A hidden leak in your house can sneak up on you. Water has a silent, insidious way of weaving its own path of destruction. By the time you discover the source, the damage can be costly. The same is true for your business. Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) can prove you're profitable or show you where funds are leaking. Sales may be increasing and money coming in, but don't just assume you're getting good ROI from your digital marketing plan. Digital Marketing KPIs help you see the bigger picture to more effectively evaluate how your strategies are working.
The following are 50 KPI kick-starts to ensure your digital marketing plan ROI isn't trickling away, broken down into seven key performance categories: brand engagement, influence response, sales and marketing metrics, financial considerations, business operations, customer characteristics, and employee factors.
1) Number of unique site visitors. How many first-time prospects are discovering your website? Modify your digital marketing plan to increase brand visibility.
2) Opt-in registrations. How many are signing up? Offer a compelling reason for site visitors to give you their contact information, such as a free e-book, white paper, or newsfeed subscription.
3) Return visits to website. How often do your prospects come back to your site? Increase return visits by providing valuable information and updating it regularly.
4)Time spent on website. How long do prospects stay on your site? Ensure your pages load quickly and make your site interesting so they'll stay longer.
5) Popular pages and navigation paths. Applications such as Google Analytics can track visitor traffic patterns and tell you which site pages are most popular.
6) Downloading content. No one signing up for your free report? Find out what would have more value and offer that.
7) Buying your product. No sales, no revenue! Make sure there's a strong demand for your product before you invest too heavily by conducting pre-launch surveys to assess interest and thorough market research to find similar products. Many businesses vying to sell a similar product or service shows evidence of a thriving market. Strive to ensure your product exceeds competitors' products in terms of quality and service.
8) Joining or establishing an account. Your contact list is your most valuable marketing asset. Build it by providing opportunities at various points along the sales funnel that call prospects to act and draw them deeper into a trusting relationship with your business. These could include free downloads, community membership, newsfeeds, and other valuable incentives. Signing up to receive your incentives is generally a strong indication of intent to buy your product.
9) Sharing with recommendations. Happy customers provide valuable testimonies. Include ways to make sharing convenient.
10) Posting positive comments. Bad news travels faster! Collect and display customer testimonials to influence opinion and boost conversion.
11) Conversion rate. How many of your site visitors become customers? You may be drawing a big crowd of the wrong audience.
12) Market share. How do your earnings compare to competitors in your industry?
13) Corporate reputation. Keep vigilant watch on what customers are saying about your company. They're more likely to share a complaint than post a testimonial!
14) Brand persuasion score. How likely are your prospects to buy from you?
15) Search engine ranking. How close to the top of the results do you land on popular search engines?
16) Social networking presence. How big is your social footprint on major networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter?
17) Projected sales level. Are you reaching your sales quotas?
18) Revenue per customer. What is your average sale per buyer?
19) Cost to serve. How much does it cost you to service each customer?
20) Cost per sales lead. How much does it cost you to find each prospect?
21) Sales per vertical. This figure can show you which of your sales channels is most popular.
22) Klout score. Klout.com's algorithm was developed to measure the social media success and reputation of brands and agencies. Klout reports that the average score, on a scale of 1 to 100, is 40. Social media users with a score of 63 rank in the top 5% of all users.
Evaluating marketing success requires looking at hard numbers. Market research and financial analysis can help you spot important trends, discover problems, and resolve issues.
23) Total revenue. Your gross sale amount is an important figure, but let your KPIs tell the whole story.
24) Net income. Your net income is the remainder after you back out all the expenses.
25) Net profit margin. The percentage of additional proceeds after all taxes and interest, stock payments, and operational expenses have been deducted.
26) Total sales. The actual number of deals closed. This metric can be separated by product or service to help you find your best sellers.
27) Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT). Profits aren't real until after the taxes and expenses are paid!
28) Cash conversion cycle. This is the length of time it takes for investments in your business to convert to revenue. Pouring investment money in with little to no ROI out is a sure path to bankruptcy.
29) Debt to equity (D/E) ratio. The value of your business as compared to its indebtedness.
30) Price to earnings (P/E) ratio. If the price you're charging is too low, you'll hinder profit.
31) Return on assets (ROA). Are you using your financial assets to your best advantage?
Small-business marketing strategies are significantly impacted by the costs of day-to-day commercial activities to run the business. You may have to strive for more reach with less money.
32) Operating expense ratio. Operating expenses include necessary items like office supplies, Internet service, and equipment maintenance, but these can also be sources of unnecessary drain. How do your operating expenses compare with your income? Make sure your spending is efficient. You may find, for example, that you can save by bundling some services or obtaining a less expensive maintenance agreement.
33) Six Sigma level. Six Sigma is a scoring methodology that uses statistical analysis to enhance business functioning, increase quality, and reduce waste.
34) Delivery in full on time (DIFOT). How often are your service orders fulfilled completely and within the required deadline?
35) Time to market. How long does it take for your product to move from inception to the marketplace? You should strive for the shortest length of time possible without cutting corners on quality or efficiency of service. That said, some products are perceived to be more valuable the longer the customer has to wait for them. For example, if your business involves producing original art pieces, your customers expect to wait for the creative process to be completed. However, they are less patient to wait for mass-produced items. Assess your delivery system to ensure your pre-determined time-to-market standards are met at every stage.
36) Quality index. A measure of perceived value of a product or service. The more your product surpasses its competitors in appearance, desirability, popularity, and other positive factors, the more compelled prospects are to purchase it. Boost the quality index by assessing your prospects' needs, building in those desired features, and advertising the valuable benefits.
37) Inventory shrinkage rate. This is a measure of the time it takes to deplete your product supplies, noting that some components may deplete faster than others. Develop an inventory maintenance schedule based on shrinkage rates to ensure you always have what you need on hand. Failing to monitor your shrinkage rate can impact other KPIs such as your DIFOT and time to market. Your business could lose revenue if production must come to a halt because you're lacking one component.
38) Supply chain miles. The supply chain is the path of milestones from raw product manufacture to customer receipt. Assess your production process along the channel from supplier to fulfillment, and look for ways to shorten the path and ensure expenses are justified. Are you purchasing long distance when there's a local supplier who can provide the same components at the same or better quality? Bring new suppliers into your supply chain to improve your process, but keep lines of communication open with all your suppliers so you can still call on any of them when you need to.
39) System downtime. How long and how often is your fulfillment system out of service? Production shutdowns can be costly.
40) Supplier performance score. Your product is only as good as the suppliers who provide the moving parts. How do yours rate?
A good digital marketing plan will build a loyal following of repeat buyers who are willing to share their recommendations with others. Ultimately, customers run the show. If they're not happy, you don't sell.
41) Customer retention rate. Getting customers is not as challenging as keeping them engaged and buying. Incoming revenue is more predictable on a strong foundation of repeat buyers. To keep them coming back, offer incentives to keep your product or service top of mind. Repackage existing products, improve features and benefits, create new products, and use content marketing strategies to keep them visiting your site and sharing the information you provide. Incentivize existing customers to bring new ones on board with reward programs, contests, and affiliate opportunities.
42) Customer turnover rate. Monitor departures to stop a revolving door of new customers in and old customers out.
43) Customer lifetime value. Knowing the average value of your customers' buying history is an important measure for gauging success. Conducting this assessment may reveal that the average customer is only making a purchase once. This means you will need a constant inflow of new customers to sustain your revenues. Use the customer retention rate strategies (#41) to increase the lifetime value of each customer.
44) Customer complaints. How often do customers voice complaints about your product or service? Are you listening to them? What's your resolution rate?
45) Customer profitability. How much profit can you attribute to each customer?
If it's costing more to acquire customers and resolve complaints, you'll need to revise your strategy.
Whether you're a "solopreneur" or supporting a staff of many, revenues and profitability are directly affected by operational expenses, salaries/wages, benefits, and collective staff experience.
46) Human capital value added (HCVA). Hire employees who will add value by contributing exceptionally well to your bottom-line goals.
47) Revenue per employee. How much does each employee contribute to total sales?
48) Average employee tenure. How long does each employee stay with you? Monitor your HR records for high turnover and improve loyalty incentives.
49) Employee satisfaction and engagement. Happy employees are more productive: They're enthusiastic about their work, become better representatives of your brand, and work harder to make sales. Satisfied employees tend to be more dedicated to ensuring customer satisfaction, which contributes to customer lifetime value and retention rate.
50) Training ROI. Invest in good training. Time lost to correcting avoidable errors and long learning curves is a hidden profit drain.
KPIs will help you discover and track damaging leaks to their sources — places where, like water through a hidden channel, your profits may be quietly trickling away. Factors such as your brand identity, sales and marketing strategies, and financial management are interrelated and play crucial roles in measuring your online marketing success. That's why it's so important to continuously monitor your KPIs, analyze your results, and modify your marketing plan over time to ensure an excellent ROI.
Now that you've got a set of KPIs, your digital marketing strategy needs to be optimized to maximize those KPIs and help you meet your business objectives. Digital Current can show you how to put together an optimal search, content marketing and link building campaign that creates measurable, enduring results.


Torrens, J. Ignacio, Marcus Keane, Andrea Costa, and James O'Donnell. "Multi-Criteria Optimisation using Past, Real Time and Predictive Performance Benchmarks." Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 19.4 (2011) 1258-1265.
Corry, Edward, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa. "Systematic Development of an Operational BIM Utilising Simulation and Performance Data in Building Operation." IBPSA Building Simulation 2011. Sydney, Australia, 2011.
Keane, Marcus, Andrea Costa, James O'Donnell, Karsten Menzel, and Alan Dirk. BuildWise Final Report. 2010.
Raferty, Paul, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa. "Energy Monitoring Systems value, issues and recommendations based on five case studies." Clima 2010 conference. Antalya, Turkey, 2010.
Costa, Andrea, Marcus Keane, Paul Raferty, and James O'Donnell. "Key Factors - Methodology for Enhancement and Support of Building Energy Performance." Building Simulation 2009. Glasgow, Scotland, 2009.
Torrens, J. Ignacio, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa. "Multi-criteria optimisation using past, historical, real time and predictive performance benchmarks." SEEP 2009: 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection. 2009.


Many believe that the Russian market is not a priority for Apple – they say that our customers do not bring the corporation as much money as, for example, people from the United States or China. But if you believe the statements made by Tim Cook at a conference on the financial results of Apple for the past three months, the number of sold the iPhone in Russia is growing, with enviable speed.
According to the head of Apple, sales in Russia, India, Brazil and China grew by 55% in one quarter. Cook decided not to disclose the separate statistics for each country, saying only that the leaders among them were China and Russia . Top manager said that it was thanks to these countries iPhone is still "a horse" – smartphone sales are growing steadily every quarter.
Perhaps the role played by the discovery of Apple's online store in the country, as well as the expansion of the network of authorized resellers . It should be noted that in his company's statistics do not take into account the "gray" market, which is subjective to analysts' estimates exceed the sale of certified devices for Russia.
Can we expect the pace to the opening of the Apple retail stores in Russia? Possible. While talking about it going for a few years, the full potential of the Russian market of Apple, seems to realize just now.
Of all quarterly results Apple is perhaps most disappointing sales only iPad, which fell by 18% compared to last year .


Now in its 34th year, the Cystic Fibrosis Charity Cricket match is being held on the grounds of Christchurch Boys High School where favourites the BNZ Crusaders will pitch their skills against NZ's Olympic Invitational.
With Olympic medallists such as Tom Walsh, Stu Farquhar, Rory McSweeney, William Stedman who are also skilled cricket players they may pose a challenge to the title-holding BNZ Crusaders.
There will be an opportunity to meet our sporting heroes.
There will be a BBQ, drinks, ice cream available or just bring a picnic.
The kids zone includes a bouncy castle, pony rides and face painting.


Add finishing touches to your cake or create airbrushed masterpieces with this comfortable, well balanced, gravity fed airbrush. The professional quality, single-action airbrush has a small colour cup to hold your airbrush colour and gravity feed it into the flow of air when you pull back on the trigger. A special crown cap reduces clogging and splattering.


Thanks for the link, that is indeed a bargain rarity, bloody tyres wipes my ready cash out for a while unfortunately. B*****Ks.
I've got one that's taking up space in the garage if anyone is interested? Ask Pash 'what it owes me' and I'll sell for that plus some postage. That's less than the auction starting price however.
I'd be interested in it if it's in better nick that the one already on here. Although I'm a little strapped at the moment after getting an ECM, belt, tyres, Plugs, oil & filters etc.
If you could give me a price I would find the money fairly quickly as Pash will no doubt confirm.
Paul, no rush, I am not using it so it would be good to pass on.
I would be looking for £50 +post.
From memory condition is similar to the eBay item but I'll take some photos at the weekend and PM you them.
Hope the Saddleman is still serving you well Nate. You would have thought more would have come up for sale by now but probably very rare in UK.
Thanks for that, I'll get the dosh together for you ASAP.
Don't worry about the condition, for a £50 outlay I'd be quite happy to re-cover it myself .
I'll Pm you when I have the dosh Ok.
All the best & thanks again Paul.
I'll stick a tenner in club funds for you next time I donate ok.


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Pam Keith for U.S. Rep. 18th District of FL
Pam Kieth (D) is an attorney and former Navy JAG officer running on a progressive platform for election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 18th Congressional District.
Pam Keith is the only progressive candidate in this race. She has pledged to advocate for:
Universal healthcare, lowering the age of Medicare availability to 55 and lower, and lowering prescription drug costs.
Responsible environmental policies that limit companies exploitation of our natural resources, and ensure funding to help Florida's rivers.
Significant increases in educational faculty and staff compensation to ensure that those who educate our kids can live decent lives themselves.
Strengthening and expanding Medicaid.
Legislation to mandate funding to Veteran's Affairs for each person who enters into the military that cannot be cut, offset or diverted.
This election season, vote Pam Keith to represent Florida's 18th congressional district. The district includes Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce, Stuart, and Jupiter. You must be a registered voter to participate in this election. Register to vote today or check your registration status below.

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A display model for the TOU of PLATO: just a cool toy or a benchmark of opportunities?
We produced a "toy-model" of one Telescope Optical Unit of PLATO, the Medium sized mission selected by ESA to fly in 2024. This is a six lenses dioptric very wide field camera with a window in front to take care of radiation impact on the first lens whose optical glass cannot be replaced with a radiation hardened one. The main aim of this project is just to produce a "cool" model for display purposes, in which one can "explore" the details of the inside through some openings in the tube, in order to visually inspect some of the fine details of the opto-mechanics. While its didactic and advertising role is out of doubt, during its construction we realized that some interesting outcome can be of some relevance for the project itself and that some findings could be useful, in order to assess the ability of producing with the same technology some (of course of much more modest quality) optical systems. In this context, we immediately dropped the option of producing the lenses with opaque material painted with a color resembling a refractive material (like blue for instance) and decided to actually produce them with transparent plastic. Furthermore the surfaces are then finely polished in order to give them basic optical properties. Such an optical system has only very coarsely the converging properties of the original nominal design for a number of reasons: the refractive indexes are not the nominal ones, the quality of the surfaces and their nominal values are only roughly, within a few percent, the targeted one, and the way the surfaces are built up makes them prone to some diffraction effects. However, the bulk of the lens and the surface roughness will give a large magnification of the scattering effects that will be experienced, at a much lower level, on the actual flight model. We investigated through propagation of a laser beam and by digital camera the main stray light modes that this toymodel offers. In other words, the model amplifies, to a large extent, the negative bulk scattering and spurious reflection just because surfaces and materials are orders of magnitude rougher that the intended ones. Even if this did not allow to attempt to make any quantitative measurement, in order to scale down to the actual one, we used it to look out independently for the main sources of stray light and we compared them with the one discussed by the optical design team, obtained using professional ray tracing code. Finally, we point out some of the technicalities used in the design to mimic the finest mechanical elements that cannot be safely incorporate in the final design and to produce pieces of size much larger than the maximum volume allowed by our 3D printer in a single shot.


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This page features all the games played by the Knicks in the 1955-56 NBA Season and Playoffs.
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1955-56 New York Knicks
New York Knicks 1955-1956 Schedule and Results
All the scores of the games played by the Knicks in the NBA 1955-56 Regular Season and the 1956 Playoffs, with teams, results, winning and losing streaks, partial and final records and evolution of the playoff series.
35-37 (.486), 4th in Eastern Division
New York Knicks 1955-1956 Game Schedule and Results
1 Nov 5, 1955 Knicks @ Rochester Royals W 100 - 98 OT won 1 1 - 0
2 Nov 10, 1955 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers W 112 - 105 won 2 2 - 0
3 Nov 12, 1955 Knicks vs. Boston Celtics W 96 - 95 won 3 3 - 0
4 Nov 13, 1955 Knicks vs. Rochester Royals W 94 - 91 won 4 4 - 0
5 Nov 15, 1955 Knicks @ St. Louis Hawks L 95 - 121 lost 1 4 - 1
6 Nov 17, 1955 Knicks vs. Fort Wayne Pistons W 110 - 88 won 1 5 - 1
7 Nov 19, 1955 Knicks vs. St. Louis Hawks L 91 - 104 lost 1 5 - 2
8 Nov 20, 1955 Knicks @ Fort Wayne Pistons W 119 - 115 OT won 1 6 - 2
9 Nov 23, 1955 Knicks @ Boston Celtics W 115 - 111 OT won 2 7 - 2
10 Nov 24, 1955 Knicks @ Philadelphia Warriors L 97 - 118 lost 1 7 - 3
11 Nov 26, 1955 Knicks vs. Syracuse Nationals W 100 - 99 won 1 8 - 3
12 Nov 27, 1955 Knicks @ Syracuse Nationals L 74 - 85 lost 1 8 - 4
13 Nov 29, 1955 Knicks vs. Fort Wayne Pistons L 99 - 104 lost 2 8 - 5
14 Dec 1, 1955 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers L 90 - 97 lost 3 8 - 6
15 Dec 3, 1955 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors L 102 - 109 lost 4 8 - 7
16 Dec 6, 1955 Knicks vs. Rochester Royals W 116 - 105 won 1 9 - 7
17 Dec 10, 1955 Knicks @ St. Louis Hawks W 99 - 80 won 2 10 - 7
18 Dec 13, 1955 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers W 98 - 91 won 3 11 - 7
19 Dec 14, 1955 Knicks @ Boston Celtics L 100 - 102 lost 1 11 - 8
20 Dec 17, 1955 Knicks @ Fort Wayne Pistons W 100 - 95 won 1 12 - 8
21 Dec 18, 1955 Knicks vs. Boston Celtics L 92 - 95 lost 1 12 - 9
22 Dec 20, 1955 Knicks vs. Syracuse Nationals L 91 - 98 lost 2 12 - 10
23 Dec 25, 1955 Knicks @ Fort Wayne Pistons L 87 - 92 lost 3 12 - 11
24 Dec 26, 1955 Knicks @ Philadelphia Warriors W 108 - 97 won 1 13 - 11
25 Dec 27, 1955 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors W 80 - 79 won 2 14 - 11
26 Dec 28, 1955 Knicks @ Rochester Royals W 113 - 91 won 3 15 - 11
27 Dec 31, 1955 Knicks @ Syracuse Nationals L 92 - 101 lost 1 15 - 12
28 Jan 1, 1956 Knicks vs. Rochester Royals L 92 - 101 lost 2 15 - 13
29 Jan 3, 1956 Knicks vs. Boston Celtics W 107 - 97 won 1 16 - 13
31 Jan 5, 1956 Knicks vs. Boston Celtics L 87 - 92 lost 1 17 - 14
32 Jan 6, 1956 Knicks @ Philadelphia Warriors L 97 - 104 lost 2 17 - 15
33 Jan 8, 1956 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors L 83 - 95 lost 3 17 - 16
34 Jan 14, 1956 Knicks vs. St. Louis Hawks L 101 - 104 2OT lost 4 17 - 17
35 Jan 15, 1956 Knicks @ Boston Celtics W 109 - 104 OT won 1 18 - 17
36 Jan 17, 1956 Knicks vs. Rochester Royals W 112 - 107 won 2 19 - 17
37 Jan 18, 1956 Knicks @ Rochester Royals L 103 - 108 lost 1 19 - 18
38 Jan 20, 1956 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers W 122 - 109 won 1 20 - 18
39 Jan 21, 1956 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers L 89 - 109 lost 1 20 - 19
40 Jan 22, 1956 Knicks @ Minneapolis Lakers W 100 - 95 won 1 21 - 19
41 Jan 25, 1956 Knicks @ Minneapolis Lakers L 95 - 104 lost 1 21 - 20
42 Jan 27, 1956 Knicks vs. Rochester Royals L 93 - 111 lost 2 21 - 21
43 Jan 28, 1956 Knicks vs. Fort Wayne Pistons L 91 - 92 OT lost 3 21 - 22
44 Jan 29, 1956 Knicks @ Syracuse Nationals W 99 - 95 OT won 1 22 - 22
45 Jan 31, 1956 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors W 105 - 95 won 2 23 - 22
46 Feb 1, 1956 Knicks @ Philadelphia Warriors W 105 - 104 2OT won 3 24 - 22
47 Feb 2, 1956 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors L 87 - 88 lost 1 24 - 23
48 Feb 4, 1956 Knicks vs. Syracuse Nationals L 94 - 103 lost 2 24 - 24
49 Feb 5, 1956 Knicks @ Boston Celtics L 104 - 114 lost 3 24 - 25
50 Feb 7, 1956 Knicks vs. Boston Celtics W 113 - 102 won 1 25 - 25
51 Feb 8, 1956 Knicks @ Rochester Royals W 102 - 97 won 2 26 - 25
52 Feb 10, 1956 Knicks vs. Syracuse Nationals L 88 - 94 lost 1 26 - 26
53 Feb 11, 1956 Knicks vs. St. Louis Hawks W 107 - 91 won 1 27 - 26
54 Feb 12, 1956 Knicks @ Boston Celtics L 108 - 116 lost 1 27 - 27
55 Feb 14, 1956 Knicks @ St. Louis Hawks W 103 - 99 won 1 28 - 27
56 Feb 15, 1956 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers L 102 - 113 lost 1 28 - 28
58 Feb 19, 1956 Knicks @ Syracuse Nationals L 98 - 118 lost 3 28 - 30
59 Feb 21, 1956 Knicks vs. Syracuse Nationals L 107 - 108 2OT lost 4 28 - 31
60 Feb 22, 1956 Knicks @ Philadelphia Warriors W 117 - 108 won 1 29 - 31
61 Feb 25, 1956 Knicks vs. St. Louis Hawks L 89 - 99 lost 1 29 - 32
62 Feb 26, 1956 Knicks @ St. Louis Hawks L 85 - 103 lost 2 29 - 33
63 Feb 27, 1956 Knicks vs. St. Louis Hawks W 113 - 109 won 1 30 - 33
64 Feb 28, 1956 Knicks vs. Fort Wayne Pistons L 95 - 99 lost 1 30 - 34
65 Mar 2, 1956 Knicks vs. Fort Wayne Pistons L 97 - 104 lost 2 30 - 35
66 Mar 4, 1956 Knicks @ Syracuse Nationals W 118 - 111 2OT won 1 31 - 35
67 Mar 6, 1956 Knicks vs. Boston Celtics W 119 - 99 won 2 32 - 35
68 Mar 7, 1956 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors L 87 - 108 lost 1 32 - 36
69 Mar 10, 1956 Knicks vs. Syracuse Nationals W 104 - 84 won 1 33 - 36
70 Mar 11, 1956 Knicks @ Fort Wayne Pistons W 122 - 96 won 2 34 - 36
71 Mar 13, 1956 Knicks vs. Minneapolis Lakers L 89 - 102 lost 1 34 - 37
72 Mar 14, 1956 Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors W 115 - 108 won 1 35 - 37
NBA Playoffs - Eastern Division Third Place Tiebraker
1 Mar 15, 1956 Knicks @ Syracuse Nationals L 77 - 82 Nationals win


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from lib import shellhelpers as shell

class ChefInstaller(object):
    #  from lib.omnibus import Omnibus

    '''
    Implements chef installation on the node.
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    SUPPORTED_METHODS = ['omnibus']

    cmdline_options = [
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    def install(self, install_method, options):
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        else:
            sys.stdout.write("Chef is already installed, skipping installation...\n")
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"Shots were fired at Israeli civilians standing at a bus station from a passing Palestinian vehicle," the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement late Sunday night. "IDF troops nearby responded by firing towards the vehicle, which fled. IDF troops are currently searching the area." One of the victims, a 21-year-old woman 30 weeks pregnant, is reported in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the stomach. Her 21-year-old husband, also age 21, was moderately wounded and is reported in fair condition.
The two victims in critical condition were taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, also in Jerusalem.The victims were standing near the entrance to Ofra, in the Binyamin region of Samaria, when the terrorists opened fire at them.The terrorists, who were reportedly driving by in a white car with Palestinian Authority license plates, managed to escape.Roadblocks were set up throughout the area by IDF soldiers who continued to search for the attackers.


The sun woke me up at 6am, hardly what I wanted after another day of travelling. My plan for the morning was to meet an old friend who I went to school with in Seychelles, and who I hadn't seen in 13 years! It was so nice to catch up and have a local show me some of the sights of the city. After two days of little interaction on flights and in airports and hotels, it was great to meet a familiar face. We headed to a cafe for breakfast, not far from the river. We then went to Kings Park, a beautiful park with stunning views of the city centre. I must say, my first impressions of Perth are very good and I hope I'll have the chance to explore the city a little more after the race.
After catching up we headed back to the International Airport, where I waited for the coach to Busselton at midday. The coach, the final leg of the journey, nothing could possibly go wrong... until an hour into the trip where the driver pulled over, and after deliberation, told us that a hose had split and we'd have to wait for another coach to pick us up. We waitted by the side of the highway for just over an hour until we were rescued, then continued south. At 4pm I saw the 'Welcome to Busselton' sign and was dropped off at my homestay for the week. It was great to meet the family and finally relax after the journey. Time to get some rest ahead of tomorrows plans.


Artificial implants, aka alloplastic implants, are commonly used in rhinoplasty. Dr. Shah feels strongly that the use of artificial implants can lead to serious consequences including permanent damage to the soft tissue envelope of the nose.
There are various types of Artificial implants including Gore-tex, Silicone, Med-Pore. While these implants are used in other parts of the face with less risk of infection, within the nose, infection is much more probable.
What is the difference between using an implant alloplastic and native cartilage?
The risk of infection is much less with native cartilage and the body will incorporate native cartilage. Artificial implants can lead to infection, rejection, and serious soft tissue damage to the nose.
Why do many surgeons use Artificial implants?
It is technically much easier to use an artificial implant than the bodies own cartilage. Costal cartilage and auricular cartilage demand significant expertise which few surgeons are able to use properly.


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Krajowy Związek Hodowców Szynszyli (KZHS) – związek branżowy zrzeszający hodowców szynszyli w Polsce. Siedziba mieści się w Myślenicach.

Historia
Związek powstał w Myślenicach w 1995 z inicjatywy Marka Nowaka, ówczesnego kierownika najnowocześniejszej w tamtych czasach polskiej fermy szynszyli "Raba". Współinicjatorami założenia związku byli też inni hodowcy z terenu Małopolski. Ukonstytuował się wówczas Komitet Założycielski Związku Hodowców Szynszyli. Na farmie "Raba" odbywały się w początkowym okresie cykliczne wystawy zwierząt i seminaria branżowe. Związek współdziałał w organizacji Krajowych Wystaw Zwierząt Hodowlanych w zakresie ekspozycji szynszyli. W 2012, w Giżycku, na walnym zjeździe Polskiego Związku Hodowców Zwierząt Futerkowych, KZHS wszedł w jego strukturę jako autonomiczna sekcja.

Cele działania
Celem działania związku jest przede wszystkim popularyzacja hodowli szynszyli, a także reprezentowanie hodowców przed strukturami państwa i innymi organizacjami. Związek organizuje kursy, sympozja, wystawy i szkolenia w zakresie swojego działania. Kreuje też postęp techniczny i technologiczny, m.in. poprzez opracowywanie programów żywieniowych, czy profilaktyki weterynaryjnej.

KZHS był członkiem założycielem Polskiej Federacji Związków Hodowców Szynszyli, a także jest członkiem Polskiego Towarzystwa Zootechnicznego. Współpracuje z domem aukcyjnym Kopenhagen Fur (Dania), Czeskim Związkiem Hodowców Szynszyli, Krajowym Centrum Hodowli Zwierząt w Warszawie, Instytutem Zootechniki w Balicach i innymi instytucjami.

Działalność wydawnicza
Od 2001 do 2010 związek wydawał Zeszyty Hodowlane, a od 2012 wydawany jest kwartalnik Informator dla Hodowców Szynszyli.

Członkowie
Od czasu powstania do 2016 wydano 900 legitymacji członkowskich. W 2016 było 204 członków związku, w tym dziewięciu honorowych (prof. Olga Szeleszczuk, dr Jacek Andrychiewicz, Janina Baluta, Stanisław Baranowski, Joanna Łada, Bożena i Grzegorz Mieleńczukowie, Władysław Mierczak, Wacław Tyliński, Alicja Woźny).

Przypisy

Szynszylowate
Organizacje w Polsce

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Work has started on a three-turbine wind farm in Caerphilly, which presents geotechnical challenges.
Pen Bryn Oer is being constructed on an old coal opencast site, which means contractor Jones Bros Civil Engineering will be constructing piled foundations as part of the project.
Piling works will involve drilling up to 21 holes, each of approximately 20m in length, beneath each turbine, which will then receive steel reinforcement and concrete. This helps create a stable foundation for when the turbines are erected.
Jones Bros is also building 1,000m of new tracks, which will involve stabilising the tracks in order to minimise the lorry movements involved with importing stone to the site tracks.
The firm will also upgrade 1,000m of existing road, which will include widening corners and some off-site highway improvements in order to allow the larger turbine delivery vehicles to reach site safely.
Site agent Rhys Roberts said: "An ecologist visited the site last week and the all clear has been given to start work.
"We will begin excavating the turbine bases in mid-April and the piling work is scheduled to be carried out in May.
"The team is looking forward to getting its teeth into this wind farm and overcoming the geotechnical challenges being introduced.
The work is being carried out on behalf of client REG Power Management.
With an installed capacity of 6MW, the wind farm is expected to generate around 18 GWh per year, enough to power approximately 4,400 homes per year.


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Historic Portraits of India and Nepal
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The Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History sale on 13 November brings to auction a remarkable collection of photographs from the Sven Gahlin Collection, including a number of important 19th century albums of Indian and Anglo-Indian subjects by Shepherd & Robertson, Samuel Bourne, Eugene Clutterbuck Impey and Sir Benjamin Simpson, which depict everything from royalty to ordinary people, spectacular architecture and natural landscapes. Click the image above to view the slideshow.
Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History
13 November 2018 | 10:30 AM GMT | London
Album of 213 photographs
Shepherd & Robertson, Samuel Bourne and others
Estimate £30,000–40,000
A magnificent album of photographs, including over 80 portraits of Indian Maharajahs, Rajahs, Nawabs and Nepalese royalty, together with images of life and trades in India, portraits of Tibetan people, soldiers, a series of 11 photographs after drawings by J L. Kipling, scenes of big game hunting (including a hunting trip in Nepal of the Duke of Portland and Earl de Grey), and views in Darjeeling and Nepal, including the Chinese embassy in Nepal and the installation of the Maharaja of Nepal in 1881.
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Album of 79 photographs, Aborigines of India, 1860s
Attributed to Benjamin Simpson
Estimate £6,000–9,000
A keen amateur photographer and member of the Bengal Photographic Society, Benjamin Simpson produced a series of 79 photographs entitled Racial Types of Northern India, which won a gold medal at the London International Exhibition of 1862. A further trip to Assam in 1867-68 produced more portraits, many of which were lithographed for Edward Tuite Dalton's Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal (Calcutta, 1872). Many of Simpson's portraits were also included in Watson & Kay's eight-volume The People of India (1868-1875).
Album of photographs of India. (negatives c.1865–75; prints 1880s)
Samuel Bourne
56 fine views of the Himalayas, Darjeeling, Tanjore, Trinchinopoloy, Bhurtpore, Oodeypoor, and Agra.
A collection of photographs of India. c.1870s
Samuel Bourne and others
23 photographs by Bourne, showing views in Lahore, Scinde, Lucknow, Agra, Benares, Cawnpore, Secundra, Delhi, and Simla and 7 by other photographers of Madras, the tomb of Tipu Sultan, Simla, Ceylon and elsewhere.
Album of Photographs of India, 1870s–1880s
The fantastic imagery includes 44 photographs from Northern India, mostly Kashmir.
India and Ceylon, A collection of 72 early photographs, 1860s–early 1900s
Three outstanding photographs in this collection are by Bourne & Shepherd. Together Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd created a photo studio in India in 1863, which was one of the oldest established photographic businesses in the world, and the most successful commercial firm in 19th-and early 20th-century India.
India, from the Frith Series, Album of 92 photographs of India, c.1865–c.1875
Estimate £1,500-2,000
The album contains 81 views and 11 portraits, including scenes from Murree, Cashmere, Lahore, Simla, Kulu, Spiti, Bhopal City, Calcutta, Bombay. Jubbalpore, Benares, Lucknow, Agra, Gobardhun, Delhi, Umritzur, and Gualior.
India, A collection of 37 photographs, c.1860s
The collection includes views in and around Calcutta [Kolkata] and Chandernagor [Chandannagar].
A collection of 21 photographs, 1870s–c.1900
Shepherd & Robertson, and others,
Some photographs in this collection were shown at the exhibition "Photography in India, 1858-1980, a survey", at the Photographers' Gallery London, 1982. The images include: The Mahajarah Scindia of Gwalior, the Mahajarah Holkar, Bhali Sooltans, the Mahajarah of Bhurtpore, among others.
Album of c.136 photographs of colonial and native portraits and views in northern India and Nepal, c.1858–c.1863
Eugene Clutterbuck Impey
A rare and early Anglo-Indian album with fine portraits and views. Many of the photographs are by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (1830-1904), a soldier from a prominent family in the service of the British administration in India. He was a prolific and skilled photographer, and an award winning member of the Bengal Photographic Society. In 1858 he was appointed political agent in the court of Alwar in north-eastern Rajasthan. During his five years there he photographed extensively, amassing material for a book of architectural and landscape scenes. In 1865 he published a book on Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, illustrated with 80 albumen prints.
A collection of 28 photographs of India, c.1860s–1870s
Victor Pont, E[rnest] Pont, and J.H. Clarke, and others
Victor Pont (1846-1931) was a district engineer for the East Indian Railway, and his brother Ernest (1850-1922) worked as an inspector for the same Railway.
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Government Colleges Hostel (GCH) is a place of residence for students in Mumbai. It accommodates bonafide male students of six government colleges namely Sydenham College, The Government Law College, The Institute of Science, The Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education, Elphinstone College, and State Institute for Administrative Career.

This hostel is located in Church gate, South of Bombay, and the Hostel is well sought after.

History
The Government Colleges Hostel was established in 1964 when the new building at 46-47, 'C' Road Church gate was constructed. Earlier Sydenham college students Used to be housed at Manek House Near Kemp's Corner, the students of the Institute Of Science and those of Government Law College used to stay at the Telang Memorial Hostel, 'C' Road, Churchgate. In order to accommodate students from Government Colleges at one place near Churchgate, the Government of Maharashtra conceived of constructing the present structure.

Accommodation
There are 287 single and 10 double seated rooms all in all to accommodate 307 students. These are distributed among constituent Colleges and Institutes as under:

Admission

Criteria
Candidate has to be a bona fide student of any of the above Colleges/Institutes.
(With an exception to Freedom Fighters Ward category)
 Candidate has to be a permanent resident outside Mumbai.
 Admission is merit- and need-based.

Process
Interviews for hostel freshmen admission are held at respective colleges.  Lists of eligible candidates are verified and shortlisted at Himalayan.

Facilities
TV hall
Reading room
Indoor sports facilities and gym
Badminton court
Mess and canteen facilities.

Location
The hostel is located at Churchgate of South Mumbai. It is in close proximity to Churchgate station and is close to the business and banking districts of Nariman point, Fort, BSE and Colaba. The location of the hostel is seen as a great advantage for students of commerce and management.
The hostel is just a few steps away from Marine Drive, the famous  seaside promenade of Mumbai.

See also
International Students Hostel
Telang Memorial Hostel
Churchgate

Halls of residence in India
University of Mumbai


This morning Romeo Santos and Raulin Rodriguez released the full music video for their track "La Demanda" from Romeo's Utopia album. The video was released at 12AM Friday morning and as of right now it has 255K views to count on Youtube and was released via Vevo. The video shows how two men fell in love with the same women and now are taking her to court or better said "La Demanda". This is one of my favorite song from Utopia and the video goes great breaking down how love, and the flow of Bachata. Check out the music video and let us know what you think by dropping a comment below.


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title: "Little Bets"
author: Peter Sims
date: 2015-09-02 08:35:49
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This book discusses how small iterative "bets" can lead to discovery and innovation, citing examples across several industries. The concepts were solid and the stories were good, but there's nothing revolutionary the book or concept. It's basically another name for agile product development and other lean methodologies that have been the standard practice in Silicon Valley for the last 10+ years. If you are in an industry that doesn't already work like this, then there's a lot to learn here. If not, then I'd recommend something else.


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Jo Freeman Reviews Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House
Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House
by Malaika Adero
New York: Sterling, 2021, 186 pages with 120 photos, $29.95 hardcover
If you like photos, you'll love this book. It is packed with some of the most striking photos of KH and her life that I have seen.
While it's mostly photos, there is some text. It has many of her own speeches, including her 2011 inaugural address as California Attorney General, her 2020 speech accepting the Democratic nomination, and several commencement addresses.
The author provides some fascinating tidbits of information. Where else can you read that Harris' sorority sisters donated checks written for $19.08 to the Biden-Harris campaign, commemorating the founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha in 1908? The author says that the Biden Victory Fund received more than 11,000 such checks, from an AKA membership of 300,000.
There are also some holes. The author is not familiar with Berkeley in the Sixties, even though it was very important to Harris' parents, who were Cal graduate students at that time. One striking photo shows her mother and a friend at what the caption says is a civil rights protest in Berkeley but without a specific date or place. Since I was a Cal undergraduate during those years, and very active in the civil rights movement, I recognized the scene. It was a small plaza at the southern entrance to the campus, where we put up our tables and passed out literature. The photo does not depict a civil rights protest, though the signs on the tables clearly indicate that it was late Spring of 1963 during or after the Birmingham demonstrations.
The book raises lots of questions. KH's mother was a high caste Hindu but sent her daughters to a Christian church in nearby Oakland. Why? Both parents were active in the civil rights movement in Berkeley but KH chose electoral politics rather than radical politics. I well remember the split in California during KH's formative years, with radicals often denouncing those who pursued elective office as sell-outs. Nor is there anything about her political mentors or her base. Electoral politics requires money, contacts and name recognition. Where did KH find these?
Given her international origins, one might expect her to study international affairs rather than go to a local law school and from there become a criminal prosecutor. "Her path to the White House" must have been very curvey.
KH's parents separated when she was eight. She was raised by her mother. Nonetheless, one gets the impression that KH saw herself as fundamentally a Black woman. Although she visited her relatives in both India and Jamaica, this book paints those identities as more background than foreground. Having participated in electoral politics in Brooklyn, where we have people from everywhere, I know that African-Americans and West Indians don't like each other. Yet KH chose Black as her primary identity.
This is a gorgeous book, well suited to be a graduation present for a young woman of any color. Buy it for the photos, not for the text.
Copyright © 2022 by Jo Freeman
Tags: african-americans, alpha kappa alpha, civil rights movement, electoral politics, inaugural address as california attorney general, west indians
Jo Freeman Reviews Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress
"She fought for women in poverty to get more benefits, against nuclear testing and war in general. Her thumbprint appeared on virtually all legislation to improve the status of women... She quickly moved from supporting candidates to becoming one. Service in various offices eventually led to her election to the U.S. House in 1964... Above all this book is a story of women's entry into politics, progressing from tokens to major players. They banged on glass ceilings and pushed open stuck doors. In this effort, Rep. Patsy Mink was often leading the charge." more »
Jo Freeman Writes: The Lost Promise, American Universities in the 1960s by Ellen Schrecker
Jo Freeman Writes: "This is a book about protests – which is the historical memory of what the 1960s was all about. It is also a book about professors. They are the prime subjects of the author's chapters, even though students were often the prime actors. World War II made the difference. That conflict brought government money to scientists and the G.I. bill brought tuition payments to veterans. Money moved colleges and universities from being a finishing school for gentlemen to being a 'multiversity' where the 'knowledge industry' was a major source of revenue, progress, prestige and upward mobility." more »
Librarian of Congress Names Ada Limón the Nation's 24th US Poet Laureate
"Ada Limón is a poet who connects," Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said. "Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward." Limón said, "This recognition belongs to the teachers, poets, librarians and ancestors from all over the world that have been lifting up poetry for years. I am humbled by this opportunity to work in the service of poetry and to amplify poetry's ability to restore our humanity and our relationship to the world around us." more »
Mississippi Author Jesmyn Ward: Winner of the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
"I am deeply honored to receive this award, not only because it aligns my work with legendary company, but because it also recognizes the difficulty and rigour of meeting America on the page, of appraising her as a lover would: clear-eyed, open-hearted, keen to empathize and connect," Ward said. "This is our calling, and I am grateful for it." One of the Library's most prestigious awards, the annual Prize for American Fiction honors an American literary writer whose body of work is distinguished not only for its mastery of the art but also for its originality of thought and imagination. Ward is one of only six writers to receive the National Book Award more than once and the only woman and Black American to do so. more »
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Q: React native - Application tried to present modally a view controller I got this error when i try to build ios.
Thread 1: "Application tried to present modally a view controller <UIViewController: 0x7f9e930adc80> that is already being presented by <UIViewController: 0x7f9e9330d480>."
AppDelegate.m
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
  [FIRApp configure];
#if defined(FB_SONARKIT_ENABLED) && __has_include(<FlipperKit/FlipperClient.h>)
  InitializeFlipper(application);
#endif

  self.moduleRegistryAdapter = [[UMModuleRegistryAdapter alloc] initWithModuleRegistryProvider:[[UMModuleRegistryProvider alloc] init]];
  self.launchOptions = launchOptions;
  self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds];
  #ifdef DEBUG
    [self initializeReactNativeApp];
  #else
    EXUpdatesAppController *controller = [EXUpdatesAppController sharedInstance];
    controller.delegate = self;
    [controller startAndShowLaunchScreen:self.window];
  #endif

  [super application:application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions];

  return YES;
}

A: This error is because you already are presenting ViewController.
First Try to dismiss that ViewController and then present it.

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Hi, Can anyone advise me how to upload sketch from arduino board to the ide? Sometimes it would be useful to upload the code from the arduino board to ide to see what sketch is programed on the chip.
Nope, doesn't work that way. You have to save a copy of your C/C++ sketch program away somewhere as a back up of the source code.
A 'trick' I use sometimes is to add code to send the sketch name out the serial port in the setup portion of the sketch so I can see what was last loaded by opening the IDE serial monitor.
i was thinking some 'smarties' out there would have worked out a program to initiate a program memory dump of the the chip, and a 'reverse' complier to change the machine code back to source code - maybe doable?
In theory, possibly, but then again maybe not practical? The problem is that the 'reverse complier' part would be a task only a software god might take on, with little return on the time investment made.
This type of 'Upload' is common to PLC's (Programmable Logic Controllers - Industrial control systems basically), however isnt done by reverse compiling the code.
The code is written to flash like normal, but the uncompiled code is also able to be uploaded to memory and saved as a file basically. Then when an upload is done, the file is basically downloaded off the processor and opened with the editor.
Most likely not possible with AVR's as the memory may be too small and most likely wouldnt support this, however could most likely be done if you attached a SD sheild (or the like) - however the IDE would need to be modified in order to get the automated upload of the uncompiled code to SD, most likely.
I am an Automation Engineer by trade, and use PLC's everyday, and this feature is very appealing especially if your backup is lost or you 'inherit' a PLC which was programmed some time ago and you have no source code.
Reverse assemblers (aka dissassemblers) used to be pretty common, we used to use them to reverse engineer DOS programs. But reverse assembly is a relatively simple procedure, to generate C/C++ from binary is a world away in difficulty.
I'm not even sure it would be possible with modern optomising compilers?
Lefty quote "In theory, possibly, but then again maybe not practical? The problem is that the 'reverse complier' part would be a task only a software god might take on, with little return on the time investment made."
What i like about "open source" is that the focus is not so much on return on investment (on time and money), but rather the propogation and development of the environment for all to share, and i think this is fantastic. I think a lot of people contributes sketches etc more as a challenge and perhaps to prove that it could be done rather that looking for return on investment. There are some very clever people out there!
I think a lot of people contributes sketches etc more as a challenge and perhaps to prove that it could be done rather that looking for return on investment. There are some very clever people out there!
There sure are clever and smart people around and I have benefited a lot from user contributed sketches and libraries. However a 'reverse compiler' would again take a extream effort in time (should it support all PC OS platforms?) so I will go out on a limb here and say it's just not something that's going to happen. It doesn't really solve a great need of many people Vs the time and effort required.
What you get from a disassembler isn't what the original source looked like, but rather an optimised version of this (see remark about compiler optimisation).
Interesting to see what sort of pranks the compiler pulls to squeeze efficiency from your code, but not too helpful in discerning the methods used to create the application (and the reason for using those methods).
Interesting idea. The IDE could automatically compress the source code with a bunch of methods (e.g. gzip, bzip2, 7z), see which produces the smallest result and store it in the flash space along with the actual machine code.
To distinguish the compressed source code "file" from actual code, the former could be stored "starting from the end" of the flash memory space.
To me that makes the most sense if someone wanted to takle this. It may not suit the main purpose of this thread though as I am assuming it is to recover code that hasnt been saved.
Future wise though, if someone wanted a project and could figure out how to upload something other than compiled code to the AVR's flash. No idea if this is possible or not - I am by no means at the level needed with AVR's to even attempt testing that.
But as I say, if uncompiled code could be loaded into the AVR then it can easily be extracted again and run in the IDE. I guess the uncompiled verison of the code would be considerable even when compressed, as I wouldnt think it would be anywhere near as small as compiled code. So only really an option for larger AVR's, or via SD card etc.
A 328p has 32K of flash, which is plenty for most projects. The .pde files, being text, can be compressed with high ratios.
For medium size projects an external eeprom or better yet an sd card as you say would be needed, but there are many sketches for which this approach would be feasible, IMHO.
A 3K sketch becomes a 1,2K 7zip file.
Maybe, but it could be an option to fit code that otherwise wouldn't fit, better that than nothing.


Of the 56% of the world's population owns a smart phone.
50% use their mobile as their primary internet source.
80% of consumers plan to use their phone for ecommerce within the next 12 months.
Takes too much time to open the web page.
This new generation of shoppers is increasingly abandoning the inconvenience of bricks and mortar stores - and mobile savvy businesses will reap the rewards. Going mobile allows you to be where your customers are as well as take payments along all stages of the customer journey. A user-friendly mobile site reduces the number of steps a customer needs to take to search and make a purchase, giving your business a highly competitive edge and driving growth.
Maximize sales, grow your business, and improve buyer engagement through superior and consistent shopping experiences across various buyers' touch-points. Your customers can now have an end-to-end mobile-friendly experience from selection to payment with mobile optimized shopping cart solutions.
Let your customers pay faster, easier and more securely, no matter where they are. Accept payments smoothly through your apps, or on your mobile website.
Website Payments Standard is compatible with mobile devices and lets you offer a streamlined checkout experience to customers.
Mobile PayPal Checkout helps you to customize your checkout experience for all types of devices. Already integrated PayPal Checkout into your site? It's easy to go mobile.
Cross-border online shopping will grow to $307 billion and 203 million consumers by 2018.
1Source: "The Massive Australian Mobile Explosion Explained", Business Insider Australia; by Josh Lugerjul, 9, 2013.


The word "link" suggests a connection between two things or persons. It is to join, associate, couple, wed, or marry two things together. A link is the joint or bridge between two things. A link connects you with something.
We live currently in a world of links. People are always connecting especially as most things are now done online. In order to get information, all you need is a link (the URL) to connect to the site. When someone tells you about an opportunity online, the next thing you will most likely say is, "Send me the link!" You need a link to do virtually everything today.
Institutions, organizations, and establishments give out opportunities, offers, admissions, adverts and all forms of communications through links. You are not linked until you get the link.
Unfortunately, links, which are meant to connect people, now disconnects them. People move from link to link yet they are not linked. We seem not to find what we are actually looking for. We spend hours on our smartphones and personal computers surfing the internet yet the vacuum in our hearts are not filled.
One of the greatest deleterious habit people grapple with today is addiction to their phones. An average person cannot go without his or her phone for more than 15 minutes. People are becoming less productive while others suffer from information overload. There is that fear of missing out. We want to be aware of everything that is going on. Social media platforms designed to connect people now create more disconnection.
Website designers have even made it more difficult to let you go once they get you in their site. The page is catchy and full of snares and traps here and there called links and hyperlinks. There is the lead magnet, which is promised to be given free in exchange for your email so that you can constantly receive more notifications and consequently you become engaged with the site. We experience a deluge of data or what is called information overload.
I still remember watching a short video of a young woman who was praying but also responding to a chat. After the prayer session, she had a dream in which she was taking 'selfie'. Since she was distracted, a thief drove off her car. She obviously understood the meaning of the dream when she woke up. The enemy took away her blessings because she was distracted.
Disconnection with God is perhaps the greatest form of disconnection people experience today. This disconnection leads to other forms of disconnection. When you are not in touch with God, you lose touch with other things. When God is no longer in charge of the affairs of our lives, we lose control and cease to be in charge. This is what happens when we become addicted to the internet.
The time we spend in prayers today have been drastically reduced because of our attachment to our phones and computers. Yes, we get to know about the things that are going on in our world today faster because of the internet but most of us are oblivious, ignorant and naive about the things of the Spirit. We have all the links but we don't know what the Spirit is saying. We are current but we are not correct. Decisions are now made based on the trends not the directive of the Holy Spirit. We are disconnected from God.
About a decade or more ago, people spend the night praying and interceding but today you are likely to find the average person online at night. We become anxious when we run out of data or have no internet connection but there is no worry if we cannot pray for a week. As long as we are connected on earth, we no longer worry about our connection with God.
People are beginning to advocate that we return to the use of our hard copy Bibles instead of the soft ones on our phones, tablets and computers. The reason is simple - many do not have the discipline to stay focused on the Bible they were out to read when they picked up their tabs and phones. Social media notifications and email alerts distract them. As a matter of principle, I am beginning to learn not to start my day with my phone because the tendency is to get distracted. I have also realized that once the morning is lost, the whole day would most likely be lost.
It is time we begin to cherish our link with God more than our link with the world. It is time we put more priority on keeping our connection with God than our connection with the world.
In my discussion with a friend recently, he could not stop lamenting about how he has lost the attention of his wife because she spends most of her time on the internet. This is the experience of many couples today. Communication is known to be the bedrock of every thriving relationship but unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly rare because of our addiction to the internet.
Most of us are guilty of 'phubbing'; the act of snubbing our partners for our phones. Most relationships are constantly being 'phubbed'; a phone buzz halts the juicy story your friend is telling you. Children now spend most of the time in the private rooms with their phones instead of sharing good times with family members in the living room. Tablets and smartphones are driving a wedge between our loved ones and us. It is not unlikely that the person you are talking with is constantly looking at or pressing his or her phone. By checking our phones, we consequently check out of the conversation. Thus, our talks lack depth. We have become so superficial in our discussions.
It is time we begin to create deeper connection with our friends, partners and loved ones intentionally by ensuring a gadget free zone or a gadget free time so that we can enjoy the time spent together.
With the constant information overload, addiction to phone and the fear of missing out that keep us glued to the screen, people are becoming more and more disconnected with themselves. They feel empty, dry and unproductive. When the junk of the time has been spent online, the spirit and the soul becomes drain; we lose the ability to concentrate and do deep work; we cannot focus. Apart from these, there is also the loss of sleep time, which leads to less effectiveness.
The key to victory is to become intentional in our use of phones and other electronic gadgets. We also need to turn those gadgets into tools for our ministries, businesses and enterprises else they will continue to constitute traps and toys they have always been and we will continue to lose our touch with God, others and ourselves.
You also need to decide on what every minute of your day will be spent for. This way it will be difficult to fall into the temptation of getting distracted with the internet.
Paul said things have power and they can exert that power on us in ways that will negatively influence our lives. This was why he resolved that he would not be brought under the power of anything (1 Corinthians 6:12). It is also not a sin to use the world and the things in it but we must not become attached or engrossed with it (1 Corinthians 7:31). There is no other time in history when we must become extremely disciplined.
Ultimately, you need to discover the reason for your living. You need to find God's purpose for your life. You need to discover what you are passionate about; it is the ultimate antidote to internet addiction. It will guide your use of time and what you browse online.
Next time when you are tempted to follow a link, think of the effect and the impact it might have on you, others and your relationship with God.
May we receive grace to live a self-controlled life in this present world. Amen.


WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Given that physicians are chosen for meaningful use (MU) audits at random, the best way to prepare is for a physician to assume they will be audited, according to an article published Jan. 28 inMedical Economics.
The article presents seven strategies to ensure that practices meet the requirements of the MU program, allowing incentive money to be kept.
The seven tips/strategies are as follows: (1) physicians should assume they will be audited and be prepared for it, including keeping records of the registration/attestation processes and documentation for at least six years; (2) physicians should respond promptly after receiving an audit letter; (3) physicians should ensure that the work of MU is being done, especially where practice managers are supposed to take care of the paperwork; (4) auditors are looking for discrepancies between documentation submitted during the attestation process and what was actually done; (5) physicians will require documentation from their electronic health record (EHR) vendor to satisfy certification requirements; (6) physicians should print dated screen shots from the EHR showing that functionality was turned on during the reporting period; and (7) a security risk assessment needs to address any change made in the practice or adoption of new technology.
"The best way to get ready for a MU audit of your practice is to assume you will be audited and prepare accordingly," according to Medical Economics.


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Which of two hexagrams should I read?
32. Persevering (héng). Duration
Constancy is not the same as immobility. It consists of a set of gradual changes. Immobility leads to stagnation and destruction.
Duration. Success. No blame. Perseverance furthers. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Thunder and wind: the image of Duration. Thus the superior man stands firm and does not change his direction.
Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Remorse disappears.
He who does not give duration to his character meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation.
No game in the field.
Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man.
Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Wanting to achieve the goal, be guided by the law of constancy. Be true to yourself, your business and duty. Look for new solutions, gain experience. Work hard in alliance with like-minded people. Listen to the opinions of wise people and do not reject what at first seems wrong. Go slowly - the way to truth is not short. Do not be afraid of difficulties – something that is too easily given, is little appreciated. Think whether you occupy your place. If the position burdens you, then change it.
The strong trigram Chên is above, the weak trigram Sun below. This hexagram is the inverse of the preceding one. In the latter we have influence, here we have union as an enduring condition. The two images are thunder and wind, which are likewise constantly paired phenomena. The lower trigram indicates gentleness within; the upper, movement without.
In the sphere of social relationships, the hexagram represents the institution of marriage as the enduring union of the sexes. During courtship the young man subordinates himself to the girl, but in marriage, which is represented by the coming together of the eldest son and the eldest daughter, the husband is the directing and moving force outside, while the wife, inside, is gentle and submissive.
Duration is a state whose movement is not worn down by hindrances. It is not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression. Duration is rather the self- contained and therefore self-renewing movement of an organized, firmly integrated whole, taking place in accordance with immutable laws and beginning anew at every ending. The end is reached by an inward movement, by inhalation, systole, contraction, and this movement turns into a new beginning, in which the movement is directed outward, in exhalation, diastole, expansion.
Heavenly bodies exemplify duration. They move in their fixed orbits, and because of this their light-giving power endures. The seasons of the year follow a fixed law of change and transformation, hence can produce effects that endure.
So likewise the dedicated man embodies an enduring meaning in his way of life, and thereby the world is formed. In that which gives things their duration, we can come to understand the nature of all beings in heaven and on earth.
Thunder rolls, and the wind blows; both are examples of extreme mobility and so are seemingly the very opposite of duration, but the laws governing their appearance and subsidence, their coming and going, endure. In the same way the independence of the superior man is not based on rigidity and immobility of character. He always keeps abreast of the time and changes with it. What endures is the unswerving directive, the inner law of his being, which determines all his actions.
Whatever endures can be created only gradually by long-continued work and careful reflection. In the same sense Lao-tse says: "If we wish to compress something, we must first let it fully expand." He who demands too much at once is acting precipitately, and because he attempts too much, he ends by succeeding in nothing.
The situation is abnormal. A man's force of character is greater than the available material power. Thus he might be afraid of allowing himself to attempt something beyond his strength. However, since it is the time of DURATION, it is possible for him to control his inner strength and so to avoid excess. Cause for remorse then disappears.
If a man remains at the mercy of moods of hope or fear aroused by the outer world, he loses his inner consistency of character. Such inconsistency invariably leads to distressing experiences. These humiliations often come from an unforeseen quarter. Such experiences are not merely effects produced by the external world, but logical consequences evoked by his own nature.
If we are in pursuit of game and want to get a shot at a quarry, we must set about it in the right way. A man who persists in stalking game in a place where there is none may wait forever without finding any. Persistence in search is not enough. What is not sought in the right way is not found.
A woman should follow a man her whole life long, but a man should at all times hold to what is his duty at the given moment. Should he persistently seek to conform to the woman, it would be a mistake for him. Accordingly it is altogether right for a woman to hold conservatively to tradition, but a man must always be flexible and adaptable and allow himself to be guided solely by what his duty requires of him at the moment.
There are people who live in a state of perpetual hurry without ever attaining inner composure. Restlessness not only prevents all thoroughness but actually becomes a danger if it is dominant in places of authority.
It is not necessary to pursue two hares at once, being literally broken off on a part. keep endurance, and all to come to the end successfully for you. Be patient - and your desire will be executed. Try to understand the intentions and plans for the future properly now. However for new undertakings the moment not too suitable.
22. Adorning (bì). Grace
Learn to distinguish perfect from the beautiful, the true from illusory. Learn how to find beauty in the small and enjoy it.
Grace has success. In small matters it is favorable to undertake something.
Fire at the foot of the mountain:
The image of Grace. Thus does the superior man proceed when clearing up current affairs. But he dare not decide controversial issues in this way.
He lends grace to his toes, leaves the carriage, and walks.
Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
Graceful and moist. Constant perseverance brings good fortune.
Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings. He is not a robber, he will woo at the right time.
Grace in hills and gardens. The roll of silk is meager and small. Humiliation, but in the end good fortune.
Simple grace. No blame.
Outwardly, everything is good. But it is not time for great things. At the moment content with little. Do not obsess over visual appeal. Look at what's happening and choose goals for the future according to the dictates of the soul. Furnishing our external, do not forget to take care of the internal, true beauty is inside.
This hexagram shows a fire that breaks out of the secret depths of the earth and, blazing up, illuminates and beautifies the mountain, the heavenly heights. Grace-beauty of form-is necessary in any union if it is to be well ordered and pleasing rather than disordered and chaotic.
Grace brings success. However, it is not the essential or fundamental thing; it is only the ornament and therefore be used sparingly and only in little things. In the lower trigram of fire a yielding line comes between two strong lines and makes them beautiful, but the strong lines are the essential content and the weak line is the beautifying form. In the upper trigram of the mountain, the strong line takes the lead, so that here again the strong element must be regarded as the decisive factor. In nature we see in the sky the strong light of the sun; the life of the world depends on it. But this strong, essential thing is changed and given pleasing variety by the moon and the stars. In human affairs, aesthetic form comes into being when traditions exist that, strong and abiding like mountains, are made pleasing by a lucid beauty. By contemplating the forms existing in the heavens we come to understand time and its changing demands. Through contemplation of the forms existing in human society it becomes possible to shape the world.
The fire, whose light illuminates the mountain and makes it pleasing, does not shine far; in the same way, beautiful form suffices to brighten and to throw light upon matters of lesser moment, but important questions cannot be decided in this way. They require greater earnestness.
A beginner in subordinate place must take upon himself the labor of advancing. There might be an opportunity of surreptitiously easing the way- symbolized by the carriage-but a self-contained man scorns help gained in a dubious fashion. He thinks it more graceful to go on foot than to drive in a carriage under false pretenses.
The beard is not an independent thing; it moves only with the chin. The image therefore means that form is to be considered only as a result and attribute of content. The beard is a superfluous ornament. To devote care to it for its own sake, without regard for the inner content of which it is an ornament, would bespeak a certain vanity.
This represents a very charming life situation. One is under the spell of grace and the mellow mood induced by wine. This grace can adorn, but it can also swamp us. Hence the warning not to sink into convivial indolence but to remain constant in perseverance. Good fortune depends on this.
An individual is in a situation in which doubts arise as to which is better-to pursue the grace of external brilliance, or to return to simplicity. The doubt itself implies the answer. Confirmation comes from the outside; it comes like a white winged horse. The white color indicates simplicity. At first it may be disappointing to renounce the comforts that might have been obtained, yet one finds peace of mind in a true relationship with the friend who courts him. The winged horse is the symbol of the thoughts that transcend all limits of space and time.
A man withdraws from contact with people of the lowlands, who seek nothing but magnificence and luxury, in to the solitude of the heights. There he finds an individual to look up to, whom he would like to have as a friend. But the gifts he has to offer are poor and few, so that he feels ashamed. However, it is not the material gifts that count, but sincerity of feeling, and so all goes well in the end.
Here at the highest stage of development all ornament is discarded. Form no longer conceals content but brings out its value to the full. Perfect grace consists not in exterior ornamentation of the substance, but in the simple fitness of its form.
This hexagram can be favorable only for the affairs concerning theatre. It means, that you have a propensity to hide the original face, and people surrounding you too behave not quite sincerely. Your love affairs are problematic enough now. But successes in other spheres are possible. Your desires will be executed, but is completely not fast. It is necessary to try to accept a life such as it is, and to study at it.


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Program management: The people factor
By Richard Spires
| April 8, 2014
Other fundamentals matter little if the right team is not in place, but too often key roles go unfilled, writes Richard Spires.
In my previous column, I outlined five elements that are foundational for successfully delivering large-scale IT programs in government. In this and subsequent columns, I will cover each element in more detail and provide implementation approaches.
The single most important element to program success is the team of leaders running the program as part of what is typically called the program management office (PMO) or integrated program team. There is usually significant focus on the program manager position, and having a skilled and experienced executive in that role is vital for large, complex IT programs. What I find surprising, however, is how many programs set up shop without all the key management disciplines in place.
IT programs vary greatly, so there is not one model that fits every PMO. The following positions, however, are typically essential, and in my opinion, programs that lack solid individuals in these positions are at high risk of failure.
Business lead -- A senior official from the mission or business organization who has ultimate responsibility for ensuring that the functional requirements are properly scoped and met by the delivered system.
System architect -- Someone who is both a technologist and an engineer and who can develop a technical solution to meet the requirements. He or she fully understands the agency's enterprise architecture and how the new system will interoperate with internal and external systems.
Security architect -- Someone who can ensure there is a proper security design and integration with the agency's architecture.
Data architect -- An absolute must for any highly data-centric system to ensure the proper integration of data from multiple, unrelated sources.
Requirements manager -- Not the business lead but the individual who understands the life cycle of managing requirements, from elicitation to the change management process to test and evaluation.
Development and integration manager -- Someone who is too often missing from the team. If you are developing software or implementing a complex configuration of a commercial package, you need such an individual.
Test manager -- The person who brings a solid, end-to-end view of the testing process.
Configuration manager -- The person who accounts for everything and runs a tight change-control process.
Operations manager -- The one who knows how to field and operate systems. This individual is always required and is even more critical as the government moves toward incremental delivery. It is not unusual for programs to simultaneously have a release in production, another in development and testing, and a third in requirements definition and design.
Contracting officer -- The leader from the procurement organization that handles the processes for procurements and resultant contracts.
Too often, the program manager cannot point to the individuals filling each of those key roles, or too many of the roles are filled by contractor personnel. Many successful systems have been delivered with contractors in a number of the above roles. In my experience, however, it adds risk to a program if contractors fill most of the roles.
Naming names: PMO linchpins
This list is far from comprehensive, but these individuals are real-life examples of the exceptional talent agencies need.
Col. Patrick Burden
Project Manager, General Fund Enterprise Business System, Army
Business lead:
Deborah Nolan
Former Commissioner, Large and Mid-Size Business Division, Internal Revenue Service
System architect:
Tom Lucas
Former Senior Adviser for Enterprise Architecture, IRS
Security architect:
Chief Security Architect, DHS
Data architect:
Michael Simcock
Chief Data Architect, Department of Homeland Security
Requirements manager:
Marla Somerville
Associate CIO, Affordable Care Act PMO, IRS
Development and integration manager:
Tracy Hollis
Solutions Engineering Manager for the Homeland Security Information Network, DHS
Test manager:
Ross McDonald
Former Senior Technical Adviser, IRS
Operations manager:
Damon Bragg
Former Services Operations Manager, DHS
Contracting officer:
Tiffany Hixson
Regional Commissioner, General Services Administration
Note: This list includes several retired feds and even then lacks a name for one key role -- evidence of just how hard it is to assemble and keep top program management talent. Know someone else we should have included? Let us know on Twitter at @FCWnow.
It is not that the contractor employees do not possess the necessary competence, and the PMO can certainly include contractor personnel in support roles. But the goal is for a PMO to be integrated, and that is difficult to do with contractor personnel holding most of the key roles. The government needs strong contractor teams to help it execute large, complex programs. But even more important, we need strong government-led PMOs to provide leadership and oversight of the work.
Another key to success is ensuring the involvement of the right mission or business organization. Having full-time mission representatives who can successfully work within the PMO to define the system's requirements is crucial. In assessing a program, I look for individuals on the PMO team who are steeped in the current process end-to-end, who have true credibility with senior management, and who demonstrate flexibility to deal with unending change as a program unfolds and matures.
Unfortunately, those crucial individuals are all too often absent in federal IT programs. The business does not give up the star players to fill those roles. You will often have specialists in particular business areas, but no one who has an end-to-end view. That impinges on a program's change management process and ultimately affects its schedule and cost. It does not in and of itself doom a program, but it is a predictor of failure.
Finally, all members of the PMO should report to the program manager and should be measured and assessed on a shared set of objectives -- outcomes that support meeting the mission or business objectives that spawned the need for the program.
Too often members of the PMO are measured on process results rather than on beneficial outcomes. The federal government would improve its ability to buy IT substantially if the contracting officers reported to the program managers and were measured not just on following the procurement regulations but on deliverables provided by the contractor and the success of the program. Program managers are often stuck with contract vehicles that are ill suited to the work that needs to be done, and they have no recourse.
Can a well-staffed PMO guarantee success? Of course not. But a PMO stocked with qualified leaders in the required disciplines who are working toward a common set of outcome-based success measures is the most important element for any complex IT program. It is where every agency should start.
NEXT STORY: GAO sees opportunity for IT savings in duplication report


Apple will not be selling the hotly awaited iPhone in its six Canadian stores when it is released this Friday, leaving Rogers and its Fido subsidiary to sell the device on their own.
Apple Inc. will not be selling the hotly awaited iPhone in its six Canadian stores when it is released this Friday, leaving Rogers Communications Inc. and its Fido subsidiary to sell the device on their own.
"The iPhone 3G will be available in Canada from Rogers and Fido," said Simon Atkins, spokesperson for Apple. He declined to elaborate.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company broke the news during a private conference call on Monday evening, according to AppleInsider.com. The website said Apple was "disgusted" with the rates Rogers is charging on the iPhone, which has prompted nearly 50,000 people to join a protest at ruinediphone.com. An Apple store manager last week confirmed to CBCNews.ca that staff were "very disappointed" by the cellphone company's rates and that Apple was keeping a tally of complaints.
Representatives at two Apple stores on Tuesday said the decision to yank the phones was made because Rogers has many more outlets and that the carrier is better suited to handle the multiple plans it is offering.
Apple has a number of stores in the United Kingdom, seven in Japan and one each in Italy and Australia. It is unclear whether they will be selling the iPhone. Apple stores in the United States, however, do sell the device, which comes with multiple plans from AT&T Inc., its carrier there.
A spokesperson for Rogers did not immediately return a request for comment.
Rogers and Fido will be offering the iPhone at $199 on a three-year contract with monthly plans starting at $60 plus a system access fee of $6.95. The basic plan offers 150 anytime voice minutes and 400 megabytes of internet usage. Many of the people who signed the petition are upset about the low data cap and the lack of an unlimited option, since the iPhone is designed to surf the web. In the United States, for example, AT&T Inc. will be offering the device at about the same monthly cost, but with triple the voice minutes and unlimited internet usage.
Several other carriers in the world are offering the iPhone with even less data usage on a basic plan than Rogers, but many either have unlimited premium plans or are charging less per month.
Rogers' three-year contract is the longest announced so far by 23 carriers that will be launching the new, faster iPhone, which runs on third-generation cellphone networks, on Friday. Because of the contract's length, Canadians will also be paying the largest minimum commitment in the world, at about $2,600.
Elizabeth Hamilton, spokesperson for Rogers, last week said the contract length was the result of the high subsidy the company must pay Apple for the device. She also said Rogers was not offering an unlimited internet plan because that would raise the cost for people who don't need that much usage.
"Unlimited plans could end up costing customers more for what they don't use," she said. "Our iPhone plans more than accommodate the vast majority of customers."
The report about the yanking of the iPhone from stores comes a day after another website said Apple, frustrated by Rogers' rates, had redirected Canadian shipments to Europe, leaving the cellphone carrier with only 10 to 20 devices per store.
Hamilton on Monday denied the report and said planned inventory levels at Rogers and Fido stores had not changed.
AT&T to sell new iPhone without contract in U.S.


A stylish new way to display your martial arts achievements.
These unique belt holder displays are constructed of a solid wood base and top with a clear, acrylic cylinder that are great to show off your rank belts! Belts not included.
It's taller than I thought it would be and the personalized/wood parts are really nice. Like everyone else has said, the plastic part makes if feel cheap but put together you can't really tell from afar. I'd be willing to pay more if it was actual glass or a solid tube that you didn't have to snap together.
I love this product. Very easy to put togther and beautiful to display.
I bought 4 of these for Christmas gifts so we have not assembled them yet. I was very happy with the prompt delivery and the personalization was perfect. I am sure the grandsons will love them!
Works exactly as stated and looks like the picture. Word to the wise - take off the plastic covering on the outside *and* inside. Took me a week to realize I didn't do both.
It as shipped much more quickly than anticipated. The plastic does have a film on it to protect from scratching during shipping, but was very easy to put together. Although it says it will hold 10 belts, I think it could easily hold 11 or 12. Very satisfied!
A great way to display martial arts belts and keep them dust free. Love it.
Looks really good in my room. If you do not have much space to hung your belts in a rack, this is a good choice. The cylinder is not glass, but the plastic looks like it, just make sure you remove the film protection from inside and outside. It is safer not to be glass.
I wanted a way to display my son's ATA belts and this product was a clever way to do so that does not take up too much room. The quality and personalization are great! I highly recommend this to others!
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? Love the product. Keeps belts organized and a place to show off your accomplishments without using too much space.
Would you recommend this to a friend? would definitely recommend this product.
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? I bought it for my 11-year-old son to display his belts. He loves it. It was easy to assemble and to arrange the display. Good value for the money.
Would you recommend this to a friend? I already have.
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? It is a great way to store the belts away from dust and it is more attractive for a girl. My daughter loves that it sits on her dresser and I love that it does not attach to the wall.
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? Great way to display belts without them getting dusty. The cylinder is plastic, but come with a cover you peel off, easy to assemble.
Primary use: Display belts, but I didn't put name. I put Taekwondo.
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? It is a beautiful, useful way to display karate belts, but it is a little too flimsy for young boys to handle.
Would you recommend this to a friend? yes, absolutely - each of my son's belts are in a ceremonial knot and they all fit!!
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? Like that I can store all belts together & not have to worry about getting dusty.
Primary use: Displaying martial arts belts.
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? Its a great way to display belts!
Would you recommend this to a friend? Definitely! We have two of them!
What did you like or dislike about this MA product? Acrylic is one that rolls up and interlocks in the back. I pictured something else more like a solid piece but it is scratch free packaged well. It turned out better than I thought after first mpressions. Dressy. Tip-Roll the belts up the same width and stick a straight pin in the back.
Would you recommend this to a friend? Well I ended up buying more if that is any indication!
Would you recommend this to a friend? YesThere was a problem with the plastic of the cylinder but customer service was very helpful to fix the problem.
What did you like or dislike about this martial arts product? Like: Looks great. Fits nicely on shelf, does not take up wall space. Keeps belts dust-free. Dislike: Plastic sheet is a bit flimsy. Assembly of the plastic sheet into a cylinder was a little tricky.
Primary use: To store and display past belts earned.
Would you recommend this to a friend? Would recommend to a friend.


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Nissan Australia appoints Mood Media to its customer experience account
by Zoe Wilkinson
Nissan Australia has appointed Mood Media to manage its customer experience account.
The agency will be charged with creating a consistent branded atmosphere across all Australian dealerships involving radio and digital screens.
Mood Media will be working on improving the customer experience
Nissan Radio will feature bespoke playlists which have been selected to reflect the brand and shape the browsing environment. Nissan advertisements that will run on the radio network will be controlled by the head office and distributed to dealerships nationally.
The second stage will involve introducing touch screens to all dealerships which will enable consumers to compare the features of different models and send themselves catalogues. Nissan will also be able to collect data from the screens to track customers' buying processes.
Steve Hughes, managing director of Mood Media Australia, said in a statement: "Consumers aren't just buying a car when they are in a dealership; they're buying an experience and they are demanding it with their feet. Effective experiential design engages the customer on as many levels as possible, and music, interactive screens, and digital signage are all elements of the engagement.
"Mood's digital sight and sound solutions will provide brand consistency, up-to-date content, and an integrated experience for Nissan's customers. Our solutions will provide simplicity and a sleek, clean, paper-free environment to Nissan showrooms across the country."
Nissan Australia general manager of customer experience, Michael Carydias said: "The customer is at the heart of everything that Nissan does, and our partnership with Mood Media ensures they will have the very best dealership experience.
"Mood Media has supported our unique requirements and provides the scale, proactive monitoring, and ongoing support to make this a smooth rollout. Its attention to detail and approach will also ensure consistency across the network. And as we continue to innovate with electric vehicles and Nissan Intelligent Mobility, our showrooms will now reflect these advances."
Zoe Wilkinson
Zoe Wilkinson is a reporter at Mumbrella. Zoe graduated from UNSW where she completed a dual Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Media, majoring in marketing and public relations. She has interned at Ten, News Xtend and Seven.
topics cx, Michael Carydias, Mood Media, Nissan, Nissan Australia, Steve Hughes
Trevor 20 Jun 19
This is a press release from someone that has never been in a dealership. If one more Nissan gets solved as the result of this initiative I'd be surprised.
The modern day consumer makes all the decisions at home and turns up at one dealer – actually it is 1.4 dealer visits – down from 4 or 5. If the customer was at the heart of everything they do they would work at reducing the time it takes to purchase a car to under 30 minutes and they would keep the likes of Mood well away from the experience.
They have no clue.


The delay they refer to, is the accounting of the data you used whilst in Thailand, not the SMS being generated itself.
If you as you claim have incurred $4000+ in excess charges, this means you've used more than your travel pack allows. And given they send an SMS at every $100 of spend, I would expect you to have received 400 SMS alerts. Because you only get 100mb per day of pack you choose, so if you buy 7 days worth of packs, then that's 700mb. Now in Thailand, data is $1/mb (billed in 10kB increments). This means to get a bill in excess of $4000, you've used nearly 30gb of data whilst roaming. (Please note this is really rough math, but if your consumption allegation is correct, then you're using a TONNE of data).
When you say "You purchased the pack", did you go online PRIOR to your trip to activate this? or during your trip and specify the said days?
I've got a few ideas, but there is a lot of holes that need to be filled to make a fair judgement of the situation.


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