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Gmail starts pilot program to exempt political emails from spam filter
Brace yourselves for more political fundraisers in your inbox.
Update (September 20, 10:44 pm ET): Google is apparently rolling out its new political filtering program this week.
The FEC approved Google's request to allow political campaign emails to bypass Gmail's spam filters.
Google previously asked the commission to approve the political filtering program after it received a backlash from Republicans.
Users will retain control over the political campaign emails they receive and can direct them to the spam folder if they so choose.
Google is now allowing political campaign emails to bypass Gmail's spam filters regardless of whether or not they contain spam-like language following approval of a pilot program that was spurred by criticisms from Republicans.
The U.S. Federal Election Commission has greenlighted Google's request to keep political emails sent by authorized candidate committees, political party committees, and leadership political action committees from being labeled as spam.
The search giant sent its request to the commission in June with the goal of confirming whether the program would amount to some sort of contribution to political campaigns, according to Axios (opens in new tab). Private companies like Google are prohibited from making contributions to federal candidates in accordance with the Federal Election Campaign Act.
However, because Gmail is a free service, the FEC considers the program to "be in keeping with Google's ordinary business practices." Google's pilot program does not violate any laws, according to the commission.
Political candidates and party committees will need to apply for the program to have their campaigns exempted from Gmail's spam detection systems. Google came under fire over accusations that it disproportionately filtered Republican campaign emails sent through Gmail.
The email will include notifications asking users if they want to continue receiving this type of email. This means they'll have control over how they want to receive political campaigns and direct these messages to their spam folders.
"Unless a user opts out in the first message or any subsequent messages from a particular sender, the user would continue receiving messages from that sender," the FEC said in a memo (opens in new tab). "Moreover, Gmail users would be able to express their preferences at any time and affect future delivery by marking a sender's message as either spam or not spam."
Political emails must also include a one-click unsubscribe button for users to easily opt out of receiving such messages.
In a statement to Android Central, a company representative said that Google "will reflect on the positive and negative feedback received during the public comment period."
"Our goal during this pilot program is to assess alternative ways of addressing concerns from bulk senders, while giving users clear controls over their inboxes to minimize unwanted email," the spokesperson added.
Google will begin exempting campaign fundraising emails from Gmail's spam detection system this week. The pilot program comes after the U.S. Federal Election Commission gave Google a go-signal in August.
"We expect to begin the pilot with a small number of campaigns from both parties and will test whether these changes improve the user experience, and provide more certainty for senders during this election period," Google's José Castañeda told Axios (opens in new tab). "We will continue to listen and respond to feedback as the pilot progresses."
During this stage, Gmail users will notice a more visible unsubscribe button, which they can immediately click if they do not wish to continue receiving a given fundraising email.


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Q: How to add href route in blade for multi language? So I have creted my group in web.php
Route::redirect('/', '/it');

Route::group(['prefix' => '{locale}'], function () {

    Route::get('/','HomeController@index');

    Route::get('/business', 'BusinessViewController@index');
    Route::post('business', 'BusinessViewController@store');
    Route::get('/business/create', 'BusinessViewController@create');
    Route::get('/business/{slug}', 'BusinessViewController@show');

    Route::get('/contact', 'ContactController@index');

});

Also created the middleware SetLanguage.php:
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
    App::setLocale($request->segment(1));
    URL::defaults(['locale' => $request->segment(1)]);
    return $next($request);
}

I addeed the middleware class to middlewareGroups - "web" in Kernal.php
Now how should I add href links in blade.php?
{{__('common.list')}}  This line does not bring to correct language.
I do not want session, I want that the language is in the url:
www.weburl.com**/en/**something

A: So I found the solution, what you need to route the link. so like this:
getLocale()) }}">{{__('common.contact_us')}}

and to work this you have to add the name to the Route in web.php like this:
Route::get('/contact', 'ContactController@index')->name('contact');

if you do not add the name, it will say Route not found.

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Ofgem commits to 50% female workforce by 2025
UK energy regulator Ofgem has made a commitment to diversity, and will ensure that 50% of workforce, at all levels, will be female by 2025. The regulator is calling on other UK businesses to follow suit.
The regulator has become the latest member of the UK's POWERful Women Initiative (PfW), and the full pledge Ofgem has published with PfW is to achieve 50% female representation across all its pay grades, from the most junior roles all the way up to Senior Civil Servant. Current (2019) levels are as follows: Grades A-C – 47.7%; grade D – 44.6%; grade E – 32.88% and SCS – 33.33%.
–Ed's note: The benefits of promoting women in energy
–UK energy chiefs call for renewed gender equality efforts
–US: National Grid recognised for diversity in workforce management
Dermot Nolan, Chief Executive of Ofgem, said; "At Ofgem, we think it's hugely important to put more effort and resources into becoming a more diverse organisation. We recently launched our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy which includes the target to achieve 50% female representation across all its pay grades, from the most junior roles all the way up to our Senior Civil Servants. Over the same time period, we aspire to achieve a minimum of 18% minority ethnic representation across all Ofgem pay grades, with at least 9% at each grade being women from an ethnic minority. This should render our gender and ethnicity pay gaps negligible.'
"We want to become a more diverse organisation, not just because it's the right thing to do, but also because we think it will help us to make better decisions. Evidence shows that an organisation that has people from a wide range of backgrounds and with a range of experiences will be able to bring together new ideas and challenge established thinking.
"I am calling on the energy sector to also take steps to make their workforces more diverse, particularly at senior levels as that will help make you make better decisions and ultimately better serve your customers."
–Ed's note: In celebration of women
–Encouraging women to leadership roles in transmission and distribution
The commitment is part of a new internal diversity strategy published by Ofgem this year. It also includes a pledge on improving the representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic females.
Louise Kingham, Board Member of PfW and Chief Executive of the Energy Institute, said;
"Ofgem's commitment to drive inclusion and balance in the organisation is very welcome indeed. It's right for the organisation, its people and the customers it ultimately seeks to serve. Ofgem is increasingly holding energy companies to account on this agenda, to understand actions companies are taking to change, and as they progress they will be able to share their learnings too."
The latest statistics on gender balance at senior levels in the UK's energy companies show that progress across the sector is slow:
• Women still occupy only 16% of board seats (a marginal increase from 13% in 2018);
• Women still occupy only 6% of executive board seats (no improvement);
• 42% of the companies have no women on their boards at all (a small improvement from 50% in 2018).
Some other organisations in the sector are also showing leadership. The Energy Leaders' Coalition, launched by POWERful Women in 2018, comprises 8 CEOs who have made a public commitment to improve gender balance in their own companies and across the energy industry. They have published research identifying barriers to diversity and inclusion and a plan of action to make concrete improvements. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is aiming to be a 50:50 department by embedding diversity and inclusion across its teams and acting as a role model for businesses
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Philip Gordon is based in Clarion Energy's Cape Town office as a Content Producer for the Smart Energy International and Power Engineering International media titles. Phil's interests include the energy transition, smart grid technologies, smart city technologies, and e-mobility in all its forms. His media experience spans B2B and consumer print, commercial copywriting, and radio over the past 19 years.
New WEF report provides roadmap to net-zero carbon cities
IoT for utilities: Harnessing big data from grid's edge
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Ditch IE7 and we'll give you a FREE COMPUTER, says incautious US firm
Internet Explorer 7 holdouts are being offered a brand new computer by a US company sick of working to support Microsoft's legacy browser. Before you get too excited, you must be a customer of the company. Following a new website launch, NursingJobs.us has determined it is cheaper to buy each customer using IE7 a brand new …
Thursday 30th January 2014 06:20 GMT Cliff
Rare pragmatic response
How refreshing that someone costed both sides of the equation, worked out what was cheaper, worked out it came with free PR, and took it. I've been caught up in idiotic infrastructure systems with massive security black holes and staggering running costs just so we could deliver payslips electronically instead of on paper. I costed it, it was a saving of nearly 70% to revert to the paper system (more when you consider that people would then print their own payslips on company printers anyway), but it wasn't considered a viable option.
People are funny, if you employ an engineer to optimise a problem why not listen?
Thursday 30th January 2014 06:31 GMT as2003
Re: Rare pragmatic response
In this case, I don't think they've factored in the number of less-than-scrupulous users who will suddenly discover they have been using IE7 all this time.
Thursday 30th January 2014 06:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Hold on, what operating system are they still using? Just buy them a copy of Win 7 or 8, cheaper than a new computer?
Yup then getting people complaining that it doesn't run on their 9 year old P2 with 1gb of RAM.
Thursday 30th January 2014 09:43 GMT Malcolm 1
That way you end up supporting their OS install - if you get them a new PC it becomes the PC manufacturer's support problem.
Thursday 30th January 2014 09:56 GMT JDX
I doubt it was really cheaper. More than likely, they designed their new site without proper thought and then realised "oh shit, it doesn't work on IE7 and all our customers use it". And now it's cheaper to do this than rework it all.
They probably let some bright-eyed graduates on the job, who were determined to do the whole thing in the newest web technologies just because they're new and cool.
It's a recruitment site. It doesn't need loads of HTML5 and a super-efficient JS compiler. It shouldn't anyway.
Thursday 30th January 2014 11:31 GMT Wilseus
"I doubt it was really cheaper. More than likely, they designed their new site without proper thought and then realised "oh shit, it doesn't work on IE7 and all our customers use it". And now it's cheaper to do this than rework it all."
Says a person who fairly obviously has never coded even a simple HTML page in his life.
Thursday 30th January 2014 12:33 GMT Adam 1
There is nonetheless a big difference between it being unfeasible to spend 50% longer to get it to work on internet explorer for the benefit of 1% of users and suggesting that it would be cheaper to buy them all new PCs.
Thursday 30th January 2014 21:11 GMT Tom 13
Re: obviously has never coded even a simple HTML page
Nah, he codes them all the time. He just only uses MS apps to do the coding and testing. If anybody calls about bad rendering in Firefox or Safari, JD tells them to buy a real operating system and use IE which is included for free.
At least that's what he does if you believe his posting history.
"More than likely, they designed their new site without proper thought and then realised "oh shit, it doesn't work on IE7 and all our customers use it".
So... did you read the article at all, maybe? Such as the part where it says: "NursingJobs.us reckons IE7 makes up 1.22 per cent of its traffic."
Thursday 30th January 2014 14:21 GMT sisk
I don't doubt it was cheaper at all. You'd be shocked at how quickly costs rise when you add another browser to support, especially when its one that doesn't support the standard tech that every other browser does.
The point is it doesn't cost much more if you plan on it up front, rather than design everything on Chrome and then try to make it work on other browsers later.
By which you must mean specifying that the whole system CAN'T have feature XY and Z in budget / time specified because of IE7 support, rather than built to IE7 and Standards compliant?
And planning up front isn't how business buy websites/web apps these days. You get a "spec" on the back of a fag packet, make a start, see if it's close to what the customer wants, make the early changes, develop it, change it, rinse and repeat then and slap a badge on it that says "Agile".
Echoing what the other AC said - it sounds like you haven't created a basic page, let alone in a business environment... IE7 (and 8 to a lesser extent) is always accompanied by a groan when it's mentioned in a spec, as you have to do a lot of work twice, or use hacks to get simple JavaScript to work.
"It's a recruitment site. It doesn't need loads of HTML5 and a super-efficient JS compiler" - times change, people EXPECT the newer features they've seen on other sites to be included in their site, especially if there are competitors out there (in fact, no, even internal customers intranet sites expect these features).
"The point is it doesn't cost much more if you plan on it up front, rather than design everything on Chrome and then try to make it work on other browsers later."
I agree with the sentiments of both your posts JDX, but sometimes things depreciate too far to work with in retrofitting drafts. For instance, while it is possible to make a VCR play both VHS and BetaMax, it probably won't be cheaper than trading out the machine.
That being said, I've seen and have personally committed clumsy drafting myself. So your point may be wrong here, but never the less, someone is demonstrating your sentiment at this very moment..
NZ MOH doing the same thing, giving $1500 towards each computer
The NZ MOH (its DHBs) have been giving resthome providers up to $1500 for each device they need to connect to their on-line database, so long as it's Windows! Yes believe it or not, they are so out of touch that Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera etc, are not an option, or at least these were not an option until all rest home providers had already been effectively mandated to use Windows 98/2000 or XP, (Windows 7 added just a few months ago). There must be thousands of resthome providers, many run dozens of rest homes.
Well done Microsoft, exceptional vendor lock-in success. Or rather, very badly done NZ MOH, you are on another planet.
Thursday 30th January 2014 08:45 GMT Fihart
Re: NZ MOH doing the same thing, giving $1500 towards each computer
Similar to my brother's bitter comment that, not long after Bill Gates visited UK Premier Tony Blair, my nephew's school circulated parents that they'd need to upgrade to the latest Microsoft Office or their kids wouldn't be able to submit homework.
Thursday 30th January 2014 07:09 GMT jake
I ditched IE in 2000.
Haven't looked back.
Ugly, ugly, ugly attempt at building a web browser.
Thursday 30th January 2014 07:35 GMT Noodle Noggin
Re: I ditched IE in 2000.
"Haven't looked back.
Ugly, ugly, ugly attempt at building a web browser."
So you're ignorant of what it's like now, 13 years later. Did you think this'd make you look good somehow? (Rhetorical question, considering the source.)
Thursday 30th January 2014 08:12 GMT AMBxx
I switched to Firefox sometime ago.
Must admit, I much prefer IE11 to the bloat of the more recent versions of Firefox. Only stay on Firefox as I've not got round to getting up to speed with IE addons.
Thursday 30th January 2014 08:33 GMT Arctic fox
@ AMBxx I agree. Whilst I still use Firefox........
..........as my preferred browser (habit I guess, although not solely that) I am obliged to admit that with IE10 I began to review my automatic hostility to Redmond's offerings in that area. I have been trialling IE11 for some little while now and am obliged to admit that it is a world away from anything they produced in the past. Pity it took them so long to get genuinely serious about good browser design.
Thursday 30th January 2014 12:06 GMT illiad
you need to try FF ESR - its for companies who prefer a stable platform, no problems caused by all those dev builds..
I say the same as I say to all those iphone 'hopefulls' - when the spec (not just the PR!!!) is as good or better than the competition, I WILL buy one!! Iphone getting a 1280 x 1024 res, 5 in screen??? ROFLMAO... :)
when IE gets fully customisable action buttons, a full library of addons like FF, can use the 'Fanboy Adblock List' directly, including all the needed flash and script blockers... THEN I'll think about it... :D :D
Thursday 30th January 2014 12:54 GMT Mad Chaz
Hey may be ignorant of what it's like now, but his description still fits with the modern version. Didn't it fail to render even msn.com properly when IE11 launched?
IE11 failed to render a lot of stuff when first launched - including Outlook Web Access, MS CRM, and the MS Partner site!
Apparently, it's the improvements to the javascript processing that have caused the problems.
My daily driver is Chrome, but IE10 and 11 are noticeably more responsive than Chrome on heavy websites (typically those modern affairs which require scrolling and panning of full page images/videos).
Thursday 30th January 2014 11:40 GMT Hellcat
I use Chrome on a daily basis also, but recently I have added IE back to the task bar. Chrome just seems to be getting slower - perhaps that is just a perception?
Which browser wasn't ugly in 2000?
> Which browser wasn't ugly in 2000?
I don't remember, with all the < blink> around whoever stopped to consider such questions?
What will they give me if I turn up at their website using Mosaic, a new house??
Paris can give me a bed bath any time!!
(Just dont tell the wife!!)
Re: Just a thought
Mosaic? You graphical Johnny-come-lately!
Lynx gets you a whole village!
Thursday 30th January 2014 07:34 GMT Nick Ryan
IE is much better than it was previously...
It used to be an exercise in abject frustration, getting a website to work according to standards and then having to go back and fuck it all up so it rendered nearly as expected in IE. Of course, if you were an idiot you "designed" the website for IE in the first place... and then got bit by it's steady iteration to actually applying most of the standards in a recognisable manner.
Thursday 30th January 2014 13:27 GMT Kubla Cant
Re: IE is much better than it was previously...
It still won't run on anything except Windows :)
Actually, there still seem to be compatibility issues. A client called me recently about an old GWT application I wrote for him some five years ago. In the latest IE version it displays blank screens. It continues to work without issue in the latest versions of FF and Chrome. Leopard, spots.
Thursday 30th January 2014 08:24 GMT Hans 1
I was tasked with writing a web site that supports the following browsers:
ie6-10
I wrote it for FF and it worked as expected in safari, acceptable in 9, & 10, I then had to add a load of hacks to get it to display in ie 6, 7, 8. This, obviously, broke 9, and 10, so I had to add even more hacks ... and the worst thing was, the website was not even fancy. Really dead basic css ... web dev is not my expertise, I must admit, but I asked one of my mates who is and he said I was crazy to even try.
Thursday 30th January 2014 08:56 GMT Blitterbug
I feel your pain, Hans
Having been down the same route. Now we live in a happy world where it really makes little difference which browser you use, and mainly comes down to personal taste. I mainly use Chrome, despite my Microsoft bent (hmm), due to its portability, and these days I tend to measure a browser's worth by how easy it is to dislodge spoogeware such as Inbox, Ask, Babylon, et al (hint - IE = easy peasy, Chrome = harder, FF = bloody difficult).
Downvotes ahoy, me hearties!
Re: I feel your pain, Hans
what do you mean by spoogeware??? Adblock solves most of my probs - you can even hide certain irritating elements of a webpage.. :)
script & flash block does the rest..
Re: what do you mean by spoogeware???
Well, I'm glad to see you keep away from <ahem> certain websites that infest many (most?) of my clients' similarly locked-down browsers. Also, I believe I actually did name a few examples! Most of this crud gets on machines when people download trojan-riddled freeware, and / or respond to 'Your PC is running slowly - click here to fix!' stuff. And not all adblockers catch all of these.
I should point out also that my browsing is also like yours - spoogeware free, and I intend to keep it that way!
Thursday 30th January 2014 09:35 GMT Charlie Clark
To be fair, and I dislike IE < 9 pretty intensely, IE 6, 7, 8 were in their own way standards compliant. Unfortunately, they supported a standard box model that was subsequently changed. This is the biggest problem when working with them but it's a biggie because of the way we do sites in a post-table-layout, pre-flexbox world. Add to that the real bugs they do have and supporting them does become a real problem. And, then there is Microsoft's intransigence in welding the browser to the OS.
@Charlie Clark
"Unfortunately, they supported a standard box model that was subsequently changed."
There was never anything standard about the abortion that is the IE6-8 box layout scheme. While it was possible to apply dumb-as-hell "fixes" to work around the complete incompetence that generally revolved around the "hasLayout" attribute there were so many other fundamental failures that it was usually an exercise in hair yanking rampant insanity inducing pain just to make older versions of IE render something in any way that approached the standards or what would have been reasonably expected. I still put HTML and CSS together very defensively as a result...
Thursday 30th January 2014 10:20 GMT A J Stiles
It's Microsoft's own fault for thinking they didn't have to bother complying with standards. Some of us can't run IE. So I develop against Firefox, test additionally on Konqueror and Android Browser, and call that "good enough". I don't even consider IE a target, for want of any way to test against it. If it works, that's a bonus; if it doesn't, well, you can just use Firefox instead.
Then there's what I call The Nuclear Option:
$browser = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
if ($is_ie = preg_match("/msie/i", $browser) && !preg_match("/opera/i", $browser)) {
header("Location: http://getfirefox.com/");
Thursday 30th January 2014 10:37 GMT AndyS
Re: No Brainer
Refusing to serve your site to someone using a specific browser that you haven't tested for?
Why yes, that seems like a sensible way to behave.
Thursday 30th January 2014 10:48 GMT t20racerman
"Refusing to serve your site to someone using a specific browser that you haven't tested for?
Why yes, that seems like a sensible way to behave."
Absoutely - it is called Personal Choice. We aren't all determined to please everyone all the time (unless forced to as a web designer), sometimes its nice to please yourself and if people don't want to use something appropriate to see you site, fair enough - they have a choice too!
I think he forgot the 'sarcasm' tag... :D
Thursday 30th January 2014 14:17 GMT phil dude
M$ does it , so why shouldn't everyone else?
I am not sure *which* piece of M$ software does it , but a number of sites I have been to (less these days) , produce a blank , empty HTML page.
Usually changing your User-agent string to "IE" (on firefox/opera its easy) seem to fix it for most. Although not always....
yeah its a pity about the new opera... :'( its now just simpler to go chrome, it looks the same!!!!
Microsoft's own fault for thinking they didn't have to bother complying with standards
Back in the bad old days, nobody considered standards important. FOSS didn't really exist, not in the mainstream anyway, and everyone developed their own 'standards' as a matter of course.
Thursday 30th January 2014 11:16 GMT Eradicate all BB entrants
Unfortunately no matter ....
.... how good MS make IE to use and work with there is an inherent hatred of it within the web development community. That will never disappear.
I use Firefox for 90%+ of my web needs, but it is getting fat and slow. Just here on this page it is using 370MB of memory with Adblock and NoScript running. Open another tab or two and it will shoot past half a gig. I have games that use less memory. I am currently logged into vSphere, with one console open and also RDP'd into 6 servers and all of that in total is using less memory than Firefox (I know GPU+GDDR is taking care of a lot of the work, but its also doing it for Firefox). Yet using IE11 to view my Spiceworks server is only using 70MB.
IE10/11 are miles ahead of 8/9, and you can use the adblock subscriptions with it. If Noscript becomes available for it I may start using IE more often.
Thursday 30th January 2014 13:20 GMT DanDanDan
Re: Unfortunately no matter ....
I think you mean... "fortunately no matter ...."
Refusing to support web standards when it suits your monopoly market share, then adopting them posthumously to avoid losing it as quickly is scummy and no matter how good your product now is, your past behaviour betrays you for who you really are. I hope they end up setting an example of why you shouldn't be as evil as possible in order to maximise profits.
No, I am quite sure I meant unfortunately.
As for making changes to how you do things when you start losing market share, isn't that just sensible?
P.S. Lehman Brothers already set that example :)
Thursday 6th February 2014 12:55 GMT DanDanDan
Sensible, yes. But wouldn't it be much better not to piss people off in the first place? The *only* reason that they didn't conform to web standards is because if web standards took off, they'd lose due to healthy competition (like they are doing now): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Usage_share_of_web_browsers_%28Source_StatCounter%29.svg
They had a (significantly) inferior product which they were able to keep because people had the sane concept of: "If I use another browser, the internet stops working". Web devs had developed their sites to only work in IE because it had a majority market share.
Abusing a monopoly to maintain your inferior product is poor form and they deserve punishing for it.
inherent hatred ... will never disappear.
I think it will. Already, people entering into web-development this decade may never have to work with IE6 at all. Those entering the field in a few years will never have to work with IE7 or 8, and with IE9 things took a big step forward.
Friday 31st January 2014 21:16 GMT illiad
memory hog??? how much memory have you got??? 4gig or more???
Do you know WHY IE is sloww?? it loads every page , *every* time, even the *same* one...
want MUCH faster page loading?? give up a TINY bit of your MASSIVE ram to store those pages, for it to load while you are reading one...
Thursday 30th January 2014 11:20 GMT mafoo
WHY! WON'T! YOU! DIE! IE!
Thursday 30th January 2014 11:37 GMT cambsukguy
When you drag a page...
...with Chrome, you get a mini non-working copy that is hard to position accurately. IE has a working page.
At least until I tried Chrome just now - produces a whole new window to drag around, which it presumably discards when you dock it. IE drags the 'process' around which makes re-docking more sensible.
Also IE allows the search/address box to share the real-estate with the tabs, couldn't manage to do that with Chrome not to mention that video starts up more slowly with Chrome and sometimes freezes and restarts.
That is on my 3-yr-old Win7 core i5 laptop - albeit with oodles of DRAM and an SSD.
Monday 3rd February 2014 21:50 GMT Jason 5
Re: When you drag a page...
Your use of Chrome doesn't sound typical. How corrupt is your Windows directory and registry?
I see Jake is still either on netscape navigator or he (naturally) uses a browser he helped develop in the 20's back when only him and the other illuminati were allowed on line.
I love the register. not many places do you see people admitting they are totally ignorant about a product (having not touched iot for 14 years) and then offering an opinion.
I know it's trendy here on the Reg to hate MS. Out here in the real world though I support many SMEs who couldn't tell you want a browser was never mind name one. In that real world these SMEs are happily using whatever version of IE MS has slung out onto their system with zero issues at all. None.
Yes I install alternatives when I sell them kit but there's no forcinig them to use it.
I have IE8 on my XP VM
IE8 installs on XP & Vista, don't get the need for a new PC if all they require is IE8, unless this is just for publicity.
Thursday 30th January 2014 12:39 GMT Keep Refrigerated
Just the browser?
None of these users will be particularly web savvy or be using their PC for extended amounts of time, or to it's full capability - why not distribute Chromebooks instead?
Chromebooks would be cheaper, they don't have to worry about the user needing to setup anything or keep IE up to date. If it's just for accessing their website - they would still score a marketing win by giving these away for free.
Sure some people might reject the unfamiliarity of Chrome, but with later versions of IE taking design pointers from Chrome and Firefox, those kinds of users will probably reject the unfamiliarity of new IE too.
Why are they using IE7 anyway?
I really like the concept of forcing people off IE7 but in reality there's no good reason to use it putting aside the other browsers.
XP machines can update to IE8 and also XP is end of life in April and therefore IE9 should be the minimum browser supported. Companies should have to support software which MS are no longer supporting.
Thursday 30th January 2014 21:31 GMT pacman7de
Running a modern browser?
"Following a new website launch, NursingJobs.us has determined it is cheaper to buy each customer using IE7 a brand new computer running a "modern" browser rather than making its slick new site IE7 compatible"
Are they under the impression that it's necessary to buy a new computer rather than installing a "modern" browser?
Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera browser ...
If only....
If only the company I work for used modern technology to their benefit. We just finished converting 85% of the web applications built in house to IE8. Of those 45% work with Windows 7 IE8 and 60% of the workstations have been upgraded to Win 7.
This isn't job security any more....this is "can you keep your sanity"


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SUNDAY JANUARY 3, 2016 CABLE TV RATINGS
Select Ratings from Original Cable telecasts on Sunday January 3, 2016:
DOWNTON ABBEY began its sixth and final season on PBS with a massive 9.9 million viewers (6.2 HH rating), down from the 10.1M who watched the fifth season premiere, and 10.2M who watched the fourth season premiere. On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES ATLANTA rose to 3.04 million viewers this week (from 2.98m), and NEWLYWEDS: THE FIRST YEAR was at 1.16m. KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS, on E!, returned from a 2-week hiatus, to 2.54 million viewers (from 1.89m), and THE ROYALS rose to 824,000 viewers (from 671K). On A&E, HOARDERS was at 1.12m and 1.01m viewers for its 2 episodes, and BROKEN SKULL CHALLENGE, on CMT, began its third season with 502,000 viewers (down from the 714K for the second season finale). On Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (HMM), a movie entitled GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT had 943,000 viewers, and on Lifetime Movie Network (LMN), THE WRONG ROOMATE was at 1.14m viewers. STARTALK, on Nat Geo, dropped to 156,000 viewers (from 180K), and SNAPPED, on Oxygen, returned to 435,000 (from 447K). Among lower-rated cables, MILLION DOLLAR PRINCESSES, on Smithsonian, was at 178,000 viewers, X-RAY MEGA AIRPORT began with 78,000 viewers, and finally, PORTRAIT ARTIST OF THE YEAR, on Ovation, fell all the way to 10,000 viewers (from 43K).
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America's Funniest Videos ABC 3.4/5 1.13/3 0.7/3 1.5/4 5.941
Galavant ABC 1.8/3 0.86/2 0.6/2 1.0/2 3.197
Undercover Boss CBS 5.0/8 1.55/4 0.8/3 2.2/5 7.987
Sunday Night Football: MIN/GB NBC 13.8/23 7.91/23 6.3/23 9.6/24 24.286
The Simpsons FOX 2.6/4 1.96/6 1.6/6 2.1/5 4.405
Cooper Barrett's Guide FOX 1.6/2 1.19/3 1.0/3 1.3/3 2.621
Family Guy FOX 2.0/3 1.69/5 1.5/5 1.8/4 3.264
Bordertown FOX 1.4/2 1.13/3 0.9/3 1.2/3 2.340
60 Minutes (CBS) 1.4/5 1.9/7 2.4/7 3.1/9
America's Funniest Videos (ABC) 0.7/3 0.6/2 1.3/4 1.0/3
Bordertown (Fox) 0.8/3 1.1/4 0.9/3 1.3/4
Cooper Barrett's Guide/Surviving Life (Fox) 0.9/3 1.1/4 1.0/3 1.4/4
Family Guy (Fox) 1.3/4 1.8/6 1.3/4 2.0/6
Galavant (ABC) 0.7/2 0.5/2 1.0/3 0.7/2
Sunday Night Football (NBC) 4.9/17 7.8/29 5.8/17 10.0/30
The Simpsons (Fox) 1.4/5 1.9/7 1.6/5 2.3/7
Undercover Boss (CBS) 0.8/3 0.9/3 1.6/4 1.5/4
Real Housewives Atlanta
Long Island Medium
Worst Cooks
Newlyweds: The First Year
Hoarders (9pm)
Hoarders (10pm)
Caribbean Life (9pm)
Beachfront Bargain Hunt (8pm)
Guy's Grocery Games
Caribbean Life (9:30pm)
Ax Men
Beachfront Bargain Hunt (8:30pm)
Married By Mom & Dad
Island Life (10pm)
Island Life (10:30pm)
On the Case
The Wrong Roommate
Diners, Driveins, & Dives
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Finding Bigfoot
Giada Entertains
Southern at Heart
Broken Skull Challenge
Brunch at Bobbys
North Woods Law
Mythbusters Holiday
Guy's Big Bites
A Haunting
Garage Gold
Startalk
Million Dollar Princesses
RuPaul's Drag Race: Ruvealed
X-Ray Mega Airport
Closeup with the Hollywood Reporter
SundanceTV
Portrait Artist of the Year
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pedalpanam » My 15 minutes?
In case you missed it the other night, here is a link to my interview with Phil Ponce on Chicago Tonight. I was contacted by them and was asked if I wanted to come in for a segment. This being WTTW and a great show, I thought it too good an opportunity to turn down.
So there you are! Many thanks to Chicago Tonight for having me!
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Very Cool! Great interview. Again, it made me think of my modest little ride of 2,950 miles zig-zagging north to south-east from Minneapolis to Miami years ago, when folks likewise opened up their homes and churches with gracious hospitality to unknown strangers. You look great after all the miles!
Awesome story! I sent you an email but just wanted to check up on here. I'm assistant arts & culture editor at the Columbia Chronicle and a cycling enthusiast. I'd love to do a profile on you. If you have any time in the next few days for a phone interview, let me know. My work phone is (312) 369-8975. Hope to hear back from you!


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The highly popular PAC-MAN 256 game that first debuted for mobile is now coming to console and PC systems later this year. Developed by Hipster Whale (makers Crossy Road) of and 3 Sprockets, PAC-MAN 256 will be available digitally for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam on June 21st.
PAC-MAN 256 will allow players to experience the award winning mobile game on console with new features exclusive to the console versions. In addition to the social sharing options and 10 unlockable themes, gamers can play with up to 4 friends via the local co-op multiplayer mode. Also worth noting is that the infamous "256 Glitch" from the mobile version has made its way to the console/PC version as well.
"We have really enjoyed working with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and Hipster Whale on PAC-MAN 256 for mobile, and having the opportunity to ship it on the latest generation of consoles and PC is the icing on the cake for us! We can't wait to see how much fun players have with it" says Seon Rozenblum, Director at 3 Sprockets.
With the huge success of Pac-Man 256, Bandai Namco and Hipster Whale have been hard at work to release a new content update. Additionally, the game has recently crossed more than 13 million downloads, so what better way to celebrate. This update features four new powerups — Sonar, Electric, Radar, and Cherries — that are available for free.
From there, one new theme is available through an in-app purchase for $0.99. The new theme will turn Pac-Man 256 into the classic 80's style that everyone has come to know and love. Apart from that though, Pac-Man 256 also has improved support for iOS 9 and Everyplay integration, allowing players to instantly record and share their gameplay.
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This year the theme of B.I.G. Weekend was Renew. Over the weekend we looked at the life of one of Jesus' 12 disciples, Peter. We witnessed the renewal of Peter's own life as we followed the narrative of his discipleship with Christ, his encounter with the risen Christ, and his ministry of the gospel after the ascension of Christ. We pray lasting memories and relationships were formed this weekend as we heard the testimony of one man's renewed life, and see how it led to his renewed mind and renewed message. Thanks to all who prayed for the weekend and all who volunteered their homes or time to serve for Big Weekend.
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She Said "Play The Race Card" – Oh No
It happened at the Apple Store. Launch Day for the iPhone: long lines, no lunch, and everything that could go wrong with my order did go wrong. 4 hours later I was still cool until I had to let somebody know what's what. When I got home I expressed my anger on Facebook.
My Facebook Post: Y'all think I'm sweet. You don't even know. Just ask that lady at the Apple Store who said to two black young men near me "if you say one more word, I'm going to call the police." I had no choice but to insert myself in that situation.
Facebook Friend 1: Oh my! What did you say?
Facebook Friend 2: Thank God you were there!
Facebook Friend 3: Oh hells no!
Facebook Friend 4: What.
Facebook Friend 5: I REALLY want to know what you said and how that situation turned out. But without even knowing, I'm so glad you were there!!!
My Husband: You guys have nooooooo idea who this woman is! And I love her for that.
Facebook Friend 6: Boom!
Facebook Friend 7: I gotta hear the end of that. Share.
Facebook Friend 8: Okay we need details. So beyond proud of you!!
Facebook Friend 9: Just ask me how sweet you were in 7th grade.
What Happened In The Apple Store
Me: Picture this: two young men, dressed in polo button downs, nice watches and designer jeans, buying iPhones on launch day with their parent's money. The woman was….at the end of the class spectrum, to put it nicely. I did not have all the facts, but it seems like the woman and the boys had words the whole time they were in line outside. Then the one of the boys said something smart under his breath when the woman passed him in the store. Yes, he was a privileged little smart-ass, BUT this woman was like 50 years old and these kids were 18 or 19.
All I could see was my son. When she said "if you say one more word, I'm going to call the police" at the top of her lungs, clearly for all around to hear, I calmly reminded her that she was the adult, they were kids and if she thought they were out of hand or felt "threatened" as she said (give me a f**ing break, I guaranteed these kids were seniors at Westminster or Morehouse freshman and couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag), tell the Apple store manager to deal with them but to call the police on two young BLACK BOYS for saying things she didn't like, she needs to check that.
And then it got ugly when she said, "how dare you play the race card with me – my husband is a brown man" (standing next to her, he was brown, yes, but not African American). Ya'll KNOW those were fighting words! "Race Card?!" I said, "Oh, you don't know me – who do you think you are talking to?" And yup, it was ON and escalating quickly.
Many Apple employees intervened to break us up and she ended up in the corner crying "how dare she call me racist" (which I did not). The boys slinked away to the other side of the room. I got distracted and couldn't find them again, otherwise I would have given them a talking to – while this woman was crazy and wrong for "calling the police" on these boys and really a bully, their smart asses were going to land in jail. Confronted with the situation, a cop would have taken this low-class woman's word over theirs – no matter who their daddy was. They really needed to know that. They had no clue, during the whole exchange they looked like two deer in headlights.
Facebook Friend 10: GOOD. FOR. YOU!! I wish you could have spoken to the boys too, but I'm happy you put her in her rightful place! Threatening to call the police over words from teens. With all the sensitivity happening now, she wanted to escalate some sillyness? Smh…
Facebook Friend 11: Man oh man. I don't even know what to say. Ready to call the police? Whats the charge….being black and male? And she said it out loud and has a "brown man?!?" I'm sooooo glad you were there..and not me. Maybe I'm not as calm as I thought because this really disturbs me. It realllllllly does….
Facebook Friend 12: I guess she doesn't have any "brown" boys at home. Seriously. Be an adult and tell those boys what's what. But call the police? That sounds like a death sentence these days.
Facebook Friend 13: Crazy!
Facebook Friend 14: She knew exactly what calling the police meant and was willing to test her societal privilege by threatening their lives simply because she could. Because calling the police on a black man means that he could die, even if he's the victim…and more than any other time this is irrefutable! Excellent intervention!!!
Me: Actually Friend 12, I think she did have kids because she kept saying "they were rude and my kids would have never been rude like that". I did not deny that – it sounds like the boys were being spoiled brats – but I told her that she should have told someone in the store to get them kicked out the line if they were being that horrible. Really the argument was stupid…something like the boys would not move up in line when they should have. But to still be shouting an hour after the fact AND threaten to call the police in a very loud voice was, like you said, a possible death sentence these days. Married to a "brown" man or not, she knew that was her ace in the hole and she used it.
Facebook Friend 15: Wow….young black men need to wake up and think about their actions…thank goodness for you.
Me: Facebook Friend 11, the charge would have been, in her words, harassment. The kid said "oh so now you want to stand by me" when she passed him, so from what I understand, she felt that he was holding up the line outside and he felt that she was not wanting to stand next to him and his friend. I don't know, whatever, it was stupid – and hardly harassment. And her husband was right there – her life was not in any danger. And she was talking to a KID – seriously, he had braces and pimples. I assume a college freshman because they were out of school, but he could have been in high school. Chastise his little smart ass or get him kicked out of the line, but threatening to call the police was taking it too far. Tension was already high from the long lines. This is how people end up dead.
Facebook Friend 11: Yeah, it's beyond sad when people think the first option for any conflict with us is the police. I wonder what's the real goal…subconsciously…under it all….erase us from America? All of us in jail and only deal with the black folks you tolerate or like? Ugh. I hate it. Let me find some Dave Chapelle specials on youtube or something. I need a laugh right now..a smile. Thanks for sharing the story.
Me: Facebook Friend 14, these kids didn't even think. Unfortunately I am sure they believe that what they see on TV does not apply to them….after all they are not criminals or thugs or drug dealers – or whatever they *think* one needs to be to end up in jail, or worse, dead. Child, don't nobody care who your parents are or how much money they have. We have learned the questions will be asked after the fact – if at all.
Facebook Friend 14: That is what is so crazy….calling the police could have been a death sentence….that lady fully understood her threat….it is ashamed we have to be fearful of their very people that are suppose to be there to protect.
Facebook Friend 16: I hope and pray should my kids ever need it, you are standing nearby to come to their defense. Married to a brown man does not exempt you from being racist….where did she get that from?
Me: I saw my son in those boys – not that he would have talked to an adult like that, but just a kid who was in a situation that could have taken a turn for the worse really fast. The boys were clearly in over their heads, smart asses – yes, but no threat. If the police was called, I would have been there with them as a witness, I would not have let them go alone. And if that woman doesn't think that her husband would be profiled at an airport (he was brown like Middle Eastern or Indian) she doesn't travel much.
Facebook Friend 16: I know! But it's sad that our kids cant be kids for fear of a situation turning very bad. What did her husband say during the whole thing?
Me: Oh he was right there with her, co-signing, but she was clearly the vocal (and most crazy) one. Did I mention that these were grown people? And not small in stature. The kids did not look threatening in the least. Except they were black boys, I guess to some that is threatening enough.
Facebook Friend 17: Yay. For. You.
Facebook Friend 18: That is crazy and ridiculous both at the same time-The woman was crazy and her husband was ridiculous. Good for you.
Facebook Friend 19: These are the lessons we must teach our young men. Even if your kid wouldn't act like that, you have to warm them about being around and getting caught up with some kids that may. So sad. Some people don't even have to have such convos with their young men.
Facebook Friend 20: As you should have.
Me: Facebook Friend 19, I know what you're saying but actually I don't know what that conversation would look like. I mean if the boys were being rude I would tell them to check themselves but what if the woman started it? What if the boys were just defending themselves (if in a smart-assed way)? I wanted to hear their side of the story, but the woman just screamed over everyone.
Facebook Friend 19: Yeah I understand… Can't prepare them for things even we can't imagine happening. Or not knowing both sides. I still find it scary though.
Me: Yes, agreed, it is scary. And sad and frustrating and stressful.
Facebook Friend 21: You can never "behave" well enough to appease a bigot – nor should you try. White kids are often super rude to adults (AKA their parents) and to police but it seldom results in their deaths. John Crawford III was walking through Walmart doing what? Yeah. NOTHING! And only now that he is in danger of being sued is the white man who "felt threatened" and called the police recanting his story. That won't help John Crawford or his family though. Too bad no white person saw fit to check this woman's abhorrent behavior and the putrid attitude that birthed it. I'm sorry you were placed in the position to have to address her, but I am glad you did. You made a difference today! God bless you for doing that good deed that He planned in advance for you to do. You were on assignment today.
Facebook Friend 22: I wish you had gotten to speak to those boys afterwards. They need to know just what kind of crisis you may have averted for them.
Facebook Friend 23: Go Sherrelle!!!!
Me: If you haven't seen this before, it's worth watching. Jon Stewart nailed it.
Although my experience in the Apple Store was upsetting and mildly disruptive with shouting and name-calling, can you imagine how this would have gone down if it had happened the week of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner decisions?
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Four student start-ups are winners in latest "Boyd Venture Fund" challenge
on May 20 th, 2013
The Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ACEI) at the University of Tennessee's (UT) Knoxville campus has announced the winners of its latest "Boyd Venture Fund" challenge.
Three student-owned ventures split $25,000 in seed funding grants, and the UT Research Foundation offered space in the UT incubator to a fourth competitor. The space is valued at $3,000. Since the fund's inception in 2011, 11 student-owned companies have been awarded a total of $87,500 in seed capital to achieve milestones that advanced their businesses.
The spring 2013 winners were:
SummerSett Foods, a manufacturer and distributor of a line of frozen buffalo chicken dip that can go directly from the freezer to the microwave and previously profiled on teknovation.biz at https://www.teknovation.biz/2012/10/15/5241/.
Escadrille Cycling Apparel, a clothing company that specializes in high-end custom cycling apparel that improves functionality for cycling enthusiasts that was also profiled on teknovation.biz at https://www.teknovation.biz/2013/05/02/humble-cycling-start-up-naturally/.
PTlink, a software company that allows the physical therapist and the patient to connect more frequently insuring faster and more effective recovery.
Anna's Armoire, a Facebook-based, fixed-price jewelry and apparel merchandiser where buyers log into the site once a week to purchase limited quantity items.
"Creating new local businesses is the cornerstone to a community's success," said fund benefactor Randy Boyd, President and Chief Executive Officer of Radio Systems Corp. "These businesses create jobs, pay taxes that fund other investments such as education, and support the local community with philanthropy. I cannot imagine a better return on investment than supporting future generations of entrepreneurs."
Boyd Venture Fund grants are available to any UT Knoxville student-owned business and are awarded each spring and fall.
Profiles provided by ACEI on each company follow.
SummerSett Foods, LLC, founded by Jake Rheude (Marketing '14), markets a line of frozen buffalo chicken dips. Typical of many entrepreneurial endeavors, the company came about as a result of the founder wanting a product that wasn't available. When Jake arrived in Knoxville, he discovered that dips he had been familiar with in Cincinnati were not available in Knoxville. Seeing an opportunity, he and a business partner at the time set out to create and market a line of frozen buffalo chicken dips. The products have been developed, a local packager has been found and this award from the Boyd Venture Fund will allow SummerSett Foods to develop in-store merchandising materials to pursue contracts with local grocery store chains.
Escadrille Cycling Apparel, formally Privateer Cycling Apparel, was founded by Jordan Humble (Global Politics and Economics '13) who has created a line of high-end cycling apparel. Jordan, who has been on the US cycling team and raced in Europe, lamented that aside from a fabric change in the 1970's cycling apparel hadn't changed in a hundred years. He set out to change that by connecting with world class sporting apparel designers. Currently prototypes are being sown in LA but Jordan, who is from Chattanooga, intends to move production to East Tennessee in the future. When asked to describe his company in a few words, he describes it as "high-end" cycling apparel designed by cyclists for cyclists. His Boyd Venture Fund award will allow him to move forward with prototype development and marketing.
PTlink, LLC was founded by two biomedical engineering majors, Collin Howser ('14) and Trevor Geieco ('14). The interactive mobile app connects the patient to the clinician to improve communication and recovery in a rehabilitation setting. The app has two components – the clinical aspect has a simple interface, where the clinician can create a rehab program, and a patient graphic user interface that allows the patient to step through the therapy electronically. The patient and the clinician are "linked" to improve the entire process. The Boyd Venture Fund award will allow the founders to do extensive market research to validate or modify the product features.
Anna's Armoire, founded by Anna Gilbert (Retail and Consumer Science '14), is an on-line Facebook-based, fixed-price, jewelry and apparel merchandiser with an interesting twist. Anna locates unique jewelry and apparel, photographs it, and posts it on her Facebook page. On Sunday at 9:00PM (eastern), the site goes live and customers can log in to buy the limited quantity merchandise. Each picture shows the price and the quantity available for sale. Pictures change every 1-2 minutes. To buy, the customer comments "sold" on the picture.
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Get that baggage out of the way and you can connect with anyone.
Too many people succumb to the mistaken belief that the ability to connect with others is a natural, unteachable trait that belongs to only a lucky few. It's easy to fall prey to this misconception. In reality, this ability is under your control, and it's a matter of emotional intelligence (EQ).
Research conducted by Matthew Lieberman at UCLA shows that being social and connecting with others is as fundamental a human need as food, shelter, and water. For example, Lieberman discovered that we feel social pain, such as the loss of a relationship, in the same part of the brain that we feel physical pain.
The primary function of this brain area is to alert us to threats to our survival. It makes you realize how powerful and important social connection is. We're hard wired to be social creatures.
MRIs of the brain show that social thinking and analytical thinking involve entirely different neural networks and that they operate something like a seesaw. When you engage in analytical thinking, the social part of your brain quiets down, but as soon as you're finished, the social network springs back to life.
The social brain is the end of the seesaw where the fat kid sits; it's our brain's default setting.
Given that social connection is such a fundamental human need, you'd think that it would be easy to connect with everyone we meet. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Against our own self-interest, we get bogged down by shyness, self-consciousness, cynicism, pride, competitiveness, jealousy, and arrogance.
If you can get that baggage out of the way, you can connect with anyone—even those who are still holding on to their own. Here are some tips that will help you to connect instantly with everyone you meet.
1. Leave a strong first impression.
Research shows that most people decide whether or not they like you within the first seven seconds of meeting you. They then spend the rest of the conversation internally justifying their initial reaction. This may sound terrifying, but by knowing this, you can take advantage of it to connect with anyone.
First impressions are tied intimately to positive body language. Becoming cognizant of your gestures, expressions, and tone of voice (and making certain they're positive) will draw people to you like ants to a picnic. Using an enthusiastic tone, uncrossing your arms, maintaining eye contact, and leaning toward the person who's speaking are all forms of positive body language that high-EQ people use to draw others in. Positive body language can make all the difference in a conversation. It's true that how you say something can be more important than what you say.
2. Be the first to venture beyond the superficial.
Our first conversation or two with a new acquaintance tends to be pretty superficial. We portray a careful picture of ourselves, and we stick to nice, safe topics. We talk about the weather and people we know in common and share the most basic details about ourselves. But if you really want to connect with somebody, try upping the ante and revealing the real you. You don't need to get too personal, but it's important to let the other person know what you're passionate about. Most of the time, if you open up, the other person will follow your lead and do the same.
Ask good questions. If the other person seems hesitant to open up, encourage them to do so by asking substantial questions. "What do you do?" doesn't further the relationship nearly as much as, "Why did you choose your profession?" Search for questions that will help you to understand what makes the other person tick, without getting too personal.
In the course of his research, Lieberman concluded that our educational system would be much more effective if we tapped into the social side of learning, rather than trying to squash it. For example, the best way to help an eighth-grader struggling with math would be to have him get help from another student. Apply that same principle to your life, and be willing to learn from the person you're trying to connect with. Not only does that make them feel more bonded to you, it makes them feel important. It also shows that you're willing to be vulnerable and aren't too proud to admit that you have much to learn.
4. Don't make them regret removing the mask.
If your new acquaintance does you the honor of opening up, don't make them regret it. Sarcasm, criticism, or jokes that might make the other person feel judged for what they've shared are major faux paus. Instead, empathize with their approach to life, which you can do even if you don't agree with their beliefs, and then reciprocate by revealing more about yourself.
5. Look for the good in them.
Our culture can often predispose us toward cynicism. We seem to focus on finding reasons not to like people instead of reasons to like them. Shut that cynical voice off, and concentrate on looking for the good in a new acquaintance. For one thing, that keeps you from writing someone off too soon, but more importantly, when you expect the best from people, they're likely to deliver it.
People naturally (and unconsciously) mirror the body language of the person they're talking to. If you want people to like you, smile at them during a conversation and they will unconsciously return the favor and feel good about you as a result.
Your name is an essential part of your identity, and it feels terrific when people use it. You shouldn't use someone's name only when you greet them. Research shows that people feel validated when the person they're speaking with refers to them by name during a conversation. When you meet someone, don't be afraid to ask their name a second time if you forget it right after you hear it. You'll need to keep their name handy if you're going to remember it the next time you see them.
8. Follow the platinum rule.
We all know the golden rule, and it's pretty easy to follow. The platinum rule is harder to follow because it requires us to treat people the way they want to be treated. Not only does doing so make the other person more comfortable—and therefore more likely to open up—but it also proves that you've been listening and have really heard what they've been telling you. And that shows extra effort on your part.
9. Don't make it a contest.
We've all seen the stereotypical sitcom scene where two guys in a bar spend the night trying to one-up each other. The same thing happens when you meet someone new. Their accomplishments and life experience sneak up on you and make you feel the urge to make yourself look just as good (if not better). Doing so may stroke your ego, but it doesn't help you to connect with them. It keeps you focused on yourself when you should be trying to learn about them and find common ground.
10. Turn off your inner voice.
One giant thing that keeps us from connecting with other people is that we don't really listen. Instead, we're thinking while the other person is talking. We're so focused on what we're going to say next or what the other person is saying is going to affect us down the road that we fail to hear what's really being said. The words come through loud and clear, but the meaning is lost.
You must turn off this inner voice if you want to connect deeply with people. So what if you forget what you were going to say or if the conversation moves in a different direction before you have a chance to make your point? If your real goal is to connect with a person, you have to shut off your own soundtrack long enough to focus on what they're telling you.
The good news is that we're programmed to connect with each other; we just keep getting in our own way. Try these tips the next time you meet someone new, and watch a superficial conversation turn into a real connection.


Digital revenue now accounts for 49.8 per cent of revenue for the Out of Home (OOH) industry as shown in the results from the Outdoor Media Association (OMA) for the second quarter of 2018, up from 45.4 per cent for the same period the year before.
The industry as a whole has seen a double digit increase in revenue of 14.2 per cent on net media revenue year on year in Q2, to $225.7m this year, up from $197.5m in 2017. While the print slice of total outdoor advertising shrank, spend was still up, by $5m, from Q2 2016.
Digital revenue for the quarter was $112.4m, with print at $113.3m, compared to this time last year, where digital was $89.6m, and print at $107.8m.
The results come following two major shake ups in the OOH industry, with oOh!media winning the bidding war for Adshel for $570m and French giant JCDecaux securing APN Outdoor for $1.2bn. The ACCC is set to rule on both purchases on August 30.
Charmaine Moldrich, CEO, OMA says, "Out of Home is now firmly embedded in its role to be the always on place that people go to, to stay connected. Our digital network is providing the flexible, time-sensitive solution advertisers require, and traditional inventory will always deliver consistent place-based, broadcast messages.
Roadside Billboards (over and under 25 sqm) for Q2 2018 is generating revenue of $97.1m, up 24.3 per cent from 78.1m for the same period last year. The category grew 17 per cent from the first quarter of 2018, from $82.7m. Roadside Other (street furniture, bus/tram externals, small format) produced $60.4m, up 6 per cent from $56.8m in Q2 2017 and 6 per cent from $56.7m.
Transport (including airports) is at $36.5m, up 16 per cent from $31.3m last year, and 9 per cent from $33.3m in the first quarter. Retail, Lifestyle and Other saw revenue of $31.8m for the second quarter, up 1 per cent from $31.3m last year and increasing from its dip in the first quarter, where it was $30.3m.
For many major outdoor advertisers, digital is now generating more revenue than print. oOh!media saw its digital revenue grow to 59.8 per cent to $227.4m in the last full year, surging from $153.3m in 2016. At QMS, print advertising flatlined in the last half year, while its digital revenue became 66 per cent of its total revenue.
Print remains the majority income source for APN Outdoor at 62 per cent of its media, although the company's digital revenue rose by 13 per cent in FY17, while print stabilised. Similarly, Adshel received most of its revenue from print, but its digital sales grew by 23 per cent in 2017 from the year before, while its print sector produced $110.9m, slipping from $112.1m in 2016.
Last year, the ACCC knocked back a proposed $1.6bn merger between oOh! and APN, the two largest players in Australian outdoor media by revenue and reach, with concerns about dominance over the market.