Wondering how to grow local connections on Facebook?
Looking for ways to boost the visibility of your local business?
With a few organic tactics, you can reach more local customers on Facebook without spending money on ads.
In this article, you'll discover four ways to reach a local audience on Facebook.
Discover how to reach a local audience on Facebook.
Dark posts are an amazing Facebook tool that's consistently underused by businesses. They're similar to Facebook ads in that they let you apply targeting criteria to specify who'll see those posts in their news feed.
Using this feature, you can reach only local audiences with your organic posts. If you have multiple stores listed under one Facebook page, you can show relevant posts to each of your respective audiences.
For example, you can upload a dark post to advertise a sale to your local audience or share an offer code that can be used in person. This helps send local traffic from Facebook to your actual brick-and-mortar store.
To create dark posts, go to Power Editor. From there, navigate to Page Posts.
Click the three bars next to Power Editor in the top-left corner.
Next, click the blue Create Post button to create a new dark or "unpublished" post.
Click Create Post to create a new dark post for your page.
You can choose to create a regular status update, a carousel post, an image post, a video post, or an offer post. Offers can be particularly helpful for generating foot traffic to your brick-and-mortar store.
Choose from a number of different styles of posts.
Tip: You can also use dark posts for split testing to learn what content your local audience responds to most.
If you have a Facebook page, customers can check in when they're visiting your location (and, hypothetically, even when they're not). Unless users hide their check-in activity, their network of friends and followers can see when they've checked in at your location.
When users check into a location, Facebook will automatically suggest different actions to apply to their status update.
Because users can add actions with check-ins, they're a powerful version of word-of-mouth advertising. The added bonus is there's a good chance they'll have other local friends who can view your page and consider stopping by too.
Some users will check in automatically everywhere they go, but many don't. Encouraging check-ins can drastically increase participation. Place a sign by the registers in your store to let users know they can get some sort of benefit if they check in on Facebook, whether it's a discount or a chance to win something through a giveaway contest.
For example, restaurant CupPasta in Oviedo, Florida offered 10% discounts to people who checked in at their restaurant on Facebook. This was easy to do and the restaurant made time for customers to do so before paying. Thanks to moves like this, the new business generated a ton of buzz quickly.
Ask users to check in on Facebook and offer an incentive.
You can also offer a discount for a future purchase, which encourages users to come back to your store and buy from you again. Not only can this tactic help you get more check-ins, but people might decide to like your page too.
If you want to boost in-store engagement and use a customer's visit to reach a local audience, Facebook's Bluetooth beacon is a great tool to have. It's a physical beacon (kind of like a Wi-Fi router) that you place in your store.
If shoppers are on Facebook when they come into your store (or come very, very close to doing so), they'll see a ton of great information from your page, including a welcome note, prompts to like your page and check in, and recommendations about your business. These "Place Tips" let you display targeted content to your local audience when they're within reach.
With a Facebook Bluetooth beacon, you can deliver targeted content to in-store visitors only.
You can use this opportunity to share information to customers that they can only get in-store. Maybe attach an offer or discount in a welcome note that's exclusive to in-store customers. If you can get users to tell their friends about the discount, you might generate more foot traffic from new customers.
Use Place Tips to build and foster a community since people will immediately see their friends' photos and reviews. It's also a great way to announce upcoming events.
Joining local Facebook groups that are relevant to your business can help you connect with local consumers. You'll have a natural way of making connections with people in your community, and local groups tend to be welcoming and personable because the members already belong to the community.
You can share your knowledge and information about your product or business, but only when it's relevant and not so often that it feels like spam.
Posting relevant content that feels organic in a community group is a great way to reach a local audience.
There are ways to promote your business in groups that feel more organic. One of the best examples I've seen came from an Oviedo garage sale Facebook group.
After interacting with the group for a while, the owner of a moving company posted about discounted moving services for anyone in the group. This was a good strategy because a ton of people in that community are active when they're getting ready to move. The owner also didn't spam the group and offered a discount to foster a sense of community and the emotional loyalty that comes with it.
To find Facebook groups that you might benefit from, click Discover Groups, which is located in the navigation bar next to your news feed on desktop.
Click Discover Groups to find local groups to join.
There are a ton of groups you probably didn't know existed. Make sure to find location-based groups, which will almost always have a city or region name in the group title.
Choosing location-based groups is essential to reach local audiences on Facebook.
When it comes to groups, you need to be careful because flagrant self-promotion can get you kicked out. Some brands will create their own Facebook groups around a brand and while this can work, it doesn't typically help you reach a new local audience.
If you want to reach your local audience on Facebook, another sound option is Facebook ads. Even without actual Facebook ad campaigns, these four tactics will help connect you with a local, relevant audience. Plus, they can improve the effectiveness of your Facebook marketing, giving you better results in the process.
What do you think? How do you reach your local audience on Facebook? Have you used any of these strategies to increase local revenue and foot traffic? Please share your thoughts and experience in the comments below!
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TIW - Dancing With The Half-Bloods
by Percabeth316
Just a series-thingy for things I've written. This one is Piper McLean x Percy Jackson.
(Lyrics at the end are from the song "True Love" by Dove Cameron.)
Piper's POV
I actually felt kind of sad that we were going back to original Partners.
I mean, yeah, I'm dancing with Jason again. That was great.
Except it didn't actually feel great.
Dancing with Jason was mostly slow-dancing, which is nice.
But with Percy it's fast, and much more fun. And the songs were better with Percy.
And practice was nicer, too. Especially when someone falls.
If it's with Jason, and someone falls, he uses the winds to get them up.
It's kind of worrying when he does it. What if the winds don't work, and he's embarrassed?
What if the winds work, but then lift the person more and then drop them? The winds can't always listen.
With Percy, however, you don't have to worry. He just sits down next to you if you fall.
Just sitting next to you is a bit nicer than using the winds.
Cool power, yes. But also kind of a scary power.
If we're singing during practice, I found out that if I mess up, Percy will mess up on
purpose.
Whereas when I mess up with Jason, he'll just say it's okay. And sometimes to try again.
It's easier to laugh during Practice with Percy as your Partner.
Outside of dancing, Percy is—I never thought I'd say this—better.
He's usually just so…sweet, and he's actually sort-of cute.
A great sword-fighter, and an even better friend.
As I thought that, I felt something…strange.
The same feeling I had when I met Jason.
I quickly realized what that meant.
I had a crush on my best friend's boyfriend.
I felt someone tap my shoulder.
"You okay, Piper? You just sorta stopped walking."
I turned my head to look at him.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just got lost in thought, I guess."
"So lost that you stopped walking?" He asked. I heard doubt in his voice.
By now I had turned around completely, and ended up standing a bit closer to him than I wanted.
"It's possible to, you know."
"Probably depends on what you're thinking about, though."
"Probably, yes. But that doesn't make it any less possible."
"So what were you thinking about?"
"You." I answered, before I could think of something else to say.
His eyes widened slightly, and I quickly took a step back.
"I mean, your dancing!" I quickly said, trying to save myself. "I was thinking about how great your dancing is. I mean, not better than Jason's, but close to it."
Way to lie, Piper…
He didn't look convinced.
Neither of us said anything for a minute.
"Piper, do you…like me? Because I—"
"Let me guess, you don't feel that way."
"No—I mean, no, that's not what I was going to say, not no, I don't like you—"
"So…you do like me?"
Percy nodded slowly. "Well, I've been starting to, but I'm with Annabeth, and you're with Jason—"
"But do we still have major feelings for them? Actually, do we have major feelings for each other? I mean, this could just be some temporary crush or something…"
"No, it's not. At least, not for me. What I felt for Calypso, and Rachel…Those were temporary crushes. But this, I think…I could be in love with you. This is how I used to feel with Annabeth, but my feelings for her are kind of…dying."
"My feelings for Jason have been, too…"
I shrugged. "I guess…we have to try and hide this."
He nodded quickly. "Yeah, that might be best. At least until the show is over."
"Yeah. Well, I should get back to my room, so…Goodbye, Percy."
"Bye, Piper." As I walked away, I heard him doing the same.
If I could do it all over, maybe I'd do it different
Maybe I wouldn't be here, in this position
I found you, and then I lost you
Looking back is torture
And it hurts to know I let you go
You live right around the corner
And I could have had it all, could have had it all…
^I do not own the song, or the characters. Thank you for reading this piece.^
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Q: Why does this event handler in RaphaelJS, run straight away? Why does this event handler in RaphaelJS (2.0.0) run straight away and not when you click on it?
function enlarge (shape) {
  shape.animate({'transform' : 's2'}, 200);
}

jQuery(function () {
  var paper = Raphael("canvas", 1000, 1000);
  var button = paper.circle(300, 50, 20);
  button.attr({'fill':'black'});

  var circle = paper.circle(50, 50, 20);
  circle.attr({'fill':'red'});

  button.mousedown(enlarge(circle));
});

A: Because you call it straight away.
Replace button.mousedown(enlarge(circle)); with this code:
button.mousedown(function() {
    enlarge(circle)
});

A: .mousedown() expects a function reference as its argument.  Instead, you are calling a function, and all .mousedown() gets as its parameter is undefined. Since you need to pass circle to enlarge() you can't pass a reference to enlarge directly.  Instead, wrap your call to enlarge() in a function:
button.mousedown(function () {
    enlarge(circle);
});

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HomeCALGARY'He was just such a loving guy': Family, friends gather at vigil to remember Blade Crow Pantherbone
'He was just such a loving guy': Family, friends gather at vigil to remember Blade Crow Pantherbone
Crow Pantherbone was killed in a pedestrian crossing at Macleod Trail and Glenmore Trail last week
February 22, 2021 Omar Sherif CALGARY 0
Friends and family of Blade Crow-Pantherbone gathered on Sunday night to honour his life after he was killed last Thursday (Feb. 18) (OMAR SHERIF / FOR LIVEWIRE CALGARY)
Blade Crow Pantherbone's father, Morris Crow, said his son was a hard-working and well-loved individual.
On Sunday night, family and friends came together at the scene where he was struck to pay tribute and remember him.
They prayed, lit candles, sang, and presented offerings to mourn the loss.
"Everybody here knows him one way or another," said his father.
"He was just such a loving guy."
Pantherbone was born in and raised in Calgary where he spent the majority of his life.
He recently moved back to the city from Vancouver to create a better future for himself. Crow Pantherbone also wanted to reconnect with his family.
Girlfriend, infant in hospital
Last Thursday (Feb. 18), while waiting to cross the intersection at Macleod Trail and Glenmore Trail, Pantherbone, his girlfriend Aliyah Ramirez-Bernard and her one-year-old daughter were struck by a vehicle.
Lorna Pantherbone, Blade Crow-Pantherbone's mother, speaks to his girlfriend over FaceTime during his vigil on Sunday night. (OMAR SHERIF / FOR LIVEWIRE CALGARY)
According to police, a GMC Terrain was travelling southbound on Macleod Trail when the driver attempted to turn right and enter the westbound lanes of Glenmore Trail.
The two adults and the child, who was strapped into the stroller, were standing on the concrete island as they waited to cross the road and continue south, police said.
Investigators said the driver of the Terrain, a 28-year-old man, failed to navigate the turn and struck the pedestrians. He then drove over two additional concrete islands and hit a snowbank before coming to a stop.
The driver attempted to flee the scene on foot but was arrested by police a short time later.
Pantherbone was pronounced dead on scene, and Ramirez-Bernard and her daughter were taken to hospital.
Ramirez-Bernard suffered broken legs, a broken pelvis, and a cracked skull. Her daughter is scheduled to have surgery on Monday (Feb 22.)
A GoFundMe page was set up to help pay for the funeral cost. On it, Caitlyn Pantherbone wrote that Blade loved to spend time with his family and enjoyed time with his Dad out in the bush.
"Blade loved them so much and took Baby Ember as his own. They were his world," she wrote.
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The world is a different place than it was twenty two years ago when the original "Jurassic Park" stormed onto screens, made CGI the standard by which special effects would be measured from then on, and crowned the king of Hollywood with his greatest commercial success the same year he achieved his greatest artistic success with "Schindler's List". Spielberg's dinosaur movie was the start of freeing our imaginations with digital images and the story was fresh. Here we are all those years later, and everyone knows that the dinosaurs are going to be spectacular, and the setting is going to be lush and the action intense. Even if it is the first time you see any of the Jurassic Park films, "Jurassic World" can never repeat the magic of that 1993 event picture.
Having said that, and giving anybody with bloated expectations a way to let a little air out of the bubble, "Jurassic World" is a terrific summer film that should fill the pockets of everyone involved because it does exactly what the times call for. It entertains us with spectacle, danger and action. There is one important element missing from this film that was much more abundant in it's three precursors, humor. Other than that, you will have a great time at the movies as long as you are not really expecting a science lesson.
The park has been open for a while now. It is still unclear to me after the events of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", how "i-gen", the company founded by John Hammond can still exist. They must have had their assets sold off to pay for the lawsuits that would have followed the company after the T-Rex eats half of San Diego. They could not even afford security to keep people off of site B in the third Jurassic Park film. That is all just nit picking however, the point of this movie is to give us something to marvel at and be frightened of. The real monsters continue to be the scientists who play with genetic power and don't consider the consequences. These films must have inspired a lot of the Monsanto hate out there, because the researchers come across as indifferent to the work they are doing and it's consequence, they simply see it as something to exploit. B.D. Wong as Dr. Henry Wu is older but not wiser, making all new mistakes with the current endeavor. Vincent D'Onofrio has the Paul Reiser role as a corporate hack who has visions of defense contracts dancing through his head. It's Bryce Dallas-Howard who ultimately has to redeem herself as a cold fish of an executive, looking at marketing before she considers the ethical and responsible things to do. She does get to the point where we do root for her, but in the beginning, she is as guilty as anyone for what happens.
If you were worried that the velociraptors of the early films had turned into trained house pets, be assured that is not the case. Chris Pratt, channeling Harrison Ford, is working with the deadly pack hunters, but the story is much more realistic than the trailer would lead you to believe. He needed to have more of "Star Lords" one liners and facial ticks, to make the movie sing more. The fault is not in the performance but the script. Jeff Goldblum owned the first two movies with his sardonic sense of humor and his well timed jabs at the corporation and scientific processes. Pratt only gets one or two moments to show off his comic chops, and then once the story takes off, there are no moments of levity at all.
There are several thrill moments in the film, but nothing to match that T-Rex attack from "Jurassic Park". The sequence with the gyroglobes is meant to stand in for the attack on the jeep in the first film, and it does have a few great elements to it, but it is not as sustained as that first brilliant sequence that Spielberg used all of his skills to put together. Director Colin Trevorrow copies the master but can't quite match the terror achieved in that sequence. His strongest effort is in the final fight sequence which does manage to use the characters , both real and digital, to their best effect. Composer Michael Giacchino has done a good job in building a soundtrack for the movie but his work will always be overshadowed here by the theme from the first film, composed by John Williams. That motif is repeated in several sections and at the end of the picture it is as if Williams himself did the score for this. It may be an unfair thing for me to say, but it was the way I felt about it.
The movie succeeds in creating a monster to chase the characters that really is scary. The park looks fantastic and reasonably crowed, at least until the climax. I would want to do several of the rides and attractions we saw in the build up. Kayaking with dinosaurs, riding a Triceratops, or traveling by monorail through a forest are all attractions that would made me want to go through the turnstile. Some times the themes get a little big for the movie. Asset management and investment are certainly important, but a guy who manages to make it to being the eighth richest man on the planet can surely see that losing a $26 million project is small potatoes next to the disaster staring him in the face. Of course if people did not make some stupid choices, there would be no movie for us to thrill to, so ignore some of the improbable s, and sit back for what will surely be the thrill ride of the summer.
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Yeah, saw this today (while on vacation) and enjoyed it. Certainly, more than the two previous sequels. Obviously, nothing beats the original, which we'll be seeing in a few weeks at The Crest in their summer Spielberg series. Paraphrasing Donald Gennaro from the first movie, "They're gonna make a fortune with this…"
That's exactly the quote I thought of at the end of the movie. A crowd pleaser but a mere echo of the original. Will I see you Sunday at the Crest? I hope so.


AVROTROS is a Dutch public broadcaster that brings people together and makes them feel at home. The aim of the project was to make AVROTROS more visible as a brand and to create a stronger emotional connection with its audience.
The tagline ''At home with AVROTROS'' forms the essence for the feeling we aimed to convey in the new idents. AVROTROS also encourages people to broaden their horizon by being all encompassing. This value is visualized by the symbolic iris that we extended the logo with.
The scenarios in the idents manage to capture the feeling of making yourself at home in a way that will be recognizable for every Dutch AVROTROS-viewer. The extension of the original logo enables AVROTROS to be more visible and claim its content more strongly.
We extended the original logo by an animated circle symbolizing an iris with a 360° view. By keeping the logo transparent it claims the image and connects the brand to the content more strongly.
People make themselves feel at home in all kinds of situations and places. The idents show how this feeling is created in a typical Dutch environment and in a way that is recognizable for everyone who watches AVROTROS.


Joan Miró, Le lézard aux plumes d'or (detail), 1971, artist book, 14 ½ x 20 x 1 7/8 in © 2013 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
The Bechtler collection includes the works of several artists who knew each other well, who often exhibited together and learned from each other in the context of shared stylistic movements, personal experiences and intellectual inquiry. In some cases their approach to art would eventually differ over the years, nonetheless their work and their contributions to the field remained forever linked.
On view February 16 through August 26, 2013 (extended from the original closing date of July 29), Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers is an exhibition of 85 works by artists such as Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger and Le Corbusier who were not only connected by the creative spirit but also by personal circumstances. On view are paintings, prints, textiles and sculpture from the Bechtler collection that reflect the twentieth century's experimentation with abstract art and the human figure and which reveal a remarkable variety of approach, intent and result.
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers marks the first time that works by celebrated British artist Henry Moore are on view in the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. The works include six prints from the museum's permanent collection and one small-scale sculpture on loan from founding museum patron Andreas Bechtler. Also on view for the first time in the museum are works from the permanent collection by French avant-garde painter Jean Dubuffet.


First defeat on the season for a Depor that deserved more after completing 19 shots. The five goals in the game were scored in the first half and hour, later the Galicians had the control over the ball but were unable to create more harm despite Lucas hit the woodwork. The changes in the final part didn't have a proper impact and Sporting didn't suffer within the final ten minutes.


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Pierre-Joseph Cambon (, 10 June 1756 – 15 February 1820) was a French statesman. He is perhaps best known for speaking up against Maximilien Robespierre at the National Convention, sparking the end of Robespierre's reign.

Born in Montpellier, Cambon was the son of a wealthy cotton merchant. In 1785, his father retired, leaving Pierre and his two brothers to run the business, but in 1788 Pierre entered politics, and was sent by his fellow-citizens as deputy suppliant to the Estates-General, where he was mostly a spectator. In January 1790 he returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, co-founded the Jacobin Club in that city, and on the flight to Varennes of King Louis XVI in 1791, he drew up a petition to invite the National Constituent Assembly to proclaim a Republic —the first in date of such petitions.

Elected to the Legislative Assembly, Cambon was viewed as independent, honest, and talented in the financial domain. He was the most active member of the committee of finance and was often charged to verify the state of the treasury. His analytical skills were recorded in his remarkable speech of 24 November 1791.

It was Cambon who made the initial suggestion for the state debt to be "rendered republican and uniform" and it was he who proposed to convert all the contracts of the creditors of the state into an inscription in a great book, which should be called the "Great Book of the Public Debt". This proposal was implemented in 1792 when the Great Book of the Public Debt was created as a consolidation of all the states debts.

He held his distance from political clubs and even factions, but nonetheless defended the new institutions of the state. On 9 February 1792, he succeeded in having a law passed confiscating the possessions of the émigrés, and tried to arrange the deportation of non-juring priests to French Guiana. He was the last president of the Legislative Assembly.

Re-elected to the National Convention, Cambon opposed the pretensions of the Paris Commune and the proposed grant of money to the municipality of Paris by the state. On 15 December 1792, he persuaded the convention to adopt a proclamation to all nations in favour of a universal republic. In the year after he denounced Jean-Paul Marat's placards as inciting to murder, summoned Georges Danton to give an account of his ministry, supervised the furnishing of military supplies to the French Revolutionary Army, and was a strong opponent of Charles François Dumouriez, in spite of the general's great popularity.

Cambon incurred the hatred of the theist Maximilien Robespierre (see Cult of the Supreme Being) by proposing the suppression of the pay to the clergy, which would have meant the separation of church and state. His authority grew steadily.

Although he took part in toppling Robespierre in July 1794, Cambon was targeted and pursued by the Thermidorian Reaction, and had to live in hiding in Montpellier. During the Hundred Days, he was a deputy to the lower chamber, but only took part in debates over the budget. Proscribed by the Bourbon Restoration in 1816, he died at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, near Brussels.

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As part of the innovation package from the Australian Government, the government has announced the modifications to its Investment Visa, introduction of latest Entrepreneur Visa and levying tax incentives for the investors in the startup firms.
These announcements are part of innovation initiatives that would help the foreign investors for investing in the technology sector of Australia and also facilitating the business and skilled migration for helping the emerging markets in Australia.
Reforms in its Investor Visa which was started in the month of July last year, has focused international investment on emerging enterprises, growth private equity funds investing and venture capital in startup companies and small companies.
Investor visa is provisional visa that offers a route to PR for its visa holders who meet its requirements.
The applicants of this visa should invest minimum 5 million Australian dollars in complying key investments for four years.
The government has also planned to implement additional tax incentives for the investors who invest in the startup firms. Few steps has to be taken by the government for making it as a law and it would apply to the shares issued from 1st July 2016 or from the date the bill becomes law.
The latest Entrepreneur Visa is planned to be introduced as a latest provisional visa in November 2016. It would offer a new route to the Australian PR and would also establish a latest stream with the existing Business Investment and Innovation Program. Entrepreneurs with increasingly developed potential ideas that are capable of being implemented in the country and who had acquired investment backing from third party would be given this visa.
With this latest visa, government is hopeful in boosting the economic development and employment in IT and Communication technology and science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM) fields.
The changes in the Investor Visa, planned tax incentives and latest Entrepreneur Visa offer latest prospects for overseas investors and businesspersons to participate in and assist the emerging markets of Australia.


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Exit Wounds | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere
Exit Wounds
Fifty kilos of heroin have disappeared from the property vaults of the toughest precinct in Detroit, and no one knows how. When irreverent urban detective Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal) is reassigned to the city's worst police division, he stumbles on an inside drug operation ... and the one person who can help uncover the truth is not a cop. But the gangster who holds the key to the truth isn't what he seems. Now, with enemies everywhere and only one chance to survive, cop and gangster join forces to reveal the deadly police corruption.
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Joel Silver, Dan Cracchiolo, Bruce Berman
Ed Horowitz, Richard D'Ovidio
Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Michael Jai White, Bill Duke, Jill Hennessy, David Vadim, Matthew G Taylor, Tom Arnold
Critics Consensus: It probably goes without saying that Exit Wounds is loaded with plotholes and bad dialogue. Critics also note that Seagal has aged rather badly.
F This Movie!
Patrick Bromley
This might be the last time a Steven Seagal movie felt like a real movie.
Very violent honest-cop corruption story.
Hollywood.com
Bangitout.com
Jordan Hiller
Orin Boyd is a cop who "doesn't obey the rules" and although his boss considers him to be "one of the best", he must be transferred to one of the roughest precincts in town.
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Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a refreshingly action-packed film that's distractingly enjoyable.
RTÉ (Ireland)
Harry Guerin
With a plot that can be roughly described as Serpico for people who never outgrew The A-Team, Seagal beats and bangs up Detroit single-handedly.
Film Quips Online
John R. McEwen
Christopher Tookey
Anyone who experienced Seagal's films when he was in his prime will know that he is to acting ability what Robin Cook is to personal magnetism.
Parents need to know that the movie is very violent, with graphic injuries and the death of at least one major character. There is also the obligatory nightclub scene with erotic topless dancers smearing something all over each other. Characters use strong language and there is even stronger language in the soundtrack, including repeated use of the n-word.
Genre:Action
Release Date:March 16, 2001
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Hard to Kill
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Wicker: Calls For Big Tech Investigations – DeSoto County News
By U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
Twitter Files Reveal Systematic Bias Against Conservatives
The release of the Twitter Files will go down as a defining moment in the history of Big Tech. These internal files, aired in recent weeks with the permission of Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk, confirm Twitter's long history of bias against conservatives. The documents show that Twitter used "shadow bans" to suppress content they disagreed with, created double-standards for conservative users, and invented a pretext to suspend Donald Trump's account while he was still President. These explosive revelations show the enormous power that a handful of liberal tech executives have over our public discourse.
We should be grateful that new leadership is lifting the hood on Twitter, but Congress needs to follow up with wider investigations into Big Tech companies, including Facebook and Google. Americans deserve to know the full extent of tech bias and corruption that is impacting our country.
Left-Wing Groupthink Leads to Censorship
Much of the rot at Big Tech companies comes from the sheer lack of viewpoint diversity among their staff. These companies are overwhelmingly left-wing. During the midterm elections, for example, more than 99 percent of all political donations from Twitter employees went to Democrats. This extreme one-sidedness is reflected in people like Yoel Roth, Twitter's former "Head of Trust and Safety," who censored the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden and likened members of the Trump Administration to Nazis. These Silicon Valley executives are out of touch with the rest of the country and are inclined to treat dissent as a form of heresy, often accusing conservatives of "hate speech." It is not hard to see how this rigid groupthink led to bias against conservatives, which continued through much of 2022.
Earlier this year, the popular Christian satire site The Babylon Bee was suspended from Twitter for making a joke about transgenderism. A government official from Spain was locked out of his account for pointing out that "a man cannot get pregnant." A Missouri Congresswoman, Vicky Hartzler, was suspended after she tweeted: "Women's sports are for women, not men pretending to be women," a comment that supposedly violated Twitter's policy against "hateful content." And as we now know from the Twitter Files, Stanford professor Dr. Jay Bhattachayra was shadow-banned on the platform simply for raising doubts about COVID policies. Meanwhile, Twitter never lifted a finger to suspend left-wing accounts associated with Antifa, a domestic terror group, or world leaders who openly threaten violence.
Time to Investigate Big Tech
We live in a big country where people hold a wide range of views and convictions. This diversity makes it all the more vital that we protect free speech. Big Tech has shown that it cannot be trusted to do so. Congress now has an obligation to act on behalf of the American people and bring transparency and accountability to these public platforms.
Some lawmakers have been fearful of investigating these companies, citing the fact that they are free enterprises operating in a free market. What this fails to recognize is that these massive companies wield unprecedented power over our nation. Google's search algorithms determine what information we can find online. Facebook sells personal data to other companies, essentially turning millions of Americans into products. And decisions made by Twitter almost certainly affected the outcome of the 2020 election. All the while, these companies continue to enjoy special protections under the law that other businesses do not have. Congress needs to roll back those special carve-outs, as I sought to do with legislation when I led the Senate Commerce Committee. I look forward to supporting more of these efforts in 2023.
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Bob Bakken is the most recognized and most trusted name in DeSoto County news and sports reporting, as readers continue to express their appreciation for his accuracy and fairness in the stories he writes. Bob provides content for DeSoto County News and occasionally is heard on the OB Pod podcast talking about area happenings. A former newspaper editor and writer, his award-winning background also includes television news producing, sports media relations, and radio broadcasting.


Remote Niue Island in the south-west Pacific is an isolated high carbonate island, formed by the uplift of a coral-capped submarine volcano over the past 500000 years. The distribution of various bedrock lithologies reveals the islands atoll origin, with in situ coral and algal limestones forming a c.70m elevated rim (former atoll reef), enclosing a c.35m central depression underlain by cemented calcareous and fossiliferous sands (former lagoon floor). Much of the latter was dolomitised by interaction with hypersaline brine as slow emergence cut off the atoll lagoon from the sea. Major features of the carbonate geomorphology are a basin-and-rim structure, steep-walled coastal chasms and well-developed cave systems with abundant speleothems. This paper examines the origin of these features, highlights problems with their interpretation and proposes some new ideas. Uplift, submarine landslides and marine erosion, and the effects of solution, are superimposed on an atoll terrain controlled by Quaternary emergence and tectonism. © 2003 Gebrüder Borntraeger.


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Veteran With PTSD Reunited With Dog That Was Stolen From Family's Yard
A dog who helps an Iraq War veteran cope with post-traumatic stress disorder has been returned to her owners after being stolen from their yard.
Francisco Torres and his 8-month-old German shepherd were reunited on Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The pup whose name is TJ, authorities told The Huffington Post, despite having referred to her as PJ in a press release is in "good condition and is doing well" after being removed from Torres' yard on Halloween.
Shes part of our family, and mostly its more important for her to come back for my husband, because he suffers from PTSD and shes been really good to him. Angela Torres
"She's part of our family, and mostly it's more important for her to come back for my husband, because he suffers from PTSD and she's been really good to him," Torres' wife, Angela, told local L.A. news channel ABC7 as she held back tears.
Surveillance footage shows someone unlocking the couple's front gate and enticing TJ to come out.
TJ being lured out of the yard.
The couple let their neighbors know the following day that TJ was missing. One neighbor said they recognized the person who took the dog as a friend of theirs.
"That's why she went with him," Angela told news channel KTLA.
Sheriff's officials have said that the incident wasn't a crime and that intent can't be proven because the dog was not forcibly removed, but that the couple can file a suspicious circumstances report in order to help them track down the person who took TJ.
"Somebody opens the gate and lures my dog out," Francisco told KTLA. "To find out that it's not a crime — come on."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/veterans-dog-stolen-los-angeles_us_58209897e4b0d9ce6fbd3fa2
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Once again I am delighted to have a forum where both sides of community issues can be discussed. I am also more than happy to answer questions to the best of my ability in order to further clarity and discussion.
"Did you have a financial relationship with Save Our Future/Youthbuild, in which you accepted money in exchange for advertising?"
"If you had a financial relationship with Save Our Future, did you disclose this as a possible conflict of interest when writing about your consistently positive articles about them,"
Please publish the dates and locations of these "consistently positive articles". The only time I have written anything, is in this current issue. I did not write any articles about them positive or negative during or after their advertising period other than this issue. So it would be helpful to know which articles you are referring to. Please answer.
"or at any point when you were criticizing the actions of CD 10 officials? "
I have been shining a light on Councilman Wesson's activities for 2 ½ years. It is not a pleasant job but somebody has to do it and I'm the only publication willing to do so and you may be surprised to know the amount of community support I get for doing so. Once again, I have only written this one article about the school and they have not had an ad with me since last Aug.
"Were you personally given information and supporting documents, over a year ago, to show that Save Our Future had previously operated a school in Council District 9 on un-permitted premises, and had been issued an order to comply at this school address in CD 9 by the City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety? "
I was given some documents awhile back but honestly can't remember the contents. I do remember wondering what relevance they had to the current issues. I'm curious….You don't say if your research showed whether or not they complied in CD9. Do you know?
"If you got this information, did you ever mention it in any of your writings about Save Our Future?"
"Did you speak to anybody in any organization in West Adams, such as the West Adams Avenues Association, so that your writings might reflect more than one point of view? "
I spoke to two people familiar with the concerns of the community but as you will notice, this article was not an investigation into this issue, it was meant to shine a light on Councilman Wesson and his office CD10. They not only did not take a leadership position and work with both groups in the community to come to clarity (and I disagree that it is not their job to do this) but they interfered (once again) with city agencies. Two people, Staci Edwards, Chair of the Church Board of Trustees and Charlotte Jordan were told by a Building and Safety employee that CD10 had contacted him and told him to stop assisting the Church in their effort to get the variances and permits CD10 had insisted the Permit office ask for and which the church was willing to get. Because two people witnessed this I felt very comfortable including this info in the article. This kind of interference on the part of CD10 is not untypical.
"Did you familiarize yourself with any of the code regulations or zoning regulations before making allegations that city officials had behaved improperly?"
No. Did you ever get together with the church to familiarize yourself with the documentation and information they had that allowed them to move forward? Never mind…you will be given the information shortly.
"When you said that CD 10 officials had never made any attempt to resolve the issues with the parties involved, did you make even one phone call to or ask one question of anyone at CD 10 to find out whether your assertion was correct? (It was not, incidentally). "
No. Unfortunately, as many of the current candidates mentioned at our Forum and as many people in the community will tell you, CD10 is not the most accessible council office. Especially if it has to do with an issue they'd rather not discuss. They will either ignore or redirect or misinform. This has been documented. Frankly because of several past experiences where they gave out misinformation, I don't trust information that comes from that office. Sad to say but I'm not the only one in this community with this experience. There are some very nice people in that office and then again…..
Information will be coming your way that will clarify your concerns about what is goin on. Hope this has been helpful.


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Added caching layer utilizing memory and LocalStorage when available to speed up local translations.
Added API module to query translation memories.
Added TMX admin user rights group.
This post is about the first two.
The Live Translate (LT) extension allows live translation of content in wiki pages. For this it uses translation services such as Google Translate or Microsoft Translator. It also allows specifying your own translations for certain words within the wiki, which will then be left alone by the (remote) translation services. Such specifications of translations are called translation memories (TM), and are typically done in a special XML-based format called Translation Memory eXchange (TMX). LT also supports a more wiki-friendly format, custom written, which is DSV-based. Translation memories in both these formats can be embedded in wiki pages designated as TM or you can point to files hosted somewhere else. What it comes down to is that there are a set of local translations, which require special handling: local translation and be ignored by the remote translation service.
I made a whole bunch of client side changes (and some server side changes to the API), but the most significant ones are the creation of a translation memory object which takes care of all caching, and the rewrite of the translation control to a jQuery plugin.
The translation memory object class is named simply "memory" and resides in the "lt" namespace. It acts as abstraction layer via which special words and translations of those special words can be accessed. It takes care of all API interaction and caching and exposes 2 simple functions, getSpecialWords and getTranslations, which are called by the translation control.
When the cache is empty, the memory will request a new hash via the API, which indicates the "version" of the translation memories on the server, and is later used for cache invalidation. It the proceeds fetching the requested special words or translations of special words and returns these via a callback passed to either getSpecialWords or getTranslations. Before this last step is done, the obtained data is cached in memory (the words and translations fields, one lines 26 and 30, respectively), and, when available, also in HTML5 localStorage. The in memory caching only yields advantages when doing multiple translations on a single page, which is rather rare, so is not that much of a win. The data stored in localStorage on the other hand, persists when navigating to other pages, even when closing the browser and re-opening it. localStorage really isn't a cache on it's own, but the lt.memory class uses it as one.
When the cache is not empty, a single request to the API is made to compare the earlier obtained hash and see if any changes to the TMs have been made, and thus if the cache should be invalidated. If changes have been made, the stored data is discarded and pretty much the same as when the cache was empty happens. If no changes have been made, locally stored data is used where possible. In case of the list of special words, no requests will have to be made at all, since all such words are already known. For the translations of these words it's a little trickier, since the needed data here varies from page to page, and also depends on both the source and destination language. The lt.memory class checks which of the needed data if available, and in case there is a remainder of non-known translations, requests these. The newly obtained translations are then of course also added to the cache.
This plugin contains a lot of already existing code from Live Translate 1.1, but is structured a lot better. It takes care of creating all the HTML needed for the control (while in 1.1, the HTML was provided, and only events where bound to it) in it's setup function (line 147). The click event handler for the translation button calls the obatinAndInsetSpecialWords which uses the getSpecialWords function of the lt.memory class to obtain the words with local translations, and then inserts them, meaning that occurrences of these words are wrapped into notranslate spans, which then enables finding all words which should be translated locally, and makes them be ignored by the remote translation services. The click handler function passed doTranslations as completion callback to obatinAndInsetSpecialWords, which starts both local and remote translation in parallel. Local translation is done, as you can uncountably guess, by calling getTranslations function.


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Q: How can I make text and image be on the same height alignment? I am trying to make the text and image be on the same level but when I add the text the image moves, I am unsure on how to fix it and looking for help.
I thought of trying flexbox but I don't think that will work?
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CSS:
.OuterPage {
  margin: 70px;
}

.ProjectBox {
  width: 600px;
  height: 500px;
  background: #fa3f32;
  border: #fa3f32;
}

.Flex1 {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  flex-direction: row;
  justify-content: center;
  gap: 50px;
}

.IMG2 {
  position:relative;
  left: 300px;
  top: 40px;
}```

A: If you are using bootstrap try using row and inline-block to align them together

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If it is pure css, can do it with

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A: Try adding position: relative; to your .ProjectBox class
and position:absolute; + top: 0; to your .IMG2 class


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  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
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  ~     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  ~ limitations under the License.
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    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/gridview_item_dimension_user"
    android:background="@drawable/photo_gallery_background"
    android:padding="@dimen/gridview_item_margin" />

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Bakü is a new concept of ergonomic backpacks for children. Founder of Bakü and industrial designer, Sidney Piché-Rouillard tells us how one interaction with a customer totally changed her goals for her business.
While I was in the pre-launch phase at the beginning of the new school year (2016) and tested the market with the production made in Quebec, a mother wrote to me that although the concept was great, she couldn't afford to pay the price I had set for the bags for her 3 children who do not take care of their things, and she couldn't just pick one of her children to get the bag. She mentioned being rather disappointed because the bag seemed perfect for their needs. It was at this point that I realized that I wanted my product to be accessible to the majority of people and not become a luxury product, which made me change my business model.
"It was at this point that I realized that I wanted my product to be accessible to the majority of people and not become a luxury product, which made me change my business model."
As a product designer, I create for a specific customer (I decided to specialize in products for children), not to sell... My training at HEC taught me how to showcase the products that I create. It would therefore be contradictory to ignore the feedback of my clients, as they are the basis of everything I do.
Follow Bakü on their social media!
What are co-creation and customer collaboration?


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Arjun Kapoor's childhood dream of working with producer father Boney Kapoor has come true with upcoming action-comedy 'Tevar', where the father-son duo has collaborated.
Arjun, who is the son of Boney and his previous wife Mona Shourie Kapoor, said it was a nice moment to work in the film which also stars his uncle Sanjay Kapoor. "It's not yet sunk in that I have worked for a home production.
It has always been a dream working with dad, Sanjay (Kapoor) 'chachu' and Anil (Kapoor) 'chachu'. And that happened in my fifth film. There are more emotions attached at the personal level than at the professional front," Arjun said.
The 29-year-old 'Finding Fanny' star said he waited for a long time to work with his father. "I am emotional by nature. I waited for this opportunity for 29 years. And it's not an easy job to be accepted as an actor," he said.
Arjun recalled how he used to accompany his father on his grand sets. "I always thought that my father is the biggest producer in this world. His films sets used to be so big that I used to get lost in them. During the shooting of 'Loafer', there was a huge set at Ramoji Film City and similarly, during 'Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja', the set was for 150 junior artistes and 200 actors," he said.
The actor said his father always taught him to work hard to get success. "I learnt from dad that hard work never fails. He always asked me to work hard to survive in the industry. He is always encouraging.
One thing which I like about him is he is not interfering even as a father or as a producer. Whatever wrong or right decisions I have made, he has always supported me. He has given me that much respect and credit. He has always supported my decisions in my personal and professional life," he said.
'Tevar', which hits theatre on January 9 next year, is a remake of Telugu blockbuster 'Okkadu'. It stars Sonakshi Sinha opposite him. "I was very keen working with her (Sonakshi) and I told my father that she is the ideal choice for this role. She has a spark in her eyes which was the need of the role.
Right from her first day on the set, I feel that she is a naturally gifted actress. She is a one-take actress," he said.


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Q: C++ Specify Actual Size of Struct I've come across a problem with interop between C# and C++ where I'm sharing memory between the two 'sides' of my application via a struct defined in both native and managed code. The struct on the native side is defined as such:
#pragma pack(push, 1)
        struct RayTestCollisionDesc {
                btVector3 hitPosition;
                btRigidBody* hitBody;

                RayTestCollisionDesc(btRigidBody* body, btVector3& position)
                        : hitBody(body), hitPosition(position) { }
        };
#pragma pack(pop)

And a similar struct is defined on the managed (C#) side. On C# the struct size is 20 bytes (as I would expect on a 32-bit system). However, despite the pragma pack directive, the struct size on the C++ size is still 32. For clarity here's the sizeof() from C++ of each of those types:
sizeof(btVector3) : 16
sizeof(btRigidBody*) : 4
sizeof(RayTestCollisionDesc) : 32

Clearly pragma pack is only referring to packing between members of the struct, and not padding at the end of the struct (i.e. alignment). I also tried adding __declspec(align(1)) but that had no effect, and MSDN itself does say "__declspec(align(#)) can only increase alignment restrictions."
And FWIW I'm using the VS2013 compiler (Platform Toolset v120).
Is there a way to 'force' the struct size to 20 bytes?

A: You are transferring data between two different compilers. In general, it is impossible to make this match. Especially if you transfer data from one computer to another.
First write a spec for the data that you are transferring. The spec CANNOT be a C++ or C# struct. The spec must be something like "four bytes this, four bytes that, two bytes a third thing..." and so on "with a total of 20 bytes", for example.
Then whether you use C++ or C#, or whether a totally different developer uses Objective-C code to read the data, you read an array of 20 bytes, take the 20 bytes, look at them, and fill whatever struct you want with these 20 bytes. And for writing, you do the opposite. Now it does not matter what C++ compiler you use, what weird pragmas you are using, it just works.
Or use something portable like JSON.

A: You can't do interop this way. A C# object and a C++ struct are different. I suggest you tu use a serialization library like Capt'n Proto or Protobuf


"I've always believed that providing the opportunity for Young People to enjoy positive activities in a club environment, is a very important element in the development of every young person. Young Leicestershire supports clubs and organisations that have the skills and abilities to fulfil a wide range of interests that appeal to Young People.
I'm an Accountant by training so my skills are in financial governance, and I have provided a service to Young Leicestershire over several years as Treasurer. Many of our thousands of Young Leicestershire volunteers don't work directly with young people, but contribute their support and skills in this way.


Over 250 prominent scholars, pastors, and church leaders from around the world released on Tuesday a theological statement affirming the essentials of the Reformation. And its Protestant authors contend that in this 500th anniversary year, the document is a "catholic" statement in its best sense.
The statement's signatories include a sizable list of biblical heavyweights who hail from a variety of traditions. Over 110 Christian institutions, over 30 of which are international, are represented.
"I just got the idea that one of the best ways we could actually commemorate the Reformation, and remind people of what really lay behind it and what motivated the Reformers was to come up with a confession of faith that represented the substantial unity among the heirs of the Reformation," Walls said.
"What I really started to sense was that this thing could really be significant," Walls said. "It was just beautiful to see Pentecostals and Lutherans working together to find common language."
The Reforming Catholic Confession contains 12 articles that outline their beliefs in such basic Christian tenets as "The Triune God," "The Atoning Work of Christ," "The Gospel," and "The Church," particularly as it relates to what the Reformers accomplished.
The beliefs are followed by 25 "why we say what we say" explanations that capture key cornerstones and dimensions of the Christian faith. No single group of participants got every single thing they wanted expressed in the document, which underwent multiple drafts and lengthy revisions, but they nevertheless arrived at a mutually agreed upon declaration.
"The question was not 'Does this statement say everything you would want it to say, but 'Can you agree with us thus far?'" Walls said.
As for why they decided to call it a "catholic" confession, Walls said he felt it is important to reclaim the word "catholic."
"The Church of Rome simply calls itself, 'The Catholic Church.' It is not the catholic church,'" he emphasized. "It is one part of the holy catholic church."
"We want to make clear that 'catholic' is a much more expansive reality than the church of Rome. And we want Protestants to understand that when they are true to their own heritage, and their own roots, they are 'catholic' also."
"A lot of people have been asking the question 'Is the Reformation over? Was it a mistake?" said Kevin Vanhoozer, who took charge of the drafting the initial statement, in an interview with CP.
"I would say that there is a permanent gain that we shouldn't lose."
The Reformation was not "a Pandora's box that unleashed an interpretive anarchy and schism upon the world," he stressed.
"In fact, Protestants have always agreed about the essentials. What has happened is where we disagree about some things, and as it is with every family, when you disagree and you have so much in common, it is because you have so much in common that the disagreements look so much larger."
Article 2 of the Confession addresses "Holy Scripture" and the line Protestants are famous for: "sola scriptura." This is the phrase that underpins the Roman Catholic joke about Protestants having tens of thousands of denominational groups due to the variety of ways the Bible can be interpreted without a magisterial authority like the Roman Catholic Church has.
"Scripture is God's inspired and illuminating Word in the words of his servants (Psa. 119:105), the prophets and apostles, a gracious self-communication of God's own light and life, a means of grace for growing in knowledge and holiness. The Bible is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it commands, trusted in all that it promises, and revered in all that it reveals," the article reads.
As English speakers, "sola scriptura" is frequently misunderstood, Vanhoozer told CP, noting that the phrase is frequently interpreted as "Scripture alone" as though it is somehow "apart from the Church, apart from tradition, and apart from the Holy Spirit." But "sola scriptura" does not mean that whatsoever when taken in its rightful, theological context, he said.
"The Reformers wanted to read scripture with the communion of the saints," Vanhoozer said, noting how important it was for both Luther and John Calvin to articulate that they were in line with Christian orthodoxy.
"And in part the reason they wanted to say that is because Scripture itself leads us to believe that the Spirit will lead the Church into all truth, that the Spirit will not abandon the Church to the vagaries of individual reading."
The phrase "Scripture alone," he said, does not mean that it is the singular voice people ought to consult but that the Word of God does have supreme authority.


Present: Welch, Finnerty & Kirkman, JJ.
Timothy H. White and Michael J. Traft for the plaintiffs.
landlord now asks this Division to reconsider its prior decision affirming judgment. We decline to do so.
tenants sued their landlord for damages arising from breach of warranty of habitability (count 1); interference with a right to quiet enjoyment of the premises (count 2); failure to supply hot water in violation of G.L. c. 186, § 14 (count 3); unlawful retaliation in violation of G.L. c. 186, § 18 (count 4); violation of the Commonwealth's security deposit law, G.L. c. 186, §15B (count 5); violation of the consumer protection act, G.L. c. 93A, § 9 (count 6); and breach of contract (count 7). The landlord counterclaimed for a breach of contract.
On July 28, 2010, the trial court granted summary judgment for the tenants on their security deposit claim. On April 19, 2011, the landlord filed a motion for summary judgment claiming the parties had entered into a settlement agreement. The tenants denied that claim at an oral argument on April 25, 2011, and the case immediately proceeded to trial. On July 21, 2011, the trial court issued its decision on the merits. The trial court awarded damages on counts 1, 2, 5 (as previously decided on summary judgment), and 6. The court found for the tenants on the landlord's counterclaim. The landlord appealed.
This Division found that there was no error in the denial of the motion for summary judgment on the landlord's counterclaim. Nor was there any error in the granting of summary judgment in the tenant's favor on count 5. We found error in the duplication of damages by the trial court on counts 1 and 6 of the complaint and vacated the award on count 1. We also found error in the denial of an award on count 4 and in the computation of attorney's fees due under counts 2, 5, and 6. The case was thus returned for determination of damages on count 4 and reanalysis of attorney's fees. [Note 3] The trial court completed that task and entered a final judgment on July 30, 2014. This appeal resulted without any challenge to the fees awarded or the damages assessed on count 4 of the complaint.
The only issues before this Division, then, are those previously raised and decided. For the reasons stated in this Division's initial decision, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
[Note 1] Matthew Stacy and Brian Mor.
[Note 2] Also known as Kun Zhao.
1540 (Mass. App. Ct. May 5, 2014). That Court dismissed the appeal because there had been no final decision due to our returning the case to the trial court.


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Q: Object instance mutability I'm new to OOP and having difficulty to understand mutability of class characteristics in Python.  For example:
class Table:
    def __init__(self, n_players):
        self.n_players = n_players
        self.hand_count = 0

    def update_hand_count(self):
        self.hand_count = self.hand_count + 1
        return

    def alternative_approach(self):
        hand_count = self.hand_count
        hand_count += 1

Can I be expected for both of these approaches to work reliably?  I see that some types are immutable.  So if I defined self.hand_count as int(0), would this impact the result?
Unfortunately my code example is too complex to copy here (and I'm not even sure what it driving my issue).  All I know is that I am seeing scope type errors emerge where I am reassigning values in my object instance, but I don't understand OOP / class structures in Python well enough to get myself out of trouble.


Solarwindow Technologies Inc (OTCMKTS:WNDW) has added more than $0.60 to its share price in the last few days. The driver for WNDW was by all accounts a news-related item as the company's Chairman, Harmel Rayat, offered a detailed update on the stock. Inside the update, he mentioned that his $25 million investment of his own money had allowed the company to bring in some large purchase orders and secure a 100,000 square-foot processing plant.
Rayat and the team at WNDW believe that their windows will turn a building into a green energy generators thanks to photovoltaic cells inside the glass. According to independently-validated engineering estimates, a single SolarWindow installation on a 50-story building, for example, could reduce electricity costs by as much as 50% per year, avoiding the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide produced by 2.2 million vehicles each year.
Solarwindow Technologies Inc (OTCMKTS:WNDW) frames itself as a company that develops electricity-generating systems using see-through glass windows and flexible plastic products.
It engages in developing SolarWindow electricity-generating systems that harvest light energy from the sun and artificial sources using a coating of organic photovoltaic solar cell.
The company is also involved in developing SolarWindowCommercial, a flat glass product for installation in new commercial towers under construction and replacement windows; SolarWindowStructural Glass, a structural glass wall and curtain for tall structures; SolarWindowArchitectural Glass, a textured and decorative interior glass walls, room dividers, etc.; and SolarWindowResidential, a window glass for installation in new residential homes under construction and replacement windows.
In addition, it engages in developing SolarWindowFlex, a flexible film, which is applied directly onto glass for retrofit to existing commercial towers, buildings, and residential homes; SolarWindowBIPV components associated with BIPV applications in homes, buildings, and office towers; and SolarWindow Retrofit Veneer, a transparent, tinted, and flexible veneer that installers can apply directly over top of existing windows.
The company was formerly known as New Energy Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. in March 2015. SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Columbia, Maryland.
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"I can't think of any commercial landlord, being one myself, not wanting electricity-generating windows, which I personally believe could be transformational, not only for building owners and the energy industry, but also for the environment. Since almost 65% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated by fossil fuels, reducing the burning of these fuels could help mitigate their impact on global warming and climate change, which a recent report mandated by U.S. Congress says is "an immediate threat, not a far-off possibility," Rayat said.
The stock has been overvalued in the past, but it might be positioning to be at a point where it actually makes sense, if the company can make good on their promise to sell.
At this time, carrying a capital value in the market of $153.82M and float of 16.91M, WNDW has a nice runway thanks to Mr. Rayat, but investors are going to grow impatient if they don't see some progress soon. The company is pre-revenue at this point. As more color becomes clear on the name, we will review the situation and update our take. Sign-up for continuing coverage on shares of $WNDW stock, as well as other hot stock picks, get our free newsletter today and get our next breakout pick!
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Superman Release date 2013
It was one of the most bizarre movie announcements since they cast George Clooney as Batman. due to legal issues id WB and DC didn't have a movie released by the end of 2012 they would risk losing the movie rights to the original Superman origin to the estate of the original creators.
After this the new Man of Steel movie was rushed into production and given a December 2012 release date so they could keep the rights to the movies. But just recently it's been revealed that the release date had been pushed back to June 14th 2013.
This is likely due to WB and DC no longer relying on the original Superman origin because come September there will be a whole new costume, new actor along with reinvented origin story to carry the iconic comic superstar.
Thanks to Variety's Jeff Sneider for the news.


We want to call and motivate young people all over Europe to step up for Europe and take action to shape the future of their continent. Young leaders must act now by embracing their shared European identity, advocating for the positions of young active citizens in Europe and taking part in political decision-making processes.
We believe that by taking the initiative and creating sustainable solutions with and as decision-makers young leaders can shape the future of Europe.
It's very important that the youth of Europe take an active role in shaping the future of Europe, because it is our future that is at stake.
To encourage young people to get involved in political debates and processes and raise awareness for and inform about the European elections, JCI Europe organized a pan-European road show with the Step Up For Europe campaign!
The road show crossed Europe from East to West and connected campaign events in twelve European cities that brought together young people to debate the future of Europe with political decision-makers, business representatives and activists to ensure the voices of young active citizens in Europe are heard.
Read more about the road show events in our blog section below!
2019 JCI Vice President Laura Enache on Step Up For Europe: "This year we want to make the voices of young active citizens in Europe heard"
Calling young active citizens all over Europe to take action to shape the future of their continent.
Check out our latest campaign news, updates and stories on our blog!


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We have another Star Wars [The Last Jedi] Visual Guide update tonight, featuring the Resistance A-wing Fighter vehicle. Click below to check out this vehicle, along with the pack-in figure Resistance Pilot Tallie. Get additional info on this vehicle and figure set in our full review. A big thanks to Hasbro and Litzy PR for providing us with this sample for our Visual Guides.
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The Resistance A-wing Fighter (with Resistance Pilot Tallie) is a nice release. The best thing about it is that there is no NERF feature to be found here at all. It also imitates old school Star Wars concept art and we've provided the evidence. Special thanks to Hasbro and Litzy PR for providing us with this review sample. Find out more in our Research Droids Reviews today! Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.


As you all know there was no sailing this weekend due to our building renovations taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
Well what a job, just removing the roof brought forth the deepening mystery of how the roof sheets were still attached to the frame and also how the frame was still attached together. The more we removed the worse the rust was but despite the poor state of the beams they as usual refused to give up easily fighting us all the way.
Once all the old frame was removed it was then time to repair the upright posts by welding plates and sleeves on tops and bottoms and during this process we also found the mounting beam across the club wall was just hanging there so yes that was re bolted as well. Not mentioning any names but two people spent so much time on one corner its apparently going to be named M&M corner with suitable signage to come.
After temporarily putting up two sections on Saturday they were pulled back down for more measuring and discussion on Sunday morning by the design team who were all quite happy measuring drawing and discussing everything! While this was happening Aidan and I the W&FS TEAM (WELD AND FIX STUFF) continued welding and fixing anything we thought might possibly move when it shouldn't. Followed by painting all the stuff we stopped moving. With steady progress the frame was completed and then it was time for the Colourbond sheets to go back on and off course the wind came up to around 20knots just in time for this job to begin but thankfully with all the volunteers pitching in each section was raised and fitted with clockwork precision (almost). I was slightly out on the timing of the thunderstorm which included rain hail and lightning and arrived about ten minutes early so we could complete the painting but did complete the roof.
There were many funny moments with musical power leads, cordless drills, grinders, ladders and tools taking place, it was definitely a good idea once you had what you needed for the job not to put it down because it was gone in a flash. Many people overcame the aversion to heights or just ignored it and climbed ladders and scaffold for two days and I bet like me they are feeling their leg muscles today. There was also a certain school teacher who after telling us of this new welder that he had just received and went and picked up from work only to find when he returned to the club that he had forgotten the inverter as it was a industrial wired unit which didn't fit 240v, its amazing what a grinder can do to a power plug .
Finally both Pieter Verstoep and I would like to thank MARK, MARK, ANDREW, ALAN, ROGER, REECE, AIDAN, JOHN, DAVID, PAUL, DYLAN, LACHY, GEORGE and their families for their support and tireless efforts over the two days with everyone constantly pitching in and trying their hand at new skills, give yourselves a large pat on the back because without all your help and Ideas this project would not have been possible. Everyone when you come to the club next come inside the cage and look up at what this group achieved its bloody amazing.
PS: Good luck and safe sailing to George and Tara who are travelling to Yepoon this week to compete in the Queensland titles catch you on the water next weekend .


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Two oyster areas opening Thursday, March 3
News & Updates / March 2, 2016 July 30, 2019
16-11-MMS| March 2, 2016
BILOXI, Miss. – Two oyster areas will reopen for harvesting at legal sunrise Thursday, March 3, officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced Wednesday.
The reefs have been closed since 4 p.m. Dec. 11 because of the red tide, the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway and excessive rainfall.
"After months of being closed, I am happy to announce Mississippi's oyster season will open again," MDMR Executive Director Jamie M. Miller said. "This has been another difficult year for our oyster industry, but MDMR remains committed to enhancing the resource moving forward for the benefit of everyone in the industry."
The two conditionally approved areas that will open are:
Area II "E" – This includes Square Handkerchief reef and southern portions of Henderson Point Reef.
Area II "F" – This includes southern portions of the Pass Christian Reef.
The daily sack limit is 15 for tonging and 25 for dredging. All other current rules and regulations remain in effect.
For more information, call the MDMR Oyster Hotline at 228-374-5167 or 1-800-385-5902.
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is dedicated to enhancing, protecting and conserving marine interests of the state by managing all marine life, public trust wetlands, adjacent uplands and waterfront areas to provide for the optimal commercial, recreational, educational and economic uses of these resources consistent with environmental concerns and social changes. Visit the DMR online at dmr.ms.gov.
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Gold is arguably the more conservative investments you can make. Perhaps you have considered the gold market but aren't sure where to begin.The paragraphs that follows can use to invest wisely in today's gold market.
Stay with reputable buyers when selling gold. You are able to find out their reputations with the local BBB and checking online reviews. A buyer with a good reputation will give you fairly for the gold you are selling. You have to protect your gold investment as well as yourself.
Gold is something that changes in price all the time. This is why you should know what it's worth prior to selling. If you make the decision to sell gold, separate your pieces by purity level. Try not to sell jewelry items that are valuable due to their maker.
Do not dabble in the gold market until you are familiar with pricing on precious metals. The values of precious metals fluctuate daily, so it's best to know the price of the day. You must to pay a higher percentage for fractional pieces like half ounces and quarter ounces over the melt prices.
Check out current market values before you sell your jewelry. This will help you will know if a dealer is offering you the proper amount for your items.
Only buy gold jewelry from a seller if they have a return it. If this happens, they can easily trade in the piece for something more to their liking.
Before you buy or sell your gold, make sure you understand how the prices of precious metals work. Precious metal prices vary from day to day and it's best to check the price before selling or buying gold. Gold pieces with fractions of an ounce will command higher prices than pieces weighing one ounce.
If you take jewelry or scrap gold to local companies that will pay for it, look around for the best price.
Make sure you know the price of gold the same day you plan to buy it. This information can be found on a number of websites. Never pay any more than ten percent of the gold prices. Some sellers try charging more, but they are overcharging and oftentimes, which is generally unethical.
If you decide to mail your gold to a buyer, know how much return shipping is going to cost you in the event you don't accept their offer. Be sure you have an idea how much it will cost before you to reclaim your jewelry.
When you purchase gold, it's important to set a fairly stringent schedule for delivery of your metal. If a seller gives you anything other than immediate delivery, you need to have some kind of written contract or guarantee when your pieces are arriving. There should be a date listed for when you can expect them. Proceed with an order only if this information is forthcoming.
Sell only to gold to buyers that are licensed to buy gold. There is a lot of competition out there, so do not think that you must make a sale to the first buyer that you meet.
Use a magnet to determine whether an item is made of gold. Precious metals like gold are not respond to magnets.Sometimes only plated in gold with a solid but the rest is plated. This method is good way to test that.
Earring backings are usually solid gold, even when the earrings are not.Necklace clasps and ring bands are usually real gold too. You can sell these smaller pieces together to get more money. This is various gold pieces in quantity and it can help you earn more money.
It is important to invest in the right type of gold when doing so for your retirement. It's crucial that the gold be IRS approved. It needs to be either 24 karat coins or bullion bars. Buy bars instead of coins to increase your profits.
Separate your gold by karat values. Some vendors may try to weigh all your items at one time and offer you what the lowest karat. This will cost you money.
Research a dealer before doing business. If there are complaints, you may want to think about going with a different dealer altogether.
Never sell your gold without a purpose! Gold usually increases in value, so don't sell it unless you really need the money. You may be able to sell your gold.
Sell only to gold buyers who are licensed. While you could still get ripped off, a licensed buyer is more likely to be reputable. There is no shortage of places to do gold trading, so don't feel pressured to take the first offer you get.
A way to get gold inexpensively is to ask your relatives for their broken jewelry that they want to sell. If you use an accurate scale that is designed for jewelry, you can make a profit.
Getting into gold isn't just something a seasoned investor should do, anyone is actually able to get into it if they know what to do. After reading the advice in this article, you can confidently invest in gold. Keep these tips in mind when you do.
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Chasing Love's Wings by Zoey Derrick ~ Book Tour & Review!
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I read this series a little backwards starting with this book first instead of Finding Love's Wings. I usually don't like skipping books in a series because for the most part you get totally lost from the beginning especially if there was a cliff hanger in the last book. This book isn't like that. I was able to pick up Chasing Love's Wings and jump right into a great story. I felt like I received enough back ground on the characters that I was able to easily get into the story and love the characters.
Zoey Derrrick has taken me on another great journey with more solid characters that really are hard to not fall in love with. Tristan and Cami have this steamy and passionate relationship. Tristan is by far one of my favorite male characters in the books I have read lately. He is hot, sensitive and would do anything for Cami. Cami is a strong women with her head on right even if she doesn't think so at times who would blame her when she is thrown for a loop about a person from her past. After everything Cami goes through she and Tristan find that their love for each other is strong enough to handle everything.
This characters are well developed and the story flows right along with no lulls or jumping around. I love being able to have both Cami & Tristan tell their story as it is happening. By the end of this story I was smiling from ear to ear but also had some happy tears. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a little more of Tristan & Cami.
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Dream Unlimited Corp.'s Interest in Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust Deemed to Have Increased
January 14, 2022 08:15 PM Eastern Standard Time
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dream Unlimited Corp. (TSX: DRM) ("Dream") announced today that its interest in Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: D.UN) ("Dream Office REIT") is deemed to have increased as a result of the deemed acquisition by Michael Cooper of 1,196 REIT Units, Series A ("Units") of Dream Office REIT, representing less than 0.01% of the issued and outstanding Units, pursuant to the vesting of the same number of deferred trust units under Dream Office REIT's Deferred Unit Incentive Plan. Prior to this deemed acquisition, Dream and its joint actors, which include Mr. Cooper, owned 19,051,147 Units representing approximately 36.0% of the issued and outstanding Units. Following Mr. Cooper's deemed acquisition, Dream and its joint actors own 19,052,343 Units representing approximately 36.0% of the issued and outstanding Units.
Mr. Cooper is deemed to have acquired beneficial ownership of the Units, effective January 14, 2022, pursuant to the vesting of the same number of deferred trust units under Dream Office REIT's Deferred Unit Incentive Plan. No consideration was paid by Mr. Cooper in connection with the vesting of the deferred trust units resulting in the deemed acquisition of Units.
Subject to market conditions and Dream's investment strategy, Mr. Cooper and his joint actors, including Dream, intend to further invest in Dream Office REIT on an opportunistic basis as Dream Office REIT refines its portfolio and focus on core Toronto assets, which is aligned with Dream's expanding real estate and development footprint across downtown Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Dream is indirectly controlled by Mr. Cooper, President and Chief Responsible Officer of Dream. Dream provides strategic advice to Dream Office REIT pursuant to a management services agreement. Mr. Cooper also serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Dream Office REIT.
This press release is being issued pursuant to the requirements of National Instrument 62-103 - The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over Bid and Insider Reporting Issues ("NI 62-103") of the Canadian Securities Administrators. A copy of the report to be filed by Mr. Cooper in connection with the transactions described herein will be available on Dream Office REIT's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, and can also be obtained by contacting Mr. Robert Hughes, General Counsel, Dream Unlimited Corp. at 416-365-3535.
Dream and Dream Office REIT's head office is located at Suite 301, State Street Financial Centre, 30 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, Ontario M5C 3H1.
About Dream Unlimited Corp.
Dream is a leading developer of exceptional office and residential assets in Toronto, owns stabilized income generating assets in both Canada and the U.S., and has an established and successful asset management business, inclusive of $13 billion of assets under management across three Toronto Stock Exchange listed trusts, a private asset management business and numerous partnerships. Dream also develops land and residential assets in Western Canada. Dream expects to generate more recurring income in the future as its urban development properties are completed and held for the long term. Dream has a proven track record for being innovative and for our ability to source, structure and execute on compelling investment opportunities.
Dream Unlimited Corp.
Deborah Starkman
dstarkman@dream.ca
Kim Lefever
klefever@dream.ca


Years back the newspaper industry saw a shift from readers obtaining the morning newspaper during coffee and breakfast to studying the most recent headlines on the web, and today to checking the most recent Twitter updates from multiple news organizations. As the shift to technology is constantly on the emerge, many didn't know whether studying a magazine with an digital camera would end up being the newest hit.
While scrolling through pages with an digital camera is not just like snuggling on the couch flipping the paper pages of the favorite classic novel, it has not stopped the evolution of technology sneaking into every aspect of our way of life. Rather, Amazon's Kindle has proven a sizable rise in sales since its launch in November 2007.
After this type of effective launch, Amazon . com then adopted track of two more generations from the Kindle. On December 27, 2010, just 4 several weeks following the launch from the Kindle 3, Amazon . com announced the Kindle 3 had already become Amazon's bestselling product ever.
Because of the high nature of e-book buying, Amazon . com features the Kindle Million Club. The Kindle Million Club is perfect for authors who've arrived at a million compensated book copies within the Kindle Store. Presently three authors are out there including James Patterson, Stieg Larsson and also the newest member, Nora Roberts.
As with every shift from the normal habits every day existence, the evolution for the kindle e-book has not been without its very own issues. Many established publishers have worried the elevated sales and recognition of e-book readers, such as the Kindle, will undercut sales within the hardcover and paperback market. Also Amazon's agreement, that was announced in October, gives self-publishing authors with the Kindle store a greater royalty. It has evoked anger and fear within publishing houses. Amazon . com has decided to a 70 % royalty rather from the standard publishing contract's 25 %.
In 2007, the Kindle might have appeared just like a joke with a individuals, but 3 years later the vista has shifted. The Kindle isn't the next fad that is inconsistent following a year of two. Rather, it appears that it's not going anywhere soon and it is ever-expanding. This could best be viewed by searching at the quantity of other e-book readers which have been developed and are increasingly being offered on the market. Required is, how lengthy will bookstores continue in which to stay business or can they face exactly the same downsizing that print newspaper has witnessed.


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Pivotal's Paul Maritz to talk about 'OS for the cloud' at CloudBeat 2013
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VentureBeat is delighted to announce that Paul Maritz, the chief executive of the billion-dollar startup Pivotal, is speaking about the vision for his new product, Pivotal One, at our CloudBeat 2013 event in San Francisco on Sept 9-Sept. 10.
Maritz has called his coming product the "operating system for the cloud."
We expect Maritz's talk to mark the beginning of a slow rollout of Pivotal One, Pivotal's showcase product that it's been building since launching earlier this year. [You can buy tickets to CloudBeat here. Move fast, because we expect this show to be a sellout, and our early bird ticket offer expires on Monday].
Maritz and Pivotal are key to our ongoing story of technology disruption because they're promising to change the way people build and manage modern day enterprise applications.
Pivotal may be new, but it has the backing of powerful giants like EMC, VMware, and General Electric. Maritz left his role as CEO of VMware, a leader in the enterprise server market, with the stated purpose of creating a new platform called Pivotal One. The platform is supposed to enable developers and enterprises to build cloud-based apps that have all of the speed and delightful design of major consumer offerings like Facebook, Google, and Amazon.
But at the same time, Pivotal One will enable them to do something they haven't been able to do easily before: Let them talk with legacy enterprise-grade apps and data that are served from or stored on other clouds or on-premise.
Take the example Maritz uses from GE: A single transatlantic flight produces about 30TB of engine data that demands to be stored, analyzed, and mashed up against many other data sets, and that's not a straight-forward process. As explained by here by Chuck Hollis, an executive at EMC:
Paul describes this as a "two order of magnitude" problem: 100 times more devices, 100 times more data than previously envisioned. Big numbers indeed; and even more justification to move beyond the familiar second platform.
One challenge that is unique to enterprise IT is the vast landscape of existing first [era] and second [era] platform applications that have to interact with these newer "third platform" entities: mostly as important data sources, but occasionally as recipients of decisions or transactions made externally.
Hollis, by they way, provides the clearest (although somewhat long) interpretation of Maritz's vision I've seen yet. He also cites Maritz's intent to build an "OS for the cloud age," and from what I'm hearing, that terminology is becoming part of Pivotal's messaging as Pivotal One roles out.
It's an aggressive response to Amazon, which has built a cheap public cloud option with Amazon AWS, and is increasingly building out an ecosystem to support app development. Maritz hopes to preempt Amazon by abstracting layers of the technology stack from the underlying cloud provider.
Executing on the vision is a tall order; it remains to be seen what VMware actually rolls out this year. But the company has previously said Pivotal One's launch would be in the second half of the year, and we're already hearing that the company's Cloud Foundry unit has momentum (more here about Pivotal's details, including how giant IBM has already thrown in its hat in support).
And Maritz has a knack of articulating clearly ambitious visions for the companies he leads. A native of Rhodesia, Maritz worked at Intel until he joined Microsoft, where he became vice president of platforms strategy and development. At Microsoft, he was recognized for leading the software giant company's rise to the world's leading operating system. In 2000, he left to found a company called Pi Computing, which was acquired by EMC. After EMC acquired a majority stake in VMware, Maritz took the helm of VWware, where he continued its dominance of the server market. He then widened that company's vision when he announced what he called a next generation OS: "the virtual datacenter operating system." It was something of a stab at his former employer Microsoft.
Can Maritz do it all again at Pivotal One? We're excited to hear what he has to say. Hope to see you there!
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