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Central Line Personal Management Co-operative
129A Middleton Boulevard, Nottingham
The Central Line - Actors agency established in 1983. Representing professional actors for Theatre, Film, TV, Voice Over, Radio & Corporate work.
Business, Creative
Central Wool Growers
Unit 2, Wool Depot
Uffington Road, Stamford
Central Wool Growers is a farmer owned co-operative, founded in 1929 with the principles of delivering goods and services to the agricultural industry, at the best possible prices. Today, almost 80…
Business, Farming
Co-operative Personal Management Association
1 Mellor Road, Leicester
Founded in 2002, the CPMA works to further and promote the interests of its members, who are acting agencies located across the UK. Backed by Equity, we seek to raise the profile of co-ops with both…
Country Markets
Dunston House
Sheepbridge Works
Dunston Road
Sheepbridge, Chesterfield
Country Markets are local co-operatives run by shareholders throughout England, Wales,and the Channel Islands. Originally set up by the Women's Institute in response to a request by the British…
Business, Community, Retail
Data Content Reach Cooperative
Glossop Gasworks
Arundel Street, Glossop
Data Content Reach helps mission-focused organisations to flourish in the digital world. We offer a range of analysis, research, content, communications and digital marketing services. These can be…
Creative, Digital
Designers Formation
20 Gorsey Road, Nottingham
The Designers Formation was founded in 1989 as a co-operative agency especially for theatre designers, whom we continue to strive to support in building viable and sustainable careers. Our designers…
National Allotment Society
O'Dell House
8 Hunters Road
Weldon North Industrial Estate, Corby
NSALG has existed in one form or another as far back as 1901, when the Agricultural Organisation Society's aims, established co-operation amongst agriculturists and the organisation of small…
National Merchant Buying Society (NMBS)
10 Merus Court
Meridian Business Court, Leicester
NMBS is the most successful Buying Society in the UK for Independent Builders, Plumbers, Hardware and Timber Merchants. Since 1963, NMBS has been dedicated to strengthening the independent merchant by…
Openfield Group
Honey Pot Lane
Colsterworth, Grantham
As a British, farmer-owned cooperative, we behave differently to other businesses. We provide security, we act fairly, we're efficient and we create value. When you commit your grain to us, you…
Scott Bader Company
Wollaston Hall
Wollaston, Wellingborough
Ernest Bader founded Scott Bader as a private company in 1921. In 1951 they gifted the company to its employees. The shares of Scott Bader were placed in the Scott Bader Commonwealth, a registered…
Society of Growers of Topfruit
BGA House
Nottingham Road, Louth
We are a true grower's co-operative set up under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 to provide maximum returns from the sale of English apples and pears. The members are the…
Speciality Produce
1-2 North End
Swineshead, Boston
Speciality Produce is a grower owned and managed fruit and vegetable producing co-operative.We specialise in the following areas: Extended season produce, speciality herbs, multi leaf salads and…
Trylon
Unit 10 Woodleys Yard
Newton Road, Higham Ferrers
Trylon is an employee owned business situated in the village of Wollaston in rural Northamptonshire, approximately 12 miles from the M1 motorway. The company was founded in 1972 by Earnest Bader, a…
Union Grain (Marketing)
Orby, Skegness
Woldgrain Storage
Hemswell Airfield
Hemswell, Gainsborough
Woldgrain Storage was established in 1980 and is currently a 85,000 tonne Grain Storage facility, situated at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds approximately 15 miles north of Lincoln. The primary…
Woldmarsh Producers
Agriculture House
Bolingbroke Road
Fairfield Industrial Estate, Louth
Woldmarsh Producers is the UK's leading farmer owned purchasing group. It works on behalf of its members to procure goods and services at preferential prices. Woldmarsh Producers was established…


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Q: Jquery submission on two forms I have two forms, one one is validated it hides and shows the next form, then submits.
However by doing this, it only posts one forms variables.
I came up with one solution to input form one inputs into hidden inputs in form2, but i'm wondering if there's a better solution as ill be adding loads more inputs eventually.
Html:

Div1
    <form name="form1" method="post">
        <input type="text" name="testa">
        <input type="text" name="testb">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </form>

Div2
    <form name="form2" method="post">
        <input type="" name="testa">
        <input type="" name="testb">
        <input type="text" name="testc">
        <input type="text" name="testd">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </form>

js:

A: First, your not using the label element correctly. It needs a for attribute that has a value that is the id of the form element that the label is "for" or it needs to wrap the element it is for.
Next, div elements do not have a name attribute. Only form fields that can and will submit their data via form submission can have a name.
Also, there is no need for multiple JQuery document.ready() handlers. You can place all the code you want run when the document is ready inside of a single document.ready(). And speaking of JQuery, unless you need something very specific to the JQuery validation library, regular HTML can do the same thing you are doing but without the JQuery. You could just add the required attribute to the required elements.
And, you should not use the same name for multiple elements within a form, except in the case of checkboxes and radio buttons as they act as groups of related choices.
As for your main question, just use a single form but hide sections of it as needed. It's best to define sections of a form using the fieldset element, which also aids in accessibility.

$(document).ready(function () {
  $("form[name='form']").validate({
    rules: {
      test1a: "required",
      test1b: "required",
      test2a: "required",
      test2b: "required"
    },
    submitHandler: function(form) {
        //form.submit();
        alert('Going to next step...');
        var value1 = $('input[name="testa"]').val();
        var value2 = $('input[name="testb"]').val();
        $('input[name="testa"]').val(value1);
        $('input[name="testb"]').val(value2);
        $('#first').hide();
        $('#second').show();
        return false;
    }
  });
});
.hidden { display:none; }

<form name="form" method="post">
  <fieldset id="first">
    <legend>First Set of Questions</legend>
        <input type="text" name="test1a">
        <input type="text" name="test1b">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </fieldset>

  <fieldset id="second" class="hidden">
    <legend>Second Set of Questions</legend>
        <input type="" name="test2a">
        <input type="" name="test2b">
        <input type="text" name="testc">
        <input type="text" name="testd">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </fieldset>
</form>

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Q: Using reverse proxy for http and https mixed content We're working on a web application which allows the user to do some design for mobile devices.  The user simply enters some url and that url is previewed inside some iframe. The problem is, our application is running on https and if the user enters a non-https address it's not displayed by the browser for obvious reasons...
So can we use some reverse-proxy configuration to overcome this issue somehow? For example we'll  set the iframe url as http://myserver.com/?url=http://externalserver.com and the reverse proxy will simply return the externalserver.com content back...
Is something like this possible?


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The Maudry Sommer 4-H Club is the 4-H youth club in the village of Tanana. The group is supported by a number of local volunteers and volunteers from San Francisco CA who come twice a year to the village to teach Eskabo Daan, an indigenous martial arts discipline. Activities include robotics, training for and participating in the Native Youth Olympics and the Eskabo Daan martial arts program, entering its fifth year. There is also a group for teens who would like career counseling, assistance in preparing for college or vocational school, or tips and pointers in preparing for the work force.
The club is open to all youth, and parents and relatives are encourage to participate as volunteers. Any activity can be a 4-H activity as long as it is fun, safe and educational! Contact Principal Thérèse Ashton for more information about the club and for membership applications.


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I remember the first exercising of my schoolboy German when I wanted to order Liver and Chips (Leber und Pommes Frites), but instead said Liebe und Pommes Frites (Love and Chips).
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}

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No one would accuse people here of having failed to love their country in the past. One need only look at how millions of Chinese fought against a powerful military machine during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
But since I"ve lived in China, I have noticed the growing confidence and optimism among Chinese people of different ages and social strata. It"s a sense that after decades of playing second fiddle in the affairs of great nations, China has resumed its place as a world leader.
Some may compare this with the ascendancy of China at the height of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), during the reign of the Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century. Qianlong was a capable and cultured emperor who inherited a rich and powerful country. Yet a key difference is that the leaders of China had developed a shortsightedness that can be ascribed, in part, to the severely limited communication technology of the time.
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The HS2 Select Committee visited Camden on Monday 9 November on a tour of the borough to see some of the areas that will be impacted by plans for HS2.
The purpose of the site visit was for the MP's to gain an understanding of the topography of the area, to help them visualise the surroundings when petitioners present their evidence to them.
During their visit, the MPs on the Committee met residents and businesses, hearing their concerns and learning more about the issues that HS2 causes for Camden's communities.
The Committee made specific visits to homes in Mornington Terrace and Regent's Park Estate whose occupiers have concerns about habitability and met businesses owners in Drummond Street and Stephenson Way concerned, among other things, about loss of trade.
The Committee also met local schoolchildren, hearing about the potential disruption HS2 could cause to their education and journeys to school and visited areas of open space including St. James' Gardens, the majority of which will be permanently lost to HS2. With darkness falling, the Committee toured the inside of Euston Station, before walking to St. Pancras Station via Phoenix Road through Somers Town to understand the close proximity of these two stations, and the wider impacts in our communities
You can view the itinerary of where the Committee visited on Parliament's website.
You can view a picture gallery from the day at the top of the page.
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Q: Javascript automatic popup based on time of day I need to create a popup window that open on page load AND only between 11am and 7pm EST.
I have the auto pop up working, but am having trouble adding the time variance.
Please advise.
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    <!--chat-->
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    var currentTime = new Date((new Date()).toUTCString());
    var startTime = new Date((new Date()).toUTCString());
    var endTime = new Date((new Date()).toUTCString());

    startTime.setUTCHours(8);
    endTime.setUTCHours(19);

    //set times to EST. (UTC -5)
    currentTime.setHours(currentTime.getHours() - 5);
    startTime.setHours(startTime.getHours() - 5);
    endTime.setHours(endTime.getHours() - 5);

    //code to determine your variables goes here
    var mylink = "https://mylink.com";
    var windowname = "Chat Client";

    if (currentTime < endTime && currentTime > startTime) {
      popup(mylink, windowname);
    }
  });

 function popup(mylink, windowname)
{
if (! window.focus)return true;
var href;
if (typeof(mylink) == 'string')
   href=mylink;
else
   href=mylink.href;
window.open(href, windowname, 'width=470,height=700,scrollbars=yes');
return false;
}
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A: But it's only work with local time.
var date = new Date();
var hours = date.getHours();

if(hours > 11 && hours < 19)
{
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}

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To work in any timezone:
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UPDATED:
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$(document).ready(function() {
  var currentTime = toUTC(new Date());
  var startTime = toUTC(new Date());
  var endTime = toUTC(new Date());

  startTime.setHours(11);
  startTime.setMinutes(0);
  startTime.setSeconds(0);
  endTime.setHours(19);
  endTime.setMinutes(0);
  endTime.setSeconds(0);

  //set times to EST. (UTC -4)
  currentTime.setHours(currentTime.getHours() - 4);

  //code to determine your variables goes here
  //var mylink =
  //var windowname =

  if (currentTime < endTime && currentTime > startTime) {
    popup();
  }
});

function popup() {
  //put function code here
  $('body').append("Here is some text");
}

function toUTC(inDate) {
  inDate.setMinutes(inDate.getMinutes() + inDate.getTimezoneOffset());
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}

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The Enterprise Software market continued to consolidate, with the Infor acquisition of Lawson still in progress, and with Apax announcing it would acquire and merge Epicor and Activant.
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VMware announces a new cloud initiative, offering an open source platform as a service (PaaS) project.
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While the Infor bid was an unwanted distraction at CUE 2011, Lawson did its best to divert attendees' attention from unanswered questions about the future of the Lawson company, its employees, and products with lots of educational events, speeches, a product expo, social mixers, and several brand new products.
At the top of the new product list is the Lawson Marketplace, a new Web service where Lawson customers, including M3 and S3 users, can download add-on items that can "help boost user productivity and efficiency." The apps are developed by Lawson and business partners, and can be purchased by a credit card.
Lawson also announced the Mashup Designer, a new tool that Lawson customers can use to build their own composite applications, without programming….
Last but not least, Lawson launched Analytics for Healthcare, which will be available next month.
Afterward, he said he plans to donate much of his wealth to charity, and for the same reason, rejected a $350million offer from Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison.
"He sent me an offer in writing and I just couldn't find it in my heart to do it," Shinn said, adding that he worried Ellison would move the club to the West Coast.
#Oracle spent $4,642 on legal advice for CEO Larry Ellison to help him figure disclosure requirements tied to his personal political contributions. The software maker also spent nearly $1.5 million for Ellison's home security services. Ellison has collected more than $1.8 billion in Oracle compensation in the past decade and has a net worth that ranks sixth on Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest.
Under the sale terms, UnXis retains all customer contracts, the rights to the UNIX and UNIXWARE trademarks and installed base of over 32,000 customer contracts in 82 countries, including major enterprise customers in finance, manufacturing, retail, quick-serve restaurants, consumer electronics and state and federal government, the company said.
The company plans to build industry-leading consulting and support services ensuring leading-edge operations and Unix operating systems on new and existing hardware platforms, it said, as well as to double its resources in engineering, technical support and customer relationship management.
Panaya, announced today the first Upgrade Automation solution for Oracle E-Business Suite R12. The new SaaS offering saves 50% of the cost and effort associated with Oracle EBS upgrades by simulating the R12 upgrade on a cloud-based supercomputer and showing Oracle customers what will break during the upgrade and how to fix it.
The offer is part of a plan by private-equity firm Apax Partners to combine Epicor with Activant Solutions Inc., a privately held company that Apax is also buying. Activant makes business management software for retail and wholesale distribution businesses and is based in Livermore, Calif.
The project, called Vision 2020, aims to help shape the future of procurement through an online forum (www.futureofprocurement.com) in which leading thinkers can share their insights on an ongoing basis.
Also, IBM has chosen 20 of its most popular products and will let its customers mix and match the use of them in order to meet their monthly revenue commitment. For example, if a customer signs up to pay for US$10,000 worth of software, the customer can use $7,000 worth of WebSphere and $3,000 worth of DB2, or any other combination that adds up to $10,000.
Marc Benioff, Chairman et CEO de salesforce.com, donne un bref aperçu de salesforce.com et présente le Cloud 2, la nouvelle génération d'applications d'entreprise crées pour la collaboration et inspirées des applications grand public telles que Facebook.
Cloud Foundry will be run by the Mozy team, which is moving from EMC and wil be part of VMware. VMware executives explained in an interview yesterday that the Mozy team has the experience of developing a backup service.
Cloud Foundry, a VMware-led project is the world's first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Cloud Foundry provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails.
Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart from their hosted offering, their open source version can run on any public cloud or private cloud or traditional datacenters. In short, VMware has completely disrupted the PaaS space with this announcement.
The changes allow the NoSQL technology to run within the MySQL server process, which is said to reduce latency for memcached queries. On individual computers, NoSQL currently only uses one InnoDB table, but multiple tables are planned to become available in the future. "Key" and "value" in memcached are each columns in this table. Multiple columns can be defined as the value of a memcached key; a customisable character is used to separate individual entries. As the data is stored in an InnoDB table, it can be queried and edited via SQL commands. The integrated memcached daemon has so far only become available for Linux.
It may find itself in a similar situation as SAP which has had a hard time scaling its own SaaS solutions because it is addicted to own version of premium products and partners.
The traction among firms willing to make Heroku the PaaS of choice for helping their enterprise customers deploy Ruby applications in the cloud helps validate Heroku's approach to cloud computing, and it's just another way that life for Heroku is changing for the better since becoming part of the Salesforce.com cloud family.
Part of the added benefits are technological, too. Sebastian says Heroku already connects to Salesforce.com's Force.com and Database.com services via API, which should please existing Salesforce.com customers, at least, and Sebastian promises more advances to come in the coming months.
The ecosystem surrounding Heroku's platform includes developers, domain experts, educators and trainers, architects, consultancies, customers, and technology providers. The Heroku Partner Program joins the Heroku Add-on Provider Program, launched last year to enable developers to seamlessly access Heroku's best-of-breed cloud services. The Heroku Add-on Provider Program provides key services and technology for web application development. Recent Add-on technologies added to the program catalog include faster-than-real-time video encoding/transcoding from Zencoder and IndexTank, a massively scalable search solution used today by major web properties such as Reddit and WordPress.com.
To learn more about Heroku and sign up for a free account, visit: http://heroku.com/signup.
The Principal deployed Oracle Fusion Workforce Compensation, part of Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM), in just four months.
Through business process change and adopting Oracle Fusion Workforce Compensation, The Principal reduced its compensation cycle for a pilot group of employees from 10 weeks to a mere three weeks, streamlining the process, and delivering real-time data to its leaders as they made compensation recommendations for a global workforce.
Through 2011 and 2012, The Principal plans to deploy Oracle Fusion Performance Management, Goal Management, Talent Review and Workforce Compensation across its entire workforce.
The Principal is simultaneously implementing Oracle Fusion Procurement to have greater control and insight in its supplier and procurement processes.
* Finance, sales and procurement functions can look to improve the performance of their core operations by increasing process efficiency, agility and visibility while at the same time reducing risk with the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Spend Performance Management, SAP® Business Objects™ Sales and Operations Planning and SAP® Treasury and Risk Management rapid-deployment solutions.
* IT departments can streamline processes, including incident and problem management, change and service asset management, knowledge management and financial management, with the SAP® IT Service Desk Operation rapid-deployment solution.
* SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)2 – Implement essential CRM functionality quickly and affordably, while helping to reduce risk and create a predictable path towards your vision.
* SAP Business Communications Management2 – Help lower the total cost of implementing inbound contact center and reporting functionality, while improving operational excellence, enhancing customer service, and gaining flexibility to meet changing needs.
* Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM2 – Provide your sales team with mobile access to customer information at their fingertips.
* SAP BusinessObjects Sales and Operations Planning2 – Drive efficiencies and effectiveness around your sales and operations planning process with better analytics and communication.
Technology venture capital firm Accel Partners , whose investments include Facebook and Macromedia, has hired ex- #SAP and #Siebel executive Paul Wahl to strengthen its enterprise IT business.
As CEO-in-residence, Wahl will identify, invest in and mentor start-ups that help organisations to reduce the complexity of their IT infrastructure, Accel said on Monday.
Wahl has worked with Accel on past investments including as a board member at Qliktech, one of Europe's most successful venture capital investments, which went public on the NASDAQ last year.
Wahl ran the American business of German business software giant SAP in the late 1990s and went on to become chief operating officer of customer relationship management software company Siebel, which has since been bought by Oracle.
The next major releases of Dynamics will run on Azure, and customers "will be able to move to the cloud on their own terms," Microsoft said in a statement.
* A new level of agility through a set of Unified Natural Models, which serves as a library of business processes that reflect real-world situations, and enables customers to easily modify their organizations and processes to meet their changing business needs.
* Simplicity across the board, through the intuitive RoleTailored experience and access to context-sensitive business intelligence (BI) that is relevant to the work at hand. The familiar Microsoft Office user interface drives adoption, and the enhanced BI capabilities help customers uncover fresh insights that can lead to faster and more informed decision-making.
Many standard applications have some level of customization, and so we're seeing a lot of hybrid applications, where customers are extending them into Azure. We have a case with Coca-Cola Enterprises which has a back-end order-processing app, that they've extended into Azure. And what they wanted to do was get more reach and more agility for the front-end. So they built a secure connection between their data center and Windows Azure and then extended the application out to their partners and customers, essentially people like Domino's Pizza who order Coca Cola products. We're seeing a lot of these cases of existing applications being extended like that.
IBM Business Process Manager, which will be announced on Monday at IBM's Impact Event in Las Vegas, is described as the "unified platform" customers are after. The product does provide a new shared process repository and administrative interface that will serve as the new front end of IBM's BPM portfolio. But the separate process engines, which actually run the processes, and the associated development environments, used to create and modify the processes, are all still there behind the scenes.
BPM systems give business and IT a shared environment in which they can collaborate around process models — visual diagrams that are easy for business analysts to understand, but that also enable IT to add executable code. These systems then let you monitor and quickly change processes to improve performance or adapt to new business conditions, but without the extensive coding and development work associated with conventional application development.
PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory Management, a new application within Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management suite, helps improve inventory accuracy and labor productivity by automating mobile inventory transactions for users of Microsoft Windows-enabled mobile devices and handheld scanners.
Enhancements to Oracle's PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing module with capabilities around managing documents associated with requests for quotes/information and bid analysis and award functionality that gives users more control and security over their sourcing events.
SAP has not only recognized and embraced the value of social networking for business, but also invested in it with the belief that it helps SAP customers maximize the value of their IT investments in ways that were not possible before. The expansive SAP Community Network (SCN), a key component of an SAP user's social media universe, is a clear sign of that commitment. It is a social network for SAP professionals. Within customer organizations, it serves people in various roles, including developers, IT professionals, business analysts, purchase decision makers, and end users. It hosts the largest aggregation of SAP experts, partners, industry opinion leaders, and SAP employees collaborating to increase the return on customers' SAP investments.
SAP Community Network is focusing its strategy and delivery of benefits on three key pillars of value for 2011: social innovation, social intelligence, and social commerce. Let's take a closer look at each pillar.
New ECAD features which support end to end design to manufacture processes: Customers in the electronics and High Tech space can now visualize work-in-progress designs via support of Cadence non-archived files while manufacturing engineers can perform thorough manufacturability reviews through better support of variants, overlays and polarity.
Improved support for paper-based processes: Customers in asset-intensive industries that need to print a variety of engineering, plant and maintenance documents can take advantage of major printing improvements that enhance performance and stability.
#Lawson acquisition a one horse race?
# Customers expect to upgrade ERP and CRM in 12 to 18 months. Good news for Microsoft partners. Most ERP and CRM customers plan to upgrade within the next 12 to 18 months (see Figure 2). Many plan to upgrade ERP (18.0%) and CRM (13.1%) in the next 6 to 12 months.
# Cloud adoption remains partly cloudy. While there are numerous benefits to cloud adoption for clients, 34.4% of ERP customers showed no interest. Most CRM customers expected to make the shift to the cloud (see Figure 3). As for the shift to office in the cloud, 18.0% planned to make the shift 24 months from now.
# Leverage Microsoft investment. Informal conversations highlighted interest in mobile development, greater sharepoint adoption, and interest in Power Pivot. Most customers felt Microsoft had turned the corner and began to innovate as of the Windows 7 launch.
# Explore Two Tier ERP remains hot.
Gartner thinks Informatica has 23% of the data integration field, behind only IBM's (IBM) 27%.
But the company also services the closely related data-quality sector, which involves monitoring and scanning data for flaws, missing fields, duplications and other errors. Data quality is a smaller and more fragmented market but is growing faster, Gartner says.
Informatica is also going where many of its larger competitors aren't. For instance, it has specialized cloud data-integration services, a specialty not yet addressed by some larger vendors, analysts say.
The annual O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo hits the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, California, next week (April 11-14). The annual gathering of the Dolphinistas (Dolphinarati? Dolphinators?) looks to be an exciting event. The list of keynoters includes former MySQL AB CEO Mårten Mickos, now CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind the open source cloud platform of the same name, and Michael "Monty" Widenius, the always intriguing author of the original version of MySQL and now project lead of MariaDB.
Meanwhile, at roughly the same time (April 10-14), about 2,500 miles away at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, organizers of the 2011 Collaborate Oracle Users Conference are hoping to attract their share of the MySQL community. In fact, this will be the first time they've been asked to participate.
The MySQL users conference 2011 is starting next week. I plan to organize a MariaDB BoF where we can together discuss the plans for 5.6 and collect requests and suggestions. Black drinks and chocolate will be served, so come prepared!
Most of the developers of Monty Program Ab will be at the conference and we will also have a booth so you should have no problem in finding someone to talk to about MariaDB there.
Monty Program Ab is also organizing a MySQL/MariaDB/Drizzle store engine summit. Follow the link if you are interested in attending!
Eric Schmidt and Ronald Lacey: Separated at Birth?
C3 is not alone in this marketplace, and has some worthy competitors, SAP and Hara. It's interesting to note the C3 is somewhat a fusion of the SAP and Hara attempt in this space.
Currently, companies can issue shares privately without incurring onerous reporting obligations if they have fewer than 500 shareholders. The SEC is considering raising that limit, though it's unclear by how much. The rule was designed to protect investors who owned shares in companies that were growing but not required to disclose their inner financial workings. Some investors say the SEC should stop companies from getting around the rule, which they say remains an essential safeguard.
The 500 shareholder rule is thought to have been a big reason why Google decided to go public in 2004 after delaying for a while. It's thought a big reason why Facebook decided to do its last round of funding from a "special purpose vehicle" built by Goldman Sachs with money from tons of their rich private clients was to get around that SEC rule.
Both companies' products will fit well with the top-down, corporate-wide approach that HP is adopting; they are designed for C-level aggregation, analysis, and reporting of corporate resource consumption and resulting emissions. And they are the most prominent of the clean-sheet-of-paper startups in the ECEM market; Hara with a good customer list and C3 with an enviable set of backers (although still in quasi-stealth mode).
The SmartCloud Enterprise+ offering, which will be available sometime in the second half of this year, allows for customers to buy slices of x64 or Power servers, and run their applications on them. IBM also jacks up the SLA to 99.9 per cent availability, and will no doubt charge a premium for that extra availability when pricing is announced along with availability. It will be interesting to see what kind of premium, if any, IBM will try to charge for running software on top of logical partitions on its own Power Systems machinery.
IBM chose Red Hat's KVM-based Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the hypervisor layer in its Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud service, which launched in March 2010 and which is based on x64 servers. Big Blue is, however, using VMware's latest ESXi hypervisor on its production SmartClouds based on x64 processors.
Cloud computing is no longer an area of investigation and experiment for IBM. CFO Mark Loughridge has stated he believes cloud services will generate $7 billion in revenue for IBM by 2015.
It's basing its approach on its interactions with existing customers, such as FritoLay, American Airlines, and IndiaFirst, over the last four years. "The cloud is not one thing, one size fits all," said Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, in an interview Wednesday in advance of the event.
"Over the last few years, there's been a lot of tire kicking. Then you get to the more mainstream adoption. We feel we are entering that wave of computing now," he said.
IBM vice president of technology strategy and growth initiatives Lauren States sits down with V3.co.uk to discuss the company's new Enterprise and Enterprise Plus cloud computing platforms.
IBM says its offering includes more features aimed toward large enterprise customers, such as heightened security, data privacy and the ability to certify the system for regulatory requirements. Moreover, IBM is offering a plethora of options, including public, private and hybrid clouds.
A typical client would spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on the new offering, IBM's Mills said, though the amount will vary based on what services the customer is using.
"There's no reason why (companies) couldn't move some fairly significant production work (to the cloud) and literally start to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions a month," he said.
I asked Mills if this announcement was another way of saying the tech is now housebroken. "Perhaps not a bad term," he said. "IBM has always put a premium on security, auditability, and reliability. There have been things like Amazon EC2 [the bookseller's wildly successful cloud lease offering, more popular with startups and divisions than the core computing of big companies] – this provides IBM quality of service.
Your move, Mr. Bezos. And while we're at it, let's see if Google's App service, and the business-oriented things they'll do around the Chrome store, see that reliability kicked up a notch.
It does not take much to see that Google will be challenging Microsoft on the OS level later this year from the very bottom of the market where Google can easily achieve millions of sold units as long as the price of these devices remains in the $200 range. It could establish Google as a major OS player that will battle Microsoft for a substantial share of the OS market.
But the same could be said about Google Apps and Microsoft's Office and enterprise server business, and Google didn't promote that division's leader, Dave Girouard, to a senior VP position.
Redmond's always opted for the monopoly cash-cow income, and except for the Xbox 360 has never sold anything new. (Kinect might be a winner.) It's up to you to change all this. I wish you luck.
Its lobbying expenses last year were dwarfed by the nearly $7 million that tech rivals Microsoft and HP each spent. Apple's lobbying budget ranked 21st in the industry, behind much smaller companies, such as Expedia and eBay (EBAY), according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
In some ways, Apple's Washington image mirrors that of co-founder Jobs: enigmatic and secretive.
Regarding the unfair competition that occurs when stolen or misappropriated information technology is used to manufacture products sold or offered for sale in this state.
Microsoft wants the court to apply the lower preponderance of the evidence standard, which would make it easier to invalidate i4i's claims.
"i4i's argument rests on a distorted view of (the patent and trademark office's) examination and reexamination procedures," Microsoft argues in its filing.
The dense legal argument aside, options are thinning for Microsoft. i4i filed a suit in 2007, claiming that Microsoft violated one of its patents covering the way the software giant used XML, or extensible markup language, in its Word program. After losing the original case, Microsoft appealed, and lost that case as well. The company filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case last November.
The only justification the government can offer for the clear-and-convincing-evidence standard is that there must be a bright-line rule, even in cases where the purported justification for a heightened standard is (as the government charitably puts it) "less obvious." U.S. Br. 30. The government's concerns with a dual-standard approach ignore that lower courts applied that approach for decades without any difficulty. But if a single standard is necessary, the absence of any justification for a heightened standard in this or indeed any case suggests that the preponderance standard – the default standard in all civil litigation – should apply.
Google is close to bowing to government oversight for the first time in order to win approval for a big merger, a move that would allow it to complete its controversial $700m purchase of US travel technology company ITA Software.
The development comes just as arch-rival Microsoft is on the brink of escaping the close scrutiny of US regulators for the first time in nearly a decade, a watershed moment in its own dealings with the competition authorities.
The focus now is shifting to selling the treasure, Catz said, with attention on the 300,000 customers for Oracle's database software.
Pricing information Oracle distributed for Exadata late last year prices a "full rack" Exadata Database Machine at $1 million and the companion Exalogic cloud software at $1 million more. The addition of application clusters and management software adds more depending on the use.
Robinson noted that the software, even in beta, seems to load much more quickly. And it does feature a number of notable new capabilities, he added. The installation framework should ease deployment, especially for organizations that need to install the software across different hardware platforms. Another new "drag-and-drop" feature allows a Java application to be placed in a "live" folder that would make the application instantly operational, which should simplify testing for developers.
Considerable work has also been expended on integrating Websphere's internal Java messaging with IBM's enterprise service bus software, called Websphere MQ.
Prognosis: The outlook for continued revenue increases looks to be solid for the foreseeable future, as the company is in the vanguard of firms surfing the on-demand subscription model wave. However, I believe the stock has gotten way ahead of itself. I have been saying this and been wrong to this point for some time. However, it is my belief that CRM and other high beta stocks have been primary beneficiaries of Quantative Easing II (QE2). When this program winds up at the end of June, these stocks should be highly vulnerable to a significant pullback.
2. Insiders: There have been over 230 insider transactions over the last six months, and they have all been "Sells".
3. Consensus earning estimates for both this year and next have come down over last 90 days.
Morning keynotes and tech talks, afternoon track sessions and an evening cocktail reception. Details coming soon.
Most HP VARs were intrigued by but unsure about Hewlett-Packard's cloud computing and software strategy as outlined by CEO Leo Apotheker at the HP Summit. They wanted to hear more at HP's Americas Partner Conference, and some wondered whether Apotheker's cloud strategy would include partners beyond large service providers. And, many wondered if Apotheker was the right man to lead HP going forward.
Nortel's portfolio consists of about 6,000 patents and patent applications covering wireless and wired communication technologies. Whether Google sees Nortel's patents as a way to enter new markets remains to be seen, but the telecom company's portfolio could prove useful with the development of software-defined networking (SDN), which Google is promoting through its participation in the Open Networking Foundation, or with the development of white spaces networking, among other projects. Google says that if its bid is successful, Nortel's patents will help it and the open source community with projects like Android and Chrome.
If Google wins the June 2011 auction and courts in the U.S. and Canada approve, the deal will rank as one of Google's biggest, behind only its purchases of DoubleClick and YouTube, and its 2005 search deal with AOL.
Cisco controls more than 70% of the global market for network routing and switching products, but it nonetheless faces strong competition from big companies like IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, plus a host of newer, smaller players in the software and ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) businesses, Chambers said.
Vaswani will also take over as the chairman of its India operations, the world's No. 2 personal computer maker said in a statement issued late Tuesday, adding, he will report to Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services.
As executive vice-president at Dell Services applications and business process outsourcing unit, Vaswani's focus will be on building next-generation service offerings and grow Dell's process capabilities globally, Dell added.
Greed and blame play a profoundly important, and deeply negative, role on IT projects.
Central to to the complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, is Matthew Kluger, a corporate associate who worked in the mergers and acquisitions department of the private equity and venture capital law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR).
The filing alleges that Kluger stole non-public information relating to the mergers and acquisitions of the eleven firms, then passed this information to an unnamed middleman, who executed trades and profited illegally to the tune of $693,000 on HP's acquisition of 3Com in 2009 and Intel's acquisition of McAfee last year.
The middleman allegedly passed the information on to Garrett Bauer, a Wall Street trader who executed trades on the other nine companies, based on other insider information that came from Kluger, raking in $31.7m in ill-gotten gains.
Bauer, after learning last month that the FBI and IRS were investigating him in relation to the insider trading scheme, destroyed his pre-paid cell phone on March 13, and five days later told "Middleman" to burn about $175,000 in cash that Bauer gave to "Middleman" because of concerns that Bauer's fingerprints were on the cash, the SEC alleged.
To date, as a direct result of receiving material nonpublic information from Kluger, Bauer has traded in at advance of at least nine (9) pending mergers and acquisitions involving companies that were advised by Wilson Sonsini. Bauer's trades generated over $31.6 million in illegal profits. Kluger, the Middleman, and Bauer shared the profits from the insider trading in advance of these nine public announcements. The Middleman and Kluger each profited by approximately $342,000 as their share of the insider trading profits, most of which they received in cash. 6. The Middleman traded in advance of two (2) pending mergers and acquisitions involving companies for which Kluger provided material nonpublic information. He profited by at least $693,000. The Middleman gave Kluger approximately $160,000 in cash as his share of the profits from the insider trading scheme. Overall,… Kluger profited by at least $500,000 from the insider trading and the Middleman profited by at least $875,500.
Mr. Ballmer is one of those figures in the industry who generates a equal venom and adoration. His departure from Microsoft has long been predicted, but there he remains. Not only is there no hint of any wish to oust him, it is hard to see who would replace him if he went.
It seems the monkey-dancing, "developer"-chanting CEO is going to be around for some time yet.
Is #Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer really the worst tech boss?
When asked "Do you approve of the way your CEO is leading the company?" 40 percent of Microsoft employees surveyed said yes, according to Glassdoor.com. No. 1 is Google's outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt, who scored a 96 percent approval rating in the annual tech boss approval survey.
As Google CEO Eric Schmidt prepares to hand over the reins, his employee approval rating is at an all-time high – and the highest among his peer group CEOs, according to new analysis from Glassdoor.com that evaluated employee opinions of 12 large technology companies over the past two years1. Based on surveys submitted by Google employees over the past 12 months (March 2010-March 2011), Schmidt's approval rating is 96%, up three points from the prior 12-month period.
He's followed closely by Apple's Steve Jobs, who — even while on medical leave — has a 95% approval rating, down 3 points from the prior year. During the same period, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Oracle's Larry Ellison both dropped four points to 83% and 73% approval respectively.
HP claims Adrian Jones, its former head of enterprise sales for the Asia region, stole documents and e-mails on a USB device which contained proprietary and valuable information about HP's products and customers.
HP said in its lawsuit that it was about to fire Jones in February after an investigation into his relationship with a subordinate and spurious expense claims. Before any action was taken, Jones resigned and joined Oracle shortly after.
and Yahoo Inc. going from 0.49% to 0.86%.
The biggest losers in the rebalancing were Apple Inc., down 8.16% to a 12.33% weighting; Qualcomm Inc. dropping to a 3.48% weighting from 5% and Starbucks Corp. whose weighting will fall from 1.79% to 1.08%.
An official IBM Charge Schedule lays out price per instance in four tiers: Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold. A Copper RHEL instance costs $0.19 per hour, and Gold is $0.46 per hour. Windows instances start at $0.10 per hour.
IBM will also sell reserved capacity, just as Amazon Web Services (AWS) does, for those looking for a long-term discount. Reserved Capacity is significantly cheaper, although a six-month commitment will cost a minimum of $1850 per month.
A Reserved Capacity RHEL instance costs $0.0154 per hour and a Gold instance will run you $0.30 per hour. Windows pricing starts at $0.064 per hour. Licensing is either determined by the application you consume or bring-your-own-licensing (BYOL). The pricing appears to be in line with other public cloud services like AWS and Rackspace.
The offer price represents a premium of 11.2% over Friday's closing stock price, an 18.9% premium over the average closing price for the previous 30 calendar days and a 34.4% premium over the average closing price for the previous 52-week period. The transaction is valued at approximately $976 million. Apax is providing 100% of the equity financing for the acquisition. Shareholders representing approximately 19% of Epicor's outstanding shares have entered into support agreements with Apax in connection with the transaction. In addition, Elliott Associates, which beneficially owns approximately 13.5% of Epicor's outstanding shares, has indicated that it supports the transaction.
The acquisition of Activant is conditioned upon the concurrent closing of Apax's acquisition of Epicor, the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and other customary closing conditions. Activant expects that the acquisitions will close by the end of the second calendar quarter of this year.
Apax Partners to Acquire Epicor Software Corporation and Activant Solutions, Inc.
Apax intends to combine Activant and Epicor to create one of the largest global providers of enterprise applications focused on the manufacturing, distribution, services and retail sectors. Following completion of the merger, the combined company will be named Epicor Software Corporation and will no longer be a publicly traded company. It will have over 30,000 customers and $825 million in annual revenues.
Scorecard key: Number of tombstones refers to the number of times a product or company has been acquired.
Does anybody really think that things will improve for Epicor users and partners? Let alone those of Activant (whose PE recap five years ago followed a spree of mini-Infor style acquisitions in the distribution space). And how long will it be until this new Epicorivant decides it needs to acquire another mini-Infor like Consona (and, not inconsequentially, provide an exit for its own PE investors)?
Private equity firms such as Apax are resuming takeovers after the financial crisis almost halted buyouts for two years. Apax, which is investing an 11.2 billion-euro ($15.9 billion) fund raised in 2007, dropped a 6.4 billion-euro bid in January to buy ISS A/S, the world's largest cleaning-service provider, after the owners asked for more money. The transaction would have been the largest leveraged buyout in Europe since the credit crisis. Apax is planning to start marketing a new fund later this year, a person with knowledge of the matter previously said.
"There is a race to get to $1 billion [in revenue]. At $1 billion, software companies gain economies of scale that allow the right amount of R&D. It's imperative to get to that size to compete and invest," Wang said.
Page's first official day on the job was also marked by the resignation of Google's Senior Vice President of Product Management, Jonathan Rosenberg.
Siebel, who made his fortune in database software, is one eco-neophyte. He plans to talk about C3, which has been in stealth mode since 2009. In October the company raised $48 million in a private offering, according to a filing with the SEC, roughly doubling its total funding. Siebel has recruited a blue chip board, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former energy secretary Spencer Abraham.
The company predicts that software will claim the largest share of the market, with an estimated $219bn of spending in 2011. IT equipment sales could net an estimated $100bn from the US public and private sector, while communications equipment could bring in $108bn.
Telecom services are slated to hit $197bn, while IT services could net an estimated $78bn. IT outsourcing will bring in a projected $104bn on the year.
Future SAP LOB OnDemand Apps will be built using the same role-based, socialized approach. Now that SAP has clarified its "core and edge" on-demand platform, it will be easier going with the design/rollout of new LOB apps. If SAP can hold to their plan, which includes Career OnDemand and Travel OnDemand both slated for ramp-up in the second half of 2011, that will be a significant improvement on previous years when internal design and platform issues held SAP back from new LOB on-demand products, unless you want to count Carbon Impact, which is technically a simpler "edge" app that runs on the River platform intended for lightweight on-demand apps.
# Fusing industry processes, analytics and enterprise applications, Infor Workspace provides a consumer grade user experience with single sign-on, common look-and-feel, and seamless navigation across multiple applications deployed either on-premise or in the cloud.
# Infor Workspace is simple to use and easy to understand, designed to enable end-users to learn, ask, suggest, share and experience – all in ways previously unavailable for enterprise applications.
# Infor Workspace provides real-time in-context business intelligence for faster more accurate decision making.
* Mapping tools that provide visibility into locations of goods, inventories, assets and supply chain networks.
#Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath of Japan earthquake/tsunami hit the IT industry.
Google blocked software engineers in China from having access to its code base used to invent new products, the book said, because it feared government officials might force them to reveal private information.
The researchers said they'd been contacted by people who have seen the code in their Microsoft SQL Server 2003 and 2005 databases. The vulnerabilities weren't within the database software, but "most likely in the Web systems used by these sites, such as outdated CMS and blog systems," Runald said.
Lawson grew ERP license sales by 6% to $33.8 million. License sales represent the smallest piece of Lawson's revenue pie. Software maintenance contracts are the greatest contributor; they rose 9% to $97.4 million in the quarter. Consulting sales were flat at just under $65 million.
Net income shot up to $21.4 million against $1.7 million in the prior-year quarter. Lawson noted in a press release that it managed to raise operating margins on its M3 ERP software, an offering tailored to the manufacturing and distribution industries.
Almost half of SAP customers (43 percent) are dissatisfied with the system's response times across all components, according to a global survey.


Note: If you haven't been following along with these Object-Oriented Qubbles (OOQs) and don't know what I'm doing here, then you might which to see OOQ #1 and/or OOQ #2.
While I don't particularly have much of an opinion on the use of "ontology" or "ontologies" in information sciences, I do think it's pretty damn ridiculous to presume that computer and/or information sciences give a crap about what philosophers think of their use of the terms. Furthermore, I always get irritated with some pedantic traditionalist purports to suggest despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that words, their definitions, their use, or their spellings can or should be limited to what was taught while the aforementioned pedant was in grammar [graduate, in this case] school. That kind of normativity serves no purpose. I'm not going to rehearse the argument here. For two wonderfully engaging versions, try the Smithsonian's recent "Most of What you Think You Know about Grammar is Wrong," or Stephen Fry's "Don't Mind Your Language" set wonderfully in kinetic typography here.
What the epistemic fallacy identifies is the fallacy of reducing ontological questions to epistemological questions, or conflating questions of how we know with questions of what beings are. In short, the epistemic fallacy occurs whenever being is reduced to our access to being. Thus, for example, wherever beings are reduced to out impressions or sensations of being, wherever being is reduced to our talk about being, wherever being is reduced to discourses about being, wherever being is reduced to signs through which being is manifest, the epistemic fallacy has been committed. (Bryant 60).
Graham Harmon, Andrew Pickering, Annmarie Mol, Ian Bogost, and many others all offer similar critiques of epistemology and in so doing argue (convincingly) that most of the history of Western philosophy has been plagued by an epistemological focus that reduces inquiry into reality questions about access to reality.
My quibble and key point: by maintaining a vision of ontology as subsidiary to metaphysics, OOO fails to escape the problem of access. Harman's distinction between real and sensual objects, Bryant's bifurcation between endo- and exo-qualities all presuppose (even when they claim not to presuppose) some sort of reference object (although a nonhuman reference object) on which sense impressions/ perturbations can land and be registered as qualities/information/sensual inputs. I would argue that these distinctions (endo/exo//real/sensual) are the manifestations of the traditional concern with metaphysics and its never-ending inquiry into essences and accidents. In subordinating ontology to metaphysics, ontology is always about the stuff of reality.
Under this model, OOO can investigate the preconditions for being (modes of association/articulation in the Latourian idiom, sites of practice in Mol-speak) and the emergent metaphysics of a particular instance of being (the articulations of that current exist for an object of study), and the subsequent epistemology (how the perturbations produced by that particular instance of being are processed by another particular instance of being as provisionally identified for the purposes of the current study). Of course, one wouldn't need to go that far. Ontology could be enough.
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Sine Dry: Quiet Day in the Senate Ends with Immediate Special Session
Olivia Messer May 28, 2013, 9:43 pm CST
The Legislature's session had barely ended Monday afternoon before a new one began. The Senate adjourned sine die (indefinitely) just after 5 p.m. and, not 15 minutes later, received word that a special session would be called at 6 p.m.
The Senate floor was mostly quiet all day, save a few small children babbling and cooing in chairs next to their parents and grandparents. After several hours, the Senate passed three memorial resolutions in memory of Sen. Leticia Van de Putte's (D-El Paso) late grandson, Rex Van de Putte; Sen. Royce West's (D-Dallas) late son, Remarcus West; and Greg Spaw, the late son of the Senate secretary. The Senate later adjourned in their honor.
"We can all be proud of the responsible steps made this session to invest in our citizens, fund water infrastructure, and build an even stronger foundation for the future of our economy and Texas families," Governor Rick Perry said in a statement. "However, there is still work to be done on behalf of the citizens of Texas."
Perry called the special session to pass a redistricting plan, making maps used in the 2012 election permanent. But Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst told reporters this evening, "I expect the governor to add more topics to the call, but I think he's going to roll these out and make some progress on the bills first." So far four bills have been filed, all from Sen. Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo).
After the special session was gaveled in, Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston) nominated Sen. Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) for President Pro Tempore, and he was voted in. There was a brief argument over the two-thirds rule, and, though Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) put up a fight that included statistics on discrimination in the current districts, Dewhurst remained firm that there would be no blocking bill this session. With Democrats no longer able to block bills with the two-thirds rule, Republicans will be free to pass any number of conservative bills—abortion anyone?—if they choose and if Perry adds those topics to the call. (In a special session, the Lege can consider only issues on the governor's call.)
"I expect to see some pushback, but remember I've operated this way in special sessions on redistricting going back to 2003," Dewhurst said, referring to the summer of 2003, when he ditched the two-thirds rule for the first time to pass Tom DeLay's mid-decade redistricting plan.
The first hearing of the special session will take place at 9 a.m. on Thursday. Welcome back to the session.


Here in this article we are talking about one of the historical district of the Himachal Pradesh which is known as Chamba, in this article we are talking about the various caves which are situated in the Gajnui on the Jot road, these caves are about 15 km from the Chamba. There are two caves which were during the times of Mahabharata.
Here in this article we are talking about the various caves in Gajnui in Chamba district. These caves are basically 15 km from the Chamba on the Jot road. These caves were found in during the 19th century and it is believed that it was during the time of Mahabharata. Basically in this article we are talking about the origin and the history of these caves and how to reach these caves, and for more information about these caves then you have to read the article which is given below.
These caves were firstly found in the 19th century by the forest department of the Chamba. Some of the officers are wondering in this area and they found these caves. There are two caves are found. The first cave is situated on the above of the road side, it is about 200 meter from the road on the mountain and it is about 500 meter long and there is no light are present and there is no security is present so you have to go on your own risk. And when this cave was firstly found then are so many things are found and so many dead bodies are found inside these caves, so very few people visit these caves every year. The 2nd cave is about 500 back from this cave which is situated below the road and it is about 300 meter below from the road, this cave is about 10 meter long, around this cave there are so many big stones are present and it is totally covered with stone. In the beginning of this cave there is big stone on the top of this stone there is a small hole is made and if put your hand continuously on this hole then it will make a sound like an instrument, round this cave there so many tree are present so be careful when visiting this place, and it is believed that in the ancient time the Pandava's lives in these caves for few days.
These caves are situated about 15 km from the Chamba on the Jot road, you can reach this place by bus or taxi, for this place there are so many buses are available from the Chamba's local bus stand and take one guide from the nearby village Gajnui he will tell you the way and in the evening you have to come back to chamba because there is no living facility are present or you have to go to Khajjiiar which is about 7 km from these caves, in this place there are so many hotels and restaurant are present for the staying. The best season to visit this place in the summer because that time days are big and you can enjoy more and be careful when you are going to these caves and don't go alone to these caves.


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I hope you had a lovely weekend. It's funny…you never can tell 100% what's really going to pique people's interest. The image that I posted yesterday on Instagram from my Flowerona Links blog post proved to be very, very popular! Take a look here.
On to today, and I'm delighted to feature images of Wildabout's floral designs from a showcase event called Seven Decadent Sins, which I attended recently at the Royal Opera House in London. The first of the three designs is called Lust.
Hundreds of beautiful red roses, anemones and ranunculus, together with berried ivy had been arranged on a table, beneath perspex.
The Envy table featured trailing green amaranthus, cymbidium orchids, hydrangeas, dianthus, viburnum opulus, chrysanthemums, succulents, herbs and moss. Aren't the co-ordinating chairs wonderful too?!
Judging by the guests' reaction, Envy was the most popular design. However, for me personally, my favourite was Pride below which featured dendrobium orchids, hydrangeas, roses and lilac. I just loved its delicate nature.
So, I hope you've enjoyed seeing Wildabout's amazing floral designs today. If you'd like to see more of their work, simply pop over to their website.
P.S. Here's a link to my Flowerona Links video, which features footage of the event.


Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko bow at an altar during a moment of silence to the war dead at a memorial ceremony marking the the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018.
Bereaved families offer a moment of silence to the war dead during a memorial service ceremony marking the the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a memorial service ceremony marking the the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018.
Japan's Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko walk as they offer a moment of silence to the war dead during a memorial ceremony marking the the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018.
Members of a right wing group pay a silent tribute to the war dead at noon in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Men dressed as Japanese imperial army soldiers pay a silent tribute to the war dead at noon in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Men dressed as Japanese imperial army soldiers line up after marching in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Men dressed as Japanese imperial army soldiers march in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A Shinto priest (R) accompanies Japanese lawmakers as they visit the Yasukuni shrine to pay respects to the country's war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Japanese lawmakers visit the Yasukuni shrine to pay respects to the country's war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A man wears a headband bearing Japan's national flag as he visits the Yasukuni shrine to pay respects to the country's war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A Shinto priest accompanies Japanese lawmakers as they visit the Yasukuni shrine to pay respects to the country's war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
People pay a silent tribute to the war dead at noon in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A man dressed as Japanese imperial army soldier shouts an order as he marches in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Shinto priests are pictured while Japanese lawmakers visit the Yasukuni shrine to pay respects to the country's war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A man pays a silent tribute to the war dead at noon in front of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
People release doves as a symbol of peace at the Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A man holds a dove before releasing it as a symbol of peace at the Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A man dressed as a Japanese imperial army soldier sits near a gate to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Visitors shout hurrah for the Japanese emperor as they visit Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Right wing group members in uniforms make their way with Japan's national flag as they visit Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Visitors pay tribute to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
Visitors wearing same hats make their ways during their organized trip of visiting the Yasukuni Shrine ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo, Japan August 14, 2018.
Visitors pray toward the Yasukuni Shrine ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo, Japan August 14, 2018.
A man wearing uniform of Japanese Imperial Army soldier bows his head toward the Yasukuni Shrine ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo, Japan August 14, 2018.
A woman covers her head with a scarf as she visits the Yasukuni Shrine ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo, Japan August 14, 2018.
Visitor bow their heads toward the Yasukuni Shrine as they leave from the shrine ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two in Tokyo, Japan August 14, 2018.
A man wearing a T-shirt bearing Japan's national flag and Japan's rising sun flag enters Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A girl pays tribute to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A woman throws a coin before paying tribute to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
A man wearing Japan's national flag visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2018, on the 73rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
TOKYOTOKYO (Reuters) - Emperor Akihito, in his last appearance as reigning monarch at an annual ceremony marking Japan's World War Two surrender, expressed "deep remorse" on Wednesday over the conflict, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed no repeat of the horror of war.
Early in the day, Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead but did not visit out of apparent consideration for ties with South Korea and China.
Past visits by Japanese leaders to the shrine have outraged China and South Korea because it honours 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, along with war dead.
China's relations with Japan have long been haunted by what Beijing sees as Tokyo's failure to atone for its occupation of parts of China before and during World War Two, although ties have thawed recently.
Japan occupied Korea from 1910-1945 and bitter memories rankle.
A silver-haired Akihito, 84, who will abdicate next year, spoke at the memorial for war dead after a moment of silence.
"Thinking of the peaceful times that have extended for many years after the war, reflecting on our past and with a feeling of deep remorse, I earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated," said Akihito, who was accompanied by a kimono-clad Empress Michiko.
Akihito has carved out a role as a symbol of peace, democracy and reconciliation during his three decades on the throne, visiting wartime battlefields to pray for the dead of all nationalities.
His remarks on Wednesday echoed those he first spoke on the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, which were seen by many liberals and moderate conservatives as a subtle rebuke to Abe, who has said future generations should not have to keep apologising for the conflict.
"I will humbly face the past and resolutely uphold this promise," the prime minister said on Wednesday.
In Beijing, the foreign ministry said, "The Yasukuni Shrine enshrines Class A war criminals who were directly responsible for the war of aggression.
"We firmly oppose the wrong practices of the Japanese side," the ministry said in a statement.
South Korea's foreign ministry expressed "deep regret" over Abe's sending of an offering to the shrine.
"Our government urges Japan's political leaders to show a serious introspection and sincere attitude of self-reflection towards past history," the ministry said in a statement.
Separately, a group of about 50 conservative Japanese lawmakers including Shinjiro Koizumi, the popular son of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, who is often spoken of as a future premier, paid their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine.
Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Masahiko Shibayama, who made the offering on Abe's behalf, said the prime minister asked him to pray for the souls of the departed and that Abe regretted being unable to pay his respects in person.
Abe has only visited the shrine in person once since taking office in 2012.
That December 2013 visit angered China and South Korea and prompted an expression of disappointment from ally the United States. Since then, he has sent offerings on Aug. 15 and Yasukuni's twice-yearly festivals.
Akihito's father, Emperor Hirohito, in whose name Japanese fought World War Two, stopped visiting Yasukuni after the wartime leaders were first honoured by the shrine in 1978, and Akihito does not pay his respects there.


Life history: Pool is the result of the Recognition between Tyleet and Scouter. He has the ability to 'feel' shapechanged creatures, thus helping Ember's tribe sniff them out so they can kill them. Pool is an age-mate and friend of Sust and he adores Teir.


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Alexa, that isn't Elvis! New music shuffle irks Amazon Prime users
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Dustin Bingham loves to play music when he cooks. Recently, he asked one of his eight Amazon Echo smart speakers to play Michael Bublé while he prepared some pasta.
Sure enough, sounds of the Canadian crooner filled the kitchen, courtesy of his Amazon Prime music account. But what was that next tune? Not Mr. Bublé, and not anything Mr. Bingham had ever heard before. Was something broken?
Irritated, he asked his smart speaker to play Luke Combs, and the same thing happened: first a song from the country singer, then something else entirely.
Before long, he was yelling at Alexa, Amazon's virtual voice assistant. "There was a lot of cussing going on," said Mr. Bingham, 44 years old. The pasta, he said, burned.
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Like many other customers, Mr. Bingham has discovered the hard way that Amazon had changed its options for streaming music. Customers of Amazon Prime, its broad perk service, no longer can play on demand most of the songs in the company's catalog. That feature is now limited to customers willing to pay more for Amazon's "Unlimited" music tier.
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Amazon said the change is part of a major upgrade to its music services. The number of songs in its catalog for Prime members jumped from two million to 100 million. But such members no longer can call for whatever song they want. The Prime tier has become more like a radio station: You can call in a request, but then the algorithm soon spits out an assortment of "similar artists."
Mr. Bingham, who lives near Folsom, Calif., wasn't a fan, and he didn't want to pay another $8.99 a month for an Unlimited subscription. He gathered all but one of his Echo speakers, he said, and moved them to the garage. He replaced them with two Google Nest devices and subscribed to YouTube Music Premium.
In a written statement, Amazon said the update was driven by feedback from customers who wanted a bigger music catalog, even if it meant a primarily "shuffle-mode" experience, and that the company will continue to update its platform based on user feedback.
Mike McKenna, 59, was blindsided by the change. Mr. McKenna, who lives near Albany, N.Y., spent years curating Amazon Music playlists. When he headed to work, he would select his car list—Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and other country songs.
David Limp, senior vice president of devices and services at Amazon.com Inc., presents the Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker during an unveiling event at the company's Spheres headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Sept. 20, 2018. (Andrew Burton/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Recently, the app began playing a rock song he had never heard. When he got to the office, he tried to click on a Kenny Chesney song in his playlist, but it didn't work. Songs he didn't recognize kept playing.
He googled the change over and over, then tried it again. Still no luck. "It finally hit me," he said. He stopped using the service.
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The change prompted Bob MacLeod, 55, to think about something he hadn't in years: his CD collection. He said he loved a playlist he created on Amazon Music that featured Beethoven symphonies. He could listen to it in numerical order—how Beethoven wrote them. Now, the app shuffles songs.
Years ago, Mr. MacLeod had loaded music from his CDs onto a computer hard drive. He hadn't much used it in a decade. He now uses Windows Media Player to listen. "It's like I've gone back to 2005," he said.
Amazon Music has been the fastest-growing competitor to Spotify and Apple Music. But its share of the music subscription market decreased from 21% in January 2022 to 17% in November, the month that Amazon introduced the updates, according to data tracker Antenna.
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Amazon appears to be trying to push its music streamers to the higher-cost Unlimited tier. When users click on a song they no longer can listen to on demand in the Prime tier, an ad for its Unlimited service pops up.
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Yakov Berger, an Israel-based musician, can upload his music onto Amazon's service and thinks the changes make it easier to discover artists like him. The number of available musicians in the Prime tier grew from 225,000 to seven million, Amazon said.
Hubert Johnson, 79, used to use three Echo speakers to listen to his playlists, including one dedicated to the 1950s music of Elvis Presley, which he called "Early Elvis."
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When he recently asked one of his smart speakers to play that, it began switching to similar artists. In a recent test by The Wall Street Journal, those included Ritchie Valens and Bill Haley.
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"Nothing is similar to Elvis," said Mr. Johnson. "None of the beginning fragments I heard made me want to listen to the rest of the song." He kept commanding his speaker to stop.
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package com.javiermoreno.bankof.bankoffunctionaltests;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import junit.framework.Assert;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

/**
 *
 * @author ciberado
 */
public class TransaccionIT {

    private static WebDriver driver = null;

    public TransaccionIT() {
    }

    @BeforeClass
    public static void inicializarDriver() {
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void liquidarDriver() {
        driver.quit();
    }

    @Test
    public void comprobarFlujoCorrectoTransferencia() {
        driver.get("http://localhost:9001/");

        WebElement origenElem = driver.findElement(By.id("origen"));
        origenElem.sendKeys("9999");
        WebElement destinoElem = driver.findElement(By.id("destino"));
        destinoElem.sendKeys("9998");
        WebElement importeElem = driver.findElement(By.id("importe"));
        importeElem.sendKeys("1");

        WebElement cmdAceptar = driver.findElement(By.name("aceptar"));
        cmdAceptar.click();

        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5);
        WebElement saldoElem = driver.findElement(By.id("saldo"));
        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(saldoElem));

        BigDecimal valorSaldo = new BigDecimal(saldoElem.getText());
        Assert.assertTrue("Saldo es positivo",
                valorSaldo.compareTo(BigDecimal.ZERO) >= 0);
    }

}