as if HTML5 was a "magic-fix" going to save the world. Plus it's not just a markup language unlike HTML 4.01.
So Maleika @kohoutek ; have you bought yourself a copy yet for light easy reading or weren't it deep enough as obviously it was mainly a fun critique? I must admit, I did find it amusing in the article comments that some people were "shocked" with the article as if this was a completely new concept, i.e. that it's a "ordered mess".
Robert, I did buy the book but haven't gotten to reading it yet, unfortunately. I think I'll do so during the weekend.
Maleika you'll have to tell me all about it when you find the time it sounds like a fun book. Paul tell those clients HTML5 is dead and now! HTML5.1 is the new buzzword. Since they don't know the difference anyway all they need know is both are non normative.
The new HTML5 elements such as <header> and <footer> were hoped to get actual meaning from UserAgents and other software. Today this still hasn't happened. To a current browser, <header> pretty much == <div>. To an old browser, <header> == unknown element.
I think a lot of developers were hoping to "future-proof" their sites, for that wondrous time when these elements would mean something to software. Kinda like adding vcard stuff to your site in the hopes that a few years from now, the calendar program you use on your machine will get upgraded with the ability to read it ...the difference being, vcard actually is used by some programs somewhere (nothing I've ever used, but likely Apple stuff of course). Who knows, might happen some day.
However, I suggest using some non-HTML5 features when marking up documents, such as ARIA attributes for blind and sight-impaired users and microdata schemas (when appropriate) for search engine results.
To be very true I didn't get the article much the only thing that I am impressed with and gave me a reason to know more about it was the ARIA attributes. I would love to know and learn more about this, for sure. Thanks.
Opera's page is pretty good, written by Gez Lemon: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-to-wai-aria/
Marco Zehe's blog has some good bits on specific ARIA use: http://www.marcozehe.de/tag/aria/
Jason Kiss' site details ARIA/HTML5 tests he's done: http://www.accessibleculture.org/tag/wai-aria/


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this tutorial may help.
Please advise how to properly install NVIDIA GT650m card. There was is no problem with other NVIDIA gt 240m (48 cuda cores only : pyrit benchmark 3300 PMKs per second) on my older laptop, but today I've bought expensive machine (Intel core i7, 8 gb ram, nvidia gt 650m 2 gb 384 cuda cores...) with this card for better pyrit performance. Nouveau was disabled, latests drivers was downloaded from nvidia.com, installed, boot/grub.cfg modifided as before, but after reboot : FATAL ERROR screen not found. I've tried to google this problem, not to many results yet, some forums said that it will not be supported for Linux... I don't want to believe on that. Can somebody tell me - will it ever work on Backtrack >??? thanks in advance.
this tutorial may help.
Think like a criminal and act as a professional.
Please, do not edit or touch /boot/grub.cfg...I stronghly recommend that before doing something, read...Read about grub2..It is clearly stated "Do not edit grug.cfg as you might end up having unpredictable behavior, even fail to boot"..There are ways to do it my friend..It must be only modify by update-grub.
Some questions: What video card is being used by default?..Can you disable one of them?..
One piece of advice: read laptop user's manual, get to know what you have,how to work with it and then you decide what to do or what card to use if applicable.
Pretty much if all you want to do is utilize your GPU for its performance to help for cracking, use this tutorial; http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ad.php?t=48331
Hey mav, most nvidia cards have optimus tech on them, so editing the grub is a must for those special beasts...
The Nvidia-xorg settings that it does automatically are total crap! It doesnt even specify the PCI location of the GPU!!! Thats why everyone posts issues about no screens detected and such.
Just find the PCI location of your card, using 'lspci', find your card, write down or remember the PCI location, xx:xx:xx eg "01:00:0", edit your xorg.conf, "nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf", identify the device section, and the last line of the section put in,
"BusId" "PCI:01:00:0"
Using the quotations and use tab to space them apart.
then CRTL X, yes to changes and its updated to find the card!
I have tried your method with no luck. Are you meant to run step 1 before installing Backtrack to HDD
Step 1 :
When bootup in the "Boot Option Menu", press "Tab" (Other version of Linux will be different) and append the following to the end of the kernel option line :
text splash vga=791 i915.modeset=1 nomodeset
*** Remarks : "i915.modeset=1 nomodest" is for Optimus only. If nVidia GeForce, just need "nomodeset".
If YES Is there a way around this if Backtrack is already installed? I am not getting black screen on fresh install just cant get Nvidia drivers to work. I get Xorg errors if i try old method for nvidia install.
PC: Intel HM76 chipset
Samsung Intel® Core i7 Processor 3610QM (2.30Hz, 6MB L3 Cache)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M Graphics, Optimus technology 2GB DDR3
6GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,600MHz (4GB x 1 + 2GB x 1)
Any help would be appreciated....
yep. if BT is already installed do this:http://allitsecurity.blogspot.pt/201...ng-startx.html
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Thanks everyone for replying. Before trying bumpleebe soft, I found another way - to install cuda 5.0 together with lates nvidia drivers, upon reboot and start up I did not updated nvidia-xconfig, Next I install pyrit etc, so benchmark for nvidia 650m is 6000. and 4000 for 8 cores of i7. (total 10000) I've expected more . Can somebody tell me is it could be higher if GPU properly installed>? (with bumplebee software and updated nvidia-xconfig file). What is benchmark rate on others computer with same grafic card inside>?
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Junior Mason Smith posted a win in the 60 meters. He had the top time among the field of 12-man field. He comfortably won his heat and the event - and topped freshman teammate Harrison Scharf's third-place mark of 7.19 - with a winning time of 7.07.
Sophomore Tom Timmins bettered a field of 20 in the 400 meters. He and teammate Allante Keels each broke 50 seconds in the event and finished in the top two spots. Timmins posted the victory with a time of 49.28, while Keels was just a stride behind at 49.56.
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Sophomore Jordan Jett won the triple jump. He fouled on his first jump, but after his second leap, he led the rest of the way. His third jump was his best. He landed at 13.98 meters (45-10.50 ft.) which was nearly a foot further than the nearest competitor.
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MSI Mega Stick 1 - The Mini Wonderby Andrew Ku on 11/12/2003 10:50 PM EST
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duxxyuk - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - linkNice detailed review.
Like others here I would like to point out that there is the iBead 100 and 200 models made in Asia and notably imported into europe by JENS of Sweden and ISM of France.
The iBead is almost identical to this unit with the addition of an integrated 14 hour Li-ion battery that recharges off the USB. Also it can read its own .wav recordings and it has up to 20 FM radio stations with an auto scan and save function perfect for the frequent traveller who likes to have the main local radio stations preset on arrival into a new city.
It remains yet to be seen if the MSI MegaStick will be competitive against the already extablished iBead and Creative MuVo devices. that depends on its price, availability and support. Reply
gemere - Saturday, January 31, 2004 - linkThe new 256MB version has just come out but for some reason MSI have done away with the cool white and gone for ametallic blue. Even worse they have replaced the neat headphone unti. It now come with a separate metal neckchain which is better BUT the heaphones are now completeley rubbish. No longer in ear they are totally lacking in bass response making the unit sound like a cheap transistor radio! Reply
aryaraj - Saturday, January 03, 2004 - linkI've just got my MSI megastick from newegg.com.
It sound good...wasn't able to delete my Voice files, w/o conn. to PC.
Overalla great piece..as small as advertised..and the sound quality is impressive. U cud do with better earphones..but wht the heck..for this price its more than value for money. Reply
BJako - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - linkI got today Megastick 1 with firmware 2.02 and upgraded it to 2.04. I love it.
But bad feature is that you can't use it as USB memory stick without loaded battery - but you can disconnect battery after connecting it to USB port. That's very odd, no memory stick doesn't need battery... Reply
JKPCHelp - Monday, December 15, 2003 - linkAnyone have an idea when the Limited Edition versions are going to be available? Thanks Reply
JKPCHelp - Monday, December 15, 2003 - linkReply
darcon3k - Saturday, November 29, 2003 - linkJust got a megastick1 from newegg which came with firmware 2.02.
I tried the voice recording and wav playback works !!! Same with FM recordings.
I love that it uses a AAA battery instead of a builtin hard to replace rechargeable. I use rayovac's new 15min rechargeable batteries which last about 11-12 hours and recharge in 15 minutes =D I feel sorry for people with ipods and its unreplaceable battery, for more info on that check out http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/ Reply
Z3mr2 - Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - linkThere is also another company called NAPA that has been in the MP3 Market for a while, and is not metioned here. There model is very similar and is definitely a worth taking a look at because of it's price.
The Napa PA12FM is an MP3 player, Data Storage, Voice Recorder, Voice Playback, Digital FM Tuner unit that also has an External Memory Slot for SD or MMC, Which gives this unit alot more funtion posibilities by just switching the Memory.
Although the Internal memory is only 64MB. You can expand the memory (Up to 1GB)or switch memory cards in an instant.
Total Price of the Unit with additional 64MB SD card (Totaling 128MB) is only $79.00. If you go with the 128MB Card, it's only 98.00!!! Still cheaper than many other similar products in the market.
Here is a link to the NAPA PA12-FM:
bobdobba - Saturday, November 22, 2003 - linkThis review is simply embarassing. I realize Anandtech has to maintain their relationships with Taiwanese mobo companies - but this is shameless and spineless.
Products like this are a dime a dozen in Taiwan. To say that anything about this product is 'revolutionary' is a joke.
The review had NO information about MP3 playback. Nothing about sound quality, ability to handle VBR, ABR, and high CBR MP3s. Lots of mobile players drop the ball here. Does the MSI one? Who knows?
Volume is also a major issue for a lot of players. Is the highest volume high enough? Who knows?
Are the included headphones comfortable in the ears? Who knows?
And the crucial fact that you can't even play back voice notes on the player isn't even mentioned in the conclusion?????? WTF! Just this makes it basically useless as a voice recorder.
A terrible review, essentially useless, worse than a press release. I expect better from Anandtech.
geckojohn - Thursday, November 20, 2003 - linkI bought this MSI mp3 player and have been using it for an hour or so and love it. Compared to the Muvo, the sound is much louder and more crisp. The fm tuner is really nice too. You can't beat this mp3 player for the price. I highly recommend it.
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Aaapold - Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - linkOutwardsound carries the Jens of Sweden, but it lists for $219.95.
geckojohn - Monday, November 17, 2003 - linkSo, has anyone tried out this MSI mp3 player?
I'm really thinking about getting it... Do you know what Newegg's return policy is? Could i return it if it suckS?
Thanks Reply
Zoomer - Monday, November 17, 2003 - linkIt has been around so long, practically all the taiwan/china odm/oems have jumped onto it and produced tons of them.
If it gets imported to America en masse, I wouldn't be suprised if the price falls to around $70. In fact, I just saw the Hyundai HY-208 MP3 Player + 128Mb Mini Usb Flash Drive for S$139 - that's about USD$77. I would imagine that it would be even cheaper in HK, S.Korea or Taiwan.
The reason for such popularity? Well, if you are going to get a 128MB usb flash disk for $50, why not toss in another $20 to have it be able to act as a FM tuner/recorder/MP3 player?
Besides, they are small, stylish, "in" (the current trend).
This gets me thinking - how much profit would we be able to get if we get them and sell them on ebay? :) Reply
geckojohn - Sunday, November 16, 2003 - linkHey, So what one would you recommend besides the Sweeden one? Reply
OCedHrt - Saturday, November 15, 2003 - linkhttp://www.wewa.com.hk/products.asp?mode=second&am...
Here's some more. Reply
FRiC - Friday, November 14, 2003 - linkNot to mention, Acer has been selling this exact same MP3 player for a few months already, and for a lower price, before MSI released their version... Reply
Andrew Ku - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkWell, one more point I need to emphasize, and then back to the other reviews we got on the burner.
The MSI Mega Stick 1 can't be seen just for its feature set, as size, weight, and price are just as important. If you compare it to the Nomad Muvo, there is a distinct differential in those three specific groups. This is also the case with iRiver.
Ultraportable notebooks are the "all the rage" overseas, but are not necessarily in the same situation domestically. And in the context of motherboard makers diversifying their portfolio, we do see this to be the first type of product to market. We can eyeball the foreign markets all we want, but the American demographic (I am getting a bit political here... :p ) is very very different from the rest of the world. Not being able to be successful in the American/North American demographic has been a big roadblock to the success of many products.
And to answer your hint of more MP3 player reviews: yes, we will have more down the road. The reason there are 4 and not more is because we took a hiatus from this section for a while. Our lack of reviews in that time is not an indication that we don't see the MP3 player market proliferating. Reply
araczynski - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkamerica is usually behind in technology, europe/japan always has the newest/smallest gadgets at least a year before america decides to copy them... i remember my brother brining home a cell phone from japan many years ago, while everyone was carryign those bricks around here, they had things a third of the size.
america doesn't innovate as much as people think, america's good at copying and mass producing at lower prices, which is good too :) Reply
boran - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkehm, may I point you to this site here:
it's just a "george" or "fred" with the buttons swapped around a bit, even the transfer speeds etc are the same, which makes me believe msi isnt really as innovative as the article is, since the review bout the george dates 11 feb 2003 and you cant claim different weight, specs for function, I believe they R 99% alike (besides logo, firmware and button arrangement)
you can find around a million clones of the george or fred players on the market, imho my first misinformed review on anandtech cous if the reviewer just would have looked at the available players on the market for just a second he would have seen that there is nothing new or innovative at all with this MSI mp3 player.
Boran Reply
Oxonium - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkI agree that Anandtech is extremely behind the times with this review. I just hope they make it up to us by having this be the first of many such reviews. Looking at the audio reviews menu, I see only four mp3 player reviews in 2.5 years. The mp3 player market is exploding and evolving as fast as SFF and it is barely being covered. Reply
marqiuz - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkGroan,
for this once, I find an article on Anandtech speaking gibberish.
First time you see such a gadget in the market?!??
It's all the rage in the Asian Market, wake up. How long has ANYONE in Anandtech gone to Japan, Korea or Taiwan, or on the web this side of the world for that matter?!??
Several brands to look at:
safa (Best of the stock - with inbuilt speaker)
Phillips (this one is new)
And many more, many being more cool looking than that MSI product there. As I said, this is a trendy item in Asia; going for as low as 600HK and as costly as 2000HK (for ref. 7.8hk = 1 US).
Goto this website to have a browse.
select MP3 and presto!
America is truly too far behind on this. Reply
Andrew Ku - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkThe JoS is a very interesting product, and the actual LCD interface does seem a bit "cleaner." The resolution for the LCD seems to be higher, but the size of the actual size of the LCD module looks to be the same size (according to their PDF actual size scale). We didn't find any information referencing its ability to playback recordings, so we will have to wait till we get one on hand to tinker around with.
Btw, it is actually 88x25x16 (MP-100). To top it off, it is basically double in price (MP-100 - 256MB). The fact that it is all but scarce domestically doesn't help its case... But we will get back to this stuff some other time. Reply
smm2k - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkhttp://www.jensofsweden.com/index.asp?page=product...
which do you think i should get for xmas?
Grimner - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkXtian, you beat me to it :)
Have been using a JoS 256 since spring. The Mega Stick lock a lot like it - sharing the layout down to the buttons. Nice touch with the replacable battery, tough.
Could the Americans, for once, be waaaaay behind Europe? LOL Reply
Xtian - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkandrew Ku.
"Those MP3 players that have a large capacity, larger display, more features, etc... don't come as small as the Mega Stick 1, at least not yet."
Well, Jens if Sweden has it, and it's been out
for some time allready. It can playback your
voice or radio recordings, has 256Mb memory,
charge from USB and, it's 80x25x16mm compared
to MSI's 95x30x18mm.
link: www.jensofsweden.com
What I like to see now is USB2.0 interface
combined with faster flash memory to get a
better transfer rate.
/Xtian Reply
Andrew Ku - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkHello all,
I would remind you guys that this is smaller than the Nomad Muvo, and it has an FM tuner (and the ability to FM record), which most others lack. Also, keep in mind that this is MSI's first MP3 player and is much smaller than almost everything on the market. The ability to charge via USB is something that AnandTech would love to see implemented in the next generation of Mega Stick, and we already cited that in the article. Those MP3 players that have a large capacity, larger display, more features, etc... don't come as small as the Mega Stick 1, at least not yet.
Btw, I have seen the Mega Stick 1 at 100 flat. Reply
Xtian - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkThis was the first time Anandtech made me confused about what year it is.
I bought my northstar Nov 2002, and since then
numerous companies had offered all these
features, more memory, USB-charging of batteries,
playback of recorded material, larger displays,
longer battery life, smaller size, better design.
Are you sure this review is not 1+ year old?
/Xtian Reply
yanon - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkActually, there are several other companies already making similar products. I am thinking about buying one of these usb pen drive/mp3 player/voice recorders for Christmas. Andrew Ku didn't do a real good job on testing the device since he didn't even bother to come up with a qualitative testing method for sound quality and voice recording quality. I am wondering how good is voice recording funcitons because I will be using it to record class lectures. Another thing that is kind of disappointing about the Mega Stick is that it can't playback the file it records. Man, whoever designed the mega stick must be on crack since I just never heard of any audio recorder that can't play back the files it recorded.
BTW guys, please give me some suggestions on which mp3 player/voice recorder to get. I prefer one that is not too expensive less $125 and has decent recording quality for recording 3 hours worth of lecture. Reply
xionn - Thursday, November 13, 2003 - linkYou guys need to get with it.
Ever heard of the company ibead or 'Jens of Sweeden'? They do everything that this drive does and much more. Plus it does it much quicker.
Get with it guys, www.cnet.com has better info. Reply
smm2k - Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - linkhmm i wonder if the iriver flash player is better or worse?
skitlets - Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - linkwhat took so long for something like this to enter the market? I'm afraid plug and play usb flashdrives/mp3 players have been out for awhile, such as the Nomad Muvo. Reply