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I colleague recently forwarded me this Joe McKendrick blog, which looks at how SOA is an enabler of cloud computing and visa versa. I couldn't help but note the synergies between SOA and open source, both of which are following parallel courses in their respective roles in cloud computing.
If cloud computing is helping to make SOA tangible to businesses, I can see how open source is making cloud computing more tangible to businesses as well. In both cases, it's about shifting the source of computing power both in terms of portability and flexibility, and finally should offer a platform for development and interoperability for consumers.
In the end, SOA and open source is about enabling far greater dynamic environments inside organizations, allowing companies to get up and running with cloud-based IT infrastructures to provision, develop and deploy components in-house, or if they choose, allowing a vendor to do so. And on the flip side, I see cloud computing acting as a tool to educate businesses about the advantages of deploying standards-based architectures and open source applications and platforms.


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Over the years, the collective wisdom of gathering participants have put together information on how to create a positive gathering for yourself, other gatherers, and the land upon which we gather.
The original version of this is the Mini Manual of Gathering Consciousness. Normally appearing in the Rainbow Guide each year,the Mini Manual, for short, covers in a brief 8 pages, how to positively create and participate in a gathering. Click here to view the entire Mini Manual in PDF format.
Click here to view Where Do I Poop in PDF Format. If you choose to print it, the first page is the back outside cover and the last page is the inside center-fold.
Please note these files make take a few minutes to download. Please read, download, copy and redistribute this information freely.
We will gather peacefully for silent meditation in the morning of July 4th, 2016 until noon; and a peaceful assembly of free speech and expression from July 1st through the end of Vision Counsel; in the public lands of the White and Green Mountains National Forests in the states of Vermont, Maine or New Hampshire.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Happy Geek New Year
The holidays are a time for gadgets - at least for us geeks. This year has been a good one for gadgets.
The theme, as it has been recently, is wireless. The wireless world just gets more interesting all the time.
The first cool new gadget I've discovered lately is called "EyeFi". It's an amazing bit of technology: an 802.11 tranceiver, with antenna, embedded in a tiny SD RAM memory chip (the size of a postage stamp).
The idea is that you stick it in your digital camera, and consequently don't have to physically connect the camera to anything in order to get the pictures out of it.
I ordered one of these about a month ago and it works surprisingly well. The EyeFi folks have also cleverly added integration with online photo-sharing sites, like Flickr and Picasa. That means that once set up, all you have to do is turn the camera on within range of an available "partnered" wireless network, and the photos automatically appear on the web site of your choice. It's really, really cool. Check out their web site here.
The next super-cool gadget to appear this holiday season is the EEE PC. I think I heard about this very recently released sub-notebook by googling "linux laptop". It's a tiny contraption, about the size of a paperback book, but it's a fully-functional laptop, with a 900 mhz Celeron processor and a solid-state hard drive (SSHD). It comes in 3 flavors - all with the same processor and either a 2Gb, 4Gb, or 8Gb solid state drive.
Check out the main EEE PC web site, then go to the rapidly growing "EEE User Forums" to learn a lot more about it.
The best thing I like about this little gadget was the price: $349 for the 4Gb version I ordered. The next best thing about it is the operating system: a hacked version of Xandros Linux.
Before I bought the EEE PC, I was reading about the "One Laptop Per Child" project, because I am very interested in super-low-cost portable computers. I was thinking about obtaining the OLPC "XO" laptop to evaluate, which involved donating one to a needy child, then being allowed to purchase the second one - for $198 each. I was disappointed in that deal, however, because the OLPC had originally been described as the "$100 laptop". (That program has ended, although I have a feeling they will be doing it again.) I like some of the features of the OLPC machine, and was very interested in it for $100. But there are some interesting stories floating around how the OLPC organization, and particularly Nicholas Negroponte, have been trying to use intimidation and FUD to force other low-cost laptop manufacturers (including Asus, who make the EEE PC and Intel, who has a very interesting and serious project called the "Classmate PC", out of the market. An this is from what is supposely a charitable, non-profit project, devoted to putting a laptop into the hands of every child in the world. All this kind of makes me think that if I obtain an OLPC machine, it will be without making a "charitable" donation to Nicholas Negroponte and his project.
Anyway, the EEE PC rocks, and handily outperforms the OLPC. It comes with a pretty clever version of Xandros Linux. I had never used Xandros before, but it seems sensible and solid. The interface is clearly designed for children and casual users, however, with big shiny buttons labeled "Learn" and "Play" and lots of toys and games. I wanted the machine primarily as a highly portable network administration and auditing tool, however, and luckily some pretty clever hackers had the same idea: the excellent Backtrack Linux 3.0 distribution was shipped with drivers for the EEE PC right before Christmas. It took a little hacking to get Backtrack 3.0 installed and happy on the EEE's SSHD, but once running, it outperforms the stock Xandros distro.
So - armed with my hot new tiny-pc and various dongles, cables, and gizmos, I set out to do some gratuitous wireless hardware development... more on that in the next post.
3 comments:
- Sheila O'Malley said...
I've been dying to get that EyeFi thingie - it sounds so cool!
- January 8, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- CW said...
Thanks for showing up Sheila! I'm going to try to get more "substance" going in the new blog. Also: I had a couple of friends who bought the Eye-Fi thingie, based on my glowing recommendations. One of them got a dud, and discovered that apparently these things have a pretty good failure rate. I am not surprised, because of the bleeding-edge technology they are cramming into such a tiny package.
- January 9, 2008 at 4:16 PM
- MWT said...
Aha! Actual content! :)
I ordered one of the OLPC laptops. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'll probably end up doing a review on my own blog when it does.
My personal interest is more about on-the-fly writing and occasional wireless Internet access. I have an Alphasmart Dana for that at the moment, but think the OLPC laptop might be a step up from that (while at the same time being a step down in cost).
- January 24, 2008 at 4:19 PM


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Brake failure in Spa ends Raikkonen's points run
SPA, Belgium (AP) — Kimi Raikkonen watched the end of the Belgian Grand Prix from the garage for once as his long points-scoring run ended at 27 races because of right brake failure.
He is arguably the most consistent driver in Formula One and it was a rare sight to see his car crawl back to the Lotus team compound on Sunday.
It was the first time the 33-year-old Finn has failed to finish in 39 races and it cost him two places in the championship race, as he dropped to fourth overall.
Raikkonen, whose chances of repeating his 2007 F1 title appear remote with only eight races remaining, said it was inevitable his run would come to an end.
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Raikkonen, who finished an impressive 3rd in the championship last year after two years away rally racing, last failed to finish an F1 race at the German GP in July 2009 during a largely unhappy spell with Ferrari.
His future has been the subject of intense speculation in recent weeks because he has yet to commit to Lotus for next season.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has hinted that the door is still open for Raikkonen to replace Mark Webber who is retiring from F1 at the end of the season, and Raikkonen has even been linked with a move back to Ferrari as a potential replacement for Felipe Massa.


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I am a poet. But any subject is fair game here.
Seriously beginning to think that that holiday you had really did do you the world of good.Brilliant
Thanks. I wonder if anyone would publish it, other than me here. Or if the direct address to God would kill off the interest of most editors. It's hard to know.
Where's the poem? Why delete it?
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We rented a cottage called Kitka in Posio.
I rented the cottage from Villi Pohjola, which is an easy way to find accommodation near nature.
This cottage has no electricity, but there is a gas stove and an oven that can be heated by firewood.
|Cabin Kitka
Cabin Kitka stands alone by a lake called Kitka.
It is a very big lake, famous for it's fish.
|Lake Kitka
But me and my friends were not going ro fish-
we just wanted to make daytrips along the shores.
They are nice and sandy.
It would be wonderfull to be there on a hot summer day.
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There are also very narrow capes, where you can walk and see the lake on both sides.
The main thing was to take photos of autumn coulours.
The sun was not shining, but it doesn't matter -
sometimes the coulours look better in cloudy or even rainy weather.
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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing Mei Mei and Brendan. We decided to do the shoot at the University of Essex and walk around the grounds to find some spots for pictures. Turned out to be a perfect choice! It's definitely a venue I'll remember for future shoots, especially since it was pretty much deserted the day we were there.
Enjoy the photos;
Thanks guys for a fun shoot, I hope you enjoy these pictures. :)


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Woah! Took a bit of a break from my blogging for a little while – not because I haven't been sewing, but because getting access to a camera and finding some time to take pictures has been surprisingly difficult. But! Now I have a camera of my own, and I am going to get back into this blogging business.
This is actually the fourth or fifth version of the Deer & Doe Plantain shirt that I've made, but it is by far the most outrageous. I mean, that print! It's a knit fabric I got on clearance from Fabric.com, and the picture on the website makes it look a lotttttt more subdued than it really is in real life. But I thought a crazy fabric like this might work well with a simple pattern like the Plantain, so here we are now. The fabric is… growing on me, I think. It's pretty soft at least! I'm sure I'll come around to the lime eventually, but for now when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror I continue to be surprised about how over saturated I feel.
As for that pattern itself, I LOVE it. It's so simple to make, really a great project for anybody who's nervous to start working with knits. I think I spent maybe an hour on the whole thing, start to finish! I sewed most of this up on my serger, but you really don't need one for this project. I cut out a size small and it fits right out of the box. The scoop neck hits me at just the right height and the flair in the hips keeps it from being too snug and riding up like those $8 Target shirts tend to. And this pattern has really helped me overcome my knit-phobia.
I've sewn so much stuff in the last few months and I've got a ton more to blog about, but that'll be all for now. Has anybody else found as much success with the Plantain as I have?


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As promised, below are a couple of sailing pictures... and by sailing pictures, I mean close-up pictures of Daniel and I with sailboats in the background. I swear we did sail one!
Aren't we a cute couple? Okay, so I may be a little biased, but I still think so! Happy sailing!


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There will always be problems with this camera setup, and thankfully several enhancements deal with the fixed perspective in Devil May Cry. Oftentimes the camera actually moves a little with the player, following without loosing sight of him. Other times the camera is set quite high, giving the player a better sense of where they are in relation to other objects and enemies. Many of the environments are huge in scope, such as the Coliseum, Courtyard, and the Pirate Ship. They provide plenty of room to get comfortable in, and to get a handle on the enemies.
But the most satisfying aspect that helps the fixed camera out is what we've all been screaming for, for what seems like five-plus years: Fast, functional control. The fixed cameras on their own are only half the equation; the other half is control. Devil May Cry controls like a dream. Dante packs an automatic lock-on system that targets the closest enemy on screen, when players press R1 (when it's not pressed, he's free-moving). He's fast and responsive and 99% of the time he's quicker than his enemy.
You can watch Dante for only a second and instantly come to the same conclusion that almost everyone has reached, which is, "Wow, that's sh%^$t awesome." He strafes, with guns pointed and enemies, and blasts unendingly at every target near him. He juggles enemies up in the air with his sword and then switches to his guns in the blink of an eye and blasts them to pieces. He rolls away or jumps out of harm's reach, he can perform a summersault single jump or a double jump to climb even higher. He can aim and shoot in air, or walk and shoot at the same time. The control happens without you having to think about it, and it works like a champ. I'll get to more on control later on the review.
Devil May Cry stirs in a multitude of arcade elements with a robust fighting system, and enables players to fluidly play through 10-15 hours of gameplay that seems very much like it's been seen before, but just never quite in this energetic or busy a package. If Devil May Cry were considered a man, it would be considered a fighter, not a lover: 90% of the game is pure beat-'em-up goodness, the rest is finding keys, watching great cut-scenes, and exploring the vast and gorgeous levels.
Players are given Dante, an athletic half demon, half man who wields great strength, quickness, agility, and lots and lots of guns (Keanu Reeves wishes he could be Dante). Dante is essentially immortal, and seems to withstand anything. Yes, he can die, but he's stronger and more resilient than your average superhero. He starts off by packing a sword and two handguns. The first sword he calls Woozy, the second is named Alastor, and the third weapon, a pair of fiery gauntlets, are dubbed Ifrit.
With Alastor and Ifrit, Dante performs several kinds of moves by using the R1 button and either X or Circle button, and/or toward on Dpad or back for more complex ones. Dante quickly finds a shotgun, too, which is excellent at close range to substitute for the less powerful handguns. Oh yeah, and Dante later picks up a slow moving grenade launcher, which comes in very handy indeed, and isn't as over-the-top as it may initially seem. Later on he gets a few other weapons that I won't spoil for you, but trust me there's more.
Maybe the game sounds like it's made too easy, but Shinji Mikami and company decided to provide an unending supply of ammo for all of the weapons. Given the quantity and ferocity of the enemies, an unlimited amount of ammo works great for me. It keeps the action flowing like an action movie or a good arcade game, and you never have to stop and reload. It eliminates clunkiness. And after all, it's a videogame fer Christ sakes, so he's got unlimited ammo. Deal. In any case, the guns-and-hand weapons play combine to make a brilliant duo of attacks. Players can use either one or mix them together to create great combos, mixing in jumps, air-combat, and later on even more spectacular stuff.


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Tag: stop motion
Lomography Caterpillar stop motion film!written by adamscott on 2010-10-16 #news #videos
Stop-Motion videos are awesome, but they are even more awesome when shot with an LC-A+ and a mix of different 35mm films!42 65 Share Tweet
Phōtosgraphé: A Light Painting Project by Lucea Spinelliwritten by Teresa Sutter on 2016-02-28 #people
For her latest project, New York-based photographer Lucea Spinelli created captivating moving images that play around with the essence of photography: light.13 60 Share Tweet
The LC-Wide goes London Wide!written by littlemisslove on 2011-05-19
A team of lucky Lomographers hit the streets of London armed with tons of film and brand new LC-Wide cameras, to shoot a very special stop-motion film!8 42 Share Tweet
One Man, One Camera, One Flower & 34 Dayswritten by huge666 on 2010-06-08 #news
Check out huge666's short stop motion video of a growing flower made with a Lomo LC-A+ and Wide Angle Lens!23 23 Share Tweet
Grand Premier: "The Fish Tank"written by susielomovitz on 2011-04-20
A Lomofilm by Susie Lomovitz, Peich & Eich.15 25 Share Tweet
What Light: A Stop Motion Animationwritten by nyebe on 2011-10-06 #news
Check out this cool video we found while lurking around the Internet. Witness the power of light as it gets manipulated in this amazing stop-motion video.11 19 Share Tweet
Animated Analogue Invasion of the Lomography LC-Wide!2011-08-19
Last Week at the Gramercy Gallery Store in NYC our Lomo LC-Wide sprouted legs and came alive! Check out this cool stop motion video featuring our favorite new camera!3 23 Share Tweet
Amazing Stop Motion Ad Made Completely with Moleskine Notebookswritten by plasticpopsicle on 2012-11-13 #videos
If you're the type who prefers to make scribbles, doodles, and notes on paper and notebooks, I'm sure you will love this amazing stop motion short by a Netherlands based designer for a Moleskine ad. Every element of the stop motion short was made almost entirely with heaps of those beautiful Moleskines, so if you're interested, read on to watch it and find out more!3 22 Share Tweet
No Pain, No Gain: Stop Motion Camera Tattoo Videoswritten by denisesanjose on 2012-04-16 #news #videos
How's this for hardcore? Photographer Dabe Alan decided to document his sessions with tattoo artist Tony Touch as he got intricately inked with symbolic camera and film designs! Analogue cameras + tattoos + time-lapse videos = all the things we like! Watch the cool clips below.6 18 Share Tweet
Stop Motion in Analogue : The Classic Wide Portraitswritten by adi_totp on 2013-05-12 #gear #tutorials
Call me crazy or what, but I'm using LC-Wide for my stop motion. If you haven't heard of The Classic Wide Portraits by adi_totp I think this is the right time for introducing it all over again. Here's my quick and very quick tipster about my stop motion in analogue using my LC-Wide!17 12 Share Tweet
Stop Motion with Multilens Cameraswritten by -dakota- on 2012-05-24 #videos #gear #tutorials
Do you like stop motion movies? Let me show you how to use your multi-lens camera to make a fun stop motion film!5 16 Share Tweet
Stop Motion, Jelly Beans, and Music, the Perfect Combinationwritten by gabysalas on 2011-11-07
What do 288,000 jelly beans, 2460 still frames and 1.5 million views have in common? The music video for 'In Your Arms' by Kina Grannis, that's what! Check out the video below.5 15 Share Tweet
Graffiti, Lego and Stop Motion, What More Could We Ask For?written by gabysalas on 2012-02-15 #news #videos
We love Lego and graffiti as much as the next person, and we love stop motion probably more than the next person. So, boy were we excited when we stumbled on this amazing video combining the three. See more after the jump.10 11 Share Tweet
Proteigon: A Stop Motion Animation by Steven Briandwritten by nyebe on 2011-12-13 #news #videos
We just can't get enough of great animation shorts. This is another new stop motion animation using simple shapes, nice music, and a lot of creativity. Let's check the video after the jump...2 17 Share Tweet
A Journey to Lomography LDN! Stop Motion!!written by huge666 on 2010-03-01 #news
In the last few weeks I've been watching some Stop Motion videos made with the Supersampler and other cameras. I thought well its nice but the actual picture itself tents to be quite small.9 10 Share Tweet
Stop-Motion Animation: Mary and Maxwritten by jeanmendoza on 2011-11-03
Stop-motion animation is a technique used in order to make characters appear to move on their own. The characters are moved in very small increments and are photographed. Each frame is then put together to create a moving picture. Let's take a look at Mary and Max, a stop-motion animation film that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.4 11 Share Tweet
Earth Attack - Quick Q&A with Arnaud Martin2017-11-10 #news #videos
Curious about what a 400-roll LomoKino film would look like? We are, too! Join us and find out in this quick chat with Arnaud Martin!3 11 Share Tweet
Modern Stop-Motion Music Videoswritten by nation_of_pomation on 2011-11-15
In celebration of the release of the new LomoKino, I've collected some examples of what I think are very cool music videos made with stop-motion video. Check out what music and images combined can create!8 6 Share Tweet
In Full Bloom: The Flower Projectwritten by saidseni on 2013-04-01 #videos
Last Spring, I decided to photograph the blossoming of a flower and made a small stop motion movie after to celebrate my favorite season!1 11 Share Tweet
Art Clokey's 'Gumbasia'written by nyebe on 2011-10-13 #news
October 12 was Art Clokey's birthday. Let's dip back into the 50's and take another look at the claymation pioneer's earliest work...4 7 Share Tweet
Grand Summer Premier: The Fish Tankwritten by susielomovitz on 2011-06-14
A lomofilm by Susie Lomovitz, Peich & Eich.Suit up, walk on the red carpet and come in to the most expected premier of this summer: "The Fish Tank" after the jump...3 8 Share Tweet
Behind the Scenes: The Nightmare Before Christmaswritten by plasticpopsicle on 2011-12-21 #videos
The Nightmare Before Christmas, one of Tim Burton's most popular and successful stop motion films, always makes it to the must-watch list of both the young and the young at heart. If you're among them and have ever been curious about the making of this acclaimed musical fantasy film, check out some interesting behind-the-scenes photos and clips after the jump!2 8 Share Tweet
I Love People: 5000 miles, 3000 photographs, 300 people, and 1 manwritten by nyebe on 2011-09-23 #news
A man hitchhikes across America and photographs his adventures and the helpful strangers along the way. Read more and check out the video after the jump...3 7 Share Tweet
Everything Is Made of Light: An Interview with Lucea Spinelliwritten by Teresa Sutter on 2016-03-02 #people
New York-based photographer Lucea Spinelli has created a series of stunnings GIFs to explore photography's capacity to depict the real, fictitious and everything in between.9 Share Tweet
How To Build London's Biggest LomoWall In Five Dayswritten by littlemisslove on 2012-07-20 #news #videos
Last week team Lomography UK emerged blinking from the office into the sunlight, donned knee pads and power tools, and spent five days installing four LomoWalls at the Museum of London. Watch the whole process in this time lapse video...2 7 Share Tweet
Stop Motion Sunday: My Little Magic Bookwritten by plasticpopsicle on 2013-04-07 #videos
For today's installment of Stop Motion Sunday, we bring you something that hopefully could give you an idea should you want to submit an entry for the Analogue Life Video Rumble. Read on to watch and hopefully be inspired to make your own little magic book!1 7 Share Tweet
Early Stop Motion Movieswritten by tomas_bates on 2011-11-03
With the launch of the LomoKino, our new analogue movie camera, we decided to delve into the film archives to find some of the earliest examples of stop motion cinema- Produced over 100 years ago, it's amazing how well these short films have stood the test of time – We are so excited to see what stop motion movies you can produce with the LomoKino in the 21st century!1 7 Share Tweet
Stop Motion Sunday: Her Morning Elegancewritten by plasticpopsicle on 2013-06-09 #videos
The 2009 music video for Oren Lavie's song entitled "Her Morning Elegance" should be included in everyone's list of classic stop motion from the modern times. If you've seen it before, we're sure you won't mind watching it again after awhile. But, if you haven't, watch and you'll understand why it has become a favorite stop motion piece of many!7 Share Tweet
Stop Motion Sunday: My Strange Grandfather by Dina Velikovskayawritten by geegraphy on 2013-03-17 #videos
Making a great film takes a lot of dedication. Making a stop-motion film takes even more. Which is why every Sunday starting today, we would be featuring videos that showcase this wonderful technique so we can give them the love that they deserve!3 4 Share Tweet
Wildlife Control's Music Video Combines Stop-Motion and Time-Lapse Techniqueswritten by nyebe on 2012-02-28 #news #videos
Stop motion and time lapse videos... we already love watching them individually. But combine them together? That's just totally rad! The SF based indie band, Wildlife Control decided to mash them both in their latest video (which has a thought-provoking title) called 'Analog or Digital'. Let's check it out!5 3 Share Tweet


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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Devonshire Capital Funds, a Boston-based hedge fund, issued a research presentation that provides in-depth analysis of the intellectual property that powers GoPro's devices. The presentation, entitled "An Analysis of GoPro," is a result of extensive engineering analysis and rests on months of research. Presentation can be found on the fund's website at www.devonshirecapitalfunds.com
Research Methodology
"An Analysis of GoPro" is based on reverse engineering of the GoPro Hero 1, 2 and 3. In order to isolate hardware parts within the camera and tie them to corresponding industry patents, the fund recruited hardware engineers and intellectual property professionals. GoPro cameras were taken apart, each part extracted and catalogued for function. Assignees, claims, and numbers of existing industry patents that had similar functionality were identified using premier industry tools including Thomson Innovation, S&P Capital IQ, LexisNexis, and a proprietary Devonshire database. Upon patent identification and completion of the analysis, Devonshire Capital Funds contacted industry professionals to obtain information on licensing agreements.
Subsequent analysis of the GoPro patent portfolio showed that while the company holds a relatively small number of patents directly pertaining to its technology, most of its IP consists of design and mechanical patents. Few of GoPro's patents pertain to the critical electronic and camera technology that underlies the company's devices, while many of GoPro's key features appear to be covered by earlier patents assigned to competitors. Shortly after dissecting the first GoPro, the fund identified 15 patents on technology that are deployed in GoPro devices and held by multi-billion dollar consumer electronics manufacturers such as Canon, Nikon, Siemens, Dell, Samsung, and Hewlett Packard. Devonshire Capital Funds' research has identified numerous further patents held by both large and small entities which are directly applicable to GoPro's flagship products. Research on these patents is underway.
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Greatings for this idea going to BezeqInt and their stupid customer support (more details will follow).
Sometimes, when talking with support people, it's not a bad thing to record conversation that can save your ass in a future. So, instead of warning them by yourself all the time (price negotiation can go beyond 3-5 calls a day), we need a waiting tone that do that for us. It's a track that playing when somebody calls you and hear it instead of old-school single tones. It will do the job and also fun for people calling you, right huh? ;-)
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Coach Jon Sharp says there are still places up for grabs in Featherstone's line-up to face Halifax in next month's opening Kingstone Press Championship fixture.
After three straight victories in friendlies against Halifax, Hunslet and York, Featherstone have their toughest pre-season tests so far when they host Super League clubs Wakefield Trinity and Leeds Rhinos before the trip to The Shay on February 5.
Trinity, who recovered from 30-4 down to beat Castleford Tigers 32-30 last weekend, are set to field a strong squad in Sunday's game at Big Fellas Stadium (3pm) which is followed by the visit of Leeds the following Friday (7.45pm).
"I gather Wakefield are going to put out a strong team so that's going to be a challenge coming up against Super League opposition who had a really good season last year and have recruited well themselves," said Sharp.
"I think it's going to be a different type of game this Sunday to the last two we've played where we were free scoring and had lots of opportunities to score points.
"I think it is going to be more of an arm wrestle type game where we are not going to get the space we had against York and Hunslet but it will do us the world of good as well because this is the kind of the match we need in preparation for the opening league fixture at Halifax.
"There are a couple of guys who have cemented their spots in the team and there are a couple of guys who are just feeling their way in at the minute and probably need a bit more time on the field.
"The jigsaw is almost complete. There's probably just three or four positions we are not quite sure on.
"Over the next two weeks we'll have an opportunity to see people in the roles we think they can fulfil for us. They will get their chance and if they play well they will take it.
"My job is quite easy at times. The players pick the team not me because if their form is good and they perform well over the next two games then they've got opportunities to play."
Featherstone will again be without Misi Taulapapa against Wakefield but Chris Ulugia and Anthony Thackeray are set to return after missing last Sunday's 46-4 win against York.
Aaron Lyons is unavailable but fellow trialists Josh Hardcastle and James Kitchen will have another run out.
Said Sharp: "There's a delay with Misi Taulapapa's visa which is being processed. He won't play against Wakefield but Chris Ulugia and Anthony Thackeray will come into the reckoning this week.
"Misi wouldn't have played anyway in the friendlies we've already played.
"He plays wholeheartedly and full of spirit and well above his weight and that can take its toll so I was intending to rest Misi and just use him against Leeds."
Key playmaker Kyle Briggs came through unscathed against York in his first appearance since last season.
The former Sheffield, Bradford and Doncaster half-back had been struggling to shake off an ankle injury he picked up in Featherstone's 20-12 defeat at London Broncos at the end of last March.
"Kyle sustained a nasty ankle injury in the game at London and it's been a problem for him every since," said Sharp.
"He's had a cortisone injection in it and he's been able to rest it and I thought last Sunday he moved as well as I've seen him post-London.
"He showed some flashes of brilliance in that game so I'm really pleased for him.
"He seemed to get through the match okay. There were no dramas with his ankle and he looked okay at training on Monday."


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Elementary S01E01: "Pilot"
Public domain, impeccable brand recognition and the insatiable American appetite for procedurals have summoned Elementary despite/maybe because of the excellent PBS/BBC version that electrified the UK only a couple years ago. This incredibly British property being rehashed through an American perspective is of course going to infuriate a few Brits (not least of which is Benedict Cumberbatch, who threw a fit about it) and you know, they can have that. I kind of get it, when I heard Jennifer Garner was cast in a Miss Marple series I lost my cool for a few hours, and I am as American as a Bald Eagle perched on the Statue of Liberty.
Re-telling stories defines them the way running defines muscles, streamlining and perfecting them. I'm not going to say Elementary improves the Sherlock Holmes mythos with the liberties it takes, but it certainly doesn't hurt it, and when compared with the original, I mean the REAL original, I mean black letters on white pages, the adjustments make for a contemporary re-imagining of Holmes closer to its source material than any amount of Robert Downey Jr. boxing his way through a dock of coal workers.
A lot of people initially gave Elementary guff over having a lady Watson. Holmes and Watson is the bromance of the century, and that makes people worry that if you remove the BRO you turn this series into the last season of The X-Files. The series itself plays with this a little bit: When Joan Watson first meets Holmes, he quotes awkward soap lines at her in a squirm-worthy moment.
However to these concerns I say, are you serious? I don't remember anyone complaining or denying the insane sexual tension between Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr.! Watson and Holmes are kind of in love with each other, albeit in a non-sexual way, and that's how it's always been.
The producers have basically taken blood oaths that Watson and Holmes will have only a platonic relationship, and so far that's what these two are building. And shame, shame, shame on y'all for saying men and women can't have mutually beneficial platonic relationships. That's why so many women get left out of office lunches, networking rounds of golf and other important social mixery, because everybody's got to play like girls got cooties.
I'd argue Elementary's version of Watson is superior to the PBS/BBC version's in how the show explains Watson shacking up with Holmes and tailing him day and night: Watson is Holmes' sober buddy.
That was the most brilliant stroke of the pilot. Being a sober buddy explains beautifully why she has to live in his house, why she has to shadow him at all hours, and why she observes him so closely that she can serve as a framing device for the story, just as in the original source Watson essentially existed to pontificate on Sherlock Holmes' mental facilities.
Plus: Lucy Liu?! Like many other '90s kids I see her as nothing less than a goddess and she's genuinely excellent in Elementary: restrained and frosty and strangely vulnerable by turns. When I first heard she was in it, I thought she'd be a lady Sherlock Holmes, and frankly I'd still love to see that version.
Harder to stomach for purists is Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock. With a corny tattoo sleeve and all abs-out when we first meet him, this is not the impeccable, dapper eccentric of 42 Baker Street but an addict "escaped" from rehab, continually at the mercy of an off-screen wealthy father. With flatscreens and BDSM and funny T-shirts Elementary tries hard to underline that this is Not Your Daddy's Sherlock Holmes, but this edginess is largely superficial—he's still an arrogant eccentric who talks like any improv actor given the prompt "Detective story! Go!"
I do appreciate turning the Sherlock Holmes archetype on its head by introducing him as an addict first, a genius second. Traditionally Sherlock is introduced as a flamboyantly clever walking computer with a later reveal that he's super into cocaine and such. Traditionally the character's drug use only vexes poor Watson, it doesn't mean he's been living up in Mile High trainspotting in London like Elementary insinuates this Sherlock has been doing. Re-framing him as a hardcore junkie whose new addiction is the truth achieves what the tattoo sleeve and hipster boots fail to: It makes Sherlock a more provocative character.
As for the first mystery: Please do not expect me to go into detail about this or any procedural's B plot. A procedural's weekly crimes succeed only to the degree that they reveal more about the primary story of every procedural, namely the development and growth of its main characters. Just know that the next time you drop your cell phone into the toilet, rice is a desiccant, y'all.
However: I was sort of alarmed that in this first foray Watson actually discovered the clue that would crack the case, showing observational skills almost on a par with Sherlock, which, HMMM. Seems like heavy lifting for Watson.
Despite being based on one of the world's most reiterated franchises, Elementary managed to say something new about these characters while maintaining their essence, and also looked great, sounded great, and didn't bore me. PBS/BBC fans please don't compare and contrast, its a disservice to both shows. As an entry into CBS's pantheon of outrageously successful procedural lineup, Elementary already feels somehow both cozy and fresh and engaging and personally I'm looking forward to the next one.
More importantly, what did YOU think of it?
– Is anger over a lady Watson kind of misogynist?
– Can't guys and girls have a bromance without having a romance?
– Would a Sherlock with an American accent have been the Final Straw for Benedict Cumberbatch?
– Sherlock uses Google and Facebook to get clues. Has social media made sleuths of us all?
– Will you watch Episode 2?


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Did you happen to notice my new blog banner? Yes my friends, it's time for my annual assurance that it's okay to wish me Merry Christmas!
Nope, no need to throw out Happy Holidays or the vague and unusual Season's Greetings! I am perfectly happy with you wishing me a Merry Christmas! In fact, I prefer it! I promise you that I won't get offended!
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What's that artwork you see in my blog banner?
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Why mobile wallets?
The idea behind a mobile wallet is that a customer will pay for their purchase at the point of sale with the cellular phone, rather than a credit card. Because over 90% of the US population uses a mobile phone, arguably a higher percentage than people whom even own a credit card, a mobile wallet solution boasts a potential existing user base of nearly everyone. Unlike trying to invent some payment technology from the ground up, which has worked fewer times than I have fingers on 1 hand, a mobile wallet will capitalize on existing technologies and existing products that are widely in use.
How a mobile wallet should work:
This is one area there are going to be many answers for. I will take a purely consumer approach to it. The mobile wallet must work as follows:
- Must allow me to use any payment method I chose (Credit card, bank account, paypal, etc.)
- Must allow me to use my existing card and bank account.
- Must work with my existing phone (1 software installation is acceptable).
- Must be just as fast or faster than using my credit card.
- Must provide me additional security in the event I lose my phone.
Where's my mobile wallet?
As of writing this article, no company has come close to implementing a working mobile wallet solution. We're going to hear stories from a number of companies on how close their mobile wallet solutions are, but realistically there is an enormous amount of work before these become reality. Not only does a very intuitive software program need to be created for a person to load onto their phone, but retailers must have software / hardware that allows them to interact with the phone, and retailers must have some connection to the wallet platform through their credit card or other payment processor, more on this later…
One idea that is beginning to rear its ugly head, is that cellular phone companies can bypass credit card companies and banks and simply add a charge to a customer's phone bill. While this is a fantastic idea that would eliminate one of the biggest hurdles in the entire system, there's no possible way it's going to work given the current customer sentiment towards cellular carriers and cellular infrastructure. Cellular companies are neither operating under a business model to grant revolving credit like a bank, nor one that would allow them to underwrite and manage businesses whom accept payments on their platform. Personally, I wouldn't even entertain the idea of my cellular carrier becoming my bank or credit issuer! Lastly, the SMS billing systems have already shown merchants what the cellular companies think their billing service is worth, which is nearly 50% of the transaction amount. For retail merchants, 5% let alone the current 50%, is simply not acceptable. It's going to take policy and operating changes that would rival a country switching from socialism to democracy for cellular carriers to successfully become mobile wallets providers. Being some of the largest companies on earth, I just can't see them moving quick enough with the amount of interested that this technology has developed in a short amount of time. Consumers may drive the payment industry, but no amount of consumers is going to force retailers to pay 50% to accept a mobile payment!
The real hurdlesThrowing my cellular provider's mobile wallet out the window, there are several areas that major hurdles must be overcome before mobile wallets are close to becoming reality.
Customer software
The first hurdle, and the easiest to overcome will be creating software that works on a variety of mobile phones. This software is what will interface with a merchant's POS system or other payment capturing device. It will act as the bridge between the merchant and the customer's payment method. Realistically this isn't an extremely difficult technical feat considering that a vast number of mobile phones supporting Bluetooth and other communication protocols. It will simply be a matter of allowing the wallet application access to the internet and the Bluetooth or communication capabilities of the phone.
Merchant software / hardware
Merchant based software and hardware on the other hand will be a huge problem. The easiest path for merchant to interface with the software on a phone will be some sort of 3rd party peripheral. This could easily be something the size of a PINpad and would ideally use existing connection options on the POS or terminal to communicate with the customer's phone. The difficult part comes in trying to get the authorization through the mobile wallet platform. Many POS systems and terminal use dial or proprietary methods to connect to processor or the internet… There are 3rd party companies like gift card providers that interface with POS systems and credit card terminals, but they are very limited in the systems that can use them. While I think that this burden will be on the shoulders of the POS companies and the credit card terminal manufacturers, it's no less daunting tank in the overall picture. Based on what I've observed of POS and terminal manufacturers over the past 10 years, particularly with regard to the speed that new technologies are adopted, I believe that this will end up being the final piece of the mobile wallet puzzle.
Credit card processors
The biggest hurdle for mobile wallets to work is there has to be a mechanism that would link a customers credit card and/or bank account with their phone (This hurdle is due to the bureaucracy of Visa/MC not the actual implementation). This doesn't sound a particularly daunting task, but if you've worked with Visa and MasterCard and their books of regulations and operating procedures, you would know how difficult it is to go against the grain on anything related to their systems. The "grain" that I am referring to is not allowing a business to accept a payment for another business (also called factoring). In short, this means that the mobile wallet provider cannot accept the customer's payment and then pay the merchant. The payment must go directly from customer to merchant. For the payment to go from customer to merchant, through the mobile wallet, there has to be a lot of back-end integrations and agreements between processors and platforms, card issuers, and communication platforms. The complexity of integrating with multiple processors across multiple processing platforms is well beyond the scope of any article that I can write, but it would take years to perform even by someone who knows what they are doing.
A realistic outlookIf I were to bet on when we see the first mobile wallet, I think we could safely say 5 years before anything exists at all, and 10 years before it is common. This is my best case scenario based on a mobile wallet working relatively close to the above description. The exception is if Paypal makes a mobile-retail platform, which could probably exist in a few years for select retailers. This would be much simpler to implement since Paypal doesn't have to adhere to the Visa/MC regulations as described above and they have their own platform, which would bypass the bureaucratic mess that everyone else is going to run into. However, Paypal is in its infancy in the retail world, and still has many of its own hurdles to clear. We will most likely see mobile wallets progress in steps. I would bet that we will first see Visa or MasterCard apps that link your credit card to your phone. From there we can probably expect to see 3rd parties pushing for more independent services and banks should be joining in soon after. Eventually we will need to end up with mobile wallet providers that can handle all cards and bank accounts without having to use multiple companies. Only then will we truly have a mobile wallet.
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Mary is my mother in law, and I have never met anyone that loves chocolate more than her :)
So as you would expect, this is a Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream icing, and topped off with delicious Red Velvet Cake Truffles. I also made some chocolate bars to go around the top tier of this cake and accented it with Fondant.
I also made some extra Red Velvet Cake Truffles for my husband since it is his favorite cake.


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A series inspired by the 1973 film of the same title written by Michael Crichton about a futuristic theme park populated by artificial beings.
Anthony Hopkins / Ed Harris / Evan Rachel Wood / James Marsden / Thandie Newton / Jeffrey Wright / Tessa Thompson / Jimmi Simpson / Rodrigo Santoro / Shannon Woodward / Ingrid Bolsø Berdal / Ben Barnes / Simon Quarterman / Angela Sarafyan / Luke Hemsworth / Clifton Collins Jr. / Sidse Babett Knudsen / Mike Watson / Vivienne Taylor / Oliver Bell�
Ford unveils his bold new narrative; Dolores embraces her identity; Maeve sets her plan in motion.
Dolores and Bernard reconnect with their pasts; Maeve makes a bold proposition to Hector; Teddy finds enlightenment, at a price.
Dolores, William and Logan reach Pariah, a town built on decadence and transgression, and are recruited for a dangerous mission; The Man in Black meets an unlikely ally in his search to unlock the maze.
Dolores joins William and Logan on a bounty hunt; The Man in Black finds a critical clue in his search to unlock the maze; Dr. Ford and Theresa discuss the park's future; Maeve is troubled by a recurring vision.
Elsie and Stubbs head into the hills in pursuit of a missing host; Teddy gets a new backstory; Bernard investigates the origins of madness and hallucinations within the hosts; William finds an attraction he'd like to pursue.
Lee pitches his latest narrative, but Dr. Ford has other ideas; Bernard and Theresa debate whether a recent host anomaly is contagious; The Man in Black conscripts a condemned man, Lawernce, to help him uncover Westworld's deepest secrets.


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saved many Sikhs during the 1984 riots," former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler accused of Sikh Genocide 1984. "The CBI has given me the clean chit four times, of which two were during the tenure of the BJP-led Central Government in which the Akalis were a partner," he said.
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar blasted Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for pleading innocence in the 1984 Sikh Genocide case and claiming that he saved many Sikhs in Delhi by giving them shelter after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Tytler had made this claim in a letter to Union minister for food processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Makkar issued a statement on telling Tytler that "baseless claims cannot prove you innocent, when everyone knows who instigated mobs against Sikhs". "By claiming innocence, you (Tytler) are trying to hide your guilt. No one is going to believe you," he said. video: ABP Sanjha


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text: This alert popped up on my alert bar with an icon that looks like this: O_O. This the FIRST time in the 8 months I've owned this phone that I've even seen this icon/alert. When clicked it says "New Voicemail (2) dial *86". I never set up VM with Verizon because I have used Google Voice for VM service since day one. I dial the *86 and there are no new messages to clear in my google VM. Verizon Tech says to do a factory reset is the only way to clear it. Any ideas?


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Been a while since I've posted anything at all. I want to try and start posting on here again on a regular basis. Here's a dump of several things, sketches, scribbles and random nonsense. I hope yooze diggz! These are all done in my Moleskine with a mechanical pencil.
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This photo raised $3 million for charity.
Maybe $3 million is a stretch, but we must have your support now to reach our $200,000 spring pledge drive goal by Thursday evening. It might not be an Academy Award but you'll definitely feel like a winner!
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Municipal Court and Municipal Court Clerk
What does the Municipal Court Clerk do?
The Municipal Court schedules court dockets, accepts payments of court fines and costs, and reports traffic offenses to the State of Oklahoma when required by law.
What types of cases are heard?
Cases heard in Municipal Court are based on alleged violations of the City Charter and City ordinances, including State traffic laws adopted by ordinance. The City Charter establishes the existence of the city court function and the rules governing court proceedings. Bond schedules and rates for parking violations are established in the City of Enid Municipal Code, 2014.
When is Municipal Court held?
Traffic Court and hearings for adult misdemeanor charges are heard on:
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 2 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.
Trials may be set for a different time.
Juvenile Court for non-traffic offenses is held on Thursday afternoons.
Who are the Municipal Judges?
The City has two part-time judges: The Honorable James Long and the Honorable Linda Pickens.
When is the Municipal Court Clerk's Office open?
The Municipal Court Clerk's Office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except on holidays.
How can I pay for my traffic ticket and other fines and costs?
Traffic Ticket and other fines and costs may be paid online, by mail, by telephone, or in person on the first floor of the Administration Building of the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Municipal Complex."
We accept cash, checks, cashier's checks, and Visa/MasterCard payments.
Enid Municipal Court
401 W Owen K Garriott
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Phone: 580.616.7265
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Starting on Saturday, March 17th, the DCC will begin a migration of all software and data to new hardware. Because of the extensive nature of this migration, all DCC software will be unavailable between 8AM on March 17th and the morning of Monday, March 19th. This blackout will include the Data Portal and FTP access. We strongly suggest that you complete any necessary downloads of TCGA data prior to the start of this migration.
When service resumes on Monday, March 19th there will be several changes that may affect your operations:
- There will be new restrictions on the number of web service connections that our system will allow. For the data access matrix web service this will be one connection every 10 seconds. For the other web services (DCCWS, Annotations, and UUID) the limit is 1000 connections every 3 minutes. Exceeding these quotas will cause the system to return HTTP Status Code 413.
- Connections to the TCGA Web services will not change. Those web services that required SSL prior to the migration will continue to do so, while all http connections will remain unchanged.
- All connections to the TCGA Data Portal will use SSL. We will be redirecting all http calls to https.
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By Ivet Bell
This article, written by Ivet Bell, is a winning entry in the 2016 Bloomberg Law Write-On Competition for law students. Ivet is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School 2016 and a graduate magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard College 2013. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Social Problems and, after law school, will join the offices of Sidley Austin LLP in New York.
The recent emergence and growth of appraisal arbitrage as a litigation investment strategy has sounded alarms around a historically dormant area of public company M&A law and practice. Although the regulatory response has generally been slow to awaken, hotly-contested appraisal actions have focused the attention of Delaware courts on a key public M&A litigation question: how to determine the "fair value" of target shares. Five important appraisal decisions in 2015 show that Delaware courts will in some contexts begin to rely on transaction price rather than on typical valuation methodologies emphasized in the past, such as discounted cash flow (DCF) or comparable company analyses.
This article will help parties and advisers in public company M&A assess the appraisal litigation risk and cost that different deals bear as a result of a new approach that Delaware courts will apply to determine fair value. For litigants bringing or defending appraisal actions, this article will highlight courts' increasing concern with the malleability of valuation methodologies and will consider the future of appraisal arbitrage in light of recent developments.
"Appraisal arbitrage" is an investment strategy in which hedge funds purchase shares of a target company after the announcement of a cash-out merger with the intention of asserting statutory appraisal rights under 8 Del. C. §262. In the subsequent appraisal action, the court considers the petitioner's claim that the transaction price was below the "fair value" of the target shares. If the court determines that the target was undervalued, the amount awarded above the transaction price represents the return on the petitioner's investment.
Appraisal arbitrage is a no-risk and potentially high-return strategy in the current low interest rate environment. A statutorily defined prejudgment interest of 5 percent accrues on the total amount claimed while litigation is pending, so a hedge fund can earn a sizeable return even if the claim is meritless. More importantly, in the overwhelming majority of cases Delaware courts have pinned fair value substantially above the merger transaction price. In this context, concerns over appraisal arbitrage risk have heightened the importance of attorney guidance during the deal process (01 CGR 151, 7/6/15) (18 MALR 926, 6/22/15) (104 BBR 1141, 6/16/15) (13 CARE 1260, 6/12/15) (111 Banking Daily, 6/10/15) (111 DER 111, 6/10/15).
To reach a fair value determination, courts rely on a variety of valuation methodologies, among which DCF analysis is predominant and comparable or transactions analyses are common. Valuation is no exact science—even small variations in the methodologies or the underlying inputs can yield widely divergent results. Yet the courts' ultimate valuation decisions are critical determinants of M&A deal risks and costs.
As appraisal valuation decisions approach the transaction price, the appraisal arbitrage incentive decreases. Yet when appraisal arbitrage gathered speed a few years ago, Delaware courts firmly refused to adopt any measure of presumptive deference to merger price in appraisal proceedings. Golden Telecom Inc. v. Global GT LP, 11 A.3d 214 (Del. 2010). Reliance on merger price was thought to go against the point of appraisal itself: how can courts evaluate the fairness of the merger price by presuming it was fair? Nonetheless, in 2015 the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed a single decision which had carved out a limited exception. In Huff investment Partnership v. CKx (Del. Ch. Nov. 1, 2013) aff'd (Del. Feb. 12, 2015), the court held that the valuation could rely on merger price (1) if the target underwent an effective market check and (2) the financial inputs on which other valuation methodologies depend are unreliable (30 CCW 59, 2/25/15) (18 MALR 281, 2/23/15) (13 CARE 382, 2/20/15). Based on this approach, the court deferred to merger price in In re Ancestry.com Inc., No. 8173-VCG, 2015 BL 23048 (Del. Ch. Jan. 30, 2015), a case in which Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III emphasized that law-trained bench judges are not adequately prepared to use their own valuations and should not rely on parties' valuations in appraisal cases (13 CARE 85, 1/9/15). The exception quickly saw large application in 2015.
Appraisal arbitrage has added a significant potential cost to M&A deals.
In Merlin v. Autoinfo, No. 8509-VCN, 2015 BL 127097 (Del. Ch. Apr. 30, 2015), the target was a small, publicly traded transportation provider which underwent a months-long sale process which involved pitches to 164 potential acquirers and the evaluation of a number of bids (15 EXER 223, 5/18/15) (47 SRLR 955, 5/11/15) (18 MALR 699, 5/11/15) (13 CARE 952, 5/8/15) (30 CCW 138, 5/6/15) (86 SLD, 5/5/15). The highest bidder valued the company at $1.26 a share, but later brought its offer down to $1.05 because of issues that came to light during due diligence. Petitioners in the case asserted a price of $2.60 per share, reached by valuation primarily based on management projections. The court found the projections unreliable because the management team had no experience preparing such projections, had received instruction to make the valuation "optimistic," and had admitted to doubting the accuracy of its assumptions. The court also found suggested comparable companies analyses unconvincing, because the companies were different in size and risk profile.
In LongPath Capital LLC v. Ramtron Int'l Corp., No. 8094-VCP, 2015 BL 208944 (Del. Ch. June 30, 2015), the target was subject to a hostile bid and sought other buyers (18 MALR 1008, 7/13/15) (30 CCW 205, 7/8/15) (47 SRLR 1354, 7/6/15) (13 CARE 1512, 7/3/15) (See previous story, 07/02/15) (127 SLD, 7/2/15). Finding none, it agreed to sell itself at $3.10 per share. The petitioners offered expert DCF analysis based on management projections that suggested a price of $4.96 per share. The court found the projections unreliable because they were prepared for the purpose of offering the company to white knights, were inconsistent with historical trends, and were prepared by a management team that joined the company just months before. Beyond finding fault with the projections themselves, the court expressed a strong view that expert-crafted, litigation-driven valuations are generally strongly biased. The court ultimately found that fair value was slightly below the merger price.
In Merion Capital LP v. BMC Software, No. 8900-VCG, 2015 BL 346010 (Del. Ch. Oct. 21, 2015), the target initiated two separate sales processes and considered several bids before it sold itself to a consortium of private equity firms at $46.25 per share (30 CCW 324, 10/28/15) (18 MALR 1562, 10/26/15) (53 CARE 53, 10/23/15). The merger agreement allowed for a month-long "go shop" period. Petitioners claimed a fair value of $67.08 per share, relying on a DCF model. The court adjusted the assumptions in the DCF models applied by both petitioners and the company, and found a $48 price. The court second-guessed its own valuation, however, because it thought the management projections it used were historically problematic and had doubts about the assumed discount rate and expected growth rate. Even after having adjusted the inputs to make them reasonable and conducting its own analysis, the court ultimately deferred to the merger price.
Appraisal arbitrage has added a significant potential cost to M&A deals. Acquirers can price this based on the risk of litigation and the risk of a high fair-value outcome. The Delaware courts changed the expected value of this calculus in 2015. A court can now rely on transaction price where two conditions are present: first, the target underwent an effective market check and second, the inputs for valuation methodologies are unreliable.
Acquirers pursuing a target that has not been subject to a rigorous sale process or market check are substantially more exposed to the unpredictable outcomes of typical valuation methodologies than acquirers pursuing well-shopped targets. Additionally, acquirers of well-shopped companies are now unlikely to face litigation at all. Arbitrageurs will likely redirect their focus to targets where the expected return of asserting appraisal rights is higher.
With respect to the second requirement, courts may quickly point out the unreliability of inputs if they are evaluating a well-shopped target and have the option of deferring to merger price. The opinions in the cases show that courts are increasingly wary of client bias in expert, litigation-driven valuations. Courts are likely to probe management valuations for over-optimism. Courts may also second-guess whether a bench judge is well-equipped to make valuation decisions, as in Ramtron, and may second-guess their assessments even after adjusting the inputs offered by parties for reasonableness, as in BMC Software. A court may find, as in Ramtron, that a valuation significantly higher than the deal price would indicate a "significant market failure," and one would not expect such a market failure unless there were significant flaws in the sale process. Yet where the valuation approximates the deal price, as in BMC Software, the court may find the lack of difference to be just as good of a reason to defer to the merger price.
Although the unreliability of valuation inputs is unlikely to be as significant as the presence of an effective market check in determining whether the court will defer to merger price, M&A dealmakers can approximate the risks of no deferral by evaluating the reasonableness of target management's projections for the company. Factors of special relevance to the reliability of such projections include the deviation of the estimates from historical trends, the level of experience management has had with the company, and the context in which the projections were prepared if outside the ordinary course of business.
Increased reliance on merger price by the Delaware courts is unlikely to stem the tide of appraisal arbitration. The statutory interest rate alone incentivizes arbitrageurs to try their chances in court, especially since rapid changes to today's low interest rate environment seem unlikely. Appraisal arbitrageurs continue to benefit from courts' unwillingness to adopt share tracing requirements. In 2015, the Delaware State Bar considered statutory amendments that would have slowed appraisal arbitrage (18 MALR 446, 3/23/15) (13 CARE 582, 3/20/15) (30 CCW 84, 3/18/15) (50 DER EE-17, 3/16/15), but these were never introduced into the Legislature.
On April 5, 2016, the Delaware State Bar's Corporation Law Section approved these amendments again (19 MALR 553, 4/11/16) (67 CARE, 4/7/16). The first of the proposed amendments would deny appraisal remedy for de minimis claims on shares of publicly listed companies. The second would permit companies to pay a cash amount to dissenting shareholders before an appraisal proceeding ends, such that the statutory interest would only accrue on the unpaid portion of the ultimate appraisal award. If adopted, the proposed changes will certainly decrease the incentive to bring appraisal claims. The proposed changes will have to be introduced to and adopted by the Delaware General Assembly to become law.
In the meantime, the new transaction price deference approach will immunize arm's-length deals from the variability of outcomes in appraisal litigation and will decrease the expected return on many potential appraisal actions. Dealmakers and advisers can more easily recognize appraisal litigation risk and cost by assessing the faults in the sale process or management's projections. Importantly, parties can anticipate that courts will have a more market-reliant approach to fair-price valuation generally as abuses of the inherent subjectivity of valuation methodologies become increasingly obvious.
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The climate-change refugee crisis is only just beginning – 'I'm dead if I stay, so it doesn't matter if I die on the way'Posted by Jim at Wednesday, February 03, 2016
By Peter Schwartzstein
31 January 2016
(Quartz) – The Amhara Plateau is no one's idea of a gloomy landscape. Rich fields blossom as far as the eye can see; bountiful rivers zigzag through the region's rolling hills. It isn't hard to see why local Orthodox Christians believe the Ark of the Covenant was floated down the Nile from Egypt and ended up here. Nor why desert raiders continually stormed in off the nearby Sahara for hundreds of years.
But to those who farm the fertile reaches of Western Ethiopia, their home environment is growing a good deal less enticing by the day.
Erratic temperatures and rains, which culminated last year in the total failure of the belg, the short rainy season, have struck locals hard. In a country still scarred by the deadly famines of the 1980s and 90s, reduced crop yields are panicking villagers, almost all of whom rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.
"The rains are very weak and in winter the cold is like nothing I've seen before," said Barakat Daniel, gesturing at a mostly empty trench he uses to irrigate his teff crop on a muddy hillock just outside Bahir Dar. "It's a hard life."
For some ambitious young men, conditions have long since crumbled to intolerable levels. They've tired of tilling land that's become harder to farm as older farmers sub-divide their already small holdings into miniature plots for their many children. With population growth overwhelming meager services at the same time as intense weather plagues farmland, more and more people from the region appear to be following the example of refugees from violence-afflicted parts of Africa, and making a break for Europe.
Last July in Metema, an Ethiopian border town, where Sudanese flout their country's prohibition on alcohol by darting across the frontier to patronize streetside bars, I met a 22-year-old man who gave his name only as Gebremichael. He was waiting to cross into Sudan. "Why am I going?" he said. "Because I'm trying to improve myself and that's just not possible when your land gets worse and worse." He had toted a moth-eaten German language dictionary around for over a year, working to absorb new words at every available opportunity.
These days, climate change is in vogue. Everything from the war in Syria to unrest in West Africa has been laid at the feet of the weather gods. Some of the claims have been dismissed as spurious. But there's plenty of evidence that migration in sub-Saharan Africa is indeed partly due to extreme weather.
70% of the continent's migrants have left their homes because of poverty or a lack of work, according to research provided by the UN Environment Program (UNEP). An estimated 64% of Africans—and close to 90% of Ethiopians—earn their living from agriculture.
"Considering the very low baseline, where 25% of the continent go to bed hungry, where over 50% live on less than $1.25 per day, and where youth unemployment is at 60%, climate induced declines in productivity in the agricultural sector indirectly drive migration," said Richard Munang, who heads UNEP's African Regional Climate Change Program from Nairobi. […]
A few Western governments have mooted plans to help struggling African countries counter the consequences of a changing climate. The UK's Department for International Development, for one, gave £10 million (then about $15 million) in December to help Sudanese farmers boost their "resilience" and combat desertification. But with Europe already struggling to cope with the relatively small numbers of war refugees, it seems unlikely that current immigration policies will do much to dissuade climate migrants, many of whom feel they have nothing to lose. On my journey I often heard variations on a common refrain: "I'm dead if I stay, so it doesn't matter if I die on the way." [more]
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Calgaryexpo on Gamergate
Long story short: The HoneyBadgerBrigade, a group of woman who run an online radio supporting men's rights and have supported the Gamergate movement since the begining (and a group i colaborate with my art), had a booth on the Calgary Expo in Canada. In said expo, they had a Gamergate anti-censorship flag and a Vivian james poster that i did. The SJWs were not happy about that and began to ask the Calgary expo to expel the Honeybadgers…and they did! HBB has been expeled from the Calgaryexpo.
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Bore Water
Most people don't know what they are drinking when they turn on their tap.
The water could be coming from their bore and contain everything from dirt to pesticides.
What most people are not aware of is that the water coming from our bore could in fact be creating the very health problems that we suffer from and are constantly trying to battle.
Scrutinizing the contents of our bore water can reveal a deadly cocktail of poisons and substances in minute traces that destroy healthy body cells or collect in the body and cause harm from long term consumption.
A constant supply of bore water is now considered to slowly over a lifetime create disease and a shorter life. It is from the water containing inorganic minerals, rust particles, bacteria and viruses.
Rust particles and sediment often are collected by water passing through pipes over long and short distances. These small rust and sediment particles collect in the body if not removed causing arthritis and also harden the arteries giving poor circulation. Bore water is known to contain a lot of sediment.
The amount of rust and sediment particles in tap water may not be easily seen by the naked eye but can still be lurking in your drinking water. Simply get a TDS water test to see what dissolved solids such as minerals, dirt and rust your water contains.
Inorganic Minerals is a new term to many people. Most people think that our water is the supplier of important minerals. BIG MISTAKE!
All water that has run over, through or is stored in land will pick up inorganic minerals. Mineral spring water is a classic example of this. Inorganic minerals are poisonous to the human body.
Organic minerals come from plants that are supplied inorganic minerals from the water in the soil. Water in or on the land is nature's way of providing the essential minerals to plants not humans. Humans then obtain water and organic minerals by eating the fruit. The plant grows best when it is grown in soil rich in minerals – inorganic minerals.
An important supply of organic minerals, will ensure the proper function of all vitamin and enzyme processes because nothing will occur without these in the body. Our source of organic minerals is from the plants and proper eating habits will ensure the correct amount and type of minerals are going in to your body each day. Our body is best off not receiving any inorganic minerals at all because of the long term build up in our veins, arteries, joints and stomach lining.
Let hard water be for your plants and they will love you for it and you will love them for the way they grow. Carbon filters do not remove much minerals out of the water and is a poor substitute for the ultimate water treatment – distillation.
Water is considered hard when it contains more inorganic minerals than other waters considered soft because of low inorganic mineral content. These hard waters are the most deadliest over long periods of time.
Inorganic minerals combine with cholesterol in the body to clog up our arteries just like our pipes in our house clog up with mineral deposits. The result is poor circulation and low absorption of vital and essential nutrients.
All nutrients that the human body requires to function properly must be wetted by water first to be absorbed. If the water quality is hard then there is little absorption of the nutrients in the body directly into the body cells to perform the necessary functions.
Bacterial and viral contamination in bore water cannot be guaranteed even with the use of chlorination. Many outbreaks in local water sources throughout Australia have given much scare to people and the safety of drinking water. Many buy and use filters thinking they are enough for their water purifying needs.
No filter is small enough to remove all bacteria or any viruses. They are large enough to catch some sediment, chlorine, some detergents and pesticides only to have the bacteria and viruses then attach themselves and breed. This wonderful environment for bacteria and viruses will contaminate the water as it passes through.
Today we have used up all the nutrients such as inorganic minerals from the soil so that we have unhealthy soil. Unhealthy soil gives us unhealthy produce. To overcome this we spray fertilizers to increase the soil's content and health. We also must spray pesticides to take care of the unhealthy plants. When the soil is unhealthy and the plants becomes unhealthy, the natural immune system of the plant's against pests cannot defend itself so we must use chemicals to do this job.
The use of pesticides everyday and in most farming districts has given us a contamination that is so widespread that we cannot avoid it anymore. Some pesticides that evaporate come back down with rain and also contaminate the land.
The nature of water is to go through the land down to the water table. When the water is contaminated with pesticides, it takes these contaminants and very soon the water table contains them.
The water table is often used for people's bore water. The sad fact is that when people test for the water's safety, they do not test for pesticides.
Chemicals are not always able to be detected with taste or smell. It is a warning to anyone drinking from bores to have your water tested for everything. You need to know what it contains and make your own decisions based upon your own research as to whether the water is fit for human consumption.
Most old people are dehydrated and literally dry up due to insufficient water. Their hands and skin dries up looking parched, withered, dry and old. Skin is a very good indication of body hydration.
When your lips are cracked and dry your body might just be dehydrated from lack of drinking water or from drinking water which the body cannot absorb and utilize.
A constant supply of pure, clean water is what creates a healthy environment for the body to be able to live longer. Nearly all bodily processes require water to occur. Water is the environment which life exists within a human body.