You've made up your mind: you're replacing the landline solution in your business with VoIP. Your next step is finding the best VoIP conference phone on the market.
You've worked out the ongoing cost of a VoIP phone system, you've worked out which conference rooms in your office are a priority, and you have a rough idea of features you need the most.
You don't want to spend your budget on solutions packed with features you don't need, or waste hours sitting through vaguely relevant demos.
This is why we created this guide: to help you find the best VoIP conference phone for your business. We focused on your budget, conference room size, potential future upgrades, and exact features your business requires.
If you want to jump right to the best VoIP conference phones, below is the table of contents divided into conference room sizes so you can quickly find what suits you best.
The focus on your conference room size is crucial because if you only focus on features, you might end up with a conference phone that covers a wider radius than you need, which will likely cost you more.
It also goes the other way around: if you have a large space, but don't need all the bells and whistles, you can avoid overpaying for enterprise-focused features.
Related: How Many Phone Lines Do I Need for My Business?
Which Features Matter the Most to You?
This list of the best VoIP conference room phones below is already based on the best ones on the market.
They all offer high-definition audio, they're loved by many businesses across the world, and they allow you to easily run professional calls and remote team meetings.
However, there are some refined features that could make a world of difference in your unique situation. That's why we've added a features table to each of the conference phones we included.
Finally, you'll notice that some VoIP conference phones hover around $300, while others go over $600, with some full collaboration kits ranging over $1,000.
We didn't shy away from listing available prices from suppliers that offer these VoIP conference phones. You shouldn't have to waste time looking for these prices yourself; you should invest it into finding the best conference phone for your business.
Related: How Much is A Business Phone Line?
Small spaces like huddle rooms and offices present a range of obstacles to a good conference call; echo, feedback, and background noise are only a few.
Whether you run remote team meetings or frequently speak on the phone with external partners in such spaces, things can get messy and unclear.
This category lists powerful VoIP conference phones for small conference rooms and executive offices.
The IP 5000 solution from Polycom brings advance audio performance to calls in executive offices and smaller conference rooms with up to 6 participants.
It provides a 360º coverage and allows participants to speak in a normal voice from up to 7 feet away—and still be heard clearly. Important call information is easy to access thanks to a high-resolution backlit display.
Among the main drawbacks that users mention is the time and effort it takes for configuration and firmware update.
Some users spent several hours to download data, restart, and st up, while others said that having an auto provisioning system made things a lot easier.
Nonetheless, they still claimed that they'd choose the IP 5000 again even with the time it took to configure them the first time around!
Tales from the real world experiences with the Polycom IP 5000 show that it truly serves its purpose in a smaller room setting.
Even though it appears that the clear audio pickup depends on certain elements such as leaning back or turning away, it's still a reliable solution nonetheless.
"We have this phone in the middle of a 3.5′ x 8′ rectangular table in a 14′ x 18′ conference room. The sound quality from the speaker is great and the volume goes plenty high enough to hear over a room full of noisy people. The phone picks up normal-volume voices very clearly from every position at the table, although the people at the head of the table need to be sure to speak at the phone and not lean too far back or turn away when talking.
That's what users say about the Polycom 6000. Polycom's HD voice technology along with a high resolution display for easy, advanced call handling make it a reliable solution for mid-sized conference rooms.
The core drawback of the Polycom Soundstation IP 6000 appears to be the setup and configuration process. Even with experienced IT professionals, it might take a couple of days to put the entire system in place.
However, once it's there, you'll enjoy a new level of conference call quality.
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Cisco 7832 is a sleek, easy-to-use conference phone with 360-degree coverage of small conference rooms.
This conference phone makes the most out of Cisco's advanced technology and ensures a perfect audio experience for voices of all frequencies with up to six participants. Users can speak in a normal voice and be perfectly heard from up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) away.
Small and medium-sized conference rooms are probably the most frequent of them all.
Their challenge comes from the diverse shapes, varying number of participants, and outstanding audio requirements in order to not lose an important part of the conversation.
Your requirements might seem unique, but the solutions below were made to work for many scenarios and are quite customizable.
The Polycom Trio 8500 takes the conference call experiences a notch up. With it, you can start and run your meetings easily and quickly with simple navigation. It encourages user engagement with an intuitive interface and a one-touch-join calendar integration.
It's ideal for midsize conference room with its 14-feet (4.3 meter) pickup. With the legendary voice quality from Polycom, it cancels out echo and mutes non-speech noise.
A drawback that seems to be present in several Polycom models happens when minor changes in the Polycom admin portal can render the phone inactive.
Users agree that it doesn't reduce the value they receive from the phone or their rating of it. It is a fault that is simply solved by resetting to default — it's simply something to be aware of (that will hopefully be remedied in the future by Polycom).
The VTech VCS752 is designed as a reliable, expandable option for your medium-sized conference rooms.
With a base unit and two wireless microphones, everyone can be heard over the phone just like in real life. You can connect a total of four Bluetooth devices like smartphones and headsets and create a range of opportunities to start, run, and end your meetings over the phone.
The VCS752 is equally perfect as a personal workspace device and a full-powered VoIP conference phone.
One of the drawbacks that comes up is the poor audio quality when connected to a Mac Mini (MacBook Pro works fine, according to users). These users recommend a USB version, the VCS754, in this case, which has worked perfectly in their case.
The VCS752 is praised by its users as the simple yet powerful VoIP conference phone that simply works, without the bells and whistles that most companies don't require anyway.
"Set up in conference room as generic IP phone (using POE) on Allworx Connect 731 PBX. Works great as a full duplex regular conference phone.
Wireless remote mics (great feature, eliminates wire clutter) are very sensitive. The best part was connecting it to my conference room PC (Intel NUC mounted behind 60″ flat screen TV).
We can assume that large conference rooms, executive offices, and similar spaces often involve 15 or more participants and imply meetings of high importance.
These can often be high-pressure situations, which makes the risk of lousy experiences and unclear dialogues even worse.
VoIP conference phones for large rooms listed below suit almost any situations and a broad spectrum of budgets!
This kit is nothing like any other option and it genuinely provides a full remote collaboration solution. This is possible thanks to its ability to not only flawlessly transfer voice, but also video and content sharing.
The Polycom Trio 8800 Collaboration Kit is a smart hub that will make sure you never need another conferencing solution. If you need great tech to lead highly productive remote meetings that require content and video sharing, this is it.
An obvious drawback to such a robust conference phone is its price. The advanced features listed above make this far from a surprise. It's not just a phone, but a complete hub to run the most efficient remote collaborations you ever have.
"The Trio runs Polycom's People + Content IP (PPCIP) server component. Using the free PPCIP app on a networked Windows 10 laptop, we entered the Trio's IP address in the app's interface, provided the password we'd configured from the Trio's web UI and watched our desktop appear on the monitor where we could also use the app's zoom function to zero-in on an area of interest.
VTech VCS754 is among the most adjustable conference phones we've seen.
Not only does it come with HD voice quality with built-in microphones—it also comes with four wireless microphones you can detach from the base and position throughout your space.
This turns rooms of all sizes into a conference call experience that feels like everyone is in the room and not on the other side of the call.
Some VTech VCS754 users reported they believed this conference phone was wireless. Others labeled the setup process as tedious and certainly not 'plug-and-play'.
In both cases, however, the outcome was a genuinely high-quality conference calling experience, which made it all worth it despite the initial drawbacks.
Devices that leverage the digital enhanced cordless telecommunications, or a DECT connection, function through a base station, as opposed to directly to the computer (or phone for headsets) themselves.
This adds a layer of hardware, but one base station can power multiple devices, and create a usable range far superior to anything a simply Bluetooth connection could manage.
In other words, devices with a DECT connection are the most powerful setup you can create in your workspace.
The VTech VCS762 is a completely wire-free solution that enables you to easily place the conference phone and its two wireless microphones anywhere you need them to be.
It comes with a DECT base and docking station to charge the phone with up to 24 hours of talk time (or 12 hours for wideband audio).
This phone brings a total freedom for placement in your conference room and removes the wire-tripping risk entirely.
What makes the VCS762 one of the top VoIP conference phone solutions in 2019?
Optional expansion with wireless microphones: pair up to two VCS850 SIP DECT Expansion Wireless Speakerphones to increase the volume and microphone pickup for 15 or more active participants.
If all you need are Bluetooth-powered conference phones that are easy to travel with, the suggestions below are for you.
These solutions are easy to set up anywhere, at any time, and are ready to use in seconds.
Polycom VoxBox stands out as a compact speakerphone that provides a genuine, high-quality conference call experience despite its size.
It's a perfect for remote workers, as well as for group calls in small offices with lots of background noise. Due to wireless pairing, it allows for easy switching between conference rooms.
To top that off, it's the perfect choice for employees and teams who travel.
Here's the best news: Polycom VoxBox is available for less than $300.
While Polycom VoxBox is extremely practical, it comes with two main drawbacks.
It can pair with a maximum of 10 devices at once, which means that as more teams start using it, you'll need to clear pairings from earlier.
Another problem is the inability to personalize its device name for Bluetooth connectivity. If you only need one VoxBox, this clearly won't be a problem, but having more than one makes it challenging to pick the correct one.
Folks at Video Conferencing Australia decided to take the VoxBox for a test drive—and they weren't disappointed.
"Testing performed in a boardroom found that the VoxBox clearly picked up voices up to 2.5m from the device and even when speaking away from VoxBox, allowing only reflected sound to be captured. While this scenario is far from an ideal audio setting, the VoxBox proved it was still able to operate in such challenging environments.
Plantronics Calisto 620 is a perfectly small and lightweight speakerphone that lets you run professional-level meetings wherever you are.
The Calisto 600 series was made for perfect portability, and the 620 provides exactly that with wireless connectivity and a simple interface to answer, end, mute, and volume-control your calls.
It comes with a Bluetooth mini USB adapter so you can connect it to your PC even if it doesn't have an already built-in Bluetooth functionality.
While Calisto 620 receives plenty of feedback that suggests great sound quality and an easily portable speakerphone solution, there are two drawbacks that are coming up alongside of them.
Some users shared that using Plantronics Calisto 620 with a VoIP softphone on a Mac computer was flakey.
Others mentioned they have had issues with the device connecting automatically to cell phones with active calls instead of a computer that the dongle is attached to, which can be confusing when it first happens. Otherwise, it's easily solvable.
If you've chosen one of the suggestions from our list, you may want to expand their range with these expansion microphones.
If your conference phone of choice is the Polycom RealPresence Trio 8500 or 8800, the Trio Expansion Microphones will be a useful addition to it.
They each connect with a 7-feet (2.1 meter) wire and have a 6 meter range with a 360-degree coverage.
Just like the rest of the Polycom range, they provide a high-quality, inclusive collaborative conferencing experience.
The VCS850 is the perfect addition to the VCS752 conference phone.
It has a full-duplex speakerphone in base, so callers can speak and be heard at the same time just like in a face-to-face meeting.
It's a great way to hold a conference call in a large conference room, because you can pair up to three VCS850 expansion speakerphones to increase the volume. This also increases the microphone pickup to 27 or more active participants.
Wireless talk time is up to 12 hours on one charge, and standby time is up to 70 hours. You never have to worry about losing a charge in the middle of the meeting.
When you've reviewed your feature requirements, conference room size, and your budget, it's time to make a decision on the best VoIP conference phone for your needs.
By now you know that VoIP conference phones save you time and money by letting you run your overall communications with ease.
Here at Nextiva, we aim to be the partner you can trust and bring you reliable VoIP conferencing as the backbone of your business.


Law enforcement is going green in California thanks to the new LEED certified police department facility.
November 12, 2010, 11:31 a.m.
The city of Hesperia, Calif., has its first LEED certified building thanks in part to funding from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Hesperia Police Department's new home is a 42,887 square-foot building that cost about $17 million to build. One of the building's highlights is a solar array that provides shade in the parking lot but also generates enough electricity to meet about 70 percent of the Hesperia Police Department's annual power needs.
Law enforcement is going green in Hesperia, California, thanks to the new LEED certified police department facility.


The workshop will cover the following topics: GeoNode from a user perspective, how to. It will cover tipical functionalities and use cases a GeoNode user, either Administrator and Standard, will face. Accounts, users and groups. Resource types handled by GeoNode, how to upload, set permissions, edit metadata and tweak to improve your portal usability. Management of geospatial datasets, diffrent types and how to nicely apply styling to them. Creation of Maps, and share them with the world. Accessing GeoNode from other Desktop and Web GIS applications. As an Administrator, manage the GeoNode data, throubleshoot and fix the most common issues.
The workshop will cover the following topics: GeoNode in development mode, how to. The geonode-project to customize GeoNode. Change the look and feel. Add your own app. Add your own models, views and logic. Build your own APIs. Add a third party app. Deploy your customized GeoNode.
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Discussion in 'Windows, Linux & Others on the Mac' started by dooyou, Mar 9, 2008.
I have a MacBook Pro 2.1 connected with the taurus fw 800 from macpower. my question is, has windows vista full support of firewire 800?
i'm using the taurus with a single drive from western digital, my speeds are read/write 40mb/s. is it only faster in raid mode with two harddisks?
But note that if you want to use that drive with both OS X and Windows, you have to format it as FAT32 (which has a restriction of maximum 4 GB per file).
Mac cant write to NTFS disks, while Windows cart write/read HFS+ disks.
With MacFUSE, Mac OS X can read/write to NTFS.
Yes thank's, i know that. I use the external FW 800 drive for installing programs or games on it. It seems like it works perfect, the external harddisk is now a little bit faster as the internal one. I'm happy!
Are 40mb/s for read/write okay?
I think the HDD would be the limit here. It'll be much faster with two disks in RAID.
But can the 3,5" Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA II really be the brake? Normally you have transfer rates with this drive about 60-70mb/s (as internal).
Yes it would be much faster in RAID. Maybe FW 800 is only faster in Raid as FW 400 and the differences between FW 400 and FW 800 in Singledrive using are not so wide.


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With the MLA Convention upon us, we are hearing the annual laments for a profession fallen on hard times. I'm afraid I have come to take a very jaundiced view of the whole business.
Over the years I have come to think of the English business works as a massive bait and switch. I, at least, got into the business thinking that I was going to be doing two things. First, I would be engaged in a scholarly enterprise. That is, I was be seeking an ever-better approximation of the truth about a subject. Second, I would be passing on to others something truly important, their very own cultural heritage, from which they might then take delight, solace, and even wisdom. In graduate school I still heard a little about those ideas, but the working assumption was that they were naive pre-post-modernist b.s. There was no truth to be told about literature; all interpretations were equally true, though some might get more attention than others. And that cultural heritage was a genuinely bad thing: nothing but racist, sexist, classist, homophobic veils for the power structure. Power-relationships were the only things that might be real--though why you would study them by reading rhymes and stories was still a mystery. Once I became a professor, the cultural heritage—much less delight, solace, and wisdom—seemed to be the last thing anyone cared about. The administration wanted remedial programs for students who couldn't write a memo. And the "rhet/comp" specialists the administration hired because they were called writing expects seemed to want to do social work instead of teaching anyone anything. People who wanted to focus on the study of literature were steadily marginalized. All this in itself would make people like me wonder about their life choices, but the academic culture, as least as I experienced it, included few people willing to stand up for either ideas or people and many who just kept their heads down, nodded when required to, and let people's lives be ruined rather than cross either those in power or those in office (not always the same groups, by any means). If I meet a young person who loves literature now, I may tell them to major in English as an undergraduate, but I will never tell one to get a Ph.D. or seek a job in an English Department.
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Overnight Utility Work at Mount Pleasant Station December 2019
Overnight Utility Work at Mount Pleasant Station
On Thursday December 12 and Friday December 13, crews will work overnight to perform watermain reinstatement work on the northside of Eglinton Avenue East, east of Mount Pleasant Road.
To safely carry out the works, the westbound lane on Eglinton Avenue East will be temporarily closed. Westbound traffic will be diverted to the south to use the eastbound lane, alternating traffic in each direction. The bus stop on the northside of Eglinton Avenue East will be temporarily relocated east of Rawlinson Avenue, while this work takes place.
To mitigate disruption to the public, work will be carried out in the evening, starting at 9:00 p.m. for approximately six (6) hours. Traffic control personnel and/or a paid duty officer will be present while this work takes place. Crews will endeavour to minimize disruption as much as possible. Access to TTC and emergency response vehicles will be maintained at all times.
Thursday December 12 and Friday December 13
9:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m.
Noise from hydro-vacuum trucks and other construction equipment can be expected.
Traffic and Pedestrian Changes
East of Mount Pleasant Road, the westbound lane on Eglinton Avenue will be temporarily closed from 9:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m.
The bus stop on the northside of Eglinton Avenue will be temporarily relocated east of Rawlinson Road, while this work takes place.
Visit www.ttc.ca [1] for more information
Travel delays are expected with the Crosstown construction. Please allow extra time for your journey. Traffic will be extra heavy at peak periods during the Crosstown construction. When possible, please travel during the off-peak period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Source URL: http://m.thecrosstown.ca/news-media/whats-new/overnight-utility-work-at-mount-pleasant-station-december-2019
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As freelance writers, we've all been there.
Maybe it's not a lot of debt – maybe just a couple of credit card bills that are racking up some interest because your income forecasting fell short. It's just a bad year in a cycle of good and bad years. Or maybe it's more than that. Maybe you've recently faced some emergency expenses and you're buried under a pile of loans and bills, some of which are even going to collections.
What's a writer to do? In many cases, we're already working at maximum capacity – there just aren't enough hours in the day to write more. But that doesn't mean you're trapped. There are ways to get out of debt if you're strategic about your money management.
If you're trying to pay the bills on a writer's income, here are 3 strategies that can help with your freelance finances.
As a freelance writer, your website should be providing passive income, so put it work for you. Invest a little money to get a logo made if you don't have the graphic design skills to do it yourself. Recruit former clients to write testimonials. And always be on the lookout for high-profile sites where you can guest post. Guest posting on a high traffic site can boost your profile immensely and send the clients flooding in.
If your website is bringing in a little side cash, funnel it directly into paying your debts. Consider this money you wouldn't be earning otherwise and not a part of your general income. It may not be much money at first, but over time passive website income adds up.
As a freelancer, you may have two different kinds of debt: personal debt and business debt. These are separate entities and should be dealt with separately for several reasons, but there is one thing they have in common: you can combine debts within a single category to make them easier to pay off through a process known as debt consolidation.
For debts stemming from personal expenses – your roof sprung a leak, you had a medical emergency, or maybe your credit card bills and student loans are just proving to be too much – you might consider applying for a personal debt consolidation loan. By funneling all of your debts into one place, you reduce the number of payments you need to track each month and make it easier to pay down the sum total. Plus, if you're incurring a high interest rate on certain debts, you may be able to bring them down with the right loan.
A similar process applies to your business debts, but we recommend meeting with a commercial debt counselor rather than a standard loan officer under these circumstances. Depending on the nature of your debts, they may be able to help you write off bad debt or get a niche loan for young freelancers. Finding someone who knows the industry – or at least understands commercial debt's differences from traditional debt – can really help set you on the right path.
Finally, if you aren't already dividing your expenses between personal and freelance, start now. You should be carefully tracking all business expenses since they qualify as tax write-offs and, ideally, should even have separate bank accounts for business and personal finances. It may seem unwieldy at first, but it's actually a much more practical way to organize your money.
Once you've drawn a clear line between your personal and business expenses, get your business on a zero budget – expenses absolutely cannot outpace income – and stick to it. Use budgeting software if you have to; there are plenty of inexpensive options out there. If your freelancing gigs aren't turning a profit, you won't be able to stick with it and you definitely won't be able to get out of debt.
Debt is not inevitable as a freelance writer, even if it feels like it is sometimes. Remember, in freelancing, everything cycles. There will be good months and bad months, good years and bad years. If you're experiencing a good year, be proactive. Save money, limit spending, and know it won't last. If you're in a bad year, buckle down and get help, if necessary. At the end of the day, freelancing is about maintaining balance.
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The Mayor of Randwick Noel D'Souza today, 6 September 2016, officially broke ground on the construction of new toilets, showers and change rooms on the lower promenade at Coogee Beach.
The new facilities will provide 21 new toilets and 12 showers including accessible cubicles, male and female change rooms, a family change area with additional showers, public lockers and a new Lifeguard Office and kiosk.
The work is part of Randwick City Council's ongoing commitment to improving facilities and services for residents and is expected to be completed in 2017.
Mayor Noel D'Souza said extensive community consultation showed strong support for additional toilet facilities along the Coogee promenade.
"We're really excited construction is underway, as many residents have told us that there is a need for more toilets, change rooms and showers closer to the beach.
The beach will remain open at all times and Council's Lifeguards have been temporarily relocated to the Centre promenade while the work takes place.


What do the Rules of Golf say if a leaf or insect knocks your putt offline?
You're standing over a putt, and you think you've got the line. The breeze is blowing, but you don't care. This thing is going in. You stroke the putt, and the ball is on its way to the hole when...BAM! a leaf comes through, hits your ball and knocks it offline.
Naturally, you're in shock. This kind of thing is uncommon in golf. But what do you do from there? Do you simply take your lumps and hole out the next putt? Actually, under the Rules of Golf, you're not only allowed a re-do, but you're required to re-do the putt.
As Matthew Southgate found out the hard way in the Web.com Tour Finals, the Rules of Golf under Rule 19-1 make it clear: If what's called "outside agency" (leaf, shoe, fellow competitor, opponent's caddie, equipment, etc., but not a bug or a worm or wind) stops or deflects a ball after a putting stroke has been made, then that stroke doesn't count. In fact, the remedy is for a player to replace their ball back to the spot where they struck the putt and re-do it. And if a player doesn't cancel the stroke and replay it from the original position, the penalty in stroke play is actually 2 strokes.
So, the good news is that if something other than an insect or worm stops your ball while it's rolling, you get a second chance. The bad news is that if you don't know that's the rule, then you can pay a huge price.


Walk begins at Pacelli High School at 1301 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, at 9:00 a.m. Check-in begins at 8:15 a.m.
Estimated arrival at the St. Martin Cemetery in Ellis, Wisconsin, at 11:45 a.m.
A prayer service at the gravesite of Brother James will take place soon after arrival.
A Eucharistic procession will take place from the cemetery to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Polonia immediately following the conclusion of the prayer service at approximately 12:30 p.m.


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Updated Huawei Honor 6 to come with 4GB of RAM?
Demetrius Crasto
Huawei's Honor 6 is amongst the fastest phones in the market and it could get beefier in the coming weeks. A variant of the handset has been spotted at China's TENNA certification website under the H60-L02 model number carrying a whopping 4GB of RAM.
If the Huawei Honor 6 does show up with 4GB of system memory, it won't be the only Android device. Google's Project Tango which is powered by the Tegra K1 platform offers the same amount of RAM and the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 from Samsung is expected to as well. However, GizChina notes that this could be an error made by the certification website (it has done so before).
What's interesting is that the smartphone is said to come with an 8MP front-facing camera (the original was launched with a 5MP snapper), so the listing could be authentic after all. Other features of the device have remained the same – Android 4.4.2 KitKat, a 5-inch 1080p display, microSD memory expansion and LTE connectivity.
Here's a roundup of the original Huawei Honor 6 specs:
– 5-inch 1080p display
– Android 4.4 KitKat
– 3GB RAM, 16GB storage
– 3000mAh battery
– 5MP front snapper, 13MP rear lens
– Kirin 920 octa core processor
– Mali T628 graphics
In recent news, the company is expected to launch a new affordable handset in the Honor series. The alleged device was leaked via TENNA as well, under the Hol-T00 codename. The phone is said to arrive with a 5-inch display, a quad core MediaTek processor, 1GB RAM and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, priced under $100.
Also see: Xiaomi Mi 4 unveiled with 5-inch FHD display, Snapdragon 801 CPU and steel metal frame
Only time will tell whether the Huawei Honor 6 will come in a 4GB version, till then, this information is the best we've got.
Octa Core Phones
Xolo's Win Q900s also comes in Android flavor for Rs 9999
Spice Stellar 526, 520 serve up KitKat, HD display for Rs 8999 and up


This Digital Playground 2008 "Hack the City!" project consists of two parts. First part is related to actual data which artists get from Seoul City, such as traffic flow, sound capture and transfer, and other official statistic data. For this purpose TMCA collaborates with media lab in universities. EWHA Womans University and Chung-Ang University joined the Digital Playground 2008. Through regular meetings and discussions, they are developing new projects for "Hack the City." The second part is closed to media activism and performance. Like Balettikka Internettikka from Slovenia and Graffitti Research Lab from USA, they go into the society in order to re-think the social systems by interventions and physical hacking.


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Q: MJPEG inter/intraframe compression and decoding I am [using Go] to read the frames off a websocket that are being live streamed from a webcam somewhere in the world. Each frame is a jpeg image and the video as a whole is what I believe would then be an MJPEG.
After attempting to combine the images back together into a video, I noticed that most of the images are
a) smaller in dimensions than previous images
b) are not complete images, but are actually images within images, each sub image is just a part of the bigger/whole image, and are the parts that have changed/image area that is not the same as the previous frame.
I believe from research this is inter/intraframe compression whereby intraframes are sent, and then interfames contain the diff, in effect compared to the last intrafame.
Along side the binary image data, there is also sent JSON meta data, such as these 2 examples
{"fid":1,"h":[224,224],"name":"1/resort","rfid":1,"w":[400,400],"wallclock":1641416368513434,"x":[0,0],"y":[0,0]}
{"fid":2,"h":[224,82,12,56,82,30],"name":"1/resort","rfid":1,"w":[398,84,12,98,146,16],"wallclock":1641416368680294,"x":[0,314,336,100,82,0],"y":[0,52,10,168,0,10]}

From this I have deducted:

*

*Fid is the ID of this frame

*Rfid I believe to be the intraframe that the diffs contained within Fid are to be superimposed on to

So now, my deduction leads me to the arrays, H, W, X, Y.
What I have come to realise is that for array index 1 the partial image size is 82,84 and should be placed at coordinates 314, 52. Same principle for index 2,3,4,5.
What I am not sure is index 0. As the interframe is images to be super imposed onto the previous intraframe, the confusion comes from the size of this image is smaller than the intraframe.
You can see for instance that for index 0, W is 398. Thats two pixels off the intraframe width.
And why does the intraframe have two heights/widths? Surely its one image and therefore doesn't have any more detail/data than just one picture within it?
Anyone familiar with inter/intraframe compression could help me work out what the first values are for. My guess is its something to do with positioning the image within a bigger image so that the intraframe dimensions are always the biggest/dominant ones, but I can't figure out what these numbers at array index 0 would be for.
In short, how do I translate the coordinates and values that are provided to recreate the correct frames for the video?

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It's often contested which U.S. city has claim over famed American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe, as he did have homes in Virginia, New York and Maryland throughout his lifetime, but there is no denying the strong ties between Baltimore and its beloved macabre poet. Poe's great-grandfather established the family in Baltimore in 1755 and it was here that Poe met his wife, and where he published his second volume of poetry in 1829 and launched a literary career after winning a contest sponsored in 1833 by the Baltimore Saturday Visiter for the best short story.
Follow in Poe's footsteps around the city starting with the only remaining home he ever resided in and ending with his gravesite at Westminster Hall. See below to learn more about Poe's legacy in Baltimore.
Edgar Allan Poe lived with his aunt, Maria Clemm, and her family in this small duplex on North Amity Street in Baltimore from about 1832 until fall 1835, when he moved to Richmond to edit the Southern Literary Messenger. During the period he called this two-and-a-half-story, five-room brick building home, Poe continued to compose poetry, began to write literary criticism and wrote some of his earliest short stories. A visit to the Poe House and Museum allows you to gain a sense of the environment in which Poe lived and penned a number of his initial efforts of fantastic fiction and horror, including "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "Berenice." The museum is open Thursdays through Sundays.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is Baltimore City's public library, the Central Library is located at 400 Cathedral Street, and it has been a local monument to literature and information for generations. Among its treasures is an important collection of Poe memorabilia, including rare books, manuscripts, original letters, images, biographical and critical articles, illustrated editions, and even a lock of his hair and a piece of his coffin. A special meeting room on the second floor has been dedicated as the Edgar Allan Poe Room. Curated tours for groups between 10 and 15 people are available of Poe's life with the Pratt Library and the Poe House.
The George Peabody Library in Mount Vernon also houses some rare Poe books and a number of original letters he wrote to novelist and politician John P. Kennedy, as well as a large collection of musical settings for his writings.
Prior to moving to Amity Street, Poe became part of Mrs. Clemm's family unit when they lived in what was known as Mechanic's Row, in a house and alleyway that no longer exist. His brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, died here in summer 1831 after an extended but unspecified illness. In October of 1849, Poe was traveling from Richmond to his home in New York, but he never made it. Instead, he went missing for several days before reappearing, unconscious, in Baltimore. An acquaintance, Dr. J. E. Snodgrass, who lived nearby, found Poe unconscious in a local drinking establishment that had been converted for the day into a voting place. There, an agreement was reached (along with Poe's uncle, Henry Herring, who also lived in the neighborhood) to send Poe to Washington University Hospital on Broadway, where he would die a few days later under mysterious circumstances.
The tavern itself, known as Ryan's Fourth Ward Polls and later as Gunner's Hall, has long since been swallowed up by development, but Fell's Point today retains much of the charm it must have had when Poe visited. Rumor has it that his ghost still haunts the area, and perhaps even such local drinking holes as The Horse You Came in On Saloon (although there is no evidence that Poe actually imbibed there). What to know more? Take a stroll through the area with The Original Fell's Point Ghost Walk.
Originally the Washington University Hospital but better remembered by the name of the later and more enduring establishment of Church Home and Hospital, this building is memorialized as the place where Poe died. Reliable facts are hard to come by, and several first-hand accounts are poorly documented and even contradictory. Having been found unresponsive, Poe was initially presumed to have been suffering from an alcoholic spree and assigned to a room in the tower where special cases were placed to avoid disturbing the other patients.
In later years, Dr. John J. Moran, the attending physician, claimed that he came to think that Poe had not been drinking. The official cause of death was listed in the local health reports as congestion of the brain, a painful swelling of tissues that may be a symptom of a number of illnesses.
Many theories have been offered, including the fact that it was an election day and, in that violent and lawless time, political gangs were known to kidnap innocent people and force them to make the rounds at the polls, whether they were registered to vote or not – among other details, it would account for the missing days, and the fact that he was not wearing his own clothing.
The building itself has other dark stories to tell, including a tradition of body-snatching from nearby graveyards, which at one point led local residents to attempt to burn it down. In an ironic twist, Poe's mother-in-law, Mrs. Clemm, came to spend her final days here, and died in the same building where her dear Eddie had died more than two decades earlier.
Edgar Allan Poe, his young wife, Virginia, and her mother, Maria Clemm, all eventually found their final resting place within Westminster Burying Ground. Westminster Hall, one of the most historic half-acres in Baltimore, is well-recognized as an architectural landmark. The imposing brick church was built in the early 1850s on raised arches above the existing Westminster Hall & Burying Ground, creating uniquely atmospheric catacombs. Several early mayors of Baltimore, heroes of the American Revolution and members of the city's elite also rest here. Group tours of Westminster Burying Ground and Catacombs can be arranged year-round for a minimum of 15 people.
Beginning in about 1949, and repeating each year on the night of the anniversary of Poe's birth on January 19, a mysterious stranger enters this cemetery and leaves as tribute a partial bottle of cognac and three red roses on Poe's grave. The identity of the stranger, referred to affectionately as the "Poe Toaster," is unknown. The significance of cognac is uncertain, as is does not appear in Poe's works as would, for example, amontillado. The presumption for the three roses is that they represent the three persons whose remains are beneath the monument: Poe, his mother-in-law, and his wife. Out of respect, no attempt was ever made to stop or hinder him. After a brief pause from 2009, the tradition was revived in 2015.
The Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association was formed in April 1907 specifically for the purpose of commissioning the statue of Poe, the last work of the great American sculptor Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel. It was hoped that the statue would be ready by Poe's centennial in 1909, but a series of problems prevented its completion until 1916, and World War I delayed its arrival in Baltimore. The statue was dedicated in Wyman Park on October 20, 1921. Throughout the years, it suffered neglect, vandalism and the effects of wind and rain, which eroded the inscriptions until they were virtually unreadable. Deciding that the park was too isolated a location for the statue, it was moved under the recommendation of the E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore to the plaza of the University of Baltimore's Law School, where it now resides. It was dedicated at this new location on October 7, 1983.
No other NFL team has such a historically-influenced name as the Baltimore Ravens. The name comes from one of Poe's most revered masterpieces, "The Raven," and the team's three mascots are named Edgar, Allan, and Poe.
You can visit the official raven mascots, Rise and Conquer at the Maryland Zoo or at the Ravens Walk outside M&T Bank Stadium before every home game. Rise and Conquer are two brother birds that have been raised since 2009 to be animal ambassadors for the Zoo and the team.
"Annabel Lee" was the last poem that Edgar Allan Poe wrote before his tragic death in 1849. Opened in 2007, the Annabel Lee Tavern in Canton pays homage to the great poet and the great city of Baltimore. Don't miss a trip to this pub-style restaurant and bar on your tour of Baltimore.
Located inside the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Apropoe's restaurant and bar got a facelift around 2014 and reopened with a gothic feel and a subtle nod to Edgar Allan Poe. Dishes are classic American inspired by local fare with names like the Poe burger.
This restaurant and bar in the downtown Delta Hotel by Marriott pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart." Small touches such as the ravens on the carpet also harken back to the famous writer.
Take the Legends and Sights of Baltimore cruise aboard The Raven, a purple-trimmed, 99-foot-long, 28-foot-wide touring yacht. Learn about Poe's presence in Baltimore, the founding of Fell's Point and the "red light district," the development of the Clippers, Francis Scott Key and more during this 2.5 hour tour.


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This is a list of the official state symbols of the U.S. state of South Dakota.

Insignia

Species

Geology

Culture

See also
Outline of South Dakota
Index of South Dakota-related articles
Lists of United States state insignia
State of South Dakota

References

External links

State symbols
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Lives less ordinary
Rupert Smith
Wed 4 Dec 2002 02.52 EST
Among the human dross that passes for celebrity in 2002, it's refreshing to be reminded of some really remarkable stories, and it's greatly to BBC4's credit that they picked out Simon and I to kick off a short Storyville season dealing with HIV and Aids. "Simon" was Simon Nkoli, the sine qua non of the South African gay movement, an anti-apartheid campaigner who came out to his fellow prisoners when they were jailed without trial for three years in the late 80s. "I" was Bev Ditsie, Nkoli's right-hand woman, protégée and pupil, who both survived and surpassed her mentor in the struggle for gay rights in South Africa.
Theirs was a volatile friendship, recalled in snatches of amateur video and one final encounter filmed a week before Nkoli's death from Aids-related illness in 1998. Nkoli, by this time, was self-obsessed, narcissistic, interested only in remembering his triumphs in the struggle, despite Ditsie's occasional interjections ("Look! Simon, look! That's me!") as they watched home videos together. It may have been a result of his illness, but one got the impression that this was merely an exaggeration of Nkoli's essential self. How else would he have faced up to the macho horrors of the anti-apartheid movement or the hellfire rubbish of the religious right?
Ditsie struggled with the added burden of being a woman in a society where rape seems to be seen as the perfect end to a Saturday night out. After the first South African Gay Pride march was reported on TV in 1990, Ditsie's Soweto home was surrounded by a gang of 20 irate men who wanted to take her out and teach her a lesson; if she wouldn't come, they'd take her grandmother.
Despite the setbacks, these were inspiring times, never more so than when Nelson Mandela became the first world leader to announce a constitution that specifically offered legal protection to gay people. After that, their paths diverged. Nkoli focused on HIV issues, while Ditsie stood in the firing line as South Africa's most visible lesbian. She even went on a reality TV show, a proto-Big Brother, which put an assorted bunch of young South Africans in a house for six months (without prize-money, as she ruefully recalled).
After some hairy encounters over the breakfast table, in which pasty-faced men with mullets told her that they used to "beat up queers", she won them round and somehow made friends with them.
There was nothing particularly distinguished about the film-making in Simon and I, and perhaps rather too much focus on Bev Ditsie and her maudlin croonings over an acoustic guitar. But there was little need for technique; the story came across loud and clear, inspiring, funny and frightening.
Everything else was going to look a bit trivial compared to Simon and I, but Channel 4's hilarious docucomedy The Great Reality TV Swindle more than held its ground. This was a cautionary tale of innocent dreamers bamboozled by a manipulative scoundrel, who may or may not have been a tragic figure in his own right. Certainly the self-styled Nikita Russian (Keith Gillard to his mother) was a rotter, conning 30 young people into giving up homes, jobs and loved ones to come to London and star in a reality TV show that actually never existed. Our sympathies were all directed to the victims, perfectly nice people who made arses of themselves for the false promise of £100,000.
But of course it was Russian who fascinated, a beautiful, raddled youth in ridiculous Byronic fancy dress. Doorstepped by one of his victims after the sting, he stammered and shuffled but never blushed, and walked off down the high street with a spring in his step. The show really should have ended, Fu Manchu style, with Russian's voice intoning "The world shall hear from me again!", for it surely will.
Can it really be necessary to give an hour of screen time to Homefront (BBC2)? There's nothing wrong with the basic format, unless you want to give Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen or Diarmuid Gavin a good kicking, but in last night's show it seemed stretched to breaking point. The makeover, of a house in Clacton-on-Sea, was expensive but successful, and the story could have been told in half the time. There were endless shots of LLB poncing around on a bike and DG plunging into the sea fully clothed, raising concern about his mental health. At 60 minutes, Homefront is only half an hour short of feature-length, and that can't be right.


Obsessssssssed w this house! Gimme 2M and id move in!
I agree with you that the kitchen is the standout. The video on Instagram was fantastic, congratulations on the great work Will.
@Sarah – So appreciate the encouragement, thank you!
This is seriously my dream Bklyn home…one day, one day!!!
@Carly – I know, it's truly a dream!
Loved the video. Your point about the staircase is v.true, I hate it when developers rip features like that out.
Great job as always Will!
@Markus – Oh, Thank you!
@Tim – Haha! Well I'm glad it made you reconsider!
This is gorgeous Will! Such a beautiful home!
@Michael – Thank you so much! You too.
I love the post, and you've gained a new follower. Can't wait to see what kind of bright ideas you have next.
P.S The slider image on the beach house is super cool!


8 years of proven international experience in Mobile Handset testing, MODEM/Chipset testing, Mobile Field Testing. Strong domain knowledge of manual testing, Volte, LTE/LTE - Advanced/3G/2G technologies.
Attended 6 weeks training for LTE UE protocol conformance testing.
Good exposure to LTE Advance Networks.
Lead many projects and managed the successful release of the products.
Expertise in working with various log capturing tools such as QXDM,QPST,Mobile Analyzer, IRTC, Artimis, STT, Net Monitor, Opti-Trace, Dragon Fly, DDMS, Broadcom Trace Terminal.
Expertise in Mobile Field Testing.
Strong knowledge of AT commands to execute scenarios like IRAT, TAU, RAU, SMS, CS-Call, PS-call etc.
Offers 4+ years of relevant experience in Android Platform testing.
Worked on Android ( Confidential and Qualcomm based chipset), BADA, BROADCOM, INFINEON, NXP environment.
Actively involved in UAT testing for different products and get successful sign off from the clients.
Constantly involved in release of the product.
Hands on experience on GUI testing, DWI Testing, Billing integration testing and other front-end and back-end testing.
Having knowledge of set top box testing, backend server flow for STB, and Head end flow of data for STB, stack flow and over all architecture for STB.
Exposure to of work on Scrum Methodology and Agile methodology.
Application testing of Multimedia applications like (Multimedia games Media Player, Camera, Media Browser and Voice Recorder, Mobile Prayer), Messaging and OTA, Video resizing.
Understanding business requirements and develop test cases to test the complete functionality of the software.
SDLC and Software Testing life cycle. Experienced in Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Functionality Testing, Sanity and System testing of various applications.
Actively involved in preparing Test Plans and Test Strategy for the upcoming and ongoing projects.
Actively participating in Scrum meeting, Sprint planning meetings and Retrospective meetings.
Actively involved in customer issues meeting and do analysis on the issues and send report to the development team.
Have innovation and ability to absorb new technology fast.
Expertise in Menutree Creation, mind map creation and Testing.
Basic knowledge and understanding of automation setup.
Understanding the client proprietary feature before starting the field testing to know the expected result.
Involved in 2DLCA, 3DLCA and VoLTE testing.
Involved in preparing test plan and test strategy.
Part of daily scrum and client calls.
Executing KPI testing, performance and functional testing.
Reporting issues to the development team observed during functional and KPI testing.
Using AT commands for modem testing.
Test plan preparation as per client requirement.
Resources planning for Field Testing.
Performing Network IOT tests on UE under test.
Capturing QXDM Logs and initial level analysis using QCAT before logging them into customer proprietary issue databases.
Co-coordinating with Qualcomm Developers for Modem side issues.
Identify the issue and report to the development team.
Involved in debugging the issues and analysis then with development team.
Writing test cases and acceptance criteria to execute the process.
Perform API testing to check the server response.
GUI testing in UI level.
Performed daily sanity and component validation.
Performing backend, server, head end testing for the dynamic and static data for the contents.
Performed server content testing using CMDC simulator.
Constantly using STASH and FTP server to download the build.
Perform Kernel and boot loader upgradation whenever required.
Engineering test cases design/strategies for design verification/product validation.
Full Regression testing for full Phone features.
Involved in Field Testing of the product.
Defect submission using JIRA Tool.
Involved in UAT testing of the product.
Full Regression, function and user interference, UI testing for application feature.
Tested application on Wi-Fi, 3g and 2g.
Involved in making Test plans and strategy.
Worked on Android, iPhone and blackberry handsets.
Identify the issue and report to R&D Global logic Noida.
Writing test cases to execute the process.
Taken force close and Ram dump and reporting to Global logic Noida.
Involved in UAT testing and get the successful signoff from the client.
Tool: RDX-4 36, Multiloader download toolAnytest, Clear Quest, STAP, Confidential Kies 2.0.
Testing Mobile TV APK application in Wi-Fi and 3G network.
Involved in preparing reports and team data and sending it to Confidential .
Identify the issue and report to R&D Confidential Bangalore.
Writing script to execute APK Installation and Deletion.
Perform streaming testing for various channels provided in APK.
Audio video synchronization testing in UI level.
Taken force close and Ram dump and reporting to Confidential Bangalore.
Tool: RDX-4 36, Multiloader download toolAnytest, Clear Quest, Confidential Kies 1.5.
Involve in Menutree Testing activity and prerelease testing.
Involved in preparing reports and team data.
Capture force close and Ram dump logs for reporting to Confidential Korea.


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Hollis & Spann has a solid history of performance that stands behind the knowledge, experience and skills of its owners and staff. Founded in 1950 as Residential and Commercial Contractors by Robert H. Hollis, Jr. of Montgomery, Alabama, the company operated as a partnership with Jerome Spann on South Alice Street in Dothan, until Spann's death in 1965. Hollis then purchased the Spann interest and operated as Robert H. Hollis, Jr., DBA Hollis & Spann, until the company incorporated under the laws of the State of Alabama in 1968. Hollis retained the Spann name in honor of the co-founder.
In 1987, Hollis & Spann underwent a change of administration. Robert Hayne Hollis, III became president of the company, continuing a tradition of strong, progressive leadership. Under this leadership, Hollis & Spann enjoyed many years of steady, organized growth and in 2013 underwent another change of administration when vice president Glenn S. Spivey was named president. Spivey, who first started with the company in 1993 and spent 20 years rising through the ranks, brings a continuity of leadership as Hollis & Spann continues to change while meeting the demands of today's market.
The company consistently recognizes how our economy dictates that costs be contained on projects of varying size and complexity without sacrificing quality. As a result, Hollis & Spann has become one of the most respected contracting firms in the Southeastern United States, licensed to do business in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.


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Q: UITapGesture Error, Recognizes Tap In Wrong View Heres The Problem: I want to test the TapGestureRecognizer with an NSLog but the TapGestureRecognizer functions anywhere except in the UIWebView and I have no idea why...
Heres My Code:
-(void)viewDidLoad {
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(bookmarker:)];
tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 2;
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
[tapGesture release];
   }

Heres The IBAction:
-(IBAction)bookmarker:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)trecognizer{
NSLog(@"TAPPED");
}

This is the view I want it to function in:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/3UPor.png
And this is the view it functions in:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/nGmwq.png
(Sorry with less than 10 rep points I can't post pics )

A: You are adding your recognizer to your top view, any subview of that view will also trigger the gesture recognizer's action.
Per doc.

Attaching a gesture recognizer to a view defines the scope of the represented gesture, causing it to receive touches hit-tested to that view and all of its subviews. The view retains the gesture recognizer.

You could do a check of your recognizer's touch location and see if it is somewhere inside your subview.
- (CGPoint)locationInView:(UIView *)view

Then do the check.
bool CGRectContainsPoint (
   CGRect rect,
   CGPoint point
);

Writing from memory, hope it works:
CGPoint point = [recognizer locationInView:self.view];
CGRect rect = subView.frame;
bool inside = CGRectContainsPoint(rect, point);

if (!inside) {
    //do your code
}

A: I found out webviews don't accept TapGestureRecognizer because it has its own set of gestures so to implement it:
in Header make UIGestureRecognizer delegate
(in viewDidLoad)
tapGesture.delegate = self;

Then implement:
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer

{
 return YES;
}


Listen here to part 2 of our Hebrews sermon series: Jesus is Better! This week's message, Lest We Forget, features our guest speaker, Pastor Carla Loggins of 2nd Baptist in Worcester; Sunday, March 12, 2017.
Listen here to week one (Hebrews 1) - Jesus is Better...Better than the Angels; Sunday, March 5, 2017; Pastor Debbie Moylan.
Listen to part 3 of our Love Like Jesus sermon series: Break Bread. Jesus loved by breaking bread and sharing community - learn how to make a difference! Sunday, February 26, 2017; Pastor Debbie Moylan.


GM Fundraising is well known in the industry for their epic cycling challenges and they have just launched their next one. GMFP2P is a bit different - not only is GM Fundraising introducing a paddle to their pedal, but this event is exclusively for the ladies of the industry. Paddle2Pedal will take place in August next year and the 12 strong all-female team met last week, at headline sponsors Epwin Group's offices in Telford, for the launch.
"We are lucky that Epwin is also providing the canoeing expertise in the form of their Financial Director, Mike Bache. Of course, being veterans of most GM Fundraising cycling challenges, myself and Alan Sadler will be supporting the team with the cycling leg."
Claire O'Hara, divisional managing director of Epwin, and GMFP2P team member adds: "I have followed the previous challenges run by GM Fundraising with interest, and have wanted to do an all-female event for some time. When we came up with the concept of Paddle2Pedal I couldn't wait to get involved! I am grateful to the support of Epwin Group, who are completely behind their three members of staff taking up the challenge, and are also the headline sponsor of the whole event.


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Understanding when and how a loft can be converted without planning permission is absolutely crucial. Likewise the engineering and the vision behind it.
You might think that if there's any doubt, the safest thing would be to apply for planning permission. But you'd be wrong!
One of our repeat clients, himself a seasoned builder, recently obtained a lawful development certificate from us for his own loft conversion. Just after he finished the work, it turned out that his property was exempt from the scheme. Were it not for the certificate we had obtained, he would have had to dismantle it. Planning permission would have almost certainly been refused.
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Planning permission is not normally required. However, permission is required where you extend or alter the roof space and it exceeds specified limits and conditions.
These are specific to "the enlargement of a dwellinghouse consisting of an addition or alteration to its roof" as detailed in Schedule 2, Part 1, Class B of the The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).
There are different rules for "any other alteration to the roof of a dwellinghouse" (Schedule 2, Part 1, Class C) which are detailed in our 'Roof' section.
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Thousands gathered at the Una Dalit Asmita Rally and Azadi Kooch.
Thousands gathered at the Una Dalit Asmita Rally and Azadi Kooch. The threats of "Gau Rakshaks" only brought more people on the Streets in open defiance. Jignesh Mevani read out a pledge to give up occupations like disposing carcasses of dead cattle and manual scavenging and demanded alternative employment as well as 5 acres land to all Dalit families. All India Kisan Sabha extended support to the call for Rail Roko on the demand for land. Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohit Vemula hoisted the tricolour and called for Struggle for Azaadi from all kinds of oppression. JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar addressed the meeting. Until Victory Forever!


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Molly Melching on more than 40 years of human rights work in Africa
Senegalese girls participate in a rugby match along with other youths at the "House of Rugby" sports and cultural center, in Yoff, a neighborhood of Dakar, on October 17, 2011.
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AirTalk® | October 18, 2017
Molly Melching is the founder of Tostan International.
Headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, Melching and her organization are most well known for advancing human rights in the region – specifically awareness of female genital cutting, and childhood and forced marriage. Meaning "breakthrough" in Wolof, Tostan organizes community programs on health, hygiene, literacy and other human rights issues.
Through those programs, more than 7,200 villages in six West African countries ended practices of female genital cutting and childhood marriage.
Host Larry Mantle talks to Melching about her work and mission.
Molly Melching, founder and creative director of Tostan, a non-governmental organization headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, that promotes sustainable development in Africa
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Have you ever asked yourself, "What is stock?" or wondered why shares of stock exist? This introduction to the world of investing in stocks will provide answers to those questions and show you just how simple Wall Street really is. It may turn out to be one of the most important articles you've ever read if you don't understand what stocks represent. Find out the answer to "What is Stock?" and how it comes to exist ...
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You probably know that investing in stocks is a way to get rich but very few new investors actually realize how you make money from your shares of stock. Now, you don't have to wonder any longer. Let's show you the two ways you can profit from owning and investing in stocks, and some of the factors that determine how fast a company grows. Find out how to make money from owning stocks ...
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It allows companies to raise money by offering stock shares and corporate bonds. It lets common investors participate in the financial achievements of the companies, make profits through capital gains, and earn money through dividends, although losses are also possible. While institutional investors and professional money managers do enjoy some privileges owing to their deep pockets, better knowledge and higher risk taking abilities, the stock market attempts to offer a level playing field to common individuals.
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History has shown that investing in stocks is one of the easiest and most profitable ways to build wealth over the long-term. With a handful of notable exceptions, almost every member of the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest people got there because they own a large block of shares in a public or private corporation. Although your beginning may be humble, this guide to investing in stocks will explain what stocks are, how you can make money from them, and much more.
For example, there may be three buyers who have placed orders for buying Microsoft shares at $100, $105 and $110, and there may be four sellers who are willing to sell Microsoft shares at $110, $112, $115 and $120. The exchange (through their computer operated automated trading systems) needs to ensure that the best buy and best sell are matched, which in this case is at $110 for the given quantity of trade.
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A local financial regulator or competent monetary authority or institute is assigned the task of regulating the stock market of a country. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the regulatory body charged with overseeing the U.S. stock markets. The SEC is a federal agency that works independently of the government and political pressure. The mission of the SEC is stated as: "to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation."
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Home Departments Materials Matter Industry standards for steel cleanness
Industry standards for steel cleanness
With limitations on today's industry standards for measuring steel cleanness, using the right mix of methods should be carefully considered.
James Carosiello
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The correlation of steel cleanness to the performance of parts made from steel has been recognized by engineers for many years. This has been especially true in the design and manufacture of anti-friction bearings and the establishment of the cleanness level for needed fatigue life as "bearing quality" steel. But cleanness is important for gears as well, with many gear manufacturers adopting bearing-quality cleanness requirements. From the design perspective of the bearing and gear engineer, the challenge is deciding how much cleanness the application requires and how to specify that cleanness in the most meaningful way.
There are a number of industry standards that deal with the measurement of steel cleanness, and almost all are based on macroetch testing, fracture testing, magnetic particle testing, or light optical microscopy. The latter method involves the evaluation of relatively small areas of material at 100x magnification to usually measure just the largest nonmetallic inclusions in a prescribed number of fields (worst-field method) or for higher cleanness materials with both the size and number of inclusions in a prescribed number of fields (field-counting method).
However, a standard that covers all of these tests is ASTM E45 — Standard Test Methods for Determining the Inclusion Content of Steel. This standard was first issued in 1942 and has been continually updated since. It is an important tool for cleanness assessments for bearings, gears, and many other applications where stress and fatigue are key design parameters. One limitation with E45 (and other similar optical methods) is that, as steel cleanness has improved over the years, the methods described in E45 have become less discriminating of cleanness. This became apparent with the advances in clean-steelmaking technology years ago and has been demonstrated by bearing and gear manufacturers by life testing of steels with similar E45 values yet produced different fatigue results.
Today, there is also a growing awareness among gear manufacturers that gear failures due to a lack of cleanness are becoming more prevalent as gear-manufacturing technology advances. This is primarily due to improved surface finishes reducing surface-initiated fatigue failures that then allow subsurface nonmetallic inclusions to become the mode of failure.
So, while E45 is an important tool for broadly classifying steel cleanness, it does not go far enough in differentiating the cleanness of today's very clean steels. It is, though, a good starting point to establish a minimum level for cleanness of the steel used in bearings and gears; it just needs to be augmented by other methods to create a comprehensive assessment of cleanness and its relationship to part performance.
Figure 1: Pseudo-ternary phase diagram of a "clean heat" with SEV = 42.6278 √Area max (micrometers)
The first method to establish its usefulness in this regard was ultrasonic testing. The primary advantage of ultrasonic testing for cleanness is that volume — not just area — is being evaluated, allowing much more material to be inspected than the area-based methods of E45. There are several industry standards that define ultrasonic cleanness methods, but due to their complexity, they have typically been used only by bearing steel producers and bearing manufacturers. These methods also have limitations in that higher ultrasonic frequencies are needed to detect the smaller inclusions of very clean steel. (While use of a 10 MHz testing frequency was common in the early development of ultrasonic cleanness testing, 50 MHz is now in regular use.) This diminishes the advantage of these methods in that higher frequencies have lower penetration resulting in smaller volumes inspected. As ultrasonic methods continue to evolve, however, more use of them can be expected in new and revised industry standards.
The most powerful and relatively new way of supplementing E45 is scanning electron microscopy combined with simultaneous energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. This method combines optical imaging of relatively large areas (compared to E45) and the chemical analysis of each inclusion detected.
With the traditional light optical microscopy method of E45, nonmetallic inclusions are classified into one of four categories based primarily on morphology, even though these inclusion types are widely recognized by their nominal chemical composition: manganese sulfide, alumina, silicate, and globular oxide (and globular calcium sulfide in calcium-treated steels). A rating is manually determined by a metallographer comparing the inclusions in a steel specimen to size and frequency diagrams associated with E45. In cleaner steels, the ratings become lower but also less descriptive in terms of the total inclusion population due to the small area inspected.
Figure 2: Pseudo-ternary phase diagram of a "very clean heat" with SEV = 14.4651 √Area max (micrometers)
In comparison, with scanning electron microscopy, a total area much greater than that of E45 can be automatically scanned. All nonmetallic inclusions are detected with their length, width, area, aspect ratio, and chemical composition captured. With the right software, the results can be expressed in terms of the traditional E45 ratings, but this categorization is unnecessary since a comprehensive nonmetallic inclusion characterization is generated. The resulting data is most useful (for application design) when expressed as the number of oxide inclusions greater than some critical size (defined by the stresses applied and the fatigue life expected of the application). The data can also be expressed in terms of extreme value statistics (SEV), which is the prediction of the most probable largest inclusion based on the frequency of the largest inclusions actually detected. These values are expressed as square-root area maximums — the parameter most relevant to fatigue life. Extreme value statistics is covered by ASTM E2283 and scanning electron microscopy by ASTM E1245, but there is not yet an industry standard that combines these along with the use of energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy for inclusion characterization.
Additional information that only scanning electron microscopy with spectroscopy provides is the pseudo-ternary phase diagram of inclusions based on their relative chemical compositions. For example, the chemical composition of oxide inclusions is often expressed as a phase diagram with aluminum, magnesium, and calcium. Knowing the relative proportions of inclusion compositions and the number of these inclusions can guide the steelmaker, as well as the bearing and gear manufacturer, in optimizing the inclusion types for specific applications.
Note: To demonstrate the value of scanning electron microscopy with spectroscopy, two "bearing quality" heats with similar chemical compositions and almost identical E45 ratings were analyzed. The pseudo-ternary phase diagram for oxide inclusions of the two heats, along with the most probable largest oxide inclusion, are shown in Figures 1 and 2.
In summary, answering the question of how much steel cleanness an application requires begins with deciding how cleanness is to be measured. While all of the aforementioned measurement methods have their place, the more that cleanness determines the performance of a part, the more sensitive the method needs to be in order to more fully characterize the nonmetallic inclusion population. The conundrum is that industry standards provide for timely and cost-effective order fulfillment but lack sensitivity; more sensitive methods are relatively expensive and time-consuming.
The compromise for the bearing and gear engineer is to use an appropriate mix of both.
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New horror book by author Dani Lamia scares with 21st century witches
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In a frightening re-imagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, readers revisit the famous, real-life house with a fresh contemporary spin.
Author Dani Lamia follows up the Amazon #1 bestseller, Scavenger Hunt, with 666 Gable Way, a horror story about a woman coming into her own as she learns to embrace the magical powers she has denied all her life. Lamia introduces a powerful coven of witches that are secretly keeping a stranglehold over their small town.
The title "witch" was once used as a tool of oppression. Now, over 200,000 women proudly practice in the U.S. Feminism and witchcraft rose together, and over the 19th century, witches changed from "wicked devil worshippers to intuitive wisewomen" (The Atlantic). Lamia masterfully plays both sides. Some witches are murderous and terrifying, while our protagonist is empowered only when she finally embraces her long-suppressed magical abilities.
Young writer Phoebe Pyncheon is forced to move into her Great-Aunt Hester's boardinghouse. Known as the House of Seven Gables, this Victorian mansion is a maze of decrepit halls, musty old furniture, and faded glamour. At first, Phoebe feels at home. But soon she senses a presence lurking in the shadows. And when a dead body is found nearby, Phoebe discovers the terrifying truth.
The House of Seven Gables is a temple to an ancient evil, a terrifying power unleashed by Hester and her coven. This dark entity haunts the stones of the old mansion, plotting its revenge upon the living. Phoebe must embrace her own abilities to survive.
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Lamia has accepted the curse of a warped and deviant mind that bends reality, rending the fabric between the real and the unreal. Dani thinks of it as wonderful inspiration for the creepy yet intellectual horror stories that are pulled from those nightmarish visions. A student of great horror writers (and filmmakers), Lamia has turned a passion for twisted tales that unlock deep truths about humanity into a career focused on scaring the pants off readers.
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Detectives have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to identify after two police cars were deliberately set alight earlier this week.
At around 2.10am on Monday 1 April, emergency services were called to Goldthorpe Police Station, after it was reported that two response cars were on fire.
A council van was also damaged, as was the side of the police station.
As enquiries continue to identify those involved, officers have released this CCTV image of a man they would like to identify and speak to in connection to what happened.
Detective Inspector Mick Allat, said: "This reckless and irresponsible act has taken two operational police cars off the roads which will cost around £26,000 to replace.
"Thankfully no one was injured but this was still an incredibly serious incident and we are working hard to identify those responsible.
"As part of that work, I'd like to ask for your help. Do you recognise the man in the CCTV image? We believe he may hold important information. Did you see or hear anything suspicious in the early hours of Monday morning?
Three men, aged 35, 18 and 33, arrested in connection to the incident have since been bailed as enquiries continue.