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XO and Level3 are really the two largest providers of SIP Origination/Termination in the United States. Sure there are a lot of companies out there who resell both carriers products and claim to have the most traffic. In most cases a lot of companies do LCR between the two that I have mentioned. We will work with you on getting the traffic you need to meet the minimums. Go with the companies that will give you the best qualities. Everyone today wants to be the next Vonage- dont make the same mistakes, go with a company that has a large enough network to support high quality (PSTN Quality) voice over IP.
Lets talk more about how I can help you with your carrier needs. We do offer other TDM based and Commercial VoIP offerings that you might be able to use to offset the cost of doing business.
Most hosted IP providers use XO's extensive network coverage to provide point to point services to client locations that allow for hosting of PBX type services as well as access to the internet.
We have a great hub and spoke DS3 set up that has VERY low monthly charges- its perfect for serving up bandwidth to your clients and is very cost effective. Call or Email me today for more details!
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Origination provides reliable inbound access for carriers via the XO IP network. It enables qualified service providers to receive local telephone calls from remote XO markets, different from the XO market in which the provider is physically located. XO VoIP Origination can help:
- Eliminate capital expense associated with building a physical "POP"
- Create a national virtual presence or a local presence in a remote city or town
- Accelerate business expansion into new markets
- Reduce the need for Toll Free numbers for enhanced service applications
- Applications that qualify for VoIP Origination service include:
VoIP Telephony Applications (e.g. VoIP providers needing to assign telephone numbers to end-users)
- IP Fax Services
- Internet Service Providers
- VoIP Origination can be combined with XO VoIP Termination to provide a complete solution for carriers.
VoIP Origination provides:
- Inbound (originating) service from multiple markets
- Reliable Intercity transport network via the XO OC-192, MPLS-enabled IP backbone
- Local Number Portability via the XO VoIP Services Portal (Enhanced Service Provider Interface - ESPI)
- Directory Listing
- Caller ID with Name
- 500 DID's per market (38 Markets total coverage of US)
Inter-City service is delivered to the service location over the following access methods:
- Session Initiation Protocol ("SIP") Private Session Border Controller Access
- SIP Dedicated Internet Access into the XO IP network
- Time Division Multiplex ("TDM") via PRI, CAS, or SS7 signaling
See Areas of Coverage
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Termination provides reliable long distance connectivity for carriers via the XO IP network to terminate an IP-originated call to the Public Switched Telephone Network. It enables enhanced service providers to offer long
distance VoIP access to residential and commercial customers.
XO VoIP Termination can help:
- Connect your switch to the robust XO Sonus softswitch infrastructure
- Transport your end-users' interstate & intrastate long distance traffic over the high speed XO Tier 1 OC-192 IP backbone
- Provide access to the XO IP infrastructure and PSTN for carriers that own a feature server
- Eliminate the need to negotiate with multiple vendors or manage a variety of complex interconnection sites and contracts
Applications that qualify for VoIP Termination service include:
- VoIP Telephony ASP Applications
- Broadband end-user access
- IP Fax Services
VoIP Termination can be combined with XO VoIP Origination to provide a complete solution for carriers.
VoIP Termination provides:
- Connectivity from an IP network to the PSTN for terminating domestic long distance calls
- Nationwide interstate and intrastate termination (outbound) service
- Multiple interconnection options — both Session Initiation Protocol ("SIP") and Time Division Multiplex ("TDM")
- Reliable intercity transport via the vast XO IP backbone and Sonus infrastructure
- NPA NXX billing structure which enables aggressive pricing over LATA/OCN models
- All calls billed in six-second increments, with an initial six-second minimum
- Detailed usage reporting (hourly, daily, monthly)
- 24x7 customer and technical support
XO VoIP Termination provides wholesale network capabilities via multiple interconnection options, including:
- Private Ethernet Access into XO Session Border Controllers (FastE / GigE)
- Dedicated Internet Access into the XO IP Network
- Public Internet or "bring your own" access
- TDM interconnections can be supported as well (CAS, DS-1 / DS-3, SS7, PRI)
The facts
- Long Haul Statistics
- 16,000 route miles
- Eight core BLSR rings
- 32 long-haul POPs
- Metro Statistics
- 72+ Metro Market
- SONET, DWDM capable All Tied to the Long Haul
- Complete End to End Solutions
- Class 5 switches: 34 DMS 500 and 31 Lucent 5EES
- Redundant SS7 network
- 1,618 rate centers covered with DEOT and tandem trunking
- 108,000 NPA / NXXs covered via FGD network
- 90% of the US business population covered
- SONUS release 5.1.8
- Redundant Network Architecture
- G.711, 20 ms, no silence suppression (beter quality) Compression available end of quarter (06)
- ACME Session Director Release 1.2.1
- Low bit rate coding (G.729), T.38 and RFC 2833 planned for YE05
- G.729 is an 8 Kbps coding of voice traffic from 64Kbps
- T.38 ITU-Y recommendation defines Internet Facsimile protocol consisting of messages and data exchanged between Facsimile **Gateways using an IP network
- RFC 2833 RTP payload for DTMF digits, telephony tones and telephony signals, May 2000
- 1,000 originating Rate Centers (per May 2005 LERG summary)
- Integrated TDM and Packet-based Networks
- Integrated TDM and Packet-based Networks
- PSTN SS7 compliant network since 1994
- VOIP network since 2000
- SS7 CAS SIP protocols available
- Voice designed as the principal application on the XO network
- XO hybrid architecture provides customers proven TDM voice technology with the cost reduction and scalability associated with soft Switching technology
- TDM VOIP network allows customers of XO the opportunity to migrate voice and data services in an elegant manner
IP Network
- OC-192c IP network on the XO long-haul fiber infrastructure
- Inter-city: nine IP core nodes (Juniper)
- 12 OC-192c circuits
- Provide intercity IP transport and peering connectivity
- Metro: 62 POPs in 34 markets (Cisco)
- Dual uplinks to IP backbone from each market (OC-3C to OC-48c)
- Customer Internet access connections (DS-1 to OC-48)
- Traffic aggregation (VOIP gateways, Dial and DSL)
- Routing
- BGP is used to learn and advertise all XO customer & Internet routing destinations
- OSPF is used to advertise information about available network topology
- Customer can use status, RIP or BGP as required
- Data Center
- Various locations across the US
- XO Maintains Robust Peering Connections
- XO is fully peered
- XO can reach 100% of Internet destination through our public and direct interconnections
- XO does not use IP transit to reach any destination
- Overall: 50640 Mb capacity to XO peers
- Public: 8000 Mb active
- 8 GigE interfaces at PAIX, Equinix and NAP of America
- Direct: 42640 Mb active
- Interconnects via OC-3c to OC-48c, FastE and GigE
- Majority is OC-12c
Near Future Added Benefits
- Building new capacity to support up to (10) 10G waves between any two contiguous XO markets
- Ultimately, the system can support up to (40) 10G waves.
- The current estimated timeline has the first segments of the network being handed over to XO the beginning to middle of May with *Network augment completed by the end of August
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I have a general rule that if enough people tell you something, you need to listen.
So, whenever I'm looking at a product or service, and I'm down to a couple of solutions that fulfil the technical requirement, pricing and usability factor heavily in the decision.
I pretty much always try and get a trial and get people using whatever the product or service is to get their feedback on it.
If there's one thing that bugs me it's when you do this, people choose not to participate, you get good feedback from the ones who did so go with a particular solution, and then guess who suddenly appears like a prairie dog with an opinion all of a sudden....
Now I have no problem at that point saying "Sorry, you were asked for feedback, you chose not to give it, the decision has been taken", but I'm curious how you folks handle this kind of thing?
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Jun 12, 2012 at 12:27 UTC
I pretty much ignore them if they chose not to give me their feedback when it was initially requested. I'll be polite and thank them for their information, but ignore it. Sure, they'll bitch after the fact, but by then it's too late and I've always got the email trail to point out they failed to respond when they want to complain to the higher-ups.
Jun 12, 2012 at 12:48 UTC
1) Go to fish market
2) buy a whole fish
3) hit whiny user with fish
4) ?????
5) Profit
Or what Scott does.
Jun 12, 2012 at 12:50 UTC
I have enough to do during the day as it is, being harassed by every website, customer service rep, HR employee and general drone as to "how I rate this service". Is this really justified enough to warrant my spending another hour-hour/half just answering these damn questions? Did I call your boss to tell him what a worthless waste of oxygen you are? No? Then consider the job/task/product satisfactory enough for me not to waste my time complaining about it.
and yes, that was a rant and not personally directed at the OP.
Jun 12, 2012 at 1:05 UTC
In the past couple of years I have built forms on our website for staff to input, make choices, etc.
I place a link to the form on the website, and email that same link to all staff.
Some of them respond to every one, in the right time frame, and with good input.
Some, not so much.
I consider it part of my job to make the effort and deal with the data I do get.
I have mixed success with this process being seen as positive at higher levels.
Sometimes I think it's being suggested that I do more to get the responses, sometimes I think that's not what was meant.
Basically I'm going with the idea that if I don't ask for constructive input I won't get any.
Jun 12, 2012 at 1:31 UTC
We tried sending out surveys for customer satisfaction with no success. We knew the users didn't like a tech as they would complain regularly about the tech, but when given a survey, they didn't say anything. IMO they're a waste of time & resources.
Jun 12, 2012 at 4:01 UTC
I've found it helpful to actually interact with people for their feedback. Stop by their desk, ask them for 5 minutes. Fill out the form for them while you talk. You'll get better feedback that way too, because there's always something about a form and what you want that isn't clear (especially if you have 'number ratings', etc.)
This obviously doesn't scale to getting feedback from an extremely large number of people, but for 10 or so people involved in a trial it shouldn't be too much.
Jun 12, 2012 at 9:26 UTC
I use... conversation. Get people talking and you're bound to find out a lot of things. Personally I don't like surveys... a lot of them try to put words into your mouth, or they don't include any questions that let you say the things you actually wanted to tell them.
Also, people have this habit of talking about me in front of me or well within earshot (no, I'm not deliberately listening in) and that can be good feedback as well. If I hear "Man demo's cranky today" I take that as me needing to pull my horns in and maybe apologize to a few people if I've offended them, for example. Generally the office talk is positive, though.
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(Question:) Any further update on Reggie Jackson's return date?
(Keith) Langlois: He indicated Monday that he'd probably need at least one more practice session with the team and that might force Van Gundy to do something he – and pretty much every coach – rarely does: practice on Thursday after a back-to-back set at Charlotte and Boston. It wouldn't be a typical practice, but it has to be something that comes close to approximating an NBA game – some semblance of full-court, five-on-five basketball. He's been fully cleared medically to participate in everything the Pistons are doing in practice, so it's no longer a case of physical limitations from his Oct. 10 platelet-rich plasma injection in his left knee.
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Selected out of more than 1,100 applicants, Johnson will join about 200 student-athletes and NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients at the event, which goes until June 8.
Johnson, a three-year letterwinner with the Wildcats, is currently majoring in business management/human resources at Kansas State. Last year, the Grand Island, Nebraska native was named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team for the first time in her career while she was also tabbed to the Fall 2013 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll. She currently serves as a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative as well.
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The film titled 'Dr Cabbie' is a journey of a young Indian doctor who immigrates to Canada with the selfless ambition of healing others while beginning a new life.
Besides Isabella, the film also stars Kunal Nayyar of 'The Big Bang Theory' fame, American actress Adrianne Palicki and Vinay Virmani of '3G' fame.
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This article was published 12/3/2013 (1625 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The courts are gleaming and the nets are ready to be swished, as Manitoba prepares for its very own mini March Madness.
Starting Thursday, the University of Manitoba Investor's Group Centre will play host to the 2013 AAAA Provincial High School Basketball Championship semifinals. Four of the top girls' and boys' teams in Manitoba will go head-to-head to determine who goes through to the final matches, which are slated for Monday evening.
The girls' semifinals start at 6 p.m. on Thursday, with the boys' matches scheduled for Friday evening.
For Glenlawn centre Emily Potter, the provincials are a chance for one last hurrah with a team that she calls the closest she's ever seen. Potter, who stands 6-5, will be heading to the University of Utah this fall on scholarship to play Division 1 NCAA basketball.
It's a rare honour -- Glenlawn coach Bryan Kornberger can remember only six other young women since 1980 to have accomplished that feat -- but no surprise. Potter is, after all, a force to be beat: not only was she a key part of last year's championship team, but this season she led the Lions in scoring, rebounds, steals and blocked shots.
Still, even with that not-so-secret weapon and four returning players from that championship group in his line-up, Kornberger isn't letting his team take the semifinals lightly. The Lions will be taking on the Miles Macdonell Buckeyes on Thursday evening, and the teams split the two games they played during the season.
"It's anybody's game," Kornberger said, at a Tuesday press conference to launch the tournament. "We're excited about the opportunity of just getting to the final four, because a lot of teams never get here."
If they make it to the final two, they could be facing a tough rival. The Oak Park Raiders girls' team went to the finals the last three years, and is hungry for a fourth crack at the top spot. The Raiders, who went into the play-offs as the top seed, will face the fifth-ranked Sisler Spartans in their semi-final match on Thursday. The Raiders beat Sisler in all three match-ups this season.
On the boys' side, Garden City Fighting Gophers point guard Josh Magpantay is hoping to close out his career with a third trip to the final game. His team, the 2012 defending champions, came in second in his 2010 year.
The second-seeded Gophers will face the 11th-seeded Sturgeon Heights Huskies in the semifinal on Friday, but Magpantay isn't getting cocky about the big gap in placing. "For us, we don't really care about seeding," he said. "We're treating them like any other team. We just need to exert our offense."
Last year, Magpantay was named tournament MVP for his effort, and Gophers coach Phil Penner is looking to the 5-9 shooter to lead the team to a repeat. "The biggest thing is that the ball's in the hands of a guy who's been there, and has experience," Penner said.
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Blog spam tends to be a never ending, frustrating battle! It's like an infectious virus that just seems to spread out of control, and get worse over time. Using blogs to spread spam is a fairly "new" concept as far as spamming goes, mainly because blogging is a recent phenomenon. These spammers will do just about anything imaginable to try and get past filters to get their message across. Most of the time, Spammers use the commenting system a blog has in place to spread the spam.
Even the best filtering systems still miss every now and then. If it weren't for programs like Akismet, or Spam Karma, blogs would be filled with thousands of spam messages. I always wonder if spammers really think that people will click on the clearly off-topic, many times X-rated links that have nothing to do with the post which it's placed on, to even make their obnoxious efforts worth it.
eBiquity Group has released some stats on spam on the blogosphere, and really it comes as no surprise. It just verifies what most have known all along, spam within blogs is definitely alive and kicking furiously.
- 53% of all pings are spam
- 64% of all pings from blogs in English are spam
- 56% of all pinging blogs are spam
- MySpace is now the biggest contributor to the blogosphere
Also interesting is that out of all the pings that eBiquity processed, 51% of Blogspot blogs were spam. This obviously tells us that people are taking advantage of Blogspot and using it for purposes other than legitimate blogging. eBiquity also identified the top keywords that are associated with spam blogs. No surprise here– words like free, new, online, loan, insurance, big, and lawyer were some that appeared frequently.
All of this information was based upon 8.8 million pings on blogs between January 23rd and January 26th. Obviously, a long term study would probably provide more accurate numbers. Regardless, this gives us a good idea as to how spam affects the Blogosphere, and it's not looking good!
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The family owners of Portuguese plastics packaging firm Logoplaste are studying ways to finance its expansion, founder and Chief Executive Filipe de Botton told Reuters on Tuesday.
Five sources told Reuters that Logoplaste's owners have tapped Credit Suisse to explore options including a possible sale of the business, which has been valued by private equity suitors at around 650 million euros ($730 million), although de Botton said no sale was planned.
Logoplaste's product list includes bottles for the Lucozade and Jose Cuervo drinks brands, and for detergent Fairy liquid.
A handful of private equity funds have already submitted preliminary bids for the company, the sources said. Advent, CVC , PAI, Carlyle and Canada's Onex are all interested, one added, cautioning that no deal was certain.
Credit Suisse and Advent declined to comment. Carlyle, CVC, Onex and PAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Logoplaste is owned by the de Botton family. Filipe de Botton is a former banker and keen offroad vehicle racer who founded the company in 1976 with his father. The company manufactures rigid plastic packaging for companies, managing over 59 factories in 17 countries.
Packaging businesses are viewed as attractive investments by funds as they are seen having reliable cash flows being more immune to economic cycles than other sectors, since they are mostly driven by the food, drink and personal care industries.
De Botton said that Logoplaste's annual turnover was around 650 million euros and should rise above 1 billion euros in the next three or four years, but would not confirm or deny the valuation estimate provided by the sources.
"We have major expansion projects to double the size of the company in terms of turnover in the next few years. We do plan to stay in charge and in control. We are not going to list the company either. While I am shareholder it will not be listed as it can be quite expensive," de Botton said.
"What we are studying is several ways of financing our expansion and one of them is via high-yield bonds that could be offered to private equity firms. But that is just one possible option. We are also talking to our banks for direct loans and studying other options, but no sale of the company."
Logoplaste operates a "through the wall" concept, whereby it reduces costs by having its factories bottle the products next door to or within the sites where they were made, rather than transporting them to factories elsewhere.
Last year containers and packaging deals totalled $24.9 billion globally, according to Thomson Reuters data. One of the larger transactions saw Onex snap up Swiss packaging company SIG Combibloc Group for 3.75 billion euros.
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Even the Kansas City Streetcar Authority Inc. isn't immune to the government shutdown.
The nonprofit's board met Thursday in the shadow of a government shutdown and said that furloughs at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration are pushing back a few meeting dates but that, overall, the issue is not delaying project implementation or planning yet.
The meeting itself centered on a trip some members of the authority's board took to peer streetcar cities Portland and Seattle, which often are referred to as exemplars for other cities launching a streetcar project.
The meeting included 12 of the 13 members of the nonprofit's board: Chairman Tom Trabon of Trabon & Co.; Russ Johnson of the Kansas City Council; David Johnson of OneLouder Apps Inc.; Jeff Krum of Boulevard Brewing Co.; Michael Collins of the Port Authority of Kansas City; Michael Hagedorn of UMB Financial Corp.; Jon Copaken of Copaken Brooks; Teri Rogers of T2 Studios; Matt Staub of H&R Block Inc.; Nick Benjamin and Liz Serpa-Flook of The Cordish Co.; and Jim Miller of DST Realty Inc.
The meeting started with announcements about the authorities' ongoing projects. The board is close to issuing a request for proposals for a private operator to handle day-to-day operation, and Kansas City is close to finalizing an agreement with the streetcar operator.
As has been previously announced, the choices are the Siemens S70, manufactured by Siemens Industry Inc., and the CAF Urbos 3, manufactured by CAF USA Inc.
It was also announced that Mayor Sly James is expected to make a significant announcement in relation to the streetcar line Friday afternoon at a special event at the intersection of 19th and Main streets in the Crossroads Arts District.
The conversation then turned to the Pacific Northwest trip and how successful economic development efforts in peer streetcar cities may indicate what will happen next in Kansas City. Trabon led the discussion, which featured a photo essay of the streetcar systems' stops, rails, vehicle maintenance facilities and new residential and construction along the streetcar lines.
The Kansas City Business Journal's partner publication in Seattle, the Puget Sound Business Journal recently wrote an in-depth article about the massive "transit-oriented development" in the city.
Trabon pointed out that Seattle-based online retailer Amazon.com Inc. made a big investment in the streetcar system in Seattle. A similar investment, or downtown location, by one of the Kansas City-area's top companies would boost streetcar development efforts, he said.
Along with the benefits of economic development, the authority encountered a number of operational problems with the streetcar systems. There are issues with the vehicle maintenance facilities, Trabon said, and streetcar vehicles, though hardy and damage resistant, are subject to long wait times for repairs when something does break.
Because the number of streetcar systems is limited and the vehicle suppliers are diverse, most replacement parts have to be special-ordered and custom-machined. Additionally, the streetcar vehicle, which can plow through snow and ice, can be stopped by too many leaves building up in its wheel bay.
Trabon said both streetcar systems face issues with meeting circulation, or "headway," times. In the event that a streetcar is stopped, it can jam the entire system for hours on end. Both cities have trouble collecting fares for the streetcar, he said, and the fare collection systems are the most troublesome pieces of equipment in the systems.
Councilman Russ Johnson said Kansas City is making efforts to prepare itself to be able handle delays, such as giving the Kansas City Police Department authority to tow cars violating traffic laws on the streetcar line, and will be prepared to handle those issues when they arise. Johnson also said that Kansas City is much better prepared than other cities, as, he said, he was told by former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and current Secretary Anthony Foxx.
Otherwise, the authority briefly touched on expansion efforts. Public meetings along eight routes which are being considered for streetcar expansions are ongoing and run through Oct. 10.
Councilman Johnson said the early returns indicate that Kansas Citians do not want "jogs" off a main line and would prefer a straight-line system.
He also said many have said they want the streetcar, but they won't be taking it to work, which is in line with the city's expectations. Besides, economic development potential, not ridership, will be the most important criteria in judging expansion lines, he said.
"The stated goal of this project is economic development. That's the dominant goal," Johnson said. "The dominant goal is not to have a lot of people ride it. The dominant goal is to develop the city."


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Rhythmic gymnastics or ice hockey
Reason I ask is because the next movie disney is doing, is about how a girl and a guy switch sports, to see who has it tougher, the girl becomes the hockey player and the guy becomes the rhythmic gymnast.
They both look pretty tough, but i got to go with hockey, just because it's really physical, and can cause concussions or sometimes even death. i dont know if anybody has ever suffered concussions or died in rhythmic gymnastics
What's more difficult in your opinion (whether you've done either or not)?
Rhythmic gymnastics or ice hockey
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I know what movie you're talking about. The one with Dove Cameron. I see what you're saying about hockey, health wise, I think hockey would be tougher. However, in general, i think the rhythmic gymnastics would be harder because it's not like it's the same routine every time. For hockey, there's just one goal: get the puck thing in the net. You're also with a bunch of other people that have your back if you mess up. However with the gymnastics, you constantly have to come up with new routines. And from what I've seen, judges are extremely nit picky. So if you mess up even a little, you automatically lose points. And I'm pretty sure you're performing by yourself, so it's all on you. Plus you have to be able to do different tricks and stunts and be flexible. It just depends on how you look at it. As far as rhythmic gymnastics being dangerous, I'm sure you could trip and break your leg or something.00|00|0
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Interview: Ty Segall
The prolific musician on his new record, early influences and recording in Creedence Clearwater Revival's studio
At just 25 years old, Ty Segall's music career is already well beyond his years. With credibility among his fellow musicians, serious critical acclaim and production credits on more albums than you can shake an axe at, Segall always has a project in the works. Last year he released three full-length albums and seemingly didn't stop touring. Segall represents a welcome change in the contemporary approach to music, and it's one void of irony. He exudes optimism and approaches music positively, without a hint of jadedness. Essentially, he's happy to be doing what he loves and is good at it.
With a style ranging from Black Sabbath-inspired metal to '60s psychedelic rock to honest indie punk rock, Segall is bringing out a new sound with his latest album Sleeper released today, 20 August 2013, on Drag City. This LP is markedly more mellow than any of his previous efforts—with mostly acoustic guitars and string accompaniment calling to mind Harvest-era Neil Young.
Formerly based in San Francisco's garage rock scene, Segall spoke to us from his new home and studio in Los Angeles—closer to his hometown of Laguna Beach, his family and the surfing beaches he grew up on.
What are some of your early influences?
I listened to oldies radio stations as a kid; lots of Kinks and Beatles and '50s hits. There's this killer station in LA, K-EARTH 101, but it's not really that cool anymore. I mean, now oldies spans into the '80s. First it creeped into the '70s and they started playing disco—I love some disco, there's some great disco out there but it's not oldies. Then I got into classic rock like Cream and Creedence, then when I was 14 I got into punk. Eventually, I got really into the early '80s and late '70s New York dance music, the no-wave stuff and then sort of back into '60s psychedelic and garage stuff. It goes on and on.
Your music, especially Sleeper, sounds like something my dad would be listening to in his truck.
Whoa, thanks a lot, man. That's really rad. I'm really stoked on that. I guess I never really thought about it that way. It's mostly based on music I like—I'm really into old records. I like some modern music but that's not really where my head's at, you know? I'm into the older stuff.
What inspires you outside of music?
I've always been interested in the brain and human processes—things like human motivation and philosophy. As a kid I was pretty obsessed with existentialism and nihilism and all kinds of philosophical questions. It still drives a lot of my questions about life and what I want to get out of it. I'm inspired by novels, historical writing, my friends, the influences are endless.
You've recorded entire records, with multiple instruments, by yourself. What's that like?
It's really cool. You can start and stop whenever and however you want to. It's good and bad to have this really open-ended way of working. I mean you can work on something too long and kill the joy and the vibe. You've got to find a middle ground and keep going. Sleeper was recorded in my old room in San Francisco and it was really weird to wake up and just start working on it. It's easy to do though. I mean if you have a few hours, you can record a bunch whenever you want. If it's what you love to do, you find time.
I mean, I know people who aren't into recording and want to play shows all the time, but for me, it's what I love to do. I'm stoked to do it and it's not a huge undertaking. What's cool is you can start from scratch and make it different over time. You can start with drums or guitar or whatever. Then add to it and make it how you want it. On Sleeper I did everything myself except for the strings and I did it all in my bedroom.
I can't believe you recorded this in your bedroom, it's got so much depth.
Thanks a lot, man. That's another thing about recording yourself at home. Lots of cool things can happen. I mean, I misplaced mics a few times and then listened to it back and really liked how it turned out. If I was in a studio that wouldn't happen and it wouldn't have the same sound.
For Twins Eric [Bauer] and I recorded it at his house along with Goodbye Bread and Melted, he does the sound engineering and I mixed them. With Twins we tried something different. We recorded it at his house then we listened to it and said, "What can we do to make it better?" So we completely recorded it again and called it Twins. Instead of mixing it at his house we took it to Berkeley, and mixed it with Creedence's old gear at a studio they always used. It was basically a few of us and this insanely old gear. It's not even hard to use. A lot of people use computers for everything now and the sound can be really boring. You've gotta sweat for it man.
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My other band Fuzz has an LP coming out in October; a single comes out the same day, then I'm going to tour around Europe and the US. I'm working on another record as well. I'm really taking my time. I don't want to rush my next record. I'm gone a lot of the time so I'm trying to catch up with friends and family at night and record at home during the day. I just moved from San Francisco back to LA. My friend and bandmate Mikal [Cronin] has a new record out, MCII; it's really rad, you should check out.
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Organization: Mercy Corps
Project Name: PEPFAR Safe Work, Life Skills and Market Connections to Decrease HIV Risk for Young Women (SKY) Project
Duty Station: Gulu, Lira, Oyam, Uganda
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Mercy Corps is an International non-profit organization that has been operating in Uganda since 2006 and works to catalyze change makers within the Ugandan private sector, civil society and government to create economically dynamic, healthy and secure communities. Our works focus on building resilience and enable economic growth, improve opportunities to attain better health and nutrition, and improved governance and conflict management. We implement programs in the northern districts of Pader, Kitgum, Agago, Lamwo, Kaabong, Abim and Kotido with funding from USAID, USDA, Walmart Foundation, SDC, DFID as well as other private donations.
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Mercy Corps received funding for a two-year PEPFAR DREAMS program, Cultivating Safe Work, Life Skills and Market Connections to Decrease HIV Risk for Young Women (SKY) seeking to address the growing rate of HIV/AIDS among young women (ages 19 -24) who engage in transactional sex in the Gulu, Lira and Oyam Districts. SKY will reduce 4,500 young women's reliance on transactional sex by providing them the skills, confidence and connections needed to achieve steady employment.
Job Summary: The Finance Officer is responsible for assigned field office finances, compliance, budget monitoring, reporting, resources management, coordination with others, etc. The incumbent is also tasked with the updating and tracking all assets and finance files. He/she ensures segregation of duties; procedures are respected as per MC policies.
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· Ensure all respective donors and local Gov't rules and regulations are respected;
· Ensure compliance with GAAPs, Ugandan and US law and standard accounting practice;
· Responsible for monitoring costs as per the available grant and budget details and monthly budgets vs actual reports;
· Provide on-going orientation, training and support to SKY program activities;
· Keenly review and track all grants/budget purchases and contracts and other commitments for the office;
· Provide financial review for all advances, purchase requests, quotation analysis, purchase orders, expense report, payment requests and others within his/her limit;
· Code all expenditures following the standard chart of accounts, coded budget and record to the accounting software or recording system and send to main office for review and posting every week;
· Match invoices with GRN and other required documents;
· Prepare weekly and monthly cash requirement for the office, send to main office and make sure sufficient cash is available for the office;
· Manage cash and bank payments, record them and reconcile with bank statements and cash counts;
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· Reconcile bank balances with bank statement, all advances and send to main office with month end transactions and report;
· Ensure all field level income taxes, withholding taxes, VAT and other taxes are withheld and paid accordingly;
· Actively participate in preparation of operating and grant budgets;
· Make frequent site visits and work with the program team for physical check and to ensure payments are being made accordingly and procurements are properly made whenever necessary;
· Maintain all donor files and ensure they are well labeled, fully updated with all contracts, submitted reports, governing clauses and all other relevant documents;
· Be adaptable and flexible to take new tasks and new assignments as requested from time to time;
· Carry himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission;
· Perform any other tasks to be assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps Finance Officer job opportunity should a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in accounting or finance is required.
· At least four years' experience in grants and financial management and accounting.
· A minimum of three years international NGO/PVO experience is preferred.
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Deadline: 17th October, 2016
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Did you ever wake up one day and realize that you invested many years in a friendship that you finally realized was very one sided. Meaning you were there and treated and gave of your self as as a true friend and realized in the end when were they ever there for you when you needed someone.
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I am not nor is my family a doormat to be walked all over and then treated harshly like that. How on earth is that deserved after everything that was done for this person. How sad it is that they needed to act that way. This person took the only family that was there in time of need when their own family couldn't or wouldn't be there! How sad. This person continued to play games by not even talking like two adults and kept things going though emails and text messages. I would want to talk talk on the phone or meet face to face. Finally says yes we will sit down and meet and talk and then lied about that as well. Why act like that?
I am just happy my life is finally rid of such a toxic relationship. Toxic relationships from people who just take all the time for their own selfish purpose and never give back of themselves. This is who this person was and I put up way too long listening to all the drama when I should have been running the other way. It's like you get sucked in and finally one day you come to a realization that they really never were there for you and you were the one always doing for them. I am happy to move on and have people in my life who's relationships I value and they value mine. They give of themselves wholeheartedly and I give back the same.
Relationships begin, they sometimes grow into something wonderful and sometimes you out grow that person and sometimes they change and come to and end. I know for me it is finally a good end and I have positive caring people who will be there and care about me and I can do the same!
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Last night I made a comment that Vista has been leaked and it appears that it is true. Since then I have received a flood of emails linking to torrents and others that all link to what is referred to as the "Bill Gates" version of Vista. I'm not gonna post any torrent links because Microsoft doesn't look kindly on that but it's out there and you don't have to look very hard.
At the time I didn't feel it was necessary to make a post about Vista being leaked but now I have also received a flood of emails saying that Vista is already cracked. It looks like that is also true and the instructions can be found on the torrent networks. They require you to perform a few different steps so it isn't as easy as a download-and-run crack but it should only take a few minutes of your time.
There has also been a lot of talk about Office 2007 being leaked as well but I haven't taken the time to scope that out yet. I'm still in awe that, if the crack actually works in Vista, it only took someone less than 24-hours from it being leaked to break it! I think Microsoft needs to get some hardcore hackers on their security team because it should definitely take longer than a day.
Thanks to everyone who sent me an email on this!
Please don't post any RapidShare/Torrent links in the comments because I'll have to remove them. :|


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Edward Raymond Müller, 23 June 1911, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 6 April 1991, Van Nuys, California, USA. Miller began playing clarinet as a child and in his early teens played in street bands. Before he was 17 years old he was on his way to New York where he played with several bands, including that led by Julie Wintz which had the unenviable task of playing opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom. While on this engagement, Miller met Hendersons star tenor saxophonist, Coleman Hawkins, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. By this time Miller had also taken up the tenor and in 1930, at the age of 19, joined Ben Pollacks band where he remained until its break-up in 1934. A founder member of the co-operative group that became known as the Bob Crosby Orchestra, Miller was one of the leading soloists of the band and played an important part in its huge success.
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Montgomery County to use state grant to bolster Public Defender's Office
Chronically overworked Montgomery County public defenders will get some help in the coming months thanks to a grant from the state Office of Indigent Legal Services.
The county Board of Supervisors last week approved the spending of more than $111,000 in grant funding. Lead Public Defender William Martuscello said his office will use the money over three years to hire a staff investigator.
"The district attorney can just call up law enforcement agencies and request certain investigations," he said. "We can't do that."
Currently, he said, investigators are hired on a case-by-case basis out of a very limited budget. Often, he said, his attorneys end up gathering information and conducting interviews on their own.
"We had to be very picky about which cases required further investigation," he said.
With someone on staff, he said, clients will get a better defense and the attorneys won't be as pressed.
"The idea is to ease up on their workload," said Root Town Supervisor John Thayer, the board chairman. "Our public defenders have a lot to do these days. This way, they won't have to do their own investigations."
Martuscello said he and five assistant public defenders handle 600 criminal cases a year and another 200 Family Court disputes.
"We handle more cases every year," he said. "When I was growing up, armed robberies, shootings, drug busts, they happened in Albany. Now they happen here."
The most recent grant is the second from the Office of Indigent Legal Services. The first came earlier this year, allowing the office to hire a second attorney for Family Court matters. Before that, Richard Weinheimer handled every child custody or domestic abuse case to hit the Public Defender's Office.
"I was working 70 hours a week before that first grant," he said, "and the criminal public defenders often had heavier case loads."
It's a busy job, apparently getting busier all the time. Weinheimer said when he started in 1991, there were between 70 and 80 Family Court cases a year. The caseload has more than doubled in two decades since then, and he said it's even worse on the criminal side of the Public Defender's Office.
"I think it's because we have the Thruway right down the middle of the county," he said. "If someone gets busted with drugs driving from New York City to Buffalo, we handle that case."
Thayer had a less complex explanation for the increased public defender workload.
"Seems to be more and more people are breaking the law every year," he said.
Without the extra grant funding from the Office of Indigent Legal Services, Weinheimer said, the office's ability to provide legal defense would suffer. He said the function is largely out of the public eye, and as such many county public defender's offices are underfunded and overworked.
"People don't think about public defenders until they're in need of our services," he said.


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Dr. C.R. Gibbs presents "A Season of Splendor: DC Emancipation and the First Black Vote in the Nation's Capital, 1862-1867."
Emancipation Day 2017
Emancipation Day festivities will be held on April 8, 2017. These include the parade at 1 pm, the concert at Freedom Plaza at 3 pm and fireworks at 9 pm.
What is Emancipation Day?
The DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 ended slavery in Washington, DC, freed 3,100 individuals, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and men money to emigrate. It is this legislation, and the courage and struggle of those who fought to make it a reality, that we commemorate every April 16, DC Emancipation Day.


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The mainstream media is constantly saying that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is so controversial that many Republicans will switch sides and vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election. What happened this past weekend, however, shows this is not the case at all.
Newsmax reported that many Democrats and Independents showed up to support Trump at the candidate's appearance Sunday at Rolling Thunder, the annual gathering of motorcycling veterans at the Lincoln Memorial.
"I'm a Democrat and I'm voting for Trump," said Roger Rollins, a U.S. Army veteran who came from Clarksburg, West Virginia, for Rolling Thunder. Though he is a Democrat, Rollins admitted that he did not vote for Obama in 2012. According to Conservative Tribune, Rollins also said that he "didn't like either of the Bushes, and I don't want Hillary Clinton. I don't trust her at all."
Though he voted for Bill Clinton, Rollins said Obama "killed the coal business" and engaged in "too much s*** overseas." He added that Trump, "will straighten things like this out."
Bill Medina, another Democrat who once voted for Jimmy Carter and Clinton, agreed with this.
"Trump is a billionaire, and no one is going to buy him," Medina said.
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"The economy needs to operate differently so we won't lose jobs," Medina, a former defense plant employee, said. "Trump understands this. And he'll balance the budget so there is money to protect our shores."
Alan Jones, an Independent from Nashville who also attended the event, said he plans to vote for "whoever I think will do the best job." When asked if he would vote for Trump, he replied, "Yes, in part because Hillary Clinton is a big liar. I liked her husband a lot more than I like her!"
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This article was published 19/12/2012 (1708 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg will see a bit more snow today before the sun comes out for the rest of the week.
Environment Canada is forecasting a steady temperature of -10C throughout the day, and light flurries are expected until the evening.
The highs should stay around -10C for Thursday and Friday, but lows will dip toward -20C. Both days are forecast to be sunny.
By the time the weekend rolls around, the highs will likely fall to around -15C, though no more snow is expected at this time.