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What Is Whing Golf
River Forest is currently the first and the only course on the east coast to offer this alternative to traditional golf. So what is it? Whing Golf was designed to play just like regular golf. Instead of needing a whole bag of clubs, you only need a Whinger, a putter, and a ball. The Whinger is designed to fit a golf ball and holds it until it is released when you throw it.
Here's how it works:
1. Start at the tee and throw a ball using your Whinger.
2. Continue using your Whinger as you progress down the fairway to get to the green.
3. Now that you're close to the green, you can either throw the ball on the green using the Whinger or throw it with your hand.
4. Once on the green, you putt just like regular golf.
The best part of Whing golf is that is doesn't have any physical limitations and can be played by everyone!
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Gender: Masculine
Origin: Latin
Meaning "Roman."
Eng Masc. (ROH-men) Eng Fem. (roh-MANE); Fre Masc. (hroh-MAHn); Fre Fem. (hroh-MEHN); Pol (ROH-mahn)
The name's meaning is clear from its very first utterance, most renowned in the State's through Polish director and film maker, Roman Polanski, it was the name of a Christian martyr who died under Diocletian.
In recent years, the name has had a peak in popularity, it currently ranks in as the 157th most popular male name in the United States (2011), and seems to be rising.
His rankings in other countries are as follows:
- # 36 (Romain, Belgium, 2008)
- # 39 (Romain, France, 2010)
- # 228 (Roman, France, 2010)
- # 494 (Netherlands, 2011)
Its designated name-days are: February 23 (Slovakia); February 28/29 (Poland), May 28 (Estonia), August 9 (Czech Republic/Poland), October 6/23 (Poland), November 18 (Poland).
Roman is used in Czech, Estonian, German, Polish, Slovakian and Slovenian.
Other forms of the name are:
- Roman Роман (Croatian/English/German/Norwegian/Polish/Romansch/Russian/Slovak/Slovene/Swedish/Ukrainian)
- Romain (French)
- Romanos (Greek)
- Román (Hungarian/Spanish)
- Romano (Italian)
- Romanello/Romanino (Italian: obscure)
- Romanus (Latin)
- Romanas (Lithuanian)
- Reman (Poitvin)
- Romans (Poitvin)
- Rouman (Poivin)
In Polish, Romek is the diminutive form.
Feminine forms are:
- Romana (Croatian/Czech/Italian/Lithuanian/Polish/Slovak/Slovene)
- Romaine (English/French)
- Romane (French)
- Romána (Hungarian)
- Romanella (Italian)
- Romanina (Italian)
- Romanita (Italian/Spanish)
- Romina (Italian/Spanish)
- Romanela (Polish: very obscure)

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Watch CEED-GEO group in Spain and an interview with Stephanie Werner at Spanish televison CanalSur Radio Y Televison.
Board member of The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics Mioara Mandea, and IAGA Secretary General, is awarded the National Order of Merit by the decree of the French President for her outstanding scientific career and public service.
Two researchers from CEED got in December 2016 the happy message that they received grants from the Research Council of Norway.
Kerim Nisancioglu bruker egne erfaringer fra Grønlandsisen og samarbeider med is-musiker for å fortelle om klimaendringer.
Jahren with an article in the New Youk Times newspaper.
- reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth's history.
The lecture is named after the eminent geologist from the earliest years of Dutch geology.
CEEDs Researcher and geologist Grace Shephard has been in duty on board on the Swedish icebreaker Oden, and explains how they collect core samples from the sea floor.
The official opening of the national Ivar Giæver geomagnetic lab was on September 7. There were a seminar with presentations and invited lectures, and later the opening of the infrastructure was done by Giæver himself.
The University of Oslo (UiO) research prize for 2016 was given to Professor Trond H. Torsvik in a formal ceremony at University's Aula on Friday 2nd September 2016.
The whole travel is documented in a blog, facebook and participants have given interviews.
Grace Shephard, Researcher at CEED takes part in a scientific polar expedition and a research team collecting data from the central Arctic Ocean. The journey started this week in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Da den siste istiden slapp taket over Norge etterlot den seg morener, sand, rullestein og våre fine svaberg. Forsker Henrik H Svensen, Institutt for geofag og CEED skriver i spalten Forskningsfronten, Morgenbladet den 29. juli om ny istidforskning.
Mennesker påvirker Jorden på en helt annen måte enn før. Vi bruker ressurser, vi dyrker jorden, vi forurenser og endrer på landskapet. Er menneskene blitt en naturkraft som endrer Jorden, spør geolog Henrik H. Svensen, biolog Dag Hessen og sosialantropolog Thomas Hylland Eriksen i en artikkel i Aftenposten Viten.
Gravitational pulls of Saturn and Jupiter might combine to cause spectacular meteor showers. A research team led by Aswin Sekhar at CEED, UiO thinks it may have an answer: A rare gravitational dance between the Perseids, Saturn and Jupiter. Read the interview with Sekhar in New Scientist.
CEED received three prizes at the European Geological Union Meeting in Vienna 17-22 April. More by the UiO Research Dean here (in Norwegian)


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The U.S. House of Representatives voted 277-130 on July 17 to extend the enhanced conservation easement tax incentive and make it permanent. The bill received overwhelming bipartisan support with a majority of Representatives listed as co-sponsors. The enhanced incentive provides positive terms for deductions for conservation easement donations.
Permanence for the enhanced tax incentive has been a long term goal of the land trust community which is actively supported by AOA. An op-ed supporting the incentive by Steve Fleegal, AOA's Executive Director, was published in the Columbus Dispatch a couple of weeks ago – Click here to read the op-ed.
Thanks to all of our friends and associates who contacted the offices of our local area representatives who are supporting this bill. We are hopeful of a positive vote in the Senate in the near future.


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How to get revision diffs for whole directories?
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Added by Thomas Oppelt about 14 years ago
Hi guys,
is there a way to show up the diffs between revisions over a whole directory as it's possible e.g. with TRAC?
I just found the way to get these diffs for files, but not as a summary for a whole directory.
thx & regards
Not at my knowledge, and no feature request about that. Check for it a little deeper, and if nothing found about it, feel free to open the resquest feature.


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AVATAR movie script by James Cameron.
Unproduced script.
Welcome to JOSH SULLY'S world.
It is a century from now, and the population of our tired planet has tripled. Finally, drowning in its own toxic waste, starvation and poverty, the population has topped out at a nice even 20 billion.
The Earth is dying, covered with a gray mold of human civilization. Even the moon is spiderwebbed with city lights on its dark side. Overpopulation, over-development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction... all of these have combined to make the once green and beautiful planet a terminal cess-pool.
Josh lives in the urban sprawl which has grown like kudzu over the whole eastern US.
His particular part of this undifferentiated concrete rat-warren is Charlotte, NC, but you could be anywhere. Its the same crowded, gray, trash-strewn high-tech squalor. The walls are gray, the sky is gray... the people are gray.
They shuffle past each other in dense crowds, shoulder to shoulder, unwashed because of the water shortages, and sickly looking from the bankrupt diet of cheap carbohydrates and synthetic proteins. It looks like a cross between THX-1138 and a Calcutta train station.
Josh has it a little worse than most because of his involvement in a stupid little war people barely remember. He is paralyzed from the waist down, and his useless legs hang twisted and shrunken down the front of his wheelchair. Josh still wears his army jacket, and with his unkempt beard and hair, and surly eyes, he is pretty much ignored by the crowds which buffet him like surf. Just another angry vet, a piece of discarded human trash.
Josh fights his way to work every day on the crowded subway. And every night he goes home to a tiny cubicle of an apartment in a vast government housing project. The room is reminiscent of a cell at a federal prison, which is pretty much what it is. The amenities look like they are from a 747, which is to say they are efficient, space conscious, and are about a hundred years old.
There is a single fluorescent fixture, which casts a sterile light over the grimy walls. It flickers constantly.
One entire wall (all seven feet of it) is a TV screen. On it we get a wider view of the world, and it's nothing to write home about. There is a breaking story about a fire in a Boston subway which asphyxiated over a hundred people. Not unusual these days. This is followed by a feature about the death, in Kenya, of the last lion living outside captivity. This leads to a recap of the state of the environment overall, and it's grim.
The oceans are overfished and barren, poisoned by toxic runoff. All whales and at least half the Earth's fish species are extinct. On land over half the species extant at the beginning of the century are now gone forever, with most of the remaining endangered.
The human race, using its technical ingenuity, has learned to keep itself alive, but it has lost almost all contact with the natural world, which it has strangled and crushed out of existence. There are no national parks left, only housing projects and protein farms. Yosemite is an upscale condo development. Most ocean-front property is used for mari-culture, since the only food source efficient enough to feed everyone these days is spirulina. It's amazing the things you can do with algal protein concentrate if you know your spices.
Josh Sully is a hopeless guy in a hopeless world, a little guy whom the big machine has ground up and spit out.
Josh gets a call from a computer at the municipal admin complex. The automated voice tells him politely that his brother, Thomas Sully, has been killed in a transit system accident in Boston, and he is required to claim the body by 1200 tomorrow. His brother died choking in the smoke of the subway fire which Sully had seen on the news.
CUT TO SULLY at the Boston municipal crematorium. He sits next to a large cardboard box, about seven feet long, sitting on the rollers waiting to go into the furnace. In the box is his brother's body.
We see that they are identical twins. There is no other family there. Josh watches the attendant cover his brother's body with the top of the cardboard box, then efficiently band it with two plastic straps, like he's getting ready to ship it somewhere. Then the box is rolled into the furnace, and the burners are lit.
As he is wheeling himself through the crowded halls of the municipal complex, Sully hears someone calling his name and sees two guys in suits working their way through the crowd to catch up with him. He is immediately suspicious, wondering what collection agency they are from. His brother must have died with some debts.
They tell him they are with the RDA, the RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE. This is an international consortium of major corporations whose purpose is to find and exploit resources on other planets, both within the solar system, and in the last 25 years, among the nearer star systems. Imagine the Dutch West India Company funded by Microsoft, Matsushita and a dozen or so of their megacorporation buddies. Everyone just calls it "THE CONSORTIUM".
The RDA has an official charter from the ICA, the Interplanetary Commerce Administration (pronounced eye-kah), an international trade-regulating body run much like the EC is today. The charter allows them to exploit the resources of planets, moons, asteroids... whatever they find... as long as they follow the International Space Resources Treaty, and the other treaties which prohibit weapons of mass destruction and limit military power in space.
These two guys ask Josh if he knows anything about what his brother was doing in the last year. He says they weren't that close. He knows that Tom had made some deal to work in space, but he couldn't talk about it because he'd signed some kind of non-disclosure agreement.
It turns out the suits are interested in Josh because of his genes. Tom Sully had signed up to something called the Avatar Program. In the Avatar Program you sign a ten year contract to work on Pandora, a planet of the Alpha Centauri starsystem.
Like everyone, Josh has heard of Pandora, or more properly Alpha Centauri B-4. Discovered by the first interstellar expedition twenty five years ago, Pandora has been the single most interesting thing to happen to the human race in ages. The news services love to run clips of the wild scenery on Pandora, and its bizarre flora and fauna. To a culture which has lost all contact with the natural world, Pandora is mysterious, primal, and terrifying.
So what the hell was Tom doing going to Pandora? The suits take Josh to dinner, and he even gets to order real steak. They explain what's going on.
There is, of course, a primitive humanoid species on Pandora, as anybody who watches the news would know. They are called the NA'VI, using their word for themselves. The humans usually refer to them clinically as the Pandorans, and colloquially as "the locals". Humans cannot live on Pandora without breathing gear, because the atmosphere is toxic. Lethal levels of ammonia, methane and chlorine.
The Consortium is trying to bridge the cultural gap with the aboriginal population, which has been difficult to communicate and negotiate with. They have recently started a program called AVATAR. They take DNA from a Na'vi, and from a selected human volunteer. On Earth, in company genetics labs, they create an in-vitro embryo, which is a genetic composite of the alien and human donor.
The recombinant embryo is grown in-vitro during the flight to Pandora, which takes 3 years (ship-time/ 5 years Earth time... it's a relativity thing). In that time it reaches near adult size, since the locals mature fast. When it is "born" (or more properly de-canted) as a post-adolescent, it looks like a Na'vi, and can live comfortably on Pandora, but it has enough human neurophysiology to be used as an Avatar, or surrogate body.
The human volunteer then becomes a CONTROLLER. Using PSIONIC LINK technology, the human controller can remotely control the avatar body out in the wilds of Pandora. The controller receives all sensory input, and provides all motor control to the body. Essentially, the controller lives through the avatar, and is completely unaware of his own body while linked. Each avatar is genetically keyed to its respective human controller.
By communicating with the locals through these avatars, which are less alien to them, the RDA has had some success teaching them English and basic skills.
So Tom was going to be one of these controller guys? That's right, they tell him. His embryo has been growing in vitro at the lab for several months. This is significant since only one in a hundred volunteers actually produces a viable composite. Each viable embryo represents an investment of over 20 million dollars.
So they are offering Josh the same contract they gave his brother. Since he is genetically identical, he can step into his brother's shoes, and become a controller. The next mission leaves in three weeks, so he will have to go through a crash training course, but it's still better than wasting a good avatar.
The agents grin like jackals. The pay is great, and it's a chance to be part of the great adventure.
Josh tells them he went for that line about it's not a job, it's an adventure once already, and it cost him the use of his legs. And ten years is too long a stint to sign up for. The army taught him a couple things. He tells them to take a hike.
One of the Consortium agents leans close to him. He says that as an avatar he will have legs. Long powerful legs, and he can run again.
PUSH IN ON JOSH, thinking about that. And you see in his eyes... he's going to go for it.
SPACE/ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM, 2103 AD. The I.S.V. PROMETHEUS flies backwards through the void, blasting out the fire of the gods like a cosmic blowtorch. Its hybrid fusion/antimatter engines hurl out incandescent plasma a million times brighter than a welding arc, with an exhaust plume twenty miles long which stretches out ahead of it, slowing it as it nears Alpha Centauri.
INTERSTELLAR VEHICLE PROMETHEUS is finishing up a month long deceleration from its peak velocity of over nine tenths the speed of light, still pulling 5 gees.
It's a big bastard... half a mile long. Most of that is engine and fuel, though the fuel tanks are almost empty.
Alpha Centauri is the nearest starsystem to Earth, at 4.5 lightyears away. A lightyear is the distance light travels in a year, and since light travels 186,000 miles a second, this is a long way. To get an idea how far this is, imagine the Earth is a grain of sand in my driveway in Malibu. On that scale the sun is a cantaloupe 50 feet away. And Alpha Centauri is in New York.
I'm pointing this out because it's necessary to understand the kind of energies it takes to get there in any reasonable amount of time. You have to go really fast. Almost as fast as the absolute laws of physics permit. And you have to use more energy to reach that speed (and then slow back down) than all of human civilization is currently using in a year. So the bottom line is... the bottom line. Money. A lot of money.
About a million dollars a pound, to get something from Pandora back to Earth. The object of the game is not to go there and mine coal. You want to find things that don't exist in our solar system at all or are incredibly rare, and then you want to refine and process those raw materials, so that what you send back is the finished product. The least mass for the most buck. So what you want to do is build up an industrial infrastructure on Pandora... you want to tame it. You want to civilize it. And you need workers to do that. Only you can't use humans, because:
A) They cost too much to bring. B) They die in 30 seconds without a breathing mask.
So colonization, in the classical sense, won't work. But wait... you have an indigenous population there. They're primitive, but they have brains and hands, and maybe they can be taught to do the things we need done. We can teach them, and give them cool technology to improve their lives, so they can be healthy and smart, and can all have TV, and in return they will be so grateful they'll not only work in our factories, they'll even build them for us. Groovy.
These are the basic principles of interstellar imperialism, circa 2100 A.D.
Ahead of Prometheus we can see the trinary system of Alpha Centauri... three stars orbiting each other. In the middle, close together, are Alpha Centauri A and B, two yellow main-sequence stars very much like our own star. About 900 billion miles away (a mere stone's throw by interstellar standards... a couple of light-months) is the third star, Proxima Centauri, a runty little red-dwarf.
Standing on Pandora (as you will soon) you can see two disks of light on the horizon at sunset, but never the third, since Proxima is too far away and just looks like a star.
Inside Prometheus, everybody's asleep except for a four man flightcrew who look very haggard. The rest, a hundred or so passengers, are all in medically induced hibernation. With certain drugs people can be caused to hibernate like bears and other mammals, dozing away the years at low temperature, and with minimal mental activity.
We see Josh in his hibernaculum, his skin a bloodless blue-white. To combat the sustained brutal acceleration and deceleration, he is suspended in liquid, like a fetus in the womb. A cold womb of dreamless sleep between worlds.
His head is fitted into a helmet-like device... a PSIONIC LINK INTERFACE which senses and transmits his mental energy, as well as filling his brain with the return signal. This is usually called, simply, the LINK.
He is under the link because he is spending the voyage linked to his avatar body which is nearby in its own container. Like two twins in the womb they are communing at a deep level of pre-conscious intimacy, with the results that the avatar's brain has been imprinted with the patterns of Josh's cerebral cortex. The biological equivalent of initializing the hard-drive in a computer.
Josh's AVATAR BODY floats in its plastic womb, curled in a fetal position. The avatar is bigger than a human. It would stand about eight feet tall, if it uncurled. Its skin is blue... two shades of blue in a banded pattern like a snake of lizard (though the skin is smooth, not scaly). An iridescent cyan blue, almost robin's egg, is contrasted with a deep ultramarine which borders on purple. The darker color is almost solid on the back, and down the backs of the legs.
The body is, strangely, almost human in most ways. The waist is narrow and elongated, the shoulders very wide, giving a V shaped upper back. The neck is long (maybe twice as long as an average human, or a little longer than some Vogue models) and, we will see, can turn almost 180 degrees, like an owl. The body overall is more slender, proportionately, then the average human, reminiscent of a Masai or Watusi. The musculature is sharply defined, given no sense of emaciation despite the thin proportions.


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My 3rd great-grandfather, Thomas Goodwin Wells, was born on November 23, 1804, in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, to Thomas G. Wells and Lucinda (Lyman) Wells.
A couple of years ago, I learned that he was married before he married my 3rd great-grandmother, Elizabeth and this first wife died young. See Who Was Mary Eliza Wells? for the details. In 1838, he married Elizabeth Sewall Willis. He had five children with her.
In the 1850 U.S. Census, he is enumerated in Walpole, New Hampshire, as a farmer. His household includes his wife, Elizabeth; his three oldest children: Eliza, Henry, and Louisa; his father-in-law, Benjamin Willis; and two servants.
|1850 U.S. Census, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, record for Thomas G. Wells
However, someone recently found my FindAGrave memorial for Thomas Wells and contacted me to share information he found about fellow travelers of his second great grandfather. It turns out that Thomas was NOT in New Hampshire in 1850, but in California!
Thomas Goodwin Wells was one of 210 passengers and crew members who boarded the sailing ship "Sweden" in Boston Harbor, on March 1, 1849. Their destination was San Francisco, via Cape Horn, South America. The ship arrived August 3rd. This link shows "T. G. Wells," a 44 year old "exchange broker," from Walpole, Massachusetts [sic: should read New Hampshire], listed in a logbook kept by fellow passenger Benjamin Bailey. A photo of each page of the entire logbook can be read by entering page number "1" in the box, once at the above link.
A transcription of the same logbook (which can be easier to read than the handwritten pages) can be read page by page here.


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A combined total of 10 percent of mobile gamers have fired up a game while in a church or other place of worship, while driving a car, or during a movie, according to a new study released today by publisher PopCap Games.
Conducted by independent research firm Information Solutions Group, the study analyzed the behavior and play habits of gamers in the U.S. and U.K. and found that half of them prefer to play at home.
"We already know that people play mobile games 'on the go,' but now we are seeing mobile gamers largely favor their mobile devices for home use," said Dennis Ryan, vice president of Worldwide Publishing at PopCap. "If you add the fact we are seeing a deluge of new gamers coming in through mobile, we believe mobile gaming is invading the last bastion of video game consoles and personal computers: the home."
Here are the top five places to play mobile games, according to the survey:
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- At home on the couch (69 percent)
- In a car or on a bus or train (63 percent)
- At home laying in bed (57 percent)
- Waiting for an appointment (55 percent)
- While watching television (41 percent)
Mobile games are invading public spaces as well. Out of those surveyed, 8 percent claimed they've played during class, while 9 percent have played during a sporting event. Six percent confessed to playing at work during a meeting or conference call, and 4 percent said they've played while at the gym.
Almost one out of every 10 people in the study claim they've been late or missed an appointment, class, ride, or flight because they were playing a mobile game. Most of these distracted gamers are male (60 percent), are younger than 35 years old, and play frequently. They also spend more money on mobile games — 75 percent bought a game in the past year compared to 51 percent of the overall mobile gamer population. Those same gamers spent an average of $49.63 in 2012 on mobile titles, game currency, or content, while the overall population spent an average of $29.04.
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This website is the continuation of Bannacha. Since 2011, we're worked hard to provide european customers with high quality Pu-erh teas. We are now based in Puer city, Yunnan, in which we have our office and main storehouse. We run a small tea factory in Jingmai Mountain and process our own tea each Spring and Autumn. From this website, you can get Yunnan teas directly from France, fast shipping and no hassle with customs. If you're not based in the Shengen Area, you can get tea from our main website: www.farmer-leaf.com
We have a tea factory in Yubai's family house, on top of Jingmai Mountain. Every spring and fall, we spend a couple of weeks there, making Pu-erh tea from the ancient tea gardens of Jingmai and from younger ecological tea plantations. When we're not in Jingmai Mountain, we travel to other tea regions in Yunnan or abroad and search for the leaves that strike a chord. We love to learn more about tea in order to improve our own technique and offer interesting tasting sessions to our customers.
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Welcome back - React Native 0.61 is on the horizon!
Hello all,
We are back from a little summer vacation with our newest roundup of React Native news. Version 0.61 is right around the corner with the very first RC dropping last week. Following in the footsteps of the big Hermes announcement in 0.60, this version looks to bring some nice improvements to the developer experience. For more on that, see below for a first look writeup.
Open Source
react-native-blobular - The Man in Blue's awesome Blobular, ported to React Native
react-native-easy-dnd - Drag and drop with react-native made simple
react-native-safe-area-context - A flexible way to handle safe area, also works on Android
react-native-fblogin - A React Native 'Facebook Login' component without wrapping any Facebook Native/Web SDK
react-native-headphone-detection - React Native headphone detection, both audio jack and bluetooth devices
react-native-twitter-textview - A <TextView/> component for React Native built on top of twitter-text linkification
react-native-apple-card-views - Customizable and perfect clone of Apple, App Store Card Views for React Native
react-native-google-recaptcha-v2 - Implement Google recaptcha v2 in React Native (both Android an iOS)
Chain React 2019 - Kenza Iraki - Let's Simplify Your Complex Forms
And finally, a collection of great videos from Chain React 2019. First off, our own Kenza Iraki gives a talk on the different options available for building forms for your app.
Chain React 2019: Hermes Engine Announcement
Next, the big announcement out of Chain React was the immediate availability of a new Javascript engine for Android. If you haven't had a chance to watch this one and learn more about the tech behind it - it's worth your time.
Chain React 2019 - Ram Narasimhan - Performance in React Native
And one of my favorites, a deep dive into optimizing performance within React Native's new architecture.
Around the Web
React Native Jobs
Job listings especially tailored for React Native developers. Updated daily.
First look: React Native 0.61 with Fast Refresh
A "first look" at React Native 0.61 and some of the new features the first RC has teased us with.
React Native Deep Linking Simplified
A great three-part series that will walk you through how to properly handle deep links in your application.
Creating a Toggle Animation in React Native
This one was submitted to us by Mikael and is a well written tutorial on creating an animated sliding toggle button. Using a mix of Hooks and the Animated API, this will walk you through building out some good looking components in no time.
Build a "Not Hotdog" clone with React Native
A fun tutorial for anyone interested in learning more about Google's Vision API
Creating a ride booking app with React Native
A pretty thorough tutorial detailing how to spin up a ride hailing app in React Native using Pusher


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Picture your dream vacation in historic London. Does a Victorian B&B with views of Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, a manicured garden, full English breakfasts, and high tea come to mind? Or, how about a windowless Japanese-style capsule hotel? Yes, you read correctly; a high-class version of the Tokyo pods will soon be appearing in the U.K. capital.
Yotels, developed by the U.K. entrepreneur who brought the sushi craze to Britain with Yo! Sushi, will consist of stacks of rooms without any outward-facing windows. Although small by any standard, the 10-square-yard capsules will be several times the size of their Japanese counterparts.
"We can fit them in city centers, inside terminal buildings, car parks, and in the most extreme cases underground," said Yotel director Jim Woods, as he showed off a sample room for the first time at a recent design exposition.
Five-star appeal
What the rooms lack in size, they make up for in style. Each capsule will have a double bed, flat-screen TV with surround-sound stereo system, choice of hundreds of downloadable movies and CD's, desk with Wi-fi access, mood lighting, safe, and ensuite bathroom with monsoon shower.
The "economy" and "business" class rooms will be the same size, but the latter will have additional perks, like a rotating bed.
The display room drew a lot of attention at the design show in Earls Court, West London.
"It's like something you'd expect on an airplane," said restaurateur Dee Sidhe.
"It's quite cool like that; overnight it would be great, but as a place to stay for a week, I think it's really limited," the 27-year-old said.
As it surveys sites at London airports and in the center of the city, the company says it's mainly aiming to please people on business trips or on extended lay-overs.
"The most radical feature is the window looking into the corridor where daylight will be channeled in," said Woods, explaining that the halls are designed to be "fun, interactive spaces" with fold-out seats and plants.
And, if that's not sociable enough for you, the company says their flagship Yotel will feature clusters of four adjacent rooms with foldable walls. A group of eight could have a party in one, larger room, then — if they haven't had too much to drink — fold up the walls, rotate the beds, and go to sleep.
Despite the classy perks, some passersby said it was just too small to stay in.
"I see the appeal but it wouldn't be for me. I like to spread out a bit more in a hotel. It's just feels a little bit too enclosed, too compact," said Sue Portsmore, an interior designer.
Checking into your luxury pod "will be sort've like British Airways automated check-in, where there's five or six automated check-ins and one person there, so that if you haven't been to a Yotel before they can show you how it all works," said Yotel CEO Gerard Greene.
"We're offering a low price but we also want to add in some of luxuries other five star hotels do," he said.
'An experience, not a budget hotel'
But what does this pint-size indulgence cost? £70 pounds ($127.00) per room, per night, and tourists will also be able to rent rooms out by blocks of three or four hours.
"If you go to Japan and get a little pod, the prices comparatively are only £15 or £20 (a night). I think that's more realistic," said Selby Stocks.
"I'm not sure why they're marketing it as a first class service where it could be something that's more of an economical idea for people who aren't willing to pay the taxi fare home. But the quality of design is very high," said the 26-year-old training architect.
Robin Murray, an economist, commented, "They say it's £70 a night in London, which seems very very expensive."
"We're creating an experience, not a budget hotel," said director Woods, adding "we're an emotional decision, not a rational decision."
While £70 may seem extortionate to non-Londoners, visitors should keep in mind that London is the second most expensive city in the world (after Tokyo), according to a survey released by Mercer Human Resource Consulting in July.
For the same price, a tourist could stay at a two or three star hotel in a semi-central, but not always desirable, location. Quality of London B&Bs also varies greatly, from clean and decent to down right dingy. And some are hardly any bigger than the capsule anyway.
At the design show, a Japanese interior designer said she thought the Yotel looked like a cross between a Japanese "love" hotel (for couples) and a capsule hotel.
"It is 'love' hotel standard – it is very high quality, I love it, but it is a bit too small," said Akiko Koga.
"I have an apartment in London, but maybe after a fun night I could stay (in a Yotel) just for the experience," she said.


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A travel professional works with you from the time you first talk to them until you are home safe and sound and any and all problems have been solved or addressed.
This is not always true. True, some travel professionals charge fees but not all of them do. This is because some vendors, like airlines and some hotels, don't pay commission or some of the vendors have decreased the amount of commissions paid to the travel professional. In order to make ends meet, some travel professionals charge fees. I charge $50 per person for airline reservations domestically and $100 for airline reservations internationally. I will also charge a fee sometimes for hotels for the same reason or if I am putting the various sections of the trip together myself. If I book a cruise or a tour, I don't charge a fee as the vendor pays me a commission. Remember, whether you use a travel professional or not the commission is still being paid as it is automatically included in the price from the vendor. So, why not use a travel professional and avoid the hassle and save your time?
For instance, did you know that come January, 2016 you may need a passport to travel by air domestically? This is due to a law called the REAL ID Act. This requires all travelers to have a REAL ID compliant identification that includes all of these fields: full legal name, signature, date of birth, gender, unique identifying number, a principal residence address and a front-facing photograph of the applicant. Unfortunately there are still a handful of states that are non-compliant. Do you know which states are compliant and which aren't? Your travel professional does. By the way, outright non-compliant states/territories are American Samoa, Louisiana and New Hampshire.


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Linus Torvalds does not like Nvidia. And we have graphic proof via YouTube.
Torvalds, the main force behind the Linux kernel, was speaking at a forum hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship in Otaniemi, Finland on June 14. He was responding to a question from the audience.
A woman explains that she was trying to get Linux working on a laptop that had an Optimus chip from Nvidia -- the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is one of the largest graphics chip suppliers in the world.
"I was expecting that Nvidia would kind of chip in and do something...[but] they said flat out 'no' they're not doing any support," she said.
That's all Torvalds needed to hear (see video below). "Nvidia has been one of the worst trouble spots we've had with hardware manufacturers. And that's really sad because Nvidia tries to sell chips, a lot of chips into the Android market. And Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with," he said.
"So, Nvidia, f*** you," he said at the 49:59 mark, gesturing with his middle finger.
He continued, "I think it's really sad when you sell hardware and use Linux and you are being really difficult about it."
He then qualifies his statement -- a bit. "Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that other companies are perfect either."
Let's insert a little perspective at this point. Torvalds has a history of speaking his mind. It's not hard to find quotable quotes about a variety of topics, including some very choice words about the security software crowd.
And Nvidia of course is not obligated to support Linux -- in the context that Torvalds is talking about -- if Nvida deems Linux is not worth devoting resources to.
Nvidia declined to comment.
Via The Bright Side of News and The Verge.


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Understanding How To Write A Winning Resume In
In the situation which resulted from independent actions of the personnel, the reactor got (on a heat carrier expense) to such state when even little change of power leads to increase in volume steam content, many times over bigger, than at the rated power. Growth of volume steam content caused emergence of positive reactivity. Fluctuations of power finally could lead to its further growth.
Xenon which is called sometimes "a neutron kernel", has a half-life period about nine hours and constantly is present at an active zone of the reactor. But during the normal operation of the device it partially burns out under the influence of the same neutrons therefore practically the amount of xenon remains at one level.
The stop of the reactor of the 4th power unit was planned in the afternoon on April 25, therefore, other, not night personnel prepared for tests. In the afternoon at station at station there are heads, the main experts, and, so there is an opportunity to exercise more reliable control of the course of experiments. However there was "discrepancy". The dispatcher of "Kiyevenergo" did not allow to stop the reactor in time planned for the CNPP as in an integrated power grid there was no electric power because at other power plant the power unit unexpectedly failed.
23 hours 10 minutes — are got permission to a reactor stop. Further decrease in its power to 1000 — 700 MW began (thermal), as well as it was provided by the program of tests. But the operator did not manage to drive therefore the power of the device reduced almost to zero. In such cases the reactor has to be suppressed. But the personnel was not counted with this requirement. Began rise in power.
As a result of researches it became clear that the extent of zones with the increased concentration of plutonium was insignificant, and chemical forms and the sizes of particles in which it appeared, easily was late respirators.
Before a stop tests of one of turbogenerators in the mode of a vybeg with loading of own needs of the block were planned. The essence of experiment consists in modeling of a situation when the turbogenerator can remain without the driving force, that is without steam supply. The special mode according to which at shutdown of steam due to inertial rotation of a rotor the generator some time continued to develop the electric power necessary for own needs, in particular for power supply of the main circulation pulsers was for this purpose developed.
Xenon lowered device power, and for maintenance of its "breath" it was required to bring a large number of cores of SUSA which also absorb neutrons out of an active zone. Thus, the aspiration of the personnel, despite everything, to make experiment conflicted to requirements of regulations.
14 hours 00 minutes — according to the program of tests are disconnected system of emergency cooling of the reactor. As the reactor cannot be operated without system of emergency cooling, it needed to be stopped. However the dispatcher of "Kiyevenergo" did not grant permission for muffling of the device. And the reactor continued to work without SAOR.
Causes of accident on the CNPP, its development were investigated by the leading scientists and experts with use of data on a condition of the reactor and its systems before accident, mathematical models of the power unit and its reactor installation and electronic computer facilities. As a result it was succeeded to restore the course of events, to formulate versions about the reasons and development of accident.
Deceleration of power of the reactor as it was already told, began at 1 hour 00 minutes on April 25. Then this process was stopped on request of the dispatcher of a power supply system. And further work on power deceleration began at 23 hours 10 minutes again.
Quality of the program of tests which was not properly prepared and agreed, was low. In it a number of the major provisions of regulations of operation was violated. Besides that additional security measures, in essence, were not provided in the program, it recommended shutdown of the system of emergency cooling of the reactor (SECR). Similar in general it is impossible to do. But here made. And the motivation was. During experiment there could be an automatic operation of SAOR that would prevent completion of tests in the mode of a vybeg. As a result of many hours the 4th reactor was operated without this very important element of a security system.


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Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Assessing and Managing Risks
Risk is made up of two parts: the probability of something going wrong, and the negative consequences if it does.
Risk can be hard to spot, however, let alone to prepare for and manage. And, if you're hit by a consequence that you hadn't planned for, costs, time, and reputations could be on the line. Similarly, overestimating or overreacting to risks can create panic, and do more harm than good.
This makes Risk Analysis an essential tool. It can help you to identify and understand the risks that you could face in your role. In turn, this helps you to manage these risks, and minimize their impact on your plans.
By approaching risk in a logical manner you can identify what you can and cannot control, and tackle potential problems with measured and appropriate action. This can then help to alleviate feelings of stress and anxiety, both in and outside of work.
In this article and video, we look at how you can identify and estimate risks. You will then learn how a strategy of avoiding, sharing, accepting, and controlling can help you to manage risk effectively.
Click here to view a transcript of this video.
What Is Risk Analysis?
Risk Analysis is a process that helps you to identify and manage potential problems that could undermine key business initiatives or projects. However, it can also be applied to other projects outside of business, such as organizing events or even buying a home!
To carry out a Risk Analysis, you must first identify the possible threats that you face, then estimate their likely impacts if they were to happen, and finally estimate the likelihood that these threats will materialize.
Risk Analysis can be complex, as you'll need to draw on detailed information such as project plans, financial data, security protocols, marketing forecasts, and other relevant information. However, it's an essential planning tool, and one that could save time, money, and reputations.
When to Use Risk Analysis
Risk analysis is useful in many situations:
- When you're planning projects, to help you to anticipate and neutralize possible problems.
- When you're deciding whether or not to move forward with a project.
- When you're improving safety and managing potential risks in the workplace.
- When you're preparing for events such as equipment or technology failure, theft, staff sickness, or natural disasters.
- When you're planning for changes in your environment, such as new competitors coming into the market, or changes to government policy.
How to Use Risk Analysis
To carry out a risk analysis, follow these steps:
1. Identify Threats
The first step in Risk Analysis is to identify the existing and possible threats that you might face. These can come from many different sources. For instance, they could be:
- Human – Illness, death, injury, or other loss of a key individual.
- Operational – Disruption to supplies and operations, loss of access to essential assets, or failures in distribution.
- Reputational – Loss of customer or employee confidence, or damage to market reputation.
- Procedural – Failures of accountability, internal systems, or controls, or from fraud.
- Project – Going over budget, taking too long on key tasks, or experiencing issues with product or service quality.
- Financial – Business failure, stock market fluctuations, interest rate changes, or non-availability of funding.
- Technical – Advances in technology, or from technical failure.
- Natural – Weather, natural disasters, or disease.
- Political – Changes in tax, public opinion, government policy, or foreign influence.
- Structural – Dangerous chemicals, poor lighting, falling boxes, or any situation where staff, products, or technology can be harmed.
It is vital that you consider any and all risks to your team members. Managers and leaders have a duty of care, and so will have legal and moral obligations to keep their employees safe.
You can use a number of different approaches to carry out a thorough analysis:
- Run through a list such as the one above to see if any of these threats are relevant.
- Think about the systems, processes, or structures that you use, and analyze risks to any part of these. What vulnerabilities can you spot within them?
- Ask others who might have different perspectives. If you're leading a team, ask for input from your people, and consult others in your organization, or those who have run similar projects.
Tools such as SWOT Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, PMESII-PT, and PEST Analysis can also help you uncover threats, while Scenario Analysis helps you to explore possible future threats.
Be mindful not to confuse Risk Analysis with Risk Assessment. The latter is the process of formally analyzing and mitigating the risks and hazards of an activity by an employee for their health and safety.
2. Estimate Risk
Once you've identified the threats you're facing, you need to calculate both the likelihood of these threats being realized, and their possible impact.
One way of doing this is to make your best estimate of the probability of the event occurring, and then to multiply this by the amount it will cost you to set things right if it happens. This gives you a value for the risk:
Risk Value = Probability of Event x Cost of Event
As a simple example, imagine that you've identified a risk that your rent may increase substantially.
You think that there's an 80 percent chance of this happening within the next year, because your landlord has recently increased rents for other businesses. If this happens, it will cost your business an extra $500,000 over the next year.
So the risk value of the rent increase is:
0.80 (Probability of Event) x $500,000 (Cost of Event) = $400,000 (Risk Value)
You can also use a Risk Impact/Probability Chart to assess risk. This will help you to identify which risks you need to focus on.
Don't rush this step. Gather as much information as you can so that you can accurately estimate the probability of an event occurring, and the associated costs. Use past data as a guide if you don't have an accurate means of forecasting.
How to Manage Risk
Once you've identified the value of the risks you face, you can start to look at ways of managing them.
Look for cost-effective approaches – it's rarely sensible to spend more on eliminating a risk than the cost of the event if it occurs. It may be better to accept the risk than it is to use excessive resources to eliminate it.
Be sensible in how you apply this, though, especially if ethics or personal safety are in question.
Avoid the Risk
In some cases, you may want to avoid the risk altogether. This could mean not getting involved in a business venture, passing on a project, or skipping a high-risk activity. This is a good option when taking the risk involves no advantage to your organization, or when the cost of addressing the effects is not worthwhile.
Remember that when you avoid a potential risk entirely, you might miss out on an opportunity. Conduct a "What If?" Analysis to explore your options when making your decision.
Share the Risk
You could also opt to share the risk – and the potential gain – with other people, teams, organizations, or third parties.
For instance, you share risk when you insure your office building and your inventory with a third-party insurance company, or when you partner with another organization in a joint product development initiative.
Accept the Risk
Your last option is to accept the risk. This option is usually best when there's nothing you can do to prevent or mitigate a risk, when the potential loss is less than the cost of insuring against the risk, or when the potential gain is worth accepting the risk.
For example, you might accept the risk of a project launching late if the potential sales will still cover your costs.
Before you decide to accept a risk, conduct an Impact Analysis to see the full consequences of the risk. You may not be able to do anything about the risk itself, but you can likely come up with a contingency plan to cope with its consequences.
However, it's important to bear in mind that everyone's definition of "acceptable risk" is different, so be sure to communicate with others before you make a decision, and use tools like the Prospect Theory to predict people's different reactions to risk.
Control the Risk
If you choose to accept the risk, there are a number of ways in which you can reduce its impact.
Business Experiments are an effective way to reduce risk. They involve rolling out the high-risk activity but on a small scale, and in a controlled way. You can use experiments to observe where problems occur, and to find ways to introduce preventative and detective actions before you introduce the activity on a larger scale.
- Preventative action involves aiming to prevent a high-risk situation from happening. It includes health and safety training, firewall protection on corporate servers, and cross-training your team.
- Detective action involves identifying the points in a process where something could go wrong, and then putting steps in place to fix the problems promptly if they occur. Detective actions include double-checking finance reports, conducting safety testing before a product is released, or installing sensors to detect product defects.
Plan-Do-Check-Act is a similar method of controlling the impact of a risky situation. Like a business experiment, it involves testing possible ways to reduce a risk. The tool's four phases guide you through an analysis of the situation, creating and testing a solution, checking how well this worked, and implementing the solution.
Alternatively, James Reason's Swiss Cheese Model of System Accidents explores how there is no single solution to minimizing risk, but rather uses a combination of methods to get the best results.
Key Points
Risk Analysis is a proven way of identifying and assessing factors that could negatively affect the success of a business or project. It allows you to examine the risks that you or your organization face, and helps you decide whether or not to move forward with a decision.
You perform a Risk Analysis by identifying threats, and estimating the likelihood of those threats being realized.
Once you've worked out the value of the risks you face, you can start looking at ways to manage them effectively. This may include choosing to avoid the risk, sharing it, or accepting it while reducing its impact. Not only can this help you to make sensible decisions but it can also alleviate feelings of stress and anxiety.
It's essential that you're thorough when you're working through your Risk Analysis, and that you're aware of all of the possible impacts of the risks revealed. This includes being mindful of costs, ethics, and people's safety.
This site teaches you the skills you need for a happy and successful career; and this is just one of many tools and resources that you'll find here at Mind Tools. Subscribe to our free newsletter, or join the Mind Tools Club and really supercharge your career!
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Over a month agoHi mironat,
Terrific suggestion! And, thank you for your feedback on the article. Would you consider creating a new post in the Career Cafe Forum? With so many people working remotely, others may have suggestions on how risk management can be tackled virtually.
Mind Tools Team
Over a month agoGreat article. I'd be really interested in learning about the approaches to risk management and risk workshops in a virtual environment! :)
Over a month agoHi Lonette,
Thank you for the feedback. We always enjoy hearing from our readers, it helps us to improve what needs to be improved.
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It's just something to keep in mind for marketing purposes. A live event is going to generate more interest than a prerecorded event, so you're going to want to advertise that fact. You also don't want to mislead people; if you advertise something as live, but it is actually automated, it could backfire and generate a significant amount of negative buzz for future events if you're found out.
If your event is prerecorded or automated, that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you're going to have to focus on a good value add. The recorded content is only part of the value. It may be prerecorded, but there is still someone there to field questions afterward, or there is some other interactive element to it that makes the fact that it's not live a nonissue. Or maybe the content is so good and so unique that you can do it live once and resell the recording a few times for people who couldn't attend the first event.
Another way to advertise or set up a prerecorded webinar is to tailor it for new customers or qualified prospects. Tell them that you have a webinar coming up in the near future, and then arrange to deliver it at that time. This can be done on an ad hoc basis, or you can schedule the events regularly.
Even though you're not going to lie about a webinar being prerecorded, you probably don't want to make it obvious that it is—you still want to give the appearance of it being live. Even if your attendees are aware that it's prerecorded, a well-configured presentation will still put them into the same mode of thinking as if it were live. For instance, if an attendee is late, don't let him start watching from the beginning of the presentation; make him miss the beginning and pick up where and when he joined, just as though it were live. The Q&A portion of the webinar should always look live, even if it's not. This may require you to handle the Q&A in a separate service or session. You can also allow new questions to come in during the prerecorded Q&A session from the original live event, and say at the end of the session that you will reply to all other questions via email.
If you offer to do that, though, make sure you collect those questions and reply to them personally.


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Easily export WordPress user data into custom CSV, XML, and Excel files with the User Export Add-On for WP All Export.
Featuring a three step export process and an intuitive drag & drop interface, WP All Export makes complicated export tasks simple and fast.
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With the User Export Add-On you can:
Export a customized CSV, XML, or Excel file: Easy drag and drop formatting allows you to export any CSV or XML file without writing any code at all. Rename spreadsheet columns and XML elements, rearrange them, whatever you want to do.
Customize the data included in the export: WP All Export's intuitive interface makes it easy to select exactly which user data you'd like to export. Export only the data you need.
Need to migrate user data from one site to another? WP All Export will generate your WP All Import settings for you so importing your users back into WordPress is easy, simple, and fast.
Wish you could edit your WordPress User data in Excel? Now you can – export it with WP All Export, edit it, and then import it with WP All Import, no configuration required.
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The Pro edition of WP All Export is a paid upgrade that includes premium support and adds the following user export features:
Guaranteed technical support via e-mail: Get personal help from our team of import/export specialists. We have been answering hundreds of support requests per week for years. Whatever it is you're trying to do, chances are we've seen it before and know exactly how to handle it.
Export user meta data: Lots of plugins and themes store custom data in WordPress. You can export all of it with WP All Export Pro.
Migrate users: Export users from one WordPress site and import them into another, no configuration required. If you need it, you have complete control over your data to process it or make changes during the migration.
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With WP All Export you simply drag and drop to create your custom user export XML file. You don't need to write any code, just drag and drop. But don't worry, if you do know how to write XML and have some specific requirements, instead of drag and drop you can write up a custom XML export and insert your WordPress user data wherever it needs to go in your XML feed.
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Exciting hockey makes for best first round in years
It's tough to forgive sometimes, particularly when you've been hurt and lied to and taken for granted by the same people on more than one occasion. So it would have been perfectly natural for hockey fans, having suffered the slings and arrows associated with the outrageous fortunes the NHL and NHLPA fought over during the 2012-13 lockout, to be the bitterest of Betties and hold a grudge long after the league returned to action.
However, the way the NHL has come back – capped off by the astonishingly entertaining first round of the post-season – has resulted in a wave of forgiveness from those same fans. Just as you couldn't blame them if they chose to stay away in droves, you also have to understand why people who love the game have rushed back with such reckless abandon. And as much as it might kill you to do so, you have to give credit to those involved in the high quality of entertainment we're seeing.
Some of that is thanks to the league's necessarily compacted schedule. With games being played on virtually every night from the day the league resumed playing to the last day of the truncated regular season, the NHL always had its product in the fore of people's hearts and minds. And certainly, the fact coaches didn't get a full training camp to fully install their dreadfully boring systems and strategies has given fans a sloppier, yet more fun to watch, product on most nights.
But it's about more than that. It's about the passion, skill, sacrifice and professionalism we've seen from players each and every game. If they're still carrying grudges against the owners for the lockout nonsense they were made to endure, they're definitely not showing it. The business of the game hasn't infringed on their commitment to it.
Because of that desire and dedication, the first round of this year's NHL playoffs has been as, if not more fun to watch than any before it. It has made series that were thought to be cakewalks – Pens vs. Isles, anyone? – into hugely entertaining and unpredictable spectacles. It has led to emotionally charged verbal exchanges and accusations, not just between players (see Kevin Bieksa vs. Joe Thornton/Logan Couture) but coaches as well (see Paul MacLean vs. Michel Therrien). It has forged new blood feuds (Ottawa vs. Montreal) and reinforced old ones (Rangers vs. Capitals).
In short, the NHL has made amends with its patrons not with ticket giveaways, lame promotions or celebrity endorsements; rather, they've simply stepped out of fans' way and let the game's pheromones re-establish the natural attraction sports offers to Joe and Joanne Public.
To that end, I'm going to humbly re-suggest the league continue along those lines and keep commissioner Gary Bettman out of the Stanley Cup presentation. Yes, for years now I've argued that a legendary former player associated with the Cup-winning franchise should award the Cup, but this year it is especially important to remove the league's top businessman from the equation.
Other than sending him out for the press conference to announce the 2014 Winter Classic, the league has kept Bettman hidden from public view in the wake of the lockout. That didn't happen by accident and keeping him on the sidelines for the Cup ceremony is a necessary extension of that strategy. Here's hoping egos and the thin justification that is "tradition" don't play a role in ending it.
In the end, the business of the NHL recovered and grew mainly because the business of the NHL was pushed completely out of fans' day-to-day consciousness. The phrase "don't hate the player, hate the game" may be popular, but it doesn't apply here.
The players and the game are what have rinsed the hate from fans' collective palate.
Adam Proteau is writer and columnist for The Hockey News and a regular contributor to THN.com. For more great profiles, news and views from the world of hockey, subscribe to The Hockey News magazine. Follow Adam on Twitter at @ProteauType.


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Daily Times - 02-Jan-17
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China to enhance cooperation in
eradication of corruption.
Under the MoU, Pakistan and China will oversee transparency in the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Pakistan. According
to a NAB's report, the bureau's anti-corruption strategy has started
yielding positive results, which have been acknowledged by the PILDAT,
Transparency International and the World Economic Forum. The report says
that the NAB has established 42,000 character building societies (CBSs)
to aware youth about ill effects of corruption, besides rationalising
the workload.
The establishment of the first Forensic Science Lab (FSL) has also
helped eradicate corruption, the report said. In this connection, the
NAB also organised a seminar of South Asian Countries for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) nations on anti-corruption in September last year in
which NAB was nominated first SAARC Anti-Corruption Forum chairman. The
NAB has expressed hope that joint efforts of all stakeholders can
collaborate to check corruption and corrupt practices before happening
with the help civil society, media and people at large.


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Mouthwatering pictures of fall feasts began popping up on our social feeds weeks ago, but it's officially time to plan the savory accoutrements for Thanksgiving dinner. Since this year's family gathering is bound to be filled with heated political conversations, it's best to keep Turkey Day chill by imbibing low levels of cannabis all night long. Get yourself some locally-available edibles that you can add to your dishes (with your guest's consent, of course) to keep the mood high and bellies full this holiday.
Sweet Taters
No Thanksgiving would be complete without sweet potatoes, and roasting them with cinnamon and honey take them to that next level. A suggested starter dose of Honey Pot CBD is a teaspoon, so do the math (before consuming cannabis) on the amount of people at the table. More than likely the honey will be more of a drizzle than a marinade for this variation. CBD is also a great way to combat an over-indulgence of THC so don't worry about dosing too high with this dish.
Terpy Turkey Time
You don't need to mess with a traditional turkey rub to add cannabis to the bird — it's as easy as squeezing decarboxylated oil onto an already-cooked bird as a garnish. Pop Naturals is a clean and solvent-free oil primarily used for vaping, and notoriously implemented in the treatment of side effects caused by chemotherapy. It doesn't need to be heated, and with 500mg in each syringe you'll want to be stingy with the application so your guests don't float off into another dimension. Unless you want that.
Wavy Gravy
Jane's Brew makes a cannabis powder that you can add to many recipes. A single packet of the powder contains 20mg, prepared with both CBD and THC depending on whether you want the euphoric effects or not. Once you've made your gravy, pour a packet or two in and stir it well — you don't want someone to get a chunk of this super potent powder and perhaps start speaking in tongues. The flavor shouldn't be affected too much, but if you're tasting some cannabis, you can always add a little more turkey fat to tone it down.
Pesto Party Potatoes
The Herbal Chef has paved his way as a creator of fine dishes incorporating low doses of cannabis, and his basil pesto is no exception. With jalapeño and mint, each 5mg cube is created as a single person's dose, giving a ton of flavor without an overwhelming amount of cannabis. Pop this basil cube in the blender, add some olive oil and voila, you've got basil pesto perfect for using in a roasted garlic basil pesto potatoes with arugula recipe.
Stoner Stuffing
The stuffing is important, but who says you can't put a new twist on a classic? Add some medicated granola to your stuffing recipe to give it a kick (a caress, really) and keep your family members happily sedated and honestly quite impressed with your culinary ingenuity. With 250mg per bag of Pura Vida First Love Gramola, which is the equivalent of 10 doses, you'll want to apply the "less is more" mentality since most of us can house a plate of stuffing without assistance and come back for seconds.
Celestial Cider
Crowd pleaser and nostalgia-inducing Apple orchard punch and other apple-based ciders are a fantastic addition to what is usually a boozy Thanksgiving meal, but instead of making it a cocktail, make it a pot-tail (sorry). Each bottle is 250mg, so pour just a splash in each drink for a little oomph. The cannabis in this drink is tested by SC Labs and includes "a full spectrum cannabinoid profiling and analysis utilizing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (True Holistic Co)." Get into the holiday spirit with some ganja hooch equivalent to heaven in a bottle.
Cosmic Chocolates
Kiva has became a household name in the cannabis community, and the L.A.-based company prides itself on its 5mg chocolate covered nuggets that are the perfect consumption amount for those who want to relax without losing their bodies in the sofa like loose change. The caffeine in the chocolate covered espresso beans perks you up for what is always a long night of feasting. These are also a great tester to give someone who's never tried edibles before to see how they react. Remember, you never truly know someone until you've seen them on edibles.
While it's not recommended that you make every dish with cannabis, if you decide to do so be sure to use the smallest dosages possible and space out their consumption. Remember that you can always eat more, but you cannot eat less. And really, why would you want to? Be thankful you live in a state where you have access to such incredible treats, crafted by people who truly want you to feel good.
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Michael Farmer (Chairman TrinityP3 USA) sat down with Jack Myers, founder of MediaVillage, for a wide-ranging discussion of the prospects and challenges of the advertising industry.
Jack Myers:
Michael, you wrote "Madison Avenue Manslaughter" in 2015, with a second edition in 2017 and a third edition due for 2019. What accounts for three editions in four years?
Michael Farmer:
I never expected to be revising the original book twice in four years, but the rate of industry change has been accelerating. The first edition, in 2015, documented the long, slow decline of agency-client relationships from the good old media-commission days, when agencies were highly paid and respected strategic partners, to today's fee-based mess, where agencies are treated like low-paid commodity vendors who can be changed at will.
The second edition (2017) documented the impact of Jon Mandel's 2015 ANA speech, where he accused media agencies of receiving media rebates, kickbacks and other incentives that were adverse to their client's interests. This led, as you know, to a rapid erosion of trust — the "transparency" crisis.
The new third edition, coming in 2019, documents something that I have feared: holding company share declines and the possibility of holding company break-ups. In 2018, WPP's share price dramatically declined, Sir Martin Sorrell left the company and there were further industry upheavals due to spending cuts, in-house agencies and competition from consulting firms.
You've been consulting to ad agencies and their clients. Are there any signs that agencies are coming to grips with their problems?
I wish this were the case. Advertisers are suffering from brand stagnation, and they need new growth strategies from their ad agencies. Agencies, though, are suffering, and they cannot carry out their work in a quality way. It's a lose-lose situation. Advertisers and agencies are cutting costs to solve their problems, but cost reductions are actually making their problems worse.
What do you mean by this?
Advertisers are making up for the shortfall in brand growth by cutting costs. It's a crude way to increase brand profitability, but it is not a long-term solution. At some point, they'll have to figure out how to grow their brands again. Agencies are dealing with client fee cuts by downsizing — firing their most expensive people and cutting head counts, liquidating their capabilities to serve the profit needs of their owners.
What do you think they should be doing?
Well, for one thing, agencies should try to be paid for all the work they do. This is the only industry in the world where the key suppliers — ad agencies — do not have a firm understanding of how much work they are doing. Agencies do not document how much work they do for a given fee.
They let their clients dictate fees and Scopes of Work. It's hard to believe, but it's true. The "business of running an agency" is handled in an incomplete way.
Surely, though, agency CEOs are coming to grips with fee problems, aren't they?
Not in my experience. CEOs worry about new business development — winning new clients and meeting their holding company targets for the year. They have a low interest in getting involved in "how the agency factory is running."
The agency "factory?" You don't seriously mean that ad agencies are "factories," do you?
Jack, all businesses are factories, even if they are highly creative and sophisticated. Hollywood is a factory that finances and distributes films. Amazon is a factory that inventories and delivers products. BMW is a factory that designs and assembles high-quality automobiles. Apple is a factory that develops and manufactures iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.
Ad agencies develop and deliver strategic, creative and media deliverables that drive client brand growth. Among these companies, only ad agencies do not see themselves as factories, and they don't measure their operations accordingly. They deliver products, but they do not know anything about the quantities.
How does this hurt them?
If you do not know how much product you are making, then you cannot know what price you are getting. The price agencies are being paid for their "deliverables" has declined by 63% since 1992. That's because workloads are growing and fees are being cut. If agencies were being paid for the work they do, their fees would be rising.
What about the holding companies?
Agency business practices put their holding companies at risk. Holding companies cannot be "better" than the agencies they own. If their agencies have lost control of pricing and are downsizing to generate profits, then the holding companies suffer. Sooner or later, holding companies will fail to grow. That's what happened at WPP in 2017 and 2018.
You don't paint a very optimistic picture for the industry.
The industry needs to change. There will always be a need for independent marketing partners, serving clients who have brands that need to grow. The industry can thrive again. What's likely to change are the players and the strategies.
Jack Myers:
You said that agencies were downsizing and liquidating their capabilities — becoming less capable of helping their clients solve "brand growth problems." You predicted that this would lead to financial problems for the holding companies. This did not paint a very optimistic picture of the industry. Where do you think things are headed?
Michael Farmer:
There's a difference between where things are probably headed and where they could be headed. In a funny way, I'm still optimistic about the potential for a turnaround in the industry. As long as advertisers have performance problems — stagnant brand performance, for instance — there are attractive opportunities for problem-solving partners.
The question today is whether the current leaders of advertising agencies and holding companies will transform their operations and help them become the problem-solvers that their clients need. This is where I have concerns and doubts.
So, this is a leadership problem rather than a lack of opportunity?
Exactly. Somewhere along the line, senior agency executives lost a sense of the purpose of their agencies, which was to help clients grow and become more profitable. David Ogilvy said, "We sell or else." Granted, agencies have been preoccupied, adjusting to a number of very big changes in the industry — being bought by holding companies, seeing media commissions give way to labor-based fees, dealing with globalisation, having to work with procurement, adjusting to digital and social media.
These are massive changes, and I think that agency CEOs "lost the plot." They became more tactical and transactional, worrying more about "how do we make profits for the holding company in the midst of these changes" rather than "how do we rekindle growth for our clients."
Do you blame the holding companies for these problems?
Not really, although I do think that they could have been more mindful and helpful along the way. The holding companies expected their agencies to become more efficient and profitable, and to be paid in a professional way. They did not expect their agencies to rely 100% on downsizings to generate profits.
Martin Sorrell once told me, "We pay the highest price for the best CEOs in the world. Surely they are not so stupid that they don't know what work they're doing and how much they should charge for it." Unfortunately, he was wrong; Scopes of Work and fees are unmanaged by WPP (and other) holding company agencies.
What about "results for clients?" Advertisers compete with Amazon and other on-line retailers. Baby boomers are dying out and Millennials don't buy in the same way. No one is sure how well digital and social media perform compared to traditional channels. CMOs are in and out every three years or so. Are you suggesting that agencies should solve these problems?
Absolutely, but they'll have to dig out of a deep hole first. They don't have the talent or problem-solving cultures. If they can't help their clients solve these problems, then they'll continue to decline. What's really happened over the decades is that it has become more difficult to generate brand growth.
During the Creative Revolution days, after 1960, advertisers only had to spend lavishly on TV and agencies only had to develop "creative ads." The economy was growing, baby boomers were buying and brand growth took care of itself. We're in a different place today.
The market is saturated with goods, brands have less meaning, future economic growth is uncertain, Millennials are saddled with debt, and media has fragmented in a thousand ways. Agencies still say that "creativity" is the answer. They're kidding themselves. What's needed is "problem solving" supported by creativity. What's missing is the problem-solving.
It sounds like you're describing a consulting firm rather than an advertising agency.
That's pretty close! Given the complexities of the marketplace today, agencies need to evolve into "consulting firms with creative capabilities." That may explain why Accenture, Deloitte, IBM and PwC are so aggressive in the industry today. They are consulting firms, and they've acquired creative capabilities. They can solve brand strategic problems and then carry out the creative, media and production work as implementations. Problem-solving first; creativity second.
So that's the opportunity? Agencies becoming consulting firms?
Consulting firms with creative capabilities. Each of the holding companies is headed in this direction by "downgrading" the existing agency brands and repackaging agency talent in new ways. Mark Read is merging agencies, in part, to create greater problem-solving capabilities. Arthur Sadoun is refocusing Publicis Groupe to become a single mega problem-solving agency. Omnicom created We Are Unlimited to help McDonald's solve its well-known performance problems, along with doing its advertising.
The direction is clear; the big question is "will it succeed?" My fear is that the holding companies and the agencies have no pricing strategies to be paid consulting-like fees, and that they will continue to be stuck with underpaid and overworked people. If so, the agency ship will sink, along with the holding companies.
We'll know sooner rather than later. Thank you, Michael.
Read more from Michael Farmer on the issues and challenges facing the advertising industry here.
This interview with Michael Farmer, Chairman, TrinityP3 USA first appeared in Media Village on January 2 and January 9, 2019.
TrinityP3's Scope of Work Management service evaluates your current agency scope of work and recommends the best approach, calibrated to your needs. Read more here


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Carbot Animation appears to be jumping on the WoW Classic train along with a lot of other people. They revived their WoWCraft series of videos with the launch of WoW Classic and have another video up in the series about queues.
The joke isn't about the queues to get into the game, but the queues that appeared in some parts of the game as players swarmed in and ended up at bottle necks for various objectives. I was witness to some of those on the Alliance side of the game.
While I was not a witness, I did hear that on the Horde side of the game polite queuing was much less of a thing.
And, of course, there are still queues to get into the game. However, Blizzard has opened up more free character transfer options for both US and EU servers which are expected to be available through the weekend. If you want a free move, you should get on that quickly.


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Privacy: Technology
Livestream: Zuckerberg Testifies Before Joint Senate Committee
By William Ford
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee are holding a joint hearing on Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. featuring testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (read his prepared testimony). Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, delivered opening remarks.
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- Yossi screens a 2-minute introductory DVD just prior to arriving on stage; for this purpose a DVD projector is requiered
- A cordless lavaliere (lapel) microphone.
- No slides, power point presentations or other props are needed – Yossi uses the power of his words alone.
- Any video photography must be please approved in advance through your booking agent – in case of taping yossi requests a copy for his files.
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Lady Rams pound seven homers in sweep
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RUIDOSO — Tuning up for postseason play, the Portales Lady Rams brought out the big whuppin' sticks on Saturday.
PHS clobbered seven home runs — including five in the opener — and rolled to a 13-1, 21-3 District 4-3A rout of Ruidoso in the regular-season finale for both teams. The first game was shortened to five innings and the second game to six by the 10-run rule.
Now, coach Robbie Crowley is hoping the Lady Rams (19-6, 8-0 district) are ready to make another deep run in the Class 3A state tournament. Pairings for the 16-team event will be released later today by the New Mexico Activities Association.
"I think we should get a 2 seed, or no lower than a 3," Crowley said.
Junior right fielder Kassandra Rodriguez led the barrage in the opener, driving in nine runs with three homers — a grand slam in the first, a three-run blast in the second and a two-run shot to cap the scoring in the top of the fifth.
Senior catcher Simone Laurence and sophomore pitcher Kiersten Ramirez added solo shots. Ramirez allowed five hits, walked one and struck out nine in the circle.
In the second game, PHS broke open a scoreless game with a seven-run second that incluided a three-run homer junior Kailee Ramirez. She finished with five RBIs, also driving in a pair with a double in Portales' nine-run sixth.
Laurenz had five RBIs, including a three-run double in the second, while senior shortstopl Valerie Villanueva went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer and an RBI single.
"i was pretty pleased with the way we hit," Crowley said of the 26-hit performance in the twin bill. "We adjusted well every time they put a new pitcher in."
Taylor Mowdy did the only damage against Kiersten Ramirez, who went four innings, and freshman Daizia Looney. She hit a three-run double in the fourth to account for the only runs for the Lady Warriors (11-15, 0-8).


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Sustainability is a creative enterprise that goes far beyond token environmental concern. Sustainability is about more than just minimizing egregious environmental and social impacts. As we head towards a global climate agreement at the end of 2015, companies must find the equilibrium between sustainability and economic growth. This means they must take the long view on a wide range or issues. The ways that these issues are addressed must be adapted to meet individual realities of each enterprise.
While climate change causing carbon emissions are an overarching concern, organizations must also consider a host of other factors including their demand on resources. Right now we are using almost twice the amount of resources that the earth is capable of producing. Our current trajectory ensures that we will run out of raw materials and looming resource scarcity represents a serious business risk.
It is becoming clear that sustainability is not only a matter of establishing a competitive advantage it is rapidly becoming the new normal. The new standard is about efficiency on every level.
Business models must be streamlined to reflect this new normal. Creatively incorporating ongoing environmental and social improvements into products, technologies, and processes is key.
Becoming sustainable is a challenging multi-stage process. It starts with an assessment, then based on this evaluation a strategy is put in place for things like sourcing, purchasing, manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, recycling and waste disposal.
Once a sustainability strategy is established the process must be continually refined and improved. How an organization achieves ongoing environmental and social engagement requires creativity and innovation.
Creative innovation involves thinking outside the box. This should take into account organizational concerns, the goal of the effort and impediments to implementation.


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Tonight's software update introduces two features we're pretty excited about: zooming radar images and Ramp Check!
The next time you visit an airport weather page, you'll see little buttons on the right hand side of the "Current Radar" section heading that say "12", "24", "48", and "96". Clicking on one of the buttons will change the radius of the weather images. The number represent nautical miles. Here's a screenshot:
Ramp Check! The fun kind.
Every time we're at the FBO, there is some aircraft on the ramp we can't identify. Wouldn't it be nice if ForeFlight had a tail number lookup feature to help settle type disputes? Say no more!
With Ramp Check!, punch the aircraft's tail number (leave the "N" off) into any ForeFlight search box and you'll see the aircraft type and owner details. This feature will be good fun for pilots and plane spotters alike!
Enter a tail number …
… see aircraft details.
Also in this evening's release are some minor bug fixes and improved scaling and optimization of animated weather images.
Special thanks again to those who wrote in with suggestions and bug reports. We hope you enjoy the improvements! As always, if you have any suggestions or feedback, please post comments here or drop us a note.