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ROSTA History
|Worldwide patent
The ROSTA rubber suspension unit was patented in 1942. The motive for its development was the simplification of the wheel suspensions used at that time in trailor manufacture. With its very compact construction, the ROSTA rubber suspension unit combined the three functions of "bearing, suspension and shock absorption" in a single component.
|Rubber suspension axles
For many years, ROSTA AG concentrated on making use of the patent on the utilisation of the rubber suspension element as a space-saving independent suspension for trailer axles. These maintenance-free, insensitive suspensions with their long service life were designed for loadings from 250 kg to 5,000 kg.
|Machine components
From around 1960, this unique suspension concept also found applications in general mechanical engineering. As tensioning and pressure elements in chain and belt drives, for the suspension of screens and conveyor troughs in the processing of foodstuff, and as rotary suspensions for the seats of school chairs, etc.
|Standardisation becomes essential!
Every new application of the rubber suspension elements in mechanical engineering was carried out on the basis of a special customer-specific design. Immediate delivery was therefore not possible. From 1970, however, components were standardised for the major application areas.
The manufacture ROSTA rubber suspension axles in Hunzenschwil started with just a handful of vehicle fitters. This production accounted for almost 100% of the company output in the Fifties. It was only the entry into the machine component business that opened up the world markets for ROSTA rubber suspension elements.
Today, ROSTA AG exports approximately 87 % of its products. The main markets are Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the USA, Japan, Australia and South Africa. The sale of rubber suspension components takes place through three own-branches and 37 agencies.


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IT'S not often I find myself saying, "Are you sure I'm fat enough for you?" However, I've agreed to do Fat Club, or Celebrity Fit Club to give it its proper title, and I now find myself apologising all over the place.
I'm saying sorry to the director and sorry to the other participants and sorry to just about everyone who remarks that I don't look heffalumpy enough. So, let me say sorry to Western Mail readers too.
No, I'm not one of those neurotic pipe cleaner women who think if they eat a grape they have to run five miles to work it off. I don't like them either. I am an averagely wobbly woman who hasn't quite shifted the baby weight. I may not look huge, but that's because I wear a lot of black - 15 years in the fashion industry isn't for nothing, you know.
To put the record straight, at five foot tall I weigh ten and a half stone. You wouldn't want me to fall on top of you in a high wind. I have weighed two stone less than I do now. Actually, I have weighed almost four stone less, but I think that's called an eating disorder.
Anyway, the diet starts in January. I am slightly dreading being weighed every week in front of the nation, not to mention Harvey, the fitness fascist, and then there's Freddie Starr. Yes, he's on, too. How much of a nightmare is he going to be? I promise to bring you all the behind-the-scales gossip.
In the meantime, I had a photo-shoot with all the others this week and I felt like Twiggy which, after a teenage spent as the fat friend, I have to admit was rather pleasant. On the way back from the photo-shoot, I read certain comments made by Michelle McManus, who may or may not win Pop Idol on Saturday night. Michelle is 15 stone. This is a fact that is mentioned whenever she is. Yet, she says, "I feel good about myself and I never get upset with my size." On the one hand you want to applaud Michelle. On the other you think: what a pile of old codswallop.
There isn't a woman alive who is completely happy with her body. When you're 15 stone, it is stretching credulity, not to mention your waistband, to feel that way. At my heaviest I have been 13 stone so I am not being bitchy, just realistic.
Being plump is difficult. Clothes don't look as good, teenage boys make fun of you in the street and people assume you are a lazy slob who stuffs donuts and hasn't had sex since 1982.
To be fair to Michelle, she is probably feeling the strain of being the token fat woman on Pop Idol, Well, apart from that girl on Who's Been Framed, Michelle is the only fat girl on TV.
She has had a placard thrust into her hand which reads 'fat and proud' and she has to keep smiling.
To admit that you are overweight and hate it is to appear desperate and sad and like one of life's losers, not winners.
Back when I was wearing size 18/20, if someone had offered me a pill which would have made me lose three stone immediately, I'd have bitten their hand off at the wrist. Can Michelle really feel any different?
TV should provide female role models in a variety of dress sizes. This is part of freeing everyone from trying to emulate unattainable standards. However, if in the cause of this, we force larger celebrities to conceal their true feelings then we are being hugely unfair to them. I'd like to be 20lb thinner. I invite Michel McManus to admit something similar.

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The market for PC/104 family boards was US$ 248.4 million in 2007 and projected at US$ 262.7 million in 2008 according to the latest embedded stackables research from VDC Research Group, released last month. Actual 2007 dollar shipments of PC/104 family boards were 5.7% lower than had been projected in VDC's most recent prior PC/104 study, published in 2006. This may be, in part, due to a delay in the release of a standard covering use of PCI Express as a module-to-module interconnect. This delay may have slowed PC/104 growth in high-end applications over the past two years. Ultimately, the PC/104 Consortium issues a set of specifications generically called PCI/104-Express (including PCI/104-Express and PCIe/104), while a new body, SFF-SIG, issued a somewhat different standard called Express104. Both have the potential for success.
The PC/104 family comprises several relatively small, fragmented niche markets. The architecture is often used in highly specialized applications where customization, quality, and satisfying the application requirements are paramount, even more important than price. Leading vendors are often relatively small and very focused, successful through being "in sync" with their customers. Larger, more diverse suppliers also compete successfully in this marketplace by utilizing similar tactics.
Of the established PC/104 family architectures, PC/104-Plus shows the highest projected growth, replacing traditional PC/104. Both suppliers and users recognize the inadequacies of the old ISA bus, and are moving toward the faster PCI bus. However, many prefer to retain the ISA bus as well because of its backward compatibility with legacy expansion modules. For this reason projected growth of PCI-104 is substantially lower than that of PC/104-Plus.
The new PC/104 Express category (including PCI/104-Express, PCIe/104, and Express104) is projected to show a very high growth rate. However, it is pointed out that base year 2007 shipments of these were very small (approximately US$ 0.4 million). Thus, even a modest actual increase in revenue may result in a significant rate of growth.
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Is your bathroom a wash? Matt Muenster has you covered. Join the host of the DIY Network's hit shows Bath Crashers and BATHtastic! at the Downtown Raleigh Home Show, September 5-7, 2014. Don't miss Matt's stage presentations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Get some valuable bathroom renovation tips and ideas. Not only is Matt's design style environmentally-friendly, he has great advice for renovating on a budget. But first, let's get to know the man behind the hammer. Check out our interview with Matt below!
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Marketplace Events (MPE): Describe your design style in five words or less.
- Matt Muenster (MM): "Thoughtful, clean lines, modern simplicity."
- MM: "Washing dishes at a supper club in Green Bay WI. And coaching little league for 8/9 year olds."
- MM: "In season 2 we a met a family with a son who was in a wheel chair – best reveal ever – it gave us a great sense of giving back and making a difference. Also, designing an accessible bathroom that was functional and beautiful."
- MM: "I'm not a fan of the glass bowl vessels that sit on top of counter tops; they are hard to clean and not functional."
- MM: "I bought 17 or 18 old doors – massive beautiful doors in St. Paul – the plan is to cut them up and panel-ize a wall in my house to create wall art."
- MM: "I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, we were fixing things constantly. I added a bathroom to my first house before my career started."
- MM: "Plan for storage, recess storage. Bathrooms don't usually have good storage areas, so plan for easy-to-create storage to put things away."
- MM: "The best show is when the camera is not filming – my favorite part of my job is getting to the set and seeing my friends – probably a cement dump that went awry."
- MM: "Take care of luxuries and the needs will take care of themselves. When you are thoughtful in design, you are creating space that is beautiful as well as functional; it is all about family and that always comes first."
Make sure to catch Matt at the Downtown Raleigh Home Show.
And remember to grab your tickets online now, for the best deals.
We can't wait to see you at the show!
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We can't wait to see you at the show!
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When Sydney Gholston entered a Kentucky Walmart to purchase six turkeys, she never expected to meet and talk to actor Jon Voight.
Gholston, who works for the Home of the Innocents in Louisville was at Walmart to buy turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner for at-risk children in the facility.
She told ABC News she was in line at the register when a man behind her said, "You must have a big family. That's an awful lot of turkeys."
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When Gholston told Voight she worked for the Home of the Innocents and explained the reason for the turkeys, he told her he wanted to pay for the turkeys.
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News of the encounter was posted on the home's Facebook page where many people responded to the "act of kindness" put forth by Voight.
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Another wrote, "That is an awesome act of kindness. Makes one grateful that there is good people out there. Now let's do our part and show acts of kindness!!!!"
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Horse Anatomy by lvito00Watch
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This is another class project. The bones and muscles and the realistic drawing.
Great job!!!
Very realistic, detailed, beautiful and useful!!!
Very realistic, detailed, beautiful and useful!!!
another interesting drawing to take in!
Great work ! There're interesting details which could help to draw
Very interesting
wow, this is really good - good to know and good to learn sth! hopefully i could use it one day...
Nice proportions and I like how you lay out the entire anatomy.
Wow! this is def realistic, so much detail! great job!
Amazing skills! And really interesting suject as well. Its always important to know muscles and ones when drawing, so this could be very helpful
Impressive work!
Where do you get reference to make a good animal interior like this? Google?
Very nice anatomy study!
Very awesome! First time I've seen a good breakdown of animal anatomy!
Wow, nice *____* Love the detail~
helpful, I'm glad you made this.
Nice job That was a bit unexpected but I find it really useful and also well drawn. Thumbs up
This is beautiful. The amount of detail you put in this is amazing!
Why are we not funding this?
looks great!
wow this is really detailed! I love that you didn't do a simple standing pose but somethign much more challenging very good!
Wow hope you got an A
Great work!
This is incredibly well done.
very cool, very da vinci
if you could some time and take a look at my images that would be GREAT !!!
Oh this is great. Anatomy is always a great thing to learn and I haven't exactly got the best horse anatomy. lol.
Like Da Vinci himself; the details are so eye-catching, and the scientific standpoint makes it more interesting.
You could design a illustrated manual for the mammals anatomy. Hahaha! It's good looking!
This is awesome, both informative and fantastic to look at.
Awesome D!~
Wonderful and incredibly helpful! Do you do this with or without reference? O.o
I studied anatomy of the horse using other images of bones and muscles and after understanding it I was asked to do this. thanks i'm glad you like it
This is so professional, but so medieval.
It looks like something one would see in a medieval veterinarian's office. XD
This is very helpful, a lady at work wants me to draw a horse for her so any anatomy help I can find is great. Wonderfully done!


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AFTAs 2016: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Trumid Financial
Trumid takes home the win in the category's inaugural year.
The industry is saturated with various kinds of trading platforms, so in order to stand out among the crowd, a vendor needs to constantly be looking for ways to be innovative and provide benefits to users.
Trumid Financial has done just that in the corporate bond trading space with its latest offering, Trumid Market Center, which focuses on the user experience. The platform is built specifically for trading protocols native to corporate bonds, as opposed to a number of competing platforms, which are ostensibly equity trading platforms repackaged, repurposed and released under different names.
The ability to create a product geared to meet the direct needs of corporate bond traders comes from the New York-based vendor compiling a team that has deep knowledge of the industry, according to Mike Sobel, president of Trumid.
"Our team spent decades transacting in this market, and this experience allows Trumid to collaborate with our users to build a platform that fits into their workflow and lets them trade what they want, when they want," Sobel says.
The focus on user experience has been a major goal of Market Center since its creation. Sobel says the firm recently introduced a number of new interface and protocol features aimed at addressing the idiosyncrasies of the credit market.
Those features include offering Swarms on Demand, which allows users to initiate Swarms (trading sessions that launch when compatible orders exist) on approximately 32,000 corporate securities. The firm has also added a Likelihood to Trade Score (LTS) that helps traders find bonds that seem likely to be traded in the near term.
The firm's network of users weighs in at almost 300 buy-side and sell-side firms. It took just over a month for Market Center, which was launched in July 2016, to hit $1 billion in volume traded.
However, all the features in the world don't matter if the platform doesn't have buy-in participation from end-users. That hasn't been a problem for Trumid, even in its early days. The firm's network of users weighs in at almost 300 buy-side and sell-side firms. It took just over a month for Market Center, which was launched in July 2016, to hit $1 billion in volume traded.
And while the firm has shown early signs of success, Trumid gives no indication of slowing down its drive to address customers' needs.
"Since the company's initial launch in April 2014, Trumid had been focused on bringing our technology fully in-house, increasing functionality, flexibility, and ease-of-use," Sobel says. "We learned a lot through analysis and collaboration with our clients to ensure the new platform meets and anticipates their needs."
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The only thing that will bring about alterntive energy is higher taxes. Anne Applebaum:
Let me be clear: I do not doubt the reality of climate change. I have long accepted that human use of fossil fuels has caused it, and I agree that great efforts should be made to reduce carbon emissions, as well as our politically risky dependence on oil and gas. But I do doubt the wisdom of assuming that eight or 10 politicians will ever solve this problem during a meeting at a conference center, in Italy or any other country. I also question whether even several hundred politicians — plus their scientific advisers, assorted environmentalists and lobbyists — will solve this problem at the Copenhagen climate super-summit scheduled for December. At that time, the original signatories of the Kyoto Protocol are supposed to renew their vows and the U.S. delegation is supposed to bow its head and rejoin the club. If everyone can agree, new emissions targets will be set. They will be as unenforceable as the emissions targets we have now.
The truth is that carbon emissions will not be reduced by international bureaucrats, however well-meaning, sitting in a room and signing a piece of paper. They will not be reduced by public relations campaigns or by Oscar-winning documentaries. Above all, they will not be reduced by a complex treaty that neither the United Nations nor anyone else can possibly supervise, particularly not a treaty that effectively punishes those countries that abide by it and ignores everyone else. They can, however, be reduced by the efforts of entrepreneurs such as Pickens. If he and others can find economically viable ways to produce clean energy, then the problem will solve itself without the aid of a single international conference. To put it another way: The first solar power billionaire will have many, many imitators.
American politicians who really care about climate change — I'm assuming this includes our president, as well as a majority in Congress — should skip the summits and instead ask themselves why the oil and gas prices that started rising a couple of years ago (creating a boom in alternative-energy research) have once again dropped to an artificial low. Why artificial? Because the price of fossil fuels has never reflected their true cost, either environmental or political. It doesn't reflect the cost of the U.S. military presence in the Middle East. It doesn't reflect the cost of treating asthma. And it certainly doesn't reflect the cost of rescuing bits of the coast of Florida that will be submerged by rising sea levels. Raise the taxes on fossil fuels to reflect those costs, and Pickens's project, along with many others, will once again be viable.
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Unanswered: -27001 Read error occurred during connection attempt many users
I am using Informix Dynamic Server 7.3 UC2 on SCO Openserver 5.
We keep getting -27001 Read error occurred during connection attempt error messages every couple of days.
I am read in de above question/answers, but i don't have de next line in my onconfig file.
NETTYPE tlitcp,1,20,NET # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype
I think we doesn not have sufficient poll threads. We have about 100-200 people who access the informix database.
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In more and more parts of the world, today's young people are the first generation to have lived their whole lives in a digitally connected world. Growing up with the internet provides young people with access to a great educational resource; fosters their social connectedness; and enables them to participate on a global scale, helping to develop informed and engaged citizens of the world.
However, though access to the internet can empower children, it also exposes them to new challenges, such as the invasion of privacy and cyberbullying. A study by the Cyberbullying Research Center shows that one out of every four teenagers has experienced cyberbullying at some point in their lifetimes, and about one out of every six teenagers has done it to others.
Balancing young people's online safety with their use of digital media to fully enact their rights is a priority if we expect young people to flourish in the digital age. But how do we create a safe and empowering online experience for young people around the world?
Collaboration and consultation with young people
Young people have a critical role in helping us to understand how we can make their online experience more empowering and safer through legislation, advocacy, policymaking and the like. Consultations with young people enable us to be more responsive to their needs.
RErights.org is a collaboration between Western Sydney University and the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre in Australia, in partnership with UNICEF's Voices of Youth and Digitally Connected. This youth-centred platform invites young people to explore how their rights relate to their use of digital media and technologies like computers, the internet and mobile devices.
This year, RErights.org has teamed up with ITU's Child Online Protection (COP) initiative to launch the 'Operation Uncool' consultation. Young people from around the world will be asked to respond to a series of quick and fun tasks, such as completing short quizzes and responding to a series of scenarios. By inviting young people to share their ideas and experiences, we aim to understand how young people define, perceive and respond to unkind online behaviours such as cyberbullying.
Balancing young people's protection, provision and participation rights in relation to digital media is a complex task. A consultation of this kind will encourage young people to participate in exploring, defining, and enacting their rights in the digital age. Operation Uncool will allow us to channel young people's opinions and concerns to relevant stakeholders so they can reflect young people's needs in policymaking.
We want to give as many young people as possible from all around the world the chance to participate! Spread the word about Operation Uncool on RErights.org through your networks to ensure that your country's next generation is being heard. If your organization is interested in running a workshop with young people to get them engaged in RErights.org and Operation Uncool, you can visit the RErights workshop page for more details.
NOTE FROM ITU: The outcomes of the consultation will be summarized into a report and then presented at the meeting of ITU Council Working Group on Child Online Protection which will take place on 10 October 2016 at ITU Headquarters, Geneva.
Amanda Third
Associate Professor Amanda Third is Principal Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of young people's technology use, with particular emphases on children's rights in the digital age, the intergenerational dynamics shaping technology practice, and vulnerable young people's technological engagements.


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The case against being taken for granted by Jordanian-ish establishments (Second installment): Zain Jordan
I have previously written about Zain, or the entity it used to be "Fastlink", those who know me, and know my background usually dismiss my critique as being subjective and impartial. Never the less, I have a valid case to present and here's my humble yet pyroclastic flow:
The Promiscuous "Free Minutes"
I will start with the dishonest offers and terminology convention Zain adopts, where the term "free" is used and abused over and over again with no restrictions or restraints from the TRC (the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission); as Zain offers "free" calling minutes to a preset super numbers against a fixed charge.
But in reality, the term "free" does not work will when there is a monthly or weekly charge, because the customer have paid for this "free" minutes, and "free" can't be paid for by definition, the proper industry term is "bundled minutes", and the importance of this term comes when the customer actually stop being a sheep and read the "fair usage policy" of the said offer, where Zain state the weekly maximum allowance of "free minutes".
Then comes the illicit technical measures that Zain take systematically to tackle customers who may "abuse" the free minutes offer, such as preempting (disconnecting) lengthy calls to avoid customers using their mobile phones as baby monitors for instance (such cases where recorded). Although it's an accepted practice for mobile operators to take similar measures even if the call was billed (not free) when it exceeds 2 or 3 hours in length as a fraud-protection measure.
In my humble and blunt opinion, Zain shouldn't offer something it is incapable of whether technically or commercially, and instead of resorting to illicit (and probably illegal) technical measures or commercial manipulation to shunt the drastic effects of heavy usage due to the incorrect use of the term "free", they should try to be more honest and openly cap the usage under straightforward terminology such as "bundled minutes" or whatever creative terminology that comes along with psychedelic colours and wonderful-world themes!
Similarly, under corporate offers the term "free" is used to describe the unlimited or bundled CUG (Closed User Group) calls made within the same account of a given company, in which a company pay an "extra" fee on top of the monthly charge to have unlimited calling between its employees. The proper term again is definitely not "free", one can't buy "free" stuff, "free" is given for free, but one can buy "bundled" minutes.
To the discredit all other operators and the TRC (along with Zain), "Free minutes" is everyone's whore… but two or three wrongs don't do a right, and as an acclaimed industry leader; Zain should "lead" the industry and trail behind cheap and dishonest communication techniques.
Blunt corporate sales
This is the least that could be said about the four ecorporate sales encounters I had with Zain personnel in the past year, twice was me approaching them, and twice I was approached; actually stalked by the Zain personnel.
The most visible trait across all four encounters was an arrogant display of unjustified superiority as a market leader, sometimes to the point where I no longer felt I'm a prospective customer who's appreciated, but rather a dodgy s-list who is trying to linger into the mighty Zain lounge while not observing the proper attire.
Despite the fact that in my second encounter, I was representing an account of 400 potential lines with an expected growth into 1,000 or more… but an arrogant sales man or woman (in that particular case) couldn't see beyond my beard and affirmative (read: dry) communication skills.
The other visible trait I observed was this deliberate obliviousness to the fact that Zain tariffs are expensive compared to the other operators while dismissing the price difference as "you wouldn't notice the cost difference, because everyone is on Zain.. Sir". Which works along very well with another drastic trait of not trying to understand that sometimes (just sometimes) potential customer might have specific needs that are beyond the assumption that all of us have the same needs that is catered for by Zain the greatest and largest network and that Zain knows what's best for me and you more than ourselves!
At one point, the sales woman totally dismissed my business requirement (of GPS tracking and instant group communication) altogether and tried to convince me of opting for the "free" 3,000 minutes every month offer AND she didn't know what GPS is and tried to save her facial water (an Arabic expression) by reiterating that "Zain offers GPRS service"!
If only I don't have the courtesy of exercising patience with people; I would've been very rude with her and shut her up after making her feel miserable about her poor choice of career as a sales woman.
And in my final encounter with one of them sales men, who should be more appropriately called a Zain stalker, the individual was rude enough to discredit me because of my current choice of mobile communication provider, and even rudely laughing it out that "is there anyone left on that network with their stupid and big phones?".
If Zain truly believes that it's in the business of professional mobile service capable of delivering professional mobile communication solution to the corporate sector, or if they try to position them as such, there are basic things that they need to get their sales reps to master first (along with updating the corporate section of their website to reflect that image with appropriate info)!
Say I was after a fancy German car and popped into a BMW showroom where a blunt sales rep starts demeaning Mercedes and make it look inferior to BMW; I wouldn't have mind slapping him in the face, and that works the other way around too (if I was in Mercs' that is), good brands compete with each, but also they sell one another by benchmarking themselves out from the rest of the competition.
I'm not asking for the BMW sales rep to praise Mercedes, that would be inappropriate, but being indifferent or discrediting, that means that the sales rep neither respect his brand, the competition or the intelligence of the prospective customer in front of him. And that's exactly how I felt after these encounters with what should be Zain's elite salesmaniyih.
Oh, and of course I didn't pass on the opportunity of having a mellow kick out of tangling those poor sales personnel up with technical jargons and telecom concepts they're not even close to comprehending, but still they kept insisting on reflecting an image of knowledge that only result in even worse and desperate sales cries such as "man what do you want? Do you want to buy Zain or not?"
… and finally; the illusive One-Network offer!
"The end of competition" as it was once marketed when it was launched, the offer that even inside Zain is not properly understood nor would you find a general consensus among its employees of what it stands for or how it works, yet alone the customers who are expected to use and benefit from it.
And I must admit; the one-network offer is a great one in theory, and it is revolutionary in all aspects, and if I was ever a Zain customer, I would have definitely opted for it and even paid money for accessing it, but the way it was implemented was dishonest.
First, I will take the liberty of explaining what Zain's one-network offer stand for as I understand it: Zain as a pan-Arab and pan-African operator; it owns/operate 20 something networks around the middle-east and Africa; as a Zain customer of any of these networks (with the exception of the mother network of Kuwait) you as a valued Zain customer of any of these network will be treated as if you are a local customer in anywhere you "roam" as long as you roam to a Zain network in the country you travel to.
So if you receive your calls for "free" while in your home network (which is the normal way) then you will receive your calls for "free" while roaming in foreign Zain networks. You will pay local rates for the calls you place, and you will pay "regular" international rates if you call abroad, you will be able to access your home network customer care for free without paying international calls, and if you are a prepaid customer, you can use local recharge cards to benefit from all of that.
These five features are packaged as the one-network offer, but how is it really used (or abused) and what did Zain do about it?
To start with, it takes the innovativeness of an 11 year old to figure out that one can start making international calls with local rates (fraud in my book) by sending a Zain SIM from his home network to roam on a foreign Zain network: Take for example Ali who works in Saudi Arabia and his fiancée Reem who's in Jordan. (fictional characters).
Ali sends Reem a Zain Saudi line, Reem have this line roam on Zain Jordan's network. Ali rings up the Zain Saudi line he sent to his fiancée using his local Zain line, Reem will receive the call on the zain Saudi line roaming in Jordan, and she will not pay for receiving the call, and Ali will pay local rate in Saudi, hence a local rate international call.
Reem could have done the same, and even better, because Reem could have sent Ali a Zain Jordan line that is added to her super numbers that she can call for "free", and then make free international calls even…
I believe this is fraud, and I am certain Zain anticipated that this scenario was going to happen in masses, and this is exactly what happened, to the point where Zain sales even advocate this fraudulent usage of the one-network offer, including the smart sales reps I encountered when they knew I was living in Saudi and my company is in Jordan.
I can imagine an imaginary situation where Zain executives are battling one another over this fiasco: On the one hand, the cost of offering one-network is substantial, given the fact that despite the increase of revenue due to encouraged usage while abroad, the subsidized cost of receiving calls while abroad is sizable, Zain pays third parties international carrier rates per minute of those unbilled or "free to receive" calls while their customers are roaming outside their home network.
The skirmish among the executives would be between the commercial/marketing front where they saw customers flock into Zain because of this offer, especially their troubled mammoth operation in Saudi, and they're flocking-in because of the ability to abuse the one-network offer as described in the previous scenario.
And on the other hand, the financial executives going against this surge in cost for offering the service, a low-ranking and unreliable Zain employee once told me that the one-network offer is generating some 180 million US dollars (combined across the 20+ operations) quarterly against a cost of 240 million USD dollars! I don't believe the numbers but I wouldn't dismiss the ratio.
The technical executives (in my imaginary scenario) either got pushed to or voluntarily offered (with an evil wink or laugh) yet another illicit technical remedy to this pocket hole, including limiting the number of international trunks available for transferring incoming calls that will be terminated at a foreign Zain network, resulting in the party calling a Zain number roaming abroad on another Zain network getting the deceitful message of "All international lines are busy now" while they aren't, and subsequently the gay-happy Zain customer who should be enjoying the fruits (or colourful Umbrellas) of the one network offer end up missing some calls while roaming abroad.
The other techniques is to systematically degrade call quality for the calls that eventually get received for free, and in other cases deliberate disconnections of the call after it exceeds 10 or so minutes. Of course if I was a camper; meaning that I'm using the Zain line in the manner described earlier, I deserve this crappy service.
but if I was a legitimate Zain customer travelling abroad, this would be a rip-off, because as a mobile customer; I have the right to receive all the calls distained to me as long as it is technically possible and within reason (within coverage, within roaming agreements, within network resources availability …etc); and as a business user, I would rather pay for receiving ALL my calls rather than having SOME of my calls not terminated because Zain want to control its losses due to dishonest or offers.
Zain Jordan now came forward half-honest towards its customers who are supposedly benefiting from the one network offer. That is in introducing two new charges: the first is when a Zain Jordan customer attempts to call another Zain Jordan customer roaming on a foreign Zain network, The caller gets prompted that he or she will be charged an additional 6 piasters per minute for the call on top of the per minute rate paid regularly (including adding 6 piasters to the originally free-to-call numbers!).
This way Zain can still deliver the call for "Free" to the roaming party, but penalize the calling party for it. On the other hand, as a Zain Jordan customer roaming on a foreign Zain network, if I happen to receive a call from a non-Zain number, I get prompted to accept or decline a per minute charge for receiving the call, which totally contradicts the concept of one-network, but at least it is half honest.
Half honest is good, but in my book it is as bad as is being dishonest, I once pulled the following statement from a senior Zain employee handling the one network offer in one of Zain's operations; he said "In order to receive all your calls while roaming abroad, you must select another network than Zain"… and this is what I would have done if I was a Zain subscriber roaming abroad in a country where a Zain network is available.
I would have happily paid a fixed monthly premium for the one-network feature, and I honestly believe that heavy travelers in the middle-east (or Africa I guess) would do the same, a flat rate charge for receiving their calls and accessing local rates while abroad whenever a Zain network is available.
This offer could have been a great selling point, but when it got introduced to the mass market it was prone to abuse, and with inappropriate technical measures to curb usage in a dishonest way and the reactive measures taken later on; turned the whole thing into a nightmare, while competing operators benefited from the concept and replicated it in a more subtle manner and made solid and happy customer base who benefit from roaming.
I don't think those behind the one-network offer even intended for it to be what it is today, which is basically a very long short-cut to offering local-rates for international calls! There's a much more feasible and regulatory-friendly way for this. And even if there wasn't, I would have spent half the money burnt on the one-network to date and subsidized straight-forward international call charges into local-rates level WHILE keeping the one-network offer in its pure form serving those who would have been ecstatic about it.
A Closing note…
Not all Zain operations are equal, but I can't help feeling rather hostile against Zain Jordan in particular, despite the fact that I was honored the other day to be introduced to its president, I think Zain can lead the market not out of consumer arrogance and the customers' laid-back thinking patterns, but through by honest and cutting-edge market leadership met with quality network service and customer care.
I always enjoy the reaction of people when they find out that the perception of Zain in Saudi is in the same order of Umniah in Jordan, though I don't subscribe the "general" perspective or positioning of network operators in any market except through what is dictated by my inside knowledge of their technical competence and customer service, yet it's really amazing to see the difference between Zain the premiere network of Jordan neighboring Zain the troubled and somewhat low-class late-entrant network of Saudi.
I hope (though it will be hard) that this will be taken as a sincere and positive criticism by a humble telecom professional if it is ever read by a Zain insider in Jordan or otherwise.
And yes, selling Africa operations is a good move! It wasn't homogenous with the rest of the operations despite its geographical contiguity, though I petty the loss of the money spent on rebranding!


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This was an entirely new definition of "dog tired."
Slumped in my exam room was a mussy-haired, middle-aged mother of three with a dynamic Dachshund dancing around her legs. She looked pleadingly at me through eyes yellowed and sunken from overuse: "I need your help. I haven't slept for two nights due to this."
Her eyes trailed downward, landing squarely on the beaming brown fur baby at her feet. I was confused.
I love words. I love the ones that come tumbling from the depths of my being, disturbing and delighting as they rush headlong onto the pages of my life as well as my computer screen. I love those whose presence is elusive, dancing in and out of my consciousness and teasing me with surprise. The more the merrier, or so I think. Words matter.
By Linda Arnold
Click. Add to cart. Confirmation.
It's so easy. Just how do they know what you need?
Because it's big business for companies to know everything they can about you. And you leave a trail every time you make a choice.
Entire businesses have sprung up to track our every move — not only purchases but preferences. What do you read? What kind of car do you drive? What are your favorite brands?
So who could blame you for jumping on board?
We really live in a special place! In addition to our warm, sunny weather and sandy beaches, eastern North Carolina provides an abundance of seafood festivals to take advantage of in early October every year.
On Oct. 6-8, the North Carolina Seafood Festival took place in the town of Morehead City. The festival is held the first weekend in October every year to help promote the positive social and economic impact of the seafood industry in North Carolina during the non-summer months.
Brunswick Family Assistance Agency has begun taking applications, by appointment only, for its Christmas Basket/Tree of Hope program. The agency will continue to take applications through Nov. 6.
Applicants should call 754-4766 to schedule an appointment to apply for this program. Applications will also be taken at Family Resource Center in Leland and New Hope Clinic in Boiling Spring Lakes.
Rotary members in Shallotte are among millions reaching out on World Polio Day, Tuesday, Oct. 24, to raise awareness, funds and support to end polio — a vaccine preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today. Shallotte Rotary Club will mark historic progress toward a polio-free world, while urging community support to end the paralyzing disease.
The Brunswick Town Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will have a table for The Warrior Ride on Saturday, Oct. 21, which starts at the soccer fields behind Oak Island Town Hall. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The opening ceremony will start at 10 a.m. followed by self-paced bicycle ride around Oak Island, where residents will be able to talk to and ride with veterans. A $25 donation to the charity is requested.
By Sam Marshall
Arguably the biggest issue in any lawn, ornamental landscape or vegetable garden is pest problems. Whether it be from insects, disease or weeds, damage from pests may cause lawns and landscapes to look unattractive or vegetable gardens to be unproductive.
When pests problems occur, a common question is, "What can I spray to make it go away?" with little regard as to why a problem occurred in the first place.
'The more you lie, the easier it gets — and the better you get at it.')
We're taught from an early age, "Honesty is always the best policy."
You may recall the book "The Last Lecture," by Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch," written after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The lecture was a message for his kids about what really matters in life.
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The craze among actresses has been on the rise when it comes to the question of pairing up opposite Ajith Kumar. The actor's upcoming film Billa-2 has already become one of the most eagerly awaited films mostly because of the film's theatrical trailer which was released recently. The teaser was very-well created and the news that Ajith has done some 'daredevil helicopter-bound stunts' has only added to the curiosity element.
Bindu Madhavi, who was recently spotted as the heroine opposite Krishna in Kazhugu, has gone on record that she is ready to forego her fee for the film if she is paired up opposite Ajith Kumar. The actress, who was born in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh but had her college education at Vellore's VIT, has said that it has been her 'goal' for some time now to pair up opposite Ajith at least in one film in her career.
Along with her wish also comes the rider that she's also ready to act for 'free' if the film is opposite Ajith. Bindu says that she had been a great fan of Ajith ever since her school days and used to watch all his films on the very first day itself. At the audio-launch of Kazhugu held a few months back, Bindu was praised for possessing a pair of eyes which were as expressive and as sexy like that of the late 'Silk' Smitha.
Bindu had incidentally announced that she was ready to play the title role (of 'Silk' Smitha) in the Tamil remake of the Bollywood hit film The Dirty Picture (TDP) which recently bagged for its heroine Vidya Balan her first-ever national award for 'best actress'. As it happens, it would be Anushka and not Bindu to be starring in the remake of TDP.


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After several months of waiting, the first trailer of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 finally hits the web!!! I can not believe it actually took that long.
And who knew about seeing the Sony logo at the beginning of the trailer for the very first time? Incredible.
Looking at this trailer, I felt really shocked yet surprised at the same time. The reason I got surprised was Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn. I think he outwits even James Franco's interpretation of the character in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. And I absolutely love his interpretation of the Green Goblin. Totally awesome.
What also surprised me is that this film (possibly) is set around Jamie Foxx as Electro. His one line in the trailer marks the perfect foe for Spider-Man to try and take down, which will also give him his greatest challenge.
It also may seem to be that there is a father and son vs. father and son tone going on in this Spider-Man film as in the Parkers vs. Osborns.
Now looking at Electro, I found that he may be an equal to his Ultimate comics interpretation of the character. But the special effects look absolutely stunning.
The third thing that surprised me is Paul Giamatti as Rhino. I thought that the robotic suit that looks like a rhino was super cool. I think that Giamatti is going to rock this role in the movie. And rumor has it that Rhino may appear in Amazing Spider-Man 3. Though Giamatti isn't in the trailer much, I think above all, this role is perfect for him.
Now there has been speculation that this movie may lead to a Sinister Six movie. But no one knows for sure yet. But if you look very closely in one image, there is some stuff in an OsCorp vault that could give us a clue (Being Dr. Octopus' tentacles and Vulture's wings).
Overall, I think that this will be an awesome movie with a new interpretation of Peter's costume (though it is a bit comic-bookish). But I think (personally) that the David Bowie-like Green Goblin may be the main antagonist of the film with Electro and Rhino being the secondary antagonists of the film. So that's my review on this trailer. I think it will be an amazing movie when it hits theaters in May 2014.
So now I ask a few questions. What do you think about this trailer? Who do you think the main villain (Electro, Rhino or Green Goblin) will be? Are you excited for this movie? Leave me your comments below.


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|27 Apr 2010
|Filing date
|20 Sep 2004
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|20 Sep 2004
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|Bernardo Huberman, Scott H. Clearwater
|Original Assignee
|Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (41), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (2), Classifications (7), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Computational resources may be defined as any of the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components that form a computer system. There may be limited computational resource availability for a given project. For example, a company may own a set of computers, a number of which are already consumed by functions outside of the project. If the project is large enough, it may exceed the capacity of any single resource in the set of resources available for use on the project. Further, it may be necessary to combine resources because it is not feasible to obtain or use a state-of-the-art resource that has the appropriate capabilities (e.g., because costs associated with such a resource are prohibitive under a limited budget). Thus, it may be necessary to utilize a collection of multiple computational resources for the project.
Collections of computational resources are typically subject to capability upgrades over time. For example, computer resources may be upgraded to handle increased system burdens. Further, certain computational resources may require upgrades because they become obsolete or because they fail (e.g., a license may expire or a hardware component may no longer suffice to run newer software applications). In these situations, it may not be feasible to upgrade an entire collection of computational resources due to budget constraints and/or time limitations (e.g., availability of personnel). Accordingly, some computational resources allocated to a particular project may have upgrades while others do not. This may result in multiple generations of technology (e.g., various hardware capabilities) within a single collection of computational resources. This multi-generational technology results in a heterogeneous computational resource environment. Difficulties arise in such environments with the assembly of computational resources to efficiently and adequately address certain project needs.
One or more specific embodiments of the present invention will be described below. In an effort to provide a concise description of these embodiments, not all features of an actual implementation are described in the specification. It should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, as in any engineering or design project, numerous implementation-specific decisions must be made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which may vary from one implementation to another. Moreover, it should be appreciated that such a development effort might be complex and time consuming, but would nevertheless be a routine undertaking of design, fabrication, and manufacture for those of ordinary skill having the benefit of this disclosure.
Many computational resource inventories (e.g., servers owned by a company) include multi-generational technology. Accordingly, such computation resource inventories comprise a heterogeneous computational resource environment. It is now recognized that it may be beneficial to construct an optimal portfolio of resources from such heterogeneous computational resource environments for use on particular projects. For example, it may be desirable to construct an optimal portfolio of resources for a given project based on resource availability, project size and budget, desired finishing time, and degree of risk.
In particular, the modules illustrated by
The PSS 10 in accordance with embodiments of the present invention may address resource utilization issues that develop when attempting to use a collection of computational resources for a particular project. A collection of computational resources may generally be subject to capability upgrades over time due to obsolescence, resource failure, and so forth. For example, Moore's Law observes that technological advances have produced an exponential growth in the number of transistors per integrated circuit and predicts that this trend will continue. Consequently, it is now recognized that when budgeting for the maintenance and replacement of computational resources it is beneficial to include built-in periodic upgrades.
Periodic upgrades may result in the presence of a plurality of technological generations in a single collection of computational resources. In other words, periodic technological upgrades may result in the heterogeneous computational resource environment discussed above. For example, a Utility Data Center (UDC) will generally have at least two generations of technology operating at any time. A UDC may be defined as a data center (e.g., inventory of computational resources) utilized in the purchase and sale of computation, much like the purchase and sale of electricity. In some embodiments of the present invention, a UDC may be a combination of hardware and software to enable rapid deployment of virtualized resources, virtual networking, virtual storage, and virtual servers. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a UDC is any plurality of computational resources.
It has now been recognized that a heterogeneous environment, such as a UDC, can present many challenges. For example, one challenge for UDC operators is to construct an optimal portfolio of resources with respect to user supplied constraints. Such user supplied constraints may comprise project size, budget, desired finishing time, and degree of risk. Each constraint may have a corresponding definition. Specifically, the degree of risk constraint may be defined in a number of ways. For example, risk may be defined by the standard deviation of a distribution of projected finishing times (e.g., finishing times predicted by a simulator based on different criteria) or by a percentile of the distribution projected finishing times (e.g., the ninetieth percentile).
In one embodiment of the present invention, the methodology for determining the best resource portfolio for a project may involve using historical usage data (block 110) from a collection of computational resources under consideration for a project. For example, tracking software and/or hardware may be used to obtain historical usage data for resources in inventory. The historical usage data so obtained may then be utilized to determine capacity characteristics of the resources. In one embodiment of the present invention, an available capacity analysis (block 120) may be performed in which the spare capacity of the collection of resources, as a function of time, may be assumed available for the project. Next, a simulation (block 130) may be performed wherein the simulation takes into account available resources and calculates a finishing time for the project. In one embodiment of the present invention, the simulation (block 130) may be run many times, each one starting at different times in a trace history (e.g., data relating to computer resource usage per minute over a designated time period). Results from the simulation (block 130) may comprise a sampling of finishing times. The sampling of finishing times may be assembled into a distribution and used to construct a risk measure (block 140) (e.g., to construct a standard deviation of the distribution of projected finishing times). The risk measure, when combined with the finishing times determined in block 130, may be used in a decision making operation (block 150) to select an optimal portfolio. In one embodiment of the present invention, the optimal portfolio may consist of the amount of each resource to be used, {ri}.
In one embodiment of the present invention, it may be assumed that spare cycles (e.g., CPU usage/minute) from each resource in a computational resource inventory will be consumed by a given project. Accordingly, in a case with R resources, the size of the project in cycles may be calculated as follows:
where the quantities are defined as follows:
A price function in accordance with embodiments of the present invention may be derived from the Ramsey equation, which may provide the optimal difference between prices and marginal costs. The Ramsey equation is as follows:
where α is the Ramsey parameter (amount of profit allowed in free market) and c(q) is the cost to the supplier for the qth unit. Assuming a form for N(p,q),
N(p(q),q)=N 0 exp [−q/q m(p m/(p m −p))].
Solving for price p, the following equation may be derived:
where qm and pm are the demand and price parameters determined empirically.
Table 1 below comprises data relating to a test case with two resources (Resource 1 and Resource 2) available for project utilization. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that more than two resources may be incorporated and computed in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. However, in the interest of providing a simple example of an embodiment of the present invention, only two resources are utilized in the present example. This data may be used to illustrate how portfolios can be constructed in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. Indeed, in the following illustrations, this data is utilized to demonstrate how a PSS in accordance with embodiments of the present invention may be used to allocate computational resources in a heterogeneous data center taking into account variable supply, demand, and budget considerations. It should be noted that behavior can occur in which non-obvious tradeoffs exist between finishing time and the risk of finishing (e.g., the variance in the finishing time distribution).
Resource 2
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clock speed ci (GHz)
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avg. Utilization (<U>)
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Specifically, the data in Table 1 comprises exemplary resource demand (and availability) and project demands. These data are randomly distributed as shown. The data from Table 1 may be utilized in accordance with embodiments of the present invention to develop graphs to assist in determining an optimal portfolio. For example, using the equations listed above, data relating to cost may be plotted against data relating to risk and time to completion. Additionally, a fraction of resource usage value may be defined and plotted with respect to time and cost. For example, the following figures illustrate results of one thousand runs at twenty different fractions of fast CPUs, (ffast) These figures demonstrate that it is not obvious a prior what mixture of resources will be optimal according to a given decision criterion for an optimal project portfolio. Specifically, the following figures illustrate curves that may be used to determine an optimal portfolio for the project demand data illustrated in Table 1. It should be noted that different curves are possible under different assumptions. However, these curves demonstrate how a PSS can construct the curves necessary to integrate with some decision criteria to arrive at a portfolio decision.
While the invention may be susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example in the drawings and will be described in detail herein. However, it should be understood that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed. Rather, the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the following appended claims.
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TrueCar app's growth underscores mobile's bigger role in car purchases
TrueCar, a mobile application that links car buyers with dealers, has seen more than one million downloads since its launch last year.
The company claims that its customers' mobile usage was higher than 40 percent at mid-year, and is continuing to increase significantly. While car purchasing typically entailed online research and offline purchasing in the past, TrueCar believes that the industry is seeing a massive shift toward seamless purchasing and selling on consumers' mobile devices.
"What we're going to see is a much bigger emphasis on mobile," said Scott Painter, founder and CEO of TrueCar, Santa Monica, CA. "We had our millionth app download, which really speaks to where things will go in a couple of years. The habit of shopping online and buying offline is going to migrate.
"People will shop on phones and complete transactions at the dealership on their phones. We're already starting to see smartphones enter into closing steps at dealerships."
Car shopping app
The TrueCar app, available for mobile devices and tablets, was designed to eliminate stress for consumers seeking to purchase or sell vehicles, and improve the sales process for dealers certified by TrueCar.
The app's Price Check feature, which recently launched on iOS, provides consumers the ability to receive pricing and important car information on a TrueCar certified dealer's lot simply by scanning the vehicle's window sticker. This feature is expected to reach Android app users later this month.
Consumers can use the app to browse for enticing vehicles, and receive a better understanding of what prices other consumers are paying for those same vehicles. They may then receive emails from local dealers carrying that specific car, and can access TrueCar's data when viewing the car on the dealer's lot.
TrueCar has seen 1.5 million vehicles purchased since its inception, and 500,000 purchased through its platform in the last year. The company aims to fully inform consumers prior to visiting dealerships, in order to streamline the shopping process for both sides.
"Anything that removes friction transaction is great for the retailer," Mr. Painter said.
Car industry going mobile
Providing consumers with convenient ways of accessing data is a feature that will likely be dominating the car industry. TrueCar revealed that on average, customers using its app were in and out of a dealership within an hour, as opposed to the national average time of over three hours.
Most car manufacturers no longer produce physical brochures for their vehicles, as nearly everything is now online.
TrueCar claims that increasing accountability and transparency will improve the relationship and dynamic between dealers and consumers. While the company has seen its users save over $3,000 off of the manufacturer's suggested retail price, it aims to bolster customers' access to accurate information, which can be done most readily via mobile.
"Consumers have changed the way they shop," Mr. Painter said. "The consumer is going to demand to be in control of information and in control of the process more than ever before.
"Dealers need to be reactive to that. If not, they will lose customers and market share, and they won't be competitive."
Final Take
Alex Samuely is an editorial assistant on Mobile Commerce Daily, New York


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Stranger Than Fiction: Women Glue Man's Package to Stomach
Stranger Than Fiction: Women Glue Man's Package to Stomach
Love can be a sticky matter. Especially when you're a married man who planned a rendezvous with one of your various paramours at a motel. After setting up the meeting, this straying Wisconsin man was ambushed by his wife and three lovers, who then blindfolded him and super-glued his penis to his stomach.
The women have been charged with fourth-degree sexual assault. According to prosecutors the super glue episode went something like this: One woman got the man to agree to being tied down with sheets and blindfolded for a "rubdown." She then texted the other women in waiting, and once they arrived they proceeded to punch him in the face and glue his penis to his stomach. The women then took off with his cell phone, wallet, and car. Now that's what I call revenge! I guess he'll get his too if these ladies end up in jail.


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Okay! So for years, I've never considered myself a girl that goes to the gym. Every now and then, I'll sign up for a Body Flow or Spin class, but I never go to the gym to do any type of circuit training. I never even knew which equipment to use and how to use it! I felt so cliche signing up for a gym membership in the first week of January. The lure of unlimited spin classes, body flow and pilates pulled me in to sign up!
So, the new gym membership gave me two free personal trainer sessions! I had no expectations, other then learning a few new workouts to add to my core and strength training routine. My biggest goal going into the 2015 running and racing season is to improve the strength and balance in my core. These steps will lead to more efficient running and strengthen my core to prevent injuries!
The personal trainer at my local gym was very easy and encouraging! She spent an hour going through seven workout routines with me! I worked up a sweat!
The Hour Long Session Included- 3 Sets of 15-20 Reps of Each:
- Squat to Overhead Press with 12LB Ball
- Kettle Bell Swing with Squat
- Pop Squats- Arms Straight Back as You Expolde Up
- Bosu Ball Planks- Elbow to Hands
- Red Band-Crossed Over, Two Steps to Each Side
- Machine: Cable Squat with 17.5 pounds
- Machine: Leg Press 30 Lbs
The hour long session was very beneficial. I walked away with a solid set of "new-to-me" exercises to use as part of my core strengthening routine, at home or at the gym! The personal trainer also recommended Tabata workouts, which are 4 minutes-20 seconds hard with a 10 second break. Along with Frog Jump Squats and the Pop Up Squats, Tabata workouts may improve sprinting during running. I'm excited to continue this workout routine 2x a week!
Have you ever used a personal trainer? Did you learn anything new? Was it beneficial?


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Preparing for the Worst, Hoping for the Best
Indonesia, January 12, 2007
Padang Pariaman, Indonesia - At 10:00 a.m. on a sunny morning exactly two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the squall from a siren defeated the noise from a bustling market. Immediately, the town's streets were choked with citizens - many of them laughing.
On the morning of December 26, 2006, Mercy Corps helped eight communities around Padang Pariaman, an area devastated by the 2004 tsunami, conduct a simultaneous earthquake and tsunami drill. Despite visible smiles and notable camaraderie between the neighbors, the participants took the drill very seriously.
About five seconds after the sirens blared, school children clad in uniforms, businessmen and women toting young children slogged through the muddy market roads up to higher ground, following the evacuation route established by local authorities.
Afifah, a lady in her mid-twenties - as well as five months pregnant - had her two small children in tow as they hurried towards their destination, a concrete school building with enough room to accommodate a few hundred people.
"My daughter is crying because she thinks that there is real trouble," Afifah said, a little out of breath. "She's a little scared. But this drill is important, so that we know what to do when the actual time comes."
Mercy Corps, along with the Padang Pariaman district government and a local partner organization called Kogami, conducted the drill to prepare surrounding communities for future earthquakes and/or tsunami waves. Approximately 10,000 people from eight communities participated in the drill.
The simulation in Padang Pariman was part of a nationwide simulation event commemorating the two-year anniversary of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami. The event, which took place across many vulnerable areas of Indonesia, was kicked off by Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
These drills coincide with the launching of an Early Warning System that includes the installation of sirens in coastal areas, implemented by the Meteorological and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia.
The simulation event is one of the activities included in the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project, funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ECB is the collaborative effort of seven humanitarian agencies, including Mercy Corps, to address and resolve common problems in emergency response and preparedness. Mercy Corps is leading ECB's pilot project in Indonesia.
"Mercy Corps especially applauds the government of Padang Pariaman and our partner, Kogami, for their tireless effort to encourage all these communities to participate today," says Helmi Urzais, Mercy Corps' ECB program manager in Padang. "This effort shows the seriousness and priority of the local government and their willingness to partner with others that have specific expertise in the area of emergency preparedness. Their support in preparing these communities will ultimately save lives that would otherwise be unnecessarily lost."
Together, we're preparing for the worst while hoping for the best.


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Global rise in breast cancer due to 'Western lifestyles'
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Thursday, 24 January 2008
The Independent
Of all the exports from our modern world, breast cancer ranks as among the most dubious. Once thought to be a disease of the rich, it is now a global epidemic.
The rise of the cancer in Europe and America – cases have jumped 80 per cent in the UK since the 1970s – is being mirrored across the world. And scientists say increasing prosperity and the "Westernisation" of traditional lifestyles is to blame.
A richer diet, smaller families, delayed childbearing and reduced breast-feeding have driven the increase in the West, together with rising obesity and increased alcohol consumption, specialists say. Now these trends are being seen everywhere – with a growing burden of malignant disease in their wake.
An estimated 1.3 million new cases were diagnosed around the world last year. It is the commonest cancer in the UK and across Europe, even though it affects almost only one gender. In 2006, it outranked lung cancer, which affects both sexes, for the first time. MORE >>>
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12th Annual Whitman Day Planned
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management will host the 12th annual Whitman Day on Friday, April 24, at the Whitman School, located at 721 University Ave.
This year's events include a breakfast panel discussion on "Finding Value in Today's Markets," moderated by J. Daniel Pluff, senior vice president and financial advisor for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, and featuring Whitman, Fernando Diz, Whitman professor of finance, director of the Ballentine Investment Institute and managing director of the Orange Value Fund, LLC; and Michael Psaros, co-founder and management partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP. The discussion begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Milton Room on the fourth floor of the Whitman building.
A keynote address takes place in Whitman's Lender Auditorium at 11 a.m. "A Conversation with a Wall Street Executive" features Mary Callahan Erdoes, chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan's Asset Management division. Forbes and Fortune magazines consistently rank Erdoes as one of the World's Most Powerful Women. In her role as CEO, she oversees the division's more than $2.5 trillion in client assets.
Whitman Day was inaugurated in 2003 as an annual celebration of Martin J. Whitman, founder and chairman of Third Avenue Management and the namesake of the Whitman School. Each year, Whitman Day features a range of events—lectures by distinguished speakers, alumni recognition and student activities—to honor the contributions of Martin J. Whitman to the world of business and management education.
After earning a bachelor's degree from SU in 1949, Whitman began his career as an analyst at Shearson Hammill before working for the Rosenwald family, of Sears Roebuck fortune, where he developed a penchant for superior returns and an aversion to investment risk. He earned a master's degree in economics from The New School for Social Research (now New School University) in New York City.
Whitman ventured out on his own in 1974, and founded M.J. Whitman LLC, a full-service broker-dealer. Ten years later, he participated in a takeover of Equity Strategies, an open-end investment company, and became its CEO and president. In 1990, Whitman started Third Avenue Value Fund. Today, Third Avenue Management manages more than $21 billion in assets for private and institutional clients. Whitman also shares his special brand of investing with the greater financial community in the industry classics "The Aggressive Conservative Investor," which he co-authored with Martin Shubik, and "Value Investing—A Balanced Approach." He has taught as an adjunct professor at the Yale University School of Management and at the school that today proudly bears his name.


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CMS names Deanna Cureton of CEEC the 2017 Teacher of the Year
CHARLOTTE, NC (FOX 46) - Congratulations are in order Wednesday for one teacher getting results!
Deanna Cureton of Charlotte Early Engineering College has been named the CMS Teacher of the Year.
The second year CMS teacher leads the school's 10th grade and teaches English honors. Cureton now gets a new big screen TV, $1,500 for her classroom and a one-year lease on a brand new Volkswagen.
Congratulations to the 2017 CMS Teacher of the Year, Deanna Cureton of the @CEECMiners in the L.E.A.D. Learning Community! #CMSTOY2017 pic.twitter.com/kPIXLNWnSl— CMS (@CharMeckSchools) May 3, 2017


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The Little Venice Golf Resort is an exclusive holiday destination located on Egypt's Red Sea Coast, in the sophisticated Ain el Sokhna one hour's drive from Cairo.
The Resort offers residents a choice of exclusive villa and chalet types, in varying sizes and architectural styles. Designed by Magnum Enterprise, these vacation homes enjoy views of the gardens and fairways intersected with water features and panoramic views of the Red Sea.
The Little Venice Golf Resort covers almost one million square meters and is built around a series of gardens and water features. While Phase One and Two have been completed, covering 400 000 m2, phase three is under construction and nearing completion. Covering 600,000 m2, this third and final phase includes about 260 twin villas and chalets and boasts a 9-holes championship golf course, designed by world specialists Sanford Golf Designs, at its heart. A range of first class amenities are located within easy reach of all residential units.


text: We will be spending August weekends with friends in the vicinity of Beach 116 St. and are looking for good dinner recommendations. White tablecloth OK but not necessary. Have access to a car, so we'd go anywhere reasonably close (Seaside/Arverne, Howard Beach, even Sheepshead Bay) if it's worth the trip. Expecting seafood and Italian recs, but really open to anything good. Our host says he's heard that there's a good Thai place, but doesn't know its name or where it is. TIA