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The importance of social network is unlimited at the present time. Social networking is the main medium that helps everyone to be connected with each other in the easiest way. Now, you will surely find a new way to be connected with your dear ones with the all new Google Allo. Google Allo is an instant messaging mobile app that provides the facility of 'smart reply' which allows the user to reply without typing and includes a number of virtual assistants. The app has been launched on 21, 2016 and is available on Android and iOS. Hence, click on the 'delete' option for your previous messaging app and get to know the reasons that why you should start using Google Allo instead of Whatsapp.
Google Assistant
Although Whatsapp includes a number of unique features like sending files, videos, audio recordings, pictures in your chat, Google Allo can make your chatting experience more enhancing for its Google virtual assistant. With Google Allo, you can draw out information from the web and insert YouTube videos in your chat. Users can also call the other person while sending messages with the help of the Assistant. For example, you can say "@Google Hotels near us?" and you will get a list of hotels around your location. The company has announced to enhance the service by the time.
Smart Reply
Smart Reply is definitely an amazing feature that you will get to avail in Google Allo. This feature was earlier seen in the Inbox by Gmail app. This feature provides the facility of automatic reply and thus save the user's time. The artificial intelligence reads the text and understands the replying pattern of the user. As a result of the process, it comes up with related suggestions. The initial suggestions would be simple and but with rapid usage, it picks up the users' phrases to offer a quick reply. Hence, the 'Smart Reply' feature will catch your style in the right way of you use to write words like 'Lol'.
Incognito Mode
Privacy is always a major concern of everyone when you are in a digital communication. To ensure the security of every user, Goggle has installed an Incognito Mode in the app. It's best on Goggle's open signal protocol and is designed in the way that it can provide you a seamless and safe chatting experience. When a user continues a chatting in Incognito Mode, the messages become invisible on the lockscreen and thus become completely secure and private.
Image recognition
One of the most surprising features of the app is that it is capable of recognizing photos. Google has installed its 'image recognition' software in it. The app is capable of recognizing a received picture and differentiates among the pictures. It is also capable of suggesting an automatic response. For example, if someone sends you the picture of a baby, it will suggest 'cute' or 'beautiful' as a response depending on your maximum usage. You can easily choose the most appropriate word and send it across.
Gmail account sync
Google Allo receives your phone number for primary identification but the amazing feature is that you can also sync your Goggle account with the app. Accomplishing the task you will be able to get all important updates to serve your purpose more easily. For example, you will be updated about the service in advance if you have a flight to catch.
Selective end to end encryption
Maybe you are thinking that Whatsapp also allows encryption for chats but the difference of Allo from Whatsapp is that it provides the facility of 'Selective end to end encryption'. This feature allows the user to select the contact you want to chat with in Incognito Mode. Along with this, you can also select a timer for deleting the messages automatically. The timer can be set starting from 5 seconds. Hence, the chats will disappear automatically if you have finished talking to someone depending upon the expiration period that you have set. The messages will not be deleted if you have switched off the expiration period.
Formatting texts and other unique features
This app is not only eye soothing rather there is scope to bring verities also. Google has installed the feature to format the text. You can format the text size in larger or smaller font. Two slider buttons have been incorporated into the app, such as 'Whisper' and 'Shout'. The 'Whisper' allows the fonts to be deceased and the 'Shout' option is for increasing the fonts. Along with this feature, Allo also offers a wide range of stickers to enhance your chatting experience a lot more. Google Allo also allows a user to scribble on pictures before sending it across to someone.
Hence, it will be not an exaggeration to say that Google Allo is capable of opening a new way to enhance your experience of chatting.


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Young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, known as 2CELLOS, achieved sensational success by taking the cello to a new level and breaking the boundaries between different genres of music.
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On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump gave a bombastic speech to the assembled delegates of the United Nations. Pay special attention to how he addressed North Korea and its looming nuclear threat. Unlike most of what Trump said otherwise, its implications are as wide-ranging as they are grim.
"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," said Trump. "'Rocket Man' is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime."
"Rocket Man," you rightly guessed, refers to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The rockets in question include intercontinental-range ballistic missiles, potentially capable of reaching United States territory. Soon, experts agree, North Korea should be able to pair those rockets with a miniaturized nuclear warhead. And while Trump has made similar provocations before, either in impromptu remarks or ill-advised tweets, his UN taunting worsens an already alarmingly combustible situation—while also making it harder to defuse.
Sound and Fury
There are two very important things to understand about North Korea in this context. First, as Evan Osnos explored in depth in the New Yorker recently, no one in the US—including Donald Trump—has perfect insight into what Kim Jong-un thinks about Trump's various conflagrations. The country comes by its "Hermit Kingdom" moniker honestly.
But the international community does know at least one fundamental detail about the North Korean state.
"My perception, based on 30 years of work on this, is that North Korea is paranoid that the United States is going to eliminate them," says Jon Wolfsthal, a member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation's Szilard Advisory Board, and former special advisor to Joe Biden on nuclear security.
One can trace that paranoia back to the Korean War. In 1950, then-US president Harry Truman said that he was prepared to authorize the use of nuclear weapons to end the conflict. Ever since, North Korea has "lived under US threat perception," says Jenny Town, managing editor of North Korea watchdog 38 North and assistant director of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
"They point to several different actions and signals along the way, and they use this as a justification for why they need nuclear weapons, in order to deter the United States from any preemptive attack," says Town. "They've seen this happen in the past, with Iraq, with Lybia. Early in the Trump administration they saw the bombing of Syria and Afghanistan. They're trying to prevent this from happening to them."
Those two ingredients combine into one bitter stew. Trump has once again threatened and provoked a country knowing not what specific reaction he might inspire, but with the general understanding that the rhetoric can only strengthen North Korea's nuclear resolve. And while cheap nicknames worked for Trump on the campaign trail, "Little Marco" and "Lying Ted" didn't have an arsenal capable of destruction on a global scale.
"In North Korea, Kim Jong-un is basically the state. If you're threatening Kim Jong-un, or denigrating him, these are things Kim Jong-un takes as not only a personal attack but an attack against the state," says Town. That attack burns even more when delivered in front of the United Nations.
In fairness, Trump's remarks may have been precisely calculated, a four-dimensional chess move designed to bring about a political outcome, rather than barreling toward a disastrous use of force.
"I am convinced there is a solid strategy that is indeed mixing defense and deterrence on one hand with diplomacy and engagement," says Patrick Cronin, a senior advisor, focused on Asia, at the bipartisan Center for a New American Security. "The president now has to balance the pressure part of the strategy with the diplomacy part of the strategy."
Yes, Trump's UN remarks could have served as a carefully calculated stick with some yet unseen carrot to follow. (By way of counterpoint, Wolfsthal asserts that Trump "has no clear strategy" and is "all id," certainly plausible given the weight of evidence.) But even if so, bringing his vitriol to the UN does little to spur those diplomatic efforts. In fact, it likely hinders them.
A Little Help From Our Friends
As others have noted, there are no good options in North Korea. But any plausible solution that doesn't end in nuclear catastrophe will almost certainly require a cooperative effort with Japan, South Korea, and China—not unilateral action from the US. Trump's display today did nothing to further the goal of cooperation.
"It's clear that the tone President Trump used at the UN is going to make it harder for us to get broader international cooperation," says Wolfsthal. His performance may play well to his base, but to world leaders, it comes across as unsettling at best. That's especially true for those in close proximity to North Korea, who have repeatedly urged Trump to knock it off. Instead, Trump has once again ratcheted things up.
"The way that most people are interpreting these messages is that the US is goading on war," says Town. "The more they make these kinds of statements, the more they match bombastic rhetoric with bombastic rhetoric, the rest of the world gets very anxious."
'President Trump is making it seem to countries around the world that we're the ones that are just as unreasonable as North Korea.' —Jon Wolfsthal, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Trump defenders often point to the incendiary talk that Kim Jong-un uses, and has used for years, as justification for Trump's similarly loaded rhetoric. Aside from the obvious absurdity of introducing I know you are but what am I to a potential nuclear conflict, the US risks more than just self-respect by wading in Kim Jong-un's gutter.
Wolfsthal says that the Obama administration's Iran deal, which limited that country's nuclear pursuits, illustrates the benefits of the high road.
"We were able to get effective international cooperation by showing we were prepared to negotiate, that we were reasonable, and that it was Iran that was being unreasonable," says Wolfsthal. "In this case, President Trump is making it seem to countries around the world that we're the ones that are just as unreasonable as North Korea."
Sticks and Stones
If you're looking for some modestly good news, most analysts agree that rhetoric alone won't provoke a military exchange. "Words are pretty cheap when it comes to North Korea," says Cronin.
And indeed, Kim Jong-un and Trump simply rattling sabres makes for a fine best-case scenario. Given the stakes, though, that seems like a poor bet, especially given that each exchange increases the chance that either side makes a strategic miscalculation. Remember: We don't know what North Korea thinks, other than a decades-old certainty that the US represents an existential threat.
"When does someone overplay their hand," says Town. "The red lines have been blurred so much over the years, and with each one of these new statements, we just don't know right now where that threshold is."
"Language is the dry kindling. You still need a spark," says Wolfsthal. "The problem is, a spark can come from almost anywhere, and we don't have a monopoly on the ability to control that."
In isolation, Trump's bluster may amount to only that. Taken in combination with an unexplained power outage in North Korea, or a fishing vessel that strays too far, or one of dozens of other potential scenarios, it could help burn down the region.
The US could still pursue diplomacy. Tensions could still gradually ease. On stage at the UN Tuesday, Trump took his best opportunity yet to kick off that process, and in a few short lines, reduced it to rubble.


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B.C. Supreme Court decision highlights Sangha family's "greed and virulent animosity"
A B.C. Supreme Court ruling suggests that in the case of a Quesnel family, blood isn't always thicker than water.
She ruled that Gurdial Singh Sangha owns 25 percent of Reliance. Its holdings include the Best Western Tower Inn and an apartment building in Quesnel. In addition, Allan awarded Sangha 43 percent of Alberta Co., which owns an apartment building in Edmonton.
Her decision included the following shocking statements:
• "The Sanghas also held numerous bank accounts and residential properties in their various names and the names of other relatives. They devised a number of schemes in order to defeat the claims of Canada Revenue Agency ("CRA") and Dal's [Dalbir Singh Sangha's] ex-wives."
• "Since 2005, when this litigation commenced, Gordy [Gurdial Singh Sangha] and the Sangha Defendants have expended an estimated $3 million in their bitter and acrimonious feud involving entitlement to property and money."
• "Throughout this lengthy trial, I did not find any of the parties to be honest witnesses. I assume that their complete disregard for the truth was based on greed and virulent animosity."
• "The most egregious conduct consisted of the Sangha Defendants misappropriating at least $1,345,000 of company money to secretly purchase a hotel in Yakima, Washington in 2005. They improperly removed money from the shareholders' loan accounts; they diverted management bonuses in 2003 and 2004; they purported to pay bonuses to Gordy [Gurdial Singh Sangha] and his son Arjun but forged Gordy and Arjun's signatures on the cheques and appropriated those funds. Ironically, in an attempt to avoid the attention of the CRA, Gordy declared the income from those bonuses on his income tax return."
• "Until the last days of trial, the Sangha Defendants falsely maintained that they had borrowed almost $2 million from a few relatives, including Baldev and their uncle Sarwan Nagra, and friends, to purchase the hotel in Yakima. As a result of orders made during the trial, Baldev and Dal admitted that the funds came from corporate funds and bank accounts."
Allan's final sentence in the decision is certain to attract the attention of the taxman: "I direct the Supreme Court Registry to deliver a copy of these Reasons to the Canada Revenue Agency."
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So, you have found yourself a transplant in a new city and your circle of close friends are no longer just a phone call away, but are now a plane ticket and a long TSA line away. Maybe you are wondering how to clear the cobwebs from that dusty thing you used to call a social life. I had my share of city hopping so for all the other newly transplanted; here are a few things that worked for me.
A good starting place is your neighborhood association. Being involved in an association allows you to integrate yourself with your new surroundings and neighbors. Long time residents will have valuable information about your new surroundings and this is a great way to discover some of your neighborhood's hidden treasures, and more important things like great pizza, coffee and a great dry cleaners.
When we were growing up our friends came primarily came from school, so why not give school a try now. Try enrolling into a local community college and take a class just out of pure interest and curiosity. I decided to take up a language and by attending classes and study groups you can make another set school friends the same way we did when our favorite subject was the one and only recess.
I got the basics down of my new language from pronunciation to verb conjugations. The only problem was finding someone to practice "conmigo." That is where a language exchange website became a great tool. I was able to meet people whose native language is Spanish and who are willing to practice with me in exchange for me helping them with their English. I have met some really interesting people and have gotten to show some American culture at the same time as learning another, and once my new friends move back to their country I will have an excuse for another international vacation.
My new foreign friends have shown me just the surface of some of their Latin culture and I wanted more. A great way to get deeper into a culture while meeting new people are dance lessons, and that is when I signed up for Salsa and Tango classes. These dance lessons had something to a triad effect. It provided me the ability to learn something new, still practice my new language and continue to meet new people who were always up for a night out dancing at all the city's hotspots.
For the competition junkies nothing beats joining your city's sports club. I love competition and physical activity and I was lucky that my city had some throw back social sports. I got back to my recess socializing skills and signed up for both dodge ball and kickball. These two sports were a great way to work off some stress and build bonds with my teammates. And since this was more of a social sports club, before or after drinks and sometimes both were always considered. Playing on those two teams spring-boarded me onto three other teams which meant I got a chance to meet others with common interest.
During my quest of seeking and searching on the different ways to meet new people and trying new things I stumbled upon this little gem called "Meetup". This is like the Mecca of meeting people with common interest, and I met so many new and wonderful friends through this and once again I am a social butterfly, but this time as a transplant in my new adopted city.


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716 Exclusive Mix – Svengãlik : Darker Shades
13.03.17 - Guillaume - 716lavie
When I was in Vilnius last year (check my article), I took some time to check the program of some of the good clubs such as The Opium club. Therefore I listened to al the artists booked for the month and I made some great discoveries such as Svengãlik. He tends to play some rather slow tracks, but pretty dark and deep, groovy and trippy. I like this Darker Shades a lot. It's the perfect soundtrack for a chill-out party in the early morning in a dark Lithuanian forest, with some spirits coming out from the woods and dancing around you, while the fire is still on. Amazing visual by the Lithuanian artist AsurSura.
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Episode 6 – Dixie Lynn Cartwright
In this episode we welcome very famous celebrity Dixie Lynn Cartwright! We discuss Time Magazine's person of the year, Taylor Swift and sexual assault, all the T on the latest episode of Dragula, and of course, our Thot of the Week!
This week's music is brought to you by Alex Wasily of HipTrip, and we feature their song "Nothin' Wrong with Being Alone".
Check them out on Spotify where their whole album, Beams, is available.


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Portable field-programmable detection microchip
A read/write device includes a transmitter for producing an RF signal and a modulator coupled to said transmitter for modulating the RF signal and, finally a data receiver for receiving RF data signals from a portable microchip. The microchip includes a resonant circuit tuned to the RF frequency of the read/write transmitter and a receiver that is coupled to the resonant circuit for detecting the RF signal. There is also provided a charging capacitor capable of storing the electrical energy from the RF signal so that the microchip can be powered during pulse pauses of the RF signal. The microchip includes a memory circuit for storing the identification code of the microchip, and a code generator that is coupled to the memory circuit for generating an RF signal that is modulated with the identification data. A switching element that couples the resonant circuit to the code generator de-tunes the resonant circuit when the identification data is transmitted back to the read/write device. The same resonant circuit also serves to field program the memory circuit of the microchip by receiving pulse pause modulation signals (PPM) of the RF carrier signal thus allowing the identification code of the microchip to be altered by the read/write device.
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This invention relates to a portable field-programmable detection microchip capable of storing identification data.
Presently, in production processes that are automated, electronic identification technologies are in great demand. In these processes, either only a number is transmitted (read only), or variable data can even be stored, which is programmable at a distance (read/write). These portable data carriers or "detection microchips" are implanted, for example, under the skin of valuable horses, in order to identify them with certainty. Also, cows, pigs and other livestock can receive implants to control automatically operating animal feed systems, and/or to store all the data relating to the animals, from their birth and onward.
In automated production lines, painting lines are equipped with microchip devices so that cars can be painted the correct color, depending on the programming. In industrial conveyor systems, robots can receive certain types of screws or hardware which are packed into a universal container in the warehouse and shipped to the robots by an appropriate program provided to the detection microchip.
The spread of such technologies is greatly influenced by the price of the data carrier, since large numbers of them are required.
An advantageous low price, a high life expectancy and a small size are mainly achieved with battery-free detection microchips. Many different applications can be implemented with a "read-only" system, but the possibility of being able to change the data content of detection microchips opens up many new applications for using the chips for the present, and in the future.
Basically, all battery-free devices have a number of features in common. An RF transmitter forming part of a read/write device is generally used to radiate an electromagnetic field via an antenna. When the chip enters this field, the detection microchip receives energy from the RF field and begins transmitting its stored data. The timing system cycle for the circuit of the detection microchip is often generated by dividing the frequency of the RF field. This results in a data read-out of the data memory circuit and a field-synchronous attenuation of the RF field by a special switching of the serial data flow. This attenuation is outputted, amplified, and digitally re-processed at the receiver of the read/write device. In return, it is possible, with read/write systems, to modulate the RF transmitter, and to transmit data to the detection microchip over a distance.
Moreover, it is also possible to change the memory contents of the detection microchip after it is packaged within a sealed enclosure, without physical contact. This will allow many more areas of use for this technology other than simple identification. For example, a few areas include cash-free payment transactions, tool management, conveyor systems, motor vehicle data. Re-programmable detection microchips would also be particularly useful for storing personal data on customers or patients where the data has to be updated periodically.PRIOR ART DEVICES
Contact-free programming using conventional detection microchips may require the chips to have several field coils for energy transmission, data transmission and/or synchronization. The spatial distances needed for programming are only a few millimeters. Thus, the detection microchip is usually laid directly onto the programming device. The type of modulation used is usually FSK, since this is easy to decode with a PLL circuit. In order to minimize circuitry expenses, the programming process is usually synchronized by the field frequency.
The prior art devices have many disadvantages, especially if they use multiple coils for contact-free programming. In contact-free programming, 2-3 coils are usually needed for reception, synchronization, data transmission, and energy transmission. It is impossible to produce inexpensive and especially small detection microchips with these requirements. The size of the chip is a particularly decisive factor for tool recognition or animal implants. Moreover, the use of more than one coil often makes it necessary to spatially position the coils correctly relative to the read/write unit. Thus, due to this restriction, multiple coil systems are not suitable for many chip applications.
When data is decoded within the detection microchip, analog, current-consuming decoding methods are used such as FSK or PLL demodulation. This makes it impossible to conduct true field programming, or programming over larger distances. The current required can only be transmitted to the chip over very short distances, such as in the mm range. This restriction is particularly disadvantageous in the computer integrated mode (CIM) area, since precise positioning is often not possible. The systems used which are connected to batteries, are much more expensive, but the read/write distance can be extended to the range of 5-10 cm. The same requirements must also be fulfilled by the battery-free system described here.
The use of the field frequency to produce the timing cycle for the data pulse rate, is obvious, and thus eliminates the need for an oscillator. However, this blocks out the possibility of programming the detection microchip using AM modulation, since the RF field is shut off for this, and, thus, no system timing cycle is present.OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a portable, field-programmable detection microchip for use as an identification device, that permits the contact-free exchange of data, and which can be reprogrammed in the field.
According to the invention, there is provided a detection microchip that uses a resonant circuit for receiving modulated input signals from a read/write device so that the chip decoder can be controlled by PPM coded switching signals. Therefore data can be written into the memory circuit of the microchip by an external read/write device in the field. In order to be able to make the detection microchip small and inexpensive, only a single coil is used for field programming, transmitting data, and supplying energy, according to the invention.
In field programming, commands and data are mixed by AM modulation, according to the invention, and transmitted to the detection microchip with pulse pause modulation (PPM). The form of the data transmission, and the decoding circuit used with the detection microchip, which operates only digitally, according to the invention, together with a supporting power capacitor, allows field programming to take place even over distances of 5-10 cm. The heart of the decoding circuit includes several counters, as well as an oscillator, which serves as a field-independent time reference.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,299,424 discloses an identification device with a detection microchip, and having resonant circuit which withdraws energy from the RF field of the transmitter in a tuned state, and therefore has a measurable retro-effect on the RF transmitter.
In German Patent DE 2748584, an identification device is known which uses the characteristics of U.S. Pat. No. 3,299,424 and combines them with the advantages of obtaining the supply voltage from the resonant circuit. Obtaining energy from an induction loop is also already known from DE-AS 1219990.
In the applicant's earlier issued U.S. Pat. No. 4,801,768, a checking system is disclosed using a data collector that is passed over one or more data carriers without making contact. Each of the carriers contain a magnet which switches on the sensing circuit of the data collector so that it can detect the magnetically or infrared pre-coded strips of the carrier. No RF transmitted or received signals are used to decode the data carrier, and the possible combinations of data stored in the carrier are limited. Moreover, in this device, it is not possible to electronically reprogram the data stored in the carrier when needed.
None of the three patents mentioned above disclose the use of the same resonant circuit for both providing energy and transmitting data, and also allowing for contact-free programming or changing of the data in the detection microchip. This is a unique feature, particularly in view of the fact that during the programming process, very little energy is transmitted to the detection microchip. Moreover, much more energy is needed for a conventional decoding circuit (PLL, FSK, etc.) as well as for programming the memory circuit than for transmitting data. The present invention therefore provides a detection microchip that includes a simple, space-saving circuit arrangement, which can be easily programmed over relatively large distances.
Other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, considered in connection with the accompanying drawings which disclose the embodiments of the invention. It is to be understood, however, that the drawings are designed for the purpose of illustration only, and not as a definition of the limits of the invention.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In the drawings, wherein similar reference characters denote similar elements throughout the several views:
FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of the combination read/write device/detection microchip according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a detection microchip;
FIG. 3 is a wiring diagram of the decoding logic according to the invention in the detection microchip;
FIGS. 4A-4C show a data telegram from the detection microchip to the read/write device; and
FIGS. 5A-5C show a data telegrams from the read/write device to the detection microchip according to the invention.DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a read/write device 10 according to the invention, which consists of a RF transmitter 11 with a modulator 12 and a data receiver 13 having a demodulator 14. The RF transmitter generates a quartz-stabilized frequency, which is guided into a resonant circuit 15 serving as an antenna, in order to be able to radiate an RF field. The RF field is modulated by modulator 12 using field attenuation, so that AM pulse pause modulation is performed on the RF field, for transmitting data to a detection microchip 16.
Data receiver 13 is also connected to resonant circuit 15. Receiver 13 demodulates the field attenuated signal of the detection microchip 16 and subsequently evaluates the chip in order to recognize the number or code of detection microchip 16.
Four different entities are transmitted using the same RF field: energy, commands and data transmitted to detection microchip 16. Moreover, data is transmitted from resonant circuit 19 of the detection microchip 16 to resonant circuit 15, and detected by demodulator 14 of data receiver 13. Its evaluation circuit 18 is connected to demodulation 14 and thus evaluates the data received from microchip 16.
Referring to FIG. 2, there is shown a detection microchip 26 (similar to microchip 16) in which there is provided a resonant circuit 27, consisting of a coil L.sub.1 and a capacitor C.sub.1. The resonance frequency of the circuit is set or tuned to correspond to the frequency of the electromagnetic field prevailing in a detection zone. If detection microchip 26 is brought into the detection zone, resonant circuit 27 will oscillate due to the presence of the detection field. This causes an alternating voltage to be generated in the LC circuit, where coil L.sub.1 and capacitor C.sub.1 are connected in parallel in this example. The alternating voltage is then coupled to chip 26 via a rectifier 22.
On chip 26, there is also provided an oscillator 25, which controls a code generator 23. A counter 24 is coupled to a decoder 21. Decoder 21 is coupled to a memory circuit 30, in which there is stored a preset data code. Memory circuit 30 communicates both with code generator 23 and decoder 21.
During the read-out process, which is initiated after detection microchip 26 is inserted into the RF field, code generator 23 processes the data stored in memory circuit 30 and transmits that data to the read/write device (10) in modulated form, by de-tuning or changing the impedance of resonant circuit 27 via a switching element 28. During the programming process, decoder 21, together with counter 24 and oscillator 25, evaluates the modulation signal received from the read/write device, and then programs the data into memory circuit 30. The "S" or write protected area 31 of memory circuit 30 is designed to be programmed only once, so that the memory can include non-erasable portions for technical reasons.
Capacitor C.sub.2 is used as a buffer or power charging capacitor, in order to allow programming pulses for the memory circuit 30, even when a constant supply of power from the modulated RF field is not possible. Furthermore, the stored power in capacitor C.sub.2 is needed to guarantee that decoder 21, with counter 24 and oscillator 25 will function during the pauses between pulse signals. Moreover, capacitor C.sub.2 also insures that the entire chip 26 will function properly, since the field is turned off at times during the programming process.
Referring to FIG. 3, there is shown a functional schematic block diagram of a detection microchip. When detection microchip 26 is inserted into an RF field with a field frequency F.sub.2, energy is supplied to the chip by means of a resonant circuit 36, rectifier circuit 37, and charging capacitor 38. An oscillator 39 supplies the clock or system timing frequency F.sub.1, independent of the field frequency F.sub.2. The field frequency F.sub.2 when applied, keeps a counter 40 and a flip-flop 41 in the reset state. An address generator 42 generates the data addresses by means of two binary counters 40 and 43 and causes memory 44 to read-out. A shift register, located in address generator 42, converts parallel data into a serial data flow.
A code generator 45 converts the serial data flow into known, serial data formats (FSK, BIPHASE) (see FIG. 4A-4C) and effects data transmission by field modulating using the switching element 46.
During the field programming phase of detection microchip 26, support capacitor C.sub.2 and oscillator 39, maintain the system clock F.sub.1 and the supply voltage of detection microchip 26 during the time when the RF field is shut-off due to the AM and data signals. The programming process begins when the RF field is shut off for a time slightly longer than the time T.sub.1 (see FIG. 5, part E).
Since counter 40 is now no longer reset (and the system clock from oscillator 39 continues to run), counter output 46 goes "high" after T.sub.1, trips flip-flop (FF) 47, and stops itself. The set FF 47 now opens a command decoder 48 with a CS signal on line 49. The "high" level of the CS signal is also applied to an input 51 of flip-flop FF 41. After time T.sub.1, the RF field is turned on again, thereby resetting counter 40 and recharging capacitor C.sub.2.
If the RF field is then turned off again, the first "high" level of an output 50 of counter 40 then trips FF 41 (FF 41 is not tripped without a CS signal). This "high" level at the output of FF 41 reaches the command decoder 48 as a data signal and also trips flip-flop FF 53. This flip-flop, in turn, releases counters 43 and 54. A flip-flop FF 65 is connected to one output of FF 47, and has an output connected to an input of counter 54 through a coupling circuit. Flip-flop FF 65 also has its timing input connected to oscillator 39, as shown. Counter 43, with the help of flip-flop FF 55, produces the clock signal for command decoder 48 after the expiration of time T.sub.2 (see FIG. 5, part G). Depending on whether the RF field is shut off for the time period of T.sub.3 or T.sub.4 (see FIG. 5, part F), command decoder 48 provides a data-H or data-L (PPM) with the clock signal. The clock signal also resets FF 53, counter 43 and FF 55. The first data that is transmitted in this way are commands to command decoder 48 (see FIG. 5, part A), which sets detection microchip 26 into the following mode on the basis of these commands:
1. The Program Memory Mode
After recognizing the programming command, command decoder 48 trips FF 57 and releases a counter 58 by means of FF 59. A multiplexer 60 is also switched over by FF 57, and passes all CS, data and clock signals subsequently transmitted to memory circuit 44. This writes the transmitted data into the memory of circuit 44.
Every data signal transmitted causes counters 54 and 58 to reset so that the duration of the CS signal (counter 54), i.e. the programming (multiplexer switching 60, counter 58) is extended until no further data is transmitted. Detection microchip 27 then immediately goes back to its read-out mode.
2. The Stop Read-Out Mode
After recognizing the stop command, command decoder 48 stops the modulation of the RF field via line 61 connected to code generator 45. The stop command allows the read/write device to shut off detection microchip 26 immediately after its recognition using the RF field, and to recognize additional detection microchips that enter into the RF field.
3. The Read-Out Memory Mode
The read-out command is the reverse of the stop command (code generator 45 is released via the line 61) and is transmitted if a detection microchip which was previously shut off is supposed to be reactivated. Of course, additional commands are also possible, depending on the area of use of the detection microchip.
4. The Setting Function Mode
There is also a function mode register on the detection microchip, which is automatically loaded with the data bits of the first memory address when the detection microchip enters the RF field. The following function modes are set with these data bits: Baud rate, single-phase modulation, dual-phase modulation, field-synchronous and field-asynchronous data transmission, binary format, biphase format, FSK format, FSK frequencies, memory size, read/write mode, read-only mode, etc. Since the memory contents can be changed or programmed via the RF field, it is possible to re-program the detection microchip from one function mode to another at any time.
FIG. 4A shows a data telegram which is transmitted from the detection microchip to the read/write device. The telegram begins with a header, which is required to recognize the detection microchip, followed by the actual data, and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) check at the end. For the code structure, various self-cycling codes can be selected, such as biphase, Manchester, etc. The transmission of 0 and 1 bits can take place by attenuation of the field (see FIG. 4B) or by superimposing two frequencies (see FIG. 4C), or by other types of modulation.
FIG. 5 shows data telegrams from the read/write device to the detection microchip. In order to be able to program the detection microchip, first a command header is sent, followed by a command and the actual data, as shown in line A. Some of the possible commands are:
1. Write data
2. Read data
3. Start data transmission
4. Stop data transmission
The modulator of the read/write device attenuates the field of the RF generator and generates the pulse pause signal (PPM) in resonant circuit 15 of FIG. 1, (see line B of FIG. 5). This modulated RF field is now transmitted to detection microchip 26 via the transmission segment (see line C of FIG. 5). The data transmitted by resonant circuit 15 results in time-proportional data at resonant circuit 36, respectively at the input of decoder device of detection microchip 26, formed by the counters, flip-flops, etc. mentioned above (see line D of FIG. 5).
After a time T.sub.1, decoder 48 produces the command recognition signal (CS signal) (see line E of FIG. 5). On the basis of the PPM signals transmitted (T.sub.3 and T.sub.4), decoder 48, after command recognition, and with the help of counter 43, after T.sub.2, generates clock and data signals for carrying out the various commands (see lines F and G of FIG. 5).
In this manner, both commands (as under line A of FIG. 5) and data are transmitted to detection microchip 26 from read/write system 10.
While only a few embodiments of the present invention has been shown and described, it is to be understood that many changes and modifications may be made thereunto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
1. The combination of a portable, field-programmable detection microchip for storing identification data for identifying persons, animals or objects, and a read/write device for accessing the data stored in the microchip, when brought within RF coupling proximity thereof, the combination defining an identification system comprising:
- a read/write device including a transmitter for producing an RF field, a pulse pause modulator coupled to said transmitter for modulating the RF field during the field programming mode, said pulse pause modulator providing different function modes, such as band rate, single-phase modulation, dual-phase modulation, field synchronous and field-asynchronous data transmission, binary format, biphase format, FSK format, FSK frequencies, memory size, read/write mode, read-only mode, said modes being transmitted by said read/write device to the detection microchip via the RF field and a data receiver for receiving RF data signals from the detection microchip; and
- a detection microchip including a resonant circuit tuned to the frequency of said RF field, a charging capacitor coupled to said resonant circuit for storing electrical energy during the occurrence of the RF field, and powering said microchip during pulse pauses of the RF field, a signal receiver coupled to said resonant circuit for decoding the modulated RF field, including a decoder circuit, a memory circuit for storing the identification data of said microchip, a code generator coupled to said memory circuit for generating an RF signal modulated with the identification data, an oscillator coupled to both said code generator and said decoder circuit for providing a field-independent time reference to said detection microchip, and switching means coupled to said resonant circuit and said code generator for coupling the identification data from said code generator to said resonant circuit, said switching means changing the impedance of said resonant circuit during the transmission of the identification data, wherein the same resonant circuit is used to provide the energy for the detection microchip, further to transmit data to the read/write device and to receive commands and data for reprogramming from the read/write device.
2. The combination as recited in claim 1, wherein said read/write device additionally comprises means for field programming the memory circuit of said microchip by using said modulator for pulse pause modulating (PPM) said RF field, so that said RF field includes data and command signals for changing the identification data stored in the memory circuit of said microchip.
3. The combination as recited in claim 1, wherein said signal receiver of said microchip additionally comprises a decoder circuit coupled to said memory circuit, said decoder receiving a pulse pause modulated (PPM) RF field from said modulator of said read/write device for digitally evaluating the PPM RF field and the data in order to change the identification data stored in said memory circuit.
4. The combination as recited in claim 3, wherein said memory circuit of said detection microchip additionally comprises a write protected area which can only be written onto once with data.
5. The combination as recited in claim 4, wherein said oscillator of said detection microchip operates at a frequency independent of the frequency of the RF signal from the transmitter of the read/write device.
6. The combination as recited in claim 5, wherein said data receiver of said read/write device comprises a demodulator, and an evaluation circuit coupled to said demodulator for evaluating and indicating the identification data detected from said detection microchip.
7. The combination as recited in claim 6 wherein said detection microchip is freely programmable to operate in said function modes.
8. The combination of a portable, field-programmable detection microchip for storing identification data for identifying persons, animals or objects, and a read/write device for accessing the data stored in the microchip, when brought within RF coupling proximity thereof, the combination defining an identification system comprising:
- a read/write device including a transmitter for producing an RF field, a modulator coupled to said transmitter for modulating the RF field, and a data receiver for receiving RF data signals from the detection microchip; and
- a detection microchip including
- i. a parallel LC resonant circuit tuned to the frequency of said RF field;
- ii. a rectifier circuit coupled to said parallel LC resonant circuit;
- iii. a charging capacitor coupled to said rectifier circuit for storing electrical energy during the occurrence of the RF field, and powering said microchip during pulse pauses of the RF field;
- iv. a signal receiver coupled to said parallel LC resonant circuit for decoding the modulated RF field;
- v. a memory circuit for storing the identification data of said microchip;
- vi. a code generator coupled to said memory circuit for generating an RF signal modulated with the identification data;
- vii. switching means coupled to said parallel LC resonant circuit and said code generator for coupling the identification data from said code generator to said parallel LC resonant circuit, said switching means changing the impedance of said parallel LC resonant circuit during the transmission of the identification data, wherein said signal receiver of said microchip additionally including a decoder circuit; and
- viii. a digital multiplexer switch coupled between said decoder circuit and said memory circuit for selectively connecting said decoder circuit to said memory circuit during a transmission of identification data from said read/write device; said decoder circuit receiving a pulse pause modulated (PPM) RF field from said modulator of said read/write device and digitally evaluating the PPM RF field and the data in order to change the identification data stored in said memory circuit, said digital multiplexer disconnects said decoder circuit from said memory circuit during a transmission from said detection microchip.
Type: Grant
Filed: Feb 5, 1991
Date of Patent: Jun 8, 1993
Assignee: Anatoli Stobbe (Barsinghausen)
Inventors: Anatoli Stobbe (D-3013 Barsinghausen 1), Wilfried Herrmann (Gehrden)
Primary Examiner: Glen R. Swann, III
Law Firm: Collard & Roe
Application Number: 7/650,490
International Classification: G08B 2100;


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Is this the smallest critter you've ever seen? CB found a bunch of them out by the ponds a couple weeks ago. He says it's a toad.
This is one of three quail that CB bought recently. I believe this little guy is Blake. He has another named Peter & Piper. Blake was the sole survivor of a cat attack that claimed the lives of 2 of CB's original quail (Lily & Alex…RIP). That was a devastating day but CB survived. He has been taking good care of them and they are well protected from those rascally cats now.
On a final note a YUMMY recipe I made last night for us then again for my farmer friend. Will definitely make again real soon…maybe tonight!
- 6 T. olive oil
- 3 tsp. vinegar
- 4 T. mayonnaise
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 lg onion
- handful of fresh dill (1-2 tsp of dried dill would probably work as well)
- 6 cukes sliced
Refrigerate x 1 hour and serve. The WHOLE family enjoyed this!
Now off to harvest the garlic and do a little planting in the greenhouse.


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Note: Being updated after Apple Special Event Sep 12, 2017.
Sometimes Apple comes out with design decisions that leave people scratching their heads. Progress is important, but it's not always useful to get rid of a function that works perfectly fine in favor of a new "solution" that is more complicated.
Never was this more clear than when Apple removed the simple 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7 in favor of wireless ear buds. Following of iPhone 7, the newest iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, or even iPhone X continue to have no wired headphone jack, which is truly designed for the future of wireless.
Can I Listen to Music on iPhone X/8/8 Plus When Charging
You couldn't charge your iPhone and listen to music at the same time on iPhone 7, but you could make it on iPhone X/8/8 Plus. Interestingly enough, iPhone X/8/8 Plus has the new function of wireless charging, which leaves the Lighting port free for wired headphones.
The Future of iPhone X/8/8 Plus Music
This situation just goes to show that you can never know what Apple will do next. If your music library is largely on iTunes and you are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, then this can be a problem. Many times, Apple can make playing and listening to music a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
Just like someone can set themselves free from Airpods by using the headphone jack adapter as an alternative, you can also free your music by using alternatives to iTunes. If you've ever been frustrated that you could move certain songs from your computer to your iPhone, or that you couldn't share music with friends, then you should look into some third-party applications that help you manage your iTunes music better than even iTunes can.
The best of these applications is iMyFone TunesMate. It has tons of features, including ones that help you bypass Apple's restrictions:
- Transfer music to iPhone without losing the library that's already on there.
- Transfer music that you downloaded for free, as well as music that you bought on Google, Amazon, and iTunes.
- Back up your iPhone music and restore the music from your backup.
- Build up a huge collection of music in your iTunes library from unlimited iPhones, including those of your friends with different Apple IDs.
- Transfer music from iPhone to your computer, iTunes, an external drive, CDs, etc.
- Fully compatible with iOS 11 and the new iPhone X/iPhone 8/8 Plus
So how you can transfer music to iPhone X/8/8 Plus:
Step 1: Download TunesMate to your computer and install it. Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB.
Step 2: Open up TunesMate and click on the Music tab.
Step 3: Go to your file system on your computer and browse for the folder that has the music that you want to transfer.
Step 4: Drag the music from your folder and drop it into the TunesMate window (in the area where you see the list of songs on your iPhone).
Other Amazing Features about New iPhone X/8/8 Plus
Besides the possibility of being able to charge your iPhone while listening to music on traditional headphones, there are other changes for the new iPhones:
- Apple gives away AirPods with the new iPhone. Though this is dubious, but they might do this to appease customers for the loss of the 3.5mm jack.
- On-screen fingerprint sensor. Apple has filed several patents in this regard, but no one knows whether the technology is refined enough yet.
- Supperhuman A11 Bionic.The use of A11 bionic would improve users' experience on the new iPhones. What it brings new are neural engine, faster CPU, adaptive recognition, power efficiency, augmented reality and more.
- The two cameras will be placed vertically (to help with augmented reality applications) on iPhone X. However, iPhone 8 also has 2 cameras but they are still laterally set.
- Apple gets rid of the home button to make the screen bigger. This is available on iPhone X, but not on iPhone 8/8 Plus.


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This article is fan fiction
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft lore or history. The characters, places, and events listed are of an independent nature and are applied for roleplaying purposes only.
The Frozen Kingdom is the second expansion pack to World of Warcraft.
New races
No new races will be added in this expansion.
New classes
New class: Shadow Ranger
Available for Night Elf and Blood Elf players.
Evolved from a legion of hunters-gone-bad, the shadow hunter is a decieving, self-centered and plainly evil badass. Formed by hunters who joined the lich king during the Scourge invasion, several of these have now returned to the good side.
The shadow ranger is a hunter/warlock hybrid. It possesses the same abilities as your standard hunter, exept that thay rely mainly on shadow damage instead of RAP. The ranger has most spells that you would find on a hunter, but with some of them removed or changed, a new talent tree, and a few new spells.
Changed spells
Arcane Shot = Shadow Dart (does shadow damage instead of arcane)
Trueshot Aura = Moonwrath Aura, +200 shadow damage (at level 80)
Aspect of the Hawk = Aspect of the Moon (gives shadow damage instead of RAP)
Serpent Sting = Shadow Sting (does shadow damage instead of nature)
Removed spells
Frost Trap
Freezing Trap
Raptor Strike
New spells
Shadow Maul
Melee attack, require melee weapon eqipped. Learnable at level 10.
Strikes the target for 150% weapon damage + (20+(lvl*1,5)+shadowdmg*0,5).
25 + (lvl*2) mana. 15 second cooldown.
Shadow Tangles
Ranged attack, requires ranged weapon equipped. Learnable at level 30.
Send a tangling arrow at the target, keeping him stuck to the ground for 15 seconds. Also increases the targets casting time by 75%.
150+(lvl*1,5) mana. 60 second cooldown.
Wrath of the Moon
Ranged attack, requires ranged weapon equipped. Learnable at level 66.
Strikes the target, doing 300% weapon damage + (shadowdmg*0,8). If the hit is critical, ranged attack speed is incresed by 50% for 15 seconds.
725 mana. 3 minute cooldown.
You can tame pets as always, but you can also get pets from quests at level 35, 58 and 76. The quests consists of up to 12 quests (76) and require instance runs.
Level 35 = Shadow Raptor; fair armor, fair damage,
Level 58 = Shadow Boar; good armor, low damage,
Level 76 = Shadow Panther; fair armor, good damage OR Shadow Stalker; low armor, high damage.
While hunters use leather (mail from 40), the shadow ranger uses cloth (leather from 40), just like most caster classes.
The Shadow Ranger has a brand new talent tree consisting of three builds;
- Beast Mastery (Pet spec)
- Shadow Mastery (Damage spec)
- To be announced
New mounts
New 150% ground / 350% air mounts. (Northrend + Outland only)
Character changes
Level cap raised to 80.
New zones
Borean Tundra
Crystalsong Forest
Grizzly Hills
Howling Fjord
Icecrown Glacier (PARTIALLY CLOSED)
Sholazar Basin
Storm Peaks
The Frozen Throne (CLOSED)
New continent
New high-level dungeons
The Nexus
Riplash Ruins
Temple of Storms
Wyrmrest Temple
Drak'Tharon Keep
Caverns of Time: The Invasion of Lordaeron
Travel back through time and space and help defend Lordaeron against the invading scourge troops. This will also be the first in-game encounter with Arthas Menethil, as players will be able to see the former paladin escape the city after slaying his father, the King of Lordaeron.
Several pre-TBC instances has been made available as heroics at lvl 68+:
Shadowfang Keep
Scarlet Monastery, including the new wing: The Monastery Cellars
Profession changes
Profession caps increased to 425. New rank: Royal. Requires level 68 and 350 skill to learn. New profession system:
- Gathering profession (herb, mining, skinning)
- Producing profession (jewelcrafting, lw, bs, ench, alch, tailor, engi)
- Secondary profession (cooking, fishing, 1st aid, riding)
Players pr. TBC may have two professions. In TFK, players can learn a THIRD profession at lvl 75. However, a player can only have ONE gathering prof., meaning thatyou need to have two producing and one gathering to fill all slots.


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AFCEA is an international organization that serves its members by providing a forum for the ethical exchange of information. AFCEA is dedicated to increasing knowledge through the exploration of issues relevant to its
members in information technology, communications, and electronics for the defense, homeland security and intelligence communities, and other government entities with components supporting these missions.
The Alamo Chapter of AFCEA supports this mission by fostering strong, trusted relationships with government organizations and industry partners who are both local and global in their support of US national
defense, and in collaboration with allies/coalition partners, academia, and civic organizations.
Alamo AFCEA plans/executes monthly and annual events that promote professional development for those serving in the cyber operations/ defense, communications, computer, command, control, intelligence and electronic
warfare disciplines. To this end, the chapter provides financial (scholarships and grants), advisory and professional mentorship support for STEM Education at all levels - K-through collegiate graduate-level studies
- as well as military veteran support in our Wounded Warrior & Military Families Endowment Fund and other civic support activities.
"Alamo AFCEA brings together over 1,200 professionals from industry, government, and academia who share a commitment to improving our national defense and homeland security through innovation and collaboration.
With the largest installation in DoD, San Antonio is home to a unique blend of operational expertise in cyber, intelligence, education, and medical IT from across the military services. We host ethical
dialogues with government and industry leaders, provide unmatched professional development opportunities to our members, and pay it forward to the next generation through STEM education scholarships
and grants. I invite you to join our team today."
-Richard Lipsey, President
2016 - Present - Rick Lipsey 2011 – 2016 - Bill Morrow 2008 - 2010 - M. Clarke Englund 2006 - 2008 - M. Clarke Englund 2004 - 2006 - Karl Kabanek 2002 - 2004 - Jerry Lazarof 2001 - 2002 - Frank
1999 - 2001 - Larry Cardinal
Volunteering with a nonprofit can be among the most rewarding experiences you'll ever have. And volunteering with a professional organization, such as the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, can
benefit your career and networks of business contacts.
Great events like the Alamo ACE and monthly luncheons don't just happen on their own. Neither does the ability to award nearly $150,000 in STEM scholarships and teaching grants, expand the chapter's support
for wounded warriors and military families, or to see your (or your company's) name and photo in Signal magazine. All of these stem from the passion and time willingly spent by Alamo AFCEA volunteers to contribute
to our community.
Our nonprofit can only be as strong as its base of volunteers.
If you're interested in deepening your involvement with Alamo AFCEA, we always have room. We're a large chapter with no fewer than nine board-level committees, and a number of smaller subcommittees associated with those
functions. If you have even a few hours to spare each month, it's easy to make a difference!
Check out the list of positions below, and let us know where you'd like to lend a hand by completing the form at the bottom of this page.
A small number of people are needed to help write, review and edit nomination packages for submission to AFCEA International. Awards are submitted on a seasonal basis, so volunteers are needed only a few
times a year for a few days at a time prior to nomination deadlines.
Attributes: Skillful writer or editor, enjoys word-smithing and polishing nomination packages.
The Alamo Chapter is seeking AFCEA members who would like to volunteer their time to create a program that focuses on:
Active-duty members of Alamo AFCEA are eligible for these positions. Our goal is to expand membership and involvement from the Army, Marines, Coast Guard and other services -- and we're bringing programs
to all aspects of Joint Base San Antonio to support that goal.
Volunteers of many descriptions to help document and promote Alamo AFCEA activities and initiatives.
Attributes: Enjoys writing and/or photography. Organized and self-motivated, detail- and deadline-oriented. Flexibility to attend a range of AFCEA activities on a quarterly basis.
Alamo AFCEA members who are 40 or younger comprise this group. Young AFCEANs provide a number of critical functions and often operate in a "shadow" position for vice presidents/committee chairs. Volunteers
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This past week, we drove from Pennsylvania to Tupelo, Mississippi to teach and lecture for the Gumtree Quilters Guild and the Piece Keepers Guild.
The first day of our journey led us to the suburbs of Nashville. The following morning, we drove to the quaint village of Leipers' Fork, TN.
It had some wonderful shops and galleries.
We made our way to the Natchez Chase Parkway, an ancient path used by migrating animals. The Parkway became a Native American trail over 2,000 years ago. We drove from Tennessee to Tupelo and here are some of the things we saw along the two lane road. We only saw three cars for the first 200 miles!
I am certain that the falls are spectacular in the Spring.
But, I saw these beautiful wild flowers on our hike down to the falls.
We made it to Tupelo, which borders the Natchez Trace Parkway.
Tupelo was the first city to receive electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s. However, something more important to the city and the world also happened in the 1930's. A King was born.
Everything in Tupelo is about its favorite son.
There are many, many painted guitar sculptures paying tribute to Elvis. Here are just a few examples.
I know Elvis passed away when I was 19, but he was so, so young at 42. Driving around Tupelo, I was dumbfounded at his humble beginnings. He was born in a two room "shotgun" house that his father built. The home is now surrounded by wonderful gardens and a museum. Thousands upon thousands visit it each year.
We were driving the back roads just outside of Tupelo and came across this home. See the resemblance?
It just makes me wonder that so many people can grow up with so little, yet can accomplish so much.
Did I tell anyone that I have a dog! And, she loved our trip to Tupelo.
One of my students thought Eve might like some fabric to lay upon.
I love this dog!!
I was able to spend a few days in my studio and just finished listening to "Daughter". The mother is a family doctor, the father is a well known neurosurgeon and they have three children. Jenny, age 15, does not come home after a school play. A parent's worst nightmare. A nationwide search begins.
This book did keep my interest and when I had to pause it to let little Eve out for a potty break…..I could not wait to get back up to the studio to see where this story was going.


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Comparisons of AMD Microarchitectures
Multimedia Performance
x264 HD Benchmark showed that A10-5700 was the fastest at stock frequency while A8-3800 was the fastest at 2 GHz. Athlon 5050e had half the number of cores and was beaten.
Athlon 5350 improved dramatically in pass 2. It surpassed A10-5700 and tied with A8-3800, clock for clock.


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An American student held for two weeks at an Israeli border detention facility, on the basis of a law barring foreign nationals actively involved in promoting a boycott of Israel, was finally permitted to enter the country Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled in her favor.
"The inevitable impression is that invalidating the visa given to her was due to the political opinions she holds," the judges wrote. "If this is truly the case, then we are talking about an extreme and dangerous step, which could lead to the crumbling of the pillars upon which democracy in Israel stands."
The case of Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old Florida native who argued against her deportation order in three court hearings, leaves a question mark over the law, passed in 2017, that takes aim at the international BDS movement – a lose affiliation of groups that call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel because of its treatment of the Palestinians.
So far, 15 people have been denied entry because of the law.
Alqasem, whose father is of Palestinian heritage, is the first person to appeal the ban. She was accepted to a master's degree program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and received a year-long student visa from the Israeli consulate in Florida. The state revoked her visa based on the law.
Ruling on her case Thursday, the Supreme court said there was not satisfactory cause to bar her entry.
Minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan, whose ministry is charged with implementing and monitoring the law, said in a statement that the Supreme Court had "granted BDS a great victory."
"I deeply regret the Supreme Court's decision today, which indicates a basic lack of understanding of the nature and methods of the BDS campaign. It has compromised the power of the state to fight back against the boycott activists that harm us," he said.
It was Erdan's ministry that flagged Alqasem's previous position as president of Students for Justice in Palestine, a U.S. campus group that advocates a boycott, and highlighted her presence at a protest against an Israeli humus brand.
The ministry compiles profiles of activists based on public information online, including that published by Canary Mission, an anonymous website that documents "individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses."
Alqasem's attoneys argued that her activities in Students for Justice in Palestine did not meet the legal test for the boycott law and that in her role as president she did not actively promote a boycott. They also argued that she was no longer involved in the group.
(c) 2018, The Washington Post · Ruth Eglash


text: Valentine's Day is a day meant for showing your true love how much they mean to you. Your one and only will no doubt feel loved when you shower him or her with our Valentine's Day Gift Basket. This elegant basket contains some of the world's most loved sweets including Godiva and French truffles. Lavish your sweetheart with the gift of rich and seductive chocolates. You will be very well rewarded for your thoughtfulness!


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The way companies use and pay for customer relationship management (CRM) software has changed significantly over the past decade. While we have moved from perpetual or "up front" license costs towards a subscription-based payment model – there are still several points to consider when calculating the true costs of a CRM deployment over time.
The following analysis provides a comparative price analysis of three CRM solutions:
- SugarCRM
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM
- Salesforce.com


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Jordan Page from FunCheapOrFree.com and BudgetBootCamp.com, here. I don't know about you, but around here "summer" means no school, pool days, and eating with family and friends! I am an entertaining NUT. I love having people over, whether it's one couple or 40 friends, we entertain a lot. If you're not careful, feeding a crowd can be expensive so today I'm sharing my top five ways to host a summer barbecue for less!
1. Shop the sales
Want to invite all your friends over but worried about breaking your budget? One of the best things about summer entertaining is that there are usually some killer grocery deals! This time of year you can find hot dogs, hamburgers, buns, chips, fruit and more all on sale! Look over your grocery ads, center your menu around the least expensive items, and voila! You can feed a crowd while still sticking to your budget. Keep an eye on the sales year round using the Flipp app. If you see condiments go on sale, stock up. Same with chips, paper plates, napkins, drinks, and other pantry items. This also goes for anything you can freeze (cheese, tortillas, meat, etc).
2. Use what you already have
Before running to the store, open your fridge, freezer, cupboards, and pantry and use what you have! This goes for decorations, too. Trust me…you'll save A TON of money if you simply get creative with what you already have. You can put already opened chips in a bowl instead of serving them out of a bag, or put condiments in a bowl if the container is running low so you don't have to buy new ones! Once again, using the Flipp app will save you a ton of money by helping you stock up so you already have most of your ingredients on hand.
3. Make it potluck
Inviting friends over for a barbecue doesn't mean you have to provide everything! When you are writing out your plan, decide what you will provide and what you'll kindly ask your guests to bring. Maybe you'll do the main dish and ask them to bring a dessert or a side dish to share. Friends are usually more than happy to help and in this Pinterest filled world everyone has a great summer recipe to share.
4. Skip the drinks
What your guests drink at your party can have a HUGE effect on your budget! Rather than serving fancy, expensive drinks, give your water a face-lift! Using the Flipp app, find the best sales on fruit and cucumbers and then slice those up to make flavored water. Some of my favorite combinations are cucumber and mint, or lemon with strawberries. You can put your water in a cute pitcher or container. Another great idea is to make festive ice cubes using berries. There are so many easy ways to serve a nice drink that won't break the bank.
5. Plan simple activities and entertainment
You've got your decorations, your food, now throw in some fun activities and you've got yourself a party! If you want to cool off from the summer heat bust out the slip n' slide, sprinklers, kiddie pool, or have a good ol' fashioned water balloon fight. Another great idea is to bring out board games and card games, make your own bean bag toss by sewing small bean bags and making holes in cardboard or wood, or doing a hula hoop competition. Of course a little music really helps add to the atmosphere as well so crank those tunes!
So there you go, my top 5 Ways to Host a Summer Barbecue for Less! I share more money saving tips and tricks over on FunCheapOrFree.com and share all my budgeting secrets on BudgetBootCamp.com so check them all out, and have some fun this summer!


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Virtualbox Error 1
VT-x is being used by another hypervisor (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE)
If you are using Linux Distro (Ubuntu in my case) and when you try to run VirtualBox, you might get the following error : VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). or something like VT-x is being used by another hypervisor (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).


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Summercap L1
A racing-tuned classic. The traditional cotton cycling cap has been sensitively upgraded by Q36.5 through the use of a natural satin weave cotton and the addition of two polyester inserts through the sides of the central panel which confer a closer fit to the cap as well as offering ventilation. A polyamide sweat band offers a zero-irritation interface with the skin and efficiently wicks perspiration.


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Weekend thread and some links
Hello all,
As Sunny has beaten me to it with the open thread This is the weekend thread. I leave you with links to a few things I've enjoyed this week to keep you occupied.
1. My esteemed chum -The Ill Man -do drop in he's feeling a bit unloved.
2. Mail Art
3. A fine post by Katy Newton at The Devils Kitchen.
4. All you need to know about starting your own cult. (now fixed!)
5. How to harvest squid ink.
Enjoy and feel free to add your own suggestions below.
Sunny adds: As our lovely Clairwil has been posting M.I.A. videos all this week on her blog so I thought I'd post my favourite one here as part of the loooooong weekend thread. (I've incorporated the previous thread with this one)
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Rescuers Free 19 Manatees From Florida Storm Drain
Rescuers freed 19 manatees who were stuck in a storm drain in central Florida. A local fire department official said the 19 manatees were all alive and were returned to the Indian River Lagoon System. Photo: AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Doctrine ORM: Fatal error: Call to a member function getOid() on a non-object 3
Came across this today and was unable to find a solution on Google, so hopefully this will help somebody out. I had the following code using Doctrine ORM:
//load profile object $clientProfile = new Profile(); $profileObject = $clientProfile->getProfileByPid($pid); $profileObject->lead_type_reason = $lead_type_reason; $profileObject->save();
The getProfileByPid() method is as follows:
public function getProfileByPid($pid) { $q = Doctrine_Query::create() ->from('Profile') ->where('id = ?', $pid); try { return $q->execute(); } catch (Doctrine_Connection_Exception $e) { } }
The problem is that the query returns multiple records and places them into a collection, rather than returning a single object as you might have expected. Change the "return $q->execute()" to "return $q->fetchOne()" to solve the problem. Better yet though, figure out why the query returns more than one record if you're passing in a unique ID like I was. Hope this helps!


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Johannesburg - Joel Stransky, whose drop goal won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, said on Wednesday he was "bitterly disappointed and very surprised" that South Africa will not host the 2023 edition.
READ: SA left stunned as France awarded RWC 2023
READ: South Africans angered by rivals' bid tactics
After France were awarded hosting rights, the businessman-cum-TV analyst told SuperSport: "What is the point in having an independent evaluation process when its winners (South Africa) end up as losers?
"One can but imagine the lobbying that goes on behind the scenes - an old boys' club is still making decisions at World Rugby."
Stransky slotted the extra-time drop goal that earned South Africa a 15-12 triumph over favourites New Zealand in the 1995 final at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.
France received 18 votes, South Africa 13 and Ireland eight in the first round of voting among rugby unions in London, and in the decisive second phase France claimed 24 to South Africa's 15.
Independent evaluators last month recommended that South Africa host the quadrennial competition, only for the republic to fail again.
South Africa lost out to New Zealand for the 2011 World Cup, England for 2015 and Japan for 2019.
Wing Chester Williams, the only black player in the 1995 team, was quoted on radio saying the decision was "sad".
"It was a much-needed event that would have been another opportunity for South Africans to reunite as a nation," he added.
Another former Springbok winger, Ashwin Willemse, told SuperSport: "We need to discover how you win a bid. Are their soft issues we are missing out on?
"It is concerning that the views of the independent evaluators proved insignificant. Congratulations to France."
Deputy sports minister Gert Oosthuizen said he was "obviously disappointed, but we must go to France and win the World Cup there again."
The Springboks overcame England 15-6 at the Stade de France in Paris to win the 2007 World Cup, their only other success since their glorious home debut in 1995.
Oosthuizen spoke in a Pretoria square after attending a public screening of the announcement with many South Africans later shedding tears and shaking their heads.
"We must rally from this disappointment. I wish France a successful hosting. We worked very hard for so long to try and win the bid, but so did the French."
The build-up to the vote had been downplayed in the media with the struggles of the national football and rugby teams the more pressing talking points.
South Africa's football team lost home and away to Senegal within five days to be eliminated from 2018 Soccer World Cup qualifying.
Meanwhile, the Springboks suffered a record 38-3 loss to Ireland in Dublin last Saturday at the start of a European tour, which includes Tests in France, Italy and Wales.


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I have sow much for me to share today. I can hear the drum beat from far away. And in my ears the rumbling of the Buffalo Drum, I can hear the settings of the SUNS (where they lie down inside their hearts). We are learning to shine a k/new. If only others could get a handle on this chew. There is a salvation to this mighty wind. There is a heaven that makes our hearts begin. I have sow much to share with you today. My heart is longing for the celebration of this praise. I gift to you, all that I dew today. I gift to you, my heart I want to know it's glorious rays.
|Abundance of the Harvest Moon
I have so much (tears in my voice, reverberation of wave frequencies) that I must feel. I must feel the waking rainbow that makes me steel (I am a strong combination). I am fallen (with the humble bow) inside of you where the clan of many colors coming to bloom. I am thankful today I fall (bow and praise with you). I am thankful to the holy call. I am sharing my heart with you. I am glory (gathering at the hoop) the ring of love coming true (my voice is sounding in the blue of you too, I love you)!
|White Man the Father Nation and the
Red Man the Daughter Nation
whom reflect each other
on the Hoop of the Rainbow Clan,
including all of MAN.
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Traveling with Pets for Thanksgiving?November 25, 2008 by Tom James
Traveling with your pet this Thanksgiving holiday? Amid all of the get-togethers, food and celebration, don't forget about your pet's special needs that will help make the trip to — and once you get to your destination — safer and more enjoyable.
Remember to secure your furry friend for safe travel. Accidents and sudden stops can happen in an instant. Then it's too late. An unrestrained pet can become a deadly projectile, causing injury to itself and other passengers in your vehicle. Why not play it safe and secure your pet in a crate belted to the vehicle or with a vehicle safety harness? Smaller pets enjoy some of the popular, elevated pet car seats, which allow them to see out over the river and through the woods. Your pet will have plenty of time to romp and play once you get to where you're going. It's up to you to keep him safe along the way.
As a reminder, be careful about what foods may be in paw's reach of your pet. Poultry bones are easily swallowed and can pose a real choking hazard. Treats, such as chocolate intended for guests, can also cause serious problems and sometimes be fatal. A substance called theobromine is in chocolate and can be very toxic to pets.
Holiday plants such as mistletoe, holly and poinsettia can be deadly to animals, so make sure these are well out of reach.
By being prepared for safe holiday travel and cognizant of the dangers around your pet, you can help to ensure that your pet remains safe and secure during holiday visits. Keep these tips in mind, and you'll be a better pet parent.
Happy (and Safe) Pet Travels!
Tom James
First Thanksgiving: Was It A Religious Celebration?
Religion News Service
(RNS) If you want to prepare for Thanksgiving like a real Pilgrim this year, here's what you should do: Cancel the plane reservations. Stop jotting down recipes. Leave the libations alone.
For the Pilgrims and Puritans, "thanksgiving" days were spontaneous and sober affairs.
When friends arrived from overseas, European Protestants defeated Catholics in battle, or a bumper crop was reaped, the Pilgrims dedicated a day to thanking divine Providence.
They would have considered it presumptuous to schedule a thanksgiving day in advance, said Francis Bremer, an emeritus professor of history at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. "It assumes that God is going to be good to you each particular year."
The Pilgrims' days of thanksgiving were usually spent in church, singing psalms, listening to sermons and praying. Work and playful pastimes were forbidden. When God provided, the Pilgrims were serious about gratitude.
Despite their reputation as buckle-belted killjoys, the Puritans and Pilgrims knew how to have a good time. They brewed beer, feasted on fowl and enjoyed sex -- all in moderation, of course.
That's why some historians believe the 1621 celebration that's sometimes dubbed the "First Thanksgiving," was not actually a "thanksgiving" day at all. In fact, some historians even call it a "secular event."
"The 1621 gathering in Plymouth was not a religious gathering but most likely a harvest celebration much like those the English had known in farming communities back home," write Catherine O'Neill Grace and Margaret M. Bruchac in their book, "1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving."
The Pilgrims partied for almost a week in the fall of 1621, according to eyewitness accounts. They shot fowl, played games, feasted and entertained nearly 90 Native American neighbors with a gun, er, musket show.
The Pilgrims would never have thrown such a party on a proper day of thanksgiving, according to James W. Baker, a former senior historian at the Plimouth Plantation in Massachusetts.
"The very nature of a celebration, extending over several days or a week with secular 'recreations' and non-Christian guests," Baker writes in the Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days, "is what pious Calvinists such as the Pilgrims would be first to protest had no place in any Christian holy day."
But that doesn't mean the "First Thanksgiving" was a secular celebration, argue some historians.
Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum in the Netherlands, said the idea of a "thankless or secular harvest festival was unthinkable."
"The Pilgrim leaders undeniably conceived of their lives in religious ways," Bangs said.
Everything the Pilgrims and Puritans did was suffused with faith, Bremer agreed.
"Can we know for sure that they conceptualized it as a 'thanksgiving'? Not in the way that we have it. But these are people who would have given thanks before every meal they had."
The problem with defining the original 1621 celebration -- besides the dearth of historical evidence -- is the absence of a full-time minister among the Pilgrims, said Bremer. Religious rituals were not as formal as they would become when a pastor, Ralph Smith, arrived nearly a decade later.
In other words, the Pilgrims were winging it in 1621: Glad to be alive after a dangerous voyage, happy for a good harvest and excited about their future in a fresh, new land.
in the Holy Ghost Walk, Gathering in Homes!
New moon December 2, 2013 05:22:19 PM
New moon January 1, 2014 aligning with the sun
Ghost Walk (Sing, Dance, Gather) with us (where you are) each New Moon.
Ghost Walk (Sing, Dance, Gather) with us (where you are) each New Moon.
From the darkness we arise a heavenly child.
Relatives of the Rainbow Clan, you and you and you and you and me too. There are only a few more New Moons (re/birthing) to go, until we start to flow where it's the spiritual growth, the Great Push (January 1, 2014). We need you to share and shine, to bring in wine, tears divine. We send greetings and blessings as we join together in this dance, the Holy Ghost, the Spiritual toast, we greet you to the sky and back to the why, where we say, forgiveness is treasures, let joy overcome. Tonight it's a way to let love under ONE. We cherish this world, because we are SUNS, each child, each enemy, each parent with a child. All the the little creatures, the rocks and the sticks. All the little varmints (rats, social interrogatory) which pick up the holy wicks (spat, now let's go to work), sparking the willing to have faith in a song, where are all together, moving along. We send blessings in this song. Let your hair down, sing and dance abound. For it's the spiritual soul within that leads and says, Holy to my Spirit, for I am going to bloom. I will share with this world. I will shine until NOON (inner brightest like a Star). We will become treasures when we pray along, together in a song, all together God's ONE. All the little spiders, who weave us to cradle the song. Telling us a story, that look out, watch the bones. There planted deeply a treasure under the stone, if we look closer, we might want to shown, love gifts and hooves (kicks and shoves, like parents on a rug).
Bowing with all our Relatives, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Event: Ghost Walk, the New Moon Dance
(Monthly three day gathering with the family and friends, relatives in the winds)
Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: "the Clouds that Dance Ceremony"
Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: "the Clouds that Dance Ceremony"
Dance when heat and cold (mist/smoke of the ghost) find each other bold, binding to bring in the new, the ghost dance comes to infuse, the soul has risen, awaken and driven, the heavenly soul does reign. Renegades put on your shelter (warriors uniform, buffalo armor, rainbow colors purified), because it's turning to helter skelter (confusion and frenzy, bubbling up the soul does reign). White Buffalo Calf Woman sings
Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Pray With Elders around the World
My computer is protected
Paradise gleams, the field in the trees, dew in the breeze!
Paradise gleams, the field in the trees, dew in the breeze!
Sacred Song Blessings, gift all a good song, because you are perfect in all that does song. Our hearts reach into heaven, and we flood, with a sound, the music of Angels, that gift us pure sound. I want you to know, that you are part of God, the echo, that lingers till light hits the "Dawn". And we are the magic, that children who know, the heart always has pureness, like the blessed snow!


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Warehouse Support - Mid-Atlantic STIHL
This position will participate in the overall operations of the branch by receiving incoming goods, picking and packing orders, shipping completed orders, recording material movements, and assisting administrative support staff with customer shipping.
- Receives incoming orders for parts, accessories, or product by inspecting incoming documentation and matching with items received. Notifies supervisor of any discrepancies for further processing. Unloads received items from trucks or other transit containers and transfer items to designated stock location.
- Receives work orders from supervisor or other oral instructions to ascertain orders to be filled. Picks orders by visually identifying part numbers, quantities and types.
- Packages order by applying approved methods to ensure safety of shipping and moves to appropriate staging location.
- Prepares completed orders for shipping using accepted methods determined by transit type, such as FedEx or commercial transit. Creates labels and other supporting documentation for shipping. Records transactions as required.
- May load trucks or other transit containers with completed orders when necessary, ensuring safe operation and secure packing for over the road transit. May record material transfers, storage and other movements on RF scanners, ensuring accuracy of information.
- Prepares saw chain for customer specifications or inventory by taking bulk chain, matching chain type with work order, and creating specified lengths. Packs completed chain and prepares for shipping or inventory. Records completed chain in inventory system. Follows all defined safety procedures and uses judgment to ensure safe work methods.
- Assumes additional related responsibilities as needed.
- High School diploma or equivalent.
- 1+ months related experience and/or training.
- Uses hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. Reaches with hands and arms. Sits occasionally, stands, walks, stoops, kneels and crouches frequently. Lifts and/or moves up to 25 pounds frequently and lifts and/or moves with mechanized assistance up to 100 pounds occasionally
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Lauren Smiley wrote a truly great piece on the trend of unicorn "startups" sending their customer service departments to far flung parts of the United States in "Congratulations, We're Moving Your Department to Tennessee."
It does a great job of describing two very real trends:
- People joining startups in entry-level jobs like customer support often have designs on moving up and out of that department into other roles as the company grows. They are literally looking at it as getting in on the ground floor.? This article tells the story of folks that made that journey successfully.
- As the startups become unicorns, it becomes economically impractical to keep customer service jobs (and other functions) in the Bay Area or in San Francisco proper.? And so they move vast numbers of jobs to other parts of the country.? Or more accurately, they start only hiring in those parts, and encouraging their teams to move.
Of course, if those departments are moving to Tennessee today, they are also moving to Austin.? I've heard several companies that opened offices here that after bringing a seed team down here from San Francisco, people started asking to transfer rather than waiting for the company to force the issue.? Their friends were opining about the high quality of life in Austin and they wanted to try it out.
But there is a real dilemma for these companies, and their workers:? how to have career advancement when they're nowhere near the mothership.? The article doesn't have answers for this.? Neither do I, really.? The snarky response might be, hey, at least those jobs are going to Tennessee and not another country far away.? That's true.?
I suspect most of the unicorns may not really care. They see roles like customer support as non-core to their business.? I would argue that customer support is core to almost every business.? These companies aren't going to change easily, and likely aren't worried about the lack of advancement opportunities for folks in these functions. ?
But they should be. Because when those opportunities exist, you attract better talent for the jobs.? You develop your farm team for leadership of customer support, for example.
For companies that care, how can you change the dynamic?
- Put more than one function in each location.? Take Apple for example. They put their "Americas Operations" group in Austin, TX.? But they also have chip design, software development, business services, and big chunks of HR and Accounting here.? It makes a difference in making them an attractive employer in Austin because you don't have to move to Cupertino to advance.
- Invest in the community.? Don't just have an outpost in a research park, get your team engaged with the community. Purpose within the company and purpose without are great connectors.
- Get big. Don't let the operation stay small, figure out how to grow it. The more critical mass you have, the more attractive the location becomes for a number of job functions and employees.?
- Keep the perks consistent if you can.? Employees will notice and appreciate it.


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Podcast: "F/V Destination, Do You Copy?"
It was the kind of disaster that wasn't supposed to happen anymore. On February 11, 2017, the fishing vessel Destination disappeared in the Bering Sea on its way to the crab grounds. The boat went missing with an experienced crew, in unremarkable weather conditions, yet there was no mayday and rescue crews could find no life raft or survivors. For the past year, reporter Stephanie May Joyce has been following the investigation into what went wrong, and how this mysterious tragedy has changed Alaskan fishing. >click to listen<18:01
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We have a feeling that Thor: Ragnarok will evoke similar emotions to those brought on by that one scene on the Bifrost… We should probably get some tissues ready.
You can read the film's official synopsis:
In Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger—the Incredible Hulk!
Thor: Ragnarok is in cinemas from 27 October 2017. Get all the latest superhero movie news with every issue of SciFiNow.