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In JMP 14 we began adding support for multi-frame images in JMP. On Windows, JMP can read in and display multi-frame TIFF files as well as animated GIF files. Since doing that I've heard requests for "playing" an animated GIF in a JMP window, with some user control. If you drag and drop your animated GIF into a browser window the animation will play automatically and continuously. But some users have requested control over the frames.
In response, I have written an animated GIF player in JSL. If you specify the animated GIF file in the script, it will open a JMP window with that file. If you don't specify the GIF, it will open a window and allow the user to navigate to an animated GIF. Once the GIF image is opened in the window the user can play and pause the animation or step through the individual frames in the animation.
I hope you find this useful, or at least entertaining, and as always let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements.
Hi! JohnPonte,I'd like to know if this jsl can work in JMP pro 13?
The multi-frame image functionality was added to JMP (on Windows) incrementally over different versions. Support for multi-frame images, such as GIF, goes back to JMP 12 but the JSL interface to that functionality wasn't added until JMP 13. I tried running both the GIF Player and the Image Analyzer , another Add-In I wrote to support multi-frame images. The GIF Player seemed to work as far back as JMP 12. The Image Analyzer gave me the multi-frame controls in JMP 13. So it depends on what you are trying to do as to what version of JMP you will need. You don't need Pro for any of it, but JMP 13 should give you most of the functionality. This particular script, gifPlayer.jsl, should run in JMP (or JMP Pro) 13 on Windows.


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CoffeeGeek – Editor's Choice Awards 2006 – Espresso
Posted by TheShot on 20 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
A couple days ago, CoffeeGeek.com announced their 2006 Editors' Choice awards for espresso: CoffeeGeek – Editor's Choice Awards 2006 – Espresso. Award categories include espresso machines in different price ranges, coffee grinders, bean blends, and espresso-making accessories.
If you still need holiday gifts for that special coffee mutant in your life, get your credit card ready. (I hope my wife is reading this…)
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MEAD: Carnival of the Ascended Week 5
There are hardly any signs of a party left. A few wagons are left in the big cities and a few of the merchants remain. The world has broken out into a complete warzone. You can't travel from one town to the next without coming across troops getting ready for war. People from all over are asking for you help.
This week's quests all reflect the state of war we see ourselves in. The big number quest is to kill the enemy faction. So are the quests for the doubloon, the pvp quest and the raid daily quest. Though the raid quest is more than just confronting the enemy, you actually stand face to face with the leader of the opposing faction. They don't go easy on you just because you have a pretty face. If you aren't careful they stomp your face in fast. Continuing from last week there is a quest to kill two saboteurs who are hanging out near your capital city making trouble. The crafting quests are also a repeat of last week's. Making supplies for the troops. The pvp quest to kill 10 of the enemy faction remains as well. The large number quest to unlock the title this week is a huge number and only certain NPCs are counting towards the quest. From what I could tell reading the forums this is not working as intended and a patch will be coming to fix it, hopefully.
The most important thing about this week is something we have been waiting all month for! We can finally buy those awesome mounts! Sure, some of people were able to get them last week but for the majority of us we had to wait until this week until we had enough doubloons to get the mounts. Of course the hardest part was figuring out which of the awesome mounts to go with.
This week is all about war. A war that doesn't show any signs of slowing down. You don't have to be a pvper to enjoy it. Though having a few friends to help with the various quests is suggested as they are hard this time around!


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I don't quite understand what exactly the protesting coffee farmers are demanding, but they are obviously unhappy about the whole situation of coffee farming in Colombia and want their government to take some form of action. One action that the government quite clearly did take was send riot police in. That'll teach them…
Coffee farmer in this photo and video was, from what I understand shot in the hand with a grenade. The video doesn't show much of what lead to his blasted hand, just the aftermath but it's pretty graphic. It looks like one of those accidents involving homemade firecrackers.
That leads me to a question – was he actually shot in the hand with the grenade or was he perhaps like: "Oh, look… a grenade. I wonder what happens if I pick it up and play with it…"?
Either way I feel for the farmer. His bread involved manual labor and if it was hard for him to make ends meet before, now that his hand is mutilated, it's gonna be even harder. I don't know how it works in Colombia, but I hope he had some kind of insurance that will take care of him post accident.
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Ezra 9 English Standard Version (ESV)
Ezra Prays About Intermarriage
9 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race[a] has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost." 3 As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled. 4 Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice. 5 And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God, 6 saying:
"O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. 7 From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today. 8 But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold[b] within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery. 9 For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection[c] in Judea and Jerusalem.
10 "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, 11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, 'The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. 12 Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.' 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this, 14 shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? 15 O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
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Trains to Cambridge
Cambridge is less than an hour by train from London and it offers a feast of wonderful architecture. We love its sense of small-town tranquillity which is quite a surprise for a city which has such a world-class academic reputation. Cambridge is no ivory-tower retreat; the dreamy look of so many of the colleges masks the fact that education and research are big business in this most likeable of university cities.
Wander through The Backs, where the gardens of seven colleges run down to the River Cam. Take to the waters on a punt (and try not to get wet). Everything in Cambridge oozes style. Even the modern shopping centre (pompously called the Grand Arcade) is smarter than similar malls in other English cities. Definitely make time to visit Fitzwilliam Museum (free entrance) and a handful of colleges. King's College, with its magnificent chapel, is a good place to start.
The 19th-century city fathers and dons were not keen on the railway intruding on their picture-perfect city. So the station is some way distant from the centre. But regular buses shuttle from the station forecourt into the centre every few minutes. There's an excellent range of regional trains from Cambridge station, with hourly departures to Birmingham, Leicester, Norwich and Peterborough (for connections to York and Edinburgh). There are two quite separate rail routes from Cambridge to London (one to King's Cross and the other to Liverpool Street). A second station, called Cambridge North, opened in the university city in May 2017. Travellers heading for the centre of the city and the university should however still travel to Cambridge rather than the new station.
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Be Kissed the Way You Want to be
Kissed Kissing is one of the most crucial part of
love making. But what if your partner sucks at it? Well it's
essential to get him to do what you like and to show him how
to do it. But what is important is how you handle the
situation. Always make a point of saying what works, not what
doesn't. Do not tell him he doesn't kiss well or doesn't 'do
it' for you unless, of course, you don't want to see him
again. Follow the steps for being kissed the way you want to
be kissed.
2. Get him to follow your
lead:When you are in
control of the situation show him how to kiss you the way you
want. Unless you guide him it will not be possible for him to
understand what you want. Thus show him exactly what you enjoy
and how to do it.3.
Introduce a fantasy:Tell him that you had
a dream the other night about how he was kissing you -- and it
was fabulous. Whether or not you actually had this dream, what
you need to do is have an idea about what you want to ask for.
So think ahead how you want to blend the new kissing style or
technique you want with what he already does. That way, you're
not asking for a completely different thing and won't risk
offending his ego. If you can't manage to explain what you
want fully using your dream, tell him, 'You did something like
this' and then show him what you want.
4. Praise your
partner:Let your partner know when he has
kissed you right. If he does something you really like, repeat
it on him and ask if it feels as good to him as it did to you.
Don't criticize and use too many words to describe that you
did not enjoy the kiss. Remember that while you may feel that
the more you tell, the better, he might not like it and feel
Repeat:Don't assume that one time through
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A strawberry shortcake for Ruby
Ruby Robey was my paternal grandmother and she taught me to make strawberry shortcake. She lived her entire life in Simpson County, Kentucky. I think there was something about being a tobacco farmer's wife or maybe it was her Methodist upbringing that made her stern with people who defined strawberry shortcake too loosely. In her view, true moral decline would start with strawberries served over sponge cake and end with the county coming to take the children.
True shortcake is crumbly and flaky, not elastic, and it is definitely not spongy. It should have the taste and consistency of a slightly sweetened biscuit.
It is possible to find strawberry shortcake recipes dating back as far as the 16th century, but the dish in this country really became popular after the Civil War when strawberries were a fleeting treat and people had shortcake parties to celebrate (and consume) while they could.
On the East End, the tiny, sweet berries that are deep red all the way through (the ones that are best for shortcake) are in season for a few weeks, and then give way to mid and late-summer varieties. Some local growers raise six or seven varieties of strawberries -— KK The Farm in Southold — including some that bear fruit through September.
Once you put the sugar on the berries, they start to create a syrup. This syrup is another key to a good shortcake. It should be allowed to soak into the cake, flavoring it. The whipped cream should go on at the last minute — just before the cake is served. Make sure to save a few strawberries to decorate the top.
Of course, you can purchase round spongy cakes that look like cat bowls, fill them with strawberries and enjoy it. Strawberries served over sponge cake with whipped cream make a perfectly delightful dessert, but if you call it shortcake, you may hear Ruby whispering, "Oh mercy sakes!" as you serve it.
Ruby Robey's Strawberry Shortcake
Serves 8, either as one cake, or as 8 individual cakes
1 quart fresh strawberries, about 3 cups when hulled and sliced
¼ cup sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
¼ cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup shortening
1 egg
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon milk
2 tablespoons butter
Whipped cream:
½ pint cold heavy cream
1 tablespoon sugar
Put the hulled and sliced strawberries in a bowl, reserving one nice berry to garnish each serving. Add ¼ cup of the sugar (or more if the berries are tart) and mix to coat the berries. Set them aside for at least an hour while you prepare the cake.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Prepare your pan; either grease an 8-inch cake pan, or two cookie pans if you are making individual servings.
Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Cut in the shortening with two knives or a pastry blender until the mixture looks like coarse sand.
In a small bowl, mix the egg with a fork and add the milk. Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture and stir just until the dough forms a rough ball. It's fine if there are crumbs falling off, or if the dough does not form a neat ball. Don't overmix it.
Gently press the dough into an 8-inch lightly-greased cake pan, or if you are making individual cakes, divide the dough into eight parts and gently press each into a circle about 2 inches high and 4 inches across on your prepared cookie pan, leaving at least two inches between each cake.
Bake at 425 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes for the individual cakes or 15 to 20 minutes for one 8-inch cake. They are done when they are very light brown. Cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack, split horizontally while still warm and butter each cut side. Spoon half of the strawberries and their syrup onto the bottom half, replace the top and spoon the rest of the strawberry mixture onto the top.
Whip the cream with a hand mixer until it starts to thicken, add a tablespoon of sugar and continue to whip until soft peaks form. Spoon the cream on top of the cake(s) and garnish with the reserved strawberries.


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Recommended U.S.-Based Operators
The following U.S.-based tour companies offer solid, well-organized tours in various price categories based on years of experience. All can arrange tours of Buenos Aires, the surroundings, and other parts of Argentina and South America.
Borello Travel & Tours, 7 Park Ave., Ste. 21, New York, NY 10016 (tel. 800/405-3072 or 212/686-4911; www.borellotravel.com; email@example.com), is a New York-based travel firm specializing in upscale travel. The owner, Sandra Borello, has run the company for nearly 20 years and is a native of Buenos Aires. They also have an office in Buenos Aires, at Perú (9 de Julio) 359 (tel. 11/5031-1988). Travel Dynamics International, 132 E. 70th St., New York, NY 10021 (tel. 800/257-5767 or 212/517-0076; www.traveldynamicsinternational.com), is a luxury cruise operator that specializes in educational enrichment programs aboard small cruise ships. TDI voyages include expert guided land tours and onboard lectures by distinguished scholars and guests. Limitless Argentina, 135 Willow St., #907, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (tel. 202/536-5812; www.limitlessargentina.com), is a boutique travel company dedicated to designing authentic, personalized journeys for the discerning traveler. Itineraries include fine arts, regional culture and history, food and wine, the great outdoors, and shopping. The company earned the distinction of top travel specialist for Argentina 2006 from Condé Nast's Traveler magazine.
Recommended Buenos Aires-Based Operators
The following companies are all excellent and have English-speaking staff members. All can also arrange trips to other parts of Argentina and the rest of South America.
Say Hueque Tourism, Thames 2062, Palermo - Buenos Aires (tel. +54 11/5258-8740; www.sayhueque.com) organizes various themed city tours, adventure tours to the Tigre Delta, and longer trips to Patagonia and Iguazú that focus on remote, often overlooked destinations. Euro Tur, Viamonte 486, 1053 Buenos Aires (tel. 11/4312-6077; www.eurotur.com), one of the largest and oldest travel companies in Argentina, specializes in inbound travel but can also accommodate travelers directly in Buenos Aires, arranging city tours as well as trips throughout South America. Les Amis, Maipú 1270, 1005 Buenos Aires (tel. 11/4314-0500; www.lesamis.com.ar), is another large Argentine tour company with offices throughout Buenos Aires and Argentina. South America Travel Advisor (tel. 11/5275-5280 or 11/15-3232-8600 [cell] in Buenos Aires and 646/233-1152 in the U.S. and Canada; www.southamericanadvisor.com; firstname.lastname@example.com) is a travel advisor for Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru. For a flat fee, travelers can contact them with a tentative plan and budget, and they will suggest customized itineraries. They also run cuisine and restaurant tours of Buenos Aires.
Private Tour Guides
You can hire guides through your hotel, any travel agency, or AGUITBA (Asociación de Guías de Turismo de Buenos Aires), Carlos Pellegrini (9 de Julio) 833 (tel. 11/4322-2557; firstname.lastname@example.com), a professional society of tour guides. Its offices are open Monday to Friday from 1 to 6pm. I also recommend private guides Marta Pasquali (tel. 11/15-4421-2486; email@example.com), Monica Varela (tel. 11/15-4407-0268; email@example.com or email@example.com), Rubén Forace (tel. 11/15-4410-8234 [cell] or 11/4866-6193; email@example.com), and Francisco Martoccia (tel. 011/4803-0950; firstname.lastname@example.com).
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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Essay winner knows all about Breaking Barriers
Sixth-grader Beasley V from California overcame brain tumor at age 4
MINNEAPOLIS -- Raymond Beasley V knows a thing or two about breaking barriers.
Beasley, a rising sixth-grader from Brentwood, Calif., has been through more in his 10 years of life than most of us could even dream of.
At age 4, an MRI revealed results that would change his life -- Raymond had a lime-sized brain tumor. Worse yet, it was located near nerves that help the processes of breathing, hearing and balance.
So it was off to the hospital, where Raymond underwent a grueling 14-hour surgery to remove the tumor. Although the procedure was successful, the tumor came back and Raymond had a second surgery at the age of 7.
That one left him with no hearing in his right ear and no feeling on the right side of his face. Raymond also sports a scar running down his skull as evidence of what he's endured.
And while Raymond is often asked about the scar, he is able to harness others' curiosity into a personal source of strength.
That's precisely what Raymond, a student at R. Paul Krey Elementary School, wrote about as his contribution to the more than 19,000 essays that poured in as entries to the 2014 Breaking Barriers essay contest sponsored by Scholastic and Major League Baseball.
Raymond was honored on the field before the Gillette Home Run Derby on Monday night.
The Jackie Robinson story, which is the impetus behind the contest, wasn't new to Raymond, according to his mom, Shannon.
"In our family, we always try to just stay grounded with heroes and our history and especially African-American history," she said. "So when the movie ['42'] came out, my sons were both like, 'I really wanna go see it.' And we had known that it would have some things in it that would be kind of deep and eye-opening for them as young children. But they really wanted to see it, and once they saw it, they were really moved by what Mr. Robinson had to deal with in a very different time.
"They're very into sports and I'm trying to raise strong men and have them have strong minds, so from what they saw, and then applying it to their own lives, I think Raymond really saw the definition of just what it means to be courageous and brave and it wasn't until we heard about this contest that we were really able to connect all the dots and really show him that that story could be his story, or is his story. To see those things come together is a good experience."
So when Raymond heard about the essay contest from his school principal, he knew he had to enter -- and was shocked to hear back.
"My principal at my school told me Ms. Sharon Robinson was on the phone and I didn't even know what was going on," Raymond said. "Then it just started, like someone was talking on the phone and I didn't know who it was. And then Ms. Sharon Robinson told me that I won the contest and I was excited and shocked."
Raymond's hard work had paid off: The tenacity and determination his essay conveyed impressed the judging panel.
"In the end, it's a blessing that I can enjoy life just like other kids. Most people think that I'm brave, but I'm just committed to thinking good thoughts, even when I feel sad or afraid. Having courage, being persistent and keeping a commitment to surviving helped me get back up when I was knocked down," Raymond wrote in his prize-winning essay, which won him a school visit from Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie and contest ambassador, and recognition at a Giants' game, among other honors.
And when he is, you just might see Raymond's "outstanding crooked smile," as he referred to it in his essay.
"Sometimes I forget about the scar on my head, but the questions about it from strangers remind me that I am a survivor. But I AM OUTSTANDING because I fought hard to be like most other 10-year-olds," Raymond wrote.
That smile may not be perfectly straight, but it serves as a reminder to Raymond and to all he meets that he didn't break a barrier.
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I rarely get political online. Not because I'm disengaged or apathetic, but because I don't find it's the most productive or effect way for me personally to create any kind of change.
Plus, I come from a journalism background, where my training ingrained in me the importance of developing informed opinions and coming from a place of logic. In a world where opinions and ideas are easily confused for fact, I prefer to take my time in fully understanding issues that we face as a whole.
Often, I find that the more I dig into something, the less qualified I feel to be the one speaking about it.
And if I do get political, I find I either end feeling like I'm preaching to the choir, or stirring up knee-jerk reactions that cause resentment between individuals.
Both can be disheartening in their own ways, because they don't lead to anything. I don't need consensus. Activists, progressive non-profits, and marginalized voices need consensus. I don't need my thoughts or opinions to be validated.
Many of us don't need more retweets or likes on our status updates. We don't need more online debates or judgments being passed in 140 characters or less.
We are living in volatile times. I don't think anyone would argue with that. Demonstrations, discussions, and fights against racism, oppression, and the abuse of power are coming to a head now, bringing issues to light that have been going on for a long, long time.
In the past week, I've seen a number of bloggers, spiritual workers, and online business owners actively shaming their clients, customers, and peers in how they choose, or not, to speak out about current events affecting North America and around the world.
But this doesn't solve anything. It doesn't further a cause, except to perhaps act as a guise for those individuals doing the shaming as it can make them look like they're taking a stand. Plus, it's not helpful or empowering to suggest that everyone better do something or else risk being shamed for it.
Not everyone knows what to do. National and global issues can seem so much bigger than we are, so much more complex. And the solutions can feel so far out of reach.
Turning against each other isn't what we need to do right now.
Instead, we need to be turning towards each other and finding ways to move through this time together.
Compassion and patience should trump self-righteousness any day.
It's important not to make assumptions about what others are doing, or not doing. Someone might be attending protests every night but never makes note of it online.
Someone might be quietly informing themselves of the issues at hand, rather than succumbing to the pressure of having to have a clever, tweetable answer to all of the world's problems.
Someone might be holding space for friends, neighbours, or community members in ways that might never be publicly recognized.
Someone might be quietly reflecting on their own actions, assumptions, and prejudices, and wondering how they can change.
Someone might be going through the fight of their life on a personal front, dealing with a devastating diagnosis, the loss of a job, the loss of a loved one, and can't summon the strength to focus on anything else right now.
The point is, we don't always know where someone is coming from, or what they walking through right now.
Good actions aren't always visible. It doesn't mean they aren't happening.
This isn't a time to point fingers at each other. Everyone has their own ways of showing up in this world.
We don't need to become more divided.
But at a time when it feels more important than ever that we unite together, so much feels like it could fall apart at any moment. Let's not create more distance between each other over a need to have the last word, or the need to call each other out without offering any insights into how we can create change if we so choose.
Being kind can be one of the most powerful things we can do for each other. I don't mean for that to sound light or flippant.
I mean that even when we don't know what to do, we can at least take down our defenses, and encourage others to do so, too.
We can stop saying "get over it," stop rushing around so much, stop judging each other, stop assuming that one way is the best way, stop believing that one solution is the best solution, and stop coming to conclusions so quickly about one another.
As tarot reader Carrie Mallon put it in her excellent blog post this week, "If you do not understand someone else's approach, that's okay. They might not understand yours. But we can all try to remember that there is no one right way. There is no one correct action that everyone should emulate.
"Constructive criticism can be necessary, no doubt. I think it can be useful for us all to check in with each other, to ensure that we are bringing our A-game and not slipping into complacency. When we converse respectfully about what we are doing, we can help each other strengthen our individual efforts."
Until next time,
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The Obvious Google-Android Antitrust Case the DOJ & FTC Are IgnoringSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2016-04-04 22:29
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager -- who formally has charged Google with abusing its search monopoly, and who also is formally investigating Google's alleged contractual tying of its monopoly search app to create a monopoly Android operating system -- speaks Friday at the ABA antitrust spring meeting in D.C. on a panel with DOJ antitrust chief William Baer and FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, at the awkward juncture when the EU is escalating its antitrust prosecution of Google while America's DOJ and FTC apparently are ignoring the obvious antitrust case they know they have against Google.
In a nutshell, the obvious antitrust case against Google is this: the DOJ and FTC have long established Google is a monopoly demanding antitrust vigilance; U.S v. Microsoft settled that a licensed OS market definition excluding Apple is reasonable and that tying a monopoly OS to a strategic app harms consumers and innovation; Google's contractual tying of its monopoly search to a nascent Android OS is a mirror image of what DOJ already proved monopolistic in U.S. v. Microsoft; Google apparently has monopolized mobile search and search advertising and prompted its only competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing, to give up seriously competing with Google; and now the potential harms to consumers and innovation are escalating as Google is attempting to extend its Android mobile OS monopoly economy-wide to monopolize the Internet of Things.
FCC Unequal ISP Privacy Policy Is Unequal Protection & Unequal OpportunitySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2016-03-31 16:05
The FCC's just-passed, 3-2 unequal ISP privacy policy spotlights how badly the FCC has lost its way.
In prioritizing the equality rights of inanimate digital bits above the equal protection and equal opportunity rights the American people enjoy under our constitutional republic, the FCC is discriminating in favor of open cronyism over equal consumer protection and equal competitive opportunity.
Moody's Investors Service has done everyone a service in exposing the FCC's Title II reclassification and privacy policy for what it really is – arbitrary unequal treatment under the law.
When the FCC proposed these ISP privacy rules three weeks ago, Moody's called the FCC's proposal as it saw it in a Sector Comment March 14 entitled: "FCC's broadband privacy proposal credit negative for linear TV and wireless providers – Over half a trillion in rated debt affected."
FCC's Arbitrary Competition Policy -- Edge Platforms Can't Be Gatekeepers?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2016-03-01 13:38
Looking backwards makes it hard to see what's right in front of you.
Looking backwards at 1934-era Title II telephone utility law, the FCC concluded in its 2015 Open Internet Order that only broadband providers could be "gatekeepers" warranting net neutrality regulation to "protect and promote the "virtuous cycle" that drives innovation and investment on the Internet."
That's because the FCC is apparently oblivious to the very different 21st century communications "gatekeepers" right in front of them that command dramatically more potential "gatekeeper" market power than any broadband provider.
The FCC should listen to what one 21st century communications provider, which commands well over a billion social and communications users globally, has to say about the dominance of edge platforms.
Consumer Confusion over FCC's Arbitrary Privacy PolicymakingSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2016-02-15 22:48
What's a consumer to think about what the FCC's responsibility is for their privacy protection?
Let me try to explain to a consumer what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) arbitrarily has done, and apparently intends to do, for consumer internet privacy protection going forward.
By way of background, for the first decade of the Internet when consumers used dial-up technology, the FCC was responsible for protecting consumers' private network information from commercial use without their permission.
For the second decade of the Internet when consumers came to use broadband technology, the FCC ceded its dial-up-Internet privacy protection authority to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which became responsible for consumer privacy protection from unfair and deceptive practices consistently across the entire American Internet ecosystem, regardless of who interacted with consumers' private information.
Last spring, in order to assert legal authority to enforce net neutrality to protect edge providers from potential traffic discrimination in the FCC's Open Internet Order, the FCC incidentally clawed back some privacy authority over Internet communications -- over the FTC's strong objections.
Can "Bright Line" FCC Title II Discrimination Bans Be Just and Reasonable?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2016-02-08 22:45
Net neutrality absolutists are overreaching yet again in their push for a practical FCC ban of ISP zero rating offers under the FCC's case-by-case "General Conduct Standard" review, by claiming violations of the "bright-line rules" in the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization.
The problem here is that net neutrality absolutists, in exploiting the political pejorative power of the word 'discrimination,' have politically oversold their Title II net neutrality policy as "bright-line" 'non-discrimination' bans, implying no discrimination allowed, when Title II actually only bans "unjust and unreasonable discrimination."
This is a distinction here with a huge difference; and it apparently is giving the net neutrality absolutists fits. They want to imagine that Title II prohibits their absolutist 'no discrimination' frame when it clearly does not.
They want to find a technical "gotcha" in every zero-rating or sponsored data offering, no matter how unreasonable their conclusion, so they can politically ask it be banned by the FCC under their concept of what a 'no discrimination' principle should be.
FCC's AllVid Proposal Is Really The Great Google Ad GrabSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2016-01-29 13:22
While the PR cover story of the FCC's AllVid proposal may be about more consumer choice and competition to reduce the cost of cable set-top boxes, don't be fooled.
In announcing it, the FCC Chairman admits there's already consumer choice aplenty: "American consumers enjoy unprecedented choice in how they view entertainment, news and sports programming. You can pretty much watch what you want, where you want, when you want."
And the AllVid proposal is not about saving consumers money.
If it were, the FCC would not be shunning the obvious, best and cheapest solution of replacing the need for a set-top box entirely, by modernly and naturally transitioning them to the sector norm of easily-downloadable, cheap/free apps.
Why FCC Title II Telephone Privacy Rules Can't Work with an Open InternetSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2016-01-27 10:22
Square peg meet round hole.
The FCC is poised to try and force-fit inherently-irreconcilable, telephone closed-ecosystem privacy rules into a broadband open-system Internet. Good luck with that.
Expect the FCC to have fits trying to successfully craft workable, non-arbitrary, and legally-sustainable Title II broadband privacy rules in the year ahead.
It is a problem of the FCC's own making.
In arbitrarily applying Title II telecommunications rules to only the ISP half of Internet communications, while politically exempting the entire edge half of Internet communications in its Open Internet order, the FCC has ensured that information that was proprietary and controllable in the closed telephone world becomes public and uncontrollable in the open Internet world.
Horses meet open barn door.
Net neutrality activists wrongly imagined that Title II was all-purpose-regulatory-authority to impose "the strongest possible" Open Internet rules they wanted, like bans on paid prioritization, zero rating or usage based pricing, despite decades of Title II and court precedents that determine many types of economic price discrimination and pricing flexibility to be just and reasonable.
The Net Neutrality Zero Rating Inquisition vs. the FCCSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2016-01-15 09:11
Historically accurate or not, the "Spanish Inquisition" is a well-known metaphor in literature for a group of intolerant elites that demanded orthodoxy from people, under threat of extreme consequences for heresy.
The twenty first century's new technocratic elites, who politically made up net neutrality policy over the last fifteen years, are now sadly trying to dictate net neutrality orthodoxy on all the people of the world, whether or not they use the Internet.
These net neutrality absolutists are now accusing innovators of Internet "zero rating" plans, i.e. toll-free data plans, of net neutrality heresy, which must be punished severely with PR torture and banishment, in order to set an example for the masses of what happens to those who dare to challenge the church of net neutrality absolutism.
Recently in India, today's modern day leaders of the Zero Rating Inquisition, Access Now activists, have demonized Facebook for the net neutrality heresy of offering a free stripped-down version of Internet access called "Free Basics" to the roughly billion Indians who can't afford Internet access.
A rational person would say Facebook's Free Basics offering is great and a very helpful innovation, because it's so similar to the good of a library, school, or hospital that offers free services to the poor.
However, the net neutrality absolutists, who claim to be champions of free speech, are incensed that Facebook would empower a type of Internet free speech that is not pre-approved by them.
The FCC Isn't Neutral toward Silicon Valley's Dominant Edge PlatformsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2016-01-07 16:02
The world is watching and taking note of the FCC's blatant competition double standard that totally favors America's dominant edge platforms above most everyone and everything else.
Consider an apt and illuminating comparison between the competition U.S. wireless broadband providers face versus the competition Silicon Valley's edge platforms face.
The FCC's Non-Neutral Internet Competition Policy
The FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order has an implicit blind-eye competition premise in that it reclassified the broadband provider half of Internet access, and not the "edge" platform provider half, as subject to FCC Title II common carriage regulation.
That is because the FCC focused only on broadband and concluded its level of competition required the strongest possible net neutrality regulation, while it turned a blind-eye toward "edge" platforms in uncritically assuming that "edge" platform networks were competitive and thus did not have to be neutral, open, or transparent.
Can a FCC Semi-Circle of Innovation be as Virtuous as a Full Circle?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2015-12-22 12:08
Does the FCC's concept of a "virtuous circle of innovation" mean fostering a full and true "circle of innovation," of not only edge provider innovation, but also ISP innovations of zero-rating pricing plans that lower users' bandwidth costs and better fund more broadband deployment?
Please consider how the FCC's eventual treatment of the many ISP plans for zero-rating pricing innovations could impact ultimate appellate review of the FCC's Open Internet Order.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Verizon v. FCC said that the FCC's 2010 justification -- for imposing net neutrality rules via its Section 706 authority, for the purpose of promoting broadband deployment and the "virtuous circle of innovation" that fuels Internet growth -- was reasonable and justified by the evidence.


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Tom Sharkey Sr., CLU, ChFC, is the Chairman for Meeker Sharkey & Hurley.
Tom was formerly Vice Chairman of Banc of America Corporate Insurance Agency (BACIA), the nation's 29th largest insurance brokerage firm according to Business Insurance Magazine (July 2006), with over $70 million of revenues and 300 employees in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and New England.
Tom was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and graduated from both Seton Hall Prep and Seton Hall University, where he received a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1954. In addition, he completed a 13-week Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Before entering the business world, Tom served two years in the Army and three years in baseball with the Detroit Tigers, and left when the hitters solved his curve ball. He started his career as a life insurance salesman in 1958. In 1974, he received his CLU (Certified Life Underwriter) and ChFC (Chartered Financial Consultant) designations from the American College of Insurance.
In 1986, the Elizabeth YMCA awarded Tom the Nicholas J. English Humanitarian Award for community service. He was appointed a Trustee of Seton Hall University in 1986 as well. He has served on the Trinitas Regional Medical Center board for more than 25 years and was designated Irishman of the Year in 1991 by the Union County Friendly Sons. He was also honored by the Seton Hall University Alumni Association as "1994 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year."
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Respect and recognition for IC: How do we secure support from senior leadership?
One of the most striking results from Newsweaver's recent Inside IC survey was that four out of ten internal communicators find it difficult to get support from senior leadership.
It's a disconcerting statistic: if 40% of IC professionals aren't getting support from senior management, it will inevitably be very difficult to justify spending time and resources on internal communications campaigns. What's even more demoralizing is that without the support and respect of senior leadership, the role and worth of the IC function is devalued and dismissed.
Of course, seasoned IC practitioners (and an increasing number of others) know how instrumental good internal communications are to the entire organization. They appreciate the link between IC and employee engagement; between IC and staff morale; between IC and the overall productivity and growth of a company. But how do we communicate that to those senior managers that do not see IC's value?
The issue came up again during our webinar on the interim survey results, which featured guest host David Grossman, and industry thought leaders Angela Sinickas, Sam Marshall and Steve Crescenzo.
Following the webinar, the panel answered questions from listeners. One such question asked for advice on influencing senior leaders who themselves are disengaged/indifferent towards becoming IC champions.
The responses were insightful and practical.
Speaking in response to the question, David Grossman said: "Chances are you're not helping them solve their biggest challenges and/or performance issues, which is why you're getting that reaction. If you were, they'd be paying attention.
"Find out what their biggest performance issues are where communications can have a positive impact, and work with them on that," he continued.
International management consultant Angela Sinickas agreed with him. She offered the following practical advice:
"At least once a year, sit down with each leader to identify what their KPIs for the year are. Also ask them for their evaluation of how they have been able to use communications in the past year.
"Go back to your office and strategize ways that communication can help them achieve one of the KPIs faster, better, cheaper. Schedule a second meeting to 'pitch' how you can help them succeed. Often you find a champion when he/she is in a crisis situation and you can be their savior. Then they tell all their peers about your value."
The panel responses were interesting. Rather than lay the blame at the feet of senior management, and bemoaning the fact that they don't appreciate or support the IC function, or indeed suggesting that you dump a load of stats about the value of IC on their desk, they recommend putting the onus back on the IC practitioners. Showing senior leadership how you can help them by listening to their communications woes, and finding a way to fix them.
The panel also agreed that communications professionals need more and better understanding of how businesses run.
According to David Grossman: "I completely agree. We need to understand our business as well as senior leaders do."
Angela Sinickas added: "Absolutely. Senior leaders say that as well."
If IC professionals are to get that much-coveted seat at the top table, they need to earn it. If they want to see their yearly budgets increase, they need to show their worth. There are a lot of ways to do that: some easier than others. But understanding how the business runs and doing something to help make a positive change, no matter how small, is a very good start.
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I've been having an all-out love affair with pickles ever since the great pickled onions fling of 2012. ( My children still speak of it in hushed tones.)
Since then, every vegetable I see is in danger of becoming a pickle. I especially enjoy quick pickles (AKA Quickles) because . . . well . . . I'm into nearly instant gratification.
You too? Read on.
Some veggies are simply asking to be pickles. I tend to habitually buy the veggies that go on sale: broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber and onions and they happen to be perfect for quick pickling. I also love that quickling adds tremendous versatility to everyday veggies.
End of summer excess like zucchini, summer squash and tomato are great candidates for quickles.
This is also a fun project to do with the kiddies. They can cut softer veggies (with supervision, of course) and can help make the brine by measuring and stirring. You'll have to pour the hot liquid and put on the lids. They can enjoy tasting the difference pickling gives to the flavor of the veggies. Plus – this may get them to eat more veggies!
Just because I don't officially "can" pickles doesn't mean I don't adore canning jars they come in handy for so many uses . The best sources for theses are yard sales, thrift shops, and "end of season" sales at discount stores.
But if you're willing to pay for convenience, here's a deal that will ship them right to your front door. Ball Jar 1pt Ball Mason Jars, Case of 12
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What I love about this technique is you can make just one jar of quickles, or a whole bunch. It's up to you.
To figure the amount of brine you need to make; slice your intended veggie and stuff them in the jar(s). Really pack them in there. Pour water in the filled jar(s) until it's full. Pour off the water into a measuring cup and note the amount. Pour off half the water and replace with vinegar and proceed, following the directions below.
What You'll Need:
Vegetables of your choice – like cucumber, onion, radishes, zucchini, carrots, cauliflower.
To make 2 cups of brine:
- 1 cup vinegar – white, cider, white wine, rice or any combo to total one cup
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh or dried spices and/or herbs – I like dried pickling spice blend
Here's How:
Wash and slice your veggies and pack them into meticulously cleaned jars.
To prepare the brine; pour the vinegar and water into a sauce pan with the rest of the ingredients (salt, sugar and spices) bring to a boil.
Now you simply pour this hot vinegar mixture right into the jar with the veggies.
Place a lid on the jar and store in the fridge overnight.
I know, right?
The longer you let them set the "pickle-ier" they will be. Harder veggies like cauliflower and carrot take longer to develop flavor. Softer veggies like cucumber are ready to rock within hours.
Keep refrigerated and use within 6 months.
What else can I do with quickles?
If eating pickles by the bowlful isn't your thing you can sprinkle them like fairy dust to add excitement to meals. Use pickled onion to make a burger even better, serve zippy zucchini with grilled fish or chicken. Chop mixed pickled veggies in a food processor with mayo to make dip or sandwich spread. Pickled broccoli and cauliflower make lovely chilled appetizers for a summer BBQ and a jar of quickles makes a lovely hostess gift.
As summer winds to a close, the end of summer bounty is begging to be preserved. What better way to make summer last? Right now, you're never more than one day away from crisp, cool, take-all-the-credit, I made these with love, pickles.
I hope you agree, that's a dangerously good thing.
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Ashley Turner is a multi-instrumentalist who's traversed many different genres over the years.
He's a full time fiddle player – originally classically trained but now happy to break the rules. He spoke to Jennie Lenman and Ian Newton about his music and his life and shared a recording of his talent on the violin in "God's on holiday" performed by Those Kodiaks (music by Stuart Day, Lyrics by Terry Bradford).
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UM PhD student receives prize at China Arbitration and Justice Forum
Chen Zhi, a PhD student from the Faculty of Law (FLL) of the University of Macau (UM), received a third prize at the 12th China Arbitration and Justice Forum, for his paper titled 'Some Considerations Concerning Non-litigation of Service in Arbitration'. The paper focuses on the service of documents in commercial arbitration in mainland China and proposes a more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective service system to cover the three aspects, namely legislation, arbitration practice, and judicial review.
In mainland China, the service of documents in arbitration is highly analogous to that in civil litigation, which can be regarded as an example of judicialisation of arbitration. Over the past few years, leading arbitration institutions have tried to promote a more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective service system. But according to Chen, more efforts will have to be made in order to change traditional judicial opinions. In reference to The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law and related legal practices in international arbitration, a non-litigation delivery system should be established to cover the three aspects, namely legislation, arbitral practice, and judicial review, in order to strike a balance between justice and efficiency. Chen's supervisor is Prof Tu Guangjian.
This year's forum attracted around 300 participants. More than 100 research papers were received and ten of them were awarded after a blind review process conducted by seven renowned scholars and experts. The event was organised by the China Academy of Arbitration Law, which is the only national arbitration research organisation in mainland China, and hosted by the Langfang Arbitration Commission.


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So Valve's Virtual Reality Thinger Got Announced...
…Please don't do these sorts of things on a weekend, big companies. My heart can't take it.
So: the 'Vive!' The first time Steam VR has broken cover! A hardware partnership between Valve and HTC! Dual 1200 x 1080 displays with a 90 frames per second refresh rate! All kinds of apparently super-precise head-tracking with no jitter! But that's not the half of it. Add in a couple of 'Steam VR Base Stations' and you get to walk around, with the setup tracking your location. I.e. in theory you get to actually walk around a pretend world.
And out by this Christmas. Good lord. Trailer thingy below.
Well, that was mostly unhelpful bombast, but let's look at the underlying claim. So… basically living inside videogames, then? I mean, they don't mention a toilet attachment, but I'm sure someone will mod one in before long.
Hopefully we'll have first-hand reports of whether Valve's massively ambitious foray into full-body virtual reality has paid off, as John and Graham are currently out at GDC in San Francisco, where this thing's getting shown off. Or maybe they've put it on and disappeared into another reality forever already.
In the meantime, there's assorted further detail, including more specs, over on the Vive's official website.
Again, a consumer version is planned by Christmas – which may mean things get ugly between Valve/HTC and Oculus – while a developer kit should be available sometime in the Spring. It's for 'select developers' rather than the open-to-all method Oculus went for, though.
All this revealing comes via HTC rather than Valve, by the way, so there might be much yet to come. Perhaps other hardware firms will have their own takes on SteamVR. Perhaps existent headsets can be retroactively adapted for it. And, of course, there's finding out about game support yet to come: what, exactly, are we going to be doing with this thing?
God. Exciting. Though hard to get my head around what it actually means in practice. Also I'm worried that I don't have a room big enough for it – it talks of tracking movement across spaces of up to 15 feet x 15 feet. Don't you dare do a Kinect on me, Vive.
'Vive' though? Really? It sounds a bit dildo-y, let's be honest.


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We recently sponsored two local girls from Essex on their epic charity trek to Nepal on behalf of Essex Boys and Girls Clubs (EBGC) as part of their "Support Barpak village in Nepal" campaign, read a blog about their amazing experience, part-funded by our team below:
Our Nepal Adventure…..
In 2014, my sister Thalia and I were chosen by a local charity – Essex Boys and Girls Clubs (EBGC), to embark on an educational experience of a lifetime!
We organised to trek from Kathmandu through the Himalayan foothills to the mountain village of Barpak.
Then here, we planned to help the local people and children by bringing equipment/gifts and teaching English in the local school.
Our adventure started on the 19th August 2015. After a total of 15 hours flying, we arrived in Kathmandu.
We were greeted by our trek team who gave us a "khata" – a really colourful scarf, which in the Buddhist community means respect, love and wishes to the respectful person.
For the first 2 nights we stayed in a hotel, which allowed us to get used to our surroundings and absorb everything we had seen.
On the 22nd we started our trek. We arrived in Ghampesal after 8 hours, and started to set up camp.
As soon as we arrived however, we were surrounded by the local children.
They were quiet and shy for the first few minutes, but then we started playing a few games and they warmed up pretty quickly!
We then spent the next 5 days trekking: up mountains, down steep hills and over landslides, till we reached Barpak.
After putting our bags away (and getting our cameras out), we made our way to the school, where we were greeted by more than 1000 pupils, teachers and school governors.
We had a red powder dot out on our foreheads and given another Khata, before standing in a line in front of everyone.
We spent a total of three days in Barpak.
During this time we donated 12 large bags of clothes, toys/games for the school, and a total of 500,000 rupees – some of which was donated by i-want-to-foster.
Teaching "head, shoulders, knees and toes" to 11 year olds–>>
Then we trekked back down the mountains to the Tosuli river, where we white water rafted for the next couple of days, after arriving back in Kathmandu for our final few nights together.
The whole experience has really opened our eyes to the way in which other people live.
Nepalese people are so friendly and we are so grateful to have been able to visit them and see first hand everything they have to go through to look after their family.
We wouldn't have been able to do this if i-want-to-foster wasn't kind enough to sponsor us, allowing us to buy extra goodies for the children we met when we were out there.


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Small pot boiling water
1/2 cup shelled pistachios
1 teaspoon curry powder—mild or hot, depending on preference
3 tablespoons dried breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon dried parsley
2 whole boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 pound total)
1 egg white, beaten with 1 tablespoon of water in a shallow bowl
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Preheat oven to 300°F.
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When nuts are cool, put them into a sandwich-sized plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin. Add curry powder, breadcrumbs, and parsley. Shake the bag to mix all ingredients and spread out on a plate or waxed paper.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Cut chicken into 8 strips. Dip strips into egg white and coat all sides with nut-crumb mixture.
Arrange on a cookie sheet that has been lightly oiled with cooking spray. Bake for 25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through (165°F internal temperature) and nut crust is lightly browned. Serve with bottled chutney.
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Ransomware is one of the hottest topics in recent cybersecurity news, and with good reason. These threats are both pervasive and expensive. According to a recent survey of 500 managed service providers, nearly 90 percent of MSPs report their clients were hit by ransomware in the last year. In addition to the cost associated with any ransoms, 60 percent of MSPs reported spending multiple days remediating the fallout of a ransomware attack. And on top of that, 1 in 8 MSPs reported having paid the ransom themselves.
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Without question, NotPetya is one of the nastiest ransomware variants out there. According to senior threat research analysts at Webroot:
NotPetya was designed to do as much damage to the Ukrainian infrastructure as possible. Not only did it shut down Ukrainian power plants, banking services, and supermarkets, but NotPetya also infected hundreds of thousands of computers in over 100 countries.
No doubt you've heard of this one too, given the amount of media coverage it got. WannaCry was the first ransomware to cause such widespread damage, infecting hundreds of thousands of victims in just a day. Had a security researcher in England not discovered the kill switch domain, WannaCry could've been exponentially more destructive.
Locky is probably the king of spam emails, able to reach millions of users a day. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the first large organizations Locky hit, paid around $17,000 to get their files back.
Check out the full Top 10 List in this infographic.
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Here are four tips Webroot recommends to protect your clients from the threat of ransomware.
1. Educate Users
As their MSP, you should aim to teach them:
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PAC-MAN (Pachislot) by MACY
Today, we will be introducing a pachislot machine of "Pac-Man", a game that was immensely popular worldwide from its original release in 1980.
This "Pac-Man" machine will be released as a first machine of the "fami-slot(family slot)" project series, a project that turns classic games into pachislot machine.
The main characteristic of this machine is a "abnormality rendition" that player can expect a jackpot if the lamp on the chassis lights up in weird way or if the sound is different compared to usual.
Players can enjoy this pachislot machine as if they are trying to find a hidden cheats in the classic games.
It is expected to make its debut in late April.
Must play for all the gaming fans.
TEKKEN 3rd -ANGELver- (Pachislot) by YAMASA
A pachislot machine we will be introducing today is the latest series of "Tekken", a popular game we have been covering numerous times on this site!!
This machine, being named ANGELver., its image color of green covers the chassis stylishly. Although its design is beautifully furbished, what player should pay attention to the most is its reel itself!!
There are four reels and four buttons!!
With four jackpot patterns lined up straight, it might give the player new sensation player has never felt before with traditional three reeled machine!!
"Tekken 3rd -ANGELver-", a pachislot machine with the collaboration of Bandai Namco and Yamasa will soon make its debut to the parlor!!


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Buhari Follows The Money
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