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Opinion -- Josh Moon: Ignoring the failures of conservative government
Despite the media coverage, the Mike Hubbard trial is getting small public interest, because it's another conservative failure
Opinion -- Josh Moon: Ignoring the failures of conservative government Despite the media coverage, the Mike Hubbard trial is getting small public interest, because it's another conservative failure Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/1TEy9AY
Moon Over Montgomery
Josh Moon, Montgomery Advertiser Published 1:10 p.m. CT May 25, 2016 | Updated 11:48 a.m. CT May 26, 2016
Maybe corruption has become the norm in Alabama.
That's the only answer I have for the seeming lack of overwhelming public interest in the trial of House Speaker Mike Hubbard. Sure, there's media coverage and a handful of political junkies posting stories on social media, but there's no giant public interest.
That has to be disappointing to Hubbard. I mean, what's a guy got to do to get a little attention these days? Racking up 23 felony indictments isn't enough?
Or maybe it's just that the Alabama public has given up.
It should. The people of the state have certainly taken enough punches over the years that tossing in the towel seems like a reasonable decision.
What seems less reasonable to me are the people of this state who continue to stick up for a system of governance that has failed so completely.
It is not a surprise that Hubbard is accused of breaking the law to line his own pockets. This is what happens when you place "business men" in charge and attempt to run a government from a "pro-business" mindset.
You end up with a leadership that places a higher value on profits and immediate revenue and less value on people and the longterm benefits. And it's how you end up with with men who so covet a dollar that they'll break and bend most any rule or law to get another one.
Hubbard is the classic example. The guy was hauling in better than $60,000 working a part-time gig as a legislator, and together with his wife, was making well into the six figures. And yet he was whining in emails to former Gov. Bob Riley about the fact that he couldn't get money from the businesses he'd helped through his "pro-business" approach to government.
What makes it worse is that the people of this state buy this "pro-business" nonsense. Somehow, the average working guy has been duped into believing that a businessman is the right choice for government leadership.
The thinking, I presume, is that guys like Hubbard and Donald Trump make a lot of money so they must know how to help others make money, too.
They don't. What they do know how to do is rig the system so they can't lose. Does the term "golden parachute" ring any bells?
Here's the crazy thing: Know who does know how to make the common worker more money?
Liberals.
That's right. Tree-hugging, flower-kissing, sandal-wearing, Prius-driving, bleeding-heart liberals are your ticket to more income and a stable life, if you'd wise up for 15 minutes and actually think about it.
Almost every economic boom in this country's history was created by "liberal" programs – from the G.I bill to the New Deal. The Internet was a dreaded "government" invention. And let's not forget the protections of the common worker brought about unions and various "progressive" laws – things like the 40-hour work week, overtime pay and safety regulations.
Combine the G.I. bill with higher taxes on the wealthy and the widespread presence of unions in America and you get a 40-year run of growth and economic stability that came about after the U.S. was facing a depression and the worst GDP-to-debt ratio in the country's history (including today).
That Great Depression, and the worst recession in American history a few years ago, came about thanks to the sort of pro-business, anti-regulation, pro-greed policies we covet in this state.
Speaking of Alabama, a couple of weeks ago, yet another publication rated Alabama as one of the worst-run states. This one was "24/7 Wall Street," and it judged Alabama based simply on its economic stats, including income, poverty and unemployment.
We were fifth worst.
That's on top of being the worst state, according to WalletHub, for working moms, and the second worst state, according to "24/7 Wall Street" for quality of life. And all while the House Speaker is on trial, the governor is under investigation and the state's Supreme Court chief justice is suspended and facing his second removal from the bench.
It's no wonder so many are ignoring the Hubbard trial. If the people and system of government I pushed had failed so spectacularly, I'd hope no one noticed, too.
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In Brief: Soap star dies at 37; Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro deploy for 'Tin Soldier', and more
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Actress Marnie Schulenburg, who played Alison Stewart on As the World Turns from 2007 to 2010, has died. Deadline reports the Daytime Emmy Award-nominated actress was 37 and died after a battle with metastatic breast cancer at a hospital in Bloomfield, New Jersey…
Peacock has released the official trailer for its upcoming reimagining of the groundbreaking British drama series Queer as Folk, which follows a group of friends whose lives are rocked after a tragedy. The series stars Grey's Anatomy's Devin Way, Agents of SHIELD's Fin Argus, Big Sky's Jesse James Keitel, CG, Hacks' Johnny Sibilly and Special's Ryan O'Connell, the latter of whom is also attached as a writer and co-executive producer. Guest stars include Kim Cattrall and Juliette Lewis, who play parents to LGBTQ kids. The full season of Queer as Folk launches June 9 on Peacock…(Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)
The second project from Robert Downey Jr.'s Team Downey for Discovery+ will be an unscripted series tentatively titled Downey's Dream Cars, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series will feature the Iron Man star and his team of experts reviving classic cars, as they "also look to restore a battered global environment by creating eco-friendly automobiles for the 21st century." "My goal is to showcase that it's possible to keep the integrity of classic cars while leveraging new tech and innovation to make them more eco-friendly," Downey Jr. said in a statement obtained by the outlet…
Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro, Scott Eastwood and John Leguizamo are set to team up for the action indie movie Tin Soldier, according to Deadline. It "tells the story of The Bokushi — played by Foxx — who preaches to hundreds of veterans who have been drawn to the promise of protection and purpose under him." After several failed attempts by Emmanuel Ashburn — a government military operative played by De Niro — to penetrate his heavily armed fortress, he recruits Eastwood's Nash Cavanaugh, a former disciple of The Bokushi, "to get revenge on the man who took everything from him, including the love of his life." Tin Soldier begins filming next week in Greece…
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Kin of political prisoners still await Duterte's promise to free detainees
Dee Ayroso July 12, 2017 #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners, amnesty for political prisoners, detained NDFP consultants, Ferdinand Castillo
Former political prisoner Evelyn Legaspi (Photo by Ian Irving Bazarte/Bulatlat)
"We need big mass actions to release our loved ones."
MANILA – "Tumanda ako sa kulungan (I got old in jail)," urban poor leader Evelyn Legaspi, 58, still laments the five years she spent in jail.
She was arrested in 2012 and detained for five years on false charges of five counts each of murder and frustrated murder, supposedly committed by one "Anabelle Bueno." In December 2016, the court finally recognized her for who she is and declared her innocent of the crimes.
As the saying goes, the truth had set her free.
"I was not freed by (President) Duterte…I was released because I proved that I was never 'Anabelle Bueno,'" she said.
Looking back, Legaspi said, she and other detainees welcomed the President's promise last year to free all political prisoners. But like the justice system, such promise took too long, too little, and for some, too late.
Recently, Duterte granted pardon to 10 political detainees convicted of false charges. Human rights group Karapatan said political prisoners now stand at 392 – a number that has not gone down even with the releases, as illegal arrests and arbitrary detention continue under the Duterte administration.
At a gathering, Legaspi joined other former political prisoners and in the call for freedom for their colleagues who remain in detention. The event dubbed "Remember. Resist," held on July 8 in Quezon City, gathered families of current detainees, relatives of victims of enforced disappearances and politically-motivated and drug-related extrajudicial killings.
Injustice for both detainees and families
Whether detained for only a day or for over a decade, the injustice remains, as one is deprived of freedom because of false charges. The injustice and hardship extends to the detainee's family.
Nona Andaya-Castillo and daughter Belle call for the release of NDFP peace consultant Ferdinand Castillo (Photo by Ian Irving Bazarte/Bulatlat)
Nona Andaya-Castillo, a breastfeeding advocate and wife of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Ferdinand Castillo, has gone through different sorts of stress and difficulties caused by her husband's detention in the past five months, the least of which was lugging heavy bags of vegetables across an overpass to get to the jail. But she hesitated to speak at the gathering about her family's burdens.
"When I heard that there were those who were detained for 32 years, I felt embarrassed," she said. Most of the newly-released political detainees present were convicted of trumped-up charges and incarcerated for at least 10 years, while her husband was arrested only in February. He is now detained at the Special Intensive Care Area-1 (SICA-1) inside Camp Bagong Diwa, in Taguig City.
"At least my husband was not tortured," she said, as she sympathized with relatives of those who were disappeared or killed under past administrations.
"But it does not mean that the state has become compassionate." Castillo recalled that, at about the time her husband was arrested, there were 10 others arrested and tortured, and more than 30 peasants and indigenous peoples killed.
"We need big mass actions to release our loved ones," Castillo said.
Aside from Castillo, four other NDFP peace consultants remain in detention: Leopoldo Caloza and Eduardo Sarmiento who had been falsely convicted and are now in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa city; Promencio Cortez, who was arrested in February and is detained at the Ilocos Sur provincial jail; and Rommel Salinas, who was arrested in May and is detained at the Ozamiz City police station in Misamis Occidental.
Mothers of political detainees
Ligaya Cruz, a Dumagat, came all the way from Rodriguez (formerly Montalban), Rizal. Her son, Eddie Cruz is detained in SICA-1 in Taguig city, incarcerated since 2010. On June 10, 2010, soldiers of the 16th infantry battalion arrived at his family's hut and insisted on staying. Later that night, they heard gunshots. The soldiers then turned to Eddie and his two other relatives who were in the house, and tortured them to force them to falsely admit they are with the New People's Army (NPA). The soldiers took Eddie to their camp and continued to torture him, to make him falsely admit ownership of a rifle. On June 15, he was brought to the prosecutor's office in Taytay, Rizal and charged with a trumped-up case of illegal possession of firearms.
Ligaya Cruz (L) mother of Dumagat political prisoner Eddie Cruz. On the right is rights advocate Nikki Gamara, daughter of NDFP consultant and former political prisoner Renante Gamara (Photo by Ian Irving Bazarte/Bulatlat)
Ligaya and her husband, Cresencio, used to attend his court hearings, as well as some of the mass actions calling for the release of political prisoners. On June 17 this year, Cresencio died from a heart attack, but the court rejected Eddie's plea to attend the funeral.
"Ang aking panawagan sa Presidente, ang aking anak ay siya'y palayain na…Nang mamatay ang kanyang ama, hindi pinayagan ng korteng makadalaw kahit isang oras (I call on the President to free my son…his father died and the court refused to let him visit for even just an hour)," Cruz cried at the gathering.
Another mother, Nimfa Lanzanas of Calamba, Laguna province, is calling for the release of her son Edward Lanzanas, an organizer of the peasant group Pagkakaisa at Ugnayan ng Magsasaka sa Laguna (Pumalag).
He was arrested on March 26, 2014 in Caloocan City, with Andrea Rosal, a fellow organizer who is also the daughter of Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, the late spokesperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Lanzanas was accompanying then-seven-month-pregnant Rosal for a maternity check-up. The two were interrogated and tortured by their police captors.
Rosal later gave birth while in detention, but her baby died after two days. Her case caught media attention, which eventually led to her release.
Lanzanas, meanwhile, was detained for months without any charges. Nimfa said he has now been slapped with a kidnapping with murder case committed in 2007. Nimfa decried that the case alleged that her son committed the crime at age 17 when he had just graduated from high school. They had filed a motion at the Court of Appeals, but the case continues to drag on.
Detained husband, sweetheart
Another former detainee, Gloria Almonte, was there to call for the release of her husband, Dionisio Almonte, an organizer in Pagsanjan, Laguna. The couple were arrested in January 2014 while on their way to get medical treatment for Dionisio's herniated disc. While Gloria was released on bail, Dionisio was charged with trumped-up criminal cases of kidnapping, triple murder, arson, and rebellion. He is detained at SICA-1 in Camp Bagong Diwa.
Gloria Almonte holds an old mosquito net used by her husband, political detainee Dionisio Almonte (Photo by Ian Irving Bazarte/Bulatlat)
"They charge him with all kinds of cases. When one gets dismissed, another case is filed," she lamented. Gloria brought with her an old mosquito net used by her husband. "Wherever he goes, he always brings one with him," she said.
Lea Florencia, an urban poor organizer, brought up the case of her loved one, Francis Esponilla, a former staff of the urban poor group Kadamay. Esponilla was arrested with two others Romar Busania and Michael Gatchalian.
The three were arrested at a police checkpoint in Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya in May 2015. They are now detained in the district jail in Curipag, Solano, Nueva Vizcaya.
Getting one's life back is not so easy
Also at the gathering was former political prisoner Ronald Lucero, who was convicted and detained for 17 years. He was all smiles at the forum, as he came with his son, Richmond, with whom he has been reunited after his release. Richmond was just a newborn when Ronald was arrested.
Legaspi, too, was finally reunited with her children, and now spends her time taking care of her grandchildren. However, she laments that going back to her work as leader of the group Kadamay-Southern Tagalog is not as easy.
She fears that her movement is still being monitored by state security forces because village officials installed a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera right across her door. She now barely leaves the house for fear that something bad might happen to her.
"Andun pa rin, nakaka-stress pa rin (The stress remains)," she told Bulatlat.
"Nakalaya na ako pero nakakulong pa rin sa malawak na lipunan (I have been released from jail only to be imprisoned inside a larger prison, a repressive society)," she said.
Related story: Wife of detained NDFP consultant calls for husband's release, justice for son's death


Later, I took some photographs of the sunset. I used a filter on that too – if I don't, my camera tends to take all the colour out.
It wasn't really an action-packed day.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged dawn, filter, sunset on November 26, 2018 by quercuscommunity.
But it was a good day for pictures! The starburst setting really worked for the first photo, and dawn is always beautiful.
Beautiful sunset, well done with the camera and lens.
Can your Image capture program – or whatever you have – put the colour back the way you saw it.
I'm not sure – I'm not very good at that sort of thing. I will have to look into it.


Retired from formal teaching of ceramics at the Diploma level Sue now take time to indulge herself in a home studio making individual items, commissions, pieces for exhibition or competition, as well as Asian inspired tea ware.
Surfaces on Sue's work vary. Firing techniques and fuels range from solar electricity, gas and wood while clay bodies are often blended and altered for a personal style.


Last week we have seen the biggest 1Tbps -plus DDoS Attack on GitHub and other networks, which is mainly caused by memcache on the server. The potency of the attacks is due to memcached servers amplifying a target's spoofed IP address requests by a factor of 50,000.
Now here is some goods news for the server admins. DDoS protection firm Corero have mentioned that they have found a kill switch which will mitigate this Memcache DDoS issue 100 percent. Corero, says that they have tested its kill switch on the real attacking server and they have got 100 percent success results.
This Memcache issue is been now assigned with the CVE-2018-1000115, which identifies memcached version 1.5.5 as having an "Insufficient control of Network Message Volume vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood".
After the attack on the GitHub, an unknown users have also posted the exploit for the Memcache DDoS on internet, which makes other attackers works more easy. Moreover, before the attack- Rapid7's Project Sonar internet scanner detected nearly 140,000 open memcached devices. However, as of March 1, this has dropped to 58,000. Exposed memcached servers with UDP enabled have also fallen from 18,000 on March 1 to under 12,000 on March 5.
Still there are thousands of the servers which are still vulnerable to Memcache DDoS Attack. Another nasty thing you got to know that, some of the hundereds of the servers still using the older version of the memcache, which is also exploit to Remote Code Execution flaws that could allowed them to be used as part of botnet.


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Calendar Girls (2022). Calendar Girls: Directed by Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen. Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
"I just watched the documentary here in Sweden on SVTPlay. I was really hoping to get a cozy and nostalgic feeling and a personal portrait of the characters involved. Unfortunately this didnu0026#39;t reach that stage. Maybe because it was too short and a lot of things has to be squeezed into 60 minutes. It felt more, to me, like a part of a coverage on the evening news.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe documentary follows a group of elderly women that perform dances to playback music in mostly elderly facilities. Iu0026#39;ve never got to know if they come from different walks of life or what they have done earlier in their lifes, which to me are a must in such documentaries. The result is a short film on them dancing and selling calendars to support a good cause. Only for some quick moments will you meet a person on a deeper level of her life.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI honestly donu0026#39;t get the purpose of this documentary, itu0026#39;s not any revelation that there are older women that enjoy performing for an audience but I would like more inner thoughts and feelings of the characters, it would be much more interesting."
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The Space Infantry series takes the core concept of an elite squad of veteran sci-fi soldiers fighting through incredible obstacles to reach victory, using only the tools they bring with them and what they can scrounge on the way. You will see, feel and fight against enemies trying to stop you on your missions, as you never have before. Just when you think you can't take anymore, we've taken you to a whole new level.
Space Infantry - Resurgence as never experience it before. With all new art and new components for every Enemy Unit and location. You make all the strategic mission decisions in all new story-driven campaigns, and explore the depths of an enemy stronghold in randomly generated Hive Missions. Go head to head against another player as they take on the role of sinister alien intelligence, fighting against your squad in mission after mission in persistent campaigns. You want more, well we have more, now you can also work together with full coop player support. Once you've mastered those basics, take your skills into two new variants: The Last Outpost and Horde Mode.
Make no mistake, Space Infantry: Resurgence will test you and your squad as never before. Will you be able to guide your squad through mission after mission as the achieve traits and unique perks, or will the numerous alien races baying at our door win out; plunging the fledgling human race into oblivion. It's entirely up to you.


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Rico Love and Tiara Thomas share thoughts on her new album, 'The Bad Influence'
by A.R. Shaw
Tiara Thomas made a name for herself in the music industry after writing and performing on Wale's "Bad." Thomas eventually signed with Rico Love and Interscope and is set to release her first project, The Bad Influence.
Rolling out recently caught up with Love and Thomas at her listening brunch in Atlanta.
What can we expect from your new project The Bad Influence?
Tiara Thomas:
I'm super excited because I spent a lot of time on this album; almost eight months to a year just experiencing different stuff and writing about it and figuring out who I am as an artist. I'm really excited for everyone to be able to hear what I've been working on. I've been working hard. The album is called Bad Influence.
What is the significance behind the title, The Bad Influence?
Thomas:
There are a couple different meanings behind that. The more obvious reason would be the song I did with Wale called, "Bad." Also, a lot of the stuff I was writing about in my music came from experiences in my life and people's lives that are close to me. I may have been a bad influence on someone or something or they may have been a bad influence on me. That's the mood I was in for this album so that's what I decided to name it. I have a track on the album called "Bad Influence" and it's pretty tight.
Rico, why did you decide to work with Tiara Thomas?
Rico Love:
I feel like Tiara is just unapologetic. The way she approaches music is really unique and fly. When I first met her, she played the guitar, sang a song and spit a rhyme and it bugged me out. I always saw her beyond the guitar and that's important. That's why I am glad about this project. People know her as the girl with the guitar to the point that she would do shows and they would be like, where's the guitar. I just feel like she is way more than that. She's one of those artists that are just complete. The fact that she can play the piano, play the guitar and play the drums is dope. That's the greatest attribute of her, she has no limits. That's what I look for in anyone I want to work with or partner up with. To be able to find someone who is so much like me as an artist is great. We had so many things in common on how we create, how we write. I feel like that's the thing that's going to stand out most about her and separate her from everyone else. It's not the drive, it's true honesty and saying the things people are afraid to say.
Tiara, what have you learned most from working with Rico?
He is just a great mentor simply because he is really talented and really creative and he respects me and the music I create. He will let me vibe out myself. It's like I can vibe out by myself, but when I get to the studio with Rico, we always make something dope every single time. He is super creative and has great ideas and has helped me a lot with that and the album. With the songs I did by myself, I had him go through and did listening sessions with my team and a small group of people. Rico gave me a lot of input on how to make those songs bigger and better songs. I definitely learned a lot from him by working with him in the studio.
Tags: Interscope, Music, R&B, rap, Rico Love, Tiara Thomas
A.R. Shaw
A.R. Shaw is an author and journalist who documents culture, politics, and entertainment. He has covered The Obama White House, the summer Olympics in London, and currently serves as Lifestyle Editor for Rolling Out magazine. Follow his journey on Twitter @arshaw and Instagram @arshaw23.


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SoftMaker FreeOffice™ Provides a Free Alternative to Expensive Office Productivity Software
In a Nutshell: While the cost of a new computer may seem high, the real sticker shock often comes when you buy the software programs you need. The latest suite of office tools for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can run as much as $400, or $50 a year for a cloud version. German developer SoftMaker's FreeOffice is an alternative to the high-cost office productivity software. Users can download a free version for a variety of operating systems and create, open, and save documents and spreadsheets just as they would with more expensive programs — and in a layout that feels familiar.
About a year ago, I upgraded my laptop to a more powerful model with a faster processor, more memory, and a hard drive I'd be unlikely to fill up in a lifetime. It cost more than I'd expected, but I needed a capable, reliable tool for my work. Still, the cost of the computer was only the start of my expenses.
I've used a well-known office suite — with programs for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations — for decades, just like more than a billion people worldwide. It's what I'm used to, and it's always worked for me. But when it came time to buy the latest version for my new laptop, it shocked me how much it cost.
A full, professional version of the suite can run as much as $400, while a subscription version is an only slightly more manageable $50 a year. Still, that seemed high for a product that was first developed nearly three decades ago. I knew there were alternatives, but I assumed they wouldn't perform as well, so, reluctantly, I purchased the high-priced product.
However, we recently had the opportunity to review an alternative to the more expensive office suites. It's called FreeOffice and is made by SoftMaker, a German software company that was founded in 1987. The company has been developing and perfecting office productivity software on par with the most popular offerings on the market ever since.
SoftMaker's FreeOffice is a feature-rich alternative to high-priced office productivity suites.
FreeOffice 2018 is SoftMaker's most recent product and offers a version that's free to download and use. It is also fully compatible with the file formats used by other developers, including Microsoft, so you can create, open, or save any file with FreeOffice. Much of the look and feel are similar to — or even an improvement upon — the office products we're more accustomed to using.
We recently spoke with Jordan Popov, Sales Manager at SoftMaker, who provided some background on the company and its products.
"We've been around since 1987 and we offer the free version of our products to anyone, they just have to register it with us and we'll send them an activation key," Popov said.
That gives everyone — from students to entrepreneurs to established business owners — a cost-effective, high-quality option to accomplish their goals without draining their bank accounts.
Users Can Create Professional Word Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations
SoftMaker also makes a commercial version of its office productivity software, called SoftMaker Office 2018. Functionality between the paid and free versions is nearly identical, with some slightly more robust features — including free customer phone support — in the paid version.
The cost of the commercial version is far less than what others charge for their office suites. SoftMaker Office Standard 2018 costs just $69.95, and Office Professional is just $99.95. Both versions are complete, not subscription based, and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.
Whichever version they choose, users can create professional word documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in file formats compatible with other products, including Microsoft's. TextMaker is similar to Microsoft Word and can open and save any document created in that program. The company's full-featured spreadsheet program PlanMaker is similar to Excel, and Presentations, which is comparable to PowerPoint, allows for a variety of design and presentation functions.
TextMaker is FreeOffice's answer to document software including Microsoft Word.
In developing these alternatives, SoftMaker has created what it believes are improvements on the other versions on the market. The company doesn't support macros in its FreeOffice suite as it feels these are a potential security concern.
"We feel this makes the users of our FreeOffice software safer. We also think our interface is a little easier to use," Popov said.
One feature Popov refers to is the ability to toggle between ribbons and classic menus, and the toolbars interface. Either view is easy to switch to and allows for a more tailored experience. Anyone used to the Microsoft Office Suite of the past eight years is familiar with the ribbons interface, but there are still those who prefer a more basic layout.
One of the Best Reviewed Office Software Alternatives
One thing that's clear about SoftMaker's FreeOffice suite is that outside reviewers and tech blogs also seem to love it. Awards and accolades from independent sources include:
"Best Microsoft Office alternative overall." — Digital Trends
"One of the best productivity suites around. Highly, highly recommended." — Tech Radar
"The best free alternative to Microsoft Office."— Neowin
"FreeOffice is an excellent and versatile Office alternative." — PC World
Since its introduction, millions of consumers and businesses have downloaded SoftMaker's FreeOffice suite. According to Popov, the highest concentration of downloads comes from Germany, the US, UK, Brazil, India, and Russia.
"Our newest version of FreeOffice for 2018 has been really well-received — especially when we look at the download rates worldwide," Popov said.
SoftMaker's FreeOffice suite has earned high marks for its functionality from many trusted media outlets.
And with SoftMaker's long history of developing robust and well-supported products, users know they can trust the company to deliver what it promises — including email.
If you're wondering about the company's answer to Microsoft's Outlook, SoftMaker integrated an enhanced version of Thunderbird — the open-source, cross-platform email client from Mozilla.
"We decided to use Thunderbird, with some additional features we developed and modified to fit our own look and feel," said Popov. "We've also added some features like shortcut keys that Thunderbird doesn't come with."
Small businesses around the world trying to spur early growth turn to SoftMaker to attain razor-thin profit margins. But they stay with SoftMaker because of its commitment to quality and responsive support.
Providing Free Support Through Its Extensive Forums
One significant area of concern for users of alternative software is the level of product support they can expect. For those who choose the commercial version of SoftMaker Office, free customer support is available via email. Users can enter a description of their question or problem, along with screenshots of the issues they encounter, and can expect a prompt response.
For FreeOffice users, SoftMaker provides an in-depth knowledge base through its support forum, a monthly newsletter, tips and tricks section, and the automated feedback mechanism on the website.
"We have a forum where people can log in to report a problem or see what others have reported," said Popov. "We also have a robust support team that's available for the paid version. However, problems or requests for features on the paid version flow to the free version as we do updates."
"We take feedback as the basis to improve our features. Our product managers and support team are always looking at the feedback and working with the development team to prioritize changes and fixes." — Jordan Popov, Sales Manager at SoftMaker
Popov touted the internal support structure and the dedication of the development teams responsible for support and updates to the various products.
"We take feedback as the basis to improve our features. Our product managers and support team are always looking at the feedback and working with the development team to prioritize changes and fixes," he said.
In this way, the updates and enhancements to products take a short time to make it to even the free versions of the company's flagship product line.
SoftMaker's FreeOffice productivity software is a robust alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite that's easy to use, highly reviewed, and includes in-depth documentation. But, best of all, it's free.


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Celebrated Name: Henry Kravis
Real Name/Full Name: Henry R. Kravis
Birth Date: 6 January 1944
Birth Place: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Wife/Spouse (Name): Marie-Josee Drouin
Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): Yes (3)
Dating/Girlfriend (Name): N/A
Is Henry Kravis Gay?: No
Profession: Businessman
Net Worth in 2022: $7 Billion
Maybe you know about Henry Kravis very well, but do you know how old and tall is he and what is his net worth in 2022? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of Henry Kravis's short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today's net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you're ready, let's start.
The multibillionaire, Henry Kravis was born on the 6th of January 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the US to Raymond and Bessie Kravis. The businessman borrows this business mind from his father, who was an oil engineer in Tulsa, a successful engineer and businessman.
Kravis attended Eaglebrook School, where he began his academic life. He then joined the Loomie Chaffe School high school, where he was so successful and actually participated in governing the school, he was the school`s vice president, elected by the students. Henry later joined the Claremont Mckenna College, where he pursued economics, probably the basis for his successful business ideas.
Henry is currently married to Marie-Josee Drouin. They got married in 1995 in a private wedding ceremony. Marie is Canadian, an economist, and formerly a media personality. Briefly, she is a business lady, just like Henry. She is the president of the Museum of Modern Art. The couple has no children yet.
Henry has three children with his former wife, Helene Diane, whom he divorced. Unfortunately, she died of cancer in 1997 after marrying Thompson. However, their children are alive, Harrison S. Kravis, Kimberly Kravis Schulhof, and Robert R. Kravis.
Henry then married Carolyne Roehm, a designer, and the couple spent about eight years together but did not have children, they unfortunately divorced in 1993. It only took him two years before he married Marie, whom he has been fluid with since 1995 to this current date.
Henry lives seasonally in his various homes; in New York City, Southampton, Paris, and Palm Beach of Florida, among many other homes. He lives a flamboyant life.
Being born on 6 January 1944, Henry Kravis is 78 years old as of today's date 19th January 2022. His height is 1.76m tall, and his weight is 73 kg.
Henry studied economy and hence worked several offices in New York in the financial sectors.
Henry, together with his cousin, George, joined the Bear Stearns. Henry worked as the assistant to the corporate manager. They then became partners at the Bear Stearn.
Henry, George, and Kohlberg began doing investments, a series of investments they named bootstrap. They began to buyouts companies such as Thompson wire, Boren Clay, stern metals, income, and cobblers industries. These were important and big investments that there was tension between Kravis, Roberts(George) and Kohlberg, and the Bear Stearns company, which resulted in the founding of the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Investment company.
They invested in many companies in the United States and made huge Buyouts, such as with RJR Nabisco, which cost them about $ 31 billion. They invested in companies such as Safeway, Beatrice Foods, Hospital Corporation of America, TXU, Playtex, and many other companies.
He has also made a significant appearance in United States politics. He is a firm supporter of the Republican political party. He was a significant supporter and financial of the United States former president, George H.W Bush. Henry played a vital role in the re-election campaign of George Bush.
Henry is said to have contributed $ 1 million during President Trump`s presidential inauguration.
Henry Kravis has achieved a lot as a Billionaire, especially in the political world of the United States. He is vital financially in the Republican political party.
Henry Kravis is the sole sponsor of the Henry Kravis Leadership Institute that sponsors the Leadership Studies Programs at the Claremont McKenna College. He also sponsors the `Henry Kravis Internships for Teachers of Color program.
Henry has financed several constructions of schools such as The Loomis Chaffee School, where there is the Kravis Hall, Middlesex School, evidenced by the Kravis House, Eaglebrook School, where he built the Kravis Dorm and the Kravis Arena at Deerfield Academy.
Henry has another nonprofit program, The Henry R. Kravis, in Nonprofit Leadership. The program was established in 2006 to identify extraordinary leaders and appreciate their accomplishments. The prizes are always presented by Marie, Henry, and Claremont McKenna College.
Henry once donated $15 million aided to establish the Center for Cardiovascular Health. He is one of the chairs of the Columbia Business School Board of Overseers. He has recently pledged $ 100 million to support the school`s new project. He is generally supportive.
Net Worth & Salary of Henry Kravis in 2022
Henry Kravis Net Worth
The flamboyant businessman is an effective investor. As of January 2022, The billionaire is estimated to have a net worth of $7 billion. He also runs various big businesses across the continent and the state. Basing from his huge financial donations, he is a wealthy businessman. He owns a variety of huge assets and hence a billionaire. Henry was ranked the 375th richest person in the Globe.
Henry is a perfect entrepreneur and businessman to admire and follow their footsteps. He has a golden heart of giving basing from his donation.


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Lucian B. Watkins: Biography and a Collection of Poems
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Not a great deal of biographical information is available about Lucian Bottow Watkins (1879-1921), who generally published as Lucian B. Watkins. Watkins himself writes a brief memoir as the Preface to his one published book of poetry, Voices of Solitude (1907), which can be found here. He indicates he was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and received a basic education as a young man at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. He graduated and received certification as a teacher in 1897. He only taught for two sessions (perhaps about a year?), and then left teaching to work as a waiter at a series of hotels in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, before enlisting in the Army in 1900. From his poems, we see that Watkins was stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, and Fort Washakie, Wyoming. He was also stationed in the Philippines in 1900-1901 before returning to the U.S. Starting in 1901, he started publishing essays and poetry in venues such as Colored American Magazine. Watkins describes himself as re-enlisting in 1903, and being sent for a second time to the Phillippines.
Watkins is best known for Voices of Solitude, but also published prolifically through the 1910s. He published several poems in The Crisis, and was also a regular contributor to the UNIA's newspaper, Negro World. Watkins' poetry shows a high degree of race consciousness and an activist sensibility that is impressive and often powerful. Robert Kerlin has a section on Watkins' poetry in Negro Poets and their Poems under the header "Poetry of Protest."
Robert Kerlin suggests Watkins served again during World War I, and had his health "wrecked" during that final tour of duty (as of the present writing, we are not aware of the exact illness Watkins may have contracted while serving his country in combat). Kerlin's final poem was published in Negro World just a few weeks before his death.
My fallen star has spent its light
And left but memory to me;
My day of dream has kissed the night
Farewell, its sun no more I see;
My summer bloomed for winter's frost:
Alas, I've lived and loved and lost!
What matters it to-day should earth
Lay on my head a gold-bright crown
Lit with the gems of royal worth
Befitting well a king's renown?--
My lonely soul is trouble-tossed,
For I have lived and loved and lost.
Great God! I dare not question Thee--
Thy way eternally is just;
This seeming mystery to me
Will be revealed, if I but trust;
Ah, Thou alone dost know the cost
When one has lived and loved and lost.
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1 2022-06-24T09:41:47-04:00 Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1 Lucian B. Watkins, "Frederick Douglass-Orator" (1917) 2 plain 2022-08-09T10:18:47-04:00 08/01/1917 Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
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1 2022-06-15T07:40:28-04:00 Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1 Lucian B. Watkins "Song of the American Dove" (1916) 2 plain 2022-07-02T07:58:49-04:00 06/01/1916 Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
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Adversarial Machine Learning: Are We Playing the Wrong Game?
https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/events/2017/06/adversarial-machine-learning
Presented by David Evans
ICSI Lecture Hall
Machine learning classifiers are increasingly popular for security applications, and often achieve outstanding performance in testing. When deployed, however, classifiers can be thwarted by motivated adversaries who adaptively construct adversarial examples that exploit flaws in the classifier's model. Much work on adversarial examples, including Carlini and Wagner's attacks which are the best results to date, has focused on finding small distortions to inputs that fool a classifier. Previous defenses have been both ineffective and very expensive in practice. In this talk, I'll describe a new very simple strategy, feature squeezing, that can be used to harden classifiers by detecting adversarial examples. Feature squeezing reduces the search space available to an adversary by coalescing samples that correspond to many different inputs in the original space into a single sample. Adversarial examples can be detected by comparing the model's predictions on the original and squeezed sample. In practice, of course, adversaries are not limited to small distortions in a particular metric space. Indeed, it may be possible to make large changes to an input without losing its intended malicious behavior. We have developed an evolutionary framework to search for such adversarial examples, and demonstrated that it can automatically find evasive variants against state-of-the-art classifiers. This suggests that work on adversarial machine learning needs a better definition of adversarial examples, and to make progress towards understanding how classifiers and oracles perceive samples differently.
David Evans (https://www.cs.virginia.edu/evans/) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and leader of the Security Research Group. He is the author of an open computer science textbook and a children's book on combinatorics and computability. He is Program Co-Chair for ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2017, and previously was Program Co-Chair for the 31st (2009) and 32nd (2010) IEEE Symposia on Security and Privacy (where he initiated the SoK papers). He has SB, SM and PhD degrees in Computer Science from MIT and has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia since 1999.
Project site: https://evademl.org
Demo: https://github.com/QData/AdversarialDNN-Playground


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Bob Montgomery brings his attraction industry experience back to Branson.
Scott Shipley is a world-class kayak competitor and designer of the planned course.
What's next for Branson Adventures?
A public study session is set for April 5 on the nearly $446 million proposal to create a whitewater rafting and water park resort off the Branson strip.
The focus of the session is Branson developer David Cushman's pursuit of roughly $115.6 million in public financing for the project known as Branson Adventures, including some $80 million in tax increment financing. If approved, construction is planned to start by spring 2019.
Cushman's CP Branson LLC in early March garnered approval from the city's TIF Commission with a 7-4 vote on the financing plan. The TIF plan is now tentatively set for review by the Branson Board of Aldermen on April 24.
Public financing for the project largely would come from property and sales taxes collected in an accompanying community improvement district, a 302-acre tract where the park would be built. City-pledged sales tax revenue would contribute roughly $18.6 million, according to the TIF plan.
CP Branson LLC is the known entity putting forward the $446 million development plan for Branson Adventures.
And behind CP Branson is David Cushman. In addition to nearly a dozen active LLCs registered with the state, the Branson developer operates Cushman Properties LLC, a development firm created in 1998 with legs in the tourism, leisure and attractions industries.
Springfield Business Journal caught up with Cushman about his development work, past and future.
Cushman is a native Branson businessman with roots in electrical contracting. He's also had a hand in out-of state development consulting work in the attractions business, namely in Colorado and New York.
Branson Adventures is not Cushman's first megaproject proposal involving public money in Branson.
In 2006, Cushman unsuccessfully sought tax increment financing for a proposed $600 million Pinnacle Falls attraction, located on the same acreage fronting Highway 76 and Highway 376 on Branson's west side.
The European-hillside themed Pinnacle Falls called for a 300-suite hotel, indoor water park, specialty shops and restaurants, interactive fountains and a roughly $45 million aquarium, according to past Springfield Business Journal reporting. The filed TIF was the deal-breaker, he said.
If successful, Branson Adventures would be Cushman's largest project developed.
Cushman told SBJ his latest proposal is dead in the water without TIF approval.
"The project doesn't happen," he said.
Branson Adventures calls for a 100,000-square-foot indoor waterpark and resort, cabins, campsites, mountain biking trails, rope courses, a "special attractions" area, retail, food and beverage offerings – including a microbrewery – and the park cornerstone: a customizable whitewater rafting course.
Cushman said his experience includes some residential development, and he's also staked a claim in the Branson signage business through his Adventure Media Group LLC and The Cushman Co. LLC.
Cushman said he started bidding electrical work at 16 years old, later taking on horizontal construction as he continued in the industry through his early 20s.
"I've kind of been, since then, a bit of a serial entrepreneur," he said.
With his primary interest in commercial development, by his mid-20s Cushman said he began investing in real estate, with some of the resulting properties now part of the Branson Adventures plan.
He said his largest out-of-pocket project to date is the Branson Financial Center, which he developed in 2004 at a project cost of about $8 million.
Out of state, Cushman said he's advised on projects in Colorado.
In recent years, Cushman said he advised on a nearly $140 million attraction called the Indoor Waterpark Resort of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado, as well as a more than $100 million 4-star hotel and conference center in Windsor, Colorado. The projects – attributes of a larger regional tourism plan dubbed "Go NoCo" that involves a nearly $70 million whitewater rafting course – remain in financial limbo and have yet to be built.
In New York state, Cushman said he consulted on a planned $300 million attraction. Confidentiality agreements, he said, prevent him from detailing the work.
Aside from the failed Pinnacle Falls proposal – which died after the city of Branson denied the TIF request – Branson Adventures is his largest personal development venture.
SBJ's attempts to reach Branson aldermen from the 2006 era were unsuccessful. Lou Schaefer, who was mayor 1995-2007, died in 2008, and other members could not be reached by press time.
Branson's city website notes between 2004 and 2007, some $580 million in projects were developed in the city, including the Branson Convention Center and hotel complex, Branson Landing and Branson Hills. The $420 million Branson Landing outdoor shopping center by HCW Development Co. was assisted by TIF monies from the state of Missouri, according to past SBJ reports.
Cushman's team has been tooling the Branson Adventures plan now for three years.
"It started getting a lot more serious about two years ago, and for the last year, it's been nonstop," Cushman said. "Pinnacle Falls was a good concept at a different time. It didn't advance as far as this [Branson Adventures] project, and that's OK.
Bob Montgomery, a principal at Toronto-based AllPark Solutions, said he joined the Branson Adventures team as an attraction programs consultant.
Montgomery said he has held senior executive positions with the likes of Paramount Entertainment, The Lego Group toy company and Herschend Family Entertainment Corp., the owner-operator of Silver Dollar City. The positions each related to the attractions industry.
Montgomery said he and Cushman collaborated on Colorado's Go NoCo plans as well as the confidential New York attraction. He previously lived in Branson for eight years, while working for Herschend Family Entertainment.
Bill Ryan – project manager, vice president and CEO of Architectural Design Consultants Inc. – said he has consulted on projects with Cushman for the past roughly four years on a national scale.
Based in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, Ryan said he's completed design work for some 80 percent of the Great Wolf Lodge indoor waterparks nationwide. Ryan said he also has developed designs for Kalahari Resorts and Conventions and Wilderness Hotel and Golf Resort, both similar resorts to Great Wolf Lodge.
Scott Shipley – owner of Lyons, Colorado-based S2O Design and Engineering – is heading up the design of Branson Adventures' flagship whitewater rafting course. Shipley said he has competed in three Olympic games as a kayaker and holds four world titles in the sport.
Shipley said he and Cushman have been collaborating over the past five or six years on whitewater courses at undisclosed attractions, also kept secret by confidentiality agreements.


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More from Ora: Julia Louis-Dreyfus discusses her most embarrassing moment
Jay Ellis & Andrea Savage on success and failure
'Insecure' star Jay Ellis opens up about his path to success, Issa Rae's leadership, & why he's thrown his weight behind HIV advocacy. Later, Andrea Savage joins to discuss her new series, 'I'm Sorry,' & working with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Andrea Savage shares 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' details
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'Insecure' creator Issa Rae wants to run a studio
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Vic Mensa on mental health stigma, Chicago, & Obama
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Max Greenfield on 'New Girl,' fatherhood, & Lady Gaga
Issa Rae on 'Insecure,' Jerry Seinfeld, & success
Larry King sits down with Actor/Producer Jay Ellis, popularly known for portraying Lawrence of Issa Rae's 'Insecure'. They discuss the surprise success of the series, and the evolution of his character as the underdog. Larry asks how Jay deals with his overnight celebrity after years of struggling in LA as an actor. after leaving basketball to pursue acting. Jay also reveals what it was like growing up as a military brat. Jay also recalls his rough path to his success on 'Insecure', his initial embarrassing auditions, and being dropped by his first agent while breaking into the industry. After getting let go from his day job, Jay discusses his plan to begin acting full time while lying to his parents for 2 years straight. Jay, who has had family members affected by HIV/AIDS, delves into his passion and duty to broaden HIV advocacy, and on his work with the Obama administration to close the opportunity gap for men of color. Jay also discusses his venture as an Executive Producer with the digital show 'Hard Medicine'.
Actor/Comedienne/Writer Andrea Savage talks her new show 'I'm Sorry' with Larry King. They discuss the meaning of the show's title, her character, and her inspiration, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. Andrea reveals real stories from her life that have made it into the show, and women's progress in Hollywood. Andrea reveals that in the same way she's had a lot of success, she's has just as much heartbreak and disappointment. She also briefly discusses her new role on the show that inspired her own, 'Curb your Enthusiasm'. Andrea talks her comedic growth, going from The Groundlings, to performing stand up, leading all the way up to her audition for 'Veep' with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whom she looks up to as a producer and actress. Andrea, passionate about her success and her failures, presses the importance of embracing failure. Jay and Andrea end their interviews answering fan questions from twitter, and playing a game of 'If You Only Knew' with Larry.


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Claudemir Domingues de Souza (born 27 March 1988), commonly known as Claudemir, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Portuguese club Vizela.

Career
Born in Macaúbas, Claudemir began his career with São Carlos, before joining Dutch club Vitesse in February 2008. He moved to Danish club Copenhagen in June 2010, and Belgian club Club Brugge in January 2015.

On 18 July 2017, Claudemir signed a two season-contract with Saudi club Al-Ahli.

After just one season in Saudi Arabia, he joined Portuguese side Braga. In January 2020 he moved from Braga to Turkish side Sivasspor.

On 27 July 2021 he joined Portuguese club Vizela.

Honours
FC Copenhagen
Danish Superliga: 2010–11, 2012–13
Danish Cup: 2011–12

Club Brugge
Belgian First Division: 2015–16
Belgian Cup: 2014–15
Belgian Supercup: 2016

References

1988 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
São Carlos Futebol Clube players
SBV Vitesse players
F.C. Copenhagen players
Club Brugge KV players
Al-Ahli Saudi FC players
S.C. Braga players
Sivasspor footballers
F.C. Vizela players
Eredivisie players
Danish Superliga players
Belgian Pro League players
Saudi Professional League players
Primeira Liga players
Süper Lig players
Association football midfielders
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
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Why printer management software fails?
Printer management software collect printer data like meter readings, toner levels, consumables and printer errors. Data collection is done by a software that gathers info from network printers and sends it over to a central database outside the local network. A software that captures data from the local network and sends it to an external server is usually detected by the antivirus and flagged as malicious software. Antivirus are updated every 3 hours with numerous changes. When a software that works in the background to monitor printers (aka DCA) is not expressly added in the white list as an antivirus exclusion, it can be blocked very easily. The antivirus can block or even delete the executable files and printers monitoring software will stop reporting. Windows updates, can also block any monitoring software that finds suspicious of spying the net.
The solution is to re-install the software and make sure you whitelist the Printer Management Software adding it to the list of antivirus exclusions. As a complement the AMR Driver (DCA) software-only version, we introduce AMR Cube. A software + hardware solution that provides reliability over time . Not being affected by antivirus and network changes. We include list of pros and cons of the software-only version (AMR Driver) versus the hardware + software version (AMR Cube) .
This action will delete the selected printer from the AMR database.
If the printer is not reporting. will be deleted definitely.
You will send a message to the client driver so that the printer in that IP address will stop reporting.
If the driver is active and running, will delete the printer from its list and it will not report again.
If you deleted a printer by error, simply wait 24h and it will show up again.
You can also look for another pinter from the same installation and force a meter reading now with Send Counters. It will send a meter reading of all printers in that site, included the one you deleted by accident.
You can also search in the install list and force a meter reading now.
The response time of a reading, if the installation is active and the printer is connected, is 10 min maximum.
Now from AMR Messages you will receive an alarm when a customer changes the toner before it's empty.
You'd be surprised to know how many times a user changes the 4 color toners when only one or two of them are empty. If they have it available, they simply change all toners and don't care about your money.
Other users, doing maintenance duties, sometimes change the toner when it's low but not empty yet, so they don't have to run when it really runs out.
To detect and solve those ecological and economic problems, we have implemented a new feature in the AMR Messages application. It's so easy, in a new tab you will receive a message when a customer changes toner ahead of time.
You just have to request a free update of the server software and start receiving notifications of change of toner before the time.
Printer management: Where are you losing money?
managing printers, MDF and photocopiers.
Find attached a cost study of manual printer management including some hidden costs that you probably havent thougth about.
When you call your customers every month to ask for the printer meter readings.
Even if you send them an e-mail and wait for them to respond with the printer counters.
More than $ 1,000 per month.
When you have collected all the meter readings, you probably also enter all the data into your billing software manually.
More than $ 300 per month.
When your customers call you to order toner, you need at least one person on the phone to manage toner orders.
Most probably some of them are urgent because they didn't call beforehand, they just called when the printer stoped.
More than $ 1000 per month.
To manage 500 toner orders by phone per month (Average according to the AMR statistical study) At 5 minutes per order.
Urgent toner shipment of 1 for every 10 toner orders.
50 orders at $ 10 = $ 500 per month.
To offer a good service you probably leave a spare toner cartridge in stock on each client.
At least some of them are out of control, hidden at some cabinet in their office.
If its a color printer that means 4 cartridges instead of 1.
More than $ 100K of tied-up capital.
500 x $ 85 = $ 42,500 of tied-up capital.
500 x 300 $ = $ 150,000 of tied-up capital.
Total $ 192,500 of tied-up capital.
Even if it's only a fraction of this money, it's a lot of of tied-up capital for nothing.
Your customer call you when they have an issue with their printers.
More often that not, your field technicians go on the run to fix a urgent printer breakdown.
Due to the lack of first hand information sometimes they have to return to close the ticket.
Organization cost to cover emergencies and re-arrange scheduled maintenance.
Extra cost due to lack of precise information of the printer error.
Save more than $ 2,000 / Month by automating your printer management.
How to automate printer management.
Avoiding user calls and even emails to report a printer malfunction will save you time and money.
Ticket management from the web, is simple enough so that your customers will always use it. Your client will save time and you will save money.
With the AMR web interface for end users , information flows bi-directionally in real time.
Printer end users can easily open a ticket in case of printer failure or from any browser.
- The customer or end user detects a fault in any printer.
- He/She acces the website with user and password, access the list of printers and clicks on the wrench icon.
- Fills in a brief description of the error or breackdown. He/She can also indicate name and email.
- A red traffic light with a counter appear on the control panel of the maintenance service provider (the printer's distributor).
- In real time this change of state and the associated comment, are visible to the final client or user. The date of the process is also recorded.
This way, information flows in both directions in real time without the need for telephone calls. The information is centralized and registered in a single place and accessible in a transparent manner.
If I tell you that the only thing you have to do is to take a picture of any ticket that you probably have in your wallet and the rest of your expenses report is done automatically? What would you think?
I wasn't sure, it really could capture the data automatically from the ticket and put it into a database without any previous template. So I decided to try it myself with some tickets.
I followed the next steps with no hassle and the result really surprised me.
Downloaded the app and signup with my email address. Captio creates a user in their cloud.
From the app, I snapped a picture of some of the tickets I had in my wallet. I realized how long they are these days.
After a few seconds the file was sent to their cloud server to run an OCR and after a while I saw some results. It toke a long while, few minutes maybe, so I recommend you take some pictures and leave it working in the background while you do something else.
The free version has a 10 tickets limit so it's only to test the app. Prices start from 8€/month for freelancers, 60€/month for small business up to 10 users and 700€/month for up companies with up to 100 users. It may look a bit pricy for an app but it really frees you from a pain in the * hassle.
Yes a couple tickets didn't came trough but they where really wrinkled ones. I deleted them and tried again. You can also upload a manual ticket.
At the end of the process, you can mark some or all of the tickets and send them via email to your book keeper and it automatically add them and send the total amount. If you have a company account, your accountant will be able to get them in their account, so you don't even have to send them over. You can also ask for the approval of your boss. He will be able to confirm them and pass them over to the appropriate department.
I would definitely recommend Captio to anyone who likes working in the field and hates the paperwork thats normally left behind and suddenly has to be done on the weekend before the end of the month. It's also interesting for accountants that don't like to go behind the sales team. Or to anyone that likes to automate back-office jobs.
News from Konica Minolta. Everything but printing.
On October 24th I was invited to the new product presentation of Konica Minolta in Barcelona.
Embossed print starting from one unit.
The novelty is that Konica's professional printing services can now offer embossed prints without requiring large quantities, that is, starting from one unit.
Web user interface for ordering prints within the company.
It is a web environment from which an employee of a large company or institution can order business cards, brochures, bookbinders, etc. It is an internal virtual store. It allows a flow of approval of costs by the superior and an exact control of the work done by the reproduction center. The recipient of the order can be an internal reprography center or an external company.
Security cameras with multiple sensors and a processor.
Mobotix, are security cameras with dual sensors (Monochrome infrared, Color) full of sensors: thermal camera, IR movement, accelerometer, microphone and speaker. All combined with powerful software allows you to control a flow of customers in a parking lot or in the building hall. Detect fire or intruders in unauthorized areas. We saw an example where it detects fire and after 5 seconds it triggers the alarm.
More accessible information, more reliable consumable alarms.
AMR presents a great software update that makes it even easier to manage printers.
More information about toner alarms.
All historical at a glance to make decisions.
Filter to avoid false alarms.
Improvements of user interface in Manager, Messages and Signal.
Firmware update blocks HP printers with non-original cartridges.
According to several sources HP has begun to force automatic firmware updates (13/09/2016) blocking printers with HP non-original cartridge. The printer stops printing when non-original cartridge is detected.
HP buys Samsung printer division: This is a BOMB !
Let me share with you what I've learned in the Photizo group webinar : "HP buys Samsung". 5 experts have shared their profound knowledge about this big financial and industrial operation. I have taken the liberty to make a brief summary attached below.
More than 50% of the 700 attending the webinar, felt that the operation "HP buys Samsung" was revolutionary or transformative for the market.


Sadly another pub has joined the ever-growing catalogue of closed pubs in and around Brixton, with the The Hop Poles at 60 Upper Tulse Hill, London SW2 2RW soon to be flattened.
The current, rather unattractive, building replaced the earlier pub seen in this 1965 view.
View more photos of the pub in the feature here, or share your memories and anecdotes on the bulletin board thread.


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Q: Jmeter Clear cache after each http request I am trying to clear the cache after each http request accomplished in a thread group. I have already used the http_cache manager but not successful.
Also tried to add a beanshell sampler with following code but didn't work
import org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.CacheManager;

CacheManager clearCache = ctx.getCurrentSampler().getProperty("HTTPSampler.cache_manager").getObjectValue();

clearCache.clear();

And getting
ERROR - jmeter.util.BeanShellInterpreter: Error invoking bsh method: eval   Sourced file: inline evaluation of: ``import org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.CacheManager;  CacheManager clear . . . ''

Also tried to use the pre/post-processor, but not working. Also added the variable for http header.
Please refer the screenshot attached.
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Thread Group

A: Removing cache after each sampler doesn't make any sense because your JMeter script behaviour won't match real browsers behaviour.
The main feature of the HTTP Cache Manager is preventing repeated downloading of the embedded resources like images, scripts, fonts, styles like real browsers do for consecutive HTTP requests. See HTTP Caching article for more details.
If you intend to remove cache between requests - simply don't add the HTTP Cache Manager to your Test Plan.

However if you're looking for the way of manually initiating clearing of cache:

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*be aware that since JMeter 3.1 it's recommended to use JSR223 Test Elements and Groovy language mainly because Groovy performance is much higher comparing to Beanshell

*there is sampler shorthand in JSR223 Test Elements which stands for HTTPSamplerProxy which in its turn has getCacheManager() function
So you would need to add a suitable JSR223 Test Element, i.e. JSR223 PostProcessor and use the following code:
sampler.getCacheManager().clear()

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Checkerberry Lane south of Iles Avenue will be closed starting Monday for street improvements. The repairs should be completed overnight, but may be delayed by weather.
In addition, Woodfield Drive at Iles Avenue will be closed intermittently throughout the day starting Tuesday for street improvements. The repairs should be completed in one day, but may be delayed by weather.


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Jeremy Haun's "Haunthology" Goes Live On Kickstarter
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | Exclusives
The newest creation from comic writer/artist Jeremy Haun (Constantine, Detective Comics, The Realm), HAUNTHOLOGY is a horror anthology that channels the frustration and isolation of the pandemic into tales of madmen, cosmic horror, and spectral happenings!
A graphic novel of 24 interlocking short comic stories, Haun started the project in April 2020 to reflect the claustrophobia, isolation, and uncertainty that threw the world into chaos. Haun blends that real-world dread with the iconic horror lexicon of monsters, creeps, and murderers, creating an unforgettable experience that will fuel countless sleepless nights—and provide a new lens of catharsis and reflection on the past year.
"HAUNTHOLOGY is a collection of short horror stories that examines all of the things we felt over the past year and a half during COVID. Each story stands on its own, but also connects to a bigger mythos within the book and my larger oeuvre," Haun explains. "When the comics industry went 'Pencils Down,' leaving many comic writers and artists in professional limbo, I needed something to focus on. For me, that focus is telling stories. I decided to focus on one story—just a short feeling. That led to another. And another. The cumulative work is this anthology."
Haun worked alongside designer Fonografiks (Saga, The Beauty) and editor Joel Enos to produce HAUNTHOLOGY, crafting the sequential art equivalent of the chilling prose short story collections that inspired him in his youth. "I've always loved collections of short stories," Haun says. "They're most common in prose—they're more rare in comics. I wanted to do something that was all me– a comics version of what you'd see from Stephen King, Joe Hill, Clive Barker, Laird Barron, or Nathan
Ballingrud."
Check out the RUE MORGUE exclusive preview below, and check out the HAUNTHOLOGY Kickstarter page for more info.
Fonografiks
Haunthology
Jeremy Haun
Joel Enos
Rocco T. Thompson
Rue Morgue's Online Managing Editor, Rocco is a Rondo-nominated film journalist and avid devotee of all things weird and outrageous. He penned the cover story for Rue Morgue's landmark July/Aug 2019 "Queer Fear" Special Issue, and is an associate producer on In Search of Darkness: Part III, the latest installment in CreatorVC's popular 1980s horror documentary series.


Currently on pre-launch pricing and offering exceptional value, this new 46-storey high-rise project in the city centre offers investors some of the best rental yields in the city.
Arcadia Beach Continental is a centrally-located, European-inspired fully-featured resort offering a Guaranteed Rental Scheme providing a 10% return for seven years.
Built on the highest point in the city, this 40-storey tower development offers the best views in town together with top quality construction standards plus excellent facilities.
Arcadia Beach Continental is a centrally-located, European-inspired fully-featured resort offering exceptionally affordable one and two-bedroom apartments.
This luxurious high-rise project on upmarket Pratumnak Hill offers stunning sea views together with an exclusive deal where buyers can obtain a 20 year permanent resident visa.
Occupying a convenient location high above the Cosy Beach area of Pratumnak Hill, this exclusive, 15-storey tower development currently offers excellent value-for-money.
Offering a highly convenient central location, affordable starting prices and a wide range of facilities, Olympus City Garden is an excellent investment opportunity.
Perfectly located within easy reach of Pattaya city centre, Bangkok and the industrial estates to the north, these beautiful three-bedroom/four-bathroom villas make for ideal homes.
With iconic architecture, perfect beachfront location in Pattaya's most upmarket area, the large apartments at The Cove are quite simply the most luxurious in the city.
Pattaya City Realty is East Asia's leading specialists for anyone looking to buy real estate in Thailand's most vibrant and affordable resort city.
With over three decades of selling property and 12 years' experience in the Pattaya market, you can be sure that Pattaya City Realty offers a highly professional service backed by the most comprehensive advice. We are here to assist you throughout the buying process from your initial interest right through until you are holing the keys and title deed to your new dream home in the sun.
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France to end lockdown Dec 15, shops to reopen Saturday
France aims to lift a nationwide lockdown on December 15, President Emmanuel Macron said, with shops authorised to reopen as early as Saturday after weeks of closure.
In a TV address Tuesday, Macron said some restrictions would remain in place to avoid a resurgence of the virus, and the threat of another lockdown.
"We have slowed the spread of the virus," Macron said, "but it is still very much present".
Only moments before the president's address, France's health agency reported 458 new coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 50,237.
But according to health authorities, the second virus wave reached its peak last week, with numbers of new infections, new hospital admissions and new intensive care patients all declining, while death figures have stabilised.
"If we don't want a third lockdown, we must intensify our efforts," Macron said, by protecting the most vulnerable groups and wearing masks "including when we're with friends or with relatives who don't live under the same roof".
The current lockdown, in force since the end of October, will be replaced by a countrywide curfew from 9:00 pm to 7:00 am starting December 15, Macron said, except on December 24 and 31—Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
"We will be able to travel without authorisation, including between regions, and spend Christmas with our families," Macron said.
French people should, however, avoid "pointless travel", he said.
Cinemas, theatres and museums will be allowed to reopen on December 15.
But restaurants—as well as high schools—will have to wait until January 20 to reopen, and only on condition that daily new virus cases drop below 5,000, Macron said.
He gave no target date for any reopening of bars, cafes or nightclubs.
France's 350 ski resorts, among the most popular in Europe, will not be allowed to reopen in time for the year-end holiday season, Macron said.
It was preferable, Macron said, to plan for a re-opening of the resorts in January "under favourable conditions".
Starting on Saturday and pending the December 15 end to the lockdown, people will be allowed to move freely in a radius of 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) around their homes for up to three hours a day, compared to 1 kilometre for up to one hour now.
Religious ceremonies will also be authorised again from Saturday, but are limited to 30 people, Macron said.
Macron also said that he hoped that the first COVID vaccines would be available for use by the end of December or in early January.
Vaccines would be made available to high-risk populations first and will not be made mandatory, Macron vowed.
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Allan H. Treman is one of the largest inland marinas in New York State. It boasts 370 seasonal, 30 transient and 30 dry boat slips. For folks trailering boats, the park has an 8-lane boat launch ramp. The marina is an excellent port-of-call off the Barge Canal system at the south end of Cayuga Lake and within easy walking distance to the city of Ithaca along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. For bird watching fans, the Hog Hole wetland and the Cayuga Lake shoreline make for great opportunities to view waterfowl and wetland species.
This is a marina only park. We're often confused with Robert H. Treman State Park, which is located 4 miles to the south, not on Cayuga Lake.
Household pets only; caged or on a leash not more than 6 feet. Certificate proof of rabies inoculation.


The case currently remains active with further arrests not ruled out.
TWO cement plant workers have been arrested after the Guardia Civil found they tried to hoard cocaine meant for destruction.
Last Friday agents transported the substance to the factory as requested by court order.
However, the workers at the plant in Jerez tried to save the 18 kilos of cocaine by manipulating the entrance of the furnace.