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JCB Prize for Literature 2022: Six translations (two from Urdu) feature in the longlist of 10 novels
The shortlist of five will be announced in October, and the winner, in November.
Sep 03, 2022 · 11:37 am
The 10 novels featured on the longlist for the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature include as many as six translations from non-English Indian languages, the highest ever in the five-year history of the prize, along with four English novels. The languages represented through translation are Urdu (two novels), Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, and, for the first time, Nepali.
Translator Jayasree Kalathil, who won the prize in 2020 with S Hareesh for Moustache, has been nominated for the second time. Author Manoranjan Byapari and translator Arunava Sinha have also been nominated together for the second time after being shortlisted in 2019 for There's Gunpowder in the Air.
Here is the longlist (in alphabetical order):
Crimson Spring: A Novel, Navtej Sarna, Aleph Book Company
Escaping the Land, Mamang Dai, Speaking Tiger
Imaan, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha, Westland
Rohzin, Rahman Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Sabika Abbas, Penguin
Song of the Soil, Chuden Kabimo Lepcha, translated from the Nepali by Ajit Baral, Rachna Books
Spirit Nights, Easterine Kire, Simon & Schuster
The Odd Book of Baby Names, Anees Salim, Penguin
The Paradise of Food, Khalid Jawed, translated from the Urdu by Baran Farooqi, Juggernaut
Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, Penguin
Valli: A Novel, Sheela Tomy, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, HarperCollins
The shortlist of five books will be announced in October, and the winner, in November. The winning author will receive Rs 25 lakh, and if the winning work is a translation, an additional Rs 10 lakh will be awarded to the translator. Shortlisted authors will receive Rs 1 lakh each, and their translators, where applicable, Rs 50,000 each.
This year's jury is chaired by journalist and editor AS Panneerselvan, and includes writers Amitabh Bagchi and Janice Pariat, historian and academician J Devika, and author and academician Rakhee Balaram.
Here are excerpts from Scroll.in reviews or opening lines of the books that have been longlisted.
Crimson Spring, Navtej Sarna
"What approaching an event such as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre through the lens of fiction offers is an opportunity to move beyond the figures of dead and injured, and imagine the length and darkness of the shadow that the loss cast with the fullness that it deserves. It hung heavy over all those touched by unspeakable tragedy that April, decimating the small and big dreams, plans, worries and beliefs that make up a life. Sarna does not attempt to rehabilitate in history those responsible as men bound to act cruelly in service of the Crown, or the makers of impulsive, mistaken, unfortunate decisions. Instead, by building their personalities bit by bit, and presenting an imaginary account of the conversations and deliberations that resulted in the actions and official documents in the aftermath of the incident, the book successfully highlights the extent of moral corruption that imperial ambition demands."
Escaping the Land, Mamang Dai
(Opening lines)
"The house stood on a hill covered with bamboo thickets. It was raised on concrete pillars twelve feet above the ground and looked slightly askew, as if ferocious winds had buffeted it. The old wooden boards slanted to the left, though looking up from the sloping path to the house, the pointed dome of the hill behind the house and the triangular ridging of the roof appeared to be joined in a perfect line. More hills loomed behind.
An old cane sofa, a table and a couple of stools were placed haphazardly on the veranda. No one seemed to be about. The front door was wide open. I walked in. Bright sunlight spilled in through thin cotton curtains and the emptiness inside the house gave it an air of a transit camp. I knew this was the old part of the house. I had been here before but this visit was coming after a gap of many years. I noticed a new extension that jutted out on a slope overlooking a clump of trees surrounded by rice fields."
Imaan, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha
"A deafening cry rang out in the confined air this side of the sky-high wall, signifying a name, a distressed existence, the social identity of an individual. From east to west it drifted, and then to the south, before returning to the east.
Whatever the dictionary meaning of the word Imaan might be, in this case, it was the name of an eighteen-year-old young man. Who was a prisoner. It was him that the raaitar was calling out for in a dreadful tone. I-m-a-a-n Aliiiiiiii."
Rohzin, Rahman Abbas, translated from the Urdu by Sabika Abbas Naqvi
"Asrar's Mumbai is not the charming seductress of Bollywood. It is a city conscious of the rifts that exist within it. Rohzin shows the reader the underbelly of the city – drug addicts, the homeless, beggars, sex workers, victims of sexual abuse – without the narrative descending into either poverty porn or platitudes. People come and go but the city stays forever, he seems to say. The narrative is interspersed with references to incidents of communal violence, of rioting, of terrorist activity, that have disrupted life in the city over and over again but have never quite managed to quash its spirit. The city stands witness and the city exacts its price."
Song of the Soil, Chuden Kabimo Lepcha, translated from the Nepali by Ajit Baral
"Song of the Soil vividly captures the flavours of that era: youthful dreams, and fear of more losses. In the process, it breathes an intimacy into fiction that is both political and personal. By tapping into the untold history of the many young men and women who believed in revolution and blindly followed a leadership that was fractured over selfish political gains, the novel brings alive the Gorkhaland movement, the ferment of revolution, and what it does to passionate young people who dive headlong into its abyss as foot soldiers, discovering fear when it is too late.
Spirit Nights, Easterine Kire
"The drumming could be heard all the way across the valley and well into the next. The men were beating the drum fast and furiously, a beat that any villager would recognise as a warning to return immediately to the village. They seemed to be competing with the darkness that was gathering just as swiftly; it was the great darkness that had descended in the middle of a sunny afternoon and made Namumolo's grandmother exclaim, 'Tiger has eaten the sun! Tiger has eaten the sun!'"
The Odd Book of Baby Names, Anees Saleem
"If you have already been Anees Salim's reader, you probably do not need a ringing endorsement of The Odd Book of Baby Names before picking it up. If you are new to the author, please know that you might go in for the story, but you will stay as much for the stylistics. As former, I do have one serious grouse about the novel. At 200 and odd pages, it is too short. I wanted to see more of Moazzam's misadventures and more of Azam's angry ambition and more of Sultan's spookiness and definitely, definitely, more of Humera's too-short love story."
The Paradise of Food, Khalid Jawed, translated from the Urdu by Baran Farooqi
"In a clear departure from established traditions of realism, Jawed writes what might perhaps be called a bildungsroman, tracing the history of his protagonist, Hafeez, intersecting with the history of a nation that is increasingly growing more intolerant, more hostile, more malignant. This is a world in which horror lurks in kitchen corners and chaos hides in plain sight."
Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell
"Tomb of Sand cares for every story it encounters, giving generous attention to sunlight, glimpsing conversations, canes, the friendship of garudas and parrots, party chatter – all tailing into the wandering river of the tale and blending in. People intertwine with things intertwine with ideas: Bade frets over shifting his beloved chrysanthemums to a post-retirement home, their uncertain future an extension of his. Not once does it seem like these connections are contrived. The novel's roving eye instead picks up all the infinite ways in which the world intersects, and its wild tendency toward free association loosens the borders with which we frame the world, inviting us to open up new possibilities of contact between its anythings and everythings."
Valli, Sheila Tomy, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil
"Without the English language reinforcing the otherness of the scriptless Paniya language, Valli wouldn't radiate its universality as strongly. Kalathil accompanies the English translation of Paniya with their romanisations, giving the reader the choice to offer a voice to a scriptless language. This choice isn't a mere symbol, but an illustration of how Tomy wrote Valli and how Kalathil approached its translation. Tomy might've written a book that we've read before, but she wrote it in a way that the reader can suspend that belief for a while."
Disclosure: Arunava Sinha is the editor of the Books and Ideas section of Scroll.in.
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On February 27 and 28, 2019, the School of Management and Logistic Sciences (SMLS)- Logistics Sciences Department together with the Dual Studies Advisors from the Office for Industrial Links (OIL) at the German Jordanian University (GJU), conducted an internal Strategic Meeting on Dual Studies. The meeting was joined by GJU's Vice President Prof. Dr. Dorit Schumann.
In addition, discuss the evaluation criteria for student's practical phases at the partner company, and within the crash courses, discuss adding a 0 CH course to evaluate each practical phase with pass or fail results, suggest lecturers for each dual studies course, discuss the bylaws draft and finally announce the next related events.
Dual studies coordinator in the Logistics Sciences Department, Dr. AbdelRahim Alsoussi, had invited to this meeting in order to update the academic staff about the latest developments and involve them in the decisions that have to be taken in order to answer open academic and administrative questions. These topics need to be clarified before starting the first Dual Studies intake in this year's summer semester.
Dr. Wolfgang Frohberg, Head of the MOVEHET Higher Education component at giz, which supports the Dual Studies programs at GJU, gave an overview to the participants of giz activities in the field of Vocational Training and Higher Education. He introduced the ongoing activities and how the Dual Studies are embedded in the overall strategy for the sector.
By the end of the two days, all participants have been very satisfied with the positive results and specific action points that were achieved within the one and a half meeting days.
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The meeting was also visited by representatives from other schools, which are planning to introduce Dual Studies in their own programs.
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Nicole Nieto named 2019 Glass Breaker!
Congratulations to CFS alumna, Dr. Nicole Nieto, who was named one of the Glass Breakers of 2019 by the President & Provost's Council on Women! Glass Breakers shines a spotlight on successful women at Ohio State who have made extraordinary achievements and use those accomplishments to improve workplace culture and uplift women across the university. Each year since 2015, the President and Provost's Council on Women has recognized a group of women as Ohio State Glass Breakers.
Nieto came to Ohio State in 2005 to become program coordinator for Women's Student Services in the Multicultural Center. She spent the next 10 years advancing her career and education, eventually earning a doctorate in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2015. This led to a leadership role in the ADVANCE office, which promotes the recruitment, retention and advancement of women faculty in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine disciplines at the university — fields traditionally dominated by men.
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Nieto has recently taken another step on her leadership path in her new role as assistant vice provost in the Office of Academic Affairs. Learn more about Dr. Nicole Nieto's journey.
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What does not make sense about the message board is that it starts with his written works, then goes to movies and tv-movies, and then back to written works with Other works. You would exppect Other works to follow after Written works, and then the movie adaptations.
I moved this over to this section as it sounded more like a suggestion for making the board more user-friendly.


Stella Dallas was a soap opera of the true to life story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella Dallas saw her beloved daughter Laurel marry in to wealth and society, and, realising the difference in their tastes and worlds went out of Laurels life. These episodes in the later life of Stella Dallas are based on the famous novel of that name by Olive Higgins Prouty and are written by Anne Hummert.
I believe that there are only 6 episodes of Stella Dallas available. On Rusc we have 4 of these. If you have the missing 2 or indeed any more I would be glad to hear from you. Ned.


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Sound Therapy is considered a low risk therapy, but as with anything there are certain things you need to be aware of before commencing with treatment.
It is important to note that sound therapy is a complementary medicine that works really well alongside orthodox medicine and is not intended to replace any orthodox medical treatment or medication that an individual may be receiving/taking.
We do not treat women who are less than three months pregnant. This is a standard requirement and not because Sound Therapy would necessarily do harm to an unborn child.
Do you have, or have you had, frequency triggered epilepsy or any seizures which you believe are sound triggered?
It is unlikely that the sound frequencies we use would trigger a seizure, but this is not by any means a guarantee. If you would still like to go ahead with the treatment or sound bath you will be required to provide a letter of consent from your GP or you will need to sign a 'consent to treat' form. Before treatment we would discuss what you would like to do in the unlikely event of a seizure or you may bring someone with you who can wait in or outside the treatment space to be called upon in the event of a seizure. In some cases it may take me some time to research the condition to make sure we are both confident the treatment is appropriate and to ensure it is the safest option for you.
Are you currently being treated for, or do you currently have, schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia or any other serious mental health condition?
Unfortunately we do not treat people who have extreme paranoia, paranoid schizophrenia, advanced psychosis or any condition where a person may be deemed a danger to themselves or others. Although it is worth noting that people with milder conditions such as anxiety and stress disorders, panic attacks, phobias, depression can benefit greatly form the treatment.
Before treatment we also need to be aware of any of the following before treatment can commence.
Have you recently had surgery or any medical procedure?
This is more for your own comfort so I am aware if your movement or mobility is restricted or if there are sensitive or tender areas that may cause you pain.
Are you prone to anaphylaxis or require any life saving medication to be administered? For example do you need an epi-pen?
if so you will need to provide a letter of consent to administer the medication or bring some one with you to do so in the unlikely event of an emergency.
Do you have any serious medical condition or general special need (not considered a 'vulnerable person') that I should know about before hand?
Depending on the circumstances you may need to provide a letter of consent to treat and, if appropriate, we can go over what to do in the event of an emergency and how I may be able to help.
Are you comfortable lying on a treatment couch or (during Sound Baths) on the floor?
I will try my very best to accommodate your needs in this instance, chairs are usually available if I am aware before hand that you require this.
Do you have any metal implants in your body, such as pins or joints?
It is very rare , but sometimes sound frequencies set up sympathetic resonance with metal implants in the body. There is no problem with this but it is always good to know if the implant causes pain or discomfort. Always let me know if you feel any pain or discomfort, you can simply raise your hand during the treatment and I will move on from that area/sound.
If you have any questions about any of the above then please don't hesitate to contact me.


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Q: R - 2x2 mixed ANOVA with repeated measures simple effect analysis I would like to ask how to perform the simple main effect analysis in R correctly, in case of presence interaction effects between Group and Stage variables ?
One of my friends do same analysis in SPSS (using Bonferroni correction) and I try to reproduce his result in R.
I have data set of following structure:
ID Group Stage Y
1   I     pre  0.123
1   I     post 0.453
2   II    pre  0.676
2   II    post 0.867
3   I     pre  0.324
3   I     post 0.786
4   II    pre  0.986
4   II    post 0.112
... ... ... ...

This is 2x2 mixed ANOVA schema (1 between subject variable 'Group', 1 within subject  variable 'Stage', which constitutes repated measure of y dependent variable).
I analysed it using ezANOVA function:
ezANOVA(data = dat, dv = y, wid = ID, between = Group, within = Stage, detailed = TRUE, type = "III")

I found a significant interaction Stage*Group. So I have determine simple effects using Bonferroni correction. I tried to do that with many methods. For example, if I want to find significant interactions in group I, between levels of Stage variable, I tried to use:
dataControl <- subset(dat, Group == "control" )

ezANOVA(data = dataControl, dv = y, wid = ID, within = Stage, detailed = TRUE, type = "III" )  // method 1

aov(data = dataControl, y ~ Stage + Error(ID/Stage))  // method 2

t.test(y ~ Stage, paired=TRUE)  // method 3

But every method gave me different p-value result. None of these p-values matched those calculated with SPSS. Interesingly main effects p-values and other calculation gave the same result in SPSS and R. So I conclude that I am using wrong method in simple main effect analysis.
I would be very thankful I you could help me.

A: If you want R to give you the same numbers as SPSS, do this:
 #pairwise comparisons
 library(asbio)
 bonf <- pairw.anova(data$dv, data$group, method="bonf") #also try "tukey" or "lsd"
 print(bonf)
 #plot(bonf) #can plot the CFs

This will give you t(s), mean differences, upper and lower bounds, HLSD      Diff     Lower     Upper  Decision Adj. p-value decision, and adjusted p-value.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Feb. 29, 2016 — Digital River, Inc., a leading global provider of Commerce-as-a-Service solutions, announced it will host its three-day ecommerce conference, Digital River® Globalocityâ"¢ 2016. The client and partner event is expected to draw a prestigious community of global ecommerce leaders and digital marketers from across the globe. The event is being held at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego, April 20-22, 2016. For more information about Globalocity, visit the event website at www.goglobalocity.com.
Ecommerce executives, Kevin Hagwell, principal group program manager, Microsoft; Eric Cox, senior director, global strategy and operations, Adobe; and Ajit Sivadasan, vice president and general manager, global ecommerce and marketing, Lenovo — each offering real world perspectives on how they are disrupting the status quo and innovating to take their brands in new directions.
Mitch Joel, president of Mirum, an international digital marketing agency, and author of CTRL ALT Delete, sharing his thoughts on digital transformation and the realities and challenges forcing brands to rethink their futures.
Martin Gill, research director, digital strategy and experience, Forrester Research, moderating a discussion about the increasing importance of direct-to-consumer channels with panelists Jonas Forsberg, vice president of global online sales and marketing, Jabra; Jeremiah Andrick, general manager of global ecommerce, Logitech; and John Bigay, chief marketing officer from iZotope, and others.
David Woolenberg, senior vice president of global account management for Digital River, moderating a discussion about strategies for monetizing and evolving product offerings with panelist Josef Hos, vice president of worldwide sales, Avast Software, and others.
The three-day Globalocity program includes more than 25 educational and hands-on training sessions, personalized consultations, as well as networking opportunities and social events. The program will explore a wide variety of market trends and timely topics — from managing channel conflict and capitalizing on cross border ecommerce, to expanding in Brazil, exploring digital marketing attribution and optimizing the online payments mix.
Digital River Globalocity is an invitation-only event for the extended Digital River community of clients, partners and employees. The complete conference agenda is available at www.goglobalocity.com.


It's not really the biggest deal to say that Minnesota's fastest growing high school sport is trap shooting. If not many people started shooting it in the first place, it doesn't take much to make it grow quickly.
However, when they put out there that only 30 students across the state participated in clay shooting as an official high school sport in 2008, and now that number is 6,100, you have to admit that's one heck of a growth spurt in just 6 years.
With all of those teens using guns, it has also managed to remain Minnesota's safest high school sport. That's not something the gun control crowds want to hear about – responsible teens using firearms in a responsible way.
It would be interesting to see the safety statistics. It's easy to beleive Safer than Football, Basketball, Baseball etc because of the extra care one would take with a firearm.
I don't have the official study on-hand, but IIRC, shooting sports are even safer than cheerleading, when it comes to average injuries-per-participant rates.
Especially when you consider whom these teens will vote for as adults.
Let's hope that they also become lifelong NRA members and REALLY p*ss off the leftist gun-control crowd.
Surprisingly, cheerleading is just about the most dangerous high school "sports". The flips and tosses frequently aren't completed successfully, leading to many serious injuries.
In a few years of this, I'm betting we'll see some more Olympic shooters coming from Minnesota. Exposing more people to a sport increases the chances of discovering latent talent.
The club I shoot at in MN is mostly staffed (pullers) with kids from the local high schools. Almost every school in the area now has a trap team. It's great to see the kids out there shooting each week.


Knit and Crochet Counter for iOS – Page 3 – Counters for all your craft projects on iPhone and iPad!
The repeating counter ranges allow you to define a range of pattern rows that the app will automatically repeat for you. If, for example, your pattern calls for you to do pattern rows 6 – 12 five times, you can tell the app to repeat rows 6 through 12. Each time you increment the counter on row 12, the app will automatically reset back to row 6 and will also increment a newly displayed "Repeats Done" counter. There's also a "Total Rows Done" counter that shows how many rows you've completed, even over multiple repeats.
The new help files are really nice. They are a great improvement over the plain text versions we previously had. Take a look at the sample on the right.
Now the text is augmented by actual screen content so that it's easier to see the instructions in context.
Look for version 1.2.0 to be released this October!


Senate Democrats are urging the president to block online blueprints for 3D printed guns.
As of tomorrow. Any one. Including criminals and terrorists. Can't have access to blueprints. For making deadly weapons with the click Obama hopes they will use a three dimensional printer to manufacture a semi automatic weapon. We now live. In a world where a three. Loophole. Why buy them if you can print film at home. Instead. Coming to a theater near you. Coming to a theater near you coming to a school near you coming to a sports stadium. To any public place East Coast guns. Are the new wave of American gun violence. This didn't happen by accident. The trump administration. Pushed. By the gun activists. Did this in 2010 there was an international agreement saying we're not gonna allow them on the Internet. We're gonna do everything we can to stop them. And that was abided by for seven years until now now president from tweeted about this this morning where the heck is he bin. And this idea that he'll look into it we've been down that rabbit hole before. Trump administration's MO when there's a crisis. Is to say will look into it. Working with the NRA. And then nothing happens he complains about terrorist crossing the border. But he wants to let him have gone this undetected. Or kind of hypocrisy is this.


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Rebuilding society post-recession
What next? Financial crises
Professor Brian Scott-Quinn's article published in the Summer Issue of the University of Reading's Research Review
Professor Brian Scott-Quinn, the chairman of the ICMA centre for financial markets at Henley Business School, discusses financial crises and whether regulatory capture is to blame.
The crisis in the banking system which commenced in 2007 has caused most people to wonder what caused the problem. Even the Queen asked some economists who were visiting the palace why they could not have predicted it since they should have been able to know what indicators to look for in advance. While here at the Henley Business School's ICMA Centre we are researching the more arcane issues such as how to model financial risk better in future and how to calibrate liquidity requirements for financial institutions, the much more general questions that need to be answered are ?what caused it and who is guilty??.
In trying to find a root cause, we might simply say that it was sub-prime mortgages, or we could blame statistical modelling and risk management failures. But this is not a sufficient explanation. All financial crises have different causes ascribed to them, yet in fact they all seem to have one thing in common ? the symbiosis between bankers, regulators and governments.
Of course the monetary, fiscal and regulatory authorities are supposed to stop financial crises arising. We have the Bank of England, the Treasury, the Financial Services Authority and others all having a share of responsibility for financial stability. The Bank did at least warn the government of critical problems that were building up many times prior to the crisis. However, no one listened. But why would the government take any notice? The economy seemed to be doing very well, thank you, in 2006/7.
So what about the regulators? Banking and nuclear power are the most regulated industries worldwide simply because they can both have meltdowns. I would suggest that it was ?regulatory capture? that led to the financial crisis, just as it did in the nuclear crisis. By that we simply mean that nuclear regulators were too close to Tepco in Japan, just as bank regulators in the US, the UK and the Eurozone are too close to the major banks.
The relationship that bankers have to their regulators is much like that experienced during Stockholm syndrome; with regulators playing the role of the innocents captured by guerrillas. The best example of this was the story of Patti Hearst, the billionaire's daughter who was kidnapped by the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army in California in 1974 and ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause by helping to rob a bank.
Capture, sadly, is also what happened to our regulators. The real problem in regulatory capture which is, I believe, central to the crisis, is the symbiosis between bankers and regulators, senior civil servants and government ministers. The regulators, if they are not former bankers, would like to be bankers, and aspire to be offered a job in the industry. The regulators also see the bankers as people who seem to understand an esoteric business which they find difficult to comprehend, and have a secret admiration for them.
One of the alarming things about the banking business is that despite the worst crisis in living memory, nothing much so far seems to have changed. Indeed one of the key regulators, the Controller of the Currency (in the US) was quoted in the Financial Times recently as having said at a City dinner (at which the author was also a guest) that we are actually in grave danger of over-regulating the banks, and that could be even worse than under- regulating them. He may be correct, but I doubt it.
So do I have any 'solution? to the problem? No solution but one insight we have from our research is that regulators need to pay more attention to ?outliers? ? financial institutions which stand out from others in some way. The particular way we think is relevant, is their growth rate. If we look at Fannie, Freddie and AIG in the United States and Northern Rock and RBS over here, they were all growing much faster than the pack before the crisis. Indeed for most of them, their asset growth rate was so high that it did not need much of an enquiring mind to ask why they were able to achieve such growth. Regulators probably did ask this but preferred not to act on it; had they done so they would have been blamed for damaging economic growth prospects. Indeed in the case of RBS it had a declared objective to become the world's largest bank, and it nearly achieved that goal, but fell at the last hurdle.
So our conclusion would be that regulators need to pay much more attention to the signals arising from the business strategy of a firm, and to ask why a firm is seemingly growing much faster than its competitors. In the answer to this question regulators may find the financial institutions they have to rein in. The next problem, of course, is how we will rein in governments who overspend and cause sovereign debt crises. That is, unfortunately, a much more complex issue.


With so many things to do in Jurmala, it's important to choose a good Hotel.
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Udubs football teams excel at delayed 2015 USSAs
UWC Football Club dominated the South African university football games again, when both the women's and men's teams performed brilliantly at the recent University Sport South Africa (USSA) National Club Championships.
The women's team were crowned champions after they beat UP-Tuks 4-1 following a penalty shootout, while the men's team finished third after beating University of Fort Hare (UFH) 5-1 in the third/fourth-place play-off.
The event was held at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein towards the end of March 2016, after it was postponed in December due to university protests. It is an important tournament as it is used as a qualifier for the Varsity Football competition, of which the UWC men's team are defending champions.
In addition to the win, three UWC players were honoured for their sterling performance at the tournament. Attacking midfielder Nelly Mamabolo was chosen as the Player of the Tournament for the second consecutive year, Nhlamulo Mathebula was named the Goalkeeper of the Tournament and Janice Smith became the Top Goalscorer with eight goals.
Nathan Peskin, coach of the UWC women's team, commented that there was only one objective when the team set out for Bloemfontein and that was to go and conquer. "Nothing less would be acceptable and nothing less was discussed," he said. "The team who possessed no shortage of talent and potential had only to apply the necessary focus, discipline, application and execution to be crowned champions."
Success, although at their first shot for most of the team, meant as much as to any of the older players, Peskin added. "Excitement and tears of joy were shed by them all as emotion spilled over. It's been a long time coming. The dedication and hard work of all these players and management came together and brought success that had been brewing for the last few years".
Head coach of the men's team, Salie Adams, found the preparations for the postponed championship challenging. "The timing of the postponed tournament coincided with the players in the squad having other commitments," he said. "However, all the players performed admirably in all the games. The team never lost a game in the group stages and qualified to participate in the 2016 Varsity Football tournament."
His team lost 4-3 on penalties in the semifinal to Central University of Technology (CUT) but redeemed themselves by winning the 3rd and 4th play off by beating UFH by 5-1. "Excellent performance by the boys and looking forward to Varsity Football 2016," Adams added.
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Major update to the German translation. All system components are now fully translated.
Updates to Mac and Novell documentation.
Fixed a problem where the scheduled reports may run with an incorrect date range.
Improved the robustness of the SSL certificate generation on initial installation if the system is under load.
Improved reliability of admin application error alerts.
Added support for Konica Minolta 2480MF.
Improved installation instructions for the web widgets.
Fixed an issue where the PaperCut logo would disappear from the header in the administration interface when using Internet Explorer 6.
Fixed an issue preventing the Vista Sidebar Gadgets from working when PaperCut is installed on a Mac server.
Added support for the Dell 1720DN printer.
Fixed page count problem seen with some Mac drivers when printing from Adobe Photoshop.
Fixed copy count detection problem seen with some Mac drivers when printing from Adobe Illustrator.
New iPhone and mobile device support for end-user web page features. Allows users to view their balance, environmental impact and redeem TopUp/Prepaid card from their mobile devices. Administrators can also user their iPhone to administer PaperCut.
Included Vista Gadgets to show user balance and environmental impact.
Added web widgets which can be used on your Intranet to show user balance and environmental impact.
On the Mac, display user client messages using Growl notifications if Growl is installed.
Added support for the CardSmith payment service in the payment gateway module.
The report parameters at the top of the reports are now displayed so it is clear what criteria was used to create it.
Added more filter options to most of the existing reports (e.g. department, office, groups, activity dates, account charged, etc).
Made more reports available for scheduling and emailing.
Improved the "job type summary" reports to accurately report color and grayscale page counts for printers using page-level color detection.
Improved the usability of the Shared Account sync page. It was too easy to enable this option by mistake.
Improved usability of server commands and web services that started server tasks in the background (e.g. backup or import tasks).
Improved authentication of users on Active Directory domains where the "guest" account is enabled.
Allowed the server authentication TTL settings to be overridden by the user client config file or command line options.
Improved the reliability of importing users/groups from large/slow Active Directory domains.
Added new server-commands and web services to set/get simple printer costs, set/get group quota allocations, and add new groups.
Various improvements to the end-user shared accounts page.
Added links to the "About" page to allow users to more easily add more users to their license or renew their premium support.
Improved debug logging in user client to help diagnose client startup problems.
Added a command-line option to the user client to enable debugging mode.
Updated translations for Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Spanish, Italian and Czech.
Fixed rare problem in release station that could cause it to stop responding.
Changed application server service configuration to stop the service being restarted under very high system CPU load.
Fixed problem displaying PDF reports in Czech.
The transaction log report is now sorted so that the latest transactions are listed first.
The user list report is now sorted by username.
Novell: Improved auto-detection of eDirectory LDAP settings.
Novell: Automatically remove the server context from the usernames when recording print job information.
Fixed an error when scheduling reports if using Oracle database.
Improved system reliability after the configured external database was unavailable for a period.
Net Control: Fixed problem when using Squid proxy on Linux to authenticate with Windows. The domain component of the username was not being correctly stripped from the username.
Updated timezone information to support the latest Daylight-savings and other timezone information.
Fixed a problem on new linux installs that would causes print popups to be slower than they should be.
Improved reliability of the PayPal Payflow link integration.
Updated the internal database version for improved performance and stability.
Improved page count for HP 5500 PCL6 drivers.
Improved document name reporting when printing from Mac Adobe applications to Windows print queues.
Improved color detection for the HP Color Laser Jet 3500 PCL 6 driver.
Added support for Canon imagePROGRAF iPF5100 and related printers on the Mac.
Improved page size detection to ensure the page length is reported correctly for linear charging model.
Improved page size detection when printing to some HP printers from Adobe Indesign on the Mac.
Various minor clarifications to terminology used in the user interface.
Various documentation improvements, including large improvements to the print authentication chapter.
Fixed problem running scheduled report when multiple ad hoc parameters are used.
Fixed problem populating the LDAP defaults during initial installation.
Added a time-out when attempting to establish a connection with the database. This can improve reliability when there are network communication problems with the external database.
Improved paper size detection for Epson printers for Mac.
Improved page level color detection for PCL5 based printers.
Improved page count detection for PCL6 based printers.
Added support for the Konica-Minolta Bizhub 163 and other Konica Minolta GDI printers.
Fixed page-level color detection problem for FX DocuPrint C3290 FS Postscript driver.
Addressed issue where adding extra network groups via the Add/Remove groups page may remove previously added groups.
Fixed an install issue seen on Apple Mac secondary print servers.
Native support for iPrint queues on Novell OES Linux.
New "Internal Users" feature. This feature allows managing a set of users in addition to those in the configured user directory. It can be used for managing guest users (who may not have a domain account), or in organizations without a directory server.
New client authentication feature allowing authentication to be remembered forever.
Very large account lists can now be efficiently distributed to remote sites with slow network connections. See the developer blog for more information.
New shared account invoice report to display the detailed print logs allocated to each account.
A custom currency sign/symbol can now be displayed. This is useful in organizations using a currency different than their standard national currency.
Added support for the UK's Barclaycard ePDQ CPI card payment service in the payment gateway module.
Allow changes to be applied to a subset of accounts based on the account name.
Allow modifying the account security settings for multiple accounts at once.
Allow accounts to be deleted in bulk.
Large performance improvements viewing print logs and running print reports for sites using the default/internal database. The database settings are now better optimized for database queries that run over large datasets.
Reduced the amount of client account data downloaded by the client by 25 to 30 times. This could dramatically speed up the loading of accounts over slow network connections. See the developer blog for more information.
Improved support for Mac OS X when users have multiple "short names".
Improved performance and reduced server resource usage when the users client downloads large account lists.
Improved performance when modifying shared account security settings on many (10's of thousands) accounts at once.
Improved performance of retrieving members of a group from LDAP. This also reduces the number of concurrent connections to the LDAP server.
Added a new print charging model to charge by "Paper length". This can be used as an alternative to paper area charging for large format plotters.
Allowed the 'initial creation rules' to be re-applied to either a single user or a group of users. This can be done through the user interface and server-command tool.
Improved the display and layout of the Shared Accounts list displayed in the end-user web pages.
Mac/Linux: LDAP settings are automatically populated during installation.
Added a username filter to the account transactions page, making it easier to find transactions for a given user.
Improved support for complex domain hierarchies by following "referrals" sent by Active Directory.
Improved documentation for creating and installing SSL certificates.
Added new server-command and web services API to list all shared accounts and the shared accounts available to a given user.
Improved the client launcher "pc-client-local-cache.exe" to more aggressively retry starting the client when problems occur.
Improved setup/install documentation by adding a separate section for each platform.
Linux: Added an uninstall script to automate the uninstallation process.
Fixed a problem that could stop printing notification messages to be delivered to user clients under some circumstances.
Fixed a rare problem that could stop a job from appearing in the release station. This problem could only occur when the release station timeout was set to a very long period.
Improved reliability of the print popup notifications when the user does not exist in PaperCut and needs to identify themselves using the client tool's identity dialog.
Improved security of the client identity dialog which is displayed when the logged in user does not exist in PaperCut.
Fixed an error that could occur on the printer charts and statistics page.
Improved support for processing very large spool files (greater than 1.5 GB) on Windows.
Improved reliability of page-level color detection of very large images in PCL print jobs.
Improved reliability and error reporting during scheduled quota allocations.
Improved page counting for duplex documents for a variety of PCL and Postscript printers.
Improved copy count detection for the Seiko Teriostar LP-1010L.
Improved page size detection for custom paper size with PCL 5 printer drivers.
Fixed page count problem with Xerox booklet printing setting used on the APEOS PORT II - C7500.
Linux/Mac: Added paper size detection support for the CUPS raster spool file format.
Added support for the FXPLW language used by the FujiXerox DocuCentre Color 400 CP and other FujiXerox printers.
Improved page count and page size detection for printing for HPGL plotters.
New set of "Environmental Impact" reports summarizing the impact of user printing.
Users with access to "Shared Account" can now view balances under their end-user web login.
Administrators can set a custom message that displays on login screen.
Native support for IPv6 networks (Yes! We have some University customers that have made the move.).
New report options allow reports to be run over ranges defined down to the second.
Added search to the online help documentation.
Significantly reduced the memory required to import a large number of users. It is now possible to import hundreds of thousands of users on a machine with limited memory.
Optimized adding new users on demand (i.e. when a user first prints). PaperCut would previously use too much memory and CPU resources when adding a new user on systems with thousands of users.
Reworked the database locking code resulting in improved performance under very high load.
Large speed improvements and reduced CPU usage (up to 1000% on large networks) when retrieving a large number of users from Active Directory.
Improved speed of admin login and display of the user list screen.
New SQL Server driver configuration that removes Unicode overhead and allows more effective use of indexes.
Large speed improvements when performing initial user import on a SQL Server database. The import process was modified to allow SQL Server to dynamically create index statistics, resulting in improved import speed.
Optimized "Bulk User Actions" when adjusting/setting user balances which improves performance by 30%.
Optimized the "batch-import-user-card-id-numbers" server-command to improve performance when updating large batches of users.
Reduced the thread priority of report generation. This ensures that running large reports do not impact on other parts of the system.
Improved reliability of print popup notifications and message delivery to the user client on systems with multiple network interfaces and IP addresses (multi-homed systems).
New paper size filter option added to the print logs screen.
Option to copy printer color detection settings between printers.
Added a new "noquit" command-line and config file option that prevents users closing/quitting the client.
TopUp/Prepaid card batches are deleted or expired.
Configuration settings are changed using the "Config Editor".
Added more filters to the user list screen and reports (e.g. min/max balance, restriction, office, department and notes).
Added short-cut keys to the software Release Station which provides improved accessibility to vision impaired users.
Intelligently shorten the printer names in the printer usage charts so that long printer names are not truncated.
Added improved support for creating TopUp/Prepaid card with Office 2007.
Increased the bulk user import file size limit to 100MB, to allow for large imports.
Added an option to always use the "Global email suffix", even when the user record already has an email address defined.
Net Control: Improved algorithm for checking if sites are in the ignored domains list. Some customers populated the ignored domains list with 50,000+ hosts and this caused the Internet Control service to run at 100% CPU. The new algorithm can handle this number of hosts with minimal CPU usage.
Additional information is displayed in the user client task tray tool tip.
Upgraded to the latest version of the internal Apache Derby database. This release improves performance on multi-processor systems and provides improved reliability.
Running "db-tools init-db -f" when using the internal database will backup and re-create the database from scratch.
Various documentation improvements including more sections to assist administrators with producing their own handouts to educate users about Topup/Prepaid cards, print refunds and using release stations.
Updated translations for Portuguese, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, and Swedish.
Improved the display of the user client balance window when the display is configured for "Large Fonts (120 dpi)" on Windows.
We have seen a number of cases of duplicate users/printers appearing in the databases. We have made a number of changes to prevent this from occurring. If duplicate users are detected they are handled gracefully and automatically removed.
The user client balance window is displayed when the user can select "Shared Accounts" but printing costs are deducted from their personal balance.
Fixed problem normalizing usernames that come from external systems like Novell print queues.
Fixed error that could occur drawing the user's balance history graph in some circumstances.
Mac: Fixed auto-restart of the user client on OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
When the license expires administrators can now access the "Options" section so they can perform limited administration tasks (e.g. backups, reduce user counts, etc).
Improved how TopUp/Prepaid card numbers are generated to ensure no "bad" words can be produced.
Improved sorting of groups displayed from an external source (like Active Directory). This makes it easier to find groups when there are thousands in the list.
When "Print All" is selected in the release station, no jobs will print unless the user has credit for all jobs.
Improved compatibility with Opera web browser.
Linux: Improved reliability of installation of CUPS integration components.
Net Control: Improved Microsoft ISA log processing for SSL/HTTPS traffic. Previously SSL/HTTPS downloads would be charged even if the site was in the "ignored hosts" list.
Improved reliability of importing ChargeBack 6.x and earlier account databases.
Improved color detection for HP Business Inkjet 1200.
Added Apple Mac support for the EPSON Stylus Pro 4880C (and other drivers using the CUPS raster format).
Fixed standard mode color detection for the HP Designjet T610.
Improved support for the Apple Mac Gutenprint drivers.
Improved page size detection for the Xerox Workcentre M24 Postscript drivers for Mac.
Improved page count detection for Canon LBP5900 LIPSLX driver.
Improved page count detection reported with recent Xerox Phaser 7400DN Postscript drivers when printing from Adobe applications.
This release fixes some problems found with version 8.2 (Build 5695) and provides improved support for some printers.
Fixed a problem with the user client that would allow the user to close it even through it was required for printing.
Improved reliability of importing account data from PaperCut ChargeBack 6 (or earlier) when the account names include TAB characters.
Improved copy count detection for HP LaserJet 4700dn.
Improved copy count detection for RISO HC5500.
Improved page size detection size detection for KIP 5000.
Added improved support and completed compatibility testing for Windows Server 2008.
On error print all but held jobs - if an error occurs for jobs that are held awaiting release from a release queue or client popup they will continue to be held until connection to the application server is re-established. New print jobs will be allowed to print unhindered. (New default behavior).
On error print - under any error condition allow the job to print (Previous default behavior).
On error hold - under any error condition hold the job and continue to hold until the connection with the application server is re-established.
This new default behavior greatly improves printer monitoring reliability on sites that make use of print hold/release queues or account selection popups.
Added a new "server-command" to import/update card/identity numbers and PINs from a file.
Added an option to mandate that the user must select a "Charge Rate" in the advanced account selection popup. To take advantage of this feature, the clients must be upgraded.
Greatly improved scalability for sites running hold/release queues with hundreds of print jobs being held at once.
The group lists in the setup wizard and user/group sync page can now be be expanded to show very long group names.
The installer now automatically adds firewall exceptions for important PaperCut in-bound ports. This streamlines out-of-the-box setup on firewall enabled Windows systems.
A "Select all" option on the "Copy settings from printer to printer" screen is provided. This greatly improved usability when copying settings to hundreds of printers.
A warning is displayed when setting a user to "unauthenticated" to indicate that the client software is required.
Citrix printers that are mapped from the client session are not monitored.
Mac: The printer's friendly name is displayed when enabling/disabling printers using the Control Printer Monitoring script.
When a printer is re-enabled, the change is recorded in the application log.
Various documentation improvements including a new section to assist administrators with producing their own handouts to educate users about various aspects of print monitoring/control.
A browser "favicon" is displayed when accessing the application in a web browser.
When running the standard release station in "Release Any" mode, the user is not prompted for confirmation if the print job is zero cost.
Retrieving users and group information from Active Directory can be a resource intensive process. This now runs as a low priority task to ensure it does not adversely affect other applications.
Fixed a race-condition that may have prevented the printer error monitoring feature from working on some systems.
Fixed a problem with the client authentication popup when the username contained uppercase characters.
Clarified some wording on the "Shared Account Invoice Report".
Ensured that card/identity numbers are unique when updated using the "server-command" or web service APIs.
Fixed a problem that stopped the "add-new-shared-account" server-command from working correctly.
Fixed a problem with multi-domain support for Active Directory if spaces appeared between the configured domains.
Disabling multi-domain support for Active Directory now also disables the use of multi-domains for authentication.
Fixed the most frequent crash errors as reported via the "report error" screen.
Allowed more flexible use of the regular expressions to normalize usernames.
The "printer usage summary by user" report is now sorted by username when using the PostgreSQL database.
Net Control: When users are enabled/disabled using the "Bulk User Actions" screen, their "Internet Group" membership is now updated.
Fixed a CSRF security vulnerability in the end-user web pages. This issue is considered a low risk and only affects customers with the end-user transfer feature enabled. Thanks to James from Personal Service Society Incorporated for bringing this to our attention.
Improved duplex detection for the Xerox Phaser 7300.
Improved duplex, page size, copy count and page-level color detection for some PCL5 printer drivers.
Improved duplex detection for the OKI C7300.
Improved page count detection for the Konica Minolta bizhub PRO 1050.
Fixed page count detection when printing to a HP LaserJet 4700dn from an Apple Mac.
Fixed a problem where print jobs could time-out early when both the client popup authentication and release/hold queues are in use. This would occur if the user is using the authentication popup and does not release the job from the release station within 10 minutes.
The administrator can now enable both username/password and card authentication simultaneously in the software release station.
Internet Control: Added an option to allow the Internet security group to be populated with users without Internet access. This allows the administrator to invert the previously default behavior (i.e. to include denied users instead of allowed users). Depending on the existing proxy server rules, it may be more convenient to use a "Deny" rule rather than an "Allow" rule.
Better user feedback is now provided when users release/cancel jobs from the software release station. The screen will automatically be updated to show that the job has started printing (or been cancelled).
Improved the reliability of delivering printing notifications to the PaperCut user client when the machine name associated with the print job does not match the machine name reported by the user client.
Improved handling of jobs that are manually removed from the print queues (e.g. cancelled/deleted by an administrator). These jobs will then be automatically removed from the PaperCut hold/release queues.
On Mac and Linux, when PaperCut is installed, add the PaperCut binary directory to the PATH to simplify running the command line tools.
On Mac, improved print account popup speed for Epson printers.
Clarified error messages output by the database restore process.
Improved interaction with LDAP servers to reduce the number of LDAP connections used when performing a user/group sync.
Included the PaperCut version number on the page that is displayed when an error occurs.
Improved the reliability of the installer when the server name and/or IP address cannot be determined.
Updated translations for Swedish, French, Spanish and Chinese.
Fixed a problem where print jobs could time-out early when both the client popup and release/hold queues are in use. This would occur if the user is using the popup and does not release the job from the release station within 10 minutes.
Fixed the real-time notification of balance updates to the user client when using client popup authentication when logged with a user with uppercase characters in their username.
Fixed a problem when synchronizing the group members from AD/LDAP prior to a quota allocation. This could stop future sync operations from running.
Fixed an error that occurred when running the "Group internet usage - summary (ad-hoc)" report if no "From Date" is specified.
Suppressed a harmless error message that would appear in the server log file when a notification message could not be delivered to a client.
Fixed a spelling error in the TopUp/Prepaid card wizard.
Added basic support for the HP PSC 1300 series (and similar printers).
Improved page count detection for duplex print jobs on PCL6-based printers.
Fixed the copy count detection for the OKI C8800 Postscript driver.
Improved paper size detection for the OKI C8800 PCL driver.
Improved page count detection for the Canon C3200 Mac driver.
Improved duplex detection for the Kyocera FS-C5025N on Mac.
Fixed a problem seen on some Windows XP desktops where the client software would report an annoying "End Now?" dialog on logout or system shutdown. The problem was caused by a 3rd party component.
Added group-based printer restrictions allowing administrators to restrict the use of a printer to a group or set of groups. This is particularly useful on Mac servers, as OS X server does not have in-built group-based access controls.
Added a new account selection mode to automatically charge a user's print jobs to a single shared account. This is useful when a user works in a single department or project, as it automates account selection and removes the need to display the popup and run the client software.
Admin rights may now be assigned at the group level in addition to individual users. This offers more convenient management on sites with a large number of administrators.
Full support for Apple Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) on both the server and the client.
PaperCut now supports Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) offering an alternate clustering option in addition to Microsoft Clustering services.
Added new admin access controls (ACLs) to limit management tasks such as Pre-Paid card management and refunding of print jobs.
A new set of transaction based reports providing detailed listing and summary of transaction types and amounts.
Enhanced user account synchronization allowing users' card/identity numbers to be automatically imported/updated from fields in Active Directory or LDAP.
The Internet Control module now supports Squid proxy server running directly on Max OSX.
Mac and Linux based systems can now be configured to run as a "secondary Internet Control server".
Improved the format of various CSV reports to make them easier to use.
Much improved documentation covering Apple Mac setup including deployment on Leopard and using the Workgroup Manager to publish printers.
... and many more features and improvements since the release of version 7.
Changed terminology from "print release station" to "hold/release queue" to better reflect that this feature can also be used via a web browser rather than just dedicated release stations.
Added total/summary rows to the bottom of all of reports.
Added a new option to allow the popup authentication to remember the authentication for "this job only".
Added more filters to the transaction log pages providing more flexibility searching of the transaction logs.
Improved the performance of the internal database, by automatically optimizing database tables.
Added a new configuration option to ignore standard system users such as all users ending in "$". These accounts usually represent machine accounts. The setting also accepts user-defined regular expressions, providing the power to ignore site specific accounts such as system mailboxes.
Improved default notification messages delivered to users when their printing is denied.
Updated system runtime libraries to improve performance and stability.
Added a web-service API and server-command operation to query the status of a previously started task (e.g. a user sync or backup running in the background).
Added a web-service API and server-command to retrieve the print job and page counts.
Added example shell scripts that make use of the "server-command" functionality.
Improved support for non-compliant LDAP servers (e.g. OpenLDAP 2.2.13).
Improved support for Arabic languages in PDF reports.
Updated translations for Dutch, Czech, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese.
Improved support for various external devices.
Added an end-user page to allow users to change their own card/identity number PIN.
The card PIN can now be retrieved/set through the web-service and server-command API.
The card PIN can now be updated/imported using the bulk user import/update.
Fixed a potential crash bug in the Windows print provider service that may occur with selected printer drivers when the error reporting feature is enabled.
Fixed a potential crash bug that may have occurred if a misbehaving driver returns invalid data.
Fixed account selection popup problems that may occur if Terminal Server and popup authentication was used together on the same network.
Fixed a problem where hold/release queue settings were lost when switching between printer tabs.
Improved reliability when processing badly formatted user or account import files.
Fixed a problem where the account selection popup could display repeatedly on the same desktop.
Improved error messages when problems are encountered when restoring a database (e.g. running "db-tools import-db").
Addressed server load issues that may occur when many print jobs (100+) are bulk cancelled from a blocked queue.
Fixed a problem where Internet control settings changed by one admin user were immediately visible by other admins.
Fixed problem that stopped page-level color detection and printer error reporting from working on printers that contain non-ASCII characters (e.g. Chinese characters) in their name.
Fixed icon display issue when the Mac client was installed using the client-local-install program.
Fixed issue seen on very large systems where default SQL Server timeouts where halting the upgrade process.
Fixed problems in the Spanish translation that was causing some unexpected errors.
Improved page counting and copy count detection for QPDL printers (e.g. Samsung ML-2010, Samsung CLP-510).
Improved duplex detection for selected PCL6 based printers (in particular the IBM Infoprinter 1357).
Improved duplex detection on recent driver updates for the Kyocera FS9520DN.
Improved page count and copy count detection with Canon CAPT based drivers (e.g. Canon iR1200/1300).
Added grayscale detection for the OKI 5600 printer.
Smarter page-level color detection methods used with selected Postscript drivers.
Improved page-level color detection when printing and rendering images directly from Photoshop.


The Reds are stepping up their efforts to improve Louis van Gaal's squad according to the latest reports - find out more in our transfer round-up.
We start with news that will come as a something of a blow to United's hopes of bringing in new attacking talent.
It seems Ukraine international Yehven Konoplyanka is happy to stay with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk for at least another season, despite interest from the Reds and domestic rivals Liverpool.
But Van Gaal isn't hanging all his hopes on just one player according to reports in the Netherlands.
The agent of Atletico Madrid forward Arda Turan has revealed that his client has been the subject of strong interest from England, and United are thought to be admirers of the player.
Central midfield is also due for some long overdue attention in the summer, with Paris Saint-Germain starlet Adrien Rabiot the latest name linked to fixing that problem.
Or it could be Valencia's Ever Banega who is brought in for that reason after the Argentine's representative admitted that a move to England could be on the cards.
And finally, United may face a battle keep hold of defender Michael Keane over the summer.
The youngster is wanted on a permanent basis by Gary Bowyer, who took him on loan to Blackburn last season.


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Q: How to separately pass elements of a 3D list as part of the arguments of a function Hi I have a function which its arguments have the form F[a,b,c,d,e] but the 2nd to 4th arguments are in a list of the form  R={{{b,c,d},{e,f,g}},{{h,i,j},{k,l,m}}} how can I pass these elements as those theee arguments of the function.
Here I have found a  similar question but in that case all the arguments are in a list.

A: R = {{{b, c, d}, {e, f, g}}, {{h, i, j}, {k, l, m}}};

Apply[F[a, ##] &, R, {2}]

{{F[a, b, c, d], F[a, e, f, g]}, {F[a, h, i, j], F[a, k, l, m]}}

Also
Map[F[a, ##] & @@@ # &] @ R

{{F[a, b, c, d], F[a, e, f, g]}, {F[a, h, i, j], F[a, k, l, m]}}

and
R /. {x_, y_, z_} :> F[a, x, y, z]

{{F[a, b, c, d], F[a, e, f, g]}, {F[a, h, i, j], F[a, k, l, m]}}