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STP/BPMN Component/STP BPMN Presentation
The STP BPMN Modeler
The STP BPMN modeler is a BPMN diagram editor which is currently developed as a sub-project of SOA Tools Platform. The team counts two committers, Alex Boisvert and Hugues Malphettes, and a contributor Antoine Toulme.
They all work for Intalio, Inc.
Definition of BPMN
Origins of the modeler
My first BPMN process
- Creating the diagram
Let's create our first Hello World process. Let's create a simple project:
And give it an appropriate name.
You can create a new BPMN diagram by selecting the Examples category in the creation wizard.
The wizard is very straight-forward, all you need is to indicate a folder and a file name.
After clicking on Finish, you will see two new files appearing in the project.
You can double-click on the bpmn_diagram file to open it as an editor. The diagram initially contains one pool and a task.
- How to create shapes in the BPMN diagram editor
You can use the palette to drop elements on the diagram. The palette can either be shown as a different view, or attached to the diagram.
To drop a shape on the diagram, just click on it and then click on the diagram. If you want to drop the same shape several times, you can double-click on it and it will appear as locked.
To unlock it, just click on it again.
You can also use diagram assistants to create shapes. Leave your mouse where you want to drop the shape and you will see a bubble appear.
You can connect and create shapes using handles placed on the activities of the diagram.
Leave your mouse on the activity you want to connect. You will see the handles appear. Then click on the handle and drag it to another activity.
Here are the messaging edges handles: File:MessagingEdgeHandles.png and the sequence edge handles:
If you release the mouse button while not being over and activity, the menu below will appear to give you a chance to create the other extremity of the edge.
After using repeatedly the operations described above, you can create a HelloWorld process that looks like this:
That's all folks !
Tips and tricks
Change activityType Rich Copy/Paste to document. Linking documents to the diagram.
Reusing the modeler
Connecting to the modeler
Create a BPMN factory that generates fragments of BPMN imported into a diagram. In this scenario, a BPEL process is instrumented into a BPMN pool. It exposes the sequences and gateways of the BPEL as BPMN shapes. It keeps annotations that link to the original BPEL markup. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=171084


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By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
UPDATE: I forgot The Colburn Orchestra concert on Saturday! Of course, I won't be able to see it because I will be singing in the Pasadena Singers' concert (see bottom of this post), but the Colburn kids deserve to be included.
Can it really be March 1 already??? Each Thursday, I list five events that pique my interest,
including (ideally) at least one with free admission (or, at a minimum, inexpensive
tickets). Here's today's grouping:
Tomorrow at 8 p.m.,
Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles
Philharmonic; Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor
The 34-year-old Spanish conductor, who last December was
named Principal Conductor of the Orchestra of St Luke's in New York City,
returns to conduct the Phil in a program that includes the west coast premiere
of James Matheson's Violin Concerto (with LAPO Principal Concertmaster, Martin
Chalifour as soloist) and Richard Strauss' tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Tomorrow night is a "Casual Friday" program; the
Saturday and Sunday concerts add Beethoven's Egmont Overture. Information:
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium
The Colburn Orchestra; Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Tovey — music director of the Vancouver Symphony and for the past three summers principal guest conductor of the L.A. Phil at Hollywood Bowl– leads a program of Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben (yes, we seem to be awash in Strauss' autobiographical tone poem — see L.A. Phil above)) and Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, with Sichen Ma as soloist. Information: www.colburnschool.edu
Sunday at 4 p.m. at
Neighborhood Church, Pasadena
Pacific Serenades
Known for presenting world premieres, Pacific Serenades unveils
a new work by the group's artistic director, Mark Carlson, which is entitled Cave Paintings, for alto saxophone,
violin, viola, cello, and piano. Carlson
describes Cave Paintings as a
tribute to music from American popular culture of the 1930s and 1940s. "I grew
up hearing that music," he explains, "partly because my mother loved it […] and
partly because it was always such an integral part of our culture, and still
is." He cites noir film scores and the Great
American Songbook — music principally from Broadway and Hollywood musicals
and from jazz by the likes of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Billy Strayhorn,
Harold Arlen, and Cole Porter–as inspirations.
The concert
also plays Saturday night at a private home in Altadena and Tuesday night at
UCLA (where Carlson teaches). Information:
Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles
Children's Chorus and American Youth Symphony; James Conlon, Anne Tomlinson and
Alexander Treger, conductors
There are several reasons to consider attending this
concert. First (and most important) it's a concert that combines two of the
Southland's major youth-oriented organizations. Now in its second quarter
century, the Pasadena-based Los Angeles Children's Chorus is one of the world's
premiere children's choirs whose singers regularly perform with such groups as
the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Opera. From the time it was founded, in 1964 by conductor Mehli
Mehta (father of Zubin), the American Youth Symphony has trained thousands of
orchestral musicians, many of whom now play in major orchestras throughout the
Second, the Shakespeare-themed program will see the
conductors of both ensembles on the podium (albeit at different times), along
with Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon, who will lead both
ensembles in the world premiere of Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason's The isle is full of noises, a
three-movement work based on Shakespeare's The
Anne Tomlinson, LACC artistic director, will lead the
opening half, conducting music by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Douglas Beam and
David Wilcocks. After intermission and before the Bjornason work, Alexander
Treger, AYS music director, will lead his ensemble in a suite from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Another reason to attend is that this concert is part of the
L.A. Phil's "Sounds About Town" series, which provides people with an
inexpensive way to see a concert in the Disney Hall auditorium. Tickets for
this concert range from $20.75 to $45, far less than you would pay for an L.A.
Phil concert, so if you've never been inside Disney Hall, this is a great
opportunity. Since the two ensembles will undoubtedly have lots of relatives in
attendance, check with the box office before you make the trip downtown. Information: www.laphil.com
Wednesday at 8 p.m.
at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Jeffrey Kahane and
Kahane, who is celebrating his 15th anniversary
as music director of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, appears with LACO's
Concertmaster Margaret Batjer and Principal Cellist Andrew Shulman in a recital
on the Phil's Colburn Celebrity Series. Kahane, who continues to be a
world-class pianist, will play music by Chopin, as well. Information: www.laphil.com
And the weekend's
"free admission" program …
Saturday at 7:30 at
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
The Pasadena Singers:
"Choral Favorites from Two Continents"
Since I sing with this chamber choral ensemble, you can (as
I often say, quoting the late, great Molly Ivins) take this recommendation with
a grain of salt or a pound of salt. The program features the world premiere of
three Scottish/Irish folk songs arranged by Philip Lawson, who for 20 years
sang with and was the principal arranger for The King's Singers. Also on the
agenda is music by Brahms (a healthy selection of the Liebeslieder Waltzes), Copland, Vaughan Williams and a rollicking
arrangement of Cindy by Mormon
Tabernacle Choir director Mack Wilberg. Information:
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Environmental Report
Environmental Policy
We, Clarion Group Companies, acknowledge that preservation of the environment is one of the most important issues in the management of an enterprise under our Corporate Commitment "To improve society by seeking to develop the relationship between sound, information, and human interaction, and by creating products that meet those needs." As an In-Vehicle Information Solutions Provider, we shall act in our business activities of designing, producing and selling of products, promoting global "monozukuri" (product making) aiming at prevention of pollution and less burden on the environment, and make efforts to realizing the sustainable society with following measures.
- We shall evaluate environmental effects through our products and services, set up environmental objectives, which shall be reviewed every year for continual improvement for environmental performance and management system.
- We shall promote efforts to offer more environment-friendly products and services with reduction of hazardous substances and contribute to social environmental load reduction, requiring less natural resources and energy consumption.
- We shall promote saving energy in our activities and make efforts for mitigating global warming.
- We shall take measures for less waste output and promotion of recycling and aim conservation of resources.
- We shall make efforts for greening by tree planting and improving appearances, at the same time to preserve ecosystems and promote environmental protection.
- We shall take preventive measures against possible environmental pollution from wastewater and leakage of oil or hazardous substances from offices and factories.
- We shall comply with all laws and regulations, other requirements acknowledged by the Group and other self-designated standards concerning the environmental preservation.
- We shall improve all employees knowledge regarding environmental preservation.
- We shall actively promote information disclosures and other communication with outside the Company regarding our environmental protection activities.
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Free Meat & Cheese Raffle
August 30, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until January 9, 2024
Mark your calendars to join us for a FREE meat & cheese raffle with Kramarczuk's & Redhead Creamery every Tuesday from 6-8pm.
The rules are simple – Grab a beer, receive a raffle ticket, and wait for your number to be called. We will draw a number every 10 minutes. If your number is called, turn it in for a prize. That's it! Must be present to win.
"Du Good" and bring in a non perishable food item for our friends at NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center.
Did we mention it's free?
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Here you will find a great selection of snowboard pants from brands such as Burton, Nike, Foursquare, Special Blend, Volcom, Bonfire, 686, Bond, Eleven, Nikita, Airblaster and Colour. Within these brands there is a huge range of Women's and Sale snowboard pants/trousers to choose from.
To make it easier to find what you are looking for, simply use the filter bar on the left hand side of the screen. This will allow you to filter by gender, brand, size, colour and other useful options.


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Voyage en Suisse, en Lombardie et en Piémont, 1834 (CRLV)
I have worked on Arctic exploration for over a decade and have been feeling lately that it's time for a change. I like exploration too much to leave it as a field of study (as is probably obvious from this blog), so I have been digging into the literature on another love of mine, mountains, specifically the role of mountains in the work of nineteenth-century scientists.
I don't have any method for starting new research projects. I have a "if time, pursue this" file, but most of these ideas feel stale by the time I get back to them. So I usually set off into the literature much the way less-than-smart dogs take to being off the leash: running around sniffing randomly until they find something good, chasing it till it runs out, then running some more until they something else. I pursue this approach until I find food. Methodological rigor comes later, usually about the time I need to apply for a grant.
In any event, I was in my dog phase a few months ago, when I started to realize something about the secondary literature on mountains. There are some divisions I expected to find according to discipline (lots of material in art history, for example, not that much in the history of science). But there were also some divisions I didn't expect, namely differences according to nationality. In particular, it seemed to me that French scholarship on the intellectual history of mountains was very well developed whereas Anglo-American literature was still getting off the ground.
How much do we miss by not wading into the literature of other languages, other countries? It depends upon the research question obviously. But in my case, it's something I need to do. I can read French, with effort, fingers gripped to the side of my desk. This too must change. I have been on the lookout in the last few weeks for serious exploration blogs or sites outside of the U.S and the U.K.
One of the best that I've found is the Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages (CRLV). This site has been around for a while, offers an impressive, searchable bibliography of primary literature on exploration (by author and location), a list of CRLV publications, schedule of conferences, and series of conference podcasts, some of which have abstracts and transcripts. Impressive.
I've been happy to note more traffic here from other countries, particularly Scandinavia. If you think I should be aware of exploration-related sites, please drop me a line.


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School Notes
Bok Academy staff members surprised students on Nov. 12 when they rolled onto the campus green in "The Mystery Machine" and proceeded to demonstrate some groovy dance moves.
Colby Pike, Amy Unzueta, Nicole Birkins, Leanne Thrift, Tami Lefstead, Lindsay Woods, Cindy Tonjes and Principal Damien Moses were promoting the upcoming Decades Dance at 4 p.m. Thursday.
The Decades Dance will feature music from the 1920s to the 1990s. Proceeds from the dance will pay for field trip transportation and other campus expenditures.
The Mystery Machine is a fully restored 1973 VW bus belonging to Unzueta.
Polk State College's International Circle and Phi Theta Kappa will host an information meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday for those interested in taking a European study tour to Germany, Italy and Switzerland in May 2013.
The meeting will be in room LLC 2205 on Polk State's Lakeland campus, 3425 Winter Lake Road.
The planned trip is open to members of the public and may also include an extension to Paris.
For more information, contact professor Penny Morris at firstname.lastname@example.com or 669-2875, or professor Rosalinda Collins at firstname.lastname@example.com or 669-2857.
Students at Polk State College's Winter Haven campus planted two rain gardens on the eastern edge of the campus.
The two-dozen students who participated in the rain garden project are in Professor Natalie Whitcomb's introduction to environmental science course, which was developed four years ago to teach the connection between Winter Haven's environment and the environment on a global level.
In the course, students learned about rain gardens, which contain native plants and help redirect water runoff into the ground, where it recharges the aquifer.
Last fall, inspired by what they learned, students in the class planted their first rain garden on the Winter Haven campus, on a lawn outside the Administration Building. Students in this fall's class began their project by scouting locations on the Winter Haven campus. They soon settled on a sloping lawn east of the Winter Haven Fine Arts building.
The students noticed that rainwater runs off a nearby parking lot and flows down the slope into Lake Elbert, taking oil and other contaminants with it. Rain gardens, as they had learned in class, would help stop that flow and redirect water into the ground, where it would be filtered by the soil before hitting the aquifer.
Just as it did last year, Davenport nursery The Natives donated many of the Florida-friendly plants used in the project.
Stacey N. Pierce, a teacher at Lakeland High School, has achieved certified journalism educator status from the Journalism Education Association. Pierce was honored Nov. 17 at the association's national convention in San Antonio, Texas.
The following schools, all located in the Progress Energy service area, were recognized at the 2012 Progress Energy Science grant reception held on Nov. 13 at First Baptist Church of Lake Wales. Each school received up to $3,000 to purchase science materials to enhance energy-based curriculum and increase student achievement on state standardized tests. The grant program, now in its seventh year, is sponsored by Progress Energy and is administered by the Polk Education Foundation. It has returned over $220,000 to the classrooms of the Progress Energy service area.
Schools recognized were Alta Vista Elementary, Alturas Elementary. Babson Park Elementary, Ben Hill Griffin Elementary, Bethune Academy, Dundee Elementary, Eastside Elementary, Frostproof Elementary, Janie Howard Wilson Elementary, Laurel Elementary, Loughman Oaks Elementary, Our Children's Academy, Palmetto Elementary, Polk Avenue Elementary, Roosevelt Academy, Sandhill Elementary and Spook Hill Elementary.
Lewis Anna Woodbury Elementary third grade teachers Nita Prater and Ginger Wellden taught their students about the election process. Their students registered voters throughout the school and then hosted elections in their precincts (classes) on Election Day. The election results continued their tradition of correctly predicting the winner of every presidential election.


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Tuskie Tyrant Yoko Kurama
Fancy footwork
I'm starting to think that every Bug Pokemon likes Misty. xD It was a good episode, but I really didn't like that Samurai kid. Glad he wasn't a ninja. (>.>) He's the one that made Metapod get captured, just like Ash said, if he never had stopped Ash from catching Weedle, none of that would have happened. And challenging Trainers from Pallet Town, just because you lost three times in a row doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.


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February 14, 2019
How can Ayurveda kick allergy out of the body naturally?
Allergy and Ayurveda:Overview
'ALLERGY' is an overreaction of the body's immune system to certain substances which it misidentifies as harmful. This overreaction of the immune system is called an 'allergic reaction,' and the substances which trigger such a reaction are called 'allergens.'
An allergy or allergic reaction generally manifests itself in the form of some commonly-occurring disorders of the skin and respiratory system. These disorders include eczema, hives, asthma, hay fever, and food allergies.
'AYURVEDA' is an ancient, holistic (whole body) system of medicine, which is based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the mind, body, and spirit. The core concept of Ayurveda is that an equilibrium of the body's three fundamental bio-elements or 'Doshas' —Vata, Pitta, and Kapha — leads to good health.
The main aim of Ayurvedic medicine system is to prevent the occurrence of diseases and to promote health and well-being. To achieve this aim, Ayurvedic experts mainly depend on the use of herbal formulations to treat diseases naturally, and also recommend dietary and lifestyle changes to patients suffering from different disorders.
Ayurvedic Perspective of Allergies
According to Ayurveda, allergies are generally a result of an excess of the Kapha and Pitta dosha, or the earth and fire elements. Ayurveda believes that the main causes behind the occurrence of allergies are accumulation of toxins and low immunity.
More specifically, the Ayurvedic viewpoint of allergies is that 'genetics' is the primary reason that causes an individual to suffer from allergies. These are considered to be a result of the one or all of the following conditions:
- Weak agni (digestive fire)
- An individual's state of vykruti (imbalance)
- The presence of ama (undigested or poorly digested food which turns toxic and interferes with the bodily processes).
The management of allergies naturally with the help of Ayurveda involves the diagnosis of the root-cause of allergy for every individual patient, and its subsequent treatment.
How Ayurveda can treat allergy naturally?
Ayurveda can effectively kick allergy out of the body naturally with the help of herbal formulations which can cure different types of allergies by:
- Detoxifying the body by eliminating toxins.
- Strengthening the immune system.
In addition, Ayurveda practitioners also suggest some necessary modifications in the diet of patients suffering from allergies.
More specifically, Ayurveda is beneficial in treating Vata, Pitta and Kapha types of allergies in the following ways:
Vata allergies
- According to Ayurveda, Vata allergies are caused because of dryness, and their symptoms mostly include dry cough with, insomnia and anxiety.
- To cure Vata allergies,Ayurvedic practitioners recommend that patients should drink tea made from ginger root (Zingiber officinale) 4-5 times a day, and also inhale sesame oil.
Pitta Allergies
- These allergies cause excessive heat in the body, and are associated with symptoms like burning eyes, rashes and loose stools.
- Ayurvedic cure of these allergies involves the consumption of tea prepared from Neem leaves (Azadirachta Indica), and also a mixture of warm milk and half a teaspoon of turmeric (Curcuma Longa) powder. Moreover, patients are also asked to inhale coconut oil 2-3 times a day.
Kapha allergies
- These allergies are developed due to moist, humid conditions and their symptoms include slow digestion, and mucus production.
Management and Treatment of Allergies
- For relief from these allergies, Ayurvedic experts recommend that patients should drink one glass of warm water with half teaspoon of liquorice (Mulethi or Glycyrrhiza glabra), after every meal. Another method of treatment is to take half a teaspoon of 'Sitopaladi' churna with honey, three times a day.
- Other than the above-mentioned Ayurvedic treatments for different types of allergies, there are some excellent herbs which are considered to be extremely beneficial for relief from allergy in general
The widely-known anti-allergy herbs include:
- Haridra (Turmeric Rhizome -Curcuma Longa)
- Neem (Azadirachta Indica)
- Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
- Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum)
- Shirish (Albezzia lebbock)
- Dalchini (Cinnamomum zeylanica)
- Mulethi (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
- Bharangi (Clerodandrum serratum)
- Kantakari (Solanum xanthocarpum)
- Manjistha (Rubia cordifolia)
- Vaasa (Adhatoda vasica)
- Anantmool (Tylphora asthmatica)
Ayurveda can effectively treat allergies in a natural manner if the patients follow some strict guidelines with regard to changes in diet and lifestyle habits, along with taking herbal formulations. In specific, patients suffering from allergies can gain benefits from Ayurvedic treatment if they remember that:
- Heavy foods — like meats, nuts, sugar, dairy products, and processed foods — should be avoided
- Iced beverages should be avoided
- Plenty of warm water should be consumed throughout the day
- Eating habits should be altered, so that the lunch is a hearty meal while the dinner is a light meal
- Exercise should be made a part of daily routine, for stimulating agni and eliminating ama
- Yoga breathing practices should be tried in order to relax the body and the mind
- Adequate sleep should be ensured
- Intense stress should be avoided because it can aggravate allergies
- Herbal oil massage should be done to improve blood circulation and eliminate allergy-causing chemical toxins.
In addition to the above-mentioned guidelines for allergy management, there are also some other Ayurvedic approaches to treat allergies. These approaches are listed below:
- Use a Neti pot once or twice a day, with a weak saline solution and distilled water, to reduce the heaviness of Kapha.
- Practice 'Nasya' (nearly one hour after using Neti pot) by dabbing some sesame oil spiked with eucalyptus/camphor in both nostrils
- Practice a daily 'Pranayama' routine which should include Kapalabhati (skull-polishing breath), Dirgha (three-part breath), Ujjayi (ocean-sounding breath), and Bastrika (bellows breath)
- Take a Kapha-reducing diet that includes warm, light, natural, and cooked foods which can be easily digested
- Increase the use of 'warming' spices — like ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric, and cumin — in cooking
- Ayurveda can kick out allergies from the body in a safe and natural manner. However, it is advisable that people suffering from allergies should have their allergy diagnosed properly, and should consult a registered Ayurveda practitioner for guidance related to the best diet plan for them, as well as the use of the most suitable herbal formulations to cure the allergy.


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From a Monster.com blog post by Margaret Steen:
Every boss wants employees who do their jobs well. But even among highly competent employees, practicing certain habits can really make you distinguish yourself. Here are 10 tips for making sure you're on the boss's A-list:
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Especially at the beginning of your relationship — that is, when either you or the boss is new to the job — err on the side of giving your boss too much information and asking too many questions.
"There's no such thing as a dumb question," says Marianne Adoradio, a Silicon Valley recruiter and career counselor. "Look at it as information gathering."
Don't keep up the constant stream of communication unless your boss likes it, though. It's best to ask directly whether you're giving the boss enough information or too much.
Acknowledge What the Boss Says
Bosses appreciate "responsive listening," says John Farner, principal of Russell Employee Management Consulting. When your boss asks you to do something or suggests ways for you to improve your work, let her know you heard.
When your boss has a new idea, respond to it in a constructive way instead of throwing up roadblocks.
"Be willing to brainstorm ways to get something done," says Michael Beasley, principal of Career-Crossings and a leadership and career development coach.
Build Relationships
You'll make your boss look good if you establish a good rapport with your department's customers, whether they're inside the company or outside. Bring back what you learn — about ways to offer better customer service, for example — to your boss. This is also helpful for your own career development.
"Everybody wins in the long run," Adoradio says.
Understand How You Fit In
Is your boss detail-oriented, or someone who keeps his head in the clouds?
"The boss's personality is just incredibly important," says Norm Meshriy, a career counselor and principal of Career Insights.
Equally important is understanding what your boss wants in an employee. It may be, for example, that a boss who is detail-oriented will expect his employees to be as well. But a boss who has no time for details may actually appreciate an employee who does.
Learn the Boss's Pet Peeves
If your manager has said repeatedly that she hates being interrupted first thing in the morning, don't run to her office to give her a project update when you first get in.
Anticipate the Boss's Needs
Once you have worked with your boss for a while, you should be able to guess what information he will want before approving your purchase order, for example.
If you provide it ahead of time, "that's a gold star," Farner adds.
Think One Level Up
You still need to do your own job, of course. But when managers consider who deserves a promotion, they look for people who understand the issues that their bosses face.
Open Yourself to New Ways of Doing Things
When your boss comes to you with a new idea, don't simply dismiss it. If you don't think it will work, offer to discuss it further in "a mature, responsible, adult-like way," Beasley says.
Be Engaged in Your Work
Arguing with your boss over every request is not a good strategy, but neither is simply shrugging your shoulders and agreeing with everything your boss says. "The manager would like to see an engaged individual," Beasley says. That means both showing enthusiasm for your work and speaking up when you see room for improvement.
Read the original post here.
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Impact of the e-Economy on European enterprises
Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about Impact of the e-Economy on European enterprises
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
Information society > Digital Strategy i2010 Strategy eEurope Action Plan Digital Strategy Programmes
Impact of the e-Economy on European enterprises
This communication analyses the impact of information and communication technologies on European companies and the European market. The objective is to support the full introduction of the e-Economy in Europe.
Document or Iniciative
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament – The impact of the e-Economy on European enterprises: economic analysis and policy implications [COM(2001) 711 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are having a profound impact on the potential for economic growth and have become one of the main sources of competitiveness and increases in incomes. As a result, they have moved to the centre of the policy debate. When in March 2000, in Lisbon, the European Union (EU) set itself the ambitious target of becoming the world's "most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy" within ten years, it recognised that attaining this goal depended on making the best possible use of ICT. The Lisbon strategy placed greater emphasis on the knowledge-based society within existing policy processes and launched the eEurope 2002 Action Plan as a roadmap to modernise the European economy.
The emergence of the e-Economy: macro and microeconomic issues
It is generally accepted that, atmacroeconomic level, the increased use of ICT leads to productivity gains and hence improves the competitiveness of enterprises and the economy as a whole. ICT-induced productivity gains are also a source of job creation in certain sectors – whereas jobs may be destroyed in others. ICT use does away with repetitive jobs often carried out by workers with low-level skills. The overall dynamism resulting from ICT use leads to job creation in other areas to an extent that more than offsets the losses.
In this context, the matching of skills poses a major challenge for the design and conduct of the labour market. The ICT skills gap is a major risk hampering further growth in Europe. The situation is particularly sensitive in Europe due to declining demographic trends and the decreasing level of interest of young Europeans in scientific studies.
Atmicroeconomic level, the e-Economy is leading to important changes in organisational market structures. The faster pace of technological change is having a major impact on the structure and lifecycle of enterprises. Firstly, ICT reduces the economic impact of distance and the cost of access to information, thus increasing the scope for competition within markets. Secondly, ICT often tends to lower the cost of setting up small enterprises thus, potentially, providing for additional competition. Thirdly, ICT creates the opportunity for new cooperative means of product and service delivery, which can lead to improved quality and cost efficiency. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, ICT gives rise to many new products and services.
The process of creating new enterprises and of adapting or replacing traditional enterprises is indicative of the way the economy adapts to new market conditions. This process has accelerated considerably since the late 1990s. Products are increasingly becoming "extended products" which include an important service component. Internet-oriented enterprises are starting to acquire the characteristics of traditional enterprises, such as warehouses and chains of shops. Conversely, traditional retailers are starting to move part of their activities on-line, adding new distribution channels and new sourcing strategies.
The impact of ICT varies, however, from sector to sector. Information-rich sectors (digital goods, information services, financial and business services, etc.) witness the emergence of new business models and increased market competition. In industries where entry barriers are higher, such as construction and heavy engineering, the impact is likely to be more gradual. Digital interactions between administrations and business are key components of the e-Economy. By offering online access to public services, administrations can add concrete, direct incentives for enterprises to go digital themselves.
One characteristic of the e-Economy is the emergence of new business models. A substantial number of these have failed, along with many "dotcoms". Others however, have proved to be viable, notably in the business-to-business (B2B) area. Entering the e-Economy at a more mature stage may constitute an opportunity rather than a disadvantage for EU enterprises which have learnt from the mistakes of pioneers. Enterprises can now use tried and tested technologies, as well as viable business models – more specifically B2C (business-to-consumer) whose potential has still to be tapped.
E-Economy enterprises increasingly need to define and manage the risks associated with extended and dynamic enterprise configuration – not just the risks associated with the information infrastructure but also, and especially, those relating to access to adequate financial resources. Although the situation is improving, the EU venture capital market remains only a fraction of that of the US, where pension funds play a major role. Early stage investments in 2000 were five times higher in the US than in Europe. The financial environment in Europe is still insufficiently conducive to innovation, both technological and organisational. In this respect, the European Investment Bank with its "Innovation 2000" initiative and the Commission under the Action Plan on financial services and the multiannual programme for enterprises and entrepreneurship (2001-2006) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (2007-2013) have takenn initiatives to contribute to the supply of risk capital for innovative businesses.
Maximising the benefits of the e-Economy: the next steps
This Communication highlights the steps that will have to be taken to maximise the benefits arising to European enterprises from the e-Economy. These steps encompass:
- the fostering of a culture of entrepreneurship;
- enhancing the ICT skills levels needed to participate effectively in the e-Economy;
- raising the ability of European enterprises to compete in a modern global economy;
- further improving the functioning of the internal market.
Skills underpin entrepreneurship. Both issues are tightly interrelated. The problem of the skills gap (entrepreneurial skills and technical ICT skills) has been addressed through a number of initiatives, notably in the European Employment Strategy and in the eLearning Action Plan (2001-2004). Taking into account these challenges, there is a need to:
- accelerate the development of focused skills programmes and e-learning solutions;
- strengthen research efforts not only in the area of technology, but also with regard to related socio-economic issues and to the effects on human resources;
- strengthen on-going initiatives at all levels to help enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), acquire ICT and e-business skills;
- monitor the demand for ICT and e-business skills in Europe, benchmark national policies, and strengthen co-operation and co-ordination at the European level;
- launch focused projects in 2002, in close co-operation with Member States and the private sector, which aim to address the specific needs of enterprises, particularly SMEs.
The simplification and harmonisation activities undertaken at European level up to now should be continued in order to enable rapid development of pan-European businesses and fair trade in both the B2B and B2C environments. On the other hand, it is necessary to continue to review existing product legislation, in particular certification requirements and procedures to ensure that they are neutral between different means of product and service delivery.
Not all problems, however, can be resolved by legislation alone. Self-regulation should play an important role in promoting trust between partners in electronic transactions. Public policy should be aimed at raising credibility for self-regulation and at ensuring that codes of conduct are respected, through the availability, if needs be, of legal remedies.
In Europe, the e-Economy depends to a significant extent on the full participation of SMEs. The eEurope Go Digital initiative provided a first response to this challenge. It aimed to ensure that European enterprises, and in particular SMEs, fully embraced e-business and became active participants in the e-Economy. It is therefore necessary to:
- foster open standards and certification procedures;
- reinforce the security of networks and of information;
- contribute to reinforcing legal certainty for SMEs engaging in cross border e-business;
- optimise the use of existing resources, such as structural funds and research and technological development (RTD) budgets.
Exchanges between business and public administrations are a potentially powerful driving force for the e-Economy. This communication encourages public administrations to be at the leading edge of on-line service delivery, and to provide incentives for enterprises to access such services. Public administrations are also urged to continue these efforts to modernise their internal structure, by fostering, for example, the delivery of online services. The aim is to ensure broad interoperability both across borders and between administrations and business.
Related Acts
Communication from the Commission of 13 March 2001 – eEurope 2002: Impact and Priorities
[COM(2001) 140 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission of 13 March 2001 – Helping SMEs to "Go Digital" [COM(2001) 136 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Councilof 20 December 2000 on a multiannual programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship, and in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (2001-2005) [Official Journal L 333 of 29.12.2000].


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With the European economic crisis still rattling Formula One, it was no surprise to hear that cash-strapped Marussia and other smaller teams were facing money problems at the start of this season.
But when a storied team like the Swiss-based Sauber appeared on the brink of bankruptcy a few weeks back, the sport took notice. Sauber was eventually bailed out by investors closely linked to the Russian government and included an unusual expectation that an 18-year-old Russian driver -- Sergey Sirotkin -- might be on the grid for the team next year.
The financial crisis that Sauber called "uncomfortable and embarrassing" highlights a long-standing concern that a majority of the 11 teams of the grid — excluding the big spenders like Ferrari, Red Bull and McLaren — are weighed down with debt and not so far off from needing a similar bailout. Costs are skyrocketing and will continue to be a concern with new engines introduced in 2014.
"We are facing certain challenges especially economic ones which exist in our world. We are feeling them to a certain extent, some teams more, some teams less. The midfield feel it more than the bigger ones," Sauber principal Monisha Kaltenborn said earlier this year in Malaysia. "We first have to look at this economic challenge."
Formula One is one of the world's most glamorous and expensive sports and, until now, has largely followed the edict that the teams with deeper pockets inevitably end up with the faster cars and the most talented drivers. The big teams like Ferrari reportedly spend as much as $250 million a year, according to Formula One business consultant Dieter Rencken, or four times as much as the smaller teams like Caterham. In return, they reap the bulk of the $1.2 billion in F1 revenue.
The little guys are expected to take their place at the back of the grid, score few if any points during the season and leave the sport quietly when they collapse -- as the Spanish team HRT did last year. Their calls to bring down costs have largely gone unheeded and the gaps between the big and small teams have only gotten wider.
The most recent bid to address costs came in 2009, after the global financial crisis prompted Honda, Toyota and Super Aguri to pull out of the sport. Voluntary controls were approved including a ban on in-season testing. But those modest measures almost destroyed the sport. Ferrari went to court to stop them and the Italian team led a threat by the teams to pull out of the 2010 championship and compete in a breakaway series. That never happened but Ferrari, Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Sauber pulled out of the Formula One Teams Association because over the cost controls.
The debate over money began again in earnest at the start of the 2013 season when some teams seemed intent on sacrificing quality in the chase for additional sponsorship dollars. Caterham and Marussia — the weakest teams on the grid — both jettisoned experienced drivers before the season, going with others who brought financial backing.
"It's definitely not great for the sport. At the end, there should be the best ones fighting," said Timo Glock, who was replaced after two years driving for Marussia and now races for BMW in the DTM touring car series. "But these days, you need a lot of money or a contact to some of the engine suppliers which can help the team out. It was in the past already but not this extreme."
The two teams both defended their choice of drivers and insisted the real problem was that F1 had no real plan to ensure the sport remains sustainable in the future. They have been vocal about the need to address costs with Marussia's president and sporting director Graeme Lowdon suggesting F1 needs to follow the lead of American football and basketball leagues by instituting salary caps which have been credited for bringing greater parity to those sports.
"Fans are not that interested in whether we have a bigger balance sheet than Red Bull and their fizzy drinks empire. That is not what real fans are interested in," Lowdon said. "People tune to watch wheel-to-wheel racing, the best drivers in the world, the best minds at work on the cars and the only way you can maximize that is by having a well-designed cost-control mechanism."
Caterham's principal Cyril Abiteboul looks at cost as the only way area where teams can impact their bottom line. Sponsorship, he said, was difficult to control and the share of the F1 revenue that smaller teams receive under bilateral agreements with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is no more than $15 million in a year -- in contrast to the more than $100 million that Ferrari gets. Marussia is in even worse shape, being the only one of 11 teams without a deal with Ecclestone.
But Abiteboul also expressed concerns about how any budget cap would be policed.
"If we all agree that most of the teams struggle on the income side and most of the teams will very much struggle on the botton line, it means that you have think about the cost side of things," Abiteboul said. "Is a budget cap the right answer to cost reductions? I'm not entirely sure this is the best possible one. It's creating a lot of issues. How do you police it? How do you enforce it?"
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh, who heads the Formula One Team Association, has fought a sometimes lonely battle for years to convince teams to embrace cost controls. He admitted current voluntary cost controls haven't had the kind of impact he would like and says the answer is handing authority over to the FIA, which governs the sport -- something vehemently opposed by the big team who fear ceding too much control.
The FIA, however, has shown no inclination to take the lead on cost controls. Ecclestone, meanwhile, has expressed some sympathy over rising costs -- opposing the introduction of new engines in 2014 over their expense. But when asked about the issue in Bahrain, he said the complaints are nothing new in Formula One and the sport has carried on.
"There are always people who have lots of money and people who haven't," he told The Associated Press. "The British teams used to be a little bit short in the finance department and Ferrari was well supported and we were racing all the way thru. I am just going to see (team principal) Frank Williams now. (When) Frank started, I don't think he had a budget. He was on a race-by-race basis. It's always been like that. The world is like that. There are always people who are successful and people not quite successful."
Others have said the answer doesn't lie so much in cost controls but rather building up the F1 brand.
That, they say, will result in more revenue for everyone.
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'I Am Joan Crawford'
Through sheer force of will, Hollywood's most infamous single mother constructed a persona seductive, repellent, and almost impossible not to watch.
Like many of her awful but absorbing movies, this new biography of Joan Crawford (1908?–1977) begins at the end of the story, before flashing back to Reveal All. Not the Girl Next Door opens with an interview that Charlotte Chandler, the author, once conducted in Crawford's New York apartment ("I sat on the sofa after she removed its plastic cover") with the retired and aging star. The actress speaks in the noble Photoplay tones ("I wouldn't change anything for fear of changing it all") that were always a large part of Crawford's stiff public image, until it was toppled like a dictator's statue by her adopted daughter's poisonous memoir, Mommie Dearest.
No matter how many eponymous films she made (Mildred Pierce, Daisy Kenyon, Harriet Craig), Crawford never seemed to be anyone but Joan Crawford, and no matter how often she was Chained, Paid, Possessed, or Berserk, she always appeared grotesquely in control of herself and her onscreen circumstances. Crawford's was a life less lived than produced, a joint venture undertaken by herself and MGM, and though it's been much better recounted in previous biographies (one by Bob Thomas, another by Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell), the chance to gawk at its sad closing and then work backward, peeling off the layers of metallic maquillage, remains a sordid thrill.
So let's cue the Franz Waxman score and fade back to Lawton, Oklahoma, in 1908 (maybe), where we'll find Crawford's mother, Anna Bell Johnson LeSueur, tearfully enduring abandonment by the father of her infant daughter, Lucille. As the girl grows up, she will often get hit for misbehavior committed by her more favored brother, but a stepfather, Henry "Billy" Cassin, will come along and prove to be, according to Chandler, a "caring, attentive" parent to "little Lucille." Cassin owns a local opera house and encourages his stepdaughter in her dreams of dancing. But he's put on trial for embezzlement—if only Lucille hadn't found those gold coins in the basement!—and, though acquitted, has to move his family to Kansas City. Soon after, he too disappears, leaving Anna to operate a laundry whose terrible smells will cling to Lucille's memory for years. The young woman waits tables and makes beds to earn her keep at two different boarding schools and then briefly at Stephens College, from which she runs away when her work-study status leads to rejection by a sorority. "I was not a Method actress," the screen goddess explained, with rare understatement, decades later. But she would admit that when filming a painful scene, she did occasionally tap into memories of her own hard early life.
Dance contests, chorus jobs, and a screen test brought her to Hollywood and silent films, most notably Our Dancing Daughters (1928). MGM, a latecomer to sound, liked her deep voice and put her in nearly a dozen talkies before Grand Hotel (1932) made "Joan Crawford" a star. Preparation and discipline were her watchwords. She had no great gifts, but was smart enough to learn anything that directors like Clarence Brown and Howard Hawks and George Cukor could teach her. When she wanted to buy a house, she borrowed not from the bank but from the studio: "As long as I owe them money," Crawford reasoned to her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., "they can't very well let me go." She never wasted anyone's time on the sets, which she asked be kept at a concentration-producing 55 degrees. Louis B. Mayer loaned her out just three times in 18 years.
Onscreen, Crawford's face was an Art Deco masterpiece—jutting chromium cheekbones, gargoyle eyebrows—as fabulous as the Chrysler Building and scarcely more human. It was a construction designed for the lens, not life. Of all the great stars, she is the one whose mature visage is least imaginable from her early photographs and films. Like that later Hollywood striver, Nancy Davis Reagan, her head was too large for her body—except for the shoulders, which Gilbert Adrian had the wit to pad instead of disguise when he dressed her for Letty Lynton (1932). Fantastically strong-willed, Crawford would shed weight, drop mannerisms, even change her natural laugh: "It grew softer, more modulated, less spontaneous," Fairbanks remembered. "It became a finishing-school laugh."
George Cukor, who directed Crawford in The Women (1939), understood that the "camera saw a side of her that no flesh-and-blood lover ever saw." It's a truism that every film star knows how to make love to the camera; in Crawford's case, it was more like an insistence on penetration. "As the camera came in closer," Cukor explained, "she had an expression on her face of wanting it intensely. She glowed from within. Her skin came to life. Her head fell back. Her lips parted. Her eyes were glistening. It was utterly sensual, erotic. Her close-up was ecstasy." Vincent Sherman, who directed her three times at the beginning of the 1950s, tells how she came on to him in a screening room when the two of them were running Humoresque (1946) to get hairstyle ideas for The Damned Don't Cry: "I came to believe that she had been aroused by her own eroticized image on the screen … that she had been more excited by herself than by me." Some of Crawford's most intense love scenes feel like libidinal nightmares. It's difficult to think of a more sexually repellent star, of any other actress creating such feelings of guilt and inadequacy in the male viewer—who remained helplessly aware of a thought he couldn't voice in the darkened theater: I am not a camera!
Crawford's overstated performances, often intelligent but almost never instinctive, remain garishly earthbound. In Possessed (1947), she plays schizophrenia with flaring eyes and fists to the temples, as if it were an Excedrin headache, and in Humoresque she listens to John Garfield's violin-playing as if she were trying to show off her cultivation to Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. during another uneasy dinner party at Pickfair. There is something different about her in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won and maybe even deserved her single Oscar; something understated, felt—a premonition, perhaps, that her nasty real-life daughter would one day assault her with far worse stuff than Ann Blyth ever dished out onscreen.
Crawford craved appreciation of her talents, but she was less an actress than a kind of performance artist, an obsessive 24/7 movie star who took the job to an ethereal extreme where narcissism shades into something like humility. She was famous for answering every piece of fan mail, sometimes in one of the special "dresses I wear for doing my correspondence." She would identify herself to telephone operators ("Hello, dear. This is Joan Crawford. What is the number for the Hollywood Roosevelt?") and had to explain to Franchot Tone, her second husband, that fans and photographers were always present wherever the couple went because she tipped them off herself. Late in life, living at the Imperial House in Manhattan, she dressed up "even to throw out the garbage," because she thought she owed it to the doorman to look like Joan Crawford. When at the end she began to photograph badly, she stopped going out.
Her long feud with Bette Davis, cherished by drag performers, was certainly camp ("Bette is a survivor," said Crawford. "She survived herself"), but it was rooted in something more fundamental than their rumored competition for Tone back in the mid-1930s. The far less glamorous Davis, despite her own egomania and madness for recognition, found stardom essentially ridiculous. She preferred bouquets from critics to ones tossed by fans, and thought the whole offscreen Crawford persona humorless and phony. Crawford was sufficiently shrewd about box office to approach Davis with the idea of their doing What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?—but only if she herself could play Blanche, the lovely forbearing invalid. Davis, happy to let go of vanity and take the more monstrous and much meatier part, wound up mocking her co-star in interviews: "I would never have accepted anything but Baby Jane … Miss Crawford was more concerned with the positioning of her falsies."
Crawford's relations with men were avidly physical but for the most part non-tempestuous, love being a small thing compared to career and image. Her move in 1943 from MGM to Warner Brothers was far more personally mo-mentous than any transition from one husband to another. The union with Fairbanks would collapse politely once her self-improvement efforts really took off ("He married a chorus girl, and I think that's what he liked"). Their delayed European honeymoon had been paid for by MGM, but she couldn't relax away from the studio. Back home, Crawford saw in Betty Barker, a teenage girl badly smitten with Fairbanks, not a threat but the prospect of hired help; she set Barker to work addressing envelopes. Her second divorce was as friendly as the first, and decades after it, when Franchot Tone was in a wheelchair and living nearby in New York, Crawford would help with his bills and sometimes cook him dinner.
During their marriage, Crawford had experienced a number of miscarriages, and when it was over, she felt a stronger desire for children than for husbands. So she had a lawyer make the arrangements that would eventually establish her as the most infamous single mother in history. There was a certain Neverland Ranch quality to the elaborate birthday parties she threw for little Christina and Christopher, whose good fortune was displayed to Crawford's public in magazines and on the radio, but it's impossible to know how hard and how often, if ever, the star's wire hanger rained blows upon the children once the guests had gone home. Crawford didn't live to see the publication—and, worse, the filming— of Mommie Dearest, but she has had numerous defenders in the years since, and her new biographer is firmly in the pro-Joan, anti-Christina camp. Chandler offers testimony from friends and family that the daughter had always been impossible, and her brother even worse. Myrna Loy, speaking of Christina, once told Lawrence J. Quirk: "Believe me, there were many times I wanted to smack her myself."
Chandler's idea of retributive justice is to overaccentuate anything positive about her subject. She creates a fanzine Saint Joan ("She felt it was selfish to have household help during World War II, when there was a labor shortage"), but that's the least of this book's flaws. Quotations are flung upon the page with no hint of a source or date, and long, inane plot summaries of Crawford's films pad the text more outrageously than Adrian ever filled out the star's shoulders. Almost everything else is underdeveloped, devoid of context, and badly located, as if the biographer were some incompetent prop mistress, misplacing all the glamorous clutter from the life of her subject, who, it's fair to say, would have hated this book for its sloppiness.
In The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Crawford's fierce character sets straight a timid accountant in the backseat of a cab: "Don't talk to me about self-respect," she orders. "That's something you tell yourself you got when you got nothing else." In fact, Crawford had plenty of it herself, but that was no reason not to go after all the other things available. She got most of what she wanted and attained a kind of cheesy greatness through unrelenting effort and a whole lot of worry. She supposedly overcame the latter when, late in life, she embraced Christian Science. If she were arriving in Hollywood today, she'd probably be checking out Scientology's Celebrity Centre as soon as she got off the plane, shedding all the negative energy and Suppressive Persons in the manner of TomKat and Travolta.
Movie-magazine readers chose her screen name in a 1925 contest; thus was she market-researched into existence. She disliked "Joan Crawford" at first, but as she grew herself into it changed her mind: "My fans write to 'Dear Miss Crawford' or 'Dear Joan.' These are wonderful words … I am Joan Crawford." Rarely was she more affecting than in the Baby Jane scene requiring wheelchair-bound Blanche, a faded film star, to watch one of her old movies on television. The picture chosen for Crawford to look at was Sadie McKee, which she'd filmed in 1934; her rapt appreciation, 30 years later, made for the easiest take of the day.
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Daily Active Users – DAU is the most important metric for Customer Success and user engagement. When Facebook present their quarterly business results, it is the first metric that is being reported on their quarterly call.
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You'll see in their presentation that the second metric that is reported is of Monthly Active Users (MAU).
On a meeting with a very large enterprise software vendor, I was pleasantly surprised to see them starting to adopt MAU as the metric for business success.
Daily Active Users counts unique users active in a given day. Monthly Active Users counts unique users active in a given month.
Although not very sophisticated, DAU is a measure of customer (user) engagement. How many people take the time to use a product or service? If they use it often it means they see value in it, if they don't, something is missing.
DAU is CSAT and NPS in one. It counts 100% of your customers, the ones that use your product and also the ones that don't. And, it is objective!
By taking a deeper look into DAU and MAU you can come up with many important actionable conclusions.
Making the Metrics Actionable
DAU/MAU (ratio of DAU out of MAU) – this is usage frequency metric. DAU/MAU of a given group (could be users of in specific account) determines how often your product or service is being used. DAU/MAU that is closer to one (> 0.7) reflects daily use.
MAU/Licenses (ratio of MAU out of licenses sold) – is your license utilization. If licenses represents the number of seats purchased by an account, than MAU/Licenses represents the license utilization ratio. When license utilization > 1 – it's time to grow the account, when license utilization is < 0.5 we have an adoption problem and potential churn risk.
Objection Handling
Many peeps in the customer success space are very uncomfortable with usage and utilization based measurements for customer success. Here are some common objections and my responses:
What if my product was not designed to be used daily?
If the product was not designed for daily use, change the frequency of measurement to the time window it was intended to – use MAU instead of DAU
What about non-interactive use? for example – website hosting service?
In some cases interactive use does not exist (really? not even admin and configuration?) – so measure utilization instead of interaction.
Isn't business outcome the most important thing – more than usage?
Yes, value and outcome are very important, but DAU and MAU gives us great indications into that as well. There's no single metric to measure, so if you can measure business outcome do that too.
If my customer is using my product – it does not mean they will not churn or cancel
That is true there are no guarantees, but if your customer does not use your product or service they WILL cancel eventually.
The most successful businesses in the world run on these metrics – you should do it too.


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It's hard cut lose a man you've been ministering to and let him ultimately bear the full consequences of the mess he's made of his life – not to hurt him, but to let him finally hit bottom.
I am friends with and minister to men and women who most people, and many churches, shun (except for arms-length "programs", if even that). Pick a vice – any vice – and I've likely come beside and embraced those in bondage to it: former drug addicts, narc dealers, sex offenders, embezzlers, thieves, gender benders, Satanic ritual abusers and even murderers.
Because I've been willing to see past the sin and accept the common humanity we all share – not as one who is perfect but as a someone willing to walk with them as we sort out our individual imperfections together under God's mercy and grace – some of these folk are now following the Lord.
I love such people, because daily I see how God creates beauty out of their ashes.
I am blessed, because I serve a God who, above all, creates. He takes destruction – what has become void and without form, in the words of Genesis 1 – and brings wonder and life and order. . .
. . . and He delights most of all, I've found, in redeeming lives that many think are beyond hope.
To bring restoration from ruin, Jesus went to the cross – not for the best of us or for the good in us, because there is no one who deserves His mercy or His grace. Rather, He did it because of His intense love and desire to restore lives by conquering the sin and death that we've voluntarily embraced and allowed to enslave us.
For me, if this gospel of hope doesn't work for the "worse" of us, then it doesn't work for any of us.
But I've learned some hard lessons along the way.
I've learned that you can't pull, push or prod a person to become whole – even after they've encountered God's mercy and grace.
I've learned that even when someone encounters God's mercy and grace, there is always an element of personal responsibility. We have to decide to die to our old self and our old patterns of thought and behavior, and let His mercy and grace transform us – step by step – into the person He calls us to be.
I've learned that God's mercy and grace are freely offered, and there is nothing I can do to deserve them. But I've also learned that they cost me everything – including letting go of my own selfish needs, wants and desires.
I've learned that even after accepting Christ's mercy and grace, we still have to decide – and have the will – to change. Otherwise, there is no real hope for us.
I've learned that having the will to change is not simply a matter of overpowering, though our own strength, the things that are bondage in our lives. Rather, it is the will to transparently confess, repent, forgive others and receive forgiveness – thereby letting God transform how we think and what we believe about ourselves, Him, others, the world in general, our past, and the circumstances of our lives.
I've learned that healing only comes if we let God's truth, and his perspective, replace the lies that bind us.
I've learned that healing, however, is not the same as health: Apart from having the will to change and to grow in spiritual maturity by daily walking in the freedom He brings, we won't become whole and complete – no matter what others do to "help" us.
I've learned that those who God calls to be fathers to the fatherless can't "fix" anyone. Rather, we are to simply and humbly offer wise advice and be examples they can emulate as they strive towards maturity. But they have to decide to change — we can't do that for them.
I've learned that some get what they want from God, but no more, because it's still all about them and their needs. After all, in Luke 17, ten lepers got what they wanted and were healed of their disease, but only one – who decided to return and stop focusing on himself by giving thanks – was made whole.
I've learned that some make it, and some don't.
I've learned that those who make have stopped being victims – of themselves or their circumstances or their past – by deciding to take ownership over the consequences of their prior bad decisions and by taking ownership over doing what's necessary to become the men and women God calls them to be.
I've learned that those who make it have also dropped their attitude of entitlement – that God or society or others own them something – and exhibit instead an attitude of gratitude.
I've learned that you can help such men and women — not because they are perfect, but because they are finally dealing with their imperfections.
Finally, I've learned this hard, hard lesson: If someone decides to constantly remain stuck in their sin, immaturity and hurts – to continue being a victim and entitled – "helping" quickly crosses the line into "enabling" because it facilitates continued bad choices. This causes more harm than good.
I've learned that I need to find joy in those who decide to move forward and live truly redeemed lives, and not be consumed by grief over those who don't. (This is a hard one.)
My prayer it this: Dear God, give us all the grace, the wisdom and the courage to understand the difference between helping and enabling.
~ Jim Wright


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*LUPEC Boston's latest ruminations, in case you missed 'em in this week's Dig.
The holiday season got you down? Can't cope with the T anymore? Still waiting for a late paycheck? Getting through a romantic break-up? Wondering what do drink after you've sent in your anonymous gripe?
The Boilermaker, of course.
A series of in-depth interviews with John Gertsen of Drink yielded the following:
"I believe that all of the earliest saloon drinking was merely some strong whiskey and good ale. It makes perfect sense to me that someone eventually put the two together, kinda like those old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials. One thing that is most certain is that many unions, including the Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Shipbuilders, met frequently in Saloons. According to turn-of-the-century sociologist, Royal Melendy, 'The Hotels… do not want the man with the soiled clothes and the calloused hands in their rooms, They are forced to meet in the saloons, or in rooms above'. As a saloon-keeper, I find the boilermaker to be an effective drink for all classes, including those with clean clothes and smooth hands. We offer Old Overholt Rye and a Reading Premium Beer as our house boilermaker."
Well, when I'm at his saloon doing my research on boilermakers I prefer the Old Overholt with a Turbodog. Nevertheless, with kind regards to Mr. Gertsen and the resident beer experts on the next page and everybody else with an opinion, we'd like to nominate this combination as a boilermaker worthy of the Dig and any of your darkest moments:
1 40 oz Haffenreffer Private Stock Malt Liquor
1 "generous" shot Old Overholt Rye
Sure you can drop that shot into the beer glass if you like; we prefer the beer as a chaser.
It's all-American, it's even old Boston (as the remaining 'Fenreffer' stack at the brewery complex in JP proudly attests), and it will cure what ails you.
Check out these sites for more opinions or add your own below!
Old Overholt Page on Wikipedia


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Neurological Examination for Children
What is a neurological examination?
A neurological examination, also called a neuro exam, is an evaluation of your child's nervous system that can be performed in the doctor's office. It may be performed with instruments, such as lights and reflex hammers, and usually does not cause any pain to the child.
The nervous system consists of the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves from these areas. There are many aspects of this examination, including an assessment of motor and sensory skills, balance and coordination, mental status (the child's level of awareness and interaction with the environment), reflexes, and functioning of the nerves. The extent of the examination depends on many factors, including the initial problem that the child is experiencing, the age of the child, and the condition of the child.
Why is a neurological examination performed?
A complete and thorough evaluation of your child's nervous system is important if there is any reason to think there may be an underlying problem, or during a complete physical.
Damage to the nervous system can cause delays in the child's normal development and functioning and early identification may help to identify the cause and decrease long-term complications. A complete neurological examination may be performed:
During a routine physical
During a newborn physical
To follow the progression of a disease
Following any type of birth defect to the head or spine
If the child has any of the following complaints:
Blurry vision
Change in behavior
Change in balance or coordination
Numbness or tingling in the arms or legs
Decrease in movement of the arms or legs
Injury to the head, neck, or back
Temperature of unknown source
Slurred speech
What is done during a neurological examination?
During a neurological examination, your child's doctor will "test" the functioning of the nervous system. The nervous system is very complex and controls many parts of the body. The nervous system consists of the brain, spinal cord, 12 nerves that come from the brain, and the nerves that come from the spinal cord. The circulation to the brain, arising from the arteries in the neck, is also frequently examined. In infants and younger children, a neurological examination includes the measurement of the head circumference. The following is an overview of some of the areas that may be tested and evaluated during a neurological examination:
Mental status. Mental status (the child's level of awareness and interaction with the environment) may be assessed by watching the infant interact with the parent, or by asking the older child to follow directions or answer questions appropriately. The older child will also be observed for clear speech and making sense while talking. This is usually done by your child's doctor just by observing the child during normal interactions.
Motor function and balance. This may be tested by having the older child push and pull against the doctor's hands with his or her arms and legs. The child may be asked to squeeze fingers or hop, skip, or jump. Balance may be checked by assessing how the child stands and walks or having the older child stand with his or her eyes closed while being gently pushed to one side or the other. Your child's joints may also be checked simply by passive (performed by the doctor) and active (performed by the child) movement.
Sensory examination. Your child's doctor may also perform a sensory test that checks your child's ability to feel. This may be done by using different instruments: dull needles, tuning forks, alcohol swabs, or other objects. The doctor may touch the child's legs, arms, or other parts of the body and have him or her identify the sensation (for example, hot or cold, sharp or dull).
Newborn and infant reflexes. There are different types of reflexes that may be tested. In newborns and infants, reflexes called infant reflexes (or primitive reflexes) are evaluated. Each of these reflexes disappears at a certain age as the infant grows. These reflexes include:
Blinking. An infant will close his and her eyes in response to bright lights.
Babinski reflex. As the infant's foot is stroked, the toes will extend upward.
Crawling. If the infant is placed on his or her abdomen, he or she will make crawling motions.
Moro's reflex (or startle reflex). A quick change in the infant's position will cause the infant to throw the arms outward, open the hands, and throw back the head.
Palmar and plantar grasp. The infant's fingers or toes will curl around a finger placed in the area.
Reflexes in the older child. These are usually examined with the use of a reflex hammer.
The reflex hammer is used at different points on the body, such as the knee or elbow, to test numerous reflexes, which are noted by the movement that the hammer causes.
Evaluation of the cranial nerves. There are 12 main nerves of the brain, called the cranial nerves (CN I-XII). During a complete neurological examination, most of these nerves are evaluated to help determine the functioning of the brain:
Cranial nerve I (olfactory nerve). This is the nerve of smell. Your child may be asked to identify different smells with his or her eyes closed.
Cranial nerve II (optic nerve). This nerve carries vision to the brain. A visual test may be given and your child's eye may be examined with a special light.
Cranial nerve III (oculomotor). This nerve is responsible for pupil size and certain movements of the eye. Your child's doctor may examine the pupil (the black part of the eye) with a light and have your child follow the light in various directions.
Cranial nerve IV (trochlear nerve). This nerve also helps with the movement of the eyes, in combination with CN VI.
Cranial nerve V (trigeminal nerve). This nerve allows for many functions, including the ability to feel the face, inside the mouth, and move the muscles involved with chewing. Your child's doctor may touch the face at different areas and watch your child as he or she bites down.
Cranial nerve VI (abducens nerve). This nerve helps with the movement of the eyes. Your child may be asked to follow a light or finger to move the eyes.
Cranial nerve VII (facial nerve). This nerve is responsible for various functions, including the movement of the muscles of the lower face and taste from the front of the tongue. Your child may be asked to identify different tastes (sweet, sour, bitter), asked to smile, move the cheeks, or show the teeth.
Cranial nerve VIII (acoustic nerve). This nerve is the nerve of hearing. A hearing test may be performed on your child.
Cranial nerve IX (glossopharyngeal nerve). This nerve is involved with taste and swallowing. Once again, your child may be asked to identify different tastes on the back of the tongue. The gag reflex may be tested.
Cranial nerve X (vagus nerve). This nerve is mainly responsible for the ability to swallow, the gag reflex, some taste, and part of speech. Your child may be asked to swallow and a tongue blade may be used to elicit the gag response.
Cranial nerve XI (accessory nerve). This nerve is involved in the movement of the shoulders and neck. Your child may be asked to turn his or her head from side to side against mild resistance, or to shrug the shoulders.
Cranial nerve XII (hypoglossal nerve). This nerve is responsible for movement of the tongue, along with CN IX and X. Your child may be instructed to stick out his or her tongue and speak.


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This post was authored by Gilman Louie and published by Business Insider on December 4, 2013.
Last week, Philadelphia became the first city in the United States to pass a 3D-Printer gun ban. Some critics feel that the city was premature given the state of 3D printing technology. Others believe that this preemptive measure will help that city get ahead of creative criminals. Many lawmakers are asking themselves: how real is the threat and how realistic is it to restrict the printing of 3D guns?
Consumer 3D printing has recently been enabled as a feasible activity, with the arrival of printers ranging in price from $300-$4,000 from companies such as Makerbot, Cubify, Flashforge, TypeA Machines, and Solidoodle. But the current generation of machines are still not reliable nor easy to use and they have very little embedded systems support from computers and software. It is still considered a hobby activity, much as personal computers were in 1978 when Apple, Commodore, and Radio Shack introduced the first consumer computers.
A debate is raging in the technology industry about how important and impactful the idea of consumers using their own 3D printers will be in society. Some dismiss the idea as a fad. Other than printing throwaway trinkets, what good are these consumer devices? Almost no one disagrees that the commercial and industrial use of 3D printers will change manufacturing systems forever and lead to a remarkable revolution in custom and even high-volume manufacturing. The touchstone for the debate about consumer use of 3D printers is the idea that an individual can print a functional gun in the privacy of their home and then use it without ever coming under the scrutiny of law enforcement.
It would be easy to get lost in the intricate framework of federal and state regulations covering the manufacture, distribution, sale and use of firearms, because the framework is incredibly intricate. For instance, a congressionally approved law that prohibits the printing of undetectable plastic firearms just got extended.
There are regular reports of individuals using professional grade 3D printers to print plastic parts to produce small arms. Recently, one company, Solid Concepts, using a 3D printer that can print metals, reproduced a clone of a military 1911 .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, which successfully fired 50 rounds. Defense Distributed, a non-profit digital publisher and 3D R&D firm, developed an all-plastic handgun based on a WWII design called the Liberator.
The question then is how difficult would it be to construct a legal, unregistered, and reliable semi-automatic rifle using widely available components, software, tools, materials, designs and 3D printers? I decided to put that question to the test by constructing a rifle based on the popular AR-15 platform, a semiautomatic version of the automatic rifle used by the military called the M4.
On a recent weekend, I printed the key part (called the lower receiver, shown in blue in the photo) of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle on a consumer 3D printer made by Makerbot. The next weekend I took the assembled firearm and succeeded in firing more than 50 rounds into a target from 50 feet away. I am licensed and trained in small arms handling, but I was able to print this part without asking permission or breaking any Federal or State laws in California (it should be noted that firearm laws vary from state to state and from city to city).
Trouble ahead! We haven't been able to effectively control the distribution and use of guns in our society when you couldn't make your own. We haven't even been able to agree on whether we should even try, given the Constitution's Second Amendment "Right to Bear Arms." But now, 3D printers are being sold to individuals who are experimenting with building all kinds of objects. The single most controversial 3D objects being printed are firearms. The continued development of 3D printing technology will undermine any notion of regulating firearms, and controlling their distribution as has been done in the past, will lead to a remarkable re-evaluation of our policies regarding gun rights and gun control.
The most difficult constraint in this exercise was to be able to construct a legally compliant firearm. Federal law allows individuals to construct an unregistered firearm for personal use as long as the user starts out with the regulated part being less than 80% completed. On an AR-15, the only regulated part is called the lower receiver (the part that connects the trigger, magazine loader, stock and barrel into a single unit). A stripped lower is just the bare housing without any of the other components of the rifle. The lower is typically made out of aircraft aluminum, used to house the trigger and hammer assembly, and holds in place the magazine, rifle stock and the upper. The upper contains the bolt, firing pin, and barrel.
In California, you must use a design that has already been approved by the state to avoid running afoul of anti-zip gun laws. California also requires the use of a bullet button so that the magazine requires a tool to remove it. By federal law, the assembled firearm must also be detectable by metal detectors (until December 9th). There are set of other rules and laws that control different aspects of how you design the gun.
I began by purchasing a book on how to build your own AR-15. The book I bought is intended to help gun enthusiasts assemble an AR-15 from parts, not to print the parts. Other than the lower receiver, I was able to order the book and all of the assembly parts online. I anticipated that I wanted to use a small caliber to ensure that the rifle fired reliably and did not break due to high-pressure recoil. I was able to order on-line a complete AR-15 upper receiver (mostly the barrel) that used a rim fired .22 long rifle caliber round rather than the standard center fired .223 round. I found and purchased online widely available software tools: 3D CAD software that is needed to design, modify and view 3D objects, as well as software that converts 3D object files into 3D printable files.
The only part that needed to be printed was a stripped-down version of the lower receiver. All of the other components of the rifle can be easily and legally bought on Amazon, eBay or gun-enthusiast sites. Just using Google search on a web browser, I found plenty of 3D CAD files for the lower, as well as detailed blueprints of an AR-15 lower. The State Department, citing International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), restricts the posting of 3D files designed for the express use in weapons manufacturing. To avoid using a restricted file, I downloaded a generic 3D model, used the blueprints to get the exact measurements, and the 3D CAD software to clean up the model to make it printer ready. (I am trained and competent in using 3D CAD software, so I have an advantage over the general consumer.) It took me less than 30 minutes to turn the generic 3D object file into a 3D printer file.
I had previously bought a 3D printer called Makerbot Replicator 2 on Amazon.com, as well as a spool of blue Polylactic Acid (PLA) bio plastic that the Replicator 2 uses to create its 3D prints. I have been using the Makerbot printer for a couple of months, learning how to use it and what issues affected the quality of printing, so a new user would take longer to get the same result. I printed the lower receiver in a little over 12 hours.
I cleaned up the print using a power drill, Dremel-brand rotary tool and a small amount of Plasticweld to correct a few imperfections in the printing process.
To turn a stripped lower to a complete AR-15 lower assembly, you need to acquire the following: a lower AR-15 parts kit, an AR-15 rifle butt-stock kit and a bullet button (for California). Using a punch kit, screwdriver and vise grip, I followed the instructions provided in the book to assemble the complete functional lower in under an hour. Other than bullets, all of the necessary parts and tools needed to assemble a 3D printed rifle can be purchase on Amazon.
Completed lower and a manual on how to build your own AR-15 Rifle.
Once the lower was completed, I attached the lower to the upper using two pins and added a sight. I now had a legal, usable rifle ready for testing.
At a local range, I loaded the magazine with .22 caliber ammo I purchased at the range. I inserted a magazine into the rifle, chambered a round, and squeezed the trigger . . . nothing. I had to experiment, but when I switched magazines, the gun worked. I fired off 10 rounds. At 50 feet, using a red dot sight, it was easy to place all of the hits into a quarter-size group at the center of the target. I shot another 50 rounds down range. Results of the test: The rifle is reliable, accurate and did not suffer any cracks or mechanical failures.
The online 3D printing community has a tradition of "modding" (modifying) designs iteratively. Users post their work in progress online. Other users print and modify the original designs, and repost the improved design. High-demand designs are iterated quickly and go viral to the community. If I was not worried about breaking the law, I could have downloaded a modified design for an AR-15 lower that would have fired 5.56 military rounds more reliably than the lower I printed. These modified designs have been used to fire up to 80 military round before failing. Remember, I chose a lower caliber (.22LR) upper to increase reliability and to make it more compliant with other states' laws. I could have easily chosen a .223 or 5.56 upper (although it might have generated enough recoil to crack the plastic lower); I wasn't interested in putting my personal safety at risk to make a point!
Control over printing guns and gun parts is becoming a hotly debated topic between gun-control and gun-rights groups. Besides disrupting existing domestic firearm laws, 3D printable firearms will make sections of the current UN Arms Treaty ineffective. Policies are being debated at every level of government: state & local, federal and international. Regardless of the outcome of the debate, my experiment demonstrates that this particular genie is already out of the bottle. As with all things digital, it is now impossible to stop the sharing and use of digital content even if sharing is illegal. It is true with music, it is true with movies, and it is true with 3D printing.
The ability to print metals, conductive organics and biological tissue has already been demonstrated and costs are falling quickly. Just about anything that can be powderized or liquefied can be printed. While consumer 3D printers are based on plastic-based processes, there are multiple competing technologies that have significant advantages. The costs of these technologies are also falling quickly. I believe 3D printing will follow a similar performance curve to Moore's Law, which a cofounder of Intel, Gordon Moore, observed five decades ago for semiconductors: performance doubles every two years.
It isn't difficult to imagine how disruptive this technology will be once anyone can print metals, biologicals, organics, chemicals and other exotic materials using low-cost printers. If you can print small arms, you might be able to print IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) or other DIY (Do It Yourself) weapons, instead of being restricted to assembling from whatever is at hand.
I'm often asked how mature is the current state of the 3D printing. The closest comparison I have is that we are in a similar place where personal computers were in 1977. The Makerbot Replicator 2 is the equivalent of the Apple II. The Apple II had limited capability and was widely dismissed by many experts as a toy. By the end of 1977, 50,000 microcomputers had been sold to consumers. In 2013, 50,000 3D printers were sold to consumers. Now the personal computer is a part of a history that has lead directly to tablets and smartphones and wearable computers for billions of consumers. We are at the dawn of a new revolution that will be as profound and disruptive as the personal computing revolution.