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Experts explain how to protect your child's mental health while social distancing
Coronavirus on kid's mental health
By Chelsey Sellars | March 25, 2020 at 8:29 PM CDT - Updated March 26 at 10:05 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Dr. John Damon of Canopy Children's Solutions said this can be a hard time for kids staying home to avoid the coronavirus.
"...While experiencing this together, their experience is very different and unique based on how they're wired, how they get their life energy from the world, friends and others," he said.
Though teens may be sleeping more than usual, Damon said it is still important for them and other children to stick to a schedule.
"...But having a routine in the morning, getting a little exercise, having times -- we're going to have a lunch, we're also going to have a dinner, and mix up the evenings a little bit," he said.
Giving reassurance and explaining why staying home is the new normal can also keep kid's mental health afloat.
"Parents have to be the CEO of their brains right now and help them make wise decisions. So definitely in the age and developmental level, of our kids and how we target the information and communication, we need to be age appropriate when we do that," said Damon.
Despite keeping a distance from others, Damon said it's more important than ever to be social -- even if it's a virtual conversation.
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Chris Burch's Office Products E-Tailer Poppin Raises Another $17 Million
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Attractive, decked-out offices are a good way to attract new talent, which has led many tech companies (and others) to furnish their office spaces via Chris Burch's workplace products company Poppin, which counts among its clients LinkedIn, Rent the Runway, Squarespace, Warby Parker, and the NFL Network.
Today, the company is announcing an additional $17 million in Series C funding. The round sees new investorsFifth Third Capital Holdings and West Capital Advisors joining up with prior investors Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and Burch's own Creative Capital.
Poppin's goal, simply put, has been to infuse the boring office products industry with colorful, but affordable alternatives to everything from desktop accessories like bright red staplers or fluorescent tape dispensers, to furniture and décor for the office, kitchen, break room and more.
These items are sold online, direct-to-consumer via the Poppin website, in addition to Poppin's growing corporate business which today includes over 4,000 clients. More recently, the company has also partnered with national retail chains on its wholesale program, which is bringing Poppin products to The Container Store, Crate & Barrel, Staples, Urban Outfitters, and over 90 college bookstores. By back-to-school season's start, Poppin products were to be found in over 1,400 retail locations.
The company doesn't disclose the size and scale of its online business, however, declining to offer figures related to customers, website visitors, sales or revenue. But the product line itself and Poppin team is growing, with now over 150 product styles for the former, and a staff of 60 for the latter.
The company had previously raised $17 million in Series A and B rounds.
This latest investment is being put toward technology investments, the company tells us, including new design tools aimed at simplifying the discovery and collaboration process when office planning, plus employee on-boarding programs and improvements to the customization and re-ordering processes.
Poppin will also soon be rolling out an updated version of its "Design a Desk" software, an online point-and-click tool that lets you visualize and mix-and-match colors on a virtual desk, allowing you to see how the products will look together on a real desk before ordering. It's a nifty idea, but the current version of the product could use some optimizations, as there tends to be a lag when you click around.
Poppin says it will also begin to incorporate more user-generated content throughout the site, in order to leverage its active customer community.

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Just take a bit risk on PayPal Document Verification.
Discussion in 'BlackHat Lounge' started by capripio, Apr 24, 2013.
Well Yesterday I purchased VCC and verified my PayPal account and today get limited. Well there is no reason and transition (just a refund of VCC amount). Well then Today I Got An Email from PP and they said its get limited. And they want my ID Proof and Address Proof. So I upload fake id & address (Download from Google) and make sure that everything look original as normal with Photoshop. And Now I just need little bit Luck. Let's see what happened!
Well its bit kind a funny Most recently I have limited account its require a bank account, Vcc and arts as well as Address and ID proof I just upload windows xp's documents photos. Guess what they accept yea this is really happening before.


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Q: Validity of l'hopitals rule in this case The plan is to evaluate the following limit:
$$\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0} \frac{\frac{x}{7} +\frac{11}{x^3}}{\frac{x^2}{2} -\frac{2}{x^3}}.$$
So firstly there's no need really to use l'hopitals rule since we can multiply top and bottom by $x^3$ and then 'sub in' for zero and the limit is well defined, and gives $-11/2$.
If however we want to apply l'hopitals rule can we? So if you keep applying it without question as to whether it's valid, you arrive at the same answer.
However examining the numerator and denominator, neither limit exists separately, which is usually required for l'hopitals rule, and for it to give an indeterminate form of 0/0, $\infty/\infty$ etc.
I was talking to someone who mentioned possibly considering the left and right hand limits separately, so $x\rightarrow 0^+$ and $x\rightarrow 0^-$, in which case the numerator and denominator do have well defined limits which give indeterminate forms. Is this a way to proceed?

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Q: C# visual studio: Remove entire row or column from Array, and how to show two dimensional array in the output? i have 8x6 array and I need to delete first two rows and the last two columns and change it to 6x4
45   778 0   0   0    0
1531 87  0   0   0    0
1391 619 115 115 1446 674
1278 330 150 150 1351 403
1037 460 178 178 1124 547
695  454 202 202 794  553
911  119 197 197 1007 215
534  91  195 195 629  186

i need to change the above matrix to :
1391 619 115 115
1278 330 150 150
1037 460 178 178
695  454 202 202
911  119 197 197
534  91  195 195

also how can I display this matrix in the output ?? I tried
Console.WriteLine( myArray.GetUpperBound(0)); but didn't work!!

A: Only thing I can think of is create a new array and then using a double for loop read out of the one and into the other?
Will be interesting to see if anyone knows a better way to do this
The exact function to do this would be
private static int[,] CopyArray(int[,] array, int fromX, int fromY, int lengthX, int lengthY)
{
    int[,] result = new int[lengthX, lengthY];
    for (int x = 0; x < result.GetLength(0); x++)
    {
        for (int y = 0; y < result.GetLength(1); y++)
        {
            result[x, y] = array[x + fromX, y + fromY];
        }
    }
    return result;
}

A full example of this is posted to my GitHub account (http://go.beeming.net/2dyzJY6).


Supreme Court Won't Let Politics Decide Health Care: Harvard Scholar : It's All Politics Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe argues the Supreme Court will follow precedent, not politics, in deciding on whether the new health care law is constitutional.
Laurence Tribe talks as Vice President listens, November 2010.
Like a lawyer whose closing argument plays on the jury's desire to do the right thing, superstar Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe writes in the New York Times that unlike so many cynics, he believes the Supreme Court will decide the health care law based on precedent, not politics.
If it follows the trend of high court opinions since the late 1930s, he argues, then the court can only decide the law is constitutional.
Indeed, based on Tribe's op-ed, he would seem to be expecting the court to rule the law is constitutional in an 8-1 vote, with Justice Clarence Thomas being the only dissenter, and that based on principle.
Only a crude prediction that justices will vote based on politics rather than principle would lead anybody to imagine that Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Samuel Alito would agree with the judges in Florida and Virginia who have ruled against the health care law. Those judges made the confused assertion that what is at stake here is a matter of personal liberty — the right not to purchase what one wishes not to purchase — rather than the reach of national legislative power in a world where no man is an island.
It would be asking a lot to expect conservative jurists to smuggle into the commerce clause an unenumerated federal "right" to opt out of the social contract. If Justice Clarence Thomas can be counted a nearly sure vote against the health care law, the only reason is that he alone has publicly and repeatedly stressed his principled disagreement with the whole line of post-1937 cases that interpret Congress's commerce power broadly.
A constitutional lawyer, Tribe is quite knowledgeable about the Supreme Court, having argued before it scores of times. One of those times was Bush v. Gore in 2000, a case decided 5-4 along conservative-liberal lines.
So Tribe's argument may be the latest instance of hope triumphing over experience.
"But neither has the Supreme Court been above politics. Most justices have been political activists — party politicos — before joining the court. Many have owed their elevation to party ties, as a reward for loyalty, with every expectation that they will not turn coat on the court. Justices might shed their party labels when they take their seat on the bench - newspapers don't print (R) or (D) after their names when reporting their decisions — but with some notable exceptions, they do not abandon their party doctrines. Instead, they become politicians in robes.


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Solid Stool
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Design: Riki Watanabe (1954)
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Leg / steel rod (Daim. 10mm)
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METROCS (Made in Thailand)
The Solid Stool was first designed in 1954 for residential use in a house planned by Kiyoshi Seike. The structure of the stool reminds Torii Stool which is a representative work of Riki Watanabe, and its rectilinear and neat form is composed by the combination of the solid wood seat and the steel rod legs. There is Watanabe's great care in detail such as the angle of the seat which is easy to sit and the handle hole on the seat for carrying. This is a masterpiece which revived in 2005 with METROCS, after half a century from its first release.
As the products are made of natural wood, there are individual differences in the grain pattern.
Riki Watanabe [1911-2013]
After having graduated from the Woodcraft Department at Tokyo Higher School of Arts and Design (nowadays: Chiba University), he joined Gunma Prefecture Industrial Arts Center where Bruno Taut was working in 1936. In 1949, Watanabe established his own designing studio. He got famous by the low-cost String Chair in 1952. Watanabe's Torii Stool and Circular Center Table won the Gold Medal at Triennale di Milano in 1957. Besides interior and furniture design, Watanabe has also designed clocks and watches. His 1972 design, Hibiya Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company's pole clock is defined as one of Watanabe's major works. Watanabe is considered to be one of the pioneers of after-war Japanese design.
METROCS is an interior products brand selling masterpiece design items with a long history originating in Japan and Europe. By handling items that do not become outdated due to the flow of time but rather increase their presence with each passing year, METROCS supports evolution of the lifestyles of a broad spectrum of users, transcending both generations and gender. Selecting future masterpieces from among a range of outstanding products and creating a future for them is both our mission and our pleasure.
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Fry die unexpectedly all the time. One day they are there. The next day they're gone. Many don't realize that there's a silent killer lurking in their water. Find out what to do to make sure this doesn't happen to a spawn near you.
Jar maintenance is a big deal. Fall down here and your breeding efforts will likely fail too.
Bettas in a vase used to be all the rage. Yet it's a dumb idea for oh so many reasons. Learn a few of them here.
You need to know the levels of ammonia, nitrites and nitrates in your betta tank. The API Test Kit is put thru its paces so you can see how to use it to maintain water quatity.


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Hydroscapha is a genus of beetles endemic to Europe and the United States. It contains these species:

 Hydroscapha coomani Löbl, 1994
 Hydroscapha crotchi Sharp, 1874
 Hydroscapha granulum (Motschulsky, 1855)
 Hydroscapha gyrinoides Aube
 Hydroscapha hunanensis
 Hydroscapha jaechi Löbl, 1994
 Hydroscapha jumaloni Sato, 1972
 Hydroscapha mauretanica Peyerimhoff, 1922
 Hydroscapha monticola Löbl, 1994
 Hydroscapha natans LeConte, 1874
 Hydroscapha nepalensis Löbl, 1994
 Hydroscapha reichardti Löbl, 1994
 Hydroscapha saboureaui Paulian, 1949
 Hydroscapha satoi Löbl, 1994
 Hydroscapha sharpi Reitter, 1887
 Hydroscapha substrigosa Champion, 1920
 Hydroscapha takahashii Miwa, 1934
 Hydroscapha turbinata Champion, 1925

References

External links

Hydroscapha at Fauna Europaea

Myxophaga genera


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Maharashtra Vikalp Sangam Concludes with Resolve to Promote Development Alternatives
By Tarak Kate and Other participants on Nov. 02, 2015 in Society, Culture and Peace
Sevagram, Wardha
The Maharashtra Vikalp Sangam (27-30 October 2015), a gathering of civil society organisations and individuals working on alternative development practices and concepts, concluded its discussion sessions today at Sevagram, Wardha, with a strong message and resolve to further promote practices and concepts that help achieve human well-being based on ecological sustainability and socio-economic equity and justice.
The Sangam started on 27th October, and included about 120 people working on agriculture and food, water, social justice, community rights, environment, media, arts, livelihoods, energy, child and women's rights, education, waste, forests, urban and rural issues, and others. More than 25 organisations from various parts of Maharashtra, and some from Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Delhi also took part. The Sangam was co-hosted by 18 organisations: Dharamitra, SOPPECOM, Centre for Environment Education, Vrukshamitra, National Alliance of People's Movements, Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi, Narmada Navnirman Abhiyan, Chetana Vikas, Jagrut Mahila Samaj, Gramin Yuva Praagatik Mandal (GYPM), Bhandara Nisararg, Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society, Khoj, Samvedna, Prayas Energy Group, KKPKP, SWaCH, and Kalpavriksh.
The Sangam had representation from local tribal and other communities and panchayats from Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Pune, Amravati and other districts. NGOs from these and several other districts were present. Participation of women and youth was prominent.
The three days of discussion included introductions to the process and objectives of Vikalp Sangams across India. Hundreds of organisations across the country are raising questions about the current model of development, pointing to how it is violent against nature, against cultures, and against communities. It is making some people richer and richer while the poor remain poor, and it is destroying the natural resource base on which we all survive. The Vikalp Sangam process aims to bring together people working on alternatives to this model of development. It provides a platform to exchange experience and learn from each other, to build collaborations for joint work, and to collectively evolve a vision of an India that is based on ecological sustainability, social justice and equity.
The discussion included problems and solutions in the following areas: farming, forestry, fisheries, animal husbandry, food sovereignty and consumer issues, lifestyles, media, water, energy, education, economic systems, and livelihoods. In each of these areas, both the problems of the current approach, and examples and prospects of alternative approaches were discussed. Several examples where communities and individuals are doing sustainable agriculture and fisheries, decentralized governance, water harvesting, forest conservation and sustainable use of forest produce, alternative media including community radio, participatory budgeting, ecofriendly lifestyles, waste management, and decent livelihoods for the poor, were brought up from both Maharashtra and other states.
Participants strongly felt that rural and urban communities need to move towards greater self-reliance in basic needs through economic localization, more direct and participatory forms of democracy in which each person is involved in decision-making, much greater empowerment of women, dalits, adivasis and other dispriviliged sections, recognition and central role of peoples and traditional knowledge, respect for ecological limits, locally relevant learning and education that combines hands, head and heart. They also committed to intensifying the struggle against forcible land acquisition, destructive 'development' projects like mining and big dams, spread of communal forces and monoculture approaches, excessive urbanization, privatization and individualization that our current sytem is promoting.
Since the Vikalp Sangam process is not only about discussion but also about practical action, the participants also took part in pottery, spinning, art, dance, music, and other activities. Some of these were taught by young students of Anand Niketan, the school in Sewagram that is run on the Nai Taleem principles of Gandhiji. Participants also visited some sustainable agriculture and alternative education initiatives in and around Wardha.
The Maharashtra Vikalp Sangam is the fourth in a series of gatherings being organized in various parts of India (the first three were organized for Telangana/Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Ladakh). Participants of the Sangam resolved to join hands with groups and individuals in other states to make stronger the search for a future in which we can live in harmony with nature and each other, in which no-one is deprived of basic needs and we strive towards equality and justice for all.
Photos by Ashish Kothari
Issued on behalf of participants by:
Tarak Kate, Dharamitra, 9850341112 ([email protected])
Suhas Kolhekar, NAPM, 9422986771 ([email protected])
Ashish Kothari/Rashi Mishra, Kalpavriksh ([email protected])
Satish Gogulwar, Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi, 9422123016 ([email protected])
Links to stories on the Vardha Vikalp Sangam in Hindi and Marathi:
हिंदी वर्धा-यवतमाळ भास्कर २७ ऑक्टोबर २०१५
मराठी लोकमत – हलो वर्धा दैनिक २९ ऑक्टोबर २०१५ (or here)
मराठी महाराष्ट्र टाइम्स २५ ऑक्टोबर २०१५
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How Useful are the Fujifilm X-T2's High ISO Settings in Real-World Shooting?
Wondering how useful the Fujifilm X-T2's high-ISO settings are that go all the way up to ISO 51200? I shot some images to find out.
Categories: Mirrorless Cameras, Sample Images
Tags: Fujifilm, Fujifilm X-T2 Mirrorless Camera
Last updated about 1 year ago // Originally published about 3 years ago
The advances in sensor technology in recent years have opened up incredible opportunities for low-light photography. And when you're doing travel photography, being able to shoot in low light is a must. The quality you can get out of ISO 3200 in today's cameras, for example, is leaps and bounds better than what it was just 5 years ago. But that doesn't mean that every ISO setting on a camera is equal.
There's always some cost. The best all-around image quality is generally around a camera's lowest native ISO setting. As you go higher up the scale, you lose dynamic, gain noise (or mottling), and can end up with color shifts. Those issues become particularly pronounced as you get up to the top end of the ISO settings. Those are often in what's known as an "extended" range, where software takes over from the native limits of the sensor hardware to push things that bit further. These extended numbers can make for good marketing copy, but it's not always clear how useful they are.
The question then becomes: how steep is the cost? Do the downsides become too much to make shooting at the high ISO settings worth the reductions in image quality? The answer varies camera to camera; some cameras have much better high-ISO performance than others. The answer can also vary shot to shot and is an entirely subjective judgment from photographer to photographer. You might be more willing to overlook noise and color shifts in an urban street scene at night than you would with a portrait session at dusk, for example. One photographer might tolerate quite a lot of image noise, while another (or a stock agency) will reject any visible noise.
High ISO on the Fujifilm X-T2
There's a lot to like about the Fujifilm X-T2, and it's an excellent all-around choice for travel photography (and lots of other types of photography, for that matter). But I wanted to take a closer look specifically at its high-ISO performance to see how it performs in low-light situations.
The Fujifilm X-T2 has a native ISO range from 200 through 12800, but when you're shooting still images, it also has some extended options at the high end of 25600 and 51200. I've previously posted some sample images shot throughout the X-T2's ISO range, but here I'm focusing only on the top end, from 6400 up to 51200. I'm sharing them here in case someone else is interested to see some real-world examples of the X-T2's high-ISO performance.
I shot these all in RAW. Other settings were image size (L / 3:2), grain effect (off), film simulation (Provia/Standard), dynamic range (100), white balance (auto), colorspace (AdobeRGB), and processing options such as shadow town, color, sharpness, and noise reduction all at 0. Normally, I'd do some processing in Lightroom, but the versions you can see embedded in the page here are essentially untouched. If you'd like a closer look, there are two options. You can click on each image to open a full-size JPG version. You can also use the link in each caption to download the original RAW (.arf) file (be warned that they're approx. 50 MB each).
Examples of the Native High ISO of the Fujifilm X-T2
ISO 6400 – ISO 10000
Fujifilm X-T2 @ ISO 6400 | Download: Original RAW (.arf)
Fujifilm X-T2 @ ISO 10000 | Download: Original RAW (.arf)
Examples of the Extended High ISO of the Fujifilm X-T2
I've found the performance is really impressive throughout the X-T2's native ISO range, including 12800. Once you step beyond that into the extended range, as you'd expect, the quality starts to drop off markedly. ISO 25600 is also quite usable, but by 51200 things are heading downhill fast, and it's not a setting I'd use in everyday shooting. Converting the black and white can hide some of the flaws, but even then it's more a break-glass-in-emergency type of setting. But that you can get very good quality even up to ISO 12800 is itself impressive.
The Fujifilm X-T2 is available from B&H Photo in several configurations, including body only, with a kit lens, and bundled with some accessories. You can find them all here.
These images are essentially of still life…meaning multiple exposures can be taken and easily stacked in photoshop to drastically reduce noise. Many cameras have this function built in…called something like "night shot", where the camera takes several images and combines them in-camera. I don't know if Fuji cameras offer that mode. Anyway good to see the X-T2 has decent low-light performance, and even a single frame can look good enough, esp if a good noise reduction software is used (DXO Photolab's "prime" noise reduction for example).
darcy gladwin says
the raw files no longer available :(
Sorry about that, but thanks for letting me know. I moved the cloud storage location recently and misplaced a single character in the process. Should be fixed now–you might need to refresh the page.
Albert says
I use the X-T2, my 3rd Fuji, I however find anything over 6400 not very good. It could be just my photo skill. Yours look perfectly fine. What sharpness settings you use in LR. I just use the default amount 25 the updated 7.3, amount at 40.
I've not added any extra sharpening to any of these, so on the JPGs there's only Lightroom's default 25, 1.0, 25. The RAW versions don't have any.
Andrew says
Interesting looking at the pics – but i was really more interested in the 25600 & 51200 shots. Sometimes, the noise/ grain at the pushed settings can create atmosphere in an image that low noise/ grain just can;t give.
Martin P Wilson says
At the end of the day much depends on how the images are going to be used. If they are just going to be used small to illustrate a blog, or even a quarter-page in print then even 512000 could often be just about useable. Especially if the image is downsized to working size (say less than 1200 x 800px).
Apart from ISO, the max usable size will also depend on the subject – lots of deep shadow will show up the noise earlier. A higher key image will usually get away with higher ISO.
Of course larger print sizes are viewed at greater distance so there is point where noise/grain is unimportant as it is not visible at normal viewing distance. Of course pixel peeping will find noise at even low ISO's in the shadows of short exposures.
Of course the raw processing should also change to reflect final usage.
But it is useful to see that even 51`2000 could have applications but then it is down to the individuals decisons and priorities.


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Welcome to the Sunnyside School District online payment system! Here you can view and pay your student's outstanding library or textbooks fines or fees, purchase an ASB Card, yearbook and a variety of other items.
*Note: Your last name is Case Sensitive. Examples: "Smith", "Miller", "Jones"


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Chargers Players
Doug Legursky to IR, Chargers down to fourth center
More injuries on the offensive line for the Chargers.
By Shane Theodore@shane_writes Oct 6, 2014, 2:26pm PDT
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Phillip Rivers just can't catch a break with his offensive line. A group that gelled together extremely well in 2013 to help spur Rivers' comeback season has taken hit after hit so far in 2014, and that trend continued Monday as center Doug Legursky was put on the team's Injured Reserve list with a knee injury. Legursky's injury, suffered Sunday in the victory over New York, will keep him out for the remainder of the season.
San Diego started out the season with grizzled vet Nick Hardwick under center, as Hardwick looked to continue to bring stability to a line that had constantly changed around him since his arrival in 2004. But in Arizona for the Chargers' season opener, Hardwick left the game with a neck injury that has bothered him in recent years and was placed on Injured Reserve shortly after.
After Hardwick was sent to the sideline for the season, San Diego brought in veteran Legursky to back up Rich Ohrnberger. Ohrnberger, who played with the Chargers last year as well, stepped up in place of Hardwick at center until a back injury suffered in Week 3 pulled him off the field. Orhberger was made inactive for both Weeks 4 and 5, but he's remained on the active roster and could return to football activites soon.
With Legursky gone for the year, the Chargers have more transactions to make this week before trekking up to Oakland to take on the rival Raiders. Rookie Chris Watt played the remainder of last Sunday's game at center after Legursky's injury, and the Notre Dame product could work himself into a more permanent role if Ohrnberger can't return soon. San Diego will also surely sign a player or two to add depth, with practice squad tackle Jeremiah Sirles and guard Craig Watts serving as possible candidates for internal promotion.


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'Stranger Things' star David Harbour on why he feared Season 3 could jump the shark
"'I don't know, man. I might be Fonzie, jumping over with those water skis.'"
By Alison Foreman on July 2, 2019
It's a whole new Hop. Credit: Courtesy of Netflix
> Entertainment > TV Shows
The following is spoiler-free. Proceed with reckless abandon!
"Here's the thing about you people. It hasn't been that long," David Harbour, aka Chief Hopper, says pointedly to Mashable -- and fans everywhere impatiently awaiting the seemingly overdue release of Stranger Things 3.
"Think about how long it takes Marvel to make a two-hour movie. It takes them like two to three years to make one movie. And then in a year and a half, we make an eight-hour epic movie? I mean, come on."
"You don't want to lose the fact that people love what you do."
Harbour's mock-authoritarian tone, which was all in good fun but a bit too terrifying in the moment, highlights an important part of the creator-audience divide.
While we Stranger Things fans have been impatiently twiddling our thumbs waiting for the release of Season 3, Harbour and the rest of the show's cast and crew have been tirelessly working to make it.
"Season 1 came out July 15th of 2016," notes Harbour of the show's oft-maligned(Opens in a new window) production timeline. "And then the next season comes out October 27th of 2017. So that's what? Like a year and a half. And now Season 3 is coming out in July again. It's basically the same amount of time!"
Although Harbour eventually agreed that it did "feel" like a longer wait than usual, the actor contends that there was no wasted time in getting the highly-anticipated project to audiences — and admits that he was initially nervous the show had, for want of a better phrase, jumped the Demogorgon in Season 3.
"I thought it was very different and very risky," says Harbour of his first reaction to this season's scripts. "It's hard with a TV show, especially a successful one, because you don't want to lose the fact that people love what you do, but you also don't want to have to play the same beats that you have played every season so that people get that same feeling. "
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For Harbour's role in Hawkins, that meant finding new, inventive ways to present his maverick Chief of Police, a character that on the surface represents a stale archetype tackled time and time again across genres.
"We might've jumped the shark. I might be Fonzie, jumping over with those water skis right now."
As such, in Season 3, Hopper's relationship to his adopted daughter Eleven takes center stage, a move that transforms his essence and at first made Harbour very nervous.
"Hopper is this rugged, masculine individualist in the first season," recalls Harbour. "Now, [in Season 3] he's softening, to the point that he's getting bigger, just eating chips and salsa, and dealing with his daughter. He's in full-on dad mode. But the hard cop side is one thing that I've really loved about him, and I was worried, like, 'Oh no, what are people gonna think?'"
Describing Hopper's Season 3 phase as "comedic, to the point that it's kind of like a Midnight Run(Opens in a new window) type of thing, where [Hopper and Joyce] are chasing bad guys and he's got a mustache and this shirt," Harbour emphasized his concern that viewers might be turned off. [Editor's note: We're fairly certainly he means this(Opens in a new window) "this shirt."]
"All of that is a lot for audiences to accept," Harbour says. "So the whole time we were shooting, I would have these days where I was like, 'I don't know, man. We might've jumped the shark. I might be Fonzie, jumping over with those water skis right now.'"
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It should be said, Harbour's fears were not without cause. Hopper's characterization in Stranger Things 2 received pushback from select critics(Opens in a new window) and fans(Opens in a new window) — although plenty of folks, including this reporter, liked Season 2 Hopper and his many (read: very, very many) mistakes just fine.
In time, Harbour says he came to see why Season 3's so-called Papa Hop was going to work so well, describing what finally sold him on the change.
"When I saw it all put together and finally saw those same beating hearts of the characters preserved, I thought, 'Oh, that is so impressive,'" notes Harbour.
"A lot of that is due to the Duffers and to the excellent writing and the excellent way they have put these shows together, but they're also paying attention to [the actors]. They're wanting to go on this journey with us and what we find interesting and where we're growing as human beings too. You have to stretch and you have to grow, otherwise you get bored and just start playing a cliché."
Chief Jim Hopper may be a lot of things, but he's never a cliché — and the new season seems set to prove that, at long last.
Stranger Things 3 begins streaming July 4 on Netflix(Opens in a new window).
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The Story Behind the Lacoste Crocodile Shirt
A 1920s French tennis star put the little reptilian logo onto a white polo shirt
By Emily Spivack
When French tennis players Henri Cochet and René Lacoste met at the net in this undated photo, Lacoste was sporting his signature crocodile on his blazer.
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Frenchman René Lacoste was a superstar tennis player. In 1926 and 1927, he was ranked number one in the world, and during his tennis career, he won seven Grand Slam championship tournaments. But he found the attire associated with the sport restrictive. Tennis whites, as they were called, consisted of a white, long-sleeved button-down shirt, long pants and a tie. It was a lot of clothing to wear when racing to the net to make an overhead shot.
Lacoste was seeking a shirt that was more accommodating to movement. In a 1979 article from People magazine, he elaborated:
"One day I noticed my friend the Marquis of Cholmondeley wearing his polo shirt on the court," remembers René. " 'A practical idea,' I thought to myself." It was so practical, in fact, that René commissioned an English tailor to whip up a few shirts in both cotton and wool. "Soon everyone was wearing them," he smiles.
One school of thought attributes the shirt's invention to meeting the needs of British polo players in India in the 19th century. The style was emulated in the U.S. by John Brooks, grandson of the founder of Brooks Brothers, after he saw polo players wearing the shirts in England in the late 1800s–hence, the reason we still call it a polo shirt today. It was also referred to as a tennis shirt—piqué knit cotton, short-sleeved, unstarched collar, a placket opening with buttons at the neck, and a "tennis tail" to help keep the shirt tucked in. (That tail even made an impression on artist-poet Joe Brainard, who, in his book-length poem I Remember includes the line: "I remember when those short-sleeved knitted shirts with long tails (to wear 'out') with little embroidered alligators on the pockets were popular.") In 1926, Lacoste first sported the shirt when he played in the U.S. Open in New York City.
Around that same time, Lacoste was dubbed "The Crocodile" by his fans and the media for reasons that are still speculative today: his athletic boldness, his pointy schnoz, and a bet. As GQ explains:
The American press dubbed him the Alligator in '27, after he wagered for an alligator-skin suitcase with the captain of the French Davis Cup team. When he returned to France, "alligator" became "crocodile," and Lacoste was known forever after as the Crocodile.
Not only did he embrace the nickname, but he went all out and had a logo of the reptile embroidered onto his blazer. It became his personal brand before there was such a thing.
Classic 1980s Izod Lacoste shirt. Image: vintsperation via Flickr.
Once he retired from tennis in the early 1930s, he started the company La Chemise Lacoste with his pal André Gillier, president of the largest French knitwear company at the time, to produce and sell crocodile-emblazoned shirts. The Lacoste tennis shirt made its way to the United States in 1952 and was carefully branded as "the status symbol of the competent sportsman," an attempt to establish Lacoste in the upper echelons of society.
But, you're confused, right? Isn't the crocodile logo associated with Izod? That's where things get complicated. Lacoste wound up in the United States because it had licensed its brand to Izod (then called Izod of London), which had been seeking out an upscale product.
Izod Lacoste label. Image: vintsperation via Flickr.
Izod Lacoste, as the brand became known, initially looked like a flop; there weren't many customers in the early '50s for a pricey polo shirt (about $8 then) with a small crocodile sewn onto the chest. But Vincent De Paul Draddy, who originally licensed the Lacoste name for Izod, had a brilliant idea. He provided Izod Lacoste swag to some of his famous buddies, including JFK, President Eisenhower and Bing Crosby, and from there, the shirts caught on, and became easy to find in department stores. People were happy to wear them, especially if the rich and famous were already fans.
Izod shirt, 1980. Image: Jake Putnam via Flickr.
In the 1970s and '80s, sporting an Izod, as the shirts became known, spanned across generations. Teenagers, and particularly those who wanted to assume a preppy look, embraced the style, even popping the collar to assume the full Biff and Muffy look. (See the 1980 book The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach, for more on how the Izod shirt was a key ingredient to achieving that look, or listen to Three 6 Mafia's Poppin' My Collar from 2006 for a more contemporary interpretation.)
Izod shirt, 1980s. Image: Lisa Stephens via Flickr.
By the early 1990s, the trend was fading. Lacoste and Izod parted ways in 1993 (Lacoste went further upscale; Izod became more moderately priced and abandoned the crocodile.)
Over the years, the shirt and its iconic logo spawned many imitators and admirers. Designers and brands from diverse price points have taken to embroidering animals onto polo shirts: ponies (Ralph Lauren), marlins (Tommy Bahama), eagles (American Eagle), and even the crocodile itself! The Chinese-based company, Crocodile Garments, was locked in a legal battle with Lacoste over the rights to the crocodile for over a decade until, in 2003, Crocodile Garments conceded to changing its logo. According to CNN, the settlement stated that Crocodile Garments would "have a croc with a tail which rises more or less vertically and it has skin which is much more scaly. It also has bigger eyes."
Not only was Lacoste, who passed away in 1996, around to see multiple animal-emblazoned polo shirt imitators, but he also was privy to the fashion evolution that took place on the courts–from the whitest of full-coverage tennis whites to the shortest of itty-bitty tennis shorts (thanks, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors).
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After the hearing, Local 10 Newsasked Koslow about the conspiracy charge, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Koslow simply looked into the camera and said nothing while his attorney, Michael Orenstein, repeated that his client, who posted a $50,000 bond to walk free, had no comment.
The lobbyist, who was once dubbed the king of Hollywood for the power he held in that city, allegedly laundered more than $200,000 in cash that he believed was derived from illegal gambling and the sale of narcotics and fake Viagra pills, according to federal documents.
The money actually came from the U.S. government and was given to him by undercover FBI agents in a sting operation on Koslow, who was well-known in political circles for representing high-rise developers, private schools, and gambling interests, including Pompano Park Racing.
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Doherty will play in midfield for Ireland.
THE IRELAND TEAM that will face Gibraltar has been announced, with Mick McCarthy preparing to take charge of his first game as national team boss in 17 years.
There are few surprises as both Seamus Coleman and Matt Doherty are named to start — the Everton skipper alongside Shane Duffy, Richard Keogh and Enda Stevens at the back.
In midfield, Jeff Hendrick partners Conor Hourihane in the middle of the park with James McClean on the left and Doherty named on the right. Sean Maguire partners David McGoldrick up front, with Darren Randolph between the sticks.
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Telecoms Dial into Digital Marketing
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The days when telecom providers held a monopoly over voice and data services are quickly eroding. New entrants like Netflix, Google, and Internet TV providers are rapidly changing the telco business. Poor customer service and complicated pricing plans are risky practices.
And even though telco companies sit on a mountain of data points, other companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google are also amassing huge amounts of customer data. To compete, telcos must deliver innovative products and services and connect with customers on a personalized level.
The Personalization Conundrum
Digital marketing and providing better customer experiences is a priority for the telecom sector, according to a survey of more than 200 telecom executives conducted by Econsultancy and Adobe. In terms of providing consistent, personalized experiences, 73 percent of the respondents say their marketing activities are integrated to some extent, but two in five (44 percent) say the ability to fully utilize marketing technology is still a key challenge.
"Telecoms are personalizing at very different levels of sophistication," observes Stefan Tornquist, vice president of research at Econsultancy. "Much of that variation is related to where they stand in terms of unifying their disparate proprietary systems, databases, and marketing applications."
And when it comes to sharing data with third parties, telecoms are "sharing everything they can that isn't restricted PII [personally identifiable information] like call histories," Tornquist adds. "The more specific the data, the more valuable it is, and in the case of telecoms, it can be very specific indeed, especially as our phones are increasingly our main conduit to the digital and wider world."
But even though telco companies have access to a bevy of rich data points, they face numerous obstacles in leveraging that data, notes Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey. "People will say they don't want their data collected but they still expect brands to know them, so telcos, like other industries, have to walk a fine line between both demands," McQuivey says.
The pressure is also rising for telcos to keep up with the innovative ways that companies are collecting ad revenue, including those outside of the telecommunications industry like Netflix and Amazon. "There comes a point where if you're not using your data, someone else will figure it out," McQuivey adds. "I think telco companies need to test their level of risk tolerance."
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Indeed, companies like Verizon and AT&T are experimenting with new revenue streams through partnerships with brand advertisers and app developers. In 2013, AT&T introduced a two-tiered price plan when it launched "GigaPower," a broadband service that is designed to operate at the same speed as Google Fiber. Subscribers can pay $70 for the broadband service if they agree to receive targeted ads from AT&T and its partners versus the ad-free version, which costs $99.
Verizon is also offering incentives for customers to receive targeted ads. Customers who sign up for Verizon Selects, a program for tracking Web browsing and mobile-app behavior, can win rewards like gift cards and dining or entertainment discounts.
Verizon's data marketing arm, Precision Market Insights, recently came under fire though, when Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer science graduate student at Stanford University, reported that a unique identifier was being used to power a "zombie cookie"that continued to track users even after they'd opted out. Verizon has since said that it will allow subscribers to opt out of being tagged with the persistent tracking code.
U.S. telcos are not the only companies being squeezed by new competitors. Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian arm of mobile telco giant Etisalat, which operates across 19 countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, is also searching for fresh revenue.
"As a telecom operator, our revenue is declining as more players enter the market," saysKhaled Almansouri, chief information officer at Etisalat Misr Egypt. "And so we're looking into new revenue streams beyond our legacy services."
Etisalat chose Teradata's Integrated Marketing Cloud platform to help it consolidate its customer service and marketing data as it pursued new markets. One of those areas included B2B customers. Etisalat credits the Marketing Cloud platform with helping it attract B2B mobile advertisers who are interested in targeting against the carrier's data profiles. In 2013, within a few months after launching the platform, Etisalat expanded its customer outreach to more than 1 million customers.
The company is also looking for other ways to monetize its data as customer intelligence. "We have to capitalize on the rich data that we have," Almansouri says. "For example, if a petrol station wants to open in a certain area, we can tell them when traffic is busiest because we know the movement of our subscribers."
Additionally, the company is looking into expanding its offerings with cloud services and machine-to-machine learning. "By 2020 we'll have about 50 billion connected devices," Almansouri adds. "As more things become digitally connected, it will be important for us to help our subscribers stay connected across their different devices."
Enabling Trust
Carl Boeing, global head of sales, customer engagement, and commerce at Hybris Software, agrees that telco companies have to find more ways to leverage their data profiles while maintaining the customers' trust. As an enterprise ecommerce platform provider, Hybris helps telco companies like Vodafone and Telmore created personalized messages for subscribers. "But increasingly we're seeing telecoms become brokers or enablers of additional connections and play matchmaker between customers and brands whose products might interest them," Boeing says.
As an example, Boeing points to a capability Hybris is developing in which mobile subscribers create "wish lists" of products that interest them on an app and allow carriers to share that list with retailers. When the consumer walks into a store equipped with beacon technology and opts into sharing his or her profile information like a photo and name, a sales associate can offer the item to the customer, perhaps at a discount. "
"The telco can make both customers happy by giving retailers a qualified lead and consumers get the product they wanted," Boeing explains. "It's a win for everyone." But for such a situation to work, the carrier must have the customer's explicit consent, Boeing adds. "The customer has to see value in this notion of sharing information so making that connection between the consumer and brand at the right time is critical."
Trust and transparency are key drivers of customer relationships, notes Natalie Petouhoff, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. "The key to privacy is to have services that are opt-in and companies need to explicitly say how the customer's information will be used," Petouhoff maintains.
Companies should also let customers choose what information about them can be shared. "Customers might want to allow a telecommunications provider to use their preference for sports-related information to provide content or promotions," Petouhoff notes. "But they might not want marketers to use information on their general browsing history because it could be considered too intrusive."
Leveraging real-time analytics is one way telcos can add value to their services while still offering products and services, she adds. For example, customers can be alerted to various data and application plan options during roaming periods. On the backend, telcos should also analyze real-time network traffic from large users to manage capacity more efficiently and minimize network slowdowns.
As the mobile and telco space becomes increasingly fragmented with new competitors eating up market share, telcos must focus on delivering relevant, flexible, and reliable experiences to their customers or risk disruption.
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