"Many people will recall Christopher Reeve, thrown from a horse during a competition, and rendered a quadriplegic for the rest of his life," Ozcomert said.
The thing most people do not realize is that it does not take a lot of force to cause serious back or spinal cord injuries. The unfortunate thing is that someone may sustain a herniated disc by inadvertently twisting too fast. One can well imagine how much injury could be caused by an 18-wheeler slamming into a car or motorcycle.
Typically, back or spinal cord injuries incurred due to a trucking wreck are life altering. The person who survives will have a major uphill battle to live any kind of a normal life afterwards. "The seriousness of the injuries is factored into any award the jury may hand down when the trial is concluded," Ozcomert said.
The precipitating factor in many 18-wheeler back or spinal injuries has to do with the force of the collision, which is also most often from behind. The powerful impact slams the driver back and forth, like a whip, which generally results in back injuries. Add in the force of a truck smacking into a car and the results range from devastating to disastrous.
For those who have been in a wreck with an 18-wheeler and have sustained back or spinal cord injuries, seek the assistance of seasoned legal counsel to ensure you get appropriate compensation for your injuries and your pain, anguish and mental suffering. You may need care for the rest of your life. A qualified and experienced personal injury lawyer will get you that compensation," Ozcomert said.


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Tag Archives: Institute for Supply Management
Factory activity improves, but hiring dips
The Associated Press May 1, 2015 12:52 pm
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said that its manufacturing index was unchanged at 51.5.
Service firms grew at slightly slower pace last month
The Associated Press April 6, 2015 11:48 am
The Institute for Supply Management said that its services index slipped to 56.5 last month, from 56.9 in February.
U.S. trade gap narrows as imports, exports fall
The Associated Press April 3, 2015 7:05 am
The Commerce Department said the deficit — the amount by which the value of U.S. imports exceeds the value of exports — plummeted 16.9 percent to $35.4 billion from $42.7 billion in January.
Factory orders rose in February for first time since July
The Associated Press April 2, 2015 1:28 pm
The climb of 0.2 percent was a welcome development for manufacturers struggling with disappointing economic growth in major trading partners like China, Europe and Japan.
U.S. manufacturing slows as orders and hiring weaken
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said that its manufacturing index slipped to 51.5 in March from 52.9 in February.
U.S. services firms grow at faster pace in February
The Associated Press March 4, 2015 2:53 pm
The Institute for Supply Management said that its services index rose to 56.9 in February, up from January's reading of 56.7.
U.S. manufacturing slows as output and hiring weaken
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said its manufacturing index slipped to 52.9 in February from 53.5 in January.
Services firms grow at faster pace
The Associated Press February 4, 2015 12:07 pm
The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its services index rose to 56.7 in January, up a small amount from a revised reading of 56.5 in December.
U.S. factory growth slowed last month
The Associated Press February 2, 2015 4:45 pm
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said that its manufacturing index fell to 53.5 in January from 55.1 in December.
Services firms grew at slower pace in December
The Associated Press January 6, 2015 12:59 pm
The Institute for Supply Management said that its services index fell to 56.2 last month, down from 59.3 in November.

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It has 29 to 30 centimeters in total length and weighs approximately 110 grams. It has the shape of the typical kingfisher, with a short tail and long bill. It is olive green on top and head, with a crest.
The males have a white underside, reddish brown chest (wide band) and some greyish green stripes. The females have a white underside with green patches on the sides of the breast and green stripes.
It lives along rivers with slow and fast water flow zones and deep pools. It prefers brooks and rivers wide and clear. It is also common in lakes and mangrove edges.
It feeds on fish with a strong preference for those of the Characidae family. It also consumes some crustaceans such as Penaeus shrimp.


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A lot of these reviews are very general and not helpful so for anyone thinking of purchasing a Braun 7 series, my suggestion is to go for it. I spend half the time shaving with the Braun 7series and with a smoother shave than using a razor. I have sensitive skin and was desperate for a solution and Braun is the answer. The dry shave didn't work best for me so I decided to try the wet shave and my face feel soft and smooth as if I never had a beard. I am still in shock with the great results.
It's a great shaver; however warranty??
Overall a great shaver. Cleaning/recharge station is very efficient at keeping the shaver in top operating condition and sanitized. However, warranty service is an issue. My shaver developed an operating problem with the shaver head. I sent it to a Braun authorized service vendor with the appropriate documentation. After it arrived, I was informed the warranty would not be honored. So I was out the cost of having a defective product returned to me and I had to pay the shipping cost.
We're sorry to hear that you didn't get the warranty you expected. All of our Braun shavers come with a 2 year warranty. The warranty does not cover the foil & cutter cassette, the epilator head, or other accessories/attachments, and cosmetic damage such as scratches; defects that have a negligible effect on the value or operation of the appliance. Also things like normal wear and tear, damage caused by accidents (i.e. dropping the device), dirt, or damage cause by water, damage caused by improper use, damage due to repairs carried out by agents not authorized by Braun, and damage due to failure to take proper care of the product, including recharging. If you would like to talk with us further about your warranty and what it covers, please give us a call at (800) 272-8611.We'd be happy to talke with you more about this.


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El Club de los Martes es el noveno álbum de Los Tipitos. Grabado durante los meses de noviembre y diciembre de 2009 en los estudios Panda y en el estudio de Lito Vitale.

Lista de temas

 Laberinto
 No viene hasta mí
 Júrame
 Reírnos del amor
 Pueblo
 Una canción
 Hay un lugar
 La película que vimos
 La paz
 Día de amor
 Se te nota
 No se detiene
 Para cambiar

Cortes de difusión

 Laberinto (2010)
 Reirnos del amor (2010)
 Se te nota (2010)
 Júrame (2011)

Referencias

Álbumes de 2010

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With the benefit of hindsight, it appears that 1994-95 augured yet another British Invasion of the American musical landscape. Curiously, this time around, the Enemy is Us, as a handful of maddeningly talented bands from our own shores resurrect the spirit of old school Britpop and turn it into contemporary art. Forget the Oasis/Blur dialectic, the best Beatles-influenced music made today hails from the urban backwaters of North America -- unlikely locales like Dayton, Ohio, Vancouver, B.C., New Haven and Hartford, Conn., Athens, Ga., and Denver, Colo. The bands, among others, are belated "discovery" Guided By Voices, Zumpano, Holiday, Lilys, the Olivia Tremor Control and Denver's own Apples in Stereo.
The Apples are the brainchild of Robert Schneider, a four-track whiz kid with a line in homebrew pop that draws on the Beatles, Kinks, Byrds and most prominently, "Pet Sounds"/"Smile"-era Beach Boys. As a precocious young lad in Louisiana, Schneider made tapes of his pop nuggets for his similarly talented friends, who in turn shared their own compositions with him. Several years later, this friendly neighborhood songwriting competition would emerge as the Elephant 6 Recording Co., consisting of Robert's Apples, the Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel. All three bands released stunning debuts within a two-year period, garnering ebullient notices from the indie music press. While the Olivias' "Dusk at Cubist Castle" was the most ambitious effort, the Apples' "Fun Trick Noisemaker" was clearly the best, an audacious blast of sunshine pop filtered through a swirling, off-kilter sonic sensibility and the charming limitations of eight-track recording. With "Tone Soul Evolution," the Apples' sophomore slab, Schneider returns with higher fidelity and sharper focus, tightening and often improving on the somewhat diffuse brilliance of his debut.
Schneider paints in primary colors -- a foolproof A7-to-C hook here, a tiny choir of Beach Boys "ba-ba-bas" there -- but like Piet Mondrian (whose Monopoly-board grids are appropriated on the cover of "Tone Soul Evolution"), he combines these familiar shades in such a way they transcend their kindergarten qualities. He doesn't sing about anything in particular, but who cares? With melodies this memorable, lyrics are pure frosting. Deep, meaningful verses would only dampen the irrepressible joy of "Seems So," "Shine a Light," "You Said That Last Night" and "Try to Remember." I doubt anybody was griping about banal sentiments when they first heard "Please Please Me," "She's Not There" or "God Only Knows." Schneider's voice -- a reedy, imperfect instrument -- gets over on charm and enthusiasm alone. He sighs his gorgeous melodies over "Tone's" tracks without pretense or affectation. He sounds like what he is -- a gifted boy swooning to the pure pop bliss-out happening inside his head.
On "Tin Pan Alley," Schneider mourns the loss of the professional pop-song craftsman by identifying with him, claiming that "If they'd listen to me whistling/They would whistle along/Then I'd be making a living/Just like those old Tin Pan Alley musicians." Laced with enough instantly catchy hooks to cause any professional tunesmith to consider unemployment, "Tone Soul Evolution" makes good on Schneider's humble boast, and if there were any justice in the music industry, he would be making more than a living.


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Q: Updating OpenFlow group table bucket list in OpenDaylight I have a mininet (v2.2.2) network with openvswitch (v2.5.2), controlled by OpenDaylight Carbon. My application is an OpenDaylight karaf feature.
The application creates a flow (for multicasts) to a group table (type=all) and adds/removes buckets as needed.
To add/remove buckets, I first check if there is an existing group table:
InstanceIdentifier<Group> groupIid = InstanceIdentifier.builder(Nodes.class)
    .child(Node.class, new NodeKey(NodId))
    .augmentation(FlowCapableNode.class)
    .child(Group.class, grpKey)
    .build();
ReadOnlyTransaction roTx = dataBroker.newReadOnlyTransaction();
Future<Optional<Group>> futOptGrp = rwTx.read(LogicalDatastoreType.OPERATIONAL, groupIid);

If it doesn't find the group table, it is created (SalGroupService.addGroup()). If it does find the group table, it is updated (SalGroupService.updateGroup()).
The problem is that it takes some time after the RPC call add/updateGroup() to see the changes in the data model. Waiting for the Future<RPCResult<?>> doesn't guarantee that the data model has the same state as the device.
So, how do I read the group table and bucket list from the data model and make sure that I am indeed reading the same state as the current state of the device?
I know that

*

*Add/UpdateGroupInputBuilder has setTransactionUri()

*DataBroker gives transaction to read/write

*you should use transaction chaining

But I cannot figure out how to combine these.
Thank you
EDIT: Or do I have to use write transactions in stead of RPC calls?

A: I dropped using RPC calls for writing flows and switched to using writes to the config datastore. It will still take some time to see the changes appear in the actual device and in the operational datastore but that is ok as long as I use the config datastore for both reads and writes.
However, I have to keep in mind that it is not guaranteed that changes to the config datastore will always make it to the actual device. My flows are not that complicated in the sense that conflicts are unlikely to happen. Still, I will probably check consistency between operational and configuration datastore.

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Meatballs, meatballs, meatballs… I LOVE MEATBALLS!
Ok… I think you get the point. Meatballs are hands down one of my favorite things to eat and remix because it's incredibly versatile. You can make them spicy, tangy, herbaceous, or even sweet. Today, I made Cilantro Lime Meatballs, which is a Hispanic take on an Italian favorite. If you cook a ton of Hispanic foods then this isa no brainer and you probably have the recipes on hand. If you made my sofrito recipe and need to get rid some of that recao… then look no further!
These meatballs are herbaceous, tangy, and ultimately savory. You can eat them over pasta, in a hero or with some rice and avocado. As you guys know, I'm a rice and beans girl so I almost always opt to eat these protein poppers over rice. They're no different than any other meatball and they're extremely easy to make.
1. For your meatballs, combine your recao, soy sauce, adobo, garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, and lime juice together.
2. Mix it well and massage the meat with your hands if you don't mind getting them dirty.
3. Add breadcrumbs last and continue to massage all the seasonings together.
5. Once you've created all of your meatballs, cool them in the fridge for an hour or so.
6. Once chilled, brown them on all sides until golden brown and then remove.
7. Now for your sauce– Add your chopped onions, peppers, garlic, and bouillon cube.
8. Once softened, add tomato paste and water.
9. When it begins to simmer add your meatballs turning them occasionally.
10. After they're all coated in your yummy sauce cover them for about an hour to two hours until they're cooked all the way through. Feel free to add extra cilantro if you truly want an herbaceous sauce.
Enjoy over rice and avocado, bread, or pasta! From time to time, I make these spicy so if you want to add some chili flakes or cayenne pepper, feel free!


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December 3, 1942, Jews in the Drancy detention camp in France
Bread distribution by the Nazis at the Drancy detention camp near Paris, France. Some 70,000 Jews were incarcerated in this camp over the three years of its operation, from summer 1941 to summer 1944. Almost all of them were deported to the extermination camps in eastern Europe.
In August 1941, a detention camp was established in the city of Drancy, northeast of Paris. The inmates were housed in a long, cement, four-storey building which was used by the Paris area Gendarmerie before the war. At its height, the camp held 4,500 prisoners. They were guarded by French policemen.
The food supplies at the camp were very meager. A daily ration consisted of 600-800 calories. From August 1942, the prisoners took over the running of the camp from the French, and by November, conditions improved slightly thanks to assistance from Jewish organizations and the Red Cross, and the food parcels sent by family members. The photograph documents the distribution of bread to Drancy inmates in December 1942. On the back of the photograph is the German inscription: "Distributing bread to the Jews".
The Germans took over the running of the camp in July 1943, headed by new commander Alois Brunner, resulting in a deterioration of living conditions for the inmates. The food rations were reduced, and deportations to extermination camps in the east gathered momentum.
Despite the difficult living conditions, Jews in the camp maintained a cultural and religious existence. They arranged concerts and literary evenings, and the prisoners read books that had been smuggled into the camp. A school was established, and even after its official closure in January 1943, it continued to operate clandestinely. Hundreds of Jews participated in Sabbath prayers and religious ceremonies, and marked Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in the synagogue that had been set up in September 1941. In June 1942, the Germans issued an order forbidding Jewish ceremonies, but the High Holidays were still observed in the fall of 1943.
Drancy prisoners included French poet Max Jacob, who perished in the camp in 1944; Pierre Masse, member of Georges Clemenceau's government (Masse was deported to Auschwitz in September 1942 and murdered); Rene Blum, brother of 1930s French Prime Minister Leon Blum; author Tristan Bernard; Jankiel Handelsman and Jozef Dorebus, who were deported to Auschwitz and were two of the leaders of the Sonderkommando uprising there in October 1944.
41 escape attempts were made by prisoners. In September 1943, 70 prisoners started to dig an escape tunnel four meters underground. The digging work was discovered in November 1943 and many prisoners were executed, including the camp's resistance leader, Robert Blum.
From June 1942 to July 1944, approximately 65,000 Jews were deported to extermination camps in eastern Europe, on 64 transports. More than 20,000 deportees had French citizenship, some 15,000 were Polish Jews, and some 6,000 were from Germany. Most of the deportees were sent to Auschwitz. Three transports, approximately 3,300 Jews, were deported to Sobibor.
In early August 1944, Allied troops reached Paris. On the night of 15 August, the Germans destroyed all the camp documentation, and abandoned Drancy the next day, leaving about 1,500 prisoners. On 17 August, the camp was liberated by the Allied Forces. The last transport from Drancy had left less than three weeks earlier, on 31 July 1944. Amongst the deportees were 79 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from the Lucien Hirsch school in northern Paris.They had been arrested on 24 July 1944. A witness to the deportation, a child at the time, wrote in 1987:
I saw the children climbing aboard two German trucks. To me it looked like the children were going on an outing, despite the fact that their teacher was crying… A soldier helped the children to climb up.
On 21 July 1944, in the middle of the night, 18-year-old Yvette Levy was arrested with another 30 girls at the orthodox Jewish boarding school they attended in Paris. Policemen in uniform forced the pyjama-clad girls onto a truck that took them to Drancy. At the camp, Yvette took care of the younger children, sang to them and tried to boost their morale. They slept on straw in one room in deplorably unsanitary conditions, and were deported in cattle cars, 60 to a car.
18-year-old Denise Holstein, from a children's home west of Paris, was in a cattle car holding 48 children and 12 adults:
At night, when we tried to put the children down to sleep and it was pitch black, they started to cry and no one managed to sleep for even a minute. The children were hot and thirsty; there was no air at all. But we kept our spirits up. We had to because we were in charge of the children, and crying was not an option.
Over 95% of the deportees from Drancy were murdered in the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem Photo Archive 5494/29
The Holocaust in France


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LEE flied out to rf, SF, RBI (1-1 BK); MCNAMARA scored.
BOEHM flied out to cf (0-0).
MCDONALD advanced to second on a throwing error by 1b.
JURICH grounded out to ss (0-0).
LARIVEE, A. struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b (2-2 BKBFFS).
LIPARI, P. singled to second base (1-0 B).
SULLIVAN, M. walked (3-2 BKFBBFB).
GILLESPIE, B singled through the left side, RBI (1-0 B); SULLIVAN, M. advanced to second; LIPARI, P. scored.
WHITE, J. reached on a fielder's choice, SAC, bunt (0-0); GILLESPIE, B advanced to second on a throwing error by p; SULLIVAN, M. advanced to third.
HIX, K. singled up the middle, RBI (0-1 K); WHITE, J. advanced to second; GILLESPIE, B advanced to third; SULLIVAN, M. scored.
SHIRLEY, J. walked, RBI (3-1 BBKBB); HIX, K. advanced to second; WHITE, J. advanced to third; GILLESPIE, B scored, unearned.
ROSS, J. singled to center field, RBI (1-1 KB); SHIRLEY, J. advanced to second; HIX, K. advanced to third; WHITE, J. scored.
WILLOUGHBY flied out to rf, SF, RBI (0-1 K); SHIRLEY, J. advanced to third; HIX, K. scored, unearned.
LARIVEE, A. reached on a fielder's choice (0-1 K); ROSS, J. out at second ss to 2b.
PHILBIN struck out swinging (2-2 KBFBFS).
NATH singled up the middle (1-1 BK); DETMER advanced to third.
BOHANEK fouled out to 1b (3-2 BBBKF).
NATH stole second; DETMER stole home.
MCNAMARA singled to shortstop (2-2 KBBF); NATH advanced to third.
MCDONALD flied out to rf (1-1 BK).
LIPARI, P. grounded out to 2b (0-1 K).
SULLIVAN, M. grounded out to ss (0-1 F).
GILLESPIE, B grounded out to ss (0-1 K).
BOEHM grounded out to 2b (2-2 BKBF); LEE advanced to second.
JURICH singled up the middle (1-1 KB); LEE advanced to third.
DETMER lined out to lf, SF, RBI (0-1 F); LEE scored.
PHILBIN singled through the right side (0-0); JURICH advanced to third.
NATH walked (3-1 FBBBB); PHILBIN advanced to second.
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BOHANEK grounded out to 3b (2-1 BBK).
WHITE, J. out at first 1b to p (1-1 KB).
HIX, K. grounded out to ss (0-1 K).
SHIRLEY, J. out at first 1b to p (0-2 SF).
MCNAMARA struck out swinging (1-2 BKFS).
MCDONALD flied out to cf (0-1 F).
LEE flied out to cf (1-1 KB).
ROSS, J. grounded out to ss (1-1 KB).
WILLOUGHBY grounded out to 2b (0-1 K).
LARIVEE, A. grounded out to ss (3-1 BBBK).
BOEHM doubled to right center (0-0).
JURICH grounded out to 2b (0-1 K); BOEHM advanced to third.
DETMER singled to center field, RBI (2-1 BBK); BOEHM scored.
PHILBIN flied out to lf (1-1 BF).
NATH grounded out to 3b (2-2 BBSF).
LIPARI, P. tripled down the rf line (1-2 KKB).
SULLIVAN, M. doubled to right center, RBI (3-2 BBFFFB); LIPARI, P. scored.
GILLESPIE, B singled up the middle, RBI (0-2 FS); SULLIVAN, M. scored.
WHITE, J. reached on a fielding error by ss (1-0 B); GILLESPIE, B advanced to second.
HIX, K. reached on a fielder's choice, SAC, bunt (0-0); WHITE, J. out at second 3b to 2b; GILLESPIE, B advanced to third.
SHIRLEY, J. struck out swinging (1-2 BKFS).
ROSS, J. singled up the middle, RBI (2-1 BKB); HIX, K. advanced to third, out at home 2b to c; GILLESPIE, B scored.
BOHANEK flied out to cf (2-2 BKBF).
COEN to dh for MCNAMARA.
COEN grounded out to 3b (0-1 K).
MCDONALD flied out to cf (2-1 BBK).
WILLOUGHBY singled to right field (0-1 K).
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LEE grounded out to 3b (2-2 BKKBF).
JURICH tripled to left center, RBI (0-0); BOEHM scored.
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DETMER doubled to left center, RBI (0-0); JURICH scored.
PHILBIN flied out to rf (1-2 KFB).
KOLAKOWSKI pinch hit for NATH.
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BOHANEK grounded out to ss (1-2 BKK).
SCHOOLCRAFT to p for MICHELSON.
SULLIVAN, M. popped up to c (0-0).
GILLESPIE, B walked (3-2 BFBBFB).
WHITE, J. struck out looking (1-2 KSFFBK).
HIX, K. singled to pitcher (1-0 B); GILLESPIE, B advanced to second.
SHIRLEY, J. popped up to ss (1-2 KKFB).
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MCDONALD flied out to lf (1-2 KKFFB).
LEE struck out swinging (2-2 SSBBS).
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WILLOUGHBY struck out looking (1-2 FBFK).
LARIVEE, A. struck out looking (0-2 KSK).
LIPARI, P. singled to center field (0-1 K); ROSS, J. advanced to second.
SULLIVAN, M. lined out to 3b (0-2 KF).
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BOEHM struck out swinging (2-2 SKBBS).
JURICH struck out swinging (2-2 SKBBS).
DETMER singled to shortstop, advanced to second on a throwing error by ss (0-0).
KRAUSE pinch ran for DETMER.
PHILBIN singled through the right side, RBI (2-2 BKSB); KRAUSE scored, unearned.
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The Latest Trends in B2B Email Marketing
Chad S. White
At the same time that email marketing is becoming more complex, all of the issues surrounding it are becoming more interconnected. That is strikingly apparent when looking at the latest B2B email marketing trends identified by members of Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting's Expert Services team, which assist Eloqua customers with all aspects of their email programs.
Let's follow this Interconnected chain of current trends in B2B email marketing:
Compliance Automation
Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) was the first wave in the changing attitudes around privacy and permission. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was the second and much larger wave. And the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the latest wave, which is likely to prompt a national US privacy act akin to GDPR in order to avoid having a patchwork of state privacy laws.
What's clear is that privacy and permission standards are rising quickly and so are the penalties for non-compliance. That means that assuring that all of your subscriber acquisition sources are following the law and functioning properly is more important than ever.
"CASL, GDPR, and CCPA have created a new level of importance for normalized and accurate data," says Fabricio J. Lopez, Cloud Manager, Oracle Expert Services. "Any compliance automation program will only be as good as the data supporting it, so brands have to create internal Data Governance Committees and assume the new responsibility of preventing multi-million dollar lawsuits for their organizations.
"Beyond normalization programs," he adds, "data standards have to be monitored closely ensuring that all forms, list uploads, third-party apps, and CRM integrations are using the same set of values for key fields like Country, Region, State, and Province."
Automating compliance data processes will be an ongoing strategic initiative driving opt-in email automation, says Autumn Coleman, Senior Principal Consultant, Oracle Expert Services. "This process determines how to handle contacts that are net new to the database," she says, "while simultaneously excluding non-compliant contacts from future email campaigns."
Privacy and permission regulations also require...
More Active Management of Inactives
Having inactive subscribers on your email list that haven't engaged with your emails in a long time depresses your performance metrics, poses a risk to your deliverability, and can violate the law. However, only 52% of brands remove chronically inactive subscribers, according to Litmus's 2018 State of Email Analytics.
The low level of adoption of this necessary behavior represents not only a huge compliance risk, but a huge deliverability risk as well.
"It's well past time for every brand to embrace a 'less is more' mantra," says Chris Carlock, Principal Consultant, Oracle Expert Services. "Who cares if you have millions of contacts in your database. How many of these contacts have opened an email in the past 13 months? In the past 6 months?"
Brands should try to reengage subscribers who haven't opened or clicked one of their emails in the past several months using triggered reengagement campaigns. The higher your email frequency, the sooner you'll want to intervene. Reengagement campaign tactics vary, but the goal is always simply to get the subscriber to open or click an email again. If these attempts fail—along with a last-ditch try at re-permissioning them—then it's time to move them to a suppression list and stop mailing them.
"Focus on your quality leads and engaged contacts—the 20% or so of leads that will result in 80% of your revenue," he says. "This is even more important as data transparency and trust become more important with the advent of GDPR and CCPA."
Brands can also preemptively reduce the percentage of inactive subscribers on their list by boosting the quality of their subscribers from day one by implementing...
Stronger Opt-ins
Subscribers who provide active consent are simply more valuable and less risky subscribers. By explicitly filling out an email signup form, checking an unchecked box to receive emails, or confirming permission via a double opt-in confirmation request email, subscribers indicate a clear interest in receiving your emails. Passive opt-ins during webinar registrations and white paper downloads have become dangerously weak.
This shift from lots of opt-ins with low intent to fewer opt-ins with higher intent is a struggle for many organizations who think that a bigger list is a better list and want to regain control over what their subscribers receive, says Coleman.
"Creating subscriber-based email marketing tactics requires organizational change, but the trend is clear," she says. "The smart strategy is to allow consumers to choose when and why they hear from companies."
Going hand-in-hand with stronger opt-ins and giving subscribers more control over how many and when they receive emails is the...
Growing Adoption of Preference Centers
Marketing isn't advertising, where the company chooses what messages their audience will receive. Marketing is much more of a dialogue.
"It's no longer just about what the company wants to communicate," says Kim Roman, Senior Principal Consultant, Oracle Expert Services, "but more about how do we communicate the right message to the right person. What does the customer or prospect want to hear about? This is putting custom preference centers at the top of many of my clients' to-do lists."
A preference center might allow your subscribers to indicate…
The topics or industries they'd like to hear about
The kinds of content they're interested in receiving (e.g., blog posts, webinars, reports, podcasts, etc.)
How rapidly they want to be notified about new content (e.g., as soon as it's published or a rollup that arrives every week or every month)
The events they want to know about (e.g., local vs. national vs. international)
However, in order to create truly relevant communications, brands need to combine expressed preferences with the implied preferences that come from behavior. This leads to our next trend...
Hyper-Personalization
First-name personalization is so basic and so common that it does very little to foster closeness and build credibility.
"'Dear First Name"' isn't true email personalization in 2019," says Autumn Coleman.
Today, personalizing the customer experience means combining customer preferences with behavior inside the email channel and across other channels, she says. By bringing additional third-party data into Oracle Eloqua, customers are personalizing various elements within an email—such as subject lines, email links, banners, calls-to-action, logos, and email footers—creating a "bento box"–style email.
"For example," says Cristal Foster, Principal Consultant, Oracle Expert Services, "a software company could merge data from their CRM to notify their customers that their license will expire in 90, 60, and 30 days, and so on. They could also include their partner/reseller channel to add another layer of personalization, enabling them to not only say your license expiring, but here's where you can renew it."
However, personalization isn't limited to the content of an email. When the email is delivered can also be personalized using...
Send Time Optimization
Email usage habits vary wildly. Some people are monitoring their inboxes constantly, but most people have clear patterns around when they engage with their inboxes. Sent time optimization allows brands to act on these patterns and deliver their emails during the times when subscribers are most likely to be reading their messages.
The benefits of send time optimization can be impressive. For example, one Oracle Marketing Cloud travel industry customer saw unique open rates increase 37% and unique click rates go up 28%, compared to customers receiving the campaign at a default time. And a retailer using send time optimization has seen increases in opens and clicks upwards of 33%.
"This has been in the B2C space for a while," says Foster, "and now B2B marketers are looking optimize their send times as well."
But finding the perfect email timing goes beyond broadcast and segmented emails. The timing of your automated emails can be improved via...
Smart Trigger Timing
While some automated emails like receipts, welcome emails, and asset download emails should be fired off immediately after the triggering action, other automated emails benefit from delayed triggering. However, that ideal trigger delay can vary from person to person, which is where individualized trigger timing comes in.
"Nurture series are becoming more behavior-driven in their timing, not just their content," says Kim Roman. "For instance, you might be sending a lead nurture series of emails spaced X days apart. Now, the trend is having the level and frequency of prospect engagement drive the pace of the emails—faster or slower."
A smart automated series can also jump a prospect ahead from one buyer stage to another based on their actions, says Coleman.
"Buyers are more informed than ever before," she says. "Creating buyer stage email programs that move contacts through to the next communication based off their behavior and interest is a great way to warm a prospect into a sales-ready conversation faster."
Whether it's personalization, send time optimization, or smart trigger timing...
AI Helps Do It All Better
While there are manual, rules-based ways of creating much more relevant emails, AI allows brands to scale their efforts, individualize their efforts, and adjust their efforts over time that's simply impossible otherwise.
"AI and machine learning are transforming the marketing automation space," says Otilia Antipa, Principal Consultant, Oracle Expert Services. "It's pushing the boundaries around hyper-personalization and automation, and it is what clients need to be prepared to embrace as the Digital Era enters its next phase."
AI-powered personalization is a natural partner for preference centers and progressive profiling, she says.
"Yes, people want to control their experience," says Antipa, "but they also don't want to keep telling us how to do it."
However, for AI to function properly, it has to have access to lots of data. This has led to more B2B brands doing...
Data Warehouse Integrations
All 21st century businesses are built on data, but often that data is in different systems in different places in different formats. That makes it difficult to impossible to execute on a customer-centric omnichannel strategy, which is what customers expect.
"Brands will truly need to look at consolidating data across platforms to leverage effective cross-channel marketing strategies," says Antipa. "We see data warehouse integrations being key projects in leading brands in order to support data mining practices and machine learning. Data can transform and inspire brands, but we need the architecture in place to do so."
This is just one more instance of B2B brands...
Embracing B2C Strategies & Tools
B2B brands sometimes think that their challenges and opportunities are unique and totally different than B2C brands'. But the overlap between the B2C and B2B email marketing worlds is growing.
Driven by GDPR and increasing consumer expectations, permission standards are rising for both B2C and B2B brands. Consumers and business customers both expect relevant email content, which brands can create using automation and hyper-personalization. And because of the adoption of Gmail and Office 365 at businesses, deliverability is increasingly driven by the same factors for both B2C and B2B brands, including subscriber engagement levels.
As these trends demonstrate, many email marketing issues are interconnected and span both B2C and B2B industries. "Don't limit yourself to a traditional B2B toolkit," says Chris Carlock. "Where they make sense, adapt B2C strategies to your business. Take the best from both worlds."
Need help with your B2B email program? Oracle Marketing Cloud Consulting has more than 500 of the leading marketing minds ready to help you to achieve more with the leading marketing cloud, including an Expert Services team that specializes in B2B email marketing.
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Love Lives
Ashley Benson and G-Eazy's Whirlwind Relationship: From Musical Collaborators to Romantic Partners
By Johnni Macke
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Love in the fast lane! Ashley Benson and G-Eazy went from zero to 60 with their romance, starting as collaborators and turning to lovers.
The Pretty Little Liars alum was spotted spending time with the "Everything Will Be OK" singer weeks after Us Weekly confirmed in May 2020 that she'd split from Cara Delevingne.
Benson and Delevingne called it quits after nearly two years together and the same month, the Spring Breakers actress was linked to G-Eazy.
The Pixels star publicly acknowledged her split from the Carnival Row actress for the first time on May 13, by "liking" an Instagram post about rumors she was dating the "Let's Get Lost" musician.
"Can't Ashley have friends now? STOP SAYING ASHLEY CHEATED! OR EVEN CARA! They just need friends right now more than ever," the post "liked" by Benson read.
The Ratter actress and G-Eazy (real name Gerald Gillum) sparked relationship speculation after they were seen out in Los Angeles the same day, after previously teaming up in April to record a cover of Radiohead's "Creep."
The pair fueled dating rumors further when they were seen kissing in a video that was posted by the Daily Mail nearly one month after their collaboration. Amid relationship speculation, a source told Us that the duo were "hanging out and seeing each other, but it's not serious."
The Chronically Metropolitan actress brought G-Eazy as her date to her sister Shaylene Benson's intimate wedding the following month.
The "Still Be Friends" singer, who previously dated Halsey, revealed in June 2020 that he and Ashley were collaborating again on his new album, Everything's Strange Here.
The Days of Our Lives alum was spotted two months later wearing a diamond ring in August 2020, prompting fans to speculate that the lovebirds might've secretly gotten engaged. In the photos, the Ask Me If Care star had a sparkler on her left hand while grocery shopping with G-Eazy.
Months later, the "I Mean It" musician gushed over Benson's talents in an October 2020 interview.
"She's an exceptionally talented person in so many different spaces," G-Eazy told Entertainment Tonight at the time. "She's a special one. It just blew me away that you can have such a hidden, special talent that the world doesn't get to see as often."
After months of what appeared to be a blissful romance, Us confirmed in February 2021 that they had split, with a source noting that "things took a hard turn for the worse."
Later that same year, Benson and G-Eazy sparked reconciliation speculation when they were spotted out and about in L.A. together following the 2021 holiday season. Us confirmed in January 2022 that they are officially back together.
Keep scrolling for a timeline of the couple's whirlwind romance:
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Love in the fast lane! Ashley Benson and G-Eazy went from zero to 60 with their romance, starting as collaborators and turning to lovers. The Pretty Little Liars alum was spotted spending time with the "Everything Will Be OK" singer weeks after Us Weekly confirmed in May 2020 that she'd split from Cara Delevingne. Benson and Delevingne called it quits after nearly two years together and the same month, the Spring Breakers actress was linked to G-Eazy. The Pixels star publicly acknowledged her split from the Carnival Row actress for the first time on May 13, by "liking" an Instagram post about rumors she was dating the "Let's Get Lost" musician. "Can't Ashley have friends now? STOP SAYING ASHLEY CHEATED! OR EVEN CARA! They just need friends right now more than ever," the post "liked" by Benson read. The Ratter actress and G-Eazy (real name Gerald Gillum) sparked relationship speculation after they were seen out in Los Angeles the same day, after previously teaming up in April to record a cover of Radiohead's "Creep." The pair fueled dating rumors further when they were seen kissing in a video that was posted by the Daily Mail nearly one month after their collaboration. Amid relationship speculation, a source told Us that the duo were "hanging out and seeing each other, but it's not serious." [jwplayer hfj2eBnp-zhNYySv2] The Chronically Metropolitan actress brought G-Eazy as her date to her sister Shaylene Benson's intimate wedding the following month. The "Still Be Friends" singer, who previously dated Halsey, revealed in June 2020 that he and Ashley were collaborating again on his new album, Everything's Strange Here. The Days of Our Lives alum was spotted two months later wearing a diamond ring in August 2020, prompting fans to speculate that the lovebirds might've secretly gotten engaged. In the photos, the Ask Me If Care star had a sparkler on her left hand while grocery shopping with G-Eazy. Months later, the "I Mean It" musician gushed over Benson's talents in an October 2020 interview. "She's an exceptionally talented person in so many different spaces," G-Eazy told Entertainment Tonight at the time. "She's a special one. It just blew me away that you can have such a hidden, special talent that the world doesn't get to see as often." After months of what appeared to be a blissful romance, Us confirmed in February 2021 that they had split, with a source noting that "things took a hard turn for the worse." Later that same year, Benson and G-Eazy sparked reconciliation speculation when they were spotted out and about in L.A. together following the 2021 holiday season. Us confirmed in January 2022 that they are officially back together. Keep scrolling for a timeline of the couple's whirlwind romance: [podcast_block]
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Friends Ashley and G-Eazy collaborated on a cover of Radiohead's "Creep," which they released on April 21.
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The pair were spotted together in Los Angeles in early May after Us confirmed earlier in the month that Ashley and Delevingne had broken up after nearly two years together. The Pretty Little Liars alum and "Good Life" singer were then seen kissing in a video posted on May 14.
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A source exclusively told Us on May 15 that the duo were "hanging out and seeing each other" following Ashley's split from Delevingne. "It's not serious," the insider said at the time.
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The Anaheim Hills, California, native was photographed outside of the "Free Porn, Cheap Drugs" singer's Los Angeles home on May 21. A few days later the pair were spotted in G-Eazy's Ferrari while celebrating Memorial Day together in Malibu.
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The duo were seen at the grocery store in L.A. after stepping out for a hike in the area on June 13. The actress and the musician displayed some PDA while at the store.
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The couple attended Ashley's sister Shaylene Benson's wedding on June 18. The pair were seen in photographs of the intimate gathering, which took place in Laguna Beach, California, posted by the bride.
The Oakland, California, native announced in June 2020 that he and Ashley would be collaborating on his new project, Everything's Strange Here. The actress is featured on "All the Things You're Searching For" along with Kossisko.
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The Spring Breakers actress sparked engagement speculation after being spotted wearing a diamond ring on her left hand while grocery shopping with G-Eazy in L.A.
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"She's an exceptionally talented person in many different spaces," the "No Limit" singer told Entertainment Tonight in October 2020 about his love. "She's a special one. Obviously, she's a great actress, but, you know, getting to work with her and putting her in front of a microphone and watching her sing so effortlessly, she has this very special tone of voice and texture and something that's very innate to her, given that's not her first job or what she's known for. It just blew me away that you can have such a hidden, special talent that the world doesn't get to see as often."
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"I MISS HALLOWEEN ALREADY 😢😢😢 🦇🦇🦇," G-Eazy captioned a series of photos in November of the couple dressed as Batman and Catwoman for the October holiday.
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After six months together, a source exclusively told Us that "Ashley and G-Eazy have become super serious, but not in terms of an engagement, marriage or a baby yet." The insider added: "They're definitely having fun and doing well. They're super comfortable with each other and have bonded a ton during the quarantine."
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The "I Mean It" rapper confirmed to reporters at the 2020 American Music Awards that he would be spending his first Thanksgiving with Benson. "We'll cook a turkey together," he explained.
G-Eazy dropped the L-bomb in a sweet birthday post to his girlfriend in December 2020. "Happy birthday beautiful 🖤 @ashleybenson I love you to the moon & back," he captioned six candid photos on Instagram.
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A source told Us that G-Eazy and Benson were "in a great place." The insider added, "Friends of hers thought he might just be a rebellious rebound, but there is real chemistry between them, and it looks like they are in it for the long haul."
On February 8, 2021, a source confirmed to Us that the duo had called it quits on their relationship.
Following their split, G-Eazy was spotted cozying up to Josie Canseco. At the time, Canseco's rep told Us that there was nothing romantic going on between them.
"Josie was out celebrating her Maxim Mèxico covers, she's newly single and they were just hanging out," the rep told Us. "They've known each other for a few years and they are just friends."
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Benson spoke about her relationship with G-Eazy in an interview with Cosmopolitan U.K., which was published after their split.
"We've been doing a lot of things together in quarantine. Who knows if it will ever be released or not, but we've done 30 songs! That's been really nice, because when you don't have anywhere to go, it's really nice to get something out of it," the actress shared, noting "he's taught me a lot about music."
The former flames sparked reconciliation rumors after Page Six obtained photos of Benson and G-Eazy together in L.A. following the holidays.
Us confirmed that Benson and G-Eazy were back together. A source noted that the couple "never lost touch" after their split.
"They're together. … They just like to keep their relationship private," the insider added. "They know no matter what, they have each other to lean on during tough times."
"They clearly weren't hiding the fact that they're together again," an eyewitness told Us of the pair, who packed on PDA at Darren Dzienciol and Richie Akiva's Oscars party in Los Angeles. "They looked very in love and like they've been dating for a while. They socialized with friends they knew but they did not leave each other's side."


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Visit with college football champ Tim Tebow uplifts Riley patient
After scans showed that his cancer has spread, Chase Smith and his wife, Sadie, found comfort for a few hours during a trip to Florida. They played games, laughed and prayed with Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow.
For a few blissful hours last week, Chase Smith was feeling pretty good. The 19-year-old was in Florida with his bride, Sadie, and the rest of his family, enjoying a respite from doctors, tests and hospitals.
Last Monday, their first day in Palm Coast, they spent a good chunk of the day with Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and members of his foundation. They played games, they prayed, and they laughed – a lot, said Kelli Smith, Chase's mom.
"It was a perfect day," she said.
The only good day, really.
Chase spent most of the next few days in bed, suffering back spasms and general weakness due to the cancer that continues to ravage his young body. Last month, he received the heartbreaking news that the tumors had spread.
Chase and Sadie's story has been widely shared, ever since the young couple decided to get married after learning that Chase likely had only months to live. In April of this year, they married at the Mooresville home of Sadie's parents, Jeff and Jessica Mills.
Their motivation in going public with their story is all about faith.
"I genuinely feel that God put me on this Earth and gave me this platform to be able to share the love that he can spread, to share what's possible with his love," Chase explained in May.
They are on a mission to reach as many people as possible, so they say yes to as many interview requests as possible.
FRIENDSHIP WITH TEBOW
Chase, a champion swimmer who had his sights set on the Olympics when he was younger, has been a patient at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health since he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma when he was 13.
It was a year after that diagnosis that he first met Tebow, who played college football for the University of Florida, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2007. His NFL career included stints with the Denver Broncos and the New York Jets.
Chase's Make-A-Wish request was to meet Tebow, but it turns out the athlete's foundation has its own wish program, dubbed W15H. (The 15 is a nod to Tebow's college jersey number.)
In December of 2015, Chase and his family were treated to a trip to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game, where they got to meet and have dinner with Tebow and several friends from the foundation and spend the day on the set for the TV broadcast of the game. But that wouldn't be the end of their friendship.
Turns out, once you take a wish trip with the Tim Tebow Foundation, you're part of Tebow's family for life, Kelli Smith said. Since then, they've reconnected with Tebow at his annual Celebrity Gala and Golf Classic fundraiser.
Last week's visit was special because it was more personal, Kelli said, noting that Tebow encouraged Chase through laughter and prayer. He also watched the video of Chase and Sadie's wedding, as well as a video interview conducted by the pastor of the family's church, Emmanuel Church of Greenwood.
"The relationship with Tim is such a good booster for Chase," Kelli said. "To be able to pray with him and spend guy time with him is so uplifting."
Chase and Sadie spent several hours with Tebow and friends from the foundation that day. Right before the visitors left, Kelli could see Chase was wearing down. She gave him his next dose of medication, and the family left for dinner, but her son went straight to bed afterward, exhausted.
"He was feeling pretty crummy, but he had a great time with Tim, so it was well worth traveling down for that," she said.
The worry and fatigue in Kelli's voice comes through over the phone.
"Today has been a struggle," she acknowledged this week, returning from yet another meeting about yet another drug treatment for her son.
"I'm just trying to figure out the best treatment for Chase," she said, as she described weighing chemo options at this stage in his illness.
The day before we spoke, she and Chase met with Riley oncologist Dr. Melissa Bear to discuss their options. They were waiting to hear from another physician about another treatment and hoped that by Friday of this week they would be able to determine the best move forward.
Whatever option they decide on, Chase's treatment will continue at Riley, Kelli said, so her son can be close to home and sleep in his own bed.
She and her husband, Brad, have carried the weight of the decisions they've made over the course of their son's cancer treatment. Even though Chase is now an adult, Kelli still feels enormous pressure to make the right decisions.
She will present the options and offer her recommendations, but in the end, she knows that Chase will tell her he trusts her to do whatever she thinks is best.
So she reads as much as she can about the drug studies. And she prays.
"I had to run to the vet this morning to get medicine for one of the dogs, and I came home and sat down at the table next to my husband and just started bawling," Kelli confessed. "I don't want to make the wrong decision."
Brad Smith tried to comfort his wife, telling her it's not all on her shoulders, but she still feels that responsibility. Her faith helps lighten the burden.
"I trust that God will guide me in the right way, but I would love to just know what he has planned."
In the meantime, she said, "I'll keep trusting and keep plugging away."


"Seven Magic Mountains" is a massive installation by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. Located in the desert of Nevada (just South of Las Vegas), the stacks of brightly coloured boulders stand over 30 feet high and took five years to complete due in large part to the administrative hurdles required for such a large-scale project.
Thanks to the support of the Nevada Museum of Art and the Art Production Fund, the piece is now open to the public. However, you only have about two years to check this thing out before it's taken down in 2018. See more images below!


Twelve years after Microsoft announced it would stop development of DOS, an open source replacement - FreeDOS - has hit its 1.0 release.
The FreeDOS project was launched in a 1994 manifesto by free software developer Jim Hall, following Microsoft's announcement that it would stop developing DOS with the launch of Windows 95.
The resulting operating system is fully open source, with most components covered by the GNU General Public License, and provides MS-DOS compatibility to the extent of being able to run some versions of Windows.
The project was planned to hit 1.0, the mark of maturity in the open source world, at the end of July. Developers said the operating system supports several features that never made it into the officially supported Microsoft versions, such as internationalisation, power management and ASPI.
Other features in the 1.0 version include long filename support in some applications, the FAT32 file system, HIMEM, EMM386 and CD-ROM. USB isn't directly supported.
Add-on applications include an audio player, a window editor, an HTML viewer and an archive program. FreeDOS can be used to run most DOS programs, including games and older business software, can support embedded DOS systems such as cash registers, the project said.
"FreeDOS 1.0 is a major milestone that has finally been released. By now, we have a stable and viable MS-DOS replacement," wrote developer Blair Campbell on the project's website.
The operating system supports hardware from the 1981 IBM PC through to current Intel-compatible processors and embedded chips. It can be run on dedicated hardware or in an emulator on top of most other operating systems, developers said.
The project has released a CD-ROM image for FreeDOS here, and is planning a more extensive CD-ROM release and a full set of floppy disk-based images.
Programmers may have been able to recreate MS-DOS from scratch, but it would be a more difficult proposition to take the same approach with an open source Windows. More recent versions of Windows, such as NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP no longer use DOS as a core component and are byzantine in their complexity.
However, the WINE project, and offshoots such as CodeWeavers' CrossOver products, have achieved significant success in running Windows applications directly on other operating systems, such as Linux, without the need for full Windows emulation.


The breakout series filled with supernatural secrets and 1980s nostalgia will return for a third season.
The streaming giant has renewed the Duffer brothers' breakout hit Stranger Things for a third season. A return date has not yet been determined for the supernatural drama about the happenings brimming beneath the surface of a small American town.
While Netflix — like fellow streamers Amazon and Hulu — does not release viewership information, measurement leader Nielsen cited an audience of 15.8 million viewers who watched the season two premiere of Stranger Things within three days of its launch. (And nearly 11 million of them were among the key adults 18-49 demographic.) Nielsen also found that 361,000 Netflix subscribers streamed the entire nine-episode second season within 24 hours of its debut. (Netflix declined comment on the Nielsen findings.) Stranger Things 2 also was crowned the most popular show in the country, according to data company Parrot Analytics.
Still, even without ratings from Netflix, Stranger Things ranks as the service's biggest franchise. The show, which collected 18 Emmy nominations (and took home five awards), is pulling Netflix into a new business with a series of licensing deals for clothing, posters, toys and collectibles. Given the breakout success of the program (which is owned in-house) and lucrative licensing deals, Stranger Things' child stars are said to be banding together to renegotiate their contracts for upcoming seasons.
In September, sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin each got $30,000 per episode for the first and second seasons with a bonus — less than six figures — once it became clear that the show was a phenomenon. While the cast is signed for six years, talent reps say a renegotiation will happen in early 2018. One question yet to be addressed is whether the show's breakout, 13-year-old Brown, will negotiate separately from the other young stars.
Netflix had hoped to film seasons three and four back-to-back in a move to work around any potentially awkward adolescent transitions for its young cast. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer and executive producers Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen quickly nixed that idea.
After launching with immediate impact in July 2016, Stranger Things released its nine-episode second season in October, days before Halloween. The events of the season lined up with the holiday theme, too, as the second episode, "Trick or Treat, Freak," focused on the four young kids at the heart of the series celebrating Halloween in full Ghostbusters regalia.
In the context of the show, Stranger Things 2 took place slightly less than a year after the events of the first season. Will that same formula follow suit for season three? The final image of the most recent episode — the Mind Flayer lording over Hawkins Middle School from the shadow dimension known as the Upside Down — could lead viewers to believe the next season will pick up immediately after the Snow Ball dance. But in a conversation with THR, the Duffers confirmed some form of time jump will occur between seasons.
"Even if we wanted to hop into the action faster, we couldn't," Matt Duffer previously told THR. "Our kids are aging. We can only write and produce the show so fast. They're going to be almost a year older by the time we start shooting season three. It provides certain challenges. You can't start right after season two ended. It forces you to do a time jump. But what I like is that it makes you evolve the show. It forces the show to evolve and change, because the kids are changing. Even if we wanted it to be static and we wanted to continually recycle the same storyline — and we don't — we would be unable to, just because the kids are changing. It's cool, though. The audience is going to be able to watch these kids come of age every year. The closest example is Harry Potter. Watching those kids and actors grow up in front of the camera was, to me, very powerful. I mean, I wasn't a kid when I experienced that, and I can only imagine if you were a kid and you were their age, it would have been even more powerful. That's what I'm excited about. It's a long way of saying that yeah, we're going to do a time jump."
Set in a small town called Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s, Stranger Things focuses on a crew of kids who call themselves "The Party," including leader Mike Wheeler (Wolfhard), the frequently endangered Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), straight-shooting Lucas Sinclair (McLaughlin) and eternally upbeat Dustin Henderson (Matarazzo). In the first season, Will goes missing, abducted into the shadowy Upside Down. He's saved thanks to the arrival of Eleven (Brown), a young girl with telekinetic powers. Season two sees Eleven enhancing her abilities while the threats of the Upside Down resurface and expand. Unlike the first season, season two ends in such a way that there's very little clear direction about the future of the series — exactly the way the Stranger Things creators envisioned it.
"Last year, we had a lot of little cliffhangers at the end of the season. We didn't want to do that again," Matt Duffer told THR. "We didn't want to box ourselves in for season three. We wanted to be able to start season three on a very clean slate."
Follow THR.com/StrangerThings for full coverage of season two and beyond.


I know it's been a while since I posted about my life changing decisions, and I promised updates. According to that post, this week is supposed to be my last week of work. Well after lots of discussion with family and friends, I've decided to wait until January to leave my job. Many people were extremely concerned about my traveling in the winter, by myself, with no money. I decided I could stick it out a few more weeks for a little more certainty. I think I was also partly just afraid to talk to my boss. I'm not good at big conversations and I've never quit a job before, so I am quite nervous about telling him I want to go. But it must be done!
I will still be doing the trips I mentioned: Sykes, Portland, home. But I will not have quite as much freedom as I hoped. The rest of the plan I mentioned stands, and I haven't had much time to flesh it out since I've been working 6 days a week since writing it. I am currently leaning towards a tour of the US and Canada though, maybe I'll stop by the headquarters of the Food is Free Project (which is loosing their space, help them out at their IndieGoGo campaign!).


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Indonesia-Israel relations: A curious dilemma
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Abdurrahman Wahid (right), popularly known as Gus Dur: a surprising progenitor of Indonesia-Israel relations.
By Michel Struharova
Although Indonesia has long asserted its support for the recognition of Palestinian statehood, its business ties with Israel have been developing for a long time, out of the public eye.
The nation with the world's largest Muslim population keeps an intensive business interaction with Israel, although the two countries maintain no diplomatic relations.
The volume of trade between Indonesia and Israel has reached somewhere between US$400 million to US$500 million. Almost 80% of the total volume consists of Indonesian export, mostly commodities. On the other hand, Israel exports high-tech products.
The development of Indonesian-Israeli relations is no recent thing. When Suharto came to power, the pro-Arab, anti-colonialist zeal of the Sukarno era switched to a more moderate rhetoric. Subsequently, growing relations between the two countries culminated in a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and President Suharto in Jakarta, in 1993.
The most significant development in relations between the two countries took place largely to the credit of Abdurrahman Wahid, the man popularly known as Gus Dur, and who later became the president of Indonesia. In 1994, Wahid's acceptance of the invitation to Jerusalem to witness the peace agreement between Israel and Jordan, in his position as the leader of the major Islamic movement in Indonesia, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), was highly symbolic in the development of mutual relations.
His rapprochement towards Israel was a bold move, and it paid off. Not even critics of Islamist organisations prevented him from visiting Israel again in 1997.
That paved the way for Israeli-Indonesia cooperation, short of outright diplomatic mutual recognition. In 2008, a collaboration agreement on medical services between Israeli and Indonesian national authorities on emergency services was signed. The main aim was to share knowledge in medical services and planning work protocols for Indonesia's health care system.
A year later, the Israel-Indonesia Chamber of Commerce was established, as a subsidiary of the Israel-Asia Chamber of Commerce, with the aim to facilitate the flow of the goods by providing consultancy services.
The bugbear over Ramallah
In 2012, the opening of an Indonesian consulate in Ramallah, the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority was agreed up, and to be headed by an ambassador-ranked Indonesian diplomat. It was a step towards upgrading relations between Indonesia and Israel.
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I almost never watch the televised debates. There are roughly 1,000 things better to watch on TV at precisely that same time, which is odd seeing as how I only get about 40 channels. I spent about half the debate watching the Blue Jays game before they took a commanding 8-2 lead and I had to shut the TV off in disgust. I tried switching to the debate, but I saw Mulcair trying very very very hard not to be the Angry Beard we all know him to be, talking about the New Brunswick personal tax rates and discussing how it must hurt job creators trying to lure in top talent.
Oops, Angry Beard managed to mangle even that point, when he started talking about doctors who need to be lured by the public healthcare system that needs those same confiscated taxes to pay the doctors in the first place. Angry Beard's "oh the poor overtaxed" routine was designed solely to try to negate the Prime Minister's blisteringly successful attack about how Mulcair doesn't actually know anything about taxation rates but always demands they increase. So his cleverly force-fed taxation fact ended up going against the worldview that he plans to impose on Canadians, and he was too busy trying not to be emotional at all (knowing, surely, that he would explode into a rage if any came out) to notice.
It was brutal to watch even 30 seconds of it, and I thought better of it and decided to make lunch for work today and work on a couple home improvement projects instead. Mulcair's weird "rage-free" performance caught the attention of the NDP-friendly Huffington Post, and was given a blistering treatment in the National Post. His creepy smiling lit up social media.
Of course, the nature of the debate minimized the chance for anybody interested in stopping the far-left agenda from being able to speak up, with no less than three far-left party leaders involved in the debate, framing the questions in nonsense about "minimum wage giving workers a raise" rather than "stealing earnings from the people who are most invested in advancing the economy". Talking about Harper's "recessions" without noticing that he simply was in power long enough to see Alberta elect an economy-obliterating NDP. Hammering the Prime Minister on deficit spending while ignoring that their parties forced Harper into a deficit spending position he didn't want.
It's painful to watch and it's openly deceitful. No wonder I shut the TV off. The question is why anybody watched.


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Official language Irish, English
Capital Dublin
Area 70.284 km²
Residents 4,040,000
Time zone UTC
License plate IRL
Internet TLD .ie
Telephone area code 00353 (Source: ALLCITYCODES)
The Republic of Ireland is located on the island of the same name in the Atlantic Ocean west of Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. With a national area of 70,284 km², the Republic takes up about five sixths of the total island area. In the north, the state borders on Northern Ireland, which is part of Great Britain. The Irish name Eire for Ireland comes from the Celtic (Erin) and means something like grassland.
The majority of Ireland consists of the Irish lowlands, which extend from the west to the east in the central area of the island and are characterized by numerous lakes and extensive marshes. The largest lake with an area of 181 km² is the Lough Corrib in the west of the country. The 361 km long Shannon is the longest river in Ireland and flows through the lowlands from north to south and flows into the Atlantic.
Three mountain formations border the lowlands: in the north, the foothills of the Caledonian Mountains form the Northern Irish Highlands, of which only the northwest belongs to the Republic. South of the capital Dublin are the Wicklow Mountains, which are just over 900 m high and extend south along the east coast. The mountain range in the southern part of the island belongs geologically to the Armorican mountain system, with the Carrantuohill at 1,041 m as the highest elevation in the country.
The coastline is over 3,200 km long and particularly structured in the west and is rich in bays (e.g. Donegalbai, Galwaybai).
The balanced oceanic climate of Ireland is shaped by the west winds from the Atlantic Ocean and by the influences of the Gulf Stream. The hallmarks are cool summers and mild winters: average temperatures in Dublin on the country's east coast are around 5 °C in January and around 15 °C in July. Precipitation decreases from west to east. While an average of up to 3,000 mm per year is measured in the west, it is only around 760 mm on the east coast. Heavy storms often occur in the west and northwest of the island.
Ireland is also called the "Green Island": more than half of the country consists of meadows and pastures. While the original vegetation was characterized by deciduous forests, today only 5% are covered by forests (oak, birch, alder, willow). A diverse floral world grows in the extensive Irish moorland, for example wild thyme, bell heather, swamp heart leaf and various carnivorous plants such as sundew.
In contrast to mammals, bird life is extremely diverse, especially among seabirds. Examples include the curlew, oystercatchers, puffins, gannets and cormorants. The golden eagle is considered extinct. There is only one lizard species on the island of reptiles.
The population of the Republic of Ireland is said to be 4.04 million. About a quarter of them (one million) live in the greater Dublin area on the east coast of the island. With a population density of around 57 residents per square kilometer, the Republic is one of the most sparsely populated European countries.
According to COUNTRYAAH, 95% of the residents are Irish, and small minorities of English, Welsh and Northern Irish also live in the country. However, since the EU enlargement and as a result of migration from non-European countries, the proportion of foreigners has increased rapidly. Especially people from Poland, the Baltic States, China, the Philippines and Nigeria are flocking to the country. Over 86% of the population belong to the Roman Catholic Church, which still plays an important role for the people of the country. In addition to English, Irish (Gaelic), which is one of the Celtic languages, is the second official language of the Republic.
It was not until the 1970s that the population of the republic rose above the three million mark. After the Second World War, a large wave of emigration depopulated the country, the preferred destination was neighboring Great Britain. As early as the 19th century, famines and a subsequent large wave of emigration had led to the decimation of the island's population. Today population growth is 2.6%, which is also due to the relatively high immigration rate. A baby born in Ireland today has a life expectancy of 77.5 years. The literacy of the population is almost complete.
Ireland is a parliamentary republic based on the constitution of 1937. The head of state is the President, who has been directly elected by the people for seven years (since 2011 Michael D. Higgins). He appoints the Prime Minister on the proposal of the House of Commons (Enda Kenny since 2011). The cabinet is also appointed by the president after the prime minister proposes the ministers and the parliament has given its consent.
The legislature lies with a bicameral parliament (Oireachtas), consisting of the lower house (D¨¢il Éireann, 166 MPs, directly elected for five years) and the Senate (Seanad Éireann, 60 MPs, eleven of whom were appointed by the Prime Minister) rest of the universities and five electoral colleges are elected for five years). The main political parties in the Republic of Ireland are the liberal-conservative Fine Gael (Irish family, FG), the Labor Party, the Green Party (GP), the national-conservative, Republican Fianna F¨¢il (Soldiers of Destiny, FF) and the Republican Sinn F¨¦in.
The supreme judicial body is the Supreme Court in Dublin.
Ireland is divided into four provinces with 26 counties and four county boroughs.
Since joining the EU in 1973, Ireland has transformed from an essentially agricultural society into the "Celtic Tiger", a modern, technically sophisticated economy, which has been supported by tax incentives for foreign investors and EU funding. The global financial and confidence crisis of 2007/2008 did not stop at Ireland either. The badly hit Irish banking system became a risk factor for euro area stability in 2010. In November 2010, Ireland received a support package from the EU and the International Monetary Fund, which included a government finance consolidation program. Thanks to a continued austerity policy, the country successfully returned to the capital market in early 2013. For 2012, Ireland saw slight GDP growth of 0.9%. However, unemployment remained at a record level of just under 15%.
The contribution of the agricultural sector to gross domestic product (GDP) has now dropped to 1%. Livestock farming is of great importance, almost 85% of the agricultural area is used as pasture. Due to the mild climate, the animals can be kept outdoors all year round. Large surpluses are generated in dairy farming and sheep farming. Mainly potatoes, sugar beets and barley are grown (as feed and as a base for brewing).
The lion's share is generated by the service sector (67% of GDP in 2012).
32% of GDP is generated by industry, especially in the areas of steel, zinc, silver, gypsum and barite processing and aluminum smelting, food processing, chemical industry, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding and vehicle construction as well as software development. The main export is to the USA and within the EU. The country's energy needs are covered by oil, natural gas and coal, but its own resources are not sufficient.
Tourism is very important.
Ireland has a well-developed infrastructure with around 3,300 km of rails, 96,000 km of roads and numerous ports. International airports are in Dublin, Carrickfinn, Farranfore, Shannon, Galway, Cork and Knock.
The currency is the euro.
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My Favorite Headache
Anthem Records, 2000
http://www.rush.com/band/geddy-lee
REVIEW BY: Bruce Rusk
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 06/17/2004
[Editor's note: Portions of this review appeared previously on houseofshred.com.]
"What do you want from me?" Geddy Lee asks on the title track of his solo debut My Favorite Headache. That's an easy question to answer, Ged. For many years Rush fans everywhere have been spreading rumors and speculating about a Lee solo album. I can remember as far back as 1980 hearing that question asked by fans on call-in radio shows, and it's a common topic on Rush-related discussion boards. After more than 25 years with Rush, we got our wish and the result is well worth the wait.
Supporting Lee and co-producing is a lesser-known Canadian legend, guitarist/violinist Ben Mink, who has spent the last few years producing (and getting Grammy's for) country crooner KD Lang. In a previous life, Mink fronted the prog-rock band FM and guested on Rush's Signals album. Mink delivers understated yet complex guitar and strings, and shares writing credits with Lee on all eleven songs. The violin and viola provided by Mink add fantastic layers of texture to many of these songs. On drums is Soundgarden and Pearl Jam veteran Matt Cameron. Lee, of course, plays bass as well as piano, guitar and percussion.
From the outset Geddy makes sure you know exactly who you're listening to. Opening the disc is the title track with a thumping bass done in Geddy's inimitable style. Lee, however, does not use this record as a stage for bass acrobatics, though he does do some very cool stuff with multiple bass lines (as many as four on some songs). It's kind of like Lee knows he's the Godfather of the Bass and doesn't need to prove anything on that front. The real showpiece here is Geddy's incredible voice - arguably one of the most distinctive and well-known voices in rock music today. After almost 3 decades his awesome pipes sound as strong and fresh as they did when Lee screamed "Oh Yeahhhh!" on the opening track of Rush's first album in 1974.
Without a doubt, immediate comparisons will be made to Rush's music. Will Lee's album be just a Rush clone? It's definitely not. Granted, there are a couple of songs that would fit easily in with the last two Rush albums. All in all, this is a unique collection of songs and styles, propelled by catchy rhythms and tasty hooks that will be stuck in your head from the first listen.
Lee's songwriting skills are excellent, despite him not really having been a lyricist for nearly 20 years (Rush drummer Neil Peart is the band's lyricist while Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson write most of the music). Displaying a dry wit and a keen observation of the world and its strange inhabitants, Lee writes about what he sees around him. He is part wide-eyed kid and part jaded curmudgeon. Mostly as an observer, Lee seems to be more spectator than participant. He tells of the pitfalls of complacency on the song "Runaway Train" asking "Who's the fool, where apathy rules?" and of the futility of hindsight on the disc's closer "Grace To Grace." He warns us of the dangers of obsessive behavior on "Working At Perfekt": "But when it's right it's right as rain, and when it's right there is no pain and when it's right you start again..."
One track that stuck in my head from the outset is the hard rocking "Moving to Bohemia," a tale of escaping the boredom of suburbia for the less pastoral pleasures of urban life: "Where the airs' not clean, where the water's glowing green, where the dogs are mean." With its groove-infected guitar/violin melody and sing-along chorus, this song will stick with you.
Another great track is "Home on the Strange," a narrative about a guy that could very well be a Gen-X Tom Sawyer. Tom, like Lee himself, is 20 years down the road from his appearance on Rush's Moving Pictures, eyes not so wide as they once were, and a little more wary of the world and the constant changes around him.
Honestly the only negative thing I can think of to make is the lack of spectacular solos from either Lee or Mink, either of whom is more than capable some high-octane shredding. Fortunately for us, the superb playing and lush arrangements more than make up for the lack of instrumental acrobatics. Every song is generously layered with creative musicianship; without ever falling into the trap of being musical filler. Mink's violin meanders in and out of the mix, subtle keyboards and multiple bass and lead lines weave in and out of each song and make for a full, rich tapestry of sound.
The songs range in style from straight ahead rockers to serene ballads. The instrumentation and arrangements are superb, showing the great artistic sensibility that has become a trademark of Rush albums over the years. Combined with Lee's intelligent lyrics, this record will please Rush fans and fans of great music alike.
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