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21 Greatest Songs About Toys
Although it is uncommon for famous composers to produce songs about toys, they can be a fun experience to listen to.
These songs remind us of our childhood and upbringing, and the nostalgia that most of us get from listening to them again is worth sharing with the next generation so that our children can experience it too.
The compilation I created consists of songs that primarily talk about toys and are mainly not limited to playthings. It is pretty evident that some composers use the word as a metaphor to insinuate a different meaning in their songs.
So take a break from your stressful day, and let me take you back to the good old day of your childhood when simple things like toys made you happy. These songs can be a gateway to unlocking old childhood memories and dreams you had.
1 Barbie Girl Aqua Learn More
2 The Man With All The Toys The Beach Boys Learn More
3 The Teddy Bear Song Barbara Fairchild Learn More
4 Old Toy Trains Roger Miller Learn More
5 Come and Buy My Toys David Bowie Learn More
6 Teddy Bear (Let Me Be Your) Elvis Presley Learn More
7 Lego House Ed Sheeran Learn More
8 Give The Jew Girl Toys Sarah Silverman Learn More
9 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) Lady Gaga Learn More
10 Brand New Key Melanie Learn More
11 Toys In The Attic Aerosmith Learn More
12 Misfit Toys Pusha T & Mako Learn More
13 21st Century Digital Boy Bad Religion Learn More
14 Let's Go Fly A Kite David Tomlinson & Dick Van Dyke Learn More
15 Toy Soldiers Martika Learn More
16 Like Toy Soldiers Eminem Learn More
17 The Teddy Bear's Picnic Henry Hall Learn More
18 Rupert The Bear Jackie Lee Learn More
19 Puppet On A String Elvis Presley Learn More
20 The Chipmunk Song The Chipmunks Learn More
21 I'm Your Puppet James & Bobby Purify Learn More
1 21 Greatest Songs About Toys
1.1 1. Barbie Girl – Aqua
1.2 2. The Man With All The Toys – The Beach Boys
1.3 3. The Teddy Bear Song – Barbara Fairchild
1.4 4. Old Toy Trains – Roger Miller
1.5 5. Come and Buy My Toys – David Bowie
1.6 6. Teddy Bear (Let Me Be Your) – Elvis Presley
1.7 7. Lego House – Ed Sheeran
1.8 8. Give The Jew Girl Toys – Sarah Silverman
1.9 9. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Lady Gaga
1.10 10. Brand New Key – Melanie
1.11 11. Toys In The Attic – Aerosmith
1.12 12. Misfit Toys – Pusha T & Mako
1.13 13. 21st Century Digital Boy – Bad Religion
1.14 14. Let's Go Fly A Kite – David Tomlinson & Dick Van Dyke
1.15 15. Toy Soldiers – Martika
1.16 16. Like Toy Soldiers – Eminem
1.17 17. The Teddy Bear's Picnic – Henry Hall
1.18 18. Rupert The Bear – Jackie Lee
1.19 19. Puppet On A String – Elvis Presley
1.20 20. The Chipmunk Song – The Chipmunks
1.21 21. I'm Your Puppet – James & Bobby Purify
The songs in this playlist consist of some great tunes.
1. Barbie Girl – Aqua
The first song in this list is Barbie Girl, a true classic that will always stay in style. So far, the song has managed to gain over a billion views on YouTube, and they are steadily growing as time goes by.
Norwegian dance-dance pop group Aqua wrote the song, which became popular as most toy companies used it to market their Barbie girl doll collections.
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2. The Man With All The Toys – The Beach Boys
If you are a fan of classic songs, then this piece and the entire Christmas album of The Beach Boys will entertain you. It consists of very entertaining songs.
"The Man with All the Toys" lyrics show that the season of Christmas is for gift-giving, and Santa has all the toys in the world to give.
3. The Teddy Bear Song – Barbara Fairchild
The Teddy bear song was initially composed by Don Earl and Nick Nixon in 1972. There have been numerous renditions of the song since its release, but Barbara Fairchild was the one that made it popular.
It's about an abusive or toxic relationship that the singer is in, and she wishes she was a Teddy Bear so she wouldn't have to go through the suffering that she did.
4. Old Toy Trains – Roger Miller
Old Toy trains will be perfect if you want songs about toys for the festive season. This track is one of Roger Miller's Christmas songs.
The song was a gift to Roger's son, who was two years old at the time. Listening to this song always takes me back to old memories that I will live to cherish.
5. Come and Buy My Toys – David Bowie
Come and Buy My Toys is one of the simplest compositions by David Bowie that is different from his usual style of music. The song presents a picture of childhood and happiness and then transition into adulthood.
It was released in Bowie's debut album, so he was very new to the scene.
6. Teddy Bear (Let Me Be Your) – Elvis Presley
Recorded for the soundtrack of Elvis Presley's second feature film, Loving You, the song showed the side of the king of rock and roll that was sweeter rather than people thought.
Because of this piece, thousands of fans would send a teddy bear to Elvis as a birthday gift.
7. Lego House – Ed Sheeran
In this song, Ed Sheeran uses Legos, a popular toy for building structures, as a metaphor for a relationship. The song is from his debut album and his first piece to reach number one in any music charts.
To celebrate the achievement and a significant milestone in his music, Ed bought a bunch of logos to build a toy spaceship to celebrate with his friends.
8. Give The Jew Girl Toys – Sarah Silverman
"Give The Jew Girl Toys" is probably the most controversial song about toys. The song was composed by Sarah Silverman, and she aimed to poke fun and create humor through controversy in her program.
The song addresses social issues such as religion, celebrations of festivities, and how children from the Jewish faith don't get toys during Christmas.
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9. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Lady Gaga
Sonny Bonny originally wrote the song for his wife, Cher. In the song, the lyrics show the main character reminiscing on her past childhood memories while playing with her boyfriend with toys and later growing up to be married.
Things take a turn as he eventually leaves her and she becomes devastated. It is Lady Gaga's vocal prowess that makes this rendition stand in the same class as the original piece.
10. Brand New Key – Melanie
While Melanie was known for passionate antiwar songs, she was afraid of releasing this silly song as most of her fans would never take her seriously after that.
To her surprise, the song managed to top the charts in the United States, thus becoming one of her most successful songs. It's about her crush on a boy who turned out to have a girlfriend.
11. Toys In The Attic – Aerosmith
This song is from the band's third studio album, and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry wrote it. The song is about losing your mind and going insane.
The song's simplicity and rock instrumental contributed to it being among the top tracks of 1975.
12. Misfit Toys – Pusha T & Mako
Misfit Toys is part of the Arcane League of Legends soundtrack, a popular game turned animated show. The artists in this piece perfectly encapsulate the dangers of looking down on certain people in society; they will always push back.
The people in the society in this show that stir up revolution identify themselves as misfit toys, and their determination leads to the downfall of the upper class.
13. 21st Century Digital Boy – Bad Religion
This carries a different message because most of the tracks in this compilation of songs about toys encourage children to embrace the play objects.
It has subtle hints of what society has become, and probably the band is trying to warn us to wake up. It warns about the materialism promoted and loved by the population.
14. Let's Go Fly A Kite – David Tomlinson & Dick Van Dyke
This is a famous song that Julie Andrews sang in the popular musical Mary Poppins. It was released in the 1960s, and there have been remakes of the movies due to popular demand.
Views grow as we grow older, as we learn to appreciate the magic that happened in our childhoods.
15. Toy Soldiers – Martika
The song by Martika has a fascinating combination of visuals and sound. Though the song might outwardly seem like a jam to rock while playing with a friend, it is sadly a melancholic ode about battling addiction.
The song's lyrics put into perspective that the drug problem can ruin us, similar to how toy soldiers fall down. The artist composed this piece after witnessing a friend get hooked on cocaine.
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16. Like Toy Soldiers – Eminem
After being involved in many rap battles, Eminem had enough of hip-hop artists dissing each other rather than embracing each other. He used the chorus of one of his favorite childhood songs, the previous song in our list, to show rappers that they are controlled by a third party.
The lyrics point out several artists who had ongoing beef and the visuals showed the consequences.
17. The Teddy Bear's Picnic – Henry Hall
Though it might seem that it has a silly title, this piece is a sophisticated classical song set in 6/8 time. The song is regarded as one of the best songs of the 1930s, and the clarity of the orchestra recording is quite astonishing.
Since its release, the song has contributed to fond memories between children and their parents from generation to generation.
18. Rupert The Bear – Jackie Lee
The next track in this compilation of songs about toys is Rupert the Bear, which was a popular children's show in the 1990s. It originates in Britain where Mary Tourtel created the character that first appeared in 1920.
It is a well-known and loved children's toy.
19. Puppet On A String – Elvis Presley
Though puppets are considered playthings that can be controlled, Elvis decided to use the toy to describe what he is willing to be for the person he loves.
This romantic ballad is one of the best songs by Elvis as we are introduced to a softer side of the legendary icon.
20. The Chipmunk Song – The Chipmunks
This song enjoyed massive success right after it was recorded for the first time. It sold over 2.5 million copies and hit number one on the music charts of 1958, remaining there for about a month.
The characters were created by Ross Bagdasarian and have been a major part of many people's childhood memories over the years.
21. I'm Your Puppet – James & Bobby Purify
The last song in this compilation is a romantic song that uses a toy as a tool in the declaration of love by the singers. The vocals of the composers are on point, and you will not get tired of listening to it if it is part of your playlist.
The track has a muscle shoal sound on its tune as one can hear the funky instrumentation marked by cranked-up bass and drum, creating a nice groove.
The playlist contains some of the greatest songs about toys ever recorded, and it is evident that the word has numerous interpretations by different artists.
While some concentrate on making music about toys to suit the younger audience and create memories that last for a lifetime, most are using it as a substitute that might be easy or hard to decipher.
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3D NAND is coming to a computer near you!
Recently, my colleague Kevin Kilbuck told us about new advances Micron has been working on in 3D NAND. This is the latest-and-greatest in NAND Flash technology, and is going to allow advances in data storage everywhere that bits are stored. However, for today, I'd like to focus on how this new technology will affect your home and office computing experience: your PC, laptop, professional tablet and even smart phone.
As Kevin pointed out, until now, NAND Flash devices have had all the memory and logic circuitry laid out in a planar fashion, like a drawing on a piece of paper. In order to store more bits, all these elements needed to be squeezed in a smaller and smaller area within the plane. At 16 nanometers, Micron has had the most efficient planar MLC (multi-level cell) NAND devices on the planet. However, squeezing the dimensions in the planar layout smaller than 16 nm has proven to be a nearly insurmountable challenge. So much of a challenge that industry analysts had started to question whether solid state data storage was going to be able to keep up with the pace set by Moore's Law.
Gordon Moore, of course, was one of the great pioneers of the semi-conductor industry. He noted (and predicted) that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) was doubling every two years or so, and would continue to do so. Even though Dr. Moore may very well have offered Moore's Law with a bit of a wink, it has held roughly true over the decades, and not just for semi-conductors. Hard disk drives (HDD) have exhibited storage capacity and cost reductions which roughly followed Moore, as well.
Mass Storage is Massive again!
When Micron and other companies introduced mass market solid state drives (SSD) over the past decade or so, there was a real challenge to keep up the pace dictated by Dr. Moore. This pace was kept up in a couple of ways for planar NAND. First, the physical dimension of the semi-conductor die continued shrinking, past 25 nm to 20 nm, finally to 16 nm. Second, signal detection capability developed which allowed bit density improvements by storing more than one logical bit in each physical NAND cell. Now, we can store 2 bits per cell (MLC) and 3 bits per cell (TLC). Put simply, as we store more bits in smaller areas, so costs go down, and capacities of SSDs go up.
Of course, the stock in trade of SSD is speed. SSD brought unprecedented speed to desktop computing, in a drop-in replacement for your old HDD. But the complaint remained that if you wanted large storage capacities, SSD wasn't really a solution. High capacities for desktop computing, say, 2TB and above, were either not available, or prohibitively expensive.
This is where 3D NAND steals the show. After running into this daunting physical challenge of growing storage capacity in two dimensions, given the 16 nm planar barrier, the natural solution is to work in 3D. Building data storage cells in three dimensions solves two problems: now more bits can be stored with better margin in a 3D cell, and the X-Y planar dimensions can be relaxed, allowing better manufacturability.
The net benefit is that 3D NAND allows us to get back on the curve dictated by Moore's Law. Mass storage is massive again! In the near future, we'll deliver 2 TB in affordable, convenient and slim 2.5" SSDs, and 1 TB in M.2 SSDs, the size of a stick of gum, for storage in your super-slim Ultrabook and in professional tablets. We will amp up the speed even more in offering these higher capacity SSDs with the PCIe interface, easily doubling the speed at which we can store and deliver data.
High capacity, high speed, compact size: You don't have to pick one or two!
In point of fact, you may have noticed that laptop HDDs are running into storage limitations, too. Today, the biggest low-profile notebook HDD sits right at 2 TB, just like the biggest notebook SSDs. To reasonably get beyond 2TB, let's just say it, the HDD has to get huge! Big, heavy 3.5" HDDs with 5 or 7 platters is what it takes to deliver multiple terabytes. This is okay for desktops, but completely incompatible with mobile computing. And, does anyone these days really want a big, clunky mini-tower on their desk? No, desktop computers, where they remain, are shrinking just like notebooks.
Unlike HDD, SSDs are breaking through these limitations. We now have line-of-site to 4 TB small form-factor SSDs and beyond, at prices which won't break the bank. We also have a performance path which gets future desktop and laptop SSDs to 2,000 MB/s (yes, 2 GB/s!). 3D NAND allows us to deliver this ground-breaking SSD technology, and allows us to further close the price per gigabyte gap with HDD. 3D NAND technology will allow true mass storage in the tiny space allowed by your smart phone, too. No more worries about having enough space to download the latest hit song, or when taking that next photo when your kid scores the winning goal.


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T-Mobile sees improved customer retention on strength of iPhone 7 release
Christian Zibreg on October 24, 2016
Wireless carrier T-Mobile on Monday announced earnings for the September quarter. Total revenues for the quarter were $9.2 billion, an eighteen percent year-over-year increase. T-Mobile said it was able to increase revenue thanks to new T-Mobile One plans and add-ons, the launch of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in September and an influx of prepaid customers who migrated to postpaid plans.
Services revenue during the quarter came in at $7.1 billion, a thirteen percent year-over-year increase. The carrier has added two million new customers during the quarter.
Net income for the quarter was $366 million, which includies a one-time gain of $122 million in spectrum gains.
Branded postpaid net customer additions were 969,000 in the third quarter of 2016.
In addition to attracting customers, T-Mobile is also keeping them longer. Branded postpaid phone churn was 1.32 percent in the September quarter, up five basis points compared to 1.27 percent in the second quarter of 2016 and down fourteen basis points compared to 1.46 percent in the third quarter of 2015.
In wireless talk, churn rate is a measure of the number of people who deflected to another carrier.
Apple is set to report its quarterly earnings tomorrow, but the company won't be divulging opening weekend iPhone 7 sales.
"In years past, we've announced how many new iPhones had been sold as of the first weekend following launch," Apple said. "But as we have expanded our distribution through carriers and resellers to hundreds of thousands of locations around the world, we are now at a point where we know before taking the first customer pre-order that we will sell out of iPhone 7."
Following iPhone 7 launch, T-Mobile CEO John Legere said that preorders were "like four times bigger than the iPhone 6," which last year captured thirteen million sales in its first three days of availability.
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The Erotic Underground: William Friedkin's Cruising
By Michelle March 17, 2021 March 18, 2021 The Reckless Abandon of William Friedkin
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The first time I saw William Friedkin's Cruising was in the mid-90s, when I was in high school. I'd probably read about it in a zine, which is where I learned about most of the weird shit I liked at the time. Luckily, the small video store I walked to most days had a surprisingly diverse selection, and it was no problem to bring home the grainy VHS copy and watch it in my basement lair. The film made a big impact on me. I'd never seen a movie with such explicit and gritty queer content. Everyone was so sweaty! Upon the film's release in 1980, it shocked many and was characterized as lurid and prurient. Even after all these years, it still has the power to provoke.
There's been plenty written about the controversies surrounding the film's production and reception. Activists at the time worried that the linking of a gay subculture with violence would lead the public to view all gay people as murderous deviants. The story is ripped from the headlines, based on a novel that dramatized the unsolved murders of members of the gay leather community in the 1970s. Al Pacino stars as the ostensibly straight cop who goes undercover into the New York gay S&M/leather scene in order to catch a suspected serial killer. The work affects his relationship with his girlfriend as he disappears more into his role. The longer he spends undercover, the more difficult it is to tell if a dedication to solving the case is what drives him, or if something more complicated causes him to take increasingly dangerous risks. There's much in the film that is left ambiguous.
Avenues for cruising are not what they once were, particularly as smart phones and apps replace in-person seduction, and that's not even taking into consideration how the covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live. For an account of the glory days, you could read Samuel R. Delaney's surprisingly sweet essays about hooking up in Times Square pornographic movie theaters: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. To Delaney, cruising was liberating, fun, and equalizing. He preserves the memory of these spaces lost to gentrification, the working class nonconformists driven out under the auspices of family-friendliness. The world of Friedkin's Cruising is much darker and more challenging than the nostalgia of Delaney's essays, yet on the margins of the crime story, there is still the sense of uninhibited abandon, erotic tension and urgent release found in those works. The lifestyle may have been taboo and unusual to many at the time, but the film doesn't critique the denizens of the leather bars portrayed, only the predators who brutalize them, whether they be a bored beat cop or a ruthless murderer.
When I first saw Cruising, I didn't know anyone who would've shared my enthusiasm, but it made me feel furtively thrilled and a little scandalized. Today, I own it on Blu-Ray, a far cry from a VHS so grainy that it was hard to tell who was who on screen, and although it wasn't well received at the time of its release, the movie has undergone reevaluation by the public. Before it hit screens, Friedkin cut about 40 minutes from the film to avoid an X rating, mostly graphic sex in the leather bars, and it is believed that any evidence of these edits has since been destroyed. This fabled footage has captured imaginations of high-profile fans through the years, and it became the subject of a work of docufiction, Interior. Leather Bar directed by James Franco in 2013. Legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe even found inspiration for his own controversial art from the film, a scene where the cops introduce a memorable element of distraction into a tough interrogation.
I'm a huge fan of Friedkin, and this is his work that most commands my attention. One thing I love about movies is that a story involving a situation wholly unlike the one we find ourselves in daily can still reflect something back to us. This series is called The Reckless Abandon of William Friedkin, a fitting way to describe Al Pacino's undercover cop's dangerous plunge into rough trade. "Reckless abandon" can be risky, but it can also be a fucking blast. Pull on your chaps and caps (even if they're metaphorical), polish up the boots, and walk through the curtain into the theater. You might just end up submitting to the truths you learn about yourself.
Cruising screens at the Trylon as part of The Reckless Abandon of William Friedkin, starting on Friday, March 19 at 7 pm. For more information and for tickets, go to trylon.org.
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This brings me to the idea of individual burndown charts. Some quick research on the web shows that most people believe thatindividual burndown charts are the spawn of the devil and should be avoided at all costs. Like most Agilista pronouncements, there is no context given. The question is not whether it is good or evil, but can an individual burndown be used to help a team become more Agile? The answer is unequivocally yes. I don't now, nor wouldn't ever, use these for my more highly functioning team any more than I would out my sixteen year old in time out, but I do use them for my more "junior" team as a means of making sure that I provide them with the support that they need.
How does it work? My current position uses SharePoint to track stories, tasks, hours remaining, etc. (management is too cheap to sprint for a mature tool) and Excel to create burndown charts for each team and the division as a whole. Each individual also has a hour capacity for the sprint. That capacity is plotted against the length of the sprint to get an ideal line (in our case capacity/10 days). Each day I can see what remains for each individual to complete during the sprint. This information is not used to beat up individuals but can very quickly show who might be having some trouble with particular stories and tasks (think bad estimation not bad worker). I can also see who might have the ability to help the individual. During our daily we can quickly discuss if someone needs help and provide it immediately. Over time I expect that this team will get better at estimating, communication, etc and will no longer need this kind of help because when they commit to work they will have a good idea of what it takes and a good chance of success. In the meantime, I watch them more closely so I don't send them out to fail.
I'm sure that there will be a whole bunch of Agilistas up in arms, but I can't tell you the number of times I have been able to properly and appropriately provide help to my team by using individual burndowns. Just like my family, I want to make sure that as each family member matures that I give the appropriate amount of help until they are able to better help themselves.
Beware one size fits all. Beware strident, uncompromising, almost religious zealotry. It is your team. Support it the best way you know how. As they mature you will need to change as well, always applying appropriate levels of support.


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's juvenile justice system is going under the microscope as part of a comprehensive review by a team of judges, prosecutors, lawmakers and others.
New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil and officials with the state's child welfare agency launched the task force Thursday with an initial meeting in Albuquerque. More meetings and focus groups are planned over the next several months as the group looks at trends in the state based on the latest data and considers policy changes and possible legislation.
"When we look at the issues that are facing our state and the things that we need to do to get our state where I know we all want it to be, there's no doubt in my mind as to the role juvenile justice plays," said Monique Jacobson, head of the state Children, Youth and Families Department.
Jacobson said the state has an opportunity to change the trajectory of the young men and women who are in the system by focusing on policies that will lead to better outcomes. She cited rehabilitation rather than unnecessary detention.
Vigil said many changes have already been made in New Mexico but the new data-driven collaboration over the various branches of government marks an unprecedented opportunity.


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Manohar emerges as candidate for BCCI prez
Finally, it seems to be curtains on the suspense over who will head the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after incumbent Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away last week. Former BCCI chief Shashank Manohar appears set to return to head the cricket body. BCCI's two factions — one each backed by BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar — have projected Manohar as their consensus candidate for the BCCI chief's post. Manohar, a 57-year-old Vidarbha lawyer, had headed BCCI from 2008 to 2011.
He was succeeded by N Srinivasan. Known for his clean image and uncompromising attitude on issues like corruption in sports, Manohar emerged as the most suitable candidate for both Pawar and Thakur factions. News agency PTI quoted a senior BCCI official as saying: "It took a lot of persuasion from Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Anurag Thakur to convince a reluctant Manohar to take up the top job again. An agreement on this emerged when Pawar, the leader of Manohar's group, also gave his go-ahead in the matter, along with former treasurer Ajay Shirke.
According to an ESPNcricinfo report, a BCCI official who did not wish to be named said a formal announcement was likely to make it clear that Manohar was the "unanimous choice" as a candidate to stand for the elections to the president's post, necessitated after Dalmiya's death on September 20.
Manohar-Jaitley meeting
The ESPNcricinfo report further says that Manohar declined to divulge details of his meeting with Finance Minister Jaitley, who was earlier the chief of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA). He termed this meeting a "private conversation", and also said he would wait for his group's opinion before making up his mind.
However, he acknowledged that he met Jaitley on Thursday evening in Delhi. Also present at the meeting were Anurag Thakur, who is also the head of the BJP's youth wing, and Ajay Shirke, former BCCI treasurer and current president of the Maharashtra Cricket Association.
Shirke's take
The Times of India has reported that putting all speculation to rest, Shirke categorically told the newspaper on Saturday that Manohar was the "unanimous choice" of the Sharad Pawar-Anurag Thakur alliance to take over as the next BCCI president. "Manohar is our unanimous choice," Shirke was quoted as saying. Asked whether the former BCCI president had agreed to take charge of the top post, Shirke said: "Yes. I wouldn't be telling you this otherwise. I've no doubt that he has (agreed). The formal announcement regarding this will be made soon." The magic figure With the Thakur and Pawar factions coming together, Manohar is now assured of getting at least 15 of the 29 votes, the magic figure required for taking the hot seat. While it is known that Tamil Nadu strongman and India Cements chief N Srinivasan is not in race for the top job himself, the vote split also dashes his hopes of putting up a favoured candidate.
Manohar, a staunch critic of Srinivasan Manohar has been a staunch critic of Srinivasan since the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal broke out. He was completely against the rumoured alliance between Srinivasan and Pawar after the two former BCCI presidents met in Nagpur recently. After this, Pawar honoured his faction's sentiment and withdrew.
Bengal association's role
Either the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) or the National Cricket Club (NCC) — both controlled by former India captain cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly — is likely to propose Manohar's candidature as this is the East zone's turn to propose.
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Sarge wrote: Probably a good reason to go at it, then. I've really been into the short games recently.
I hear you there. Even if I wasn't feeling pressured to maintain some semblance of a schedule I just don't have the free time and attention span for marathon games. Quicker titles like Spike are really a welcome change of pace.
Time for the new video bump!
I actually watched this a few days ago as I'm a subscriber.
Fantastic video as always. You and I have very similar tastes in games.
BoneSnapDeez wrote: I actually watched this a few days ago as I'm a subscriber.
With that in mind if you ever have any suggestions on what I should try let me know.
Ha! Watched this and the Hillsfar vid right before you posted here. The perks of being a subscriber. Good stuff. I just got Dragon View and now I'm itching to play it.
I gotta admit, I kinda do like Drakkhen though.
Daria wrote: With that in mind if you ever have any suggestions on what I should try let me know.
Nothing specific, but I especially enjoy your import reviews. Keep 'em coming.
BoneSnapDeez wrote: Ha! Watched this and the Hillsfar vid right before you posted here. The perks of being a subscriber. Good stuff. I just got Dragon View and now I'm itching to play it.
Well I have Treasure Hunter G paused at the moment. So expect another one soonish!
And ya know - I don't know if Drakkhen was first in Japan too or just the US. JD Leen looks weird - like the graphics are a bit generic but the monster sprites are freaky (Jason masks?). Has a horror/Sci-fi vibe. But the portraits and cutscenes are really detailed. Dammit now I'm curious and I know it's Japanese only.
Drakkhen was originally a computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989. The ports were relatively quick and perhaps a little dirty to the Super Famicom and SNES, but some important changes were made that actually make the console port easier to play, such as certain super monsters not being able to attack you and an expanded set of songs. There are some cool factors to it, like a day-night cycle, but for the most part it's a mess.
Now is it the worst RPG on the SNES? I couldn't say officially since I haven't played them all, though I'd have a hard time picking between Drakkhen and Secret of the Stars if those were my only two options. I have beaten both, and both have some significant flaws that really hurt them, as well as some ideas that are at least inventive.
It is possible to avoid the true supermonsters in Drakkhen though. You just have to avoid looking at certain constellations in the sky, avoid crossroads, and avoid bumping into grave markers. Since the game automates fights and you can get into encounters while standing still, you can actually set the controller down and let the game play itself to grind though. You just have to check it every now and again to ensure you haven't gotten stuck on a merchant encounter.
Dragon View is awesome. I will always sing its praises.
Ack wrote: Drakkhen was originally a computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989. The ports were relatively quick and perhaps a little dirty to the Super Famicom and SNES, but some important changes were made that actually make the console port easier to play, such as certain super monsters not being able to attack you and an expanded set of songs. There are some cool factors to it, like a day-night cycle, but for the most part it's a mess.
It's no Dragon View tho.
It's funny - after writing the script and recording the voice over I went back to Drakkhen to capture some game footage. It's probably the third time in my life I've attempted to play the game, and I was kind of digging it. I like the mix of point and click and RPG - still didn't get very far and was promptly eaten by that weird dog head - but I can see myself playing it now. When I do revisit it I'll take your advice and autogrind a bit. Just need to jump over than beginning level hurdle.


The history of the CAFA Art Museum can be traced back to the early 1950s. Originally called the Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, it was located on Wangfujing, Beijing. Designed by the noted architect Zhang Kaiji, the Gallery was the first professional art museum built after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. In 1998, the Gallery changed its name to the CAFA Art Museum. In October 2008, the museum moved to the No. 8 Huajiadi South Street in Beijing's Chaoyang District, with a new building designed by the noted Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. In the end of 2010, the CAFA Art Museum was selected to be one of the firsts to be listed as the Key National Museums. Past museum directors include Dong Xiwen, Yang Yun, Sun Zixi, Jiao Kequn, Wang Xiao, Tang Pei, Pan Gongkai, and Wang Huangsheng. The current director is Zhang Zikang.


Harold Hofer is Canadian born and, consequently like me, a subject of the Queen. He moved to the California when he was a kid and grew up in the Los Angeles area eventually attending UCLA where he received both undergraduate and master's degrees in economics, followed by a law degree, also at UCLA. Harold practiced law for a couple of years when I got out of school and his college roommate was working for a real estate firm in Orange County where he now lives. He accepted his roommate's suggestion that they go into business together and putting together little syndications to buy the projects that his firm was building and selling.
In the 1980s they were raising money using Reg D private placement partnerships to buy real estate and raised around $80 million in equity for some $300 million worth of real estate. In the mid-1990s they sold their company to Koll in Newport Beach, California that was, at the time, run by Ray Wirta, Harold's current partner. Ray took Koll and merged it with the predecessor to CBRE in 1997, ascending to the CEO role. Several years later they took the company private and then took it public again, consequently having quite a successful ride.
When Ray retired as active CEO of CBRE in around 2005 he had a checklist of things he wanted to do that he hadn't been able to do in real estate because of the structural confines of CBRE. Incidentally, at time of writing, Ray remains chairman of the board of CBRE.
One of the things they had wanted to do was to find a way to use the Internet to aggregate investor capital to buy real estate. They thought real estate in general as an industry was slow to embrace modern technologies and as many industries and companies were effectively using the Internet to create efficiencies and cost savings so the wondered why real estate wasn't falling lockstep as quickly as it should have been. One of their ideas was to raise capital with an online format versus having to raise capital through brokers as was commonplace.
That was the idea they had in 2005, 2006 and they went ahead in 2007 putting together a public offering in Texas in a REIT format to raise capital from small investors to buy interest in a shopping center that they had purchased, raising about $3 million. Shortly thereafter the economy went off the edge of the cliff and so they mothballed this concept of raising capital online at that time. But then the JOBS Act came about in 2012. One of the premises of the JOBS Act was to make the aggregation of capital easier for small businesses. Harold was re-intrigued with the idea of raising capital in an online format to buy real estate, aggregating small investors with an online platform to buy real estate.
Now, in 2005 2006 when had raised money using general solicitation in Texas they had been able to do so because it was a REIT and because it was an instate public offering i.e. they were not under the under the purview of the SEC. They had used an investment in state offering exemption from SEC registration requirements. As they had been able to get their offering approved by the Texas regulators, this had allowed them to use general solicitation to raise money to buy real estate from non-millionaire, unaccredited investors.
Despite these efforts though, they didn't really gain traction though they believe now that they were simply ahead of their time in terms of the market receptivity to that sort of an idea. Plus, of course and not trivial, the economy went off the edge of the cliff stemming the enthusiasm with which investors viewed their proposition. They had, in short, the right idea but bad timing.
The JOBS Act allowed you to have general solicitation for a Reg D offering. They had never done a Reg D offering what intrigued them was the idea of going back out and raising capital from the public using an online platform as it was being reawakened by the JOBS Act. They decided to get back on the bandwagon.
Their premise has always been that they wanted to make offerings open to non-millionaire, non-accredited investors. The JOBS Act introduced the Reg A+ element where it expanded the size of the Reg A offerings to $50 million which was intriguing because it also allowed for general solicitation of both accredited and non-accredited investors alike. That said, they decided not to avail themselves at least initially of Reg A+, but instead to do another instate public offering, this time in California. They did a non-SEC offering for non-accredited, non-millionaire investors that allowed for general solicitation within California and they launched that around 2013. Again, they used the REIT structure they were familiar with from their work in Texas six years or so earlier, working with the exemption from SEC filing responsibilities by operating entirely within one state known as the 'intrastate offering exemption', Rule 147.
Under this Rule, as long as they were confining the offering to California residents they were OK. They could tell where by identifying IP addresses when people try to access their platform where they're coming from. This allowed them to preclude access to the platform if someone was trying to come from a state where the offering was not approved at that time. Consequently, if you were in any state other than California you'd be denied access to the platform if the software detected that you were trying to access our platform from outside of California.
Using this public offering in California, they decided to move ahead with a $25 million equity offering that they ended up upsizing twice from $25 to $50 million, and then again to $100 million because they were raising quite a bit of capital using a $2,500 minimum amount from investors who wanted to own real estate. They realized that there is considerable demand from the investors to own real estate but that most investors don't know how to access it, nor would they know how to analyze or underwrite a publicly listed REIT plus are fearful of the liquidity within the unlisted REIT market.
Non-traded REITs had been selling this product type for many years through broker dealers with a 10 percent commission associated with it, but Harold's business model was to go direct to the consumer and present the same investment opportunity. They would not charge consumers a 10 percent commission by using the Internet to effectively be the distribution method rather than the broker dealer community to be your distribution method. Their thought was not to necessarily to disintermediate the broker dealer community but rather to expose the sort of investment opportunity to investors who qualified for the offering financially but did not have a broker dealer to begin with.
The financial suitability standards for these sorts of offerings are $75,000 in income or $250,000 of net worth, so it's a much broader base of investors than the accredited investor standard which is $200,000 of sustained income or a $1 million in net worth. A much larger investor base could be participating in these sorts of offerings and Harold could expose products to investors directly rather than through the broker dealer community which is which is how that money had traditionally been raised in the past.
After the JOBS Act was passed, Harold didn't rely upon any particular element of the Act initially. It was just the idea that JOBS Act jarred his and Ray's thinking. They realized that the market was pulling out of recession and that this Act will result in people trying to raise money online for real estate investments. They saw it giving rise to many of their peers in the real estate industry adopting crowdfunding methodologies. They wanted o expose offering opportunities to smaller non-accredited investors but immediately after the Act was passed, it really just stimulated the idea that while other people were jumping on the bandwagon to raise capital from for real estate investing from a whole disparate group of investors with an online platform, that they should too.
Their initial offering, the on that had doubled twice, closed in the middle of 2016 by which time they had raised over $85 million. It had ramped up slowly and then accelerated. They started wondering that if this was playing so well in California, could it play on a national scale, so they had a public offering registered with the SEC which became available to sell in mid-2016. They shut down the California offering at that time and opened up with the same investment strategy but this time on a national scale through a new SEC registered but not publicly traded REIT format.
It was the JOBS Act that allowed them to solicit nationally, where before they had been restricted to instate offerings. They could have used the REIT structure within a Reg A+ format but chose to do an S11 offering which is a fully registered offering through the SEC. Recognizing that the Reg A+ offering process with the SEC was much more simplified than the process they actually used, they had not wanted to be limited to raising $50 million per year and, believing that they could raise more money than that had not want to have to shut one down at $50 million and start another one thereafter.
Now, some folk are using Regulation A+ to raise more then $50 million in any given year by creating entities that specialize in different asset classes or geographical regions. While Harold knows of folk doing that, initially he thought that there was a danger that the SEC would integrate those offerings and say Hey, wait a second you're just trying to evade the intent of the Reg A+ $50 million limitation by segregating it, splitting hairs geographically or splitting hairs in terms of product type. Being uncertain how that might eventually play out, Harold and his partner Ray were not 100 percent sure that will ultimately prevail, and concerned that the SEC might say these are one big offering were leery of trying to be the guinea pig trying to test that system.
The whole premise of the Rich Uncles is different than most other crowdfunding platforms. Most other crowdfunding platforms are trying to create a marketplace matching accredited investors on the one hand with real estate sponsors on the other. Harold's business model has always been to make the product available to non-accredited investors, plus they are the end user of the capital that they raised and not just a matchmaking site. Harold and Ray are real estate people by background not tech people by background. Rather than take your money and give it to some third party real estate sponsor they thought that they could do as good a job or better than any third party sponsor in terms of investing your capital prudently.
Their challenge as a company in terms of customer acquisition was really focusing on finding investors not trying to find real estate – and this did not mean trying to find competent real estate sponsors as they were principals in their own real estate ownership. Their business model differed from most of their peers in the real estate crowdfunding space in that they focused on just aggregating capital from investors and then we would ourselves handle the investment of the product, and because they focused from the get go non-accredited investors.
A couple platforms have morphed over to embrace non accredited investors as well that Harold at Rich Uncles had pioneered in making product available to.
Rich Uncles started with two products. The first was a single tenant, triple net lease product. If you could look at a spectrum of real estate in terms of risky versus less risky probably perhaps the riskiest might be, say, hotels because the income stream effectively changes daily in a hotel depending on occupancy and what you're charging per hotel room. On the other side of the spectrum is single tenant net lease product types where you've got long term leases with creditworthy tenants on a triple net basis where they pay their taxes, their insurance, and their maintenance, so Harold focused on the less risky side of the spectrum which is single tenant triple net lease.
He also kept leverage, the amount they borrow against the properties, to 50 percent. In short, they opted to buy a conservative investment product type within real estate and cap financial leverage at 50 percent. The idea was that they have a lot of investors that have very limited exposure to real estate investing and they wanted to create a story that was easily comprehensible by a neophyte real estate investor and to lower on the risk spectrum from real estate relative to other investment opportunities that there might be in real estate.
The product is, therefore, focused on current yields. Harold's thought was that if you try to explain to one of his investors what internal rate of return means they will likely have their eyes glaze over so keeping the product type based on current yield kept it simple and easy to understand. They have recently launched a second product type on the platform and are, as of time of writing, working on putting a Reg A+ product on the platform also.
What came to intrigue Harold about Reg A+ is as follows. If you look at the broader landscape of 260 million adults in the United States, with maybe 3 percent or so, 10 million are accredited investors. Included those that would qualify for their single tenant net lease offering having $75,000 in income per year or $250,000 of net worth, that might add another, say, 25 million people. This encompasses maybe the top 25 percent of the adult US population, with another 25 percent of the population meeting the financial suitability standards of the current offering we have for single tenant net lease. Reg A+ effectively opens up to everyone – as long as an investor represents that the investment they make does not exceed 10 percent of their annual income or 10 percent their net worth. Harold likes that this levels the playing fields entirely by making real estate investing open to everybody. To do this, they have launched a Reg A+ offering that is student housing faced and the minimum investment is $5 so you can get into it for five dollars.


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A Book of Family
By Barbara Joosse, and Anneke Lisberg
Illustrator	Jared Schorr
CASEBOUND BOARD BOOK
Trim Size: 8 x 8
Format: Casebound Board Book (w/ Die-Cut & Gatefold)
In Better Together, each spread starts with a single animal, all alone. Then a gatefold opens to reveal that the single animal is actually one of many animals working together to comfort, feed, and protect one another. At the end, we see how human families come together in similar ways to care for their little ones. Careful readers will be delighted to see that every animal mentioned in the book is hidden somewhere in the last image. The final spread offers interesting facts about the animals in the book, including the collective nouns for each. Jared Andrew Schorr's bright, lively cut-paper illustrations and an unexpected freshness round out a very satisfying package.
"The illustrations are made of comfortably round lines and are bright with a primary-color palette that little readers are quite familiar with. There is value added with vocabulary that introduces the names of animal babies and collective names, where appropriate."
"Jared Andrew Schorr craft the engaging Better Together: A Book of Family with poetic text (including plural group names), a lift-the-flap format and inventive die-cuts."
— Shelf Awareness
Barbara M. Joosse has written for children for more than 30 years.
Through her writing, she aspires to find the things that are the same, and the things that are different, between us all.
Anneke Lisberg is a licensed zoologist. This is her first book for children.
Jared Andrew Schorr specializes in creating detailed work entirely from cut paper. His work has appeared in many publications, as well as in galleries and homes around the world.


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Plant a Tree for Susan
Susan Louise (Johnson) Nestel
Susan Louise (Johnson) Nestel, who loved to be called "Mom" and "Grandma", departed her loving family on January 9, 2021.
Sue was born in Binghamton NY, on August 19, 1944 to Arlene and William Johnson. She attended Binghamton Central High School, graduating in 1962. Then she attended Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating in 1967 with a degree in medical technology.
She married Robert (Bob) Nestel in 1967, recently celebrating their 53 year of marriage.
Sue was mother to James (Patricia), Mark (Michele), and Scott (Sara). She raised her children with love and devotion in San Jose CA, Doylestown PA, Melbourne FL, and New Fairfield CT, with her husband Robert.
During her working years, Sue worked at Merck Pharmaceuticals in virus research, at Melbourne High School in Florida, and at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. Her adventures include working with Whitley Furniture to rebuild and refurnish both the JFK replica of the Resolute Desk and Benjamin Franklin's chair. Her hobbies included reading and puzzles. She was most proud of her role as mother and grandmother.
She is survived by her 3 children, and 6 grandchildren (Maddie, Lincoln, Liam, Sebastian, Simon, and Samuel). She doted on them with love and attention, always dedicating time to each of them individually. Sue loved to work puzzles, play games, and build Legos, helping each of the children thrive. Her one wish was that she would see them grow up to be the amazing people we know they will each become.
Sue is survived by her brother, Philip Johnson and his wife Terri, originally of Vestal NY and now of The Villages, FL and many other friends and family members.
Sue was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) in 2018. There are innumerable people and practices to thank for their dedication to Sue's care. Dr. Papali and his practice at Atrium Health went above and beyond. Duke Division of Pulmonary Health, Dr. Marshall, Next Breath and various IPF support groups all continue to look for a cure for IPF, while supporting Sue's individual needs. Each contributed to the successes that Sue had seen over the last 3 years. Thank you all for everything.
A memorial will be planned when we can gather together safely.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Health Well Foundation in Sue's name.
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Susan Louise (Johnson) Nestel, please visit our floral store.
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0 Bleak House read a long (6)
Bleak House Read A Long (6)
My thoughts on Bleak House:
Weevle and Guppy lie to themselves by agreeing they are not conspiring. Mrs. Snagsby keeps giving the evil eye to Mr. Snagsby about the Spontaneous Combustion. Which is unsettling to every party involved. Mr. Tulkinghorn runs into Guppy at Lady D's house. The wheel of suspicion start to turn in his head. Esther is slowly recovering from a mystery illness. Does anyone know what it is? It leaves her disfigured. However the people in Esther's life show nothing but love. It was really very sweet. Also Esther's feelings are known about Dr. Woodcourt. I know that he has been mentioned before but he has not really made much of an appearance. I wish Dickens would have developed his character a little more. I feel he is a stranger in this story. Mr. Boythorn offers his house to Esther so that she may recover. Esther discovers that Lady D. is her mother. They have a short but sweet reunion then Lady D. tells her she can never see her again. I have to tell you I did not like this. I felt it was cruel to tell her. Ava and Esther are reunited and it's a touching scene. Richard comes for a visit. He has taken up with none other than Mr. Skimpole. Richard was already walking a thin line for me, but this pushed him over the edge. I no longer care for Richard. Jarndyce and Jarndyce has definitely changed him and not for the better. Mr. Guppy has also proven to be a jerk. Good riddance, Mr. Guppy.
P.S. I want a growlery!
The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall
AND THE WINNER IS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Charlotte Collins by Jennifer Becton
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Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
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It's Time For BlogFest!!!!
A Note from an Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker
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Sunday Confessions Sept. 5, 2010
Bleak House Readalong Ch. 8-13


and most importantly defining our exit strategy.
and without a clear and workable exit strategy for victory. We met none of these requirements in Vietnam and as of yet we have not met any of these in Afghanistan either.


The floods that devastated many areas of Houston this past Tuesday are some of the worst that this city has ever experienced. There have been floods here in the past but this weeks rain is unlike anything we've ever experienced before.
ildings as a good thing and while it definitely is and it means that this city's economy is strong, it means that there is very little topography. Hundreds of miles of pavement has been added to the city that keeps rain from going into the soil and we've lost lots of permeability. All that being said, do you know what to do in case of a Houston flood?
If you notice water getting into your home, go to higher ground and avoid standing in any wet surface. Move to the top floor of your home, to the attic or if necessary your roof. If you are outside (in your car), try to move to higher roadways or the higher levels of a parking garage.
Many people's first instinct when they are driving through heavy rain is to try to get home any way possible. This isn't always the best idea. As mentioned in the point before, its best to drive to higher ground and stay there. Don't try to drive through waters. On top of potentially drowning your car, you could run into something you can't see through the dark waters.
Many people let curiosity get to them and decide to explore thee floods that have been created by the heavy rain. If it's dire that you walk through unclear waters, use a stick and tap the ground in front if you to check what could be under water. You never know what could've been washed up with the heavy rain. Any kind of animal or a loose cable that you can't see could result in harm.
If you don't have a battery operated radio make sure you get one. If you do have one, make sure you use it to be able to keep up with weather updates and warnings. If you have flashlights this could help too, incase your power goes out.
If water starts getting into your home, make sure to unplug all electronic devices. You want to avoid any dangerous of having electric devices being on while in the water. You should not do this if have to stand in water to do it. If it's too late to start unplugging, just avoid anything that is surrounded by water at all costs.
In a flood, water wreaks havoc on the structure of your house and on your personal belongings. The first thing you should do is call your insurance agent and make a claim. List all the damages and take pictures if possible. Shovel out any mud that gets in hour house, and disinfect every surface. Take furniture and other household items outside as soon as possible and allow them to dry. Mattresses should be thrown away, but allow a professional to clean your furniture. Unfortunately, walls and ceilings soak up water like a sponge. Wallboards, plaster and paneling need to be replaced.
For more tips on what to do after your house floods, check out: How to Sell a House With Water Damage – Texas Flooding Tips!


We see allot of Xabora!
Happens to the best of us buddy! haha You did perfectly fine and will go down in history on official Shakira footage.
Btw the creator of my shirt was extremely happy when he found out i wore his shirt, he posted it on FB!
he also makes great GORDITA and SALE EL SOL shirts!
Edited by Shin, 02 June 2011 - 05:01 AM.
it is sooooo good to see Eti and Carmen again and again in this video. I'm proud of you, guys!
OMG, a lot of you guys!


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Safaricom Partners with Huawei to Deploy the World's First End-to-End 400G Backbone Network
At MWC 2019, Kenya's leading telecom operator Safaricom announced that it would select Huawei's end-to-end 400G solution for its next-generation backbone network. This is the world's first commercial 400G project, advancing backbone network deployment towards the 400G era.
Safaricom is the leading service provider in Kenya with over 29.5 million subscribers, 22 million mobile money customers, 17.6 million data subs, 15,000 enterprise customers and over 220K FTTH homes passed. In 2018, its broadband users grew by 2.5-fold, and its mobile and fixed network traffic are estimated to increase by 6-fold and 5-fold, respectively, over the next three years. This will require modernization of the existing equipment to accommodate capacity requirements.
The 400G backbone will replace Safaricom's existing 100G backbone increasing the capacity of network traffic carried between Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu. Through the solution, Safaricom seeks to meet growing data consumption from its customers resulting from the expansion of its fiber to the home and enterprise fiber networks. The firm has also been experiencing a year-on-year doubling of mobile data usage on its network.
To deal with increasing data traffic over the next decade and maximize network value, Safaricom selected Huawei's end-to-end 400G solution. The ultimate goal is to further improve network reliability automation, and optimize user experiences.
The innovative end-to-end IP+optical 400G network will be built using Huawei's backbone router and optical transport network (OTN) platform. The backbone router provides ultra-large capacity of up to 400GE per port, helping Safaricom deal with the increasing traffic on its backbone networks. The OTN with 400G technologies doubles the transmission capacity per fiber, reducing fiber rental costs on the backbone. With fast reroute (FRR) and automatically switched optical network (ASON) technologies, the 400G solution can enable protection switching in milliseconds, guaranteeing the network reliability required by delay sensitive services like mobile money.
"We believe 400G will play a major role in increasing the capacity of backbone networks," said Safaricom CTO Thibaud Rerolle. "Huawei's end-to-end 400G solution coordinates router and WDM planning and maximizes network value. It will help us fully utilize network resources, and optimize the forwarding cost per bit while ensuring high reliability. Our aim is to offer faster, more innovative, and higher-quality services to our customers."
"We are delighted that Safaricom has selected Huawei to deploy the world's first end-to-end 400G backbone network, which will redefine backbone networks in the intelligent world," said Jeffrey Gao, President of Huawei Router & Carrier Ethernet Product Line.
"Huawei has played an active role in advancing the 400G industry, and has invested heavily in NP chips support 400GE port, high-speed optical digital signal processors (ODSPs), and backbone network standards and products. Built on 400G ultra-high bandwidth, Huawei backbone networks will address service uncertainties and lead the development of the backbone industry. This will help our customers maximize their network value."
Huawei's backbone routers serve multiple industry-leading operators over 100 countries and regions. Moving forward, Huawei will team up with industry players and customers and continue to innovate and invest in the backbone field. Together, they are working to help operators and enterprises achieve business success in the intelligent era.
huawei industry MWC Safaricom


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Lantronix to Showcase Government IoT Networking and Security Solutions at DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
Lantronix will display centralized management software, connectivity services, PoE switches, gateways, media converters and more
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2022 — Lantronix Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of secure turnkey solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and the Intelligent IT market, today announced it will be showcasing its IOT networking and security solutions at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference. The event is taking place Dec. 13–15, 2022, at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Lantronix will exhibit at booth Number 951. Lantronix is ISO 9001 quality-system-certified and provides TAA-compliant products and US-based LEVEL Technical Services.
"With more than two decades of government industry experience and a 99.5 percent customer acceptance rating, Lantronix is a trusted partner of the federal, state and local governments," said Jacques Issa, VP of Marketing at Lantronix. "Designed to simplify and streamline security, power, connection and management while enhancing physical and virtual security of remote sites, Lantronix's solutions provide a single-source platform to collect, connect, compute, comprehend and securely control remote environments."
At DoDIIS Worldwide, Lantronix will showcase innovative Intelligent IT and IoT solutions, including:
ConsoleFlow™, Lantronix's Centralized Management Software for PoE Switches, Remote Environment Management (REM) and IoT Gateway products that delivers a single pane of glass management and True Zero-Touch automation of Lantronix IoT devices.
LEVEL Technical Services, coupled with Lantronix's resilient networking products, that provides dedicated technical support experts to assist with global phone support, limited lifetime warranties and dedicated account technical specialists.
LS Series, a managed Layer 2 Hardened Gigabit Ethernet PoE++ switches that offer 720W total PoE budget for powering LED lighting, high-powered security and surveillance cameras and other IP devices. Its small footprint and hardened temperature rating make it ideal for powering IP devices distributed throughout a building.
SISPM1040-3000-L3 Series, hardened Gigabit Ethernet PoE switches that offer powerful Layer 2 and Layer 3 features and performance to meet the demands of Smart City and Utility, Transportation, Security and Surveillance applications where performance and reliability across a wide range of temperatures is required.
LM83X, a scalable and robust Local Manager (LM) with dual power inputs for enterprises and data centers. Connectivity options include dual Ethernet management, a SFP port, modular out-of-band modem options, and three expansion bays for serial and dedicated Ethernet connections.
G520 Series, Lantronix's next-generation IoT cellular LTE CAT 4 and 5G gateways that are designed for industrial applications with pre-enabled ConsoleFlow™ device management and cellular Connectivity Services cloud platform applications to increase operational efficiency and prevent cyber-attacks.
Lantronix is ISO 9001 quality-system-certified and provides TAA-compliant products that are 99.4 percent free from defects in addition to offering a lifetime warranty on many products.
For more information or to request a meeting at the show, visit the Lantronix DoDIIS Worldwide event page.
About Lantronix
Lantronix Inc. is a global provider of secure turnkey solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Remote Environment Management (REM), offering Software as a Service (SaaS), connectivity services, engineering services and intelligent hardware.
Lantronix enables its customers to accelerate time to market and increase operational up-time and efficiency by providing reliable, secure and connected Intelligent Edge IoT and Remote Management Gateway solutions.
Lantronix's products and services dramatically simplify the creation, development, deployment and management of IoT and IT projects across Robotics, Automotive, Wearables, Video Conferencing, Industrial, Medical, Logistics, Smart Cities, Security, Retail, Branch Office, Server Room, and Datacenter applications. For more information, visit the Lantronix website.
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Q: How to paste values from one sheet to another to last row of specific column A novice on app scripts, but managed to successfully build my own script through much research, but now my script is running into errors. Below is my current code:
  function MyFunction() {
  var sss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  var ss = sss.getSheetByName('Daily Sales');
  var range = ss.getRange('B8:H83');
  var data = range.getValues();
  var OUrange = ss.getRange('K8:Q83');
  var OUdata = OUrange.getValues();
  var ts = sss.getSheetByName('Tracker');

  ts.getRange(ts.getLastRow()+1, 1,data.length, data[0].length).setValues(data);
  ts.getRange(ts.getLastRow()+1, 1,OUdata.length, OUdata[0].length).setValues(OUdata);

}

In the Daily Sales sheet I am copying values from columns B-H and K-Q and pasting them in the last row of the Tracker sheet starting at Column A. The Daily Sales values in Col. K-Q are pasted correctly below the B-H values, so happy with those results.
On the Tracker sheet these values are in Columns A-G. However I have since added formulas in Columns I and J based on the script data and a manual entry in Column H. These formulas are copied down the entire column within the sheet (i.e. row 5000). Since adding these formulas, the script is now pasting values in A5001.
I realize it is because of these formulas, but is there a way to update my script to paste in the last row of column A while maintaining those formulas in Columns I and J? Thanks in advance.

A: You could create a helper function that computes the first free row of a given column (NOT a column with formulas)
function MyFunction() {
var sss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var ss = sss.getSheetByName('Daily Sales');
var range = ss.getRange('B8:H83');
var data = range.getValues();
var OUrange = ss.getRange('K8:Q83');
var OUdata = OUrange.getValues();
var ts = sss.getSheetByName('Tracker');
var values = data.concat(OUdata).filter(function (r) {return r[0]});
var fr = findFirstFreeRow(ts, 1) // second parameter represents column to check for first free row
ts.getRange(fr, 1,values.length, values[0].length).setValues(values);
}

function findFirstFreeRow(sheet, colNum) {
var v = sheet.getRange(1, colNum, sheet.getLastRow()).getValues(),
    l = v.length,
    r;
while (l >= 0) {
    if (v[l] && v[l][0].toString().length > 0) {
        r = (l + 2);
        break;
        } else {
        l--;
        }
    }
return r;
}

See if that helps?

A: After deleting the extra empty rows from your 'Tracker' sheet, you can use the appendRow function to create a new row with the manual values (leaving the cells that need formulas blank).
After the manual values are in, you can then get the cells that need formulas and use setFormula on them.
For the sake of brevity, if you wanted column A,B,C,E,F to have manual values and column D to have a formula you would do:
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sheet.appendRow(['A','B','C','','E','F']);
sheet.getRange(sheet.getLastRow(),4).setFormula('=FORMULA(HERE)');

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April 23, 2012 in "this is life"
...enjoying lunch at my desk.
...listening to Sarah Bareilles on Pandora.
...penciling in this week's schedule in my planner.
...annoyed about Blogger's new posting format.
...waiting for my first load of laundry to finish.
...excited about community group tonight.
...craving a cookie (or two).
...thinking I should get back to work.
What about you?? What are you doing right now?


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Slayers Evolution-R #10 — Gadzooks!
A very exposition heavy episode with more than a few 'big' reveals that only a blind musk ox couldn't have seen coming. That dulls the impact juuuuuuuuuuust a little bit. Poko's kingdom was just a big experiment for Rezo, both plague and seal, and he never intended (or had any way) to save it . Also, that Zel's body can never be changed back to human… barring the next magical book or widget that they invent to do just that. Since all these stunning revelations an evil wizard did evil things came from a pot, the episode was essentially just a nonstop reel of shocked reaction shots.
Er… I have little else to say. Human Zel frightens me somewhat, to say nothing of the half-naked bondage shot… and didn't Lina bisect his fishman buddy? Or was he the one that they ate? I clearly need a season 1 refresher.
Back of Taforashia…
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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery
V-chan says:
I wish that Amelia was little more about Zel(like comforting him or something-> just like in manga). I feel sorry for him- he was really cute when he was a human. And I feel VERY sorry for Pokota- that must be shock for him. I don't get why Lina, Gourry and Amelia are so… calm about this two tragedy? :/ That sucks…
Hinano says:
Omg a blushing human Zelgadis..it just feels so…wrong! rofl.
in other news when are you doing a spring preview? I miss the silly pixel sprites
Aroduc says:
Next Monday. Some shows still have almost a month to go before they end, Miss Impatient.
Didn't human-Zel have … black hair in the first series? Oh, well.
Looking forward to the preview guide, yay!
nunsa is the name of the humanfish, and this flashback is set before lina boiled him and his comrades ate him. remember that lina met zel when he was already a chimera.
zel's hair was darker when it was shown in season1 (very similar to rezo's). it was part of a dream and everything was dark so, it might be different.
zel in human form is so adorable but i'm used to his chimera look >3<
gokudomatic says:
Impressive episode. I liked.
In the explosive demon manga when Shabrani-Godu awakened from Rezo's body, he also said that there was no way, even for the god of mazokus, to turn Zel's body back to before. I suppose that's because the information that describes the body, or equivalent to DNA, was definitely altered. In that case of course there's no way for Zel to recover his original body. He should instead find a way to transform his body to a new human body, aka altering himself a second time.
But there's still one thing I can't understand. If Rezo's body was destroyed, either his spirit was in the body and should have been also destroyed, supported by the fact that he helped Lina to kill Ruby Eye, either his soul was for a long time already in the jar and his body was… I don't know. remotely controlled, or filled by a copy of his soul, or whatever. This is still the thing I don't get it. His spirit won't have moved from his body to the jar, which was really far away, like that.
Remember also Eris, who created a clone of Rezo to try to revive him. She obviously didn't know a thing about this jar stuff, even when she was his labo assistant.
This just doesn't make sense.
Also, Rezo is still thinking he will help a lot of people if he resurrect, but he's forgetting that most of his power came from Ruby Eye. Now that his soul is totally separated from the demon, he's weak. Or at least he has now magic power like every human. His whole plan is doomed.
Aili says:
I used to love Zel and I really was surprise to see how handsome was his human version in this series.
I agree that Ame and the other are like too indiferent about everything. In general, this new serie is very hillarious (and that's why I like it despite that it isn't as good as the old one- on the other hand, Revolution sucks) isn't good with drama staff. But the manga is better in that aspect. It is poorly drawn, but it's more serious. BEsides, Zel chooses his friends before his original boddy, that was awesome! (plus, some Z/A moments!)


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The Comma butterfly, which went extinct in Scotland in the 1870's is spreading quickly through the southern half of the country, due to climate change. And if the current rate of spread continues, it should arrive in Inverness by 2017!
The butterfly is moving north at between 12 and 15km/year, and in the last ten years has successfully colonised the Borders, all of the Lothians, Fife and the southern parts of Tayside, with recent sightings reported from Dundee and Pitlochry.
Ragged wing edges distinguish this pretty orange and brown butterfly and make it unmistakeable. This, together with the distinctive white comma-shaped marking on the undersides, mean it is an easy butterfly for the public to record.
The butterfly can be seen in gardens and woodlands from May through to September, as it has two generations a year. Commas pass the winter as hibernating adult butterflies, and it was feared that last year's exceptionally cold winter might have reduced Comma numbers, but recent sightings have shown that it is well established and thriving.
The colourful caterpillars were found earlier this year in Bridge of Allan feeding on elm, confirming breeding in the Central Belt. Sightings of adults are still being received, and this late in the year they will be butterflies looking for a sheltered place where they can spend the winter.
The Comma hibernates through the winter, along with other butterflies such as the Peacock, but you may still be lucky enough to spot one in the next couple of weeks in your garden or in woodland. The undersides of the Comma's wings are highly camouflaged, which together with its 'ragged' outline help it to resemble a tattered dead leaf. This is important to help keep it safe from predators over the winter.
This is a big shift, equivalent to the biggest shifts of other resident insects measured to date e.g. Common Darter dragonfly (13.8km per year, 346km northward shift between 1960-70 and 1985-95) (Hickling et al 2005) and Red-necked Footman moth (15.7km per year, 393 km northward shift between 1960-82 and 1983-2009) (Fox et al 2010). Other species, such as Peacock, Orange-tip and Ringlet have also spread north quickly in recent years.
Pretty exciting to see a butterfly making a comeback. We have a local comma here the Eastern Comma, I would be sad to not have it here anymore.
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