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Meraki manages Wi-Fi deployments, cloud networks and IT. Next up: A voice platform.
Cisco's Meraki unit, best known for managing enterprise wireless and cloud networks, is branching out to more end points with a voice platform.
In a blog post, Cisco said Meraki is evolving toward voice services based on customer requests. Meraki has evolved to manage information technology too.
Meraki's voice platform includes a simple phone that's managed from a cloud dashboard for remote changes. The phone, dubbed Meraki MC, is managed from the same dashboard from the rest of the company's portfolio.
Pablo Estrada, director of Cisco's cloud networking unit, said the Meraki MC is designed to appeal to midmarket companies and remote locations with distributed infrastructure. "This is designed to be easier to manage and deploy," said Estrada, who noted Blue Apron was a beta customer.
"We're expanding beyond switches into communication," said Estrada. Here's a look at pricing.
In addition, the voice platform is built based on SIP architecture and includes an endpoint, cloud license and service from a provider. Initially, IntelePeer is providing service in the U.S. Ultimately, Meraki plans to integrate with Cisco's collaboration tools such as Spark.
The company also added two indoor wireless access points with more capacity.
TOKYO • Japan's crown prince marked his silver wedding anniversary yesterday by pledging to uphold the country's royal traditions when he succeeds his father next year.
Crown Prince Naruhito will ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne next May following the planned abdication of Emperor Akihito, who will step down after three decades at the helm of the world's oldest imperial family.
The 58-year-old heir to the throne, who has vowed to "dedicate heart and soul" to the duties of the emperor, used the anniversary of his wedding to Crown Princess Masako, 54, to reaffirm his commitment to his future role as ceremonial head of state.
"It is important to steadily play the role of emperor as the symbol (of the state)," Crown Prince Naruhito said in a statement, adding that he would continue to observe the traditions of the office. "As I search for ways to be the symbol, I think it is also important to take action reflecting a change of society," he said.
Crown Prince Naruhito married Ms Masako Owada, the daughter of a diplomatic family, in 1993. In 2001, she gave birth to their only child, a girl. Crown Princess Masako said she would continue "praying for people's happiness" to mark the wedding anniversary.
A total of 4,365 housewives have signed up for the Suri Incentive (i-Suri) voluntary contribution scheme since it was launched on Aug 15, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
She said the implementation of the i-Suri scheme was aimed at ensuring the well-being of women, especially housewives.
"The government views seriously the effort and committed to ensuring the success of the incentive and wellbeing of women. We believe that women including housewives, have continuously, directly or indirectly, contributed to our nation's development."
Wan Azizah, who is also Women, Family and Community Development Minister, said this at the National Council of Women's Organisations Malaysia’s (NCWO) Women’s Day Dinner 2018 tonight.
She said the i-Suri scheme under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) would be implemented in phase.
"The first phase of the scheme targets the housewives who are the wives of household heads, single mothers who are household heads, widows or single women registered in the national database on poverty, e-Kasih," he said.
The dinner was graced by Raja Permaisuri of Perak, Tuanku Zara Salim who also launched the book titled Sri Kandi: Biografi Penerima Pingat Mas Tun Fatimah 1974-2013 authored by Prof Emeritus Nik Safiah Karim.
Also present were Selangor Health, Welfare and Women and Family Empowerment Committee chairperson Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud and NCWO president Prof Emerita Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin.
In the past, Whittle has promoted the racist notion that black people are inherently intellectually inferior to people of other races, cited a white nationalist to claim people in inner cities “don't have access to cognition,” and claimed African-Americans are compliant “slaves” of the Democratic Party who trade a willingness to engage in voter fraud for welfare.
Trump will speak later today at the NRA Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum.
Whittle interviewed Trump Jr. during NRATV’s broadcast from the NRA annual meeting exhibition hall alongside NRATV host Grant Stinchfield.
During a 2016 appearance on the webshow of libertarian-turned-“alt-right”-commentator Stefan Molyneux, Whittle revealed he accepted theories commonly called “academic” or “scientific” racism that tie together IQ scores, race, and crime.
In addition to positively citing prominent white nationalist Linda Gottfredson and widely denounced book The Bell Curve in advancing the claim that there are inherent intelligence differences between races, Whittle made a racist comment about aboriginal Australians and cited an episode of Star Trek in trying to explain his belief that races can be divided along the lines of “civilized man” and “barbarian.” (Biologists and anthropologists have long-rejected the theories that Whittle promoted).
Unsurprisingly, Whittle’s appearance on Molyneux's show was lauded by infamous neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
White nationalists have thrown their support behind Trump and have been particularly fond of Trump Jr. During the presidential campaign, Trump Jr. made a “gas chamber” reference, retweeted an anti-Semitic author, and compared Syrian refugees to Skittles, endearing himself to neo-Nazi websites.
Bill Whittle, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr.
San Anselmo’s Marilyn Izdebski has been told she’s “failing at retirement.” She hasn’t stopped working since she retired a year ago from Marilyn Izdebski Productions, the dance and musical theater studio she started in 1978.
The past four decades, Izdebski, 69, has made her mark in Marin’s theater community. She’s directed more than 150 shows, produced more than 80 children’s productions and taught thousands of kids and adults.
Izdebski fell in love with dancing early. She studied ballet, jazz and tap, then joined a semi-professional theater company at age 15. She taught at City College of San Francisco for 6½ years and performed professionally before starting her studio.
Throughout the years, she’s worked with local theater companies including the Ross Valley Players, Marin Theatre Company and the Novato Theater Company.
Marilyn Izdebski owned and operated Marilyn Izdebski Productions for nearly 40 years.
Q Congrats on your retirement. How does it feel?
Q What made you want to start your studio?
A A friend who lived in Marin said, “You should come take a class with me at this studio I go to.” I went, then I started teaching for them. They were moving to Denver, and asked would I be interested in buying the studio. This friend and I bought the studio in 1978, and then she left the partnership. I continued on with my career, teaching dance and doing musical theater, and 40 years later, here I am.
Q When did you get into the performing arts?
A I started dancing when I was 3. In my sophomore year of high school, one of my best friends who was also a dancer said, “Come with me to an audition. I’m auditioning for two shows, and they are both semi-professional theater companies.” I said, “I’ll go with you, but I’m not interested.” Lo and behold, I got cast into “Guys and Dolls.” I stayed with that company for three years and I had some personal stuff, tragedies that happened during that time, and they were all there for me. I said, I want to do musical theater the rest of my life and I want to provide a safe and supportive space for young people. That was always my drive, and that’s what I did.
Q Do you prefer being on the stage or behind it?
A I used to like being on the stage but I found that it’s an interesting position as you get better and better at your craft. You start seeing the whole picture better and that’s when I really knew that I had to direct.
Q What’s your style as a director?
A I am the building block kind with lots of attention to detail and lots of attention to the meaning of what they are doing, what they are saying and what they are singing. It’s not just words. There is meaning behind everything.
Q What directors have inspired you?
The look on Damien Duff’s face said it all, but not for the first time, his actions were louder than any words as Ireland’s football team belted out their national anthem on a Tuesday night in our fairest city.
Years ago, when Lansdowne Road was Lansdowne Road, the Irish Tricolor flew alongside the UEFA or FIFA flag and that of the opposition at the South Terrace end of the Dublin 4 stadium that is still home to our rugby and football teams.
In those days, the footballers in green would always turn to that side of the ground for the national anthem and give “A Soldier’s Song” the respect it deserves.
Today, Lansdowne Road is called the Aviva Stadium as part of a multi-million pound naming rights deal between the FAI, the IRFU and an insurance company about to make a thousand Irish workers redundant -- par for the course on this island right now by the way.
----------------The name of the stadium changed with the look. The old Lansdowne Road is gone forever, and in its place stands a space age building full of new fangled glass and steel but so many old memories.
Those memories came flooding back for so many of us on Tuesday night of last week, Duffer included, as Team Ireland prepared to qualify for the European Championship finals and our first appearance at a major tournament in a decade.
Duff was just 22 or so when he went to the World Cup finals in 2002. He missed the qualifying night in Iran due to injury and watched it from his house in Blackburn as injury restricted him to couch potato duties while others sealed the deal in Tehran.
In the decade since then, Duffer has won a few medals and made a lot of money in a journey that has taken him to Chelsea, Newcastle and now Fulham.
Along the way he scored in that World Cup, against Saudi Arabia if you remember, and enthralled the Japanese with his courteous bow in celebration.
He has played for Mick McCarthy, Brian Kerr, Steve Staunton and now Giovanni Trapattoni in the green and white of Ireland since 2002, and he has waited for more international success. And waited.
The long wait finally proved worthwhile when Ireland went to Tallinn for the first leg of the Euro playoffs two Fridays ago and Duffer helped his team to a 4-0 win, shipping a heavy knock along the way after an accidental clash with teammate Glenn Whelan.
Watching Duffer limp through the mixed zone in Estonia that night, it was impossible to believe that he would start the second leg back in Dublin the following Tuesday. But he did.
He was so pumped up for the match -- and Euro qualification -- that he told us afterwards he was prepared to be carried onto the pitch and stood up in time for the anthems.
As it happened, Duffer managed to run onto the pitch with the rest of his teammates. He also turned south when the band began to play his “Soldier’s Song,” turned to face the same end he had faced so many times on such occasions in his 94 international caps.
With his eyes closed and his voice belting out “Amhrann na bhFiann,” Duffer was oblivious to everything else going on around him, including the fact that the rest of his teammates had turned to face the Irish flag in its new home, high above the East stand to Duff’s left.
They didn’t disturb him -- I doubt they could have distracted him from the job in hand -- but they did rib him about it afterwards.
“I’ll probably never live it down,” said the Dubliner after the dust had settled on Ireland’s qualification.
“But I don’t care. Everything about tonight was worth it, even the pain-killing injections,” he added, deep beneath the new West Stand.
Duff’s respect for his anthem pre-Estonia was matched only by his enthusiasm to qualify, and his determination to give everything to the Ireland cause last week.
He may have more money than he ever needs. His life may be more complete now that he has a wife and young baby waiting for him when he goes home from club action with Fulham these days.
But playing for Ireland still means so much to Damien Duff, as it does for fellow golden oldies like Robbie Keane, Shay Given and Richard Dunne.
They were the first onto the pitch against Estonia and the last out of the stadium last week as Ireland finally partied like it was 1988 all over again.
For them, qualification meant everything. They won’t play in another European Championship and they know it. Only for the performances home and away to Estonia, they might never have played in a European Championships.
Duffer summed it up in words echoed by his captain Robbie Keane. “When you’re young you think you are going to qualify for every tournament,” he said.
So should the rest of us. Thanks to Duffer and co. we finally have reasons to be both cheerful and Irish in this country once again.
For that, we should be grateful. And we shouldn’t care what way Duffer faces for the anthem in Poland or the Ukraine next summer – at least the Tricolor will be flying high in Europe once again. Bring it on.
SOCCER: Ireland are fourth seeds for the Euro finals next year. England are second seeds. What money we get the old enemy again, just like we did in 1988? Poland and the Ukraine are top seeds by the way and would be welcome opponents, but we could end up in a group with Spain, Germany and Portugal. The top seeds incidentally are Poland, Holland, Spain and Ukraine. England are joined in Pot Two by Germany, Italy and Russia, while Portugal, Greece, Sweden and Croatia are third seeds with Ireland in with Denmark, France and the Czech Republic in the fourth group. A dream draw? Poland, Russia and Greece. Start praying.
SOCCER: Some big names are under pressure to make the Euro 2012 squad, with Giovanni Trapattoni restricted to just 23 players in Poland and the Ukraine next summer. Trap has been naming 26 and even 27 players in his Ireland squads of late, so someone is going to be disappointed. For what it’s worth, I reckon Leon Best, Paddy Kenny and Kevin Kilbane have no chance, while Darron Gibson, Seamus Coleman and James McCarthy will have to really fight for their right to party. And Andy Reid will only get to the Euros if he brings his guitar and goes busking!
SOCCER: Joxer’s road trip to Stuttgart in 1988, as made famous by the great Christy Moore, is big news again as we look forward to only our second European Championships. So you might like to know that a good friend has a website at www.skins.ie where you can buy a skin for your iPhone with words from the great song. How do I know this? Because I’ve had that skin on my iPhone for some months now. And I do know where to get the jump leads for the van.
SOCCER: Nice touch from Robbie Keane last week, who made sure to name-check Steve Staunton before the home leg of the Euro playoffs with Estonia. Stan may be persona non grata in many circles, but Robbie, his former teammate, introduced many of those who will play in Euro 2012 to international football, and he was keen to acknowledge as much before the Dublin match.
SOCCER: It didn’t take long for the politicians to spot the Euro 2012 bandwagon. Junior Sports Minister Michael Ring got in on the act this week when he appealed to the airlines not to rip Irish fans off when they put their prices up for Poland and the Ukraine next summer. As if they would!
DUBLIN hasn’t had a party like it in quite some time, so well done to everyone concerned with Ireland’s Euro 2012 qualification as the Irish Voice went to press last week. The hard work was done in Tallinn, the confirmation was delivered at the Aviva and now a country bereft of good news on any front for so long can finally look forward with hope and confidence. Our football team won’t cure the country’s many ills, but they will make us feel a whole lot better about ourselves. For that alone we should all be grateful to those heroes in green and their gaffer, the one and only Giovanni Trapattoni.
NOT for the first time Sepp Blatter has defied human decency with a comment, this time in relation to racism on the football field. The man who rules world football with an iron fist believes racists should shake hands with their victims at the end of a game and all will be forgotten and forgiven. Thankfully the real football world -- and real footballers like our own Robbie Keane -- has slammed the FIFA president for his latest outrage. The sooner he leaves our game, the better.
There are a lot of good reasons to quit a job: Your values don't align with those of your employer, you don't get along with your boss, you're not passionate about the work you're doing, you're burned out, you've got a better offer in hand.
But perhaps the biggest sign that it's time to throw in the towel is that pit-in-your-stomach feeling some of us get when the weekend comes to a close ... aka the "Sunday Night Blues" or the "Sunday Scaries."
Of course, we all experience the occasional wave of dread on Sunday evening — especially after a fun weekend or when you have a particularly busy workweek ahead. In fact, a whopping 76% of American workers say that they get the Sunday Night Blues, according to a Monster survey.
But if you spend every Sunday feeling anxious, depressed, or fearful — sobbing on the couch, drafting your "I'm sick" email for Monday morning — then it's probably time to move on.
"Having the Sunday Night Blues can be a common phenomenon for anyone. You're transitioning from a leisure mindset to work, with all its daily challenges. But if you're feeling trapped, hopeless, or anxious about your job for weeks or months as you face Monday — it's time to look for greener pastures."
"You don't have to produce an elaborate, perfectly crafted document of pros and cons. It's sometimes easier, more heartfelt, and effective to jot down your thoughts in a free-form way, as if you were having a conversation. For example: 'I'm feeling as if I have to work at this company, or else I will ...' or, 'I feel sick when I think about how my boss has been acting towards me.' As you read it, your feelings can better evolve into specific actions."
"The anxiety can spill into your weekend, and not just steal your joy — but compromise your health, too. The key thing to remember is that you do have choices. Your career future is only limited by your imagination."
The stars are aligning for tech giants like Apple, Google, or Amazon to take aim at the cable TV industry.
Last month, Google became the first tech behemoth to directly take on cable by releasing its own TV package, called YouTube TV. The $35 package is what's called a "skinny bundle," coming in at around 40 channels, with special attention paid to sports.
With YouTube TV, Google beat competitors like Apple and Amazon to the punch. Both have previously been rumored to be trying to put together their own TV packages — Apple for years, though it always seems to fall through.
There's a good reason tech companies are poking around this market now. According to Salesforce's new 2017 Connected Subscriber report, a whopping 68% of millennials (18-34) would ditch cable for a TV service provided by a tech company.
That's an opening in the marketplace, and it's only getting bigger as time goes on, the research suggests. In contrast to millennials, only 43% of Boomers (55+) said they were likely to use a tech company like Apple, Google, or Facebook for their cable service instead of their current provider.
Tech giants aren't the only companies betting that a new type of pay-TV package will emerge. Companies from Hulu to AT&T have released live streaming TV bundles, delivered over the internet, that can be watched on your smart TV, laptop, phone, and so on. It's good to note that in these packages, you still need to pay for data, so companies who provide it could have a structural advantage.
So far, many TV network heavyweights have loved the idea — especially those that are losing a ton of subscribers.
"The substantial growth we're already seeing makes us bullish on the future of these nascent offerings," Disney CEO Bob Iger, whose ESPN has seen millions of subscriber losses over the last few years, said on Disney's earnings call Tuesday. "Right now, they are a small part of the pay TV universe, but we believe they'll be a much bigger part of the business going forward."
But it's still unclear whether these bundles will be a hit, and whether the traditional cable business model, with a combination of advertising and subscription revenue, will prevail in the new digital age.
In fact, both Netflix and Facebook seem to be betting that TV-quality shows can be sustained by a single revenue source. For Netflix, that's subscriptions, and for Facebook, it's advertising. YouTube also recently announced a slate of shows with celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Hart, and Katy Perry — funded entirely by advertising.
Regardless of the model that emerges, however, Salesforce's data suggests that the time is ripe for tech companies to strike at traditional distributors of cable and satellite TV.
Young people, at least, are ready.
AMMAN, Jordan – A top Japanese diplomat says efforts to free a captive journalist from the militant Islamic State group have reached a "state of deadlock."
The fate of veteran war reporter Kenji Goto has been linked to that of another hostage, Jordanian fighter pilot Lt. Muath Kaseasbeh, whom the extremist also have threatened to kill.
Jordan and Japan are reportedly conducting indirect negotiations with the militants who control a third of both Iraq and Syria.
A purported threat by the militants to kill the pilot at sunset Thursday unless an al-Qaida prisoner was released by Jordan has passed without word on the fate of the two hostages.