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There are more difficult pins to earn like the Conqueror pin, which is awarded for skiing every lift on a given mountain, sometimes a tricky task at a place like Vail where there are 31 lifts and 193 trails. Or there's the Smorgasbord pin for skiing all five resorts participating in EpicMix. Slone said there are 160 to 180 pins, with some being decommissioned and new ones being added frequently.
EpicMix can also push updates to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, though Slone admits the integration needs a little work, saying that users should have finer-grain control of what's pushed. Currently users can enable or disable three types of updates: one that notifies friends of your first run of the day, one that tells them when you "level-up" and one that announces the new pins that you've earned. Even so, that meant that my Facebook wall had a long string of EpicMix posts, prompting one of my friends to comment, "Nick, you don't have to check in every time you get on a lift."
Vail Resorts is touting Epic Mix as an on mountain improvement, likening it to installing a new ski lift. It hasn't yet wrapped much marketing around the system, but considering the way FourSquare has gone, third party promotions through EpicMix might not be far behind.
As with any location tracking technology, privacy is a concern, but Slone said that there are options on the EpicMix site to turn sharing off. If privacy is a greater concern skiers can have the RFID chip removed from their pass altogether. He said that less than 10 people the entire 2010-2011 season have asked for their RFID chips to be removed.
The idea for EpicMix came up about a year ago. By the time the snow had melted that year, Vail Resorts partnered with RFID vendor ODIN and created a proof-of-concept gantry that had a 99 percent read accuracy, according to Urwiler. From there, Vail Resorts began installing the hardware across its five ski resorts and rented data center space from ViaWest in Denver, racing to have everything in place for the season open.
Both Urwiler and Slone agreed that one of the biggest challenges of the implementation was creating everything from scratch, including hardware like the gantries to back-end software to manage the data. The two credited Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz with encouraging the interdepartmental cooperation needed to roll out the system along with the forward-thinking needed to get the project off the ground.
It's not finished though. While Vail Resorts isn't ready to announce it and details were vague, photography could be added to the system next season, filling out its slogan of "Capture. Connect. Share."
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This paper focuses on the differences between Article 82 and Section 2, reflecting largely on the Americanexperience. We start with a discussion of the American experience and use that as a background from which to examine the European law on monopolies. American law is more conservative (less interventionist), reflecting the error cost analysis that is increasingly common in American courts. The second half of this paper provides an empirical comparison of the American and European regimes. Although a preliminary empirical examination suggests that the scope of a country’s monopolization law is inversely related to its degree of trade dependence, the actual relationship between trade dependence and the scope of monopolization law appears to be an inverted U.
Published as: "American and European Monopolization Law: A Doctrinal and Empirical Comparison," in Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation 252, Geoffrey A. Manne & Joshua D. Wright, eds., Cambridge University Press (2011).
Keith Hylton & Haizhen Lin, American and European Monopolization Law: A Doctrinal and Empirical Comparison, No. 10-18 Boston University School of Law Working Paper (2010).
The ancient city now called Nimrud, located in what is present-day Iraq, was once the military capital of one of history's fiercest empires. When word first leaked out this summer that Iraqi archaeologists had discovered a major find at the site, scientists around the world were immediately intrigued. The reports told of remarkable archaeological treasures, including royal tombs heaped with gold jewelry of exquisite quality. But reliable information about the site was virtually impossible to obtain. The Iraqis refused to grant visas to the press or let any outsiders photograph the jewelry.
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com) has since 1994 been connecting technology companies and customers through a comprehensive content stream - featuring over forty focused subject areas, from Cloud Computing to Web Security - interwoven with market-leading full-scale conferences produced by SYS-CON Events. The company's internationally recognized brands include among others Cloud Expo®(CloudComputingExpo.com / @CloudExpo), Big Data Expo® (BigDataExpo.net / @BigDataExpo), DevOps Summit (DevOpsSummit.sys-con.com / @DevOpsSummit), Internet of @ThingsExpo™ (ThingsExpo.com / @ThingsExpo), WebRTC Summit (WebRTCSummit.net / @WebRTCSummit) Cloud Computing Bootcamp (CloudComputingBootcamp.com), and IoT Bootcamp (IoTBootcamp.sys-con.com).
All of SYS-CON Media's products and services target interrelated i-technologies including Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Microservices, DevOps, Big Data, Mobile, and WebRTC. From 2000 to the present, SYS-CON has been systematically leveraging its brand recognition in the software development world into an integrated annual program of full-scale i-technology Conferences & Expos, stretching from coast to coast.
Each month SYS-CON Media reaches over two million i-technology professionals through its specialty journals at www.sys-con.com, market-leading conferences (Events.sys-con.com), SYS-CON.TV (www.SYS-CON.TV), on-demand Webcasts (www.webcast.sys-con.com), the SYS-CON interactive portal, and Ulitzer.com, a platform for creating, delivering, and consuming content on the Web.
Public Relations Society of America's Prestigious Awards This Year Were Shared by LinuxWorld Magazine, Time Magazine, and SmartMoney Magazine.
Deloitte & Touche 2002 Technology Fast 500 Award: SYS-CON was awarded as one of the fastest growing private or public companies in North America based on the company's five-year revenue growth.
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This document will take you through the article process once your proposal has been accepted.
The most important part of your article is the opening paragraph. This is your opportunity to sell the article and hopefully grip the reader into reading further. If it does not, then it has failed on the first criteria, which is to educate. Too many articles spend too many words telling a story that has no real relevance.
You need to lay out the roadmap of your article, and inform the reader there and then what they are going to receive.
Your article may be the first exposure to a particular technology the reader may read, so you can't come over as someone who doesn't know what he/she is talking about. Do not use language like 'maybe' or 'hope'. Be clear and be decisive.
Your article is there to educate the reader in a particular technology. Stick to the facts and do not offer any personal opinions. This is particularly important if you are referring to a possible alternative technology. Be careful not to disparage or dismiss it just because you don't like it.
If you do present any statements that may be controversial, please be sure to back up any claims with external references or repeatable results. A classic error is to claim a particular method is faster than another without offering any concrete proof.
It is important you perform the necessary due diligence on your article.
Keep in mind your reader. They are investing their own time in you. They are looking to be entertained as well as informed. Don't get bogged down in long boring paragraphs. Keep it short. You are writing an article, not a book. Space is a luxury you do not have. Don't try and be funny; let your natural rhythm and style entertain in its own right.
Specific products cannot be the focus of the article. The article can be about a business or technical problem and what the issues are in resolving the problem. Case studies are welcome as long as the focus is on the customer and the problem/resolution and not the product.
Nothing worse than walking down a particular road only to find it closed at the end. An article is no different. When the reader gets to the end of your article you want to make sure they have further reading to go to if they want more information. Try to provide a list of at least three URLs to resources that readers can visit.
When writing your article, try not to think of it as one long piece of prose. Instead think of other tools available to you for explaining your technology. A sidebar is a tool often overlooked by authors. These are small panels that sit independently of the main body that often give a little insight into a particular area.
With your article you will of course have a couple of sentences to describe yourself and give some contact information. This is your only chance to sell yourself, so give it some thought.
Figures and screenshots can aid in conveying your information to the reader. As the old saying goes, an image is worth a 1,000 words, but don't necessarily rely on it. Try not to use anything that is too complicated or detailed. Do not go overboard on the number of images/figures you want to include; general rule of thumb, one per every 1,000 words. Graphics should be high-resolution jpeg or gif files.
Code snippets that are 10 lines or less can be left in the body of the article. Anything longer is a listing and should be referenced in the text and placed at the end of the article. Code snippets should be formatted to fit on a 42-character length line, and listings have a 70-character line length.
One of the most common questions we receive is how long should my article be? The standard answer is: however long it needs to be. Articles are generally pitched in around 1,600 words, with the maximum somewhere near 3,200 words. Don't pad out your article for the sake of word filling. Make them count.
SA Football Association president Danny Jordaan is seen inside the Bafana Bafana dressing room at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, south west of Johannesburg, on Saturday October 13 2018 following a 6-0 2019 Africa Cup of Nation qualifying win over Seychelles.
SA Football Association (Safa) acting chief executive Russell Paul says the body will now throw its weight behind Bafana Bafana getting the draw they need from their final qualifier after the hosting of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on Tuesday was awarded to Egypt.
Paul appealed to Premier Soccer League (PSL) officials and their clubs to also get behind the needs of Bafana coach Stuart Baxter for the national team’s last 2019 Afcon qualifier against Libya‚ probably in Tunisia‚ on March 23.
Had SA won their bid to step in as replacement hosts for Cameroon‚ stripped of the competition over planning and security issues last year‚ Bafana would not have had to qualify for the tournament that runs from June 15 to July 13.
But the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) voted (16 to one‚ with one no-vote) in Dakar in Senegal on Tuesday to award the Afcon to Egypt.
“Ja look‚ the bid and the qualification for Afcon were two separate issues for us.
"We were always going out to play Libya in our last game to win‚ irrespective of the outcome of this bid‚” Paul told TimesLIVE.
“Now business continues as normal‚ and yes‚ we are going to do the best that we can do to provide the coach with an opportunity to be as best-prepared as he can.
It would be a non-possibility for Baxter to have any of his European-based players released early for the Libya game.
However‚ if Safa were serious about giving the coach full support for the Afcon‚ perhaps a deal could be reached with the PSL to reschedule some matches ahead of the qualifier‚ and the coach might at least have a training camp with his local-based stars.
Paul said Safa had given some thought to such a measure.
“The coach is busy with the clubs along those lines.
"And I think he’s best-placed to give you more in-depth comment on that preparation‚” the acting chief executive said.
Bafana are unbeaten in Group E‚ but some mediocre results have seen Nigeria qualify and the South Africans needing a result away against Libya.
Notably‚ after beating Nigeria for the first time in a competitive game‚ away in Uyo in June 2017‚ Bafana’s home draw against the Libyans and‚ worse‚ away draw against Seychelles‚ set the South Africans back.
Libya have played their qualifiers in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia due to the unstable security situation in the country.
Chancellor William McRaven speaks at the first day of meeting for The Board of Regents on November 4, 2015.
The final UT System Board of Regents meeting scheduled for the year was held Wednesday, where members of the board listened to recommendations on how to proceed into the upcoming year.
The 85th Texas Legislative Session begins in January, and the System has begun to prioritize issues that will affect students at its 14 institutions. Barry McBee, UT System vice chancellor and chief governmental relations officer, presented a preview of its priorities.
Stable funding for all of the institutions is a top priority for the System and most public universities in Texas, McBee said.
“We will seek funding at the same rates as were provided to us in 2015, to account for additional students plus some inflation factors,” McBee said.
One of the ways Texas universities provide financial aid is through tuition set-asides. This practice takes a percentage of each student’s tuition and allocates it to financial aid for students in need. McBee said this is usually the only financial support middle-class students receive.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has condemned this practice by Texas universities and has stated before he considers it a hidden tax on students.
“This has increasingly been portrayed as a subsidy by some students for other students, when in fact every student’s education is subsidized because the state appropriations and tuition don’t pay the cost of the education of any one of our students on the campuses,” McBee said.
Patrick has also pushed to repeal the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition. The System has made it a priority to make sure the act makes it through the legislative session as well.
Other priorities include addressing Texas mental health needs, changes to the top 10 percent rule and preserving the current campus carry law which allows presidents to declare certain zones gun-free.
Mental health has been a top priority for the System, and in 2015 UT Austin received $2,552,268 for two projects over the next three years, one being the after-hours mental health crisis line.
Currently, all students at the 14 UT institutions have access to this program. A counselor is available to speak to 24/7, including holidays, and they are trained to respond in crisis situations.
Chris Brownson, UT-Austin associate vice president for student affairs, provided updates on system-wide programs implemented in 2015. He helped implement the after-hours mental health crisis line, at UT-Austin.
In August alone, there were a total of 301 calls to the crisis line throughout the system, and Brownson said close to 17 percent of these calls are urgent.
“It is not unusual for these [calls] to be life-saving endeavors that occur,” Brownson said.
Brownson shared one incident in which the crisis line helped avert a suicide. A student who had a gun in one hand and his phone in the other called the crisis line because he saw the advertisements on campus and the counselors were able to contact police to get the student to safety, Brownson said.
Other programs implemented last year include bystander intervention initiatives, alcohol education programs and centers for recovering addicts. Funding for several of these programs will need to be renewed in 2018.
At the meeting, Board members also approved to unanimously provide $392.2 million from the Permanent University Fund bond to be split up among nine buildings across the System, with $100 million going to UT-Austin’s new Energy Engineering Building. The PUF consists of UT System investments from land in west Texas owned by the UT and A&M Systems.
“We’re trying to do the best we can right now [in areas] where we think we can drive the universities to the next level,“ Chancellor William McRaven said.
Someone's selling a crusty paper cup that might've once touched Elvis Presley's lips and there are people already willing to drop over $150 for it.
The cup's supposedly from The King's first concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1956. Elvis was only 21 at the time and played his first show there in April of that year. The cup was supposedly taken from him at his hotel by a woman named June who then kept it in a box with his autographed picture for decades.
If you're wondering whether it's authentic or not ... the nearly 62-year-old cup comes with a letter of authenticity and notebook full of supporting "research" ... which includes a few pictures of Elvis WITH the cup.
It's being sold on eBay and, as of late Monday, the high bid was $157. The seller is optimistic they'll get $1,000 for it though.
With less than 48 hours left for Telangana March, the AP Police reiterated its warning of initiating stern action against law breakers.
HYDERABAD: With less than 48 hours left for the proposed 'Telangana March' at Tank Bund here on September 30, the Andhra Pradesh Police today reiterated its warning of initiating stern action against law breakers even as it appealed to the organisers to put off the march.
Anticipating violence during the proposed march, for which permission has not been granted so far, in-charge Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy told reporters that the AP and Hyderabad Police are geared up to face any eventuality and its responsible for maintaining law and order and protect lives ensuring safety of properties of Hyderabadis.
"I make a fervent appeal to the organisers of the 'Telangana March' to postpone the march to any other day or any other venue as it will be coinciding with Ganesh immersion (September 30) taking place on Tank Bund.
With lakhs of devotees including ladies, aged and children witnessing Ganesh immersion...the anti-social elements and communal elements can creep into this religious crowd to foment trouble and once policing begins the innocent will get affected," he explained.
The AP Police chief said Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had given him clear instructions to ensure that no untoward incidents take place.
"There will not be any let up in law and order machinery. Under any circumstances we will maintain law and order. We will take very stern action against law breakers and will revoke stringent penal sections against them," Dinesh Reddy said and assured public that the law enforcing machinery will take care of them and they need not panic.
Reacting to a query, the In-Charge DGP said, "We will be advising the government keeping law and order point of view its not safe to merge two crowds (religious activity and political activity of Telangana March) at the same venue. Any government will to go by advise of law enforcing agency which is in public interest.
Former Nigeria coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, has said the Super Eagles are not yet a complete team despite beating South American giants Argentina 4-2 in a friendly match in Krasnodar, Russia, on Tuesday.
However, Onigbinde, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Wednesday, believed the Eagles, who have qualified for the Russia 2018 World Cup, could win the tournament if the right things were done.
The veteran coach advised Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr to work on his goalkeeping department to be ready for the World Cup.
“The Eagles have been on a steady rise in recent times,” the former Shooting Stars manager, who led the Eagles to the Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup, said.
“They qualified for the World Cup with a match to spare, ending the qualifying campaign unbeaten and also beat Argentina– and they can only go higher.
He warned the Eagles not to allow their defeat of Argentina go to their head, urging them to work harder.
Onigbinde added, “Even if they don’t win the World Cup, the Eagles – if they keep up with their performance and team spirit – have the ability to cause upsets in Russia. The coach needs to look into the team and strengthen the weak areas such as the goalkeeping department.
“The team look good but they need reinforcements to enable them to keep up the performance and do better. The players should guard against being overconfident because they have defeated Argentina.
KORN: They emerged from the unlikely rock scene of Bakersfield, California and managed to become the forefathers of a new-age of heavy metal rock. Korn has continued to surprise us with their heavy-hitting guitar riffs and lyrics since their debut album in 1994. Now in their twenty-third year as a unstoppable musical force, Korn continues to pioneer the numetal genre with new music and pulse-pounding tour dates.
The band formed in Bakersfield in the early '90s out of the defunct band L.A.P.D. with the addition of Jonathan Davis on lead vocals. Korn released their Ross Robinson produced demo Neidermeyer's Mind in 1993 and were eventually picked up by Epic Records. They released their self-titled debut LP in 1994 which garnered a lot of attention amongst music critics and fans alike. The album was noted for the unique heavy metal sound that was soon dubbed Nu Metal for its inclusion of hip-hop raps, grunge, and metal. Korn dates were scheduled alongside hard rock band Biohazard for a national outing before heading back to the studio to craft the follow-up.
Korn released Life Is Peachy in 1996 and achieved huge success in the rock world. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and featured the Grammy nominated single "No Place to Hide". Korn tour dates were scheduled as the co-headlining act on the Lollapalooza Festival in 1997 with Tool. 1998 proved to be the band's hugest year to-date when they released Follow the Leader to massive commercial success. It featured the singles "Got The Life" and "Freak on a Leash", both of which received heavy rotation on MTV. The video for "Freak on a Leash" won the band their first Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Short-Form Music Video and was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1998. The album went on to sell ten million copies worldwide and was certified five times platinum in the United States. In support of the album, the band started their own headlining music festival called The Family Values Tour in 1998 which they have revived several times throughout the past two decades.
The band released their third album Issues in 1999, it immediately debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and outsold new releases from Dr. Dre and Celine Dion. The band went on to release several more albums in the 2000s including Untouchables in 2002, Take a Look in the Mirror in 2003 and a Greatest Hits collection in 2005 before parting ways with Epic Records. Korn signed a lucrative deal with EMI and Virgin Records to distribute their music, license their image, and schedule their tours. Their first Virgin release was See You on the Other Side in 2005 and Korn tour dates were scheduled on the accompanying "See You On The Other Side Tour" throughout the year. The band resurrected the "Family Values Tour" in 2006 and toured internationally with the Deftones and Flyleaf. On the 2007 "Family Values Tour", the band recorded a session of the successful MTV Unplugged series which was the first time a metal band was featured on the acoustic music program. To close out the decade, the band released an untitled album in 2008 and their most recent album Korn III: Remember Who You Are in 2010.
Korn's 2010 concert schedule included a co-headlining outing with Disturbed on the "Music as a Weapon V Tour", which featured Sevendust as the opening act. This was shortly before the band signed with Roadrunner Records, releasing The Path of Totality as their first album with the label. The album -- which was produced by Skrillex and Datsik, among others -- featured a prominent dubstep sound that was commended as bold and innovative by numerous music critics.