Argentina, land of gauchos and the tango, is also home to rainforests, glaciers, and penguins.
Argentina, land of gauchos and the tango, is also home to rainforests, glaciers, and penguins. Sophisticated and lively, Buenos Aires offers first-rate museums, music, and theatre as well as a café scene that rivals Europe. Argentina values tradition and hospitality and is the ideal setting to study abroad in a Spanish-speaking environment.
AFSers in Argentina live with host families and are placed in public schools throughout the country, including Ushuaia, the southern tip of South America. AFS Argentina also places students in neighbouring Uruguay, usually in or around Montevideo or Punta del Este.
Studying abroad in Argentina or Uruguay for a year or a semester will be an interesting and deeply fulfilling experience. Your local chapter may organise get-togethers for AFS students or excursions to other cities or regions in the area. Also, over the course of your program, AFS staff and volunteers will meet with you at orientations to evaluate your experience and help with your cultural adjustment.
Spanish is the official language of Argentina and Uruguay. German, Italian, French and English are also spoken.
It is not mandatory that you speak Spanish in order to be accepted into the program yet we suggest that you prepare yourself by learning as much as possible prior to departure.
Most students are placed with middle-class families in cities ranging in population from 10,000 to 3,000,000. You may be placed in any region of Argentina, from the southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego, to downtown Buenos Aires, to the northern province of Jujuy. Few participants are placed in rural areas. AFS Argentina also places a few students each year in Uruguay.
Host families in Argentina and Uruguay, like all AFS host families worldwide, are not paid. They open their homes to students in order to share their community and culture as well as to enrich their own family lives.
Both countries' populations are prevalently of European heritage. They are generally sociable people who value courtesy and respect, especially toward their elders.
Although Argentina is a strongly Catholic country, families and society welcome people of all beliefs. Many people smoke in Argentina, and, while it may be common to have someone in the house who smokes, families strongly prefer that their children not do so. It is also very common to find pets in the home.
Family life plays a central role in the social structure of Argentina. Families tend to be close-knit with grandparents often living at home and many extended family members always nearby. Argentine families are protective of their children, especially girls; parents expect to know when and where their children are going out. They won't lack for warmth or spontaneous displays of affection though.
Both parents generally work, although they probably come home for lunch and a quick nap, or siesta. Lifestyles may vary, especially in Buenos Aires where of course they are as diverse as in any big metropolis.
Argentine teens have very active social lives. Friends are around so often in fact, that teens seem to lack much privacy and may consider their friend's property theirs as well. What teenagers enjoy the most is getting together at friends' houses or in the central town square, going out to eat or to the movies, going to parties and dancing, or just hanging out in the local café.
Most students are a part of sports teams (soccer is very popular), and many attend a gym or other sports club in the afternoon. Many teenagers also study a second language at a special school. You may be able to join groups involved in music or arts activities.
To get around teenagers generally walk, bike or, when in major cities, take public buses.
Argentina is a proud cattle raising country, so beef is present at almost every meal. For that reason, AFS Argentina does not accept vegetarians. Parillada (mixed grills of all parts and cuts of cow) are very popular, especially during social gatherings. Milanesas (breaded fried cutlet) and empanadas are other popular dishes that reveal the strong influence of Italians. Other examples of Italian influence are the abundance of pasta dishes and gelato. Unlike other Latin American cuisine, Argentinean food is not spicy.
Lunch and dinner are important family meeting times. Argentines normally have a large lunch followed by a siesta and a large meal late at night, normally after 9:30pm.
It is considered inappropriate for individuals to request special foods, to prepare separate food for themselves or to raid the refrigerator, although your appreciation of and request for some particular dishes will be happily received.
Argentines are also known for their love of mate, a local green tea. This is more a socializing element than a beverage served with a meal: mate is shared among people during any kind of gathering and the special gourd it comes in is offered from person to person.
You will most likely be placed in a public school in the second-to-last or final year with classmates ages 16 to 17.
You will attend classes Monday through Friday either in the morning (from 8am to 1pm) or in the afternoon (1pm to 6pm), but not both. Just like in Malaysia, teachers change rooms while you will remain in a classroom with your classmates.
School uniforms are required and the volunteers in your host community will try to help you find a gently used uniform.
Many local chapters organise activities for students and host families throughout the year. These will vary from chapter to chapter but may include parties or excursions to other cities or regions in Argentina. Unlike the orientations, these activities are optional and are not included in the tuition/program fee.


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The Valley of the Shadow
It takes a lot to scare an old woman like Essie Owens, a woman who had lived through two wars, watched crops dry up and die in the field and lost her milk cow to sickness while she still had babies to feed. Her husband Woodrow was gone now and she was alone. Folks at his service asked if she would be moving to town, leaving the old farm that the two had worked together for as long as anyone could remember.
"I've been hungry and cold she told them and now I am alone but I ain't scared. Woodrow wouldn't want me to leave. Besides, there ain't nothing for me in town," Town was where her children lived but they had lives of their own, which didn't include looking after an old woman still able to look after herself. Oh, she was welcome to stay with any of them and they invited her and more than once. They knew she wouldn't come. They knew she would die right there on the farm, just like their daddy whose grave they had dug beside their sister's who died while still a baby and their brother killed during the war.
It takes a lot to scare an old woman like Essie, who was used to hearing the wind howl and the rain dance hard on the rusted tin roof of her little farm house. Strange sounds from the woods didn't scare her and neither did glowing eyes that watched from the darkness at the edge of the yard.
"When you got the Lord in your heart, you don't have to be afraid," she would tell her grand children on nights they had stayed with her. They had a way of gathering near her when night fell and long shadows pushed them toward the dim light which slipped through the screen and pooled on the front porch. They hadn't stayed with her in a while, not since the summer before, late August.
After Woodrow died in the spring her grandchildren had taken turns staying with her keep her company. But school ended that as summer turned to fall. Now that winter was becoming spring maybe they would come and stay again. She hoped so. The sound of pattering feet on the slick linoleum reminded her of those made by their parents when they were kids. She would close her eyes and remember. She would close her eyes and remember Woodrow too, young and handsome, strong, with eyes fierce and dark and hands that never tired from working. It was hard to think of him sleeping in the cold hard dirt behind the house when she woke alone in the soft darkness of the bed they had once shared and warmed by fire wood he had helped stack the winter before.
Her oldest son had done the cutting, bringing the big ax that had once been his father's down and splitting the fire wood. Woodrow, eyes already dimming could only help, following his son's directions and feeling around with his hands.
She had helped too, with the stacking, watching on as her husband, frustrated by blindness tried to work. It was a hard thing to do, for him and for her, but they managed.
"That should keep you warm for a while," he told her after his son was gone and he recollected what big stacks of wood they had made for the cold just beginning to blow in skies of gray he could no longer see.
He always worried about her. Now he was gone. He had tried to live to her birthday, one final birthday to hold her hand and tell her he loved her and make apology for not having a better gift to give than the one he had bought and wrapped weeks before when he thought she wasn't looking. He didn't last, no one could have. Death had taken him. Over a year he had been gone. This would be her second birthday without him. She wondered how many more the Lord had for her, before she could go and sleep in the cold dirt out back of the house. Death did not scare her, not anymore, not like before.
"When you got the Lord you don't have to be afraid," she told herself as she searched the darkness of her room for a speck of light. There was none but what was made by the light of the moon which cast shadows about and made her close her eyes again, in fear. Her heart raced almost as fast as her mind as she lay listening to the silence being interrupted by the sound of something outside her opened window. Mingled with smell of spring and lilac was the sound of a knocking.
It was a sound she had forgotten having not heard it since Woodrow died. It was a ghostly sound which made her draw the quilt about her as she listened again for it to come. It did, the knocking, after a while, mingling itself with the night sounds and mournful cries of night birds.
"Woodrow is that you," she thought daring not to ask out for fear of an answer.
Old and blind her late husband would slip out of bed and with his cane guide himself into the darkness which had grown familiar with over time. Many had been the night she had wakened to the sound of him tapping his way onto the porch, down the steps, and around the house. She had pretended to never hear him as he wandered about answering whatever call that had urged him from sleep. Knock, knock, knock, she would hear his cane against the edge of the house as if someone were at the door and asking to be answered. Whenever he would slip back into bed his feet still damp for night dew on the grass she would only draw closer to his back and wait for the sounds of him sleeping.
"Woodrow is that you?" she asked again in frightened silence and knowing the answer she feared.
"Yea, though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil," she whispered but only loud enough for herself to hear, wondering what she should do.
"Face your fears," had always been what Woodrow told her when things became tough and uncertain.
Daylight was hours away and by then what ever was calling outside her window would be long since gone and only sunshine would dance on the side of the house from where the knocking sound had began again. Daylight would come and she would wonder and wait for nightfall and bedtime and to be awakened again by her fears she told herself. With this she threw back her covers and crept from the bed. She would face her fears as Woodrow would want her even if her fears were seeing him ghostly white in his funeral clothes and dark glasses which kept his eyes safe from light. All the way across the moonlit bedroom she imagined him a hovering spirit calling her out with alabaster hands.
It takes a lot to scare and old woman like Essie Owens, but by the time she turned the ceramic knob of her front door and stepped barefoot on the cold boards of the front porch she was more scared than she had ever been in her life. Armed with only flashlight left behind by one of her grand children she pushed on through the darkness. Afraid, she hadn't yet turned on the light and cast its beam to guide her.
His ghost was out there, Woodrow's. He had come back for her birthday. Tomorrow she would be eighty one or eighty two. She wasn't sure anymore.
Knock, knock, knock, she followed the sounds feet damp for the night dew which gathered on the grass creeping up her legs and reaching out for her nightgown, thinned by time.
"I will fear no evil," she whispered once more before making her way around the corner of the house already laying aside the flashlight. She didn't not want to see what was waiting her; not in full light. The milky glow of the moon would push back the blue and black shadows of night far enough. She didn't need to see but she looked anyway, her knees almost buckling in fear. Eyes large and sad as frightened as hers looked met hers, the eyes of a cow.
Lonesome, lost and hungry the old cow had wandered up next to Essie's house where the grass had begun to grow tall. Knock, knock, knock went the roughed horns of the cow against the weathered boards of the house.
Essie letting the old cow eat followed her flash light back across the yard and around the house and inside, thanking God all the way for giving her the courage to face her fears.
"If I hadn't gone on out there," she would tell her grandchildren, I would have always thought your grandpa's ghost had come for me and ever night I would have gone to sleep wondering and fearing when he was coming back."
She told them that story many times, praying in they would learn the lesson in it, the lesson about facing your fears, and the Lord watching over you. And she always ended the story by telling how she come back in the house and slept like a baby in a cradle.
The rest of the story she kept to herself, the part about finding the Bible she had read to Woodrow from, on her pillow, just laying there in the moonlight waiting for her and how she picked it up and read the 23rd Psalms, Woodrow's favorite, before closing her eyes and remembering, and falling asleep to the sound of the old cow outside her bedroom window.
This is a work of fiction dedicated to my grandmothers and all grandmothers who in their own way teach us so many lessons.
-edward reed 2018

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Psikhologicheskie Issledovaniya English version 2014 Vol. 7 Issue 38
Rasskazova E.I., Bogomaz S.A., Dorfman L.Ya., Leontiev D.A., Neyaskina Yu.Yu., Sulimina O.V., Chetoshnikova E.V. Regional factors of personality characteristics of inhabitants of Russian Federation: comparative analysis of MMPI-2 data in six cities
Full text in Russian: Рассказова Е.И., Богомаз С.А., Дорфман Л.Я., Леонтьев Д.А., Неяскина Ю.Ю., Сулимина О.В., Четошникова Е.В. Региональные факторы личностных особенностей жителей Российской Федерации: сравнительный анализ результатов MMPI-2 в шести городах
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Perm State Academy of Art and Culture, Perm, Russia
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Humanitarian and Economic Institute, Tver, Russia
Altai State Pedagogical Academy, Barnaul, Russia
Traditionally, in studies of the role of socio-cultural factors in development of personality traits these factors are operationalized at the macro-level (as race, ethnicity, nationality, country of residence) and do not allow to take into account regional and local features that are particularly widespread in such countries as Russia. The aim of this study was to determine effects of the city and region of residence (both direct effects and effects mediated by age and gender of the subjects) on the strategies of response to items and on personality traits of the subjects. The data obtained from the approbation of the second version of Minnesota Multiphasic study Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) on a sample of 1237 subjects from six cities of Russia (Barnaul, Moscow, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Tver, Tomsk) were analyzed. According to the results, there is an invariant personality structure at the general level of analysis and features that are specific for both Russia and the city of residence. The major regional and local effects are mediated by gender and age which allows highlighting the "zones" of particular interest for further research. In particular, the age group of Perm' residents aged 25–39 is characterized by a high level of aggravation and psychopathy; while the level of depression and hysteria in young under 25 who live in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is much lower than in other age groups in this city and other cities. Another interesting question concerns the psychological reasons of the flattening of gender differences in hypochondria, depression, hysteria, psychasthenia, social introversion scores in Moscow and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The data are discussed in terms of the impact of socio-economic factors in different cities and further studies that are needed to explain social and psychological causes of these effects.
Keywords: regional factors of personality traits, psychodyagnostics of personality, MMPI-2, city of residence as a factor of socialization, socio-cultural factors of personality traits, and invariant and variant impacts of culture on an individual
The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project 12-06-00403.
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Rasskazova Elena I. Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, ul. Mokhovaja, 11–9, 125009 Moscow, Russia.
Bogomaz Sergey A. Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Tomsk State University, pr. Lenina, 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia.
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The number of new residents coming to live in Whistler is on the rise and the services needed to make those newcomers feel at home have also grown.
Carole Stretch, the leader of the Settlement Assistance Program in Whistler and the lone Capilano University instructor in Whistler, has seen and lived the growth since she first started working with newcomers to Whistler five years ago. As programs are linked to education Capilano University is funded to run them.
The introduction of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) made it easier and quicker for people with in-demand skills to enter the country and once those employees settled in, Stretch said many of those employees sponsored their family members to come to Canada.
A few years ago when the hotels were having trouble filling all their vacant position, Stretch said, the hotels brought people in from their operations from around the world.
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The original influx of hotel workers are now starting to welcome their family members and Stretch said the schools in Whistler are starting to feel the impact.
"They are beginning to come in really quite fast," she said. "There is not a language requirement for those people right now."
When Stretch started working with newcomers to Whistler she said she was mainly meeting people from Japan. Things really started turning around last year when Stretch said she started seeing people from more places around the globe.
Stretch works with a group of 25 tutors to offer English learning to new residents. Along with helping newcomers grasp the English language the new residents learn about Canada and the way the country operates. Between June 2010 and June 2011, Stretch and her team worked with 71 residents on a regular basis. She got her start with the program as a tutor soon after she arrived in Whistler. With previous addresses in Thailand, the Philippines, Norway, France and her childhood upbringing in the U.K. Stretch said she relates with the struggles experienced by the new residents she works with.
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The process will include discussions and focus groups. Stretch said she expects to have her first discussions soon.
"The whole point of the project is that they become empowered to advocate for themselves and to support from within," she said.
A community forum is expected in about six months. Stretch said that after the forum the program implemented may or may not look like the program in Squamish as the community will determine what will work best for Whistler and Pemberton.
Stretch works with the community services organizations in Whistler and Pemberton and the Whistler Public Library offers meeting space for the various programs offered.
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Buidling Lifecycle Service Orchestration
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 #MEF17, Epsilon
The market for communication services is rapidly evolving and carriers must find better ways to interface their networks, says Mark Daley, Director of Digital Strategy for Epsilon. Better tools for interworking with customers are also needed. Automation will be key.
See video: https://youtu.be/K-dOHpVFuVI
SD-WAN -- Threat or Opportunity?
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 #MEF17, ADVA, SD-WAN
Is SD-WAN a threat to carriers because users may leave their networks, or is it an opportunity? It's both, says Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer for the Ensemble division at ADVA Optical Networking.
See video: https://youtu.be/E9Ugdi2VpwE
NFVi Zero-touch PoC at #MEF17
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 #MEF17, ADVA
Service providers are seeking to migrate their networks towards NFVi but it is a difficult task because they must transform manual test and assurance processes into automated functions that seamlessly integrate with test systems and the virtual network, says Ulrich Kohn, Director of Technical Marketing, ADVA Optical Networking. At #MEF17, ADVA and Spirent presented a Proof-of-Concept for Zero-Touch Service Activation and Closed-loop Issue Resolution for Virtualized Business Services.
See video: https://youtu.be/DCwDAihptOc
MEF 3.0 - Dynamic, Multilayer Services
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 #MEF17, Telco Systems
MEF 3.0 brings many new capabilities, including dynamic, orchestrated services across multilayer networks, says Raanan Tzemach, VP of Products, Marketing, and Professional Services, Telco Systems.
See video: https://youtu.be/hwd_3jGgax0
Barefoot's Deep Insight monitoring leverages P4 programmable switching silicon
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Barefoot, Silicon, Switching
Barefoot Networks, a start-up developing user-programmable switching chips, introduced a network monitoring system designed to provide visibility into every packet in a network.
The Barefoot Deep Insight software, which can run on commodity servers and in a network powered by switches based on Barefoot's "Tofino" programmable switch chip, can interpret, analyze and pinpoint packet telemetry. Using stateful baselining of a network's performance, the company says its software automatically filters out irrelevant data, detecting only anomalies at any time scale and with nanosecond resolution. The Deep Insight software is able to track the sequence of switches the packet visited along its path, the set of rules it matched upon at every switch along the way, the time it spent buffered in every switch, to the nanosecond, and the packets, flows and application that the packet shared each queue with.
"Network monitoring is still stuck in the dark ages," said Nick McKeown, co-founder and chief scientist at Barefoot Networks. "To get detailed visibility, some network owners are forced to deploy a second network that costs more than the first, just to watch what their network is doing. With Deep Insight, every switch in the network gathers data for you without any additional hardware, and without generating additional traffic. Deep Insight sits at the network edge, detecting and reporting network anomalies."
Barefoot is offering the network monitoring system on a pay-as-you-grow model, where customers pay only for the volume of telemetry they need.
Barefoot said its Deep Insight system could be especially useful in enterprise data centers, where many-to-one traffic patterns associated with applications such as Hadoop and HDFS can result in congestion, queue build-up and increases end-to-end latency. The Tofino switching silicon can detect the queue build-up and take a snapshot of every packet header during the congestion event. The Deep Insight software could then be used "to visualize the full dynamic of a congestion event, down to each individual packet, exposing the aggressors and the victims flows."
Barefoot is also highlighting the P4 programmability of its Tofino chip. This provides the flexibility to design for specific use cases without writing data plane code or modifying the silicon.
Alibaba, AT&T, Baidu, Tencent adopt Barefoot forwarding plane
Wednesday, June 07, 2017 Barefoot, Silicon, Switching No Comments
Barefoot Networks, a provider of advanced, high speed switching technology, announced significant market momentum driven by growing demand for its programmable forwarding plane technology.Barefoot's 6.5 Tbit/s Tofino switch, which is claimed to be the fastest and P4-programmable switch chip, has been sampling to customers since the fourth quarter of 2016. The company noted that its technology is being adopted by large enterprises and telecommunications...
Ekinops debuts flexible line rate modules
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 DWDM, Ekinops
Ekinops based in Lannion, France, a global supplier of next-generation optical networking equipment, introduced two new flexible rate line modules for its optical transport platform in metro, regional or long-haul deployments.
The two new modules – the PM 200FRS02 and PM 200FRS02-SF – employ dual QSFP28 client ports with software-selectable line side modulation that can be provisioned as either DP-QPSK or 16QAM to create 100G or 200G transport links. The new generation modules occupy only one-third the space of previous equipment, occupying only a single slot in an Ekinops 360 chassis, for three times the capacity per shelf. This makes it possible to fit up to 1.2 terabits per second of capacity in only two rack units. In addition, the PM 200FRS02-SF provides single fiber operation, giving service providers the option of cutting fiber costs in half.
Ekinops is also adding to the flexibility of the modules by introducing the PM 100G-AGG companion card for multiplexing up to ten 10G multiprotocol client services into a G.709 standard OTU4 that connects to one client port on the PM 200FRS02 or PM 200FRS02-SF.
Ekinops said its new modules will help service providers to reduce their capital and operational costs, improving the business case for deploying new capacity.
Aire Networks, which is Spain's fourth largest wholesale operator, is now using the Ekinops modules in its 27,000-kilometer fiber network that covers 90 percent of the country. The single fiber capability was key for Aire Networks, which was looking for a solution supporting 200G transmission in single fiber mode.
"We have been able to reduce the form factor in these new modules by a factor of three while reducing power requirements by a factor of two. That delivers an order of magnitude improvement in service density and network cost, key factors for Aire Networks and for other Ekinops customers when it comes to profitability," said Mark Burton, EMEA Vice President of Sales at Ekinops. "This demonstrates Ekinops' continued commitment to providing our customers the most efficient and flexible optical transport solutions."
Japan Internet Exchange deploys Coriant Groove G30
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Coriant, Japan
Japan Internet Exchange Co. has deployed the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform to scale network capacity in its Tokyo and Osaka metropolitan area networks and support the cost-efficient delivery of high-performance interconnect services, including 10G, 40G, and 100G. The Tokyo and Osaka network deployments include programmable 200G coherent optical transmission between multiple data center sites.
The JPIX network currently serves over 160 customers, including Tier 1 service providers, ISPs, content providers, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), cloud providers, cable operators, and digital media companies.
The Coriant Groove G30 platform is designed to enable the provision of programmable, high-speed secure bandwidth for mobile, video and cloud applications. The stackable solution supports 3.2 Tbit/s of throughput in a compact and pluggable 1 RU form factor and enables service providers and cloud and data centre operators to build scalable and secure transmission and optical solutions with functionality enabled via open APIs. It can be equipped as a muxponder terminal solution and as an Open Line System (OLS) optical layer solution.
Coriant's strategic local partner is UNIADEX Ltd.
"JPIX is playing a vital role as the core of Japan's Internet with an advanced network infrastructure optimized for the stringent demands of an evolving application landscape that includes IoT and 5G," said Petri Markkanen, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Coriant. "We are pleased to be working closely with this industry-leading Asian IX provider and are committed to helping JPIX further enhance connectivity services and network efficiencies for their end-user customers."
T-Mobile and Ericsson push Licensed Assisted Access to 1.1 Gbps
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Ericsson, LAA, LTE, T-Mobile
In a demo conducted at T-Mobile's lab in Bellevue, Washington, T-Mobile and Ericsson achieved speeds of 1.1 Gbps using 12-layer Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology.
The set-up sued Ericsson's Radio System and the TM500 network test equipment from Cobham Wireless. The test combined several LTE technologies including 256 QAM, 4x4 MIMO, and LAA by aggregating two licensed carriers and three unlicensed carriers.
The Ericsson Radio 2205 delivers LTE on the 5GHz unlicensed band in outdoor micro cell environments. Using LAA, the unlicensed carriers can be aggregated with licensed carriers on the micro cells or on nearby macro cells.
The companies claim this to be the first demo in the world to hit speeds beyond the 1 Gbps threshold on unlicensed spectrum.
"Breaking the 1 Gbps-mark means that commercial gigabit speeds are not far from reality for many broadband users, with our LAA and MIMO technologies as key enablers. It is also an example of how innovatively we work with partners to push the boundaries of technology and achieve new milestones," said Fredrik Jejdling, Executive Vice President and Head of Networks at Ericsson.
Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer for T-Mobile, says: "T-Mobile has built the nation's fastest LTE network by innovating and bringing new technologies to market for our customers. This LAA technology builds upon our deployments of 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM and will give customers even greater access to near gigabit speeds in 2018."
Qualcomm targets Windows 10 on Snapdragon
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Qualcomm
Qualcomm and Microsoft confirmed progress made over the last several months to deliver Windows 10 on Snapdragon. The idea is to use mobile phone processors to run light notebooks.
The first Windows on Snapdragon device will be a 2-in-1 convertible ASUS NovaGo that is expected to hit the market early next year.
A second device will be a detachable HP ENVY x2 Windows on Snapdragon Mobile PC.
Both will be fanless design and will offer support for Gigabit LTE connectivity.
Later this week, Qualcomm is expected to preview its next-gen Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform.
CenturyLink Wins NORAD Contract
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 CenturyLink, Military
CenturyLink announced a contract to provide communications services to Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The contract includes support for the NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Tracks Santa program, including enabling the program's phone hotline. The contract, which also includes Ethernet circuits and private line services, is valued at approximately $275,000 the first year, with four one-year options, for a total contract value of $1.5 million.
"CenturyLink is honored to provide Peterson AFB with communications services that help NORAD track all flying objects that enter North American air space every day, including tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve," said David Young, CenturyLink regional vice president, strategic government.
FiberLight appoints Don MacNeil as CEO, formerly XO
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 FiberLight, People
FiberLight, which owns over 1,700,000 miles of robust fiber networks in over 44 U.S. cities, appointed Don MacNeil as its new CEO, replacing Jim Lynch who will now assume the role of Executive Chairman.
MacNeil joined FiberLight as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in September. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for EdgeConneX, an innovative data center solutions provider, which built a national portfolio of 29 edge data centers throughout the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, Don has held a variety of leadership roles with operations, engineering, sales and marketing teams, and culminated his 14-year tenure with XO Communications as COO.
Nutanix appoints Ben Gibson as CMO
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Nutanix, People
Nutanix has appointed Ben Gibson as Chief Marketing Officer. Most recently, he was Chief Marketing Officer at F5 Networks, and before that, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Veritas, where he led the company's rebranding efforts following a spin-off from Symantec. Prior to Veritas, Ben spent five years as Chief Marketing Officer at Aruba Networks.
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Everyone tries to understand their dreams, piece together different parts of it and hope to find a fit. Much like we would while making a sandwich. "Dream Sandwich" is Noronha's search for answers while being awake.
The track deals with sleep paralysis and interpreting dreams.
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History 1976 -1978 • • • Wozniak and Jobs form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool's Day. Wozniak and Jobs finish work on a preassembled computer circuit board. It has no keyboard, case, sound or graphics. They call it the Apple® I. The Apple I board is released for sale to hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts at the price of $666. Apple's first formal business plan sets a goal for sales to grow to $500 million in ten years. As it turns out, the company will pass that mark in half the time. Apple I computer boards are sold through 10 retail stores in the U. S. Apple moves from Jobs' garage to a building on Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino, California. The new Apple® II is unveiled at the first West Coast Computer Fair. It is the first personal computer able to generate color graphics and includes a keyboard, power supply and attractive case. The Apple logo as seen today is designed by Rob Janoff, art director for Regis Mc. Kenna Advertising launches its first ad campaign for Apple. Although advertising is initially aimed at electronics enthusiasts, Apple will soon become the first company to advertise personal computers in consumer magazines. Monthly orders reach a $1 million annual sales rate. http: //www. apple-history. com/frames/?
History 1978 • Apple introduces various interface cards for connecting to most printers. • Apple's Disk II® is introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is the easiest to use, lowest priced, and fastest mini-floppy disk drive ever offered by a computer manufacturer. It will make possible the development of serious software. Production at first is handled by just two employees, turning out 30 drives a day. • In only its second year, Apple is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Sales have increased, and its dealer network has grown to over 300.
History 1979 -1981 • Apple's first printer, the Silentype®, is introduced. • Apple opens a manufacturing plant in Carrollton, TX. Apple facilities now occupy more than half a million square feet of floor space in the U. S. and Europe. • Apple goes public. Morgan Stanley and Co. and Hambrecht & Quist underwrite an initial public offering of 4. 6 million shares of Apple common stock at a price of $22 per share. Every share is bought within minutes of the offering, making this the largest public offering since Ford went public in 1956. • Apple's employee count breaks 1, 000. • Apple's distribution network is the largest in the industry-800 independent retailers in the U. S. and Canada, plus 1, 000 outlets abroad. • Apple's first mass storage system, the 5 MB Pro. File(tm) hard disk is introduced, priced at $3, 499. • Apple becomes a household name. Surveys show that public awareness rose from 10 percent to 80 percent in 1981.
History 1982 -1985 • Apple Dot Matrix printer introduced for $2, 195. • Apple becomes the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion annual sales rate. It throws a "Billion Dollar Party" for employees. • Apple University founded to provide employee training programs. • Apple enters the Fortune 500 at number 411 in under five years. • EVA (Employee Volunteer Action) is created to match the skills of Apple employees with community needs. • Apple is elected to the Consumers Digest Hall of Fame for responsiveness to consumer needs. • Apple II receives the 1984 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) sponsored by the Product Industrial Designers Society of America. • Apple announces a computer training scholarship program for elementary and secondary school educators.
History 1986 -1990 • • • Apple announces plans to create an independent software company, to be known later as Claris. For the first time, Apple uses its Hyper. Card technology to distribute a 1987 Hyper. Card supplement on diskette for Macintosh personal computers. Apple files suit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard to protect its Macintosh audio visual display. The lawsuit is seen as having industry wide implications regarding copyright laws. • Apple reports first billion dollar quarter in its history as net income rises 108 percent. • • • Apple reports net sales of $4. 07 billion and net income of $400. 3 million for fiscal year 1988. Apple acquires Coral Software Corp. , which markets programming languages and artificial intelligence tools for Macintosh computers. Apple introduces 32 -Bit Quick. Draw(tm) that allows Macintosh personal computers to process and display photo-quality documents, images and visualizations with exceptional color clarity. Apple donates $2 million in computers to 23 schools to help at-risk students. Fiscal 1990 revenues surpass $5. 5 billion.
History 1991 -1995 • Apple announces it will restructure the company over the next 12 months to reduce operating expenses. Apple's workforce is reduced approximately 10 percent. • Apple and IBM sign a letter of intent to cooperate on major technology initiatives for the 1990 s. • Apple, IBM, and Motorola finalize milestone technology alliance. • Apple announces a new Token Ring 4/16 NB Card, for the Macintosh product line. It is the first product to emerge from Apple and IBM alliance. • Apple and Kodak announce that they are working together to integrate support for Photo CD images into future versions of Quick. Time. • The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency officially releases the Energy Star emblem for display with energy-efficient computers and peripherals. Apple has more than 20 products that meet the EPA's the technical requirements. • Apple's Macintosh celebrates 10 th birthday!
Apple in 2005 As of January 2005 Apple has introduced the Mini Mac and the i. Pod Shuffle.
Vision Statement (proposed) To become the world wide leader in computer and mp 3 player sales.
Mission Statement (actual) Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970 s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980 s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.
Mission Statement (Proposed) The Apple commitment to excellence is its mission to provide computers and service (2) for people (1) that meet the highest standards of value and reliability. Apple is one of leaders in the computer industry and makes the best-selling computers in the world (7) (3). Apple provides the highest level of quality and value for our customers. Those are timeless fundamentals. We also apply innovative technology to our core business (4) to differentiate ourselves and make our products irresistible to our customers, beneficial to society, and profitable to our company (5). We strive to provide additional opportunities for growth and enrichment of company personnel while maintaining a work environment for all employees (9) that encourages personal commitment and participation in support of achieving excellence. We are committed to being a good corporate citizen, and being openly honest with all of our stakeholders (6). We support activities that help to build common understanding, enhance excellence, and enable people to improve their lives and reinforce their commitment to society (8).
External Audit Opportunities Threats • • Increase in worms and viruses on PCs. Large population (Gen X&Y) which are extremely individualistic and name brand conscious. Weak ties with Microsoft products. Downloadable music and MP 3 players are highly marketable. Increase sales of computers online by 25 percent. Increase sales of laptops by 20 percent. • • • Companies not seeing Apple as compatible with their software. Dell and HP are major competitors. Increasing competition with music downloads. Dell does not invent but provides computers at a more cost effective rate for customers. Recession—price of Apple computers are higher. Intel's future Pentium release.
External Summary • Apple has rated the Increase in worms and virus on PCs, Large population (Gen X & Y) which are extremely individualistic and name brand conscious, and the Creating more ties with Microsoft products as their three highest opportunities. • Apple has rated that the fact of Dell and HP being such huge competitors as their top threat.
Internal Audit Strengths Weaknesses • • i. Tunes Music Store is a good source of revenue, especially with the i. Pod and the availability on Windows platform. Developing own software and hardware. Apple's niche audience provides the company with some insulation from the direct price competition. Revamping desktop and notebook lines. Web technology can be used to improve product awareness and sales. Low debt—more maneuverable. Good brand loyalty. • • Weak relationship with Intel and Microsoft. Weak presence in business arena. Dependency on new product launches. Weak presence in markets other than education and publishing. Slow turn around on high demand products.
Internal Summary Apple has rated their i. Tunes Music Store being a good source of revenue, especially with the i. Pod and the availability on Windows platform, their low debt—more maneuverable, and their Web technology being used to improve product awareness and sales as their 3 highest strengths. Apple did not rate any of their weaknesses higher than a 2. they should work on being able to direct more attention to those areas and especially concentrate on the two areas of dependency on new product launches and the weak presence in business arena.
Recommendations Strategy 1 • Open six computer retail stores (not just peripheral and accessories). Apple currently has stores opened throughout the United States with only peripheral and accessories for their computers. Adding the hardware should generate more hands-on awareness and use already established locations. • This will increase product accessibility for those who wish to view items other than just accessories and increase awareness of the originality of Apple's products. • 2 percent increase over the next 2 years in sales representatives for the computer hardware. Strategy 2 • Contract music spokesperson to attract the upcoming generation who are attending high school and college. This will invoke a sense of style and linking apple with a distinctive and memorable top 10 hit. This will stay in the customer's awareness and influence future purchase decisions. • Contracting one music spokesperson estimated $6 million. Strategy 3 • Add more features to current products for greater Wintel compatibility. Features such as i. Tune software compatible with windows based computers, Office programs loadable from PC installation disk (This would require a software agreement with Microsoft). In late October 2003 Apple released an i. Tune software package that is PC ready. • It will increase the United States market share at least 30 percent for the next 2 -3 years. • $50 million is the estimated cost for Research and Development.
Objectives and Goals • Over the next 3 -4 years Apple would like to increase their product accessibility (new stores). • Increase their market share by 30% • Eliminate the need for new products in order to raise sales.


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Q: jquery editable extra button/link I am using jquery's editable and with submit and cancel I also want to 1 extra button for other functionality... can anyone help?

A: you have to extend the plugin... do the following changes in the source
onEdit: null,
            onSubmit: null,
            onPopup: null, //function to be called when you click your custom popup button
            onCancel: null,
            editClass: null,
            submit: null,
            popup: null, //your custom popup button
            popupBy: 'blur', //blur, change, dbclick, click
            cancel: null,
            type: 'text',

after  that you'll have to define the options like
// popup event
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                $('<button/>').appendTo($this)
                        .html(opts.popup)
                        .one('mouseup', function () { opts.toNonEditable($(this).parent(), true) });
            } else
                $this.one(opts.popupBy, function () { opts.toNonEditable($(this), true) })
                 .children()
                    .one(opts.popupBy, function () { opts.toNonEditable($(this).parent(), true) });

finally add the following to the source to call user defined functions
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            var func = null;
            if ($.isFunction(opts.onSubmit) && change == true)
                func = opts.onSubmit;
            else if ($.isFunction(opts.onCancel) && change == false)
                func = opts.onCancel;
            else if ($.isFunction(opts.onPopup) && change == true)
                func = opts.onPopup;

if everything go fine you can use it as
$('selector').editable({
    type: 'select',
    options: { 'value1': 'Item 1', 2: 'Item 2', 'Item 3': 'Item 3' },
    submit: 'save',
    popup:'click to open popup',
    cancel: 'cancel',
    editClass: 'colored',
    onEdit: editFuncion,
    onPopup:popupFunction,
    onSubmit: submitFuncion
});

function popupFunction() {

// your logic to open popup

}

Disclaimer
i have not tested it so i cannot confirm whether it'll work or not but you'll get the idea

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