From You Again & Again?
Are you a type of person who wants to receive or are you a type of person who loves to give more?
I can see your big smile huhhhh….
So, before you think of anything else are you familiar with this saying of "becoming the hunted and not the hunter"?
Generally, if you get involved in network marketing business or direct selling business, you need to have a good selling skills to sell your products or recruit people to join your opportunity. This could mean hours of cold calling, hard work and effort in looking your right prospects or customers that will be suited for your business. And more often you will end up frustrated, no sales and facing rejections!
If you're a Network Marketer or have a Multi-Level Marketing business or home base business, Attraction Marketing is the simplest way to do it.
How To Do This Attraction Marketing & Why It Is Effective?
In Attraction marketing, there is no need for you to waste your time running after those people who are not interested in your product or service, but instead your time should be focus to give value to your customer's needs. You aren't only thinking of their problems, but you will give solutions and answering their problem questions before they even know you or choose to do business with you.
Yes, that's right. You will start attracting people towards you instead of them running away from you. You need to stop forcing and pitching sales to your prospects. They are no longer interested in this and you are just building your big gap with your customers to avoid you. Instead aim for those people who need you because these are the same people who will become your followers and who may become your future business partners.
The law of attraction is the name given to the belief that "like attracts like" or "people attracts people". We all use the Law of Attraction in our everyday lives, but most people do not realize it. So they miss out on how to use it to attract positive energy to create whatever they want and desire in their life and in their business.
It is pretty obvious that people only want to buy from those that they know, like and trust.
Give constant value with a purpose. You must have the ability to share valuable information with others that can help them out. Remember, that they are the one who are seeking for something, so your duty is to provide them those informations that they are searching for and by doing this you will be attractive, like a magnet.
Attraction Marketing Tip #2: Be Personal In Your Approach People relate to other people, not to your product, services or opportunities. People wants to hear your story. Unleash your attractive character by sharing your own stories – your difficulties, your failures, your success, what triggers you to do this and do that and so on…. the more you share your stories, the more they will get attracted to you.
People want to get to know you, the person behind the business – the person that can HELP them. Attraction Marketing – it's about THEM, not you!
Attraction Marketing Tip #3: Be The Hunted Instead of the Hunter Most people hate being sold to especially if people know that you are doing a network marketing business. We want to feel like making the purchase is OUR idea. That we are making the choice ourselves to buy or to join. In Attraction marketing you need to lead with value and solutions, so that you earn the right to sell to your prospects. Or, to put it more accurately, you're allowing your MLM prospects to sell themselves on your offer.
PS: These are the very strategies that took me from struggling networker to a home base business mom that attracts customer to keep buying from me without using my mouth to sell!
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This was a great post. Your marketing tips about attracting prospects are going to be extremely helpful to anyone trying to start working from home.
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UCL School of Management
Bilal Gokpinar
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Bilal Gokpinar is an Associate Professor of Operations and Technology at the UCL School of Management. He is also the Group Lead for the Operations & Technology and Marketing & Analytics subject groups.
Bilal's main research interests are in innovation management, product development and operations management. Specifically, he is interested in the design, management and improvement of work processes and operational decision making in technology intensive and knowledge driven organisational settings. His recent work has examined operational challenges and opportunities in a wide range of such contexts including fluid healthcare teams, crowdfunding, mobile app development, ride-hailing platforms, among others.
Bilal received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University, USA. He obtained his BSc in Industrial Engineering (with minors in Economics and Mathematics) from Purdue University with distinction. He has taught in the MSc and MBA programmes at various institutions including the London School of Economics (LSE), HEC Paris and Peking University, and his industry experience includes working with General Motors R&D and Strategic Planning.
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Bilal's research has been published in leading management journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Operations Management (technology management department). Bilal has also served as a co-investigator on a major research grant from UK's Technology Strategy Board (total value £1.2 million) to develop decision support tools for emerging cell therapy projects.
Bilal is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and Academy of Management (AOM), and a recipient of the INFORMS Judith Liebman Award in 2007.
Coordination in complex product development
How product architecture, organizational communication, and globalization influence product development performance.
Entrepreneurial operations management
Develop stylized insights/practical frameworks to aid operations of high-growth entrepreneurial firms.
Managing the product innovation and sales process
The role of customers and competitors in optimizing product innovation and sales efforts.
Huang, Y., Gokpinar, B., Tang, C. S., & Yoo, O. S. (2018). Selling Innovative Products in the Presence of Externalities. Production and Operations Management, 27 (7), 1236-1250. doi:10.1111/poms.12864 [link]
Huang, Y., Yoo, O. S., & Gokpinar, B. (2018). Time Allocation in Entrepreneurial Selling: Impact of Consumer Peer Learning and Incumbent Reaction. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 65 (4), 590-603. doi:10.1109/tem.2017.2733227 [link]
Selcuk, C., & Gokpinar, B. (2018). Fixed vs. Flexible Pricing in a Competitive Market. Management Science, 64 (12), 5584-5598. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2017.2922 [link]
Avgerinos, E., & Gokpinar, B. (2018). Task Variety in Professional Service Work: When It Helps and When It Hurts. Production and Operations Management, 27 (7), 1368-1389. doi:10.1111/poms.12874 [link]
Avgerinos, E., & Gokpinar, B. (2017). Team Familiarity and Productivity in Cardiac Surgery Operations: The Effect of Dispersion, Bottlenecks, and Task Complexity. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 19, 19-35.
Gokpinar, B., Hopp, W. J., & Iravani, S. M. R. (2013). In-House Globalization: The Role of Globally Distributed Design and Product Architecture on Product Development Performance. PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, 22 (6), 1509-1523. doi:10.1111/poms.12079 [link]
Gokpinar, B., Hopp, W. J., & Iravani, S. M. R. (2010). The Impact of Misalignment of Organizational Structure and Product Architecture on Quality in Complex Product Development. Management Science, 56, 468-484.
Cornelius, P. B., & Gokpinar, B. (n.d.). The Role of Customer Investor Involvement in Crowdfunding Success. Management Science, mnsc.2018.3211. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2018.3211 [link]
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The usually bubbly singer Taylor Swift revealed sad news Thursday — her mother Andrea Swift has been diagnosed with cancer. The 25-year-old announced her mother's condition on her Tumblr saying, "I'm saddened to tell you that my mom has been diagnosed with cancer."
The 25-year-old explained why she was releasing the very private news to the public. "I'm writing to you with an update I wish I wasn't giving you, but it's important and I'm used to sharing important events in my life with you," she wrote. "This is something my family and I thought you should know about now."
Taylor continued saying that her mother felt fine and didn't appear to be sick, but still wanted her to see a doctor as a precaution. "For Christmas this year, I asked my mom that one of her gifts to me be her going to the doctor to get screened for any health issues, just to ease some worries of mine," she added. "She agreed, and went in to get checked." The results came back that her mother had cancer.
While it is not clear what type or stage of cancer the "Shake It Off" singer's mom has, Taylor hoped that by telling her story she could help other families. "She wanted you to know because your parents may be too busy juggling everything they've got going on to go to the doctor, and maybe you reminding them to go get checked for cancer could possibly lead to an early diagnosis and an easier battle," she continued.
Taylor and her mother share a close bond and the two often travel on the road together for the pop star's appearances, something that may not happen as often this year. "She wanted you to know why she may not be at as many shows this tour," said Taylor. "She's got an important battle to fight."
Clearly in good spirits still, Taylor released a video of an Easter egg hunt she had with her brother that was set up by her parents. In the video the blonde beauty posted, you can hear mom Andrea laughing in the background. She also posted a gift she received from the Easter bunny (a.k.a. her mom).
When your parents arrange a competitive sibling Easter egg hunt, failing to take into account that their children are Ross and Monica.
Always communicative with her fans, Taylor thanked her fans "for caring about my family so much." She added, "I hope and pray that you never get news like this."


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Chief amongst their design requirements was an ability to support a number of page styles and configurations for fluid display of information in each section of the site, which led to using WordPress as the CMS for simplicity and easy of use, combined with a theme utilising an intuitive framework. Content and updates across the site are managed in-house and the flexibility of the framework means the site can grow with each brand and with the company as a whole. An eCommerce platform is also configured to brochure their product ranges, allowing further expansion to full online retail further down the road, if required.


Danang Birowosuto is a researcher and faculty member in department of Renewable Energy Engineering, Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, Indonesia. Currently he also serves as a visiting fellow and manager at CNRS International - Nanyang Technological University(NTU) -Thales Research Alliance (CINTRA). He has an extensive academia and industry research experience such as at Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Japan, University of Twente and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. His research interests are in developing novel quantum system and in controlling light and matter interaction. Now in CINTRA, he also incorporates his knowledges in light and matter interaction to design much more efficient photovoltaics for harvesting energy and light/laser emitting devices with low energy consumption for telecommunications, biomedical, and sensing applications. He holds 4 international patents, has given more than 10 invited presentations in premier photonic conferences such as CLEO, MRS, and PIERS, and has published more than 40 international journals with h-index of 17 and citation of 900. He is a member of many academic societies including Optical Society of America and American Chemical Society. He is also active journal referee in Nature, Optical Society, American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Institute of Physics, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Best Research Article in 2014, NTT Corp. for Nature Materials covered by Nature Photonics, Physorg, SPIE Newsroom, Nanowerk.
Selected Article by Applied Physics Dept. U. Twente as Top 10 articles in 2010.
STW – St Gobain Awards at TU Delft.
Delta Grant for Msc student at U. Groningen.
Valedictorian of Physics ITB graduate in July 2001.
• M. D. Birowosuto, A. Yokoo, G. Zhang, K. Tateno, E. Kuramochi, H. Taniyama, M. Takiguchi, M. Notomi, Moveable High-Q Nanoresonators Realized by Sub-wavelength III/V Semiconductor Nanowires on a Si Photonic Crystal Platform, Nature Materials 13 (2014) 279-285.
• M. D. Birowosuto, H. Sumikura, S. Matsuo, H. Taniyama, P. J. van Veldhoven, R. Nötzel, M. Notomi, Fast Purcell-enhanced single photon source in 1,550-nm telecom band from a resonant quantum dot-cavity coupling, Sci. Rep. 2 (2012) 321.
• M. D. Birowosuto, S. E. Skipetrov, W. L. Vos, A. P. Mosk, Observation of Spatial Fluctuations of the Local Density of States in Random Photonic Media, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 013904.


If you've just had a baby and it's time for you to get back to the grind, then you may have some questions about how and when it is appropriate to breastfeed bubs at the office (or construction site, or wherever you work). Breastfeeding is important for your baby's health, but it's difficult for some mothers, especially working mothers (who are a vital segment of the Australian workforce), to breastfeed.
There are laws that protect the rights of new mothers to breastfeed in the workplace. It's in the best interests of everyone, so make sure you know what laws uphold your rights in the workplace – and take advantage of them.
Breastmilk is like no other food. It provides all of a baby's nutritional requirements and can't be reproduced artificially. Basically, a woman's breasts are an exclusive (and healthy) infant food factory! Your breastmilk is actually living tissue. It even changes in composition as your baby grows older, so that it continues to provide for the baby's exact nutritional needs (until six months of age). Pretty amazing stuff, hey?
Breastfeeding is also good for mums, and can speed up recovery from childbirth. Breastfeeding is also the only way to make sure you continue to produce milk – unless you breastfeed or express milk, lactation (the process through which breastmilk is produced) will cease. On the other hand, the more you breastfeed, the more milk you produce. It's a very sweet deal.
For more information, see Breastfeeding.
Because of the health benefits of breastmilk, women are encouraged to breastfeed their babies exclusively (that means giving them only breastmilk and no other food) for the first six months of life. Internationally, women have fundamental rights to breastfeed recognised by the World Health Organization. In Australia, those rights are legally recognised too. After all, we need those little brains to grow at their best.
Under our laws, employers are obliged to consider any requests to provide 'family-friendly working arrangements'. Employers also have an obligation to be flexible for new parents, so don't be afraid to communicate with your boss if you decide you would like to both work and breastfeed. Fight for your right to feed!
Unfortunately, however, there is no blanket law stating women must be able to take 'boobie breaks', so you will have to negotiate that individually with your boss. Just remember, you're an important asset to your workplace, so don't be afraid to communicate openly about this topic.
For more information, see Work and Parenting: Laws.
There are other ways to nourish your hungry li'l person if breastfeeding at your workplace is not an option, like expressing breastmilk, either by pump or by hand. This way you can be assured your baby is getting all the nutrients they require while you maintain your work schedule.
For more information, see Expressing Breastmilk.
Perhaps you would like to talk to your employer about working part-time until you've finished breastfeeding.
Australia supports women in the workplace and everyone loves a new mum, so don't be afraid to be clear about what kind of breastfeeding 'program' will help you return to work. Good things might come to those who wait, but better things could come to those who just ask nicely.
After all, your baby deserves to have their milk and drink it too.
For more information, see Breastfeeding and the Workplace.


As part of this campaign, representatives from the AFA attend Home Depot board meetings in order to demand that the company "remain neutral in the culture war" if it wants the AFA to call off the boycott. So far, the AFA has not had much luck, but representatives continue to attend these meetings, as Randy Sharp, AFA's Director of Special projects, did last week.
Sharp reported that he had an opportunity to speak briefly with Home Depot Chairman Frank Blake and demand that he agree to meet face-to-face with representatives of the right-wing group for an hour so that the AFA can make its case, but that he received no such commitment.
Sharp went on to reveal that he was not alone in attacking Home Depot for its support for equality at the board meeting, as a Bishop Robert Smith of Little Rock, Arkansas was also present and delivered a message claiming that Home Depot had become "Home Despot" and warning that if it continued on this path, God would no longer bless the company or its shareholders.


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President McAleese unveils Dermot Earley statue
President McAleese lauds the philosophy of late Dermot Earley
Michael Commins
PRESIDENT Mary McAleese described the late Dermot Earley as 'one of the finest men ever born on the island of Ireland'. She was speaking at the unveiling of a life-size bronze monument to the late Chief of Staff of the Irish Army and legendary Roscommon footballer in his home village on Saturday.
Around 1,000 people were present for the ceremony with many travelling long distances to pay their own respects to the memory of a friend and legend. It was an impressive gathering from various walks of life, all who wanted to be there out of sheer respect for an extraordinary man.
President McAleese caught the mood of the day perfectly as she recalled memories of a friend and person who stood out in such a special way. "Dermot's work took him all over the world. He brought with him the values the education and the deepness of spirit that started here in Gorthaganny. He had a philosophy that went right through to the bone and marrow of the man, family, community, faith."
The bronze memorial was sculpted by Séamus Connolly from Co Clare and it will take pride of place in the village of Gorthaganny, just beside the Earley family home where Mrs Kitty Earley still resides.
David Earley, on behalf of the family, spoke eloquently in a manner that bore uncanny resemblance to the style of his late father. There was a lot of emotion as he recalled memories of travelling with his father from Newbridge to Gorthaganny and passing Hyde Park on the way.
The chairman of the local committee, Seamus Crawley, delivered the address of welcome. Thanks was extended to the committee who played such a pivotal role in ensuring that the project came in on time.
Among those present was famous radio commentator Micheal O Muircheartaigh, colleagues of Dermot's from the Roscommon four in a row Connacht winning teams of 1977-80, Johnny Doyle, Anthony Rainbow and Kieran McGeeney from Kildare, as well as various other GAA personal from the rest of the Connacht counties, including Galway three in a row winner John Keenan. Several colleagues from the Defence Forces were also present and military honours were rendered at the ceremony. (More on the special day in Gorthaganny will be featured in next week's Mayo News).


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LONDON - Angelique Kerber raced into her second Wimbledon final as the German crushed former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-3 in just 67 minutes on Thursday.
Kerber took the express route to her a fourth Grand Slam title match with a blink-and-you-miss-it demolition of Ostapenko on Centre Court.
The 30-year-old hit only 10 winners but that was all it took to get the job done as Ostapenko shot herself in the foot with 36 unforced errors.
Kerber faces seven-time champion Serena Williams or German 13th seed Julia Goerges in Saturday's final.
Kerber was beaten by Williams in the 2016 Wimbledon showpiece.
It will be world No. 10 Kerber's first Grand Slam final since she won the second of her two major titles at the 2016 U.S. Open.
Kerber is bidding to become the first German woman to win Wimbledon since Steffi Graf in 1996.
After winning the Australian and U.S. Open titles and reaching the Wimbledon final two years ago, Kerber endured a significant slump in 2017.
But the former world No. 1 has been reinvigorated over the last few months.
In her third Wimbledon semifinal and seventh at the majors, Kerber landed the first blow with a break, thanks to a wild Ostapenko misfire, in the seventh game of the first set.
Ostapenko's go-for-broke mentality came back to haunt the 12th seed again when a double fault on set point allowed Kerber to seize the lead.
Having dropped a set for the first time in the tournament, former junior Wimbledon winner Ostapenko was broken again in the second game of the second set as Kerber stepped up the pressure.
Ostapenko, 21, had admitted she cracked under the strain of defending the French Open title when she lost in the first round last month.
And the first Latvian woman to make the Wimbledon semifinals was paying the price for more rash mistakes as the match slipped away.
Showing her first sign of nerves Kerber wasted a match point and was broken when she served at 5-1.


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Q: Check if variable is true, false, set null if nothing i am struggling with a rather simple task.
I am working with a REST backend, which sometimes receive a json-object as parameter like "api?params={"foo":bar}" . And "foo" can be true/false or null (undefined).
When i echo myParam(foo) when true, it echoes "true".
When foo is false, it returns nothing (i'd like it to echo "false"),
but when foo is not defined, when its not in the API-call, i want it to return "null".
I found a snippet on the net a long time a go, which i thought was working.
$foo = (null !== $jsonObj->foo ? $jsonObj->foo: "");

But its not working when foo is false or null.
$foo = var_export($jsonObj->foo, true);

This line however returns the variable as string, and returns it "correct", it returns "true" when true, "false" when false and "NULL" when null. And this i can work with .
switch ($foo) {
    case "true":
         $result = true;
         break;
      ...

But, there must be a better way ? Right?
--- UPDATE ---
The solution that worked for me now was this:
(since im storing the value in an array, storing false will equal "")
$foo = is_null($jsonObj->foo) ? null : $jsonObj->foo;
This gave me foo = null if null/undefined, else true/false...
Then to store it in array, i used this:
$array["foo"] = (!is_null($foo) ? intval($foo) : null);
this stored it as 0/1 or "" if it was null, then i have 3 states i can work with.
But reading all your comments made me try for the best of solutions.

A: You could use php isset() function.
i.e. :
if (!isset($foo)) {
    echo "foo is not set : ";
    var_dump($foo);
    echo "
";
}
// returns "foo is not set : NULL"

$foo = NULL;

if (!isset($foo)) {
    echo "foo = NULL : ";
    var_dump($foo);
    echo "
";
}
// returns "foo = NULL : NULL"

$foo = false;

if (isset($foo)) {
    echo "foo = false : ";
    var_dump($foo);
    echo "
";
}
// returns "foo = false : bool(false)"

$foo = true;

if (isset($foo)) {
    echo "foo = true : ";
    var_dump($foo);
}
// returns "foo = true : bool(true)"

Hope it helps.

A: I guess you are mixing up a string that contains "true" with a real boolean "true".
Use var_dump always to ensure the correct type of variables too.
var_dump($jsonObj->foo)
This will show you the exact type.
So if it is a string you have to check with something like (what you already to in the switch)
if($jsonObj->foo == "true")

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/*
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Author: Karthik Venkataramana Pemmaraju.
Compilation: g++ Toks.h -std=c++11 -c
Description: Splits the given file into tokens and creates a std::vector list.
Date: 10/23/2017.
Tested on 10/27/2017. For tests, see output_tokenizer.txt in test/test_tokenizer folder.
Dependencies:	Please make sure to include BOOST libraries available here:
				http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/tokenizer/tokenizer.htm
				or via command line by: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev.
======================================================================================================
*/

#ifndef TOKS
#define TOKS

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <cmath>
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <boost/tokenizer.hpp>
#include <boost/foreach.hpp>

namespace iProlog{
	/**
 	* Reads chars from char streams using the current default encoding
 	*/
	class Toks{
		private:
			// reserved words - with syntactic function
			const std::string IF = "if";
	 		const std::string AND = "and";
			const std::string DOT = ".";
	 		const std::string HOLDS = "holds";
			const std::string LISTS = "lists"; // todo
			const std::string IS = "is"; // todo
			const std::ifstream in_stream;
			char str[35];
			std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<std::string>>> Wsss; // Contains all the clauses.
			std::vector<std::vector<std::string>> Wss;	 // Contains compound clauses (:-).
			std::vector<std::string> Ws;	// Contains individual clauses (Ex: add(X,Y,Z).
		public:
			std::string getWord(std::string token);
			std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<std::string>>> toSentences(const std::string &s, bool fromFile);
			void buildOmitSymbolList();
			void buildList(std::string line);
			void display(std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<std::string>>>);
			void empty();
	};
} // close name space.
#endif

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Windows 7 in-place upgrade vs. replace upgrade
Take a look at the differences between a Windows 7 in-place upgrade and replace upgrade and find out what you need to know about Windows 7 automated installations.
The differences between a Windows 7 in-place upgrade and a replace upgrade, and the cost and hardware requirements for each, are key concepts that solutions providers should understand before recommending either option to their customers. SearchSystemsChannel.com Assistant Editor Pat Ouellette, talks with Windows 7 migration experts Stephen Kolbe and Thomas Nieto of Analysis Enterprise Inc. to learn about the factors that need to be considered in the Windows 7 in-place upgrade versus replace upgrade debate. They also tell you what you need to know about Windows 7 automated installations.
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Pat Ouellette: Can you explain the difference between a Windows 7 in-place upgrade and a replace upgrade, as well as the costs associated with each of them?
Stephen Kolbe: One of the key differentials in deciding on a Windows 7 in-place upgrade versus a replace upgrade is the customer's willingness to acquire new hardware. An in-place upgrade means that you are taking a computer offline and then you are upgrading that same computer to Windows 7. A replace upgrade means you are buying a new set of computers in their entirety and then replacing those computers as time goes on.
Some of the things we look for when choosing between a Windows 7 in-place upgrade and replace upgrades is the age of the computer. Particularly, is the computer still under warranty? The cost of a replacement computer these days is anywhere from $300 to $600, which could be a major deciding factor for customers.
Also, if you're working with 32-bit architecture on desktops, there is a real speed and performance benefit that can be gained by upgrading to 64-bit hardware. And again, we're talking about a fairly low cost here. For an entry-level computer, $300 to $600 could be the upgrade cost. And if the difference saves the customer 10 minutes a day in what they're doing, that's a return on investment that anyone can easily calculate. We're talking about big savings there.
Ouellette: What should solutions providers know about Windows 7 automated installations?
Thomas Nieto: It comes down to a cost calculation. How much time would it take you to do a manual deploy? I would say for 50 computers or less you don't need to do automated deployment. Any higher number and you lose the ability to departmentalize and create those machine images. For smaller businesses, you're saving yourself time by not setting up automation features.
Kolbe: So if you go beyond 50, that's where it starts to make sense to use the automated deployment services that Microsoft offers. In these cases, you've got a lot of moving parts -- different applications and software are implemented in different departments. The sales department is using one thing, production is using another and accounting is using another.
If you want to use automated deployment, you need to create a beta environment. I would do this in the proof-of-concept phase with an extra set of computers. You should secure a couple of computers with different software types from different departments, image off an employee's drive to a computer, create the automated process and deploy it onto that system. And that's going to give you the ability to prove the success of the deployment.
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Q: powerline status-line on ubuntu server 14.04 (no gui) First of all, is it even possible to get powerline looking like on the image below in a Non-GUI Ubuntu installation?

So far I've installed it using Vundle, but removed it in favor of the pip installation, but as shown below, I cannot get the proper symbols to show, only the ugly place holder blocks:

Per the official installation instruction I downloaded and installed the patched fonts in ~/.fonts, after trying "Fontconfig" unsuccessfully. I also refreshed the font cache for the system, and restarted vim, but it stayed the same. The only changes I made on .vimrc were...
> set t_Co=256
> rtp+=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/vim/
> laststatus=2

The instructions I followed:
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and powerline-docs
Ubuntu Server 14.04
Vim - 7.4.52
Xterm = 256 color
Thanks!

A: Yes it is! You need a way to use the patched font in the console. There is only one patched terminal font, Terminus, but I couldn't get it to work.
I discovered fbterm, a terminal emulator for the framebuffer that allows you to customize the font and size, even add a background image.
Set up fbterm and add your user to the video group:
sudo apt-get install fbterm
sudo usermod -a -G video $USER

In your ~/.fbtermrc file change font-name to your favorite font. (use the fc-list command to get the names)
font-names=SourceCode Pro for Powerline
font-size=18

Launch fbterm
fbterm

To get full color support set the TERM variable to fbterm before launching vim/tmux
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If the symbols don't line up perfectly, experiment with different fonts and sizes.


Robbie Savage is one of British football's most controversial and colourful characters.
Now a successful football pundit, he enjoyed 17 seasons as a professional footballer, beginning his career at Manchester United and ending it at Derby County.
Sulking is horrible and can have a really negative impact on your team-mates and the club as a whole. When you sulk, your whole demeanour changes and you bring people down with you.
I came across it all the time when I was a player and at times I could be one of the worst offenders because I couldn't hide my emotions. When I was unhappy, it was obvious. My mood would change completely.
Clamming up and staying silent is a very effective tool. It was a tactic I adopted on occasion. Normally, I am a fun, happy-go-lucky guy, so if I stopped communicating, people knew straight away that something was up. I just wouldn't speak to anybody.
I'd train as normal but would leave as soon as it was over. I wouldn't stay for lunch and eat with my team-mates, I would simply disappear off home.
Feigning injury is probably the most popular way of letting a club know you aren't happy. I've seen quite a few mystery injuries in my time. Some players could be sidelined with a twisted sock if they wanted to. It used to be so easy to fake an injury, but that has changed now.
If you get an injury, you are usually seen by a physiotherapist and have a scan within an hour. You can't kid people as easily, but you can still fake a niggle - and they can last for ages. When you feign an injury, there is no need to limp or play act. Just say you're not right.
Some players have friends in the media and make use of those contacts to get the move they want. I've called newspaper reporters I was close to and asked them to link me with this team or that team, even when I knew it wasn't true.
It helped get my name out there and flush out possible interest. It's harder to do that nowadays because the media often know what's true or not, but I called people I knew a few times and got them to make up a story.
You have to be realistic, of course. There was no point linking myself with Real Madrid because everybody would know that would be a lie!
You can go one step further with the media and enlist the help of the television companies. When I wanted to put pressure on one manager, I arranged for a camera crew to meet me at the training ground when I knew everyone was enjoying a day off.
I wanted to give the impression I was being forced to train on my own. That night, the TV report went out and I thought I had accomplished my mission. Unfortunately for me, the manager saw straight through my gimmick. It was then that I knew I had made myself look a fool.
You can listen to Savage explain on 606 how he tried to engineer a move from Birmingham to Blackburn using the above tactic on BBC iPlayer (topic starts at 35:55).
How do you do that? One way is to go straight to the chairman or owner of the club when you want to discuss your future. It was something I did. On one occasion, I was out of favour, so I went to the chairman and told him I wanted to leave.
I had two years left on my contract and told him I would settle for one year's pay if he would let me go. The news got back to the manager, who was waiting for me in reception the following morning. He wasn't happy.
At another club, I phoned the chairman at home. It was forbidden to do that, but I felt I had no other choice. The chairman was very understanding, but the manager called me into his office the next day and told me I was out of order.
It's an extreme measure but does happen. At one club, the players knew I wanted to leave but some started to get a little upset at my antics. There was some unrest in the changing room.
One day, I had a big argument with the goalkeeper. He came over to me, had a right go and grabbed me by the throat. I got up, we scuffled and he ended up with a cut lip after my head came into contact with his face.
Physiotherapists, coaching staff, canteen workers and secretaries are all capable of reporting back to the manager, so if you want to create a stir, have a moan when these people are in ear shot. It won't be long before the manager finds out how you're feeling.
At one club, I was sitting in the physio room and let it drop that I wanted to join another club. I added that I was so confident of a deal happening that I insisted I would be playing for that club the following week.
Lo and behold, the manager called me in the following day and asked me to explain myself.
Any player can cause havoc in the changing room or out on the training pitch. You just need a bad attitude. It doesn't matter what it is, do it badly and you soon get a reputation the manager cannot ignore. If he doesn't, then the risk is you start affecting everyone around you.
It can be hard to do, but one sure way of losing the manager's backing is by not giving 100% in a match. I say it's hard to do because you're not just letting yourself down, you are letting your team-mates, fans and family down.
I only did it once and I'm not proud of my actions, but it felt like it was the only avenue left open to me. That was the point at which the manager knew he had lost me and there was nothing he could do to keep me.
Tapping up is illegal but it goes on. Players do it and managers do it. I had two managers call me at home while I was still under contract at a club. And I've tried to engineer a move myself by speaking to players at clubs I was interested in joining.
A discreet chat with a player from another club - maybe while we were both on international duty - was an obvious way of letting another club know I was interested in signing for them.
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YOUR FAVOURITE COMMENTERS: A VISUAL GUIDE VOL. III [FART EDITION]
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Guess what kids, Deadspin's elite commenters are just like you and I. What separates the once-starred legends of commenting lore from those who toil in the grey [formerly pink - just like Diane Keaton's vagina] is the ability to craft witty barbs on a consistent basis, not some genetic trait that was developed generations before you were even a twinkle in that milkman's dilated red eyes.
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Steve U:
I found this clip of Steve U whilst rummaging through his attic, in hopes of finding a Da Vinci code of sorts that would unlock the secret to the man's brilliance. Hey Steve, D'Artagnan called, he wants his collar back. #diss
Eddie Murray Sparkles:
Here's a candid video that Eddie and a bunch of his girlfriends made in the spirit of "making one for themselves to sit on the shelves." That's our favourite master of the pun, sitting upfront and centre, ripping cheese like it's nobody's business. Es tu farté?
Raysism:
Hey look, it's our ol' buddy Raysism, out on a leisurely run, ripping farts as he passes a local news reporter filming live from Tampa's most desirable location; a sinkhole. Fear not, this is hardly the first time this embarrassing footage has been seen, as Raysism recently sent it to Miserable Shitehawk in hopes of some recognition. Honestly, how hard would it be to just beg Craggs to do a COTY 2012 post and give the damn thing to Raysism? Surely, he doesn't have that many good years left in him.
Sweating Mullets:
Shown here in his kitchen, Sweaty is taking the bizarre customs of his home state of Utah to new levels, formally involved in a polygamous lifestyle with his wife, Susan, and his husband, Tad. While Tad explains the intricacies of having anal intercourse with animals from the petting zoo and Alex Smith's third-down conversion rates, Sweaty lets out a fart so vile and incapacitating, that he passes out on the spot. Let's hope Sweaty is ok, I can't begin to fathom what I'd do without the one joke he leaves in the comments section a month.
BronzeHammer:
Here's exclusive footage from BronzeHammer's wedding. He's the one on the left. That thing just cuts through the air like a hot blade through a newborn's jowls.
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By Deborah DundasBooks Editor
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"The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here's to October …" A.A. Milne
It might be the end of beach reading, but beaches give way to a comfy chair — and the scads of new books that come out every fall, bringing us whole new worlds to explore.
Beside me now are The Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (Knopf, Sept. 24) and Yours for Probably Always: The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Janet Somerville (Firefly Books, Oct. 1), a book I guarantee you is going to make waves. A few strong women side by side, legends.
Michael Crummey's The Innocents (Doubleday, Aug 27) and Johanna Skibsrud's Island (Penguin, Sept. 24) — both take place on isolated plots of land. Those types of connections speak to the landscape and how it shapes and forms us and our stories. Then there's historian Charlotte Gray's Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise (HarperCollins, Sept. 24). Gray's award-winning books have brought the history of Canada to life with quirky and interesting individuals' stories. Likewise, with her first book, The Missing Millionaire: The True Story of Ambrose Small and the City Obsessed With Finding Him (McClelland & Stewart, 10) Toronto Star feature writer Katie Daubs, in her debut book, tells the story of Small, a city theatre impresario who was murdered back when Toronto was Muddy York.
New books by Canadian poets whose previous work caused a stir, including from Griffin-prize winning Billy-Ray Belcourt, with NDN Coping Mechanisms, (Anansi, Sept. 3) and Moez Surani, with Are The Rivers in Your Poems Real, (Book*Hug Aug, Oct. 9).
There are definite interests that thread through so many of the fall titles we've been receiving: the environment, learning from history, female sexuality — and ways of telling: short stories and fantasy both feature.
Now, before those piles of books fall over and bury me, here are some worth your time.
Akin, Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins, Sept. 3) Emma Donoghue features another adult/child duo: Noah Savaggio, 79, who has just been asked (and reluctantly agrees) to take care of his 11-year-old great nephew Michael. Catches you from the first page and Donoghue proves she's a master at dialogue that propels the story forward and creates characters you really care about.
Just Pervs, Jess Taylor (Bookhug, Sept. 4) Women's sexuality and desire has entered the mainstream this year with books such as Lisa Taddeo's Three Women. Toronto writer Taylor's second short story collection explores desire, sex addiction and the female sexual experience. The Star's review of her first book, Pauls said "Taylor exhibits remarkable insights into matters of the fickle heart."
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (McClelland and Stewart, Sept. 10) This has got to be the most anticipated book of the season — not just in Canada but around the world. It is, of course, the 'sequel' to Atwood's famous The Handmaid's Tale. But because of strict embargoes, I can't say more about it except: it takes up 15 years after Handmaid's ends. What's happened to Gilead? Atwood has said she was inspired "by the world we've been living in" to write it. Get your preorders in.
Chasing Painted Horses, Drew Hayden Taylor (Cormorant Books, Sept. 14) One of those books that occupies the space between literary and young adult fiction (much as Cherie Dimaline's book The Marrow Thieves, also published by Cormorant). Veteran author and playwright Hayden Taylor sets this story in a reserve north of Toronto called Otter Lake; four "unlikely" friends are drawn into a world created by a young girl from a troubled family. Mythology and the power of art.
The Wagers, Sean Michaels (Random House Canada, Sept. 24) Almost against all odds, Michaels won the very first $100,000 Giller prize (previously it had been $50,000) on his very first novel. What are the odds? The probabilities are weighed up in this new book, a look at big breaks, the gamble of life, and the nature of luck and good fortune.
Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline (Random House Canada, Sept. 17) Her multiple-award-winning book, the YA/adult crossover The Marrow Thieves was on the bestsellers lists for months. This is her next effort; it retells the story of Rogarou, a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities, but there's also a Walmart parking lot, euchre, and Johnny Cash.
Watching You Without Me, Lynn Coady (House of Anansi, Sept. 24) Lynn Coady won the Giller Prize for her short story collection Hellgoing in 2013. This time she's out with a novel that looks at the relationship between caregivers and the people they're caring for. It's been described by writer Zoe Whittall as a "deeply creepy page-turner and a beautifully subtle character study."
Bone Black, Carol Rose GoldenEagle (Nightwood Editions, Oct. 5) A compelling and inventive narrative exploring the story of missing Indigenous women — this is a thriller in the vein of Gone Girl or Killing Eve, with a character, Wren, a female serial killer who metes out revenge and retribution in the most violent of ways.
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The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Orion, Sept. 24) The renowned essayist and non-fiction writer is out with his first book of fiction: set in 1800s Virginia, the story follows Hiram Walker, born on a slave plantation, who has a photographic memory — but can' remember his mother. About the world of slavery, reconstruction and the struggle to tell the truth.
Quichotte, Salman Rushdie (Knopf, Sept. 3) As with Atwood's The Testaments (see above) and Ducks, Newburyport (see below), Rushdie's latest book was longlisted for the Booker Prize weeks before it was even set to come out. Rushdie's last book put him in the centre of the headlines and commentary — and this one, a rewriting of Don Quixote, might just do the same thing, set in a modern country that's "on the edge of moral and spiritual collapse."
Grand Union, Zadie Smith (Penguin, Oct. 8) Smith is so well known it's hard to see her as a debut writer — but this is indeed her first collection of short stories. The tales in this volume range from a few pages to 20 and more — giving Smith a chance to embrace a range of styles, genres and subject matter. All, of course, with her brilliant writing.
We, The Survivors, by Tash Aw (Hamish Hamilton, Sept 3) Everything Aw writes ends up on a prize list, and this will likely be no different. A murderer confesses in extensive interviews to a journalist — forcing them both to look at issues of power, race and class in a place where only the lucky few gain success.
Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry (Doubleday, Sept. 17) Barry has a quirky and distinctive voice, one that's delighted readers and literary prize-givers alike. His latest focuses on two aging criminals at the end of their careers, and is described as being "a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men."
Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellman (Biblioasis, Sept. 24) It's already been longlisted for the Booker Prize. And it's topical — firmly set in the dysfunction of Trump's America. At 1,000 or so pages, it's not short, and it's told — for the most part — in one long sentence. The Booker Jury called it "Unstoppable … like nothing you've ever read before."
In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience, Helen Knott (University of Regina Press, Aug. 24). Knott could easily have become one of the murdered and missing Indigenous women who have disappeared across the country; instead, she's written this book because "I remember what it was like to believe I was an indispensable Indigenous woman" and as a way to let other Indigenous woman know she sees and values them. A searingly honest self-portrait.
I Hope We Choose Love, Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp Press, Sept. 1) This small publisher does groundbreaking work, particularly with LGBTQ titles (last year, three of the four top Lambda awards went to books published by the press) and Thom's book is no different. Transformative justice is one of today's important movements, and these essays and poems ask important questions, including: what can we trust when community has broken our hearts?
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown Sept. 10) The premise here is simple: because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding that's having a profound effect on our personal relationships and on the world. He looks at places where we've trusted people we shouldn't have and why — and offers ways of connecting. Gladwell's is appearing across the country so we'll be seeing and hearing a lot from him.
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, Naomi Klein (Knopf Canada, Sept. 17) We know climate breakdown is a burning threat — so why aren't we treating it as the emergency it is? Klein calls for a new deal that tackles both climate change and inequality. Also out by another Canadian, Maude Barlow, is Whose Water is it Anyway (with a quote from Klein on the front) (ECW Press, Sept. 17) a small volume that examines the rise of the Blue Communities movement and how it provides a blueprint to deal with issues of safe drinking water in a warming world.
Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, Beverley McLachlin (Simon & Schuster, Oct. 24) Hers has been a groundbreaking career and this memoir by Canada's former supreme court chief justice is personal and inspiring. Also out is a biography of McLachlin, Beverley McLachlin, by Ian Greene and Peter McCormick (Lorimer) which talks about her legacy.
Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun, Paul Seesequasis (Knopf, Oct. 22) If you've been anywhere near social media for the past few years, you've likely come across one of Seesequasis' many posts as part of his Indigenous Archival Photo Project — historical photos of Indigenous people across the country. This book collects photos from eight Indigenous communities revealing a celebratory experience and stories.
We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer (Hamish Hamilton, Sept. 17) This is about climate change, what we can do on a personal level (we are the weather, right?), how eating meat is a problem, but also how even Foer, who wrote a book on not eating meat, struggles to practise what he preaches. We're all in this together.
Face It, Debbie Harry (HarperCollins, Oct. 1) This is the memoir fans have been waiting for years. Harry blazed a punk rock and style trail as lead of the iconic 1970s and 1980s band Blondie — that path has been anything but easy but always fascinating. Also out is Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren (Simon and Schuster, Oct. 22), which uses both archival material and interviews with her friends, family and bandmates to create a portrait of a woman who, even after her death, had a profound impact on rock music
Wild Game, Adrienne Brodeur (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct. 15) As the saying goes, you can't make this stuff up. Brodeur's mother, Malabar, starts an affair with her husband's best friend, and enlists Brodeur in the coverup. It's a remarkable web of relationships in a privileged, Cape Cod world and the lies a daughter was forced to tell. Riveting.
Break In Case of Emergency, Brian Francis (HarperCollins, Sept. 10) The Toronto author's debut YA novel (he's written for adults before), the phrase "dads can be such a drag" has a double entendre when Toby Goodman's dad comes back after a long absence. Believable characters and a lot of heart mark this book.
Frankly In Love, David Yoon (Putnam, Sept.) Sometimes you wonder what dinner conversations are like at author's houses — Nicola Yoon is David's wife and author of the powerful YA book Everything, Everything. David's YA debut stars Frank Li, a Korean-American high school student, and looks at the struggle between keeping one's parents and oneself happy.
Love, Heather, Laurie Petrou (Crooked Lane, Oct.) Another YA debut from a seasoned novelist, this is a thriller dealing with bullying — both IRL (in real life) and online, and how payback can sometimes take on a momentum all its own. Revenge can be compelling, but is it worth it?
Deborah Dundas is the Star's Books editor. She is based in Toronto. Follow her on Twitter: debdundas