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It will be faster because Facebook can learn from other vendors in adjacent enterprise software market segments, most notably Box and Dropbox in the Enterprise File Sync and Sharing space. Like Facebook, both of those companies began as consumer-oriented services that emphasized user experience over other considerations, including breadth and depth of functionality. Box has since built an offering that meets many of the security, privacy, administration and integration requirements of business customers.
Dropbox has also undertaken that journey, although it did not begin it until well after Box started. That is an advantage in some ways. Dropbox is moving down the learning curve quickly because it has watched Box and learned from its strategic decisions taken and tactical moves made to effect the consumer-to-enterprise shift.
Facebook will do the same, gaining insight from both Box and Dropbox. This will allow Facebook at Work to become enterprise-ready in a fraction of the time that most expect. Watch for Facebook to gradually expand beta access to Facebook at Work over the coming months, then make a version that meets most enterprise requirements generally available by the end of 2016.
Facebook at work sounds like a big plan. great idea.
Bernard Butlerwill visit nme.com for an exclusive web chat next month. Bernard will be here on August 16 at approximately 4.30 pm BST.
You can post your questions now by clicking here (or bookmark the page).
Butler has just completed work on his new album ‘Friends And Lovers’, and flies out to Japan this week to play the closing day of the Fuji Rock Festival near Tokyo. Bernard will be previewing songs from the new record with his band consisting of Chris Bowers, Terry Miles and Mako Sakamoto.
This whitepaper is a rich media document, and includes industry viewpoints, multimedia content, and up to three detailed customer case studies embedded within this single dossier.
This paper is designed to help individuals responsible for portions of their company's websites - PR and IR, professionals, marketing, product and HR managers, to name a few - be more effective.
Forrester Research discusses shifts in creating customer-centric, content-rich digital experiences. IBM introduces the Watson Content Hub.
Job Description Job Summary Warehouse employees contribute to the company's success by ensuring accurate and timely packaging, bailing, and bagging of donated clothing for shipment. In addition, each employee is responsible for careful transfer, packaging, and storage of materials and effective utilization of resources. Key activities include: proper loading and unloading of trucks and warehouse duties such as lifting, carrying, pulling, pushing, and packaging materials in a safe manner. Other duties may be assigned as needed. Skills and Abilities Must be able to follow directions and possess a "can do" attitude. Ability to create and maintain cooperative team-building relationships. Work as a team with Warehouse and Operations Manager to meet organization goals and expectations. Employee must be in good physical condition, capable of lifting in excess of 50 pounds, able to climb steps and ladders, capable of bending, stooping, and reaching. Have good leadership skills Ability to multitasking Minimum Qualifications: Employee must pass all pre-employment and background checks, including drug testing. No formal education necessary, just a good disposition. Requirements : ·3 to 5 years of warehouse leadership experience is strongly preferred ·Proficient in the use of balers · Forklift certification · Ability to lift over 50lbs to 100lbs regularly ·Ability to multitasking · Ability to keep area of responsibility well organized and clean ·Positive team player Responsibility ·Supervise warehouse team ·Operate pallet jacks and electric forklift · Load and unload trucks and trailers · Stack and unstack pallets and boxes · Operate a bard board and baler · Assist processing staff with carts of goods · Provide warehouse processors cart of goods · Assist with general cleaning of warehouse Benefits Competitive wages Weekly Pay Bonus Pay Paid Vacation Paid Sick time Holiday Pay Life Insurance Flexible Spending account 401(K) plan Many other fringe benefits Company Description About Planet Aid Planet Aid, Inc., is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that collects and recycles used clothes, shoes and supports development projects in some of the poorest parts of the world. The projects empower people and create momentum to improve health, increase income, aid vulnerable children, train teachers, and enhance the overall quality of life. Our bright yellow boxes are typically placed at supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations, shopping centers, churches, schools or similar places where many people have access to them across many major metropolitan areas of the United States.
The city of Richmond, African Americans discovered at the end of World War II, was a fair-weather friend. The multitudes who had moved west to work in the shipyards and other industries suddenly found the welcome mats firmly rolled up and packed away. Temporary, wartime housing was marked for demolition, and the management at other developments coolly turned away when black families came knocking.
It was during this bleak period that Parchester Village materialized. The cluster of 400 single-family homes, built on a remote patch of land north of the old city limits, was advertised as a "community for all Americans."
a village -- a place with backyard barbecues and an active neighborhood association; a place where kids played in the streets and neighbors up and down the block preened when another young resident went on to become a doctor or teacher or politician.
But now, 52 years later, the founders' vision might actually be coming to fruition. A wave of 50,000 new Latino residents moved to Oakland and Richmond in the 1990s, and some of them found their way to this bayside enclave.
According to the 2000 census, 15 percent of Parchester's residents are Latino -- and locals say that figure continues to climb. (Parchester's population hovers around 1,000, but because of the way the census blocks are broken down, it's not possible to get an exact count.) A smattering of the population is white, Asian or biracial. The rest, almost 80 percent, are African American. Once again, Parchester residents are trading one dream for another: This time, they are exchanging a nurturing all-black environment for a place where children from different backgrounds play ball and ride their bikes together.
"Parchester has always had a sense of community and neighbors looking after each other. For a long time, it was isolated out here, so you really got that, " said Eddrick Osborne, 34, who grew up in the neighborhood and moved back with his wife and young daughter in 1994. "We welcome anyone who wants to come in and take care of the property and be good neighbors. That seems to be the majority of folks coming out here. . . . It doesn't matter what color you are."
The transition has, thus far, been "real smooth," said Joe Brown, acting president of the Parchester Village Neighborhood Council. "I've been surprised. " Occasionally, old-timers will grumble that Parchester is losing its authenticity, he said, but for all their nostalgia and pride, most accept and even embrace the change.
But they don't forget their history. Many residents can recite the story: In 1949, Rev. Guthrie John Williams, a determined black pastor, threw his support behind incumbent council member Amos Hinkley in exchange for the candidate's pledge to push for more housing for African Americans. Hinkley lost the race but nonetheless managed to introduce Williams and Fred Parr, a wealthy white developer. The meeting was a success -- Parr eventually agreed to donate his property near Point Pinole, and Parchester sprouted off Giant Highway on a spit of land wedged between two sets of railroad tracks. The single-family, one-story dwellings built side by side on 5,000 square-foot lots all had flattops and commodious front and backyards. Some claim that it was the first new tract-home development for blacks in the state.
Parchester ressidents have waged and won numerous battles over the years -- beginning in 1950 when they sued for the right to send their children to Richmond public schools. Residents have also protested development bound to deflate property value and fought for street lights and bus service and to gain admittance to the formerly all-white Richmond Country Club that stares down at them from its perch across the tracks and up on a hill.
In 1950, before the development was complete, Joseph Conwright, a meat market manager and musician, paid $250 down for an $8,250, three-bedroom house.
He and his family would bring picnic lunches to lot 143 and watch their house go up one board at a time.
At 77, Conwright still lives in the ranch-red house on Griffin Drive. An American flag waves out front -- the sixth one in almost as many decades. His children are all grown; his wife and most of the other original buyers have died. But Conwright is as attached as ever to his modest house, the garden out back and the red shingles that seem to grow a shade redder every time he repaints. "I wouldn't live nowhere else but here," he said. "This is it."
Another original settler, 83-year-old Mildred Hooper, lives around the corner in a house with clumps of calla lilies out front and a big glass candy jar in the living room. "You've got to have love when you're building a neighborhood," she said, "and we had plenty of it."
hitting a nadir in the late '80s and early '90s. The neighborhood market, dry cleaners, gas station and nightclub had long-since shut down, and drugs ate away at the community. In 1993, a 17-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting outside the neighborhood center. The village began to lose its elderly residents and some of their homes, inherited by indifferent children, were rented out or worse, boarded up, Brown said.
To this day, Charleszetta Hunt, 55, draws herself up at the mention of the notorious hang-out corner at Griffin Drive and McGlothen Way. She will not, she said sharply, let her grandchildren mill around over there "as long as I'm living."
On April 21, a 15-year-old boy was shot on Griffin Drive -- and it wasn't the first shooting of the year, Brown said. "Sometimes you can have one or two places where you get some illegal activity going on, and all the sudden something like this happens," Brown said. "It bothers me that it happens, but I mean, some of those things happen any place."
These shootings notwithstanding, crime is down in Parchester, he pointed out. And though the neighborhood hasn't quite escaped the reputation it acquired during harder times and some of the aging homes have a weary look, Parchester is in remarkably good health these days.
Property value has shot up -- houses are now selling for as much as $225, 000, said Deborah Hair, an agent at Century 21. Just a decade ago, she said, buyers could find homes there for less than $50,000. Only a few of those disreputable abandoned units remain; the rest have been snatched up by people hungry for affordable, decent homes. Many of the Latino families moving in are young parents with children, and the explosion of kids has been a great boon, Brown said.
The neighborhood, with its matchinghomes standing in tidy rows like attentive soldiers, could probably qualify for the National Register of Historic Places, said Shelby Sampson of the Richmond Museum of History. Driving over the railroad tracks and past the entry gate seems like a misty trip to a distant era. On a recent Thursday, people were mowing lawns and planting in their backyards. Children, off on spring break, rode their bikes and skateboards and shot baskets under a fuming sky.
"It's, like, family orientated here," said Regina Lewis, 13, playing with a boisterous group of black and Latino kids who looked as if they had stepped straight out of a real estate agent's advertisement.
The neighborhood is plenty villagelike still, say youngsters who don't always appreciate the extra sets of eyes and ears. Neighbors knew that Cynthia Hooper, 22, wasn't allowed off the block when she was small, and they would report her to her grandmother if she ventured out too far.
Hunt's granddaughter, Jessica Brown, says neighbors will phone her house if anything looks the least bit suspicious, and her great-grandmother always seems to find out when the 18-year-old has been talking to boys. One busybody down the street particularly irks her: "She can probably tell you what we're doing right now!" she said.
This familial spirit doesn't quite extend to Parchester's newest residents. Several Latinos said they maintain a friendly distance from their neighbors. Sergio Meraz, 25, a Mexican immigrant, said he hasn't had any problems, but his English is limited, and he and his family largely keep to themselves. Fourteen-year-old Sara Sanchez, the child of Mexican immigrants, lives with her family in a house her mother decided -- over her daughter's objections -- to paint two shades of purple after they moved in two years ago. Sanchez echoed the same sentiments: The neighbors are mostly welcoming, but "we don't get involved with them."
With the exception of two white residents, everyone who attends neighborhood council meetings is African American, said Hunt, the council vice president. But the association is making an effort to reach out: The last newsletter was written in English and Spanish. They plan to gear some of the entertainment at the next neighborhood festival to the Latino community.
Diversity is simply a fact of life at home and in the world at large -- and maybe that's the way it should be, several black residents said. "Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have an African American neighborhood," said Cynthia Hooper. "But we're in a diverse society today. . . . Not everybody is always going to look exactly like you."
There is one lingering worry that some locals harbor: that a big-shot developer will catch wind of their good fortune and somehow try to grab their land and displace them, reinventing the area -- residents say this only half in jest -- as Parchester-By-The-Bay. That concern is not new, Brown said, but has sharpened as Richmond has migrated north sweeping new roads and development along and rendering the Parchester plot more centrally located and precious.
On a quiet afternoon at the neighborhood center, Hunt and Pamelar Kimble, children of early Parchester settlers, chatted about this remote threat.
"Now everything is moving so fast, we have to stay very alert," Hunt said.
"But my mama and her mama -- they don't care what happens," Kimble said. "Both of their homes will still be sitting here."
"We have that strong thing," Hunt said. "This is home, and I'm not going nowhere."
The 2000 census outlined a number of broad patterns in the Bay Area: the spread of diversity, the growth of the Asian and Latino populations, the movement of African Americans to the suburbs, the widening of a racial gap among home buyers. How are those changes being felt in pockets of the East Bay - in corner stores, at homeowners association meetings, on playgrounds, over fences, in living rooms? What is happening in Oakland's Laurel District? Or in Mission San Jose in Fremont?
Lessons from Oakland's Laurel District. .
How do people get along in your neighborhood? On your block? How has your neighborhood changed in the last decade, and how do you feel about that? E- mail your thoughts to ebayfriday@sfchronicle.com. Please include your name, age, neighborhood, and phone number (for verification purposes only). We will publish a sampling of responses in a future issue.
Oxnard police are stepping up their vehicle theft enforcement with a multi-fold strategy after a spike in crime this summer.
Oxnard police are stepping up their vehicle theft enforcement with a multi-fold strategy after a spike in crime this summer put authorities on high alert.
Between Aug. 1 and Sept. 28, 133 vehicles were reported stolen in the city of Oxnard, an average of two stolen vehicles a day for nearly two months straight and a 14 percent increase over the same period last year. During the same time, police made 47 arrests in relation to stolen vehicles, according to the Oxnard Police Department.
Over 600 vehicles have been reported stolen since the beginning of 2018, and with a quarter of the year to go, crime rates are on pace to exceed last year's numbers. In 2017, vehicle thefts reached 693 and 786 were reported in 2016, according to crime data from the department.
"We weren't playing around in the first place, but now we're really putting our foot down," Detective Crystal Walker said.
To address the issue, Oxnard police have enacted a strategy that is part proactive enforcement, part increased resource allocation and part crime prevention education.
"We want the criminal to know, 'Hey, you never know when we're out and about, and we're not gonna tell you,'" Walker said.
Police are also working with the Ventura County District Attorney's Office to ensure crimes are prosecuted, especially for repeat offenders, and officers will conduct proactive probation checks on subjects with prior vehicle theft charges to warn them of the consequences should they commit the crime again.
On the civilian side, Oxnard police are hoping the campaign will help spread crime prevention awareness. The department will launch a social media campaign with informational posts on their pages to advise the public on crime prevention using the hashtag #NotThisCar.
Additionally, the department will place signs and banners out in the city in both Spanish and English to bring increased awareness and notify the public of every vehicle theft arrest, according to Walker.
"With all of this information we're blasting out...we're hopeful we'll either break even or be slightly above" last year's crime rates, Walker said.
Never leave your vehicle unlocked when it is unoccupied, no matter how brief.
Never leave your keys in the vehicle, even if you think they are hidden.
Do not leave your car idling and unattended. Not only is it unnecessary to do, it is unsafe and illegal.
Use wheel locks, brake pedal locks or steering wheel locks to protect your vehicle from being stolen.
Today, the rule of law suffered another blow, as an unelected judge unilaterally rewrote immigration policy for our Nation. Federal law explicitly states that “a Federal, State or Local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” 8 U.S.C. 1373(a). That means, according to Congress, a city that prohibits its officials from providing information to federal immigration authorities — a sanctuary city — is violating the law. Sanctuary cities, like San Francisco, block their jails from turning over criminal aliens to Federal authorities for deportation. These cities are engaged in the dangerous and unlawful nullification of Federal law in an attempt to erase our borders.
There is only one professional football team that plays home games in the state of New York, but Buffalo, and its Bills, are seven hours away from New York City by car. Buffalo natives are manically defensive of their town, and their team—but to downstaters, content to cheer the dual circus shows put on by the Jets and Giants in New Jersey, Buffalo might as well be Boise. The city doesn’t have much going for it. America’s post-industrial economy has not been kind—and the winters never are. It’s the second smallest city to maintain an N.F.L. franchise, after Green Bay—Buffalo’s population declined by ten per cent in the last decade—and the football franchise has offered mostly heartbreak. The Bills have never won a Super Bowl, and rather famously lost four in a row back in the nineties.
Who could possibly save this hardscrabble outpost? A Harvard man, of course. “Can Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Brain Save Buffalo?” ESPN’s new Web site, Grantland, asked last month. Fitzpatrick is the team’s serviceable quarterback distinct for going to college not at an S.E.C. or Big Ten institution, but at a certain university just north of the Charles River. (No word on which dorm—forgive me, house—he lived in.) Since Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers were drafted, few articles have made much of the fact that the N.F.L.’s two best quarterbacks went to two of America’s finest public universities (Michigan and California-Berkeley). But few reporters have written about the 2011 Bills without mentioning Fitzpatrick’s undergraduate education.
We get it: he’s a smart guy, with a 1580 on the S.A.T. and a forty-eight out of fifty on the Wonderlic football I.Q. test. (Cam Newton, this year’s No. 1 pick, scored a twenty-one.) Boastfulness is not limited to Cambridge, however, and the Boston College graduate in me feels the need to note that former Eagles linebacker Mike Mamula scored a forty-nine. The only perfect score did, admittedly, go to Pat McInally, a Harvard grad, but let the record show: he was a punter.
More importantly, Fitzpatrick has been a pretty good quarterback, leading the Bills to a 4-1 start, though its unclear what role the Harvard faculty played in developing his quick release. (Malcolm Gladwell has written about the difficulty of predicting a quarterback’s success in pro football.) He has helped make the Bills not only an uplifting underdog story, but a particularly entertaining one. Their defense has been terrible—worse than all but two N.F.L. teams—but the offense has been prolific—better, again, than all but two. Only the Patriots, worst and second-best in those categories, have had more disparate levels of success on each side of the ball. On Sunday, Fitzpatrick will bring his economics degree south to MetLife Stadium to face Eli Manning (Ole Miss, marketing, 3.44 G.P.A.). The Giants are favored by three. The over/under figure on how many times the announcers mention Fitzpatrick’s undergraduate institution is considerably higher.
Photograph: Drew Hallowell/Philadelphia Eagles/Getty Images.
Funko, the maker of those ubiquitous Pop! figurines, has filed for an initial public offering. The official plan is to raise $100 million, but that's likely a placeholder.
Big number: $204 million, which is the amount of revenue Funko reports for the first half of 2017. But it also has a $10 million loss for that period, all of which can be attributed to interest payments tied to the Everett, Wash.-based company's acquisition by private equity firm Acon Investments in late 2015.
Witnessing History: Oct. 11-15, Marriott Griffin Gate Resort & Spa, 80.
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies: Oct. 13-19, Hilton Lexington/Downtown, 120.
USDA: Oct. 14-18, Crowne Plaza Lexington — The Campbell House, 100.
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the U.S.A., 93rd Elks National Bowling Tournament Meeting: Oct. 19-21, Clarion Hotel.
National Softball Association, Annual Meeting: Oct. 21-27, Hyatt Regency Lexington, 500.
Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Annual Conference: Oct. 25-28, Marriott Griffin Gate Resort & Spa, 850.
Christian Church Foundation, Board of Directors Meeting: Oct. 31-Nov. 6, Marriott Griffin Gate Resort & Spa, 85.
Use too much bandwidth and pay the price. That's the word from Comcast, which has launched a broadband throttling system to prevent power users from hogging its network. The plan slows traffic for heavy Net users, such as fans of P2P networks, during times of heavy Internet congestion. Broadband Reports has a fairly detailed summary of how the new Comcast policy works. Basically, sustained use of 70 percent or more of your downstream or upstream bandwidth triggers the usage delays, during which time a bandwidth hog's traffic may be delayed, or even dropped.
But wait, there's more. Comcast also recently implemented a 250GB monthly download cap, so heavy downloaders will need to monitor their activities closely. The usage caps come despite a recent report indicating that P2P traffic is decreasing online. Despite its aggressive throttling, Comcast is busy promoting faster broadband service in some markets, including its Extreme 50 offering, which has download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second.
It's likely that Comcast's throttling strategy will impact only a small percentage of power users. But with the rise of video streaming and other bandwidth-intensive applications, it's only a matter of time before average users get snared by usage caps too. Meanwhile, ISP continue to market pricey and powerful broadband services-Extreme 50 costs up to $140 a month in parts of Oregon and Washington-and it's doubtful that many customers are reading the fine print.
To be fair, Comcast isn't the only ISP capping power users. AT&T, for instance, is testing monthly data caps as well.
You don't have to rely on iTunes for access to your favorite podcasts; with this quick tip you can add any podcast you have a link to in the Podcasts app on your iPhone or iPad.
The Podcasts app on iOS is a great way to subscribe, listen to, and even watch your favorite podcasts while on the go. The tight integration with iTunes makes it simple to find and subscribe to new podcasts from your iOS device. What if you want to subscribe to a podcast that isn't in iTunes? As Macworld pointed out a while back, you can add non-iTunes podcasts to the app, using a not-so-obvious method.
Before you can add a podcast to the app, you'll need the direct link to the podcast. Sending it to yourself over iMessage or in an e-mail will make your life easier than having to type in a long URL in the next step.
When you're on the main screen of the Podcasts app, slide down the search field from the top. In the search field, enter the URL of the podcast you wish to subscribe to then press search. You should then be asked to confirm your subscription to the podcast. Once you select Subscribe, the podcast will be added to your device. Pretty easy, right?
If Apple's Podcasts app isn't your cup of tea, you can check out these three alternatives that are better than it, according to Rick Broida.