Hi Wiz. Good news is I had the new 1TB internal SSD installed. Even lent them my new factory 18.3 thumb drive to install. Bad news is they used an 18.1 Mint the apparently had in their shop not wanting to use mine and follow my instructions. So all our hard work and planning got set aside and nothing on my monitor is familiar. I can't even find Timeshift. Can you help, Chris?
Sorry mate, but I could not find the correct section about hardware, so I posted my question here.
I have a AMD A10-5800k APU and had a graphics card with 2 GB RAM, which fan started action up by making noises and spinning erratically. I then removed the graphics card and play games with the APU only.
Does the APU use RAM, when I play games?
Hi , Let's say I want to uninstall a package in centos. I used yum remove command and it shows the package are removed . However, I still see the files are there. So I understand that uninstalling does not remove the package and files together the way we uninstall in windows. Is that correct?
Sorry if my question is too naive, I am a newbie.
Never be sorry when you are learning about Linux, @kt123 and welcome We don't answer questions in profiles, but in Forum. Start a new Thread (right-hand side) at Getting Started https://www.linux.org/forums/getting-started.148/ someone will be along, perhaps myself.
Hi Chris...I can see you've been enjoying life. Good for you! When you have some time I'd like for you to look at my latest posts and suggest my next steps for setting up and using the separate internal SSD (blank now) in my Toshiba.
did santa bring you a Pi?
I was wondering if you could tell me which one of the tutorials has the most CLI terms and commands to start out with? Please?
Almost chose Mint 19 with Cinnamon. But from my research I found that I like KDE more than GNOME. Also heard Mint MATE had KDE 2 which seemed better than 3. And after all that, I forgot to check if Kubuntu was K2 or 3. Still like it so far.
Hey there. Thanks. I appreciate it. I'm still wandering around trying to get my bearings. I've some experience with PCs but I am new to Linux.
So, I have Kubuntu 18.10. Was searching for KDE + like Ubuntu, Kubuntu was a no-brainer.
Hi, click Forums (next to Home) and locate Getting Started or General Linux &c, Start a Thread option is on right-hand side. Enjoy.
Wizard having Internet dropouts, may be unavailable. I'd turn my ISP into toads but I'm not sure how they'd go with their keyboards then.
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Thank you, sir :) . We woke up early so I am enjoying my 2nd coffee and rubbing sleep out of my eyes. Onwards and upwards with another year of Linux and friends!
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Happy Birthday @wizardfromoz (although here in the nation formerly known as the USA it isn't your birthday yet) : - ) I hope it's a good one!
Hi What recommendations do you have for an absolute Linux beginner who feels Windows 10 has forced me to look to an alternative OS?
What modules do you recommend in linux for a DNS server that uses a graphical panel for register a record(such as CloudFlare) and use database (for example, MySQL) instead of zone File?
4000km road trip? That's how to do it.
That would take me a long way around the UK, wouldn't it, Nobby? I have to update that, it was 4 months ago, lol.
I'm terrible for not looking at the date s of the postings.
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Thank you Capta :) . I hope over time I will justify people's faith in me.
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You stole my thunder, I was going to say "So now I have the 2nd biggest mouth on the Forum", lol. But that has been the way for some time, hasn't it? It's an honour and a privilege to be here, and enjoy such good company :) Roll on 2,000!
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This is what I like in this forum.
Go ahead guys, continue good job and enjoy it.
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Тріпура́рі Сва́мі, також відомий як Свамі Б. В. Тріпурарі (; 12 березня 1949; Тінек, Нью-Джерсі, США) — американський гуру Ґаудія-вішнуїцької традиції, письменник та поет.

Біографія
Народився 12 березня 1949 року в місті Тінек в штаті Нью-Джерсі, США. В 1971 році познайомився з вченням Ґаудія-вішнуїтів в інтерпретації Бгактіведанти Свамі Прабгупади, а в 1972 році став його учнем і отримав духовне ім'я на санскриті Тріпурарі Даса. Після чого активно займався проповідницькою діяльністю в США, поширюючи вішнуїцьку духовну літературу. Прабгупада називав його "інкарнацією книгорозповсюдження", а Тріпурарі бачив свою головну роль саме в популяризації духовної літератури вішнуїзму.

В 1975 році Тріпурарі Даса прийняв від Прабгупади санньясу (зречений уклад життя) і титул «Свамі». Після смерті Прабгупади в 1977 році, Тріпурарі Свамі йдучи за порадою свого духовного вчителя прийняв духовний провід Бгакті Ракшака Шрідгара Дева Ґосвамі, духовного брата Прабгупади з Ґаудія-Матга.

Товариство й вчення Бгакті Ракшака Шрідгара Дева Ґосвамі так вплинули на Свамі Тріпурарі, що в 1985 році натхненний радами та з благословення Шрідгара Дева Ґосвамі він заснував вішнуїцьку релігійну організацію (Ґаудія-вішнуїцьку спільноту) Шрі Чайтанья Санґа й ставши дікша-ґуру почав приймати учнів.

Письменницька діяльність
Свамі Тріпурарі є автором ряду книг на тему вішнуїзму та веданти. Рецензії на його книги з'являлися в Yoga Journal та в The Journal of Vaishnava Studies (Арвінд Шарма).

Книга Тріпурарі Aesthetic Vedanta була номінована Клаусом Клостермайером на премію Louisville Grawemeyer Award. Згідно Клостермайерові:

Цікавинка

У 2016 році Свамі Тріпурарі перебуваючи у Вроцлаві (Польща) відвідав український греко-католицький кафедральний собор де розписався в пам'ятній книзі. Після у своїх спогадах написав:

Бібліографія
 Rasa — Love Relationships in Transcendence, (ISBN 1-886069-10-7). Mandala, 1995.
 Ancient Wisdom for Modern Ignorance, (ISBN 1-886069-11-5). Mandala, 1995.
 Jiva Goswami's Tattva-Sandarbha: Sacred India's Philosophy of Ecstasy, (ISBN 1-886069-12-3). Mandala, 1996.
 Aesthetic Vedanta: The Sacred Path of Passionate Love, (ISBN 1-886069-14-X). Mandala, 1998.
 Bhagavad-gita: Its Feeling and Philosophy, (ISBN 1-886069-53-0). Mandala, 2001.
 «Bhagavad-gita: Seeing Nonviolence in the Violent Play of God.» In Steven J. Rosen, ed., Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad-gita, (ISBN 0-937194-44 -1). Deepak Heritage Books, 2002.
 Form of Beauty, with B. G. Sharma, (ISBN 1-932771-36-0). Mandala, 2005 (2nd edition).
 Gopala-tapani Upanisad, (ISBN 1-932771-12-3). Audarya, 2004.
 Siksastakam of Sri Caitanya, (ISBN 1-932771-84-0). Mandala, 2006.

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Посилання
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 Інтернет журнал Шрі Чайтанья Санґі

 Шрі Чайтанья Санга  — Матг, заснований Свамі Б.В. Тріпурарі
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When disease-modifying therapy becomes available, screening for Alzheimer's and its subsequent management will stretch healthcare resources on a massive scale. We need to be prepared. Even with the limited interventions now available, we should pursue the aim of widening opportunities for early diagnosis since there are clear benefits for people with the disease and their families.
There is a major mismatch between resources that are available to manage Alzheimer's disease (AD) and those that may be needed, according to the recent EU RAND report which assessed preparedness in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.1
The report makes a number of assumptions, and it has to be said that the first of them – the availability of a disease modifying therapy in 2020 – now looks less than likely. But the point of the exercise makes sense.
Are we prepared for the impact of early diagnosis?
Let us assume that – whenever such a therapy comes on stream – we will want 80% of potentially eligible people (essentially the 105 million who are aged 55 or over) to be screened. Let us say that half of the 14 million who are positive have further evaluation. Let us further assume that 90% of those who turn out to have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have biomarker testing, and that half test positive; and that 80% of those people are suitable for treatment. That, according to the RAND calculations, means 2.3 million patients.
Resources to diagnose and treat AD must be more widely available if we are to maintain the ideal of universal healthcare
To meet that demand for screening and all the steps that follow, we have relatively few specialists. Even if we add up all the neurologists and geriatricians and old-age psychiatrists, there are still only 6.7 per hundred thousand population in France and 24 per hundred thousand in Germany. The other four countries lie between these figures.
Taking CSF biomarker testing as an example, it is clear that resources must be more widely available if we are to maintain our ideal of the universal availability of healthcare, José Luis Molinuevo, BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center, Barcelona, Spain, told at an early diagnosis symposium at ADPD 2019.
Pursuing a practical, step-wise approach
In the current context, how should clinicians assess a patient with concerns about cognition?
We are eventually going to beat this disease, said Alireza Atri, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Arizona, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. The first step is accurate and timely diagnosis. And the starting point is listening carefully to patient history. It is important to assess prior functioning and the trajectory of change using what you hear from the patient and family members.
There is no biomarker for patient history: you assess past functioning and trajectory of change
Is there potential for something to be wrong? If there is, the next step is to assess in detail what is wrong. A cognitive assessment such as MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) is a good tool, which may need to be followed by more formal neuropsychiatric assessment. And then comes the question of etiology. As we age, we accumulate pathologies.
Indifference and apathy are often early features of AD, said James Leverenz, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Ohio, USA. But these are sometimes difficult to distinguish from depression.
At this stage, MRI is helpful since atrophy is evidence of a neurodegenerative disease; and focal hippocampal atrophy is the best-established structural imaging marker of AD.
Accurate and timely diagnosis is step one in care
Beyond MRI, there are the CSF markers, which were considered by Henrik Zetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University College London, UK. Total tau is increased in people with AD dementia, but also in other neurological conditions. Phosphorylated tau, a variant found in tangles, is increased in AD.
While Aβ40 in isolation is not a reliable indicator of AD pathology, and CSF Aβ42 is decreased in AD – presumably because the protein is aggregated and deposited in the brain – the Aβ40/42 ratio is more informative than either marker alone.
Consider the wider clinical picture
In all of this, the wider clinical picture must play a part, the symposium speakers agreed. No marker should be considered in isolation. And, in moving along the path of investigation, the wishes of patients and families are paramount. Not all want to know in detail what is driving the problem.
And it is definitely not a case of "diagnose and Adios", said Alireza Atri. Diagnosis is only the start of a new relationship based on a therapeutic alliance.
Pharmacological interventions can alleviate cognitive symptoms and improve function – even though this is only for a limited period of time. And non-pharmacological interventions such as encouraging cognitive and social engagement and exercise have small but significant effects. There is also benefit from early diagnosis in allowing patients and family to plan for the future. This includes provision for financial guidance, legal support, and patient safety.
Educational financial support for this symposium was provided by Biogen
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competition has been escalating within the customer-relationship management locality (CRM) as behemoths fancy salesforce CRM, Microsoft MSFT, Adobe ADBE, Oracle ORCL, IBM IBM and SAP SAP vie to seize market share.
chiefly, totality these businesses are gearing up with criterion launches of products and features to goal the CRM market. further, shift in focus of ordinary commercial enterprise utility application and platform companies to cloud computing is intensifying competition within the house.
These groups are additionally stepping into strategic partnerships to no longer handiest challenge salesforce however also fend off competition from newfangled entrants. these days, Microsoft and Adobe joined forces to ensnare on salesforce, the incumbent in CRM area.
specifically, Adobe's marketing software can breathe used to find capabilities purchasers for enterprise items on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn after which Microsoft's revenue software may well breathe used to shut the deal.
in keeping with IT Intelligence Markets record, the global SaaS-primarily based CRM software market is projected to develop at a CAGR of more than 20% over the forecast length of 2019-2026.
Per reports, CRM is at present the greatest and quickest growing commerce software market outpacing operating programs, ERPs (enterprise useful resource planning) and databases.
Coming to providers, salesforce has been a frontrunner for a very long time, because of its early foray into the cloud-based CRM house. Shares of salesforce returned 40% in the past 12 months, outperforming the S&P 500's profit of seven.5%, as well as Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and SAP, which won 31.eight%, 24.2%, 17.four% and 10.6%, respectively. totality over the equal time duration, IBM misplaced 7.7%.
We dependence salesforce's distinct cloud choices, increasing associate base and appreciable spending on digital advertising to breathe the key boom drivers. The business's approach of generic product launches and cloud functions are assisting it expand clientele, thereby driving suitable-line increase. furthermore, the company continues to win consumers within the eccentric market, which in turn, is assisting it bring powerful growth internationally.
additionally, acquisitions maintain totality the time been one of salesforce's key growth options, strengthening its position in the CRM solution-featuring space. notably, the enterprise's acquisition of MuleSoft is a huge positive.
management is extremely confident about enhancement of customer experience (CX) that has aided expand of the cloud segment. Its seat of attention on AI and sizeable development with the launch of Einstein Analytics makes us positive. furthermore, salesforce's currently-launched consumer 360 platform is a tailwind.
Given the initiatives, the commerce looks set to play a stout position within the expansion of cloud computing, AI, and different more recent areas of tech innovation.
salesforce faces tense competition from Microsoft and Oracle in the cloud-primarily based CRM market.
Oracle has strengthened its cloud site via a lot of strategic acquisitions. The company is striving to enhance the functionalities of cloud-based mostly purposes, which bode well. Oracle's circulation to ramp up its cloud choices is in sync with the enterprise's evolving CX approach.
Microsoft has delivered a number of key businesses fancy LinkedIn to its portfolio, in a bid to toughen its Dynamic CRM platform. moreover, Microsoft presents special pricing for its Dynamics CRM on-line carrier, which is helping it inveigle salesforce's consumers. transforming into momentum for Dynamics 365 application functions has additional intensified competition.
extra, the simultaneous tie-up of Microsoft and Adobe, which goals to expand the earnings and advertising capabilities of each agencies, is a stout desultory to the king of CRM.
mainly, Adobe had obtained Magento remaining 12 months to expand its competitive position in e-commerce marketing dominated by using salesforce, which resulted in the LinkedIn partnership. furthermore, the simultaneous launch of Adobe's Commerce Cloud, which is share of its adventure Cloud, is probably going to aid it profit a competitive facet.
additionally, currently, SAP bought market-analytics startup — Qualtrix international — for $eight billion to gain a competitive locality in the CRM combat. With this deal, the enterprise goals to integrate ERP competencies with CRM capabilities, so as to deliver a finished solution that allows you to probably breathe stronger than salesforce, which is completely focused on CRM.
in addition, IBM is strengthening its grip on the cloud-computing software market with its net-based collaboration utility for groups, including contact management, immediate messaging and file-sharing classes. The company had received Optevia in 2016 to extend its SaaS CRM solutions and enrich competitive prowess.
while SAP contains a Zacks Rank #2 (buy), salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, and IBM elevate a Zacks Rank #3 (grasp), at present. which you can note the finished checklist of today's Zacks #1 Rank (effective buy) stocks here.
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Perficient, Inc. PRFT, -0.25% ("Perficient"), a number one digital transformation consulting enterprise serving world 2000® and other tremendous commercial enterprise valued clientele during North the usa, announced it has been named IBM's 2019 Watson Commerce enterprise associate of the yr. The IBM Excellence Award, introduced during IBM's PartnerWorld at suppose 2019, recognizes Perficient's ongoing expand and relationships with key shoppers, and concept management across the IBM Watson consumer date Commerce platform as an essential component for digital transformation.
With branded manufacturers and distributors beneath drive from the histrionic shift to on-line procuring, a world different manufacturer sought to digitally radically change its commerce enterprise. In partnership with Perficient Digital, both companies delivered optimized customer revenue, up to date product assistance (PIM), and streamlined the ordering technique via construction of a B2B portal. With the implementation of IBM's Sterling Order management rig (OMS), and Perficient's expertise, the various manufacturer is future-proofing its company to align with commerce traits and market opportunities.
furthermore, the company's OMS will supply them more suitable flexibility in managing knotty order management eventualities, improved reliability so as processing and fulfilment, and a cost reduction in enforcing throughout its enterprise. it is going to further allow the firm to convey carrier enhancements to its shoppers, optimize its pricing, promotion and accustomed provide chain, enhance sales because of more suitable inventory visibility, and in the reduction of costs through more suitable efficiencies so as visibility.
In a market that has historically trusted brick-and-mortar experiences, a number one fabric and craft retailer turned into challenged with extending the consumer journey online. Perficient partnered with the commerce to implement an IBM Watson Commerce solution that provided updated visibility of its stock and more desirable monitoring of its product volume, vicinity, and availability. employing IBM Order administration, Perficient extra more desirable the solution through cloud migration that offers a separate view of deliver and demand, orchestrates order achievement approaches throughout purchase online Pickup In shop (BOPIS) and Ship-from-keep (SFS), and empowers commerce representatives to enhanced serve customers both in title centers and in-store engagements.
apart from its award-successful commerce solution competencies, Perficient specialists are available totality through the IBM consider 2019 conference in booth #320 to talk about its experience and skills throughout the IBM portfolio , mainly cloud, cognitive, facts, analytics, DevOps, IoT, content administration, BPM, connectivity, commerce, mobile, and customer engagement.
whereas IBM has introduced its plans to promote its commerce portfolio, the information of its acquisition of pink Hat additionally signaled the criticality cloud edifice and soar play in a success end-to-conclusion digital transformations. As an IBM world Elite partner, considered one of most effective seven partners with that status globally, and a red Hat Premier companion, Perficient is smartly positioned to labor with each corporations through this transition. And, their experts could breathe handy during IBM suppose to focus on how to navigate the cloud market, share key customer success experiences, and supply strategic potential on the alternatives ahead for customers.
As a Platinum IBM commerce associate, Perficient holds more than 30 awards throughout its 20-year partnership historical past. The commerce is an award-successful, certified software cost Plus respond company and one of the most few partners to receive dozens of IBM expert even utility competency achievements.
For updates during the event and after, connect with Perficient experts on-line by means of viewingPerficient and Perficient Digital's blogs, or succeed us on Twitter@Perficient and @PRFTDigital.
Perficient is the main digital transformation consulting enterprise serving world 2000® and enterprise customers throughout North the usa. With unparalleled tips technology, management consulting, and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency carry vision, execution, and value with outstanding digital journey, commerce optimization, and industry options. Their labor allows customers to expand productivity and competitiveness; develop and beef up relationships with clients, suppliers, and companions; and reduce expenses. Perficient's professionals serve customers from a network of workplaces across North the us and offshore areas in India and China. Traded on the Nasdaq international opt for Market, Perficient is a member of the Russell 2000 index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index. Perficient is an award-profitable Adobe Premier accomplice, Platinum even IBM enterprise companion, a Microsoft countrywide carrier company and Gold CertifiedPartner, an Oracle Platinum companion, an superior Pivotal ready associate, a Gold Salesforce Consulting accomplice, and a Sitecore Platinum partner. For more suggestions, visitwww.perficient.com.
one of the statements contained during this information free up that don't look to breathe merely frail statements talk about future expectations or situation other ahead-looking tips related to pecuniary results and commerce outlook for 2018. those statements are domain to primary and unknown dangers, uncertainties, and different factors that may trigger the actual effects to vary materially from these contemplated through the statements. The forward-looking counsel is in line with management's present intent, perception, expectations, estimates, and projections involving their enterprise and their trade. you should breathe conscious that these statements best mirror their predictions. specific pursuits or results may also achieve appreciably. vital components that could trigger their precise outcomes to breathe materially diverse from the ahead-searching statements encompass (but aren't limited to) those disclosed under the heading "risk factors" in their annual file on profile 10-ok for the yr ended December 31, 2017.
The may additionally announcement regarding IBM's $1.four billion acquisition of AT&T subsidiary Sterling Commerce, a company of company-to-company integration and go-channel solutions, has been made authentic, based on commerce officials.
With more than 18,000 valued clientele and centered more than 30 years ago, Sterling is engaged in additional than 1 billion company interactions per year for shoppers in quite a few industries, together with retail, manufacturing, and distribution, amongst others.
Its application and linked services focal point on B2B integration, order administration, logistics, and cross-channel selling and fulfillment features to champion companies join, talk and collaborate with their consumers, partners, and suppliers to boost revenues, reduce charges, and streamline the manner businesses conclude enterprise, in line with IBM.
IBM officials spoke of that the compund of IBM and Sterling Commerce allows for the combination of key company approaches throughout channels and trading companions—from advertising and selling to order management and achievement. and that they delivered that this deal will aid shoppers integrate and automate company approaches, as a pass to supply more desirable demand era, client adventure and achievement. an additional profit is that shippers might breathe in a position to exploit these techniques—and enterprise colleague networks—via public or private may computing environments, mentioned IBM.
In a epistle to valued clientele in may additionally concerning the acquisition, Heyman preeminent that both shoppers and commerce companions may maintain access to extensive B2B integration and multi-channel promoting, order administration, and logistics capabilities, and IBM's SOA and commerce system administration options. This combination, he mentioned, will enable the integration of key company tactics during the total commerce lifecycle and give clients the flexibility to manage their community of commerce companions via public or inner most cloud computing environments, a well-behaved pass to translate into more efficient give chains and advanced consumer provider.
Sterling spokesman Joe Horine told LM that this deal stands to edge both corporations in several techniques.
whereas Sterling at the instant tactics more than 1 billion commerce interactions per yr, IBM keeps this amount will simplest grow due to the proliferation of digital commerce transactions, together with manufacturers sourcing raw substances electronically and agents automating stock management and managing orders online, among others.
IBM added that Sterling strongly complements IBM's middleware portfolio, and by means of acquiring Sterling and its large buying and selling community, IBM is poised to convey newfangled go-channel functions to its consumers. And Sterling's know-how, referred to IBM, will complement IBM's application through including its capabilities to IBM's frameworks supporting a number of industries, including manufacturing and retail.
ARC Advisory community analyst Adrian Gonzalez commented in his Logistics perspective weblog that IBM views this deal as a means of becoming its Websphere enterprise, which focuses on on-demand business, commerce integration, application, and transaction infrastructure.
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ADT might breathe known for high-tech security systems, but its customer onboarding process was decidedly far more low tech. Sales teams were stymied by manual, paper-based processes, including cumbersome multi-page constrict documents, handling and capturing customer payment, and having no automated pass to sort through the patchwork of products and promotions to match an appropriate offering to customers.
"It's not well-behaved to breathe handling paper when you're selling a technical system," says Kathleen McLean, senior vice president and CIO of ADT. "All the affliction for the various labor steps on the punch list was on the sales person. It was not automated in any pass to ensure the steps that needed to breathe done were done in any consistent manner."
Leveraging digital technology such as mobile devices or enterprise software to attend employees nearby deals far more quickly, optimize time out in the field, or breathe better prepared from both a time management and resource allocation standpoint is table stakes for modern companies looking to carve out an edge over the competition. According to the 2014 Harvey Nash CIO survey, not only are IT budgets growing, but the top priority of C-level executives has shifted away from cost-savings initiatives to leveraging technology to better the effectiveness of their operations.
When ADT expressed its desire to supersede the paper-based constrict process with electronic document signature, IT came back with a more holistic arrangement that would address shortcomings both upstream and downstream in the lead-to-order process.
The Hermes project, which kicked off in June 2014, was envisioned as a separate digital platform designed to deliver a functional current that integrates totality steps in the sales and installation process. Sales reps, whether working directly with a customer in the home or from a call seat in telesales, interact with the Hermes system to complete most steps in the sales workflow, including researching and specifying products and promotions, order processing, credit approval, payment processing, and booking installer appointments.
Given that ADT is in the security business, it was a top priority for the Hermes implementation. The domain reps operate within a closed environment, signification they consume a company device, which is locked down with the exception of their core commerce applications. Hermes' architecture presented a security challenge from the standpoint it combined both hosted and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. ADT has rigorous security standards for its own hosted applications, including consume of multi-factor authentication and data encrypted at flight and a rest. To ensure its SaaS software providers were held to the selfsame security standards, McLean added some rigorous addendums to the Master Service Agreements of its providers.
"A lot of the companies were surprised by the depth of what they were looking for, but security is their commerce and they ensnare it very seriously," she says.
When McLean joined ADT two years ago, she reorganized the IT group, pivoting from a technology-orientation to aligning along the commerce value chain—a meander that would prove essential to the Hermes roll out. "Because IT was aligned with commerce partners along the value stream, IT really understood the end-to-end process and could design a soup-to-nuts solution for the sales team," McLean explains. Without such an orientation, the request would maintain been limited to electronic signatures, a point solution based on point technology, she explains.
The solution, built on a service-oriented architecture, integrates three primary pillars: Salesforce.com for lead generation to order initiation; IBM/Sterling CPQ as an electronic product catalog delivering configured cost quote capabilities for guided sales and domain order creation; and Service Power, a instrument for managing appointments and scheduling installation. In addition to those main systems, Hermes also integrates with Master Mind, a security industry monitoring and billing platform, Vertex for taxation, and Equifax for credit checks, among other components.
The SOA architecture and open APIs maintain been key to Hermes' aptitude to seamlessly cover the entire lead-to-order sales workflow. "We maintain built a behind the scenes messaging infrastructure for the core components to interface to the back-end system. The beauty of this system is that it's sewed together in a seamless workflow so the sales rep thinks they are in Salesforce the gross time," McLean says.
Hermes has been fully implemented in ADT's diminutive commerce group and it's nearly 90% completed in the residential side of the commerce with a total of 5,000 people using the system. Sales reps are reporting faster nearby rates on sales from 24 hours to just under one minute, eliminating extraneous resources and overhead while also increasing the accuracy of the initial order since customers can review and accept the constrict birthright on the spot. There is also a smaller window between order acceptance and service installations and faster nearby rates on the collection of deposits since that now happens at the time of service install. In total, ADT is anticipating Hermes will deliver a $36 million cash savings over the next five years.
Given that Hermes is a complete change from the existing sales process, getting employee buy-in and addressing the cultural issues was a far bigger hurdle than any technology challenge, McLean says. Training was a stout share of ensuring smooth adoption. The IT team did the first set of training, and the team established a drill locality in SalesForce where reps where able to drill without apprehension of making mistakes. ADT's IT group also partnered with a training organization to create five training videos, and sales reps glean certified on the system before they used it in the field.
The conception of an intellectual restroom that would know when it needed a well-behaved cleaning or could initiate stock replenishment had long been on the wish-list of Kimberly Clark's professional division, which sells totality kinds of products and accessories for commercial restrooms.
Keeping commercial restrooms properly stocked and cleaned had been an ongoing challenge for KCC customers, which were constantly peppered with customer complaints about missing items or foul fixtures. They were also struggling with inefficiencies related to their manual upkeep processes, which called for personnel to depart from restroom to restroom to effect regular maintenance tasks without any insight into what to await when they got there.
"We did an evaluation to Look for potential opportunities and ways they could disrupt the competition," explains Jennifer Sepull, Kimberly Clark's CIO. "The question became what could they proffer edifice management teams so they would near to their total solution because they helped them manage operations better."
While the commerce had a pellucid vision for so-called "intelligent restroom," they didn't maintain a ply on how to tow it off. The commerce side had experimented with a few technology implementations in the past, but they weren't successful due to immoderate cost or some other limitation, Sepull says.
KCC's ITS team had filed for some initial patents related to sensors and applications and when the Internet of Things (IoT) began to near into the forefront, they were able to depart to the commerce and expose them a viable and effective pass to develop the intellectual restroom vision a reality, she explains. "We were able to expose them an break to leverage low-cost sensors, their existing networking and some of their application development labor to near together and resolve this problem," she says.
KCC focused on three main areas to ensure the system is properly safeguarded. The solution is avoid from within a private locality network at the customer site, which ensures the network is safe and not a threat to their information; they encrypt data during transmission to develop positive data leaving the customer site en route to the cloud is protected; and the core applications enables levels of security and access controls to breathe established based on role and user privileges.
"This may not understanding someone to crash a car, but every time you do any device into a system fancy this, there's an break for someone to near in and pose a threat to the internal network," Sepull says.
The intellectual Restroom uses low-cost sensors placed on totality of the equipment—paper towel dispensers, toilet paper dispensers, soap dispenser, and toilets—which collect and feed data in existent time through a network to a set of apps, which then employ the patented algorithms to determine if a toilet needs to breathe cleaned or if a dispenser is low. Maintenance managers note the real-time indicators via an iPhone app, allowing them to prioritize staff resources appropriately and gain insight on which rest ooms maintain the most traffic or experience the most maintenance problems. In turn, maintenance personnel can better arrangement their routes and preserve carts flush with the appropriate stock.
The system is noiseless in pilot test and is expected to depart into beta test in early 2016.
Forrester's Michele Pelino says there's a inescapable commerce case for such a system, enabling KCC to develop its customers more productive while enhancing its own brand. "This kind of system enables maintenance managers to route crews immediately to the birthright places so the restroom is up and running as well as to find patterns over time for things fancy proactive maintenance so things aren't breaking down in the middle of a concert or sporting event," says Pelino, Forrester's principal analyst for IoT. "
There's also potential to leverage the data collected from the intellectual Restroom to expand applications over time. "It could give you a proactive, behind the scenes Look so you can maintain the different pieces and products ready in hand," she explains.
For KCC, the biggest challenge is steering the organization away from a product orientation to a service commerce model where concerns are wholly different—things fancy how to maintain uptime or best service customers. "IoT puts this jam in front of any company whether you're edifice a refrigerator or wash dryer," Sepull says. "Now you maintain a different model to breathe concerned about—making positive the customer is gay and when there is a failure, they maintain somewhere to go."
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Lead generation is perhaps one of the key challenges for marketers reliant on inbound marketing. The sheer number of blogs, brands, and commerce profiles clamoring for attention out there, maintain made traditional methods of capturing lead information ineffective.
This is a simple quiz that featured on a Mint computer game intended for towering school teens. The game asked questions related to personal finances in the real-world context. But what's really animated about this game, is that Mint is actually investing in leads. The target audience for this game are not going to breathe consumers anytime soon, however Mint is using gamification to talk to a demographic that will soon develop into their target persona.
Another much specimen of B2B gamification done birthright is IBM's Innov8 platform. Innov8 is a share of an academic initiative by IBM to warrant commerce process management (BPM) to students across universities in America. They gamified the training process and became an instant hit within a few days of going live in 2009. For IBM, Innov8 proved to breathe the proverbial golden goose, becoming IBM's top lead generator. The objective of the game is to "Level-up your skills and learn how to develop their Planet smarter, revolutionize industries and resolve real-world business, environmental and logistical problems." Top executives across leading organizations embraced the game. Within 5 months of its release to the universal public, the game resulted in 100X the investment do into it. Tracking the people who played the game, resulted in phenomenal sales for IBM. Innov8 is free to play, but users exigency to mark up before playing.
For B2Bs already using email automation for lead generation, gamification is an excellent pass to preserve customers coming back. Integrating game tactics into your email lead generation strategy is actually pretty simple – develop email signup a participation requirement. Your tool's drip thrust capabilities can route regular reminders to customers, encouraging them to preserve engaging. Moreover, major email automation providers such as Eloqua, MailChimp, Clickback, TargetHero, thrust Monitor, etc. can attend you track the success (open rates & CTRs) of your gamification strategy.
Improves long-term performance:Traditional incentive programs such as contests might attend change short-term behavior, but they rarely inspire on-going improvements. Gamification is easier to manage and does require significant resource allocation.
Prompt and effective onboarding:Gamification can attend newfangled hires and associates quickly assimilate into the organization - it jumpstarts engagement, reduces turnaround time and significantly shortens the onboarding time.
Improves resource adoption and utilization: Organizations utilizing gamification can motivate their sales rep to input high-quality, accurate data into the CRM system, while amping-up erudition sharing between partners from external channels.
The potential to test and apply gamification to your sales team is virtually limitless. It could breathe as simple as setting up a leaderboard (although a leaderboard doesn't really qualify as a game) to knotty CRM integrations. To breathe effective, your gamification strategy for sales performance management must combine motivation, data and interactive design. Integrating these elements will attend you promote collaboration and other towering value behaviors throughout your sales channels, ultimately driving more revenue for your business.
Automobile giant Ford wanted to better the effectiveness of its sales and service reps across 450 dealerships. To conclude so, they integrated gamification into their employee Learning Management System, which led to a whopping 471% expand in site usage. After gamifying the system, sales and service reps could labor toward individual and team goals, compete with other dealerships and receive real-time feedback as they engaged in desired behaviors. The company also create a positive correlation between date and KPI metrics, including revenue and customer satisfaction.Gamification can lead to tangible, measurable improvements in commerce performance. Technology providers such as ConnectLeader, Appboy and Bunchball can attend you do gamification to labor to expand employee engagement, better training and drive win rates from your sales team.
We know how critical positive customer experiences are. Gamifying the customer experience takes more than just adding points or badges. Designing a better customer experience requires a strategic shift, one based on in-depth analysis of the current situation of your customer journey. You can either gamify individual touchpoints or entire sections of the customer journey.
Any key customer touchpoint could develop consume of gamification, from product exploration on your website to interactive troubleshooting. However, you must recollect that much gamification simplifies customer interaction with your brand. It must overcome the pang points of your customer experience.
Easy sign-up process: Customers treasure a registration process. Avoid long forms or lengthy questions. Try to eradicate totality barriers for a customer to join.
Reward non-purchase activity: develop it simple for your customers to merit points. Most loyalty programs are abandoned because customers glean bored with the laggard reward accumulation.
Facebook's bug bounty program is a classic specimen of gamifying customer experience through crowdsourcing. Google, Uber, Mozilla and Adobe, totality avoid bug bounty programs that reward users who attend preserve the community safe by reporting vulnerabilities in their services.
Several banks and other pecuniary institutions gamify their product exploration experiences with product quizzes and trivia. By infusing basic gamification elements fancy this, you can attend your customers find appropriate products quickly and it is pass more fun pass than reading fine print.
Many brands maintain achieved much success with gamification to motivate customers toward action. You could too.
If you're thinking of introducing gamification into your marketing strategy, it's best to test the water first. Start with diminutive competitions, quizzes, and challenges that reward users differently and note what works best for your audience. Rinse and repeat. well-behaved luck!
Federico Rosei is a professor at the Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Varennes, Quebec. Since January 2014, he holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage and since May 2016 he also holds the Canada Research Chair (Senior) in Nanostructured Materials. He received MSc (1996) and PhD (2001) degrees from the University of Rome La Sapienza.
Rosei's research interests focus on the properties of nanostructured materials, and on how to control their size, shape, composition, stability and positioning when grown on suitable substrates. His research has been supported by multiple funding sources from the Province of Quebec, the federal government as well as international agencies, for a total in excess of $16 million. He has worked in partnership with more than 20 Canadian R&D companies.
He is co-inventor of three patents and has published more than 295 articles in prestigious international journals (including Science and Nature), has been invited to talk at more than 300 international conferences and has given more than 235 seminars and colloquia, more than 55 professional development lectures and 40 public lectures in 45 countries on totality inhabited continents.
He is a Fellow of numerous prestigious national and international societies and academies, including: the Royal Society of Canada, the European Academy of Science, the African Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of knack and Science, the World Academy of Ceramics, the Academia Europaea, the American Physical Society, AAAS, the Optical Society of America, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ASM International, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Australian Institute of Physics, Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and eccentric Member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering.
He has received several awards and honours, including a junior Canada Research Chair (2003–2013), a senior Canada Research Chair (2016–2023), a Bessel Award (von Humboldt Foundation), the Rutherford Medal in Chemistry (Royal Society of Canada), the Herzberg Medal (Canadian Association of Physics), the Brian Ives Lectureship (ASM International), the Award for Excellence in Materials Chemistry (Canadian Society for Chemistry), the NSERC EWR Steacie Fellowship, the Vasconcelos Award for Education (World Cultural Council), the IEEE NTC Distinguished Lectureship, the Lash Miller Award (Electrochemical Society), the Chang Jiang Scholar Award (Government of China), the Khwarizmi International Award (Iran), the Recognition for Excellence in Mentorship (American Vacuum Society), the Selby Fellowship (Australian Academy of Sciences), the Polanyi Award (Canadian Society for Chemistry), the Outstanding Engineer Award (IEEE Canada), the President's Visiting Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists (Chinese Academy of Sciences), the Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship, the Changbai Mountain Friendship Award, the IEEE Montreal Gold Medal, the APS John Wheatley Award and the Blaise Pascal Medal (European Academy of Sciences).


It is simply a wonderful feeling to be typing away from an i-Mac that has the best of speeds when it comes to the internet, sitting in the IT lab of the college-of-my-dreams!
One really can't ask for more.
And so, one stops talking!
Let life just be this way forever I wouldn't complain one bit too.
Will be back in Indian soon!!!
i am followin ur blog for quite some time. u r lines are poetic ..good work .


Amherst Island near Kingston, Ontario is a community of over four hundred comprised mostly of farmers and retirees from "away," often Toronto or Ottawa. The Island is a component of Loyalist Township for municipal organization purposes, and is located in Lennox & Addington County. It has hourly car ferry service with the mainland at Millhaven, allowing some island residents to commute to work on the mainland. As of this writing, June 2016, there are five completed Tweedsmuir volumes in the collection. Volume 5 was completed in 2010 and covers the period 2006-2010, with a few exceptions.
It contains a section on WI Branch achievements and activities and those of the District AI. Also the Neilson Museum Artists' Tour, history of the Amherst Island Ferry and related issues of 2007 and the possibility of a Wind Project on the island.
Also covered: RBC Bank Branch on the island, Amherst Island Fall Fair, the Poplar Dell Farm, the Moutray Estate, and Long Point.
Among the family names mentioned: Bailey, Gibson, Glenn, Hieatt, Hitchins, Kidd, McDonald, McGinn, McKee, Morrow, Pringle, Radcliffe. There is also a group of obituaries.


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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, the upcoming 3DS title set in the same world a A Link to the Past, has been listed for a November release in North America.
The date was announced during an analyst meeting at E3, where Satoru Iwata revealed the schedule of 3DS titles Nintendo has in store for 2013.
Europe is still down for "toward the end of this year" but it shouldn't be too far away from the same date as North America.
The name for the game was officially unveiled at E3 and it seems November will be the month we get our 3DS Zelda fix.
Will you be getting this in November, North America? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Europe better not get this game in October or something. I would rage so hard.
This won't be released in October in Europe alongside the Windwaker- Nintendo wouldn't release 2 Zelda games in the same month.
Not sure how I feel about this title. I might buy it...... still not sure.
I might pick this game up sometime if I find it for less than 30 euros.
I played through Link to the Past last year first time in ages and, even though I don't care for Zelda series, I actually found it better than I remembered, It's nothing special but I had a fun enough time.
The 11 on that investor presentation image is for the calendar month (November) not the date. The game has no date as of right now.
Plus the 11th is a Monday, which would be odd for releasing a game.
Well that's troubling news for Europe. Given the delays of retail releases from NA to EU though I'm guessing we'll end up getting it at least a half month later.
The trailer sold me. Sure I'll consider it.
@RestlessPoon Yes, because it's not like Europe typically has to wait 6+ months for games.
I now know what I'll be doing November 11th.
Hopefully I will get the oracle games done by then.
Another day-one buy for me. I'll likely be finishing Wind Waker HD by then.
Still iffy on the name. Feels a bit clunky. But Nintendo knows my wallet is ready!
Well I just hope its released before December if they want to get as much sales as possible.
I will get this, but not gonna be too excited. I prefer 3D Zelda games.
Nice, I wasn't expecting any earlier than December, but I guess they probably want it out for Black Friday.
Why is it always said that we get our "_____ fix"? As if we were broken without that particular game.
A Link to the Past is my favorite Zelda so hell, yeah, I'm getting this day one.
God I love the 3DS!
Even with some delays there still so many great titles to look foward to this year!
I hope this will be a retail release.
The visuals lack the charm of ALTTP and seem a little too bland and basic, i guess that's what happens when you opt for 60 frames per second on the 3DS. You get less graphical detail and how much you can have on screen. Still, I'd rather it be 60fps than 30!
@KnightRider666 I'm sure it will be.
Just as long as we get it before Christmas in Europe, I'll be happy.
@RestlessPoon right, but we have to just take it when NA gets games like Fire Emblem: Awakening over 2 months before Europe.
I'd hazard my guess that Europe will get the game around the same time anyway. NoE have been on the ball with release dates for Nintendo games recently and we've seen most games launching within just a few days of each other. Fire Emblem was the exception, probably because of the additional censorship requiring a couple more months of red tape.
It looks like Minish Cap Link is in this game. What's different about this game, though? So far it looks like an exact copy of A Link to the Past with new abilities. Anyways, Oracle of Ages/Seasons already downloaded for $5 apiece. Go and get yourself some!
As much as I LOVE Zelda games, I have not played through A Link To The Past yet and with lots of other Nintendo games coming out this season as well as the Xbox One I'm getting, I'll have to pass on this one for now.
YAY! In time for Christmas! Definitely asking for it.
I'll buy it on day 1.
Just before my birthday perfect time for it to come out.


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Q: Passing in params to \N{name} unicode string My question is; Do we in python have a workaround for passing in named params into an escaped unicode segment? for example
print u"No... haha {name} is a \N{MALE SIGN}".format(name = 'lisa', gender = 'MALE')

to
print u"No... haha {name} is a \N{{gender} SIGN}".format(name = 'lisa', gender = 'MALE')

A: I don't think it's possible to do this way, since \N{name} substitutions are done during parsing (before .format(), that is executed at runtime).
You can use unicodedata to get unicode character by name. Like this:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> print u"No... haha {name} is a {gender}".format(name = 'lisa', gender = unicodedata.lookup('MALE' + ' SIGN'))
No... haha lisa is a ♂

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My Wish: DeSean Jackson
DeSean Jackson, ESPN, Make A Wish Foundation, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles
My Wish: DeSean Jackson by Ken White, ESPN
My Wish and DeSean Jackson grant Donovan Troy's wish of spending time with his favorite NFL player.
Nothing, not even an unexpected rainstorm, could ruin Donovan Troy's wish. In fact, the weather made Donovan's day even better.
Troy, a 10-year-old from Atlanta, spent the rainy day inside the Philadelphia Eagles' practice bubble with his idol, DeSean Jackson.
"Because it rained that day, everybody was in one place, so he really got to meet a lot of players," said Donovan's mother, Tara Troy. "He even got a chance to learn how to take punt returns and kick with the kickers."
One month after he was born, Donovan was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of sickle-cell anemia.
Donovan had to avoid situations that could exacerbate his condition, such as being outside in extreme heat, or even swimming. Football specifically was discouraged, especially after Donovan's spleen was removed when he was a toddler. He now needs monthly blood transfusions. Contact sports could create serious complications.
Donovan's uncle, Cedric, was 32 when he died from the same condition. But Donovan loved football, and while his parents wanted to protect him, they also didn't want him spending his whole life in hospitals.
Donovan Troy was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of sickle cell anemia when he was a month old.
When he was 5 years old, Donovan played football for the first time, on a team coached by his father, Al. Donovan played a little bit of quarterback and had some success, but for his health, he took the next two years off. At age 8, he scored his first touchdown, though he was decidedly low-key about it.
"He scored and handed the ball to the referee and walked right back to the huddle," Tara said. "I was surprised. He wasn't quite into the dancing yet."
Now, whenever Donovan gets a chance, he imitates Jackson's touchdown dance. How the youngster from Atlanta became a fan of the fifth-year wide receiver from Philadelphia remains a mystery to his family.
"My husband and I were born and raised in Atlanta; so, we're both natives, but he is not a Falcons fan at all," Tara said. "He loves DeSean. He always talks about how fast he is."
At the end of May, his parents set up Donovan with a special highlight video in his normal playlist. After a clip of Jackson's season highlights finished, Jackson popped on the screen to deliver a personal invitation to Donovan. At first, Donovan didn't believe he was really going to Philadelphia, and kept replaying the video. And then it finally sunk in — Donovan would get to meet the man he had idolized for so long.
Two weeks later, Donovan and his family were off to Philadelphia, where he met Jackson. Donovan shared Jackson's locker and received his own customized jersey, which he took onto the practice field.
DeSean Jackson showed Donovan some of his best dance moves.
"He got to dance with DeSean Jackson, so he loved that," Tara said. "He got to field punts. And they filmed him doing that and went in the film room, after, to watch it on the big-screen TV and had his name on [the film] and everything. So that made him feel special, as if he was really part of the team."
Of course, no practice for Jackson would be complete without getting some work in with his quarterback, and that was the case for Donovan, too. After a little one-on-one coaching from Jackson on running routes, Donovan caught passes from Eagles quarterback Michael Vick.
"Once [Jackson] showed him how to run routes, he got to catch passes and didn't drop one the whole time. That was really cool for him," Tara said.
After the film session, the day at practice was nearly over, but there was still one last surprise in store. Jackson, an avid rapper who has his own label — Jaccpot Records — brought Donovan to a recording studio and had the youngster lay down a verse for an Eagles rap.
"[Donovan] really was excited about that," Tara said. "We didn't even know DeSean was into music like that. He and DeSean went into the studio and recorded a song and they gave us the CD before we left. He'll always have that to remember."
Back at home, Donovan plays the song every day, and it's his mother's ringtone. Donovan now plays baseball instead of football because it's safer, but he's still dancing. Only now, he's doing it to his own beat.
Putting An End to Harassment, Beyond the Billboards
Monday, 23 July 2012 11:14 | Written by Sheila Simmons |
The billboard over I-95 South just before Lincoln Financial Field shows Eagles star DeSean Jackson with Upper Darby bullying victim Nadin Khoury. It reminds me of the most effective defense against bullying: us.
(Left) Nadin Khoury, 15 with his mother Rebecca at home in Upper Darby. Nadin was the victim of a bullying incident last year and has become a spokesperson for anti-bullying campaigns. Sarah J. Glover/Photographer
By us I mean members of society, the spectators in the stands.
On the billboard, alongside the words "End Bullying Zone" our favorite wide receiver uses his celebrity to cast anti-bullying as popular, socially desirable goal.
In a 2010 article, the American Academy of Children and Adolescent Psychiatry concluded that today's bullies don't just pummel kids for lunch money–they are often "popular or semi-popular social climbers . . . who use ostracism, ridicule, and gossip to gain social status."
Think about it. If others (read: we) don't stand around and watch the bully, laugh at insults, or chant, "fight, fight, fight!" then the bully has no audience, and thus, no act.
Summer break doesn't stop bullying. It happens on the playground, at the pool, on the block. Adults encounter bullies in the workplace, the boardroom,–heck, in the state legislature.
The bully in my neighborhood is a big, muscular kid 13 year old. I once watched him peddle around my son's ball field on some other kid's bike that he'd "borrowed". On day, a group of smaller kids asked the bully, "You gonna beat him up again?"
The "him" was my neighbor's kid who sat silently against a fence. As the bully and kids approached, I did too, aiming a disapproving "Mom" look at the bully and his curious followers, who were drawn by anticipation. After several glances at me, they all slinked away.
I didn't get a chance to talk to Jackson or the folks behind his DeSean Jackson Foundation, headed by mom Gayle Jackson (she was away at the Professional Football Players Mothers' Association's 15th annual Pre-Season Conference). But I did talk to Nadin. Life has changed a lot since last year, when a group of bullies put him in a tree and recorded it.
He credits some of that change to a new school and some to his association with Jackson, who at the time surprised him on national television with an Eagles jersey. "He bought me and my sister and Mom a plane ticket to the [ESPY] Awards. We got to meet a whole bunch of famous people. [Locals] would come up to me and say, 'Aren't you that kid . . . ?'
DeSean Jackson and Nadin on the Red Carpet at the Espy Awards
"Now, a lot of people know that people care. . . . I've heard recently that Lady Gaga is part of a [an anti-bullying] campaign, that Obama has a bunch of things," he added. "They all think that it's something that should not be tolerated, that people know it's not cool that you're saying this."
Yes, someone cares, Nadin. And that someone should be all of us.
For more information on the DeSean Jackson Foundation, go to Foundation10.com or E-Mail Mrs. Gayle Jackson @ deseanjacksonfoundationceo@yahoo.com. Thank You.