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Some background in distributed application architecture will help you make the most of this article.
When the Technology Experience and Innovation Group at Adobe sat alongside our call center colleagues and observed the obstacles that got in the way of delivering the best-possible customer experience, we realized two things:
As the development team, it made sense for us to apply the same successful strategies and technologies that Adobe corporate customers have used to improve internal Adobe operations. That's how the project code named Hendrix was born. It's been more than a year now that Hendrix has been empowering Adobe agents with a single, simple, and intuitive interface (see Figure 1).
The return on investment (ROI) has been exceptional, and the benefits wide-ranging. Hendrix has:
The primary goal in developing the software architecture and technical foundation of the project was to enable the team to be productive at and fully focused on implementing the business and user experience requirements. Our goals included the following:
Figure 2 shows a simplified view of the Hendrix integration landscape.
Hendrix supports multiple user interfaces; it is multichannel and multiscreen ready. The first phase of the project targeted customer service agents and telesales agents. They were given a Hendrix web browser experience that fulfilled their needs as well as Adobe IT's requirements for painless roll-out, installation, and upgrade.
The second phase of Hendrix addresses more advanced use cases and targets technical support agents. For this release, Adobe AIR will be used to deliver a desktop client application that enables tighter integration with the operating system.
Next up is Hendrix Mobile. It too will be built with AIR, and its audience is our presales and sales teams. Hendrix will push the latest information about their preferred customers (critical cases, customer temperature, customer satisfaction, and so on) directly to their mobile devices.
Each of the Hendrix client applications is built on top of the same scalable JEE middleware. They all consume LiveCycle Data Services services to perform the following tasks:
In addition, the Flex client running in Flash Player may directly invoke LiveCycle Collaboration Service features to enable the technical support team to use chat, screen sharing, and white boarding during their support sessions.
Now that you have a better understanding of why Hendrix was developed and some of its basic infrastructure, you're likely curious about its software architecture.
As Figure 2 showed, the Hendrix integration landscape is heterogeneous. To make the integration work, the architecture team had to establish a good separation of concerns and good modularization. To this end, the public APIs for the modules, libraries, packages, and classes were kept to a minimum. This reduced system complexity and lowered development and maintenance costs. The whole system can appear complex (see Figure 3), but taken one by one, the subsystem implementations are not that complicated.
On both the Flex client and the Java server, the development team opted for the same architectural style, which facilitated loose coupling and independent development, deployment, and testing.
When an Adobe engineering team builds an enterprise RIA for Adobe, the Flash Platform is a natural choice, unlikely to be challenged. Nevertheless, it's worth mentioning that the Flash Platform fulfilled major technical requirements, enabling Hendrix to support:
Furthermore, our approach was design driven. The information architects and user-experience design team led the requirements. Their goals were to streamline business processes, hide system complexity, reduce the need for training, and lower the average handling time. They produced a clear and choreographed user interface first expressed through stories, Adobe Fireworks wireframes (see Figure 4), and behavior documents, and then later through Adobe Illustrator visuals (see Figure 5).
The Adobe Flex Framework enabled the team to efficiently and quickly implement the desired pixel-perfect result:
Recall that among the biggest changes in Flex 4 were two new concepts around skinning. First Flex 4 introduced a new set of MXML tags defining graphics, text primitives, fills, strokes, gradients, bitmaps, filters, masks, alphas, transforms, and blend modes. Second, it introduced FXG, an XML-based vector graphics interchange format for the Adobe Flash Platform. These capabilities streamlined the Hendrix developer-designer workflow.
Hendrix designers created user interfaces as vector images (via Illustrator) that Flex developers later reused in their code (see Figure 6). The Illustrator assets were exported as FXG documents, compiled by the Flex SDK compiler, and ended up as highly optimized static components.
Using the Flex SDK you can create a release that targets Flash Player or AIR from your Flex code base. The biggest advantage of running an AIR desktop application over a Flash Player web application is the ability to interact with the underlying operating system (Windows, Linux, or Mac OS), which frees the application from the Flash Player and browser sandboxes. AIR applications can create notifications, change the dock or system tray icon, access the file system, access the microphone and webcam, and interact with other processes.
AIR features were not required by our user experience team in the first release of Hendrix. Instead, the first release was designed and released as a web application for Flash Player, which facilitated the roll-out and transparent updates to all end users, including customer service and telesales agents.
After Adobe sales and presales teams expressed their need for a Mobile CRM application, implementing Hendrix Mobile on AIR (see Figure 7) became part of the roadmap.
Our user experience team will transform the existing Hendrix application into a mobile application that will take advantage of the multitouch features, accelerometer, and finger gestures that AIR supports, along with the microphone, camera, video, and geolocation services as needed.
AIR technology can now be used to deploy applications on smartphones (including iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch, and Android phones) and tablets (including, iPad, Xoom, and BlackBerry Playbook).
The AIR runtime comes preinstalled on a number of devices developed by Acer, HTC, Motorola, RIM, and Samsung. It is also available for installation through application stores such as Android Market or the Amazon Appstore for Android (stores that AIR developers can also use to distribute apps).
AIR 2.6 achieved feature and performance parity for Android and iOS platforms (using OpenGL ES2 for fast graphics). Developers can even take advantage of new features in iOS 4 such as multitasking, retina display for higher screen resolutions, and front and back camera support.
However, the AIR runtime is not available on iOS devices, so developers need to package AIR applications as native applications using the AIR Developer Tool (ADT). This is, by the way, something you could choose to do for any supported platform.
Flex architects like to debate the advantages and disadvantages of specific frameworks; Java architects have been there before. There is no silver bullet. It's worth noting that Flex is a framework in itself, and that the Flex 4 Spark model and its associated skinning capabilities can be considered an MVC framework.
However, when building advanced enterprise object-orientated systems (that require automated ways to construct, retrieve, and isolate objects) IoC frameworks are worth considering.
For Hendrix, the Flex IoC framework of choice was Parsley. The team feels that Parsley is designed to be a framework for frameworks; a few of the Cairngorm 3 libraries that the Hendrix team contributed to are actually built on top of Parsley.
The Cairngorm 3 Module library is one example. Cairngorm 3 Module provides a set of infrastructure code that helps module loading and unloading and eases intermodule communication by augmenting the Parsley Messaging API so the messages dispatched to a given module are always guaranteed to arrive at their destination.
In contrast to the earlier Cairngorm 2 framework, many parts of Cairngorm 3 apply across frameworks. If you're using Parsley, Spring ActionScript, Robotlegs, PureMVC, Swiz, Mate, or another framework on your projects, Cairngorm 3 could well be complementary.
Cairngorm 3 consists of:
As the Hendrix team extensively used Cairngorm 3 in our project, we also contributed back to Cairngorm 3. So if you want to dive into our architecture best practices and get to know our toolkit, we invite you to visit the Cairngorm 3 wiki and try out the Cairngorm 3 libraries and sample projects.
This section describes Hendrix intersystem communications, which enable fast and reliable data exchange between the Flex client application and the back-end services.
If you control both sides of the wire in your application, there is rarely a good reason to serialize and deserialize text (especially verbose XML text). Object serialization will always be much faster. Speed and scalability were major requirements in the Hendrix project, so we decided against web services (and the slippery SOAP approach) and chose to use object serialization. Specifically, we used the following technologies:
AMF is used to serialize ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized, an AMF encoded object graph may be used to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or allow two endpoints to communicate through the exchange of strongly typed data.
James Ward has created a Census RIA Benchmark application that compares data loading using a variety of methods, including SOAP, JSON, XML, and AMF. As you can see in Figure 8, AMF is extremely efficient across the wire (even without compression). And, it's not just faster for loading–it also speeds client side sorting and filtering and requires less client-side memory.
Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a protocol designed for high-performance transmission of data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. RTMP is made available as an open specification to create products and technology that enable delivery of video, audio, and data in the open SWF, FLV, F4V formats as well as the AMF format, which are all compatible with Adobe Flash Player.
With Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, there are two flavors of RTMP:
After considering RTMPT, the Hendrix time decided to keep it simple in the near term, and simulate push by using HTTP polling and piggybacking techniques. The Hendrix network topology is complex with outsourced call-center firewalls and proxies, Adobe intranet firewalls, and load balancers, so initially simplicity is a high priority. The team will evaluate a move from HTTP to the RTMPT protocol if the business expresses the need for:
Hendrix middleware is a Java web application built with LiveCycle Data Services and running on a JEE application server. The LiveCycle Data Services messaging infrastructure provides support for the following:
LiveCycle Data Services is protocol agnostic. Each combination of supported protocol and serialization mechanism acts as a message channel between the client and server, without affecting how messages are exchanged or processed by the client or server.
Messaging channels come in three main families:
If you want more details on channel configurations, read Damon Cooper's blog post titled BlazeDS and LCDS: Channels, Channels Everywhere.
To fully leverage the existing legacy SAP CRM system, an ABAP development team implemented a set of Hendrix specialized façade services, aggregating the existing business rules and structures that existed within the CRM SAP legacy system. These ABAP functions are exposed as Remote Function Calls (RFCs), which is the standard SAP interface for communication between SAP client and server over TCP/IP or CPI-C. They are consumed by the Java middleware application server through SAP Java Connector (SAP JCo).
Thanks to SAP JCo these RFCs are wrapped in Java services and the ABAP structures in Java entities. The resulting Java API is then adapted in a façade API, exposed by LiveCycle Data Services, consumed by the Flex client.
As with object relational mapping techniques, the required plumbing leads to lots of boiler plate code. The Hendrix team developed its own solution to introspect the RFC and generate most of the RFC-to-Java-to-Flex mapping code. The LiveCycle Data Services engineering team looked at it and took it a few steps further. They will release an SAP Connector for LiveCycle Data Services later this year. This will augment Flash Builder with the tooling to do model-driven development with SAP. In addition to connecting to one or more SAP systems, the connector will enable developers to introspect and find RFC modules and functions, map SAP RFC functions to Flex remote functions, customize functions in Flex (modify function names, parameters, inputs and outputs), and generate ActionScript façades to communicate with SAP. For more on this, see Damon Cooper's post Introduction to the SAP Connector in Data Services.
LiveCycle Data Services and Java made the computer telephony integration (CTI) really straightforward. The Genesys Java AIL library interactions are triggered by the end user in the Flash Player UI through LiveCycle Data Services Flex remoting services. Through these Flex remoting calls, the agent can:
The Genesys library core also provides an event mechanism, through which the Agent Interaction (Java API) application can notify users about server statuses such as incoming calls, hang ups, disconnection, and more
LiveCycle Data Services provides a real time publish-subscribe messaging API, which Hendrix middleware uses to publish the CTI events to only the subscribed Flex clients.
The CTI solution is reliable and enterprise ready because of the messaging reliability of LiveCycle Data Services, which ensures that messages are exchanged correctly across the network regardless of failures as long as the client and server hosts remain running. Messages are delivered in order, once, and only once.
If connectivity fails and is restored, any undelivered messages are automatically and correctly retransmitted with no risk of duplicate processing by the far end.
To activate this capability, only a few small changes to the LiveCycle Data Services XML configuration files are necessary, specifically:
Last but not least, the Hendrix middle tier also takes advantage of many JEE standards (implemented in the JBoss application server). In addition to simple logging support (which can be critical for production monitoring and error diagnostics), Hendrix leveraged more advanced JEE features, including:
Though this article provided a view of the architecture of Hendrix, there are many aspects and challenges that were covered only briefly. Below are a few resources that go deeper into a few of these subjects. In a future article, Hendrix software factory techniques will also be detailed and demonstrated. In the meanwhile, if you feel we should provide greater details on a specific aspect of this project (for example, SAP integration, CTI, security, modularity, or multiscreen support) let us know (in the comments, through Twitter, or via email).
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The animals are adding to fat layers which they built up over the summer to see them through hibernation.
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"We've been giving them this diet for a little while because they did put on a bit of weight," she said.
Black-tailed prairie dogs are native to North America, but Drusillas said their numbers had fallen drastically from the five billion that existed in the 1800s.
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After winning a gold medal, and our hearts, at last summer's Olympics to the tune of "Hava Nagilla," Aly Raisman is rumored to be moving onto a dancing career by joining ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." The Jewish Olympic-winning gymnast is joining the celebrity cast of America's favorite dancing show, according to TMZ. Although the official list of… More ▸
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Dark Desire: Dark Series 2
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The time of Odin is over. The Aesir gods now live among the humans in their bustling modern cities. Their brutal dominion over the other gods and their eradication of the entire dark elf race may have ended, but their actions have not been forgotten.
With the death of Adrian still haunting Taer's every waking breath, she dreams of getting revenge on the dark elf responsible for her brother's murder. But when the one person she's depending on to train her in the art of weaponry refuses to help, she has no other choice but to get instruction from the most unlikely of people. Driven by an undeniable desire, Taer finds herself learning more than just how to fight.
Eir, the goddess of healing, has had her spirit destroyed with the death of her twin at the hands of a deranged god. Still struggling with her loss, she is merely surviving each day. That is until a chance encounter with a human shows her that her broken heart can be mended in the simplest of ways.
Dark Desire is the second book in the Dark Series by Lauren Dawes.
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Thank you again for the quick response. By "still?" I only wanted to indicate that I wonder whether they will change the format of all dictionaries in the near future. But maybe only some of the dictionaries are copyright protected, and this was the reason for encrypting them.
The last firmware version which had the dictionaries embedded was the 2.1.1, and all the dictionaries were encrypted in it. Now all of the installed ones on my Kobo are encrypted except the one I replaced: the english-english. Originally it was also encrypted, but as I used the dict from the 1.9.17 it is now simply gzipped. And works.
I assume you and mnjkl can have some non-encrypted dictionaries on the reader beacuse of skipping the 2.1.1, and the update procedure somehow kept the "old" dictionaries on the reader instead of replacing them with the new ones. All the dictionaries in the Desktop app are encrypted, so I am pretty sure a deselect (at language settings)-sync-reselect-sync procedure would result in all-encrypted dictionaries. In case the Kobo developers decide to not support the gzipped dictionaries in a future firmware I will downgrade to 2.1.5.
Anyway, I can't see why your japanese dict replacement isn't succsessful. You should try replacing the current (encrypted) japanese dict on your reader with the (gzipped) japanese from the 2.0.0 without editing it. If that works, that means your edited dictionary is somehow corrupted, but the replacement method works.
If it fails, that means the japanese dictionary is handled differently than the english-english. You can still try to replace another dictionary you are not using with the japanese-english and see what happens. It wouldn't be "elegant" to have to choose eg. dutch dictionary to translate from japanese but still...
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Res Ipsa Loquitur in Maryland
Res ipsa loquitur is Latin for "the thing speaks for itself." This phrase stands for an evidentiary rule personal injury attorneys in Maryland can use in some circumstances to bring a personal injury action in the absence specific evidence of negligence. Under this doctrine, plaintiffs may meet its prima facie burden of proof in a negligence action in the absence of specific evidence that the defendant was negligent because the injury would not ordinarily occur in the absence of the defendant's negligence. For example, if a truck were driving on a newly built road and the road collapsed, there would be an inference that the contractor who built the road was responsible. Res ipsa in Maryland is not absolute negligence: the road contractor's attorney, in this example, would have the opportunity to rebut the inference of negligence by proving that road collapsed for a different reason such as evidence that the truck weighed more than federal or state regulations allowed.
In Maryland, there are three elements an attorney must prove in a personal injury case in order to the create an inference of negligence on the part of a defendant: (1) a casualty of a kind that does not ordinarily occur absent negligence, (2) that was caused by an instrumentality exclusively in the defendant's control, and (3) that was not caused by an act or omission of the plaintiff. Holzhauer v. Saks & Co., 346 Md. 328, 335-336 (1997).
Auto accidents and truck accidents are unfortunately not uncommon occurrences in Maryland. These accidents occur under a large variety of circumstances under which different drivers and even non-drivers may be potentially at-fault for the accident. It is the rare case when only one inference may be drawn as to the who is at-fault for the accident. Auto accidents and truck accidents are not typical res ipsa cases. However, the mere fact that the occurrence is an auto or truck accident does not ipso facto preclude an accident attorney from invoking res ipsa to prove negligence.
Among the various types motor vehicle accidents, there is one scenario in particular in Maryland accident lawyers have sought consistently to apply the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. Where a car, truck or motorcycle leaves the road without a prior collision and thereby causes injury or damage, Maryland courts will draw an inference of negligence from the occurrence (assuming the other conditions set forth above are met) because the driving off the road really is the think speaking for itself.
Scholars - okay, not really scholars - sometimes confuse res ipsa loquitur with ipso facto. There is a big difference between the two. Ispo facto means a certain effect is a direct consequence of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a subsequent action. "You have Googled res ipsa loquitur; ipso facto you want to learn more about it."
- Maryland Insurance Terms Glossary
- Attorney Help Center (Maryland law and handling personal injury cases)
- Personal Injury Lawyer Blog (Maryland injury lawyer blog)
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- Gilliespie v. Ruby Tuesday (premises liability in 2012)
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There's a lot going on in the skull of Sara Pascoe. She's someone who as a child fantasised about having sex in a tree and then falling out of it, killing her male partner in the process. She now frets that her long-term boyfriend is getting it on with her own doppelganger, and backs up the theory with plausible evidence. Some of her brainflashes are both disturbing and useful, too: fear, we learn, is a very cheap babysitter.
Pascoe has a cheery, genuine delivery that doesn't rub your face in the fact that she's super smart. This is a show that puts Nietzsche in the same room as Andie McDowell with a cameo by Worzel Gummidge. Some of her material veers into the weird - is the Catholic Church really implying that Jesus was made of biscuit? It's not undergrad surrealism or silliness that revels in its own lack of meaning. Neither is she desperate to impress; at 32, she already has an assuredness that would be surprising if she couldn't back it up with such strong material.
She does take us to dark places - always in the service of comedy rather than shock - and her hand is that of a practised guide, although it's the same one she uses to catch mice manually. She might at times be gripped by the possibility that she doesn't exist, but her audience should be mighty grateful she does.


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Jewish communities throughout the United States were occupied with several important areas of concern as the High Holiday season began at sundown today. Among these were services for the poor and the sick, the financial needs of Israel at a time of unprecedented economic burdens for that country and the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union. The Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York arranged special holiday observances for thousands of patients and clients in hospitals and other member institutions. These include the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, the Beth Israel Medical Center and the Maimonides Medical Center where the shofar will be sounded and services will be held in auditoriums and at the bedsides of patients too ill to attend. The Hebrew Association for the Deaf will hold services with Rabbi David Rabinowitz, the only deaf ordained rabbi in the U.S., officiating. Services have also been arranged at the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center and the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center. The Jewish Braille Institute of America, another Federation beneficiary, is circulating prayer books in Braille. An estimated 850 persons will attend Rosh Hashana services at the 92nd St. YM-YWHA in Manhattan. The Youth Residence Center in New York, operated by the Jewish Child Care Association, has invited young people between the ages of 16 and 22 to conduct their own services tonight.
Rosh Hashana, and especially Yom Kippur, are traditional occasions for appeals on behalf of the needy and for Israel. In the Greater Boston area, 81 synagogues plan to ask worshippers to pledge to purchase a maximum amount of State of Israel Bonds during the High Holiday season, according to Bernard Garber, general chairman of the Israel Bond Organization. Speakers at the synagogues and temples will emphasize Israel's need for Bond loans, pointing out that the country's expenditure of $5 million a day for defense, forces it to rely in large measure on Bond sales for its normal industrial and economic development. The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews in San Francisco said today that thousands of Jews in the USSR will receive Rosh Hashana cards from American Jews this New Year. The Council provided the cards at a nominal cost. Each contain a Jewish scene and New Year greetings in Russian, English, Georgian, German, French and Hebrew.
Harold B. Light, a spokesman for the group, said it had been hesitant about launching the card-sending campaign "because some thought the cards might endanger the people we want to help." He said the idea was tested last Passover when over 30,000 cards were sent to a selected list of 74 names. "Many of those on the list have already been allowed to leave the Soviet Union," he said, "and some of these tell us they believe that the hundreds of greetings they received actually helped them to gain their freedom." Another Rosh Hashana note came from Stamford, Conn, where the First Presbyterian Church announced that Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur hymns will be played on the 56 bell carillon on the church's tower on Sunday, Oct. 4. The serenade will be rendered by George Matthew Jr. who is the organist at the Congregational Church in New Canaan and at Temple Sinai in Stamford. Dr. Donald Campbell of the First Presbyterian Church said the program is the latest in a series of ecumenical endeavors by his congregation.


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- Geoffery FeusahrensRegulations Analyst Legal Division Calif. Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
Remove Regulation 649.56
No matter who we are, how we dress, where we go, how we act, whom we date or what we do for work— we all must have access to compensation and justice. Remove this discriminatory regulation NOW!
CalVCP is a statewide program that provides financial compensation for victims of rape and other violent crime. Cal VCP's regulations exclude sex workers and ex-prisoners on felony probation or parole from getting compensation.
We started this campaign when a member of our community was brutally raped and attacked in her home and was then denied victim compensation.
CalVCP rejected her claim for compensation by using Regulation 649.56: Involvement in the Qualifying Crime of Prostitution. Ms R has no convictions for prostitution so the Board's decision was a biased judgment. This is our effort to organize to get justice for Ms R and demand an end to this discriminatory regulation.
While Ms R appeals the decision in her case, we the undersigned have submitted our written and oral objections at two prior hearings against this discriminatory regulation held earlier this year. Objections were also made to Regulation 649.4(b) which excludes formerly incarcerated people on felony probation or parole from the compensation scheme.
Ms R testified: "I was judged and disqualified as an unworthy victim by your program, and the seriousness of my injuries was overlooked. I was dragged from room to room, there was blood everywhere, my head was squeezed and my ear drum ruptured and I was raped – all this was discounted. I was made to feel that I was somehow responsible for the events leading to the "qualifying crime". No, I didn't ask to be raped. And my actions did not encourage the rape. How can there be a law like this? Are only some rape victims innocent victims?"
This is your chance to stand up and demand the immediate removal of these discriminatory regulations when the California Victims Compensation Fund Board meets in November of 2013
We demanding an end to discrimination in compensation awards to make way for all rape victims to achieve justice. No matter who we are, how we dress, where we go, how we act, whom we date or what we do for work— we all must have access to compensation and justice. Clearly this discrimination constitutes a loophole. When victims of rape are belittled in this way, it sends the wrong message to the public and to would-be rapists; that anyone can treat prostitutes or those they precieve as prostitutes as badly as they please and the resulting injuries will never be fully treated as such because of these types of discriminatory regulations.
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Feels great on a sunburnYour dehydrated skin will instantly soak this up. Can be used on eyes and lips as well. Great for all skin types, even oily. Knocked off a couple stars bc most skin needs a fairly thick layer and the packaging is a little small. Follow me on Twitter: BCmakeup Blogspot: The Lady Grind BC Makeup Artistry-St. Louis — 5 years, 2 months agoBCmakeup | 82 reviews
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Hydrates WellThis is a great skin hydrator. I used it on my skin when it felt dehydrated and it made a real difference. As with all of the Dermalogica products I have used it was gentle enough to use daily if you wanted to. — 9 years, 4 months agoJJis42 | 101 reviews
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Unity Dance this Friday! The Hazen SADD group is sponsoring a dance for students in grades 7 through 12 this Friday, November 18, from 7 to 10 PM in the Hazen Gym. Admission to the dance is $5 and any student wishing to invite a student from another school MUST sign them up in the Principal's Office before the end of school on Thursday, November 17, 2016.
November Recess – School will be closed Wednesday, November 23 through Friday, November 25, 2016 in recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday. Classes will resume on Monday, November 28.
Ski and Ride Program: Reminder! The deadline for payments is November 21, but registration is due NOW to hold your spot. See Ms. Foster for information.
Hazen Music Department Winter Concerts! The Hazen Band and Chorus will perform their traditional concerts in December. Mark your calendar for these special events ...the High School Band and Chorus will perform on Tuesday, December 13. The Middle School Band and Chorus will perform on Wednesday, December 14. Both performances will be held in the Hazen Auditorium at 7 PM. Admission to the concerts is free, but donations to the program are always appreciated.
Annual Student Information / Medical Information Update Now Overdue! It is absolutely essential that the school has access to the most current information for our students, especially in an emergency situation or should your child become ill or injured at school. Please update and sign the form your child brought home in the first day packet and return it to the Guidance Office as soon as possible.
New Student Parking Permits for 2016-17! Attention student drivers! Students who drive to school and park in the Hazen parking lot each day should register their vehicle in the Principal's Office and display a Student Parking Pass. The Parking Pass is free! See Mrs. Quinn in the Principal's Office for a form.
Important Fall Happenings to Note on your Calendar
December Teacher Professional Day – Students will be dismissed early (11:35 am) on Friday, December 9, 2016 to allow teachers to participate in professional development training.
December Recess: School will be closed from December 26 to January 2 for the December Recess. Classes will resume after the New Year on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.
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Lionsgate Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment sent me the latest Thomas & Friends DVD for review and giveaway on my dad blog. The title of the upcoming Thomas the train movie is Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery. It's a full-length movie. Don't worry, it's only 61 minutes long so your little pre-schooler won't lose interest while watching it. And if your children are like my two youngest kids (ages three and seven), they will want to watch it multiple times. Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery will be available on Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, DVD, digital download and on-demand next Tuesday (September 18, 2012). The Blue Mountain Mystery DVD has a list price of $17.97. The Blu-ray version is priced at $24.99. However, you can get both of them for a little less on Amazon.
My toddler loves Thomas, and he loves this title as well. In my opinion, Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery is the best Thomas DVD we have seen. In addition to the 61-minute movie, the DVD and Blu-ray also includes four bonus features.
Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery Movie
The full-length movie starts off with an accident at the Blue Mountain Quarry. Thomas is sent to take the place of an injured train. While there, Thomas sees a little engine that he has never seen before. When he asks the other trains about the small green engine, everyone pretends they don't know what Thomas is talking about. This puzzles Thomas, so he continues to snoop around until he's able to confront the mysterious green engine. That's when Thomas finds out the train's name is Luke, and he's hiding because of something he did long ago. Luke is afraid if Sir Topham Hatt knew of his existence, he would be taken away and will never see his friends again. When Thomas asks what Luke did, he refuses to say. This of course, makes Thomas even more curious about the mystery surrounding Luke.
Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery Bonus Features
Blue Mountain Hide & Peep Game
In this bonus game, Thomas and Luke play hide and seek. It's your job to find Luke by using the remote.
Learn About Standard & Narrow Gauge Engines
Thomas is a standard gauge train, but the trains at the Blue Mountain Quarry are narrow gauge engines. This bonus feature does an excellent job explaining the differences between standard and narrow gauge engines.
Blue Mountain Mystery Karaoke Music Video
In this is a fun music video, you and your kids get to sing along to the lyrics of the Blue Mountain Mystery theme song.
Working Together Karaoke Music Video
In this karaoke music feature, you and your kids sing along to Working Together, which was also featured in the movie.
Blue Mountain Mystery Giveaway
Thanks to Lionsgate Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment, a reader of my dad blog will win a Blue Mountain Mystery DVD. The winner will be randomly selected. The deadline to enter the giveaway is Wednesday, September 19th (Eastern time). The giveaway is limited to readers in the USA. If you don't see an entry form below, please wait for the Rafflecopter giveaway form to load (or refresh the browser).
[Disclosure: The giveaway prize will be provided by Lionsgate Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment, but they are not the administrators of the giveaway on my dad blog. I am not liable for the prize. I received a DVD for review purposes. As always, the opinions expressed are mine and I am not obligated to write a positive review.]


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ReasDis 2.0 kicks off with Steven Hyden, Keith Phipps, and host Kyle Ryan discussing how Spotify, Rdio, and similar services are changing our music-consumption habits. How much do we need to buy anything anymore? How do we decide what to buy and what to stream? What are we missing out? Should Kyle have skipped buying that Thin Lizzy hits collection when he could've just streamed it?
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The Dallas Stars just endured a 4 game road trip last week before returning to Dallas for Tuesday's game against the Florida Panthers. Dallas is coming off a 2 game losing streak with 2 brutal loses in the 3rd period with loses to Pittsburgh and Detroit at Consol Energy Center and Joe Louis Arena.
The Florida Panthers are in 2nd place in the Southeast division with 19 points only trailing the Washington Capitals by 2 points. The Panthers have played one more game than the Capitals which gives Washington a bigger edge for now.
The Panthers are 6-3 on the road in 2011 which is 5th best in the league. Dallas has the 5th best home record going 6-1 at home. Below are some keys to the game.
Key #1 Score First
The Panthers are a good road team and Dallas plays well at home. The team that scores first will manage to set the tempo of this hockey game. Florida can take the crowd out with an early goal. Dallas can get the crowd in the game with an early goal.
Key #2 Penalty Killing
Both of these NHL teams can be very effective at penalty killing. The team who does better at penalty killing should win.
Key #3 Playmaking Ability At Center
Playmaker centers who have line 1 potential usually dictate outcomes of games. Neither team has a blue chip first line center even though Ribeiro can be very effective contributing at times on the first and second lines. The team with the playmaker center that shows up should win.


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Program Planning and Review
The University of Idaho must complete a program proposal to create, modify or discontinue undergraduate and graduate program majors and/or degrees. A proposal is also required for an academic certificate that requires 30 credits or more for completion.
A short form (program component or non-substantive minor request) is required for creating, modifying or discontinuing a program component. Program components consist of options, emphases, minors and teaching endorsements. A short form is also used for an academic certificate that requires less than 30 credits for completion. Certain types of changes to undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as program components, may be completed using the short form.
- Short Form — Group B (Word)
- New Undergraduate and Graduate Program Proposal (Word)
- Discontinuing Program Proposal (Word)
- New Administrative and Instructional Unit Proposal (Word)
- Budget Template (Excel)
The University Curriculum Committee categorizes actions (into Groups A, B, C) by required approval. The Curricular Approval Workflow (PDF) outlines the approval process with deadlines for an academic program, a program component, an academic certificate and non-substantive minor changes. After University Curriculum Committee processing, check the Faculty Senate for status of an action.
- October 15 for Group C
- December 15 for Group A & B
Policies (Faculty-Staff Handbook)
- FSH Chapter 4: General Academic Policies
- FSH 4110: New or Expanded Academic Programs
- FSH 4120: Catalog Change Procedures
- FSH 1540 C: Circulation of Curricular and Policy Proposals
The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President is responsible for obtaining appropriate approval and/or providing notification for actions to the Idaho State Board of Education, the Idaho State Department of Education and the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. While the decision to make academic changes is an institutional prerogative and responsibility, the University of Idaho must take appropriate action to comply with reporting policy and maintain accreditation.
Idaho State Board of Education
- SBOE Home page
- Policies and Procedures, Section III, Post Secondary Affairs
- Policy III., G., Program Approval and Discontinuance
- Policy III., H., Program Review
- Policy III., L., Continuing Education/Off-Campus Instruction
- Policy III., Z., Planning and Delivery of Postsecondary Programs and Courses
- Five-Year Plans
- Program Approval overview and forms


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Jennifer Aniston Takes Her Clothes Off, Just Not For Playboy
In the January issue of GQ, Jennifer posed on the cover wearing nothing but a man's tie to match her birthday suit. After seeing her cover, Playboy's head, Hugh Hefner, said , "Is it just me or is Jennifer Aniston getting hotter?…Never seen her in this light before." Whoa, easy there sparky! But according to a Playboy spokesperson, Hef just had to ask if he could have her for his mag and offered her $4 million plus a bonus for sales that could earn her up to $10 million if she agreed to pose nude! Wow, I can barely get a dude to buy me a drink before we get nekkid. However, All American Aniston doesn't literally want to be a "Girl Next Door." So, she turned Hef down, even though she told GQ "Yes" for a heck of a lot less dough. Alas, the cougar has decided to keep her clothes on, this time. But maybe she should reconsider, after all, that's a whole lot of neck ties, Jen. [Celebrity Smack]


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In a piece published on the New York Times, Franco writes, 'This behavior could be a sign of many things, from a nervous breakdown to mere youthful recklessness.'
James Franco has made a comment following headlines about Shia LaBeouf's erratic behavior. The "Spider-Man 3" star tries to offer explanation on why actors act out in an op-ed published on the New York Times on Wednesday, February 19. In the piece, Franco suggests that the "Transformers" star's recent behavior was "a piece of performance art."
"This behavior could be a sign of many things, from a nervous breakdown to mere youthful recklessness," he writes. "For Mr. LaBeouf's sake I hope it is nothing serious. Indeed I hope - and, yes, I know that this idea has pretentious or just plain ridiculous overtones - that his actions are intended as a piece of performance art, one in which a young man in a very public profession tries to reclaim his public persona."
"Any artist, regardless of his field, can experience distance between his true self and his public persona," he continues. "Our rebellion against the hand that feeds us can instigate a frenzy of commentary that sets in motion a feedback loop: acting out, followed by negative publicity, followed by acting out in response to that publicity, followed by more publicity, and so on."
"I think Mr. LaBeouf's project, if it is a project, is a worthy one. I just hope that he is careful not to use up all the good will he has gained as an actor in order to show us that he is an artist," he concludes.
LaBeouf's controversial behavior started in December after he was accused of plagiarism. He later apologized, saying that he "neglected to follow proper accreditation." The 25-year-old star then appeared in the premiere of his movie "Nymphomaniac" wearing a paper bag with a sign which read, "I am not famous anymore". Earlier this month, he held an art installment called "#IAMSORRY" in which he wore similar paper bag while looking at visitors without saying a word.


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THE man given the job of heading the transfer of public health from the NHS to North Yorkshire County Council has taken up his new job.
Dr Lincoln Sargeant, 45, a West Indies-born Cambridge graduate and epidemiologist, has moved from his role as a public consultant in Cambridge, to become the new director of public health in North Yorkshire. He said: "This is an exciting time to be at the forefront of public health policy and strategy. The transfer of public health responsibilities from the NHS to county councils like North Yorkshire will provide a tremendous opportunity for a truly joined-up approach to the really important issues. With one organisation being responsible for so many key areas, for example education and economic policy, there is real scope to make a difference to people's lives and their health."
Responsibility for public health, such as immunisation, nutrition, help with stopping smoking and alcohol advice will transfer to the county council from the NHS on April 1 next year.
Dr Sargeant said: "We will work hard to ensure that despite the complexity of the reforms to the health service, high-quality front line public health services continue to be delivered over the transition period."


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Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:
Zeigler seems to be the better option. He knows the system/playbook, is familiar with Alex (and visa versa), isn't going to moan or b***h about being the 4th WR (or 5th when Edwards returns) and can add value on special teams. Housh brings none of this.
I like the Ziggy thought too , he does already know the system , but I do question his run blocking a bit. I think who ever we bring in will be for depth mainly and Ginn and Williams will be the next go to guys along with our TE's.
Hey , Ghost where have you been ? Glad to see your post.
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In other news Friday, federal bank regulators came under fire in the Senate for their role in the Washington Mutual bank failure, and President Obama renewed his calls to rein in the derivatives market in the financial system. Continue reading
Members of the House approved a modified federal rescue plan Friday, moved by the Senate's support and mounting concerns over the stability of the U.S. financial sector. Kwame Holman reports on the bill's passage. Continue reading


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Home | Business | Tax and License Toolbox | Sales Tax by Address
The City of Westminster is located in two counties and 10 different USPS zip codes, eight of which are shared with other municipalities. These zip code boundaries do not coincide with city boundaries and many do not use "Westminster" as the city name. Therefore, you cannot rely upon mailing address or zip code to determine whether or not a particular location is within the city boundaries.
Retailers are liable to the city for underpayments resulting from improper collection. As such, retailers are encouraged to utilize the electronic location databases certified by the Colorado Department of Revenue pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes § 39-26-105.3 to determine the correct jurisdiction for sales tax purposes. To encourage use of these databases, Westminster, along with a number of other home rule municipalities, have enacted provisions which will hold harmless retailers who rely on the most current version these databases if the database erroneously returns the wrong jurisdiction for a particular address.
For additional information on verifying addresses using currently certified database providers, including links to the providers' websites, visit the Colorado Department of Revenue. You may also refer to Tax Compliance Guide topic 364 for additional information on Westminster's safe harbor.
If you are located in the city, but your address is in a zip code with a city designation other than "Westminster," be sure that your vendors are aware of the correct jurisdiction for your address. Carefully check all purchase invoices to be sure they include Westminster sales tax at the proper rate. This will help ensure that you are paying the proper sales tax on your purchases and help prevent penalty and interest charges. Note that a full Westminster use tax is due on items delivered into the city even if a vendor erroneously collects sales tax for another jurisdiction. The safe harbor discussed above does not apply to use tax.


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ECM Records may have a reputation for tranquil jazzy tone-poetry, but its defunct sister label Japo released a lot of edgy fusion in the 1970s and 1980s, including the music of Swiss avant-rockers OM. Most jazz-rock of the era was played by jazz musicians mesmerised by rock's communicative power, but - like the UK's Soft Machine - OM was a rock band who went the other way.
OM made four albums for Japo, and this compilation (picked by the band) has four tracks from the first three, and the whole of the final album, Cerberus. It's a mixed bag, with prolonged passages of ambient effects that aren't sonically rich enough to head off a sense of drift, but the hard-edged sound of Christy Doran's guitar, and the explosive accents of drummer Fredy Studer drive up the momentum on tracks like Dumini and Dreaming For the People.
The 12-minute finale of ambient sounds, funk-vocal samples, bowed bass figures and spluttery reeds sounds like portentous intent outstripping execution. Soft Machine had the creative edge in this territory, but this is an interesting piece of period documentation.


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I value individual freedom (my own as well as that of others) and recognize that freedom comes with responsibility.
I'm divorced, but I get along well with my ex, and our son definitely has both parents (we share custody, and although the kid lives in a different city we do get to spend some time together every now and then).
Movies: I'm not a big movie fan, although I tend to sleep less than normal during the Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). I often find good documentaries and educational programs worth watching.
Music: mostly rock, metal, or classical. Occasionally some kind of ambient, or older pop.
Food: I like sushi, Chinese, and Mediterranean cuisines, fish and meat, and of course black bread.
2) friends (including some family members and other people worth communicating with)
3) experiencing (by the way, in my language, "living" and "experiencing" share a common root)
4) cell phone and internet access (well, I **could** do without 'em, but I'd rather not)
5) Swiss Army knife (always with me except in bed, sauna, and on short business trips where I only take cabin baggage)
You'll find out about #6 in due course. Or then not :)


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Last week, Chicago Cubs President Theo Epstein said that, top prospect, Kris Bryant will not be playing in Chicago this season. That is a blatant lie. Now, Theo is absolutely saying the right thing but that is not how it is going to play out. We mapped out Kris Bryant's trajectory earlier in the month and we're sticking to our guns.
By saying that he doesn't expect Bryant be with the big league club this season is Epstein's way of taking any unnecessary pressure off of his 22-year-old third base prospect. Just imagine how bad it would look if Epstein made the bold statement that Bryant would be starting for the Cubs' after X-number of games at AAA. That would just be stupid. The only way that Kris Bryant does not make an appearance at the big league level would be if he were to really struggle at AAA. There would have to be some developmental problem or major flaw in his game exposed to keep this kid from getting a September call-up.
Just look at what other teams are doing with their top prospects; Mike Trout and Anthony Rizzo are great examples. They played in about 30 big league games the season before they were called up (after the arbitration deadline) and then played 120-130 games in the major leagues. The expectation is that Bryant will be in the majors at some point next season so that means that this is the that year he should log his 30 game stint with the Cubs.
Theo is saying the right things to the media right now, but baring some dramatic change in Bryant's production, don't believe a word he says. We will see Kris Bryant in September.Tags: Anthony Rizzo, Baseball, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Kris Bryant, Mike Trout, MLB, Theo Epstein


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert's performance with rock band Queen on the finale of the TV singing contest this week has the British band thinking about a new front man.
"Amongst all that furor, there wasn't really a quiet moment to talk," Queen guitarist Brian May told Rolling Stone in an interview released on Friday.
"But and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with at some point. It's not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that. It isn't that easy. But I'd certainly like to work with Adam. That is one amazing instrument he has there," May told the magazine in an e-mail exchange.
Queen, one of the biggest rock bands of the 1970s and '80s, has not had a permanent frontman since the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991.
The English band recently ended a four-year partnership with Paul Rodgers, the former lead singer in the bands Free and Bad Company.
Lambert, 27, dubbed "Glambert" by fans, lost out in the "American Idol" final to Kris Allen. But his vocal skills and flair for the dramatic made him a good fit for performances with both Queen and glam rockers KISS in the show's finale on Wednesday.
May seemed comfortable about the role of "American Idol" as a launch pad for a career in the rock world.
"If you have enough talent and enough will to succeed, you will get there by whatever route presents itself," he wrote Rolling Stone. "Once you have scaled the castle walls, with the sword in your hand, it matters little how you got there. I've not always been positive about shows like this but there is no doubt that it offers a door to some real genuine talent along the way."
Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by Dan Whitcomb and Bill Trott


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Pedernales Brewing - Robert Earl Keen & Texas Hop Bomb 2016
25 July 2016
Today you get to see two new beers coming from Pedernales Brewing in Fredericksburg, TX. Robert Earl Kent is a front porch amber ale that hits 5.43%-AbV (12oz cans) and Texas Hop Bomb 2016 is a SMaSH beer that uses Maris Otter Malt & Columbus hops (8.25%-AbV & 22oz bottle). Stay tuned for mroe details.


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Piedra sobre piedra : cuatro poetas austríacos = Stein auf Stein : vier österreichische Dichter
Mimeographed reproductions of typescript and drawings on individual leaves of coarse brown and white papers with a variety of mimeographed and photocopied borders; black and light brown tissue paper interleaved between sections. Stapled at left margin, glued to brown paper wrappers and tied with multicolored cord. Wrappers are illustrated with mounted paper cutouts (part moveable) with mimeographed and hand-painted decorations. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. LC has copy no. 179. MSU has copy no. 58.
- Hintze, Christian Ide, 1953-
- Kerschbaumer, Marie Thérèse, 1936-
- Kofler, Gerhard, 1949-2005
- López, Ariel, 1978-
- Wiplinger, Peter Paul, 1939-
- Yglesias, Jorge
Publication Date: 1998
Original Size: 62, [8] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection: MSU Libraries Cuban Artists' Book Collection
Call Number: oversize N7433.35.C8 C8 Box 5, Tray 5B
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DCIG Slashes IT Product Selection Risks and Time with First Interactive Buyers Guide for Storage and eDiscovery Buyers
April 02, 2012 --
April 2, 2012 (PRWEB) April 02, 2012 -- DCIG, the first industry analyst firm to engage the world with transparency of business and social tools, today unveiled the Interactive Buyers Guide (IBG) (http://www.dcig.com/ibg), providing the industrys first research-as-a-service for instant product insight. The on-demand service allows for line-by-line product breakdowns, enabling IT professionals to reduce the time spent identifying, collecting, sorting, filtering and rating business-to-business storage software and hardware products for consideration.
Tweet This: DCIG Launches First Interactive Buyers Guide for Buyers and Providers of IT Storage Products (http://www.dcig.com/ibg).
IT professionals today spend weeks or months collecting quantitative data about competitive products being considered to support IT requirements and solve business challenges. The volume of products and the process of review undertaken to analyze and determine the best selection limits an organizations ability to focus on important operational activities. Additionally, manual approaches to product analysis typically suffer because data becomes aged by several months before the actual selection process begins. With the introduction of the DCIG Interactive Buyers Guide, the process of vetting and selecting the optimal solution can be completed in minutes, providing objective, normalized and visually impactful analysis.
The IBG research-as-a-service (http://www.dcig.com/raas) delivered by DCIG performs apples-to-apples comparisons of competitive products along with analyst rankings for an unbiased review of the best available products based on site requirements. The Interactive Buyers Guide is updated regularly to provide timely purchasing and competitive sales research presented in an easy-to-use impactful format. Additionally, an innovative social networking feature allows users within the same company to safely share comments about products they are evaluating, competing with or purchased within an interface that contains regularly updated comparisons.
Features of the DCIG Interactive Buyers Guide include:
- Buyer and Seller Assessment (http://ibg.dcig.com/assessment) DCIGs unique data visualization interface allows anyone with basic computer skills to view, sort, filter, compare and print DCIG branded market data, returning weeks or months of staff time that would be spent researching new products.
- Multi-tenant social networking (http://ibg.dcig.com/social) The IBG features include a built-in commenting system so that users working at the same company can leave comments about the product for their colleagues.
- Build-a-Brief (http://ibg.dcig.com/brief) - Printable branded product comparisons highlighting shortlisted product comparisons for use in procurement, competitive evaluation and sales engagements
- Online Survey System (http://www.dcig.com/survey) Web-based terminal designed to collect and present information in a normalized and visually usable format.
- Authoritative Third-Party Validation - Objective ranking and analysis needed to support the vendor/product selection process.
Many challenges confront IT managers with respect to hardware and software selection. Chief among them is the time required to identify, sort and rank the best products for the intended IT environment. DCIGs Interactive Buyers Guide greatly reduces the resources required to conduct a thorough product review. The apples-to-apples comparison of all surveyed products as well as an independent analyst rating of each product from an end users view point is invaluable for buyers involved in product acquisitions, speeding time to deployment and limiting risk.
People do not want information gatekeepers, said Robert Woolery, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Condusiv Technologies. The DCIG Interactive Buyers Guide removes the barriers to comparative product insight, providing a collaborative presentation that features an innovative social networking interface with very useful filtering and decision enhancing data. This is what the web and social media have been about and DCIG nails it with their interactive portal of comprehensive product analysis.
Using the IBG, organizations for the first time have fingertip access to a compelling resource that delivers real world information in a format that is easily understood and actionable, said Jerome Wendt, Lead Analyst and Founder, DCIG. Now available, the IBG levels the playing field with vendors by putting users in the driver seat of research preparation using DCIGs view, filter and print research-as a-service model.
Pricing and Availability
The DCIG Interactive Buyers Guide is available immediately, providing data on midrange arrays, small enterprise storage arrays and early case assessment software. Upcoming Buyers Guides include Purpose Built Backup Appliances, Enterprise Cloud Storage and eDiscovery Review Software. Pricing starts at only $5,000 per seat for end-users, IT resellers and technology vendors.
- Blog: DCIG delivers research-as-a-service:
- Download the DCIG Interactive Buyers Guide data sheet (http://ibg.dcig.com/datasheet)
- View the DCIG corporate video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNNrQ50YydY)
About DCIG
DCIG analyzes software, hardware and services companies within the enterprise data storage and electronically stored information (ESI) industries and provides informed, insightful third party analysis and commentary. As industry experts, DCIG independently develops and licenses access to DCIG Buyer's Guides and the Interactive Buyers Guide to C-level executives, IT managers, systems and storage engineers and architects, storage vendors and cloud service providers. DCIG Buyer's Guides provide comprehensive, in-depth analysis and recommendations of products available for purchase in the various enterprise data storage and ESI spaces. To learn more, contact DCIG at 402-884-9594, firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.dcig.com.
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