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Digg is bringing back version 3 features because of the uproar from its user base. Let's see if Sphinn will do the same. Danny Sullivan jokingly Tweets that:
"in its next rollback, Digg brings back 2006, when it was popular and loved"
The decision was made after taking a survey, er, vote… gulp.
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text: My sweet Audrey puts a smile on my face. People ask me if she understands 'our adoption'. And I think as best she can, she does. Anytime that I have any paper in my hand she'll ask,"Is that for our adoption?" A few days ago when we sent our dossier off she asked me, "Are we going to pick them up now?" But what she said during our nature walk a few nights ago completely blessed my heart! Daddy and Norah were ahead, and Audrey and I were a little behind walking hand in hand. She looked up at me and said, "I love you Mommy. And I love Daddy and Norah and Willow (our bunny) and our chickens." "I love you too Audrey." And then unprompted she said,"And I love our baby too."


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The first fight is set for December's Bellator 166 event.
Officials today announced featherweights A.J. McKee (5-0 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) and Emmanuel Sanchez (13-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) are set as the fight card's first official matchup.
Bellator 166 takes place Dec. 2 at WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Okla. The main card airs on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie.
McKee, the son of MMA vet Antonio McKee, has spent his entire career in Bellator since making his pro debut in April 2015. All of the 21-year-old's victories, including a recent second-round submission win over Cody Walker at Bellator 160, have come via stoppage.
He now meets Sanchez, a contender who joined Bellator in 2014. The 26-year-old Roufusport fighter won five of his first six fights with the promotion, which included victories over notables such as Justin Lawrence and Daniel Pineda, before suffering a split-decision defeat to Daniel Weichel in July. His past four bouts have all now ended via split decision.
More Bellator 166 bouts will be announced in the coming weeks.
For more on Bellator 166, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.


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Now with over 2891 hours of audio!
|Tuesday, August 20th 2019
| Mat Williamson talks about his three nights of racing at Orange County, recaps his winning night on Saturday and runs down his plans for the next few races.
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| Lance Willix remembers his 2nd place at Mohawk International Raceway on Friday night and looks ahead to tonight's small block Super DIRTcar Series race in Plattsburgh.
Running Time - 10:14
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| Tony Veneziano reports on Friday's World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series race in North Dakota and previews this weekends races in South Dakota & Montana.
Running Time - 13:29
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|Monday, August 19th 2019
| Josh Pieniazek recapped his latest race weekend and talked about some big improvements in 2019 including his first 360 Sprint Car victory earlier this year.
Running Time - 4:15
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| Luke Horning described the crash he was in on Friday in Malta, how his hospital visit went later that night and how he was feeling almost 48 hours later. Get well soon Luke!
Running Time - 13:50
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|Sunday, August 18th 2019
| Josh Flint tells me how his season has gone with the ESS as he prepared for some fun at Brewerton, what he has been chasing set up wise and what they found when they put it on the scales.
Running Time - 4:50
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| Tyler Cartier runs down what it has been like as he moved from a 305 Sprinter to a 360 Sprint Car, remembers getting into a tree in Weedsport and how nice it was get a better memory in his head.
Running Time - 6:44
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| Jeff Prentice updates me on how he is doing as a 55 year old Sportsman rookie, and how close he is to his first victory and wonders what it is that happens late in the races.
Running Time - 5:07
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|Saturday, August 17th 2019
| Shawn Donath won the first ESS qualifying heat race and spoke about how fast the track was in the ten lapper as well as how tough it can be when watching lightning off in the distance.
Running Time - 1:32
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| Chuck Hebing led every lap to win his heat race and described what happened on the first start that was called back as well as how fast the track surface was.
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| Scott Holcomb talked about his "perfect" Sprint Car early on, what it's like to be watching weather as it gets closer and described his new set of tire bleeders that are surprisingly expensive. You can learn something here boys and girls. I did!
Running Time - 2:13
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| Matt Tanner finished fourth in his heat and talked about how hard it was to pass in his heat race as well as how quickly he had to race to the top of the track.
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| Ryan Dolbear got the win in the first Sportsman heat and told me how well his car runs down low while remembering his first top ten at Fulton last weekend.
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| Zach Sobotka watched his team start to load up his car after winning the third Sportsman heat and told me what suspension changes they made during the week.
Running Time - 1:16
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| Rich Townsend finished first in the final Sportsman heat and told me what he thought of the heavier that usual track conditions as well as why they were loading up early rather even though it was not raining quite yet.
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|Friday, August 16th 2019
| Sam Reakes IV remembered his last few starts with the ESS including Freedom & Can Am before racing Sunday in Weedsport as well as how they recently ran out of fuel after a miscalculation.
Running Time - 3:37
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| Nick Guererri explained how lost his vision and almost his hood while running second in a heat race Saturday night at Land of Legends as well as what he did to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
Running Time - 3:32
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| Daryl Barrett ran down what he has been doing with IMSA lately, how he worked his way into the world of road course racing and why he's now back in a Sportsman.
Running Time - 4:37
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| Pete Stefanski spoke about his Street Stock win at Ransomville, how he has been doing with his Pro Stock and why he may be at a bit of disadvantage when he runs against elite competition.
Running Time - 12:46
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|Thursday, August 15th 2019
| Paulie Colagiovanni spoke about his ESS win on Friday at Can Am and why things are going so well for him as a driver as well as the other help he is receiving from a former racer.
Running Time - 3:47
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| Brandon Walters remembered his Modified feature win at Five Mile Point Speedway on Saturday, his third place at Afton on Friday and described what it is like to be fast out front as well as getting lapped.
Running Time - 18:20
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| A.J. Miller talked about winning his first Sportsman race earlier this year, his current streak of top five finishes and what Dale Planck has done to get him in a good place.
Running Time - 4:53
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| Alex Morris explained why running his Vintage Modified with the Dirt Modified Nostalgia Tour in Canandaigua on Saturday meant so much and told me why this was his first race of 2019.
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|Wednesday, August 14th 2019
| Danny Varin talked about his Modified win Saturday night at Fonda, how fast the track was with the ESS Friday night at Can Am and described his hopes for Weedsport on Sunday.
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| Denny Peebles recapped his Friday night at Can Am and explained how he gained ten spots for a ninth place finish as well as why he had to pass on the ESS show Saturday night in Canada.
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| Kenny Titus won his 1st race in almost a year and talked about he got to the front Friday at Afton as well as how valuable the help he gets from his son truly is.
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| Jessica Power remembered a feature win from the weekend before and talked about a bad torsion bar they found and how her two shows went this past weekend at Can Am & Fulton.
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| In the latest Doug's Thoughts I recap our last weekend of racing in Canandaigua and Weedsport with the DMNT and go over the nights from my perspective.
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The Dad Book is unlike any parenting book you've ever read. It may not contain any useful parenting advice, but it's the perfect book for a dad who likes to laugh. Packed with popular jokes from The Dad and new never-before-seen content, but (almost) small enough to fit in your cargo shorts. Includes funny insights into life with kids, ill-advised parenting hacks, and classic dad phrases we call dad-isms. A must-have for everyone living life in The Dad Club, and as satisfying as the first mow of spring.
Full color
From A to Z, this sweet and funny alphabet book puts a new spin on everyone's 26 favorite letters. In Dad's world, C is for Cargo Shorts, L is for Lawn, and T is for Tongs!
Filled with adorable illustrations and hilarious dad-isms, this book is the perfect gift for new dads (and longtime dads) who'll wind up reading it even when the kids aren't around.
It's the perfect way to wind your little ones down for bedtime (hahaha...yeah, right) and give them a glimpse into the mind of their favorite big guy.
Finally, the unwritten rules of dadhood have been, well, written. When a kid says they're hungry? You MUST say "Hi Hungry, I'm Dad." If you drive into a new town, you MUST comment on the prices of gas. Door open? You MUST ask if the kids were raised in a barn. It's not a choice. It's a law — a Dad Law. For thousands of years, and for thousands to come, these are the rules. And now they're finally all in one place.


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Understanding Spectrophotometric Measurement Parameters to Ensure Color Consistency Follow
Posted on March 13, 2018
Color is powerful. It shapes our perception of the world around us, attracting us, repelling us, warning us, soothing us. In some ways our relationships with color are deeply individual due to personal associations forged over time from our unique lived experiences. At the same time, color acts as an important cultural signifier that provides critical information based on certain universalities of perception and association.
But despite the importance of human color perception, our ability to precisely see and describe color remains limited. Biological, psychological, and environmental differences between us can result in significant variations in how we experience color. Even if two people see color in an identical way, describing it in a manner that communicates an exact shade that can be universally understood may be beyond our capabilities.
The inherent unreliability in how humans perceive and communicate color has led to the development of spectrophotometric color measurement instruments that allow us to objectively capture and share color information. The instruments now play an important part in quality control processes in a multitude of industries, allowing for unprecedented color accuracy and consistency in industrial and consumer goods. However, spectrophotometers too can vary in color perception, creating potential disparities in numerical color values. By understanding color measurement parameters, you can ensure consistency of measurement and obtain the data you need for meaningful color monitoring.
Color Measurement Parameters
Spectrophotometric color measurement is influenced by six factors that each play a critical role in how the instrument captures color information. A change in any of these factors can alter color data, creating discrepancies between numbers obtained from two identical samples or two different instruments. The six color measurement parameters that influence inter-instrument and inter-sample agreement are:
- Color Scale: When measuring the height or weight of a sample, there are two primary systems of measurement: imperial and metric. When it comes to color, however, there are a number of measurement systems due to the historical development of multiple color scales. Currently, there are five complete color scales in active use: CIE X, Y, Z; CIE Yxy; CIE L*, a*, b*; CIE L*, C*, h; and Hunter L, a, b. Each of these scales consists of three numbers, but each is unique in how those numbers are determined. As such, it is essential to use an appropriate color scale for your sample and to use the same scale every time in order to create meaningful comparisons between samples.
- CIE Illuminant: Just as light variations play a role in how humans perceive color, spectrophotometric color measurement is also influenced by what type of light is used. Today, there are a number of illuminants that can be used by spectrophotometers, including A (tungsten), F02 (cool white fluorescent), C (average daylight), and D65 (noon daylight). While there are good reasons to use any one of these illuminants, you must use the same type of illuminant when determining color consistency or variation of disparate samples.
- CIE Standard Observer: There are two types of standard observers available: the 1931 2 Degree and the 1964 10 Degree. While there are significant similarities between them, there are also differences that can impact color data. As such, it is important to use the same standard observer for each sample.
- Instrument Geometry: The instrument geometry you select will have a significant impact on how color data is captured, and even whether it can be captured in appropriate and meaningful ways. The primary fixed instrument geometries are directional 45°/0° or 0°/45° instruments and diffuse/8° sphere instruments. Which one you choose will depend largely on the type of sample you are working with; in some cases, it will also depend on whether you want to measure appearance or color alone.
- Sample Preparation: Appropriate preparation of samples is an important part of your ability to obtain accurate color data. This is also an area where human variation can create vulnerability to measurement inconsistencies. It is thus essential to create standardized sample preparation procedures and/or to use instruments that minimize or eliminate the need for human sample preparation
- Sample Presentation: Sample presentation encompasses a number of factors, including how samples are positioned, the area of sample view, the measurement pattern, and the number of readings taken for sample averaging. As with sample preparation, steps must be taken to minimize variation in sample presentation, including the use of standardized procedures or instruments that minimize or eliminate opportunities for presentation variation.
Consistency of measurement parameters will optimize your ability to compare samples at any stage of the product development or manufacturing process, giving you the data you need to move forward.
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Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria: Government accused of 'farcical' strategy
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Government efforts to deal with a possible increase in immigration from Romania and Bulgaria next year "border on the farcical," says an MP.
No 10 says it is looking at options amid MPs' concerns about the impact of temporary controls lapsing this year.
Labour MP Keith Vaz said trying to discourage people from coming to the UK would be "counterproductive".
He was responding to reports negative adverts about the UK were among suggestions being considered.
The idea potential migrants could be deterred by references to the downsides of British life, such as the amount of rain, emerged over the weekend.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told ITV News that the UK did not wish to portray itself as "anything other than a very pleasant place to be" but migrant workers had to have "sensible expectations" when they arrived.
The last Labour government agreed transitional controls on immigration from Bulgaria and Romania when the two countries joined the European Union in 2007, but these expire at the start of next year.
The government has said it is impossible, under EU law, to keep the limits in place any longer.
But ministers are coming under increasing pressure to act, from MPs concerned about the repercussions of any increase in arrivals for public services and commitments to cut net migration.
'Legal framework'
According to newspaper reports, Downing Street is considering restricting access to public services for future migrants, as one of a number of potential responses.
According to The Financial Times, options being considered included asking immigrants who had not found a job within three months or did not have necessary funds to support themselves for six months to leave.
No 10 said it was is considering all options open to it, but a spokesman stressed there was a "clear legal framework" underpinning guarantees on the free movement of people within the European Union and "we have to operate within that".
The spokesman played down suggestions Britain might try to deter Bulgarian and Romanian arrivals by launching an advertising campaign in those countries stressing the negative aspects of life in the UK, including the weather.
'Singling out'
But Mr Vaz, who is chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said any suggestion of spending money on "advertisements and propaganda trying to stop Romanian and Bulgarians coming to Britain borders on the farcical".
"On the one hand, the Home Office doesn't want them in but on the other hand, the minister for Europe is saying there is freedom of movement," he said.
"The government is in danger of actually encouraging more people to come."
"These kinds of tactics have been used in the past and been found to be counterproductive."
He also suggested there were divisions in government about how to deal with the issue.
Mr Vaz said the question of whether foreign workers should have guaranteed access to public services, including the NHS, should be looked at, but warned against "singling out" workers from individual countries.
"Ministers would be better off working with their Romanian and Bulgarian counterparts and the EU to address the reasons migrants want to come here in the first place."
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Ministers have warned against "scare stories" about a potential surge in numbers. But Mr Vaz said officials had failed to come up with an estimate of the number of arrivals expected, despite repeated requests.
The think tank Migration Watch, which supports tighter immigration controls, has said about 50,000 people from Romania and Bulgaria will come to the UK each year until 2019 and that this will have "significant consequences" for housing and jobs.
The government's own migration advisory committee says there is evidence Bulgarians would move to Britain because of its stronger economy, and it is "plausible" Romanians would come for the same reasons.
Since 2007, Bulgarians and Romanians have been able to come to the UK as self-employed businessmen or women, or as students, provided they do not seek benefits or any other employment.
But the end of existing controls will give Bulgarian and Romanians who want to work in the UK the same rights as foreign nationals from the other 24 EU nations.
Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said ministers were "utterly opposed" to European Commission proposals which he claimed would allow future migrants - including those from Bulgaria and Romania - to claim benefits on "day one" after arriving.
But a spokesman for the European Commission described the minister's claims as "total tosh" and said EU nations were not obliged to do so unless certain residency tests are met.


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Brisbane Travel Guide
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Story Bridge © Cyron
Story BridgeOne of the oldest bridges in Australia, the Story Bridge is a 3,517-foot (1,072m) long cantilevered bridge which spans the Brisbane River, connecting Fortitude Valley to Kangaroo Point. Brave visitors who are certain they don't suffer from vertigo can climb to the top of the bridge and be rewarded with breathtaking views over Brisbane's cityscape. One of only a handful of bridge climbs in the world, the Story Bridge is well worth a visit for those travelling through Brisbane. Advance bookings are recommended and money can sometimes be saved by booking online. Special deals are available for groups and there is even an abseiling option. Check out the official website listed below for more details.
Address: Level 1, 170 Main Street, Kangaroo Point; Website: www.sbac.net.au


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Every year Pantone comes out with the colour of the year. Emerald is out and Radiant Orchid is in!! I am not the biggest fan of purple but this colour is starting to grow on me. For interiors I think this colour would be perfect as an accent colour with whites and greys. If you are feeling bold though you could paint a room this colour.
Here are some great interior spaces that I think have successfully used Radiant Orchid.


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Master's Programs in Surry Hills in Australia 2020/2021
In order to successfully obtain a Masters qualification, you will need to obtain a number of credits by passing individual modules. Most taught Masters will have a number of core modules which you must take and pass in order to obtain the qualification. The assessment of research Masters is almost always entirely by a single dissertation module or project.
Earning a Master requires two years of education after earning a Bachelor. This advanced degree may help students to achieve their educational and professional goals, as the rigors of a Master's program help train students in the skills and knowledge they need to land the career of their dreams.
Australia is an island country and continent of the southern hemisphere, in the SW Pacific, a member state of the Commonwealth.
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Innovation Awards 2020
Finalists Announced
EDGE 2020 Goes Virtual

Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] today unveiled plans to be first-to-market with the industry's broadest portfolio of unified communications (UC) solutions and applications built around Microsoft's new Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. These new solutions enable people to connect, communicate and collaborate seamlessly to improve business performance. As the only IP-PBX manufacturer currently testing with Microsoft's development team, Nortel and Microsoft are already successfully trialing these unified communications solutions with customers around the world.

"Nortel and Microsoft share a common vision that business communications are evolving to software, enabling enterprises to more simply and effectively integrate communications with business processes," said Joel Hackney, president, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel. "With solutions that span VoIP, branch office, conferencing, IP phones, data networking and integration services, Nortel is providing enterprises with the industry's most complete portfolio of unified communications solutions to enhance their Microsoft OCS experience. Through our Innovative Communications Alliance with Microsoft, we are leading the integration with Microsoft's new unified communications platform."

In just over a year since the alliance was formed, Nortel and Microsoft have collected more than 300 joint wins representing over 900,000 licenses.

"I'm excited about the tremendous momentum behind the Microsoft and Nortel relationship as well as Nortel's innovation in solutions for Office Communications Server," said Jeff Raikes, President of the Microsoft Business Division. "With the deep engagement we have together, we will further accelerate customer adoption of unified communications solutions that deliver the fastest time to business value."

As part of a joint road map affirmed by Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in January 2007, Nortel expects to be first in the industry to offer customers software-based "native" interoperability between its IP-PBX portfolio and Office Communications Server 2007, ultimately delivering richer functionality with less complexity and operations costs. Planned for availability in first quarter 2008, Nortel will offer the following Microsoft interoperable solutions:

· Nortel Converged Office integrates the comprehensive telephony feature set of Nortel's IP-PBX, with Office Communications Server 2007. The solution scales to tens of thousands of users, supports business's existing internal dial plans, and provides capabilities that aren't available with less functional gateway solutions. Converged Office uniquely enables Office Communicator as the single end-user interface to perform all UC functions such as VoIP soft client, instant messaging, presence, conferencing and performing remote call control of any desk phone connected to a Nortel IP-PBX.

· Nortel Multimedia Conferencing 5.0 is a reservationless, customer premise audio/video solution that provides subscribers with ubiquitous access to an "always on" conferencing resource. Nortel offers users the ability to dial-in to a conference from anywhere, and from any device. The integration of Nortel's Multimedia Conferencing with Office Communication Server 2007 can support a mix of attendee types including on premise users with desktop clients, analog phones, digital or IP phones as well as partners, customers and remote callers. The joint conferencing solution enables an audio conference to seamlessly convert into a desktop video conference.

· The Nortel UC Integrated Branch combines Microsoft Mediation functionality into the Nortel Secure Router 4134. The platform simplifies branch office networking by integrating WAN routing, Ethernet switching, security and toll quality VoIP into a single modular, cost effective platform that delivers up to two to seven times the performance of competing solutions. The integration of Microsoft Mediation, the first of its kind on an integrated branch platform, will help enable enterprises deploying Office Communications Server 2007 to seamlessly extend UC functionality into the branch office with better manageability and quality of experience than competing solutions.

· Nortel applications switches and accelerators are key components of Nortel's Business Optimized Networking portfolio, aimed at delivering a simplified and optimized network infrastructure to support unified communications solutions. Nortel Application Switches provide intelligent load balancing that allows superior scalability and business continuity for Office Communications Server 2007. Nortel Application Accelerators are optimized for Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook Web Access to improve application response time by up to thirty times.

· LG-Nortel, the LG Electronics and Nortel joint venture, today unveiled their LG-Nortel IP Phone 8500 series unified communications devices. Optimized for use with Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007, the devices allow easy access sophisticated UC capabilities such as VoIP, directory dialing, calendar integration, call diversion and presence checking. The devices also support the ability to securely access user contacts, calendars, voice mail and call logs.

A strategic systems integration partner for Microsoft's unified communications solutions, Nortel has more than 120 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers and 40 people certified to support Exchange 2007. In addition, Nortel expects to have more than 100 people certified to support Office Communications Server 2007 by early 2008. To date, Nortel has provided unified communications services from the Nortel Global Services portfolio for more than 40 joint Microsoft and Nortel unified communications solution deployments globally.

In a separate release today, Nortel and Dell unveiled an agreement to provide Dell's North American customers with complete unified communications solutions leveraging Nortel's entire Enterprise Solutions portfolio including solutions from the Nortel and Microsoft's Innovative Communications Alliance, as well as a suite of related services.

Gartner Inc, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, has positioned Nortel in the Leaders quadrant in the '2007 Unified Communications Magic Quadrant' report. To view Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications, 20071 click here.

About Nortel

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.

Certain statements in this press release may contain words such as "could", "expects", "may", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "targets", "envisions", "seeks" and other similar language and are considered forward-looking statements or information under applicable securities legislation. These statements are based on Nortel's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the operating environment, economies and markets in which Nortel operates. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict and the actual outcome may be materially different from those contemplated in forward-looking statements. For additional information with respect to certain of these and other factors, see Nortel's Annual Report on Form10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, Nortel disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

*Nortel, the Nortel logo and the Globemark are trademarks of Nortel Networks.

Use of the terms "partner" and "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership between Nortel and any other party.

1 The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.


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Cinnamon Challenge
This undated photo provided by Frederick Reed shows Dejah Reed, an Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge. A new report from doctors to be published Monday, April 22, 2013, advises against taking the challenge that involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The fad depicted in wildly popular YouTube videos has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. (AP Photo/Frederick Reed)


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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Are you reading this? Seriously, are you? Sure, we know you think you are, but what if you're just a sub-feature of a complex computer program. A sprite, nothing more than the creation of software. The problem with this question is, how would you ever know? You wouldn't, right? Well, not so fast there. Turns out, maybe there is a way to unravel the matrix (if there is one). It'll come as no surprise, that this is one of the topics in this week's collection of alternative stories. Think that's all we got? Not even close. We'll explore the truth behind cloning dinosaurs, as well a rare performance by singing mice -- all before dinner. Or is it really dinner? This is alt-week.


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Harry Nilsson's Son of Schmilsson was released in 1972, a follow-up to the prior year's Nilsson Schmilsson, his biggest commercial hit. This album was more experimental and risky than its predecessor.
A case in point is today's jaunty SOTD, 'You're Breakin' My Heart,' which could have been a hit had it not opened with the lines "You're breaking my heart, you're tearing it apart, so fuck you." Nearly 40 years later, in a much different era, Cee-Lo Green found success with a similar sentiment.


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Haulage Insurance
Over the years Wexford Insurances have built a reputation for offering the most competitive and comprehensive haulage insurance packages for haulage contractors. We provide haulage insurance cover for Irish and international haulage proprietors, fleets, HGV's, waste disposal vehicles, light goods vehicle.
Offering haulage insurance packages that are customised specifically to meet your requirements, and providing an experienced business team, Wexford Insurance are on hand to offer sound, professional advice and help save you money.


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Yarn with high a breaking tenacity and with a medium elongation and shrinkage. Based on cellulose, this yarn is 100 percent bio-degradable.
Dtx range
Dtx 1220 through Dtx 3680
Hoses, packing industry, strappings, binding ropes, cords
LUMAT Three yarns are available in twisted and/or plied versions and in different make-ups


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I just finished this past week, apparently just in time for the big announcement!
This was my first PC build.
• Core i7 7700k
• NZXT Kraken 62 Water Cooler Pump
• 16GB of G. Skill Trident RGB RAM
• Samsung - 960 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD
• Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 1TB SSD
• Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AORUS Xtreme Edition 11G Video Card
The Stargate model was custom built by a model builder Ricky Wallace and when my wife saw how passionate I was about Stargate she secretly decorated my office for my birthday on July 11. She even got some clay, made gate symbols, baked them and then painted them for me. *Love*
Custom Stargate Model Build by Ricky Wallace of Madman's Shipyard:
BTW, for all you Stargate fans... may be some huge announcement from MGM at San Diego Comic Con tomorrow July 20
omg this is absolutely amazing lol. im trying to imagine what 80s PC designers would imagine... what has become of that old beige box! this is art!
Very cool build and the stargate news is there coming out with a new show. Stargate Origins where they go back to the stargate first being dug up.


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Part 2: The Grand Challenges of a Global World.
If in the future International Business research receives more attention from business leaders who aspire greater international growth for their company than from other CEOs, both firms and universities will win. Managers will be more aware of the systemic challenges they are about to face in a world of increasing uncertainty. They will also receive more advice on their implementation of expansion and competitive strategies.
Instead of one big and divisive risk, a number of new smaller risks have emerged, which can result in considerable problems for the global stability of markets. The simultaneous occurrence of risks can magnify their impact, and poor management can then further exacerbate their danger.
New risk conditions increase the pressures on strategic planning and management capabilities. To identify opportunities and to react to crises earlier, a deeper knowledge of the local conditions is necessary. Also needed is open, dynamic corporate leadership, which responds sensitively and flexibly to changing or new conditions. It is significant that the most pressing future issues rated by CEOs are international capabilities that are outside of traditional academic subjects and disciplines.
CEOs are looking for help in coping with emerging problem areas, such as trade barriers (tariffs / quotas / standards), cultural shifts, governmental bureaucracy, and corruption and political uncertainty. They require solutions by scientists with a multidisciplinary orientation, who can bridge various fields of business with innovative approaches incorporating policy, law and language, culture and religion, geography, and geology.
This post is part of a series by Michael Czinkota of Georgetown University and Andreas Pinkwart of Handelshochschule Leipzig on international business research and the new role of universities. Find Part 1 here.


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