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This is consistent with the industry definition of "symmetric" links.
Things aren't as simple as that. Your VPN moves your exit point to somewhere else on the Internet. If Netflix is (intentionally or not) doing a bad job of distributing its traffic, allowing peering points to saturate, then turning on your VPN may cause your traffic to come through a different peering point. In other words, as a recent Ars Technica article pointed out, it's actually pretty hard to tell who is at fault, even if you do scrupulous A/B testing with and without a VPN.
If you want to put your entire network or a specific appliance behind a VPN, there are numerous ways to do it on the cheap, such as a router running dd-wrt, or using Windows' Internet Connection Sharing to route your TV through a VPN from your desktop. The problem with these approaches is that VPN performance is heavily processor-speed dependent, and you may not find you can get enough speed to achieve good Netflix streams. A Microtik router is a good choice. I also recently also discovered the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite, which is reported to have VPN speeds around 80 Mbps--more than fast enough for Netflix and the average home Internet connection in the US.
As others have pointed out, it is almost certain that these are dummy/inert rounds, and do not contain primer or powder. However, do you really want the geniuses at the TSA to be responsible for inspecting ammunition to determine if it really, truly is inert? Of all the BS things the TSA triggers on--and there are a lot of them--can we agree that something that actually is a decommissioned weapon is low on the list?
It's the next generation's "Duck and Cover." Or "See Something Say Something." It's the evisceration of civil liberties under the cover of "safety."
"They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States," Hayden said, using a shorthand for US military networks. ... Who for them are the World Trade Centers?
So, two things:
1. Snowden just pwned the NSA. If that's not the "hackers' World Trade Centers," I don't know what is.
2. Dot-mil is so hardened? *cough*BradleyManning*cough*. Next!
What this douchebag fails to acknowledge is that the "hackers" who are going to pwn him don't need to use the kind of externally-originating attacks that he's thinking of when he says that "dot-mil is so hardened that you can't touch it." The "hackers" and "freedom activists" are already inside his gates.
... for example, what if it was revealed that all of the patrons in the dinner services were actually paid actors who had been prepped to either like or dislike the foot? How would that affect one's enjoyment of the show?
If I had to guess, the reason for the quash is that the producers don't want details of the show's production to be revealed. Everybody knows that the producers of these shows edit things together and otherwise manipulate the outcome, but kind of like pro wrestling used to be--we all kind of ignore it in the interest of being entertained. If details of the manipulation come out, such as, "the producers planted those spoiled veggies," or what-have-you, it may ruin the viewer's ability to suspend disbelief. Even though Amy has zero credibility, reality show producers aren't exactly high on the list of trustworthy people, and the things she may reveal may ring true enough to hurt the show.
Yes, but your gas car is also always making the same amount of waste heat, even when you don't coincidentally need it for heating. Whereas an electric car only spends energy on heating when you actually require it. Your comment is like saying that you set your home climate control to 85 degrees and then open the windows if it gets too hot.
There is at least one:
It appears to be a sniping game.
In other news: different cultures find different things offensive, and respond to them in different ways. Like a bunch of morons signing a petition to have Piers Morgan deported. Or absolutely nobody in America carrying any games where the protagonist is a mujahideen.
Felons also don't get to vote or own firearms.
No, it is NOT that simple. If you picked up contraband off the street and right away turned it in to authorities, they probably aren't going to arrest you
http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-arrested-faces-5-years-in-jail-for-reporting-firearm-to-polic e.html
That is demonstrably false. He sought permission, albeit from the wrong authorities.
Funny. I called the DMV and asked them if it was okay to speed on the highway, and the person I talked to said yes, but somehow, the officer who arrested me didn't get the memo. Also: It has been reported that the producers asked the DC police for permission and had it denied. So the ATF said yes and the DC police said no.
You don't enforce the law just because it's the law. You enforce the law because it fulfills the purpose of the law. And you don't enforce the law when it's stupid to do so.
Ha ha. What country do you live in, with such a reasonable police and judicial system? Certainly not America: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/may/14/miller-injured-vets-guns-stolen-dc/
Nor the UK: http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-arrested-faces-5-years-in-jail-for-reporting-firearm-to-police.html
Did David Gregory (or really the producers or assistants who got the clip for him) acquire the clip for illegal purposes? No?
The law contains no provision that the prohibited items be used for illegal purposes. Mere possession of the item is, in and of itself, an illegal act. And, for the record, I think that's stupid, and I disagree with that law. But it's undeniably clear that, assuming the magazine was real and not a "dummy" prop (empty sheet metal, for example), Gregory broke the law. And the reason I'm crying "hypocrisy" on Gregory even though I don't agree with the law is that, if I was in DC, and I was stopped for a traffic violation, and the officer saw the same magazine on my passenger seat, I would get ZERO leeway because it was "for educational purposes" or what have you. Gregory is only getting as much leeway as he is getting because he is famous, which highlights the "laws for Us and laws for Them" nature of American justice.
It has been reported that the producers asked the DC police for permission and had it denied. If that's true, then someone willingly broke the law.
The genius behind this site most likely hasn't verified the ages of any of his victims and well CP charges go over poorly.
Even if the victims happen to be over 18, I have known people who worked in porn before, and the recordkeeping requirements with regard to age verification/documentation are incredibly strict. I'm not an expert on the topic, so there may be some legal loophole this person is sneaking through, but my guess would be that he's definitely breaking the law.
Victim blaming par excellence.
Mil-spec has a specific meaning. The author translated that to "military grade" which does not.
Whoops. Looks like I'm behind the times. You corrected. Nevermind...
I don't think you had an agenda. I think you ignorantly parroted FUD created by people who have an agenda. EXACTLY like when a journalist says, "copyright theft" or confuses trademark law with copyright with patent. And these things DO matter, no matter how trivial they might seem to those on the outside of the issue. So guns isn't your issue. Fine. Surely you can understand the parallels though.
You're so dumb, you don't even know how dumb you are. "Military load cartridge"? What does that even mean? The intermediate cartridges fired by infantry in modern armies are smaller, less powerful, and have less range than the typical cartridges used for hunting deer.
Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes. "Assault rifle" has a very specific definition, one quality of which is that the weapon is select-fire. "Assault weapon" is a bullshit made-up term, that anti-gunners created in order to confuse the public and conflate regular, semi-automatic rifles with true, military-grade assault rifles. And it worked. The analogy to "IP theft" and "copyright infringement" is 100% on the mark.
Also, to the author: this is not a "military grade" weapon because it is not select-fire. It is functionally equivalent to your apocryphal father's deer rifle.


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|See? CLEARLY safe. (Kent C. Horner/Getty Images)
- It wasn't a bobblehead give away - the Padres were selling Tony Hawk dolls for $10. Unexpected this was, and unfortunate.
- Marlins changed their lineup last minute, taking Mike Stanton out and juggling pretty much everyone else. Apparently Stanton jammed his left big toe running into the RF scoreboard during last night's game (he was chasing a fly ball). He went through all the pre-game stuff before being scratched.
- The Padres played 'Fight for Your Right (To Party)' by the Beastie Boys while waiting for San Diego to take the field. They played a version that removes the 'living at home is such a drag/now your mom took away your best porno mag' lyric. Uh, fellas? That song is 25 years old. EVERYONE in the ballpark has heard it by now. Who's sensitive ears are you going to protect?
- LeBlanc was safe.
- Looked like Maybin might have been safe on his stolen base attempt in the first inning. Florida pitched out, but it appeared he got his hand in while SS Emilio Bonifacio tagged him on the chest. Most of the time, if the ball beats you you're out. On that play at least 2B umpire Dan Bellino can be excused since Maybin's own body blocked him from judging when the tag was applied relative to when Maybin hit the bag.
- Kyle Blanks HR probably traveled 700' in the air. From my vantage point it sure looked like the ball's apex was above the 'PETCO PARK' sign on top of the LF scoreboard. What a moon shot. 393' was the official distance. No way, man, no way. That swing completely changed the game.
- Two times through the Marlin lineup, and Bonifacio had not swung at a pitch (seen 9, called out on strikes and walked on 4 pitches). Alfredo Amezaga, however, the emergency LF starter due to Stanton's scratch, had swung at all 6 pitches he'd seen (4 foul, fly to CF, pop to 2B). I thought that was quite funny.
- Pitcher Chris Volstad ripped his double up the LF/CF gap. Mike Cameron, who's bat did indeed look slow, can still run (in fact I was surprised with how short a lead he took after singling in the fourth). He scored without a play.
- LeBlanc is still safe. What a ridiculous call. He looked safe at normal speed, and was CLEARLY safe on the replay. How can you blow that call? It's your only job, Larry Vannover - to get the call right. Take your time, we'll wait. At least we now know how to wake up the Padre crowd. They let Vannover have it the rest of that inning, and only quit really riding him after the sixth inning ended.
- Bonifacio made O-Dog dive into the dirt while completing a double play to end the sixth. Threw it low. In repsonse, Hudson practically undressed Home Run Ed in the eighth with a hard shot up the middle. Yes I realize neither of these were intentional.
- The seventh inning saw something you rarely see - a pitching change in the middle of an at bat. Jack McKeon pulled Chris Hatcher and replaced him with Ryan Webb while the count was 2-0 on Alberto Gonzalez. In case you are wondering (and I was), had Webb walked Gonzalez that walk would have been charged to Hatcher. Any other result was to be charged to Webb. Gonzo reached on a FC.
- In the eighth, McKeon burned two pinch hitters on the same at bat, when Brett Hayes was announced then replaced by Dwayne Wise after Black pulled Spence in favor of Gregerson. Hayes is the back-up catcher. I have no idea what the Marlins would have done had John Buck then gotten hurt (the speculation was Gaby Sanchez would have caught). It also explains why Buck was left in to run in the ninth after his leadoff walk - there was no way they could run for him.
- Blanks made a nice running catch of Sanchez' line drive leading off the fifth, and al-MOST caught Lopez's liner with two out in the seventh. As Black said during the post-game interview, Blanks has quick feet, great hands, and is getting good jumps on balls hit his way. All that hard work is paying off.
- Josh Spence's last 4 outings: 4 walks, 1 HBP, 1 K, 1 HR. All of a sudden he's having trouble finding the plate. With Joe Thatcher back on the big club, how much longer does Spence stay in San Diego?
Padres have won all 6 games against Florida this season. Nice to see us dominate someone. I'll be at Sunday's game for the Retirement Ceremony, and am looking forward to it. I've never attended a number retiring ceremony, so I hope this lives up to expectations.
Oh, and LeBlanc is STILL safe!


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Wizard tattoo is fun! I think everyone should get one.
It's Eddie from the Iron Maiden album cover 'A Matter Of Life and Death'.
Iron Maiden trooper tattoo.
Derek Rigg's most famous creation, & the 'Iron Maiden' mascot.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (22-9) faced off against Toccoa Falls College (19-11) Wednesday evening and the Bobcats came away with a 5-1 victory. The win extended the Bobcat's winning streak to seven games.
Taylor Hinshaw (Winder, Ga.) led the offensive attack for the Bobcats, doubling to lead off the second inning, before eventually scoring on a groundout.
After a Toccoa Falls run tied the game in the top of the fifth inning, Hinshaw singled home Clay Ardeeser (Alpharetta, Ga.) in the bottom of the sixth.
Hinshaw gave the Bobcats the lead in the bottom of the eight when he put a 1-2 pitch over the left center fence. Later in the inning Jake Sandlin (Evans, Ga.) gave the Bobcats two insurance runs, doubling to right center and bringing in John Welborn (Locust Grove, Ga.) and Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.).
The Bobcats pitching staff pieced together nine innings of one-run baseball, starting with Justin Blue (Mulberry, Fla.) and ending with Matt LaMothe (Troy, Mich.) finishing off the game. Jordan Brooks (Macon, Ga.) earned his second win of the year, pitching the sixth and seventh inning allowing two baserunners and striking out one. Brooks and Daniel Szathmary (Suwanee, Ga.) each went two innings, while every other pitcher remained in the game for just three outs.
Hinshaw finished the game 3-for-4 with two runs scored and another two knocked in. Ryan Sabalaskey (Carol Stream, Ill.) went 2-for-4 at the plate in his return to action after missing the last five games.
The Bobcats return to John Kurtz Field Friday, April 6 at 7 p.m. to take on No. 3 Lander University.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


text: Inflatables can provide big entertainment with the convenience of small storage space requirements when deflated. Nip summer boredom in the bud and tempt kids outside with the excitement of inflatables. Bounce houses, water slides, and other inflatables are a great way to give kids of all ages a fabulous time while they're being physically active outdoors. Here at Sam's Club, you can explore a range of inflatables, with options to suit your kids' interests and ages perfectly.


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MILPITAS, Calif.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-June 1, 2011- SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK) will hold its annual stockholders meeting on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at its corporate headquarters in Milpitas, CA, beginning at 8:00am Pacific Time. Attendance at the on-site meeting will be strictly limited to stockholders with a proxy control number or other proof of ownership, and a valid photo I.D. will also be required for admittance. After adjournment of the annual stockholders meeting, a business overview will be provided by live webcast, beginning at approximately 8:20am Pacific Time. The webcast can be accessed real-time at www.sandisk.com/IR, and the webcast will also be available on-demand following the meeting.
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Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI is a hub that connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaborations. ICI provides access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
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The Pierce County Performance Audit Office plans and coordinates performance audits and other studies designed to improve the performance and accountability of county government.
The Performance Audit function was established in the County Charter and implemented through the provisions of the Performance Auditing Chapter in the County Code (Chapter 1.26 of the Pierce County Code and Section 2.20(1)(f) of the County Charter).
You can find basic information about the performance audit program, the Performance Audit Committee, and all audit reports completed since 1998 by clicking here.


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The Broome County Youth Bureau works with agencies who work with youth, by supporting local community-based organizations which provide a wide variety of services, supports and opportunities for youth throughout our community.
Our support consists of:
We strive to work together, as a community, to provide the best possible services, supports and opportunities to all Broome County youth. We believe in and advocate for the adoption of strong regulations and policies that will better serve our youth. We are actively involved in the promotion of positive health and development of all Broome County youth and the provision of safe and accessible services, supports and opportunities to youth and their families.
The Youth Bureau plays an important role in the community by encouraging and facilitating collaboration in assessing the needs of children and youth.
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The Youth Bureau also provides technical assistance and training in Advancing Youth Development, Runaway & Homeless Youth Program Certification and Youth Program Quality Assessment program management and monitoring.
The Broome County Youth Bureau is pleased to announce the anticipated availability of New York State Office of Children & Family Services Youth Development Funds for calendar year 2019. These funds will be made available by Broome County to those serving the needs of youth in Broome County. Typical grants in the past ranged from $100 to $20,000.
This RFP is being released to solicit proposals from qualified non-profit organizations and municipalities interested in establishing or expanding or continuing programs that will provide services and positive youth development opportunities for youth in our community. Programs can target youth ages 0 – 21 years old.
The Youth Bureau is interested in programs that address the New York State Touchstones*. Programs must have measurable outcomes and address areas of need. Programs that propose collaborative transformational ideas between organizations will be given priority.
As previously communicated, the State no longer will set aside Youth Development Funds specifically for municipalities. Municipalities who wish to be considered for these funds must respond to this RFP.
All grantees will be required to file various additional reports with the Youth Bureau and be visited by Youth Bureau staff and/or Youth Bureau Advisory Board members.
*For more information on these Touchstones please see: http://www.nyskwic.org/about_kwic/touchstones.cfm
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The Youth Bureau Advisory Board holds regular meetings, open to the public. Meetings are generally held quarterly, on the third Tuesday of the month, at 12:15pm, at the Broome County Health Department, Front St., Binghamton, NY. Meeting date/time/place is subject to change; anyone wishing to attend is advised to confirm the next scheduled meeting by calling (607)778-2193.


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One day in early August, Bill Ritter, Jr., the governor of Colorado, met with Steve Feld, a professional filmmaker, to work on the video that will welcome delegates to the Democratic National Convention—and present Colorado to the rest of the country. Feld, whose television credits include "The New Lassie" and "America's Funniest People," steered the Governor toward a conference room on the seventeenth floor of a downtown building and clipped a microphone to his lapel. The backdrop for the shoot, visible through a window, was the city of Denver—bristling with construction cranes and skyscrapers for high-tech companies like Qwest Communications—and, in the distance, the Rockies.
Ritter was elected governor in 2006 by a persuasive seventeen-point margin—a victory that emphasized Colorado's political transformation. In just the past four years, Democrats have won control of the sixty-five-member Colorado House, where they now hold a fifteen-seat majority, and the thirty-five-member Senate, where they're up by five seats. In 2004, the Democrat Ken Salazar, a former state attorney general, won the United States Senate seat that was vacated by the Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell, and Democrats now occupy four of Colorado's seven seats in the House of Representatives. This November, the Party is favored to win the state's other Senate seat (the incumbent Republican, Wayne Allard, is retiring), and Democrats are increasingly confident about picking up a fifth House seat. (George W. Bush won Colorado in both of his Presidential elections, but his margin fell from eight points in 2000 to less than five points in 2004.) There's a reason that the Party chose Denver as the host city for this year's Convention: they expect that it will only help the Democratic Presidential nominee to win the state this fall.
Ritter, who is soft-spoken and oddly reticent for a politician, told Feld that the film should help to tell the story of how Democrats have been winning in the West. "It shouldn't be just a Chamber of Commerce video," he said. "It should be political in its orientation and talk about what we in the Democratic Party have really achieved in the West. If you take a map and just look at where Democratic governors have succeeded Republicans, it's pretty dramatic."
It is in fact a startling change. Since 2002, Democrats have replaced Republican governors in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. It is possible to drive from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and not pass through a single state governed by a Republican. "That's a good pictorial of how you can think about what Democrats have done out here," Ritter said.
Ritter, who is scheduled to address the Convention on Thursday night, is an improbable choice to be pointing Democrats toward the Party's future. He is a Catholic in a Protestant state. In his opposition to abortion, he is out of synch with Party members as well as with the Party platform; twice during his rise through Colorado politics, pro-choice Democrats tried to derail his career—in 1993, when he was appointed district attorney of Denver, and in 2005, as he was preparing to run for governor. "When I was making phone calls, raising money," he said, "I probably talked about abortion in ninety to ninety-five per cent of my calls." Many potential donors said that because of his view they couldn't support him.
Nor is Ritter a particularly magnetic politician. In a party that is now defined by the youth and energy at the top of the ticket, Ritter, who is fifty-one, is a sort of anti-Obama. A self-described "policy wonk," he reaches a pitch of excitement when he talks about the benefits of highly efficient photovoltaic cells or when he recalls what he learned from glaciologists on a recent trip to the Arctic. Rather than charisma, he exudes a beguiling genuineness. "He's in the Colorado mold," Gary Hart, the former Colorado senator and Presidential candidate, told me. "He's smart but he's not uppity. He's a down-to-earth, everyday guy, which is very important out here."
On a recent morning, I met Ritter outside the governor's mansion, an imposing building on a hill in downtown Denver; its entrance is bracketed by two-story Ionic columns, and the interior is filled with museum-quality furnishings from all over the world, the legacy of a Colorado pioneer family that built the house in 1908. Ritter emerged in a suit and open collar, looking slightly dishevelled, with his tie undone and slung around his neck. He carried a newspaper in one hand and, in the other, a briefcase so heavy it threw his stride slightly off balance. We drove to the closest Starbucks. "Can I get you anything?" he asked his travelling companions—his press secretary, a state trooper, an economic adviser, and me—as he stepped out of the car. He returned carrying two grande coffees and he finished knotting his rep tie—quickly and without recourse to a mirror—as we drove the thirty miles to the college town of Boulder, where Ritter was going to speak about the state to a conference of venture capitalists.
In his low-key, no-frills way, Ritter may be in the vanguard of what the national Democratic Party is becoming, both in its demographics and its policies. After about four years of lively discussion, strategists and Party leaders have decided that growth for Democrats is more likely to occur in the conservative but idiosyncratic West than in the solidly Republican South. Barack Obama's campaign, for example, is competing seriously in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico—places where Democratic Presidential candidates have had only limited success during the past three decades.
A significant reallocation of resources to the Western states is likely to have remarkable political consequences. As an election nears, voters in swing states like Colorado get much more attention from candidates, and a party's consulting class spends a disproportionate amount of time developing strategies tailored to the demands of these spoiled voters. Over time, the political process may change the very outlook of a party, forcing it to become more attuned to the peculiar issues and coalitions of new voters. (That's the effect that Iowa and New Hampshire have had on both parties.) As the Democrats take the first steps toward remaking themselves as a Western party, Ritter's Colorado offers a glimpse of what may be the Democratic future.
On a recent afternoon, Jim Carpenter, Ritter's chief of staff, a goodnatured political junkie steeped in the arcana of Colorado demographics, stood in front of two giant state maps tacked to a wall in his office in the capitol building. Like the mansion, the capitol is impressive—a Corinthian-style structure capped by a gold-leafed dome. A brass disk on its steps marks a spot that is exactly a mile above sea level. One of Carpenter's maps showed cities and highways, and the other depicted the state's natural resources—a way to help Carpenter keep track of issues unique to Colorado, such as public lands, oil and gas reserves, invasive species of insects, and fire threats. "So much of Colorado's history and economy is wrapped up in our land," Carpenter said.
Carpenter has worked in Democratic politics for thirty years and has seen his party's fortunes come full circle. In the nineteen-seventies, the state's politics were partially defined by ardent environmentalists and the slow-growth movement—they were able to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics away from Denver—and by Democrats with national profiles, like Gary Hart (who was born in Kansas) and Patricia Schroeder (who was born in Oregon). By the nineties, the state was known as a cradle of both the religious right and the anti-tax movement. Colorado Springs, the most conservative area of the state, serves as home to James Dobson's Focus on the Family, as well as to Douglas Bruce, a California transplant who wrote and helped pass Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR, a set of laws restricting government spending.
Using the roadmap, Carpenter indicated a swath of cities and towns to the east of the Continental Divide, which bisects the state. Stretching for about a hundred and seventy-five miles along Interstate 25—from Fort Collins, in the north, through Denver, in the middle, to Pueblo, in the south—this twenty-five-mile-wide area, known as the Front Range, is home to some eighty per cent of Coloradans, or about four million people. "Colorado really is one of the most urbanized states in the country, in terms of population concentration," Carpenter said. "Even with all this landmass."
The old method of winning Colorado, Carpenter explained, was similar to the approach that Democrats used in the East: a statewide candidate needed to dominate in a big city—Denver—as well as in the steel town of Pueblo, a rare sort of Western city whose politics were closer to those of a Rust Belt state than to those of the Rockies. "It's an old traditional blue-collar type of place," Carpenter said. "There were ethnic politics in Pueblo, blue-collar politics. It was like Milwaukee. There was the Hispanic part of town, and the Italian part of town, and the Eastern European part of town." Finally, Democrats also needed a big turnout in the heavily Hispanic San Luis Valley, in the south-central area of the state, as well as in Boulder, the epicenter for the environmentalists and a place where the politics were akin to those found in Berkeley, California, or Madison, Wisconsin. In some ways, it was a classic coalition for a Democratic victory: the urban core of a big city, the white working class, minorities, and student activists. Republicans, meanwhile, dominated the rural areas of the state and the fast-growing Denver suburbs.
"In the eighties and nineties, the demographics moved very far away from the Democratic Party," Carpenter continued. Since 1990, the Front Range has added almost 1.3 million residents—most of that growth in the Denver suburbs, where Democrats were routinely defeated by wide margins. During the nineties, Republicans found these new arrivals to be eager companions in the populist movements of the right, such as term limits and the Contract with America. The most influential political actor during this period—Douglas Bruce, now a state representative—managed to put TABOR on the Colorado ballot three times, starting in 1988, and kept it there until it finally passed, in 1992. The law mandates a popular vote on any tax increase, strictly limits over-all government growth, and requires that budget surpluses be returned to taxpayers via rebate checks. Bruce's ballot initiative served as a model for small-government conservatives nationwide, and it has played such a dominant part in Colorado political life that jurisdictions trying to overturn its restrictions call the process "de-Brucing."
Over dinner one night at the Elephant Bar, a chain restaurant in Colorado Springs that boasts of its "elephant-size portions," Bruce, a heavyset man of fifty-nine with fierce opinions (Obama is a "moron," a gay person is a "homo," illegal immigrants are "illiterate peasants"), complained that the conservative movement, even in Colorado Springs, was on the wane. "We have nine socialists on the city council and five RINOs"—Republicans in Name Only—"as county commissioners," he said between sips of a mango-raspberry swirl and outbursts directed at our waitress and the restaurant manager concerning the service. Bruce may have been unusually agitated that night; when we met, he was facing a primary challenge in ten days. "In the Republican Party, there's probably twenty-five to thirty per cent of the people who hate my guts," he said. "I have what are known as high negatives." Then again his opponent, Mark Waller, a former Air Force officer whose views were not so conservative as Bruce's, was a mere novice. "He's doing everything wrong," Bruce said. "So, frankly, it'll be a miracle if he won."
The Republican crackup in Colorado occurred early this decade, when a tenuous pact between economic and social conservatives came undone, and the Party's religious wing alienated moderates in the Denver suburbs by putting what was seen as an excessive emphasis on social issues. In 2004, in the midst of a state fiscal crisis—Colorado's budget deficit was a billion dollars, which threatened a cut in funding for higher education by a third—the Republican legislature spent an inordinate amount of time debating a resolution in support of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and revising a statute that required students and teachers in public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. The following November, the Democrats took over the legislature.
A year later, with the exploding population of the Front Range demanding more government services, Colorado Republicans faced their most serious crisis: they were divided over a ballot measure to suspend some TABOR rules for five years, allowing the government to use budget surpluses for health care, education, and transportation rather than refunding them to taxpayers.
Bill Owens, the Republican governor, surprised conservatives by coming out in favor of the referendum. Owens, after all, had been elected as an anti-government warrior. ("He sold us out," Bruce told me.) The measure passed in 2005, although not by much. The following year, Bill Ritter succeeded Owens, who had to step down because of term limits.
By 2006, the Democratic coalition was further altered by some striking new demographics. An area of opportunity had sprung up in what Carpenter calls "the blue strip"—the resort communities on the western side of the Rockies, including Steamboat Springs, Vail, Aspen, Crested Butte, and Breckenridge. "That's a change, because this used to be rural, traditional, Western, Republican ranch country, and now it's full of second homes and growing," Carpenter said. "It's a brand-new phenomenon." In effect, the ranks of blue-collar voters in places like Pueblo, where growth has come to a standstill, are being augmented by wealthy skiers. Furthermore, the Latino population in the state has doubled—to twenty per cent—since 1990. But, more important than the rise of the resort class and the growing number of Hispanics, Democrats became competitive in the Denver suburbs.
The Front Range is expected to have 6.3 million residents by 2040—a fifty-per-cent increase over today—and demographers have devised a new vocabulary to describe the distinctive characteristics of this and similar regions in the Southwest, such as Arizona's Sun Corridor, Nevada's Greater Las Vegas, and Northern New Mexico; the Brookings Institution, in a report called "Mountain Megas," has recently dubbed them "megapolitans." The fastest-growing suburbs in these areas, such as Westminster and Lakewood, outside Denver, are known as "boomburbs." What these megapolitans have in common are economies that are moving away from agriculture and the extraction industries (like mining, gas, and oil) and toward service industries (like tourism and hospitality) and high technology (like aerospace and biosciences). According to Brookings, the region will soon become the center of the postindustrial economy, meaning that "the southern Intermountain West is well on its way to earning itself the title of the New American Heartland." Change in Colorado is occurring even in Doug Bruce's home town of Colorado Springs. On August 12th, Bruce, the leader of the once ascendant anti-government movement, lost his primary to Mark Waller, the novice.
On the short drive to Boulder, Governor Ritter talked about his unlikely passage to the statehouse. He grew up outside Denver, in what is today Aurora—now one of those boomburbs—on a five-acre wheat farm where he and his eleven siblings helped his parents raise chickens, pigs, and cows. His father, a rancher, was an alcoholic who deserted the family when Bill, the sixth child, was thirteen, forcing the older Ritter kids to work to help support their mother, who was a bookkeeper, and the rest of the family.
Bill Ritter laid pipe and worked as a roofer. He was educated in both Catholic and public schools before attending Colorado State University as an undergraduate and then the University of Colorado as a law student. He worked his way up to chief deputy prosecutor in the Denver D.A.'s office and abruptly left the job for something completely different: a Catholic mission to Zambia, where for three years he and his wife ran a nutrition center and quietly taught villagers in the grip of an H.I.V. pandemic how to use condoms. When he returned home, he worked for two years as a federal prosecutor and then went back to the D.A.'s office. In 1993, after the elected D.A. retired, the Democratic governor, Roy Romer, appointed Ritter to the top post. Romer was won over by Ritter, at least in part, because of Ritter's unusual history, especially the chronicle of his experiences in Zambia. Ritter was elected district attorney of Denver three times and retired in 2004, because of term limits.
In the car, Ritter explained how, when he and David Beattie, his pollster, plotted his 2006 gubernatorial race, they divided the state's electorate into five groups. Ritter, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, took out a pen and paper and sketched a pie chart. He drew one wedge and marked it with the number twenty, which he said represented the "very liberal" base of the Democratic Party. "Then another sixteen per cent are what we call Fox News conservatives," he said, drawing a second wedge. "They're just really conservative and they're never gonna be with a Democrat because they're just hardened conservatives in terms of thinking the government has no role. They would privatize just about every public function except perhaps law enforcement."
No chance with those guys? I asked.
"No chance."
Ritter continued: "Then there's thirteen per cent of what we call moral conservatives, and there's some overlap between the morals and the Fox News conservatives, but they're hardened moral conservatives and they will not vote for a Democrat, even a pro-life Democrat, because he's a Democrat. I have a brother-in-law who's a moral conservative—didn't vote for me." The rest of the electorate, according to Ritter, was split between what he called "government pragmatists," which are thirty-seven per cent of voters, and "moral pragmatists," which are fourteen per cent. The first group, he said, "are pro-choice and they don't have issues around gay marriage. They just want to make sure government works, but they're not liberals, and they don't think the government should be increasing. It should spend your tax dollar prudently and wisely." Finally, the moral pragmatists, Ritter explained, "do have issues around gay marriage and they have issues having to do with abortion, but at the same time they don't want those issues to bog down government's ability to deliver appropriate functions."
These voters were the key to Ritter's victory. "If you win among the liberals, and you win all the government pragmatists, then you're over fifty per cent," he said as we pulled off the highway and arrived at the sprawling and very modern campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. "But you may not win all the government pragmatists for one reason or another. So you have to carve into those moral pragmatists, and I think the reason we won pretty significantly was because we carved heavily into that group."
Ritter's emphasis tends to be on the pragmatic. At the stop in Boulder, he told the venture capitalists how, during his gubernatorial campaign, his opponent ran ads portraying him as soft on crime. Ritter's aides told him that he needed to respond with commercials that showed his toughness. Ritter, though, recalled saying, "No, the first commercial we're gonna make will be in a wind farm."
In "Whistling Past Dixie," a book widely read and debated in Democratic circles when it was published in 2006, Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, argues that Democrats should give up on the South and focus on the West, partly because white Southerners, more than any other group, use social issues as a prism through which they view all other issues—and that attempts by Democrats to express some cultural affinity with these voters are rarely successful. Therefore, if the South remains the unattainable goal for Democrats—a political white whale—striving to win the region will end up pulling the Party to the right on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, while achieving no electoral benefits. At the very least it will force Democrats to pander, leading voters to question the authenticity of candidates like John Kerry in 2004, who tried to pay homage to Southern culture. (No one quite believed that Kerry really enjoyed hunting and NASCAR.) Ritter's analysis suggests that he agrees with Schaller. Democrats don't need to speak in tongues to win the West. They simply need to give the electorate an honest signal that they take the concerns of moderate religious voters seriously. In office, Ritter's top priorities have been education, climate change, and the effort to move his state closer to a post-fossil-fuel energy economy. He almost never talks about social issues, and there is by now a bipartisan consensus in Colorado that emphasis on such issues is not good for a party's long-term health.
Other factors are at work out West for the Democrats. For one, the racial dynamics of Colorado and the region are not as fraught as they are elsewhere. "We never had slavery out here," Gary Hart said. "I mean, it's a Southern issue. And obviously the number of African-Americans is smaller, but that's not the point. The point is we just didn't have the heritage of slavery." The Obama campaign has claimed that a huge increase in black turnout could make him competitive in the Deep South, especially Georgia. But this doesn't seem a likely outcome to most analysts, who argue that the larger the black population in a Southern state the more the white population tends to vote Republican. David Beattie told me, "From a lot of work we've done in Georgia in state legislature seats, we learned that when the black percentage passes eighteen per cent, the whites in that seat tend to be more Republican than whites in seats where it is under eighteen per cent black."
Another fact of Western politics—one that also helps Democrats—is an absence of a strong party tradition. "They didn't have political machines two hundred years ago that dictated party, because they weren't even states," Beattie said. "They don't have that history like Chicago or New York or anything along the East Coast." There's no culture of political patronage, so individual candidates and personalities matter far more than party labels. Colorado's voter registration is divided roughly into equal thirds: Republicans, Democrats, and independents, with independents growing the fastest. That's why Ritter governs ruthlessly from the center. He sees independence from the extremes as his guiding philosophy, and is therefore almost as quick to buck Democrats as he is to oppose Republicans. Among many Democrats, being associated with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council has become toxic, but not in the West. "In Colorado, it's a badge of honor," Ritter told me. One of his first acts as governor was to veto a piece of legislation that would have made it easier for unions to organize in the state. The veto so infuriated national labor leaders that James P. Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters, confronted Ritter at the annual Gridiron Dinner, in Washington, and warned him that labor issues could "blow up" the Democratic Convention. (Recently, Ritter has steered in a more pro-labor direction.)
Ritter is vigilant about correcting the impression, often stoked by the national press and liberal Democratic strategists, that Colorado is turning a deep blue. During his session with Feld, the filmmaker eagerly suggested that the theme of his video might be "from red to blue to green" and excitedly noted that it would show "how Colorado has transformed from a red state to a blue state, and now we're going green!" The Governor visibly cringed at the idea and delicately steered the project in a different direction.
"I am a little concerned about that," Ritter said, "because I think, while we have great emphasis on green, that it should be about different kinds of symbols than the color green—wind farms, solar, renewable-energy laboratories, those things that are symbolic of the new energy economy. People think that we overuse the concept of green, and it could become trite in its expression." Later, Ritter returned to the point. "This idea about green in a lot of people's minds still conjures up this notion of a fringe or something that's out-there," he told me. "It doesn't inspire this notion of a new America. It just seems more substantive than a color." He continued, "If you only make it about being green, you lose the sense that you can build a national economy around this."
In the fall of 2006, Gary Hart sent Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a memo outlining a new, Western-oriented political future. Under a grand-sounding title—"Manifesto: Democrats and the West"—Hart presented a ten-point plan for the transformation of the Democratic Party. When Dean announced, in January of 2007, that Denver would be the site of the 2008 Convention, he mentioned Hart's document as having influenced his decision. Hart's prescription is provocative. It calls for an outlook that is simultaneously more libertarian and more progressive. There is a renewed emphasis on private-property rights, accompanied by the suggestion that Democrats condemn the Supreme Court's 2005 Kelo decision, which expanded the right of eminent domain by allowing governments to seize private property in the name of economic development. Taking land "for public use is one thing," Hart wrote. "Taking homesteads, family farms and ranches, and small businesses for 'public purposes,' such as malls, shopping centers, and Wal-Marts, is quite another." Much of Hart's document dealt with how the Party should balance resource development and conservation. Like Ritter, Hart urged Democrats to promote the interior West as a center for the high-tech industry and a showcase for the transition to an economy built on renewable sources of energy.
Hart's approach for deëmphasizing the culture wars is different from Ritter's. Whereas Ritter appealed to the religious convictions of voters, Hart suggests a more laissez-faire approach. "Westerners are individualists who do not like the beliefs of others imposed on us," he wrote. "We are people who believe in principles: integrity, honor, courage, accountability. The religious right preaches values. Democrats, regionally and nationally, should espouse principles, for ourselves and for our country." He argues that while "values" have religious connotations, "principles" are secular.
I asked Hart how the Democratic Party would look if it faithfully followed his counsel. "If we brought the mountain states into the Democratic Party for the next twenty, thirty, forty years, it would make the Party younger. It would make the Party more environmentally concerned and attentive. It would certainly move energy-related issues to the forefront," he said. "And you will find people here more technologically sophisticated. It would be much more new economy versus old economy. This is not an industrial area. This is small business and cutting-edge technologies. We're about where California was twenty-five, thirty years ago."
Hart would like the Democratic Party to become closer to the coalition that he rallied in his 1984 insurgent primary campaign against Walter Mondale. "Fritz Mondale and I split the country," Hart said. "I swept the West, including California, and almost every Western state. The signature issue was globalization, even at that period, twenty-five years ago. Every state that was benefitting from international trade voted for me, and every state that was being hurt by international trade voted for Fritz. That was the issue." It hardly needed pointing out that Obama and Hillary Clinton were divided by the same set of issues in their primary contests this year, with Obama rallying the Hart coalition and Clinton winning the Mondale voters. "I didn't get the nomination and Obama did," Hart said. "But the country has moved into the new economy much more than twenty-five years ago."
There is an irony in the party of the downtrodden becoming the party of America's economic winners, but in fact Democrats are doing better among voters in places that are prospering, like Colorado and New Mexico, and losing ground among voters in regions that are experiencing hard times, such as West Virginia or parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. A Democratic turn toward the West would accelerate this trend. A party of the Western megapolitans and resort communities would be a party less and less like the party of F.D.R., Truman, and Lyndon Johnson. It would be more oriented to the haves than to the have-nots. It would rely more on educated voters. Its approach to social issues would be more matter-of-fact, and candidates would be less fearful of alienating the most reactionary evangelicals. It would be more oriented toward small businesses and thus more skeptical of workplace regulations. It might become a party that puts more emphasis on achieving energy independence and combatting global warming than on providing universal health care and social justice. "It's a party that becomes more Hispanic, and less African-American," Kenneth Baer, the co-founder of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, said. "More oriented toward high-tech workers and less towards labor. It's the end of the New Deal coalition."
Schaller sees the American West as a place to refashion a Democratic future—one less tethered to the Party's old interest groups. "Democrats have the chance in the Western states to forge parties that reflect a post-Great Society, new-economy identity," he said. "That will be much harder to do on the Eastern Seaboard, where the parties are dominated by Catholics and union households. The Colorado Democratic Party is a much better opportunity to forge a new party than, say, the Democratic Party of New York, which is filled with patronage politicians and dominated by identity politics and the barons of the old New York metropolitan machine."
Such changes are not going to take full effect this year, or next, in part because the Obama campaign is wealthy enough to compete in every region of the country. (Think of the Obama organization as a political venture-capital fund with enough money to test various theories of Democratic growth.) The campaign is certainly not about to pursue Western states at the expense of other regions of America. For example, along with Colorado, Virginia is one of Obama's most important targets.
It may be more useful to think of "the West" not just as a place beyond the Great Plains but as shorthand for all those places where the demographics are moving in a direction similar to Colorado's Front Range. In that sense, Obama's hope to win Virginia is consistent with his party's Western strategy. Democrats have recently done well there because northern Virginia has become increasingly moderate, suburban, and high-tech; the Party still falls short with rural and culturally conservative voters.
Democrats often pay homage to the symbols of the American frontier. But the iconography of their Western strategy is not so much about mountains, cowboys, and tumbleweed as it is about tract houses, research labs, and wind farms. Over the next decades, the Party will inevitably follow the lead of politicians like Bill Ritter and focus more attention on the West and all that it represents. As the population and electoral votes flow in that direction, so will the Democrats. ♦


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I was curios how closures performs in comparison with objects in Perl. I have tested it on counter as the simplest possible abstraction with state.
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); sub make_counter { my $counter = shift; return sub { $counter++ }; } package counter; sub new { my ( $class, $counter ) = @_; return bless \$counter, $class; } sub inc { ${ shift() }++ } package main; our $inc = make_counter(1); our $counter = counter->new(1); cmpthese( -5, { closure_make => q{make_counter(1)}, object_make => q{counter->new(1)} } ); cmpthese( -5, { closure => q{$main::inc->()}, method => q{$main::counter->inc()} } );
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Rate closure_make object_make closure_make 420045/s -- -35% object_make 643969/s 53% -- Rate method closure method 2397172/s -- -35% closure 3697681/s 54% --
Well, it is not simple. Both approaches have their benefits but if you want best performance and want little bit abstraction you should pass closure into your hot loop instead objects. But if you want create closure inside loop, than let you try avoid it or change to object. But you should not need it in hot loop anyway. I'm little bit surprised that closure construction is so expensive in perl. I have known that bless is not cheap operation, but closure?


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The longtime frontman of the seminal art-punk band Pere Ubu, David Thomas was born June 14, 1953 in Moss Point, MS. A one-time music journalist, he first attracted attention as a performer during the mid-'70s while leading the Cleveland-based cult favorites Rocket from the Tombs; in 1975, he and fellow rock scribe Peter Laughner formed Pere Ubu, debuting later that year with the single "30 Seconds Over Tokyo." With their noisy, anarchic sound and Thomas' wailing, scattershot vocals, Ubu emerged as one of the key underground acts of the punk era, issuing a series of classic LPs including 1978's The Modern Dance, 1979's Dub Housing, and 1980's The Art of Walking to critical applause and commercial indifference before dissolving in 1982. Thomas had already begun a solo career a year earlier with The Sound of the Sand (And Other Songs of the Pedestrians), a collaboration with guitar virtuoso Richard Thompson, and in 1983, he released both Variations on a Theme and Winter Comes Home. Efforts including More Places Forever and Monster Walks the Winter Lake followed before Thomas released 1987's Blame the Messenger, recorded with a backing band dubbed the Wooden Birds; the group's lineup included fellow Pere Ubu alums Allen Ravenstine and Tony Maimone, and when another onetime bandmate, drummer Scott Krauss, sat in for a Cleveland live date, the decision was made to begin working as Ubu again. The re-formed lineup debuted in 1988 with The Tenement Year, and despite a series of roster shifts, continued on throughout the decade to follow; in 1996, Thomas also released a new solo LP, Erewhon, with new backing band the Two Pale Boys, which also featured avant trumpeter Andy Diagram (also of the Diagram Brothers, the Honkies, and the Spaceheads) and sonic manipulator Keith Molene. His musical theater project, Mirror Man, debuted in London two years later and was released on CD in 1999; Bay City followed on Thirsty Ear a year later. The second Pale Boys album, Surf's Up, appeared in 2001. ~ Jason Ankeny
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K.427 "Grosse Messe" - Edited Maunder. - Quonium
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Johannes-Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: No. 1, Chorus, "Herr, unser Herrscher"
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Handel: Messiah / Part 2 - "Why Do The Nations...Let Us Break Asunder"
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Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) April 22, 2014
Today, Venuelabs and the Location Based Marketing Association released the 2014 Mobile Consumer Benchmarks, a series of customer experience reports for key industry verticals that include Retail, Restaurants, and Hospitality. These benchmarks, now in their 2nd year, surface the growing importance in understanding the mobile in-store consumer.
Additionally, these benchmarks highlight the opportunities and challenges faced by marketers, operators and executives, in identifying the key trends in mobile consumer behavior and their in-store expectations.
The data and analysis was produced jointly between the Location Based Marketing Association and the Venuelabs data science team, leveraging the Venuelabs customer analytics technology platform. Today this platform, which addresses the specialized brand monitoring needs of merchants with physical locations, is used broadly by merchants across most retail and restaurant verticals, now tracking more than 500,000 merchant locations in over 100 countries. The platform is commonly deployed across departments to include marketing, operations, customer service, and others.
"This years benchmarks show continued growth in 'big data' opportunities when it pertains to local and mobile," said LBMA President Asif Khan, "I am pleased to see that this year-over-year growth illustrates an increased focus on the part of merchants and brands to leverage local insights with the goal of more intimately connecting with their in-store consumer."
Key findings in this year's research includes:
1) Unstructured Data on the Rise.
An important trend identified was the growing ratio of "unstructured" customer data over structured data. Historically, merchants have been primarily concerned with structured feedback (online reviews) from review sites like Yelp and CitySearch. In fact, unstructured data is growing at a faster pace and outnumbers structured data by a factor of 100:1. For the average merchant, greater than 99% of total customer feedback is unstructured data from sites like Instagram, Foursquare, and Facebook, while traditional reviews make up less than 1%. Venuelabs technology is specifically designed to bring together structured and unstructured data to provide a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the customer.
2) Growing Trend of In-Store Photos Requires Advanced Analysis
With the meteoric rise of sites like Instagram, in-store consumer photos are becoming a new rich data source for merchants. Today about 67% of photos posted to the Internet have an associated location. Locked within these photos are insights into merchandising, operations, facilities, and staff. Unlocking these insights require new types of data analysis processes and methodologies that are not broadly available except with technology like Venuelabs.
3) Merchants Still Missing Mobile Customers due to Technology Gap.
Many merchants and brands across verticals are continuing to miss local mobile customer feedback. Leading marketing cloud and social media monitoring platforms like Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Analytics, Lithium and Vitrue are not designed to listen to the in-store consumer. Without location-based listening technology, merchants miss over 86% of the local mobile consumer activity.
4) Mobile Consumer Channels are Growing and Fragmented.
Findings show the continued diversification & fragmentation of local sites and channels being used by consumers to engage via their mobile phones. For example, a typical retail location has on average 11 local channels capturing customer experiences and feedback. For merchants with 5, 50 or 3000 locations, this landscape can be unmanageable without technology.
"Local customers are mobile customers," said Neil Crist Venuelabs founder and CEO, "The context of location is one of the richest aspects of understanding your customers. With location based data growing exponentially every year, it will soon overtake traditional consumer datasets absent location. Understanding the mobile customer is a strategic imperative for today's merchants. Venuelabs' core focus is helping merchants hone in on local insights, and driving actionability."
Summaries of these benchmarks can be found below:
- Venuelabs 2014 Retail Industry Benchmark for Mobile Customer Experience- http://www.slideshare.net/venuelabs/2014-annual-retail-benchmark-venuelabs-lbma-32429833
- Venuelabs 2014 Fast Casual Restaurant Industry Benchmark for Mobile Customer Experience- http://www.slideshare.net/venuelabs/2014-annual-fast-casual-restaurant-benchmark-venuelabs-lbma-32429725
- Venuelabs 2014 Quick Serve Restaurant Industry Benchmark for Mobile Customer Experience- http://www.slideshare.net/venuelabs/2014-annual-quick-service-restaurant-benchmark-venuelabs-lbma
- Venuelabs 2014 Hospitality Industry Benchmark for Mobile Customer Experience - http://www.slideshare.net/venuelabs/2014-annual-hotel-hospitality-benchmark-venuelabs-lbma
About LBMA – http://thelbma.com/
The Location Based Marketing Association is an international not-for-profit group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places, and media. Our goal is simple: To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth, and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. The over 700 members of the LBMA include retailers, restaurant chains, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless companies.
About Venuelabs – http://venuelabs.com/
Venuelabs is the leading merchant technology platform for by location customer measurement, analytics, and engagement. In use today by over 500,000 locations in more than 100 countries, the Venuelabs platform is used by merchants large and small, across retail, restaurant, hospitality, and convenience retail industries. Venuelabs extensive customer base includes Albertsons, Chevron, Dickey's Barbeque, Discount Tire, and McDonalds.


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DAWLATI (in Arabic means &ldquo My State&rdquo ) provides Lebanese Citizens with the following services: Information about more than 4500 administrative transactions in the Lebanese administration in a simple, accurate and constantly d method, Having electronic forms for download and electronic filling and printing, online registration with personalized space and storage of personal documents, and electronic services to be announced periodically with different administrations.
Investment Facilitation and Public Administration Modernization
In use
Product Type:
Web based application
Target Users:
Investors and Ministry personnel
Developer Name:
Ministry of Interior of Morocco and USAID Morocco
Product Url:
System Requirements:
Internet access
e-invest is a web-based application built to improve collaboration between national and local authorities, strengthening the capacity of the administration to offer a one-stop-shop service for investors. For the investor, the system translates into  :
Fewer trips and less paperwork  :  the investor needs to provide identification only once to the administration and may send documentary evidence on his project electronically to the regional authorities,
A secured web access  that allows the investor to follow the processing of his/her projects online and related procedures, providing visibility on handling times.
For the administration, e-invest provides  :
Instant access  to all elements of investment projects (forms and documentary evidence) necessary for the thorough evaluation of their economic, spatial, ecologic and social impact by national and regional authorities. The system aims at replacing the paper trail and avoiding bottlenecks. By enabling concurrent processing of investment related procedures, delays are cut significantly.
The means for enhanced coordination:  a module helps coordinating state authorities' technical investigations and organizing committee meetings.
Statistics:  data on handling times allows for monitoring and benchmarking procedures handling within and between regions. Furthermore, e-invest provides the decision maker with key and real time data on national and regional economic activity.


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Venom In The Veins
in the
It's my property! Why, I paid $985 for this here piece of flesh, and I have the right to do what I want with it.
Pounded under the slave block's gavel,
bid-$1-2-430 bid-$2-4-580 bid-$3-4–850 bid-$5-6-1,000
& Sold, & Sold, & Sold, & Sold,
heart beats, heart beats, heart beats, heart beats
Four million hearts beating
For Life
For Greed
For Lust
the rhythm of planting, picking—
Turned into MONEY,
Poured into crops,
Fusing with the dirt
Raining from the sky—
Southern trees bore a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Across the street,
in the White Churches,
BREAD turned to CHRIST'S FLESH,
to WINE
So if'in I want to rape it, hate it, mutilate it, that ain't none of your business. I can even kill it if I want to 'cause it's mine, and you can't stop me. Though me killin' it would mean I was downright crazy given what I just paid for it. But when it gets old and useless, and I've gotten my money's worth, I just might hunt it for fun. Now you just get on out of my way before I start to showin' my hate for you, you anti-Christian piece of Northern trash! It's in the Bible; they're heathens, savages, inferior, don't believe in Jesus, and even when converted, they still the sons of Ham. My preacher taught me the word of God. He should know. God's never wrong, and We Southerners have God on our sidde [ssssss-slap]
God on our siiiiid- [sssss-slap]
God on our siiii- [ssss-slap]
God on our sssss- [ssss-slap]
God on ouuur- [ssss-slap]
God onnn -[ssss-slap]
"Oh, yes ye converted heathen, God has a message for thee; be meek and mild my child in the face of thy travails. Submit and repent; think only of Heaven, not this world, and the next will be yours."
So said the Southern Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and cohorts.
(and the country whispers but that was so long ago; that was not us; I'm not to blame…. but look and listen and understand it is here now; it is racism; it is killing you, me, the haters and the hated—and yes, even most the ones that stand by, doing nothing)
The vomiting has begun
The bile is rising
The venom in the veins
Courses hardy
Throbbing, pulsing
Lub dub, Lub dub, Lub dub:
The throb of life calling for
MURder, MURder, MURder, MURder
chanting in a viperous tongue
slithering from
the Reptilian brain,
When did slavery end?
When did it end?
Physical fact,
State of mind?
As law?
Law enforcement?
But only the sightless believe
It ended in 1864.
Jim Crow's reign, segregation, culture of terror, KKK, politicians, Good-White-Men-with-Family-Values. Black ink on White paper records 3,437 African-American lynched up to 1951. Not recorded: every Beating, Stabbing, Crippling, Broken bone, Fried human, Burnt house, Vigilantes Hunting in packs…..
Rising in the pride of the South, strong in their conviction, pleased with their Tradition, Southern Governors and Senators spoke out for what their cold, lizard hearts and squalid eyes and fetid brains claimed as Truth. the "Negro" is inferior. With God (& their 'way of life') on their side, they made sure no African American sat on a jury; lynchings took place with impunity as community picnic entertainment, photographed with pride—placed in the family album next to the wedding reception.
(and the country whispers….but that was so long ago… that was not us; I'm not to blame…. but mark and listen and understand it is here now; it is racism; it is killing you, me, the haters and the hated—the Lovers and the Loved—and yes, even most, the ones that stand by, doing nothing)
Woodrow Wilson, a racist Enforcer, segregated the federal government: 1902-1910. One man—the country followed.
1955, a 14-year-old Chicago boy visiting in Mississippi crossed an invisible "white's only" boundary he didn't even know existed. His punishment: eyes gouged out, beaten to death, then, finally, shot in the head, thrown into the Tallahatchie River, a 75-pound fan tied around his neck with barbed wire weighing his small body down. Only 54 years ago (and the country pretends… it was so long ago…but oh how wrong we are. It happened during my lifetime. And it was not the end.). Two men arrested, not held or punished; the haters enforced their reign of terror, and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI promulgated hate, intimidating civil rights workers, giving aid to lynchers, discrediting Martin Luther King, Jr., serving him up to the murdering mob.
1968, only 41 years ago, racism killed Martin Luther King, Jr.
1981, two KKK members in Alabama randomly chose to lynch 19-year-old Michael Donald. For the very first time, the killers were found guilty, but the prosecutor has been number 1 on the Aryan Nation hit list ever since. 1981, Only 28 years ago, during the lives of my children.
I beheld my caring, open-hearted lover
Every month, every week, every day, every hour
We strolled through a store
Sat together for coffee—or more.
Eyes glided blankly past her to see only me,
Ask me what I wanted
Fuss over me
Serve me
While she stood next to me:
Except in the Glares of the Police.
The Stares of the Guards
The Malevolence of the Whites
Sniggering, Blithering
As we passed by.
I learned to read
The nerve-quickened pulsing
at the edge
Of her jaw,
The muscles set
her throbbing, open heart
1998, three men, all members of a white supremacist prison gang, murdered James Byrd, Jr., a 49-year-old Texas father of three, who had accepted an early-morning ride home from work with the three men. Because it's what white racists do, they attacked him, dragging him to his death behind their truck, then moseyed off to a barbecue. 1998, only 11 years ago, as the radical Christian Right gained its stranglehold on the Republican party, fought for religion in politics, anti-immigration, anti-gay, anti-everything "not them." They've perfected the attack ad, blaming the "other," hunting the scapegoat, preying on and harnessing the collective ugliness within us. And as they've discovered, there is more than enough to destroy this country without the need of a nuclear bomb. (and the country ignores….IT is not going away…IT grows on hate, and the agony is ascending once again, again, and again, flooding the land.)
Finally, on June 13, 2005, the US Senate formally apologized for its failure to previously enact a Federal anti-lynching law. All earlier attempts had been defeated by filibusters by powerful Southern senators. 2005, only 4 years ago (and the country sighs, it is over…Oh, how very wrong are we. Look anywhere; there IT is).
And once again the lynching comes
as mobs find courage in numbers.
Have Faith for Faith's sake,
preserve Tradition for Tradition's sake
Hate for Hate's sake
With God, Government, and Police on their side.
For as far back as we have evidence, humans have practiced human sacrifice: scapegoats, the pariah, the "other" to put upon them the blame and shame of the community, to be the sacrifice for the sins of all, originally to drive them out of the community and leave them to die—or ritually kill them in cleansing ceremonies. Human sacrifice for the rest of our sakes; human sacrifice to the gods. The one we know best is the dying/rising god, the god that promises immortality. The names may change but the promise of sin-free immortality remains the same: Osiris, Dionysus, Tammuz, Odin, Ishtar, Persephone, Baal—Jesus. Christians say Jesus is the last; THEY say Jesus took the sins of all so no one else would have to suffer; THEY say they follow him….and yet…and yet….and yet, THEY continue scape-goating—sacrificing others, projecting fears, hatred, anger, perverted thoughts onto entire populations.
What an excuse to commit genocide (Indians, Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Immigrants—take your pick).
What an excuse to kill ( so many to choose from).
What an excuse to be a vigilante (a buffet of life to slaughter).
What an excuse for murdering in the name of love.
The psychosis of humanity made manifest, running amuck, ranting, wrecking, reeking havoc, assaulting, lynching, Effacing to avoid facing themselves.
Playing God, they slaughter.
The herd hunts again,
Rulers of Deceit:
The Rogue and the Righteous
—The McPalins of the World—
Forging the grandiose
To Feast,
in rancid lies
Sludge in the drains—the slime—
Lining the social plumbing,
Lurking in the twisted shadows
Out of sight
Out of mind.
Left too long to rot and mold
In the grime
of history
Bubbles in repression,
Churns sour in our souls,
Flings out its tentacles for the light of day
Births hate from guilt,
Pain from shame,
Displaced blame gobbles the refusal to atone
No matter how hard we try to scrub the claims of conscience away,
Our Nemesis,
Our cyanide rage,
Our Gangrenous hate.
Crawling on the unmasked:
Church members,
Beasts craving to be fed Again
Their Country,
Their Young.
(With God on their side)
Thanks to:
Abel Meeropol for the lyrics Strange Fruit
The Southern Poverty Law Center:
Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin, Jr., and Julian Bond,
Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, all those who've been hurt & still will,
All who've fought and still continue to
Charging Shame to:
All that aid & abet fear of those who are different
All that feed off hate
All that incite violence against those who disagree
All that are complicitous, consciously or not
By riki mathews, The Trickster
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I've been having trouble getting onto Canternet lately. Using the app on this site or Equestria-daily has proved entirely fruitless.
Any advice, or at least an explanation I somehow missed?
Trouble with canternet.
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I can't say what's wrong with the web clients. You may try the web client on Canternet.org itself, or you could get a stand-alone client. Personally, I recommend using a stand-alone client whenever you can, but that's my opinion. I use mIRC, myself.
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Adobe Customer Experience Solutions help create, manage, and deliver high-impact, personalized interactions that captivate customers and extend brand values across digital channels. Powered by the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP), these solutions include rich enterprise applications and friendly user interfaces.
To understand Adobe's Customer Experience Management philosophy and roadmap, view this great interview by Ben Watson, Adobe's principal customer experience strategist.
Ben talks about Customer Experience Solutions as being integral to the manage part of Adobe's becoming a make, manage, and measure brand.
So ultimately, we are becoming the make, manage and measure brand, as I think about it, in the enterprise. While we are probably still best known for 'make', in terms of Photoshop, Illustrator – our design tools – Acrobat for making documents, Flash for making multimedia presentations on the web or for delivering and making applications, and delivering an actual interactive application. I would argue that in the web space we are pretty well known from a measuring perspective as well. The acquisition of Omniture a few years has grown into the Adobe Online Marketing Suite, and we have a strong set of tools there around, not just measurement of web activity, but now measurement of social activity analytics that are relative to the communities you might be forming at an enterprise, or also your work that you do with third party communities, like the major social networks, etc.
Here in the middle are these set of technologies that I am focused on which are ultimately the management. By management I mean web content management, business process management and rolling all of this up under the umbrella of customer experience management.
You can read the transcript of the interview here.
While you're reading up more and getting started, here are a few other resources you'll find helpful:


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The purpose of this proposal is to assess the demand and determine the best way to deliver a Java SE - runtime for Fremantle / Maemo 5.
Brainstorms, category Programming
Delivering Java SE to Fremantle
Posted on 2009-10-19 11:24 UTC by Claus Feichtinger. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop, Utilities, System, Programming.
An easy way for a Windows user to start developing in Qt for Maemo 5
Posted on 2009-10-23 11:36 UTC by Sascha Makela. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Programming.
Delivering Java ME to Fremantle
Posted on 2009-10-19 08:18 UTC by Claus Feichtinger. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Games, Utilities, System, Programming.
The purpose of this proposal is to assess the demand and determine the best way to deliver a Java ME - runtime for Fremantle / Maemo 5.
Spinning Zoom as universal Maemo gesture
Posted on 2009-12-09 21:42 UTC by Sergey Vlasov. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Utilities, User Experience, System, Programming.
Would be great to use the same gesture in maps app, image viewer, where it is feasible. Developpers shouln't be bothered to implement it, this gesture should be transparent for applications.
Disscuss here:
Make it easier to contribute to Maemo OS
Posted on 2009-09-23 14:44 UTC by Sébastien Gendre. Status: Under consideration, milestone: Fremantle, Categories: Programming.
It misses the possibility to contribute directly to the free element of Maemo as we can do it with Android, Fedora, Debian, etc. ...
Example: if I want to correct a bug or add a features in Maemo OS, where I go? Where I get the source code? To who I send my contribution?