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Adia – Hold It All Together
Bob Marovich2023-01-20T17:00:43-06:00January 20th, 2023|
On her latest solo album, Hold It All Together, Destiny Adia Andrews, known as Adia, sings in a tranquil, conspiratorial voice, as if holding a prayer meeting with a few friends in a tiny room with the lights out and candles burning.
RIP Clyde Brown Moultry, Former Member of the Cleveland Singers and the Gospel Messengers
The Journal of Gospel Music was sad to learn from Tim Dillinger-Curenton that Clyde Brown Moultry, a former member of Charles Fold's Gospel Messengers and the Cleveland Singers, passed away on December 21, 2022, at the age of 77.
Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson Dies Suddenly at 50
Bob Marovich2022-10-02T01:33:29-05:00October 2nd, 2022|
September 30, 2022 - One of the current kings of gospel quartet music, Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson, has died suddenly at the age of 50. Johnson was found dead in his Atlanta, GA, home this morning. An autopsy is scheduled. Johnson was known for big gospel radio hits such as "Let [...]
The 2022 Quartet Music Awards Winners List
Bob Marovich2022-07-01T01:48:06-05:00July 1st, 2022|
The Quartet Music Awards Announce Winners and 2023 Show Date Atlanta, GA -- History was made on June 18, 2022, in Atlanta, GA, when the Inaugural Quartet Music Awards took place with a packed audience in the Center Stage Theater. Quartet fans, artists, and groups from around the country enjoyed [...]
"God Said It" – The Canton Spirituals ft. Doug Williams and Darrel Petties
Bob Marovich2022-05-20T01:07:05-05:00May 20th, 2022|
"God Said It"The Canton Spirituals ft. Doug Williams and Pastor Darrel PettiesFrom the Malaco Music Group album Hallelujah Anyhow(release date: January 28, 2022)www.malaco.com By Robert M. Marovich It's a Mississippi singers reunion as the Canton Spirituals, Doug Williams of the Williams Brothers, and Pastor Darrel Petties of Olive Branch, Mississippi, [...]
Various Artists – Malaco 50th Celebration
Bob Marovich2022-03-26T01:23:02-05:00March 26th, 2022|
Various Artists Malaco 50th Celebration Malaco Music Group (release date: February 25, 2022) www.malaco.com By Robert M. Marovich The nearly two-hour Malaco 50th Celebration two CD set (and companion DVD) is one of the best releases thus far this year. Recorded live on July 12, 2018, at the record company's [...]
RIP LaShun Pace: Soloist, Member of Anointed Pace Sisters
Bob Marovich2022-03-22T19:53:23-05:00March 22nd, 2022|
By Robert M. Marovich JGM was saddened to learn of the passing of LaShun Pace. Her sister Lydia reported that LaShun passed from organ failure on March 21, 2022, in a Metro Atlanta hospital. She had been on kidney dialysis for five years. Homegoing arrangements will be reported when announced. [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – March 14, 2022
"Peace Be Still" Kelontae Gavin Malaco Music Group (release date: January 20, 2022) www.malaco.com By Robert M. Marovich At the Malaco Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration in Jackson, Mississippi, gospel soloist Kelontae Gavin put his own melismatic touch on "Peace Be Still." It's from the CD and DVD chronicling the Fiftieth Anniversary [...]
"I Still Got Joy" – Roy & Revelation
Bob Marovich2022-03-09T02:50:43-06:00March 9th, 2022|
"I Still Got Joy" Roy & Revelation From the Malaco / 4 Winds Records album The Book of Revelation (release date: January 28, 2022) www.malaco.com By Robert M. Marovich South Carolina-based Roy & Revelation keeps the soul-stirring gospel quartet sound relevant with "I Still Got Joy." Complete with call-and-response and [...]
"Thank You" – Sonny Brown
"Thank You" Sonny Brown Independent (release date: January 3, 2022) By Robert M. Marovich If Sonny Brown's "Thank You" has a traditional gospel quartet vibe, it's because Brown has spent part of his career in the quartet field, notably with the Fantastic Violinaires and the Swanee Quintet. In exhalations of [...]


May 2-6, 2011. California Coast Range. A backpacking loop beginning and ending at the Big Sur Guard Station near Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. Stops at at Ventana, Redwood, Rainbow, and Terrace Creek Camps. The Big Sur Trail from above Redwood Camp to Cold Spring was the wild section of this Ventana wilderness excursion.
Monday, May 2. I drove down to Big Sur this morning and arrived here, at the elegant, new Big Sur Guard Station, a bit before noon.
The Pine Ridge Trail starts down this fenced path. Lots of PO.
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow) on an open hillside.
About 2 hours in, a view up-canyon: Ventana Double Cone and Ventana Cone. And that sure looks like the spire of a Santa Lucia Fir, not a redwood.
And a few minutes later, the view down-canyon: the river far below an the Mt. Manual trail above.
Lysimachia latifolia (western star flower) in a shadier spot. Previously Trientalis latifolia.
Delphinium nudicaule (red larkspur) with some Iris douglasiana.
Approaching the Ventana Camp Trail junction.
Down on the newly worked trail (by the VWA YIW kids) toward Ventana Camp.
Big Sur River at Ventana Camp.
Tuesday, May 3. Heading out. Now I get to climb 800 feet back to the Pine Ridge Trail.
Western Skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus) (maybe) near the trail junction.
In places the Pine Ridge Trail is perched on quite a cliff.
The Pine Ridge Trail is mostly Wilderness Freeway, but there were a few huge deadfalls. I shimmied under this one.
The Big Sur River crossing at Sykes, taken after I crossed.
It was a pretty place to sit.
Above Sykes, the trail trades redwoods for oaks and madrones.
And higher yet, the trail enters grass and chaparral, with a view to the dry inland ridges.


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By DAVE SKRETTA - Feb. 13, 2019 05:12 AM EST
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid watches workouts Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs host the New England Patriots in the NFL 's AFC football championship game on Sunday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The only defense the Kansas City Chiefs played most of this season was, well, in defense of their own defense, which gave up so many yards and points that it became a running joke around the league.
Yes, the Chiefs scored in bushels. They also allowed points in bunches.
The fact that they spent most of the season coughing up 30 points and 400-plus yards per game came despite the fact that they excelled at sacking the quarterback. They finished with 52 of them, tied for the NFL lead, thanks primarily to the trio of Chris Jones, Dee Ford and Justin Houston.
Yet things began to change in Week 17, when the Chiefs shut down the Oakland Raiders in a game they needed to win to secure the No. 1 seed in the AFC. And when critics claimed that the Raiders were playing for nothing, the Chiefs backed it up with a defensive gem in the divisional round against the Colts.
Now, that suddenly stingy defense gets its biggest test Sunday against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
At stake: A trip to the Super Bowl, the first for the Chiefs in 49 years.
So what changed? How did a Swiss cheese defense that was torched by the Patriots for 43 points in a Week 6 loss in Foxborough suddenly turn into a steel curtain, and just in the nick of time?
"In the last couple of games, the three things we've done is we've limited the explosive plays, we've done a really solid job of tackling and we've had one defensive penalty in two weeks," Chiefs defensive coordinator Bob Sutton said. "Those three things allow you to function and go."
Take each one in order.
In the Chiefs' four losses this season, they allowed four plays of 40-plus yards and 21 plays of at least 20 yards. Seven of those came in a particularly dismal defensive performance against the Rams, who ultimately won a 53-50 shootout at the Coliseum in Los Angeles.
But the Chiefs didn't allow a single play over 15 yards against Oakland, and didn't allow the Colts a play over 30 yards. In fact, Indianapolis didn't score on offense until late in the fourth quarter.
Their success in limiting big plays is, at least in part, a byproduct of improved tackling.
Then there are the penalties. After leading the league in total penalties and defensive penalties this season, their defense has been flagged just once over the past two games.
"Most points that are produced in a drive usually result from an explosive play and-or a penalty in the drive," Sutton explained. "The common thing when you look back and say, 'Hey how'd they get down the field?' It's usually you had a (pass interference) here or you gave up a 20-yard run here or whatever it was. So, if you can manage those and do a relatively good job on those things, you put yourself in a good position to play. I think the guys that have played have done a good job."
Ah, there's the caveat: The guys who have played have done a good job.
The Chiefs have been missing pieces on defense the entire season, and often they have been crucial playmakers. Highly paid linebacker Justin Houston, who had a pair of sacks against the Colts, missed four games with a hamstring injury. Top cornerback Kendall Fuller missed a game with a broken hand. Starting safety Daniel Sorensen missed half the season with a broken leg.
Those injuries alone are enough to derail any defense, but the Chiefs have also played almost the whole season without Eric Berry, their star safety and arguably the team's emotional leader.
He played in just two games because of his heel but is poised to play Sunday against New England.
"That's my guy. Eric Berry has kind of taken me under his wing since I got here," Chiefs cornerback Steven Nelson said. "We call him 'Coach' in our room because he's so knowledgeable. He means a lot to our team and our defense, so whenever we can have him out there, it's a great thing."
The Patriots are under no preconceptions the defense they marched up and down the field against in Week 6 will show up on Sunday. Bill Belichick said this week that there is little to glean from that win, while Brady was quick to heap praise on a defense playing its best all year.
"We've played them quite a bit over the years," the Patriots quarterback said. "They've had some incredible units that we've played against. They've got play-makers at each level. Obviously, a good scheme. They make you work for it. It's a very tough, hard-nosed team. They compete on every snap. They've been in a lot of close games this year. It's a great challenge for us. I don't think you can take anything for granted."

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Welcome to the first issue of Magellan's Peer Support Whole Health and Wellness e-newsletter! This is just one of our new resources designed to help you improve your health through peer support, whole health planning and working toward wellness. This e-newsletter will be produced quarterly and will include articles about Magellan's Peer Support Whole Health and Resiliency initiative, along with links to resources you can use. From time to time, we also will feature personal stories of how Magellan's Peer Support Whole Health and Resiliency initiative has affected people's lives. Our Arizona (Maricopa County), Iowa, Florida, Nebraska and Pennsylvania programs have activities going on, so you will hear about these as well. Sharing successes and ideas is one way to promote the growth of our initiative. We hope you enjoy this first issue! We welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions. Please contact us at Elearning@MagellanHealth.com. Thank you!


Regional business leaders, diplomats and representatives of international financial institutions gathered at the Premier Palace Hotel in Ukraine's second city on 9 April for Kharkiv SME Day, an event aiming to stimulate investment and growth among small and medium-sized businesses in the region. Attendees included Kharkiv Oblast governor Yulia Svitlychna, the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli, and the European Investment Bank's Ukraine chief Jean-Erik de Zagon.
Mingarelli identified a number of areas for further cooperation in the Kharkiv region including energy efficiency initiatives, healthcare reform, and the participation of Kharkiv universities in the Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 programs. However, SME sector growth remains a priority.
"It is particularly important for us to support the development of Kharkiv region SMEs. We have worked together with the Ukrainian authorities for the past few years in order to create the right business climate for small and medium-sized businesses to flourish. In Kharkiv, we have established an information center for SMEs to help them access credit," commented Mingarelli.
The five-star Premier Palace Hotel Kharkiv is a regular venue for key regional business events and plays host to the EBRD's Regional Office for eastern Ukraine. The hotel was constructed by Oleksandr Yaroslavsky's DCH Group as part of Kharkiv's preparations to serve as one of four Ukrainian host cities during the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship, with an approximate overall investment of USD 126 million.
The hotel scooped two prizes at the 2019 International Hospitality Awards, an industry event that ranks hotels from 21 countries in 28 dominations. The Kharkiv landmark took top spot in the Best Five-Star Business Hotel category, beating out competition from Kyiv's InterContinental and Fairmont hotels and the Wyndham Batumi in Georgia. The hotel also claimed first place in the Best MICE Hotel (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) category ahead of rivals including Hotel and Congress Center Brdo (Slovenia), Splendid Conference and Spa Resort (Montenegro) and Georgia's Hotels & Preference Hualing Tbilisi.


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UEFA Champions League – a perfect example of global sports hero production
By Kenneth Cortsen on February 17, 2015 in Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
As the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League kicks off tonight when Paris Saint-Germain faces Chelsea FC and Shakhtar Donetsk welcomes FC Bayern Munich, football (soccer) fans worldwide will be witnessing yet another example of football's penetrative force to produce global sports heroes. The competitive edge of the UEFA Champions League is the […]
Christiano Ronaldo's hunger sets the standard for football's global superstars
By Kenneth Cortsen on January 13, 2015 in Sport & Events, Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
Photos: Christiano Ronaldo's official Facebook and Twitter accounts. Football (soccer in the US) is as the world's most popular sport a 'true superstar economy'. People in all regions of the world recognize or may even identify with the sport's top player. At the pinnacle of the sport's most prestigious individual award ceremony stands Christiano Ronaldo […]
Top five European football leagues dominate the shirt sponsorship market
By Kenneth Cortsen on October 22, 2014 in Sport Economy, Sport Marketing
An accumulated €580 mio. is the amount that is generated from key shirt sponsorships for the 2014/2015 season in the top five European football leagues, i.e. the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga, the Italian Serie A, the Spanish La Liga, and the French Ligue 1 (Sports Marketing Frontiers, 2014). Figure 1: Top 15 shirt […]
Football players, asset management and the unexploited potential of enhanced player engagement in football management and football marketing.
By Kenneth Cortsen on September 9, 2014 in Best Of, Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
As an appetizer for the book Marketing & Football: an international perspective (Desbordes, 2012), it is emphasized that (see citation below) "Football is arguably one of the most important sports in the world, and the marketing of football has become an increasingly important issue, as clubs and product owners need to generate more revenue from […]
The FIFA World Cup is a powerful and transformative football party
By Kenneth Cortsen on June 3, 2014 in Sport & CSR, Sport & Events, Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
In approximately one week, the FIFA World Cup will kick off in Brazil. This sporting mega-event will put a lot of challenges and interests in play. It is a football party with enormous dimensions. The global reach is massive and the football party's emotional equity touches people from all corners of the world. The commercial […]


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Q: Is there a SFDC tool to quickly load - and reload - test data? Is there already a SFDC tool that will take a set of test data - similar to what is part of every developer org - and load it into a new developer sandbox?
Is there a tool to wipe out an entire org's data, in order to get ready to reload the test data?
I am aware of Data Loader and similar tools for loading data - I am tired of using those and am looking for something more efficient.
I am assuming that I would have to follow some sort of CSV or JSON formatting - but before I build my own tools here, I want to see if something similar already exists.
Thanks!

A: There is Test.loadData(sObjectToken, resourceName) which can be used to load a number of testing records from a CSV file stored as a static resource.
This is great if the intention of the data is for running automated test cases. Not so useful if you want to setup an org for an actual user.

A: If you're look to copy data into a Sandbox from Production (or another Sandbox) and then do something stuff and then delete the data, then reload etc, you could use the SFXOrgData app (http://www.sfApex.com) which let you copy data and also delete data from your target org.

A: To wipe out a sandbox, simply refresh from Production and activate the refreshed sandbox.
If it is not a full copy sandbox, the data will be wiped clean.
DreamFactory do a tool called Monarch, which I have seen widely used for moving data between sandboxes for setting up seed test data.
Also, although it isn't really meant for this, I've read about Salesforce 2 Salesforce being used for this purpose, although I haven't tried it out myself.
Dataloader can be quite handy if you have a set of CSV files and external id fields on each object to marry up the relational data on load. You could save the mappings and make this process repeatable by setting up Dataloader to run command line.

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Kent Early ORCID
a JISC-ARMA funded pilot project
Project Plan
Advocacy toolkit and reporting on the project
As everyone is no doubt aware, the formal part of the ORCID pilot projects has now closed. The final meetings with Jisc were very productive, and it was great to meet some of the team …
Barbara: Working as an ORCID advocate
I first heard about ORCID in the postgraduate room in the Templeman Library at the end of November 2014, when Lesley Gould informally asked the regular users of the room whether we wanted to participate …
George: My ORCID experience
When I first saw the ORCID advert in the Graduate School Weekly Bulletin and understood the idea behind it, I already got excited about its aims as well as the opportunity to be part of …
By Kirsty Wallis in Project Update
As everyone is no doubt aware, the formal part of the ORCID pilot projects has now closed. The final meetings with Jisc were very productive, and it was great to meet some of the team from ORCID as well as catching up with the other pilot project teams. I was very pleased to hear that Laurel from ORCID especially was very impressed with our advocacy materials, and we had a very nice chat about the ideas behind them and their uses, as well as some of the things that ORCID themselves were working on in this area.
Part of the original project plan required the team here at Kent to produce an advocacy toolkit for other institutions wanting to undertake a similar project, and following the conversations I had at this final Jisc meeting I decided to focus on what made our project unique, which was the materials and the team we built for the work here at Kent. I hope the Advocacy Toolkit helps anyone wanting to do their own project.
The final JISC Pilot Project Report has also been submitted in the last few weeks and I have linked this to the post too for anyone that may be interested in the more formal side of the projects.
I first heard about ORCID in the postgraduate room in the Templeman Library at the end of November 2014, when Lesley Gould informally asked the regular users of the room whether we wanted to participate in the project. I immediately liked the concept behind ORCID and the benefits of having, through an ORCID number, a detailed, up-to-date and traceable web presence.
Two days later, I met Kirsty and started my job as an ORCID ambassador in the School of English (my school) and, to a certain extent, with friends and colleagues from the School of European Culture and Languages. I found out that most people from across the humanities postgraduate community were fascinated by ORCID – were they Master's students about to consider the possibility of applying to a PhD or final-year research students, they all found the idea of an ORCID number useful. Also, everybody seemed to love the "Cids", and now most computers in the postgraduate room and the AAL offices in the school of English have a bug on their screen frame!
As much as I left postcards and small cards around the department and in pigeonholes of Postgraduates who teach and early-career researchers, I think that people preferred to know more about ORCID when I spoke to them directly about the project. So, some of the reading groups and Postgraduate seminars that I normally attend where the perfect platform for me to hand out the material and deliver a brief presentation about ORCID. At the same time, the informal setting of working spaces and common rooms was great to have an easy chat with colleagues who had already heard about ORCID, or seen it advertised on campus without fully knowing what it was.
My moment of greatest success, however, was when a friend who lives abroad and with whom I was then co-editing a special issue (now published) told me that she wanted to change her name on it. Her case was a perfect case where having an ORCID number would make a difference! I told her about the project, and she decided to sign up for it immediately. I'm happy and proud that, through my work at ORCID, I have been able to offer a simple, straightforward and useful tool which I'm sure will make life so much easier for many researchers, now and in the future.
When I first saw the ORCID advert in the Graduate School Weekly Bulletin and understood the idea behind it, I already got excited about its aims as well as the opportunity to be part of the team to advocate for it. Hence, I was even more excited when I met Kirsty on 28th October for a chat about the programme, my role, plans, materials we would have, et cetera.
So even before I got materials three days later on 31st, I had already started advocating for ORCID at the two PhD workshops I had attended, as well as at my school's Staff/Student Liaison Committee meeting which was in the same week. Once I had the materials, I went about putting up posters in different schools and colleges. This was complemented by distributing leaflets, cards and other goodies.
I also had a chance to talk about ORID with my supervisors and at our school's weekly seminars, just as I always took an opportunity to speak about it at every other Graduate School workshop I was attending at the campus. After three weeks, I was mesmerized by the amount of people who said they had either seen or heard about ORCID before and some confirmed that they had signed up and have an account.
It was also fascinating to note that at one of the seminars I attended (Measuring Research Impact), ORCID was mentioned and strongly recommended as a good tool for researchers. I was proud to an extent that I chipped in a bit to explain its benefits and that that I was part of the team here at Kent. At one of the Graduate School's Research Cafés we have every month, I was glad to meet three PhD students who said they had heard about ORCID and signed up!
Regarding what went well, personally I would say advocating for something I believed in and was excited about was without a doubt a highlight. Other than that, getting to tell people (mostly researchers) who didn't have an idea about it before to fully comprehend the ORCID idea and make a decision to sign up was truly the climax. The challenge was that most of them were already used to other existing tools like Academia, LinkedIn and others. However, the fact that ORCID is a unique identifier and clears out any name ambiguity seemed to make it stand out from the others.
Again, it was great to learn that people were willing to try something new and see how it is indeed different from the rest (and promised to sign up).
Other than people confusing it with other forums as mentioned above, perhaps the other challenge was when people always promised that they would sign up but you were not always sure if they really eventually signed up. The few I tried to follow up with needed to be reminded (at times on two occasions) to sign up.
Otherwise, I look forward to the last weeks of this amazing experience when I will go round the schools again to distribute the materials and talk to as much people as possibly I can. Of course I also look forward to publishing more in the future and fully utilize and live the ORCID idea and experience!
Ruth: Working as a 'remote' ORCID advocate.
By Kirsty Wallis in Uncategorized
I have been working as an ORCID advocate since October after my friend told my about the project. As a PhD student seeking to progress with a future career in academia, becoming an ORCID advocate seemed like a great opportunity to get involved with the scheme and to find out more about how to develop my own research activities and connect with other PhD and early career researchers along the way at Kent.
My work with ORCID so far has mostly taken place off-campus as I currently only commute into Kent a couple of times a week. This has led me to think of other ways of getting the message out about ORCID instead of through the usual avenues of going around departments handing out posters and flyers and organizing meetings. Like most researchers, emails are important lifeline for me to connect with other researchers, organize meetings and to find out about conferences and career events. So it seemed like a sensible idea to start getting the ball rolling about the scheme.
The first task I was assigned was to email around all the schools at Kent (and there are a fair few!) with information about ORCID in the hope this would then be circulated around staff and postgraduate researchers. This has actually proved to be quite successful and I have received many really positive responses about the scheme. Even after mentioning the ORCID briefly to fellow PhD students, many have seemed to pick up on the scheme and were considering signing up. Administrators from the departments have also sent follow up emails with enquires about how ORCID works in conjunction with the existing Kent Academic Repository (KAR) scheme.
In the up and coming weeks, I am really looking forward to being involved in a pop-up event and further workshops where I will have a chance to talk about ORCID (this time in person)! The ORCID advocates have also been given some great merchandise, in the form of business cards and postcards, which will certainly help people to get to grips with the basics of the scheme. Using email has been a great way to start spreading the word about ORCID and I hope to carry on with the conversation on campus.
T-minus 1 month…
And counting!
The project has been going so well over the last few weeks that I have forgotten to blog! Sorry about that!
The advocates total is up to seven very effective and lovely team members that are all brilliant and have hugely diverse ideas, just as I was hoping. I won't talk too much about them as I have asked some of the longest standing team members to produce guest posts for this blog about what they've been up to, the first of which should be up in the next few days.
The rest of our merchandise has arrived, which has been very well received, especially the fuzzy bugs that seem to have become our unofficial mascot – nicknamed 'Cid' he is very popular and I think we'll have to order some more before long! We have had some significant issues with the t-shirt company, with the orders being repeatedly wrong, but hopefully (fingers crossed) this should now be rectified and all of the advocates can have their own shirts for events.
We are now running weekly pop up stands in the library where the team hand out information, answer questions and give demonstrations, as well as encouraging people to sign up there and then. In the next few weeks we are planning to host an ORCID themed Christmas Party, which we can invite postgraduates, PhD students and academic staff to en masse for socialising, networking, and a chance to have all your questions answered, with a mince pie.
I haven't checked on our total sign up's recently, but as of around a month ago we were approaching 300 which is a huge increase from where we started – well done team!
Merchandise and advocates
I find it interesting the different ways that the advocates are taking to approach their work with their departments. I have one advocate that is primarily off-campus who is choosing to do a lot of their work by email, and approaching the departments to get information circulated, and she is getting some really good responses.
On completely the opposite end of the scale, I have a couple of advocates that are utilising reading groups, school meetings and seminars to spread the word using leaflets and their own enthusiasm, also having the same great results.
This week coming up, as I am going to be away, I have asked them to start putting their experience into words, helping to collate some FAQs for the website, as well as investigating the different tools that ORCID provide to 'Link works' and writing up some short guidance that we can use to support our academic staff in the use of the ORCID site to its full potential. We are also going 'old school' and some of the teams are going to be putting up posters in their schools and across campus in postgraduate spaces, staff rooms and offices, so you won't be able to escape the message!
We have also just taken possession of our first official merchandise!
Postcards have been created that contain the key ORCID 1, 2, 3 motif as well as some plain-language benefits and the internal page for more information. We decided on postcards because the message was so simple, filling a flyer or leaflet would have been very laborious and ORCID is such a simple idea, it just wasn't needed.
We have also received business cards. These were the idea of the advocates, as I said before, and they look great. They wanted a simple, easy to transport way of giving the URL and some contact information for more details. Now I think about it, business cards are a good idea for another reason, they stick around. I know this seems to be my rationale for more than one of the merchandising products, but someone who thinks ORCID is a great idea and goes away clutching a leaflet, the leaflet is going to get screwed up, torn, coffee spilt on, used to write down a phone number. A business card is less likely to get screwed up, and will stick around in a pocket or wallet until rediscovered, still intact to remind them what a good idea this was.
The team are on their way to collect their business cards as I type – I'll let you know what they think!
ORCID Advocates
This week I held the first briefing sessions for the ORCID advocate roles that form a key part of this project. Of the ten I can potentially recruit, the first four have been briefed and have begun their outreach in their respective academic schools.
I realise that four is a long way from the ten we need but they are so enthusiastic and full of great ideas, I don't have any worries about their ability to do the job, or about my decision to allow them a freer reign over the events and methods of advocacy that they were to undertake. As I thought, each of them knows the structure of their department and the best channels to go through to effectively perform their roles.
ORCID as a product is of interest to everyone involved in research at an academic institution, from research Masters students, through PhD students and up into the academic and research staff in the departments, each group with slightly different concerns and priorities. The logic behind hiring PhD students and early career researchers is key to the success of the project, as they are a central point between the Masters students (who they have contact as fellow postgraduates/mentors/teachers), and the staff (which they work with). This is an idea that the first advocates have embraced – we'll see how they get on.
After they have had a week or so to make their first connections and give their first talks to their peers, we are attending a half-day Open Access conference on campus where we are giving a talk, hosting a stand, and a sign-up booth where delegates can come and register for their ORCID iD with our guidance. After that we will be collating our FAQs from the intervening weeks and the conference onto the website, and preparing more detailed support documentation if the need for it is present beyond what can be fulfilled by the inbuilt ORCID documentation.
I'll let you know how it goes!
More promotion for the remaining positions is my job for today, and chasing the designs for our handout materials, but thats another post!
Implementing ORCiDs in your systems does not have to be difficult. Fortunately it is a well designed system that gives you a simple URL that you can click on that takes you to the right place. We have not completed the first part of implementing ORCiDs in our systems, and here I will be covering some of the technical details of what we did and what our future aims are.
At Kent we use the popular repository management system Eprints. The best feature of Eprints is its customisability making adding a new field for ORCiDs pretty straightforward. We've added fields to the creator, editor and contributor entries so ORCiDs can be entered for people's work regardless of their role. In Eprints we do not have to hack the database manually to do this, instead we add entries to eprints_fields.pl to describe where the new field is placed and how it should be rendered. We have put it alongside other information such as the email address, first name and last name. The structure looks like this:
sub_name => 'orcid',
type => 'url',
render_value => 'EPrints::Extras::render_url_truncate_end'
We could then tell Eprints to modify the database for us with this command:
epadmin update_database_structure [repository name]
To get the ORCiD to render we added sections like this to the summary_page.xml file after adding relevant labels to eprints_fields.xml:
<epc:foreach expr="$item.property('creators')" iterator="creator">
ORCiD (<epc:print expr="$creator{name}.property('family')" />, <epc:print expr="$creator{name}.property('given')" />):
<epc:print expr="$creator{orcid}" />
</epc:foreach>
Now we have the capacity to put this new unique id alongside people's names it is time to get some benefit out of it. We have added the capacity to search for work by ORCiD. Again, Eprints makes this easy for us. We made a modification to eprint_search_advanced.pl:
{ meta_fields => [ "creators_orcid" ] }
This neatly solves the problem of being able to search for people by a unique label! We have been able to do this to a limited extent with email addresses, but obviously we cannot publish those on the site because of spam. This caused a bit of a problem when you were searching for a person's work where they might have a name that is not unique. Now you can just copy and paste their ORCiD into the search field and results will be returned. When you first set this up, note that you need to wait for Eprints to finish indexing.
In the future we plan to make much more use of ORCiDs. We have a current project taking place that is implementing a new research management system. The providers of this system have plans to implement functionality that will make use of ORCiDs to import information. We're also integrating ORCiDs into our Moodle based Virtual Learning Environment for E-Theses submissions. This will enable us to fully leverage the power of ORCiDs in our systems. Keep an eye on this blog for further developments!
Web presence and an unexpected challenge
It's an interesting challenge to promote and advocate for the use of an external product without branding it and bringing it under the corporate wing, while being an internal member of staff. I have to admit, I didn't consider the effect my being a member of staff would have on the process of promoting ORCID.
I found this especially true when I attended one of the first events – I was talking about ORCID to our new postgraduates and promoting it by relating it to work they would be doing, which was quite successful in gaining enthusiasm and encouraging numbers of interested parties. The problem with this is that by knowing what they would be doing, it was fairly obvious that I was a member of staff, which led a number of people to ask about the 'external applications' of this product after they leave the Uni.
This was very revealing, helped greatly in forming the explanation of ORCID I was giving throughout the event, and in turn the approach we are taking to support and promotion internally.
We have since created an internal web page on the library website, in a section dedicated to research. It comes alongside advice about Open Access publishing, research resources and online thesis submission.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/library/research/orcid
Keeping within the style guidelines of the website, we were able to follow our previous decision to utilise the messages provided by ORCID themselves, while making the content relevant to an internal audience. The fine balance is making it relevant, while still being externally focussed. Small elements have been introduced, such as videos and logos from ORCID's outreach resources page, and even the internal email address we have created for people to send queries to (ORCIDsupport@kent.ac.uk) is an indication that we are supporting it's use, rather than administering it as a system. We are also using the page to advertise the advocate positions, with the advert being held externally on our news system, which is going well, we have 3 positions filled so far.
All in all, its been a good and very productive week!
Leaflets and merchandise
Although I did promise a first look for the attendees at the JISC event last week, unfortunately it wasn't ready but now I have a suite of things that I can show you! Originally I was intending to create a hybrid message, using elements from the ORCID brand, as well as elements of Kent to create a suite of outreach documents and merchandise, but the discussions we had at the JISC day made me reconsider this approach.
Considering that our project focusses on advocating for use of this external product, I soon realised that utilising the designs and text that ORCID provides is the best way forward. It is not the aim of the project to bring this product within the Kent sphere and create our own name and brand for it, like we have with other systems, but these are designed to be integrated, what I realised is that ORCID isn't one of these. This encouraged me to utilise the ORCID outreach materials provided on their ambassadors pages and create something distinctive from them.
The idea behind the materials we have so far is that they are as universal and distinctive as possible, I created a powerpoint slide for use in PG inductions, and using this as a template I created a leaflet and some posters, all of which feature the same design elements. The first two have been pulled from the provided content and merely modified to include refernce to using your Kent email address (to help us track numbers that sign up). From these, we used the same typeface and colours to add more personalised elements and informal language for PG students (there is also one for academic staff in production).
We wanted to use a catchy image to make the publicity items distinct, so we decided to utilise the 'bubbles' motif from the ORCID posters and the iD logo to create a footer image to tie elements together. It also helps to round out the colours of the posters and leflets as lots of green and pale colours on a white background can be quite dazzling when there is no other colour.
So all together it creates quite a nice effect – Poster.pdf
The idea is to utilise the same format for information screens, posters, leaflets and anything else we need, to ensure it is a recognisable and reusable programme – able to be used beyond the scope of the project.
© 2023 Kent Early ORCID.


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Family Raising Kids
Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick Went to Therapy to Help them Handle Co-Parenting While Dating New People
Stacey Coles April 30, 2019
Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick sat down to discuss the challenges they've faced with co-parenting.
In a new video for Kardashian's website Poosh, the ex-lovers talked about how they've learned to communicate, set boundaries, and make sure their children have the "right values."
I'm so proud of the place we're at as parents to our children now and all the work we've put into getting here. Video on our biggest challenges and what works for us on poosh.com
A post shared by Kourtney Kardashian (@kourtneykardash) on Apr 29, 2019 at 1:23pm PDT
As Entertainment Tonight reports, Kardashian and Disick have three young children Mason, Penelope, and Reign.
During the discussion, Kardashian shared that she felt them both entering new relationships while trying to have a good relationship with each other was the hardest part for her.
She explained:
"I think the hardest part was when we both started new relationships, don't you? Because that caused fights between you and I about introducing the kids. I think that caused the most challenges. That was the time that you and I had our biggest [challenge,] where we had to literally go to therapy to talk [and] to even get through [and] be able to communicate together."
However, Disick found another aspect of the whole ordeal to be more challenging.
"I think the biggest challenge was just trying to figure out how we separate our relationship as friends and parents and still be on the same page. And, what's appropriate and what's not and when to be able to talk to each other. In the beginning you set good [boundaries] and then we learned from that and got to a good place."
As ET reports, Disick pointed out that the children shouldn't suffer just because their parents are no longer together.
"I couldn't imagine raising three children with somebody that I couldn't speak to everyday."
Further, Kardashian also gave tips for others attempting to co-parent.
"Having the bedtime routine and doing the books and all that stuff.I think having that routine and knowing what to expect at night — it helps when you do the same routines at both houses when you're co-parenting. And, try to keep the same rules so that the kids aren't like, 'We're dying to go to dad's because we get unlimited video game time.' I think that's also one of the challenging parts — trying to keep the same rules at both houses and trying to, when the rules change, make sure you're communicating."
In addition, Kardashian cautioned parents about having favorites and not treating their children equally. She explained that she feels her mother Kris Jenner, often compares her to her sisters.
"Growing up with five siblings, my mom did compare us and she still does. She did it to me yesterday. She said, 'You're not Kendall,' about something and I was like, 'I know. I'm Kourtney, thanks, and I'm very happy with who I am.' And, I called her today about it and I said, 'The world compares us enough. We don't need to be compared by our own mother.' And, I was thinking about it today — we never do that."
In the end, the two feel they are "lucky" to be able to compromise with each other rather than having to go through a nasty custody battle. Lastly, they both agreed that in the end, the children come first.
Kardashians Kourtney Kardashian parenting Scott Disick
Loss of a Loved One Tragedy
Luke Perry's Daughter Says She's 'Proud and Excited' After Naming Malawi Preschool After Late Dad
"Thank you to everybody who donated…"
Sarah Caskie April 30, 2019
Loss of a Child Tragedy
Teen Died of a Brain Tumor Less Than a Week After She Was Kicked in the Head During a Fight After School
"I told her to get up. I said, 'Get up, Kashala.' She kept saying, 'Mama, my head hurts,' so she laid down."
Tiffani Credle April 30, 2019
Stacey Coles
I am a journalist from the D(M)V, who is just trying to make every day count.
Haunting Words Written Just Days Before Woman Dies in Tragic Accident Make You Think She Knew What Was Coming For Her
"If I die tomorrow…"
Sara Vallone July 25, 2017
Ayesha Curry Slams Troll Who Recommends 'Portion Control' for Her 30-Pound 10-Month-Old Son
"30lbs at 10months?? Sheesh"
Sara Vallone May 23, 2019
Dr. Phil Left In Disbelief After Mom Explains Why She Lets Insecure Teen Get Botox: 'Oh My God'
Dr. Phil seemed seriously concerned about one mom's parenting decisions.
Tiffani Credle October 23, 2018
Parents Are Tricking Kids Into Bang Their Heads Against a Wall in the New 'Get That Money' Challenge
"Head injuries are nothing to laugh at."
Tiffani Credle May 30, 2019
6-Year-Old Orders $350 Worth of Toys on Mom's Amazon Account. Family Realizes When Mailman Opens Truck
"This is a picture of how everyone found out."
Sarah Caskie August 14, 2018
Pink Challenged Her 'Ugly' 6-Year-Old Daughter at VMAs: 'What Do You Think They Say About Me?'
"So, baby girl, we don't change."
Cassandra Webb August 28, 2017
'Married at First Sight' Couple Lost Their Son — But What's in Daughter's Room Is a Touching Tribute
"…hanging on the wall next to her crib."
Police Notice 6-Year-Old Looks 'Lethargic.' Mom Had Been Giving Kids Sleeping Pills During the Day
"She was under the influence of something."
Sarah Caskie June 19, 2018
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Clem Crowe
Crowe played college football and basketball at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a basketball All-American, and a two-time All-American in football.
In 1945, Crowe was hired on an interim basis at Iowa, while Eddie Anderson was serving with the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. He had a 2–7 record, and left the program when Anderson returned the following season.
In February 1946, Crowe was involved in a car accident with his daughter, and was hospitalized for a few days. The other driver was killed.
He later coached professional football for the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), and the Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). In his first season in Ottawa, he led the Rough Riders to the Grey Cup Championship.
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THE first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered. It was the "rear house," infamous ever after in our city's history. There had been tenant-houses before, but they were not built for the purpose. Nothing would probably have shocked their original owners more than the idea of their harboring a promiscuous crowd; for they were the decorous homes of the old Knickerbockers, the proud aristocracy of Manhattan in the early days.
Still the pressure of the crowds did not abate, and in the old garden where the stolid Dutch burgher grew his tulips or early cabbages a rear house was built, generally of wood, two stories high at first. Presently it was carried up another story, and another. Where two families had lived ten moved in. The front house followed suit, if the brick walls were strong enough. The question was not always asked, judging from complaints made by a contemporary witness, that the old buildings were "often carried up to a great height without regard to the strength of the foundation walls." It was rent the owner was after; nothing was said in the contract about either the safety or the comfort of the tenants. The garden gate no longer swung on its rusty hinges. The shell-paved walk had become an alley; what the rear house had left of the garden, a "court." Plenty such are yet to be found in the Fourth Ward, with here and there one of the original rear tenements.
Worse was to follow. It was "soon perceived by estate owners and agents of property that a greater percentage of profits could be realized by the conversion of houses and blocks into barracks, and dividing their space into smaller proportions capable of containing human life within four walls. … Blocks were rented of real estate owners, or 'purchased on time,' or taken in charge at a percentage, and held for under-letting." With the appearance of the middleman, wholly irresponsible, and uterly reckless and unrestrained, began the era of tenement building which turned out such blocks as Gotham Court, where, in one cholera epidemic that scarcely touched the clean wards, the tenants died at the rate of one hundred and ninety-five to the thousand of population; which forced the general mortality of the city up from 1 in 41.83 in 1815, to 1 in 27.33 in 1855, a year of unusual freedom from epidemic disease, and which wrung from the early organizers of the Health Department this wail: "There are numerous examples of tenement-houses in which are lodged several hundred people that have a prorata allotment of ground area scarcely equal to two square yards upon the city lot, court-yards and all included." The tenement-house population had swelled to half a million souls by that time, and on the East Side, in what is still the most densely populated district in all the world, China not excluded, it was packed at the rate of 290,000 to the square mile, a state of affairs wholly unexampled. The utmost cupidity of other lands and other days had never contrived to herd much more than half that number within the same space. The greatest crowding of Old London was at the rate of 175,816. Swine roamed the streets and gutters as their principal scavengers. 1 The death of a child in a tenement was registered at the Bureau of Vital Statistics as "plainly due to suffocation in the foul air of an unventilated apartment," and the Senators, who had come down from Albany to find out what was the matter with New York, reported that "there are annually cut off from the population by disease and death enough human beings to people a city, and enough human labor to sustain it." And yet experts had testified that, as compared with updown, rents were from twenty-five to thirty per cent, higher in the worst slums of the lower wards, with such accommodations as were enjoyed, for instance, by a "family with boarders" in Cedar Street, who fed hogs in the cellar that contained eight or ten loads of manure; or a one room 12 x 12 with five families living in it, comprising twenty persons of both sexes and all ages, with only two beds, without partition, screen, chair, or table." The rate of rent has been successfully maintained to the present day, though the hog at least has been eliminated.
Lest anybody flatter himself with the notion that these were evils of a day that is happily past and may safely be forgotten, let me mention here three very recent instances of tenement-house life that came under my notice. One was the burning of a rear house in Mott Street, from appearances one of the original tenant-houses that made their owners rich. The fire made homeless ten families, who had paid an average of $5 a month for their mean little cubby-holes. The owner himself told me that it was fully insured for $800, though it brought him in $600 a year rent. He evidently considered himself especially entitled to be pitied for losing such valuable property. Another was the case of a hard-working family of man and wife, young people from the old country, who took poison together in a Crosby Street tenement because they were "tired." There was no other explanation, and none was needed when I stood in the room in which they had lived. It was in the attic with sloping ceiling and a single window so far out on the roof that it seemed not to belong to the place at all. With scarcely room enough to turn around in they had been compelled to pay five dollars and a half a month in advance. There were four such rooms in that attic, and together they brought in as much as many a handsome little cottage in a pleasant part of Brooklyn. The third instance was that of a colored family of husband, wife, and baby in a wretched rear rookery in West Third Street. Their rent was eight dollars and a half for a single room on the top-story, so small that I was unable to get a photograph of it even by placing the camera outside the open door. Three short steps across either way would have measured its full extent.
TENEMENT OF 1863, FOR TWELVE FAMILIES ON EACH FLAT 2 D. dark L. light. H. halls.
Note 1. It was not until the winter of 1867 that owners of swine were prohibited by ordinance from letting them run at large in the built-up portions of the city.


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cask 'font-monoid-tight-dollar-0-1-l' do
  version :latest
  sha256 :no_check

  # github.com/larsenwork/monoid was verified as official when first introduced to the cask
  url 'https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/blob/release/Monoid-Tight-Dollar-0-1-l.zip?raw=true'
  name 'Monoid-Tight-Dollar-0-1-l'
  homepage 'http://larsenwork.com/monoid/'

  font 'Monoid-Bold-Tight-Dollar-0-1-l.ttf'
  font 'Monoid-Italic-Tight-Dollar-0-1-l.ttf'
  font 'Monoid-Regular-Tight-Dollar-0-1-l.ttf'
  font 'Monoid-Retina-Tight-Dollar-0-1-l.ttf'

  caveats <<~EOS
    #{token} is dual licensed with MIT and OFL licenses.
    https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid/tree/master#license
  EOS
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
require 'spec_helper'

describe Gitlab::BitbucketImport::Importer, lib: true do
  before do
    Gitlab.config.omniauth.providers << OpenStruct.new(app_id: "asd123", app_secret: "asd123", name: "bitbucket")
  end

  let(:statuses) do
    [
      "open",
      "resolved",
      "on hold",
      "invalid",
      "duplicate",
      "wontfix",
      "closed"  # undocumented status
    ]
  end
  let(:sample_issues_statuses) do
    issues = []

    statuses.map.with_index do |status, index|
      issues << {
        local_id: index,
        status: status,
        title: "Issue #{index}",
        content: "Some content to issue #{index}"
      }
    end

    issues
  end

  let(:project_identifier) { 'namespace/repo' }
  let(:data) do
    {
      bb_session: {
        bitbucket_access_token: "123456",
        bitbucket_access_token_secret: "secret"
      }
    }
  end
  let(:project) do
    create(
      :project,
      import_source: project_identifier,
      import_data: ProjectImportData.new(data: data)
    )
  end
  let(:importer) { Gitlab::BitbucketImport::Importer.new(project) }
  let(:issues_statuses_sample_data) do
    {
      count: sample_issues_statuses.count,
      issues: sample_issues_statuses
    }
  end

  context 'issues statuses' do
    before do
      stub_request(
        :get,
        "https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/repositories/#{project_identifier}"
      ).to_return(status: 200, body: { has_issues: true }.to_json)

      stub_request(
        :get,
        "https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/repositories/#{project_identifier}/issues?limit=50&sort=utc_created_on&start=0"
      ).to_return(status: 200, body: issues_statuses_sample_data.to_json)

      sample_issues_statuses.each_with_index do |issue, index|
        stub_request(
          :get,
          "https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/repositories/#{project_identifier}/issues/#{issue[:local_id]}/comments"
        ).to_return(
          status: 200,
          body: [{ author_info: { username: "username" }, utc_created_on: index }].to_json
        )
      end
    end

    it 'map statuses to open or closed' do
      importer.execute

      expect(project.issues.where(state: "closed").size).to eq(5)
      expect(project.issues.where(state: "opened").size).to eq(2)
    end
  end
end


Mount Vernon, IL (October 5, 2017) — Two generous nurses at Crossroads CommunityHospital are preparing to embark on a mission trip to Guatemala the first week of October. The nurses will provide medical services to families in the area that do not have access to regular medical care. Accompanying these two nurses on their trip is a generous donation of medications and supplies from Crossroads Family Medicine and Dr. Choudhry N. Mumtaz.
Allison Reider, RN, and Cindy Phillips, RN, of Crossroads Community Hospital are members of ER Abroad, a non-profit organization based out of Rochester, Illinois. The organization consists of physicians, registered nurses, and other healthcare professionals who provide medical treatments in third world countries.
Dr. Mumtaz knew he wanted to help support Reider and Phillips by donating as many supplies and medications as possible to the people of Guatemala. Some items being donated include Tylenol, vitamins, Claritin, and Ibuprofen.
"I recently joined Crossroads Family Medicine and am glad to see that my practice can supportCrossroads nurses extending our mission beyond the walls of the hospital. This is a small gesture to show our appreciation for Allison and Cindy and their work in Guatemala," said Dr.Mumtaz.
Dr. Mumtaz is Board Certified in Family Medicine at Crossroads Family Medicine of Mt.Vernon. He provides family focused comprehensive medical care to patients of all ages. Dr.Mumtaz is currently accepting new patients, to learn more about Dr. Mumtaz or CrossroadsFamily Medicine please call the office at 618-244-6222.


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Q: Magento 2 Migration Tool - Migrate Settings from 1.9 - 2.0 CE I am trying to migrate settings from Magento version 1.9.2.2 to 2.0.0 CE
mage2\vendor\magento\data-migration-tool\etc\ce-to-ce\1.9.2.2\config.xml content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xs:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../config.xsd">
    <steps mode="settings">
        <step title="Settings step">
            <integrity>Migration\Step\Settings</step>
            <data>Migration\Step\Stores</step>
        </step>
    </steps>
    <source version="1.9.2.2">
        <database host="localhost" name="magento9" user="root"/>
    </source>
    <destination version="2.0.2">
        <database host="localhost" name="mage2" user="root"/>
    </destination>
    <options>
        <crypt>
            <key><![CDATA[1bc968bd50b96ee18388feaed3bc1f1d]]></key>
        </crypt>
        <map_file>etc/ce-to-ce/1.9.2.2/map.xml</map_file>
        <settings_map_file>etc/ce-to-ce/1.9.2.2/settings.xml</settings_map_file>
    </options>
</config>

settings.xml is copied from path mage2\vendor\magento\data-migration-tool\etc\ce-to-ce
Added settings.xml.dist and map.xml.dist at location mage2\vendor\magento\data-migration-tool\etc
In CMD prompt I am executing commands:
D:\xamp\htdocs\mage2\> php bin/magento migrate:settings {vendor\magento\data-migration-tool\etc\ce-to-ce\1.9.2.2\config.xml}

But it throws an exception
[Migration\Exception]
 Invalid config filename: {vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/1
 .9.2.2/config.xml}
 migrate:settings [-r|--reset] config

*

*How do I run the command successfully to migrate settings?

*Have I missed any step required for migration?

Please guide.
Reference links
 http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/migration/migration-tool-install.html
http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/migration/migration-tool-configure.html
http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/migration/migration-migrate-settings.html

A: For Data migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2.
Your first step is Setting migrate,
command is:
php bin/magento migrate:settings /var/www/html/{{magento2}}/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/ce-to-ce/{{magento1 version}}/config.xml
All System -> Configuration settings are migrated in setting migrate.
After completion of setting migrate, You need to check in Magento 2 Stores -> Configuration setting.
In migrate setting, From your database table, core_config_data have affected.
All Magento 1 settings are migrated to magento 2.
Thanks.

A: Change to the following directory:
your-Magento2-root-dir/vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/migration-edition/ce-or-version

if you are on Linux run this command cp config.xml.dist config.xml or on window run this command copy config.xml.dist config.xml


Which bacterium typically cause Early onset Neonatal sepsis?
Gram - E.coli and Klebsiella.
Which bacteria cause late onset neonatal sepsis?
What is Neonatal Respiratory Distress syndrome?
Lack of surfactant due to prematurity. 60% of infants born less than 28 weeks will have neonatal RDS.
What is the leading cause for mortality and morbidity in premature infants?
Respiratory distress syndrome AKA Hyaline membrane disease.
What are the two most common complications associated with Hyaline Membrane Disease?
Infants placed on oxygen therapy for longer than 4 weeks under positive ventlation.
Lungs will have cobblestone exterior surface.
Generalized edema of the fetus called?
Localized edema of the fetus called?
What causes immune hydrops fetalis?
Mother RH- giving birth to second Rh+ child Leading to IgG attack.
What two pathological conditions follow in immune hydrops fetalis?
Accumulation of billiruben in the neonates brain seen in hydrops fetalis.
90% of cases of Sudden infant death syndrome occur at what age?
Less than 6 months between 2-4 months.
80% of SIDS babies will have what skin condition?
Also have hypoplasia of arcuate nucleus with decreased brains tem activity.


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Suicide blasts kill dozens at Istanbul airport
U.S. News Jun-29-2016, 06:06:37 GMT
People gather on the entrance to Istanbul's Ataturk airport, early Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Suspected Islamic State group extremists have hit the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said Tuesday. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey.
airport, istanbul airport, kill dozens, (1 more...)
Country: Asia > Middle East > Turkey > Istanbul (1.00)
The Latest: Flights resume from US to Istanbul airport
A passenger sits outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport, early Wednesday, June 29, 2016 following her evacuation after a blast. Suspected Islamic State group extremists have hit the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said Tuesday. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey.
airport, flight resume, istanbul airport, (1 more...)
At least 32 killed after Turkish cargo plane crashes near Kyrgyzstan airport
FOX News Jan-16-2017, 07:40:03 GMT
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The Health Ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a cargo plane has crashed in a residential area just outside the Central Asian country's main airport, killing 32 people. The ministry said Monday that the Turkish airline Boeing 747 crash-landed just outside the Manas airport, south of the capital Bishkek, killing at least 15 people in a residential area adjacent to the airport as well as 17 people onboard the plane. Local emergency services are working on the scene. Until 2014, the U.S. military operated a military installation at the Manas airport, using it primarily for its operations in Afghanistan.
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Airport Immigration Check Using Facial Recognition? Passports To Be Replaced With New Technology In Australia By 2019-2020
International Business Times Jan-22-2017, 11:10:08 GMT
Australia's international airports are in the process of automating 90 percent of air traveler processing by 2020 by implementing facial recognition technology that involves biometric recognition of faces, irises and/or fingerprints, hence eliminating the need to carry essential traveling documents such as passports. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection, while building on the Seamless Traveller initiative announced in 2015, said Sunday that it will make a transition toward a "contactless" system for arrivals this year, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Under the new system, manned counters will be replaced by automatic electronic booths and the existing SmartGate that scan passports electronically will also be overhauled. Before introducing it to a major airport (scheduled for November), the program is to be piloted in July at Canberra Airport where international flight operations are limited to New Zealand and Singapore. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is scheduled to implement the technology in all major airports by March 2019.
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Journalism veteran Peter Herford talks about how little the management principles that underlie content strategy have changed since he began his career at CBS news in 1962.
Peter Herford describes himself as a recovering journalist. He spent 27 years at CBS News and has had faculty appointments at the University of Chicago and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He founded Shantou University's School of Journalism and Communication and taught there for 10 years. He now lives in Seattle, WA.


The John Ross Matheson Award is awarded by Supreme Council to those heroes of our fraternity, with a view to rewarding merit and ability, to recognize community spirit, to honor those within our fraternity, who go above and beyond the call of duty. This Award is named after an individual who best exemplifies a continued commitment of distinguished service to his community, his country, and mankind. This year's recipient was Morley Robinson of Cambridge. Matt Todd, PSGC, presented the award to Morley and the donation that accompanies the award to the Halifax Learning Centre for Children. Thelma Gregan was on hand to accept the donation and Morley was accompanied by his wife Marion.


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Minnesota has 81 major watersheds and is adopting watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS) for all of those major watersheds with the goal of meeting water quality standards to make waters fishable and swimmable. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency guides the watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS)/total maximum daily load (TMDL) process. While outcomes of the process affect many producers and landowners, there is often a disconnect between the policy and practical applications.
Minnesota farmers have a big role in water quality, but the statewide process of WRAPS and TMDLs can be overwhelming and intimidating to participate in. Houston Engineering, Inc. (HEI) saw this disconnect and worked to change it through a collaborative project with Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council.
In 2015, our team worked to create a handbook and series of workshops to help producers better understand the process and how it affects them for both policy and practical implications.
The interactive handbook de-mystifies the process by simplifying dense existing information into user-friendly language. In addition to simplified text, the handbook's design employed graphics and callouts to make the information as approachable as possible.
The guide has been well received as a bridge between farmers and state agencies. Ultimately, it will help farmers and producers become more involved in the State's water quality improvement process. HEI is in the process of leading workshops at locations around the state.
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Almost everybody knows what a Wi-Fi is, but most people have never heard of a Li-Fi; well, that's okay, it's because Li-Fi is currently being perfected in lab environments and may not yet become commercial for general use in the next couple of years.
The use of Li-Fi has been confined to some academic environments in recent years, and it delivers fast data through a light-based system that is giving it some attention among technologists outside the academic system.
The Li-Fi technology was commercially trialed by Velmenni, an Estonian firm, and found to be much better than W-Fi in several aspects; but that does not make it ready for public use at this time due to one or two factors that must be ironed out.
Using the Jungru technology, Velmenni used an LED bulb system that sends data at super-high gigabit speed. In fact, analysts say the Jungru technology has a speed of about 224 gigabytes per second. The technology has the potential for great commercial applicability, but it appears to a lab-grade MATLAB and Simulink setup connected by photodiodes instead of something that anyone can use on the streets or office buildings where light and noise and other environmental factors can pose a challenge to test its effectiveness.
Professor Harald Hass of the University of Edinburgh was the first individual to show that Li-Fi was a component of the D-light project that the university's Institute for Digital Communications was carrying out in 2010. Professor Hass spoke at the 2012 TED Global talk and several companies showed commercial interest in the technology and even wanted to form a consortium for the Li-Fi technology, but this has not taken off yet.
It is estimated that Li-Fi uses a RF-band 802.11 protocol or something very similar, and it has the extra layer of protection to weed out interference and light that constitutes noise. The only problem that remains is that the technology cannot be used in the open space in open environments where sunlight and rain and wind can cause electronic disruptions to it.
It is certain that Li-Fi cannot be impacted by interference from radio signals, but then visible light cannot penetrate walls, and this is one of the many challenges the technology faces. There must be a clear line of sight for it to work at optimum levels, but there could be signal interference if anyone with a telephoto lens or optical sensor comes within range. Li-Fi would be great for use on airplanes, but most airplanes today use Wi-Fi that have been configured to work onboard and rules out any further need for Li-Fi.


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Marvelle's "Perfect Scandal" — An Uneven, Frustrating Read
Delilah Marvelle's THE PERFECT SCANDAL, a historical romance novel set in 1824, was a frustrating book from beginning to end.
First off, I really liked Polish Countess Zosia Urszula Kwiatkowska's character; here was a strong, smart woman, an amputee with a good mind, a great wit, and a kind heart. I liked her a lot.
But I never really bought into English Marquis Tristan Adam Hargrove, Lord of Moreland, partly because of the way his problems are discussed. Moreland, you see, is twenty-eight years old, regularly cuts himself, and has fetishes regarding whips, knives, and swords. Moreland is also the author of the best-selling book How to Avoid a Scandal — he wrote this because he identifies with people who don't have great control over their own lives due to his own personal issues and wants to help them, which is probably his most laudable quality. But this tendency to put words over actions is something that gets at the heart of why Moreland is an extremely frustrating character to write a book around.
If you think the way Moreland looks at things is a bit off-putting for a period romance, the way he meets Zosia is really out there — at least, for 1824. She waves at him from a window in the late evening, and Moreland stops to converse despite the fact she's several floors up and it's not a "decent" hour. He stays there "talking" with her (really, he's shouting at her, and she's shouting back, and both are entertaining the neighborhood no end). He says whatever he can manage until he realizes what he's doing, then he leaves — but all that time, he hasn't a clue who Zosia is, not that she's an amputee, not anything at all about her whatsoever. He only knows that he's sexually attracted.
Now, is the last realistic? The attraction, sure — similar things have been known to happen the world over. But does the man in question then start to fantasize this way?
From pages 30 and 31:
Her eyes would never leave his as her hand gripped the thick handle of a whip he'd given her to play with. She would then smile ever so softly, ever so charmingly, while delicately smacking the braided leather end against his thigh or back, causing him to suck in breaths of anticipation.
I'm sorry; this is horrible writing. Not because of the nature of Moreland's fantasy — fantasies are in the eye of the beholder — but because of the fact that later on in the story Moreland admits that most young women would never, but never, be able to handle the nature of his whip fixation. Zosia is only twenty-three, a maiden, and has absolutely zero sexual experience so she'd definitely fall into this category. Mind, if this fantasy had been later on in the story, along with Moreland's own wry take that Zosia would never go for this, but wouldn't it be lovely for him if she did, I'd buy it — but in the second chapter? With three adverbs in one sentence (softly, charmingly, delicately)? Why do this, Ms. Marvelle?
Anyway, Zosia and Moreland's romance is only part of the story. We're also told about Poland and how it wants its independence through the way Zosia acts; about Russia, Poland's overlord (which has a strange hold over Zosia that must be read to be believed); about King George and his cousin, Dowager Lady Moreland, and the secrets they've been keeping from all concerned. Most of this reads well even if doesn't quite scan — many romances are based on stuff much thinner than this, and a cross-cultural romance between the Polish nationalist Zosia and believer-in-religious-freedom Moreland isn't at all strange.
What bothers me is that while there's some life in this writing, and the love scenes — not just the sex itself, but the intimacy and the conversation between the pair — are excellent, the underlying nature of Moreland's character just does not work. (Please, do not get me started regarding Moreland's insistence on becoming a "changed man," someone Zosia can love, someone without his odd sexual quirks, or I'll bend your ears 'til the cows come home — because every woman worth her salt, in or out of a romance novel, knows this very basic maxim: men do not change easily, or quickly, even if the man in question desperately wants to change.)
I'm sorry, but I just didn't understand why Moreland, who's an outcast due to his sexual proclivities, thinks he'll be able to change "just like that" because of "love, sweet love." Maybe he really wants to change, in theory, but in practice, we know he's fantasizing about whips and getting so caught up in the fantasy that he's insisting on using three adverbs where really only one should do. That makes me think that Moreland's sexual issues are much more deeply rooted than we've been led to believe — meaning there's no way he'd be able to jettison them so quickly, even for Zosia.
Because of all of this, THE PERFECT SCANDAL is an uneven, frustrating read. Despite my initial high hopes, based off the first chapter's banter between Moreland and the "unknown foreign woman" Zosia, the story never measured up to Ms. Marvelle's obvious talent for dialogue and characterization (Zosia's character is spot-on). What's there is not enough to make up for the poorly-thought-out characterization with regards to Moreland — his faults, his fixations, and his fetishes. I remained convinced from beginning to end that everything Moreland felt and thought was because Ms. Marvelle told him to say and do and act this way, not because it intrinsically flowed from his character. That's a huge flaw in any book, but most especially in a romance novel where we must believe the two people could exist in real life in order to care about them.
My advice is to read something else by Ms. Marvelle rather than this; she has talent, but this book simply did not measure up.
Grade: a generous C-
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The to get rid of all the
reform movements, such as those concerning women's rights, education,
temperance, abolition, and humane prisons/ asylums occurred because they were
either integrated with the ideals of the Declaration of Independence or
Christianity. The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement that
happened in the beginning of the nineteenth century that emphasized faith and
called for liberty and equality. Just like the First Great Awakening, the time
period expressed the idea that people could be saved through revivals. It
brought forward new Christians and branched out many new denominations. The
Second Great Awakening motivated the creation of many reform movements with the
purpose to get rid of all the wickedness in society and fix social problems before
the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Women's rights began due to the fact that the only big
role a woman had was in the household. Their responsibility was to raise their
children and to education them in religious matters. Because of such
responsibilities women began arguing that they themselves had to be educated in
order to educate their children. The fact that women only had a few rights went
against religious beliefs of equality. According to the Bible, a man and woman
are both equal in the eyes of God. The man is commanded to be the head of the
household and the wife should be submissive to that authority. However, that
does not mean the woman is any less important than a man, it just means the man
and woman play different roles. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention took
place, led by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott. At the Convention, women
discussed religious and moral issues, as well as the role of women in society.
These women insisted that they were to be held to the same standard as men and
that they should be granted the same rights and privileges. Regardless of
practicing Christianity, women were viewed in society as little more than
slaves, with not much of a voice and with only slightly more rights. At the
Convention they founded the Declaration of Sentiments, adding to the words of
the Declaration of Independence saying "all men and women are created equal."
They put forth the ideas of allowing women to vote, to control their property
in marriage, build more schools for women, and have more of a role in the
Before the 1820's, public schools were rare and teachers
were poorly trained and poorly paid. During the Second Great Awakening, a great
amount of people started to push for public schools supported by taxes. Their
reasoning behind this was that if their country could be a democratic one, it
needed to have informed and educated voters. A reformer from Massachusetts
named Horace Mann is the main contributor to public education. Mann firmly
believed that everyone was deserving of education, so he was for raising taxes
to allow a free public education, along with better teachers, better textbooks,
better buildings, etc. He wanted a type of education that was going to
discipline children and teach them how to be an ideal citizen. He also
established schools that blended education with religious beliefs. As a
result of his leadership, the state of Massachusetts initialized the reforming
of schools.
The Second Great Awakening got rid of the idea of
predestination and gave people the idea that they would get rewarded for their
good works. People would attend camp meetings to voice their concerns about the
wellbeing of the country. As religious zeal intensified, the drinking of
alcohol was found to be inappropriate as well as immoral. This was because
drunkards tended to hurt relationships with their families, disturb the
economy, and were seen as the root of trouble and problems. The biggest social
group that contributed to the temperance movement were women. Passionate about
their faith, they sought to make change. This movement allowed women to get
involved in the society, as they had not been able to do before. They took up
new roles in society as leaders as they encouraged the banning of alcoholic
beverages. In 1826, both men and women came together to fight against the sin
of "demon rum". They founded the American Temperance Society, one of the first
organizations started against the drinking of alcohol. This society
foreshadowed the increasing number of temperance groups as the movement became
popular and started making change to the society.
The Second Great Awakening increased the
concern regarding slavery. Abolitionists came about because slavery did not by
any means agree with Christianity and was considered a sin against the Bible.
The realization that "all men are equal" made people come to an understanding
that slavery was not a part of God's plan for the human condition. While
people in the South used the Bible to perpetuate and justify the practice of
slavery, people in the North used the Bible to speak against slavery. This led
to many churches splitting due to not sharing similar beliefs. Reformers wanted
to modify to systems of the country that violated their traditional moral and
social values; and slavery was definitely a big issue. William Lloyd Garrison,
a radical reformer, wrote "The Liberator" and called for immediate
emancipation. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the famous "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
presenting African Americans as real people stuck in dreadful circumstances.
Abolitionist reformers argued that slave owners were nothing but hypocrites,
because if they felt that a Christian could treat all humans with love and
respect, yet they believed it was perfectly fine to treat blacks cruelly and as
if they were less than a human.
The United States prison systems were overflowing with
different people of different ages, disabilities, and mental illnesses.
Criminals, children, and insane people were all being held in the same prisons.
From this, the prison reform movement started, attempting to make a more
efficient system for prisons. Reformers saw their prisons treating the inmates
cruelly and unfairly. They wanted to improve living conditions by providing
them with food, and clean clothing. Even though it was a place full of
criminals, reformers wanted to make prison a place for correction instead of
punishment. This movement also pushed for the idea to get people with mental
illnesses out of the prisons and to a place where they can receive the help
they need. A woman named Dorothea Dix went to one of these prisons and saw the
conditions in which the prisoners were being kept. Dix felt that inmates should
be separated based on age, crime, and mental stability and needed to be treated
more humanely. From there, many new prisons and juveniles were formed, as well
as asylums, as she believed that a part of the prisons horrible conditions were
considering people with mental illness to be looked at as convicts, when they
have done no crime. As a result of individual reformers and societies, the
government became more involved in prison affairs and building new prisons.
Prison reformers succeeded in the gradual change of the way people with mental
illness were treated, the prisons separating people by age and crime, and
establishing better cell conditions.
The Second Great Awakening and the reform movements of
the nineteenth century were initially started to prepare people for the second
coming of Jesus Christ, but it also paved the way for a better future for America.
It greatly improved life for Americans bringing them together with the revival
of religious faith and realizing the importance of women, education, people
kept in prisons, and the evil of slavery. Still, the outcomes of the Second
Great Awakening and the reform movements are seen today, showing how much of an
impact it had.
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Camp Power director Tatyana Curtis jokes with campers during an end-of-camp celebration on the final day of camp Thursday at Welsh Park in DeKalb.
Journey Douglas, 9, paints a butterfly on the cheek of fellow camper Armoneigh Smith,7, during a party celebrating the final day of Camp Power on Thursday in Welsh Park in DeKalb.
Camper Kenny Nichols, 9, spreads bubbles during a party celebrating the final day of Camp Power on Thursday in Welsh Park in DeKalb.
Volunteer Amirah Deval, a graduate student at Northern Illinois University supports camper Tramline Gartley, 8, as he walks a slack line tightrope during a party celebrating the final day of Camp Power on Thursday in Welsh Park in DeKalb.
Campers line up for an activity during a party celebrating the final day of Camp Power Thursday in Welsh Park in DeKalb.
Campers move to music while participating in a cake walk during a party celebrating the final day of Camp Power Thursday in Welsh Park in DeKalb.
DeKALB – Nine-year-old Cason Wright cheered as he made his way across a slack rope during his last day at Camp Power on Thursday afternoon at Welsh Park.
Wright said he's been having a lot of fun during the camp this summer and loved having the chance to play football and basketball almost every day. He said he also liked having the opportunity to ride a pony during a Blackberry Farm field trip as part of the camp experience.
But, he said, his favorite part of the program was trying to win prizes during the camp's carnival-themed last day.
About 80 kids celebrated the end of summer by cupcake-walking, slack rope-walking, pie-eating and participating in tug of war during the camp's last day. The day camp, geared toward school-aged children living in University Village, was established by the DeKalb Police Youth in Need Task Force and other community stakeholders to address juvenile crime, poverty and health in the area.
The camp is free for families in the complex because the program is funded entirely by grants and community donations. Camp curriculum includes outdoor play at the beginning of the day, filling up on meals midday and ending the day with more educational activities.
Camp counselor Lisa Cumings, who also is one of the program's founders, said there was a need for the camp in the area because of the higher crime rate in University Village. Before the camp's creation, she said, kids were stealing food from nearby shops because they were hungry.
Crimes such as battery, drug offenses and disorderly conduct decreased by 26 percent in the area after the program's first year. After Camp Power's second year, there was a 40 percent reduction in overall crime, a 13 percent reduction in calls for police service and a 49 percent reduction in arrests occurring at University Village.
DeKalb Police Chief Gene Lowery said in an email that the area has remained stable crimewise, but crime in the city rose significantly in 2016. He said via email that the program is going through some revisions to include more children who live outside the University Village apartment complex.
DeKalb police Detective Aaron Lockhart, who also is the school resource officer for DeKalb schools, has been attending the camp twice a week. He said the camp helps create a bond between the campers and law enforcement so that the kids know that they always can come to police.
"If every area could do this, it'd be great," Lockhart said.
Crystal Hicks, 32, was helping during the festivitiesThursday while her two children attending the camp played some games before snack time. She said she thinks the camp is great for her kids and appreciates that it gives them something to do all day during the summer.
Hicks said the older of her two children attending the camp, 8-year-old Jaiden, not only gets to do fun things and visit fun places, but she appreciates that her son participates in more academic activities, such as reading, during the camp.
"It keeps his mind going every day," Hicks said.
And, Cumings said, the camp allows kids from the lower-income area to have similar summer experiences as their peers.
"These kids get to go back to school and say, 'I went to summer camp,'" Cumings said.


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Guavus Selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
San Mateo, CA – July 10, 2012 – Guavus Inc., a leading provider of big data analytics solutions that enable service providers and enterprises to make intelligent and timely decisions today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners.
Guavus was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. The Company will be honored at AlwaysOn's tenth annual Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum on July 23th, 2012.
"We're honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn for our holistic approach to big data analytics that empower users to make intelligent and timely decisions in a way that is simply not feasible with traditional business intelligence solutions," said Anukool Lakhina, CEO & Founder, Guavus. "Our cable and telecom service provider customers continue to realize increased value from big data across both various business functions - marketing, customer care, finance, content providers and network operations - as well as multiple business units including wireline, mobility digital media & M2M environments."
"This year's AlwaysOn Global 250 companies have been shaken up by the recent surge in on-demand and mobile innovation. This year's crop of robust, innovative applications has launched a complex world of interconnected, sophisticated data being used by a voracious consumer and business userbase. Coupled with a massive smartphone and tablet adoption, the opportunities for this year's winners are unlimited," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "The 2012 AO Global 250 winners are driving the technology market into new, uncharted territory, representing the highest-growth opportunities we've seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the Global Silicon Valley."
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2012 list.
About Guavus
Founded in June 2006, Guavus has been built from the ground up to unlock the value of operational, sensor and network generated big data and reduce the economic and technology risk associated with deploying a traditional business intelligence solution. Guavus big data analytics solutions, which are based on pioneering patent-pending technology, include the Guavus Reflex ™ platform integrated with a suite of analytics applications that enable intelligent and timely decision-making. Two of the top three mobile operators and backbone carriers in the United States utilize Guavus big data analytics solutions to control costs, maximize profits and deliver an enhanced end-to-end customer experience. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with research and development offices in Gurgaon and Ahmedabad, India. For more information please visit us on Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter.
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Learning about marketing is something I thoroughly enjoy and I want to thank Sarah Footman of Kaizen Search for providing me with a few statistics.
Did you know that in 2014, 59% of brands used events and experiences to launch new products, up 9% on 2013 and 11% on 2012.
This trend is only set to grow in 2015, and this interactive infographic showcases some fantastic case studies from companies like Coke Zero, Adidas, and Bing who have been doing this type of marketing.
What examples of experimental marketing have you seen?
You may also like to see this interview with Tim from Fanbytes. His company connects Youtube, Vine, SnapChat and Instagram influencers with brands to create remarkable branded content.
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Q: Patch C/C++ function to just return without execution I want to avoid one system function executing in a large project. It is impossible to redefine it or add some ifdef logic. So I want to patch the code to just the ret operation.
The functions are:
void __cdecl _wassert(const wchar_t *, const wchar_t *, unsigned);

and:
void __dj_assert(const char *, const char *, int, const char *) __attribute__((__noreturn__));

So I need to patch the first one on Visual C++ compiler, and the second one on GCC compiler.
Can I just write the ret instruction directly at the address of the _wassert/__dj_assert function, for x86/x64?
UPDATE:
I just wanna modify function body like this:
*_wassert = `ret`;

Or maybe copy another function body like this:
void __cdecl _wassert_emptyhar_t *, const wchar_t *, unsigned)
{
}

for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(void*); i++) {
    ((char*)_wassert)[i] = ((char*)_wassert_empty
}

UPDATE 2:
I really don't understand why there are so many objections against silent asserts. In fact, there is no asserts in the RELEASE mode, but nobody cares. I just want to be able turning on/off the asserts in the DEBUG mode.

A: You need to understand the calling conventions for your particular processor ISA and system ABI. See this for x86 & x86-64 calling conventions.
Some calling conventions require more than a single ret machine instruction in the epilogue, and you have to count with that. BTW, code of some function usually resides in a read-only code segment, and you'll need some dirty tricks to patch it and write inside it.
You could compile a no-op function of the same signature, and ask the compiler to show the emitted assembler code (e.g. with gcc -O -Wall -fverbose-asm -S  if using GCC....)
On Linux you might use dynamic linker LD_PRELOAD tricks. If using a recent GCC you might perhaps consider customizing it with MELT, but I don't think it is worthwhile in your particular case...
However, you apparently have some assert failure. It is very unlikely that your program could continue without any undefined behavior. So practically speaking, your program will very likely crash elsewhere with your proposed "fix", and you'll lose more of your time with it.
Better take enough time to correct the original bug, and improve your development process. Your way is postponing a critical bug correction, and you are extremely likely to spend more time avoiding that bug fix than dealing with it properly  (and finding it now, not later) as you should. Avoid increasing your technical debt and making your code base even more buggy and rotten.
My feeling is that you are going nowhere (except to a big failure) with your approach of patching the binary to avoid assert-s. You should find out why there are violated, and improve the code (either remove the obsolete assert, or improve it, or correct the bug elsewhere that assert has detected).

A: On Gnu/Linux you can use the --wrapoption like this:
gcc source.c -Wl,--wrap,functionToPatch -o prog

and your source must add the wrapper function:
void *__wrap_functionToPatch () {} // simply returns

Parameters and return values as needed for your function.