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Kết cấu của bê tông siêu nhẹ là khá đơn giản. Bê tông siêu nhẹ chỉ đơn giản là cân nặng ít hơn do kết tụ mật độ thấp hơn bê tông tiêu chuẩn. Trọng lượng có thể dao động từ 35-100 pound trên mỗi mét khối. Thi công nhanh chóng. Với sự tiến bộ của công nghệ và vật liệu mới thử nghiệm, bê tông siêu nhẹ vẫn có nhiều ưu điểm vượt trội so với bê tông truyền thống.
Ở Mỹ, bê tông siêu nhẹ trở nên phổ biến hơn trong những năm 1930. Tiếp tục cung cấp lợi thế cho ngành xây dựng và sáng tạo. Vì các loại bê tông siêu nhẹ được phát triển và cải tiến nhiều. Những ưu điểm này bao gồm không chỉ về trọng lượng, mà còn giá trị cách nhiệt, giảm âm thanh và tính khả thi.
Việc sử dụng bê tông siêu nhẹ trở lại vào đầu thế kỷ 18. Những tiến bộ trong công nghệ xây dựng đã tăng lên. Do đó, ngày nay việc sử dụng bê tông siêu nhẹ rất phổ biến trong xây dựng.
Sự khác biệt của bê tông siêu nhẹ.
Sự khác biệt thực sự và nó có thể là một ý nghĩa quan trọng. Đó chính là thành phần trong vật liệu tổng hợp được sử dụng để tạo thành hỗn hợp bê tông siêu nhẹ. Chúng ảnh hưởng không chỉ đến trọng lượng đã hoàn thành mà còn quyết định đến việc lắp đặt thành công.
Bê tông tự nhiên có tỷ trọng thấp.
Bê tông có mật độ thấp nhất là vật liệu có nguồn gốc từ núi lửa. Bao gồm đá bọt, tráp, scoria và chất kết dính. Diatomite cũng được sử dụng như một thành phần tổng hợp của bê tông nhẹ. Lợi thế của các loại vật liệu này là chúng thường không yêu cầu chế biến ngoài việc nghiền hoặc sàng lọc.
Pumice được sử dụng phổ biến nhất. Nó được hình thành khi các vụ phun trào núi lửa. Sau đó gặp ngay nhiệt độ lạnh và nhanh chóng kết tụ lại thành đá. Đôi khi nhiệt được xử lý để tăng thêm sức mạnh. Vì nó có thể có tỷ lệ hấp thụ cao hơn nếu không có cấu trúc mạnh mẽ ở dạng ban đầu.
Các vật liệu tự nhiên khác như perlite hoặc Vermiculit cũng được sử dụng. Mặc dù chúng thường có độ dãn nở hay nhanh chóng làm nóng vật liệu. Các sản phẩm phụ của than hoặc than cốc cũng đôi khi được sử dụng. Nhưng thường bị hạn chế do sự hiện diện của các hợp chất lưu huỳnh có thể làm ảnh hưởng đến hiệu suất của bê tông nhẹ.
Bê tông đã qua xử lý hoặc tổng hợp.
Đối với một số công thức bê tông nhẹ, hoặc sản phẩm chế biến hoặc vật liệu tổng hợp được sử dụng để tạo thành hỗn hợp. Các vật liệu từ đá phiến sét hoặc đá phiến sét đã được nung. Các vật liệu khác có điểm nóng chảy cao hơn đôi khi được thêm vào làm lớp phủ để tránh dính vật liệu trong quá trình trộn hoặc bảo quản.
Xỉ lò cũng có thể tạo ra một sản phẩm tổng hợp dùng để tạo ra bê tông nhẹ. Các vật liệu được thử nghiệm và sản xuất bao gồm nhiều sản phẩm được sản xuất từ tro bay. Hoặc cát dầu được thu hồi từ chế biến nhựa, giấy hoặc thủy tinh tái chế cho các sản phẩm như Styrofoam.
Rõ ràng, tăng trọng lượng rất khác nhau giữa sản phẩm. Nhưng tiềm năng sử dụng “xanh” cho các sản phẩm phụ và các vật liệu tái chế đã trở thành chất liệu chính cho loại cốt liệu này.
Bê tông Cellular hoặc Bê tông.
Loại bê tông nhẹ này không chỉ là kết quả của sản phẩm, mà còn của quá trình. Nó được sản xuất bằng cách đưa các túi khí nhỏ vào hỗn hợp bê tông. Điều này có thể được thực hiện thông qua một phản ứng hóa học. Nó được tạo ra bằng cách sử dụng hydrogen peroxide hoặc bột nhôm trong hỗn hợp trộn tạo ra khí trong bê tông. Khi bê tông được đổ, phản ứng hóa học thực sự mở rộng bê tông. Sau đó được xử lý bằng hơi nước áp suất cao để “đặt” túi không khí. Một phương pháp khác sử dụng một hỗn hợp hỗn hợp trộn sẵn. Trước khi trộn vào trong hỗn hợp để tạo ra các khoảng trống không khí trong bê tông cuối cùng.
Bê tông hiệu suất cao.
Bê tông hiệu suất cao liên quan đến việc “tăng cường” bê tông để cho phép yêu cầu về thời gian bố trí lâu hơn. Hoặc các đặc tính cụ thể về mật độ, thể tích. Hoặc hiệu suất trong một môi trường khắc nghiệt hoặc chuyên biệt. Chúng thường liên quan đến việc không chỉ sử dụng vật liệu mật độ thấp. Mà còn có các phụ gia bổ sung để cho ra sản phẩm bê tông có hiệu suất cao nhất khi thi công.
Do có rất nhiều kết hợp cốt liệu, phụ gia, quy trình và sản phẩm cuối cùng. “bê tông nhẹ” như một thuật ngữ chung là bê tông rỗng. Và đảm bảo đầy đủ các yếu tố kỹ thuật về mật độ, cường độ nén và yêu cầu sản xuất / lắp đặt của từng hỗn hợp cụ thể.
Giới thiệu về Công ty TNHH Panel Thành Đô
CÔNG TY TNHH PANEL THÀNH ĐÔ là công ty chuyên về xây dựng. Panel Thành Đô chuyên thi công về sàn bê tông siêu nhẹ, nhà khung thép tiền chế. Cơi nới sửa chữa, cải tạo nhà cửa. Thi công sàn – vách cao cấp Duraflex. Phân phối thi công tấm tường bê tông lắp ghép Acotec Xuân Mai. Chúng tôi là đơn vị có gần 20 năm thi công xây dựng nhà cửa, công trình xây dựng công nghiệp, nhà xưởng. Với đội ngũ công nhân lành nghề chúng tôi luôn làm hài lòng mọi khách hàng khó tính nhất trong nghề xây dựng khắp cả nước.
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Hemicycle
In legislatures, a hemicycle is a semicircular, or horseshoe-shaped, debating chamber (plenary chamber), where deputies (members) sit to discuss and pass legislation. Although originally of Ancient Greek roots, the term and modern design derive from French politics and practice.
Usage
The circular shape is designed to encourage consensus among political parties rather than confrontation, such as in the Palace of Westminster, where the government and opposition parties face each other on opposing sets of benches. The design is used in most European countries (and hence was adopted by the European Parliament) and the United States.
The United Kingdom, which is the originator of the Westminster system, does not use a hemicycle. However, two of the three devolved legislatures, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, do use hemicycles; the Northern Ireland Assembly does not use a hemicycle format.
Arrangement
In the case of Australia (pictured below), the two largest parties still face each other, whereas in the Scottish Parliament's hemicycle, the largest party sits in the middle. However, some hemicycles follow a strict left-right arrangement with, for example, a left wing governing party sitting on the left and the right wing opposition on the right. In these cases election results are often portrayed in the hemicycle to show the results of left wing or right wing coalitions (reaching 50% in the centre, where centrist third parties are located) for the formation of a majority.
Alternative variations
Some Westminster-system countries outside the UK, such as India, New Zealand and Australia, have confrontational benches, but the end segment is curved to create a partial hemicycle, while other countries, such as the People's Republic of China, have a single set of benches facing towards a stage area (which reflects the one-party system in operation there).
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See also
Debate chamber
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Lopez: Can't or Won't Bunt?
It is really amazing to watch a major league hitter try to bunt and fail EVERY TIME. Has Jose Lopez ever successfully bunted a runner over? (I'm sure he has, but he fails every time I'm watching.) The latest fiasco was in the 5th inning of today's game vs KC. 2 on, 0 out. Great speed on the basepaths so all he has to go is bunt the ball fair. Lopez bunts the first pitch, an easy one to handle, foul. Then he watched a few more go by before eventually grounding into a double play. It would be understandable, considering their considerable power at the plate, if Branyan, Beltre and Griffey can't bunt. But Lopez and his non-bunting buddy Yuniesky Betancourt have no excuse. They have limited power and don't get on base very often.
While 60% of the blame has to fall on the players, the other 40% sits squarely on the shoulders of the coaching staff. If you have hitters as bad as Yuni and Lopez you need to make sure they can bunt. If that means 30 minutes of bunting practice a day until they can do it, so be it.
In the case of Lopez it appears something else is going on. He doesn't seem interested in bunting. He quickly draws a strike or two in order to get the green light to swing away (and ground into a double play). That begs the question: Is Lopez refusing to bunt in a passive-aggressive way? Lopez is such a bad bunter that a Google search for "Jose Lopez Bunting" returns a picture of Jose Guillen bunting in a Mariner uniform. How about we send them both down to AAA until they are able to do what little leaguers across the country can do: Lay one down and move the runners over. We've been waiting for 3 years for the 3-run homer to save us. Enough is enough.
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import com.ebay.dss.zds.interpreter.monitor.modle.YarnQueue;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
/**
* Created by tatian on 2019-02-26.
*/
public interface ClusterStatus {
public YarnQueue getYarnQueue(String key);
public List<YarnQueue> getYarnQueues();
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Reasons Why People Purchase Organic and Raw Foods
Diet advice is a lot like fashion. Trends come and go.
You know, wedge sneakers, drop-crotch pants, those skirts that are short in the front and long in the back; and a year or two later they seem hopelessly out of date. But the truly stylish always look smart; you’ll never see a photo of some famous star wearing crocs. Here at Eat This, Not That! we see the same thing with the lean and fit: Those who stay slim don’t follow diets or nutrition trends. They follow common sense eating strategies that keep them looking fit for life.
Why Are People turning to StemRenu? Why more people are choosing organic? Many people buy food without pesticides because they believe it tastes better than the alternative. This could be because fruit and vegetables grown to these standards tend to grow more slowly and have a lower water content, which may contribute to the fuller flavor some people experience.
It's healthy. On average, food grown to Soil Association standards contains higher levels of vitamin C and essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron and chromium as well as cancer-fighting antioxidants. No nasty additives, only 32 of the 290 food additives approved for use across the EU are permitted.
Here's an Document on Food Safety :
The best way of reducing your exposure to potentially harmful pesticides is to eat organically grown food, where their use is avoided. GM-free organic wildlife Genetically modified (GM) crops and ingredients are not allowed under Soil Association standards. High standards Goods comes from trusted sources; farms and food companies are inspected at least once a year, and the standards are laid down in law. Good for wildlife and the environment Overall organic farming supports more farmland wildlife than non-organic farming. The UK government has said that it is better for wildlife, causes lower pollution from sprays, produces less carbon dioxide - the main global warming gas - and less dangerous wastes.
Nutrition is important. Laminine can help. Eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy weight are two of the most effective ways to prevent the most common chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers, and good nutrition can also optimize treatment and reduce complications in people who already have these conditions. Yet, most doctors spend little to no time addressing these issues with patients. Although doctors need to prioritize their time during frustratingly brief office visits, spending just one to two minutes emphasizing nutrition and physical activity is feasible and much-deserved, given food’s broad impact on health.
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Civic bodies stress allocating more for climate fund
FE Report | June 24, 2019 00:00:00
Civil society organisations and climate networks have called upon the government to allocate more for climate funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20.
They made the call for ensuring climate infrastructure development to protect and save millions of climate vulnerable people in the coastal areas of the country.
They were addressing a seminar on "Ensure Priories and Adequate Budget Allocation Protecting Coastal Communities" in the city on Sunday, organised by COAST Trust.
The event was chaired by Zafar Alam MP, member, parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of environment, forest and climate change.
The event was moderated by Mr Mustafa Kamal Akanda of COAST Trust and Syed Aminul Hoque of the same organisation presented the keynote paper.
The experts also recommended strengthening the BCCTF (Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund) operations through revising the policies along with providing sufficient money.
They also criticised the government for ignoring climate finance requirement in the proposed national budget for the FY 2019-20.
Presenting the keynote paper, Syed Aminul Hoque said the government did not allocate sufficient money as per requirement in view of climate vulnerability.
He criticised the proposed budget allocation BDT 23,785 crore (237.85 billion), 4.5 per cent of the total budget, which is very poor.
He placed five specific demands including-revision of the proposed climate budget in view of the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009 (BCCSAP) projection and increasing allocation accordingly at least 02 per cent of GDP and special allocation for the coastal districts based on their vulnerability and adaptation priority.
Besides, highest allocation should be given for climate protection infrastructures like embankment and shelter, BCCTF operation should be strengthened giving sufficient money with revision of policies, and engaging local people and MPs to monitor budget implementation progress.
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A method for early detection of antibiotic resistance in positive blood cultures: experience from an oncology centre in eastern India.
For antibiotic susceptibility results, conventional culture and sensitivity methods takes 48 hours after a blood culture is flagged positive by automated systems. Early initiation of targeted antibiotic therapy is essential for effective management of sepsis to reduce morbidity, mortality, cost of treatment and prevent antibiotic resistance. Objective of this study was to evaluate Direct Sensitivity Test (DST) as a potential tool to get reliable antibiotic susceptibility results 24 hours earlier. Blood cultures flagged positive between May 2011 to December 2012 by BacT/ALERT were Gram stained. All uni-microbial gram-negative blood cultures were simultaneously cultured and processed for DST from broth using disk diffusion method using British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) guidelines. DST results available next day were compared with conventional antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) performed by Vitek-2 on isolated colonies. Results of DST (test method) and AST (reference method) were compared for agreements or errors. Of the 840 antibiotic gram-negative organism combinations tested, Categorical and essential agreements were 83.7% and 96.2% respectively. Minor, major and very major errors were 12.5%, 3.33% and 0.47%, respectively. DST using disk diffusion from positive blood culture broths helps to initiate early targeted antibiotic therapy. There is high concordance between DST and AST. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5ab25152473dc4013a96043a227884107f03e4a9fd005c72ff208bd535e8a4e1'} |
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Does anyone know if all the buildings you tap in your friend's springfield pay the same amount? Or do some buildings pay more than the others? (For Example: does vandalizing a building pay more than tapping on a brown house when visiting friend's springfield?) and get
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From what I can tell all the buildings give the same amount but if you collect from a number of neighbours one after the other without returning to your own town, the amount you earn from each building (regardless of it's colour/type) goes up. For example...I have 50 friends, when I collect from the first friend the buildings are worth something like $14 but by the time I get to the 50th friend, I'm collecting around $50 per building. The annoying thing is if you accidentally go to your town / it crashes / your "battery low" message comes up and you automatically get sent to your town, etc, the 'link' is broken and you start again at $14 per building.
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Scientific Notation III: Linear vs Exponential
Teacher Lesson Plan
After investigating examples of exponential growth (bacteria colonies, human populations ...) students will:
1. Have an intuitive feel for the concept of exponential (as opposed to linear) growth of a system.
2. Be able to interpret data plotted in logarithmic form, and to create logarithmic plots of gathered data.
1. Basic math skills, including the use of decimal notation for fractions.
2. Basic graphing skills. See for example the graphing exercises in the ASPIRE gas law lessons.
3. Familiarity with bacteria and their growth in Petri dishes.
4. Familiarity with large numbers, for example as presented in the ASPIRE "Big Numbers" online lab. Familiarity with scientific notation, for example as presented in the ASPIRE "Manipulating Scientific Notation" online lab.
1. Teachers may introduce this lab by asking students to consider the issue of human population growth, which is an exponential rather than linear phenomenon. Ask the students how they would explain the increase in size of the human population. With guidance, they should arrive at the realization that populations increase not at a constant rate (e.g. 5 humans/second) but rather at an INCREASING rate as the size of the "parent pool" grows.
2. Setup a metronome clicking 4 times per second to illustrate the birth rate of people in the world. See the table below. Can the students guess on their own what the rate of the metronome represents? For scale, you might set the metronome ticking at other familiar rates such as the human heart beat rate (1 per second) or the rate at which people blink (1 blink per five seconds).
3. The growth of bacterial colonies can be effective as a model of human population growth. A petri dish with suitable nutrients (e.g. agar) can be "seeded" by something as simple as having the students cough or sneeze on the dish. Keeping in mind that - once a bacteria colony becomes visible to the human eye - the densities of bacteria are of the order of 100 million (108) per square centimeter, have the students measure and plot the total number of bacteria per unit time. Do they see an exponentially increasing rate like they predicted for human population growth? What eventually limits the growth they observe?
4. Reinforce the idea of exponential growth using the "Doubling Penny" exercise. Suppose that they're doing a job and they can choose how they'd like to be paid: They can either be paid $100 per day, or else be paid 1 penny the first day, two pennies the second day, 4 pennies the third day, et cetera. Which would they choose? Have them calculate the total number of pennies received over time? How many days would pass before they exceeded the initial $100/day? How many days before they were richer than Bill Gates? How many days before they were richer than the entire United States?
Time unit
Natural Increase
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Projections, and
(Figures may not add to totals due to rounding)
PRE-ASSESSMENT: Here are several questions of the type you might use to gauge your student's understanding of the exponential function and scientific notation:
1. If population A increases from 1,000 to 100,000 in one year and population B increases from 100,000 to 1,000,000 in the same year, which population showed the greatest increase? Which population showed the greatest RELATIVE increase, i.e. relative to its original size? If growth continues in the same fashion, can you predict what will the populations look like after year 2?
2. Have students plot exponential growth rates (for example the pennies per day received in the "Doubling Penny" exercise above) on both "linear" and "logarithmic" graphing paper. Can they read, interpret, and make accurate graphs on each type of graph paper? Can they select the appropriate type of graph paper for different graphical applications?
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Invite students to proceed to the beginning of the Student Lab. They should first read the introductory statements and other information that pertains to the lab. As students scroll down the page, they will see the lab setup. In this lab, the students will record and eventually plot (with the aid of a log-plot graphing applet) the growth of bacterial colonies on a virtual "petri dish" by recording the total population at different times.
Closure and Assessment
This lesson should provide students with an introduction to and experience in the use of scientific notation to represent the exponential growth of a system. Collection, recording, and graphically representing data are emphasized. Students should be encouraged to make connections from this lesson to population growth issues impacting their own lives:
1. The population curves all plateau at a certain point, regardless of the starting population or growth parameter. What causes this plateau? Are there similar forces at work in human populations?
2. If the population of a city grows from 10,000 to 20,000 in a ten-year period, what would be the predicted population after another ten years? After twenty years? How might this impact on the actions of city planners and politicians?
3. What factors might affect the "growth parameter" for a bacterial colony? For a human population?
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES: In addition to the problems and questions given at the end of the lab activity, students can be encouraged to consider the extension of the exponential population growth idea to the human population on the petri dish called "Earth". When do we expect the human population curve to plateau? What do we expect are the major contributing factors?
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Mediterania Gardens Jakarta
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Gyms, Indonesia
I belong to a gym. A well known chain of gyms throughout the world in fact. Not silver or bronze but the other one. I am going to be careful as well, you know, saying the truth online about institutions in this country can get you jail time.
So I have decided to cancel the membership to the gym because quite simply I don't go, its the end of the year and I wont go next year. Too lazy, my working hours don't suit and there is a gym at the apartments which might be better to visit or even the gym at Central part (although I doubt that very much).
Foretold is forewarned so I am told and so knowing that, I went to my gym to cancel the membership and prevent renewal.
I had already suffered the traffic, pollution and heat whilst getting my SIM C renewed so I can ride my bike legally here and so I had no doubt cancelling my membership would not be simple.
This is what I wanted to do: Give notice to the gym that I would not be renewing my membership and to stop billing me at the end of the first years contract. (which ends in October).
It started off well as I was met by a woman who spoke English and I told her that I wanted to cancel my membership and not renew.
She took my card and told me to take a seat. This was 12.20pm, 5 mins after arriving.
At 12.30, she came back and took my contract away that I had brought with me. She then spoke in length to someone else about it and walked away.
12.50, I am still sat there and now enjoying the Incredible Hulk 2008 edition and no one came to see me
12.55, the guy came over and explained that I wanted to cancel my membership and not renew it. Yes was my answer, so he left
1.05 the guy is now speaking to 2 other people about my contract but oddly not me
1.10 the guy comes back and asks me to write a letter confirming my wish to end my contract. I do that and write in it that I wanted 'written confirmation of the last billing date'
1.15 the guy comes back and starts to complete the termination form. He fills in the wrong section as I watch, and so I complain. He walks off and speaks to the woman who spoke in English to me and she starts shouting at him.
1.20, I go to the place where she is still shouting and ask if they could get a move on as it has been sometime and I have better things to do on a Saturday.
1.22 the guy comes back and looks confused, says he is new and that this is his first cancellation. I ask for a written note for the last billing date I will be charges, he looked confused and frightened and walks off to find help.
1.30 he returns with someone not dressed in gym uniform who looks rather stressed and not in the mood for smiling. She completed the form in 1 minute. I ask for a letter confirming the last billing date as this has not been said (it is important as I want it finished and as no one could tell me verbally, it is better written therefore when it goes wrong I have proof). This was met with anguish and almost denial that they could do this. My GF is with me (you think I could do this alone?) and so she explained to her as well.
1.40 I have a scribbled note at the bottom of the contract which I did not understand as there was no dates so the lady had to write dates for me.
1.42 Tea arrives from the gym management to help calm and appease us.
1.44 It was sorted, sod the tea
I should have realised at the start of the contract when they misled me to sign up by telling me that I would not have to pay for a month and then when I signed the contract, I would be charged the following week.....
So thats my adventure and final workout at the gym Classic Gold!!!!
Lovely gym, rubbish service and ideas of what service actually is about.
Driving Licence Renewal Jakarta
Yes that time had come again, luckily once a year, if I was Indonesian then every 5 years but it was the Saturday in the year when I have to renew my SIM C driving licence so I can ride my motor bike with relative ease and in the knowledge that having a SIM annoys the police when I get stopped.
For me it, I have to go to Dann Mogot Police station in the west of the city and thats about 20 mins from my place on my bike.
Now nothing is easy when it comes to paperwork and Indonesia and an expat so it best to prepared financially and mentally for these things. Legally I am allowed to meet certain criteria to allow me to have a licence, but I won't lie. I have no idea what that is as I use an agent, don't ask questions and just do what ever it takes.
In England my drivers licence allows me to drive many different types of vehicle and I have from small cars to the biggest German cars, 7.5 tonne trucks, mini buses and other assorted road traffic. Motorbikes, nah that experience waited until I got here but 'technically' I could and now after 2 years or more I most certainly can!!!
Also in England, you apply for your driving licence once you have passed your Government approved driving test, after completing a written test and taking lots of lessons. All of which is a legal requirement. The same law applies to every kind of vehicle there.
Once you have passed your driving test, you then send off the necessary paperwork which you get from the post office, some photos and some money and then 2 weeks later, your licence comes back in the post. I actually think by now you can do all that online. Nice and simple, legal and not stressful.
Back to Indonesia...........
My girlfriend knows someone who knows someone who knows an agent and so she sorted out the time. cost and the things I needed to bring before hand which was nice and the price was 200,000 less than last year which was great as well.
The agreed time was 8am at Dann Mogot licensing center and so we set off on the bike early with plenty of time to spare. Now, for those that never have or will go down Dann Mogot in Jakarta, it is one of the longest streets/roads in the country apparently and runs from Citra land to somewhere in Tangerang and comprises of 2 or 3 lanes and a bus lane, a huge dirty river on one side with BASF, ABC, and other major industries on one side and Cengkareng etc on the other.
Normally so busy it is silly, today was no exception. Just after the flyover the traffic was at a standstill and even the bikes struggled to push through the denseness of the traffic, pollution aside the sun was out in force and it was hot.
It turned out that over a river bridge was a huge amount of mud which had spilled off a truck and blocked the road meaning everything was using one lane to get by. So it took over an hour to get there.
The agent was nice and we went straight into the building. I was lucky to have brought my passport along as it speeded up the process no end.
I dont really know what happens but it involves sitting while the agent fast tracks your application (about 30 mins) and then you go for your photo and fingerprints. Being white and paying alot I was ushered into a packed room full of people waiting to have their photos sorted, Sat in front of the camera, spoken Indonesian at, signed my name and walked out again. 10 minutes. Great. Then I had to wait for 20 mins until my licence had been made.
All in all, just over an hour to get it done. However a SIM C (motorbike renewal) is 60,000 and a new licence is 75,000. As I am only allowed a yearly licence I have to pay the 75,000 fee. It cost me over 4x that to get my licence but at then end of the day, I am legal and it did not take long. Sure I could do it without an agent but why bother. It is a renewal afterall.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Jakarta Riding
I think I have been riding long enough in Jakarta to say that I am still an amateur and still needs to lessons and more knowledge of the rules and the way the Jakartans ride, drive and generally rush around the gridlocked city.
I think then this will be more of a list of things to watch for as a bike rider.
More importantly as a Western or 'Bule' rider, who rides out often alone through the city in the worst traffic and at the worst times of the day.
The overall message is slow down, ride in a straight line and down zig zag through traffic, dont think you are indestructable and always wear a good helmet.
Groups it is then.
1. Pedestrians
At night becareful when riding through populated areas as children will run around or play sports in front of you
Watch for people trying to cross the road at all times
At night there are little or very inadequate street lighting so be more alert than normal as well its very dark and lights from on coming traffic vary greatly on strength depending on vehicle.
2. Parkirs
Often walk into the road to help cars out of drive ways etc or allow vehicles into drive ways
Recognisable as they are either in blue shirts or they are security men
The guys at busy junctions are directing traffic for cash and are quite useful
At night people wave flashing orange or red night sticks. Useful enough but not the right colour and therefore not visible sometimes until it is too late.
3. Cyclists, Mobile Warungs, Scavengers,
As a rule cyclists cause no trouble and the only issue is when they just turn in front of you, but then everyone does that. People pushing carts want to get by or through and will block the road although through not fault of their own. The same for scavengers.
Watch for the water carts being pushed along as they are incredibly long.
4. Bajais
Orange or blue, no indicators or front lights. The orange ones make far too much noise and belch black cancer forming smoke, learn to hold your breath. The blue ones don't but still do everything else.
They do as a rule give way to motorbikes and most other things but you need to be wary as they turn and stop with no notice.
5. Motorbikes.
Where to start or that finish
Kids on motorbikes are dangerous as they believe they are immortal and go to fast on bikes with too loud mufflers
Kids on motorbikes with other kids even scarier
School kids finishing school and going home are also a menace
Families with 4 or more people on one bike are often cautious, however don't be too alarmed when a whole family go by you at speed with out any helmets and weaving in traffic
People smoking are a menace
People using mobile phones are beyond careless and stupid
Cyclists under bridges in the rain are trying to keep dry but are also blocking traffic.
I think weaving bikers going at speed are the worst though.
or weaving bikers turning left or right from the wrong side of the road with no signal or clue that that is their intention.
Nope, night time bikes with no lights
At night bikes riding at you with no lights
At night bikes riding at you with lights aimed too high
At night bikes with a clear light as the back light and brake so you don't know which way they are going
Now you can start putting some of the above combinations together and well you get the picture.
However most bikers I have met and spoke with ride slow and carefully and are very observant and helpful.
6. Cars (including taxis)
Let them go by if they are in a hurry or go by them if they are not in a hurry
If they flash their lights at you, you are probably in the way
They are dangerous when they drive at you to cut round queues
They are more often than not wary of motorbikes
Still don't know how or when to indicate though, so that's not helpful
Parkirs help them park so that's good.
7. Mini trucks and trucks
See above
8. Big trucks
Cement mixers, cab and trailers, dump trucks all need either let through or got past safely.
They go fairly slow and don't really get on the small roads
Often have a co driver who makes lots of signals
Big respect to them
9 Minivans (assorted)
No lights
No indicators
Often stop
Go slowly
Wait for passengers in random places
Annoying to be near
However, if you take the same routes often you begin to notice patterns and where they will stop and where they slow down. If you watch you can avoid being stuck behind them when that happens. They normally wait for the people to cross the road as well or are waiting for another fare.
10. Metro Minis and Kopajas
Not my favourite type of transport as they have all the same attributes as point 9 with the additional few, which are;
The produce the same black smoke as bajais but for longer and faster
They go too fast and weave in traffic
They race each other causing jams
They have a tendency to stop
If not on their normal route they go either jet fast or so slow its quicker to walk
They parkup at night in certain places so you need to be aware of people still servicing them etc without any warning
11. Bigger buses
No manners
Inadequate lights and indicators
Bully other road users to get them moving
Get past them or stay well behind them
12. Long distance buses
They are ok on the toll
In local crowded streets are very long and difficult to get by but overall go slow and take lots more care
13. Police and emergency services
Ambulances will go by quickly but make too much noise
Brown police roll by with all lights on not doing much
Motorbike police on Hondas are local police and so will ignore you
Motorbike police on panelled bikes are traffic cops and wont ignore you
Motorcades should be respected otherwise you can be arrested
Police directing traffic normally ignore motorbikes and let them do what they like but not sure why
Fire trucks scream, let them go by, they have some where important to go and it is amazing to watch them
14. The road
Learn to spot and remember roads, holes, pot holes, missing roads, where puddles form, where roads narrow, bottlenecks, open roads, lumps, bumps, curves etc
Night time in the rain is bad as holes get bigger and full of water
Poor lighting wont help you
Branches in holes is a warning of danger
holes may get filled with ceramics or wood or with too much concrete which means more bumps and lumps
Speed bumps are all shapes, angles and sizes so just go slow
15. Other
Buses, cars etc with tree branches hanging off them have broken down
If stopped by the police, I hope you have a sim and stnk otherwise a bribe or a trip to the police station
In the suburbs more random stops by random policemen
In the city its the same but more professionally down, the menace though is the same
The rules for lights and well maintained vehicles are not followed
Big european cars are great and the drivers are very brave
Puddles form and you need to slow down
If riding in the rain, at 50kph the rain hurts so slow down!
Know your level of riding, be slow and cautious
Try to worry only about what you can in front of you but remember the weaving going too fast riders are never far away
Try not to turn into traffic as its scary
Turning into traffic at night is not easy when facing lots of motorbikes
Ensure the bike is service alot especially brakes
Street kids can spot you at junctions and wont leave you alone
Learn to smile when car loads of people look and stare at the 'bule' on a bike in traffic jams
Consider good insurance
Don't think it wont happen to you, make sure you are sure if enough and concentrating fully so it cant.
For me I find riding through the city enjoyable especially during public holidays as there is less traffic. I enjoy the challenge and chance to see and explore the city, even with everything I have listed. I am sure that there is more but I hope you will have some general idea of what to expect and face.
I have been riding in Jakarta now since March 2008 and have taken time to venture out but now I am more than happy to ride all the way from Tangerang city to Tebet through Dann Magot, slipi and semanngi and from Sunda Kelapa to Kebon Jeruk on a Saturday evening via the Monas.
Happy riding :)
Jakarta Nights
Imagine the scenario; lively streets, bustling with all sorts of people. Bars, restaurants, shops and traffic. Loud music and shouting. Lively street scene, a good place for people to hang out in the evening or spend the night with friends drinking, chatting and socialising.
The place has a good vibe and it is known for its bars and people. One night someone is out with friends and its getting the late, the beer has been flowing I am sure for a while and the friends split.
The next thing you know, one of the friends is covered in blood in the middle of a bar after being 'glassed' by someone else and all hell breaks loose. The police arrive and there is just general confusion and finger pointing. The glassed person comes round, he does not really understand what has happened, manages to walk out of the bar and get a taxi home.
In pain and in need of medical assistance he goes to a hospital where he receives 16 stitches to various parts of the head and given pain killers and some drops for his eyes as they have had glass slithers in them and need time to heal.
Still in pain the next day, he returns to hospital as his sight is getting worse and on seeing an eye doctor gets told he has received the wrong medication for his eyes and has 50% vision. Fearing the worse he freaks out and rightly so and has a few days of worry until his next appointment. Luckily for him the next appointment confirms he is on the mend and his sight will get back normal in the next week.
Sounds horrific and from those who know western cities and life, we can assume it happened to someone in the west on a night out.
Wrong. It happened in Jakarta. In Jalan Jacksa. All the above is true.
The glassing attack is the worst thing I have heard happen to an expat here in over 3 years. It is made worse as I know this guy and it would have been unprovoked.
My message is a cautionary tale for those out for a beer in the cities 'nite spots'. Be careful and be aware that a bar is a bar no matter where in the world you are. Alcohol can fuel violence and attacks. Western people should know that so please don't think it does not happen here. Be responsible and be safe.
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Tower Cranes
Maybe like me you have an inquisitive mind and find everything fascinating especially when we take so many things for granted. Todays thing I guess we take for granted is tall tower blocks, how they are built and more importantly the cranes that build them.
Living next to a building site for the past 18 months I have learnt alot about dust, noise, cement and reinforced concrete, the time it takes and many other things. But the best thing I learnt was how a tower crane gets taller and also how they are fixed to the building they are helping to build. However I am not going to mention the supports.
I have however a few photos showing how a crane gets taller by itself and some men and basically it is a lego set for grown men in hard hats and to make a crane grow taller by 2m takes about an hour.
The crane has brought up the next segment
The other crane is far taller and yes it leans
The top bit with the cab and cables etc has hydraulic jacks connected
so it can raise or lower itself as pieces are added or removed
The new segment is slid in place and the men secure it
Not the slowest or quickest procedure but it does have to be the most accurate
Watch the new piece move in
In it goes
and now they fix it
And another piece
same procedure
Notice the crane has grown as the yellow bars at the bottom
of this picture are further down from the platform
And the weights are above the Monas
Yes that is a man with the concrete funnel
on the left of this picture
Slotting the other piece into place
Almost finished
Far taller now
2 questions remain...........
1. How do they all get up there? Do they climb the ladder inside?
2. How do they all get down?
The crane is taken down the same way it builtn up.
Now we know and can all sleep better at night knowing this, and you will be able to tell anyone who points at a tower crane and says 'wow thats tall', how it gets to be so tall....
Central Park
I have tried to create a picture history of the birth (if that is what you want to call it) of Central Park, aka Podomoro City, Mediterania Gardens or simply where I live. The photos were taken in February 2009 and today. They almost match and they show the difference and speed in which these buildings have been built. Anyhow I found it interesting to compile...........
I used to be able to see the Monas and the Pertamina Building and the Big Mosque by the Monas
Now I can see apartment buildings, but I did learn how cranes are made taller and smaller!!!
Last year I had no idea of the size of the buildings they were building
Clearly they were going to be one thing.... BIG
Tower J not quite finished
Tower J finished and all open
The street outside were still being bulit
But as you can see they are almost finished
Taken last year they were looking good then
The apartments behind them dwarf them
The street is very busy most of the time now
Central Park was being built
All open now and nice inside
Still yet to be finished
Another view from my balcony with Central Park not finished
All finished, now with the mall open and busy busy busy
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Indonesian Holidays
Life in Indonesia can never be described as dull or boring or routine. Ok, maybe the food can be as rice and noodles with chicken or fish daily is all the above, but I guess I need to get with the program and accept it as I cant see the whole country change to boiled potatoes and breakfast cereals and lovers of sandwiches as well that would be too easy or I was back in the UK.
The newspapers are full of interesting stories although through the year the stories have become more interesting or random and more concerning and the news of religious hate, illicit sex videos, corruption at all levels, Malaysia and Indonesia disputes and the total destruction of the environment is quite sad at the end of the day. Boys in Bali having sex with cattle and then marrying them do seem to brighten up the news somewhat but even these stories are being hidden. Good news stories is what is needed as the avenues of gossip, infotainment and strange stories seem to be missing from the Globe and the Post. They need a humour corner of all things funny and bizarre in this wonderful country.
So back to the title, its holiday time kinda here or at least a happier month for the majority of people as it is Ramadhan or Ramadan.
Ramadhan is a great time of the year for all muslims to fast for 'the sake of god and to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramadan, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds' (taken from wikipedia). Here is another source from a great blogging friend who is also muslim. Not only has she explained Ramadhan from her perspective but she also provides the best asia recipes I have seen and attempted. Please visit her blog here Umihoney.
From my perspective I just have to observe simple rules of politeness ie, not eating, drinking, mentioning food etc in front of people. At the school all the teachers are being polite but carrying on as normal as well it is what we have to do.
The muslim students as well as adults are fasting from as young as 9 fast from sun up to sun down, this basically means they wake up early pray, eat and then fast through the day until 6pm when they break fast and can eat again. They do this for 30 days and then at the end there is a huge party and everyone celebrates the end of fasting.
So my students are tired and hungry but in good spirits. The teachers and the staff are supportive. I have not seen the curtains in the windows of the restaurants around where I live and central park has made no attempt to hide people from eating or drinking in the coffee shops etc, maybe a sign of more acceptance or something I dont know and dont really want to comment too much as I might be wrong.
As the fasting continues I will update my observations, but for now it is noticably quieter on the roads after 6pm and through the day although that could be my imagination.
Speaking of which, the rains are still here, the weather has been stormy and rainy etc all week, today it was hot and really sunny. I saw possibly the worst motorbike smash so far since living here today. As usual bikes go too fast in traffic and weave in and out of cars to get through rather than riding sensibly and carefully. One bike carrying 2 people managed to weave too fast and too badly and hit a taxi at speed knocking both people off and scattering debris from the car it all over the road. The thing that shocked me was that you could hear the woman scream as she tumbled and flew off the bike, I could not stop as the traffic was moving but I hope they are ok.
Bike riders here seem to think they are invincible and the "it will never happen to me" belief is such a mistake. Makes me take more care when I am out there.
On a happy note today was Indonesia's birthday. It is 65 today. 65 years of Independence after being a colony to the Dutch. Happy Birthday!!
However, there was not much in the way of celebrations that I saw when riding around, rather a low key affair. I am sure the malls did stuff but the streets were pretty quiet and I dont think I saw so many flags this year as I did last year.
But as it was a national holiday then I hope most people enjoyed their time off. Good to see the window cleaners cleaning the windows in the apartments, its been 2 months and I can hardly see out of mine.
My sofa arrived on Saturday and finally I have something good to sit on. Black imitation or cheap leather. Its nice and means I can chill out now better than before.
Now to find the time to get the AC fixed and it will be great in here.
I should mention how helpful the parking people are here in the apartments as yet again I left my keys in my bike and wandered off, it took 4 hours for me to realise so I went back to the bike only to be handed the keys. They do a good job. Thank you
So to end the day I am watching Independence Day on Global TV, quite well thought out for Indonesian TV (except it is about Aliens and the the 4th of July) but still I like the movie. Good stuff
Christmas Jokes
All the sailors ended up being marooned.
8. What athlete is warmest in winter?
A long jumper.
7. Why are chocolate buttons rude?
Because they are Smarties in the nude.
6. How does Bob Marley like his doughnuts?
Wi' Jammin
What does Bob Marley say to his friends when he
buys doughnuts?
Hope you like Jammin too.
5. How do you make a tissue dance?
Put a boogie in it.
Nothing. It just let out a little wine.
Because he couldn't concentrate.
2. What did the inflatable teacher at the inflatable school say
to the inflatable child caught holding a pin?
1. What's ET short for?
Because he's only got little legs.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
I don't know about you but time has seemed to slow down for some inexplicable reason. That is not meant to mean it now takes longer in 'real' time but in actual feeling time I have felt things drag on but then again I have been so busy I don't really know where time did go.
I am currently teaching in the morning and then through the afternoon into the evening and in between teaching I am training, observing, being involved in meetings, updating twitter and if I remember eating lunch.
I am trying to cut down on sugars and rice at the moment as it is making me fat(ter) and sleepy after eating and it has been working. More tea and water also is helping. I was told today by a rather direct 8 year old that I was fat. I took it well as I am not that fat but have a good spread through happy living and lazy exercising. I don't really mind as it was said in fun and after a while the insults, the comments, the questions all become a little invisible really and you ignore it. I can hardly say yes I am fat where as you are ugly, but the difference is I can diet as a) it would wasted on anyone here. b) it was just a comment and c) it makes me chuckle knowing my students can say the worst things in correct English, yet every weekend they go to mall and the Church, play facebook and watching Tom Jerry. I have yet to stop correcting them, one I might give in but currently more fun laughing with/at them and then explain it all.
I am currently averaging 2 near misses on the bike a week at the moment, I hope the fasting month will make people slow down and take it more easy. The culprits are mainly motorcyclists and the other are the people walking across the roads without a care in the world. Apart from them the floods and heavy rains last week made riding home far more fun and the bike is still the best despite the brakes squeaking for 2 days after and all the bolts having a rusty look to them. My bike passed 3000km after 7 months. It is almost worn in now and I finally took it over 100kph ( sorry Mum but I had to try) down the stretch in front of the school. Having done that I doubt I will do that again soon.
I am sure I have mentioned it before but rain hurts at 40kph so I have to really slow down, the water riding over the front wheel I am cope with but the actual drops do hurt. For those that dont believe me, drive you car with the window open and stick your head out when it is raining at around 50kph and see how it feels. But now the rain seems to have disappeared for now and so the dust, smog and the filth in the air is getting worse. Coughing up the loose bits is getting worse !!!
Had to go the airport on Saturday to meet the gf who had been to Bali for a few days and it was to T3 which has to be the least bit Indonesian in the entire country. It is a brand new terminal with modern western design and very clean safe and lacking in hawkers, porters, sellers and other weird people that frequent T1 and T2. It is also a little way from the other terminals and only serves Air Asia and Mandala currently.
However not getting all my hopes up with the airport, I enter as a visitor and face a load of questions from the security guards like 'what are doing here?, what do you want?, Where is your ticket?' As I entered through the visitors entrance those questions should be a concern as clearly I was a visitor but then again I should expect these things. I did tell them I was looking for some shoes, which again was wasted but it helped me conceal my anger and in I went.
It is open but just empty
As a good airport should be nice and clean
With plastic trees, which are always welcome
From the window
Garuda Planes
It is a lovely airport but it lacks seats and signs but as it is a no smoking airport there are plenty of ashbins for cigarettes. After meeting Yovita we went to meet some friends at the marina (yes it is a weekend ritual) and have some beer and enjoy each others company as well as the flies which seem to descend as soon as we arrive. We stayed there quite late for a change and it was a good afternoon and evening. Clearing the air, chewing the cud and gossiping. As for the girls, I have no idea what they spoke about.
Sunday was spent deep cleaning the apartment and sorting things out, swimming and then doing nothing all afternoon except for a little snoozing and sleeping.
I watched the Charity Shield on the TV as I have YES TV and they are showing ESPN again and so that means another year of free premier league footy which is nice to have. However I am currently watching Enter the Dragon on Trans TV which is superior in every way to anything else being shown.
Finally, I should mention that Indonesia and also the rest of the Muslim world has moved into the fasting month of Ramadhan and so this means that the majority of people will not be eating from sun up to sun down and have to obey certain rules and instructions for the next 4 weeks. It is a great time of year for everyone and it ends in big family parties and feasting which again is a great thing. I can't do the Mohon Maaf thing as I am not a Muslim but I wish everyone who is fasting a happy and peaceful month.
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Anatomy show Jakarta
Busy week really, with more downs than ups and some more serious thinking time. The weekend could only come at its usual day by day pace but it was welcome and needed. I took my first day off for 2 weeks and was pretty shattered by Saturday.
I have noticed my sleep, eating, thinking patterns have changed slightly over the past few weeks and work has been making less than excited although it gets better day by day there are still some things that need to be addressed but I am not sure how or if I can and whether anything I can do will make any difference. After speaking to a friend, she diagnosed me with Work Related Stress and that kinda helped clear the air and some of the burden as if I can identify with what is making unhappy, stressed, moody etc then I can hopefully work toward resolving it.
So thats work, moving swiftly on.
The weekend arrived and the plan was pretty simple - brunch - movie - dinner - home for Saturday and some of that was true.
As usual I like to meet Yovita in the city and at FX as it is easy to get to in the morning although a pain to leave in the afternoon and evening. Coffee of course is in Starbucks but I think I next time I will go to DeliFrance as they have an English Breakfast menu and that sounds so so so tempting. Soon..
Coffee is always easy and then from there to the movies as FX is always empty on a Saturday morning. Inception. Hmmm thats a strange one but sharing dreams within in a dream, within a dream, within dream is easy once you get your head around the concept. Good movie, some great effects although not too many and not on the screen for long enough.
The ending is one for thinking about but I wont give it away except to say check the shoes of the kids.... If you remember. 2 hours 20 mins later and it was all over bar the rush of women for the toilet and so whats next.
There was a toy sale in FX, however not the kind of toys we had when we were young. These are characters mainly from movies, like Indiana Jones, The Crow etc with the odd stack of toy cars and lego blocks thrown in. So more of a collectors fayre than a toy sale.
There was also at the mall an Anatomy Exhibition featuring models, bodies whatever from Gunter von Hagen probably. This guy is a genius or the person who did these figures is. I would assume it is him as I have not heard of anyone else doing it.
The photos below do not do the bodies and the exhibits justice.Sadly it was all to small, I wish there could have been more to see.
I apologise if you find the photos disturbing/scary/difficult/taboo but I found it interesting.
I had run out of reading material as the last 6 books I bought I had just finished and so we went off to Pasar Festival to buy some. I got another 4 books (all paperbacks) to read, mainly horror as that is my favourite and so I have enough books to read until I get paid again. At Pasar Festival there is a shop that sells brand new paperbacks from Granmedia for only 15,000 rupiah each, still wrapped in cellophane and great if you are indonesian.
Walking out, we went past a furniture stall and 2 mins later I had bought a 2 seater leather sofa, albeit a small 2 seater but it would fit 2 of me on it comfortably with room for a cat or something. It was 1,5 million which is a bargain as it will be new, black and there is no delivery charge. Now I have to wait 2 weeks as I have no time off from work to recieve it but at least I have one now and the chairs that have done me proud can go.
Ended up in Aphrodites sports bar for dinner and some rugby. Australia vs New Zealand in the tri nations cup. I knew something was up as it was full by 6pm and full of aussies, bless them. Australia lost. They normally do but it was a great game.
Sunday was spent at Puri Mall really. I needed and had my haircut which feels better. The barbers there is good and in 10 mins its done, no frills no massage, just shaved and went.
The food court on the other hand was messy. It was full and tables were hard to find. Then all locals decided it would be good to stare at me eating, which is something I forgot they did as I dont often eat alone in public, but they do.
As it was scorching hot today the pool was empty so that was an idea time to float around and practice not drowning for an hour in the sun to cool down and relax more.
Quite a busy weekend to end a very busy week. To cap it all off. Mum phoned to say hello which was great.
Thanks mum.
"Luke has just checked into the toilets at Senayan City", "Thomas has just checked in at Toll 1 Slipi, Jakarta", "Sally has just checked in at Bata Shoes, Semmangi"
Who cares? Well many people really because they have all joined the site Foursquare. http://foursquare.com/
Imagine the grief this site could cause, an employee, cheating boyfriend, drunken son etc. So what exactly is it for? In some parts of the world, if you check in to certain places you get discounts on the products you buy.
In Jakarta, nah.
However as a social survey of people habits, I can actually see something interesting that comes from it. For example, I have "checked in" at:
My work 8 times
My home 6 times
3 different malls
2 movie cinemas
4 starbucks
2 restaurants
1 supermarket
1 bar
since I have started using it ( for about 10 days ish)
Has this enriched my life? no
Has it made things easier for me? no
Does it make any difference? no
Should I connect every check in to Twitter or Facebook?
Hmmm, nah. I dont think people really have the time or interests in my movements, unless you are a stalker and then why would I publicly help you by posting my movements because after a while you could trend them and then predict where I go.
I am quite cynical of this application for a few reasons, the first one being I am a key supporter of Nokia and there is no simple application for Nokia phones. I dont want a Blackberry, unless its in a pie and I would only want Android if it was in a Nokia but then it would not be a Nokia, it would be something else.
The next one, it serves no purpose for me, however I now find myself recording all the places I am going to.
The final one is Idon't really know anyone through this social network but I am reading all their updates.
A serious waste of my time.
Twitter and Facebook actually servce some use as they both offer different things that have helped me learn, discover and explore things but foursquare is doing nothing but taking my time.
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Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid Just Swapped Hair Colors
It took me a good five minutes to recognize the blonde model sitting in makeup artist Tom Pecheux's chair backstage at Balmain. I moved closer to get a better look, still confused as Pecheux expertly buffed on concealer and tapped on lipstick and highlighter. It wasn't until the model stood up, looked in the mirror, and exclaimed, "Oh, my God, I'm blonde!" that I realized I had been staring at Kendall Jenner.
No, Kendall isn't adopting her younger sister's penchant for wigs. It was all part of Balmain designer Olivier Rousteing's plan for his fall show. "Olivier wanted a surprise on the runway, so we're making some of the blonde models into brunettes and some of the brunettes into blondes," said hairstylist Sam McKnight, who used lace front wigs to achieve the fakeout. That meant Kendall went blonde and Gigi Hadid went brunette, as if the two besties swapped looks for a few hours (Jenner called it the #KenGi swap on Instagram), while other recognizable blondes, like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Devon Windsor, and Lindsey Wixson, went dark and Alessandra Ambrosio swapped her brown hair for a warm golden hue. The anomaly in the group was Karlie Kloss, who went from dark blonde to nearly platinum. "We initially put the dark wig on her and it looked too heavy," explained McKnight, "so the twist was to go for a bleached-blonde shade."
It's hard not to think that Rousteing's "surprise" for the show was just as much about social media as it was about the runway. The wigs were practically made for Snapping and selfies, the models enjoying a few hours to show off a new (and temporary) look. Even the makeup seemed to have been planned with Instagram in mind, Pecheux adding soft contours, lots of highlights, mascara, and a pinkish-nude lipstick dabbed on both the lips and eyelids, all of which defined the models' features in a pretty yet subtle ways. And if you don't believe me, just scroll through your Instagram feed and hop on Snapchat for a few moments. The proof is in the postshow selfies.
Photos, from left: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images; Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage
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Many podcast episodes and blog posts in the Apple-verse have been spent pontificating on what Apple's cross-platform software project, Marzipan, will mean for the company and particularly the Mac. With WWDC two weeks away, the anticipation for the official unveiling of what exactly Marzipan entails is reaching a fever pitch.
Whatever Marzipan actually is—and whatever it's actually called—will have significant ramifications for accessibility. Marzipan's headliner is about iOS apps on macOS, but this "back to the Mac 2.0" undertaking has the potential to make the already accessible desktop operating system even more appealing to disabled users.
Finally, Dynamic Type on the Desktop
Since it came out with iOS 7 six years ago, I have spent countless words over countless stories extolling the virtues of Dynamic Type. It is my favorite feature of iOS; I reap the benefits of it literally every day on my iPhone and iPad.
Since 2013, however, new versions of macOS have come and gone without any sign of Dynamic Type. That's been a disappointment for me, especially as a laptop user, because I believe Dynamic Type would considerably improve the user experience. From a visual accessibility standpoint, the keyboard-and-mouse input method can be challenging because tracking the cursor and navigating the menu bar are conceptually "further away" than they are on an iOS device. In my experience, I find I need to get physically closer to my MacBook Pro's screen than I do my iPad because I can't touch it. (This is also why I'm such a believer in the Touch Bar as assistive technology. For all the nerd snide over how much of a failure it is, the Touch Bar has clear advantages when it comes to making the Mac more accessible.)
While Zoom is a worthwhile aid, Dynamic Type could instantly solve those issues, not to mention augment text in dialog boxes and System Preferences panes. Many third-party developers use the Dynamic Type API in their iOS apps, so it makes sense that the feature could finally arrive this year alongside Marzipan. Aside from being the usual system-wide text sizing tool, "Marzipan'd" Mac apps could utilize a similar API for macOS, which would enrich the experience of this new functionality.
At WWDC last year, I was forthcoming to Apple about my displeasure that Dynamic Type was missing in Mojave. The company responded by tacitly admitting the need for it by telling me it was "on their radar for the future."
Here's hoping that future comes the morning of June 3.
Touching on the Touch Bar
Reports from Bloomberg and other outlets have suggested Apple views Marzipan as not just a one-off endeavor, but rather a multi-year project that involves things the outside world can't yet see. 2019 seems to be the first step on that journey.
Given the focus on putting more of iOS into the Mac, I wonder if 2019 will also be the year Apple revisits the Touch Bar. Another letdown of the last few WWDCs has been the lack of iteration (or, perhaps more accurately, lack of interest) on Apple's part regarding the Touch Bar. Having covered the October 2016 press event where it was launched, I was intrigued and excited for the Touch Bar, and Apple told me how excited they were for it in terms of accessibility. To this day, I staunchly believe Touch Bar Zoom is one of the finest pieces of software Apple has ever shipped.
In the almost three years since, it feels like the Touch Bar has languished. It remains a workhorse for me but could stand improvement. A Taptic Engine is at the top of my wishlist. Perhaps part of Apple's Marzipan efforts include making more use of the Touch Bar—giving developers the ability to include customizable controls there. It strikes me as logical that the Touch Bar get more than a cursory mention during the keynote because it can do so much, especially in an accessibility context. I could use the Mac without a problem if I didn't have the Touch Bar, but I'd rather not. I would hate to see the product be seemingly further abandoned because a lot of people have long been vocal about it being gimmicky and gratuitous.
Mac, Meet Magnifier
One of the things that makes Apple's work in accessibility so remarkable is how consistent the feature set is. There's a lot of feature parity across the board, especially with more "mission critical" ones such as VoiceOver and Switch Control.
Marzipan's arrival is an opportune time for Apple to further share features across the Mac and iOS. The obvious example here is dark mode. The Mac got it last year, and I use it exclusively. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman recently reported iOS 13 includes a long-pined-for dark mode, which he describes as "a black and grey-heavy interface optimized for viewing at night, that can be enabled in Control Center." This means I can use dark mode on all my Apple devices, thereby unifying the experience. (watchOS is inherently "dark" due to the Watch's OLED display.)
Likewise, it'd be interesting to see Apple rebrand the aforementioned Zoom feature on macOS to be the desktop analog to iOS's Magnifier. Introduced in iOS 10, Magnifier is another of my favorite and most-used features. While it's primarily integrated with iPhone's camera, Apple surely could adapt some of the color contrast functions to make sense on the Mac. Imagine being able to toggle a yellow-on-black mode while editing a PDF in Preview, for instance.
Furthermore, consider AssistiveTouch. On the Mac, you could integrate it into the Touch Bar to invoke Notification Center, or even simulate taps or mouse clicks. The possibilities are endless.
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My Revenue Outpaced My Business
My Revenue Outpaced My Business
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What's. Going on everyone this is Steve our said and this is sales funnel radio today we were gonna talk about what to do when your revenue out grows your business. I've. Spent the last four years learning, from the most brilliant, marketers, today and, now, I've left my nine-to-five to, take the plunge and build my million-dollar business the. Real question is how will I do it without VC, funding or debt completely, from scratch this. Podcast, is here to give you the answer, join me and follow along as I learn apply, and share marketing, strategies, to grow my online business using. Only today's best internet sales funnels my, name is Steve Larson and welcome, to sales funnel radio. What's. Up guys hey I am very excited for this episode so when I write. I officially. Left my job right just like the intro to this podcast says, right, January, 1st it's been five, months five solid months now phone five-and-a-half ish by the time this episode goes out and, five. And I'm sorry, five enough months and. It's. Been fascinating to watch what's happened so follow me here okay this is what happened okay so I left right, and I had this awesome idea. I ended, it I knew would be successful, and what I did is I went and I I started like locking right launching launching launching launching launching and what started happening is over on this side was the sales sale, sale sale sales, revenue, revenue revenue had lots of money started when I was like whoa this, is crazy I've never had this much cash come up well my gosh Wow, and all this cash started dumping on in and we. Did we. Did about, a hundred grand the first month right and then. It's. Just it's continued. Its, sound like 50 so we do like fifty grand a month and that's where it's been at and I, slowed it down okay, because, here's what started happening Kay I started going and you guys might be like hey that's kind of funny why would you slow it down I actually slowed, it down okay, we're keeping it at fifty grand a month right now right. Because here's what's happened okay. January. February March, was. Like sell sell sell sell sell sell and, I'm selling and we're making cash and it's coming in we're at a hundred grand you know a hundred grand right. Boom boom boom boom boom we're making a lot, of cash coming in and then what we did is what. I started realizing, was the. Actual. My. Actual business, wasn't able to handle, what was going on right. Yeah absolutely crack I've never ever thought, that this would ever happened to me and I say that because when I was I started building these funnels for. These for. These companies I was in college and it. Always happened this way right and I've said this before but it always happens this way where. You. Know the files that we build they sell things very very very, well they do they sell things very well it is like I. Don't. Know it's it's like I don't, I don't think people understand how well the funnels work okay, and what, that does though is it actually creates a business, problem not, a fun problem here's, here's what I mean I was going on us building all these funnels for people in college, and. There was this guy was building a funnel for and when. I put the follow-up, right I did this research and I ran ask campaigns and I figured out exactly what his customers needed and I went I put those things together and I put the funnel together and we launched it and boom right, he made a lot of cash real fast and, I. Mean. Through that through those funnels that it was like he.
Did Like 50 grand really quick 50 grand like a first month or something like that I can't write his long time ago now okay but there's a lot of cash coming in and then. It kept going and going going and it's, always funny because like day number one was like. Dana. Won't after launching the funnel the business owner always comes they're like oh my gosh look at his cash coming in that's, amazing, these photos are so cool right. And then day number two they always reach back out and they're like wow, this is really awesome holy crap that's still a lot of sales made, a number three there I was like turn it off turn, it off you're gonna bankrupt, us turn it off and I remember I was kind of like laughing when they said it I thought they were joking and I, was like why would I ever turn off. This. -. Turn off this phone whoo whoo with less sales I've never heard anyone say that in my life ever and at the time I was making fun, of it and I was like I just, didn't know any better and I was like ah well I mean that's stupid why would you ever want less. Sales. And, and. He. Had run into a situation where, the revenue, was outpacing. His business, right. Funnels, are not businesses. They're. Not right, a funnel, is a, revenue, arm a raffle, is a very effective way to sell stuff right, a business, though that's. Completely, different a business is a series of systems, it's. Really all it is it's, a series of systems that fulfills, on the, funnel that's. Really it yeah, that's the way I define it anyway okay and. If you don't have enough systems. In place it. Means that every, person who, purchases. From you is being, fulfilled on differently, it means, that every person who's coming in right, and has a support, question, you're, treating, it differently every, single, time it means for every single you. Know package, that needs to get shipped out there's, not a process in place it's literally different, every time and. Hard, about, that is it it makes it very challenging to scale and especially if you were just starting out and you are kind of a solo, guy for a while your solo individual, person for a while and you're, kind of running on your own that's great that's a great place to be, but. Eventually getting it to a place where your revenue starts to outpace your ability, to fulfill well, and that's. What. Happened to me okay, right, and funny enough right I graduated. College sorry we're gonna click follows and we did the exact same thing to like so many other people where as day one we launched an amazing funnel to like wow my gosh look at all the sales day number two they're, like wow that is still a lot of sales oh my gosh, day number three they like turn it off turn, it off turn, off. There's, no way that oh my gosh that's not gonna you, know we're, gonna die you're literally gonna bankrupt, us we're not gonna be able fulfilling all this stuff and and. I. Remember. The second time it happened it was. It's. For a funnel. We had built for I don't, wish to say the name anyway, Russell I built a sweet econ funnel is amazing, they had tons of revenue coming in and they, spent the next two or three months simply. Upgrading. And building and solidifying, and putting in place systems. Things. Inside, of their company so that it actually could handle. The revenue is. That funny no, for some reason I had never ever considered, that for such a long time and so, what I started doing was, right. And I ran on the same thing that kept happen in a click falls when we would build you, know part. Of my first role when I got there was to fulfill I, built.
A Lot of funnels, for Russell's personal, clients I built a lot of phones for click funnels of self but but, when, I first got there that was like his personal, his, personal, clients that he was doing it I was, building and put them together and so, his funny is like one after the other after the other after the other and a lot of these guys what we notice that traditionally. Like I'm a marketing, degree right in business. What I note in business marketing degree that I got and actually College itself they do a lot on teaching the business, the actual systems, in the structure, they do hardly anything on teaching sales, right. Just. So funny it just makes sense why everyone goes and gets VC funding is they build the team and there's no cash to freaking support it like that. Seems backwards anyway, so, right. So I I went through and I started I started. Going through this very same thing I started recognizing it coming right, I started I launched, all, my stuff and I was like it was like money money money money I was like holy crap, right and I was still. At that time really, the sole operator of my business I was, like huh this is interest trick I know what happens next, pretty soon if he comes so high as the, tower, gets so tall that eventually. There's, not enough foundation and it starts to crumble and you're start getting refunds and people start saying bad things about you and I was like crap I don't, want to hit that and so, funny enough I actually. Purposefully. Had my amazing, ads person, which I know I will interview her one day and put her on here she's incredible. But, I haven't had my amazing ads individual. Go, and and. We, kept, the ads tiny because. I did not have the power to fulfill at, the rate I wanted, to at the rate I was able to sell at and, funny enough usually, most businesses are the exact opposite now like they got the sweet structure and they don't how to get in the new cash well. I'm a funnel builder baby like the cash bar it's not the hard part it's, right. This other way so, what I've been doing it I don't know I guess I've been feeling the need to. You. Know it's June now to account let you guys know what's been happening and so, for the first like three months there's. Been like a lot of cash that came in I like oh my, gosh that's nuts.
Crap. I'm. Like the only guy you, know that was like pulling my hair out just stressed 24/7. And I. Remember I was talking. To this was an inner circle meeting but, I was talking to a lot of the members. We were hanging out at sums house and we, were we're. All just kind of hanging out and they were asking what's going on and and. I was telling what's going on and, and, someone said. Someone. Was talking about, you. Probably got to put the brake on, just. A little bit to go build this stuff up and then you build a handle more cash coming in and I did not want that to be an answer and I really did not want him to say that and, I was like daha sell sell sell sell sell but, um so what I've been doing is so the first three months of the year right, was like a lot of cash the second three months though this last three months has. Been I, would do a lot of stuff right I'm one of the coaches for two comma Club coaching, X the, new to see CX program and it's going freakin incredible right but I've got my own processes, down in place there now and how, then fulfill and helping them and do amazing stuff and helping everyone you know make cash and make money and put their falls together and stuff like that so. I've been doing that as well as actually my oh my my. Webinar stuff that I'm doing right so I've been selling selling selling selling it's been a lot of tons. Of fun backed. Off on the selling a little bit I put, together a lot of systems, in the past a little bit here a lot of them and it's been a lot of fun I. Always. Thought that it was kind of like a drag but. I know now why because. Without. Huge, cash coming in why on earth am i building the system right that's, what my mentality is like I'm like what's the ROI of me building a system when there is not but loads of cash that you know, to. Match it with and. So that's what I've been doing here so anyway that's all I would encourage, you guys to do is that as you start if. You are selling. And you've got cash coming in and you're like hey this is going really really well it's going incredible, and. You're having a hard time, blowing. Up I want, to tell you one thing that Russell told me actually. Well, I actually was sitting. Next to him I had only been working. There for a little bit and I was keeping notes, I mean I'll sit next to the dude right I mean would you not take notes right. So I did and I had a Trello board, called. Brunson, isms and Russell, lessons and things like that and I would write. Down things, that I was hearing him say, things. Were really profound and I was already fanatic, about his content but like really, profound things and what this is what he said he was, talking to one of his inner circle people he goes you go scaling, from, six to seven figures he. Goes funny enough I'm gonna botch the quote but this is where this is blessed he said scaling from six to seven figures is not. A manner of more. Hours in the office. Okay. Scaling, from six to seven figures is about leverage, it's. About leverage, and, so if you've got a product right we've. Done like 300 grand something like that, we. Did 100 real fast and then it was like you, know 70 50 50 50 but it's been a lot of 50s because I recognized. Quickly I was like crap like back. It up just a bit right, and. What. I've noticed is it's a leverage problem, right, so what, you're leveraging though is systems. And you're putting systems and. That, expands. You that, lets you fulfill that lets you write go grab another funnel, out there put something out there that brings more cash in so things like that but but specifically, right. It's a leverage problem, it's not it's, not typically, a cash problem, you guys all know it's an y'all see if you haven't already which I know a lot of you guys already rockstars, and you're selling you're making a buttload of cash already right, but those you guys are like just starting out you'll. See really quickly right it's typically when you go and you start your, at your building your building you're getting the revenue coming in awesome and you should do that prove to the market that it's awesome you find that, when you actually have an amazing, product right like my product right now is so freakin, awesome I keep adding some, amazing oh my gosh I just.
Added This really cool thing to it another. Time another episode but oh my. Gosh and the. Success rate is just like skyrocketing, because of it anyway Oh anyway. Right, but when you actually figure out something really awesome the path to a million bucks is not actually, that hard I was, like whoa that actually is really quick, whoa, that's, what I remember I was walking out I think it's my last day at clickfunnels and Russell's like so what's, the goal man and I was like million bucks and, he goes you're gonna find out real fast that's not that hard I was like oh ha, ha ha it's not that hard let me just tell you right now it's not that hard oh my gosh right, for that funnel right there that I tossed out it's really really quick and. So what, I've been doing though is now that revenue came in real fast like crap I need systems, to handle it and I. Don't, want to become so systemized, that suddenly, the systems start outpacing, the revenue so I can feel it I can feel it I can tell that I have, an organization, now right there's like eight people on my team now right I have a full-time employee I'm, getting full-time support full-time, assistant for them I'm like right. I'm setting up the structure so. The now I can go back to the thing and be like blow it up baby yeah we're. Going to three right, go to three real quick right is that make sense and so, and. If you watch all these other two, comma Club winners they've gone through a very similar pattern personally. While, we often study the funnel which is great we study their marketing which is great. Remember. They would actually study their business, and the, structure, of it and when your funnel hacking you're not just funnel hacking funnels, you're actually also funnel hacking the way they fulfilled, on what. The funnel was selling okay and so, that's been part of what I've been doing heavily. This last little bit I mean I've been studying my face off I got notes, papers all over the place over my desk right now I've. Got. Because. I got the revenue now coming in and now, what I'm doing is I'm building the actual systems, in the processes, to support more revenue my, current structure. My. Current structure could not I don't think it could handle, much. More as it is right I'm meeting my structure has up to like two months ago my structure now though it's, getting a lot cleaner lot, cleaner and I know that coming up soon here I'm gonna be able to just like scale scale scale scale scale, what. I've learned what I've seen from a lot of people is and. If you look at the pattern of a lot of to comma Club winners as well you'll, notice in there that a lot of them a lot of them usually. It's with like three. To, five people they'll run to a million real quick actually three to five million three to five people sorry. Three to five people on their team they, usually hit around three million that's. Obviously. My gosh that's different for every business every industry but the the actual structure, the, business structure allows. Them to get. To that kind of place usually pretty quickly with not many people on the team it doesn't take a huge team to do so to. Do these things so right. Like, Brandon Kaelin Poulin right they just crossed, 10 million dollars they just had the first three million dollar month crazy. And, they've. Got 40 people on their team forty okay it. Doesn't take these gigantic, teams though to make a significant, amount of cash for your pocket what. The, rules are so real quick and play the roles and then my cameras gonna die okay. So what I'm going for is right I am the, main, marketer, funnel builder CEO, right that's, the position, that. I'm in I also, have an affiliate manager, right that's my first full-time employee. Not. Support, right, not, assistant I want, other cash generating. People. Right. That's all I want right.
Where This structure, place so he's going out and he's he's, the my affiliate manager he's going out he's creating. Relationships we're, doing another huge dream 100 package drop he's that's really it's actually where he's right now is why he's not sitting there right now he's at the post office we're doing another big dream 100 dropped and we. Got a lot of people excited a promote right, and he is bringing, in new blood new new blood. As far as relationships, goes okay, so it's me as the funnel builder marketer, and attractive, character right that's the roles I'm try take on the next one though right affiliate, manager, and that actually was told to me by Russell he said the next employee I would get 100% man go, grab go grab an affiliate manager and then. Grab like, an assistant, and then a support person okay. Really. That's it I mean if, you're like shipping stuff out maybe a fulfillment, person I'll probably maybe grab to, support, people so that they're almost around. The clock you know almost you. Know but. That's okay. That's it that's all I really need right, as far as full-time people now I have content. People I have I have felt like six content, people I've got an amazing traffic, driver I do have a bookkeeper okay but those are like VA positions, they're not full-time on my books they're, all my books every month but they're not like you. Know they're not w-2 employees, these are 1099 s that I'd you know as, far as like full-time, w-2, employees. That. Are actually like here with me right got the Philly manager, definitely, have a full-time assistant definitely, gonna have, a. Full-time, support cuz right now we're doing the support piece he mostly doing support and affiliate stuff and. That's kind of it those are the roles it's really four roles that I'm going for for the business model that I love and and modeling. And it's going great and everything's, Ron house should so anyways, guys hopefully that's helpful to you I just wanted to do a little bit of accounting so that you see like where you are if you're feeling stuck start. Comparing back and forth between okay. Is my funnel, revenue, outpacing. My business, because, they're not the same right. Or or I feel like hey I've got the sweet business, and these cool systems and structures of processes but not enough revenue go, build a funnel right, and kind, of this balance Beach one of the other they're gonna have a hard time outpacing, each other right. After a while the structure will get too too, weighty you're not gonna have the cash to hold the system so the system will get you know leaner. So. I kind of build it like this right revenue, and, kind of up to where, that revenue is then revenue I don't like to build the business past the revenue that's. Called debt and I personally, am NOT a huge fan so I. Own my stuff I don't want any loan it alright hopefully. It's helpful and hopefully, just, you, guys know what's going on with my team and how I'm actually building now actually putting it together my. Content, team they're freaking rock stars I'm definitely gonna review them so you guys on who they are. And, then over here on the other side though right the w-2 side, where I'm actually building, out, a full-time. Team with it like it doesn't really take them I like backwards plan right figured out like well how much money is that person probably want a month how much does that for on a lot that okay sweet right. My heart cost right now are like 25 grand a month right, my salary, the other guys the other people the V A's hard, cost right now for the content team for anything else 25, grand a month that's not bad at all alright, sweet that. Dunzo, let's. Do that so I backed, way off built. Up the structures, got the systems in place we're just vetting, them right now that's really all we're doing and as, of yesterday I talked to my amazing ads person we're gonna go scale these ads like crazy and get, them off the ground so guys I just might be kind of cool to show little accounting, to so you guys know what I've been doing. Because. My, structure, could not handle. Much. More Oh. Anyway. Awesome. Stuff the. Next in the next road mark I fully, expect will probably do the this. Is me coma shot okay probably. I think that we're gonna hit the million by. October. And then. At the latest and I. Think we'll go to like maybe 1.4. 1.5, by, the end of the year as as, we're pacing okay, and that's me looking at where we are. Combined. With the campaign's that we're putting in place where, I've seen them go before where I've put them before so, anyways some of it anyway. We'll see what happens but that's where I am and it's.
Kind Of a different episode but. Be. Cognizant, of that I never realized that I would be in the role that I am as far as the system's builder you, don't I mean a funnel, builder now. By necessity I'm also systems builder which has been great so anyways hopefully spent helpful I'll talk to you guys later please rate this podcast, and review if that helps me like crazy I think. That my podcast, is one of the foremost podcasts, on funnels which is why I'm, trying to push it hard and prove, to iTunes, lytic matters so, please please leave a review and share it that mean that, means the world to me and I'll talk to you all night except ax so bye. Hey. Hey thanks for listening please remember to rate and subscribe want. Today's best opt-in funnels for free get. Your free opt-in funnel pack by, going to sales funnel broker calm forward slash free funnels to, kick-start your opt-ins today.
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Fulfillment of services sold is tough as hell!
Yay! I am the first one to comment here :) keep it up Steeve!!!
Love it brother! Great episode.
Great content Stephen! I wish l have the same "problems" with shouting down funnles for overloading reasons, but l am in the MLM system which can handle overload situations. Just keep going with a value what you produce, and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Wish you all the best. Marko
Frontend vs. backend! Great stuff Stephen!
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10 Easy Customer Engagement Ideas for Small Business
Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment. The YEC provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business's development and growth.
Business and technology writer Efraim Turban defines customer service as "a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction — that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation."
While customer experience means different things to different people, it is generally about the sum of all the interaction a customer has with a brand or company. That’s a significant difference from customer service, which generally focuses on a single transaction.
All of which begs the question, how do you create a customer experience that sets you apart from the competition and keeps customers coming back? Luckily for you, I recently asked a group of successful young entrepreneurs those very questions.
1. Our Customers Are Our Models
At Sweat EquiTees, we make sure to feature our customers as best we can. After all, they are our life and soul. Since we sell clothing to entrepreneurs, we have our customers send us photos of themselves in their shirts, and then we feature them as "model entrepreneurs" on our website. It's a fun and engaging way of promoting our customers and showing off our products.
- Benjamin Leis, Sweat EquiTees.
2. Hold a Virtual Party
Everyone loves to attend parties, even more so if they don't need to dress up and drive somewhere. I've held virtual parties where I'm on camera interacting with people via chat, giving away fun tips, making jokes and answering customer questions. Why not make learning fun? I should mention it was Halloween and I was a wearing a witch's hat!
- Nathalie Lussier, Nathalie Lussier Media.
3. Put the Spotlight on Customers
We like to write about the attendees to our events and their companies on our blog. This makes them happy because we're spreading the word about their activities. They also feel more engaged and involved with our company in between events, and feel part of a larger community.
- Tim Jahn, Entrepreneurs Unpluggd.
4. Put Money In Your Clients' Pockets
Once you know who your clients are and what they do for a living, connect them to people who need their services. You can make virtual introductions, but this also works offline. There is no greater compliment you can give a customer than referring someone to their business. If you put money in your clients' pockets, they'll keep putting money in yours.
- Robert Sofia, Platinum Advisor Marketing Strategies, LLC.
5. Call Your Customers
Call me old-fashioned, but what could be more engaging than a one-on-one phone call? Try calling some of your customers, even if it wasn't part of your agreement or the package you sold them. If you spend 10 minutes getting to know a customer, you'll learn some incredible things about why people buy your stuff. You can also win a fan for life. If you just have to keep things online, use Skype!
- Corbett Barr, Insanely Useful Media.
6. Geocache Scavenger Hunt
I've set up a geocaching scavenger hunt for some of my clients to work together as teams and integrate my product while on the hunt. Geocaching uses GPS coordinates to find destinations or hidden objects. This generates a lot of buzz and is a great way to shake-up traditional marketing methods. If you have a product or service, introduce it as a geocache to make some curiosity.
- Vanessa Van Petten, Science of People.
7. Use YouTube
YouTube videos are some of the easiest, least expensive ways to create a fun, engaging experience. Use a Flip video camera, which has easy editing software, to record testimonials from your employees and clients. Upload videos of your team doing unique or entertaining things. Be sure it's tasteful and your clients will like it.
- Nick Friedman, College Hunks Hauling Junk.
8. Solicit Participation With Contests
Engage your customers with trivia, contests or promotions which require a public response to participate. For example, I ask musicians to share their stories on social media. The best stories shared win free digital distribution to get their music on iTunes, Amazon, etc. The goal is to get the conversation going to reach friends of friends. Costs are minimal and ROI is great.
- Lucas Sommer, Audimated.
9. Make Yourself Accessible
People love feeling like they have access to you whenever they want. If I'm emailing my mailing list, I always try to add a line that says "Anything I can do to personally help you out? Just hit reply." I always get a lot of responses, and build a much deeper bond with my audience and customers.
- Sean Ogle, Location 180, LLC.
10. Show Your Fans Some Facebook Love
We really love the relationship that we have with our fans and potential customers, so we like to show the world. Every week on our Facebook page, we highlight one of our fans as "Fan of the Week." This is fun because their love for our company is displayed to our fans, and that person will then share it with their own network.
- Andrew Saladino, Just Bath Vanities.
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Baffle came to Coasterville because he wanted to spread his unusual and off beat brand of wisdom. He has quite a few unique powers, he can move objects with his mind and when he’s mad, he knocks people over the head with coconuts. He can read other peoples thoughts and even see into the future, but only 12 minutes.
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U.S. Steel Manufacturers Eager for Trump to Impose Long-Promised Tariffs
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:40:00 -0400
American steel manufacturers are eager for President Donald Trump to follow through on his campaign trail bluster and slap high protective tariffs on steel imports. Bloomberg recently interviewed John Ferriola, CEO of Nucor, an American steel company, who said after speaking with administration officials, he felt reassured that the tariffs are coming. "Last week someone in the administration told me they meet with the president every day, and at least two to three times a week Trump asks, 'Where are my tariffs? What are we doing?,'" Ferriola said. The steel company CEO remains confident that President Trump will deliver the goods, Bloomberg reported. The administration has, so far, been all talk and no action. The White House missed a self-imposed deadline in June to release a Department of Commerce investigation on the impact of imported steel on national security. The report, which could be used to support slapping protectionist levies on imported steel, hasn't materialized. On the campaign trail, Trump's free-wheeling speeches would typically include shots at China and promises to stop the flow of cheaper steel from across the Pacific. His promise to "put American steel and aluminum back into the backbone of our country," as Trump put it at one rally in western Pennsylvania during the campaign, seemed to resonate with voters in the Rust Belt and helped push him to an electoral victory. In office, Trump has continued his blunt statements about protecting the American steel manufacturing industry. "Steel is a big problem," Trump told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One in July. "We're like a dumping ground, OK? [Other countries are] dumping steel and destroying our steel industry. They've been doing it for decades and I'm stopping it. There are two ways, quotas and tariffs. Maybe I'll do both." Trump's tariffs, however, are a solution to a problem that might not exist. Cheap Chinese steel isn't threatening the American domestic economy, according to Scott Lincicome, a trade attorney and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. The last thing this country needs is more tariffs. "It's a myth that we don't have steel tariffs already in place," Lincicome tells Reason. "Most of the steel we import is not from supposedly nefarious places like China or Russia; it instead comes from close allies like Canada." According to Lincicome, between the years of 1990 to 2013, America was one of the most protectionist countries in the world. Of the 373 different trade barriers in place in late 2016, 191 of them were trade restrictions placed on foreign steel. Steel consuming industries, which outnumber steel manufacturing industries 50-to-1, pay the price. Whatever American jobs are saved in the very concentrated manufacturing sector will come at the cost of jobs involving steel imports. Ultimately, people who work in construction will suffer because higher steel costs will mean fewer construction projects, according to research from Daniel R. Pearson, Lincicome's colleague at Cato. With the urging of the president, Republicans in Congress spent months unsuccessfully attempting to repeal Obamacare. Now with tax reform on the horizon, the administration's intent to impose tariffs seems to have been put on the backburner. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is adamant the administration will deal with the question of steel tariffs after dealing with tax reform. Ross, a billionaire, made a fortune in 2002 buying bankrupt steel companies on the same day the Bush administration imposed tariffs on foreign steel imports. He, like U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, is one of several strong supporters of tariffs in the Trump administration. "My best guess is that Trump will impose some sort of steel import restriction at some point. He likes the idea too much to abandon it." Pearson tells Reason. "Both Ross and Lighthizer are quite committed protectionists and are unlikely to try to talk him out of it."[...]
Stossel: 100 Years of Communist Disaster
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:30:00 -0400
When communism was first implemented 100 years ago, people were excited. Western academics and media figures at places like the New York Times praised the ideology even as millions starved. The praise continued even as communist leaders murdered political opponents.
Today, some Antifa activists carry communist flags. Some say communism failed in the Soviet Union because it wasn't "done right."
But communism has been tried again and again–in dozens of countries. It always fails. Stossel talks with Lily Tang Williams, who grew up in China, where tens of millions starved to death after government abolished private farms. Lily's father taught her to trap rats for food, but then even the rats ran out.
Somehow she survived, and now she says she never wants to be without freedom again.
She's so passionate about freedom that she ran for US Senate in 2016 as a libertarian.
She says her mission in life is to tell people that life without freedom is awful.
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China and Russia Warn U.S. About Regime Change in North Korea
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:34:00 -0400
(image) As the United Nations passes new sanctions against North Korea, watered down at the behest of Russia and China, the two countries warned the United States against pursuing regime change in North Korea.
The Russian representative at the U.N. expressed concern the U.S. wasn't reaffirming "the four nos"—no regime change, no regime collapse, no accelerated reunification, and no military deployment north of the 38th parallel dividing the Korean peninsula.
"The Chinese side will never allow conflict or war on the peninsula," a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said today.
That's all well and good, but if Russia and China are really concerned about what the U.S. might do on the Korean peninsula they should step in and offer solutions rather than admonishments.
Instead, the two major powers have largely remained on the sideline as North Korea inches closer to nuclear weapons capability, leaving the responsibility of reacting to the developments to the U.S., which Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley stressed, is ready to act alone to stop the North Korean regime if necessary.
It should not be surprising that regime change—a flawed tool fraught with negative consequences—is still on the table. It is a tool America's foreign policy makers are familiar with and return to with regularity despite its history of failure.
Over the last seventy years, the U.S. has taken on the role of world policeman. Donald Trump, who campaigned in part on questioning the wisdom of that role, has largely embraced it as president, revealing how this foreign policy status quo is ingrained and difficult to change.
The administration hopes sanctions against North Korea might at the least bring the regime back to the negotiating table. It bases this idea on the sanctions that pressured Iran into negotiating a nuclear deal. It remains unclear, however, how much those long-term sanctions influenced Iran's decision to negotiate, given the country's internal politics. Sanctions might have delayed diplomatic efforts by offering domestic hard-liners a talking point against negotiating.
Russia and China's efforts to temper the U.N sanctions further muddles the issue. They are two of five countries with veto power in the Security Council. If they are not convinced of the efficacy of sanctions they ought to kill them.
They have not killed the sanctions, because they offer the perception something is being done about the North Korea crisis. Without sanctions the U.S. could rightly ask Russia and China what, exactly, is their contribution to a solution.
The U.S. is right to ask the question anyway. Both countries have a greater interest than the U.S. in reining in North Korea, but have opted not to expose their leadership to criticism over any diplomatic failure.
The critiques will be much harsher if North Korea spirals out of control. The U.S. is comitted to defending its allies in the region, Japan and South Korea. North Korea knows it. Russia and China do, too. The Trump administration has signaled clearly ("fire and fury") the U.S. is willing to use overwhelming force to respond to any North Korean aggression.
If China and Russia fear regime change in the neighboring Korean peninsula, and they should, they can help prevent it by assuming more responsibility for North Korea—by engaging in public diplomatic efforts that would allow, and maybe even encourage, the U.S. to responsibly pull back.
Five Cities That Got F*cked by Hosting the Olympics
Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:30:00 -0400
Every four years with the Olympics, municipalities compete to host the winter and summer games and virtually always plunge their cities and sometimes even their home countries into massive debt and insolvency. Why? Because host cities inevitably spend double or more over initial estimates, fewer people show up than expected, and the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, takes bigger and bigger cuts of TV and other revenue streams. Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist says that a typical Summer Olympics generates up to $6 billion in revenue, at least half of which goes to the IOC. Winter Games generate even less money despite often being more expensive to host than Summer Games. Cities routinely claim that whatever money they spend on new facilities will stimulate the local economy for decades to come. With the recent announcement that Paris will host the 2024 Summer Games and Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Games, here are five cities that got fucked by hosting the Olympics. Athens, Greece, 2004. Athens is the birthplace of the ancient games that inspired today's modern municipal money pits. Its 2004, Games cost $16 billion, or 10 times the original estimate. By 2010, more than half the venues built for the event were underused, completely empty, or literally falling apart. Sochi, Russia, 2014. At $50 billion, the Sochi Winter Games cost more than all previous Winter Olympics combined, paid for by a dwindling supply of Russian petro dollars and gold bullion. Boris Nemtsov documented that $21 billion went to "embezzlement and kickbacks" for businessmen friends of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was later assassinated. Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 2016. Plagued by low ticket sales partly due to the outbreak of the Zika virus, the Rio games ended up costing $20 billion rather than the $13 billion backers claimed. The Olympics were hosted on the heels of the 2014 World Cup, which also cost a ton of loot, and the showplace Maracana stadium, which got a $500 million makeover, was "largely abandoned" soon after the games and had thousands of seats ripped out by vandals. Beijing, China, 2008. The Beijing Games cost $42 billion, a record at the time, even though Amnesty International charged that the Chinese government used forced labor to build many of the venues. The IOC didn't mind the stratospheric costs or crackdowns on dissent, though: It awarded Beijing the 2022 Winter Games. Montreal, Canada, 1976. The mayor of Montreal declared that the Olympics "can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby." Unfortunately, it took Montreal 30 years to pay off its debt just for the main stadium built for the 1976 Summer Games. If there's good news here, it's that cities seem to be wising up: Paris and Los Angeles were the only two cities to bid on the 2024 Olympic Games and IOC was so anxious that there wouldn't be enough applications for 2028, that it pre-emptively awarded it to LA. But just like with professional sports teams that extort tax dollars and subsidies for stadiums that never pay back their inflated costs, it's likely the Olympics will keep finding new suckers for one of the oldest scams in sports. Produced by Todd Krainin. Written and narrated by Nick Gillespie, and based on an article by Ed Krayewski. Camera by Jim Epstein. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast at iTunes.[...]
The Manchurian Crooner
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:21:00 -0400
(image) It was the Korean War—I mean the war they fought in the '50s, not the nuclear holocaust that various idiots are proposing now—that brought the word "brainwashing" into the common lexicon. Introduced in Edward Hunter's 1951 book Brain-Washing in Red China, whose cover declared that "an entire nation" was under "hypnotic control," the word's popularity exploded when the public learned that the American POWs who had recorded propaganda messages for North Korea had been subjected to intense indoctrination sessions. The idea took hold that the Communists had actually reprogrammed their captives' brains, perhaps permanently.
As science, this turned out to be false—the mind is not so malleable. As fuel for pop culture, on the other hand, it has given us everything from The Manchurian Candidate to the record I've embedded below. Eddie Hill's "I Changed My Mind," released in 1954, may well be the only country song ever written about brainwashing. In this particular spin on the subject, the cure for mind control turns out to be prayer; that isn't quite as exciting as the end of The Manchurian Candidate, but I suppose it was better suited for radio airplay.
Trivia: Joan Javits, co-composer of the song, made more of a mark when she co-wrote "Santa Baby." She was also the niece of Sen. Jacob Javits, which I guess makes this record the lost bridge between Nashville and the Rockefeller Republicans.
Individualism Increasing Across the World
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:45:00 -0400
(image) Good news fellow libertarians: We are winning!
Individualism is rising across the world, according to a forthcoming study in Psychological Science by a team of Canadian and American psychologists who evaluated 51 years of data on individualistic practices and values across 77 countries.
There is, however, one big exception to this salutary trend: China.
Researchers focused on shifts in measures like the cross-cultural Individualism-Collectivism scale in the countries they evaluated. Individualism promotes a view of self-direction and autonomy, whereas collectivism fosters conformity and adherence to social obligations. Individualistic cultures prioritize independence and uniqueness whereas collectivist cultures emphasize family and fitting in.
To get at how cultures have moved along the individualism-collectivism spectrum the researchers used data focusing on changes in individualistic cultural practices and also World Values Survey responses that track shifts in cultural values.
The relevant cultural practices included changes in household size, percentage of people living alone, older adults living alone, and divorce rates. The researchers also analyzed how values changed with regard to the importance of friends versus family; teaching children independence or obedience; and preferences for self-expression such as arguing that free speech should be protected in their countries.
They also sought to identify what might be causing any changes along the individualism-collectivism spectrum. Consequently, they examined how socio-ecological changes such as socioeconomic development, disaster frequency, pathogen prevalence and climate affected trends in individualism.
Not too surprisingly, socioeconomic development had by far the strongest effect, accounting for between 35 and 58 percent of the change in individualism.
"Thirty-four (out of 41) countries showed a substantial rise in individualist practices," note the authors. "Thirty-seven (out of 52) countries showed a similar rise on a subset of markers assessing individualist values."
The shift toward greater individualism is not confined just to developed countries. Overall, they find a 12 percent global shift on the axis toward increased individualism. The richer people become, the more likely they are to throw off the shackles of collectivism.
Researchers find China is an outlier. This is a surprise, since socioeconomic development is driving the rise in individualism. After all, China's per capita GDP has increased nearly ten-fold over the past quarter century.
As a possible explanation, researchers cite a 2014 study that identified profound cultural differences between southern and northern Chinese. Specifically, the folks in rice-growing southern China are more interdependent and holistic-thinking than those who live in the more individualistic wheat-growing north. Of course, it doesn't help that the Communist government under President Xi Jinping is forcefully suppressing dissent.
The findings would suggest despite Xi's oppression, this dynamic of individualism will inevitably take hold in China.
Brickbat: Blacklisted
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 04:00:00 -0400
(image) Ron Janicki planned a music festival featuring politically outspoken artists this summer at Los Angeles State Historic Park near Chinatown. But California State Parks says he has to get buy-in from the Chinatown Business Improvement District, among other organizations, before it will permit the festival. And George Yu, president of the CBID doesn't seem to be buying in. He says Janicki's efforts to draw attention to the Chinese government's censorship and harvesting of organs is "anti-China."
South Korea's New President Gives Trump Opportunity to Keep Campaign Promises
Wed, 10 May 2017 10:36:00 -0400
Moon Jae In, the Democratic Party candidate who supports rapprochement with North Korea, declared victory in yesterday's presidential election in South Korea, which he won by a large margin. The dovish Moon, who has been skeptical of U.S. power in the region, presents an opportunity for President Trump to follow through on his campaign-era promise of re-evaluating U.S. defense commitments in places like the Korean penninsula. Moon will be the first Democratic president since Roh Moo-hyun left office in 2008—and the center-left Democrats have been more supportive of normalizing relations with North Korea (known as "sunshine policy"), with the hopes of eventual reunification, than their center-right counterpart. He had long been the frontrunner of the 2017 campaign, even before Park Guen-hye's impeachment pushed the election date up by seven months. Moon previously ran against Park in 2012, losing by three and a half percent. The South Korean president-elect also repeatedly expressed concern over a missile defense system (THAAD) deployment agreed to between President Barack Obama and Park last year. Deployment began earlier this year and was completed overnight late last month amid protests, leading some in South Korea to believe the U.S. was trying to make it "difficult, if not impossible" to reverse the deployment, as The Washington Post reported. "I don't believe the U.S. has the intention [to influence our election], but I do have some reservations," Moon told The Washington Post. "It is not desirable for the [interim] South Korean government to deploy THAAD hastily at this politically sensitive time, with the presidential election approaching, and without going through the democratic process, an environmental assessment or a public hearing," Moon said before the election.- "Would it happen this way in the United States? Could the administration make a unilateral decision without following democratic procedures, without ratification or agreement by Congress?" The agreement over THAAD between Obama and Park was not ratified by Congress, while the U.S.'s accelerated deployment of the missile defense system runs counter to some of President Trump's rhetoric (something American and international observers will probably have to get used to). Trump floated the idea that South Korea should pay the U.S. $1 billion for the THAAD deployment, consistent with his campaign trail pronouncements about South Korea, and other U.S. allies, free-riding on U.S. defense. A couple of days later national security adviser H.R. McMaster assured his South Korean counterpart that the U.S. would pay for the system. Namhee Lee, the co-director of the Center for Korean Studies at UCLA, warns against reading too much into U.S. politics as a factor in the South Korean election. "This election was about the citizens in South Korea who were upset about the previous government's corruption, misuse of power, the collusion between the state and the conglomerates, and growing inequalities in society," she explained to Reason. "Obviously South Koreans are concerned about North Korea's nuclear build-up and Trump's erratic behavior/statements," Lee said, "but apparently only one out of four in the Korean electorate thinks that North Korea and THAAD is the most important issue facing the incoming administration." "But it is true the election of Moon would help to defuse tensions in the region," she continued, as he would resume the sunshine policy of his Democratic predecessors, which would build trust and create the conditions "for gradual change in the North's political and economic systems, which would then lead to coexistence and eventually to peaceful unification of two Koreas. Moon has been against the deployment of THAAD and, as Gye Woon Jeon, president of Students for Liberty in South Korea told Reason, has also demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Korea. "[...]
No, North Korea Isn’t "Super-Mighty"
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:01:00 -0400
North Korea is feeling threatened, so it has threatened back. "In the case of our super-mighty preemptive strike being launched," the isolated regime's state-run media warned Thursday, it will hit the "U.S. mainland and reduce them to ashes." The phrasing is classic Pyongyang, the bizarre mix of childish bluster and lethal armament that throws normal foreign policy strategy out the window. This same announcement from any other nuclear power would mean the start of World War III, but from North Korea, it's mostly business as usual. What isn't business as usual is the international response to this latest round of provocation. U.S. surveillance planes are reportedly on alert for another North Korean nuclear test, as are Chinese bombers. Vice President Pence told Pyongyang the American "sword is ready," and, after some miscommunication, Japan's Self-Defense Force began joint exercises Monday with the USS Carl Vinson in waters off the Korean peninsula. And though defense officials have denied a recent report of imminent U.S. invasion, there's no denying the feeling that U.S.-North Korea tensions are escalating. As ever with North Korea's unique circumstances, the prudent course for the United States may be debatable, but de-escalation of those tensions is not. An American strike on North Korea would be, in a word, disastrous. As Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday, war "would be bad for the Korean Peninsula. It would be bad for China. It would be bad for Japan, be bad for South Korea. It would be the end of North Korea." Even in the best-case scenario—a tidy overthrow of the Kim Jong Un regime that doesn't take South Korea down with it and liberates a grateful population—the entire region would be thrown into long-term chaos. A new Korean war would easily cost America $1 trillion and produce one million casualties, Gen. Gary Luck, formerly a commander of U.S. troops in South Korea, estimated. A best-case scenario isn't even close to probable. If the U.S. takes up the North Korean offer of war, we risk war with China and North Korean nuclear, chemical, and biological strikes on U.S. troops stationed in and civilians living in South Korea. Post-regime change and an easy acceptance of American occupation by a desperate and ruthlessly brainwashed population is highly unlikely. South Korea may not prove a willing or able partner in the nation-building efforts that would follow. Realistic assessments of a strike on North Korea are in short supply in Washington. Graham followed his grim account with a hearty recommendation for war, recklessly advising President Trump to prepare for a preemptive invasion. That is foolish and dangerous advice, but hardly unexpected from a senator who never saw a war he didn't like. Though tensions may be rising, no North Korean strike on the United States is imminent. North Korea is not capable of executing any attack on the American mainland, let alone instantaneously reducing our country "to ashes." Pyongyang has yet to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean, let alone a warhead that could survive the trip. (The military parade organized to honor North Korea's founding president this month included what appeared to be ICBMs, but there is no evidence those are functional—or even real. This is, after all, a nation prone to expanding its navy via Photoshop.) The medium-range missile test shot into the Sea of Japan back in February, for example, traveled about 300 miles. To hit California, a North Korean missile would have to go more than 18 times that distance. In addition to this technological inadequacy, the showboating that is a consistent feature of North Korean military development means a surprise strike is extremely unlikely. Pyongyang will publicly test its missiles as it makes them. As t[...]
Tillerson: U.S. Has ‘No Further Comment’ on North Korea Missile Tests. Good.
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:02:00 -0400
As the North Koreans continue to lob missiles into nearby seas and White House staff issues tough-talking but anonymous threats, we might to do well to take the advice of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. "North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile," Tillerson said in a terse statement. "The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment." This is probably the best way to deal with the latest temper tantrum from a country that has menaced the region and exploited regional tensions with missiles for a quarter century. Ignore it. The North Korean regime feeds on attention and tries to use its missiles and nuclear brinksmanship as a bargaining chip to ensure their survival and feed their people, starving thanks to their totalitarian ways. Often, North Korea's missile tests appear scheduled around events in foreign countries—South Koreans go to the polls May 9 to replace the impeached Park Geun-hye. The frontrunner Moon Jae-in has promised more engagement with North Korea. He's also said he'd review the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system that began this year after being agreed to several years ago. That deployment has irked China, which nevertheless is careful to keep that issue separate from negotiations over North Korea, despite the two being obviously intertwined. President Trump and China President Xi Jinping are also set to meet in Mar-a-Lago later this month. An anonymous senior U.S. official said the "clock has now run out" on North Korea's nuclear program "and all options are on the table." The best option for the U.S., however, is to do nothing. Ultimately, it's in the best interests of the countries in the region—particularly South Korea, Japan, and China—to work together to guarantee regional security. Active U.S. involvement disincentivizes such cooperation and encourages polarization instead. China feels threatened by missile defense deployments because it believes those missiles are pointed at them. North Korea has repeatedly told South Korea, Japan and the U.S., its missiles have been and will be pointed at them. North Korea is a client state of China's, although often an uncooperative one thanks in part to its ability to exploit regional tensions. The problem for years has been the lack of a coherent U.S. policy regarding China. George W. Bush left office a popular figure in China, credited with promoting free trade policies and spurning anti-Beijing rhetoric. Since then, President Obama announced an "Asia pivot" a post-Iraq and Afghanistan wars policy sending more money, military assets, and other aid to U.S. allies surrounding China. The "pivot" rattled China and drove a more aggressive foreign policy. As late as 2015 the Obama administration was still confused as to why China had become more aggressive. During his campaign Trump made China a top enemy. In advance of his his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Foreign Policy warned the Trump administration "has no idea what it's doing on China." President Trump has an opportunity to reshape the U.S. role in Asia, to stop being the region's policeman, something Trump the candidate often promised. The administration could benefit from more no comments and fewer ultimatums.[...]
Concern Over Tillerson Skipping NATO Meeting Misplaced
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:25:00 -0400
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will miss a summit of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on April 5 and 6 in order to be present at the meeting between President Trump and China President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago on April 6 and 7. Reuters yesterday initially reported based on anonymous sources that the State Department had declined offers to try to reschedule the NATO meeting, but today, Reuters reports, Tillerson offered alternative dates he could attend. "We are certainly appreciative of the effort to accommodate Secretary Tillerson," a spokesperson for the department said at a press conference. Rep. Elliot Engel (D-N.Y.) called Tillerson skipping the meeting, in favor of a meeting between the presidents of two of the most powerful countries of the world, "a grave error that will shake the confidence of America's most important alliance and feed the concern that this administration is simply too cozy with Vladimir Putin." Tillerson has a planned visit to Russia later this month. Hysteria over Russia's purported role in Hillary Clinton's presidential defeat always risked poisoning already complex and deteriorated relations between the U.S. and Russia. Spinning scheduling conflicts and routine foreign trips for a secretary of state as part of some imagined Trump-Putin connection is particularly irresponsible for anyone who says they support international engagement over unnecessary conflict. Neither should European politicians and bureaucrats seek to do so. One anonymous senior European diplomat told Reuters that Tillerson meeting the meeting was "unfortunate symbolism," as Reuters reported after the State Department signaled it was interested in a rescheduling of the NATO meeting. In its earlier article, Reuters reported that "Trump has already worried NATO allies by referring to the Western security alliance as 'obsolete' and by pressing other members to meet their commitments to spend at least 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense." Yet for American and European politicians, bureaucrats, and policymakers interested in maintaining the NATO alliance, neither of these points should be a cause for concern. The Trump administration has insisted campaign period comments about NATO were not indicative of a U.S. withdrawal but interest in change. Asking other member states to meet a commitment they made, irrespective of how arbitrary it may be, is even less of a reason for concern. Other than the U.S., only three NATO countries spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense spending—Greece, Poland, and Estonia. The latter two border Russia and have extensive histories that sustain the political will for military spending, while the former borders fellow NATO ally but historical rival Turkey, which has also in recent weeks compared a number of other European NATO allies to Nazis, and most recently accused the Netherlands of being responsible for the Srebrenica massacre. Erdogan's outburst come after the European countries declined to permit rallies in favor of a constitutional referendum that would significantly expand the power of Turkey's president, the authoritarian Recep Erdogan, who has been in power for 14 years. Former Secretary of State John Kerry was criticized last year for leaving a NATO summit in Warsaw early to return to the U.S. to attend a friend's wedding in Nantucket and then to go see Hamilton in New York City, his second time attending the musical.[...]
Tillerson Suggests Pre-Emptive Military Action Against North Korea a Possibility
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:50:00 -0400
In light of North Korea's recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has announced that all talks with Pyongyang are closed until the country denuclearizes, reports the Associated Press. Tillerson recently spoke at a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, as part of a three-nation trip that also included Japan and China. It has been described as a listening tour by the State Department in order to devise a better policy for dealing with North Korea, the AP story explained. "It's important that the leadership of North Korea realize that their current pathway of nuclear weapons and escalating threats will not lead to their objective of security and economic development," Tillerson said. "That pathway can only be achieved by denuclearizing, giving up their weapons of mass destruction, and only then will we be prepared to engage with them in talks." The secretary of state also announced that it may be necessary for the U.S. to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if the country's weapons program reaches a critical threat level. "All of the options are on the table," he said. North Korea became the eighth nation to have nuclear capabilities after successfully testing its first nuclear weapon in October 2006, CNN notes. Since then, the country has engaged in numerous nuclear and ballistic missile tests. Just last week, CNN reported that North Korea launched four missiles, with three of the missiles landing just 200 nautical miles offshore of Japan. The act prompted Japan to hold its first civilian missile evacuation drill in the coastal city of Oga, per the AP. As North Korea's weapon program advances, Siegfried S. Hecker, emeritus director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, told The New York Times that "Pyongyang will likely develop the capability to reach the continental United States with a nuclear tipped missile in a decade or so." With this news, Tillerson declared that the Obama administration's policy of "strategic patience" is over. "Twenty years of talks with North Korea have brought us to where we are today," he said. President Donald Trump has also weighed in on the situation in his typically outlandish fashion. "North Korea is behaving very badly," he tweeted this morning. "They have been 'playing' the United States for years. China has done little to help!" As Reason Associate Editor Ed Krayewski noted last week, China is urging a diplomatic solution: China, which has taken it upon itself to act as a mediator on the North Korea nuclear issue, proposed that North Korea suspend its nuclear and missile programs while the U.S. and South Korea suspend joint military exercises. However, the U.S. posture on the Korean peninsula has not escalated, and North Korea's erratic decision-making process on missile tests doesn't track neatly with specific U.S. or South Korean actions. [...]
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall 3 Percent
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:00:00 -0400
(image) The International Energy Agency is reporting data showing that economic growth is being increasingly decoupled from carbon dioxide emissions. Basically, human beings are using less carbon dioxide intensive fuels to produce more goods and services. The IEA attributes the relatively steep drop in U.S. emissions largely to the ongoing switch by electric generating companies from coal to cheap natural gas produced using fracking from shale deposits. Renewals also contributed a bit to the decline. From the IEA:
Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1 gigatonnes last year, the same as the previous two years, while the global economy grew 3.1%, according to estimates from the IEA. Carbon dioxide emissions declined in the United States and China, the world's two-largest energy users and emitters, and were stable in Europe, offsetting increases in most of the rest of the world.
"These three years of flat emissions in a growing global economy signal an emerging trend and that is certainly a cause for optimism, even if it is too soon to say that global emissions have definitely peaked," said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director. "They are also a sign that market dynamics and technological improvements matter. This is especially true in the United States, where abundant shale gas supplies have become a cheap power source."
In addition, China's emissions fell by one percent, suggesting that its use of coal to generate electricity may be close to peaking. This is good news for those who think that man-made global warming could become a signifcant problem later in this century. In any case, whatever else the Trump administration may say, domestic coal use ain't never coming back.
Chinese Premier Says China Doesn’t Want a Trade War—But That U.S. Firms Would Bear the Brunt
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:30:00 -0400
At his annual press conference, China Premier Li Keqiang warned that in a trade war between the U.S. and China, "it would be the foreign-invested companies in China, particularly US firms that would bear the brunt of it," citing an unnamed international think tank. "We don't want to see a trade war," Li continued. "A trade war won't make our trade fairer. It will only hurt both sides. I understand the whole world is paying close attention to China-US relations. China hopes that no matter what bumps this relationship may run into, it will continue to move forward in a positive direction." The press conference, at the fifth session of the 12th annual National People's Congress, featured pre-selected questions and well-rehearsed answers, as the Los Angeles Times reported. Li and President Xi Jinping have been trying to position China as a champion of trade and globalization in the Trump era, and Li answered his first question, from CNN about U.S.-China relations in the Trump era, saying he was hopeful. He referred to comments he made in October, when the presidential election was "white-hot," as he described it, that "in spite of twists and turns," U.S.-China relations have been "going forward" over the last decades. Li welcomed Trump's reaffirmation of the One China policy, which Li argued "forms the political foundation" of relations between the two countries, and said given that, "China-U.S. cooperation enjoys bright prospects." "We feel optimistic about the future of China-US relations on the strength of the extensive common interests that have bound the two countries together in the course of several decades of our diplomatic relations," Li said. "It is true that there are some differences between the two countries over issues like jobs, exchange rate and security. What's important for both countries is to stay focused on the overall interests, and enhance dialogue and communication to deepen mutual understanding." "Both our peoples are great people," Li said, channeling his inner Trump, "and we believe that we have the wisdom to properly manage differences." Li noted that focus on the trade surplus was misguided, saying he spoke with someone from a foreign trade company that told him "90 percent" of his company's profit "goes to U.S. firms." "Statistics show that last year, trade and mutual investment between the two countries created up to one million jobs in the United States," Li claimed. "We may have different statistical methods, but I believe whatever differences we may have, we can always sit down and talk about them, and work together to find solutions." Li suggested that by continuing to work on common interests, "the differences will account for a lesser and lesser proportion in overall China-US relations." Presidents Xi and Trump are set to meet next month at Mar-a-Lago. Globalization and free trade have benefited the entire world—trade has increased 30 fold since 1950, while the population has only tripled. Research has shown globalization has helped speed economic growth, increase life spans, and even reduce child labor. The Trump administration may represent the first time since the end of World War II that the American president has not been some kind of champion of free trade and globalization, despite particular ideological or other political flaws. The world is also a lot more prosperous than it's ever been, and from Latin America to Asia, a wide array of governments have come to understand the benefit of liberalization and free trade policies for their countries, even if the rhetoric doesn't always match. President Trump's hostility to free trade need not be a mortal blow to the trend toward free trade and the freeing of markets the last half centur[...]
Could Impeachment of South Korean President Improve Relations with North Korea and China?
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:32:00 -0400
(image) The impeachment of South Korea President Park Geun-hye could lead to a reset of South Korean relations with North Korea and China, as The Washington Post notes. That depends on the results of the election due in 60 days.
Park succeeded Lee Myung-Bak, and both were members of conservative parties who supporter a harder line against North Korea. The rogue's state's latest missile tests coincide with the run-up to Park's impeachment. North Korean state media responded quickly to her legal removal, saying she would be "investigated as a common criminal". Park is indeed already a criminal suspect. But if her corruption makes her a common criminal, the sociopaths in charge in Pyeongyang are uncommon criminals. It's unclear who the intended audience of their gloating over Park's removal is. The domestic audience may wonder whether their criminal leaders, too, could be removed.
The election, scheduled for May, was, prior to Park's removal, set for December. There are as of yet no declared candidates, but at least four parties will hold primary elections over the coming weeks to select their candidates. The center-left Democratic Party has substantial leads in polling so far, and their early frontrunner is Moon Jae-in, who ran against Park in 2012. Moon, a former special forces soldier, served as chief of staff to President Roh Moo-hyun, who while he committed suicide in 2009 over graft allegations remains the most popular of former Korean presidents, considered far less corrupt than others.
Last year, Moon said he would visit Pyeongyang if he were elected president, and has sent mixed signals about the missile defense deployment South Korea and the U.S. agreed to last year, saying there were "both gains and losses" according to the South China Morning Post, and previously called for Park to leave the decision on the U.S. missile defense system to the government scheduled to be elected this year. Moon has backed more dialogue over sanctions against North Korea, saying the hardline stance had been a "complete failure" since it has not deterred North Korea's weapons programs. The North Korean military conducted a series of missile tests in recent weeks, amid the political turmoil in South Korea, the start of the deployment of the missile defense system, and the transition of power in the U.S. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1074', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9604167938232422}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '94637', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IR7UNLGUZH4AQUR2VUZRPUR2A2JZRFFT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c72ebeb9-c715-4c41-9f84-db31123af04b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 18, 6, 8, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.6.88.216', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UMI6GCCGPPSAQ2ZZRFR6DGJSU3BYZVY2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:93c3f6a4-7990-4133-92c5-104cd11496c3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.feedage.com/feeds/310619/china', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f3dccbc9-e991-4a3f-a475-ded8f6a5fd0b>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '7124', 'url': 'http://www.feedage.com/feeds/310619/china', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-136-183-252.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02143704891204834', 'original_id': '7381db4cf89542ded45c403c698a5b214265829114b04d2942da4834f9148194'} |
Universal USB Programmer (4-way Interface)
This USB programmer for both SiLabs and Atmel based ESCs using a 4-way interface. It can also be used to program Flight Controllers using the C2 interface. ESCs can be divided into two different hardware platforms, depending upon whether they use a SiLabs MCU or an Atmel MCU. The programming adapter options for the two are different also depending on whether they have a bootloader installed. But this ESC Linker can interface to all MCU's and programming methods. This ESC Programmer can link to:
- SiLabs BLHeli bootloader interface (signal input wire)
- Atmel BLHeli bootloader interface (signal input wire)
- Atmel Simonk bootloader interface (signal input wire)
- SiLabs initial flash over C2 interface (direct chip method)
- Atmel initial flash over ISP interface (direct chip method)
In BLHeliSuite app select 4-way interface. For example, to connect to an ESC with SiLabs MCU from BLHeliSuite (such as the FVT Little Bees) select "SILABS BLHeli Bootloader (4way-if)" as the interface and connection method. For an ESC with Atmel MCU, select "ATMEL <bootloader type> (4way-if)".
NOTE: When programming with signal (servo) interface, detach positive lead from the ESC's servo lead, then apply main power to the ESC. Lastly, connect from the app.
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Q:
Spring RestTemplate - passing in batches of GET requests
I need to query a server for links that can be obtained by giving the server a reference.
Lets say I have 10 references and I want to get 10 links back all in one go in an arrayList.
Is the below the most efficient way to do it? It looks pretty resource intensive and takes approximately 4672ms to generate
I looked at the docs for RestTemplate: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/client/RestTemplate.html#getForEntity-java.lang.String-java.lang.Class-java.util.Map- but there doesn't seem to be an easier way to do what I want to do.
ArrayList<String> references = new ArrayList<>();
ArrayList<String> links = new ArrayList<>();
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(new StringHttpMessageConverter());
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
ResponseEntity<String> resource = restTemplate.getForEntity(references.get(i), String.class);
links.add(resource.getBody().toString());
}
EDIT:
Based on suggestions, I have changed my code to but I'm getting an error: "Asynchronous execution requires an AsyncTaskExecutor to be set":
ArrayList<String> references = new ArrayList<>();
ArrayList<String> links = new ArrayList<>();
AsyncRestTemplate asyncRestTemplate = new AsyncRestTemplate(new CustomClientHttpRequestFactory());
restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(new StringHttpMessageConverter());
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
Future<ResponseEntity<String>> resource = asyncRestTemplate.getForEntity(references.get(i), String.class);
ResponseEntity<String> entity = resource.get(); //this should start up 10 threads to get the links asynchronously
links.add(entity.getBody().toString());
}
I looked at the reference docs but none of the constructors allow for me to set both a AsyncListenableTaskExecutor and a ClientHttpRequestFactory (the ClientHttpRequestFactory I used - CustomClientHttpRequestFactory just extends SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory so that I can get redirect links successfully: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/client/AsyncRestTemplate.html#AsyncRestTemplate--
A:
Here you're making those REST calls sequentially - i.e. nothing is done in parallel.
You could use the asynchronous variant of RestTemplate and make those calls in parallel.
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Q:
Executing async functions with a callback?
I'm a bit confused on how to create and use callback functions when working with async requests. All the examples online like to use a SetTimeout function to mimic an async function but I want an example that just uses a real world API.
I have an async function that takes a zip code and returns a JSON like this:
{
"post code": "90210",
"country": "United States",
"country abbreviation": "US",
"places": [
{
"place name": "Beverly Hills",
"longitude": "-118.4065",
"state": "California",
"state abbreviation": "CA",
"latitude": "34.0901"
}
]
}
Here are the functions. The async function goes to an API and returns the JSON above.
The sync function simply takes the JSON and returns the city string in UpperCase.
// Async Function
var returnLocationInfoByZip = function(zip){
var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
var response;
client.open("GET", "http://api.zippopotam.us/us/" + zip, true);
client.onreadystatechange = function() {
if(client.readyState == 4) {
response = client.responseText;
return response;
};
};
client.send();
};
// Sync Function
var cityToUpperCase = function(responseObject){
var city = responseObject.places[0]["place name"];
return city.toUpperCase();
};
The following code flow doesn't work because I'm not utilizing callbacks. What would be the cleanest-looking way to execute these functions so I could get the desired console log of the city name in all UpperCase?
// Obviously doesn't work
var zip = "94043";
var responseObject = returnLocationInfoByZip(zip);
//Here I would like to console log the uppercase city name
var cityInUpperCase = cityToUpperCase(responseObject);
console.log(cityInUpperCase);
EDIT: Bah, looks like this might have an answer: How do I return the response from an asynchronous call?
I'd still be interested to know how to do it with this particular example of mine though.
A:
You have to pass the sync function (cityToUpperCase) as a parameter to the async function (returnLocationInfoByZip) which will invoke it when onreadystatechange is called:
var returnLocationInfoByZip = function(zip, callback){
...
client.onreadystatechange = function() {
if(client.readyState == 4) {
response = client.responseText;
callback(JSON.parse(response));
};
};
...
}
var cityToUpperCase = function(responseObject){
...
};
...
returnLocationInfoByZip(zip, function(responseObject){
console.log(cityToUpperCase(responseObject));
});
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Zoe Kravitz's Secret to Losing 20 Pounds? Eating Clay
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The already slim Zoe Kravitz dropped a shocking 20 pounds to play an anorexic and bulimic character in her new film The Road Within, and opened up to Us Weekly recently about how she was able to drop the considerable amount of weight off of her petite frame.
"I ended up drinking clay," she surprisingly revealed, "because it cleans out your body and fills you up. I was eating like a Mason jar of pureed vegetables a day and running."
Pics: Shocking Movie-Role Body Transformations
The 25-year-old X-Men: First Class actress also did a cleanse.
"I tried to do it the healthiest way as possible, even though it's not healthy to do," she admitted.
But Zoe of course, wouldn't recommend the extreme diet to anyone.
"I was a space cadet," she said of her mentality during the "awful" experience, also admitting that she's struggled with eating disorders in the past.
Though Zoe isn't the only slender star who's recently copped to eating clay -- her Divergent co-star Shailene Woodley famously raised a lot of eyebrows when she explained the benefits of eating clay on the Late Show with David Letterman in May.
"Clay binds to other materials in your body and helps your body excrete those materials – that are not necessarily the best for you," Woodley explained about her unusual food of choice.
Pics: Extreme Celeb Weight Loss
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Anne-Marie Duff is a Actor British born on 8 october 1970 at Chiswick (United-kingdom)
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 october 1970 (49 years) at Chiswick (United-kingdom)
Anne-Marie Duff (born 8 October 1970) is an English actress known for playing Fiona Gallagher in Shameless, and Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen.
Duff married Scottish actor and former Shameless co-star James McAvoy in October 2006 and gave birth to their first child, Brendan McAvoy, in 2010.
Best films
The Last Station (2009)
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Filmography of Anne-Marie Duff (17 films)
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On Chesil Beach, 1h50
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Adrian Scarborough, Anton Lesser
Roles Marjorie Mayhew
Rating62% 3.1479853.1479853.1479853.1479853.147985
Le soir de leur mariage, Edward Mayhew, un étudiant en histoire, et Florence Ponting, une violoniste, se retrouvent enfin seuls dans la vieille auberge du Dorset où ils sont venus passer leur lune de miel. Ils sont tous les deux vierges. Mais en 1962, dans l'Angleterre d'avant la révolution sexuelle, la sexualité est encore un tabou pour eux. Ils s'envient, tentent de se rapprocher, mais ils sont tous les deux mal à l'aise et refoulent leurs désirs. Leur nuit de noces, non consommée, se transforme en épreuve de vérité où le jeune couple se confronte à la sexualité ainsi qu'à leurs peurs ou leurs inhibitions.
Suffragette, 1h46
Directed by Sarah Gavron
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai
Roles Violet Cambridge
Rating69% 3.4559353.4559353.4559353.4559353.455935
Au début du XX siècle, une organisation de femmes britanniques souhaite obtenir le droit de vote pour les femmes. Elles appartiennent à des classes sociales différentes, mais ensemble, elles se livrent au même combat : ne plus être considéré comme le sexe faible et obtenir les mêmes droits que les hommes. Elles multiplient les manifestations pacifiques. Mais le gouvernement se montre de plus en plus violent. Contraintes à la clandestinité, ces femmes optent pour la violence afin de faire entendre leurs revendications. Elles sont conscientes des enjeux : elles risquent de perdre leur emploi, leur famille, leur vie… Mais rien ne les arrête. Maud Watts, le personnage principal, s’allie à cette cause.
Before I Go to Sleep, 1h32
Directed by Rowan Joffé
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Nicole Kidman, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Anne-Marie Duff, Jing Lusi, Dean-Charles Chapman
Roles Claire
Rating63% 3.1509053.1509053.1509053.1509053.150905
Closed Circuit, 1h36
Directed by John Crowley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Ciarán Hinds, Jim Broadbent, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Barbora Bobulova
Roles Melissa
Rating61% 3.0981353.0981353.0981353.0981353.098135
The film opens with a crowded London market (borough market) being destroyed through an explosive terrorist attack. Farroukh Erdogan is detained as the primary suspect and mastermind of the attack while his two alleged co-conspirators are killed in attempts to apprehend them (unseen to the viewer).
Nowhere Boy, 1h37
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, David Morrissey
Roles Julia Lennon
Rating71% 3.5505353.5505353.5505353.5505353.550535
The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years from 1955 to 1960.
The Last Station, 1h52
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Condon
Roles Sasha Tolstoy
Rating69% 3.49773.49773.49773.49773.4977
French Film
Directed by Jackie Oudney
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Anne-Marie Duff, Eric Cantona, Hugh Bonneville, Victoria Hamilton, Douglas Henshall, Lizzie Brocheré
Roles Sophie
Rating64% 3.2478653.2478653.2478653.2478653.247865
Two relationships in North London simultaneously draw to a close. Jed, a journalist is living with his long-term girlfriend, Cheryl, with the couple regularly seeing Jed's best friend Marcus and his girlfriend, Sophie. Compared to Marcus and Sophie, Jed and Cheryl's relationship is tired and dysfunctional which Jed tries to put right by suggesting marriage. When he asks her, Cheryl turns him down because of the lack of romantic chemistry in their relationship. In the meantime, Jed is preparing to interview the pretentious French film writer/director, Thierry Grimandi. Grimandi, who lives and works on the basis that he considers himself lucky "firstly because I am French, secondly because I make movies, and thirdly because I understand love" is shown regularly to give us the benefit of his advice.
Garage (2007)
, 1h25
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Anne-Marie Duff, Pat Shortt, Emma Lung, George Costigan, John Keogh, Don Wycherley
Roles Carmel
Rating70% 3.5463953.5463953.5463953.5463953.546395
Josie (Pat Shortt) is a good-natured man with learning difficulties who lives and works at a garage in a small rural Irish village. The owner, Mr Gallagher, is a former schoolmate who is not interested in the garage and is only waiting for the right offer from developers so he can sell. For Josie, one day rolls into another with nothing but his menial job and a few pints in the local pub, even though the regulars mock him and his ways. Kind-hearted Josie's only other companion is a large horse that is tethered alone in a field. He talks to the animal and brings it food.
Notes on a Scandal, 1h32
Directed by Richard Eyre
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Juno Temple, Tom Georgeson
Roles Annabel
Rating73% 3.6988453.6988453.6988453.6988453.698845
Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a history teacher at a comprehensive school in London. A spinster nearing retirement, her comfort is her diary. When an art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), joins the staff, Barbara is at first attracted to her. However, when she discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), she confronts her.
Born Equal
Born Equal (2006)
, 1h23
Directed by Dominic Savage
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Carlyle, Colin Firth, Nicholas Burns, Anne-Marie Duff, Emilia Fox, Charlie Creed-Miles
Roles Michelle
Rating68% 3.437993.437993.437993.437993.43799
Charles II: The Power and The Passion, 3h55
Directed by Joe Wright
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical, Romance
Actors Rufus Sewell, Ian McDiarmid, Rupert Graves, Helen McCrory, Christian Coulson, Shirley Henderson
Rating76% 3.808823.808823.808823.808823.80882
It covers the life of Charles II - beginning just before his Restoration to the throne in 1660. He was deeply traumatized by the execution of his father in 1649, after the former's defeat in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; it begins, however, with his penurious exile in Antwerp in 1658. The film's emphasis is on his court, and his conflicts with Parliament - essentially the same issues which led to the Civil War between his father and the House of Commons, the politics of whom would succeed him - and his relationships with his family, his mistresses and his illegitimate son James, Duke of Monmouth.
The Magdalene Sisters, 1h54
Directed by Peter Mullan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about religion
Actors Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Geraldine McEwan, Eileen Walsh, Peter Mullan, Frances Healy
Roles Margaret
Rating76% 3.848643.848643.848643.848643.84864
Set in Ireland, beginning in 1964, so-called 'fallen' women were considered sinners who needed to be redeemed. The film follows the stories of four young women - Margaret (raped by her cousin), Bernadette (too beautiful and coquettish), Rose (an unmarried mother) and Crispina (an intellectually disabled unmarried mother) - who are all forced by their families or caretakers into the Magdalene Asylum. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '281', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.832735002040863}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '100651', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UN4R2BZHKL34WN2N5SWRVXEMTVQKJIPA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2bc9370a-0b0c-4f5c-bf4b-77d5c58495e3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 29, 16, 24, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.90.30', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:BOTPFK3EHWWDIB23C7FMG6FFDSOJV5PE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5cc895f1-0bd0-4543-9069-dae3017ab156>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.mymoviepicker.com/personne/anne-marie-duff-81313.htm', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a5480bb-2f84-4ffb-8593-4f662d7025a2>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1531', 'url': 'https://www.mymoviepicker.com/personne/anne-marie-duff-81313.htm', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-24\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May/June 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-9.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04645043611526489', 'original_id': 'cd21cbe6c0292ab70851348f10c65c0281d361d727a1a67f2a1cd2d46d746469'} |
8 Replies Latest reply: Mar 10, 2012 6:04 AM by Michael Powe RSS
How much data can you extract via REST(On demand)? Before browser / Excel stops responding
Nikolaj Bardram Newbie
Hi All,
I find it very difficult to find out where the limit is to how much data you can extract. Therefore I would like to some experience sharing on this.
It varies a lot, how much data I can extract before my browser or excel stops responding.
Example the Pages report which has both title and URL, extracting top 10.000 pages to excel, that is just not possible.
What does the rest of you do, with big extracts?
Paul Lawbaugh Novice
Performance is a really important topic for us. We've been looking deeper into this and the team would like more details.
Can you give a typical set of queries you have in a spreadsheet? And a rough idea how many rows each query represents?
Thanks so much for the help.
Li-Kim Lee Newbie
Nikolaj: We find that the amount of data we can extract via REST is exactly what is shown in the Analytics interface, i.e. table limits for any specific period. We try to circumvent it by breaking up the calls across multiple smaller time periods and then combining the data (if possible). So, in theory, you could retrieve the top 10,000 pages by running the same query over multiple rolling time periods, subsequently combined via lookups and/or pivots. Also, when performing repeated calls via the REST DX API, some of us have experienced a non-Webtrends error in EXCEL related to the way Microsoft handles web queries, which Webtrends advised could be reduced or eliminated by increasing our cache size to hold all our query requests and/or clearing our cache before running our set of queries.
Paul: I think I know what the answer might be but extracting full data sets via REST instead of batch downloads via DataScheduler would be great. We have to archive the DS full extracts on our own FTP server. Also, we find the "trend" option in v3 is useful, although I am never sure how much data is returned or how the limits are set. If you would like EXCEL samples of the the sort of queries we are running to assess the speed and data set size, I can send my files to you... the files are confidential so it would be off-forum.
Nikolaj Bardram Newbie
Hi Paul,
Currently I am building a news dahboard for our intranet. It holds 5 different reports with 10.000 in report limit for all of them. Depening on the timeframe of course, I often meet that limit.
The real issue happens when I deal with two dimensional reports.
I have one displaying the newstitle and the publishing date. So of course that gives me a lot of extra rows (like described in my other post about Blank rows that are useless)
So potentially this report could give me 20.000 rows, but I have issues with it even if I only try fetching data which has around 4.000 different news, which leads to 8.000 rows. That still causes issues despite the fact that is less than the 10.000 rows I extract from the other reports. This leads me to think there is a difference when the report is two dimensional.
(Some of my reports has close to 20 measures, that might also cause issues)
I have a report which is based on the news title and our internal organisation (which is done with a translation file)
That has potentially 100 rows on second dimension. So in theory that could be 10.000x100, and I fully understand that could be a problem. My plan is to get suppost to lower second dimension report limit to 10.
However even if I try with something that doesn't give me much more than 4000rows in total, this still doesn't work half the time.
Did that help at all? Otherwise feel free to ask, I would certainly like to find a way around it.
Michael Powe Newbie
The Web Query mechanism in Excel is not built for big data pulls across the network. This is an Excel issue. I recently posted a means of pulling data via PowerShell, saving it off to HTML and then loading it into Excel via the web query. Any method of pulling data into a local file and loading that will dramatically improve Excel performance. I speak from experience. I think the issue for Excel is that it has to first pull then build a map then insert the data.
My experience with data retrievals is that you can get somewhere between 10MB and 25MB of data in a single pull but it seems to depend somewhat on the connection speed. If the pull takes too long, the server resets the connection. Only very occasionally, I can get over 20MB but more usually 10-12MB is the sweet spot.
• Re: How much data can you extract via REST(On demand)? Before browser / Excel stops responding
Nikolaj Bardram Newbie
Hi Michael,
Where do you see how many MB of data you are extracting?
And by the way, I have absolutely no idea how powershell works, also I would prefer being able to send my dashboards around in the organisation without including files.
That was one of the things I was most fond of with REST, not having to include ODBC connections to the dashboards.
Michael Powe Newbie
After repeated attempts to get any work done with Excel, I wrote a PowerShell function and used that to download and save the data to an HTML file. I then imported the file into Excel using the web query form. For big data pulls, even the PS function takes a dump, usually with the message "the server reset the connection." I then chunk it up by weeks and insert the weekly files.
I'm referring to the size of the files created using my PS function. (Which are actually just HTML tables, not complete pages.)
Strictly speaking, you could do this kind of chunking in VBA in Excel by writing a class for your workbook to do the same data retrieval. However, it's twice as much work and the debugging is worse than a tooth extraction without anaesthetic.
REST is useful in most cases but it's primitive and limited in many respects. The obvious case here is that with an ODBC connection, you can count records so you know how much data is being sent before trying to insert it.
Are your users refreshing the data in the dashboards themselves? If not, I think my approach would be to write a tool that would create the workbooks dynamically, rather than trying to suck the data directly into Excel and then fiddle it.
IOW, in VB or C#, it's about 3 lines of code to create a workbook and add a sheet to it. You can then call your REST data in an efficient manner, automatically handle errors and restart the data extraction if necessary, and then at the end a couple more lines of code to save the workbook.
It is not a nontrivial exercise if you have to apply templates, do formatting and such. But that is all up-front work, and once it's done, you just run the app and the dashboards are automatically created.
Also, as long as I'm running on on a Saturday morning ... it's not a "dashboard" if you are putting 10,000 line items in it. There are times when you have to apply the brakes and tell business users that they have to make the case for having data on every single event that occurred on the site. Because usually, they can't. Now, sometimes business needs information about particular clients or documents or other content. But setting fire to the entire field in order to kill a single mole is not the best approach. Possibly, a more efficient approach would be to extract all the data to an XML or CSV file, and use the dashboard to present the "top 100" or some such. Anyone that needs to drill down can load the CSV into Excel and torture themselves pivotting. You, meanwhile, will be sitting on the beach in the warm sun, having a cold drink. ;-) | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '42', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9339056015014648}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '234888', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BNYZWX5YLCG2MBHQFEQXOAJUATCUDEYE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b5933c5f-f8c3-421d-8a5b-b4059cecd5aa>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 11, 21, 41, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '204.93.79.146', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7XKRRY7MTQCJM6H4MDXRHAGQPAWX5P3H', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:be3cf81f-c9ac-445d-a423-da731db957d8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://developer.webtrends.com/thread/1649?tstart=0', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d4bdb7f7-dfab-42ac-aa1a-551c6bef748c>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '1445', 'url': 'http://developer.webtrends.com/thread/1649?tstart=0', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06758975982666016', 'original_id': 'b2076839f1c197e9c76d009b76949b6c5a69379b7aa678c2b654d14ed2e33b28'} |
(Written by Rennie Curran)
The stigma and perception of being a professional athlete and what you see on TV is 90% inaccurate for the majority. I fall into the greater pool of professional athletes that have to wake up everyday with nothing guaranteed.
I wouldn’t be able to write this without the struggles that I have relentlessly pushed through and the people who have helped me every step of the journey.
For me, it all started when I was 10 years old at Tempo Cabana apartments in Atlanta, in the middle of a grass field. I decided to jump into a pickup game of football with some older kids who were playing in the middle of my apartment complex. I remember it like it was yesterday. I walked up nervously and asked if I could join the game. I immediately began to compare myself to them, realizing that I was younger and smaller than everyone around me.
Something inside of me became addicted to the challenge. Being in the position that many would perceive as being outmatched intrigued me. The first time I touched the ball I immediately felt myself shifting into a different mode. It was as if my genetic light bulb clicked on. Some call it “flight or fight” while others describe it as being “In The Zone.”
I took off with the ball in my hands cutting, juking, and sprinting my way past opponents. I felt like a superhero. What started off as a just a pickup game with some older kids instantly became an addiction.
At a young age, my parents, who were Liberian immigrants, would always argue with me calling me stubborn and hard headed. They provided me with the earliest examples of humility and what it looked like to work tirelessly for your family. After choosing Emory over Duke, My mother, Josie Curran, came to America alone on scholarship to attain her masters in nursing with no more than ten dollars in her pocket.
My father bought into the Hakky shoe repair shop franchise opening up at Town Center Mall in Kennesaw, Georgia not too long after he arrived in the U.S. He was a one man team handling management, operations, accounting etc. They worked tirelessly to not only provide for us at home, but to support our extended family in Liberia as they became displaced from a thirteen-year civil war that would claim thousands of lives. As a child I spent many nights sleeping on the floor as a result of family who came at different times.
The lessons of work ethic, humility, and being self-less paid dividends throughout my career.
I had to practically beg them when it came to playing football once we moved twenty minutes away from Atlanta, Ga to Snellville, Ga. They knew nothing about the game of football other than the fact that they saw a bunch of oversized guys hitting each other. My mother advised me not to play, but I took the usual route of going against the grain.
When I think about where I am now, I realize that it is this same habit of not listening at times that has allowed me to chase my dream for the past sixteen years. In high school, so-called experts told me that I was undersized in countless interviews and newspaper articles. Instead of focusing on their words, I chose to use it as fuel, challenging them and anyone else who doubted me by working tirelessly hard in the weight room, putting up ridiculous amounts of weights just to prove them wrong. There would be days when I could barely walk after a workout.
I became obsessed with improvement and controlling the things that I could control to the best of my abilities. The more others doubted, the harder I worked. I developed a chip on my shoulder that made me my own biggest critic.
Throughout my entire career during high school at Brookwood High School, college at the University of Georgia, and in the pros I was given my initial opportunities because either someone got hurt or messed up.
Early in my career it made me feel angry. I wanted so badly for my coaches, teammates, and others to acknowledge my worth. As I grew in maturity things changed. Having to wait on my turn forced me to learn perseverance while maintaining a good attitude. I learned to be self-motivated and not base my efforts off of the expectations of those around me.
One of the most important assets I learned from waiting was faith – not only just the ability to believe in what I did not see, but to work for it as if it already existed. Because of this I have learned to embrace being at the bottom and finding a way to overcome the odds that are against me. There are certain life lessons and intangibles that are only realized when you are in the position of being the underdog.
I experienced my greatest lessons in patience while watching games from the sidelines waiting for my opportunity to come. I developed persistence while training and practicing hard even when it seemed as though no one was paying attention to my efforts.
I realized the importance of perseverance through literally being a shadow behind those who were starting ahead of me, understanding that even though I wasn’t playing that I would eventually get my opportunity when I least expected it. Lastly, my faith was built in times when it seemed as though my life long dream was all but over as a result of a setback in my personal life.
Today I stand strong as a man who is still waiting on my turn.
The difference is that I am mentally, physically, and spiritually stronger than ever. I am currently a free agent, still nurturing and developing the dream that I discovered as a child, but I have now realized that it is bigger than just me. Off the field, I have used all of the experiences and lessons that I have learned from them to help others by writing my first book entitled “Free Agent” and by becoming a motivational speaker. I am working with high schools in Georgia to develop curriculum for students. Any support to my gofundme campaign can help impact thousands of lives.
I have realized that this dream was not only meant to be used as a way to acquire fame and wealth, but a tool that I was blessed with to inspire and empower others who will eventually go through the same experiences I once had. This one is for the Underdawgs. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '6a938d877005aa2740f6eab11a531d37ffcaf0fa677677ce961fddb2485c1793'} |
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Introduction {#section1-2050313X20944322}
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Foreign body (FB) esophagus remains one of the common medical emergencies which may lead to significant morbidity and mortality.^[@bibr1-2050313X20944322]^ It is common among pediatric age group, elderly, prisoners, and patients with psychiatric illness and mental retardation. Most of the cases of FB esophagus would pass spontaneously but those that require intervention should however, be treated as soon as possible. Sharp objects, batteries, and elderly with FB esophagus should be treated with emergent removal owing to the complications that might ensue. Endoscopic removal is the preferred choice of treatment but for large FB, sharp FB, and so on, rigid esophagoscopic removal might be more preferable.^[@bibr2-2050313X20944322]^ Plain radiographs are the first line of investigation and diagnostic in most of the cases. However, other modalities of diagnosis like upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy and computed tomography (CT) scan chest and abdomen are required in cases where plain radiographs fail to make a definitive diagnosis. Very few cases of surgical intervention have been reported. Surgical approach usually is considered in cases where endoscopic removal fails.^[@bibr3-2050313X20944322]^ Similar was the case in our patient. It took 6 years for the patient to get the proper diagnosis and surgical management done. Most important of all, she adds up to those very few percentage of people (\<1%) that undergo surgical intervention.
Case report {#section2-2050313X20944322}
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A 55-year-old female presented to the Emergency Room (ER) with progressive dysphagia for 6 years. It was getting worse for the past 6 months. She also gave a history of accidental swallowing of denture 6 years back. With the complaints of progressive dysphagia, she had been visiting the primary health care hospitals on a regular basis. According to the patient, she had undergone X-ray neck multiple times but none reaching to a definitive diagnosis. Every time she was prescribed some pain medications and antacids. Her condition was degrading so much so that in the past couple of months before the definitive diagnosis, she was only able to take semisolid diet. Thus, they finally visited a higher center in a nearby city where a definitive diagnosis of FB esophagus was made via an upper GI endoscopy. She was then referred to tertiary care center for further management. When she visited our hospital, she looked pale and cachexic but didn't complain of odynophagia, fever, or shortness of breath. Her vital signs were within normal range. Repeat X-ray soft tissue neck and chest was clear. Contrast enhanced scan of neck and chest was done which revealed irregular hyperdense structure with irregular linear projections lodged at the level of lower esophagus ([Figure 1](#fig1-2050313X20944322){ref-type="fig"}). Hence a FB (denture) esophagus was confirmed. Endoscopic removal was not successful. Discussion was done with Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery team and the final decision of surgical intervention was made. Ultimately, the patient underwent Gastric resection with resection anastomosis (McKeown procedure). Intraoperatively, a denture measuring around 10 cm × 5 cm was identified. It was embedded in the esophageal mucosa few centimeters above the Gastroesophageal junction ([Figure 2](#fig2-2050313X20944322){ref-type="fig"}). Post removal FB is shown in [Figure 3](#fig3-2050313X20944322){ref-type="fig"}. Feeding jejunostomy was placed. Postoperative period was uneventful. The patient was kept under IV antibiotics for 10 days and discharged. The feeding jejunostomy was removed after 6 weeks with no further complications.
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Discussion {#section3-2050313X20944322}
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With an annual incidence of 11 per 100,000 persons in the United States, FB still accounts for one of the common medical emergencies. It is more common among children and elderly followed by people with mental or neurological disorders. Studies have shown that food bolus, bones pieces, and dentures (4%--18%) were found more common in elderly and coins and toys more in children.^[@bibr2-2050313X20944322]^ The cause of FB impaction in adult population has been found to be luminal narrowing of esophagus by webs, rings, strictures, tumors, achalasia, and esophagitis. In children, immature oropharyngeal coordination has been suggested.^[@bibr4-2050313X20944322]^
In elderly people, removal of impacted dental prosthesis can be a challenging problem. Delay in diagnosis and removal can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. The metal clasps or retaining wires in the dentures predispose them to impaction when ingested.^[@bibr5-2050313X20944322]^ Sharp foreign bodies when ingested may cause mucosal edema leading to airway compression, mucosal ulceration, inflammation, abscess, mediastinitis, empyema, perforation, FB migration into adjacent structures, fistula, and so on.^[@bibr2-2050313X20944322]^
Plain radiographs are diagnostic in most of the cases; however, in cases where plain radiographs are not sufficient, upper GI endoscopy and CT scan can add some value like in our case.^[@bibr6-2050313X20944322]^
Although majority of the foreign bodies are found to pass spontaneously without need of any intervention, every case should be treated as a medical emergency owing to the number of complications. Thus, the mainstay of management is early diagnosis and removal of the FB. Prior to 1947, rigid esophagoscope was the one routinely used. In 1966, removal of FB by Foleys catheter was reported by Richardson. Flexible esophagscopy became famous by 1970s and 1980s.^[@bibr7-2050313X20944322]^ Very few cases of surgical intervention have been reported. Surgical approach usually is considered in cases where endoscopic removal fails with few deciding factors like age \> 70 years, foreign bodies in upper esophagus, maximal diameter of FB \> 30 mm, and the time of presentation \> 2 days.^[@bibr3-2050313X20944322],[@bibr8-2050313X20944322]^ In our case, thoracotomy and anastomosis surgery with gastric resection was performed due to failure of flexible endoscopy. Intraoperatively, a denture measuring 10 cm × 5 cm was removed from lower esophagus ([Figure 3](#fig3-2050313X20944322){ref-type="fig"}). However, there were no postoperative complications. Feeding jejunostomy was placed in situ which was removed 6 weeks later.
Conclusion {#section4-2050313X20944322}
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FB esophagus is a common condition. It is more commonly seen in elderly and pediatric age group. No active intervention is required in majority of the cases. However, in certain percentage, surgical removal is required. Complications are rare but possible like in our case where the FB if goes unnoticed can migrate out of the lumen causing complications. So a proper diagnosis and early intervention must be done.
**Declaration of conflicting interests:** The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
**Funding:** The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
**Ethics approval:** Our institution does not require ethical approval for reporting individual cases or case series.
**Informed consent:** Written informed consent was obtained from the patient(s) for their anonymized information to be published in this article.
**ORCID iD:** Sudha Shahi  <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5080-5673>
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Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich recently caused a stir by telling a crowd of geeks at ChefConf that an open-source Windows “is definitely possible.”
The fact that a top Microsoft engineer would say such a thing is a massive change from the Microsoft so many of us grew up with, which argued vociferously that open-source software was “un-American.” Microsoft is definitely behaving differently under new CEO Satya Nadella, and it’s taking terrific first steps towards a more open mindset—but recent events show why you shouldn’t expect an open-source version of Windows any time soon.
Spartan’s rendering engine will only be open to “major Web entities”
Microsoft is currently creating a new rendering engine for Windows 10’s Spartan browser, known as “EdgeHTML.” The rendering engine in Internet Explorer is known as “Trident.”
All other browsers now use open-source rendering engines. Mozilla Firefox uses Gecko, Safari uses WebKit, and Google Chrome and Opera uses Blink. Even if a browser itself isn’t open-source—like Safari—the underlying rendering engine is.
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Microsoft's Project Spartan browser includes the Cortana digital assistant.
This leaves Microsoft as the only company with a closed-source rendering engine, but the Internet Explorer Team realizes there’s a problem.
“Adobe is a major contributor to open source browser engines such as WebKit, Blink, and Gecko. In the past, it was challenging for them (or anyone external to Microsoft) to make contributions to the Internet Explorer code base. As a result, as Adobe improved the Web platform in other browsers, but couldn't bring the same improvements to Microsoft's platform.”
Microsoft has a solution, though. They’ve given Adobe some access to the EdgeHTML code, allowing them to contribute improvements. “In the same spirit of openness, we’ve been making changes internally to allow other major Web entities to contribute to the growth of our platform,” it says.
That sounds like an improvement, sure—but, rather than just open-sourcing EdgeHTML and letting anyone contribute, they’re approving individual “major web entities” in a piecemeal fashion. Microsoft is twisting itself into pretzels to get some of the benefits of being open-source without actually going open-source.
.NET is open-source on the server, but the desktop bits are staying closed
Microsoft has recently been trumpeting their open-sourcing of the .NET runtime. Some websites even wrote headlines that Microsoft was open-sourcing .NET, full stop. But it hasn’t actually open-sourced all of .NET. Instead, Microsoft has open-sourced the .NET server stack and began porting the runtime itself to Mac and Linux.
That’s a good thing, really. But Microsoft didn’t just open-source .NET—it carefully drew lines around the things they wanted to open-source. “You can build a .Net app and then decide if you want to run it on a Linux server or on Windows Server,” said Microsoft’s S. Somasegar.
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This works well for Microsoft. It even hosts Linux servers on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. Use Microsoft technologies to build your server solutions and you can take them between Linux and Windows. Great!
But Microsoft won’t be open-sourcing the client-side .NET software, like WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and Windows Forms, which are used to build desktop applications with .NET. This would potentially allow businesses to migrate old .NET business applications away from the Windows desktop to other platforms. That’s not beneficial to Microsoft’s business model, so they’re keeping those bits closed-source.
The free and open-source Mono 4.0 was recently released, and it includes some of Microsoft’s newly open-sourced .NET code. That’s a win, but Microsoft is ensuring the desktop bits stay locked up and Windows-only.
Microsoft still wants to sell and control Windows
But let’s say Microsoft decides to change their tune and open-sources all of Windows 10 at some point. It won’t happen, but let’s pretend.
Microsoft would struggle with bigger problems. It’d still be able to sell Windows, but other people would be able to take the Windows source code, strip out the branding, and make their own freely downloadable variations of Windows. People could legally create versions of Windows without Windows activation built in, so they wouldn’t need a product key. Microsoft wouldn’t really be able to sell Windows—just support contracts that provided access to Windows patches quickly. And those patches could be taken and re-released for the community versions of Windows, just like how CentOS repackages the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.
And remember, Windows 10 isn’t actually free—it’s just a free upgrade for the first year for existing Windows 7 and 8 consumer users. It’s not free for consumers after that, it’s not free for DIY system builders, and it’s not free for businesses. It’s also not free for hardware manufacturers. Microsoft is still betting on Windows licensing revenue.
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Windows 10 will not be open-source when it's released this summer.
Worse yet for Microsoft, competing companies could take Windows and use it to make a competing operating system. Amazon’s Fire OS is based on Android with Google’s services stripped out and Amazon’s included. Imagine a Fire OS version of Windows, one that ran all the Windows software you might want, but had Amazon’s—or another companies—services integrated into it. This open-sourcing would actually hurt Microsoft’s bid to become a services company.
Projects like Wine would also get a big boost, and it could become much easier to run Windows applications on non-Windows platforms.
The idea of Microsoft open-sourcing all of Windows is clearly a lot of hot air today, and even if it will happen someday, that day is far in the future. Really, Mark Russinovich's statement isn’t about Windows. It’s about Microsoft and its culture. He’s saying that Microsoft is no longer ideologically opposed to open-source software, and they’ll continue looking at open-sourcing things they can benefit from open-sourcing. Microsoft gets a good headline and gains some credibility points with geeks who like and use open-source software.
But all of Windows won’t be open-source any time soon. Don’t hold your breath!
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About using safely remove
So we should believe you rather than Microsoft ?
On there website MS CONTINUES to say it's not needed.
I will go with MS considering their decades of experience dealing with a vast universe of hardware.
But of course, as MS says, don't pull the cable while there is activity.
And why do you and others here keep saying the partition tables will be damaged.
First, for the vast majority of systems it's partition table (singular).
Second, for those systems it's a single 512 byte sector on the disk which is NEVER changed UNLESS you are reconfiguring the partitions on the disk.
Just because it's sector 0 is that why you think it's going to be changed/corrupted ?
About power being abruptly removed from an active hard disk
Disk drives are DESIGNED TO DEAL with the unexpected loss of power.
They immediately park the heads in the landing zone. Some use the rotating spindle to generate power to do the last activity and parking.
Think about how each day around the world hundreds of thousands of systems either abruptly lose power or are just powered off with no use of system shutdown. And for the vast vast majority nothing happens.
And about USB (AGAIN)
Here too, USB is designed for plug/unplug with the power on.
And here is a tidbit. In XP doing safely remove would drop the USB power.
Starting with Vista safely remove no longer drops the USB power.
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Kevin Lembo was elected Connecticut’s State Comptroller in 2010
following 20 years of public service and advocacy.
A native of Paterson, NJ,
Lembo first came to public service as an independent advocate. Working with the
private, public and non-profit sectors, Lembo helped design and implement an
innovative long-term home care program in New York that successfully prevented
premature and permanent admissions to nursing facilities. He was also program
director for an AIDS education, prevention and primary care program before
serving as Assistant Comptroller in Connecticut.
In 2004, Lembo was appointed Connecticut’s first state Healthcare Advocate where
he spent years helping thousands of residents navigate the complexities of the
health care system; advocated for patients denied coverage or treatment; and
returned millions of dollars to consumers.
As State Comptroller, Lembo continues to lead the charge for more affordable and
quality health care. While employers throughout the country have faced
significant increases in per-person health-care expenses, Lembo has worked to
unite stakeholders in both state government and in the corporate community to
implement programs that emphasize preventative care – ultimately improving
wellness and reducing immediate and long-term costs to the state.
Comptroller Lembo also serves as the chief fiscal guardian -- monitoring and
reporting on the state’s financial status, coordinating health care and payroll
for hundreds of thousands of public employees and retirees, and administering
the statewide electronic accounting system. He has been hailed by advocacy
groups and the media as a “champion of transparency” for his efforts to promote
public access to vital state financial information. The Connecticut Council on
Freedom of Information recognized Lembo’s efforts toward open government with
its Bice Clemow Award in 2013.
Comptroller Lembo has also been appointed to the Board of Directors of the
Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, Inc. (CFOG), a non-profit
corporation dedicated to promoting open and accountable government.
Transparency initiatives include “Open Connecticut” – an online hub of state
financial data created and maintained by the Office of the State Comptroller
that simplifies access to important information about the state’s budget and
financial future. Lembo successfully advocated for greater openness surrounding
hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development initiatives – resulting
in the Governor’s Executive Order No. 38 establishing a searchable electronic
database containing various forms of state economic assistance and tax credits
used to recruit businesses and encourage job creation.
As a longtime advocate of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP),
Lembo's office plays a critical role in transitioning the state to a new era of
financial transparency and accountability and, on a monthly basis, he reports on
the state's financial status to ensure that Connecticut proceeds on a secure
financial track.
Comptroller Lembo has advocated for financial and operational efficiencies
across state and local government, expanding use of online technologies for
employee and retiree payroll, and payments to vendors and municipalities.
Under authority granted by the state legislature, Comptroller Lembo launched the
Connecticut Partnership Plan to extend savings to municipalities and other
public employers by offering an affordable health plan option. Lembo also
launched the CT Partnership Pharmacy Plan to offer similar municipal savings on
pharmacy benefits.
With a continued emphasis on promoting preventive-based health care, Comptroller
Lembo established “Man Up” – a statewide initiative to encourage more men to
seek preventive health care so that they can live longer, healthier lives.
In addition to serving as Comptroller, Lembo has been reappointed by Yale School
of Nursing as a Clinical Instructor in the Nurse Management Policy & Leadership
Specialty in Nursing.
Comptroller Lembo holds a Master of Public Administration degree from California
State University and is a member of the Pi Alpha Honor Society. He was named a
Toll Fellow of the Council of State Governments in 2004, and has served as a
panelist and moderator throughout the state and country as an expert in health
care and retirement administration.
In 2004, Comptroller Lembo was commissioned a “Kentucky Colonel,” the highest
honor awarded by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in recognition of
his advocacy on behalf of children in foster care.
Lembo resides in Guilford, CT with his spouse, Charles Frey; they have three
children.
MissionTo provide accounting and financial services, to administer employee and
retiree benefits, to develop accounting policy and exercise accounting
oversight, and to prepare financial reports for state, federal and
municipal governments and the public.
Statutory ResponsibilityThe responsibilities of the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) were
first charged in the State Constitution in 1786, and have been expanded
over the years in the Connecticut General Statutes. According to Article
Fourth, Section 24 of the State Constitution, the State Comptroller
"shall adjust and settle all public accounts and demands, except grants
and orders of the general assembly. He shall prescribe the mode of
keeping and rendering all public accounts."
In addition, state law charges the office to adjust and/or settle all
demands against the state not first adjusted and settled by the General
Assembly; to prepare all accounting statements relating to the financial
condition of the state; to provide for the budgetary and financial
reporting needs of the executive branch through the Core-CT computerized
system; to pay all wages and salaries of state employees; and to
administer miscellaneous appropriations including the procurement of
medical, dental and pharmacy benefits.
The bulk of the Comptroller's statutory requirements are detailed in CGS
Secs. 3-111 through 3-123.
The office is organized by seven divisions:
Accounts Payable DivisionThe Accounts Payable Division manages the centralized accounts payable
function for the state, maintains a database of more than 126,000
records on state vendor profiles, initiates and monitors the process for
paying and settling the state's obligations, examines state encumbrances
and expenditures for compliance, conducts pre-audits of procurement
requests for $1 million or more, and addresses a variety of necessary
federal and state requirements and Freedom of Information requests.
The division processes special payments such as tax-exempt bond funds,
debt service, state legal settlements, land condemnations, human
resource benefits, federal pass-through and state grants. These payments
are processed through various methods such as checks, Automated Clearing
House (ACH, also known as electronic funds transfer or EFT), wire
transfers, and inter-agency transfers.
The division enforces the statutory, regulatory and accounting
provisions mandated by state and federal law and by the comptroller's
policies; facilitates the execution of state grant programs for payment
to municipalities and/or non-profit organizations; produces reports of
payments to municipalities and provides assistance to municipalities'
independent auditors in the reconciliation of such payments; maintains
financial records, including garnishments/offsets through the vendor
file database within the state's Core-CT administrative and financial
system; assists agencies in processing transactions and troubleshooting
problems with such transactions in Core-CT; develops manuals and
provides training to other state agencies' business office staff;
processes and distributes forms for certain vendors, grantees and the
Internal Revenue Service.
Budget and Financial Analysis DivisionThe Budget and Financial Analysis Division performs the state's
accounting and financial reporting functions. The division is
responsible for posting, analyzing and reporting state expenditures and
receipts by fund and account category inclusive of federal and other
funding sources.
The division computes and reports direct and indirect costs associated
with major state programs. This cost data is recorded and maintained in
accordance with federal law and is used to secure reimbursements from
federal and other funding sources. At the comptroller's direction, the
division prepares a monthly analysis of the state's budget condition
that contains the financial statements for the latest month and
projections for the budget position to year's end.
The division publishes two of the comptroller's annual financial reports
-- a budgetary base (modified cash basis of accounting) report that
details and analyzes state expenditures, receipts, and capital budget
activities for the fiscal year; and a Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report (CAFR) prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP) that analyzes the state's overall fiscal position and
provides audited financial statements for state and state-supported
fiscal activities.
The division develops and implements complex accounting systems and
procedures for state agencies to maximize accountability,
standardization and cost effectiveness; conducts independent audits;
monitors agency compliance with these systems and procedures; performs
analysis/interpretation and statewide dissemination of changes occurring
as a result of collective bargaining contracts and negotiations; and
monitors the activity on Trustee Accounts within state agencies.
It is responsible for the management of the state's real and personal
property for insurance and accounting purposes, as well as maintaining
casualty loss records. The division administers the statewide purchasing
card and fuel card programs, including auditing and compliance reviews
of the daily transactions of each of the 1,850 cardholders.
Staff members are available to provide assistance to state agencies in
the implementation of and interpretation of accounting procedures.
Healthcare Policy & Benefit Services DivisionThe Healthcare Policy & Benefit Services Division administers benefits
programs for all state employees, retirees, and their families. The
largest programs are the medical, pharmacy, and dental benefit programs
covering over 200,000 lives. The division is responsible for the
contract procurement, administration, and evaluation of these programs.
The division provides administrative support to the Healthcare Cost
Containment Committee, as well as substantive updates on the
patient-centered medical home initiative, eligibility for and enrollment
in the state employee and retiree health plan, and rates and utilization
issues.
In 2010, the division implemented a new prescription purchasing
initiative that could save municipal and state taxpayers millions of
dollars. The Connecticut Prescription Partnership is a strictly
voluntary partnership that permits towns and cities to join the state's
self-insured pharmacy benefit program and achieve significant savings by
purchasing drugs through the state.
The division is working on new and expanded opportunities for
municipalities and non-profits to procure health care in coordination
with the state, potentially saving significant dollars and resources.
The division is also responsible for administrating the State of
Connecticut Defined Contribution Plans, including oversight of
investments which are currently in excess of $3.2 billion.
The division also coordinates group life insurance, unemployment
insurance and supplemental benefits for state employees.
Information Technology DivisionThe Information Technology Division is an inter-agency team that
supports and helps maintain Core-CT, the statewide financial, human
resource, and payroll system. Core-CT performs the state's accounting,
accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, billing, project
management, human resource, time and attendance, payroll, and benefits
administration functions and is used by well over 10,000 state
employees. In total there are approximately 50 employees of the Office
of the State Comptroller who work full time on supporting the system's
operation.
The division is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of Core-CT,
and provides analysis for the comptroller regarding strategic
information technology issues impacting the state.
The division's Technology Support Unit develops and maintains the
comptroller's technical infrastructure, including local area network
(LAN) planning, personal computer (PC) installation and troubleshooting,
training in desktop software applications, help desk support for all PC
users, and development of custom PC/LAN applications and is responsible
for web development and maintenance for the comptroller's Intranet and
Internet web sites.
Administrative Services DivisionThe Administrative Services Division provides policy and program direction
for certain administrative functions of the Office of the State
Comptroller and develops and executes the agency budget.
The division administers accounting, accounts payable, purchasing,
financial reporting and analysis, contract administration, tuition,
travel and training reimbursement, and paycheck and deposit advice and
distribution for state employees and retirees. It also provides
comprehensive support for security, facility management, courier, and
telephone services.
The division monitors legislative initiatives affecting the agency's
budget and other programs under its jurisdiction. It also interprets
constitutional and statutory provisions affecting state financial
expenditures and revenues for the proper application and reporting of
state monies and securities to various state and federal agencies on
multiple statewide accounts and programs, including Other Post
Employment Benefit (OPEB) accounts, active and retiree health insurance
appropriations, disability payments for collective bargaining employees,
employers' unemployment compensation payments to the State Department of
Labor, tuition, travel and training reimbursements to collective
bargaining employees, Funds Awaiting Distribution accounts, and
court-ordered Adjudicated Claims.
The division reconciles and posts the bi-weekly state employee payroll
to the appropriate miscellaneous accounts to allow payments of the
fringe benefits, which has an annualized total of approximately $2
billion.
Payroll Services DivisionThe Payroll Services Division pays all state employees; coordinates all
payroll deductions; maintains records on payroll taxes; and deposits
federal and state income tax withholding and social security
contributions. It pre-audits and issues state employee and deduction
checks on a bi-weekly basis; submits deduction reports; maintains wage
execution records, and administers direct deposit programs.
The division implemented ePay, an initiative to transition the state to
a paperless payroll system that will save significant state resources.
This pilot program is enabling thousands of state employees to receive
electronic pay statements, with the ultimate goal of moving virtually
all state employees to the paperless system.
The division staff also produces information requests for state
employees, state agencies, outside organizations, and the general
public, including the media.
In providing oversight and management of the state pension plans, the
division performs a comprehensive package of services including
retirement counseling and administrative support to the Connecticut
State Employees Retirement Commission.
It receives and processes retirement applications from state agencies,
and it manages computer, accounting, investigatory, payroll, training,
record-keeping, and compliance activities related to the state's complex
retirement programs.
The division analyzes and implements ever-changing statutory,
collectively bargained, and federally mandated revisions to the pension
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Abel Ferrara’s Driller Killer (1979)
The Original Ultra Violent 70's Slasher
The late 70’s especially 1979 saw an explosion in insanely violent movies, judging from the release of the classic “Dawn of the Dead” and the utterly deranged “Cannibal Holocaust” that year. Another entry in this category was “Driller Killer”, Abel Ferrara’s (Bad Lieutenant, Ms. .45) first major film effort and another in a long procession of late 70s horror and exploitation films to argue that everyone at Manhattan was losing their mind. In fact, Driller Killer was banned in the UK for the unadulterated scale of violence in it and was officially re-released only in 1999.
The premise is fairly straight forward though. A seedy artist (played with aplomb by Ferrara himself), who’s gone several weeks without a shower, has holed up in a Manhattan apartment with two equally seedy, dope addicted lesbian lovers. He’s trying to complete a large masterpiece painting of a buffalo and sell it to an art gallery so that he can pay the rent. He discovers the wonders of the "Porto Pak," a strange device selling for $19.95 that allows you to run any AC-powered appliance no matter where you are. This is handy. Since the horrors of Manhattan’s seamy side have led him to start hallucinating and flying into psychotic fits of rage, he decides to pick up a Porto Pak and start killing derelicts with a power drill. Hence, the name Driller Killer.
This one made me feel out of sorts for the rest of the day. Any fool can make a movie that’s just frankly obscene, but it takes an edge of intellect to make a film that crosses the line into the unspeakably repulsive. “Driller Killer” is such a film, and Abel Ferrara is just the man to make it.
I feel like I have got a pretty good stomach for these sorts of things, but two scenes made me flinch - a street person throwing up on himself and a highly nasty bit of business involving a skinned rabbit. There are also long sequences, recording the rehearsal of a talentless no wave band called "The Roosters," which are almost as hard to take. The vomit, the dead rabbit and the garage band are all real, by the way - used in favor of more edible pea green soup, latex and actual musical talent in a convenient intersection of budget economy and cinéma_vérité.
And yet the movie has got just enough intelligence to get you through the unwatchable parts: there’s a overt menace in the apparently purposeless, atmospheric shots of the painter drinking in Manhattan’s horrid squalor, there’s a fascinating bit after his psychotic break in which he appears to split into two people simultaneously, and the ending is quite nice, eerie and stylized.
If there's a point to be taken from this perplexing but not totally insipid film, it concerns a sort of artistic Judgment Day. The painter decries the Roosters’ ability to forge a group of followers despite their appalling and plagiaristic music. Frantic for money, the painter later agrees to do a portrait for the Roosters that will end up on the cover of their next album and this is when he splits in two - the lead singer is prancing around his apartment playing abysmal guitar and the painter is trying to work on the portrait despite the lead singer’s constant, pretentious entreaties that he "communicate" - "what part of me are you putting there?" he demands, pointing at the canvas.
The film’s culminating moment comes when the gallery owner mocks and rejects the painter’s magnum opus, proclaiming it "worthless" and calling it proof that "the worst thing that could happen to a painter has happened to you; you’ve become merely a technician." Economic and class anxiety saturates the film - the painter loathes the homeless but is only a step away from homelessness himself but aesthetic anxiety, a perceived death of art, culture and music, is what really makes this movie tick.
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1. Have you ever watched a Ferrara DVD commentary? I highly recommend it. He's a no bullshit, say it straight, right from the streets kind of guy. It's amazing he's such a good filmmaker.
2. Thanks Mike.Never had the time or the inclination. Will checkout! Do you have any specific recommendations?
3. perhaps if this was made more accesible, this would have been a hit with the mainstream audience perhaps if this was made more accesible, this would have been a hit with the mainstream audience
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“I hope you get drafted, I hope you go to Vietnam, I hope you get shot, and I hope you die there. Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender. She would marry a fellow antiwar activist and end up immigrating to Canada. He would fight in Vietnam and come home to build an American dream kind of life—a great career, a trophy wife, and a life of wealth and privilege. Forty years later, they have reconnected and discovered a shared passion: solo canoeing in Ontario’s raw Quetico wilderness. They decide to meet again to get caught up on old times, but not in a restaurant or coffee shop—they agree to meet on an island deep in the Quetico wilds. Though they try to control their expectations for the rendezvous, they both approach the island with a growing realization of the emotional void in their lives and wonder how different everything might have been if they had spent their lives together. They must overcome challenges just to reach the island, then encounter the greatest challenges of all—each other, and a weather event for the ages. Alone on the Shield is a story about the Vietnam war and the things that connect us. It is the story of aging Baby Boomers, of the rare kinds of people who paddle alone into the wilderness, and of the kind of adventure that comes only to the bold and the brave.”
Quetico Provincial Park: is a large wilderness park in Northwest Ontario Canada, known for its excellent canoeing and fishing. This 1,180,000-acre park shares its southern border with Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness which is part of the larger Superior National Forest These large wilderness parks are often collectively referred to as the Boundary Waters or the Quetico Superior Country
My thoughts: I absolutely loved this book and I didn’t want it to end. Kirk Landers writing is wonderful, energetic and exciting. Yes, this book is about canoeing and wilderness. Two things I am passionate about but isn’t that why we read? If you have an afternoon or two I highly suggest picking this up to read. Sorry no spoilers here! Except I never want to experience a derecho storm while on the water, it would be catastrophic..
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27 July 2011
Don't Fall on Me
Max Weber argued in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism that adherence to this rebellious doctrine was largely the cause of Northern Europe's roaring economic success from the 17th century on.
Perhaps. But where did this rebel belief come from? Who thought it up? Why did it gain such large favor in some places, just a bit in others, and still elsewhere none at all? And why did it take on so many different faces?
Furthermore, what of the Catholicism that birthed it? Who thought of that? And the religion it sprang from? And the one before that?
One theory is that our religions just fall on us out of the sky, like so many droppings from extraterrestrial spaceships. We take no part in creating them, or shaping them, or rejecting or accepting them. They arrive by conquest at sword-point, or else they just drift in like pollen on the breeze, floating into our ears and infecting our souls. No choice at all, conscious or not.
Were someone to take up the contrary position--that we humans have a very great deal to do with what sky-friends we ascribe to--he might want to start his evidence hunting by looking at some maps.
Let's help him out.
21 July 2011
Colonialism, Today II
A small country, a relatively happy country, a country who's been producing wealth at more or less the same level for years...
...Who one day decides to abandon control over its own monetary policy. To take that sovereign control, stuff it in an envelope, stick on a stamp, and mail it to a country far, far away.
A boxing club made up of only heavy-weights and middle-weights has the magnanimity to invite in a few feather-weights. How kind. How inclusive. How optimistic.
What could possibly go wrong.
This, apparently:
16 July 2011
Colonialism, Today
For those unable to take care of themselves, life will always be a a vale of tears.
Unless someone else steps in.
Peoples, like water, should be allowed to find their natural level. An adult can guide the hand of a four-year-old to create the Mona Lisa. It's lovely, but when you let go of his hand, he may go back to drawing simple forms. It's no use getting distressed that he can't do what you did for him. Pretending otherwise is a recipe for frustration.
Let him draw what he is capable of drawing. He may want to reproduce your Mona Lisa. When he can't, he may cry and ask that you give him better crayons, or more paper, or a better table or chair. Give him all these things if you'd like; nothing you can give him will allow him to do what you did. Nothing but picking up his hand and drawing it for him again.
Much as it pains you, let him draw his simple forms. Perhaps one day he'll advance to a point where he, too, can draw a Mona Lisa. But if he can't--not ever--you must accept it. You and he both must steel yourselves and be content with whatever he can produce. This can be frustrating.
But it is the price of true freedom.
05 July 2011
Comparing Peoples--References
International policy-makers, particularly economic ones, often consider the Earth's inhabitants as peas in a pod. All the same, interchangeable units, that one can plug into an equation any old how--the average Kurd, as well as the average Japanese, can be represented as variable "x."
This blog disagrees.
Policy equations reckoned in such a way tend to come out cock-eyed, yet no one ever seems to try fiddling with variable "x." By our calculations, says Important Washington Think Tank, Anglo-style liberal democracy should be flourishing in Russia, and Ethiopians should be exporting luxury cars as fast as their factories can spit them out.
And twenty, thirty, fifty, a hundred years after all the 'right conditions' have been put into place, when the people in question is still as authoritarian or as poverty-stricken as ever, Think Tank-ers refuse to change the one variable that counts more than any other.
Variable "x."
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comma btw subject and verb: and where the members..., are rewarded
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Hi there,
I was looking online at a T-shirt design that gives a made-up definition for ineptocracy (does the word even exist? I suspect not). It goes like this:
As you can see, there's a comma between subject phrase and predicate in there, before "are rewarded." Is that OK? Is it OK for it to be there?
Thank you!
• entangledbank
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English - South-East England
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I first saw the USFA ZiP .22 on USFAs website and it immediately caught my attention. Why? Well, for starters it is uniquevery unique. It captures the imagination, finding something truly new in firearms development is a bit of a rarity. John Browning and Paul Mauser can still say that most firearms are mere modifications of designs they pioneered 100 years ago. So on that merit alone, I wanted to check out this pistol.
Secondly, being mainly polymer and uber-lightweight, this gun fills a niche for the survival crowd. It would fit easily in a backpack, truck or tackle box, and could be carried as an emergency survival gun without any undue weight.
Finally, it is versatile. It takes Ruger 10/22 magazines (I mean, who already doesnt own a 10/22 and a plethora of mags?), and with the Ruger 25-round mags, it makes this pistol one of the few handguns on the market with a 25-round capability. In light of the recent fervor coming from the gun-grabbers in Washington, owning multiple guns that take the same high-cap mags might not be such a bad idea. This gun can also be converted into a rifle, and can be used in conjunction with other firearms with a standard 1913 Railall NFA rules do apply, of course.
So I literally begged Douglas Donnelly, USFA CEO and inventor of ZiP, for a test sample before the masses could get their hands on it at SHOT Show. He came through, so here is my brief review.
Saw several YouTube reviews from SHOT Show 2013, and I must say I don't get it. It's an ergonomic nightmare as a handgun, and I don't get the fun factor or practicality of paying an SBR stamp to hang it under your AR.
If I think of it as an updated version of the Henry “Survivor” .22, then it makes sense. Sort of a “better than nothing” weapon to keep in the backpack/BOB. They are relatively cheap too ... just over $200 with a 10/22 25 round mag.
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posted on 01/20/2013 6:06:54 AM PST
by spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
I don’t see this a self defense gun by any stretch. Looks to be more useful for stuffing in a backpack or as a survival gun where weight is a factor. If it’s reliable and accurate it would probably be as good a choice as the old Armalite AR-7 (now made by Henry Firearms).
We have been suffering with the infringements of NFA for far too long. Suppressors are mainstream now and cost a bundle to save ears, among other things.
The farther we travel from 1986 and the impact of the govt picking winners and losers in the machine gun game, the higher the prices of machine guns will go and the fewer manufacturers there will be.
Not to mention the now yearly reduction in the severely limited number of available machine guns for public purchase. Or to put it better, we the people are now outgunned in small arms, by the mere passage of time and those the second amendment seeks to protect us from, grow ever stronger in relation.
Saw several YouTube reviews from SHOT Show 2013, and I must say I don't get it. It's an ergonomic nightmare as a handgun, and I don't get the fun factor or practicality of paying an SBR stamp to hang it under your AR.
YES! YES! and YES! This is the answer to a question NOBODY asked! Useless as two rows of teats on a boar hog! It sucks hard as a "handgun" and even harder as a Federally licensed short barreled rifle. Everybody is an "operator" now days and you've just gotta hang some kind of worthless crap off of all those rails you paid extra money for. Someone ought to invent a set of wheels that attaches to a Picatinny rail...at least that would be useful to roll that mobile garage sale you call a rifle to the range!
Don’t know about the ergonomy, but it’s kinda reminiscent of what the FN P90 was meant to be (the original design had a 100rd throwavay box mag w caseless rounds), and the p90, I’m told, is pretty good.
Maybe your TEC-22 is defective. The one my shooting buddy has works PERFECTLY and we shoot it all the time. We haven’t tried the new BX-25 magazines in it yet but if the old RamLine mags function so well there’s no need to assume that the higher quality BX-25 wouldn’t work perfectly too. I predict they’ll be out of business within a year IF they ever even ship ANY in the first place. Time will tell.
Maybe your TEC-22 is defective. The one my shooting buddy has works PERFECTLY and we shoot it all the time. We havent tried the new BX-25 magazines in it yet but if the old RamLine mags function so well theres no need to assume that the higher quality BX-25 wouldnt work perfectly too. I predict theyll be out of business within a year IF they ever even ship ANY in the first place. Time will tell.
I suspect the TEC-22s had a quality control issue. (Dies or molds wearing out in manufacturing process.) In most cases the fussy ones could be tweaked to function reliably with a given brand of mag. The typical problem was the mag would be loose in the receiver and cause feeding issues. Same problem when Armalite quit making the AR-7 and Charter Arms started making it. Many of the Charter Arms version had feeding problems due to sloppy tolerances.
The thing that really worries me about this design are the two plungers over the barrel. Especially the re-strike plunger. I’m not so sure I want to put my hand that close to the end of the barrel after a rimfire round has decided not to go bang.
It may “only” be a .22, but I’m pretty sure it will take the tip of my finger clean off if I accidentally cover the muzzle when the round decides to fire.
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1. Technical Field
Generally, the invention relates to microphone mounts. Particularly, the invention relates to a shock mount for gooseneck microphones which isolates the microphone from vibration while supporting the microphone on a podium or table. Specifically, the invention relates to a shock mount with an outer housing which mounts to the podium, an inner housing which supports the microphone and top and bottom resilient dampeners which suspend the inner housing within the outer housing.
2. Background Information
Microphone mounts are generally used to reduce vibrational noises that are induced into microphone systems from external mechanical sources. These vibrational noises travel readily through solid objects such as a podium or table upon which microphones are mounted. Conventional shock mounts use some type of elastomer or rubber to isolate the microphone housing from the internal transducer to reduce the vibrational pickup of the microphone. The elastomer absorbs the vibrations and converts a majority of the vibrations into heat energy, thus attenuating the vibrations to a large extent.
Also, low frequency vibrations cause noise in the microphones by setting the microphone into motion and inducing the noise through the motion of the microphone diaphragm itself. Since the diaphragm of any microphone has mass, and therefore inertia, the motion of the microphone causes the diaphragm of the microphone to move in relation to its mounting structure. This movement of the microphone produces an output voltage in response to the external vibration. Usually this type of vibrational noise is suppressed by reducing the resonant frequency of the microphone by either using very compliant elastomers, increasing the microphone's mass or usually a combination of both. If the resonant frequency is low enough, the vibrational noise may be below the normal 20 Hz lower frequency hearing limits. Usually, some type of dampening is used to reduce these low level vibrations.
Examples of various types of mounts used to dampen vibrations induced by external mechanical sources can be seen in U.S. Pat. No. 3,153,123 which discloses a stand for carrying a microphone. A plurality of vibration absorbing rubber rings are interposed between the microphone stand and the microphone carried thereby. The rings absorb vibrations and insulate the microphone from the stand.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,573,401 discloses a mount for a microphone in which a circular elastomeric body has an annular groove on one side to receive an annular portion of a microphone clamp assembly. A continuous groove is formed in the periphery of the elastomeric body which engages the edge of a correspondingly dimensioned opening in the base of the microphone stand. A groove is also formed in the opposite side of the elastomeric body to improve vibration insulation.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,653,625 discloses a microphone mounting apparatus which includes a compact resilient mounting member defining a socket. The socket is adapted to receive a microphone body and a support for supporting the mounting member. The mounting member defines an enclosed space encircling the socket that is preferably filled with a liquid or pressurized gas. The vibrations of the microphone are dampened to different degrees depending upon the viscosity of the gases or liquids within the mounting member.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,947,646 discloses a resilient microphone holder which includes a microphone supporting cylinder for mounting a microphone therein, an attaching cylinder located outside the supporting cylinder and a stepped connecting cylinder formed with supporting and attaching cylinders together. The microphone holder is formed of a resilient material which suspends the microphone and isolates the microphone against oscillations.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,194,096 discloses a microphone shock mount and assembly which includes upper and lower semi-cylindrical frames hingedly connected to one another at one edge thereof. Each frame includes a pair of closed elastomeric bands extending transversely around each end thereof. The microphone is suspended between the bands of the upper frame and the bands of the lower frame when the upper frame is latched to the lower frame. The mass of the microphone and the resiliency of the bands form a mechanical moving system with a resonance below the frequency range of the microphone.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,453,045 discloses a supporting arrangement for electro-acoustic transducers which includes a housing with a housing casing having a transducer within the casing and being supported by at least one elastic support ring provided between the transducer and the casing. The supporting ring is formed of electrically conducting material to provide electrical connection to the housing. The housing or a portion thereof provides an electrical terminal for connecting the electrical transducer to an energy source.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,514,598 discloses a microphone shock mounting apparatus designed for receiving and holding a microphone which isolates the microphone from surrounding structure-borne environmental vibration. The apparatus includes a cradle which flexes when opened to receive the microphone and which closes firmly around the microphone body to hold the microphone in place. The cradle permits the microphone to be received into and removed from the shock-mounting apparatus without requiring disconnection from the signal output cable.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,955,578 discloses a resiliently fastened support device for a microphone of a mass which is a multiple of the mass of the microphone and an arrangement carrying the microphone. The supporting device is either suspended in an outer container by a pair of springs attached to the top thereof or is supported on the bottom of the outer container by a spring attached to the bottom thereof. The resiliently mounted support device dampens mechanical vibrations and has a low resonance frequency which is at the lowest end or below the transmission range of the microphone.
Although these prior art microphone mounts are adequate for the purpose for which they were intended, these mounts fail to provide a dual point suspension Which vertically supports the microphone and which prevents a gooseneck microphone from tipping or leaning while mounted on a table or podium. Further, many of these prior art microphone stands are constructed to hold a microphone of a specific size or type and can not be used to hold other microphones.
Therefore, the need exists for an improved microphone mount which provides dual point suspension to vertically mount the microphone on a table or podium and to prevent tipping or leaning of the top-heavy gooseneck microphone, which holds a usual 3-pin disconnect connector to allow the microphone mount to be used with any microphone that has a 3-pin connector and which dampens noise induced from external mechanical vibrations. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '7ad9cd33e6ce1bb1306a7822169d72c919b3ad3e4e2856987521f09f992c37d7'} |
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112,234,517,234,517,264,112,264,SUSHI MENTAI - PANDAN INDAH
67,271,575,271,575,308,67,308,KMF FOODICIOUS SDN BHD (1132106-H)
113,311,514,311,514,346,113,346,NO. 9-G, JALAN PERUBATAN 2,
82,347,575,347,575,382,82,382,PANDAN INDAH, 55100 KUALA LUMPUR.
174,383,476,383,476,416,174,416,TEL : +603 2856 0385
127,421,519,421,519,456,127,456,GST REG. NO : 000897208320
147,496,472,496,472,529,147,529,TAX INVOICE
24,567,291,567,291,633,24,633,TABLE T13
22,633,235,633,235,668,22,668,ORDER#: 275705
23,670,111,670,111,706,23,706,BILL#:
127,672,307,672,307,706,127,706,V015- 673381
427,673,563,673,563,709,427,709,PAX(S): 0
25,712,86,712,86,741,25,741,DATE
133,714,443,714,443,744,133,744,: 09-04-2018 19:22:25
26,748,142,748,142,781,26,781,CASHIER:
158,750,264,750,264,781,158,781,CASHIER
25,824,190,824,190,860,25,860,DESCRIPTION
249,825,295,825,295,862,249,862,QTY
353,828,458,828,458,862,353,862,U.PRICE
489,825,562,825,562,859,489,859,TOTAL
577,827,624,827,624,861,577,861,TAX
22,899,279,899,279,935,22,935,TORI TERIYAKI DON
236,939,282,939,282,971,236,971,1 X
356,940,429,940,429,968,356,968,12.80
489,940,562,940,562,970,489,970,12.80
592,942,623,942,623,970,592,970,SR
22,975,160,975,160,1006,22,1006,TAKO BALL
235,1012,280,1012,280,1042,235,1042,1 X
366,1013,429,1013,429,1046,366,1046,0.00
500,1014,563,1014,563,1044,500,1044,0.00
21,1047,177,1047,177,1082,21,1082,SUSHI 1.80
234,1087,280,1087,280,1119,234,1119,4 X
370,1087,431,1087,431,1120,370,1120,1.80
502,1089,564,1089,564,1120,502,1120,7.20
593,1090,624,1090,624,1121,593,1121,SR
22,1126,174,1126,174,1159,22,1159,SUSHI 2.80
232,1165,278,1165,278,1196,232,1196,2 X
368,1166,427,1166,427,1196,368,1196,2.80
502,1164,563,1164,563,1196,502,1196,5.60
592,1166,626,1166,626,1200,592,1200,SR
22,1202,157,1202,157,1233,22,1233,GREEN TEA
233,1244,281,1244,281,1276,233,1276,1 X
369,1245,429,1245,429,1278,369,1278,1.00
506,1244,564,1244,564,1277,506,1277,1.00
592,1243,623,1243,623,1280,592,1280,SR
21,1322,352,1322,352,1356,21,1356,TOTAL (EXCLUDING GST) :
547,1326,623,1326,623,1356,547,1356,26.60
24,1359,307,1359,307,1395,24,1395,SERV. CHARGE (10%) :
563,1363,622,1363,622,1391,563,1391,2.66
25,1396,202,1396,202,1429,25,1429,GST PAYABLE:
565,1401,625,1401,625,1431,565,1431,1.76
23,1433,397,1433,397,1469,23,1469,TOTAL (INCLUSIVE OF GST) :
547,1437,623,1437,623,1467,547,1467,31.02
22,1471,215,1471,215,1505,22,1505,ROUNDING ADJ :
548,1476,624,1476,624,1507,548,1507,-0.02
22,1546,196,1546,196,1602,22,1602,TOTAL :
472,1549,621,1549,621,1602,472,1602,31.00
22,1640,158,1640,158,1670,22,1670,CLOSED: 0
304,1642,461,1642,461,1672,304,1672,09-04-2018
501,1645,621,1645,621,1673,501,1673,20:01:23
21,1675,249,1675,249,1708,21,1708,SERVER : CASHIER
19,1750,108,1750,108,1778,19,1778,CASH :
547,1751,620,1751,620,1784,547,1784,31.00
21,1859,67,1859,67,1893,21,1893,GST
22,1897,54,1897,54,1931,22,1931,SR
81,1862,196,1862,196,1897,81,1897,SUMMARY
170,1899,261,1899,261,1935,170,1935,(@ 6)
317,1862,474,1862,474,1898,317,1898,AMOUNT(RM)
395,1902,470,1902,470,1937,395,1937,29.26
515,1863,623,1863,623,1903,515,1903,TAX(RM)
561,1903,619,1903,619,1937,561,1937,1.76
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Elijah Chudnoff
Elijah Chudnoff, Intuition, Oxford University Press, 2013, 245pp., $50.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199683000.
Reviewed by John Bengson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
There is a long tradition in philosophy, going back to Plato and Descartes, of ascribing to the human intellect the power to directly apprehend, or intuit, abstract truths, without basis in sensory experience or mere relations of ideas. In the mid-twentieth century the tradition was opposed by Quine, whose radical empiricism (and naturalism) did not tolerate any such a priori exploits, and before him by Ayer and Carnap, whose semantic rationalism (and positivism) acknowledged the a priori but only as narrowly tied to conceptual understanding of analytic statements. Recent, post-Quinean philosophy has seen a resurgence of interest in rationalism -- what George Bealer has called a "rationalist renaissance". But many contemporary proponents, including Bealer, David Chalmers, Michael Huemer, Frank Jackson, Kirk Ludwig, Christopher Peacocke, and Ernest Sosa, still pursue a semantic rationalism, albeit one that makes room for the synthetic a priori by severing the link between conceptual understanding and analyticity, and which (Peacocke's version excepted) stresses an epistemic role for intuitions as conscious deliverances of the former. The Platonic or Cartesian rationalist view that intuition is a form of intellectual perception, affording epistemic access to abstract truths without mediation by conceptual understanding, remains relatively unpopular -- and unexplored -- by comparison.
Elijah Chudnoff's Intuition pursues this latter version of rationalism.[1] Its approach is largely phenomenological, employing first-personal reflection on what it is like for one to have or undergo various conscious mental states (events, etc.). The basic strategy is comparative, pursuing a view of intuition modeled on ordinary sensory experience. In fact, the book is nearly as much about sensory experience as intuition; with few exceptions, its central arguments and theses are claimed to hold mutatis mutandis for both. It also includes interesting discussions of imagination, reflection, inference, and more.
Chudnoff's treatments of various mental phenomena are phenomenologically astute, epistemologically nuanced, and metaphysically robust. They often speak directly to recent debates regarding sensory and cognitive phenomenology, phenomenal intentionality, and the epistemic significance of conscious experience. Regarding the latter, Chudnoff's novel phenomenological explanations of justification and knowledge, in particular, merit careful study by epistemologists and philosophers of perception. While the book is motivated primarily through its relevance to the theory of the a priori, and secondarily to the philosophy of mathematics (it is chock full of mathematical examples and directly tackles mathematical error and the access problem), its principal contribution is perhaps to the literature on phenomenal states at the intersection of philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics.
The introduction, which contains detailed chapter summaries, identifies five main theses:
Thesis 1: Intuitions are experiences, rather than beliefs or dispositions thereto.
Thesis 2: Intuitions justify belief.
Thesis 3: Intuitions ground knowledge by making thinkers aware of their subject matter.
Thesis 4: Intuitions' subject matter is abstract.
Thesis 5: Intuitions
Several other theses are also defended along the way. A significant virtue is that the book does not seek simply to articulate and motivate these theses, but also attempts to answer, in an admirably unified way, a series of "how-possible" questions to which they give rise. How is it possible for these theses -- individually and jointly -- to be true? That is, what must intuitions be like so that they can be experiences, justify belief, ground knowledge, be about abstracta, and occur independently of sensory experience? This approach has the dual advantage of being philosophically rich and dialectically forceful. It also has the effect of forestalling the interrogations on which skepticism about intuition -- and, above all, Platonic rationalism -- standardly relies. If such skepticism does not wish to become merely idle, it must directly confront Chudnoff's answers.
Part I is on the nature of intuition. Its first chapter, "What Intuitions are Like", lays the foundations for the rest of the book, outlining an account of the nature, or basic metaphysical structure, of intuition that makes possible Chudnoff's answers to the above questions. This account is a specific version of Thesis 1 and is built around two main ideas.
The first idea, which Chudnoff labels 'Presentationality', is that intuitions are experiences with presentational phenomenology, where this involves having "a feeling of presence to mind" or "a 'consciousness of seizing upon' some subject matter" (4, the quoted expression is Husserl's). Chudnoff adopts a fairly specific view, or analysis, of what presentational phenomenology amounts to:
An experience has presentational phenomenology with respect to the proposition that p when it not only makes it seem to its subject that p, but also makes it seem to its subject as if it makes him or her aware of the very chunk of reality that makes p true. (18; cf. 37)
According to Chudnoff, in the familiar sensory experience of seeming to see a red light ahead, for example, it seems to you that there is a red light ahead, you seem to be aware of some concrete items (e.g., a light) in virtue of which this is true, and the former seeming seems to you to occur in virtue of the latter. Analogously, according to Chudnoff, in having the intuition that two circles can have at most two common points, it seems to you that two circles can have at most two common points, you seem to be aware of some abstract items (e.g., circularity) in virtue of which this is true, and the former seeming seems to you to occur in virtue of the latter.
The second idea is that, just as statues are constituted objects, built out of clay, metal, and other entities that are not themselves statues, intuitions are constituted experiences, built out of thoughts, imaginings, intentions, beliefs, and other mental states that are not themselves intuitions. Chudnoff labels this idea 'Constitutedness'.
Putting these ideas together, the resulting account of intuition can be reconstructed:
An intuition of a subject, S, is a conscious experience, E, such that
(i) It seems to S that some proposition or propositions, p1 . . . pn, are true;
(ii) S seems to be aware of some item or items (e.g., properties), o1 . . . on;
(iii) o1 . . . on are (at least partly) what putatively make (at least some of) p1 . . . pn true;
(iv) It seems to S that conditions (i-iii) hold in virtue of E;
(v) o1 . . . on are putative abstracta;
(vi) S undergoes conscious mental states, m1 . . . mn, that are neither individually nor jointly identical to E;
(vii) E is constituted by m1 . . . mn; and
(viii) m1 . . . mn are thoughts, imaginings, intentions, beliefs, etc.
Conditions (i-iv) express Chudnoff's preferred analysis of the first idea, that intuitions have presentational phenomenology. Conditions (vi-vii) express the second idea, that intuitions are constituted experiences. As already alluded, Chudnoff maintains that conditions (i-iv) are true also of sensory experiences. Herein lies the core similarity between intuitions and sensory experiences. The primary difference between them lies in (v): in sensory experience, o1 . . . on are putative concreta, rather than abstracta. (Below, I raise the question of whether conditions (vi-vii) and an analogue of (viii) hold of sensory experiences as well.)
I will comment on these conditions at some length, before turning to the accounts of intuitive justification and intuitive knowledge in Parts II and III. But let me first summarize some of the work to which Presentationality and Constitutedness are put. Each is invoked in the explanation of various other observations and claims, including the main theses (Theses 1-5, listed above). For example, Presentationality explains why intuitions are neither beliefs nor dispositions thereto (Thesis 1), and are also distinct from inferences. It also explains why, or how, intuitions justify corresponding beliefs (Thesis 2) and plays a role in the explanation of intuitive knowledge (Thesis 3). Given condition (v), it also secures the abstractness of intuitions' subject matter (Thesis 4). Constitutedness explains the observation that intuitions are accompanied by thoughts, imaginings, intentions, beliefs, and other conscious mental states. It is also used to diagnose and treat introspective objections to Presentationality (as recently pressed by Sosa and Timothy Williamson, among others): when objectors reflecting on thought experiments claim to fail to find anything in their stream of consciousness that satisfies (i-iv), it is because they are mistakenly looking for something that is not constituted by their thoughts, imaginings, intentions, beliefs, etc. Third, it underwrites the possibility of intuitions that occur without sensory experience (Thesis 5), namely, those wholly constituted by thoughts.
Let me make a few comments about the above account that might help to situate it within the current literature. In so doing, I will also offer a few critical remarks.
The notion of a contentful seeming in condition (i) is said to be irreducible to a judgment or to any kind of disposition or inclination thereto (beyond this, the notion is not given further explication and is, to this extent, treated as a primitive). This means that condition (i) alone distinguishes Chudnoff's account from doxastic views of intuition, such as those articulated by David Lewis, Sosa (if inclination is broadly construed to include attractions), Williamson, and many others. Chudnoff raises two objections to these views: the first is an elaboration of Bealer's naïve comprehension example -- that it is possible to have the intuition that the naïve comprehension axiom is true although one does not consciously judge, and is not consciously disposed or inclined to judge, that it is true. The second is a defense of the thesis that intuitions have presentational phenomenology, a thesis which Chudnoff takes doxastic views to be forced to deny.
Chudnoff's account is also interestingly different from other non-doxastic views of intuition, such as those advanced by A.C. Ewing (in Reason and Intuition), Bealer, Laurence Bonjour, Huemer, Joel Pust, and myself. All of these authors maintain that intuitions are experiences that seem to reveal how things are, and so endorse something in the vicinity of condition (i). At the same time, none of them endorses all of conditions (ii-iv). This is not to say that they are forced to deny that intuitions have presentational phenomenology; instead, they may simply offer alternative analyses of it. Chudnoff acknowledges in the introduction that "one could develop a view according to which intuitions are seemings, appearances, or presentations that" rejects some or all of his preferred analysis (9).
Here it may be helpful to observe that there are various aspects of experience that plausibly merit the label 'presentational phenomenology'. For example, when you see a ball, and it looks blue, your experience presents a color, blue; but it also presents how things are, that there is something blue before you. Here at least two types of phenomena seem presented, or present to mind: a color, and that there is something with that color before you. Regarding the latter, the subject matter that one has "a consciousness of seizing upon" possesses, or seems to possess, predicative structure (a proposition or, as I will sometimes say, 'apparent truth'). Regarding the former, the subject matter is simply a property (the color blue). The two may of course come apart: for instance, when hoping that you will find your red scarf and imagining it hanging on its peg, your imagination may present you with the color red, though it is not presented to you as being the case that there is something red before you.
Chudnoff's discussion focuses almost exclusively on presentation of properties, as in condition (ii), and the self-referential, truth-making phenomenology -- which I myself am unsure how to articulate -- in condition (iv), making those seem like the centerpieces in his analysis of Presentationality. By contrast, an alternative non-doxastic view of intuition may focus exclusively on presentation of apparent truths, which something in the vicinity of condition (i) may be thought to capture. Such views thereby endorse Presentationality without conditions (ii-iv).
While it is fairly uncontentious that sensory experience involves both the presentation of apparent truths and presentation of properties (and perhaps more), it is extremely contentious that intuition involves both -- let alone both plus self-referential, truth-making phenomenology, as Chudnoff maintains. This makes a defense of the full conjunction of conditions (i-iv) especially urgent. Chudnoff's primary argument is phenomenological, involving phenomenal contrast. He asks us to consider the following propositions:
1. Two circles can have at most two common points.
2. If a quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle, the sum of the products of the two pairs of opposite sides is equal to the product of the diagonals.
Chudnoff conjectures that most people have the experience of just seeing -- that is, intuiting -- 1 to be true in a way that they do not just see 2 to be true; in the latter case, a demonstration or testimony may be needed to appreciate its truth. The contrast is certainly salient to me. In the case of 1, I "have the consciousness of seizing upon" something; not so in my appreciation of the truth of 2.
This argument might tell against views that deny that intuitions have presentational phenomenology. However, it is not clear that it tells against non-doxastic views that endorse something in the vicinity of (i) but not (ii-iv). Notice, after all, that it is not obviously false to say that what I "have the consciousness of seizing upon" in the case of 1 is something with predicative structure: 1 is presented as true; not so for 2. In this way, the existence of alternative, non-doxastic views that endorse Presentationality but do not accept (ii-iv) complicates the dialectic. Unfortunately, the challenge they pose is never confronted.
A related concern is that several conditions in Chudnoff's account, including but not limited to (ii-iv), prima facie exclude a variety of conscious mental states that are regularly viewed as rather straightforward, if not paradigm, examples of intuition. For example, conditions (ii-iv) rule out -- by Chudnoff's own admission -- many instances in which "a particular action might intuitively seem right or wrong" (107). Conditions (iii-iv), in particular, threaten to exclude what we might will call 'innocent intuitions', which do not seem to one to provide access to that in virtue of which the proposition that is presented as true is true: one might see, or seem to see, that the moral supervenes on the non-moral but feel quite in the dark about -- not have a felt presence to mind of -- what makes this true. Condition (v) excludes a wide range of concrete intuitions: for example, the intuition that if cats meow, then cats meow; or the physical intuition that a composite object will fall at the same speed as its parts. Finally, Chudnoff works hard to show that conditions (vi-viii) do not rule out cases in which a proposition is found to be "immediately intuitively obvious" without any reflection (72-76), and readers will benefit from thinking through whether he has been successful.
The primary defense of conditions (vi-viii), which express Constitutedness, once again involves phenomenological reflection. Chudnoff describes two scenarios in which one has the intuition that p: in the first, one has the intuition that p because one employs visual imagination to mentally manipulate a complex three-dimensional diagram; in the second, one has the intuition that p because one reflects on some basic geometrical relations. The example is complicated (p is the proposition that (a + b + c)3 ≥ 27abc and (a + b + c)3 = 27abc just when a = b = c), and I admit that I did not have the intuition. But I see the point of the example: it seems obvious that there could be a phenomenological difference in the two scenarios. But it would seem that the difference can be accounted for by holding that the intuitions are accompanied by different thoughts, imaginings, etc., and that the overall experience one has when having an intuition accompanied by one set of thoughts, imaginings, etc. may differ from the overall experience that one has when one's intuition is accompanied by another set of thoughts, imaginings, etc. There is no need to make the further claim that the thoughts, imaginings, etc. that accompany the intuitions also constitute those intuitions. The accompaniment relation is significantly weaker than the constitution relation in (vii), and it is compatible with the alternative non-doxastic views of intuition mentioned above. An appeal to mere accompaniment also seems capable of delivering the other explanatory benefits of Constitutedness, mentioned above.
I have already mentioned that conditions (i-iv) are intended to forge similarity between intuition and sensory experience. How deep does the comparison go? The question of whether or how conditions (vi-viii) are also meant to apply in the case of sensory perception is not addressed, but it is an interesting question to consider. While there are presumably many "complex" perceptual states, such as visual scans or searches, that are constituted by other conscious mental states, including sensory experiences, which could serve as m1 . . . mn in (vi-vii), arguably there are also some "simple" sensory experiences that are not constituted by any further conscious mental states. Chudnoff's account seems to imply that intuitions, being "constituted experiences", are more like complex visual searches than the simple sensory experiences that constitute them. Waiving the concern that this is not obviously compatible with the epistemological theses that Chudnoff wishes to maintain (in particular, the Phenomenal Dogmatist thesis discussed below), other theorists of intuition -- proponents as well as critics -- might take this to indicate that his target is not the same as theirs, which may include "simple" intuitions.
Let me now turn to the epistemological theses in Parts II and III. As noted, Chudnoff maintains that the epistemic credentials of intuition are explained by its presentational phenomenology. In the case of justification, the claim is that an experience E prima facie justifies a belief that p when, and because, E has presentational phenomenology with respect to p. This is basic justification, requiring no additional epistemic support from background beliefs or any other mental states besides E -- which may be a sensory experience or an intuition. Chudnoff calls his position a version of 'Phenomenal Dogmatism', and he offers several considerations on its behalf.
As I understand it, Phenomenal Dogmatism does not rely upon Chudnoff's preferred analysis of presentational phenomenology but is available to other analyses -- hence to other non-doxastic views of intuition -- as well. One way to adjudicate between the wide range of options would be to locate which aspect of presentational phenomenology is doing the justificatory work, as it were, and then determine which non-doxastic view is best-suited to explain how it does that work. Given that presentation of properties places before the mind entities that fall short of the predicative structure of the contents of the beliefs that are justified, and that it is found even in imaginative experiences (recall the example of the red scarf described above), which cannot justify beliefs about how things are, presumably this is not a viable candidate. By contrast, presentation of apparent truths, which speaks directly to how things are, seems to be a better candidate: it places before the mind entities that have the predicative structure of the contents of the beliefs that are justified, and it is not found in imagination and other experiences that are justificationally inert. To the extent that presentation of apparent truths tracks something in the vicinity of condition (i), it is fair to say that it underwrites the justificatory role of presentational phenomenology whereas the additional conditions are, from the perspective of epistemic justification, excesses.
Phenomenal Dogmatism is currently not the most popular account of intuitive justification. Chudnoff argues against what he takes to be its primary competitor, 'Understanding-based Reliabilism', or UBR, which is basically the semantic rationalist thesis that intuitions have their epistemic basis in conceptual understanding, fortified by the claim that this basis guarantees reliability. Chudnoff's argument against UBR locates real-world cases, such as those involving the Jordan Curve Theorem and the Axiom of Choice, in which there is no plausible reliable psychological process that relates the content of an epistemically significant intuition to the tacit information, 'INFO', that one possesses in virtue of grasping various concepts and their mode of combination. As Chudnoff describes the cases, for the Jordan Curve Theorem, the implication (between INFO and the theorem) requires too many steps for there plausibly to be a psychological process that implements it; for the Axiom of Choice, there simply is no such implication; and in neither case is there a reliable process of visualization.
In Part III, Chudnoff's account of intuitive -- and sensory -- knowledge (Thesis 3) pivots on the claim that an experience E puts one in a position to know that p when, and because, E has veridical presentational phenomenology with respect to p. Chudnoff does not canvass opposing views (for example, safety theories or virtue epistemology) but focuses on responding to objections to his own.
The objections arise when the above claim about experiential knowledge is conjoined with conditions (i-v) in Chudnoff's account of intuition. This conjunction implies that when an intuition is veridical, then what one seems to be aware of, an abstract item or collection thereof, is in fact what one is aware of. But how can one be aware of abstracta? Chudnoff registers the connection between this question and the access problem, attributed to Paul Benacerraf. He proposes that the question and its force be understood as arising from two requirements on awareness:
Dependence: If one is aware of o by having experience e, then e depends on o.
Differentiation: If one is aware of o by having experience e, then e's phenomenology differentiates o from its background.
Chudnoff invokes Constitutedness to address Differentiation: seeming awareness of abstracta is grounded in intuition, and the conscious mental states that constitute the intuition select, or foreground, the objects of which one seems to be aware insofar as those objects are the items at which those states are directed. Regarding Dependence, Chudnoff's strategy is to eschew causal dependence in favor of constitutive dependence.[2] The key thesis is labeled 'Formal Naïve Realism':
If S is intuitively aware of an abstract object o by having intuition experience e, then e depends on o, in that: in accordance with the essence of e, [o partly constitutes e in the sense that] o is part of the [form or] principle of unity that e's (material [i.e., non-formal]) parts instantiate[,] and thereby determines e's phenomenal character. (216)
As I hope this indicates, Chudnoff's engagement with both requirements is philosophically sophisticated and the overall account of awareness of abstracta that he develops merits serious consideration. Even if he does not engage all requirements that have been associated with Benacerraf's challenge (some of which do not revolve around awareness), Chudnoff's discussion succeeds in showing that Benacerraf-style worries about intuition and abstracta should not be regarded as refutations but rather as impetus for further philosophical work.
This is, I think, one instance of a general lesson that Chudnoff's book teaches. Although some philosophers might not like intuition, it is becoming increasingly clear that one can no longer responsibly claim, as used to be popular (and in some circles still is thought to be legitimate or cool), that to invoke intuition is comparable to an appeal to divine intervention or little more than an exercise in empty self-congratulation. While the claim might be motivated by a laudable desire to avoid superstition, the claim embodies more prejudice than it counters. No doubt there is a sense in which the philosophy of intuition is still relatively undeveloped. But one implication is that there are at present a host of unexplored possibilities that merit careful investigation and sober assessment. In this light, Intuition deserves praise as a creative, rigorous, ambitious, and sensitive contribution to our collective effort to understand the nature and scope of our intellectual powers, including those powers ascribed by Platonic rationalists.
[1] An unabridged version of this review that includes all footnotes and additional text is available at https://sites.google.com/site/johnbengson/Review_of_Chudnoff_on_Intuition.pdf.
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How Will Our Children Learn? Choosing Better Schools: Educational Excellence in Every Postcode
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HOW WILL OUR CHILDREN LEARN asks the big questions of what life is about. How will our children know what is important? How will we know that our children have at least learnt the basics? How did one State School for a decade become the property of the unionised staff room? Why did parents choose a new school in a dusty paddock – a school without tradition, money or resources?
This story of a teacher and principal affects us all. It is about choosing a better school for our children in every postcode across Australia.
This is a book about Public Education, its importance and how to better provide it. Public education fails in the lower socioeconomic areas of Australia: this story reveals what we need to know in order to provide effective schools, and what parents need to know to choose an effective school.
The author is a teacher, past Director of the Salisbury Education Centre, founding Principal of the largest school in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian College of Education, and, in the past decade, a practising Maths and Science teacher.
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Migration Memory Management with Batching and Limits
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Migrations are fraught with unexpected discoveries and issues. Fighting memory issues with particularly long or processing heavy migrations should not be another obstacle to overcome, however, that is often not the case.
For instance, I recently ran into this no matter how high I raised the PHP memory_limit or lowered the --limit flag value.
$ drush migrate:import example_migration --limit=1000
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 4244635648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 45056 bytes) in web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Statement.php on line 59
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 4244635648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 65536 bytes) in vendor/symfony/http-kernel/Controller/ArgumentResolver/DefaultValueResolver.php on line 23
It should be noted that the --limit flag, while extremely useful, does not reduce the number of rows loaded into memory. It simply limits the number of destination records created. The source data query has no LIMIT statement, and the processRow(Row $row) method in the source plugin class is still called for every row.
Batch Size
This is where query batch size functionality comes in. This functionality is located in \Drupal\migrate\Plugin\migrate\source\SqlBase and allows for the source data query to be performed in batches, effectively using SQL LIMIT statements.
This can be controlled in the source plugin class with via the batchSize property.
* {@inheritdoc}
protected $batchSize = 1000;
Alternatively, it can be set in the migration yml file with the batch_size property under the source definition.
batch_size: 10
plugin: example_migration_source
key: example_source_db
There are very few references that I could find in existing online documentation. I eventually discovered it via a passing reference in a issue queue discussion.
Once I knew what I was looking for, I went searching for how this worked and discovered several other valuable options in the migration SqlBase class.
* Sources whose data may be fetched via a database connection.
* Available configuration keys:
* - database_state_key: (optional) Name of the state key which contains an
* array with database connection information.
* - key: (optional) The database key name. Defaults to 'migrate'.
* - target: (optional) The database target name. Defaults to 'default'.
* - batch_size: (optional) Number of records to fetch from the database during
* each batch. If omitted, all records are fetched in a single query.
* - ignore_map: (optional) Source data is joined to the map table by default to
* improve migration performance. If set to TRUE, the map table will not be
* joined. Using expressions in the query may result in column aliases in the
* JOIN clause which would be invalid SQL. If you run into this, set
* ignore_map to TRUE.
* For other optional configuration keys inherited from the parent class, refer
* to \Drupal\migrate\Plugin\migrate\source\SourcePluginBase.
* …
abstract class SqlBase extends SourcePluginBase implements ContainerFactoryPluginInterface, RequirementsInterface {
Migration Limit
Despite the “flaws” of the --limit flag, it still offers us a valuable tool in our effort to mitigate migration memory issues and increase migration speed. My anecdotal evidence from timing responses from the --feedback flag shows a much high migration throughput for the initial items, and a gradually tapering speed as a migration progresses.
I also encountered an issue where the migration memory reclamation process eventually failed and the migration ground to a halt. I was not alone in this issue, MediaCurrent found and documented this issue in their post Memory Management with Migrations in Drupal 8.
Memory usage is 2.57 GB (85% of limit 3.02 GB), reclaiming memory. [warning] Memory usage is now 2.57 GB (85% of limit 3.02 GB), not enough reclaimed, starting new batch [warning] Processed 1007 items (1007 created, 0 updated, 0 failed, 0 ignored) - done with 'nodes_articles' The migration would then cease to continue importing items as if it had finished, while there were still several hundred thousand nodes left to import. Running the import again would produce the same result.
I adapted the approach MediaCurrent showed in their post to work with Drush 9. It solved the memory issue, improved migration throughput, and provided a standardized way to trigger migrations upon deployment or during testing.
The crux of the solution is to repeatedly call drush migrate:import in a loop with a low --limit value to keep the average item processing time lower.
Our updated version of the script is available in a gist.
So the next time you are tasked with an overwhelming migration challenge, you no longer need to worry about memory issues. Now you can stick to focusing on tracking down the source data, processing and mapping it, and all of the other challenges migrations tend to surface.
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New Study Rejects Claim That Where Abortion Is Illegal, Maternal Mortality Is High (3048)
Chile, where abortion is against the law, has the second-lowest rate in North and South America.
SANTIAGO, Chile — Women die in greater numbers when they have to resort to illegal abortions. So, to save lives, it’s imperative to decriminalize abortion in countries around the world.
That’s been the argument of international pro-abortion groups for years.
But there’s one problem: the numbers behind their claim turn out to be gross exaggerations.
So says an American-Chilean research team using statistics from Chile covering the years 1957-2007. They claim the numbers are far more reliable than those touted by pro-abortion activists and refute their argument and the less-than-reliable research it is based on.
The new study shows a steady decline in maternal mortality from abortion throughout the 50-year study period — a decline that continued unabated after abortion was made illegal in 1989.
“This is a pretty powerful statement that you can really push maternal mortality rates down without changing access to abortion,” said Dr. John Thorp of the University of North Carolina, co-author of the Chilean study.
Improvement in education levels was the key factor in reduced maternal mortality, concluded the Chilean researchers, giving the country the second-lowest rate in the Americas, 16.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, behind only Canada.
Asked about the evidence to the contrary cited by abortion-access advocates, such as Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute, Thorp said, “If the Guttmacher view of the world were correct, you would expect to find abortion mortality at least plateauing in Chile, if not going up. In fact, it went down.”
The study’s co-author, Dr. Elard Koch, an epidemiologist at the University of Chile, told the Register that the marked decline in maternal mortality both generally and attributable to abortion was due to “public policies leading to higher education levels and better maternal-health facilities.”
How can education reduce maternal mortality? Thorp offers an example: “In Malawi, it is the mother-in-law who decides what health care the mother gets; but if she is uneducated, she may hold to the cultural belief that a difficult labor is a sign of infidelity and reject hospital care for her daughter-in-law.”
Reviewing research on the issue from African and Latin American countries where abortion has been legalized, the Chilean researchers found none of the evidence claimed by the Guttmacher Institute and others: that legalization of abortion reduced maternal mortality in these regions.
The Guttmacher Institute, originally created as Planned Parenthood’s research arm but now independent in governance, remains committed as ever, according to its website, to advancing “sexual and reproductive health and rights.”
Its position is clearly made in the January issue of Lancet, where its researchers, led by Gilda Sedgh, report, “Abortion mortality fell greatly after the liberalization of the abortion law in South Africa. In Nepal, where abortion was made legal on broad grounds in 2002, abortion-related complications fell from 54% to 28% of all maternal morbidities treated at relevant facilities between 1998 and 2009.”
The same study reported that the world abortion rate declined from 35 per 1,000 women per year in 1995 to 29 in 2003, but then stalled, while the proportion of “unsafe” to “safe” abortions had increased.
Koch responded that his team “completely ruled out … the methodology described by Sedgh,” which extrapolates national totals from numbers gathered from different types of sources, such as hospitals, surveys and other academic studies.
Major Overestimation
“Such methodology leads to a major overestimation in the number of clandestine abortions,” Koch told the Register. Moreover, such overestimations then become ammunition for political campaigns for abortion legalization. In Mexico in 2006, said Koch, “Guttmacher researchers employing the same methodology estimated between 700,000 and 1 million clandestine abortions per year. This study was pivotal for the legalization of abortion in Mexico” in April 2007.
But in the four years following legalization, abortions have totaled only 75,176.
Another example of the shaky nature of Third World data came on May 16, in the World Health Organization’ s annual report, “Who Health Statistics.” In 2008, WHO suddenly reduced its annual, global maternal mortality estimate from 542,000 to 358,000. Now it has dropped it further to 290,000.
As for Guttmacher’s attribution of the decline in maternal death in countries such as Nepal to decriminalization of abortion there, Koch said Guttmacher has failed to factor in other likely causes of reductions in maternal death, especially increased literacy and education. And in South Africa, said Koch, the maternal death rate has increased, not decreased, since decriminalization.
But Guttmacher’s analysts responded that it was the Koch-Thorp study’s methodology that was lacking.
According to the Guttmacher Institute’s team, Chile’s abortion laws before criminalization in 1989 were already very restrictive and permitted abortion only to save a woman’s life, which is rarely necessary. Therefore, criminalization would have little impact on maternal mortality or abortion mortality.
As well, the Chilean study’s reliance on vital statistics is unreliable, say the Guttmacher analysts, because women generally underreport illegal abortions for fear of criminal charges. It is just this problem with underreporting that has led to the development of the methodology used by Guttmacher, relying on women’s surveys and data from sample hospitals and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Koch said he was aware his team’s conclusions are “controversial with regards the real impact of the illegal status of abortion on maternal health, but they are supported by actual and objective data.” He denied the Guttmacher Institute’s claim that Chile’s law was not severely restrictive before 1989 but allowed “therapeutic” abortions. In fact, for three quarters of the period under review, it was the single most common cause of maternal mortality by far, hovering around one third of all maternal deaths and only shrinking far below that mark to 6% after it was made completely illegal.
He also points out that the study shows Chile gradually progressing to one of the lowest rates of maternal mortality without liberalizing its abortion law. “This 50-year natural experiment provides strong evidence,” he said, “for first time, that a liberal law of abortion is unnecessary to improve maternal health: it is a matter of scientific fact in our study.”
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Also Saudi Arabia.
Abortion is very rare, as is maternal mortality.
This is due to Moslem respect for life as a gift of God.
Strictly, abortion is not illedal in Saudi Arabia. Moslems allow an abortion in the event the woman’s life is gravely endangered by the pregnancy. However, such abortions must be individually approved by the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, His Majesty King Abdullah, Last year there were 2 legal abortions. In order to safegaurd innocent life, illegal abortions are punished with significant severity.
The health care system in Saudi Arabia is efficient, well funded, and available to all. The highest priority is placed on caring for preganat women.
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If you have a website you have, not doubt, received many email offering you website design, search engine optimization, search engine marketing and social media marketing services.
If your own and operate many websites like we do at Kona Impact, you will receive tens of these email a day, as well as a handful of cold calls and other pitches.
How do you know what is a genuine and useful service?
Here are a few that should definitely avoid:
1. Search engine submission. The value of this is almost nothing. It used to be that we had to tell the search engines to review our website. Nowadays there are only three search engines of value: Google, Yahoo and Bing, with Yahoo and Bing sharing data. They control well over 90% of searches, so take a few minutes and go to the Google , Yahoo �and Bing and you�ll have done what you need to do.
2. �Guaranteed #1 on Google.� This cannot be guaranteed and any company that does is lying. Note: you can buy ads on the search engines, but you will only be shown as long as you keep paying.
3. �We reviewed your website and found several problems�� Chances are they have not reviewed your website, and chances are your website does not have any or many critical errors. All websites have some technically incorrect code or design elements, but the true issue is: do these �errors� affect usability in important ways?� Chances are �no.� The content on your website most likely can improve and this is where hiring professional help can make a difference.
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We advise most of our clients not waste their time responding to spam email because 99% of them are for services that do not work in the long term.
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This is a course on the theory of exchange media. Exchange media are objects that facilitate exchange, in particular, intertemporal exchange (financial markets). Money is a medium of exchange because it permits trades that might not otherwise take place. A similar role is played by assets that are used extensively as collateral to support credit arrangements.
Banking refers to those activities related to managing the payments system. Private banks create money out of less liquid assets. The same is true of central banks. The short-term lending arrangements characteristic of the repo market (shadow banking sector) can also be viewed in this light.
Exchange media play no meaningful role in neoclassical economic theory, which assumes (among other things) that people can be trusted to keep their promises and, moreover, that they are always truthful. A lack of commitment (trust) and asymmetric information (potentially misreporting private information) make financial markets much more interesting than neoclassical theory assumes. Financial markets would operate at much lower volume without exchange media. Does the expanded volume of financial market activity induced by the production of exchange media also leave the financial system vulnerable to "financial crisis" events? And, if so, what types of intervention are desirable?
The 3 exams and the term paper each count for 25% of your final grade. If it is to your benefit, I will drop your worst exam and give your term paper a 50% weight.
Getting started on your term paper: It's never too soon to start thinking about topics. One way to do this is to think about questions that you find interesting and/or puzzling. An easy way to do this is to read the newspaper and popular economic blog sites. Look around in the literature and see what has been done in these areas. Identify the issues or questions that you think might be worthy of further investigation. Meet with me to discuss your ideas. Settle on a question. This last point cannot be overemphasized: You should be able to explain to an audience what question you wish to answer and why you believe the question to be important. I would like to see you apply the tools developed in class to answer your question. No page restrictions--use as many pages as you need to answer the question in a competent manner.
Course textbooks: The main textbook is Modeling Monetary Economies, 3rd edition. Authors: Bruce Champ, Scott Freeman and Joseph Haslag. This is a beautiful textbook that uses the OLG model as the framework of analysis. I will also draw on materials fromMonetary Theory and Policy, by Carl Walsh. Advanced students may also want to consult Money, Payments, and Liquidity, by Ed Nosal and Guillaume Rocheteau. There is also a free e-book by Robert Wright and Vincenzo Quadrini that might be of some interest: Money and Banking.For the history and free-banking buff, I recommend Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, by Jesus Huerta de Soto.
Course Content
INTRODUCTION
Money is a object that circulates widely as a medium of exchange. Monetary exchange is sometimes said to be needed to overcome a "lack of coincidence in wants" that is necessary for bilateral exchange to take place. I show that the lack of coincidence in wants is neither necessary nor sufficient to rationalize monetary exchange. Limited commitment is necessary to rationalize exchange media. The theory suggests that there is an economic equivalence between money and collateral. (Note: a possible term paper topic would be to explain under what circumstances money dominates collateralized debt, and vice-versa.)
THE BASIC OLG MODEL
The OLG model was developed independently by Maurice Allais in 1947 (see Maulinvaud) and Paul Samuelson in 1958. The setup is ideally suited to examining gift-giving economies and money as a record-keeping device. The first reference to the latter idea appears to be Ostroy 1973.
The (basic) OLG structure shares with the Wicksell structure a complete absence of bilateral gains to trade. In fact, the main difference between the two is the time horizon (infinite in the former, and finite in the latter). Related to this is the assumption that commitment is lacking entirely in the OLG framework, but is only limited (to one person) in the Wicksell model. The infinite time horizon is necessary to explain the use of fiat money (since fiat money cannot be valued in the final period, at least, assuming voluntary trade). But it is not so clear that we should be obsessed with fiat money; in fact, most monetary instruments in history have been at least partially backed (see, e.g., Champ 2007 below). There is also the question of why fiat money is necessary when other assets (potential monetary instruments) exist.
As in any economic model, there is the question of what policy can accomplish. It is well known that if we give the government (in our models) enough policy instruments and a good motive, then most economic problems disappear. Most of the time, I adopt the fiction of a benevolent government with the realistic assumption of limited instruments. A restriction that I commonly employ is that of voluntary trade. That is, there are limits to what society can force individuals to do. Among other things, this typically rules out the use of lump-sum taxes (although taxes relating to the volume of trade are permitted). The assumption of sequential rationality rules out commitment on the part of agents. Sometimes I also restrict attention to linear mechanisms (like competitive equilibrium).
MONEY AND CAPITAL IN THE OLD MODELIn this section, I introduce an asset in the form of reproducible capital (an alternative would have been to introduce a fixed asset, like a Lucas tree). Because physical capital is (among other things) a store of value, it can potentially serve as an exchange medium. In the OLG model, the laissez-faire competitive equilibrium potentially exhibits a "dynamic inefficiency." As usual, this inefficiency, which leads to an overaccumulation of capital, can be corrected by an appropriate fiscal policy. One fiscal policy entails the introduction of interest-bearing government debt (money), with interest financed by lump-sum tax revenue.
The dynamic inefficiency that is possible in an OLG model also emergences in more standard macro models with debt constraints (e.g., see Woodford 1986 below). A debt constraint is a restriction that arises from limited commitment. For example, an agent may wish to borrow using future wages as collateral, but the physical (or legal) properties associated with human capital may make it difficult to do so.
In the OLG model, a Lucas tree that can be used as private money drives fiat money (zero-interest money) out of circulation. The same would be true of interest-bearing government debt. Fiat money cannot coexist with another asset with identical risk-characteristics that dominates in rate of return.
NOMINAL DEBT AND PRICE-LEVEL SHOCKSMost debt is nominal--it is not indexed to the price-level. When inflation is low and stable (easily forecastable), nominal debt is of little concern. But a large and persistent price-level shock (modeled here as a monetary policy shock, but could be the consequence of any type of shock) may lead to a "debt-overhang" phenomenon that depresses economic activity far into the future. If debt-renegotiation is costly, monetary policy in the form of a price-level target may help smooth the impact of such a shock.
MONEY AND BANKING A distinguishing characteristic of banks (relative to other intermediaries) is that their liabilities are demandable (demand deposit liabilities). Specifically, bank liabilities are convertible into cash on demand and at par (resembles an American put option).
Overview: The goal is to study theoretical frameworks that can help us interpret and otherwise make sense of recent (and historical) financial market developments and to see what these theories suggest in the way of appropriate interventions in (and following) a financial market crisis. We will begin by reviewing the foundations of monetary exchange and the role of banks as suppliers of liquidity. At some point we will discuss the role of central banks, the emergence of the "shadow banking" sector (repo market), the special properties of exchange media, including collateral objects, and the role such objects play in a financial crisis.
Grading will be based on the following:
Midterm 1. Thursday, June 14, 2012
Midterm 2. Thursday, July 05, 2012
Midterm 3. Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Term paper. Due one week following the last day of classes The 3 exams and the term paper will each count for 25% of your final grade. Note: there will be no final exam for this class.
Getting started on your term paper: It's never too soon to start thinking about topics. One way to do this is to think about questions that you find interesting and/or puzzling. An easy way to do this is to read the newspaper and popular economic blog sites. Look around in the literature and see what has been done in these areas. Identify the issues or questions that you think might be worthy of further investigation. Meet with me to discuss your ideas. Settle on a question. This last point cannot be overemphasized: You should be able to explain to an audience what question you wish to answer and why you believe the question to be important. I would like to see you apply the tools developed in class to answer your question. No page restrictions--use as many pages as you need to answer the question in a competent manner.
Course textbooks: The main textbook is Modeling Monetary Economies, 3rd edition. Authors: Bruce Champ, Scott Freeman and Joseph Haslag. This is a beautiful textbook that uses the OLG model as the framework of analysis. Advanced students may also want to consult Money, Payments, and Liquidity, by Ed Nosal and Guillaume Rocheteau. There is also a free e-book by Robert Wright and Vincenzo Quadrini that might be of some interest: Money and Banking.For the history and free-banking buff, I recommend Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, by Jesus Huerta de Soto.
Course Outline
1. Introduction.Money (def): an object that circulates widely as a form of payment. What are the properties of an environment that make monetary exchange more efficient? A lack of double coincidence of wants (LCDW) is necessary, but not sufficient (e.g., an Arrow-Debreu market can easily handle a LDCW). When people give up a good or service now, they want something in return. In a world with perfect commitment, a promise to deliver a good or service in the future (to either the seller, or someone else) can serve as a form of payment. Such promises, however, need not circulate. When commitment is limited, the same sort of promises (possibly limited in level and scope) can be used as a form of payment, if the promises are supported by the threat of a credible punishment (e.g., trigger strategies that ostracize people who do not keep their promises). The limited commitment friction alone, however, still does not imply a demand for a circulating exchange medium (although it does give rise to a demand for exchange media in the form of collateral assets). Since debt arrangements under limited commitment require record-keeping (generally, a set of individual trading histories), the absence of record-keeping (the existence of anonymous agents) induces a demand for circulating exchange media. Sellers can now ask buyers to "show them the money" (as opposed to, show me your credit history). In this sense, money is a form of memory.
2. Overlapping Generations (OLG) models. People have a tendency to interpret the OLG environment too literally. Personally, I like OLG models, mainly because they are simple, and because money is valued for precisely the same reason it is valued in any good monetary model. Moreover, one should keep in mind that Woodford (JET 1986) demonstrates that debt-constrained economies possess dynamics that are similar to OLG models. Debt-constraints (limited commitment) form the foundation of monetary exchange.
5. Quasilinear models. Ricardo Lagos and Randy Wright came up with a simple, yet brilliant, idea for simplifying the analysis of monetary economies. Their idea now serves as the basic framework for a growing body of literature.
Overview: This will be more a course of selected topics, rather than a course on monetary theory per se. Of course, the topics will relate to monetary theory, even if the link is not immediately apparent. There is still much work to be done in the area; so PhD students in particular should find much fruitful ground for potential thesis chapters.
Grading: There will be one midterm exam (20%); one final exam (30%); and a term paper (50%).
Topic 1: Nominal Contracts
Why are nominal contracts frequently not indexed to the price-level? I have only ever seen one paper that comes close to providing a logically consistent answer to this question (whether the argument is persuasive, however, is a different matter).
The striking feature of a debt contract is that payments are fixed over a wide range of circumstances, although occasionally, as in default, less than full payment is made. Explaining why standard debt contracts are so prevalent poses a challenge for conventional economic theory. In an Arrow-Debreu world, for example, state-contingent payments are the norm. Moreover, in many conventional settings, a Miller-Modigliani theorem holds so that debt is not essential. Monetary theorists should concern themselves with the theory of debt as virtually all monetary instruments take this form.
We will begin our investigation by exploring a simple (static) class of models. The basic idea seems to have been formalized first by Robert Townsend (1979). I recommend reading at least the introduction of his paper.
Virtually all monetary instruments embed within them an American put option. This is a debt instrument that allows the holder to redeem the debt object for some other object (the object of redemption) at a prespecified price and on demand. This is the way modern bank money works: your bank demand deposit contract allows you to redeem your bank money (make a withdrawal) whenever you want for government cash and (frequently) at par. In the U.S. Free-Banking Era (1836-63), chartered banks issued paper notes that were redeemable for specie (gold and silver coin). Governments frequently issued money redeemable in gold (gold standard systems). Currency boards that peg the local currency to a foreign currency typically allow for redemption on demand. Even money in the form of specie can be thought of as embedding a put option (the holder is free to melt down the coin for its metal value).
What explains this property of some forms of debt? Calomiris and Kahn (AER, 1991) offer one explanation that relies on the idea of demandable debt as a mechanism to discipline the debt-issuer from absconding with deposited funds. In their model, depositors can exercise a right to liquidate their deposits for no apparent reason (i.e., if they receive information that leads them to grow overly suspicious of the bank's probable future behavior). This is not quite the same as withdrawing money from a bank say, for transactions purposes--but it does identify one possible role that the threat of mass redemption (i.e., a bank-run) might play in disciplining the banking system. Overall, this is a very well-written paper, but the formal model is not as elegant as it might be--maybe you can do better.
Another potential explanation for institutions that issue demandable debt instruments is to be found in the classic Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model. This model has been used extensively to explain how a banking system might give rise to self-fulfilling "bank run" equilibria. However, much of the recent literature demonstrates that the original Diamond-Dybvig model permits bank-run equilibria only under some ad hoc assumptions about contract structure.
This idea goes against every libertarian bone in my body: Can people be made better off by restricting their trading activity? Evidently, the answer is yes; at least, under some circumstances. The basic idea goes back at least to Hart (1975). Jacklin (1987) made the same point in the context of the Diamond-Dybvig model.
O.K., enough of that stuff (for the time-being, anyway). It's now time to start talking about money. Money can be defined in general terms as an object that circulates as a medium of exchange. You may have noticed that none of the papers cited above discusses such an object. At this point, I want to tackle the question of "fiat money"--which is defined as an intrinsically useless token object (think of government-issued cash). Fiat money is sometimes referred to as "outside money;" which is to be distinguished from "inside money" (financial claims issued by the private sector that circulate as a means of payment); see Lagos (2006) "Inside and Outside Money."
Some people question whether there is even such a thing as fiat money; see "The Myths of Fiat Money" by Dror Goldberg (I am sympathetic to his argument). But setting this issue aside, let us imagine that fiat money exists. Then the great theoretical challenge is to explain how an intrinsically useless token may nevertheless come to have value in exchange. We are not going to find the answer in Debreu's Theory of Value (incidentally, the Arrow-Debreu market structure can handle an absence of double-coincidence of wants very easily). The key frictions that give rise to a circulating medium are presently identified to be: [1] limited commitment; and [2] limited record-keeping (rendering at least a subset of agents "anonymous"). The record-keeping function of money goes back at least to Ostroy (1973); see "The Informational Efficiency of Monetary Exchange." Townsend (1989) elaborates on this idea in "Currency and Credit in a Private Information Economy." The point is nicely summarized by Kocherlakota (1998) in "The Technological Role of Fiat Money."
I am not going to spend any time talking about "Search Models of Money." This may seem odd to you, given the preponderance of monetary models based on the search framework. Here, I can refer to the work of Randy Wright--the leading developer of this strand of the literature. As it turns out, money has value in a search environment precisely because that environment naturally gives rise to the important limited commitment and anonymity frictions highlighted above; and not because of the search frictions per se (although, the search frictions do give rise to other interesting interactions).
The asset side of a bank's balance sheet looks similar to many other companies (investments in capital projects and cash reserves). The distinguishing characteristic appears to be in the structure of their liabilities, a good part of which consists of liabilities convertible into cash on demand (demand deposit liabilities).
What determines the equilibrium nominal exchange rate between two fiat currencies? Should countries allow their exchange rate to float, or should they consider pegging their currency to some other currency? Should some countries consider abandoning their own currency altogether in favor of another? Or should countries consider joining a currency union? | mini_pile | {'original_id': '0d2265571e05ad602af1cde69fae949fd0118947b671c845a0d8771feb3e269a'} |
Antagonistic effect of cocultivation on mitomycin C-induced aberration rate in cells of a patient with Fanconi's anemia and in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
The rate of spontaneous chromosomal aberrations in fibroblasts of a patient with Fanconi's anemia was slightly reduced after cocultivation with Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. However, after mitomycin C treatment, a significant reduction of induced chromosomal damage was found in the FA cells while a significant increase was observed in the CHO cells. This antagonistic effect could be attributed to some diffusible agent(s). The results are discussed with respect to the underlying mechanism of the disease. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '91fb715aeaff8d76fd1960bf12277d4beccae32b93328314635bc684193ff18f'} |
Analyzing Hillary Clinton’s Choice For Vice President: Most Likely To Be A Sitting US Senator
It is two days until Democrat Hillary Clinton announces her Vice Presidential running mate, and it is almost certain, looking at history, that it will be a sitting United States Senator.
If one looks back historically from 1944 onward, every VP nominee except one and a half times (to be explained in next paragraph) was a sitting Senator.
The only exceptions were Sargent Shriver (second choice after Senator Thomas Eagleton withdrew over his mental shock treatments being revealed) in 1972, and Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and those were the two worst Democratic defeats ever in their history.
So 16 out of 18 elections, a US Senator ran for Vice President:
Harry Truman 1944
Alben Barkley 1948
John Sparkman 1952
Estes Kefavuer 1956
Lyndon B. Johnson 1960
Hubert Humphrey 1964
Edmund Muskie 1968
Walter Mondale 1976 and 1980
Lloyd Bentsen 1988
Al Gore 1992 and 1996
Joe Lieberman 2000
John Edwards 2004
Joe Biden 2008 and 2012
Notice that 8 of the above 13 Senators who ran for VP were from the South or Border states, and two were from Minnesota–and keep this in mind as you read further down on this entry.
So it would seem to this blogger that, based on history, one can assume that three cabinet officers—Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (a recent name added to the mix), would be unlikely to be chosen.
So that would leave the following as possible choices, all US Senators:
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Cory Booker of New Jersey
Tim Kaine of Virginia
Sherrod Brown of Ohio
Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Al Franken of Minnesota
The problem is that Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Ohio have Republican Governors, so at least temporarily, a seat would be lost by Republican appointment, which could be crucial to organization of the US Senate next year.
So it would seem to this blogger that Tim Kaine is the most likely choice, followed by Amy Klobuchar (bringing a woman to the ticket, but not the highly controversial Elizabeth Warren).
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Q:
Sencha Touch 2 Dynamic Items Array
In the following example, I would like to replace the hard-coded items array with a call to a jsonstore with with same items read dynamically. I have tried referencing the store through xtype but get an error that Object has no method 'getItemId' - please let me know what I am doing wrong and many thanks for your help
Ext.define("MyApp.view.Main", {
extend: 'Ext.ux.slidenavigation.View',
requires: [
'Ext.Container',
'Ext.MessageBox',
'Ext.Panel',
'Ext.Toolbar',
'Ext.event.publisher.Dom'
],
config: {
fullscreen: true,
slideSelector: 'x-toolbar',
selectSlideDuration: 200,
list: {
maxDrag: 400,
width: 200,
items: [{
xtype: 'toolbar',
docked: 'top',
ui: 'light',
title: {
title: 'Navigation',
centered: false,
width: 200,
left: 0
}
}]
},
/***************************************************************/
/* Want to replace this items array with dynamic call to store */
/***************************************************************/
items: [{
title: 'Item 1',
slideButton: {
selector: 'toolbar'
},
items: [{
xtype: 'toolbar',
title: 'Item 1',
docked: 'top'
},{
xtype: 'panel',
html: '<img src="resources/images/guide.jpg" width="100%" />'
}]
},{
title: 'Item 2',
slideButton: {
selector: 'toolbar'
},
items: [{
xtype: 'toolbar',
title: 'Item 2',
docked: 'top'
},{
xtype: 'panel',
html: '<img src="resources/images/guide.jpg" width="100%" />'
}]
}]
}
Store sample
Ext.define('MyApp.store.Navigation', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Store',
alias: 'widget.navstore',
requires: [
'MyApp.model.Navigation'
],
config: {
model: 'InspectionApp.model.Navigation',
storeId: 'navStore',
proxy: {
type: 'ajax',
url: '/path/to/navigation.json',
reader: {
type: 'json',
rootProperty: 'items'
}
},
grouper: {
property: 'group',
sortProperty: 'groupOrder'
}
}
});
json sample
[
{
"title": "Item 1",
"slideButton": "{selector: 'toolbar'}",
"items": "[{xtype: 'toolbar',title: 'Item 1',docked: 'top'},{xtype: 'panel',html: '<img src='resources/images/guide.jpg' width='100%' />'}]",
"handler": ""
},
{
"title": "Item 2",
"slideButton": "{selector: 'toolbar'}",
"items": "[{xtype: 'toolbar',title: 'Item 2',docked: 'top'},{xtype: 'panel',html: '<img src='resources/images/guide.jpg' width='100%' />'}]",
"handler": ""
}
]
A:
Assuming your store is loading correctly, you can get a reference to it by calling
Ext.getStore('navStore')
or by assigning your store to a variable:
var yourStore = Ext.define('MyApp.store.Navigation', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Store',
alias: 'widget.navstore',
requires: [
'MyApp.model.Navigation'
],
config: {
model: 'InspectionApp.model.Navigation',
storeId: 'navStore',
proxy: {
type: 'ajax',
url: '/path/to/navigation.json',
reader: {
type: 'json',
rootProperty: 'items'
}
},
grouper: {
property: 'group',
sortProperty: 'groupOrder'
}
}
});
To populate the items object I would put it in a container:
{
xtype: 'container',
id: 'container_id',
}
then
for (var i = 0; Ext.getStore('navStore').getCount(); ++i){
var record = Ext.getStore('navStore').getAt(i);
var myComponent = Ext.create(...
//make the component you want to add with the data from the record
);
Ext.ComponentQuery.query('#container_id')[0].add(myComponent);
}
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Why HIPAA training matters
Healthcare providers, employers with self-funded health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and business associates of covered entities are required to implement safeguards that ensure the continued privacy and security of all the personally identifiable protected health information that your organization collects. In this presentation, McAfee & Taft attorney Paul Ross discusses why covered entities and their business associates must have comprehensive HIPAA training programs designed for all the various levels in the workforce, and what justifies this investment of time and money into a training program.
JurisIQ Training
March 17, 2017
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Who Killed Journalism? You Did
We're easy targets, those of us in the PR field. It's easy to say that we're slimy, dumb and get in the way of good journalism. Over my PR career I've worked with my share of morons and liars.
But not all of those were in PR, many were also in journalism. Many were also in technology. Many were in printing. Many were in auto repair or many were investors.
Yes, morons and liars are everywhere.
So when an unnamed PR pro writes that many PR folks really aren't that good, he's right. But he's also just enjoying the fact that PR people are an easy target. Why? Because really, we shouldn't exist.
Let me explain: the theory goes that if you have a good product or a good story, then you'll get exposure. People who report the news will find you, they'll do the digging and the work to grab the important nuggets of information and present those to you.
You believe that? Really? Are you sure?
I've had reporters tell me that they believed a certain topic was very important to their readers, but they couldn't report on it because they just didn't have time. I've gone to others with a story and been asked "can you just send the release?" Then a story would appear without any interview or additional reporting. Is this the fault of the PR pro?
Yesterday I attended a forum on the First Amendment at Suffolk Law School that included Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eileen McNamara, Media Critic an all-around-good-guy Dan Kennedy, leader of the Nieman Foundation Ann Marie Lapinski and Linda Greenhouse, whose long list of accomplishments doesn't begin to sum her up.
All agreed that truth is a major casualty of modern reporting. McNamara lamented the fact that today's reporters don't seem to do research in their own archives. They lamented the use of Beltway Insiders who regularly offer up quotes just to provide a story with "the other side" of an issue.
But Dan Kennedy made the point that sometimes sources have one key selling point: they return calls when you're on deadline.
This is a real problem in political reporting. It's also a problem in technology PR. Too often reporters take on the easy story. Audrey Watters, in writing why she left Read Write Web, noted that no one seems to care about Education Technology. This is a huge story overall, something that impacts not just parents and students, but our future as a nation. She writes:
What I learned -- and what I continue to be reminded of with unfortunate frequency: the tech blogosphere really doesn't notice education stories. Not really. Not unless teachers do something untoward on a blog. Not unless a tech CEO, past or present, makes a major education-oriented donation. Not unless there's an rumored iPhone 5 angle involved.
Back at the forum, when I stood up to ask a question, I mentioned that I work in PR. A woman laughed. Yes, she LAUGHED. Yet, everyone in that room had been subject to PR at that moment and didn't know it. The forum itself was an attempt to raise the visibility and importance of Suffolk Law School, especially among its alumni. That's because Suffolk operates in a competitive environment that includes Harvard, BU and BC, all with law schools that have strong alumni networks. As a proof point, consider that Greg Gatlin, a former Boston Herald staffer and current PR flack for the school, was on the panel.
So who is at fault for the lousy and lazy journalism? Is it the journalists? Is it their editors? Is it the PR people who feed them crap?
No. It's us, the media consumers.
You see, reporters write stories that get them noticed, stories that will satisfy their editors. Editors are under pressure to satisfy their bosses, the publishers. They need to drive traffic to the website, grab clicks, gain conversation, build "mindshare" and all those other marketing things. They do this by writing stories that are attractive to an audience.
If you write about the iPad, your clicks go up. If you write about education technology, you can hear the crickets. Write about large constitutional issues, no one cares. Write about Rush Limbaugh and you're front and center.
So, do you want to blame PR folks for being stupid? Sure, go ahead. Want to blame reporters for being lazy? Feel free.
But next time you click on a headline, think about why you're doing it and what really matters to you. Then consider if you really want to click there.
What Boston Really Needs....
In The Devil Wears Prada there's this wonderful scene in which Meryl Streep tries to decide on a belt. Anne Hathaway, as her assistant snickers at the prospect of deciding between two belts that look very similar. What she receives next is a smack-down.
"You think this has nothing to do with you," Streep's Miranda Priestly says. She then launches into an evenly-delivered soliloquy that points out how the "blue" sweater Hathaway casually chose that morning is actually "cerulean," which had started at the height of fashion then trickled down through the fashion ecosystem representing "millions of dollars and countless jobs," until it landed in a discount bin and, eventually, this assistant's closet. "It sort of comical how you think you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing a sweater that's been selected for you..." she says.
Here in Boston engineers love to think that they make all the best stuff. That their technology is so great it doesn't need marketing. Because marketing doesn't make people take action. No, they say, it's the work that makes all the difference. Make a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Someone call Meryl Streep.
Often we dismiss this attitude as "well, they're just engineers" and we let it go. The issues trickle down even to those companies that do spend time and money on marketing. They resist messaging, insist they know how to tell a better story or refuse changes that could make a huge difference in their bottom line. It's all an effort to put technology first.
Ideally, they need to invest in marketing and PR. It needs to be factored into the funding rounds as a necessary part of the budget, even in small rounds.
Then there is the "celebrity" factor. Boston tends to shy away from that, but as a number of entrepreneurs point out in the Sunday Boston Globe, that's just what Boston needs. Says Ben Jabbawy, CEO of Privy:
Chances are if you’re not part of the tech community here, you’ve never heard of Wayfair or Gemvara. And that’s the problem. The Boston area needs to do a better job championing its little guys. We don’t have many giant anchor companies here, and oftentimes that’s understood to be a bad thing. Instead of collectively pining for Mark Zuckerberg to return to the Hub, we should focus on, promote, and celebrate the assets we do have: smaller companies and start-ups.
This shift in emphasis would help start-ups recruit and retain local graduates, and perhaps inspire graduating talent to take the risk of joining a start-up instead of taking lucrative corporate jobs.
So what does Boston need? We need to think more about marketing. We need to make our voices louder. In a way, we need our own "Mike Arrington" to lead the way.
Whenever I say this to people their response is "oh, we need a loud, arrogant, obnoxious guy that makes everyone fear his power?" No, I'm not saying that. But what we need is someone with the voice, skills and savvy to tell the world what Boston is all about. To hold up the great technology, ideas and companies that grow from the Boston ecosystem every day and tell the world why they need to pay attention. If this means that voice needs to be brash and obnoxious in order to cut through the clutter, then so be it.
Recently I spent some time hanging around with the guys at Evernote. This is a fascinating company made up of leadership that spent time running startups in Boston and then moved to the Valley. The company is growing like crazy and poised to make a leap from the technology world to the general populous. This is no small task.
Josh Kopelman recently spent some time in jury duty and used that as a way to get a focus group of non-tech folks:
Facebook is a great example of a company that made the leap, same with Apple (which doesn't consider itself a tech company) and Google. But what makes Evernote interesting is how marketing is so much a part of its DNA. Yes, Andrew Sinkov does a great job of marketing the company. He's an incredibly smart guy a lot of great ideas. But it's also a company churning out apps like Evernote Food and releasing Skitch for free as a way to extend its base.
If you listen to CEO Phil Libin speak, he doesn't tell you about the technology behind Evernote, he talks about bigger ideas of human memory and ways that technology can make our lives different. Sure, he spends time thinking about the technology itself, but the average person doesn't care about the technology. They just want it to do what you asked. They want a product.
But to get it in their hands, you need marketing. And so do we.
How are you measuring your PR?
Throughout my career companies have asked for coverage. They know what they want to say, they know what they want to promote, they know the sales figures they want to meet. They know they need PR.
They just aren't sure why.
Todd likes to say that the best thing about social media and modern PR is that you can measure everything. Oh, and the worst thing about social media and PR is that you can measure everything.
His point is that you may not be measuring the right thing.
Many of our clients focus on a single but very important measurement: website traffic. That is, does a media hit (online or offline) result in website traffic? There are multiple ways to measure this, whether it's looking at referrals, measuring traffic from a geographic location, looking at traffic numbers from a day with coverage versus a similar time period, or including twitter traffic generated by a particular piece of coverage. It can all go into that measurement.
But not every piece of media will drive traffic. For example, we've put clients in the big city publications that used to make clients drool, only to see little or no discernible traffic spike. The reason is simple: some big publications just don't provide links. No links, no traffic. Asking people to take an action (searching on a company name or finding a website) is a barrier to results.
So the question becomes, if a piece of coverage doesn't drive traffic, is it effective?
The answer isn't so simple.
Let's take the work we did for TeraDiode, a laser manufacturer in Littleton, Mass. As part of our outreach Xconomy's Greg Huang wrote a great piece. Thanks to some great writing that piece got "slashdotted."
If you just look at the traffic numbers, SlashDot drove quite a bit of traffic, though it tended to be low quality. Most of the users bounced and few knew anything about the type of lasers TeraDiode is in the business of building.
But that SlashDot hit helped the story get picked up by a number of other publications, like PhysOrg and R&D Magazine. The traffic from those sites had low bounce rates, high pages per visit and resulted in whitepaper downloads. It also caught the eye of a reporter at Jane's Defence Weekly, a primary target. It should be noted that Jane's doesn't include links in its coverage.
So, was SlashDot worth it? Yes, if you measure its broad impact, not just its direct impact.
Of course, most media programs won't have that kind of turnaround. A mention in a broad publication like the Boston Globe or Newsweek may not result in immediate impact. But its ancillary benefits include third-party validation and helping build credibility so you can gain bigger or more relevant coverage.
To get there, you need to plan for the long-run.
So what are the takeaways here?
1. Know what you're measuring -- Yes, you can easily measure site visits, but that may not be your only goals. You may also be looking for venture funding or doing some recruiting. You may simply be looking to build awareness. Different hits have different purposes and need to be measured with a different yardstick.
2. Have realistic expectations -- A single "hit" in a widely read publication isn't going to bring you thousands of new users. You need to keep your information flowing, both through your own content and by sharing others. Your primary goal is to build an audience, not just gain a short-term bump.
3. Know where PR Fits In -- Influencer relations is a part of the traffic-driving puzzle, but if you don't have a way to capture that traffic, then it's like going fishing with a hoop instead of a net. People should come to your site and know what to do next. Don't let them bounce, keep them warm.
4. Plan for the long haul -- It's tempting to measure PR on a week-by-week basis, but a program takes time to develop. A hit today in a small online publication may be what you need to move up to the bigger, more impressive and more traffic-driving publications down the road.
5. Understand where you belong -- While the Boston Globe may not yield major results for technology companies who want site traffic, I've spoken with consumer-goods companies that say a single piece their made their year. They needed awareness that later turned into sales. It's a very different measure. Another company may find that CMSWire drives the most relevant traffic. Success depends a long list of factors.
Why I'm Negative on Google Plus
I hate to be the one who brings a skunk to Google's party, but I'm not as bullish on Google Plus as the rest of the world. Yes, it's interesting and, in some cases, shows a remarkable touch for creating a wonderful user interface. Like others, I'm impressed with how you can put people in (asynchronous) circles. But people are finding even those to be a bit of a chore.
Facebook's biggest advantage right now is its utility. By utility I don't mean how I interact with software, but that it allows me to see information about people and companies I care about without much effort. When Amy Winehouse died this past weekend my Facebook feed lit up. Over on Google+ I saw a smattering of reaction, but really people were still talking about Google+.
In Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece about Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, he notes that Sandberg "would tell people that Facebook was a company driven by instinct and human relationships. The point, implicitly, was that Google was not."
Related back to Google+, it's beautiful and it has the social media elite excited by what it offers in terms of both control and design, but the big question is whether it gains the true utility.
Sure, it boasts plenty of users, but the big measure of any social network isn't the number of people who signed up, it's the number of times a day people share something. How many "shares" per person does it have? What types of information are likely to be shared? Apparently I'm not the only one noticing this. Apparently visitors are down over on Google+ as is the time on the site. Granted, this is still early and not indicative of much long-term. But it's still an interesting development for the site.
I sent a few friends invites thinking that with more people close to me I'd see more sharing. One put up one picture and commented how much easier it was than on Facebook. But then when she took a few days off her updates only showed up on Facebook. So for me to find out about her life, that's where I have to be. So long as that remains true, then my time on Google Plus remains limited as well.
My wife had the best comment of all. After looking at it for a few minutes she said "What do I do with it?" Frankly, after using Facebook and Twitter the answer should have been obvious. It wasn't. Keep in mind that what attracted her to Facebook was her friends, not just that they were using it, but that they were sharing information she wanted to know. Conversations around her would include "Oh, I saw on Facebook...."
Can this change? Certainly. But it's not going to be overnight, it will take years. Facebook is in place, unseating it isn't going to be easy.
Right now my social media diet includes a constantly running Twitter feed and regular checkins on Facebook (for an intermingling of personal information and news). If Google Plus doesn't build true utility, we'll end up waving goodbye.
Die, Embargo, Die! Die! Die!
InkHouse PR hosted a fascinating online discussion on Wednesday about the fate of the embargo. Hosted by Beth Monaghan, it included insights from Read Write Web's Marshall Kirkpatrick, Xconomy's Wade Roush, the Boston Globe's Scott Kirsner and USA Today's Jon Swartz.
If I were to sum up the whole discussion in a phrase it would come down to this: size matters. I'll get back to that.
The most interesting tidbit, however, was throw-away line from all four reporters that they don't bother with the press release wires. One reporter said he hadn't looked at BusinessWire or PR Newswire in about seven years. Wade noted that he sometimes uses it for archive purposes.
Even Beth seemed surprised at that answer. Of course, this is a long way from saying that the press release is dead. Kirsner, for example, still runs them on his "Read Scott's Email" page (though, obviously just a selection of those he receives) and reporters routinely ask me for them.
In fact, all four reporters noted that Twitter has become their news feed. Something reinforced just a short time later when Shaq announced his retirement on Twitter (with an associated video). Sorry ESPN, Shaq doesn't need your audience.
Twitter being a primary news feed for reporters is, on some level, a "no duh" moment. It is, in fact, pretty awesome and shows the power of Twitter both as a medium unto itself as well as its influence over "mainstream media." While Twitter is certainly not nearly as popular as Facebook, it is certainly influential. But that also leads to a number of concerns:
1. Twitter has a high signal-to-noise ratio -- Filtering Twitter to find the good stuff is a major hassle. Personally, I use Twitter lists (both public and private) to select information I want to find. I know that popular stuff rises to the top, but quite often I'll look at an individual's feed and find that I missed something interesting that happened weeks ago. How do reporters filter? What does this mean for their reporting?
2. Reporters can easily insulate themselves from information -- They can limit themselves to the people they follow as well as a few search terms. That's not everyone. Also, as mentioned above, Twitter is just a subset of a much larger population. Is it truly representative? In the tech world, maybe, but the broader world?
3. Twitter has a "blink and you missed it" issue -- information on Twitter rots very fast. My main feed scrolls by so fast to render it useless.
Still, it's the reality. A while back Bianca Bosker, tech editor at the Huffington Post, told me that she has two monitors on her desk: one is email, web browser and everything she needs for her job; the other runs Tweetdeck all day. Do the math, the power of being in her news feed and therefore winding up in one of her posts will pay off huge dividends in traffic.
As a related note, Kirkpatrick noted that the best way to get on his radar is to send him your RSS feed so he can follow it. He follows a massive number of blogs, but if being in front of the top editor at a top publication is important, then you need to keep your feed filled with information as to show up on his radar.
But what about the embargo? Well, Kirkpatrick loves them noting that it helps level the playing field so he has time to do his own reporting. As a smaller organization this is important to him, allowing him to compete with much larger and more well-funded organizations, like TechCrunch. The other reporters tended to take a much dimmer view of embargoes, Roush won't bother with them at all and Swartz prefers not to deal with them either, but Kirsner admitted that he'd take them if the news was big enough.
Frankly, that came up a few times. If the news is big enough, or the company issuing it is big enough, the "no embargo" policy flies out the window. It was mentioned that even TechCrunch would take an embargo from those companies and simply break it 15 minutes early, just because they can.
So, in this sense, size matters. When the PR team has the power they'll use it (and get their way), when the journalist has the power they'll use it to avoid taking the embargo. The topic of offering exclusives came up as an alternative, but all the reporters were uncomfortable with that, saying it makes them feel as if they're being controlled by the PR machine.
My take on all this remains the same. Most of my clients are smaller and tend to be more concerned about getting coverage than about timing it. So while we would bring news out to reporters and prebrief them, I'd rarely put them under embargo. Of course, sometimes the client wants the assurance, so you do it. But I believe the news must be big enough to warrant it, and that's a judgement call.
So what does this all mean? Well, a few things:
1. A news release isn't enough -- You need a content plan to make things work. Yes, a news release can help (and still does drive SEO as well as some coverage from vertical publications) but if your goal is bigger coverage you need more.
2. Build relationships -- This goes for all influencers, online and off. Reporters are part of the influence chain.
3. Integrate content -- Your blog is your friend. Your Twitter feed is your friend. Use them, build them.
4. Finally: if you have real news by all means put it out. Reporters are smart, they know when it's something real and when it isn't.... mostly.
With apologies to Tom Foremski.
Death of the Twitter Celebrity
**Editor's Note - Fresh Ground is pleased to welcome Kristin Grages to our team. In addition to doing great work for our clients, she'll poke her head in here from time to time to talk about influencer relations, among other things.**
Much has been made of the Twitter following some celebrities have. Millions of people follow Kim Kardashian and Ryan Seacrest, reading daily about their lives and latest projects. Sometimes interesting, sometimes not, their voices are heard by millions.
That voice can be useful. Celebrity (and twitter) can be put to good, productive use; raising money by pumping up (and pimping out) particular causes. Pleas go out daily from celebrities for their latest pet charity, often to the betterment of those organizations.
For the latest celebri-twitter campaign, a number of high profile celebrities (with sky high twitter followings) came up with a new strategy. They'd "kill" themselves on twitter and await resurrection by donation. "X celebrity sacrificed her digital life to help save millions of real lives affected by HIV/AIDS." The goal was to raise $1 million. They hoped to do it in a day. Now, three days later, they haven't even broken $200,000.
So what went wrong? With more than 26 million twitter follwers among then, this should have been easy. That's 26 million impressions of... what exactly? Silence? The problem is, silence isn't a twitter strategy. It's not any kind of public relations strategy. The absence of a conversation does not persuade. So instead of imploring their followers with daily, even hourly reminders to consider a donation, they are silent. And not actually dead, they're continuing lives far more fabulous than the donors they seek could possibly imagine.
The flaw in the strategy is within the medium. Twitter is busy, loud and quick. With your feed continually refreshing, pumping out updates by the second, who notices when you don't hear from someone for a few hours or even days? These celebrities overestimated the value of a day's worth of twitter. But more than that, they overestimated the impact their absence would have on their audience, which seems to be rather small. The conversation moves on, whether you're in it or not. It's up to you to keep up.
Updating Mad Men: The Focus Group
This week Mad Men featured a staple of the media world: the focus group. Whether it's a telephone survey, like the call I received from Nielsen this weekend, or grabbing a group of people off the street, the focus group is a key part of any media outreach campaign. Before understanding the messaging and positioning that world work for the whole, you must first undersand what will work for a small, carefully selected group.
The women of the Mad Men focus group
But today the focus group is open to everyone with a search window. You can open up Twitter and be greeted by a flood of information or check out the LinkedIn groups to find out what business folks are truly feeling. You can even enter traditional forums and hear the complaints and concerns of thousands of people. However, like the PhD who is running the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce focus groups, people need a guide to understand what they're reading. It's very easy to get lost in the "Rats Nest" of social media.
In fact, sometimes you need to entirely dismiss what you're reading or, in other cases, provide additional emphasis. I was quoted in Mashable saying that the social media realm offers imperfect data. The point is, just a few numbers will never tell you enough of a story, you need to understand the context of the person conveying the information, online and off.
Coming back to focus groups for a moment, how they are compiled affects the information you glean from them. In Mad Men the group was made up of young, unmarried women. In fact, just before grabbing the last unmarried secretary an older secretary commented that she wasn't wanted in the room because she was, in fact, older and married.
The results of the session were that women want to be beautiful to attract a man, according to the doctor who ran it, but it could have turned out differently with the older women in the mix. Of course, this is where Pond's finds itself today, with an older, more mature demographic. The eventual conclusion that women are simply looking to be married and that's why they use beauty products was rejected by top Mad Man Don Draper, who noted that putting out a year's worth of messaging would change the conversation.
In the social media world, people put out information for a reason. When looking at social media for market intelligence you must ask yourself "why did this person say what they're saying." Otherwise you're only getting half a story. Social search tools can help you find information and many social CRM tools exist to help you get graphs, charts and numbers to show certain trends, but there is so much more available within the social stream.
Over here at Fresh Ground we have started working with customers on a social intelligence service. That is, we look at interesting pieces of information, put them in context and then distribute that information to the appropriate internal audiences. This is how we help our clients dig up everything from sales leads to competitive intelligence.
So what would Pond's do differently today? Well, first they'd have a lot more information about their target demographic. Then they would use that information to understand the individuals who visit their site. If they wanted to try out new messages they'd probably do a bit of A/B testing on their site to see what works. They may also test certain messages in certain demographic areas, either through online advertising, carefully located display ads or buying air time in specific programs. They'd also dig into the social media intelligence to find out what people in their targeted demographics are discussing, then find ways into those conversations.
And hopefully, when they're done, no one ends up crying or throwing heavy objects at Don Draper.
Updating Mad Men: Pond's Cold Cream
This week the Mad Men crew got a present just in time for the Christmas episode: Pond's Cold Cream. One of the old characters returned, having just left one of the big agencies in town he showed up at the doorstep of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce holding a chance to win the business of Pond's Cold Cream. In 1964 dollars this was worth about $2 million a year. Not a bad little piece of business.
The story line pits the old-school copywriter, Freddy Rumsen, against Peggy Olson, the young, brash and bright copywriter who also happens to be a woman. While working on the ad the two argue over who should be the spokeswoman for Pond's. Freddy pushes for older actresses, some who have never left Broadway, while Peggy wants someone younger, like Elizabeth Taylor. Freddy also focuses on what Pond's does for your face and how it can help younger women find a husband, while Peggy wants to focus on the act of putting on the cream and how it makes you feel beautiful, not for a man but for yourself.
All very interesting arguments, so how does Pond's look in the cold, harsh reality of 2010? Well, it happens that it more resembles Freddy's vision than Peggy's.
Pond's is a subsidiary of Unilever, so this is a company that knows a thing or two about marketing. They've obviously positioned Pond's at the over-40 crowd. But one of the first thing that I noticed in looking for Pond's Cold Cream was that it's hard to find on Google. When you Google the brand a link to comes up first, with the "Pond's Institute" the brand's main site, is buried deep in the selection list, though right above the Unilever brand site for the same product line. So the first thing we here at Fresh Ground would do is get a big jar of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and schmear it on the site.
I've also noticed that the forums seemed to be filled with people saying that they love the product, so why not try to capture that a bit? Sure, continue with the "over 40 celebrity" message, but start to incorporate some testimonials. In fact, start soliciting them a little stronger, both through forums and social sites like Facebook. Keep in mind that Facebook has great growth with people over 40, so it's a perfect venue for this kind of targeted demographic.
Message wise I may take things a bit further and look for mother/daughter combinations, or even grandmother/ mother/ daughter. A big part of the brand is that it has a long history, so why not bring that to the people? Actively look for mothers who helped their daughters discover Pond's Cold Cream and ask for their pictures together, either through a Flickr campaign or on Facebook by tagging images with "Pond's Cold Cream." You can drive that action by offering up something like product (free samples), coupons or even a chance to be featured in an ad in a major publication. This would be a great way to combine the social side of things with the tradition outlets that they're already accessing.
Dove, another Unilever brand, did something similar with its Real Beauty campaign, so it's certainly something that worked before and would work again.
All that being said, Dove is a sponsor of Mad Men, so I wonder if featuring Pond's in the script was part of the deal. If so, good move marketing folks at Pond's! Though, judging by the fact that someone started a Twitter account called PondsColdCream that appears to be a Mad Men thing, not belonging to Pond's, I'm going to guess that the folks at Unilever haven't yet figured out social media for this brand.
Going Mad over PR: What Mad Men didn't understand and what people still don't get
I love Mad Men. I love it for its 60s style, for its writing, character development and what it says about us today. The fact is, all period dramas (and futuristic science fiction) say more about who we are today than they do about the people they pretend to portray. In a way Mad Men lets us look back at our 1960s selves and say "aren't we better?" We don't smoke like that, we don't drink like that, we wear seatbelts when we ride in the car, we don't let our kids play with plastic, male bosses don't call their female colleagues "honey" etc.
The fourth season of Mad Men opened up with an episode named "Public Relations," which, being a PR guy, got me listening pretty closely. The last time I heard PR mentioned on Mad Men, lead-character Don Draper was deriding the profession by saying that PR guys think they can change the conversation, but they can't. Only advertising can change the conversation.
But in this episode "changing the conversation" is just what PR is expected to do. We open on Don Draper in the middle of an interview being asked by an Ad Age reporter "Who is Don Draper," a question that Ad Age has already said doesn't fairly portray who they were at the time (or are today). Yet, in the PR world this is a pretty basic question and one that can take up hours of pounding out to get right. We often open messaging sessions by asking "what does your company do?" and then spend the next 3 hours trying to answer that question. Seems so simple, yet, it can be much more nuanced.
Don blows the question.
A few scenes later they get the article and a Roger Sterling comments "this was supposed to be an advertisement for the firm." Wait, and ad? If they wanted an ad wouldn't they have bought one? Why an article when they wanted an ad?
Ah, we have a misunderstanding of what PR can do and what it does.
Still, PR does play a role. In a side-plot a few characters stage a PR stunt that gets the client in the Daily News, an ultimately successful gambit as far as driving sales. Yet, one laments "we can't charge them for this."
Oh really? Sure you can, but you're not a PR firm, you're playing in waters you don't understand.
The episode ends with Don in another interview, ostensibly having learned his lesson and now creating a much more interesting fact-based story. He is, in large part, using PR to change the conversation about himself and his firm.
All that said, people today still don't fully understand what PR does and what role it plays in a business. The one thing the leadership at Sterling, Cooper, Draper and Pryce never did was hire a PR firm. Why? Well, in a bit of fiction they just called up the Wall Street Journal and the reporter jumped.
What could a PR firm have done for the firm?
• Set the message: Very simply put an outside firm would have helped define what this company is, who it wants to target and what key messages it needed to get across.
• Position: Just a slight variation on the messaging, but during the episode you heard one of the sales executives trying to fit the new firm into the landscape of ad agencies around New York. A PR firm could help clarify this so they could speak to it in sales meetings.
• Tell the story: In the course of the show we hear a bit about a controversial TV ad campaign for floor wax that Draper had created. I'm sure the Ad Age of 1964 would have loved a story that told the origin of that ad, what it tried to convey and its results.
• Hit the media: Even in 1964 the Journal and Ad Age weren't the only two games in town. Not only were there the major daily papers, but there was also the evening newscasts as well as magazines and trade publications. I'm sure Supermarket News would have loved to know the results of a ham-selling campaign.
Yet, still today people don't fully understand what PR does. Not only in the context of needing a firm to help get the message out, but even in crafting what that message is. I recently watched as a group for which I do pro-bono work let an interview happen without my knowledge. The resulting article was of little help. It's not that the article is terrible, but it's just not as positive as it could have been. Just as the article about Don Draper wasn't terrible, but it wasn't nearly as useful to the firm as they needed.
Apple's Presser: The Morning After
It's no coincidence that Apple held its press event on a Friday. Anyone who has ever worked near politics will tell you that you drop a story on a Friday when you want it to die. It's an age-old trick. Even better, make it a summer Friday when all the editors are eager to start their weekends and people are less likely to be reading, watching and following the news on a Saturday.
So holding the event on a Friday at 10am PT (afternoon here on the east coast) was Apple's first great PR move in regards to "Antennagate." But oh, there were so many more.
The Song: Perhaps the best move was opening the press conference with a song that had gone viral thanks to a YouTube video and a bit of help from TechCrunch. It showed, up front, the key message Apple was trying to convey: our customers are happy, media are not. Of course, it also helped that TechCrunch promoted the video, so they felt good about themselves. Hold onto that fact, it'll come back later.
The Facts: Fact 1 is that Apple has facts and the media don't. Seems kinda obvious now, but it's difficult for people to argue for a recall when Apple can turn around and say that only .55 percent of people have complained about the antenna and the iPhone 4.0 has only a 1.7 percent return rate, far below that of the 3GS. Apple probably would have released these numbers over time, but Friday's event certainly gave them a bigger stage. Fact 2: All smartphones have the same kind of problems. This is probably the fact that will be most debated in the coming weeks, but it also turns the attention from the iPhone to the entire industry.
No Apologies: When Steve Jobs walks on stage you're not going to get an apology. No way, ain't gonna happen. He's there for good news and to tell you that the company is producing great things. He's not there to apologize. If you want that then you're going to have to speak with someone else. Still, he did admit that Apple isn't perfect, then positioned that in the age old "we strive to be better" message. That, of course, lead directly into the next positive.
Feel the Love: Oh how Apple customers love Apple. Even Michael Arrington is a fanboy. And Steve Jobs positioned everything perfectly, giving the press-conference equivalent of Paul McCartney standing on stage screaming to a loud fan "I love you too!"
Just one more thing: The iPhone will be available in white at the end of July. So I'm sure there are plenty of people ready to scream "shut up and take my money!"
Of course, not everything was perfect, but I have only one real criticism: Did Steve Jobs really have to spit in the eye of the media? He called a Bloomberg story "total bullshit," and called the New York Times liars by saying that their story about a forthcoming software bug fix was "patently false." Of course, the whole event was there to show how the Consumer Reports story wasn't worth the paper it's printed on, so I guess Apple did want to stick a thumb in the eye of the media. Though, starting with the Antenna Song certainly endeared Apple more to TechCrunch. So maybe Jobs is just playing to a specific audience.
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People always seem to think I’m ageing quite well and I suppose I am. But there’s one part of me that is seriously letting the side down. One part of me that is literally like a 90 year old. Is it the lines round my eyes? My jawline? Or maybe my upper arms are letting the side down? | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.951554536819458}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '47039', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OOCBZA5M6IREDCMXPLIWKYC6Y3FBJCCL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b055f486-5f17-47ee-89a0-a5713b248481>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 12, 57, 53), 'WARC-IP-Address': '188.40.137.148', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WPUNOHO5MLVJKEMGKNMO3USC2SBMWUGT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3cd9e18b-4fac-472e-bcb9-d7ee8c42f3df>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://agelessbyglynisbarber.com/tag/glucosamine/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ae365904-b67a-42d7-a127-1c16d788e03e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '70', 'url': 'https://agelessbyglynisbarber.com/tag/glucosamine/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-45-27.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.19762927293777466', 'original_id': '2ba7d4038de1e91129e3ad5f26bef51b259dc8b60fac6bbf1150a71b41d0fd3f'} |
Roma, Itália
A partir de US$253,89
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12 horas (aproximadamente)
Oferece traslado do hotel
Ingresso digital
Disponível em: Inglês
Visão geral
Nossas excursões semi-particulares de Pompeia partem de Roma com embarque e desembarque incluídos em hotéis com localização central (limitados a 7-8 pessoas por veículo).
Este passeio apresenta uma excursão a pé guiada de duas horas por Pompéia, combinada com Positano e a cênica estrada da Costa Amalfitana. O almoço está incluído em um pequeno restaurante de gerência familiar, situado nas colinas e com vista para a magnífica Baía de Nápoles e Sorrento.
Em Positano, os hóspedes terão tempo para explorar a encantadora vila costeira e suas lojas tradicionais, relaxar na praia, nadar e tomar sorvete.
Retorno à Roma às 18h45
Avaliações de viajantes da Viator
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, out 2014
Passeio de dia inteiro, mas que vale muito a pena. As cidades de Amalfi e Positano são lindas cercada por um mar lindo. Para finalizar o dia visitamos Pompéia que é imperdível !!! O nosso guia, Carlos, foi muito simpático e muito profissional.
, nov 2018
Very good tour and guide but guide talked a little too much during the drive to and from 6 hours!. Pompeii stop was excellent as was the separate guide. Lunch stop included was great in between Positano and Pompeii.
, out 2018
In general, the tour was awesome!
The day, we've waited outside our hotel for 30 mins the pick up time was from 6:45-7:15. However, we didn't know we were being picked up last and was kind of scared that we got left behind. Luckily, there was an emergency phone no. not the normal office phone no, and only till then we knew we were picked up last. So if anything happens for your during the pickup, be sure to call the emergency phone no.
I'm glad I joined this semi-private tour, instead of the ones where there's lots of people. There was a total of 8 of us, plus the driver/tour guide George. So we were on a mini-van, which later turned out to become a blessing as there were many twists and turns in the roads of Almalfi Coast, being in a mini-van like ours makes it safer and more efficient to drive on the road.
The lunch was simple but wonderful. We were at a family-run restaurant in the mountains, and were served margherita and pastas. Oh my... they were heavenly. I suspect it's because the ingredients were grown near by e.g. the tomatoes. I've never had such a good pizza and tomato-sauce based pasta in my life. The restaurant also sells their own olive oil, so you can get some i didn't get any though
Our driver/tour guide was George. He's a very good driver, keeping us safe and sound, and driving with a comfortable speed. However, I've learnt nothing about Italy from him. He barely talked to us or introduced places. We felt that he doesn't like his job. He seems like he doesnt want to be there. He can keep to his driving though.
At Pompeii, we met with another tour guide named Hector. He was great and was one of the highlights of the trip. I learnt so much about Pompeii and he was quite funny and introduced us to interesting spots. He told us stories of what happened during those times. It was a very enjoyable tour at Pompeii.
Overall, it was a good trip because of the food, driver, guide at Pompeii, our other fun passengers... but the tour guide could be improved. At least, let us listen to some audio introduction of the places would be good....
Some more tips:
- Lunch is at 1:30/2pm. So make sure you grab some food at the stops before that otherwise you'll be starving
, out 2018
This day trip allowed us to cover a ton of ground that would not have been possible if we rented a car ourselves. Our driver George forgive me, not sure if I am spelling his name correctly, was outstanding - very professional and a gentleman. He arrived on time and drove responsibly that is a challenge in the traffic of Rome and all of the scooters! to our destination. The first stop in Pasitano was as picturesque as could be - the coastline and town are nestled up a steep hill loaded with stores and restaurants. The next stop was at a family owned Olive farm, where the service, staff, food and wine made a perfect lunch overlooking the island of Capri!! The next stop was Pompeii and getting straight to the tour was great no lines and an outstanding guide to lead the way. Pompeii was awe inspiring and so much to take in, but our guide was keen on offering up information in abundant quantities. I greatly appreciate the professionalism of the Pompeii guides and the respect that they have for the ancient ruins as they are quick to tell imposing groups and individuals to make space for their tour.
The trip home was just as smooth as the trip in and concluded a day that covered so much ground and history - worth the money : If you are staying in Rome and want to have an awesome experience, this tour is most definitely for you!
, set 2018
We were able to participate in the Positano Pompeii tour while visiting Rome. It was a great experience with the exception of the Pompeii portion. Our driver Ruperto was an absolute delight. He was very knowledgeable and pleasant while driving us to our destinations taking time to identify a few points of interest and facts as we passed them by. Positano was lovely and very scenic. We thoroughly enjoyed walking around the town and getting to see the beach. The restaurant we were taken to The Patriarce was AMAZING quaint and With a strong sense of Italian Flavors. You will not try better olive oil and lemoncello than here. Unfortunately our tour of Pompeii did not go as well. Our tour guide Cayetano was rude arrogant and condescending. There were older people and our group who at times struggled with the many steps and uphill climbs. He felt it appropriate to tell them they were wasting his time and a burden on the rest of the group as invalids. Which they were not. On more than one occasion he told our group we were not allowed to speak while on the tour. Completely ruined the experience for us and many in our group. It is unfortunate as the rest of the day was wonderful.
, set 2018
This tour was AMAZING! One of the best tours I've booked with Viator. Some reviews I read complained about the driver's English being hard to understand, but I did not have any trouble at all understanding him. He does have a thick Italian accent, but you're in Italy so everyone has an accent. It was a long drive about 2.5 hours in the car, but we did make time for bathroom/ coffee breaks. The scenic overlooks were amazing. The first stop for us was the Amalfi Coast, where we had about 5 mins to stop and take photos. Our driver, Rocco, was kind enough to offer to take photos of us. Next, we went to Positano where we had 90 mins of free time to shop/ relax/ take photos. Then we had an amazing lunch at a family owned restaurant where everything was made fresh. The restaurant had amazing views of the coast, and it was included in the cost. Finally, we had a guided tour of Pompeii. My recommendations are to bring comfy shoes, lots of water, and sunscreen. I had a great time on this trip, and even though the ride was long we got to see so many beautiful sights along the way. I would also like to thank Rocco for pointing/ explaining what things were to us along the way. He was telling us the history of Rome/ the other places we visited.
, set 2018
First of all, understand that this is a 13 hour day from when you are picked up at your hotel until you are dropped of and that most of that time is driving. We were prepared for that in general but were highly disappointed that in all that drive time Rome - Amalfi Coast, Amalfi to Positano, Positano to Pompeii, and then back to Rome our driver spent perhaps 25 minutes telling us about Italy and the sights we were seeing. The rest of the time, he spent on his cell phone or just weaving in and around traffic. On our trip, we went from Rome directly to the Amalfi Coast about 3 hours and sat in traffic for 45 minutes or so and then finally got to Positano where we had about 60 minutes to walk around. We then went to the private vineyard for lunch decent food but note that the glass of wine they offered is not free - you have to pay for it. Then it was another hour or so to Pompeii - we got there at maybe 2 PM. By this time we were all wondering what we paid for. Well, Pompeii was worth it. The 2 hour or so tour was guided by a professor that definitely has a passion for Pompeii and the knowledge behind that passion. I would highly recommend that portion of the tour to anyone. After Pompeii it was a 'fast and furious' trip back to Rome sometimes hitting and sustaining 170 kmh or about 106 mph between traffic slow-downs to make up for the time lost during the day. Honestly, I would recommend that travelers pay the extra amount for the tours that take the train from Rome to Naples and then you are picked up by tour guides and taken to Pompeii and then delivered back to the train station after the Pompeii tour.
, set 2018
I only wish that we had more time in Positano and the beautiful Amalfi coast. What a beauty this was. The restaurant that we had lunch was phenomenal too. The staff were so gracious on this family run farm overlooking the beautiful coast. The pasta dish and salad were some of the best food I have ever had. My only suggestion would be to make the Positano visit a bit longer than the 1.5 hours that we were given. Our tour driver was so warm and friendly. He made everyone of us feel special. Thank you so much!
, set 2018
We had a blast on this tour! Everything went as planned, and yes it was a long day, but we expected it would be long. Our driver was great he was knowledgeable and funny. The drive was gorgeous, and while we only had a short time in Positano it was really fun exploring the city during our allotted time. Lunch was delicious and the day was capped off with Pompeii. Stopping here last was terrific, it was later in the day and that made the 2 hour tour less hot. The guide in Pompeii was great, very passionate about the history. We would definitely recommend this tour.
, set 2018
I visited Italy in the month of June and took this trip. THIS WAS SIMPLY AMAZING! Positano was great! Mr.Khan, who drove us to these places was an amazing guy, a very good and a honest human being who was true and sincere to his duty. He took very good care of us. He was so honest that he even declined the big tip one of my fellow traveller offered him at the end of the tour. By- Vijay
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Class III antiarrhythmic action of d-sotalol during hypothermia.
To investigate whether changes in temperature influence the electrophysiologic effects of the class III antiarrhythmic agent d-sotalol, we studied its effects on propranolol-pretreated guinea pig papillary muscles at temperatures ranging from 37 degrees to 27 degrees C by means of conventional microelectrode techniques. We also examined the rate-dependent effect of d-sotalol at 37 degrees and 27 degrees C. Before the addition of d-sotalol, reducing the temperature from 37 degrees to 27 degrees C increased the action potential duration recorded at 50% repolarization (APD50) from 112 +/- 7 msec to 271 +/- 15 msec and action potential duration recorded at 90% repolarization (APD90) from 136 +/- 7 msec to 325 +/- 10 msec. d-Sotalol (50 mumol/L) lengthened APD50 and APD90 to a greater degree at low temperatures. Thus at 37 degrees C d-sotalol lengthened APD50 and APD90 by 12 +/- 6 msec and 19 +/- 5 msec, and at 27 degrees C by 37 +/- 5 msec and 52 +/- 7 msec, respectively. d-Sotalol produced its greatest effect on APD at long pacing cycle lengths, thus demonstrating reverse dependence. This rate-dependent effect was more marked at 27 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. The greater effect of d-sotalol on APD at long pacing cycle lengths may be explained by the modulated receptor hypothesis, assuming that the drug has a higher affinity for closed potassium channels. Such a mechanism may also explain the accentuated class III antiarrhythmic action of d-sotalol observed during hypothermia. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '6942eddb0d8112b6c51ed4167d00a161a2b63ee773615e6b7c07cf16b925056b'} |
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mermaid melody
Luchia Nanami (七海 るちあ, Nanami Luchia?) is the main protagonist of the anime and manga series Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch and its second anime season, Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure. She is the Mermaid Princess of the North Pacific Ocean and the Keeper of the Pink Pearl. Lucia surfaced onto the human world to look for her pearl that she had entrusted to a boy seven years ago in order to save his life. When she succeeds, she accepts the task of uniting the seven Mermaid Princesses of the seven nations of the seas and defeating the sea monsters.
Lucia is a very cheerful person and has a very kind heart. Her idol form is Pink Pearl Voice. She has two image songs that are both from the first season of the anime (although 'Mother Symphony' from the second season is sometimes referred to as a character song of hers it is not officially considered one): Splash Dream and Koi wa Nan Darou.
Luchia means 'light' in Latin, and Nanami means 'seven seas' in Japanese. She is the only mermaid with blond hair and blue eyes.
In the anime:
Luchia Nanami ends up being the succesor to Aqua Regina. Luchia Nanami first appeared as a young mermaid seven years ago before the story started. One night when she ventured onto the sea's surface and encountered a cruise ship celebrating a festival, she met a young boy. It was love at first sight. But before anything else happened, a giant wave crashed onto the ship and the boy fell into the icy ocean. Luchia went after the boy without a second thought. She saved the boy using her precious pink mermaid pearl and the boy kept the mermaid pearl ever since.
As the story begins, Luchia surfaced on land again, but this time her purpose is to retrieve her Pink Pearl. The age 13 is considered adult age in the mermaid world, but a mermaid princess without her pearl cannot receive her full power. Heading to the human world with her pet penguin Hippo, Lucia assumed a human form and took Nanami as her surname. She works and lives in the hotel Pearl Piari, along with her "older sister" Nikora and the fortune teller Madame Taki.
In time, Lucia retrieves her pearl and also reunites with the boy who she gave it to long time ago. She also learns that there is an enemy trying to capture the seven Mermaid Princesses and obtaining their pearls for evil. They have already destroyed the Mermaids' kingdoms and captured two Princesses. Only Lucia's kingdom wasn't destroyed because Aqua Regina used her power to protect it.
While on land, Lucia meets a surfer named Kaito, who looks awfully like the boy from seven years ago. Lucia could not believe it at first, but he most certainly is the boy who had Lucia’s pearl for seven years and whom never forgot about this mermaid. Lucia and Kaito have a troubled relationship throughout the story, mainly because that the mermaid Lucia is unable to reveal her human identity to Kaito. It is said that a mermaid who willfully reveals her identity will turn into sea foam. Lucia is desperate for Kaito to learn her secret, asking him to search for her. Kaito was troubled with his feelings about the human Lucia and the mermaid Lucia, whom he thought were two different people.
Lucia has a very cheerful personality. She has a good and simple heart, and a simple mind. But she also has courage and determination in abundance. She would help anyone that is in trouble. She is also very friendly, especially when she makes “friendship rings” for Hanon as well as Rina, although she hardly knew Rina at the time. However, she is also insecure sometimes, and gets nervous whenever she sees some other pretty girls around Kaito.
Luchia shares a strong bond with her friends and fellow mermaid princesses. She met the first other mermaid princess, Hanon. Hanon and Lucia became quick friends, partly because of their similar personality. As for Rina, the green mermaid princesses, it was a hard beginning due to Rina's cold and distant exterior. However, as time passes, the three became close friends. They are always there to defeat the Dark Lovers, and they help each other whenever it is possible.
In the other arc of the story, Luchia has a rival for Kaito. And because of the upcoming danger, Kaito gave up his memory in order to protect the ones he loves. Lucia has to deal with the harsh facts that Kaito no longer remembers his precious mermaid, the enemy she has to face is very powerful, and she has to win Kaito over the girl who saved him and developed a crush on him, Michal Amagi | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.975874364376068}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '17612', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ANHXAEBB7OF5R6GLHAYWK7UWR6TTW7XG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9ab08d73-ea49-4f51-9927-a98080d39ca0>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 11, 22, 1, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '66.228.112.208', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5ZX4S3RXFKKH2NVZYZCXEVHR3476XO7O', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:72913536-77f5-4cb7-ae9c-6814cae0b9b7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/mermaid_melody/view/243908/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:75205a73-085f-46f1-8469-5fe59ddb2ed2>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '796', 'url': 'http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/mermaid_melody/view/243908/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1120840311050415', 'original_id': 'f3b986e7b1aa2b182364f63d638afde713b8f18bfccff15779cf9770a1adac87'} |
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GameCube has been traditionally bound to composite OR crazy expensive component cables UNITL NOW! Metal Jesus reviewed a really awesome GameCube HDMI connector made by zeldaxpro and the interest for them has been so high he can't meet demand right now! Basically zeldaxpro hacked the GameCube digital out port to accept HDMI and apparently makes them by hand at his house, which is why he is having a hard time meeting demand.
This is one of the reasons why I love the retro game community so much because long after the lifespan of a console is over people are still creating really amazing hardware to keep systems going. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '629e005bc7f4614fa08f0e37648f6ec2e0fdf3541390d6912f60ec2652a5d32c'} |
Speaking of values: the ethics of communication.
The patient-doctor relationship is central to medicine. From this relationship, duties and obligations are derived; within this relationship, hopes and expectations are set. Communication is essential in this relationship and evidence-based efforts directed at improving it are a key element in improving care. At an even deeper level, critical reflection reveals fundamental values operating within and beneath this discourse that must be addressed if the goals of improving communication are to be achieved in a meaningful way. This is the stuff of the ethics of patient-physician communication. Because these values are so deeply embedded in the speech and actions of physicians, insights are best provided by those who are observers of the discourse rather than by participants. Observations from the history and sociology of physician communication, literary analysis and reflections on the illness experience by women provide important insights into the values and attitudes underlying physician communication, which must be taken into account in the education of physicians if the outcome is to benefit all participants. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '0dfc5e3cd2ee62d57a2afe0bb440fa15aedcb35b24abee1e617650961a0aadaa'} |
Q: What if my organization has no accreditation statuses and would like to apply for Joint Accreditation?
A: A non-accredited organization is still eligible to apply. If the organization is awarded Joint Accreditation, the maximum term that could be awarded is a two (2) year term.
Q: Are there any examples from other successful Joint Accreditation providers we could look at for reference?
A: The Joint Accreditation program does not post examples of interprofessional education activities or responses to Joint Accreditation criteria, however you may contact a current jointly accredited provider directly to see if they are willing to share best practices. A list of current jointly accredited providers is listed on our website at: http://www.jointaccreditation.org/accredited-providers
Q: If there is an event where only one profession is represented, what criteria should we follow?
A: Jointly accredited providers use the Joint Accreditation criteria regardless of whether they are planning educational activities for a single profession or planning an interprofessional education activity. If your organization is awarded Joint Accreditation, jointly accredited providers are certainly able to offer single profession CE activities; the thirteen Joint Accreditation set of criteria would still be followed to plan those single professional activities, but they do not need to be planned by the interprofessional healthcare team.
Q: How do I count the 25%?
A: At least 25% of all educational actvities developed by the organization during the past 18 months are categorized as "interprofessional", and can demonstrate an integrated planning process that includes a healthcare team of two or more professions who are reflective of the interprofessional target audience the activity is designed to address. The formula is as follows: Count the number of activties planned within the past 18 months that are classified as interprofessional using the definition provided within the Joint Accreditation framework. Divide by the total number of activities planned within the past 18 months. Multiply by 100.
Q: What are the term lengths awarded for Joint Accreditation?
A: New Applications: An organization seeking accreditation as a provider of continuing education for the healthcare team that does NOT currently hold at least one accreditation from at least one (1) of the national accrediting bodies (ACCME, ACPE, or ANCC) or one (1) state accredited body (ACCME Recognized Accreditor or ANCC Accredited Approver) may be awarded a term of up to two (2) years.
Currently Accredited by ACCME (or ACCME Recognized Accreditor), ACPE, ANCC (or ANCC Accredited Approver): An organization that is already accredited in good standing by at least one of the national accrediting bodies (ACCME, ACPE and/or ANCC) or one state accrediting body (ACCME Recognized Accreditor or ANCC Accredited Approver) may be awarded a term of six (6) years if the provider is determined to be in compliance with all Joint Accreditation criteria. If a provider is in non-compliance with any one (1) or more criteria, and is awarded Joint Accreditation, the provider will receive an accreditation term of four (4) years with a progress report due in one year.
Reaccreditation for jointly accredited providers: An organization that is already a jointly accredited provider may be awarded a term of six (6) years if the provider is determined to be in compliance with all Joint Accreditation criteria. If the provider is in non-compliance with any one (1) or more criteria, and is awarded Joint Accreditation, the provider will receive an accreditation term of four (4) years with a progress report due in one year.
Q: Once we are jointly accredited, how do we issue the appropriate credit? And, do we need to submit activity-related data to all three accreditors?
A: Once you are jointly accredited, you are able to designate your activity for medicine, nursing and/or pharmacy credit depending on your target audience. You must follow any applicable credit-related requirements in addition to the joint Accreditation Criteria. Currently, jointly accredited providers must submit activity-related data to each of the three accreditors, but development is underway on a single Joint Accreditation activity reporting system. Once launched, the data reporting will be streamlined.
Q: How should our interprofessional committee be structured?
A: There is no prescribed requirement or structure for your interprofessional CE planning committee. Joint Accreditation expects that activities will be planned by a team that is representative of the target audience. So, for example, if your activity was targeted at physicians and nurses, planning must include individuals from both professions.
Q: If a jointly accredited provider is working with a non-accredited provider, do we still follow the 13 criteria for Joint Accreditation?
A: Yes, the same criteria still apply.
Q: What is the definition of an interprofessional activity?
A: An interprofessional activity is a CE activity that incorporates the educational needs that underlie the practice gaps of the healthcare team and their members. Interprofessional activities must be designed to change the skills/strategy, or performance, of the healthcare team or patient outcomes as described in an organization's mission statement. Interprofessional activities also reflect the healthcare team's current or potential scope of practice. For an official definition, please view our website: http://www.jointaccreditation.org/ce-planning-implementation. The planning process for education activities classified as "interprofessional" must demonstrate:
• An integrated planning process that includes health care professionals from two or more professions.
• Reflection of one or more of the interprofessional competencies to include: values/ethics, roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and/or teams/teamwork.
Q: How should I determine the cycle to apply in? Is there such a thing as a "good time"?
A: Organizations are strongly encouraged to contact staff at info@jointaccreditation.org to evaluate readiness to apply. Staff will help organizations evaluate readiness and determine an appropriate application cycle. Organizations currently accredited by ACCME, ACPE, and/or ANCC should be prepared to provide current accreditation terms so staff can help assess the need for extensions if necessary.
Q: What are the fees?
A: The Joint Accreditation fees are structured to correspond with certain milestones throughout the application process. If an application is accepted at a specific milestone, the corresponding fee will apply and the application moves forward. The fees associated with Joint Accreditation are detailed here.
Q: Now that our organization is jointly accredited, will we still have to submit annual reports to each of the accreditors?
A: All activity data is reported into a centralized, online database – JA-PARS. This fulfills the annual activity reporting required by the joint accreditors. If you choose to offer activities that include optometrists, you will also be required to submit activity data and a brief report to COPE. For more information about the COPE report, please contact: arbo@arbo.org
Q: How do I login to JA-PARS?
A: You may access JA-PARS via the Joint Accreditation About JA-PARS page, or via the following link: http://pars.accme.org. Specific instructions for logging into JA-PARS can be found here.
Q: By what date must I complete my year-end reporting requirements for Joint Accreditation?
A: Year-end reporting requirements, including reporting data about all activities (single profession and interprofessional) you provided during the Reporting Year, and completing the Program Summary and the Attestation must be done by March 31 of each year. If March 31 falls on a weekend, the due date is adjusted to the following Monday.
Q: What is the significance of Reporting Year?
A: Annually, the activity data that is reported by providers is aggregated and published as an Annual Report that provides information to the community. The “Reporting Year” indicates in which Annual Report the activity belongs. The Reporting Year in which an activity is reported is based on when the activity concludes. As an example, a one-day course that occurs in May 2019 would be reported in the 2019 Reporting Year. In contrast, a Regularly Scheduled Series that begins September 1, 2019 and ends June 1, 2020 would be reported in the 2020 Reporting Year. A provider can report on a calendar year, fiscal year, or academic year basis, as long as they are consistent from year to year.
Q: Are we only entering IPCE activities into JA-PARS or all activities we provide?
A: Beginning with the 2018 Reporting Year, jointly accredited provider should enter all activities being offered into JA-PARS, whether single profession or interprofessional.
Q: Is there a way to add user accounts in JA-PARS?
A: Yes, providers can add user accounts to JA-PARS. To add a user to JA-PARS, login to the system and click on “Profile”, then “Contacts”. Click on the “New” button in the top right portion of the Contacts screen and complete all required fields to add a new user to your organization’s account. If you have questions about how to add accounts, please send an email to info@accme.org.
Q: Can I register an activity for MOC credit (as well as single profession and IPCE credit) and report physician learners completion data into ACCME via JA-PARS?
A: Yes. Activities can be registered for MOC credit and physicians reported as having completed the activity via JA-PARS. For more information about CME in support of MOC, please see the ACCME’s website.
Q: How do I indicate if an activity is designed for a single profession (but might have other professions attend) or is interprofessional?
A: JA-PARS allows you to indicate your target audience in the activity record, indicate which types of credit you are offering, and then report your learners by health profession. If the activity is interprofessional, please indicate that you are offering IPCE credit.
Q: Do I report learners by their profession or as “other learners” if the activity is designed for a single profession?
A: Please report learners by profession regardless if the activity is designed for a single profession or is interprofessional. Only report learners as “other learners” if they are professions that are not individually called out as part of Joint Accreditation, e.g., nurses, optometrists, pharmacists, physician assistants, physicians, psychologists, social workers.
Q: Should I only report learners that claimed credit?
A: No. Providers should report all learners that completed at least a portion of the activity, and whose completion can be verified in some manner. For example, providers should not include learners that registered for an activity, but did not attend, but should include learners that completed an activity but declined to claim credit. When reporting pharmacy learners to CPE monitor, providers should only report those learners that met the requirements to earn pharmacy credit.
Q: How do I report Regularly Scheduled Series activities?
A: When reporting Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) in JA-PARS, each series should be reported as one activity. In addition, the following guidelines should be used: The cumulative number of hours for all sessions within a series equals the number of hours of instruction for that activity. If the activity offers pharmacy credit, enter the number of credits offered at a single session, and the live dates for each session that offers pharmacy credit. For all other credits, enter the total credits offered over the series. Each learner is counted for each session he/she attends in the series. For example: Grand Rounds is planned for the entire year as one series for nurses, pharmacists, and physicians. They meet weekly during the year for one hour each week. In JA-PARS, the series should be entered as one activity with 52 hours of instruction, 1 pharmacy credit, and 52 different live dates that correspond to each session. Also, if 20 nurses and 10 physicians participated in each session, the nursing learners would be 1,040 (20 learners/session x 52 sessions) and physician learners would be 520 for that single activity.
Q: Do I need to add multiple live dates for an activity that spans multiple days? For example, a course that takes place on Friday and Saturday.
A: For the Activity Date field, the provider would enter the activity start date. If this is a live activity to be considered as a conference and the target audience is pharmacist or pharmacy technicians, providers can enter the one date. When credit is uploaded into CPE Monitor, the JA provider may upload partial credit. If the CE activity repeats itself on multiple dates, then the JA provider would enter the amount of credit for the one session and insert multiple live dates by entering the date and selecting “+” next to the Live Date field. The JA provider would then upload the date of the specific activity date into CPE Monitor.
Q: If only one date of an RSS is going to get pharmacy credit, how would that be reported in JA-PARS?
A: The provider would add the live date for pharmacists in the pharmacy section of JA-PARS.
Q: What is the difference between a Regularly Scheduled Series and a repeated Course?
A: Regularly scheduled series is a live activity planned as a series with multiple, ongoing sessions, e.g., offered weekly, monthly, or quarterly. It is primarily planned by and presented to the accredited organization’s professional staff. The series is typically offered to the same audience over time with evolving content. Examples include grand rounds, tumor boards, and morbidity and mortality conferences. A course is a live activity where the learner participates in person. Each instance of a course has a distinct audience. If a course is held multiple times for multiple audiences with the same content, then each instance is reported as a separate activity. If a course is held multiple times for multiple audiences with the same content and offers pharmacy credit, the course is reported as a single activity with multiple live dates.
Q: What is the difference between a closed and an open activity?
A: An open activity is an activity entered in JA-PARS that has not yet entered all required information for annual reporting. This status is not dependent on the date of the activity and does not affect the ability to edit the activity. A closed activity is an activity entered in JA-PARS that has entered all required information for annual reporting. Closed activities may still be edited as long as the provider has not attested that data is complete for this year. Please note: in order to open an activity with a target audience of nurses, pharmacists, or pharmacy technicians, providers must enter the corresponding credit amount.
Q: Do we need to have UAN numbers printed in brochures if pharmacy credit is being offered?
A: No, this is not a requirement for Joint Accreditation. Joint Accreditation does not include a UAN in the provider accreditation statement and does not require the UAN to be included on marketing/promotional materials. A provider can enter an ACPE activity to JA-PARS after the date.
Q: Are UAN's generated by JA-PARS, and do we still need to enter participants in CPE monitor?
A: Yes, UANs are generated in JA-PARS when the appropriate content is input. Providers will need to award credit to pharmacy/pharmacy technician learners into CPE Monitor®.
Q: How do I report pharmacists and pharmacy technicians’ data into CPE Monitor via JA-PARS?
A: All CE activities for all professions must be entered into JA-PARS beginning in 2018. Activities reporting pharmacy credit will be automatically transferred from JA-PARS to CPE Monitor. All pharmacy and pharmacy technician learners who were awarded credit must be submitted to CPE Monitor. Links to ACPE’s CPE Monitor will be available through your activity record in JA-PARS. ACPE also have webservices available if your learner management system has that capability. More information about CPE monitor can be found on the About JA-PARS webpage.
Q: We offer interprofessional education to an audience that include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Does that mean that we need to report this information within 60 days of each session?
A: Yes, if you are awarding credit to pharmacists, the credit will need to be uploaded into CPE Monitor® within 60 days of the date of participation.
Q: Can JA providers award partial credit to pharmacists?
A: Yes. Jointly accredited providers are able to award partial credit to pharmacy learners.
Q: If an activity will be available for multiple years, e.g., an enduring material, do I need to create a new activity record and generate a new UAN in each year that the activity is available?
A: Joint Accredited providers do have to report multi-year activities in each year the activity is available. If the activity includes pharmacists or pharmacy technicians, JA-PARS will generate a new UAN for each year. However, the provider can choose to report using the original UAN for a maximum three years to report pharmacists or pharmacy technicians into CPE Monitor. The provider might also choose, if it is easier to manage with your own system, to use a new UAN each year to report pharmacists into CPE Monitor. It is important to report multi-year activities in JA-PARS for each year the activity is available in the event that you wish to also report physician learners for MOC credit or into a medical licensing board pilot. (If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact ACPE or ACCME for additional clarification.)
Q: What live date should I enter for a durable activity (i.e. enduring material)?
A: If the activity is registered for pharmacist or pharmacy technicians, but it is not a live activity, then the Live Date field will not appear. As a durable training/enduring material, the start date would be the date of release. Such activities are generally only good for three years without additional review of the content.
Q: Can we set up automatic reporting to JA-PARS and/or CPE Monitor from our systems?
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#[test]
fn percentage_flex_basis_main_min_width() {
let mut stretch = stretch::Stretch::new();
let node0 = stretch
.new_node(
stretch::style::Style {
flex_grow: 1f32,
flex_basis: stretch::style::Dimension::Percent(0.15f32),
min_size: stretch::geometry::Size {
width: stretch::style::Dimension::Percent(0.6f32),
..Default::default()
},
..Default::default()
},
&[],
)
.unwrap();
let node1 = stretch
.new_node(
stretch::style::Style {
flex_grow: 4f32,
flex_basis: stretch::style::Dimension::Percent(0.1f32),
min_size: stretch::geometry::Size {
width: stretch::style::Dimension::Percent(0.2f32),
..Default::default()
},
..Default::default()
},
&[],
)
.unwrap();
let node = stretch
.new_node(
stretch::style::Style {
size: stretch::geometry::Size {
width: stretch::style::Dimension::Points(200f32),
height: stretch::style::Dimension::Points(400f32),
..Default::default()
},
..Default::default()
},
&[node0, node1],
)
.unwrap();
stretch.compute_layout(node, stretch::geometry::Size::undefined()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node).unwrap().size.width, 200f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node).unwrap().size.height, 400f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node).unwrap().location.x, 0f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node).unwrap().location.y, 0f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node0).unwrap().size.width, 120f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node0).unwrap().size.height, 400f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node0).unwrap().location.x, 0f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node0).unwrap().location.y, 0f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node1).unwrap().size.width, 80f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node1).unwrap().size.height, 400f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node1).unwrap().location.x, 120f32);
assert_eq!(stretch.layout(node1).unwrap().location.y, 0f32);
}
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Q:
Jacobi identity and Leibniz rule - the same thing?
Is there any formal connection between the Jacobi identity
$$[[a,b],c] = [a,[b,c]] + [b,[c,a]]$$
and the Leibniz rule
$$d(a \cdot b) \cdot c = a \cdot d(b) \cdot c + b \cdot c \cdot d(a) ~\text{?}$$
A:
Yes, with $d=\operatorname{ad}(x)(y)$, the adjoint operator in a Lie algebra, defined by $\operatorname{ad}(x)(y)=[x,y]$.
Then the Jacobi identity is equivalent to the statement that the operator $d$ satisfies the Leibniz rule, with $x.y=[x,y]$:
$$
d([a,b])=[d(a),b]+[a,d(b)]
$$
Applying $\operatorname{ad}(c)$ yields $[d([a,b]),c]=[[d(a),b],c]+[[a,d(b)],c]$.
| mini_pile | {'original_id': '9dc52f477bf43e1570f02c74a7ca05b0665bb604744cc1ad7e9350f1b1a937c5'} |
Why is crying more important
More than an emotion: why tears are important
Protection, reflex and emotion
04/29/19 (ams). Dissolved in tears, being moved to tears, laughing tears - even our language shows how diverse the meaning of "eye water" is. Tears provide our eyes with sufficient fluids, protect them from external stimuli such as wind, dust or smoke and they flow when great emotions are involved. Tears consist of proteins, salt, glucose, water and antibacterial substances such as lysozyme, which protect our eyes from infections. They are produced in three tear glands, which are located above the outer corner of the eye and permanently secrete tear fluid. The liquid is distributed by blinking the eye and then flows through the tear duct into the nasal cavity. The tear film is located between the eyeball and the lid. It serves as a lubricant, so to speak, and is made up of three layers. "There are different triggers to stimulate the lacrimal glands to produce tear fluid. There are the basal tears, which you wash over the cornea with every blink. They form a film of moisture that supplies the conjunctiva of the eye with nutrients and protects against dehydration and infection. The reflex tears come when the eye is irritated, for example by sharp wind, smoke or when peeling onions. The third type are tears that arise from strong feelings such as anger, sadness or joy, "says Thomas Ebel, doctor in the AOK Federal Association.
Ready-to-broadcast radio o-tones with Thomas Ebel, doctor in the AOK Federal Association
Women cry up to 64 times a year
While the protective function can be easily explained biologically, the researchers have not yet found any clear causes of emotional tears. According to the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG), the specialist society for ophthalmology, the only thing that is certain is that women cry up to 64 times a year, while men cry no more than 17 times. Incidentally, not from an early age. This difference only emerges over the years. Up to around the age of 13, girls and boys cry about equally often. Then women overtake men: women not only cry more often, but also longer. They let the tears roll for an average of six minutes, for men it is two to four minutes. In two-thirds of women, crying then turns into sobs, while it is only six percent of men. Various reasons are thought to be responsible for the gender-differentiated tear production. An important point is certainly the different socialization of the sexes: Boys are told from an early age that they should pull themselves together and not cry. But other reasons are also possible: It is assumed that the messenger substance prolactin, which is increasingly produced in girls during puberty, lowers the inhibition threshold to cry. There are also anatomical reasons. The tear duct is smaller in women than in men. That means: men first absorb the tear fluid and then drain it off through the nasal cavity. In women, they roll over the edge of the eyelids and over the cheeks much easier.
Reasons why someone breaks down in tears
The reasons why someone bursts into tears are also different: women are more likely to cry when they don't know what to do or when they feel inadequate. Sometimes even if they remember previous experiences. Men, on the other hand, tend to express compassion or when their own relationship has failed on the tear glands. It is true that tears can also be used manipulatively and women are said to be more likely to use this remedy than men. But so far there is no evidence for this thesis. There are various assumptions about the effects of crying - for example, that it is cleansing and is good to cry out properly. "However, studies show that people do not feel better after crying. It is also not physically relaxing," says Ebel. However, it is a clear communicative signal that often arouses empathy and compassion in others.
Additional Information:
German Ophthalmological Society (DOG)
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Facebook Transitions Ad Serving Customers Away From LiveRail: Facebook announced that it “will no longer be accepting new customers for LiveRail’s ad server [and] will help all existing LiveRail ad serving customers transition over to [its] other publisher products or alternative ad servers” over the coming months.
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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using Rhino.Runtime.InProcess;
using Rhino.Geometry;
using Rhino;
namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
#region Program static constructor
static readonly string SystemDir = (string) Microsoft.Win32.Registry.GetValue
(
@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Install", "Path",
Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles), "Rhino WIP", "System")
);
static Program()
{
ResolveEventHandler OnRhinoCommonResolve = null;
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += OnRhinoCommonResolve = (sender, args) =>
{
const string rhinoCommonAssemblyName = "RhinoCommon";
var assemblyName = new AssemblyName(args.Name).Name;
if (assemblyName != rhinoCommonAssemblyName)
return null;
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve -= OnRhinoCommonResolve;
return Assembly.LoadFrom(Path.Combine(SystemDir, rhinoCommonAssemblyName + ".dll"));
};
}
#endregion
[System.STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
using (new RhinoCore(new string[] { "/NOSPLASH" }, WindowStyle.Hidden ))
{
Console.WriteLine("Enter path to directory which contains files to convert and press ENTER:");
string path = Console.ReadLine();
string[] filePaths = null;
try
{
filePaths = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0}, Press any key to exit...",e.Message);
Console.ReadKey();
return;
}
if (filePaths == null || filePaths.Length == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Directory is empty. No files to process. Press any key to exit.");
Console.ReadKey();
return;
}
foreach (string file in filePaths)
{
var doc = RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc;
var script = string.Format("_-Import \"{0}\" _Enter", file);
RhinoApp.RunScript(script, false);
// Change the original extension to .obj
var objPath = System.IO.Path.ChangeExtension(file, ".obj");
// Change the original extension to .png
var pngPath = System.IO.Path.ChangeExtension(file, ".png");
var imgScript = string.Format("_-ViewCaptureToFile \"{0}\" _Enter", pngPath);
RhinoApp.RunScript(imgScript, false);
/*
try
{
var img = doc.Views.ActiveView.CaptureToBitmap(true, true, true);
img.Save(pngPath, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
img.Dispose();
}
catch (Exception) { }
*/
// Export options:
var fowo = new Rhino.FileIO.FileObjWriteOptions(new Rhino.FileIO.FileWriteOptions())
{
ExportMaterialDefinitions = false,
MapZtoY = true
};
// Save the .obj
Console.WriteLine("Nº of objects in file: {0}", doc.Objects.Count);
var result = Rhino.FileIO.FileObj.Write(objPath, doc, fowo);
if(result == Rhino.PlugIns.WriteFileResult.Success)
Console.WriteLine("Converted file: {0}", objPath);
else
Console.WriteLine("File conversion failed.");
// Delete all of the imported objects before importing a new file
RhinoDoc.Create(null);
}
Console.WriteLine("Finished converting. Press any key to exit...");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(ex.Message);
Console.WriteLine("press any key to exit");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
}
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The guy who's filling his notepad with drawings in the meeting? The coworker whose leg is running like a jackhammer? It's possibly more than boredom or caffeine powering them. Some researchers suggest such activities actually help focus on a task at hand.
Researching the spectrum of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders, Fraser Smith at edexpat.com, a site focused on education of expatriate children, came across some surprising ideas from researchers about the nature of nervous movements. It covers pen tapping, idle drawing, and all the other stuff you've done at one time or another during a long phone call:
The theory is that nobody can focus 100% of their working memory and attention to a single task, there is always a little bit of floating attention keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings. This floating attention is a safety feature that probably dates back to prehistoric times when the ability to focus 100% on a single task was not entirely desirable and would result in a person missing the large ravenous beast hiding in the bushes, the result being that the ravenous beast would become somewhat less ravenous
... Researchers have found that one way that ADHD children cope with these distractions is to unconsciously give their floating attention a nice mindless task, like fidgeting, swinging and fiddling to keep it occupied allowing the rest of their working memory to get on with the task at hand, learning, uninterrupted.
It might be hard to consciously make yourself start fidgeting to pay attention, but it does give you some sympathy for those who seemingly can't help themselves. Maybe they're just honing in on something that you're a bit more apathetic about. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e981fb524e3c47a12f68f77472d1041a7e929bc5e7735603bf9ccf5c39b974cb'} |
1. Milk:
For decades, the dairy industry has been trying to sell unsuspecting families the idea that milk and other dairy products are good for you. In actuality, studies show that lactose is very harmful to the adult digestive system and is also a likely culprit of stomach pain, irregular bowel movements, and other intestinal issues. Further studies show that the human body absorbs very little calcium from milk and that most of the liquid is processed as waste. Nuts, vegetables, and fruits are a truly healthy alternative to getting essential nutrients such as calcium and protein without the needless indigestion.
1. Energy Drinks
Energy drinks have also garnered the reputation of being a great way to replenish electrolytes, feel energized, and to rehydrate the body. However little do most people know, energy drinks are filled with harmful additives, food coloring, and processed sugar. These unhealthy ingredients are proven to cause diabetes, encourage obesity, heightened blood pressure, and the production of cancer cells. Studies have also linked frequent consumption of energy drinks to premature heart failure and stroke.
1. Soy
Soy products are thought to be a healthy alternative to dairy, white grain, and even red meat. However, studies suggest that Soy can increase estrogen levels in women, leading to the growth of cancer-causing breast tissue. Scientists are still grappling with understanding soy’s full effect on the human body, considering other studies have found that Soy may reduce male-centric illnesses such as colorectal and prostate cancer. Still the indeterminate nature of the studies lead experts to believe that too much soy consumption can be costly to your health.
1. Palm Oil
Health experts have speculated that Palm Oil can prevent cancer, brain disease, and help with vitamin A deficiency. Yet recent studies show that Palm Oil also has negative effects due to its high saturated-fat content. Without proper regulation, Palm Oil can increase cholesterol levels, cause weight gain, and clog major arteries. Palm Oil can be found in your favorite cheat-day snacks including bread spreads, yogurt, and even in presumed “healthy” snacks like crackers and low-calorie popcorn.
1. Fruit Juice
As children, most of us are taught to believe that fruit juice is a healthy alternative to sodas, shakes, and other sugary drinks. However, studies have found that an overwhelming majority of the kid-friendly fruit juice brands –many of which advertise vitamin-rich benefits—are saturated with high-fructose corn syrup, dyes, and other substitutions for natural fruit flavor. When shopping for fruit-juice, make sure to rule out keywords like “made from concentrate,” and “made from real fruit,” as opposed to 100% fruit juice.
1. Granola
Like fruit juice, Granola has managed to dupe people into believing that it provides a natural source of fiber and protein. In fact, most Granola—mainly processed as breakfast or energy bars—are smothered in sugar, fatty oils, and are especially high in calories. Similarly, many brand name cereals that pass as “healthy varieties” are actually very high is processed sugar and trans fat. A safe bet, is to shop for loose Granola from an organic brand or without sugary bits like chocolate or yogurt chunks to ensure its health value.
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Can I be allowed to move around within the Schengen zone on a single entry visiting visa of Norway, travelling from Norway to Germany or other Schengen countries before returning back to Norway for my final departure?
In the application for a single-entry visa, you describe your purpose of travel and planned itinerary.
• If the visa is granted, you can use it for the planned purpose and itinerary and you are allowed to make minor adjustments to your route.
• With a single-entry visa, you can only enter Schengen once. Within Schengen you can cross as many internal borders as necessary.
• You are not allowed to misrepresent your intentions to get your visa. If you do use it for a completely different purpose, you may be suspected of fraud and it will be very difficult for you to convince the immigration officers that you did not lie.
• You are supposed to get your visa from the main destination of the trip. This is not always the first Schengen country on your itinerary.
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“You are not allowed […]”: Actually, you are. The officers may indeed suspect you lied to get the visa and that's a good reason to be very careful but whether you lied or not is the only material fact. Changing one's mind and therefore using a visa for a completely different purpose is not forbidden per se. See travel.stackexchange.com/questions/30679/… for an example. – Relaxed Aug 9 '17 at 16:36
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@Relaxed, edited. My intention was to steer the readers clear of trouble, not to encourage them to push the boundaries. – o.m. Aug 9 '17 at 16:46
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Review by David Lent
Zulus on the Ramparts is a solitaire game by Victory Point Games. It is a simulation of the Battle at Rorke’s Drift where 140 British troops and auxiliaries defended a small compound in South Africa against 4000+ crack Zulu troops and not only survived, but won! The author Joseph Miranda wrote 2 other solitaire games that I like: Khe Sanh ’68 and Suez ’56 so when I heard he wrote this, I immediately jumped online and ordered a copy.
This game originally came in a ziplock bag, but was later released in a boxed version. I opted to get the boxed version and I’m pleased with the component quality. This game includes one game board, 10 plastic stands, 50 action cards, 82 game pieces, 5 D6 dice and a rules book.
The game board is solid cardboard and depicts the mission station at Rorke’s Drift. It has four tracks on it called the left horn, right horn, chest and loins. In real life the Zulus had a military formation with these four elements. The chest was in the middle; the wings were called the horns and in back was a reserve known as the loins. Typically, they would try to pin an enemy formation with the chest and envelope it with the horns. The loins were then used as a reserve to either decisively exploit a breakthrough or plug a gap. Inside the perimeter is an inner barricade and final redoubt. A Zulu victory marker begin the game in the outer perimeter, but the British may build barricades in order to first move the victory marker into the inner barricade and then the final redoubt. The purpose behind this is to make the Zulus have to travel further to reach it. If the Zulus reach the victory marker, the game is over.
Cards are an important part of this game and consist of two main types. They are volleys and heroes. The volley cards tell you how many dice to roll when shooting at a certain range. Volleys are played as an action in the action phase. Once a hero card is in play, it may be used to create barricades or form a reserve platoon as an action. Heroes also contain free actions that can only occur in certain phases. One of those free actions is a sacrifice that discards the hero in order for it to fire a volley in the main phase.
This game uses D6 dice and is supposed to include 5 of them. However, my brand new copy only included 4. I have plenty of D6’s at home, so it’s not that big of a deal but it would have been better if I got all the dice I paid for.
The other pieces included in this game are a bunch of markers, iMpi chits, event chits and standees. The standees are the actual Zulu regiments called iButhos. They consist of a stand up marker with one or more “hit” markers beneath it. One iButho is placed on each track (left horn, right horn, chest and loins). iMpi chits are drawn from a cup and tell you which track to use and how far to advance the iButho.
Event chits are drawn from the same cup as the iMpi chits and the possible events are building ablaze, iNdluyengwe Forward, Prince Dabulamanzi, rifles overheat, seniority debate, washing of the spears and Zulu snipers. Building ablaze causes you to roll on the building ablaze table to see if the hospital or storehouse has started on fire or if the fire has been put out. iNdluyengwe forward causes you to move his iButho forward 2 spaces. Prince Dabulamanzi causes you to roll a dice and return that number of discarded iMpi chits randomly back to the cup. Rifles overheat gives you a -1 die roll modifier until end of turn and also causes you to draw another iMpi chit. Seniority debate is silly. It has you return most of your leadership cards back to your hand so they can have a debate in the middle of a battle. Washing of the spears causes the iButhos that are on the lowest number space to retreat one space. Zulu snipers cause you to draw another iMpi chit and gives the British a -1 die roll modifier until the end of the turn. Some of the event chits get discarded after use and some are put in the cup. There is a reference sheet on the back of the rules, but it does not include a chart for the event chits. During the game, you are constantly going back to the rulebook to see what an event does or to see whether or not you have to discard the event or put it back in the cup. This game should have included a separate sheet with all the event information on it.
The sequence of play for this game is pretty straightforward. The sequence is iMpi phase, iButho phase, action phase, card draw phase, hero phase and housekeeping phase. During the iMpi phase you draw a chit and if it’s an event chit you resolve the event. During the iButho phase you move one or more iButhos if an iMpi chit was drawn in the previous phase. In the action phase you get one action that you can use to put forth a hero, form a reserve platoon or fire a volley. During the card draw phase you draw one card. Some heroes have free actions that can be used in this phase to draw additional cards. The hero phase allows you to put forth one hero from your hand. During housekeeping, you discard down to 5 cards unless Color Sergeant Bourne is on the board. If there are no iButhos left on the board you win.
Game setup has several steps. First, you put all the chits in a cup and then place the ammunition/water low marker on the board. Next, you place the iButhos on the board in the “5” spaces on the tracks. After that, you put Lieutenant Bromhead and Lieutenant Chard along with the volley that gives you a free non-volley action into your hand. Next, you shuffle the deck and draw 3 cards and shuffle the relief column into it and place them on the bottom of the deck. Last, you put the “Night Fighting Begins” card into the middle of the deck. When that card is drawn, British volleys get a -1 die roll modifier unless one or more buildings is on fire. This is the only game I have ever played where you want you own buildings to be on fire.
Here’s how the first few turns work. You start the game with 3 cards in your hand. Two are the hero’s Lieutenant Bromhead and Lieutenant Chard and the other is a volley that gives you a free non-volley action. In addition, you are low on ammo/water. The first few turns you are trying to get heroes out so you can distribute ammo and build barricades. The barricades take a total of 3 actions to build. In the meantime, the Zulus are creeping closer and closer to your camp. You can speed the process by returning Bromhead to your hand to give you a free action. If the Zulus get too close you can fire the special volley that gives you a free action so you can also get a little barricade building done that turn. Don’t delay the barricades, because the Zulus move fast and can get to the victory marker in a little as four turns (provided they have great iMpi chit draws) if you don’t build barricades.
Zulus On The Ramparts is a game of decisions. Enemy movement is controlled by the game, but you decide how to deal with the threat. You have to decide what actions and free actions to use. Do you return Bromhead back to your hand to get another action or do you use him to help form a reserve platoon? Do you fire Volley Fire by Ranks (your most powerful volley) and go low on ammo or do you fire a less powerful volley and stay in good supply? Do you sacrifice Chard to get 2 additional actions or do you return him to your hand so you can draw 2 cards? Do you sacrifice Hook to keep an iButho from entering the storehouse or do you leave him on guard at the hospital? Do you fire at the enemy now with only 1 dice or do you wait for him to get closer so you can use 3 dice. Do you use the optional cards that give you more options, but reduce victory points? This game relies less on luck and more on good decision making than most solitaire games and that is why it’s a winner.
Let me reiterate, this game is a winner. However, there are six areas that could use improvement. First, the iButhos sit precariously on top of their hit markers and fall over constantly during the game. After this happened a few dozen times, it started to get really annoying. Second, the victory conditions don’t seem right. If you survive until relief arrives, you should automatically have a victory. However, if you didn’t accumulate enough victory points during the game it can be a defeat. My personal opinion is any time 140 troops survive a battle with 4000+ troops it should be a major victory. Third, the FAQ on the Victory Point Games website is completely wrong about hero’s volleys. It says they are not a free action. The rules CLEARLY state that a hero’s volley is a free action that can be used in the action phase. When I say CLEARLY, I mean CLEARLY enough that any rules lawyer can understand it. See section 6.1 of the rules. Fourth, the ammunition/water low marker is the same color as the board and is hard to see. I’ve had to redo turns on several occasions when I realized I had fired a volley while ammo was low and didn’t use the -1 die roll modifier. Fifth, If you use the optional rule for iButhos with more hit points you are not given additional victory points. Lastly, you get 10 extra victory points if you survive until reinforcements arrive. However, if the game ends early because you killed all the Zulus before reinforcements arrived you don’t get the victory points. That just doesn’t make sense.
Now that I’ve finished with the bad, it’s time for the good. First, this game is fun as heck to play. I’ve played around 20 games with both basic and optional rules in the past 5 days. Enjoying a game enough to play it four times a day is a real sign of a superb game. Second, the Zulus win around half the time. This isn’t one of those games where you figure it out and then you always win. Each game is different and you better make good decisions. Third, there is real strategy in this game. You don’t win with just good die rolls; you need to know how to use your heroes correctly. Fourth, this game has the major elements from the actual battle and also some optional cards that depict events which were only in the movie. I like how you can either play the historical or Hollywood version of the game. Last, this game has a ton of re-playability. Sometimes, games focused on a specific historical battle get boring after a few games because each game you play feels just like all the others. The optional rules and random events make each play of this game unique.
Buy your own copy here.
• This is a very fun game.
• The Zulus win around half the time.
• There is real strategy in this game.
• You have the option of using events from the movie.
• This game has a ton of re-playability.
• The iButhos fall over easily.
• You don't automatically get a victory if you survive until relief arrives.
• The FAQ on the Victory Point Games website erroneously says hero's volleys are not a free action.
• The ammunition/water low marker is hard to see on the board.
• You don't get additional victory points for using iButhos with more hit points.
• You don't get the relief arrived victory points if you kill all the Zulus before relief arrives. This should give you more victory points, not less.
Rulebook Clarity - 7.5
Fun - 9.3
Originality - 8
Component Quality - 8
Replayability - 9.5
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1. Why are the Bulgarian language courses for beginners so intensive?
Intensity, especially in the initial stages, is very important for the accumulation of vocabulary and immersion in the language. The daily activation of the acquired knowledge and its systematic upgrading is of key importance for the effectiveness of the course. Following the teacher’s recommendations for reading the lessons in the morning and the evening, combined with regular visits and active involvement in various interactive activities is a guarantee of an impressive result, which is achieved in 3 to 6 months in the traditional forms of foreign language learning.
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[Tokyo Olympics] Korean table tennis players not fearing China ahead of potential showdown
Men's table tennis players Jeoung Young-sik (left) and Lee Sang-su during a match against Brazil (Yonhap)
TOKYO -- By reaching the semifinals of the men's table tennis team event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, Korea has set up a likely showdown against China, the singular force in international ping pong.
Korea defeated Brazil 3-0 in the quarterfinals earlier in the day at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Though China still had to beat France later in the evening to reach the semifinals, no South Korean player expected to see anyone else but China.
Lee Sang-su said it matters not whom his team will play because the goal all along has been to win the ultimate prize.
"We've come to Tokyo to win the gold. And I think there is absolutely no one that we can't beat," Lee said. "The same goes for China. If we can execute what we've prepared, then we can beat China."
China has collected 28 out of 33 gold medals in table tennis so far. In international team matches, South Korea has beaten China just once in 26 meetings. That lone victory came in 1995.
Don't tell that to South Korean players in Tokyo now. Jeoung Young-sik said the Chinese players are human, just like everyone else.
"I believe we can have an upset win if we prepare for the match the best we can," said Jeoung, who lost to world No. 1 from China, Fan Zhendong, in the quarterfinals of the individual event. "The team event is all about three players coming together."
Against Brazil, Lee and Jeoung won their opening doubles match 3-0 (11-6, 11-2, 12-10) over Vitor Ishiy and Gustavo Tsuboi. Then Jang Woo-jin stepped up for the first singles match and shut down Hugo Calderano 3-0 (11-6, 11-8, 12-10). Jang had lost to Calderano in the round of 16 in the individual competition, and got his revenge Monday.
"I was still getting acclimated to the Olympic competition back then, and I was rushing every shot," Jang said of his earlier loss.
"Today, I was more relaxed. Even before the match, I had a feeling that I was going to win."
As for the prospect of facing China, Jang said, "I think the pressure will be on the Chinese players as the chased. We're going to be relaxed." (Yonhap)
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Catch A Little Roar Before The 24 From Lexus’ Scott Pruett
Catch A Little Roar Before The 24 From Lexus' Scott Pruett
Five-time Rolex 24 At DAYTONA champion Scott Pruett shows us around the garage and answers questions!
For the Rolex 24 and the entire IMSA season, Pruett will be joined by former Indy Lights champion Sage Karam in the No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3 of 3GT Racing, which is being tested this week in the Roar By The Shore.
This will be the brand’s first team partnership in North America since 2009, when Pruett won two Rolex 24s and 22 total victories with Grand-Am Road Racing. The 24 hour race starts Saturday, January 28th. 3GT Racing will field two cars in the GTD class — the No. 14 car with drivers Sage Karam and Scott Pruett, and the No. 15 car with Robert Alon and Jack Hawksworth.
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\section{Image of Real Natural Logarithm}
Tags: Logarithms, Natural Logarithms
\begin{theorem}
Let $\ln$ be the natural logarithm function on the real numbers.
Then the image of $\ln$ is the set of real numbers:
:$\Img \ln = \R$
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
By definition of natural logarithm:
:$\ln^{-1} = \exp$
From Exponential Tends to Zero and Infinity:
:$\Dom \exp = \openint {-\infty} {+\infty}$
:$\Img \exp = \openint 0 {+\infty}$
From Exponential is Strictly Increasing:
:$\exp$ is strictly increasing.
From Strictly Monotone Real Function is Bijective, $\exp: \R \to \R_{>0}$ is a bijection.
Thus:
:$\Img \ln = \Dom \exp$
and so $\Img \ln = \R$.
{{qed}}
Category:Natural Logarithms
\end{proof}
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Essays in Cultural Anthropology have sought to make sense of health and illness both at the level of individual experience and perception and at the level of institutionalized systems. Often, the goal is social theoretical analysis of the significance of modern medicine. Equally important is the imperative to do ameliorative work to address problems such as social inequalities in health and access to healthcare, failures of health professionals to address patients’ primary concerns, and the need to evaluate the impact of health services in populations’ well being. We recognize that these different motivations in the cultural analysis of health, the desire analytically and theoretically to understand, as well as the desire to contribute to change, need to be maintained and appreciated. Accordingly, we present a diverse selection of essays that question dominant definitions of health and illness, evaluate alternative options for achieving health, and assess the appropriateness of healthcare systems for individuals and groups.
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The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject
The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Who are you?
John 1
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Testimony of John the Baptist
John came to bear witness to the light, that is, Jesus. His (Jesus') own, those who did not want to associate with Him, went to John as questioned who he was. I don't think they came in honesty, but rather they came seeking ammunition to discredit either John or Jesus. Perhaps they were hoping to stir up some rivalry between the two. But John did not go for it. He made it clear that he was not the Christ. He also stated that he was not Elijah. For their understanding was that Elijah would come again before the Messiah. (He was not Elijah, but did come in the Spirit and power of Elijah).
So who are you, they asked, because we need to give an answer to those who sent us. (Speaks a little to their motivation, doesn't it?) So John told them what he was doing, making straight the way of the Lord. He was making it plain for people, because the way had been so confused and forgotten. The way had become all about following a list of rules to the T, but John's ministry was one of cleansing and forgiveness. It was about a spiritual healing and becoming whole before God once again. That is why he baptized.
But he was not the Messiah. John only baptized with water. There was one who was greater. One whom John was not worthy of. One who would ultimately give John's baptism meaning by his sacrifice: Jesus.
Thought for Today: As we come into this season, do we understand and appreciate the role of Jesus? There have always been things to distract us from that role. The Jews were distracted so much by their legalism, that God needed to send John to set things straight. Doing good things is important, placing a few dollars in a kettle or helping a needy family at this time of year are great things, but they are not salvation. John understood this. He understood that salvation came as a gift from God alone, through Christ alone. And that apart from Jesus, such things do not make us worthy.
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We did a quickie drive through Joliet today before it started to rain. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I am also pasting a bit of history for those who want to know more about the city.
In 1833 Joliet, following the Black Hawk War, Charles Reed built a cabin along the west side of the Des Plaines River. Across the river in 1834, James B. Campbell, treasurer of the canal commissioners, laid out the village of "Juliet", a name local settlers had been using before his ascent. The origin of the name, which was what it would be called or referred to in popular vernacular, was most likely a corruption of the name of French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet, who in 1673, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River and camped on a huge mound, a few miles south of present-day Joliet.[4] Maps from Jolliet's exploration of the area placed a large hill or mound on what is now the southwest corner of the city, since there is no point that is farther southwest. That hill was named Mound Jolliet, later renamed to Heap Joliet. The spot was mined by early settlers and is now a depression. Just before the depression of 1837, Juliet incorporated as a village, but to cut tax expenses, Juliet residents soon petitioned the state to rescind that incorporation. In 1845, local residents changed the community's name from "Juliet" to "Joliet". Joliet was reincorporated as a city in 1852.
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Irini Boeder
American Lung Association Auxiliary Board Chair
Meet Irini Boeder, a young professional truly impacting the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air! Irini’s connection with the American Lung Association began almost three years ago, through the inaugural Fight for Air Climb at Presidential Towers. As member of the event committee, Irini played a key role in establishing the event, securing sponsorship and recruiting participants.
Always leading by example, Irini has been captain of a corporate Fight for Air Climb team. This team, from Waterton Residential, has stepped up in a big way over the past two years, raising nearly $10,000!
This spring, Irini furthered her commitment to our organization by serving as a founding member of the American Lung Association’s Auxiliary Board (ALAAB). Irini’s enthusiasm, talent and natural leadership led her peers to elect her Board Chair.
In a very short time, the ALAAB has made great progress in engaging young community leaders. Irini’s vision and leadership have led to social, networking and volunteer events that build awareness around the importance of healthy lungs and healthy air.
Thank you, Irini, for demonstrating the great impact that volunteering can make!
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The impact factors on the cost and length of stay among acute ischemic stroke.
Understanding hospital costs and length of stay (LOS) can optimize the in-hospital management of acute stroke. We investigated cost and LOS in first-ever and recurrent stroke patients in Taiwan. Data were examined in patients at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Chiayi County of Taiwan from April 1, 2008, to March 31, 2010 [corrected]. Predictors of hospital cost and LOS in these patients were studied. The study included 1021 patients with 1084 stroke episodes. Mean age was 68.1 ± 10.8 years (range: 32-93). The average cost was NTD$45,709.30 ± NTD$66,697.40 (US$1408.70 ± US$2084.30; US$1 = NTD$32) and average LOS was 13.9 ± 14.1 days (range: 1-129). After multivariate regression analysis, the significant predictive factors for cost were LOS, smoking, and medication for secondary prevention. The significant predictive factors for LOS were diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, recurrence, and stroke subtype. Age 65 and over, atrial fibrillation, stroke treatment, and subtypes were the significant predictive factors affecting hospital costs and LOS. Compared to other countries, Taiwan spent the least while Canada had the highest expense. The United States had the shortest LOS (6 days) in contrast to Canada with the longest LOS (34-47 days). Regarding mean daily cost of stroke, the United States had the highest cost per day while China spent the least. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9eef32631805ff6c93ccca6c0e12d8e92d85ebe119de152d008076043b6470ed'} |
Helping You Find Cheap Flights on European Low-Cost Airlines
Monaco is the second smallest country in the world and is located on the French Riviera around 10 km from the border between France and Italy. Monaco is situated on the Mediterranean and borders with France on three sides.
Monaco is divided into three municipalities: Monaco city, Monte Carlo and La Condamine.
Cheap Flights to Monaco
There is no airport in Monaco. The nearest major airport is Nice airport.
More about Monaco
Around 38,000 people live permanently in Monaco. Monaco is the most densely populated country in the world.
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Germany to Mexico
Merkel First
Merkel in Argentinien
A provocative visit: German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking in Argentina this week. Source: Michael Kappeler / DPA [M]
The German chancellor doesn’t just hop on a plane and take a trip. Before Angela Merkel gets underway, delegation lists are carefully drawn up, elaborate travel booklets are printed. Advisers hold background meetings to establish the focus of the trip. And of course there is always a detailed bulletin on what sort of weather to expect.
And there is always another travelling companion for Ms. Merkel – and that is the world’s attention. This is especially true at the moment as Ms. Merkel is auditioning for the role of “leader of the free world”, taking positions diametrically opposed to those of the US president, Donald Trump. The fact that, for the first time in her term in office, the chancellor was paying a visit to Argentina was just about as much excitement as her followers could handle. Her plan to fly on to Mexico at the weekend almost caused them to hyperventilate with excitement.
In Berlin, people were asking when the date for this visit had been set. Was it a provocation that Ms. Merkel would pay her respects to a country whose inhabitants Mr. Trump has described as rapists, and who he wants to keep out of the US with a giant wall?
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Operative management of postinfarction ventricular septal defect.
Postinfarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) remains a surgical challenge because it is technically difficult to reconstruct the septum during the acute phase of a transmural myocardial infarction, and it is a relatively uncommon operative procedure. Conservative treatment is not advisable because most patients develop congestive heart failure and cardiogenic shock, and die. Surgery should be performed soon after the diagnosis in most patients. Hemodynamically compromised patients should have intra-aortic balloon pump, vasodilators, inotropes and, if necessary, assisted ventilation. Coronary angiography should be performed before surgery because approximately two-thirds of the patients have multivessel disease, and concomitant revascularization is important to improve surgical outcome. Classical operative techniques included infarctectomy and reconstruction of the ventricular septum and free walls of the heart with Dacron patches. Since 1987, we have used a novel operative technique, whereby the left ventricle is largely excluded from the infarcted muscle using a bovine pericardial patch sutured to its healthy endocardium. Because right ventricular dysfunction has been identified as an important determinant in the outcome of these patients, we believe that this newer procedure is preferable to previous ones because it leaves the right ventricle undisturbed. From 1980 to 1994, we treated 67 patients with postinfarction VSD using operative techniques that evolved from infarctectomy and reconstruction of the septum with Dacron patches to pericardial patch exclusion of the left ventricle. Thirty-eight patients were in cardiogenic shock when operated on. The overall operative mortality rate was 13.4% and the 10-year actuarial survival rate was 62% +/- 6%. We believe that repair of postinfarction septal rupture by the infarct exclusion technique has improved the outcome of these patients, particularly in those with posterior ventricular septal defect and cardiogenic shock. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '971ed36096d1433608291fe4b240cee2dbc8a624435d4faad952c2b730ac8c8d'} |
What is the difference between Class and Object in Java?
UPDATED: 31 May 2015
Developer always gets confuse, when they face this question. They creates class and object in their day to day life. However, they don't know the concept behind it. Lets understand the difference between them.
A Class defines a new data type and it is template for an Object (A Class is data type and can be used to create an Object of that data type.). A class can be declared using class keyword.
Book (An example of Class)
Following class defines common template(class) for Book. That can be used to create an Object of Book.
public class Book{
String name;
String author;
Object is instance of Class. You can create Object using new keyword. When you create an Object using new keyword then it allocates memory for an object at runtime and returns reference to it.
Example of Object
You can create as many Objects of Book. Each Object hold its own copy of variables defined in Class Book.
Book objBook = new Book();
Book objJavaBlackBook = new Book();
objJavaBlackBook.name = "Java Black Book";
objJavaBlackBook.author = "James Gosling";
Book objFiftyShadesofGrey = new Book();
objFiftyShadesofGrey.name = "Fifty Shades of Grey";
objFiftyShadesofGrey.author = "E. L. James";
Book objBriefHistoryofTime = new Book();
objBriefHistoryofTime.name = "A Brief History of Time";
objBriefHistoryofTime.author = "Stephen Hawking";
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The Argonautica is the Greek epic poem that tells the story of Jason and the Argonauts journey to retrieve the Golden Fleece. As the University of West Florida's premier student-led magazine for the UWF community, we will tell the story of today's Argos. Our magazine covers everything Argo and everything Argos want to read. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8744462728500366}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '114867', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EWNLQOQA3MIH37Q26IMCNEUEMQDDS6CY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ad987b0a-670b-4cb4-9598-3e44db33c622>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 30, 8, 22, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.139', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:K4EZGBLBGTU2L33JXVUXKADYN74EFDP3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3d9b2dbb-c94c-4c93-aead-902c2ea3d538>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://theargonautica.com/placeholder-image-6/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e3a0c04b-a588-49dd-98f1-c2a7be488a7b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '56', 'url': 'https://theargonautica.com/placeholder-image-6/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-235.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.3775179982185364', 'original_id': 'e4f5aa18f5ab9aedb974196f6f28c3b43142a14f8680e1172f599779a14bd77e'} |
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ACDI/VOCA occasionally offers position statements in an attempt to clarify and promote understanding of an issue. These are limited to areas in which the company has rich experience and can contribute to a determination of best practice.
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Cheers Quiz, 18-Apr-1991 edition. Many thanks to Eric Jorgensen ( and Kevin Treu (, co-authors of the Cheers episode guide, for their help in researching and proofreading this quiz. The questions are sorted by topic, not by difficulty. Estimated difficulty ratings (enclosed in [square brackets]) are: 0 = solvable by casual viewers 1 = solvable by moderately devoted viewers 2 = solvable by addicted viewers 3 = research problem + and - can be used to adjust the value. E.g., 0+ or 2-. In particular, a rating of 3+ means that even watching every single second of every episode won't help. A `*' means that the information is contained in only one episode. For these questions, the ratings are *0 = solvable if you watched the episode casually *1 = solvable if you watched the episode carefully *2 = a single line of dialog answers the question *3 = you need freeze-frame to answer this one If the rating is given as [?], that means the question was submitted by somebody else, and I didn't know the answer, so I couldn't give it a rating. Some of the questions are trick questions. You will score bonus points if you give both the obvious (wrong) answer and the correct (trick) answer. CHAPTER 1: The show itself 1: Every show begins with a close-up of the `Cheers' sign. What is the voice-over while the sign is displayed? [0] =1 How many variations on this voice over can you list? [3] =B 2: What is the title of the Cheers theme song? [2-] =1 Who wrote it, and who performs it? [2+] =2 3: `Cheers' exists in the same universe as other television programs. (For example, characters from other shows appeared on `Cheers', or vice versa.) Name the other programs. [3+] =B 4: On the other hand, `Cheers' has been established as not belonging to other universes. Name the television shows that have appeared prominently on `Cheers' as television shows. [3] =B 5: `Cheers' is also known for having cameo appearances of famous celebrities and politicians. Name all the people who have appeared as themselves on `Cheers'. [3] =B 6: All of the female regulars (Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Bebe Neuwirth and Kirstie Alley) have either been pregnant in real life or pregnant in character, or both. Which is which? [3] =B 7: In describing the dedication to innovative comedy, James Burrows said, ``In `Cheers', nobody slips on the banana peel.'' In what episode did somebody slip on a banana peel? [*1] =1 8: Two shows have ended with hugs that turn to asphyxiation. Describe. [2+] =2 CHAPTER 2: The Bar 9: What real-life bar was Cheers patterned after? [3] =1 10: What year was Cheers established? [1] =1 11: What was Cheers before it was a bar? [?] =1 12: When is closing time? [2] =1 13: What is the bar's maximum capacity, according to the fire code? [3] =1 14: Where does the door behind the staircase lead? [3] =1 15: Which night is Ladies' Night? [?] =1 16: Which Cheers employees car pool to work? [2] =1 17: Which night is pool tournament night? [*1+] =1 18: What is the name of the wooden Indian statue that stands by the door? [*1] =1 19: We've seen three bachelor parties thrown at Cheers, but each grinds to an abrupt halt after something happens. Describe. [1] =3 20: What can you do with a `Billiard Buddy Pool Table Adapter'? [*2] =1 21: Recite the entire text of the `Square House' sign. [3-] =1 Where can you find the sign? [2-] =1 Let R = the restaurant above Cheers. 22: What is the name of R? [0] =1 What kind of restaurant is it? [0+] =1 23: Who is the maitre d'? [2] =1 Who became the owner of R for the ninth season? [1] =1 What let the second owner gloat over Sam? [1+] =1 Let B = Cheers' main rival bar. 24: What is the name of B? [0+] =1 Name the actors who have played its proprietor. [3] =3 25: What part of town is B in? [*2+] =1 How do you get to Cheers from there? [*2+] =1 26: Another local bar is Vito's Pub. What is so special about it? [*1-] =1 27: What is the name of the local tabloid? [*2] =1 CHAPTER 3: The Bar Regulars Most of the bar regulars sit in the background, but there are a few that stand out. 28: What is the name of the old guy? [2] =1 The fat guy (not Norm)? [2] =1 29: Who is the lawyer's aide who became a lawyer? [1+] =1 And what was his first case? [*0+] =1 30: What is the street name of the swindler who occasionally frequents Cheers? [1+] =1 What is the character's real last name? [*3] =1 Who plays him? [1] =1 31: Which of the regulars can perform weddings? [*1+] =1 32: What is the name of the local Catholic priest? [1+] =1 Who plays him? [3-] =1 CHAPTER 4: Sam 33: How many times has Sam been married? [2+] =1 34: For many years, Sam was driven by his desire to buy back the bar. List the times he has blown the opportunity to get back the bar, or parts of it. [3-] =B 35: Money is also a recurring problem for Sam. Name as many instances as you can where Sam lost large quantities of money. [3-] =B 36: Continuing on the money theme, more than once somebody has whipped out his checkbook and offered to pay Sam lots of money. (Or in some other manner offered to give Sam lots of money.) Name as many as you can. [3-] =B 37: Still on the topic of money, name the transactions where the total amount of money that changed hands was less than a dollar. [2] =B 38: What is Sam's brother's name? [*0] =1 What is his job? [*1] =1 His hair color, eye color? [*2] =2 39: What is Sam's favorite color? [*2] =1 His favorite hobby? [*2] =1 40: What is the combination to the wall safe in his office? [*1+] =1 41: What was Sam's uniform number when he pitched for the Red Sox? [?] =1 Describe his first Major League save. [*2+] =1 42: Who was Sam's first sexual experience with? [*2] =1 43: What is Sam's good luck charm? [*0] =1 44: What happens when he drinks tequila? (Besides getting drunk.) [*2-]=1 45: Who is Sam's sportscaster friend? [2] =1 Who portrays him? [2] =1 46: List the times Sam and Diane have pretended to be in love when they really weren't dating. [3-] =B 47: For each of Sam's proposals of marriage to Diane, state where it was made and what Diane's immediate respose was. [3-] =B+B 48: Where were Sam and Diane to go on their honeymoon? [2-] =1 49: What was court case number 15786? [*1+] =1 50: What drink did Carla invent to get Sam's job back? [*0+] =1 If someone asks for it, what should the bartender ask? [*1] =1 CHAPTER 5: Diane 51: What was the name of Diane's fiance who dumped her at Cheers? [1+] =1 52: What are Diane's parents' names? [*2+ and *0+] =2 When did Diane's father die? [*2+] =1 53: What was the name of the sanitarium that Diane stayed at? [2] =1 For how long? [2+] =1 54: Ever since she was a child, Diane dreamed of being a what? [0+] =1 55: What was the play that Diane and Andy-Andy acted out before a Cheers audience? [*0+] =1 56: What happens when Diane's allergy to Frasier's dog acts up? [*0+] =1 And what is the dog's name? [*1-] =1 What did Sam call it? [*1] =1 57: What annoying tic does Diane have? [1+] =1 What does she do about it? [*1] =1 58: Diane keeps a rather large collection of stuffed animals. What is the name of the stuffed giraffe? [*1] =1 Which is her `dearest childhood pal'? [*1+] =1 59: Who is Jessica Simpson Bourges? [*2] =1 60: When Diane integrated her sorority in her senior year, what kind of people she push for admittance? [*2] =1 What was her sorority anyway? [*2-] =1 61: Who are the Sisters of the Divine Severity? [*1] =1 62: How did Diane satisfy her PhysEd requirement in college? [*0] =1 63: What does Diane keep between her French Club pin and her retainer? [*2+] =1 64: How much psychology did Diane study in college? [*2+] =1 To what school of psychology does she subscribe? [*2+] =1 65: In high school, Diane was voted the girl most likely to ... ? [*2] =1 66: What did Diane want to name her and Sam's first child? [*1-] =1 67: List the things Diane wanted Sam to help her choose for their life together? (The sort of things you'll find in a bridal registry.) =B 68: Why did Diane finally leave Sam? [*0+] =1 69: At last report, what is Diane doing? [*2] =1 CHAPTER 6: Coach 70: What is Coach's real name? [0+] =1 What is his other nickname, and how did he get it? [*2-] =2 71: What does everybody jokingly say is the reason why Coach =1 is so flighty? [1+] 72: What did Coach coach? [2+] =1 73: What is his daughter's name, and who played her? [*0] =2 His late wife's name? [2] =1 74: What is Coach's secret weapon for getting women interested in him? [*0+] =1 75: Which is Coach's night off, and how does he spend it? [*2] =2 76: Complete the following song: Albania! Albania! You border on the Adriatic. Your land is mostly mountainous, And your chief export is ---. [*1+] =1 What song is it sung to? [*1-] =1 77: What is the bunt sign? [*2] =1 78: Who is Coach's and Sam's favorite actor? [*1+] =1 79: Who was Coach's pen pal? [*1] =1 80: Why does Coach attend the reunion of a black family every year? [*1+] =1 CHAPTER 7: Carla 81: What is Carla's full name? [3] =1 82: Name Carla's children and their fathers. [3] =B+B 83: What religion is Carla? [1] =1 84: Which is Carla's night off? [*1+] =1 85: What was the name of the reform school she attended as a child? [*2+] =1 86: Why didn't Carla attend sex education class in high school? [*1] =1 Let H1 = Carla's sleazeball ex-husband. 87: What is the name of H1? [0] =1 What is his occupation? [1-] =1 Where does he live? [1-] =1 How did he propose to Carla? [*2-] =1 88: Who is H1's current wife? [1] =1 What did he enclose with the wedding invitation? [*1-] =1 What do Tortelli men do at weddings as a sign of fertility? [*1] =1 Let H2 = Carla's next husband. 89: What is the full name of H2? [0+] =1 90: What team did H2 play for, and what was his position? [0] =1 What was his uniform number? [*2+] =1 What did he drink before every game? [*1+] =1 What job did he get after he was cut from the team? [0] =1 91: Who caught the bouquet at their wedding? [*2] =1 92: How did H2 die? [*1] =1 Who was his other wife? [*0] =1 How much was his life insurance policy worth? [*0] =1 93: What was Carla and H2's song? [1+] =1 94: What is Carla's favorite meal and favorite hobby? [*2] =2 What is her favorite movie, and her favorite scene in it? [*2] =2 95: Why does she watch `America's Most Wanted'? [*2] =1 96: Where did she work before coming to Cheers? [?] =1 97: Carla's cousin is a private detective. What's his name, and whom has he spied on? [*2] =1+B 98: In Carla's family, dying family members get `The Dream'. =1 How do you pronounce `The Dream'? [*0+] CHAPTER 8: Norm 99: What is Norm's real first name? [*1-] =1 100: When Norm comes into the bar, everybody yells `Norm!'. Everybody except one. Who, and why? [0+] =1+1 101: Actually, the traditional `Norm' greeting has been spoofed more than once. List (1) the other places Norm frequents where everybody yells `Norm!', (2) other people who have had their names called in a similar manner, (3) times Norm comes in, says hello, but everybody doesn't yell his name. [3] =B 102: What is Norm's favorite eating establishment? [1] =1 103: How does Norm conclude every letter? [*1] =1 104: What was Norm's nickname in high school? [*2-] =1 What sport did he play in high school? [*0] =1 Let W1 = Norm's wife. 105: What is the name of W1? [0] =1 How long have they been married? [*2+] =1 What was her maiden name? [?] =1 106: How did Norm and W1 meet? [*2] =1 What was W1's claim to fame in school? [*2] =1 107: How close have we gotten to seeing/hearing W1? [3-] =B Who supplies her voice? [3+] =1 108: Name the times Norm contemplated cheating on her? [3-] =B 109: Describe Norm's car. [*2] =1 110: List Norm's various occupations. [3] =B 111: Who are Norm's neighbors? [*1-] =1 112: What is the name of Norm's shady friend who gets jewelry and other expensive items at cut-rate prices (and dubious legal validity)? [*2] =1 CHAPTER 9: Cliff 113: What is Cliff's mother's name? [1+] =1 114: Where is Cliff's father? Why? [*1] =2 When did he leave Cliff (the first time)? [2+] =1 115: Which district does Cliff work for? [*2+] =1 116: Who is Cliff's fellow postal employee who always gets the better of him? [1+] =1 117: When he lived with his mother, what was his curfew? [*2] =1 118: Does Cliff know karate? [*0] =1 119: What is Cliff's old license plate number from his Chevy wagon? [?] =1 120: Why does Cliff keep a collection of telephone books? [*1] =1 121: What is his least favorite time of year? [1+] =1 122: What has Cliff always wished he were? [*2] =1 123: Complete the following list: `Civil servants' `Stamps from around the world', `Mothers and sons', `Beer', `Bar trivia' and what? [*2+] =1 What do these items have in common? [*0+] =1 CHAPTER 10: Woody 124: What's his home town? [0+] =1 What is the other town that is its rival? [*1] =1 125: Where did Woody work back in his home town? [?] =1 126: What is Woody's middle name? [?] =1 127: When is his birthday? [*2+] =1 128: What was the name of his pet dog? [*2+] =1 129: In high school, he and Beth Curtis were voted most likely to ... ? [*2] =1 130: Why is Woody afraid of bowling? [*1-] =1 131: What is the name of Woody's rich girlfriend? [0+] =1 His main rival for her affections? [1] =1 CHAPTER 11: Frasier 132: What's his middle name? [2+] =1 133: To what school of psychiatry does Frasier subscribe? [*2-] =1 134: What is his mother's name? [1] =1 What does she do? [*1] =1 135: Besides proposing to Diane, why did Frasier travel to Europe? [*1] =1 136: What is the name of Frasier's psychiatric mentor? [*0] =1 137: What was Frasier's wedding gift to Sam and Diane? [*0] =1 138: What foreign languages has Frasier demonstrated a knowledge of? [3] =B Let W2 = Frasier's wife. 139: What is W2's name? [0] =1 Who were the best man and maid-of-honor at their wedding? [*1] =1 What religion is she? [*1-] =1 Where does she work? [*2+] =1 140: What is their son's name? [1+] =1 And what was his first word? [*1] =1 141: What does W2 say to Frasier after they make love, to appease his ego? [*2] =1 142: Who taught W2 how to drive? [*0] =1 CHAPTER 12: Rebecca 143: Where was she born? [*1+] =1 144: What is her favorite song? [*0+] =1 145: What kind of car does she drive? [*2] =1 146: What was Rebecca's nickname at school? [1-] =1 For that matter, what school did she attend? [*2] =1 What was her major? [*2] =1 147: What is her sister's name, and what does she do? [*0] =2 148: Identify the occupations of Rebecca's parents and other siblings. [*2+] =B 149: List the times Rebecca pretended to be in love with Sam. [3-] =B 150: Describe the circumstances surrounding each of the times Rebecca unenthusiastically consented to have sex with Sam? [3-] =B 151: Rebecca is always being asked by the corporation to throw parties or do other favors. List as many as you can. [3] =B Let L1 = Rebecca's unrequited love interest during her first year. 152: What is the name of L1? [1+] =1 What happened to him? [1-] =1 Let L2 = Rebecca's next major love interest. 153: What is the name of L2? [0] =1 What is her nickname for him? [2] =1 Why does she love him? [*0+] =1 Who was Rebecca's main rival for L2's affections? [2] =1 154: Where did L2 take Rebecca to dinner the night they `did it' for the first time? [*1+] =1 Why is he in jail? [1-] =1 155: Rebecca is fond of her `Wobbie'. Explain. [*2+] =1 156: Recite the sign that is mounted over the copy machine in Rebecca's office. [*2] =1 CHAPTER 13: Questions you aren't expected to be able to answer Don't keep score on these questions. If I were rating them, they would all be [3+] level question. 157: While casting for Cheers, the search centered on three pairs for the two lead roles. Of course, the duo of Ted Danson and Shelley Long won out. Who were the two losing teams? 158: Why did Cheri Eichen (the creator of W2) choose the name she did for the character? 159: What is the relation between Heide Perlman and Rhea Perlman? 160: Who invented the character of Cliff Clavin? CHAPTER 14: More useless trivia The `evil foosball table' subplot of ``Achilles Hill'' is an inside joke. The Cheers actors are real foosball addicts. Woody Harrelson likes to shoot spitballs at George Wendt during breaks in filming. If you look carefully, you can sometimes see a spitball just above George's eyebrow. (Woody is the prankster on the set.) Answers follow this line ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Each answer contains a reference to the episode(s) wherein the answer can be found, contained in square brackets. If the episode is given as [?], then I don't know which episode it came from. Episode titles are given in the Cheers Episode Guide being produced by Eric Jorgensen ( and Kevin Treu ( Scoring: For most questions, score one point for each correct answer. If a question has more than one part, score one point for each part. If you are asked to produce a list, score one point for each item you can list. Here are some examples: Who is the President of the United States? =1 What are the first two letters of the alphabet? =2 List the colors of the rainbow. =7 How many synonyms for `stupid' can you think of? =B For the last question, you score one point for each synonym you can think of. So if you got the first three all correct and thought of five synonyms, then you score 1+2+7+5 = 15. For trick questions, the scoring is given explicitly. Sections that begin with the word `incidentally' are for personal edification and are worth no points. A perfect score is 233 points from the regular questions, plus 122 points from the 25 bonus questions (the `B' questions), for a total of 355. CHAPTER 1: The show itself 1: `Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience.' Often Rhea Perlman says `Hey! Cheers is filmed...' [Show Down (Part 1); Power Play; Coachie Makes Three; Norman's Conquest; The Groom Wore Clearasil] Sometimes John Ratzenberger says `Here's a fascinating fact: Cheers is filmed...' [No Contest; Show Down (Part 2)] Many of the first-season episodes just show the `Cheers' sign with no voice-over. [Coach Returns to Action; Endless Slumper; The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One; Father Knows Last] Sometimes, we just hear the audio from the scene in progress: Cliff babbling. [Where There's a Will...] Coach listening to the radio. [No Help Wanted] Coach saying it's closing time. [I'll Be Seeing You (Part 2)] In the winter, you might see snow falling on the `Cheers' sign. [Christmas Cheers] For the second of a two-part episode, Ted Danson said `Last time on `Cheers'...' [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2)] 2: `Where Everybody Knows Your Name'. Written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy. Sung by Gary Portnoy. [flashes during the end credits] Incidentally, they won an Emmy nomination for the song after the first season. 3: `St. Elsewhere'. Carla goes to St. Eligius to have her kids. [Little Sister Don't Cha] The `Cheers' sign is visible during one of Jack's strolls through Boston. Westphall, Craig, and Auschlander stopped by Cheers for drinks during the 27 March 1985 episode, appropriately titled `Cheers'. `Wings'. Norm and Cliff take a fishing vacation on Sandpiper Air, but end up spending all their time in local bars. (Incidentally, Wings was created by Peter Casey, David Lee and David Angell, who also worked on `Cheers'.) `Major League Baseball'. The `Cheers' gang appeared in one of the pre-game shows for the 1986 World Series between the Mets and the Red Sox. It was a hilarious bit featuring Bob Costas and all of the regular characters. Throughout, Diane was enamored with the TV camera and could always be seen in the background waving. A spinoff sitcom `The Tortellis' based on Nick and Loretta died a quick death. (The following are fun tidbits of information; score no points for mentioning any of them.) The `Cheers' gang also produced a short film promoting US Savings Bonds sometime between 1985 and 1987. Cliff comes in and describes his Florida vacation, and mentions that he paid for it from his savings bonds. The `Cheers' gang appeared in an `Energizer' promotion in 1991. George Wendt did one or two `Meisterbrau' commercials, pretending to a beer-guzzling sort of fellow. John Ratzenberger did a `Hallmark' commercial, pretending to be a mailman. (Most networks have a policy of not airing commercials that use characters from rival networks. That's why George and John don't portray Norm and Cliff in commercials, but rather people who happen to bear a striking similarity to Norm and Cliff.) 4: `Spencer for Hire'. [Woody for Hire and Norman of the Apes] `Jeopardy'. [My Fair Clavin; What is ... Cliff Clavin?] Cliff also offers to watch it with Ma. [Ma Always Liked You Better] `The Arsenio Hall Show'. [Where Nobody Knows Your Name] For those that care, here are the shows that were mentioned in passing, or weren't otherwise prominently displayed. `Ripley's Believe It Or Not'. Cliff hopes his potato that looks like Nixon is newsworthy. [The Groom Wore Clearasil] `LA Law'. At Frasier's bachelor party, the gang muse about what woman they'd like to have most. Norm says, `Jill Eichenberry. You know, LA Law? She married that short dumpy guy on the show. There's something about her I like...' [To All the Girls I've Loved Before] `The Addams Family' and `The Munsters' -- the gang argue which is better. [How to Win Friends and Electrocute Yourself] `Star Search' -- Sam compares it to `Die Meistersinger'. [I Kid You Not] `America's Most Wanted' -- Carla watches it. (See below.) [I Kid You Not] `Bonanza' -- Cliff notes, ``You haven't lived until you've seen `Bonanza' dubbed in French-Canadian.'' [The Cranemakers] `Ironsides' -- Woody asks Rebecca to get Raymond Burr's autograph. [Hot Rocks] `Charles in Charge'. Frasier asks the gang who wrote `A Tale of Two Cities' and gives them a hint, `Charles...' Cliff says `In Charge?' [I'm Gonna Get My Act Together and Stick it in Your Face] Incidentally, `It's a Wonderful Life' was on the bar television [Christmas Cheers]. They have mentioned other movies occasionally. `Gandhi' -- While separated from Vera, Norm took a date to see it. [Old Flames] `Thunder Road' -- Sam and Coach watch it in Diane's apartment. [Coachie Makes Three] `From Here to Eternity' -- It reminds Coach of his wife. [No Help Wanted] `The Seven Samurai' -- Diane and Frasier see it after Diane's allergy is resolved. [Diane's Allergy] `Porky's 2' and `Splash' -- Movies Sam and Norm watched on their fishing trip. [The Heart is a Lonely Snipehunter] `The Sorrow and the Pity' -- Frasier and Diane see the movie. [If Ever I Would Leave You] `Blame It on Rio' -- the movie on Sam's plane trip to Florence to stop Diane's wedding. [Rescue Me] `The Seven Samurai' -- The gang watch it and forget to invite Diane. [Diane Chambers Day] `Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and `Forbidden Planet' are two movies Cliff rents from Vince's Video Emporium. [Yacht of Fools] `Fatal Attraction' -- Carla and Eddie watch the movie their last night together before Eddie leaves for the ice show. [Bar Wars] `The Magnificent Seven' -- Cliff, Norm and Woody watch it at Cliff's house. [Jumping Jerks] `Koyaanisqatsi' -- Frasier and Lilith take Ludlow to see it. [I Kid You Not] `Indiana Jones' -- Cliff calls postmen ``the Indiana Jones of your civil servants.'' [Feeble Attraction] `Police Academy' -- Ma Clavin and Woody watch the entire series. [Ma Always Liked You Better] `Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' -- Frasier compares his arguments with Lilith to the movie. 5: Luis Tiant. [Now Pitching, Sam Malone] Tip O'Neill. [No Contest] Dick Cavett. [They Call Me Mayday] Gary Hart. [Strange Bedfellows (Part 2)] Robert Urich. [Woody for Hire, and Norman of the Apes] Alex Trebek. [My Fair Clavin (voice); What is ... Cliff Clavin?] Wade Boggs. [Bar Wars] Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. [Hot Rocks] Mayor Raymond J. Flynn. [The Stork Brings a Crane] Johnny Gilbert. [What is ... Cliff Clavin?] Bill Medley. [Finally (Parts 1 and 2)] Anthony Frank, Postmaster General. [Cry Hard (Part 1)] Kevin McHale. [Cheers Fouls Out] Arsenio Hall. [Where Nobody Knows Your Name] John McLaughlin. [200th episode special] Bobby Hatfield. [Wedding Bell Blues] Michael Dukakis. [Sam Time Next Year] Incidentally, Herb Caen (newspaper columnist) appeared, not as himself, but as a delivery man. [Call Me, Irresponsible] 6: Shelley Long: Pregnant in real life at end of third season, not pregnant in character. Rhea Perlman: Pregnant both in real life and in character at end of first season and beginning of second season. Pregnant in character (Ludlow) in third season. Pregnant in character (Jesse and Elvis) in seventh season. Bebe Neuwirth: Pregnant in character (Frederick) in seventh season. Kirstie Alley: Pregnant in real life during summer between eighth and ninth seasons. The writers intended to write her pregnancy into the plot (Who is the father? Sam or Robin?), but Kirstie suffered a miscarriage and the plan was dropped. Incidentally, another quasi-regular, Mandy Ingber (Annie Tortelli), was pregnant in character, but we haven't yet learned what came of it. 7: In the episode where Sam tries to get away for a ski weekend with his baseball buddies, Coach is trying to break his record for breaking the fewest number of glasses in a month. But his hopes are dashed when he slips on a banana peel when making a tropical drink. [Snow Job] 8: When Sam destroys a priceless book that he was holding for Diane, he purchases it outright. Diane confesses that seeing the literate, sensitive side of Sam has stirred new feelings in her, and the two kiss passionately. But when Diane mentions that she expects $700 from Sam to pay for the book, Sam's demeanor changes: `Hold me Sam. ... Sam, you're holding me a little tight. ... Sam, I can't breathe.' [I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday] When Kelly realizes that Woody can't afford the pendant he bought for her birthday, she gives it back. When she says that love is more important than material things, they hug and she mentions that this means she won't have to buy Woody a Ferrari for his birthday. At which point, Woody's eyes open wide: `Woody, you're holding me a little too tight. ... Woody?' [The Gift of the Woodi] Andy-Andy's realistic rendition of the strangulation scene from `Othello' doesn't count. [Homicidal Ham] CHAPTER 2: The Bar 9: The Bull and Finch Pub in Boston. 10: This was a trick question. The sign at the start of the show says `1895', but the bar was actually established in 1889. Carla chose `1895' for numerological reasons. [The Stork Brings a Crane] (Score one point for each year you mentioned, for a perfect score of 2 points.) 11: Rebecca researched the bar's history for its 100th anniversary, and discovered that it was a House of Ill Repute. [The Stork Brings a Crane] Diane dreamt that it was an old house with a wine cellar, but that doesn't count since it was just a dream. [Diane's Nightmare] 12: Officially 2am, though the actual closing time seems to be rather flexible. [Never Love a Goalie (Part 1); Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2); What's Up, Doc?] 13: The sign above the door reads `Maximum room capacity 75 persons' (the `75' is handwritten). It is very difficult to see this sign because of its location, and the fact that even if you do see it, the camera is usually so far away that you can't make out very much. Especially not the `75' part. 14: Depends which episode you watch. It's usually a closet. [Diane's Nightmare; Backseat Becky, Up Front] But sometimes it's a staircase into the basement. [Don't Paint Your Chickens] (Diane also dreamed that it led to a hidden basement.) [Diane's Nightmare] We often see Sam or Woody carrying crates out of it, but that doesn't indicate clearly whether it's a closet or a staircase. [2 Good 2 Be 4 Real; Don't Paint Your Chickens] 15: Tuesday. [?] 16: Carla and Coach. (That's why you see them going home together.) [I Call Your Name; Cheerio Cheers] 17: Sunday. [Woody for Hire, and Norman of the Apes] 18: Tecumseh. [Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh] 19: The bachelor party Cliff threw for Fitz, his future father-in-law, ends when Fitz dies. [Money Dearest] Sam's bachelor party ends when Diane (who was the girl in the cake) throws the cake in Sam's face and marches off. [One Last Fling] Frasier's bachelor party ends when it turns out that the stripper the boys hired is one of his patients. [To All the Girls I've Loved Before] 20: You can turn the pool table into a ping-pong table, Nok-hockey table, slot car track, or salad bar. [King of the Hill] (Score 1 point for each thing.) 21: `This is a Square House. Please Report any un-fairness [sic] to the proprietor.' The quotation is embroidered on a sign hung on the wall next to the corridor to the back room. You can read it if you know where it is and the camera holds steady. 22: The sign at the base of the stairs says ``Melville's Fine Sea Food''. 23: We never see or hear Vic, the maitre d'. [Personal Business; Coach in Love (Part 1); Diane Meets Mom; How to Win Friends and Electrocute Yourself] John Hill bought Melville's. He had formal title to the back room and bathroom. In addition to being generally obnoxious to Sam, he also charged Sam a monthly rent for use of that part of the bar. (He also has a ravishingly beautiful daughter.) 24: Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Score only 1/2 point if you didn't get the spelling correct. The correct spelling can be found on the sign outside the tavern, and it was also on the television advertisement for the tavern. [Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back] Joel Polis. [From Beer to Eternity; Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back; Cheers Fouls Out] Robert Desiderio. [Bar Wars] By the way, Gary graduated magna cum laude in American literature at Princeton. [From Beer to Eternity] 25: Beacon Hill. [Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back] Go down the street three blocks. Cheers is on your right. [Bar Wars] 26: It's a gay bar. [The Boys in the Bar] 27: The Weekly Gabber [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 1); Those Lips, Those Ice] CHAPTER 3: The Bar Regulars 28: Al (played by Al Rosen) is the old guy. (Al Rosen died in 1990.) Paul (Paul Willson) is the other fat guy. (Paul Willson's character was once named Gregg and once Tim.) 29: Tom Babson (played by Tom Babson) defended Sam against assault charges filed by Diane. [Chambers vs. Malone] (Score 1/2 point if you just said `Tom'.) 30: Harry the Hat. (Score 1/2 point if you just said `Harry'.) His real name is Harry Gittes and he is played by Harry Anderson. [Pick a Con ... Any Con] 31: Norm, actually. In the 60's he got one of those mail-order minister things. [Bar Bet] 32: Father Barry is played by Eric Christmas. [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2); Swear to God; Death Takes a Holiday on Ice; Love is a Really, Really Perfectly Okay Thing; Achilles Hill] CHAPTER 4: Sam 33: He was once married and divorced. [Someone Single, Someone Blue; Show Down (Part 2); Young Dr. Weinstein; The Godfather, Part III; Days of Wine and Neuroses] 34: Robin offers to buy Sam his bar back if he doesn't tell Rebecca that Robin cheated on her. [Finally (Part 2)] John Hill offers to let Sam use the back room rent-free, provided Sam stays away from his daughter. [Achilles Hill] 35: Sam loses a total of $1200 after destroying a priceless book he was holding for Diane. [I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday] Sam loses $1000 after investing in Tan 'n Wash. [Tan 'n Wash] Sam spends nearly $200 at a trendy restaurant in order to upstage Diane. [Young Dr. Weinstein] Norm takes advantage of Sam's birthday generosity for $683. [Diane Meets Mom] Sam spends $8640 to fool Diane with a paste engagement ring. [Diamond Sam] Sam spends $500 after Christmas gift mixup. [Christmas Cheers] Sam gets screwed out of a lot of money by Robin. [A Bar is Born] Sam loses $1000 in an investment scheme. [Woody or Won't He?] Gary tricks Sam into giving away the $1500 he won in a bar bet. [Cheers Fouls Out] Score no points for mentioning that Sam neglected to place a bet for Woody. [Fools and Their Money] 36: Mr. Finch writes Sam a check for $2 million, but Diane tears it up, thinking it to be a fake. [The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One] Malcolm Kramer leaves Sam $100,000 in his will, but Diane insists he tear up the will. [When There's a Will] Sam refuses money from Frasier's mother to rekindle his romance with Diane. [Diane Meets Mom] Robin offers Sam $50,000 as compensation for mental anguish incurred when the yacht he was sailing blew up. [Sam Ahoy] Incidentally, Sam was on the giving end of the checkbook trick when he tried to bribe Woody to break off his engagement with Sam's goddaughter. [The Godfather, Part III] 37: Sam wins one cent from Robin. [Indoor Fun with Sam and Robbie] Sam buys the back back for a pocketful of change (around $0.85). The asking price was one dollar, but Sam couldn't quite scrounge up that much change. [Cry Harder (Part 2)] Incidentally, Harry the Hat bets Cliff a dime that he can drink a drink without touching the hat it's under. You know how the stunt works. [Pick a Con ... Any Con] 38: Derek is an international lawyer. He has curly blond hair and deep blue eyes. [Show Down (Part 1); Paint Your Office; Backseat Becky, Up Front] 39: Blue and sailing. [Battle of the Exes] 40: His birthday. [I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday] 41: 16. [3/28/91] August 5, 1973 against the Orioles; it was a doubleheader. [Simon Says] 42: Depends who you ask. When Diane asks him, Sam says he can't remember, though he does remember that he had to wait for the crossing guard to show up so he could go to her house. His second experience was with the crossing guard. [Don Juan is Hell] At Frasier's bachelor party, he says it was his sixth grade school crossing guard. [To All the Girls I've Loved Before] 43: The bottlecap from the last beer he ever drank. [Endless Slumper] 44: ``I always want Jacqueline Bisset when I drink tequila.'' [Bar Bet] 45: Dave Richards is played by Fred Dryer. (Score 1/2 point if you just said `Dave'.) More trivia about Fred Dryer appears later. 46: To explain to Diane's college roommate Rebecca Prout (Julia Duffy) why Sam isn't interested in her. [Any Friend of Diane's] More trivia about Julia Duffy appears later. To disarm a gunman. [Sam Turns the Other Cheek] No points for the time they agreed to get married to save Diane's mother's inheritance, since they didn't pretend to be in love. [Someone Single, Someone Blue] 47: (Score one point each for the proposal and the response.) Once on the telephone. Sam was in Cheers and Diane was in her apartment. (`Sam? ... If this is some kind of a joke...' She went on to say that she was swept off her feet, but wanted to be asked in a more romantic setting.) [Strange Bedfellows (Part 3) / The Proposal] Once on a boat (`No'). [The Proposal] Once in the bar (`No'). [Chambers vs. Malone] Once in court (`That didn't sound very sincere'). [Chambers vs. Malone] And again in court (`Okay'). [Chambers vs. Malone] 48: Disneyworld. [Norm's Last Hurrah; A House is not a Home] Diane wanted to go to Tibet. [Norm's Last Hurrah] 49: The assault and battery charge Diane filed against Sam (which she dropped after Sam proposed to her). [Chambers vs. Malone] 50: If someone asks for a Screaming Viking, you ask them `Would you like the cucumber bruised?' [Home is the Sailor] CHAPTER 5: Diane 51: Professor Sumner Sloan. 52: Spencer and Helen. Spencer died exactly ten years before the episode in which Sam must marry Diane, else her mother loses her inheritance. 53: Goldenbrook. [A Ditch in Time; Love Thy Neighbor] Three months? 54: A ballerina. [Peterson Crusoe; Dance, Diane, Dance; I Do, Adieu] (Score full credit if you just said `dancer'.) 55: `Othello'. Andy played Othello and Diane played Desdemona. [Homicidal Ham; Diane's Nightmare] 56: She talks in a high-pitched nasal voice. Frasier named the dog `Pavlov', but Sam renamed it `Diane'. (The dog is a she, by the way.) [Diane's Allergy] 57: She has a facial tic which causes her to twitch the right-hand side of her face. It almost ruined her chances in the `45th Annual Miss Boston Barmaid Competition'. [No Contest] It worried her father so much that he was afraid it would keep her from finding a boyfriend. [Someone Single, Someone Blue] A customer (who is a doctor) said he could fix it in 30 minutes, but Diane merely ignored him. [How do I Love Thee? ... Let me Call You Back] She meditates to get rid of it. [Endless Slumper] (It doesn't work, obviously.) 58: Mr. Jammers is the stuffed giraffe. Other stuffed animals are Freddy Frogbottom, Mr. Buzzer (a bee) and Gary Gorilla. (Gary Gorilla and Mr. Jammers don't get along.) [Power Play] Her dearest childhood pal is `Brian the Lion', a hand puppet which has become a rag for wiping the bar. [Coach in Love (Part 1)] 59: The pen name Diane used to write Sam's memoirs. [They Called Me Mayday] 60: Girls with poorly-publicized coming-out parties. [No Help Wanted] Diane was a Phi Epsilon Delta. [From Beer to Eternity] 61: The sisters at the convent Diane worked at after she abandoned Frasier at the altar. [Birth, Death, Love and Rice] 62: She bowled. In her own words: ``I needed a PE credit, and I could read between frames, and you didn't have to run. I spent six semesters sweating in a tawdry bowling alley.'' Carla notes, ``Bowlers don't sweat.'' Diane response, ``They do when they're wearing tweed.'' [From Beer to Eternity] 63: She thinks it's the box her engagement ring came in, but it's really the box from sterling silver corn-cob holders. [Diamond Sam] 64: Twenty-six units' worth. [The Godfather, Part III] That's a lot. Diane is a Skinnerian behaviorist. [Woody Goes Belly Up] 65: ... marry into old money. [How do I Love Thee? ... Let me Call You Back] 66: Emil. Sam thinks it's a stupid name. `Emil is what you eat.' [The Godfather, Part III] 67: Silverware pattern. [Money Dearest; One Last Fling] China pattern. [One Last Fling] Linen pattern. [One Last Fling] 68: She left to finish writing a novel she started five years ago. [I Do, Adieu] 69: After her book project fell through, she went to Hollywood to try to become a television script writer. [Home is the Sailor] CHAPTER 6: Coach 70: Ernie Pantusso. His other nickname is `Red' because he read a book. [Someone Single, Someone Blue] At one point, Coach introduces himself as `Satchmo'. Diane says, `Coach, you're thinking of Louis Armstrong.' Coach replies, `No, but I like that even better.' He later says to Sam, `You can call me Louis Armstrong.' But this doesn't count as a nickname, since nobody actually called him that. [Just Three Friends] Coach says that he got his nickname from his friend Barry. Coach thinks he got the name because he never flew first class. [A Ditch in Time] 71: He took one too many fastballs in the noggin. [Show Down (Part 2)] Incidentally, he claims to hold the minor league record for most times hit by a pitch. [I'll Be Seeing You (Part 2)] 72: Third base. [Never Love a Goalie (Part 1)] 73: Allyce Beasley played Lisa Pantusso. [The Coach's Daughter] His wife's name was Angela. [Coach Buries a Grudge; Coach in Love (Part 1)] 74: He'd injure himself and win their sympathy. [Coach Returns to Action] 75: First season: Thursday. He works at Cheers. `But I go a little slower, you know.' [Show Down (Part 2)] Second season: Wednesday. [Coach in Love (Part 1)] (This question is really worth three points if you got both of the days off.) 76: Chrome. `When the Saints Go Marching In'. [Teacher's Pet] 77: Rubbing the side of your nose with your index finger. [Pick a Con ... Any Con] 78: Robert Mitchum. For the past twelve years they made a point to watch his movies together whenever possible. [Coachie Makes Three] 79: Woody, whom Coach administered a correspondence course in bartending. [Birth, Death, Love and Rice] 80: They sent him an invitation by mistake. He's been attending for six or seven years now, and was to have hosted the reunion the year after he died. They called him ``Uncle Whitey''. [Behind Every Great Man] CHAPTER 7: Carla 81: Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec. [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2); 200th episode special] (Score one point if you got `Carla Lozupone Tortelli LeBec'. Score two if you also got the `Maria ... Apollonia' part.) 82: Score one point for the name and another for the father. * Anthony Nick Tortelli Jeno (now Bennito Mussolini) Nick Tortelli Anne-Marie Nick Tortelli Serafina Nick Tortelli * ? Nick Tortelli * Ludlow (the smart one) Dr. Bennett Ludlow * Jesse > the Eddie LeBec * Elvis > twins Eddie LeBec There is some discrepancy as to whether Jeno or Anthony is the eldest. The ones marked with `*' were conceived outside of wedlock. [Anthony is eldest in An American Family; The Groom Wore Clearasil] [Jeno is eldest in Honor Thy Mother] Sympathy (but no points) if you said Dr. Marshall Lipton was the father of `?'. 83: Carla is a devout Catholic. 84: Second season: Tuesday. [Personal Business] Third season: Thursday. [An American Family] 85: St. Cletes School for Wayward Girls. [The Belles of St. Cletes] 86: She was pregnant. [Whodunit?] 87: Nick Tortelli is the owner of the `Tortelli Television Hospital'. [An American Family; If Ever I Would Leave You] He lives in Las Vegas. [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 1)] He said `Hey Carla, I knocked you up, and you know where I live, so I guess I have to.' [Coach in Love (Part 1)] 88: His current wife is Loretta. He enclosed a photo of himself and his fiancee, both naked. They go through the entire ceremony with their fly open. [Battle of the Exes] 89: Depends who you ask. At the wedding ceremony, his name was Edward Raymond LeBec. [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2)] But we later learn that his real first name is Guy (rhymes with `me'), and that `Eddie' was just a name his American friends used. [Call Me, Irresponsible] (Score 1/2 for `Edward LeBec', 1/2-point for his alleged middle name of `Raymond', and 1 for `Guy', for a perfect score of 2.) 90: Eddie (number 33) was the goalie for the Boston Bruins at the time he met Carla. He drinks a club soda, no ice, two slices of lime, and a red straw. After finishing it, he puts the napkin on top of the glass and puts the straw on top of the napkin. [Never Love a Goalie (Part 1)] He then became a member of a travelling ice show, ``The Wonderful World of Ice'' (dressed as a penguin). [Airport V] 91: Frasier. And it came true, too! [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2)] 92: He died in a freak ice show accident: He was run over by a Zamboni. [Death Takes a Holiday on Ice] Eddie was also married to Gloria. [Death Takes a Holiday on Ice; 50-50 Carla] The policy was worth $50,000. [50-50 Carla] 93: `O Canada' [Never Love a Goalie (Part 2)] 94: Chicken McNuggets and drawing underarm hair on the models in `Vogue' magazine. [Battle of the Exes] We actually see her doing it, too, though no attention is drawn to it. [I'll Be Seeing You (Part 2)] `Lady and the Tramp'. The part where they eat the spaghetti. [Battle of the Exes] 95: She is waiting for the opportunity to rat on her neighbors. [I Kid You Not] 96: The Broken Spoke. [?] 97: Santa Carbone spied on Diane at Goldenbrook, and on Vera Peterson suspecting marital infidelity. [Love Thy Neighbor] (Score one point for each person Santa spied on.) 98: You hold your hands by your ears, palms facing forward. As you say `The Dream', you close your hand, little finger first, while twisting your wrist. [Honor Thy Mother] CHAPTER 8: Norm 99: Hillary (named after his grandfather). [It's a Wonderful Wife] 100: Diane waits for everybody to finish yelling `Norm!', then she says `Norman'. 101: (1) The Hungry Heifer. [Cheers: The Motion Picture] The bar at Vic's Bowl-A-Rama. [From Beer to Eternity] (2) Pepe in the bar Sam worked at in Cancun. [One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape] Some guy in Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. [Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back] Some bozo when the bar clientele turns yuppy. [Bad Neighbor Sam] And for true trivia mavens, Doonesbury's comic strip of 20 March 1991. Scene: The aftermath of the war against Iraq, a Kuwaiti nightclub. First panel: Duke?: Hey... Aren't those the boys Bechtel sitting at table two? ?: Yes, Sir. We seem to be drawing every heavy-hitter in town. Second panel: Duke?: Speaking of which... Voice: 'Lo everybody! Third panel: All: Norm! Fourth panel: Duke?: [pouring a beer] How's it going general? Voice: Ahead of schedule! Which is more than I can say for that beer! (Thanks to Daniel Callahan for finding this gem.) (3) When Norm becomes rich from his investment in Tan 'n Wash, everybody is mad at him and doesn't say anything when he comes in. [Tan 'n Wash] On the first show with Rebecca, Norm comes in and only Woody yells `Norm!' Norm leaves in disgust. Later in the show, Norm comes in as part of `Operation Wayne Down the Dwain', pretending to be an average customer. One of the customers yells `Norm!' and Norm tells him to shut up. [Home is the Sailor] When Frederick says his first word, `Norm!'. [Breaking in is Hard to Do] Incidentally, it almost happens when Sam and Diane are the only people in the bar when Norm comes in, but they stop their heated conversation to yell `Norm!'. [Coachie Makes Three] 102: The Hungry Heifer. [Woody Goes Belly Up; I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday; The Bar Stoolie; Cheers: The Motion Picture; Airport V] Norm's opinion of the Hungry Heifer has varied. He also likes Wally's Pup Burger. [Finally (Part 1)] Some Hungry Heifer trivia: - Their `Carnivore Platter' consists of a steak, topped off with pork chops. [Woody Goes Belly Up] - Thursday night is the night the chef does his tribute to swine. [I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday] 103: ``And I hope the Red Sox win the pennant. (signed) Norm Peterson'' [Feeble Attraction] 104: Norm `Moon Glow' Peterson was a wrestler. [They Called Me Mayday] 105: Vera's maiden name was Kreitzer. [The Two Faces of Norm] As of the second season, they were married for eleven years. [Norman's Conquest] 106: They were classmates in high school. [Personal Business] Norm got her attention when a wrestling opponent pulled down Norm's trunks. [They Called Me Mayday] Vera was famous all over the Midwest for her hickeys. [Personal Business] Vera's parents live in ``one of those rectangular states.'' [Coach Buries a Grudge] 107: We hear Vera's voice on a tape recording. [Love Thy Neighbor] During the Thanksgiving food fight, Diane accidentally throws a pie in her face, so we get to see all of Vera except for her face. [Thanksgiving Orphans] We hear her voice and see her legs when she works as a hat-check girl upstairs at Melville's. [It's a Wonderful Wife] Her voice (and perhaps even her body) is provided by Bernadette Birkett, George Wendt's real-life wife. No screen credit is given. [It's a Wonderful Wife] 108: After he and Vera broke up, Norm dated Arlene Horsley. [Old Flames] Norm considered having an affair with the neighbor wife, Phyllis Henshaw. [Love Thy Neighbor] He was also goaded by the gang into having an affair with a client, but he couldn't go through with it. [Norman's Conquest] 109: A blue Honda Civic. [Norman's Conquest; King of the Hill] The bumper sticker reads `Accountants do it with interest'. [King of the Hill] 110: Accountant. [most of the early years] Dishwasher at Melville's. [No Help Wanted] Corporate executioner. [The Executive's Executioner] Painter. [Paint Your Office; Woody for Hire, and Norman of the Apes; Let Sleeping Drakes Lie; Don't Paint Your Chickens; The Two Faces of Norm; Sammy and the Professor] Department store Santa. [Christmas Cheers] Interior decorator. [Norm, Is That You?; Call Me, Irresponsible] No points for saying he owned `Tan 'n Wash' because he didn't. He was just an investor. [Tan 'n Wash] 111: Ron and Phyllis Henshaw. [Love Thy Neighbor] 112: Bruce. [Diamond Sam; Little Carla, Happy at Last (Parts 1 and 2)] CHAPTER 9: Cliff 113: Ester Clavin is played by Frances Sternhagen. 114: Cliff Clavin the elder is in Australia, hiding from U.S. authorities due to real estate fraud. [The Bar Stoolie] In a first-season episode, Cliff says his dad left `a few years ago'. [Sam Turns the Other Cheek] But when dad comes to visit, Cliff says his dad left when he was nine years old. [The Bar Stoolie] (Score one point for either answer; two if you got both.) 115: South Central Branch (SCB). [The Executive's Executioner] 116: Walt Twitchell (played by Raye Birk). 117: ``Curfew? Come on, Norm. I can stay out as long as I want so long as I call by ten.'' [Sam Turns the Other Cheek] 118: Of course not! [Cliff's Rocky Moment] 119: Massachusetts D86 4R3. [?] Note that Cliff drove a Studebaker in a previous episode. [Cliff's Rocky Moment] 120: ``I'm just one of those people who collects phone book cover art.'' [Bar Bet] 121: When the Sears catalogues are mailed. [No Contest; The Bartender's Tale] It was particularly bad in 1985, when the Spiegel catalogues came out at the same time. (Score 1/2 if you got the basic idea.) 122: A trapeze artist. [Peterson Crusoe] 123: `Celibacy'. They are the categories on `Jeopardy' when Cliff is a contestant. [What is ... Cliff Clavin?] CHAPTER 10: Woody 124: Woody hails from Hanover, Indiana. The rival town is French Lick, Indiana, the home town of Larry Bird. [Cheers Fouls Out] 125: The Piggly Wiggly. [?] 126: Tiberius. [?] 127: July 23. [Puddin' Head Boyd] 128: Truman. [The Groom Wore Clearasil] 129: Explode. (Because they were both very fat.) [Woody Goes Belly Up] 130: He once maimed someone in a bowling accident. [From Beer to Eternity] (Score 1/2 point if you said he killed someone.) Here's the story, in Woody's own words: I still don't know what happened, you know? One minute I was picking up the 8-10 split, and the next thing I know, the 10-pin flies and hits old Sulley right between the eyes and he goes down like a sack of wheat. Sam, I ruined a man's life. Sam says, ``Oh, come on, I'm sure you're exaggerating.'' Woody continues: Oh no, no I'm not. Old Sulley got too dim-witted to stay in bowling maintenance. Last I heard, he was a clown at children's birthday parties. Sam asks, ``What's wrong with that?'' Woody answers: He wasn't invited to them. 131: Kelly Gaines. Her other suitor is Henri, a French photographer she met in Paris. CHAPTER 11: Frasier 132: Well, I don't know. But his middle initial is W. [The Belles of St. Cletes; Birth, Death, Love and Rice] 133: Frasier is a strict Freudianist. [?] (Lilith says this outright, but it is clear long before then that this is true.) [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 1); Those Lips, Those Ice] 134: Hester Crane is also a psychiatrist. [Diane Meets Mom] She is no longer living. [To All the Girls I've Loved Before] 135: Frasier received an appointment to the University of Bologna. [Cheerio Cheers] 136: Dr. Bennett Ludlow (James Karen, the Pathmark spokesman). [Whodunit?] After Diane abandoned Frasier at the altar, Ludlow became his therapist. [Birth, Death, Love and Rice] 137: A session with marriage counselor Simon Finch-Royce (John Cleese). It cost him $1500, by the way. [Simon Says] 138: French. [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 1)] Chinese. [The Crane Mutiny] 139: At the wedding of Frasier Crane and Lilith Sternin, Sam served as best man and Rebecca as maid-of-honor. [To All the Girls I've Loved Before] Lilith is Jewish. See the next answer. Lilith works at Boston General Hospital. [The Cranemakers] 140: Frederick is being raised in the Jewish tradition, which Frasier wholeheartedly endorses, regretting that he himself wasn't brought up in a religious family. [Only for Real Men] Frederick's first word was `Norm!' [Breaking in is Hard to Do] 141: ``Thank you, Conan.'' [The Crane Mutiny] 142: Sam. [How to Win Friends and Electrocute Yourself] CHAPTER 12: Rebecca 143: San Diego. [Paint Your Office; And God Created Woodman; I'm Gonna Get My Act Together and Stick it in Your Face] 144: `You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'. [Please Mr. Postman; Finally (Part 1)] 145: A Mercedes. [Executive Sweet; Hot Rocks] 146: `Backseat Becky' attended the University of Connecticut. (And no, we don't know where she got the nickname from. The story she told was a fabrication.) [The Last Angry Mailman] She majored in marketing. [Don't Paint Your Chickens] Incidentally, she wears a UConn sweatshirt at the slumber party she throws for Carla. [Slumber Party Massacred] Oh, and she also didn't graduate on schedule. She failed a course and had to make it up over the summer, thereby receiving her diploma in the mail. [Sammy and the Professor] 147: Susan Howe is an actress in low-budget horror movies. [Sisterly Love] (Score full credit if you just said she was an actress.) Score an extra point if you remembered she was also Miss San Diego. 148: Her father is a captain in the navy. Her mother is an interior designer. Her brothers are a surgeon and an attorney. [Paint Your Office] 149: When she embarrassed herself by kissing Evan, Sam suggests that Rebecca explain by saying she was just trying to make Sam jealous. [A Kiss is Still a Kiss] To get onto Evan's yacht. [Yacht of Fools] To fend off the advances of Martin Teal. [One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape (Parts 1 and 2)] To explain Sam's presence in Mr. Sheridan's house. Nary five minutes earlier, she said Woody was her boyfriend (for the same reason). [Adventures in Housesitting] 150: Rebecca promised to have sex with Sam if she lit up another cigarette. When Sam caught her smoking, she reluctantly agrees to go back to her place. She comments, ``It's all right; I'll just close my eyes and imagine someone appealing.'' [My Fair Clavin] Sam pretends to be devastated after learning that he was promoted just to be a ringer on the company softball team and tries to take advantage of Rebecca's sympathy. Fed up with fending off his advances, she goes completely limp and says emotionlessly, ``Take me here. Take me now. Please. Please.'' [The Sam in the Grey Flannel Suit] Incidentally, she sort of drunkenly agreed to have sex with him, but she passed out soon thereafter. [One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape (Part 2)] 151: She throws a cocktail party for Daniel Collier. [And God Created Woodman] She throws a children's party. [Send in the Crane] She babysits a dog. [Adventures in Housesitting] She throws a cocktail party for Mr. Gaines. [Golden Boyd] Now no longer full of enthusiasm for throwing parties, she throws a lousy party for her boss's brother-in-law. [Only for Real Men] 152: Evan Drake was transferred to Japan at the end of the sixth season. 153: Multimillionaire Robin Colcord (Roger Rees). Rebecca calls him her `Sweet Baby', which was also her password into the corporation data bank. [Cry Hard (Part 1)] Rebecca loved him for his money. [Wedding Bell Blues] Jean-Marie Bolieur, charge d'affaires at the French Consulate. [Finally (Part 2); Where Nobody Knows Your Name] Score another point if you remembered Christine Davi. [Finally (Part 2)] 154: Robin took Rebecca to `Wally's Pup Burger', a greasy hamburger place. [Finally (Part 1)] He was found guilty of insider trading. (He was using Rebecca to access the corporation data bank.) [Cry Hard (Part 1)] 155: A `Women Of Boston Business Award' statuette, which Rebecca won. [Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2)] (Ha, fooled all you people who thought it was a pet name for Robin!) 156: ``This machine is for photocopying documents, not your butt.'' [The Visiting Lecher] CHAPTER 13: Questions you aren't expected to be able to answer 157: William Devane and Lisa Eichhorn was the ``big name'' duo. The other finalist was the duo of Fred Dryer and Julia Duffy. Curiously, Fred Dryer and Julia Duffy have appeared as guest stars on `Cheers' playing friends of Sam and Diane, respectively. [Fred Dryer in Sam at Eleven; Old Flames; `I' on Sports] [Julia Duffy in Any Friend of Diane's] (Personally, I think Fred Dryer and Julia Duffy would've made an interesting combination.) 158: It was the most uptight name she could think of. 159: Heide is Rhea's younger sister. Interestingly, Heide had no writing experience when she started writing for Cheers. Although James Burrows rejected her first story, he encouraged her to keep trying and accepted her second story. Her early stories center on Carla because she felt she could do a better job than anybody else at writing for her sister. 160: John Ratzenberger created his own character. He came in for a general audition and said, ``Hey, what if there's a bar regular who's a know-it-all? This guy works for the government---he's a mailman or something.'' They were so impressed that he was promised six episode the first season and promotion to co-star status the next season. CHAPTER 14: More useless trivia If you found this quiz entertaining, I'd appreciate it if you would send me a postcard (Raymond Chen, 1817 Oxford St., Apt 6, Berkeley, CA 94709). 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Remember that there is a huge number of Armenian expats living in Lebanon. Nothing wrong with Zankou being considered as both Armenian AND Lebanese.... As long as they don't mess with their garlic sauce.
It's been a while since I've been to Zankou and they've opened up other branches and maybe changed... but, since I last visited several locations, I'd vote for the location on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood closer to Los Feliz. The skin on the chicken seemed to come out crispier.
The garlic sauce is the garlic sauce... simply delicious. I'm curious to know if anyone has any idea how this is made. I'm worried it's a blend of shortening with garlic.... but, I like-a da sauce.
I think you're right about the sauce. By the way, the Westwood location does not seem to use the same garlic sauce. It's prepackaged, which I don't ever get at the other locations. It doesn't seem to taste right.
If you do a search, you'll find recipes for the sauce on chowhound. I believe it's mashed potato, not shortening, that's the key. Also, I echo frommtron's complaint about the prepackaged sauce at the Westwood branch. They switched exclusively to prepackaged a couple of years ago, shortly after I moved to LA, and I could really tell the difference.
The composition of Zankou's garlic spread, whether it differs from branch to branch, and if it changed with the packaging has been the subject of previous threads and debates on this board. I've heard the rumors about potato as well, but if you ask the staff at Zankou, they insist that it is garlic processed with bit of oil, lemon juice, and salt.
I love Zankou, and they have the best garlic sauce i have ever tasted. I went to a Mediterranean restaurant on motor and venice once and they had good garlic. But after falling in love with that garlic, I had to find out how to make it, and nobody would tell me how to make it. I got different stories different ways, and then one day i looked on youtube and found this girl showing an amazing demonstration, it answered all my questions. She dose have a website, so if you want to check out how to make garlic sauce she tells you how to make it. I do not know if we post links here but here website is dedemed dot com. She dose a great job, i hope this helps and it taste amazing.
I'd vote for the one on Sepulveda, north of the 101. Woodland Hills perhaps? In any event, I live far closer to the one on Sunset, but (when I have the time) I'll drive up there because it's much much better. The meat is more tender and juicy and the sides are fresher. Parking at either branch is a bit of an issue though.
Van Nuys strummer. I wouldn't wanna walk to Woodland Hills from there. I personally, enjoy the Burbank location for 3 reasons. Reason 1: The breasts they serve there are soooo juicy & Reason 2: The breasts on one of the order takers there are huge.
Well, if you want a location in Woodland Hills, they just opened one in Tarzana immediately east of the Corbin Bowl, which is in essence also the very eastern end of Woodland Hills. btw - it also has a beer & wine license, first one in the chain to do so. Also much more upscale looking, yet in a fast food kind of way.
It is, as I understand it, run by ethnic Armenians who came from Lebanon (there was an enormous Armenian community in northern Lebanon before the genocide). They are definitely Armenians though -- they speak Armenian to each other in the store, not Arabic.
As to the best branch, I'm going to go with the OC branch in Anaheim's Little Gaza -- they're just nicer and the chicken is excellent. All branches use the prepackaged (foil-wrapped) sauce now -- it's made in one place and prepackaged for distribution. The only exception may be the original Hollywood location.
Was it a small or big container? Whereever it's made, every branch presumably keeps tubs of the stuff for sandwiches -- I think you can buy a large container for around $5. Maybe the stuff from the tubs is fresher than the small containers? | mini_pile | {'original_id': '90e4233176a7d57026905eb4cb0f80f5a6526bdc5d5198dcb741f7e62789d103'} |
Effects of Boron on Cytotoxicity, Apoptosis, and Cell Cycle of Cultured Rat Sertoli Cells In vitro.
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of the administration of boron on viability, apoptosis, and cell cycle of primary rat Sertoli cells (SCs) in vitro. SCs were aseptically isolated from 18-22-day-old male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. SCs were identified with immunofluorescence using anti-vimentin antibody. Further, to investigate the effects of boron on Sertoli cells, SCs of the boron treatment group were exposed to different concentrations (0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 40, and 80 mmol/L) of boric acid. Using MTT and Cell Counting Kit-8 assays, the impact of boron on SCs viability was analyzed. Cell apoptosis and cycle of SCs were analyzed using flow cytometry. A concentration of 0.5 mmol/L boric acid resulted in the highest viability and lowest necrosis and apoptosis. Above this concentration (even 1.0 mmol/L) showed lower viability and higher levels of necrosis and apoptosis. Administration of < 0.5 mmol/L boron significantly promoted the viability of Sertoli cells (P < 0.01); however, the exposure to high dose (> 10 mmol/L) of boron exhibited significant adverse effects on Sertoli cells (P < 0.01) and even toxic effects, inhibiting cell viability compared to the control group. Flow cytometry analysis showed that treatment with 0.5 mmol/L of boron significantly inhibited the apoptosis of Sertoli cells and the proportion of cells in S and G2/M phases was markedly increased; however, a higher concentration of 40 and 80 mmol/L of boron promoted Sertoli cell apoptosis and cells were completely arrested at G0/G1 phase. Boron at doses below 0.5 mmol/L could significantly improve the viable capacity of testicular Sertoli cells in vitro and inhibit their apoptosis. However, high dose of boron (at a concentration higher than 5.0 mmol/L) exhibited noticeable toxic effects, inhibiting cell viability, accelerating apoptosis of Sertoli cells, and arresting cell cycle at G0/G1 phase. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '8e024674ba0c88f0bf4f59abcb5a8a564bcd78e3c45674346942c7c349cd333f'} |
package fi.pyppe.ircbot.slave
import org.specs2.mutable._
class CopyCatSpec extends Specification {
"CopyCat.tokenize" should {
def testEquals(message: String, expectedOutput: String) =
s"convert [$message] into [$expectedOutput]" in {
CopyCat.tokenize(message) === expectedOutput
}
def testNotEquals(a: String, b: String) =
s"not covert [$a] and [$b] as same values" in {
CopyCat.tokenize(a) !== CopyCat.tokenize(b)
}
testEquals("This is VERY interesting message, yo", "interesting is message this very yo")
testEquals("Pyppe: I believe you, sir, are correct.", "are believe correct i pyppe sir you")
testEquals("Huomenta!", "huomenta")
testNotEquals("http://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/a1421641285419", "http://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/a1421390537338")
}
}
| common_corpus | {'identifier': 'https://github.com/Pyppe/akka-ircbot/blob/master/slave/src/test/scala/fi/pyppe/ircbot/slave/CopyCatSpec.scala', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'MIT', 'date': '2015.0', 'title': 'akka-ircbot', 'creator': 'Pyppe', 'language': 'Scala', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '80', 'token_count': '274', '__index_level_0__': '21814', 'original_id': '22d0daaafddbe9405e83e647319b93af689578f2573a4117f6a7e6ab276d9ac9'} |
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A Nottingham boy with a rare debilitating condition has taken part in a 24-hour basketball event to raise awareness of his illness.
Steven Chrich, 16, along with his school Ellis Guilford, played host to the game after coming up with the 'wacky' idea.
Fellow students, friends and family all took part in energetic fundraiser which has so far raised £5,000.
Steven, who is a year 11 pupil at the school, has the condition Friedrich's Ataxia, a disease which causes progressive damage to the nervous system.
The feat took place over 24 hours from May 26 to May 27.
Steven, who is wheelchair-bound, of Beechdale, said: "I'm exhausted, this is a bigger challenge than I expected, and I will be pleased to go home.
"I'm glad to see everyone together helping me with this.
"The money will really help and make things a bit easier for me, I'm struggling at the moment.
"Next time I will pick something a bit easier to help raise money."
Steven with mum Sue
The basketball enthusiast previously attended a wheelchair basketball club at the Harvey Hadden Stadium, which helped him meet new people and take part in a sport which he loves.
Steven's mum, Sue Chrich, of Beechdale, explained how sad it was to see her son's favourite club fall through.
The 48-year-old said: "Sadly this club shut down due to a lack of funds in October last year, so Steven wanted to help raise money to get one going again.
"The journey has been a long and hard one, we've organised prizes and sourced funds, it has been difficult but it's all paid off in the end.
"Everyone has rallied round us, they've all been very generous, even complete strangers, its overwhelming how much people have helped.
"I'll be glad to see the end of today, I'm ready for a cup of tea or a wine and bed."
The organisers are hoping to continue to raise their target of £15,000. The money raised from the 24-hour event, along with other funds will help set up a new wheelchair basketball club, provide assistive technology for Steven and pay for adaptations to his home.
Five hundred pounds will also go to the charity Ataxia UK, along with four new sport wheelchairs – which cost £1,000 each.
Sue, a school cook, added: "Steven's coordination is bad which makes other sports dramatically difficult for him, that's why he's taken to basketball so well.
"He was diagnosed when he was four-years-old, but the condition has not stopped him, he's gone on to have a healthy and fun school life.
"We're doing it for Steven."
Five players are on each of the teams and have swapped in-between whistle blows to recover – but the game has always kept going.
Stephan Jackson, Steven's mentor at the school was the head of the other team playing and said how important it was to help the young boy become independent.
The 37-year-old said: "We have worked together for three or four years now. We try to develop his independence, and if he has any issues we solve them together.
"Through the school we have developed a good friendship, and we wanted to do something so we came up with this crazy idea of playing basketball for 24 hours.
"We wanted to do something special as it's his last year in school so we thought it met the mark." | mini_pile | {'original_id': '25b487a4d9cd018dd20a8df7285ae5e62784bbd855ba98ca27ba6681e8a78941'} |
\section{Definite Integral to Infinity of Cosine of a x over Hyperbolic Cosine of b x}
Tags: Definite Integrals involving Hyperbolic Cosine Function, Definite Integrals involving Cosine Function
\begin{theorem}
:$\ds \int_0^\infty \frac {\cos a x} {\cosh b x} \rd x = \frac \pi {2 b} \sech \frac {a \pi} {2 b}$
where:
:$a$ and $b$ are positive real numbers
:$\sech$ denotes the hyperbolic secant function.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \int_0^\infty \frac {\cos a x} {\cosh b x} \rd x
| r = \int_0^\infty \frac {e^{-b x} \paren {e^{i a x} + e^{-i a x} } } {1 - \paren {-e^{-2 b x} } } \rd x
| c = Cosine Exponential Formulation, {{Defof|Hyperbolic Cosine}}
}}
{{eqn | r = \int_0^\infty \paren {e^{\paren {i a - b} x} + e^{-\paren {i a + b} x} } \paren {\sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n e^{-2 n b x} } \rd x
| c = Sum of Infinite Geometric Sequence
}}
{{eqn | r = \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \int_0^\infty \paren {-1}^n \paren {e^{\paren {i a - \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} + e^{-\paren {i a + \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} } \rd x
| c = Fubini's Theorem
}}
{{eqn | r = \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \paren {\intlimits {-\frac {e^{\paren {i a - \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} } {\paren {2 n + 1} b - i a} } 0 \infty + \intlimits {-\frac {e^{-\paren {i a + \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} } {\paren {2 n + 1} + i a} } 0 \infty}
| c = Primitive of $e^{a x}$
}}
{{end-eqn}}
We have, as $b, n > 0$:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \size {\lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} e^{\paren {i a - \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} }
| r = \lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} \size {e^{\paren {i a - \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} }
| c = Modulus of Limit
}}
{{eqn | r = \lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} \size {e^{i a x} } \size {e^{-\paren {2 n + 1} b x} }
| c = Exponential of Sum
}}
{{eqn | r = \lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} e^{-\paren {2 n + 1} b x}
}}
{{eqn | r = 0
| c = Exponential Tends to Zero and Infinity
}}
{{end-eqn}}
We similarly have:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \size {\lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} e^{-\paren {i a + \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} }
| r = \lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} \size {e^{-\paren {i a + \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} }
| c = Modulus of Limit
}}
{{eqn | r = \lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} \size {e^{-i a x} } \size {e^{-\paren {2 n + 1} b x} }
| c = Exponential of Sum
}}
{{eqn | r = \lim_{x \mathop \to \infty} e^{-\paren {2 n + 1} b x}
}}
{{eqn | r = 0
| c = Exponential Tends to Zero and Infinity
}}
{{end-eqn}}
So:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \paren {\intlimits {-\frac {e^{\paren {i a - \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} } {\paren {2 n + 1} b - i a} } 0 \infty + \intlimits {-\frac {e^{-\paren {i a + \paren {2 n + 1} b} x} } {\paren {2 n + 1} + i a} } 0 \infty}
| r = \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \paren {\frac 1 {\paren {2 n + 1} b - i a} + \frac 1 {\paren {2 n + 1} b + i a} }
| c = Exponential of Zero
}}
{{eqn | r = \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \paren {\frac {2 \paren {2 n + 1} b} {\paren {2 n + 1}^2 b^2 + a^2} }
| c = Difference of Two Squares
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac 2 b \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \frac {2 n + 1} {\paren {2 n + 1} + 4 \paren {\frac a {2 b} }^2}
}}
{{end-eqn}}
By Mittag-Leffler Expansion for Hyperbolic Secant Function:
:$\ds \pi \map \sech {\pi z} = 4 \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \frac {2 n + 1} {\paren {2 n + 1} + 4 z^2}$
Setting $z = \dfrac a {2 b}$ gives:
:$\ds \pi \map \sech {\frac {a \pi} {2 b} } = 4 \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \frac {2 n + 1} {\paren {2 n + 1} + 4 \paren {\frac a {2 b} }^2}$
We therefore have:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \int_0^\infty \frac {\cos a x} {\cosh b x} \rd x
| r = \frac 2 b \sum_{n \mathop = 0}^\infty \paren {-1}^n \frac {2 n + 1} {\paren {2 n + 1} + 4 \paren {\frac a {2 b} }^2}
}}
{{eqn | r = \frac {\pi} {2 b} \sech \frac {a \pi} {2 b}
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
| math_pile | {'subset': 'ProofWiki', 'meta': "{'type': 'Theorem_Proof'}", 'original_id': '41d11f28fb01aaf25fed8ac667de0ca63e46dffef23ae03e948aa937adb6c0c3'} |
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