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Successfully managing your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data and keeping it clean of duplicates is vital to achieving effective customer engagement and securing a Single Customer View (SCV).

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Paribus 365™ has helped us reduce duplicates in our CRM system significantly. The Paribus team is very customer focus and responsive to our requests. From an operations and sales perspective, Paribus has significantly improved our efficiency and reduced wasted time and effort on duplicate records.

Whether its errors made during data entry or the consolidation of existing data, CRM systems regularly become stained with data duplicates. This leaves users frustrated, as they are unable to find the exact customer record they are looking for. Time is then wasted trawling CRM platforms until these are located, often at the expense of customer relationships and satisfaction.

Managing data appropriately is therefore vital to ensuring a company's sales process and customer service goes uninterrupted. With Paribus 365™, our aim is to help you achieve this by exposing your CRM user's dirty duplicate data. This is done through our unique solution fully embedded within Microsoft Dynamics 365, which uses sophisticated match algorithms and its fuzzy search capability to identify and clean-up your duplicate records.

Not only does Paribus 365™ allow your users to work more efficiently, it prevents their systems becoming contaminated with future data duplicates by warning them when they are about to enter a potential existing record, ensuring ongoing data quality.

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Paribus 365™ Feature Highlights

Dynamics users become frustrated to find information, confused about the truth and often misguided by duplicate information, ultimately leading to a lack of customer satisfaction.

Paribus 365, fully embedded in Dynamics 365, provides the following capabilities proven to ensure core principles in data quality:

Paribus 365 Intelligent Search

Paribus 365™ Intelligent Search

Successfully FIND exactly what you are looking for

At the heart of the Paribus 365™ solution is our Intelligent Search engine, providing a sophisticated fuzzy search capability embedded seamlessly within Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Performing fuzzy searches using Paribus 365™ is like having your favorite internet search engine right inside of your CRM, searching across multiple entities in a single search.

With Paribus 365's intelligent fuzzy matching you can always find what you are looking for, even if you do not spell it correctly, or know the exact name of the person or company.

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Paribus 365™ Smart Entity Lookups

Despite being a core feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365, entity Lookups do not contain any degree of fuzzy matching/searching.

In fact, in cases where entities are not found, Dynamics 365 Lookups will promote the creation of a new entity, which is likely to be a duplicate.

Paribus 365™ Smart Entity Lookups provides an enhanced replacement with all the power of the Paribus 365™ fuzzy match engine, ensuring Dynamics users a safer alternative tool allowing them to always establish the correct entity Lookup.

Paribus 365 Entity Lookups

Paribus 365 Lead Management

Paribus 365™ Advanced Lead Management

Efficient and effective Lead management is essential to providing a clear insight into business opportunities and monitor progress with new prospects and existing customers.

Paribus 365™ Lead Management provides valuable insight during the Lead qualification and engagement process to automatically highlight existing customers.

By proactively associating Leads with existing customers, Paribus 365™ greatly assists the qualification process, ensuring Leads do not potentially conflict with existing data, avoiding duplicates and preventing embarrassing and misguided interaction with customers.

Paribus 365™ Duplicate Prevention

Keep your Dynamics 365 free of duplicates

We know that without appropriate data quality safeguards and policies in place just how vulnerable your Dynamics 365 system can be.

With Paribus Duplicate Prevention, your Dynamics 365 system is automatically protected by our data quality firewall, enforcing data governance and safeguarding users from adding in costly duplicates.

Paribus 365™ actively prevents the creation of duplicate data by automatically alerting users when they are about to add an Account, Contact and Lead into Microsoft Dynamics 365 that already exists in the CRM.

Paribus 365™ duplicate prevention works proactively as data is being entered (and before the information is fully committed) to alert users of potential duplicate data, thus saving users valuable time, improving user efficiency, and preventing duplicate data entry.

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Paribus 365 Duplicate Detection

Paribus 365™ Duplicate Detection

When engaging with business entities in Dynamics 365, it is vitally important for users to know if that entity has any potential duplication and to ensure they are always working with the single version of the truth.

Paribus 365™ Duplicate Detection plays an active role when viewing information within Microsoft Dynamics 365 to automatically detect whenever possible where duplicates may exist.

Paribus 365™ Duplicate Detection plays an active role to provide users with valuable insight into any potential conflicting duplication before they engage with a given entity. This makes it easy for users to cross review each conflict and to establish a Single Customer View (SCV).

Paribus 365™ Data Cleanse, Merge and Consolidation

Achieving duplicate-free data should be a key goal of any data quality strategy. However, despite best endeavours, this can be marred by endless challenges which fail to achieve a truly merged customer view.

Paribus 365™ Data Cleansing provides capabilities to search across your entire Dynamics 365 system to identify large-scale data duplication, empowering your data analysts with valuable insight on data quality.

Once identified, duplicates can be reviewed and approved before easily merging and consolidating into a single master golden record and Single Customer View (SCV).

Paribus 365 Data Cleansing

Paribus 365™ allows our sales and service staff to find customer records quickly and easily and means that we can concentrate on delivering service rather than finding names in a database. Our CRM data is as duplicate free as it could be with no additional effort making it easier for forecasting and reporting. Paribus has been a great tool for our new Inside Sales Team. It quickly identifies if there are duplicate leads or related accounts and contacts that exist in CRM without the hassle of trying to search for the records manually. Additionally, it will take you to the potential contact or account records and review further details to help verify the correct match.

Laura Wagstrom, CRM Analyst, Colder Products Company

Paribus 365 helped us prevent duplicates. When someone enters data, it is great to make sure that no duplicates are being created. Paribus has really helped us out with list matching. We have done a lot of pairings between CRM and various ERP systems. We have used it for deduping and list matching and also for Salesforce data too. The support from Paribus 365 is great, although we have not had to use it much. We have been using Paribus for many years now.

Stephen Pond, Wolters Kluwer

Paribus 365 allows our sales and service staff to find customer records quickly and easily and means that we can concentrate on delivering service rather than finding names in a database. Our CRM data is as duplicate-free as possible, with no added effort, making it easier for forecasting and reporting!

Steve Luckett, Director, Lucketts Travel

We have been working with Paribus 365 for a number of years now. It has really helped us to streamline our data that is in our systems to ensure that we have clean data and when our customers call in we can go right to their record without fumbling around in similar records, so it has helped us become a lot more efficient. The team at Paribus is always there for us when we need them.

Karen Dedier, Vice President of Engineering, Noble Systems

For our customers being able to clean up the data is so important. Everything is data centric, so they have to have clean data whether they have to plug it in or dealing with what they have currently.

Terry Unger, Consultant, Simple Soft Solutions

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Providing users with confidence the customer data they are seeing in Dynamics 365 is the single
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Paribus 365™ is revolutionizing the way Microsoft Dynamics 365 users manage their data,
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The ultra-quiet hairdryer is Parlux: check the wide product range

Do you risk waking up the whole neighborhood if you dry your hair in the evening? Or do you work in a salon and your ears ring at the end of the day? It is probably because you are not using a silent hair dryer, such as the Parlux ones. Discover all the models on this page.

In addition to disturbing those who are sleeping if you dry your hair late at night, the noise of the hairdryer can be annoying, especially for hairdressers who are exposed to the hum of the hairdryer from morning to evening.

This problem can be easily solved with the use a very quiet hairdryer.

How many types of silent hairdryers do exist?

The hairdryers work thanks to a motor that generates a flow of hot air due to the internal fan. This mechanism can result in unwanted noise. Thanks to technology it is possible to optimize the entire mechanism to reduce this noise, in order to create professional hairdryers that are light, ergonomic and also extremely quiet.

Here are some examples:

Parlux Alyon®

It is the most silent lightweight and ergonomic hairdryer in the Parlux range: Parlux Alyon® is a very quiet hairdryer most appreciated by professionals and consumers.

  • New motor K-Advance Plus®
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  • Ideal power 2.250 Watt
  • Air flow 84 m3/h

Parlux 3200 Plus®

asciugacapelli-silenziosissimoThe perfect mix of design and technology: the technological restyle of the Parlux 3200 Plus®, in fact, not only lightened all the components, but also enhanced drying, making it faster and less noisy

  • Proven K-LAMINATION® motor by Ciaramella
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Parlux Advance®

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Designed to meet the needs of professionals and, at the same time, protect the environment, the Parlux 3800 Eco-Friendly® fully enters the top five of the extremely quiet hairdryers.

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Eels 2021 Junior Rep teams show flare in trials

The Junior Eels Harold Matthews, SG Ball and Tarsha Gale teams were back on the field for their first 2021 trials.

With the 2020 season stopping short due to COVID-19 last March, it was good to see our Junior Reps back in action and taking up where they left off by hosting Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs & Wests Tigers.

On what was a rather warm afternoon at New Era Stadium, Cabramatta, the U17 Harold Matthews were the first game of the program.

They played three 30 minute thirds, which proved to be a real arm wrestle.

The Eels eventually finished in a draw with both teams crossing the stripe for six tries a piece.

Meanwhile, the SG Ball were far too strong for the Bulldogs on the day, running in nine tries while defending their line without a blemish.

The squad executed their game plan with precision and looked crisp.

The Dogs struggled to hold the ball, which never allowed them to build any pressure.

The Eels took every opportunity to capitalise on their mistakes and were clinical in their approach.

Tarsha Gale played in a three way against both the Canterbury Bulldogs & Wests Tigers, with a mixed bag of results.

The girls went down two tries to none against the Wests Tigers and then managed a two tries to one victory over the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.

The Eels gave away too much possession against the Tigers, but made up for it with united defensive efforts.

Once they found their feet in the second game, their intensity picked up and the girls started to show signs of what their team is capable of.

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Harold Matthews v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

Parramatta Eels 24 (six tries)

Canterbury Bulldogs 24 (six tries)

SG Ball Trial vs Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

Parramatta Eels 36 (9 tries)

Canterbury Bulldogs 0

Tarsha Gale Trial vs Wests Tigers

Parramatta Eels 0

Wests Tigers 8 (2 tries)

Tarsha Gale Trial vs Wests Tigers

Parramatta Eels 8 (2 tries)

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Letting children, especially young children, and pets, especially new ones, play can be a little nerve-wracking. The foremost worry is for the safety of the children, of course — it's more likely that an animal would physically hurt a child than the other way around. Unfortunately, kids can hurt pets too, and what's more, they can antagonize a pet to the point the animal will act out.

This is mostly due to two factors. First, children are still growing, learning, and testing boundaries, coupled with still learning how to verbalize their thoughts and needs. Second, pets can't verbalize at all, making it more difficult for them to communicate when they don't like something, want certain behaviors to stop, or are hurting. As a parent, you need to step in and fill this fundamental gap and help them understand each other.

Ensure new pets like kids

Keep in mind that some animals simply aren't comfortable around children, and that's okay. When adopting a new pet, especially if it's older, make sure to talk to the shelter or rescue organization staff to make sure the animal is safe to live with kids. Similarly, if you already have kids and kid-friendly pets but are ready to adopt a new pet, make sure to ask if the animal is also comfortable with other animals. Bringing a pet into a home where it's uncomfortable will only make them more and more stressed, and thus more likely to hurt someone.

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Bereavement following Euthanasia

Following the decision to euthanize your pet, you can often feel extreme guilt, bitterness, and regret and constantly ask yourself if there was something more that could’ve been done. While these are normal responses, it is important to remember that any good veterinarian will never agree to euthanize a pet if there is another viable option. If your pet has been put to sleep, then you should try and process that it was the kindest and most humane option for your beloved pet.

Some owners who have made the decision to euthanize may find it easier to complete all stages of grief as they will have had more time to process and come to terms with that decision.

If you chose to be with your pet during his final moments the trauma may continue through the grieving period. Replaying those memories, although painful, is completely normal. If you chose not to be with your pet when he was put to sleep then you may feel an overwhelming sense of guilt which again, is a normal part of the grieving process.

At this point your heart will very much be ruling your head. But as your grief progresses, you will be able to rationalize that whatever decisions you have made regarding your pet’s departure from this life were made because you loved him and wanted to end his suffering in the kindest, most painless and humane way possible.

Telling your children your pet has died

For many children, the loss of a pet will be their first experience with death and can help them learn to cope with other losses during their lifetime.

Breaking the news that your pet has died will likely be very distressing. Therefore you should try and do so in a place where your child feels safe and secure with minimal distractions. What and how you tell your children will depend largely on their age and maturity level.

If you are getting ready to euthanize your pet, you should consider preparing your children by explaining to them that the veterinarian did everything they could for your pet, that he wouldn’t or couldn’t get better and that it is the kindest way for your pet to die without feeling hurt or scared. You may wish to give your children the option of saying a final goodbye.

It is recommended not to use the words ‘sleep’ in any context as younger children may take this literally and become frightened of going to sleep themselves either for anesthesia in the future, or even just going to sleep at night.

If your pet’s death is unexpected, then calmly and simply explain the basic details of what happened. For example, "Rover’s heart was poor and couldn’t work anymore". Using words like death and dying may be a good way to explain what they are to your child. You need to make sure that they realize that your pet is unable to come back to them.

Whether your pet was euthanized or was taken from you suddenly, you should let your child’s questions guide how much information you provide them.

Can I just tell my child that their pet went away?
You could tell your child that their pet has gone away, but this isn’t advisable as they may expect their pet to return to them. Alternatively, if they find out the truth, this may anger or upset them.

What do I tell my child if they ask what happens after death?
Only you can decide what is appropriate to tell your children, and you may choose to answer based on your personal beliefs. However, it is ok to tell your children that you don’t know and that what happens after death is a mystery.

How might my child react?
Your children may experience grief in the same way that you do. However way they choose to express themselves, you should try to support and understand them.

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Mc Donalds India on a spree to woo Indian Consumers with Spice

McDonalds India is now entering its next step of localization strategy by introducing two new products in the Indian market namely, Masala grill Chicken and Masala Grill Veg.  The food chain currently has 300 outlets in the country and with a market spends of about 6%, the brand is now trying to capture Indian hearts through its localization strategy. The firm is adopting a 360 degree approach to include all platforms to emerge big and establish its presence in the country.

The company says, it is delighted to expand its menu list and it does so in a view to satisfy the Indian customers. The palate for spice and spicy products among Indians are well-known and the company is trying to churn out the biggest spice advantage by adding spicy food to its menu. Spicy taste is not restricted to a particular age group and the company could make use of this to sell out its products in a better way. The company is focusing on several Indian traits like bargaining, not using non-veg on Tuesdays etc.,

The campaign is aimed at promoting a Pakka Indian Style. The company has four distribution centres in the country namely Noida, Mumbai, Kolkatta and Bangalore. Brand extension remains the main focus of the company at the moment and the company is planning to divert its spends towards creating brand value. Better positioning and competitiveness are the key factors that lead to the success of a brand and the company is striving hard to achieve it.

A new television commercial will also go on air to improve visibility and the ad will focus on the typical Indian habits. The brand is going a step further by including plans for customer engagement activities. Will the brand succeed in its stint with the Pakka Indian Flavor?

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Once you have signed a lease agreement with a tenant for your property, it is very hard to move them out before the lease ends. In most circumstances, the tenant has their rights and can legally stay in your home right up until the day their lease is complete. But there are certain circumstances that you can legally give notice to vacate.

You can have tenants removed immediately if they or a visitor cause malicious damage to your property or common areas, or if they or a visitor put your neighbours in danger. Outside of these two scenarios, the tenant must be given fourteen days’ notice in the following circumstances. If they have breached a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) compensation or compliance order. If the tenant uses the premises for illegal activities. If they do not pay the bond as agreed or bring in other tenants without your consent. If they have a child living at the premises and the lease agreement stipulates children are not allowed or if the tenant owes a minimum of fourteen days rent and has not paid.

There are a few more events in which a tenant can be moved prior to their lease, though in an unlikely situation that you were to experience such circumstances, these would be the most common. For more information please see click here.

Outside of these circumstances, you will have to wait out your lease in order to move your tenant on. Though in my dealings with tenants over the years, if they are treated well and with respect, anything is possible. Having a good relationship with your tenant may help your case and sometimes you can simply just ask them if they would be open to moving. You may have to help them find another place and assist with moving costs as a sweetener, though if you need to get your property back in your possession for any reason, this would be your best option.

The following advice is of a general nature and intended as an opinion and broad guide. For all legal, financial or real estate advice you should obtain independent professional advice to do with the specific nature of your circumstances before making any legal, financial or real estate decisions.

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U.S. economy shrank at 4.8 percent rate last quarter as virus struck

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the longest expansion on record.

The Commerce Department says the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, posted a quarterly drop for the first time in six years. And it was the sharpest fall since the economy shrank at an 8.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2008 in the depths of the Great Recession.

Forecasters say the drop in the January-March quarter will be only a precursor of a far grimmer GDP report to come on the current April-June period, with business shutdowns and layoffs striking with devastating force. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that GDP will plunge this quarter at a 40% annual rate.

That would be, by a breathtaking margin, the bleakest quarter since such records were first compiled in 1947. It would be four times the size of the worst quarterly contraction on record set in 1958.

In just a few weeks, businesses across the country have shut down and laid off tens of millions of workers. Factories and stores are shuttered. Home sales are falling. Households are slashing spending. Consumer confidence is sinking.

As the economy slides into what looks like a severe recession, some economists are holding out hope that a recovery will arrive quickly and robustly once the health crisis has been solved — what some call a V-shaped recovery. Increasingly, though, analysts say they think the economy will struggle to regain its momentum even after the viral outbreak has subsided.

Many Americans, they suggest, could remain too fearful to travel, shop at stores or visit restaurants or movie theaters anywhere near as much as they used to. In addition, local and state officials may continue to limit, for health reasons, how many people may congregate in such places at any one time, thereby making it difficult for many businesses to survive. It’s why some economists say the damage from the downturn could persist far longer than some may assume.

There is also fear that the coronavirus could flare up again after the economy is re-opened, forcing reopened businesses to shut down again.

The Trump administration takes a rosier view. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he expects a “big rise” in GDP in the third quarter, followed by an “incredible fourth quarter, and you’re going to have an incredible next year.”

The president is building his re-election campaign on the argument that he built a powerful economy over the past three years and can do so again after the health crisis has been resolved.


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Activision says it is 'evolving' Warzone's anti-cheat after player claims he was hardware banned

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Call of Duty: Warzone has a cheating problem. Activision has banned literally hundreds of thousands of accounts since 2020, but that typically won't stop a cheater for long: Warzone is free-to-play, so when a cheater is banned, it's a simple matter to make a new account and get back to business.

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Activision said during the official unveiling of Call of Duty: Vanguard last week that a new anti-cheat system for Warzone is in the works and expected to go be rolled out later this year when the new Warzone map goes live, but as we noted at the time, it can't come soon enough: Enthusiasm in the game appears to be sagging, at least in part due to rampant cheating and Activision's inability—so far, anyway—put a meaningful dent in the problem.

The wheels may be turning on that process faster than we expected: A Tiktok user named rushman360 said in a video posted earlier this month that he's been hardware banned, meaning that Activision has locked his machine out of the game, no matter which account he uses. He can no longer access any of his accounts, or even make new ones.

"Every one of my accounts are banned," they said. "Every single one, without even me playing it. Playing the new accounts, they're banned, so they hardware banned my shit."

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Activision actually confirmed earlier this year that it uses hardware bans "against repeat, or serial, cheaters," but these aren't always effective. A hardware ban targets the system you're playing on rather than individual accounts, which as we explained in April is difficult—but not impossible—to get around. Some cheating programs will spoof your hardware ID while they're running, so if you do get hit with a hardware ban, it's not actually your hardware getting the chop.

That may be what happened here: According to Charlie Intel, the cheating site rushman360 was using may not have launched its hardware spoofer properly, resulting in the effective hardware ban. Rushman360's "guarantee" that "there's no more cheating in Warzone" is almost certainly overstated, especially since there doesn't appear to be a sudden spike in ban reports in the Warzone subreddit, but this could also be an indicator that Activision is in fact getting a handle on the cheating situation.

Predictably, Activision played the whole thing close to the vest, and neither confirmed nor denied the report of effective hardware bans. “We are continuing to target repeat offenders, as we’ve previously stated," a spokesperson said in a statement. "We’re evolving our programs to ensure repeat offenders do not re-enter Warzone."

Interestingly, a report last week also claimed that Warzone account sellers are running short of stock thanks to tighter security restrictions that have made it harder to steal and resell accounts.

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Steam Achievement names can be upsettingly long, Cookie Clicker discovers

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Achievement names often feel like an afterthought. Usually forgettable, at best a mildly funny pun beeping onto your screen as an award for collecting 15 trinkets. But it turns out that Steam's cheevos may let you store a whole lot more than just a passing gag, a fact the developers of Cookie Clicker are acutely aware of.

Cookie Clicker recently made the jump to Steam, and as such, sports fancy new features like cloud saves and Steam achievements. But as spotted by digital artist Kha on Twitter, Cookie Clicker's developers evidently appear to have discovered that Steam achievements sport a shockingly long character limit—far beyond what could ever fit in that tiny pop-up in the corner of your screen.

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There's a comic brilliance to the way the achievement bleeds off the page in the above tweet. But there's more to it, providing a brief Wikipedia summary of Nabisco founder Adolphus W. Green in a friendly, if matter-of-fact tone. In full, it reads:

"There's really no hard limit to how long these achievement names can be and to be quite honest I'm rather curious to see how far we can go. Adolphus W. Green (1844–1917) started as the Principal of the Groton School in 1864. By 1865, he became second assistant librarian at the New York Mercantile Library; from 1867 to 1869, he was promoted to full librarian. From 1869 to 1873, he worked for Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, a law firm co-founded by William M. Evarts, Charles Ferdinand Southmayd and Joseph Hodges Choate. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1873. Anyway, how's your day been?"

At time of writing, only 5.9% of players have unlocked the achievement, rewarded for baking 10 sextillion cookies per second.

Despite being a good eight years old, Cookie Clicker still holds up. The game quickly reached an "overwhelmingly positive" rating on Steam—proof that while a lot may have changed in the past 10 years, our collective desire to see numbers go up (no matter how arbitrary those numbers may be) remains as strong as ever.

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Why the hell hasn't Dr. Boom, Mad Genius been nerfed yet?

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It's hard not to feel terrifying acid flashbacks when it comes to Dr Boom. Four and a half years ago we were wondering why Blizzard was taking so long to apply the nerf hammer to the grinning goblin. Today the same question applies to his successor. So when Hearthstone senior game designer Dean "Iksar" Ayala asked players what they've been enjoying most and least about Saviors of Uldum, the expansion that launched earlier this week, I wasn't surprised by the answers.

As the community sees it, there are two serious problems: Dr. Boom, Mad Genius the Warrior Hero card and the Conjurer’s Mage deck. I stopped counting replies after 35 of 38 mentioned one or both of those issues. And honestly, who can pretend to be surprised? We knew these things would be problematic going into the expansion. We expected their power to hurt people's enjoyment during the experimental deck-building phase. The real question is: Why haven't they been fixed?

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What makes Dr. Boom, Mad Genius OP?

In case you need a refresher on what makes the card so brutally strong, let’s quickly cover the main points. First, Boom is a strict upgrade to Garrosh, the basic Warrior Hero—playing him does not in any way hinder the (average) ability of the Warrior to play defensively and gain armor. It simply condenses your armor turns while also giving you other, better options too.

Second, Boom turns all his mechs into value-trading nightmares thanks to the fact he gives them all Rush. This means not only does every mech act as immediate removal, but since the Warrior can pick the trades, they often use minions as 2-for-1 removals and threats. The result is that sticking any kind of board against Boom becomes nearly impossible.

From an emotional perspective, losing to Boom feels about as bad as losing to the other Death Knights did

Third, Boom condenses deck building. Instead of balancing removal cards against proactive threats, Boom provides Warrior decks with all the late-game they need in a single card. Free of the constraints of having to include late-game threats, Warrior decks are able to run nothing but removal or tech cards in their remaining 29 slots. Without Boom, Warrior would not be able to run nearly as much removal without risking gassing out in the late game.

To put all this in perspective, the latest stats from HSReplay show Dr. Boom sitting at a 69.3% overall mulligan win rate (how often you win the game when he’s in your opening hand) and a 68% drawn win rate (how often you win the game when he’s drawn at any point). Comparing him to Town Crier and Eternium Rover—two of the best 1-drops ever printed in Hearthstone—he's better by 2-3% in the opening hand.

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That stat is even more notable once the comparative cost of the cards is considered. If two cards have the same win rate but one is more expensive, then the expensive card is generally better. A 7-drop will sit in your hand doing nothing for at least six turns, so if it’s winning more games than amazing 1-drops are, that tells you the power level of that expensive card is off the charts.

From an emotional perspective, losing to Boom feels about as bad as losing to the other Death Knights did—or at least the ones that provide infinite life and resources (like Jaina and Rexxar). The game becomes based around a passive ability and Hero Power you cannot interact with. Many players didn't realise just how bad Boom felt when the card was released because at the time all the classes had Death Knights, plus Baku and Genn were in the middle of their own reign of terror. All the button-based decks felt bad, so it was hard to single out Boom. After rotation, fewer classes had access to such broken tools, so Boom stands out in a big way.

What kind of degeneracy does Boom currently enable?

While it can be tempting to blame other cards in the Warrior tool kit—like Omega Assembly or Omega Devastator—those cards are so good because Boom exists. Three random mechs on turn 10 isn’t amazing if they don’t have Rush and the same can be said for Omega Devastator. Without Boom to back them up, these cards could even be too slow to run, especially if you also have to consider including actual late-game threats in your deck. Nerfing either of those cards would do little to stop the Mad Genius from staying, well, mad.

The Boomsday project is based on Dr. Boom, thematically, and a change to the icon may have been deemed out of the question

Incredibly, and to make matters worse, Savior of Uldum actually gave Warrior a new synergy in Tomb Warden. The card would be a solid option in a control deck, but the fact that it also has the Mech tribal tag (for no good reason) pushes it over the top. This addition makes Boom even more broken. As did the Rise of the Mechs patch, which added Sn1p-Sn4p and made improvements to two Mech cards which Warrior players regularly picked from the Delivery Drone Hero Power. It genuinely beggars belief that the balance team didn't seem to think this would exacerbate something which, by that point, was a well-documented issue.

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Why hasn't it been hit by a balance change?

The card's undeniable power makes it baffling that Blizzard hasn't intervened. We can't know for sure what has kept the good doctor Teflon for so long, but I can float some suggestions as to what might be going on:

  • Blizzard themed an entire expansion around him. The Boomsday project is based on Dr. Boom, thematically, and a change to the icon may have been deemed out of the question. This idea doesn’t work entirely, as Baku and Genn were Hall-of-Famed early for ruining the game—but they were neutrals, so perhaps the story is different.
  • It's someone on the team's favorite card. Remember Patches the Pirate? Patches was unbelievably broken in an obvious way and it took close to a year before the card got nerfed. That might have been, in part, because the designers had spent years trying to get the Patches into the game. Perhaps something similar happened with Boom. Maybe Team 5 is worried that the players who enjoy having such an OP card will be angry if it changes. After all, Iksar recently suggested that the Wild players must really enjoy Barnes because they play him a lot.

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  • Misunderstanding their own data. Peter Whalen infamously said that Dr. Boom isn’t a huge balance outlier and doesn’t inherently feel bad to play against. While I can’t say how they arrived at either of those conclusions, it is possible the people making the decisions about balance have misinterpreted the data somehow. Designers are busy and not everyone is a trained statistician.
  • Underestimating the card. When Rogue saw nerfs a month after the release of Rise of Shadows, the balance team said that Warrior had a variety of good and bad matches and, if the class began to dominate, there would be plenty of decks that could combat it. As it turns out, there are no cards to combat Dr. Boom, because you can't interact with him meaningfully. Now that Warrior decks also don't have to specifically tech for Rogues, they can focus on the rest of the field. The only decks that are really good against Warrior aren’t good against the pack, which seems likely to lead to a stagnant meta.
  • The balance team is ahead in design. Blizzard knew Quests were returning in Uldum, and so wanted to wait and see if the power provided by them could combat the woes caused by by Boom. This 'wait-and-see' approach looks unlikely to bring balance (as has almost always been the case with previous expansions), and now we're sitting tight until the next patch, which tends to drop around a month after a new set launches.
  • Fear of consequences. Many players dislike aggressive metas. It could be the team views Boom as the great wall keeping the game from becoming too fast if they fear other control tools aren’t good enough. That said, we'll never know for sure because right now if you're going to play a control deck, you're doing your win rate harm if it doesn't run Boom.

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Balance suggestions

To wrap up, let's take a stab at some possible solutions. Increasing the mana cost alone makes him a little worse, but he could probably still cost 10 and be about as good. That leaves three options: (1) move him to the Hall of Fame early, like Baku and Genn, (2) address his passive rush mechanic, or (3) change the Hero Power options.

For my money, I’d prefer to see (2) and (3) considered. If you want to maintain the Rush passive on the card, Dr. Boom shouldn't gain armor when played or have armor gain as a button. This would mean playing Dr. Boom fundamentally changes how the Warrior deck operates, losing the ability to heal easily and making the card fit a more tempo-oriented deck.

On the other hand, if you want to keep the defensive/value ability of the card, then the Rush part must go (or be significantly reduced), perhaps only applying to the first minion played each turn, though that might not be enough of a nerf, truthfully. Removing the Rush aspect entirely would leave the card as a powerful value engine, but still allow opponents to stick a board and out-tempo the Warrior.

Whatever happens—and at this point it really does feel like something has to—Mad Genius can't be allowed to keep offering quite so much power. Not unless Blizzard wants to drive its own players mad.


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Before a discussion of forwarding and slave DNS servers can be undertaken, some general knowledge of how DNS clients query a DNS server to resolve IP addresses is of some use.

In a TCP/IP network, a DNS resolver is any system that has been configured with one or more DNS server IP addresses and that performs queries against these DNS servers. The DNS resolver is part of the DNS Client service, which is automatically installed when Windows is installed. The resolver can request one of two types of queries from a DNS server: recursive or iterative.

A recursive query is a DNS query that is sent to a DNS server from a DNS resolver asking the DNS server to provide a complete answer to the query, or an error stating that it cannot provide the information. If the DNS server is also configured as a forwarder, the query can be forwarded directly to another DNS server. If the query is for a name outside of the local DNS server's zone of authority, it performs an iterative query against a root DNS server, which then responds with the IP address of the DNS server whose zone of authority includes the desired IP top-level domain. Additional iterative queries are then performed until the name is resolved into its IP address or an error is produced.

An iterative query is a DNS query that is sent by a DNS server to another DNS server in an effort to perform name resolution. Consider the example of a workstation (DNS resolver) in the bigcorp.com domain that wants to communicate with a Web server located in the smallcorp.com domain. Figure 3.3 illustrates the process by which the IP address for http://www.smallcorp.com will be resolved to its IP address. Recall that www is a typical alias for a Web server or bank of clustered Web servers.

Figure 3.3Figure 3.3 The initial recursive query results in several iterative queries in an effort to resolve the name to an IP address.

  1. The DNS resolver (the local workstation) sends a recursive query to its local DNS server requesting the IP address of http://www.smallcorp.com.

  2. The local DNS server, which is also configured as a forwarder, does not have information about http://www.smallcorp.net in its zone of authority and thus issues an iterative query to a root DNS server for the IP address of http://www.smallcorp.com.

  3. The root DNS server does not have the requested information about the IP address of http://www.smallcorp.com, but it does know the IP address of a nameserver for the smallcorp.com zone. It provides this information back to the requesting DNS server.

  4. The local DNS server next issues an iterative query to the DNS server for the smallcorp.net zone asking it for the IP address of http://www.smallcorp.com.

  5. The smallcorp.net DNS server is authoritative for that zone, so it provides the requested IP address back to the local DNS server for http://www.smallcorp.com.

  6. The local DNS server next passes the IP address of http://www.smallcorp.com back to the requesting workstation.

  7. The client can now make a connection to http://www.smallcorp.com.

So, with the discussion of how DNS queries are performed and resolved under your belt, you can begin to plan for configuration and usage of DNS forwarders on the network.

A DNS forwarder is a DNS server that accepts forwarded recursive lookups from another DNS server and then resolves the request for that DNS server. This can be useful if you do not have local copies of your internal DNS zone and want to have your local DNS server forward DNS queries to a central DNS server that is authoritative for your internal DNS zone. Caching-only servers make good DNS forwarders. If the DNS forwarder does not receive a valid resolution from the server that it forwards the request to, it attempts to resolve the client request itself.

A DNS slave server is a DNS forwarder server that will not try to resolve a resolution request if it doesn't receive a valid response to its forwarded DNS request. You will typically see this type of DNS server implemented in conjunction with a secure Internet connection.

A new feature in Windows Server 2003, conditional forwarding, enables administrators to direct DNS requests to other DNS servers based on domain. Previous versions of Microsoft DNS supported only one forwarder, so if forwarding were enabled, all requests would be sent to a single server. This is used frequently when you want requests made to the internal network to be forwarded to a master DNS server that stores internal DNS zones, but have resolution requests that are made to Internet domains be sent to the Internet using the standard resolution process.

Because enabling conditional forwarding is a new capability with Windows Server 2003's DNS service, you need to be familiar with how this works and when you might need to use it.

Figure 3.4 shows the Forwarders tab of the DNS server Properties dialog box.

Let's say that you have a single internal domain called lab1.area51partners.com. You need to forward any queries to that domain directly to the primary DNS server for the lab1.area51partners.com domain. The Windows Server 2003 DNS service enables you to configure forwarding for a single domain, a group of domains, or all domains. Earlier versions of the Windows DNS service supported only forwarding of all domains—it was an all-or-nothing proposition. The functionality of being able to split forwarding among multiple servers while still resolving some domains locally is known as conditional forwarding. Figure 3.5 shows the IP address that has been configured for conditional forwarding to the internal domain.

Figure 3.4Figure 3.4 The Forwarders tab is used configure where this server will send DNS requests if another DNS server will be supplying some or all of the DNS resolution for that server.

Figure 3.5Figure 3.5 Conditional forwarding enables you to configure specific DNS servers by domain.

If you disable recursion in the DNS server properties, you will not be able to use a forwarder. Forwarding DNS requests requires that the DNS server be capable of making recursive queries.

A common implementation of DNS forwarders in a Windows Server 2003 network has one specific DNS server being allowed to make queries to DNS servers outside of the firewall. This allows the firewall to be configured to allow DNS traffic only from this specific DNS server to leave the protected network, and allows only valid replies back to the DNS server to enter the protected network. Through this approach, all other DNS traffic—both inbound and outbound—can be dropped at the firewall, adding to the overall security of the network and the DNS service. Figure 3.6 illustrates this concept.

Figure 3.6Figure 3.6 DNS forwarders can be implemented to control DNS traffic into and out of the protected network.

Forwarders can be used to ensure that DNS queries have the best possible chance of being answered with the requested information. As you have seen, they also can be implemented to increase security of the DNS service on your network. With security in mind, we examine other ways you can configure additional security on your DNS servers.

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“This remarkable text, Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā, contains the essence of the entire Buddhist tradition as it has come to us from India and Tibet. The author, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, clearly lays out the profound path of Mahāmudrā with both the analytical style of a scholar and the experiential style of a meditator. This unique approach is, at the same time, profound, practical, and completely accessible. It is my sincere wish that this new translation will inspire and benefit all who encounter it.”—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“Dakpo Tashi Namgyal’s Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā is a fine piece of traditional scholarship that is, at the same time, a clear manual for beginners as well as advanced Mahāmudrā meditation practitioners. With her extensive introduction and new annotated translation of Moonbeams, Elizabeth M. Callahan renders an enormous service for scholars and practitioners alike. The introduction does not only cover a comprehensive history of the relevant transmission lineages, but also discusses in an academically balanced and well-documented way the major issues of current research, such as the controversy around the attempts to justify sūtra-based Mahāmudrā. The new translation of Moonbeams profits from Callahan’s exemplary mastery of classical Tibetan philology as well as her long-standing experience of Mahāmudrā meditation. This rare combination of skills shines throughout the highly readable text, making Dakpo Tashi Namgyal’s Mahāmudrā classic for the first time easily accessible.”—Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna

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President Ronald Reagan, left, the conservative standard-bearer with deep libertarian notes, and President Barack Obama, right, who wants to be the liberal big government standard-bearer, with deep modern liberal notes, which Reagan said resembles fascism.

Is “supply-side economics” a bad thing or good thing? It depends on what one means by the phrase. If it means that all tax cuts are self financing or that low tax burdens are the sole key to prosperity, then critics are right about it being a form of “voodoo economics.” See this Kevin Williamson column for more details.

But if the term is simply a shorthand way of saying that low marginal tax rates on productive behavior are a good thing because of better incentives for work, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship (not to mention tax compliance and good government), then supply-side economics should be non-controversial. See this piece by Alan Reynolds for more details.

As you might expect, folks on the left prefer the first definition of supply-side economics and they are instinctively hostile to big tax cuts. Especially during an election cycle.

Here’s the basic argument, from an article by John Cassidy in The New Yorker. He focuses his ire on Governor Bush, but his comments could just as easily been directed against other GOP candidates.

Here’s his basic premise.

…the Republican Party is heading on economic policy: back to the old-time religion of tax cuts. …Jeb Bush, the G.O.P. establishment’s standard-bearer, announced, as the centerpiece of his 2016 campaign, a plan to cut federal income-tax rates across the board. …wouldn’t this plan inflate the deficit, which President Obama and Congress have just spent five years trying to reduce, and also amount to another enormous handout to the one per cent? Not in the make-believe world of “voodoo economics”.

Mr. Cassidy is particularly incensed by the notion that some people believe tax cuts “pay for themselves” by generating sufficiently large amounts of additional taxable income.

The “voodoo” accusation arose from the claim that, because the policies would encourage people to work harder and businesses to invest more, a lot more taxable income would be produced, and the reductions in tax rates wouldn’t lead to a commensurate reduction in the amount of tax revenues that the government collected. Indeed, some early voodoo economists, such as Arthur Laffer, claimed that there wouldn’t be any drop in revenues. By 1988…more than half a decade of gaping budget deficits had discredited the most extreme and foolhardy version of voodoo economics.

For what it’s worth, there are several problems with the above passages.

First, while some GOPers did make exaggerated claims about the power of tax cuts, the Reagan White House never claimed the tax cuts would by self financing and instead made the very reasonable argument that lower tax rates would improve economic performance.

Second, the lower tax rates on upper-income taxpayers did lead to huge increases in taxable income and big increases in tax revenue, so there are a few examples where lower tax rates “pay for themselves.”

Third, the 1980-1982 double-dip recession was the main reason for higher deficits. Once the Reagan tax cuts were implemented, red ink began to shrink and even the Congressional Budget Office projected deficits would continue falling if Reagan’s policies were left on auto-pilot. But let’s argue about the present rather than the past. Citing the work of some pro-Bush economists, Cassidy argues that tax cuts won’t generate as much growth as Governor Bush says he will deliver.

…the four conservative luminaries whom the Bush campaign rounded up to advise him…said that Bush’s tax plan would raise the growth rate of the economy by 0.5 per cent a year, and that the regulatory changes he is proposing would add another 0.3 per cent to the annual growth rate. But because the annual growth rate over the past five years has been 2.2 per cent, that gets us to three per cent growth, not the four per cent that Bush is promising to deliver.

Since economists are lousy forecasters, I won’t pretend to know how much additional growth the Bush economic plan would produce. But I’ll be the first to admit that Cassidy has found a gap between Bush’s rhetoric and the numbers produced by his advisers.

But does that mean big tax cuts are implausible and unrealistic?

Cassidy certainly would like readers to conclude that Bush’s plan doesn’t add up.

…the economists’ paper…makes the familiar argument that tax cuts, by stimulating growth, will lead to “revenue feedbacks.” On this basis, which is known on Capitol Hill as “dynamic scoring,” the economists reduce the estimated fiscal cost of the Bush tax cuts by two-thirds. But even a third of $3.6 trillion is a lot of red ink.

Though he (sort of) acknowledges that the Bush folks have a counter-argument.

So are the economists actually contradicting Bush and saying that his plan would expand the deficit? Not quite. …they write, “The remaining revenue loss would be offset by reasonable, incremental feedback effects from the tax and regulatory reforms, meaningful spending restraint across the federal budget…” Of course, Bush hasn’t said yet where he would cut spending

I don’t know if Governor Bush intends to produce a detailed list of ways to restrain government spending. Nor do I know whether he would follow through if he got elected (his record in Florida can be interpreted in different ways). But I know that it’s actually very simple to have large tax cuts along with concomitant spending restraint.

And Bush’s economic advisers also understand. Take a look at these passages from their report. Citing a version of my Golden Rule, they point out that huge savings are possible simply by reducing how fast the government’s budget expands every year.

Budget discipline and economic prosperity go hand in hand. …federal spending restraint is essential to maximizing economic growth. …the Governor’s economic reforms require strong fiscal discipline on the federal budget ledger’s spending side. …the required budget goal can be achieved by reducing the growth in federal outlays from its current upward trajectory by one percentage point per year. From 2017 to 2025, federal expenditures are projected to increase at an annual rate of 4.2 percent. Limiting the increase to 3.2 percent will produce over $400 billion in budget savings in 2025 and $1.4 trillion in savings between 2017 and 2025.

Needless to say, we should have big–and immediate–reductions in government spending. And if government is allowed to expand, it would be better if the budget grew at the rate of inflation (2 percent) rather than 3.2 percent. That being said, it’s remarkable that even a little bit of spending restraint is capable of generating huge savings over a 10-year period. And those savings make big tax cuts very plausible. Even for the folks who myopically fixate on red ink when they should be worried about the overall burden of government spending.

So the real issue is not whether sizable tax cuts are plausible. It’s whether advocates of good tax policy are willing to impose accompanying discipline on the spending side of the fiscal ledger. That means a President like Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton rather than George Bush or Barack Obama. Interestingly, Jeb Bush admits spending grew too fast while his brother was in office. Check out what he said toward the end of this interview.

[brid video=”15235″ player=”1929″ title=”Jeb Bush Criticizes Spending Under His Brother on The Late Show w Stephen Colbert”]

For what it’s worth, I think the Bush White House was just as guilty as the GOP Congress, if not more, but that’s another fight over what happened in the past. What really matters is that if Jeb Bush (or any other candidate for President) is serious about charting a different path and putting government on a diet, then big tax cuts are very realistic.

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