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Riverview K-9 officer retired; medical condition cited
June 7, 2019 By Times-Herald Newspapers Leave a Comment
Photo courtesy of the Riverview Police Department
K-9 officer Reno, a German shepherd, with Police Officer Eric Thome, retired at the end of April due to degenerative myelopathy, which causes loss of coordination in his hind legs. He will continue to live with Thome's family as a pet.
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RIVERVIEW – Police K-9 officer Reno, who retired at the end of April due to degenerative myelopathy in his hind legs, will remain a family pet with Officer Eric Thome's family.
The autoimmune disease, which causes loss of coordination in the rear legs, and eventually total limb paralysis, has no known cure. The condition is progressive, chronic and ultimately fatal, and impacts larger breeds, including German shepherds like Reno. Life span following diagnosis is six months to three years.
K-9 Reno and Thome were paired in June 2013 after completing 12 weeks of training, and were certified as a team through the National Association of Certified Canine Handlers and K-9 ATF in Taylor.
The team answered 592 calls in Riverview and nearby areas, assisting state and other local law enforcement agencies. As a team, Reno and Thome impacted more than 750 drug and trafficking arrests, through which $681,500 in forfeiture and fines were generated.
K-9 Reno participated in 32 tracks, apprehending three suspects. During the summer of 2018, he assisted in the apprehension of a home invasion suspect.
K-9 Reno also searched 45 buildings, with two notable finds. As a team, K-9 Reno and Thome participated in 38 demonstrations in Riverview.
(Sue Suchyta can be reached at [email protected])
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A soulful singer and scorching lead guitarist, Florida based Tommy McCoy and his band play an exciting variety of McCoy originals encompassing blues, roots rock, and Americana.
By any standard, Tommy has paid his blues dues and then some. He has been performing and recording on a regular basis for well over three decades. "I've been playing blues since the early '60s," says McCoy, whose parents bought his first guitar for his eighth birthday. Influenced initially by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, as a teenager McCoy discovered the wonder of Howlin' Wolf and the Kings (B.B., Albert, and Freddie), Stevie Ray Vaughan in the '70s.
Tommy's recording musicians include Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Commander Cody, Lucky Peterson, Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton, Stevie Ray's rhythm section. His last 2 releases on Chicago label Earwig Music, charted worldwide with great reviews and airplay."The King Is Gone" (a tribute to B.B. King) reached #14 on the International Blues Chart.
Tommy has opened for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gregg Allman, Albert Collins, and Robert Cray to name a few. Tommy has worldwide airplay, especially in Spain, Austria, and the UK with his song "Blues Thing" from Lay My Demons Down, which received a five star review in CONCERTO magazine in Austria.


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Pusha's show at Toronto's Danforth Music Hall was reportedly shut down abruptly after a group of audience members grew out of control and attempted to rush the stage. Toronto news channel CTV News reported that at least three people were injured in the melee.
The video initially circulating social media had fans wondering whether Pusha T was jumped during a recent performance in Toronto. Sources say some patrons started scampering for the exit while others looked on in dismay. Paramedics took two of those people to hospital with minor injuries.
He said five people were injured during the commotion, which spilled outside of the venue and continued in the vicinity of the music hall. Evidently, not well. Last night, the concert was interrupted by an all-out brawl, in which several parties rushed the stage, only to be thwarted by security forces.
"We have our detectives that are poring over videos and testimony from witnesses".
Pusha and Drake have had serious beef ever since they nuked it out in diss tracks earlier this year.
Eventually, he returned to the stage, and he had the following message to share: 'This n***a pay some n***as to throw beer, ' he ranted. Things took a violent turn during Pusha T's "Infrared", in which the rapper takes shots at Drake.


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The 2019 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the fourth edition of the Women's Euro Winners Cup (WEWC), an annual continental beach soccer tournament for women's top-division European clubs. The championship is the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football.

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazaré, Portugal from 1 June till 9 June 2019, in tandem with the larger men's edition.

The event began with a round robin group stage. At its conclusion, the best teams progressed to the knockout stage, a series of single elimination games to determine the winners, starting with the Round of 16 and ending with the final. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.

WFC Zvezda of Russia were the defending champions, but were knocked out in round of 16 by AIS Playas de San Javier from Spain, ultimately finishing in 10th place. AIS Playas de San Javier went on to win their first title, beating Madrid CFF of Spain on penalties in the final.

Teams
20 teams entered the tournament.

Entrants
Key: H: Hosts \ TH: Title holders

Group stage
The group stage fixtures were announced on 6 May.

All times are local, WEST (UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Knockout stage
The top three clubs from each group, plus the best fourth placed team advance to the Round of 16.

In the knockout stage, the clubs compete in single-elimination matches. Consolation matches are also played to determine the final rankings involving the clubs knocked out of each round of the knockout stage.

Top goalscorers
Players who scored at least 5 goals

14 goals

 Melissa Gomes ( Stade de Reims)

12 goals

 Carolina González ( AIS Playas de San Javier)

Final standings

See also
2019 Euro Winners Cup (men's edition)

References

External links
Women's Euro Winners Cup Nazaré 2019 , at Beach Soccer Worldwide
Women's Euro Winners Cup Nazaré 2019, at Beach Soccer Russia

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This blog will be suspended for the next few days as I need to visit my Family because of the passing away of my Father at the age of 86 in Pittsburgh.
Anyone offering prayers to him will be appreciated, but he is not type of man. My whole life he was a teacher, so the best way to honour him is to help someone learn something new. It was more important to him that someone tries their best and always keep learning. He was strong, and hard working. As a young man building homes he fell off a platform and crack part of his back. Instead of the the closest Hospital he insisted he was taken to the Hospital that his Girlfriend was working at, and he was not putting down his hammer until was. That young woman became my Mother. He built the house I grew up in. Showed me that good things happen with hard work, but make sure the facts are right first. He let me be stupid as a kid, but told me how to fix a problem when asked. He had a dry sense of humor, but showed me that sometimes a meatball can be square, or even a triangle. I miss going to Penguin game with him (even if I was way too loud) I will try to hold on to his tools that he gave me. But I always will remember him and my Mother, who he had to live without since her death..
It is asked that a donation to the Semper Fi Fund at http://semperfifund.org/ Which goes to help returning members of the U.S. Armed Forces with financial, emotional aid to those who have been injured or are ill along wit support for their families as well.


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This large, cypress exterior cooking table was inspired by a residence built by William Waldo Dodge, Jr. (1895-1971), one of the leading figures in Asheville's architectural scene during the boom of the 1920's. Dodge had allegedly built this house for a friend who was also a woodworker. Dodge had left extra material in some large cypress beams used in the construction of the house to be carved by the client himself. In each of the window jambs he carved a different decorative motif as well as carving two gargoyles along with a dog and a cat into cypress members on the facade. These unique elements were a natural inspiration when we began discussing possible designs for an exterior table on which to cook for guests and for storing the celebrated, Big Green Egg.
The over-all design was taken from the arches and carvings on the facade of the house. The fantastic clients were happy to allow room for a little creativity in the four carvings for the table: two of which were inspired by the house's gargoyles, and two were keeping with the theme of animals. The carvings of the bear and owl add to the "carnivorous" theme of the table. Copper was used for the top and mesh panels while cypress makes up the main structure. Interior Designer Linda Constable from Ambiance Interiors was invaluable in the conception of this piece.


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Lessons Learned From Innovation Projects Gone Awry
March 5, 2018 Maria Abbe
If you're looking to implement technology within your bank, this is the episode to listen to. Dallas shares lessons he's learned from bank technology implementation projects that didn't quite go as he'd planned.
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Never Waste a Good Transformation
A Lesson in Change Management For Banks
Ashley: Hey everyone, Ashley here. We're so excited to announce that it's time of year again. It's time to BankOnPurpose. BankOnPurpose is a conference based on the belief that the path to customer success is built on a customer centric foundation. It brings together the best and the brightest minds in banking, Austin, Texas on April 25th to the 27th. You can use the code podcast 18 to get 10% off your registration and to show your pride of The Purposeful Banker podcast. It's time to stop reacting because that's what makes banking great. It's time to bank on purpose.
Jim Young: Hi welcome to The Purposeful Banker, the podcast brought to you by PrecisionLender where we discuss the big topics on the minds of today's best bankers. I'm your host Jim Young, Director of Communications at PrecisionLender. Today I'm joined again by Dallas Wells our EVP for International Operations. We're going to talk about a pair of important lessons that banks quite frankly a lot of businesses should apply to innovation. One of them comes from the good folks at Bain via their blog. The other comes from, well Dallas' personal experience.
So let's start off first with that article from Bain on their blog. It's by David, I think it's, I'm going to go with Michaels here. Could be Michelles. Apologies to David if I get the pronunciation of your name wrong. But it is called Never Waste a Good Transformation. Dallas, I'll be honest with you, my first impulse on this was the main point of this was you should put your best people on your most important innovation projects. That seems like it should be obvious. Why do you think they felt compelled to write about this?
Dallas Wells: Well, I'll tell you they probably run into some of the same things that we have which is they get into a lot of these big change things for large complex organizations and it seems obvious but very few actually do that. So my guess is they felt compelled to write this out of frustration in that they've been in a lot of projects where they had what I would call the B team. I think the big story or the big picture idea here is that businesses get busy running their day-to-day stuff and so when there's a new project some businesses will put their very best people on it and others will say well we're too busy doing this other really important stuff. We have to make this quarter's number. We have to land this deal, whatever the fire of the day. And so whoever's not all that busy is who they put on the project. And if you're not all that busy in a business that's scrambling, there might be a reason for that. So I think that's their reasoning.
Jim Young: That is interesting and it ... it's a very good point because we deal with it here too.
Dallas Wells: Yes.
Jim Young: Over on our marketing side we talk about trying to build the engine while you're flying the planes kind of is the phrase that gets thrown out a lot. And quite frankly it doesn't matter how well you build a cool engine if your plane has just crashed into a hillside. It is a bit of a conundrum. It seems like one thing you mentioned was sort of this quarterly numbers. I wonder if part of that is do you have to maybe say look we're going to bite the bullet and take some short-term pain on our returns because this is the long-term play and maybe is that an issue even more for a publicly traded bank that doesn't necessarily have that luxury?
Dallas Wells: Yeah, I think that's a big part of it is a short-term focus versus a long-term focus. Being willing as a management team, as a board, as investors to say, okay we're going to have what may be an ugly quarter even an ugly year because we feel like there's some really important things that need to happen and we're going to focus some time, attention and resources on them. So being publicly traded is a part of it although there are publicly traded companies out there that say or even don't say, they are very unapologetic about it, just we're going to lose money for a while. I think Amazon is the classic example of-
Jim Young: A long while.
Dallas Wells: Yeah, for the last 20 years now have just, "We're not going to make much money." And at first investors gave them a lot of flak for that, but go back and look at their returns over those last 20 years. I think they might be onto something. Jeff Bezos is even though they were publicly traded and his personal wealth was tied to that stock number, has never cared about hitting a quarterly number just for the sake of hitting it. It's how do we make this business the best that it can be. And I think banks, even ones that are not publicly traded get really almost obsessed with the number, the quarterly number. They have good intentions in trying to align management's performance and their pay. When everybody's paychecks depend on it, you get what you pay for.
If you're paying for hitting the quarterly number, or hurting the annual growth number that's what everybody's going to spend their time and attention on. If you come to them and say, "Hey would you set that aside for a minute because I've got this really cool new widget I want you to help get up and running," they're going to say, "Wait, that's not what you pay me for. That's not how I make my bonus." And so it's a little bit about incentives. It's a little bit about corporate culture and some companies just do it well and others don't.
Jim Young: Yeah that's a good point because I always initially frame that question in terms of the external view of a business or in our case as a bank's performance. But there is also is absolutely that internal incentivization ... is that a word just ... if not-
Dallas Wells: I think you made one.
Jim Young: Yeah, exactly. That's what podcasts are for. But I'm also curious too though, when you're having that discussion and you're trying to weigh these things what matters, how much does it matter, do you find sometimes in your observations dealing with banks that maybe sometimes it's just hard for some of them to grasp how much the innovation matters? They've got this concrete reality in front of them of the day-to-day business.
Dallas Wells: Yeah.
Jim Young: And then you've got this sort of maybe abstract thing of this thing is going to help us in the future sort of thing?
Dallas Wells: Well you know we had an interesting conversation with a banker, of course we won't name names. But this was I don't know a year or two ago maybe. Carl was actually, Carl Ryden was a part of this conversation and you know how Carl gets very excited so he was all wound up and-
Jim Young: I'm not familiar with this, huh, interesting.
Dallas Wells: It was one of those it was a 10-minute conversation that became a two-hour conversation as Carl got all spun up on what was coming and how exciting it was. And the banker that he was talking to was getting it. He was nodding. He was following along and he said, "All that's great but I'll probably retire in five years. I'm not going to be here to see that stuff."
Jim Young: Ouch.
Dallas Wells: And so when you have a management team that is entirely in that bucket, what is their incentive to take a risk, go out on a limb, invest and maybe damage the last few years of their earning ability or however you want to look at it. Their legacy even. If they get it wrong, why rock the boat? Why not just ride it out with what's working and let the next team to come through deal with all those things that are around the corner if you're not going to be here to see it?
So, that's another interesting piece of it that I see a lot of banks struggle with because they're just like, "That's not my problem." The problem is is of course you can't just flip a switch and the shiny new innovative thing is there. It takes some time to get those things in place and there's a lot of banks that are not waiting around. The question is when do you miss your chance and when do you get left behind?
Jim Young: Yeah, absolutely. Not to get too much into a generational thing but I think the group or the demographic that gets innovation and is more at home with the concept of that changing of that sort of thing it would be the millennials coming. But A, banks are having a hard time recruiting them to come into banks maybe in part because of some of the way they look at innovation. And B, the ones that come in aren't necessarily ready to ...
I think there's this sort of middle ground group that from my experience the bankers that I talk with that seem to get it are that middle ground. They've been around long enough to understand how banks work and the difficulties that come with trying to change things. But they're still in touch enough with the tech revolution to get what the impact could be down the line. I think maybe that's if you're at that would be sort of one of the pieces of advice to your bank is to try to ... those people are there. Try to identify those people and that's probably some of the people that would be on your A team when it comes to innovation.
Dallas Wells: Yeah, I think you're right.
Jim Young: All right so now let's turn to you, Dallas. Sorry if it sounds like I'm taking a small bit of pleasure in this is because this is actually a bit of a mea culpa post that Dallas wrote on his LinkedIn account. I would encourage you ... he started to do a little bit more of this as he tries desperately to evade having me edit his posts. Dallas has started to write some stuff on his LinkedIn account so if you have a chance I would recommend following him on there.
But this piece was about you kind of went ... about innovation but you talked about it in terms of something that you did that kind of went awry and a lesson you learned from it. Let's start off with your attempt to get a client to change the way they were calculating their loss given default grades.
Dallas Wells: Yeah, so we jump right into the weeds there. I think listeners that are bankers will understand that but I'll frame it just a little bit for those who may not be. Banks do loss given default a lot of different way. So loss given default is if a loan goes bad, how much are we actually going to lose in that scenario? Most small banks and all banks not that long ago would lump all of that into their risk grade. If you were a risk grade three, part of that was how much might we lose if this goes bad?
The newer trend and what all the larger banks are doing and what I think every bank will have to do over the next couple of years especially around CECL implementation, is start to break apart the probability of the default and the loss given a default. Those are really two different things we're trying to measure and so they each get their own grade. There's a loss given default rating system in a lot of banks. In this particular project and the other context I'll add is kind of ... and maybe this is my excuse for how I went about this. But I think it's important the context and the empathy part that we'll get to in a little bit, it's important.
You've got two different groups that are working on this project. On one side you have the tech company that is bringing their software and helping this bank to implement it. So this is us. This is PrecisionLender and we're growing like crazy, right? We've doubled every year for the last several years which means we've hired a whole bunch of people. We have new clients, larger clients, things are more complex. We have a lot more engineers working on writing code for us and putting incredible new things into the product.
The pace of change can be a little bit mind boggling and new people that come on you can see it takes them a little while to acclimate. So we get used to you put a process in place and you're solving what is usually a ... something has gotten a little wobbly, right? We're growing fast enough that this thing needs to be changed. We put some duct tape on it. We fix it up a little bit. We say all right that'll work for a little while.
Then a year down the road probably a new person is now doing your role and you look back and they're just doing a gut rehab of everything you just finished not that long ago. They're pulling it out, putting something new in. And because of the pace of chance, that's perfectly okay. Everybody knows that what you did was a temporary fix and it doesn't mean that it was shoddy work just that it would only last so long. And the fact that somebody's having to pull it out and redo it means what you did was a success, right, because we've not outgrown it. You enabled the company to move past it and now it's time for something new. So that's on one side.
On the other side you have the banks. Banks are not growing that fast. They can't grow that fast it's just not the nature of the business. So you've got a bank, if it's doing well and it's growing maybe between 5 and 15% a year, you grow the workforce by less than that because you're getting some economies of scale and the processes work. They're proven. It's a profitable business. And so to take something out, to redo something, you have to have a very, very good reason to do that. And so in a bank if you see somebody doing a gut rehab of a process you put in place a year ago, your job may be in jeopardy because that means you messed it up pretty bad.
So those are the two sides that come at projects like this and I think it's why a lot of banks end up struggling with getting these things implemented and why they have some disagreements with their vendors because the vendors promise a lot of speed during the sales process and they get into it and it gets bogged down in the way banks have to work and those two sides now both of them aren't too happy with the outcome. Okay, so that's my long back story.
Jim Young: I was going to say also another version of your back story could be found probably on your LinkedIn profile. We just follow your job title changes here at PrecisionLender here.
Dallas Wells: Yeah, I laughed at that at the introduction. It feels like every time we do this you call me by a different title And that's, yeah the nature of it.
So all that being said, we come into this project and the bank has a complex way of assigning loss given default. So as they price a new deal they have to figure out what's the risk grade? What's the LGD grade? How does that translate to the overall risk profile so we know how to price the deal? And for this bank there was actually multiple different models involved that they would plug stuff into to get a result back out of.
One of those was this LGD thing and they had a I don't know, 120-page manual that walked employees through here's how you assign it given the type of customer and the type of collateral and where the collateral is and how easy is it for us to get to and all very valid things that do help determine what that number actually is. The problem is if you're negotiating with a customer you're trying to structure a deal on the fly, that's really hard. And what comes out of that is a letter grade so it would be to make it up, an LGD grade of D. It tells us what the loss given at default is.
So the banker is trying to work with our customer and they're saying well if it's a D it's this and if it's an E it's that. So they're speaking a foreign language to their customers. That means nothing to them. What their customers knows is I have accounts receivable and inventory that are going to be my collateral for this loan and I have to decide how much of that stuff I'm going to give the bank as collateral. That's what we're really negotiating.
And so my, what I thought brilliant idea was is look we can probably come pretty close to short cutting that 100-page manual in the separate model. Let's just have the customer and the banker talk about how much inventory and how much collateral. And on the bank end we'll have some math that translates it pretty close. We'll figure out what the accuracy has to be but let's say we want to get it within 90% of what your final number's going to be. We'll do that for preliminary pricing. Sometimes we'll be high. Sometimes we'll be low. But on average we'll come out pretty darn close and so if it ends up being a slight, a different letter grade sometimes on the back end once you do your full analysis, then so be it, right?
I want to roll this out to the banks. I convinced the pricing team that's doing this. "Okay, we're willing to try that. We think that makes sense." So I feel like it's a big victory. We get ready to demo it to their relationship managers and I did all this work on their behalf. I was really proud that they were just going to love this and I was going to get the hero's welcome. I demo it and they absolutely hated it. They couldn't stand what I'd done. And it was because they had gotten so used to the old way they did it. They thought in terms of those letter grades. They really understand how the system worked and they had some doubt.
Well what if I guess that it's a D and it ends up being an E, aren't I going to get in trouble? And I'm not willing to take that risk. So what they were doing is they were putting it in PrecisionLender and then they were going back to that separate model anyway and double checking it and most of the time it was right. And sometimes it would come out slightly different and they were like, "See this things broken."
So it was a known error that we were putting in or possibility for error that we were okay with to make it more efficient and the actual users weren't. So our champion at this particular bank who's excellent. One of the few that we come across who gets both the in the weeds math and the bigger picture of rolling out a giant project like this at a big bank where people have been doing the stuff the way they've been doing it for a long time. And he said, "You know what Dallas, they're revolting against this LGD grade and that's not really what the problem is. The problem is we've moved all their cheese for all the things they do. We've taken their entire production process and turned it upside down and this was just one step too far." So he said, "I think you have the right answer but I also think it's a bad idea to try to do it right now."
So we pulled it back. We undid it. We put back the letter grades and the important outcome there was we didn't get what I felt like was the perfect end state. And we will eventually still try to push to get there. But it was a whole lot of change that we did all at once. I was kind of I think the term I used was running over people, right? This is the right way to do it so let's just push it through and get it done while we're doing it. It was the rip the Band-Aid off quickly kind of approach.
Our champion there at that bank had a really good feel for his end users and could give them this thing that they finally threw up their hands and said, "That's too much." He said, "Fine. I hear you. I understand. We'll roll that one back because you've done so good at taking the rest of this stuff, we'll take that one back and we'll put it back how you want it." So some empathy and understanding of your end users. Being able to decide which things are really critical, we have to do it this way to make this work. And which ones are like, yeah we'd rather do it a different way but it's okay if we need to leave this one in place to make you comfortable with it. Most of these projects get rolled out to end users and they just kind of get inflicted upon them and it's use it or else. So if you can do it a different way, it really is well received.
Jim Young: Yeah, you know it's interesting listening to you I've been thinking about actually some of my recent conversations I've had with some content vendors and talking to them. Inevitably in these conversations they start moving onto things and I find myself pumping the brakes on them and say hold on just a second.
Jim Young: I get it. I'm sure that is great. Right now this is all I can handle. Can we just talk about this part of it.
Dallas Wells: Yeah, exactly.
Jim Young: I've told them look I'm not saying this other stuff is we don't need it or that it's not a good idea. It's just that there's only so much I can wrap my head around right now. How do you know though when you've reached that line? You figured it out once they pushed back on you but how do you know when it's time to maybe push back again and say look I get it but this is ... you're going to have to move into this reality and just because that's the way you did it doesn't mean we should continue to do it that say.
Dallas Wells: Yeah, that's the difficulty of innovation and that's why some organizations are good at it and others aren't is it's definitely just as much art as it science. I think what it takes and what a lot of executives that lead change like this, what they aren't able to do is to get far enough down into the day-to-day work to truly understand the workflow before and the workflow after and to see it from that user's perspective.
I'll use something other than PrecisionLender. If you're putting in a CRM system, what the executives want out of it is the data that comes out the back end. They want to know what's the velocity of our sales opportunities and how long does it take us to get from stage C to stage D and how much fallout do we have between which stages. All those things help them make the decisions they need to make. But for that to work they have to have all the users input all of the deals they're working on. The data only works if it's complete and so they have to force all those things on an end user.
And what they end up focusing on is the output that they get, right? This is the data that I have to have to do what I want to do. They don't go down and sit down and look at well what's that do to ... in a bank if I'm putting CRM in front of a relationship manager and they now go from spending 20% of their time on this administrative stuff to now 60% of their time and I still hold them to the same sales goal, how do they feel about this project and about their work here now?
So yeah you get the shiny new dashboard but what'd you do to your sales staff? So understanding those workflows and taking the time to map them out and the part that gets missed just because it's time consuming is ask them. Talk to the people who are actually going to be doing it. Have them walk you through it and give them a voice. So, yes there are some things that just end up being look you're not going to like this but we have to do it this way for it to work.
But if you can give and take a little, if you can find other things it's like you know that's not that critical. The way you're doing it makes sense. Let's leave that in place. And having some trust and respect of those people who do the job every day. They probably do it a certain way because they figured out that's the way that works. So give them a voice. Give them a vote. Sometimes you'll have to overrule them but not every time.
And I think that was my big lesson is just slow down and listen and understand that the back story that I told there and the reason I think it's important is I was coming at that from a different perspective. It's totally fine to rip something out and put something else in if it's better. But that was my view of it because of the life I was living, my day-to-day job. Theirs was much different and where they were coming from it felt different when we put it in front of them. So when they said they didn't like it, we said okay. That makes sense and we hear you on this one.
Jim Young: And to connect this back, to bring it back full circle to the beginning, the person that you worked with who kind of helped you reach that conclusion, is a member, was an A team at that bank.
Jim Young: You need the type of people that ... that's Exhibit A for why you need those type of people in your innovation projects because they're the ones who can get, who can put a foot in both sides and understand it and figure out how to thread that needle to try to keep the ball moving and keep people happy.
Dallas Wells: Right. And there's two parts to that. Number one, having the skill and the empathy to hear and understand that. And then the second part which is just as important is having the oomph within the organization, right, to having a sufficient place on the org chart and respect of their peers to be able to decide when do we push and when do we not and to in this case slightly deviate from the playbook that we'd put in place.
We had a project plan and one of the things on there was remap the LGD grades and he had the authority within the organization and within the project there to say, "Nope, not doing this one that way." And so that's why it's really, really important that you just don't take the leftovers and that's a harsh way of putting it, but the B team because they don't probably have either one of those. Or they may have one and not the other and you really got to have both.
Jim Young: All right. Thanks again for coming on, Dallas. That'll do it for this week's show. If you want to listen to more podcasts or check out more of our content, you can visit our resource page at precisionlender.com. Or you can just head over to our home page to learn more about the company behind this content. Finally, if you like what you've been hearing, make sure to subscribe the feed in iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play or Stitcher. We love to get ratings and feedback on any of those platforms.
Until next time this has been Jim Young for Dallas Wells and you've been listening to The Purposeful Banker.
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Ask a Juggalo: What is Faygo Armageddon?
by Danielle Keene
Q: What is Faygo Armageddon?
A: Basically, Faygo Armageddon happens at the end of ICP shows or at the end of their set at the Gathering. They basically just unload and throw all of the Faygo at once. It used to be that anyone could get up there, but now it seems to be more like bands and VIPs, they let you up there. But every once in a while, the crowd takes over, and, if you could get up on stage past security, you could be up there. But the stage ends up being full of people, and then they just bring cases and cases and cases of Faygo out, and then they just throw it and shoot it out into the audience. So it's kinda like the "chaos moment" of the show, usually at the very, very end. At the Gathering, for example, they bring a fire hose out and spray Faygo — at least I believe the fire hose shoots Faygo. I'm not sure because there's so much going on that you can't really tell if it's water or Faygo. It's so much that sometimes it's hard to look up at the stage because it's in your eyes and all around you. Of course, they shoot Faygo throughout the show and throw it out, but there's nothing like Faygo Armageddon. It's just complete chaos at the end. If you're lucky enough to get up on stage during it, then it's great. It ends up that you can't even see where ICP is half the time, it's so full of other people. It's definitely Armageddon, that's for sure.
Danielle Keen, aka Dani 2 Dope, is a 36-year-old Juggalette. She has been an ICP fan for 20 years and lives in Fowlerville, a small town "surrounded by cornfields" between Lansing and Detroit.
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One of the most beautiful things about travelling lies in experiencing in foreign lands, all the things that make us different, and all the things that show we are just the same. Asia alone has a colourful palette of traditions, with fascinating differences in the definitions of manners and accepted behaviours. But it's also easy to take embarrassing missteps and offend someone accidentally when you are unfamiliar with the local traditions of the land.
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To Live Is The Rarest Thing In The World
As someone with health anxiety and a fear of dying, They Both Die At The End was an anxiety-inducing, emotional read.
I have no doubt that was the intended response.
I have to admit, I was a bit hesitant when I bought this – a suggestion from my discord server as a story to make you cry. Yes, I like to torture myself, clearly.
Separated into four parts, each accompanied by an inspiring quote, the story follows Mateo and Rufus as they're contacted by "Death-Cast", a government-run scheme that tells people that they're going to die that day.
You can see why this was probably a bad idea for a hypochondriac to read.
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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
What do I know about love?
Admittedly, very little.
I know there are a million different types of love, if not more. There's familial love, friendship, pets (although some will argue pets count as family). There is romantic love, love you hate to feel, love you long to feel. There's the love you feel for your favourite character, that 'soft spot' you hold for the cute barista in your local coffee shop. There is the love that hides in the furthest corner of your mind for the person you wish you could have, but know you can't. Or the love that leaps out whenever you're around them. It is the reflection of yourself in the water as you walk across your favourite beach. It is in the kiss goodbye in the hospital ward before the machines are switched off. It is the laughter with the bartender who 'just got you'. It is the free fall of a bungee jump, hair wrapped around your face and adrenaline pumping through your veins. It is the silence as you're immersed in your favourite book.
Love is a million things and more.
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Invitation to Poetry by Mihai Brinas
For me, poetry has always been a way of bleeding onto paper. Seeing the raw emotions of the poet, the voice, is what draws me to them in the first place.
I'm even more of a sucker for romantic poetry. Sonnets, villanelles, modern poetry that doesn't follow any structure; if it's about love, I'll read it.
Love is the language of poetry after all.
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Chronicles of Chaos and Consonance by Kalybre the Eclectic
Poetic language is certainly hard to master.
You need to be descriptive but not too complicated. Elegant with your words but simple enough for the imagery to flow and dance on the page.
One thing about poetry is just how subjective it can be.
Which makes reviewing it quite a challenge.
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Expectation by Anna Hope
I'm very nostalgic.
Even at 23 years old, I look back at my life quite often and see how different I've grown, how far I've come (or how far I've fallen, in some ways). It's a bit dramatic, given that I've only just started my twenties and have so much ahead of me.
But I feel like everyone goes through this at each stage. Expecting so much from the future and getting to it, only to miss the past. Or at least that's how I know a lot of people are.
That's exactly what you get from Anna Hope's Expectation.
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The Young World by Chris Weitz
Zombies are my favourite horror creature.
I used to be terrified of everything ghost or spirit related, but as I've grown up, I've developed more of an appreciation for the undead and the apocalyptic world that comes with them.
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The Treatment – C. L. Taylor
For those who know me, I'm a big fan of social media and the internet. I practically spend my life on it and it's something I easily relate to.
That's one reason why I felt connected to this novel.
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Reviews, Romance
Match Me If You Can – Michele Gorman
Romance novels aren't my forte. I'm more of a YA or fantasy fan. Books are my escape and I find it more exciting to escape into worlds of fantastical creatures than worlds of cliche romances. I like different. I like spectacular.
So what a great start to my reviews than with a romance novel.
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Portfolio - Students should produce a collection of materials that shows at least one extended project. This should be from an initial starting point to a realisation.
Assignments - Students are required to select one question from an examination paper per year over the two years. Following the preparatory period, students must complete 10 hours of unaided, supervised time. In the 10 hours students must produce a finished outcome or a series of related finished outcomes, informed by their preparatory work.
Personal investigation - Students are required to conduct a practical and written investigation and must lead to a finished outcome or a series of related finished outcomes. The investigation must be informed by an aspect of contemporary or past practice of artists, photographers, designers or craftspeople. Written material must be a coherent and logically structured extended response of between 1000 and 3000 words of continuous prose.
In Art, the emphasis is on the development of skills using an appropriate range of materials, processes and techniques. First and Foremost a keen interest in Art is crucial for the course. We would expect to see some evidence that students have already developed their Art Skills and Knowledge of Art History. A readiness to explore and experiment with a range of materials and concepts is essential. Students would also benefit from good organisational skills.
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Shaloc - Gritty City
Staff Writer May 02, 2021
Shaloc Renaissance brings rebirth of true artistry with anthemic new single 'Gritty City'
CHARLOTTE, NC – Reviving the arts. That's what East Coast music artist Shaloc Renaissance is doing with his music. He's reviving the whole vibe of the arts and music scene. He's serving as an inspiration to authenticity. He's motivating multiple generations to embrace their unique individuality and express themselves in whatever way feels genuine and true. His latest single, "Gritty City," continues that mission as a song of awareness. It's a song that challenges conventional thinking about the proverbial "street life," and encourages young people in particular to avoid the aspects of that lifestyle that are often glamorized despite the risks and violence often associated with those activities.
"It's a song that explains a lot of scenarios and situations coming up in a gritty city," Shaloc said. "It's born from my experience in Pittsburgh growing up and the different situations I lived through. I work with a lot of youth, and I see many of the things that impact them as they're growing up. One of the kids I work with was murdered recently in the streets because of the crazy stuff that goes on there. So this is a song that lets people know that if you're trying to get into that street life, this is not the way to go. And if you're in it already, it's a choice to remain in it or not."
Produced by long-time collaborating partner B.Rob, the single is just another of a string of successful hits from Shaloc. He's an artist who has created music for more than 20 years. He got started as a teenager growing up in the golden era of Hip-Hop, and being introduced to Bob Marley's music and Reggae culture. Seeing the things happening around him in the neighborhood and leaning on the lessons from Bob Marley, Shaloc began to write his own lyrics and chronicle his life experiences. His words began to resonate with an ever-widening fanbase, and eventually he became a name known internationally. He went to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he gained experience with recording equipment, digital synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and live instruments. But at age 19 Shaloc lost his brother to gang violence, and he turned deeply to music as a form of therapy. Because of the positivity and creativity that came from exploring his music so deeply, Shaloc honed his craft into something that was truly a signature style. Eventually he created his own label, Renaissance Authentic Music (R.A.M.). In recent years he has re-invented himself and is continuing to show the world what it looks like to be a successful artist who evolves with the times.
"I am the embodiment of reviving the art, rebirth and renewal," he said. "I create anthem music that people can feel, embrace, get inspired by and motivate themselves. My music is all about inspiration in any kind of way for you to express yourself and be authentic with yourself. At the end of the day that's what I want my music to be known for: inspiring and motivating others."
Following "Gritty City," Shaloc said he's continuing to develop a full album called "The Dawning," which he hopes to release sometime in August.
To listen to Shaloc Renaissance's music, or to follow him on social media, please visit the following links:
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Instagram: @shaloc_renaissance
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"Aladdin" in 4DX Creates a New Movie-viewing Culture in Asia and Europe
The Walt Disney Studios' classic draws $17M GBO in the multi-sensory 4DX format, breaking attendance and occupancy rate records around the globe
LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2019
LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CJ 4DPLEX, the world's leading cinema technology company, announced today the success of Walt Disney Studios' live action musical 'Aladdin' in the multi-sensory 4DX format. The film, which premiered to a global audience, brought in $17 million in the global box office.
Japan and Korea were amongst the highest performing countries, in which 'Aladdin' surpassed the all-time attendance record with over 750,000 attendees in South Korea to date, and 80% occupancy rate in its second and third weekend of opening in Japan, which is the highest number since 2016. Other top performing countries include India, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Spain with over 60% occupancy rate.
Audiences were able to relive iconic scenes like the "Magic Carpet Ride" in the immersive auditoriums where 4DX captured the dips and swerves of a flying magic carpet gliding across a windy night sky. 4DX theaters across South Korea held "Dance Along" events where audience members sang and danced in the motion-enhanced 4DX chairs. The nostalgia and musical elements of 'Aladdin' in 4DX also drew in the highest female demographic in their 20s and 30s.
"There are many industry professionals who think 4DX is only suitable for the action genre, but we have seen great potential for the musical genre through the success of 'Aladdin' in the 4DX format," said Jaime Tarrazón, CEO of Filmax Gran Via in Spain.
"'Aladdin' in 4DX provided an opportunity to bring back female audiences in their 20s and 30s back to the cinemas," said Shuhei Ichikawa, Sales Department General Manager of United Cinemas, the largest 4DX partner in Japan.
"We are thrilled for the tremendous performance of 'Aladdin' in 4DX as there were so many elements of the film that worked wonderfully with the format," said JongRyul Kim, CEO of CJ 4DPLEX. "We cannot wait to share the rest of the exciting titles that are upcoming with Walt Disney Studios and for audiences to experience the variety of genres offered in 4DX."
Amongst special formats worldwide, 4DX is the leading content provider screening over 117 Hollywood titles in 2018 alone. Following the success of "Aladdin" in 4DX, Walt Disney Studios and CJ 4DPLEX will collaborate to release additional titles in the second half of the year.
4DX innovative theater technology enhances the on-screen visuals of action-packed blockbusters and haunting horror films, transcending the traditional cinema experience through special effects including motion-synchronized seats, wind, fog, rain, lightning, snow, bubbles, vibrations, and scents. The result is one of the most immersive cinema formats in the industry, drawing fans into the action on the big screen.
About Aladdin
A thrilling and vibrant live-action adaptation of Disney's animated classic, 'Aladdin'is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future. Directed by Guy Ritchie, who brings his singular flair for fast-paced, visceral action to the fictitious port city of Agrabah, 'Aladdin' is written by John August and Ritchie based on Disney's 'Aladdin'. The film stars Will Smith as the Genie; Mena Massoud as Aladdin; Naomi Scott as Jasmine; Marwan Kenzari as Jafar; Navid Negahban as the Sultan; Nasim Pedrad as Dalia; Billy Magnussen as Prince Anders; and Numan Acar as Hakim. 'Aladdin' is produced by Dan Lin, p.g.a., and Jonathan Eirich, p.g.a., with Marc Platt and Kevin De La Noy serving as executive producers. Eight-time Academy Award®-winning composer Alan Menken provides the score, which includes new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Oscar®-winning lyricists Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and includes new music written by Menken and Oscar and Tony Award®-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
About CJ 4DPLEX
CJ 4DPLEX is a leading, next-generation cinema technology company, headquartered in Seoul with international offices in Los Angeles and Beijing. The company has created innovative film technologies for theaters worldwide that include '4DX' and '4DX with ScreenX' for consumers to experience films in ways that were never before possible. 4DX provides moviegoers with an innovative multi-sensory experience, allowing the audience to connect with movies through motion, vibration, water, wind, snow, lightning, scents, and other special effects that enhance the visuals on-screen. Each 4DX auditorium incorporates motion-based seating synchronized with 21 different effects and optimized by a team of skilled editors, maximizing the excitement of the movie, beyond the limits of audio and video. More than 660 Hollywood and local titles have been screened in 4DX. To date, more than 76,000 4DX seats operate in 657 auditoriums, spanning 65 countries.
CJ 4DPLEX was named Most Innovative Company of 2017 and 2019 in Live Events by Fast Company, and its technology has been recognized with Silver at the Edison Awards in the Media and Visual Communications-Entertainment category in 2015 and 2018. For more information, please visit www.cj4dplex.com.
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Back among the fugitives, i write letters to the cities where i did not dare to live explaining why it never would have worked out between us. After all, what is there to dream where the lights never blink their eyes and you cannot see the stars. What is there to dream when you cannot find the night anywhere but behind your eyes.


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The TV Series 'BeTipul' Healing Trauma
Marc Rastoin, SJ / Mission / 29 July 2021
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In 2005, a series called BeTipul (In Therapy) appeared on Israeli cable tv. It has since been sold and adapted in many countries. The first to do so were the Americans at HBO in 2008, taking almost everything from the Israeli original.[1] In Italy, the series was broadcast on Sky in 2013 with a well-known cast and was well received by critics and audience alike. It is currently being telecast in France.
The technical setup is extremely simple, almost elementary: a camera captures Reuven Dagan, a psychoanalyst, treating patients. He treats them for five days, at the end of which he himself undergoes a therapeutic session.
The series was created by Hagai Levi, a writer, producer and director, who has had many successes creating television series. In particular, in 2014 he won the Golden Globe award with the series The Affair, created for the Showtime channel (2014-19).
Levi almost always collaborated in writing the foreign versions, which closely follow the original script. We should not forget the important role of the other two co-writers: Ori Sivan and Nir Bergman (creator of the young athlete patient).
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  Cache* Cache::installDependency(const std::string& type_, const std::vector<int>& parameterIndices){
    ParameterVector pv(parameterIndices.size());
    for (size_t i=0; i<parameterIndices.size(); i++){
      if (parameterIndices[i]<0 || parameterIndices[i] >=(int)_parameters.size())
  return 0;
      pv[i]=_parameters[ parameterIndices[i] ];
    }
    CacheKey k(type_, pv);
    if (!container())
      return 0;
    Cache* c=container()->findCache(k);
    if (!c) {
      c = container()->createCache(k);
    }
    if (c)
      _parentCaches.push_back(c);
    return c;
  }

  bool Cache::resolveDependancies(){
    return true;
  }

  CacheContainer::CacheContainer(OptimizableGraph::Vertex* vertex_) {
    _vertex = vertex_;
  }

  Cache* CacheContainer::findCache(const Cache::CacheKey& key) {
    iterator it=find(key);
    if (it==end())
      return 0;
    return it->second;
  }

  Cache* CacheContainer::createCache(const Cache::CacheKey& key){
    Factory* f = Factory::instance();
    HyperGraph::HyperGraphElement* e = f->construct(key.type());
    if (!e) {
      cerr << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << endl;
      cerr << "fatal error in creating cache of type " << key.type() << endl;
      return 0;
    }
    Cache* c = dynamic_cast<Cache*>(e);
    if (! c){
      cerr << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << endl;
      cerr << "fatal error in creating cache of type " << key.type() << endl;
      return 0;
    }
    c->_container = this;
    c->_parameters = key._parameters;
    if (c->resolveDependancies()){
      insert(make_pair(key,c));
      c->update();
      return c;
    }
    return 0;
  }

  OptimizableGraph::Vertex* CacheContainer::vertex() {
    return _vertex;
  }

  OptimizableGraph* CacheContainer::graph(){
    if (_vertex)
      return _vertex->graph();
    return 0;
  }

  void CacheContainer::update() {
    for (iterator it=begin(); it!=end(); it++){
      (it->second)->update();
    }
    _updateNeeded=false;
  }

  void CacheContainer::setUpdateNeeded(bool needUpdate) {
    _updateNeeded=needUpdate;
    for (iterator it=begin(); it!=end(); ++it){
      (it->second)->_updateNeeded = needUpdate;
    }
  }

  CacheContainer::~CacheContainer(){
    for (iterator it=begin(); it!=end(); ++it){
      delete (it->second);
    }
  }

} // end namespace

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We have recently done some research to check the trends of webmail popularity. It seems like the usage of SquirrelMail has fallen only slightly over the last 4 years and the interest in it today is nearly as high as it was in 2008. These are very good results for a program that hasn't been upgraded much in recent years. It shows that the stability, speed and simplicity of SquirrelMail are still in high demand.
Unfortunately SquirrelMail doesn't include any of the modern interface additions that people are used to in this day and age, so companies are forced to search for webmail alternatives that will not only provide solid email functions but also satisfy the aesthetic tastes of their customers or employees. Some choose to completely break away from the system they've used for years and move to Roundcube, while others choose to preserve all their SquirrelMail accounts and settings and upgrade to Ensignia Mail.
This is one of the reasons for the continuing rise of Ensignia's popularity. It's a system that presents an easy upgrade alternative to SquirrelMail, preserves its solid core base but adds the all functionality that the users are looking for: elegant themes, mobile support, drag-and-drop, etc.
Recently some major hosting providers, like BlueHost or HostMonster, decided to discontinue offering SquirrelMail to their clients and replace it with Ensignia. This way they were able to keep their clients' settings intact and increase the value of their service at a relatively low cost.
So what's the future of the most webmail programs? It's most likely that SquirrelMail will slowly continue losing popularity because of its lack of modern interface. Ensignia will continue rising as an alternative because it offers a well-rounded package of everything the users need. Roundcube will continue gaining users as well, although its lack of native mobile support is something that will need to be addressed by the authors if they hope for their momentum to continue. Horde has been losing ground recently as they continue to struggle with a confusing interface and email display problems. Once those problems are overcome, it might start on an uphill climb again like Ensignia and Roundcube.
Follow Twitter updates in Ensignia!
We'd like to introduce you to a new addition to Ensignia Mail: a Twitter updates plugin (enm_twitter). The plugin displays Twitter feed on the Ensignia sidebar. Each user can customize their feed settings by specifying the Twitter name to follow and the amount of entries to show. The new plugin is included in the package available in to the Enterprise license holders in the customer area.
For the plugin to display properly on the Corporate theme, you will need to upgrade the theme to its latest version (also available in the customer area).
Good news everyone, Ensignia 5.0 is now ready for download and purchase. The Ensignia 5.0 upgrade is free for all those still within their yearly upgrade period, so go ahead and give it a try. You're going to want to upgrade to this latest version.
The upgrade from NutsMail 4.x to Ensignia is painless. Simply upload the new files and overwrite the old ones… done!
Plus a horde of other updates, bug fixes and more. Take a look at the change log in the download.
I hope this note finds you all well. We wanted to let you know that we will be rebranding NutsMail to Ensignia. We will also be changing the website from NutsMail.com to EnsigniaMail.com.
A quick, short history: NutsMail was meant to be a pun on the fact that it was based on Squirrelmail, "nuts for your squirrel". It was a fun idea, although many did not quite catch the intended play on words and it was often misunderstood for meanings better left unsaid.
After much consideration we've finally decided to change to a name that will hopefully reflect and present our growing business and services which we are proud of. We will be releasing Ensignia 5.0 with upgrades and bug fixes soon.
We're actively working on improving Ensignia this year with better language support, updated plugins, new ajax features, better mobile and tablet interfaces and skins.
That's it, short and sweet. Enjoy!
The shared calendar plugin included with the Enterprise version of NutsMail is a popular item. It allows creation of public or private event calendars that can be shared between groups of users.
The easiest way to manage the calendar data is to store it directly in the data folder of your NutsMail installation. This is accomplished by enabling the "calendar_file_backend" plugin. No initial setup or configuration is necessary, but this solution has its limitations. If users log in to NutsMail from under different domain names, they may be denied access to the calendar files created by other users.
To remedy this situation, the shared calendar functionality should be set up with the "calendar_sql_backend" plugin. With this plugin enabled, the calendar data is stored in a database, which eliminates the access denied problems.
To use the sql backend plugin you need to create a database, specify its access information in the plugin config file and manually create the database tables. This is a bit more troublesome than using the ready-to-go file backend plugin, but it provides a more flexible solution for inter-domain calendar usage. Happy calendar sharing!
As you may have noticed, NutsMail comes with a handy little plugin called NutsMail News. It's an RSS feed reader that displays the latest headlines from the news service of your choice on the sidebar. You can choose from many pre-defined news services in several languages, or you can define your own. The RSS is retrieved and displayed using AJAX, so it doesn't slow down the loading of the webmail.
Some of you reported that if NutsMail runs on an SSL-secured server, the plugin causes a browser warning. We have now fixed this issue, so the plugin can be safely used over SSL. If you're having problems with the SSL warnings, re-download the Enterprise package from the customer area and upgrade to the latest version of NutsMail.
This plugin is available for the Enterprise and Unlimited license holders. If you have a Basic or Premium license and would like to see how the plugin works, you can test it on the demo site. There are more advanced features available with the Enterprise license that make the webmail experience more complete. If you like any of the features listed, and you'd like to upgrade your license to Enterprise, it's easy! All you need to do is pay the difference in price between the license you have now and the license you're purchasing. Let us know if you're interested!
We have just released a minor upgrade to NutsMail (version 4.2.1) which fixes some small bugs and issues. We're actively working on the next major release, NutsMail version 4.3, which will be fully compatible with the NutsMail WHM/cPanel admin panel. The panel will enable WHM admins to manage domain-specific NutsMail settings and resell NutsMail themes to their CPanel clients. Version 4.3 will be capable of running independently just like the current versions do, but with one setting change it will become fully integrated with the control panels.
But while we all wait for this Star Trek-like technology to become available, let's not forget to upgrade to NutsMail 4.2.1, which is available in the customer area.
There is an odd bug in the Android 2.x browser. Hyperlinks covered by popup menu boxes are still clickable, even though they are not visible. Since our NutsMail mobile themes use popup menus to economize on space, this bug caused strange problems: users trying to click Forward or Reply would actually click the links located under the menu, like Open Message or Write Email.
We have just released new upgrades to fix this problem, so if you use NutsMail mobile themes, we encourage you to upgrade them to the latest version available in the customer area (version 2.2). We hope this fix will make life easier for all the Android users out there.
The difficulty with localizing SquirrelMail is that it uses third-party plugins to enhance its functionality, for example, message details, preview pane, bookmarks, calendar, etc. But most of the published translation files only include the translation of the SquirrelMail core, not of the third-party plugins. So even if you get SquirrelMail (or NutsMail) working in your language, you will still see some English text here and there – the text created by the plugins which are not translated.
NutsMail comes with a number of third-party plugins enabled by default. This makes it a webmail solution that is feature-full right out-of-the-box. Unfortunately some of those plugins are not translated, which can make it difficult to fully localize NutsMail for those who don't know how to create their own translation files.
To fill these gaps, we decided to build a repository of the missing SquirrelMail plugin translations. The translations will work in NutsMail and SquirrelMail alike, so the current SquirrelMail users will benefit from the new repository as well.
If you find that your NutsMail is missing translations in your language, and you'd like to see it fully localized, please let us know and we'll send you the missing text to translate. When you send it back to us, we'll compile it into the proper format and post it in our translation repository for download. This way you'll be able to fully localize your NutsMail setup and contribute to the SquirrelMail community.
We hope this new project will be of help to many non-English NutsMail and SquirrelMail users!
If you use NutsMail on Android you may have noticed that on some devices page scrolling doesn't work properly. This is due to an Android iframe bug that, although reported to Google a couple of years ago, still remains unfixed. We have included a workaround in all NutsMail mobile themes that will hopefully fix the problem on most Android smartphones.
If you use mobile themes in your NutsMail installation, we encourage you to re-download their files from our customer area and replace them in your NutsMail "themes" folder. The new version of the mobile themes is 2.1.
This upgrade does not affect NutsMail itself, only the theme files, so if you're running NutsMail 4.2, there's no need to re-download and upgrade the NutsMail program. If you're running an earlier version of NutsMail, we encourage you to upgrade, since NutsMail 4.2 is based on the latest version of SquirrelMail which includes a lot of security fixes.
Today we'll continue our exploration of the more advanced functionality and options of NutsMail. Let's take a look at its multilingual configuration.
A new version of NutsMail, 4.2, is available for purchase or download (for users with valid licenses). We have made only one, but major change in this latest version: it's based on the newly released SquirrelMail 1.4.22. We encourage you to upgrade your NutsMail setup to 4.2, since it includes some important security upgrades in SquirrelMail core.
A couple of days ago the SquirrelMail Team released an upgraded stable version of SquirrelMail (1.4.22), which includes a number of security fixes. Today we have finished re-building NutsMail to be based on the new SquirrelMail release and uploaded it to the beta site for testing. In a few days, after we had a chance to test it and make sure it works well, we will release it as NutsMail 4.2. Since this upgrade contains some important security fixes, we encourage you to upgrade your current installation of NutsMail to version 4.2 at your earliest convenience.
Coming only three weeks after the release of our all-new milestone version, NutsMail 4.1 fixes all the problems and bugs reported by the users. The fixes extend from the program core to the themes and plugins, making 4.1 a stable and well-rounded version.
If you are still using NutsMail 4.0, we encourage you to upgrade soon. And if you are using an even earlier version of NutsMail, you should really give 4.1 a try–you'll see that it's a completely different user experience! To test it first hand, visit our demo. And don't forget to try browsing using an iPhone, you'll see that with the NutsMail mobile themes checking mail on the go is a pleasure!
If you find any bugs not listed above, please let us know right away so we can fix them and include the fixes in NutsMail 4.1.
Brand new theme engine: Written from scratch. NutsMail was a lot of patch work from over the years of upgrades and squirrelmail releases. We have started from a clean slate in NutsMail 4.0.
No frames: We're no longer restricted by those annoying squirrelmail browser frames. They're technically still there but you won't notice them anymore thanks to some clever css work by our programming guru Chris.
It's faster: Everything has been streamlined to work faster. Since it was built from ground up we have left as much of the core squirrelmail in tact and the theme engine takes care of only the final visual output.
All new themes: A whole set of new themes. Each of the themes were made to order for the new NutsMail 4.0 theming engine.
More mobile skins: We've also added a new set of mobile skins to match our the Outlook webmail. Now you can check your email on the go with a matching mobile skin. A nice addition for your customers, keeping a seamless look for both desktop and mobile webmail.
Administration: Administrate the default settings for all your customers through the newly added administration tab. You can turn plugins on/off, enable/disable features, change any settings directly from inside the webmail app. No more messing around with config or text files.
Free upgrade for all customers with valid download licenses. Simply login and download the new version.
We have just finished creating the colour variations for the NutsMail 4 desktop themes and you can browse them on our beta site. When NutsMail 4 is released, it will probably contain 24 themes in all (4 desktop themes x 4 colour combinations each, plus 2 mobile themes x 4 colour combinations).
In the future, besides creating new themes, we're also planning to expand the colour range of our current themes. We'd like each theme to come in 8 or more colour variations, which will give our users more choice and make it possible to get a truly personalized email experience.
Stay tuned, NutsMail 4 will be released soon!
We are planning on launching NutsMail 4.0 with a brand new theming engine. Our best work yet, built from scratch. NM4.0 opens many new possibilities which wouldn't have been possible in any previous versions, including ajax, jquery and other cool additions.
NutsMail 4.0 will has many new features, some you would expect from a webmail system such as a better preview pane and others that are simply intuitive and help things run smoother such as our hidden plugin icon; if you're screen shrinks, the skin creates a "more" icon to avoid clutter.
-Administrators Panel, change your global settings directly from the webmail interface.
These updates and features were created as a result of feedback from you. We are doing this for you so keep talking to us, we're always happy for the input.


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Take Flight Again in 2013…With Wings over America
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· Re-release of Paul McCartney & Wings' groundbreaking 1976 live album Wings over America containing bonus material out May 28th on Hear Music/Concord Music Group
· DVD release of the live concert film 'Rockshow' documenting the band's epic Wings over the World tour across America (June 11th)
· Theatrical release of 'Rockshow' and an exclusive VIP premiere screening – featuring an introduction by Paul – at BAFTA (May 15th)
This Spring will see another chapter unfold in the life of Wings, the band formed by Paul McCartney after the break-up of The Beatles – and one of the most successful bands the UK has ever produced.
Wings over America
First, the historic live album, which documented the band's triumphant 1976 tour across North America, will be reissued in a range of formats. Fans and hardcore devotees alike will be especially thrilled with the stunning four-book, four-disc (3CD, 1DVD) Deluxe Edition Box Set. The box set's superior audio and video include the two-disc Wings over America album remastered at Abbey Road, a bonus audio disc recorded live at San Francisco's Cow Palace, a bonus DVD containing the rarely seen 75-minute television special Wings over the World and the photo gallery montage entitled 'Photographer's Pass'. Moreover, the Deluxe Edition Box Set contains four exquisitely rendered art books packaged with an incredible array of exclusive memorabilia, souvenirs, mementos, keepsakes and never-before-seen photos and art work from this historic tour. The spectacular 110-page commemorative tour book beautifully recounts the behind-the-scenes drama through dozens of live performances and backstage photos along with new interviews and liner notes from eminent music journalist David Fricke.
c. 1976 MPL Communications Ltd/Photographer Robert Ellis
The Wings over America leatherette-bound 'Tour Itinerary' contains extravagant memorabilia including printed 8X10 glossy band photos, a backstage guest pass, facsimiles of the invitation to the infamous end-of-tour party at the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills along with Wings over America concert tickets, original album art work, tour posters, set lists, lyrics, press materials and much more. 'Look', the box set's warm and intimate book of Linda McCartney photography features Paul and the band in their everyday life as they made their way across the country in the spring of '76. Lastly, the set contains 'The Ocean View' an extraordinary hardbound compendium of drawings and sketches by artist Humphrey Ocean that captures the band on tour in relaxed and revealing ways. A striking artistic achievement in and of itself, the audacious Wings over America Deluxe Edition Box Set is a must have for any McCartney enthusiast.
c. 1976 MPL Communications Ltd/
Photographer Robert Ellis
Rockshow DVD Release
And for the first time a DVD will be released by Eagle Rock of the live concert film Rockshow which was shot in 1975 and 1976 when Paul McCartney & Wings undertook the epic Wings over the World tour--the largest-scale tour they would ever undertake as a band. Packed with all the classic Wings hits - plus some of Paul's solo and Beatles classics - the film is released on both DVD and Blu-ray formats. Although filmed on this tour at the enormous Kingdome in Seattle, Rockshow, originally an edited version of the concert, was not premiered until November 1980 in New York and April 1981 in London. It was originally released on Betamax (later on laserdisc) but it's only now that the complete full-length concert is being made available fully restored from the original 35mm film and with restored & remastered sound, including a 5.1 mix for the first time.
Rockshow Theatrical Release
And then third, but by no means least, Eagle Rock has partnered with distributors Specticast who are releasing the film theatrically worldwide for a 'one night only' event' on May 15th (see here for more details: http://rockshowonscreen.com/) – meaning the film will be shown in more than 500 theaters across the world! The theatrical release features an exclusive introduction with Paul McCartney, but there will also be an exclusive VIP premiere screening of Rockshow, with Paul in attendance and introducing the film, at BAFTA on 15 May 2013.
For Wings Across America Paul brought with him one the most sophisticated and dazzling rock shows of the mid-Seventies (a time when nobody worried about extravagance or expense) and the band would eventually perform to more than 600,000 people at 31 shows in the US and Canada, ending with three mind-bending nights at The Forum in Los Angeles. It's no exaggeration to say that the demand that greeted Paul McCartney & Wings (Linda McCartney, Joe English, Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch) in the spring of 1976 as they embarked on what would become their one and only North American tour was overwhelming. Having released four consecutive chart busting albums including Red Rose Speedway, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars and Wings at the Speed of Sound – not to mention 1973's Academy Award-winning James Bond theme "Live and Let Die" – Paul's solo career was in full flight… and having not performed in the States for 10 years either solo or with The Beatles, excitement had reached fever pitch.
Now Paul gives fans the chance to be able to immerse themselves in a concert that is destined to live forever.
For a Wings over America Sneak Peak via YouTube:
Wings are one of the most successful acts the UK has ever produced, achieving no less than 14 US Top 10 hits and 12 Top 10 hits at home – including "Mull of Kintyre" which with 2m+ sales remains the biggest-selling non-charity single of all time – over their ten year career.
The Wings over America reissue (Hear Music/Concord) follows the re-release of Band on the Run, McCartney, McCartney II and RAM for the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. To this point, the celebrated series, personally supervised by Paul, has been honored with the Best Historical Album GRAMMY Award for Band on the Run and most recently a Best Historical GRAMMY nomination for RAM.
Released in early December 1976, Wings over America was platinum by Christmas and #1 on Billboard album chart by the third week of January. The famous live version of "Maybe I'm Amazed", issued as a single in February 1977 (the studio version from McCartney, an FM-radio hit in 1970, was never available on 45) quickly went Top Ten on Billboard's singles chart and has since become one of Paul McCartney's most beloved songs.
The remastered album's release is dedicated to late members Linda McCartney and Jimmy McCulloch.
www.paulmccartney.com
@PaulMcCartney
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